Bright Spring

At this moment, the young general in scribe's robe clasped his fists and said, "My lord, the general has thought of a way. I don't know if I should say it or not?"

"Say." Zhu Gaoxu said casually.

The young general said: "The general used to raise bees at home. When he went to Liuba Village, he saw a lot of rhododendrons blooming well by the roadside near the village. For some reason, the general thought that if the flowers bloomed so well, he would surely get A lot of honey. I suddenly thought of a way just now, I can pretend to be a beekeeper and go to Liuba Village with a beehive tent to collect honey. I wonder if this method is possible?"

Zhu Gaoxu thought about it for a while, and immediately said happily: "You have a good idea! By the way, what's your name?"

The young general hurriedly said: "The last general is called Wang Yu. Commander Wang recommended and promoted the young general. Right now, he is trying a hundred households in the garrison."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said, "Go and prepare to establish a stronghold in Liuba Village immediately."

"The last general has orders!" Wang Yu bowed.

A group of people came over late yesterday, and today they have been tossing all day.At this time, the sky outside was gradually dimming, Zhu Gaoxu made arrangements and prepared to leave the stronghold of Banyan Tree Street.

When he walked into the yard, he suddenly turned around and said, "Put away the bowl of rice just now, and feed it to an animal to see if it's poisonous."

After Liu Ying took the order, Zhu Gaoxu stepped into the carriage in the courtyard.

……

Entering May, the weather in the capital is gradually getting hotter.

At the mansion of Wang Gen, the editor of the Imperial Academy, rhododendrons are blooming like blood.Du Erlang "Yang Yong" was moving things out of the mansion, and there were some Jinyiwei sergeants, military remnants, and official servants working with him.

The commander of Jin Yiwei made Ji Gang and the people from the three judicial departments sit in the courtyard and drink tea. The Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate all sent people over, and they were registering the removed things there.

... The slightly valuable things in the Wang family's mansion are naturally confiscated.

Those guilty civil servants were almost cleaned up last year; but this Wang Gen is dead, so the Wang family has slipped through the net.Even so, Chen Ying still dug out this person and impeached him.So the family members of the Wang family were convicted, and their family property was confiscated.

Wang Gen was impeached for corruption, but Chen Ying also gave a secret memorial: Wang Gen was a loyal minister of Jianwen, he did not die of illness, but committed suicide by taking poison to die for his country!

Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunqi was not good to Wang Gen. During the palace examination, Zhu Yunqi thought Wang Gen was ugly; Wang Gen was originally the number one scholar, but was also dismissed by the emperor.But Wang Gen was still loyal to Emperor Jianwen, and when the country was broken, he took poison at home and killed himself to show his ambition.

...The people sent by the yamen took away all the valuable things from Wang Gen's house.After finishing their errands, everyone left the mansion one after another, and they had to check the accounts and land deeds of Wang Gen's house.

The guards in Jinyi were the last to leave, and a seal had to be pasted up, and the mansion had to be confiscated.

Ji Gang stood up and said, "Take some paste and stick a seal on the gate, and everyone will be on duty."

At this moment, Du Erlang stepped forward and said: "I have something to report to the general..."

Ji Gang took a look at Du Erlang, and seeing him hesitating and hesitant to speak, Ji Gang walked into the room and invited Du Erlang to come in and talk.

"What's your matter, you can talk about it now." Ji Gang squinted at Du Erlang.

Du Erlang bowed and said: "General, please move, I will show you something."

Ji Gang curiously followed Du Erlang to the kitchen room. At this time, there was no one else in the house, and everyone had already moved outside the gate to wait for the seal to be pasted.

Du Erlang walked to the corner, and there was a small clay sculpture of the Kitchen God on the wall, with three sticks of incense stuck in front of it.Du Erlang directly took down the statue, turned it upside down, took out a small delicate bowl from below, and handed it up with both hands: "General Ji, please have a look."

Ji Gang carefully held it in his hand, and looked at the window carefully. It is said that Ji Gang used to be a scholar, so he must know something about cultural relics.Sure enough, a smile appeared on Ji Gang's face: "It seems to be something from an official kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty."

Du Erlang stood there bent over, and replied: "Yes."

"Of course it could be a fake." Ji Gang said again.

But why hide fakes?Du Erlang said, "The general is right."

At this time, Ji Gang had carefully put the bowl into his arms, and took a look at Du Erlang: "You boy, did you join the Jinyiwei through Gao Xianning's route? I see you are very clever."

Du Erlang hurriedly said: "Returning to the general, it is indeed Mr. Gao who helped. The little one used to wander around in the market, that... when there was really nothing to do, he also did dirty things. He knew that rich people would hide things. Where are they?"

Ji Gang shook his head and said, "I'm not saying that you can find that bowl, but that you found it, but you didn't say it until now."

Du Erlang said in a deep voice: "They are all things that need to be registered. It is difficult to distinguish the authenticity of the antiques when they are compiled, and they may be stolen by others. It is better to honor the generals of our own yamen."

"You know a lot, kid." Ji Gang smiled, "Why don't you take it secretly?"

Du Erlang hurriedly said: "General Ji gave the young one a bite to eat, how can the young one be ungrateful and do such things behind the general's back? I dare not be unfaithful to the general even if I have ten courages!"

Ji Gang said: "What is your name..."

"The younger one's name is Yang Yong." Du Erlang blurted out without hesitation.He had to say the name a dozen times every night before going to sleep.

Ji Gang pointed at him and said, "I don't care where you were working before, from tomorrow onwards, come to the Jinyiwei Yamen in Qianbulang and follow me."

Du Erlang immediately fell to the ground, kowtowed and said, "Xie, General Cultivation!"

... After Du Erlang was off duty, he still recited "My name is Yang Yong" more than ten times that night, and fell asleep after repeating it a few times.

Early the next morning, he still made a detour from Yuqi Street to go to duty.When he walked to the shop on the second floor, he found that the shop was actually open!Didn't the King of Han go to Yunnan?

Du Erlang couldn't bear it, so he walked upstairs and entered the lobby.There was only a big man in the lobby with a cloth kerchief on his head. He also looked over at Du Erlang, and the two looked at each other.

The big man in the cloth scarf looked very familiar, and it took a while for Du Erlang to remember: Du Erlang came to this jade shop to collect money at the end of last year, and Zhu Gaoxu came in person, and this is the groom who drove the carriage!

The big man seemed to have recognized Du Erlang, but he greeted him, "Guest officer, just take a look."

Du Erlang nodded, pretending to wander around.Then he turned his head and glanced at the door, and took out half a piece of jade from his pocket: "Look at the shopkeeper, can this half piece of jade be repaired?"

"Wait a moment." The big man put down half a piece of jade, and went straight to another room.Du Erlang was the only one left in the lobby of the shop, and no one cared whether he took things or not.

After a while, the big man took the other half of the jade and put Du Erlang's half together, it just fit!

Seeing this, Du Erlang took the jade and said, "If brother can see your master, tell him that Yang Yong has been appreciated by the commander."

The big man said: "I must bring the words with me."

"Farewell!" Du Erlang clasped his fists.

When Du Erlang entered Hongwumen, he was searched and questioned, and then he was taken to Qianbulang by a sergeant guarding the city. This place is not accessible to ordinary people.

When he arrived at the Jinyiwei yamen, someone waited for him to receive a letter of appointment, a new military uniform, a waist badge, and ten guanbao money for settling down. It turned out that he had already been promoted!However, the ten-column banknotes are really useless, and now the treasure banknotes are almost unusable, and they are not even worth a single copper coin; but the government still treats it as a settling fee for ten-coin copper coins.

... The big man in the lobby of the jade shop is none other than Zhu Gaoxu's personal guard Chen Dachui. They returned to Beijing with Wang Gui to give gifts.A group of people walked on the road for more than a month, and just arrived in the capital yesterday morning.

But Chen Dachui separated from Wang Gui before entering the city.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's instructions, Wang Gui took people back to the old county palace to settle down, and then wrote a letter to give gifts.Chen Dachui came to the jade shop alone and waited. He was going to wait for the female Taoist priest Chi Yuezhen, and then take the female Taoist priest out of the city; meet with Wang Gui and others at the agreed place, and then return to Yunnan together.

This jade shop has never had any business, the door is not opened in the right place, and customers who are wandering around are unwilling to climb upstairs. After all, the street is full of jade jewelry shops all day long.But once in a while, one or two people would come, and when they saw that the goods in the shop were not in good condition, they would leave.Chen Dachui didn't sell a single item all day.

This morning, a young man came.Chen Dachui recognized him at a glance, Zhu Gaoxu had met this person in this shop before... because that person is easy to remember, he is short, but has delicate features, and his skin is much fairer than ordinary men.

Sure enough, the young man came out with the token, and after comparing it with Chen Dachui, he confirmed that this person was the spy of the King of Han who stayed in the capital.