Factory owner is king

Chapter 149
When Zhang Xin and other reviewers handed over the final list, everyone's eyes widened and their ears pricked up, waiting to hear the final verdict from His Majesty Hongwu.

But inexplicably, the emperor seemed to have lost his memory, he didn't say anything, he didn't do anything, he just said lightly, "I'm going to think it over before I speak to all the gentlemen." Then he revealed it.

At the same time, a small incident occurred in the DPRK.The commander of the Jin Yiwei made Zheng Feng suffer from madness, his mind went crazy, and he looked like a mad dog.The emperor then ordered Zheng Feng to be dismissed from the post of commander of Jinyiwei, and was replaced by Jinyiwei Tongzhi Jigang, who became the fourth commander of Jinyiwei.

Who is Ji Gang?The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty didn't know much about it, nor did they care much about it.It's just a little sigh for Zheng Feng's fate, after all, such an "honest and responsible" Jinyiwei commander is really rare.

Think about it, there is always time.After all, the final list of the test will not be determined, so the palace test cannot be carried out as usual.

One day, two days, three days.

Just when everyone was waiting a little impatiently, a thunderbolt rang out in the clear sky.

March 30, the [-]th year of Hongwu.

Xu Ruyi, the admiral and eunuch of the East Factory, reported that Hu Weiyong's mourning tablet was found in a secret room in the home of Zhang Qian, a Hanlin scholar and secretary.

After overnight interrogation, Zhang Qian confessed that he was Hu Weiyong's party member.

The emperor was angry and ordered Jinyiwei and Dongchang to thoroughly investigate Hu Weiyong's remnant party.

. . . . . .

Now that the emperor had spoken his name, Xu Ruyi no longer used a mask to hide her identity.

Wearing a black brocade robe and a dark blue cloak.Xu Ruyi rode a tall horse and led more than a hundred fans from Dongchang to stand in front of Liu Sanwu's mansion.

On a gold plaque on the door, there are only two simple words "Liu's House".The door was closed tightly, and two young men were looking out through the crack of the door.

"Supervisor." A fan came forward to report: "The subordinates have surrounded Liu's residence according to your order, and they can break in and arrest Liu Sanwu only after the superintendent gives an order."

"Arrest?" Xu Ruyi waved his hand and said, "No need to arrest him. Mr. Liu is known as a frank man, and he has been frank all his life. How can anyone else arrest him? Our family came here just to show him respect."

As if to confirm what Xu Ruyi said, the gate of the Liu Mansion opened with a creak.The door is divided into left and right, but it is not Liu Sanwu who walks out.

There are about [-] people, all dressed in strong clothes, and they should look like martial arts guards, but among the three leaders, two middle-aged men are Liu Sanwu's sons, and the other is the son of Liu Sanwu. The son of the Zheng family that I saw in the teahouse.

"Zheng Shanru?" Xu Ruyi's voice was full of doubts: "Why are you here?"

Zheng Shanru didn't answer. He took two steps forward, looked up at Xu Ruyi who was on the horse, and said proudly, "Who are you? How dare you come to Liu Gong's mansion to act wildly? If you are sensible, retreat quickly, so as not to disturb Mr. Liu rest."

Xu Ruyi looked up at the sky, and nodded clearly: "So the old man is taking a nap. Well, he is also a senior member of the court, so let's give him face and let him sleep for a while." His expression was serious. , Xu Ruyi yelled lightly: "All the servants listen to the order! Arrest Liu Sanwu's family, but there will be no mercy for those who stand in the way."

"you dare!"

"Lord Liu is the Wenzong of the world, how dare the eunuch be unreasonable?"

"As for you!" Xu Ruyi stretched out her hand and pointed at Zheng Shanru: "This governor suspects that you are connected with the remaining members of Hu Weiyong's party. Here comes someone!"

"Master."

"Send him back to Dongchang, and interrogate him strictly."

"Yes!"

Following Xu Ruyi's order, all the servants in the East Factory shouted in unison, dancing with long knives and iron rulers in their hands, and surrounded the people in front of the gate.

"Mr. Zheng, what... what should I do?" Liu Sanwu's eldest son, Liu Xing, asked tremblingly.

Liu Xing had a good personal relationship with Zheng Shanru. He felt that the situation was not good, so he invited him to his house. Mingli told his father that he was a guest and made friends, but in fact, he wanted to use the Zheng family's name to embolden him.

As for Zheng Shanru, although she was born in the Zheng family and had read poetry and books since she was a child, her personality was just that of a spoiled young master. When she left her hometown for the first time, she found that her name as a member of the Zheng family was respected everywhere. , and thought that the world was all the same.

Now facing Dongchang Fanzi, who is like a wolf and a tiger, he is also a little numb.Fortunately, his mother was afraid that he would cause trouble outside, so she gave him a trump card.

"Uncle Zhou." Zheng Shanru looked back at an old family member behind him asking for help.

"Ah." The old family sighed, and the more people came out, they cupped their hands at Xu Ruyi and said, "Eunuch, it's the first time for a child to go out, and he has never seen the world and is ignorant. Can you please hold your hand high and sell my Zheng family anyway?" A thin noodle, a lesson is enough, and there is no need to go back to the imperial prison for interrogation."

The white face has no beard, and the wrinkled face looks a little strange.

Xu Ruyi couldn't help asking: "Who are you? Report your name."

"Ann next week, an old house slave of the Zheng family."

"Very good," Xu Ruyi nodded, and said with a light smile, "Our family likes people who can speak human language. Today, the governor is here to arrest Liu Sanwu's family. It's not impossible to let this Zheng go. But let him go, It can’t be so easy.” Xu Ruyi tilted her head and thought for a while: “Just slap him thirty times in the mouth, just hit him here, and let this matter be exposed, how about it?”

Zheng Shanru was furious. He wouldn't care if thirty people were slapped in the face, or his teeth were knocked out, but he would lose all his face.Wherever he goes from now on, people will point at him and say, "This guy was slapped in the mouth by the eunuch."

"Uncle Zhou!"

"Shut up." Zhou An yelled at Zheng Shanru, then turned around and said respectfully: "Just do what Eunuch wants."

"No!" Zheng Shanru was anxious and startled: "Uncle Zhou, if he beats me, my life will be over! My mother told you to protect me, is that how you protect me?"

"Young master." Zhou An said calmly: "If you beat you up, you still have your life. If you don't get this beating, your life will be gone. Comparing the two times, this old servant feels that you still get a beating." good."

"If I say no, I can't!" Zheng Shanru gritted his teeth with a ferocious look on his face, "Uncle Zhou, I know you are a martial artist, so if you don't ask for anything else, you can beat him up for me. From now on, you and my Zheng family will owe you nothing." , How about I give you back your freedom?" As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket, which was boxy, not too big or too small.

Zhou An took a deep look at Zheng Shanru and said in a harsh voice: "A loving mother often loses her son. I never thought that my wife even gave you my deed of betrayal." Shaking his head, Zhou An turned around, took the paper in Zheng Shanru's hand, folded it, and stuffed it into his arms. middle.

"Eunuch, you have seen everything."

"I see, I see." He beckoned, and a fan ran over and lay down on the ground.Xu Ruyi turned over, stepped on that guy's back and got off the horse: "Come on, our family is kind-hearted, so I don't care about myself today. How about getting a few punches from you, fulfilling you, and giving you back your freedom?"

"offend."

With a low growl, Zhou An flew past like a cloud, covering Xu Ruyi.At a distance of one foot, he swung his body with a whip and kicked towards Xu Ruyi's left arm.

Xu Ruyi didn't dodge or dodge, relying on the zhenqi to protect her body, looked coldly into Zhou An's eyes, and ignored the sharp legs beside her.

Zhou An was puzzled, but the offensive was hard to stop.This is the case with the shadow-following legs, once it is used, it will move in a series of moves, even he, the person who makes the move, can't control it.

The next moment, a strange force suddenly came from the leg, as if kicking on a ball of cotton, the force was removed layer by layer, and it was indescribably uncomfortable.

In the end, Xu Ruyi's standing palm blocked an inch of his left arm, and he couldn't make any further progress.

"Uncle Zhou, why do you still leave your hand to me to beat him hard, with all your strength!" Zheng Shanru shouted with displeasure on his face.

Zhou An frowned, then stood still, and slapped Xu Ruyi's chest lightly.

To outsiders, it seems to be getting weaker and weaker, but if there are knowledgeable people here, they will be able to recognize it at a glance. This is one of the 72 Shaolin stunts, one clap and two scattered palms. It is slapped on the stone, and the stone fragments are scattered around, hitting the body. , the soul is flying to pieces.

The fierce and vigorous palm force was still blocked in front of Xu Ruyi's chest, and it still didn't come to fruition.

"What a powerful body-protecting zhenqi." Zhou An murmured in praise.

"Thank you for the compliment." Xu Ruyi grinned, "Do you still fight?"

"I'm sorry for being entrusted by someone." Zhou An nodded and said, then he punched Xu Ruyi all over his body with his fists and palms.

Although there are not many qigong practitioners in the world, there are still more than a dozen types.There aren't many that are as solid as the Dongchang eunuch's body-protecting qigong in front of me, but I guess as long as I exhaust the opponent's internal energy, the rest will be easy to handle.

Zhou An's idea is correct, but he is only around fifty, and he practiced Zhongzheng's peaceful Shaolin boy kung fu. Although his breath is long, if he wants to exhaust Xu Ruyi's century-old kung fu, even if Xu Ruyi stands up and asks him to fight , well, even standing up and letting him fight now will take a long time.

Zhou An played happily, but Xu Ruyi got bored.Yun Zheng and Ye Yuze led the team to arrest other people, and they came to arrest Liu Sanwu by themselves. If it took too long, it would be a bit ugly.

Yawning boredly, Xu Ruyi smiled and said, "After fighting for so long, it can be regarded as fulfilling the entrustment of the surname Zheng. Now it's our turn."

"What?!" Zhou An couldn't help but turn pale with shock when he heard Xu Ruyi's voice full of anger. Could it be that all his hard work was in vain?
Adding three points to the strength of his hand, he made a move of double wind piercing his ears, and his fists hit Xu Ruyi's left and right temples.

Suddenly, from an unbelievable angle from bottom to top, Xu Ruyi raised her hand, grabbed Zhou An's collar lightly: "You are practicing Buddhist martial arts, right? What a coincidence, our family also practiced a Buddhist martial arts recently. , called..."

It seems that without much effort, Zhou An was lifted in the air by Xu Ruyi.Zhou An struggled hard, kicking his feet wildly, but for some reason, he couldn't exert any strength on his body.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Zhou An's mind, and he blurted out: "Shakyamuni Elephant Throwing Technique!"

"Exactly."

After saying this, Xu Ruyi turned Zhou An to spin a windmill, and then let go of his hand. Zhou An flew up to a height of ten feet, drawing a cruel and elegant arc, and fell to the end of the street with blood in his mouth. Spurting, and passed out in an instant.

"Go and see, if he is not dead, then take him back to the East Factory as well."

"Yes." A fan took the order and left.

"Let's do it." Waving his hand in a dull manner, Xu Ruyi left such instructions and walked towards the mansion.

. . . . . .

"Master Liu is awake?"

Outside the lobby, there was a lot of crying and shouting, and in this lobby, Xu Ruyi and Liu Sanwu were sitting opposite each other.A smile, an indifference.

The one with the indifferent expression was Xu Ruyi.But the smiling one is Liu Sanwu whose family members are being tortured.

"It seems that the boss already knew that our family was coming?"

"The old man's two dogs refused to accept their fate, and found many martial arts thugs in private, which makes you laugh. Don't talk about Nanjing City, it is the whole world. If the emperor wants to take someone, who can stop him."

"But we don't have the emperor's decree in our hands. Mr. Liu, don't you want to resist?"

"Jinyiwei and Dongchang always seem to do things that kill first and then tell the truth. In the final analysis, it is the emperor's will. Otherwise, if you stand here for a quarter of an hour, the emperor's order to take your life will have arrived."

"Master Liu seems to be very open-minded." Xu Ruyi looked at Liu Sanwu in confusion.Xu Ruyi was a little puzzled by his indifferent and peaceful attitude.

After a moment of silence, Xu Ruyi said: "The crime the emperor has convicted you of is Hu Weiyong's remnant party. As a result, the boss may die, or he may be sent to the army."

"Speaking of which, when Hu Weiyong was imprisoned for punishment, the old man did intercede with him, it seems that the emperor still remembers it in his heart." Liu Sanwu stroked his beard and laughed.

"Aren't you afraid of death, my lord?"

"What's the joy of life, and what's the pain of death?"

"It sounds very much like what someone from the White Lotus Sect said."

Liu Sanwu waved his hand and said with a smile: "I just admit that I am a remnant of Hu Weiyong. There is no need to bear the charges of being a White Lotus cultist."

"It seems that the boss has already expected his own ending?" Xu Ruyi said in a deep voice.

"It's not that I want to die, the only name on the list is the name of Nanfang Juzi. In fact, the old man is unexpected.

But that’s fine too.I am getting older, and life and death are nothing more than trivial matters.Now that I can die for justice in my heart and set an example for scholars all over the world, I think it’s not bad. "

"My lord's family..." Xu Ruyi tentatively asked.

"The old man has a little grandson, who is only seven years old. He was sent to Qingliang Temple in Mount Wutai four years ago to be a monk jumping over the wall."

"It turns out that the boss has already prepared, no wonder he is so calm." Xu Ruyi nodded clearly.

Who knows that Liu Sanwu shook his head and said: "That's not true. It's actually just a coincidence. I have a very close personal relationship with Master Wude of Wutai Mountain, so I sent it to accumulate a blessing. Four years ago, how could I expect this to happen?"

The cries outside the hall gradually died down, and a fan from Dongchang came in, knelt down on one knee, cupped his hands and said, "Master, there are 120 people in the whole family, and 47 of them who were short-sighted have been killed on the spot. , the remaining 76 people, including Zheng Shanru and his doomed entourage, have been seized and are only waiting for the governor's order."

"Let's go back to the East Factory." Xu Ruyi got up and said, "Let everyone be more polite and don't go too far."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)