The first dude in the Qing Dynasty

After returning to the Prince's Mansion, Yin Zuo went to the study and copied two Buddhist scriptures before gradually calming down.

Putting down the pen, walking to the window, looking at the goose-feather-like snow outside the window, the snowflakes all over the sky danced leisurely and hurriedly between the sky and the earth, and finally fell into the vast earth, silently.

Just as he was engrossed in watching, Wangcai's voice came from outside the door: "Master, Mr. Changyi Shengchang, Yin Changyi of Shuntian Prefecture, please see me."

"Please."

Wangcai was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Shall I see you here?" The study room is not a place where casual people can come in.

Yinzuo hummed.

A moment later, Chang Yisheng entered the door with excitement in his eyes. After paying homage, Wangcai helped Chang Yisheng up, and said with a smile: "Master Chang, to put it inappropriately, our master's study is no better than Long Live Lord. The South Study Room is easy to enter, so far, apart from Prince Yong, the Fourteenth Lord and a few other masters, Mr. Chang is the first guest here!"

Chang Yisheng clasped his fists at Yin Zuo, and said respectfully: "I am afraid, and I will definitely live up to the love of His Royal Highness the Prince."

The excitement in my heart is unspeakable: Who doesn't know that this prince's family is the most difficult to enter?Unexpectedly, I have such a fortune!The crown prince is also very affectionate. As the crown prince's first confidant, his future future can be imagined.

Yin Zuo invited him to sit down, served tea, and sent the servants away, saying: "Master Chang came here in person, but there is no progress in the case."

Now that he has entered Yinzuo's sect, Chang Yisheng's words are not as secretive as before, and he said: "Yes. In the past few days, I have sent people privately to investigate in detail according to the order of the Prince's Hall, and progress has been made."

He took out a stack of papers from his pocket, presented it, and said, "This is the list of the victims, and the confession of the main criminal..."

Yin Zuo hummed, looked down, and the victims were all teenage girls or boys. It was the best time of life, but it came to an abrupt end in this desolate way.The case first happened two years ago, and then intermittently, sometimes it happened two or three times a month, and sometimes it stopped for several months.

There were more than 30 people who were killed in the past two years. Among the more than 30 people, most of them signed dead contracts, and only two or three signed living contracts.It's no wonder that after two full years, so many people died before things were exposed.

Yinzuo looked at it and said, "Where's the corpse?"

"I heard from them that they tied stones, put them in sacks and threw them into the moat. The officer has already visited the place where the corpses were dumped, and there is a lot of movement to fish them out, because in the past few days, King Cheng has ordered all people to search for Yu. The assassination case of the prince, so the officials dare not act without authorization," Chang Yisheng said: "Also, according to their account, the person who made the attack was a distinguished guest brought by Ling Pu, and Ling Pu personally received them every time. I haven't even met...but Ling Pu..."

Ling Pu's identity is not something that he, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, can do casually.

Yin Zuo took a deep breath, and now it is clear who the so-called "murderer" is.The time when the first case happened two years ago was exactly when Kangxi had replaced all the servants and guards around him because of Yinreng's torture and murder of court ladies. The timing of the tour was just right.

He said lightly: "Arrest Ling Pu immediately, and call in another manpower to salvage the body."

"Hey." Chang Yisheng answered decisively, with Yin Zuo's promise, let alone let him touch Prince Yu's nanny, even if he was asked to capture Prince Yu directly, why wouldn't he dare?

Yinzuo said again: "If it's cold today, people who go into the water will get 20 taels of silver per person. Wangcai, take 1000 taels of silver and give it to Mr. Chang."

Wangcai agreed, and went to the inner room to get the money.

Chang Yisheng hurriedly said: "How can this be done? Investigating and solving cases and salvaging corpses are their duties. Even subsidies, they also have their own funds from the yamen. How can they let the crown prince spend money?"

Yinzuo said: "Then let me invite your brothers to drink a glass of wine to warm up."

Raise your glass to your lips.

Wangcai stepped forward and handed the bank note to Chang Yisheng, and said with a smile: "Master Chang, you don't have to be polite with our master. If there is no one next to our master, it means that there is a lot of money."

Chang Yisheng laughed a little jokingly, and said: "The little official has the audacity to accept it."

He said again: "If His Highness the Crown Prince has no other orders, the next official will go and do it now?"

Yinzuo put down the teacup, nodded and said, "Wangcai, send off Mr. Chang for me."

After a while, Wangcai came back, holding an emerald snuff bottle in his hand, and said with a smile, "Master, this is what Master Chang gave to this servant...Look...that..."

Yinzuo glanced at it and said, "You can take it if you give it to you."

Now that Chang Yisheng is on his boat, it is certain to make good friends with the people around him. This is also the custom. In front of Kangxi, it is enough to deliberately play tricks on him.

Don't look at these people as inconspicuous, sometimes things can be done without saying a word, and things can be even worse.

A book he had read before recorded an incident in the previous court, saying that an old official's children and grandchildren were unworthy, and he used his power to bully men and women outside, committing crimes, and was impeached by the censor.After the veteran heard the news, he immediately wrote a letter of pleading guilty to the old man, and bribed the eunuch next to the emperor with a lot of money, and the eunuch took out the letter of the old minister and put it on the paper of impeachment.

The emperor first read the old official's pleading note, recalled the old official's achievements in the past, and felt that he had only produced a few unworthy children and grandchildren, so he pleaded guilty in such a sincere and fearful manner, and even asked to resign himself, it was really commendable for his loyalty, and when he saw the impeachment letter again Zhezi, suddenly felt that the censor was aggressive and unrelenting... The result can be imagined.

If there is no exchange of eunuchs, the emperor will be angry at the evil deeds of the old minister's descendants after reading the censor's report, and when he sees his confession report, he will feel that the old official is relying on the old to sell the old. , and even threatened to resign.

The role of the servant can be seen from this, and there are other things such as intentionally making troubles when the master is in a bad mood, or causing people to offend the master's taboo, etc., which are even more common.

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This winter, the people in the capital have experienced all kinds of excitement, ranging from the conferment of the empress, the appointment of the crown prince, the fire in the suburbs, the assassination of Prince Yu, to the newly opened state-run watch shop with beautiful and cheap things, and the excellent article "For Learning" by Jiangnan students. "Widely circulated, and the new punctuation marks are sought after by scholars, etc. Now that the Chinese New Year is about to come, there is a new thing - Shuntian Mansion salvaged dozens of corpses from the moat...

All of a sudden, those who were missing at home rushed to identify them, but many of the corpses had already been changed beyond recognition, and most of them were not covered, so few of them could be identified.

The salvage lasted for three days before it ended. Three days later, Yin Zuo saw Chang Yisheng again: "The identity of the deceased has been confirmed, and there is not much difference from what was said in the confession. It's just that Ling Pu is very stubborn. Who did he take with him, but in the end he was tortured, so he simply said that he did it alone...Yesterday, Prince Yu went to Shuntian Mansion to intercede in person, but was declined by the officials."

Yinzuo asked some more details. While talking, Wangcai came in after the report and said, "Someone from Shuntian Mansion said that the palace has issued a decree."

"May I ask what's the matter?"

These decrees are sent to the Yamen rather than to a certain person, so when the principal is away, there will be a lower-level official to take over.

Wangcai glanced at Yin Zuo anxiously, and then said: "Long Live Lord said that the case of the Yang family has had a huge impact. Since the murderer has confessed, he should handle it quickly and close the case as soon as possible."

The killer has confessed...

Do it quickly, close the case as soon as possible...

Yin Zuo closed his eyes, his figure was a little dazed.

Chang Yisheng looked at Yin Zuo and said uneasy: "His Royal Highness..."

Yin Zuo waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, and said calmly: "Just do as you want... Also, ask him about the fire in the suburbs."

"A suburban fire?"

Yin Zuo gave a hum, and said lightly: "Master Chang, you don't have to act stupid in front of me. Even I can see that the fire was set by someone. Could Master Chang not see it? Since he admitted the murder, Presumably he will not hold back on the matter of arson, go ask and present the statement to Huang Ama."

The distance between houses is not too far, but it is not too close. After all, digging holes in the ground, too close is easy to landslide, and fire prevention must be prevented.

Since the houses were not too close together and covered with heavy snow, the fire shouldn't have spread so quickly—after the first building caught fire, the movement of the people inside should be enough to alarm the people around them and let them escape, but The fact is, no one came out of a house that was on fire, but the neighbors were hardly touched by sparks...

Chang Yisheng respectfully agreed, and retreated, the yamen still had an imperial decree waiting for him.

Yin Zuo's eyes fell outside the window... If thirty or so lives are not enough, what about Huang Ama and 130 more?

After an unknown amount of time, Wangcai's cautious voice sounded: "Master, it's time for lunch."

Yinzuo hummed, got up and went back to his room - if he didn't go back to his room to eat, then someone would go hungry.

Back in the room, he found Chen Zhuo neatly dressed sitting at the table drinking tea, he couldn't help but wondered, "Who are you?"

Chen Zhuo said lightly, "I'm leaving."

Yin Zuo frowned.

Chen Zhuo said: "The search outside has been relaxed, and most of my injuries have healed. Even if I encounter officers and soldiers, I am not invincible. I should go—don't worry, even if I am caught, I will never It will hurt you."

Yin Zuo said after a moment of silence: "Can you wait for two more days?"

Chen Zhuo shook his head: "It's not necessary."

Two more days, what can we wait for?

Yinzuo turned to Wangcai and said, "Go and ask the kitchen to prepare a table of food and drink. Also, you go to the fourth brother's house and tell him that the wound medicine he gave me last time is very useful. Ask him if he has any more. If so, give me another bottle."

Chen Zhuo frowned and said, "Don't bother..."

Yin Zuo shook his head: "No trouble."

The food and wine were delivered quickly, Chen Zhuo hid in the room, and did not come out until the servants set the table and retreated one by one.

Yinzuo had already poured the wine, and said: "You are injured, so I won't persuade you much. After drinking this cup, take a rest, and I will personally send you out of the city in an hour or two."

Chen Zhuo frowned and said, "It will be dark in two hours, if you go out of the city at that time, I'm afraid they won't suspect you?"

Yin Zuo still shook his head, and said lightly: "It's okay."

The two drank a cup, Yinzuo got up and changed it for tea for Chen Zhuo, Chen Zhuo stopped him and said, "People in the Jianghu are not so particular, a little wine won't kill you."

Yinzuo smiled: "Okay, then we won't go home until we're drunk."

The atmosphere was not warm, the two of them kept their mouths shut, eating and drinking in silence, occasionally having a drink, and no more conversations.

After drinking for three rounds, Wangcai came in, put two bottles of medicine on the table, and said, "The king of Yongjun said that there are several ingredients in this medicine that are rare, and there are only two bottles left in his place. Take them all." Yes. He also said that he will prepare it later, and send some over.”

Yinzuo said, "That's all you said?"

Wangcai scratched his head and said, "He also said that he knew, so don't worry... I didn't quite understand it."

Yin Zuo hummed, and ordered: "Send someone to Prince Yu's mansion to keep an eye on, and if Huang Ama invites him into the palace, he will return."

"Whoo."

After he went out, Yinzuo said: "This medicine is good, you can keep it. After the third brother's accident, the investigation is handed over to the fourth brother. He has promised not to touch you for the time being. After you leave the city, you can find it." A hidden place, heal your wounds before leaving."

Chen Zhuo frowned slightly, but he still didn't say anything, and silently put the medicine into his arms.

He drank a few more cups sullenly, seeing that Yin Zuo drank more vigorously than him, Chen Zhuo held down his hand that continued to pour the wine, and frowned, "I remember you have a heart attack, don't you?"

Can a person with heart disease drink like this?

Yinzuo brushed his hand away and said, "A little wine won't kill you."

Go on again.

To block him with his words!Chen Zhuo said again: "If you are drunk, who will send me out of the city?"

Yinzuo drank a cup and said, "Then you can stay for a few more days."

Chen Zhuo frowned, took the wine glass away forcefully, and said, "Don't drink it!"

Yinzuo glanced at him, stopped insisting, leaned back lazily on the back of the chair, leaned his arms on the armrest, looked out the window with his head propped up, and said, "Chen Zhuo, if you choose, you are willing to be romantic." , or do you want to make snow?"

"So what about making the wind, and what about making the snow?" Chen Zhuo said, "We saw that it was the wind blowing the snow, but who knew that there was nothing else chasing behind the wind? Some things, It's not something you can control, so don't worry too much about it."

Yinzuo laughed at himself: "I'm very grateful that you didn't strangle me to death in the middle of the night! There's no need for comfort..."

Chen Zhuo looked at him suddenly: "You already know why I assassinated Prince Yu?"

Yin Zuo had a headache, stretched out his hand to press it, and said: "Is it hard to guess? You don't kill so many princes in power, but you want to kill a prince Yu who can't stand up, is it because you want to pick up soft persimmons? You can imagine the reason why you didn't do it sooner or later, but you did it after killing Suo'etu."

Chen Zhuo killed Suo'etu because of the Yellow River's embankment breach, and by the way, helped him to ask about the fire in the suburbs... Afterwards, he impulsively assassinated Yinfeng. Yinzuo knew with his toes that Yinfeng must be with these two something about.

"Then you also know why he set the fire?"

Yinzuo nodded: "I know."

He knew it, although he just knew it not long ago.

Li Lu took his censer to ask Shuntian Mansion to handle the case, and the man wrote a note to settle the matter temporarily.He hated the house and the black, and worried that he would meddle in this matter, so he would naturally think of killing people to silence him.Probably got Suo'etu's idea and wanted to hurt him once, so he delayed the time for two days and put it on the night of his canonization ceremony, but he didn't want Brother Li Lu to go to the brothel to find someone at night in those two days , not in the nest, escaped unharmed.

Chen Zhuo was furious: "Then you also know about the explosion of the Yellow River embankment, and he also knew about it beforehand?"

Yinzuo still nodded: "I know."

While there isn't any proof of that, he just knows.

How can there be such a selfless and dedicated person in the world, in order to promote someone to the top, even killing the king and slaughtering the people, but not letting that person know at all-he is not afraid that after the person is in the position, take him His old life to sacrifice to his father's spirit in heaven?

But so what if he knew, he didn't have the slightest evidence, and Kangxi even deceived himself into thinking that the precious son he raised with his own hands would never stand by and watch others kill him without being indifferent...

Chen Zhuo was so angry that he sneered, "Okay, okay, I thought you were different from them, but you are also the same!"

Yin Zuo smiled wryly.

Chen Zhuo scolded angrily: "Your Highness, Prince! Didn't you tell me that today's emperor is a wise king? Didn't you tell me that no matter which brother of yours is in power, you will not be so stupid? How many people died in the flood of the Yellow River? Why did Suo'etu drink wine, eat meat, and burn charcoal when I went there? How many people did Prince Yu kill? Didn't he enjoy all the glory and wealth? And you, everything You know, but you don’t say a word, you are the prince who is under one person and above ten thousand! This is the Mingjun? Huh?”

"You Aixinjueluo family, what do you think of the common people in this world? The common people in the whole world are the livestock raised by your Aixinjueluo family. You can kill them if you want, and you can kill them if you want?"

Yin Zuo looked at the furious Chen Zhuo, covered his eyes with his hands, and remained silent.

How he wished that he could stand up, show evidence one by one in a loud voice, and pat the table to tell him, no!None of this is true!

But the fact is that he hardly even has the courage to face Chen Zhuo.

After a long time, I felt that Chen Zhuo sat down and started drinking, Yinzuo said slowly, "I'm not explaining anything, I just don't know who to tell..."

Chen Zhuo stopped and looked at him.

"We Manchus came from the grasslands," Yin Zuo said, "Different from the thousand-year-old Chinese civilization, grassland tribes are a very primitive semi-slave society. Slaves on the grasslands are private property, just like cattle and sheep, even without cattle. Sheep are valuable. When grassland people marry their daughters, the dowry is the number of horses, cows, and slaves... When two armies fight, the tribesmen who lose will become slaves; Just rob, cattle, sheep, people, whoever robs whose..."

"In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army plundered more than 46 Han people from Jifu and Shandong. In the 15th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army captured 36 Han people...these were all slaves. The staking of land is also a long-standing habit brought from the grassland..."

The whole world was brought down by the Aixinjueluo family, so except for the Aixinjueluo family, they are all slaves...

The teacher said before that the development of human beings has gone through social forms such as primitive society, slave society, feudal society... But, if a feudal society country is destroyed by slave society tribes, what will happen?

The regression of society has become inevitable.

In the 37th year of Kangxi, the imperial edict said: "In the past, Manchuria often killed their family members lightly, and I set up a poor punishment. Now this trend is less likely to die."

The so-called inferiority means increasing taxes, that is, fines...

Therefore, he has never liked this world, this oppressive and breathless country.