I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"Zhongxian, you have done something like this, should you send someone over there?"

Originally, Wei Zhongxian planned to give Emperor Tianqi a small surprise, but unexpectedly, the old man surprised himself first.

He really didn't expect how the emperor knew that this matter was planned by himself, and even his own plan was very clear.

Wei Zhongxian was even more afraid of Emperor Tianqi in his heart. At this moment, he was even more convinced that the emperor had a hidden card that even he could hide to death.

As for what this hidden card was, Wei Zhongxian had no idea at all. He also knew that it would not help the matter to make side-effects or ask the factory staff to investigate secretly afterwards.

You know, although the Dongchang fanzi are all headed by him as the factory owner, once something really happens, there are quite a few who will die loyal to the emperor.

Wei Zhongxian knew his position, he was nothing without the royal family, so how dare he have the slightest thought of touching the emperor's bottom line?

Rolling his eyes, he said with a charming smile:

"It's true that nothing can escape the eyes of the master! This matter was arranged by the servants, so that Dongchang can go to the Confucian Mansion to investigate the case!"

"Huh." Zhu Youxiao also laughed, turned his head and gave him a sideways glance, looked downstairs again, seemingly unintentionally said: "Oh, I really don't want to know about you."

"Let's do it..."

"According to the order."

Ma Qing is a martial artist, very rough and straight, but he is not stupid.

What Yan Shenggong said was obviously a threat. He was just a small inspection, so Yan Shenggong even had contacts with the ministers of the dynasty, how could he find out?

Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he sneered:

"This matter is very strange. I'm afraid the inspection department is powerless. I'd better report it to Jinling Guozijian and ask them to send someone to ask."

When the words fell to the ground, the common people were all agitated.

At this moment, even the stupidest people fully understand how bluffing the name of the Confucian Mansion is. The stone lion in front of the gate exploded for no reason. That's fine, the main reason is that two supervisors of the Imperial College died.

It is indeed the right time for these two prisons to live and die. They died in front of the Confucian Mansion today. No matter what happens, the discussion in the world will not be separated from the Confucian Mansion. It is enough to be regarded as a big case in any dynasty.

However, no one expected that there would be two batches of official missions.

First, the servants of the Qufu County Yamen, seeing that it was the work of the Kong family, directly became the shopkeeper, and then the street inspection department, who was even scared back by Yan Sheng Gong Kong Yinzhi's words.

It's good that the Confucian Mansion is fine, it was a false alarm, but if it was really done by the people in the Confucian Mansion, but no one from the top and bottom officials dared to investigate, wouldn't it be the same as the Tu Emperor.

Such a Confucian mansion, if it is not governed, what will happen?

Chapter 799 The East Plant Intervenes

"The county government doesn't dare to investigate. The inspection department is afraid of wolves and tigers. I don't know if I, the Marquis Zhongmao who was appointed by the emperor today, can investigate this case!"

At this time, a voice came from behind.

Everyone turned their heads one after another, and so did the members of the Kong family, but they saw a group of men and horses in white clothes with two swords on their waists turning around from the side of the street.

This is the standard configuration of Dongchang fans, and the one who spoke just now is Wei Ximeng, Wei Zhongxian's grandson, who is basically raised by Wei Zhongxian as his own son.

In Dongchang's position, even Fu Yingxing, the head of the stall, was almost behind.

"Dongchang is handling the case, the idlers are waiting to go away!" The fans held the special steel knife made by the Dongchang official school in one hand, and waved it among the crowd with the other, yelling incessantly:

"roll!"

"If you dare to block Lao Tzu's way, you will do it together!"

The arrival of Dongchang was considered to be the last fig leaf for the Street Inspection Department. At this time, many people suddenly felt that Dongchang might also have its own benefits.

For example, now, no one in the local area dares to investigate the Kong family, but the Dongchang family dares, and your Kong family is arrogant, Dongchang can only be more arrogant than them.

The Kong family are "people in formal dress", slowly threatening you and scolding you without any profanity, but Dongchang did just the opposite.

If you can scold your mother bluntly, they will never say one more useless word. Scholars can't fight hard, so they try to reason with the fans, but the fans only talk about evidence.

As long as the evidence is complete, no matter how many people stop him or claim that the person is innocent, Dongchang will use various means to arrest him.

Once in prison, it is a narrow escape.

The so-called "Dongchang handles the case" is like saying that the imperial power has arrived, and no force in any place can stop it.

Today's factory guards are like the knife in Zhu Youxiao's left hand and the sword in his right hand, almost equivalent to the supreme imperial power.

What's more, Zhu Youxiao himself came out for a private visit on Weibo, just to see if it was necessary to do it himself.

After all, the Confucian shop is no different than any one that has been run before. Shanxi merchants and chaebols are nothing compared to them. In order to keep it clean, Zhu Youxiao will personally end it when necessary.

Now I still watch Wei Zhongxian's performance, and now Zhu Youxiao understands that there is no need to do anything that can be solved by staying behind the scenes.

Of course, giving Jian Nu the last knife is another matter.

Since the big case of Donglin Imperial Examination in the fourth year of Tianqi, perhaps because of the disappearance of his enemy Donglin in the court, Dongchang has been a lot more honest, and has hardly brought up any major cases.

The people in the field now understand that they have been holding back a big hand!

Ma Qing, the inspector of the inspection department, seemed to have seen the savior, but he didn't go to meet him, because he knew that he and the other party's identities were not equal.

Leading the patrols back quietly, seeing that Dongchang quickly controlled the situation, Ma Qing was completely relieved, and a patrol beside him said:

"Master Ma, it's a good thing that Dongchang is here, otherwise the old face of our inspection department will be completely exposed by the Confucian family this time."

Ma Qing nodded, spat viciously in the direction of Confucius, and said:

"I'm not afraid of a hole in the sky, but I'm afraid that Dongchang will come to handle the case! This time we can agree, brothers of our inspection department, don't come to the Kong family during this period, go as far as you can."

"The people from the East Factory have already arrived this time, so we can't wade into this muddy water!"

The patrolmen nodded one after another, and someone said, "Don't worry, Mr. Ma, brothers are not stupid!"

The more Ma Qing thought about it, the angrier he became, and he said angrily: "Our inspector's rotten job, we can't offend the government at the top, and we can't offend the wealthy family at the bottom, so we are always angry!"

"Damn it! Let's go, close the team!"

……

As things got worse, people from the Qufu County Government, the Inspection Department, and the East Factory came and went, and more and more people watched the excitement.

Soon, the gate of the Confucian Mansion in Qufu was surrounded by all kinds of people, and there was a lot of noise and noise.

Seeing the people in Dongchang swagger into the gate of the Confucian mansion under the stunned eyes of the Confucian family and Confucian scholars, Zhu Youxiao stopped watching.

Instead, he sat down comfortably and raised his legs:

"I'm a little thirsty, so I'll ask someone to come up and serve some drinks and side dishes. Let's wait slowly and see what Dongchang can find out."

Zhu Youxiao naturally understood in his heart that the deaths of the two inmates were also arranged by Wei Zhongxian. As for whether they were killed by the broken stones from the stone lion, it is hard to say.

However, with the death of Jiansheng, Dongchang will have a justifiable excuse to enter the Confucian mansion.

In the past, Dongchang did not need to be so cautious when investigating cases. It was precisely because the other party was the Kong family that had lasted for thousands of years that Wei Zhongxian used this trick.

No matter what, the result was good. After such a commotion, everyone in the world knew the face of the Kong family, but Li Xin's fighting poem was unexpected.

While waiting for the food and wine, Zhu Youxiao said:

"Li Xin is a man of good ability. He stayed in the Imperial College to give lectures, but he was a poor man. What kind of official position do you think he is suitable for?"

Wei Zhongxian heard the words and said:

"This Li Xin was a Jinshi in the Jiazi year. He was originally a fellow Jinshi. After a major case, he was awarded a Jinshi background. He was going to the Imperial Academy to do editing. He went to Nanjing to give lectures by himself."

"It seems that this person's ambition is not in the court?" Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "This is better. The more he doesn't want to be an official, the more interesting it is to be an official."

"Zhongxian, what do you think?"

Wei Zhongxian nodded and said: "My lord is right. According to my servants, Li Xinjing's incident will defeat the great Confucian scholars in the Guan, and he will definitely become famous for a while."

"If His Majesty wants to give him an official position, the servant thinks that going to the Household Ministry to do an eight-rank Zhaomo will also sharpen his mind."

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Wei Zhongxian, thoughtful, and said after a long while: "Well, what Zhongxian said is very much in line with me, so let's act accordingly. When you go back, you can arrange a personal meeting, and I will approve it."

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao said deliberately: "After all, the imperial court has rules and regulations, and the procedures that should be followed still have to be followed, don't you think?"

Wei Zhongxian didn't dare to say no, he just nodded again and again, his back was already soaked.

Not much to say, the people in the restaurant had already stepped up with heavy steps, and after a while the footsteps stopped, and there was a light knock on the door, and then entered the door:

"Second master, do you want to find a girl to serve?"

Zhu Youxiao glanced at the proprietress, and laughed dumbly, "Isn't this a restaurant, why do you say it seems to be a brothel?"

The proprietress put a layer of makeup on her face, and she shook it off layer by layer between talking and laughing, "Oh! You two don't know something, we are just serving drinks and nothing else."

Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly and stopped talking.

Wei Zhongxian saw what the emperor meant, the creases on his old face moved slightly, and he threw down a silver ingot, "It's just the joy of drinking, it's not very fresh. I heard that your Shiquan Dabu Tang is famous far and wide, so give us a bowl of that. gone."

The proprietress covered her mouth and smiled coquettishly, she looked at Wei Zhongxian and said: "It seems that this master is a regular customer, so come here, come here now... Do you have any orders, sir?"

Zhu Youxiao raised his hand to signal Wei Zhongxian to sit down, and said:

"Give me a serving of wine and your well-known side dishes here, and serve him a bowl of Shiquan Dabu soup. Good things should be shared!"

Wei Zhongxian stood up, subconsciously said:

"Thank you -"

He suddenly realized that he had slipped his mouth, and quickly changed his words, but his expression remained unchanged, and he bowed and said, "Thank you, Mr. Bi!"

The proprietress looked at the two of them and knew that the man in yellow was obviously a rich man, so she took a few more glances before turning her head and leaving.

Chapter 800 The Millennium Confucian Mansion

There are palaces in the palace, there are palaces in Confucianism, and there are palaces in Confucian palaces that do not exist in palaces in the palace.In short, there are Confucian families in the palace, and there are even more Confucian families that are not in the palace.

Continuing for thousands of years, the blood of Kong Sheng.

This is the Kong family.

Qufu is only a county, but its scale is several times larger than that of the general state cities in the Central Plains, all because of the Confucian Mansion.

The regulations of the Confucian Mansion can be described as extremely large and extensive. At a glance, it feels even more magnificent than the Lu Wang Mansion in Yanzhou, Shandong. There is such a rumor among the locals, which is very interesting.

It's not that Confucian Mansion is located in Qufu, but that Qufu is in Confucian Mansion.

What does that mean?

Because there are twelve "mansions" under the Confucian mansion, and these mansions are the places where the children of the Confucian family who did not inherit the title of Duke Yan lived.

Each of these twelve prefectures has a hall number, and they are arranged according to the distance of relatives, and they are all distributed in Qufu City.

Among them, there are five prefectures that are relatively close to each other, so they are all within the main family of the Confucian mansion.

Each of these twelve mansions has similar regulations to the general county mansions, scattered all over the place, and now it seems that it is true to say so.

Wei Ximeng walked into the Confucian mansion with Fan Zi, and as soon as he entered, the noise outside could not be heard, and his eyes were straightened.

The fans were also stunned in place, they had never seen such a luxurious mansion.

The courtyard between the gate and the second gate is huge, with white jade pillars on both sides, and two stone lions in front of the second gate.

Generally, there are two stone lions in front of the door of a large family, but for the Kong family, they have only seen four now, and there may be more inside, which is a symbol of status.

The courtyard is full of people coming and going, like a small palace.

Confucian scholars in green shirts and white shirts were holding Confucian classics, three groups of five, discussing something with each other.

After a few breaths, the Confucian scholars noticed that an uninvited guest broke in.

Soon, a Confucian scholar who looked like a big brother came over, looked at the man with his eyes, and there was no fear of Dongchang in his eyes, and ordered arrogantly:

"You fans, is the Confucian Mansion the place where you come to play wild?"

Confucian scholars also condemned it one after another.

"Senior brother is right. Fanzi are used to being arrogant outside. How can it be their turn to set foot in Kong Sheng's residence!"

"Drive them out quickly, so as not to tarnish this place of sacred learning!"

The Confucian scholars shouted loudly, but they all stood far away, but no one dared to step forward.

Even the "big senior brother" who spoke first, after seeing the murderous look of the visitor, there was a trace of panic clearly appearing between his brows, but it was well covered up by him.

Wei Ximeng didn't have much interest in talking to these insignificant Confucian scholars, so he pushed away the loudest elder brother and went straight to the second gate of the Confucian Mansion.

He wants to see how magnificent the Confucian Mansion has been for thousands of years!

"That stray dog, can't you hear me?" The eldest brother was anxious, stepped forward and pressed Wei Ximeng's shoulder, using some strength.