Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 296 Open the door to welcome guests

Jiang Dong next to him already knew the truth, but the emperor had a decree and he couldn't expose it, so he didn't bother to listen to them fighting each other.He let the fan guards behind him watch, turned around and walked out of the door, and came to Jin Yiwei who accompanied Wu Changshi. It was a general banner named Pan Debin.

There was no one else around, so Jiang Dong asked Pan Debin, "Is there any doubt about falling into the water?"

To the outside world, the factory guard is a family.Therefore, Pan Debin did not hide Jiang Dong, and frowned and said: "The water flow was indeed a bit fast at that time, and a gust of wind just blew. Logically speaking, it seems that there is nothing suspicious about Wu Xun's falling into the water. However, although my brothers and I both I'm a northerner, and I seldom take a boat, but I feel that the wind and waves don't seem to make the boat so bumpy, so I wondered if the boatman was up to no good, but I didn't find it through side-by-side investigations."

"Oh, so that's the case?" Jiang Dong responded casually, then thought about the details, and suddenly raised his head to suggest to Pan Debin, "Or it can be like this, you can send someone to touch the bottom of this boatman to see if he has become rich recently , or, if there is any trouble, it suddenly disappears. If there is something abnormal about the boatman, it is very likely that the boatman has a problem, so you can follow the clues to find out!"

His family used to be a dart walker, in other words, he was a gangster.Therefore, Jiang Dong was no stranger to matters in the world, and immediately had some ideas.

When Pan Debin heard this, he thought about it for a while, then nodded in admiration and said, "It's better to have rich experience, this is a good way. I'll arrange someone to secretly touch the bottom of that boatman and try it out later."

Speaking of this, he hesitated a little, as if wondering if he should say it, but because of Jiang Dong's enthusiastic advice, he finally said: "One more thing, when the boat was shaking, A brother is at the bow and saw..."

Having said that, he glanced at Wu Changshi's house, then turned back to Jiang Dong and continued, "Seeing that Wu Xun was caught off guard at first, he almost fell into the river. But later, he seemed to be steady. At that time My brother breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, Wu Xun would fall down again..."

Having said that, he paused, then subconsciously lowered his voice and said to Jiang Dong: "Our brothers guessed in private, maybe Wu Xunyong wanted to fall, right? But it's so cold today, if he falls, Even if you can paddle, you will still be terribly cold. No, you have already been sick like this. So when I think about it, it seems unlikely that I fell on purpose.”

When Jiang Dong heard this, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart.It's nothing to fall into the cold water, there is a ruthless man over there who planned to assassinate himself, and even grabbed the dagger and stabbed himself in the thigh.If you didn't pay attention at that time, if you punctured the main artery, you could die.

Thinking like this, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind. This Wu Changshi must not be a good bird, and he would never be loyal to his errands.If we extrapolate from this situation, it seems not impossible that someone wanted to threaten Wu Changshi, and Wu Changshi took this opportunity to deliberately come to such a place!

Of course, Jiang Dong didn't really worry about the truth of the matter.After gossiping about the matter here, he also gave Pan Debin a few suggestions.At this moment, I saw Zhang Pu strode out of the room, seemed a little angry, and walked out on his own.

So, Jiang Dong stopped talking, and immediately apologized and followed.

Back at the post station, Zhang Pu frowned and said to Jiang Dong: "The boss should have heard it too. Wu Xun has already reported to the emperor, and he wants to change places to supervise the two things that the emperor has explained. Just taking this opportunity, my officer Take a break too, and when the emperor's new order arrives, I believe that the exhaustion from the journey will be healed, so that I can work for the emperor with peace of mind, what do you think?"

His questioning was actually just telling Jiang Dong what he was going to do next.Because Jiang Dong has no right to let him do this or that, he just protects him.Therefore, Jiang Dong naturally wouldn't say much.

Then, seeing that it was still early in the sky, Zhang Pu asked for pen and ink and began to write.

Jiang Dong was a little curious about this, so he walked over to have a look.I found that he was writing an invitation card, as if he was going to hold a poetry meeting.

Thinking about Zhang Pu's identity, the leader of Fushe, the head of Qingliu, he used to be his lair here in the south of the Yangtze River. Now that he's back, poetry and poetry are things he used to do, so there seems to be nothing wrong with him.

Zhang Pu naturally saw Jiang Dong coming to look at him without hesitation, thinking about his identity, although he would not stop him from doing anything, but after returning, he could directly report to the emperor.Therefore, he stopped writing, held the pen, looked up at Jiang Dong and explained: "Although I am taking a break, I will certainly not forget the business. These posts are all my friends from the same agency when I was in Jiangnan, and I invite them to come over. Although it is the beginning of the poem meeting, in fact, this official wants to tell them about the current predicament of the imperial court. Corruption of officials must not be done. Those who exceed the allowance limit are actually corruption; It is even worse in nature, I hope they can help the official to spread the word, if someone can wake up, that would be the best, otherwise it will be bad if the official does not show respect and act according to the law!"

Hearing what he said so much, Jiang Dong made sense when he thought about it, so he just thought that the purpose of what he said was really good.Therefore, he complimented him and said: "I didn't expect that my lord would always remember what His Majesty explained. He is really loyal to the country. If the Emperor knows, he will be very happy."

"Hehe, there, there!" Zhang Pu listened, and said modestly, "Since you have received the order, you must have sincerity in doing things. This is what I should do, should, should!"

Hearing this, Jiang Dong couldn't help but asked in his heart: "Then after you received the decree, what do you mean by false assassination? Don't think that the emperor doesn't know, and is watching how you act!"

While he was thinking about it, Zhang Pu started writing invitations again.Needless to say, he wrote this character really well. Jiang Dong thought that he would never be able to write such a good character in his life.

Zhang Pu has been writing for more than an hour, and the invitation is a thick stack.

After finally finishing writing, he put the brush on the pen holder, then stood up, and stretched his waist very carefully.

It can be seen that writing so many invitations is really tiring.

He saw that Jiang Dong was a little surprised looking at such a large stack of invitation cards, so he smiled and explained indifferently: "I can't help it. I founded Fushe with my friends. Since I made friends with literature, I have many friends. I still picked up those with official family backgrounds, as for the others, they have nothing to do with this official’s errand, so I didn’t write an invitation card. Otherwise, I will really be exhausted to death.”

It's really inconvenient to go out of Beijing by order, with only these Dongchang slaves around, not even a master.Otherwise, he would write the important characters himself, and leave everything else to the master.

After he finished speaking, he saw that Jiang Dong was a little surprised, and he was proud of himself, but he didn't show his face on the surface, so he called Yicheng and said, "Send these as soon as possible for me."

Yicheng was also a little surprised to see so many invitations, he quickly agreed, and then went to call his subordinates to come and get these invitations.

Zhang Pu saw Yicheng standing with his hands down, and when he was waiting for his further instructions, he confessed: "You clean up a yard and come out. The environment should be as good as possible. It must be clean and tidy. Tomorrow afternoon, I will hold a poetry meeting. I understand." Is it?"

After hearing this, Yicheng felt a bit embarrassed and said, "My lord, can you give me a day's grace, the villain will definitely move out of the yard with a good environment, and it must be clean and tidy!"

When Zhang Pu heard it, his face darkened and he shouted: "If there is a grace period, this poem will be spread. How can there be so many people in the yard of the post station? Hurry up and do it!"

After hearing this, Yicheng was helpless, so he had to obey the order and leave.

As soon as he left, Zhang Pu showed a smile on his face, and said to Jiang Dong who was watching: "No way, I have a good reputation, if the poetry meeting is delayed for a long time, those scholars who have not been invited will also flock here , when there are too many people, there will be a lot of troubles.”

For this, he is still confident.

Although he has also considered it, now that he is ordered to go to Beijing to do thankless things, it will definitely affect him.But his reputation is there, and he hasn't started to run errands yet!Even if it has an impact, it should be limited!He reckoned that even those who had great opinions on him would definitely come to check on him and see how he handles this errand!

The other one, he is the leader of Fushe, and he holds a lot of power in his hands.Even from an official point of view, he is an imperial envoy, patrolling places, and this power is powerful enough, and someone will always come to curry favor with him.

Jiang Dong didn't think about it so much. Seeing that he was so confident, he thought that he was still a good man, and it was impossible for him to be a good man without real knowledge, so he complimented him with admiration.

After dark, Yicheng led his men to clean up a qualified yard with torches.Of course, he didn't dare to be too late, so as not to affect the rest of the imperial envoys in the station.I got up early the next day and started to get busy again, and finally finished my work before noon.

With hands behind his back, Zhang Pu personally inspected the yard, noncommittal.

On the contrary, Jiang Dong couldn't see it, because this courtyard was very different from the gathering place of those literati he had heard.

Generally speaking, when literati gather at this time in the Ming Dynasty, they either choose a place with a beautiful scenery, travel with the beauty, and recite poems or Fu; Poetry Fu.

But look at this yard now, there is no scenery at all.As for beauties, this is an inn, so there are naturally no such beauties.

Or seeing what Jiang Dong was thinking, Zhang Pu didn't care a little bit, and said casually: "This official poetry meeting is different from other places. It is sincerely meeting friends through poetry, giving advice to each other, and improving their knowledge. And this official After all, they are already experienced, maybe they can give them some advice on their experience in the imperial examination, so they don't mind the simplicity of this place!"

Jiang Dong understood immediately, what is meant by teaching each other to improve their knowledge, in fact, it means that he himself teaches others to improve their knowledge, right?
Faintly, he could hear Zhang Pu's conceit.Jiang Dong didn't feel anything about this, since he was not a literati after all.

However, sometimes things don't go as planned.

In the afternoon, time passed slowly, and Zhang Pu did not hear any movement.I was a little anxious, so I called Yi Cheng and asked, "How many guests are here now?"

He thought, those who are very friendly, if they come, they should come to his yard to say hello first; those who are not so friendly, and have no official positions, will go to the furnished yard , Waiting for him to go out to meet.

But, he didn't expect that Yicheng replied him: "No one is there yet!"

"What?" Zhang Pu asked a little out of breath after hearing this, "No one arrived?"

"No one has arrived!" Yi Cheng didn't know whether he should gloat over his misfortune, and asked you to rush to clean the yard. Now that no one comes, it's embarrassing, right?

But on the surface, of course he didn't dare to show it, but immediately replied, "If anyone comes, the villain will immediately report to the adults."

Zhang Pu looked up at the sky, felt that a long time had passed, and there was not much left before the time he set in the invitation, and no one came here, so when the time comes, how many people can come?

Thinking of this, he became a little uneasy, and turned to look at Jiang Dong. Although Jiang Dong didn't respond, he always felt that Jiang Dong's face was a little strange, and he was even more unhappy.

If Jiang Dong was his servant, he would probably be scolded by him.But Jiang Dong was the leader of Dongchang who protected him, so he didn't have the right to vent his anger, so he had to pretend to be calm, and walked back with his hands behind his back.

Jiang Dong, on the other hand, looked at his back, raised his head to look at the sky, then called one of his subordinates, and whispered: "Take a few brothers, change into plain clothes, and walk around the only way to the inn to see if there is anything going on. ?”

In any case, Zhang Pu's status is here, he is an imperial envoy; his talent is beyond doubt, he is a good scholar.Under such circumstances, it is absolutely impossible that no one will come!Among these, there must be something strange!

Afterwards, Zhang Pu kept looking at the sky, and he could still see that he often listened attentively, but no matter what, he was still disappointed in the end.

The time agreed in the invitation has come, but the person who came to his side was only Yi Cheng, he came to report that the time had come, but still no one came to the door.

At this moment, Zhang Pu couldn't hold back anymore, and immediately shouted sharply: "Could it be that your subordinates cheated and played tricks, and didn't send the invitations from me one by one?"

"My lord, I am wronged!" Hearing this, Yi Cheng couldn't help but shouted immediately, "This is an invitation from a lord, and the villain's subordinates are just eating, how dare you steal this laziness, this is absolutely unacceptable." Will do!"

His answer made Zhang Pu even more angry!Because this answer was not what he wanted.In comparison, he would rather believe that the postmen here were lazy and didn't deliver the invitations!

(End of this chapter)