Heshen is a strict wife

Chapter 77 Homecoming

"Your Excellency is really good at archery, piercing Yang with a hundred steps. Hahaha..."

"The adults have won the prize."

He Shen took the bow and asked people to check the situation in Lianshuang City. He Shen didn't hold back the arrow - he already knew a lot about the situation of the Cao Gang, and now He Shen is murderous. How can Lianshuang City be easily let go?

It's fine that he picked out the pawns at the beginning, he and Shen are people who employ people without doubting others, but it's not that they are unprepared for everything.He chose Lianshuang City at the beginning because of "no doubt", but after knowing that Lianshuang City was still plotted by several parties behind the wall, he didn't intend to show mercy at all. This is the so-called "no need".

He Shen is not a charitable person, Lian Shuangcheng is too capable and ambitious, he can't afford such a person.

Yonggui was not far away, waiting for the opportunity, seeing that the people had almost dealt with the boats of the Cao Gang, he led the people out, and when the people from the prefect of Yangzhou brought Wang Jie out , appeared by coincidence, and almost suffocated the Yangzhou magistrate with blood on his face.

He Shen also pretended to be completely unexpected, staring behind his back like the Yangzhou magistrate.

There was only a slight scratch on Wang Jie's body. He was rescued from the cabin at this time, and the first sentence he said was: "Where's Lian Shuang City?"

With a flash in his eyes, the arc of He Shen's lips turned cold. He didn't panic at all, and said calmly: "Rebellious ministers and thieves, everyone can punish them, and I have shot them into the river with an arrow."

Wang Jie's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he looked at He Shen, but he was trembling with anger, and he still didn't say a word after all.

Lian Shuangcheng was indeed wrong. His classmates back then did not know how he got to where he is now.In any case, it was their own fault.

With a long sigh, Wang Jie said to the dark and long Grand Canal, "Lian Shuangcheng was my classmate in the past. There is some old acquaintance and friendship in... look for it, life is living, death is burying."

This is simply a situation set by He Shen. There is no gold or silver in Zhou Qu's boat, it's just the upper layer, and the bottom is full of stones. Only this boat is the incentive. Before that, the Cao gang was powerful, so Many problems have not been exposed. Now that things are exposed, it will be a dead end.

The officers and soldiers who searched finally found Lian Shuangcheng. The former water lord was lying in the reeds by the river, and there was still a trace of rest. After Wang Jie reported to Yonggui, he still rescued Lian Shuangcheng. Woke up.

He Shen was so angry that he almost smashed his cup and plate, so he could only hold back and didn't say a word.

Yonggui asked him why he was so angry, and He Shen only said: "This man is not dead, I feel blocked."

There is no time for him to be calculated.

In the next few days, the whole of Yangzhou and even the surrounding area of ​​the canal changed.

The news is that Lian Shuangcheng, the chief rudder of water transportation in nine provinces, was killed by officers and soldiers, and the entire Yangzhou Caohe section was completely under martial law. This kind of change is like a plague, from Yangzhou all the way to Jining, Huai'an, Tongzhou, and along the canal all the way to the north and south. , the government quickly replaced Lian Shuangcheng's deputy as deputy, and helped him stabilize the situation with officers and soldiers. In less than three days, the situation in Caohe was stabilized again.

Relying on his own ingenuity, He Shen had to deal with countless officials and businessmen in Yangzhou. Lian Shuangcheng's death was only a matter of time. The arrow was poisonous, and it would take two days to die. He Shen had no time to waste On Lian Shuangcheng's body.He called Wang Rulong, first to win over the new leader of the Cao Gang, and then called Zhou Qu to contact the two assistants of the current leader of the Cao Gang, and planted many of his contacts in Jiangnan in the Cao Gang. A small half of them have already fallen into He Shen's control.

Those Yangzhou officials only knew about the operation planned by He Shen in the interim. After they went out to kill Lian Shuangcheng and rescued Wang Jie, everyone was very happy.

The magistrate of Yangzhou originally went there for the account book. As long as Wang Jie is dealt with by taking advantage of this opportunity, he may be able to get the account book in his hands.

But who would have thought that Yonggui's rushing out of the slope would actually destroy the plan of the prefect of Yangzhou, and apparently also destroy He Shen's original plan.

At this time, He Shen analyzed it with the depressed Yangzhou prefect: "We kept this operation so secret. Although Lord Yonggui was notified from the beginning, we didn't say the specific time of action. Now Yonggui knows , I must not know where the news came from...My lord, I have carefully planned, but now I have failed..."

There was a bit of disappointment on his face, but also a bit of strange ridicule: "My lord, is there really no mole around you?"

The magistrate of Yangzhou broke out in a cold sweat suddenly, and looked at He Shen: "Master He, what do you mean?"

He Shen got up from the chair, put down the bowl of tea, and just smiled: "He and someone really dare not cooperate with you, my lord. I heard that the emperor has eyeliner in Jiangnan, but I don't know, you here Maybe there is, but He Shen was careless. Now that stubborn donkey Wang Jie has returned unscathed, he is lucky, but I am going to be unlucky to do it. My lord, you have hurt me too."

In the eyes of others, He Shen was the one who "shot" Wang Jie that day. Although there were no witnesses at the scene, if Wang Jie insisted on He Shen, He Shen would also be in trouble.Others didn't know that it was the collusion of the three officials who came down to investigate the case, and thought that Wang Jie really had a big grudge against He Shen.

Now that He Shen "can't make a plan", and he has a bitter hatred with Wang Jie, and he is about to withdraw, which immediately makes the Yangzhou prefect panic. He thinks what He Shen said is right-they had The purpose of planning the operation on Caohe was to take Wang Jie out of Lian Shuangcheng's hands, and then force him to hand over the long account book, but the sudden appearance of Yonggui earlier disrupted everyone's plans .

Heshen's plan couldn't be completed, Yonggui's appearance was too coincidental, and Heshen said in a word that he had the emperor's eyeliner in his mansion, which really scared the Yangzhou magistrate into a cold sweat: "Master He, don't rush away now! Ah. Now that Yonggui has saved Wang Jie, you go to find out what is going on. No one has seen the matter of you shooting Wang Jie with an arrow in the middle of the night, right? The damned people are all dead, only one Wang Jie said You wanted to kill him, but he didn’t die after all, didn’t he? What’s more, since he said nothing, how could he get any evidence? You can relax…”

He Shen sneered: "My lord, it's very dangerous here now. It's not that Shen and I don't want to cooperate, but that you have to find out who leaked the news. Shen and I have always been foolproof in our strategy. Lord Yonggui, with all my hard work, I have already made a wedding dress for that old man Yonggui, if Yonggui gets the account book, or Wang Jie handed over the account book directly, we are finished!"

Where is the magistrate of Yangzhou willing to let He Shen go? He immediately felt that the matter was difficult, because their hard work was in vain because of Yonggui's appearance, and the group of officials behind them were all worried and didn't know how to solve it. This is Wang Jie's question.

Although He Shen was tricked by them, he thought he was young and had little ability at first, but now he realizes that He Shen is a wise man. After all, he is an official in the capital. Although he doesn't understand the market in Jiangnan, he can After a long time, you will be able to touch some fur. The emperor's servants must be special.

Immediately, the magistrate of Yangzhou stopped He Shen, and sighed: "Master He, brother, it was our fault for plotting against you in the painting boat before, don't we still rely on your words to live? If this matter is over, Hello, so are we."

Between the words, it is coercion and temptation.

This is the time to force Heshen to remember when he got off the pirate ship.

If He Shen was an ordinary person, he might have been bluffed, and he also acted like he was bluffed, but in a blink of an eye he sat down with a sigh: "Now we are indeed on the same boat, and it would be a disaster if we couldn't solve it... ... There is no way, it's just too risky, I dare not ask you to do it."

"It's okay to talk to your lord." Sure enough, He Shen still had a solution, and the prefect of Yangzhou felt a little more relaxed.

There must be a way to continue walking, so I asked He Shen to say.

He Shen said: "The biggest trouble is nothing but Wang Jie. As long as Wang Jie is settled, everything will be easy to handle. He is holding the account book in his hand, and it should not be handed over at this time. Even Shuangcheng is destined to die, but it happens to be Let's make use of it—when Wang Jie said that he and Lian Shuangcheng were classmates, how many ears listened to him? So we started from here, sir, you can write a report on Wang Jie and Lian Shuang They have colluded with the city and threatened that they have an account book in their hands, but it is actually fabricated, and it will be used to frame many officials and frame them, and they want you to obey the orders of the Cao Gang..."

Good plan!What a poisonous trick!

The magistrate of Yangzhou applauded the case and laughed, "Generally speaking, the emperor would not believe it, but who told that Wang Jie really hooked up with Lian Shuangcheng? This time, he will definitely be unable to escape!"

Of course it's a poisonous scheme, but this idiot doesn't know where the poison is now.

He Shen bid farewell to this idiot, and went to find Yonggui, who was sitting there writing a booklet. He didn't talk about his previous plan with the magistrate of Yangzhou, but only talked about what he had seen and heard in the Cao Gang, saying that the Cao Gang was undergoing major changes.

Yonggui still doesn't know that He Shen has taken the opportunity to hold half of the Cao Gang. He Shen now has strong financial resources and has an insider Wang Rulong. Isn't it easy to manage things here?As the saying goes, money can turn ghosts around, and He Shen already has a lot of money.

Yonggui only said: "I asked Wang Jie, and he said that the account book is not in his hands and has been transferred to someone else. There is no conclusive evidence yet, and it is useless to show this account book, so he said, we had better Continue to investigate for a while in the Jiangnan officialdom. Now Wang Jie is still fighting for Lian Shuangcheng. This person has been in the Jiangnan officialdom for many years, so he must know a lot of things. I think Lian Shuangcheng is also a man."

He Shen's smile faded a little, and he just remembered the name of the idiot Wang Jie calmly, and then said: "This is also a way, but Mr. Wang Jie is afraid that he will have to continue acting to fool him."

"That's the same." Yonggui buried his head and continued to write the memorial, and said with a smile, "Let me do my best for you. It's really hard work for you to plan so much."

At this time, the smile on He Shen's face widened, "Thank you, Mr. Yonggui."

Yong Gui laughed, and only asked him to go down to persuade Lian Shuang City.

This is a good opportunity. When He Shen went to see Lian Shuangcheng, Wang Jie had just come out of it. When he saw He Shen, he sneered: "He is good at arrows and good at thinking."

With his hands behind his back, He Shen said in a relaxed manner: "It's still the same sentence with someone, everyone can be punished for rebellious officials and thieves, he doesn't even have a clear conscience in Shuangcheng, but I and Shen have a clear conscience."

Because he is used to doing bad things.

Wang Jie asked: "Did Master Yonggui call you here?"

"It is said that they want to fight for Lianshuang City." He Shen did not shy away from it.

Wang Jie shook his head and left. Lian Shuangcheng was seriously injured and poisoned, so he was not imprisoned, but just lived in the courtyard. When the guards outside saw He Shen, they came down to salute. As soon as Shen showed the sign, he was let in.

He Shen held a dagger in his sleeve, he clenched it tightly after walking in, and then slowly let go.

Lian Shuangcheng was still lying down, his face was pale and his lips were bruised.

He Shen went in and sat down, and said with a smile: "The end of the hero, it's really tragic, tragic."

"He Shen..." In the past, when Lian Shuangcheng was being polite, he would call "Master He" and call himself "Lian So-and-so". awful.

He Shen smiled: "Although the arrow is highly poisonous, it is only the first two hours of the poison. After it penetrates into the heart, you don't feel much. Even the leader, you can sit up now, right?"

Lian Shuangcheng knew that he couldn't escape, so he got up, his upper body was wrapped in gauze, and some blood oozes out, he only came in front of He Shen, picked up the cup of tea, and put it down again: "Master He, I'm here to see you off." Someone even hit the road."

He Shen didn't deny it, threw the dagger on the table, and said: "The hero's end, the most fearful thing is that he can't survive or die. Even the gang leader has no wife and children, and no confidant, and the elders have already died. Immortals go, life is alive, there are no cares and no worries, and you are clean when you leave. Rather than die on the guillotine and be reviled by thousands of people, it is better to die here."

It can also have some effect.

Lian Shuangcheng was smart when he was studying, even if he failed the rankings, he was still in the world of books and swords, and he was happy to be kind and enmity. In this life, he achieved the position of the leader of the Cao Gang, but he was no match for He Shen's calculations.

His mistake was that he climbed over the wall and went in to find Heshen that night, and wanted to use Heshen to contain Fukang'an, thinking that he could benefit from the fight between the two - in fact, Lian Shuangcheng was not He does not support either of these two factions, he only supports himself.

It's just that he thought he was using Fukang'an and He Shen as pawns, but these two only regarded him as pawns.

All the people in this world, whoever is related, are just pawns of each other.

In a game of chess in life, when the black and white pieces fall, the outcome is determined.

Black pieces cannot be turned to white, and white pieces cannot be turned to black. Pieces that are neither black nor white can only be discarded.

This game of chess in Lian Shuang City was lost.

After all, He Shen left. He came and poured a cup of tea for Lian Shuangcheng, and the tea was cold when he left.

Lian Shuangcheng sat in the room until night, when Wang Jie came in to see him, he thought he was getting better, and urged him to change his ways as soon as possible, while pouring out the cold tea, but Lian Shuangcheng Buckle up, "Cold tea is the same as hot tea, and the pot is also cold."

Wang Jie sighed, "How did you get to this point?"

Lian Shuangcheng said: "This is fate. Let me ask you last, is the account book really not in your hands?"

"..." Wang Jie was silent for a long time before saying, "Now it's for Mrs. He."

"...Hahahaha..." Lian Shuangcheng laughed out loud for some reason, "Wang Jie, Wang Jie, are you smart or calculating? You're so good, so good..."

Wang Jie sat there without moving, just said: "I don't understand."

Lian Shuangcheng finished laughing, and when he was tired of laughing, he felt ironic, so he said: "You go, I'm annoyed when I see you."

This is how the order to evict the guest was issued. Wang Jie got used to it, so he turned around and left, thinking that he might be able to save him if he went back to find the doctor.

The room finally became deserted again, Lian Shuangcheng took out the dagger from under the table, pulled out the dagger slightly, and saw the faint cold light flooding the room.

He put down his dagger, looked up at the autumn moon in the south of the Yangtze River, then picked up the cup of cold tea, raised his neck and drank it in one gulp, just like the night when he became the leader of the Cao Gang, he stood on the bow and drank the daughter in the altar in one gulp As proud as red!

Even his life in Shuangcheng was not in vain. The dream of the Grand Canal was all a joke...

The dagger fell, stained with some blood, and fell to the ground.

The water transportation in nine provinces is still changing, but the Suzhou stage has changed a group of actors.

On October [-], the prefect of Yangzhou and the official circles of Huaihe River and Huaihe River made a memorial at the same time to report that Wang Jie had colluded with Lian Shuangcheng and wanted to use the account books to intimidate a large number of officials.

On October [-]th, Wang Jie, Yonggui, and He Shen played back and forth, bluntly saying that Lian Shuangcheng was dead, and that the dagger was an old item of the Yangzhou magistrate, and it was a murder with conclusive evidence.

On October [-]th, Babaili urgently sent it back to Qianlong for approval and asked about the account books.

On October [-]th, Wang Jie made a fuss and finally explained the account book, but said that the account book was no longer in his hands.

Qianlong was furious when he learned of this, and only said that Wang Jie was confused.

It's just that none of them will forget - there is another Feng Shuangzhi in the capital.

As early as when he heard that Lian Shuangcheng had died, Feng Shuangzhi knew something serious was going on.

The matter of the account books seems to have surfaced unexpectedly. Now, no one can use the account books to control the entire Lianghuai officialdom.

She knew that this account book could not be kept, so she finally found a chance to ask Yi Ajiang to hand over the account book, so Qianlong's anger finally ignited the entire officialdom.

Later, Feng Shuangzhi was summoned and asked in detail why the account book was in her hands. Feng Shuangzhi told everything about it, but omitted the part about Fukang'an.

"My lord Wang Jie knows that life and death are unpredictable. Only one account book can't explain the problem. It's better to have conclusive evidence. It's just that this account book is too important to take with you, so I left it for later. The minister's wife, because the minister's wife's husband He Shen is also the official who is in charge of investigating this matter, if something happens to Mr. Wang Jie, He Shen will be in danger-in any case, the minister's wife will not turn his back on He Shen, and Mr. Wang Jie is also a smart man .”

It's all bullshit, and the last paragraph is just to add to the authenticity of the whole story.

After investigating Chen Hongmou, he finally brought out the entire Jiangnan officialdom.

Qianlong only felt that he was getting old. Once he looked through the papers that the officials in the south of the Yangtze River reported against Wang Jie, those names were exactly the same as those in the account book, and he already believed that the account book was absolutely true.

Immediately, Kuaima hurriedly issued an imperial decree. According to the list in the ledger, all Jiangnan officials on the list will be put in prison and await disposal. Yonggui, Wang Jie, and He Shen will temporarily handle Jiangnan affairs.

As a result, the entire Jiangnan officialdom was suddenly cleaned up, and countless corrupt officials were imprisoned. The Yangzhou prefect knew that he had been tricked, and only then did he understand that He Shen was the biggest winner. He didn't want He Shen to have a good time, but was found hanged in his own house that night, and was finally judged to have committed suicide in fear of crime.

He Shen was ruthless and ruthless when dealing with the Jiangnan officialdom, and by the way, he was involved in a matter related to Chen Hongmou, so Chen Hongmou, the Minister of the Ministry of War in the capital, was also imprisoned.

Countless positions are vacant, and there are countless opportunities to fill them.

He Shen knows that this is an unprecedented opportunity, and who should be filled now, isn't it up to He Shen?

He plotted in various ways and forced Wang Jie to reveal the account book, but in the end the account book came out from Feng Shuangzhi. It turned a corner—only indirectly saved Wang Jie.

If there is no account book, Wang Jie will be dead anyway, right and wrong can be said by He Shen with one mouth.

But with the account book, the evidence of that group of officials is solid - although the current situation is the best for He Shen, the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River is empty, and Fukang'an previously withdrew his people because of the tight wind A large area, although it is safe, has lost the opportunity to intervene in this matter now, and now the entire Jiangnan is under He Shen's hands.

But He Shen was not happy, not at all.

Almost everything in Jiangnan has been brought under He Shen's control, but his life in Jiangnan is not safe for a day. A stubborn donkey like Wang Jie won't feel it. He can't wait to clean up the whole Jiangnan .But He Shen has to be busy building up his power, get rid of the hidden nails planted by Fukang'an here, and pull out all these people...

He Shen is very busy, very busy, but when he is free, he has to think about Feng Shuangzhi, think about those things...

He still felt like a cheapskate after all.

The weather gradually cooled down, and the affairs in the south of the Yangtze River were gradually completed. After the group of people were imprisoned and a new round of lists was drawn up, He Shen, Yonggui and Wang Jie reported all these matters. After reporting to the imperial court, a large number of officials over there were dispatched, so the work was handed over, and He Shen was finally free.

On December [-], the emperor ordered them to return to Beijing, so on December [-], He Shen finally dealt with the matter and set foot on his way home.