[Qing Chuan] Mu Emperor's Grace

Chapter 84

Yong Xing's words made Agui stunned again: "Master? You mean, this woman is not an ordinary maid?"

Yong Xing glanced at the trembling woman, and said with a sneer, "I'm afraid that even Wang Danwang himself doesn't know that the person I raised to monitor Le Erjin has become Le Erjin's confidant and has been sent to my house." around."

Ah Gui only felt chills in his heart, but his brain, which was not brilliant, suddenly thought of one thing: "If that's the case, why did she still tell you about Funing?"

Yong Xin walked slowly to the side of the woman, bent down to get a closer look at her face, because of the closeness, the woman could clearly see his cold expression, immediately shrank in fright, and closed her eyes.

Unexpectedly, when she heard Yong Xing's voice again, it did not come from the front. When the girl opened her eyes again, she saw Yong Xing pacing into the distance at some point, and said mercilessly: "If what she said just now is To be honest, maybe it is because of the kindness of the old master. Since Le Erjin can place her by my side as a pawn, then my identity must be to please even the governor, Le Erjin, and say blessings in front of us. Ning's matter may be able to save the old master from being implicated."

Up to now, the girl's complexion has turned into a mass of dead ashes, she stared blankly at the void, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Or maybe, she just wants to leave a way out for herself. If I can keep her tomorrow, that would be the best. From then on, she will enter the palace as a concubine. Once she flies to the branch, it's hard to say Yes, after climbing the high branch of the prince, how could her old masters get into her eyes?"

Agui listened quietly at the beginning, and then paced irritably. He couldn't understand why a seemingly simple matter became so complicated after Yongxin's analysis.

"Speaking of which, she is really smart. Just now you tied her up, she already understood that I will not touch her again today, and seeing the 50 taels of criminal evidence in my hands, she knew that the situation was over. Now that I am determined If she wants to take care of Le Erjin and others, she will naturally find another backer."

After hearing this passage, Agui didn't know what to say. He looked at the trembling woman, and couldn't distinguish his complicated emotions. There was a trace of pity mixed with resentment. He was so smart, but he was like a duckweed. , wandering and helpless.

He suddenly pushed open the door with big strides, and walked out without warning, leaving Yong Xin and the woman looking at each other.Not long after, Ah Gui came back, holding a set of attendant clothes that he did not know where he got, stepped forward to untie the woman, and handed the clothes to her: "Put it on first."

The girl's tears flowed down her face unexpectedly.

Yong Xing looked at Ah Gui in surprise, and turned his back knowingly, until the girl said softly: "It's ok." The two men turned around, and the woman changed into her clothes, finally getting out of the embarrassing situation When I came out, the clothes that didn't fit me looked a little bulky, but in the night, I didn't look clumsy, but instead revealed a different kind of agility.

The woman suddenly knelt down in front of Yongzheng and said in a trembling voice: "Master, even though I have kept many things from you, Master Funing is indeed a good and honest official, but in the big dye tank of Gansu, he can't help himself. "

Ah Gui's heart was moved, but Yong Xin had no special emotion, he responded coldly: "What is the truth, you will bring me and Gui Zhongtang to the Funing Mansion tomorrow morning and you will find out." After finishing speaking, he He didn't even look at the woman's expression, but just waved his hand: "I'm tired, Agui, since you untied her, take care of her. If she escapes tomorrow, I'll only ask you."

Yongzheng fell asleep on the couch without a curtain, Agui and the woman looked at each other and smiled awkwardly.Yong Xing disliked that the quilt that had just wrapped the woman's body was stained with powder, so he put the quilt aside.Ah Gui picked up the quilt, and only gently covered the girl when she fell asleep lying on the table.

He took off his outer shirt again, and carefully put it on Yong Xin's body.Gui Zhongtang of Zhichangzi stood outside the door like a door god with a torn heart and faint tiredness.

The next morning, when the woman woke up, she saw the quilt covering her body. She opened her hazy eyes and saw Agui standing by the door. The woman was about to speak when Agui made a quiet gesture to her. gesture, and then pointed to Yong Xin who was still asleep on the bed.

The woman showed a grateful smile at Agui, and straightened her messy hair by herself. After about a stick of incense, Yongzhen gradually woke up.Seeing that he woke up, the woman was about to go forward to straighten Yong Xing's clothes, but Yong Xing raised her hand to stop him.

When everything was ready, Yong Xing looked at the black marks under Agui's eyes calmly, and said in a deep voice, "Let's go." Because the woman was wearing the clothes of a servant and did not wear any makeup, no one recognized her along the way. Come out, and since she was walking beside Ah Gui and Yong Xin, no one dared to stop them.

After the three of them left the mansion smoothly, the woman led the two of them to the Chase Mansion. The old butler who opened the door looked at the two people who were very handsome but very unfamiliar. Just as he was about to speak, the woman dressed as a maid said, "Cao Uncle, it's me, I'm Yuanyuan."

Uncle Cao was startled, stared at those presbyopic eyes for a long time, and then said in a hoarse voice, "Miss Yuanyuan, what are you doing?" Then he opened the door on one side and let the three of them into the mansion.

Yongzhen came all the way, observing the surroundings of Funing's mansion, seeing that his mansion is not very eye-catching, and there are no high-ranking families nearby, if it wasn't for Yuanyuan who led them here, they would never have imagined such a thing with the naked eye. It is the residence of the inspector.

Uncle Cao heard Yuanyuan calling the two of them nobles, and seeing the nobility exuded by the two of them, he did not dare to neglect, and asked the two to wait in the front hall for a while, and then led Yuanyuan to see Funing.

Not long after, Funing hurried to the main hall, he didn't recognize Yongzheng, but he had seen Agui, and he heard Yuanyuan say that when Twelve elder brothers arrived at the mansion, he immediately guessed the identity of the man next to Agui identity.

Although Funing is a third-rank official, he is a local official, let alone elder brother on weekdays, and he is rarely seen even as a Beijing official.He was stunned for a moment, until he heard Ah Gui's suggestion: "Hurry up and salute the twelfth elder brother!" Then he knelt down in a panic and said, "Slave Funing sees the twelfth elder brother."

In front of Funing, Yongzhen still had that indifferent look, even though Funing wanted to get closer, he was scared away by Yongxin's expression.

This time, it was still Yongzheng who spoke first: "I heard that you have kept the one hundred thousand snowflake silver that Wang Danwang gave you back then?"

Funing was startled, as if he didn't expect Yongzhen to be so straightforward, he looked at Yuanyuan next to him in surprise, and saw the woman winking at him, he immediately felt sorry, and said in a hoarse voice: "Brother Twelve Mingjian, Mr. Wang has indeed given 1 taels of silver to the lowly officials, and a total of [-] taels have been spent in these years, and the rest of the lowly ones are kept, and a penny has not been moved."

Yongzhen frowned and said, "Gansu donated prisons have never been abolished. You are a third-rank inspector, Wang Tingzan and others must have given you money, right? How much did you earn during the two years when Wang Danwang was transferred to Zhejiang?"

Funing understood now that the twelfth elder brother came to settle the accounts with him, he kowtowed with a bitter face and said, "Please go to the warehouse in Fuzhong to check with my elder brother."

Yongzhen and Agui looked at each other, then followed Funing to the warehouse.Funing's house is not big, and there are no unusual sights in the mansion.But when Funing pushed open the door of the warehouse, there was something strange inside. Funing led Yongzheng and Agui into the warehouse with ease. Agui could hardly believe his eyes. In addition to silver, there are countless agate beads and tortoiseshell gemstones.

Yong Xin only felt that in the dark warehouse, those silver jewels made his eyes hurt, Funing followed behind him in fear, for fear that the master would kill him on the spot in anger.

Yong Xing picked up an ingot of silver and looked at it, then suddenly asked: "Funing, if I remember correctly, you were born with the inlaid blue flag?"

Funing sincerely said: "Yes."

Yongzhen pointed at Agui sharply and said, "Agui, from a noble family in Zhenglan Banner, the son of a university scholar, Acton, tell me, do you have so much money in your family?"

Agui understood that Elder Brother Twelve was really angry, he bowed his head and said: "This old slave is terrified, there has never been so much silver in the treasury of the government."

Yongzhen nodded, and said with a sneer, "What a local parent official, what a poor Gansu, what a donator for money, Funing, you are not honest!"

Funing couldn't bear Yongxi's repeated interrogation, so he revealed the inside story of the donated prison in Gansu: "Twelve elder brothers, you grew up in the capital city, so you may not know that Gansu and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are rich and rich provinces. There is really no comparison, even if they are both governors and governors, there is a difference. Leerjin, Wang Danwang and the others saw that the officials in other provinces had a lot of money-making jobs, so they thought about doing the same in the Shaanxi-Gansu area. A way of making money, this time and time again has moved the crooked mind of donating to the prison. They first reported to the court that Gansu has not had rain for years, and all the crops in the people's fields have died. They need money to help the victims, but if they want money, they have to Let the wealthy merchants pay for it, and those merchants just want to pay for a shortage, and this kind of donation is only implemented with the approval of the emperor."

Hearing this, Agui was puzzled and said, "So, the original intention of donating the prison is still good?"

Funing smiled wryly and said: "It would be good if we really took the money from rich businessmen and big businessmen to help the victims, but it's a pity that from the beginning to the end, this matter is just a plan to get rich that Le Erjin and others came up with. Remember, on the night of Elder Brother Twelve’s welcome banquet, didn’t it rain? All the droughts and no rains, and no crops, were all fake. Don't worry about Wang Danwang's [-] yuan, which is just a fraction, but Lord Le himself has at least got this amount." Funing made a comparison of "three". gesture.

Agui was surprised and said: "30?" Unexpectedly, Funing shook his head. This time, even Agui stuttered: "It can't be 300 million?" Funing nodded.

"They not only put the money into their own pockets, but also the prefectures and counties below have to follow it. There are more than a hundred counties in Gansu, and the county magistrates have to get the "careful money". Everyone knows the reason, this person, there is no one who doesn’t love money, Le Erjin and Wang Danwang have identified this point, so they are so unscrupulous.”

Seeing that Yongzheng was lost in thought and Funing lost the restraint he had just now, he sighed and said, "I'm an ordinary person in a humble position, and I know that Le Erjin and Wang Danwang and others are the big officials of the frontier. I have to take this money even if I don't want to." Even if you refuse, they will always find a way for you to accept it. I have also heard that in the counties below, some people’s ancestral houses were forcibly demolished and then forced to rebuild with the "Yanglian Bank". The methods are simply outrageous."

While Funing was talking, there was a pen and paper in front of Yuanyuan, Yongzhen walked up to her, and asked softly: "Can you write?" Seeing Yuanyuan nodding, Yongzhen ordered: "Take what Funing said , Write it down, draw a bond for him, and take it back to the governor's mansion."

Under Funing's explanation, the officials of Gansu Tong Province, except for a very few hard-headed ones, have now been squeezed out of the inner circle by Le Erjin and others, and the rest of the people have all received more or less money. How many of them, like Funing, were forced to take money but saved it for use, still need to be carefully ascertained.

With Funing's confession, Ah Gui led people to surround the Governor's Mansion, and gave Le Erjin and others a trap. Poor Lord Na Le, who was still dreaming of a peaceful dream, became a prisoner in an instant.Yongzhen attached Funing's confession to the document, and hurriedly sent it back to the capital to hand it over to Hongli, while he and Agui stayed in Gansu temporarily, waiting for Hongli's will.

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Hongli had two papers on hand, one was the whole story of Gansu's counterfeit relief case written by Yongzheng, and the other was a secret booklet presented to Hongli by Agui, which described Yongzheng's case in detail. What he did in Gansu.

What surprised Hongli was that Zhichangzi, who has always said one thing and two things, praised Yongzheng this time.It wasn't until this moment that Hongli realized that, at some point, people around him gradually praised his son. The Queen Mother loved him very much, and He Shen valued him very much. Now even Agui also praised him very much.

Just as he was thinking, He Shen had already brought tea into the hall, and saw Hongli fascinated by Wen Zhe at a glance, and couldn't help laughing softly: "Your Majesty, is there any news from Gansu?"

Now Hongli feels more and more that He Shen and his mind are connected, and he can know what the other is thinking by looking at each other's expressions and actions.He took the tea and handed the papers of Twelve and Agui to He Shen: "Let's have a look."

Now that Hongli reads the scriptures, he can't avoid Heshen even more, and Heshen doesn't refuse, so he reads the scriptures after receiving them. Zhezi was just the opposite, the more he looked behind, the bigger the smile on He Shen's face.