Chapter 287 Sobering Words
As soon as he saw Zhao Zhenji's figure, Xu Wei knew that something was wrong, so he jumped off the wall and ran to the backyard.
The soldiers from the imperial envoy surrounded the villa, and the silent guards fought desperately, but the tiger could not hold back the wolves, but they were still knocked to the ground by others. They watched the soldiers from the brigade rushed in, quickly controlled the yard, and surrounded the small building tightly.
The captain of the guard looked up and saw smoke appearing from the upstairs. He rushed up first and saw a fire brazier on the table, with a ball of black and gray in the basin, with only embers left.
I saw the Zhejiang patrol sitting at the table in silence, smiling at him, "You'll be one step later."
The captain of the guard roared and wanted to go forward to get him.
But he heard the silence and said calmly: "I am a Zhejiang inspector and an imperial envoy to handle the case. Please consider the consequences before talking about it..."
The captain of the guard groaned, held his body in a stern manner, and overturned the brazier, causing black and gray to float all over the room. He gritted his teeth and said to the people on both sides: "Look at him!" Then he went downstairs angrily and reported.
After receiving the report, Zhao Zhenji entered the yard with a dark face, walked upstairs with heavy steps, staring at the silence coldly, and asked word by word: "Where is the account book?"
Silently dusted the ashes on his sleeves and smiled faintly: "The whole room is full of, haven't you seen it?"
Looking at the ashes all over the ground, Zhao Zhenji was angry. He trembled and pointed at the silent voice, "Are you crazy?"
Silence shrugged his shoulders and expressed his protest against this statement.
"Why do you do this?" Zhao Zhenji took two steps forward and stared at the silent.
Chen Si shook his head and smiled, "You are the imperial envoy, and I am also the imperial envoy. You are not qualified to interrogate me, and I have no obligation to tell you."
"Don't be arrogant!" Zhao Zhenji said angrily: "I will write to Your Majesty now to remove your fame and official position and punish you heavily!" He said with anger and sneered repeatedly: "I want to see how your accomplices will save you!"
"No, you were wrong." The silent face said calmly: "I am silent and have no party."
"No party?" Zhao Zhenji said with a funny look: "Then why did you burn the account book?"
"I have no obligation to tell you," Chen Si shook his head and smiled: "You just report it, and everything will be decided by Your Majesty."
Zhao Zhenji's face turned ferocious, and he squeezed out a few words from his teeth and said, "I'm going to search now!"
The guards searched the room carefully from inside to outside, and finally found a secret lattice behind a marble painting, but it was already empty inside.
It seemed that he had indeed burned it. Zhao Zhenji roared angrily: "Look at him for me. No one is allowed to see him without my order!" He said, glaring silently and said, "Sincere words, let's wait and see!" Then he went downstairs angrily.
There was another extremely fierce battle at Beixin Pass. After paying a heavy price, the Ming army finally repelled the Japanese/pirates' attack.
This battle was so tragic. As the main force, the wolf clay soldiers died and injured more than 600 people, and the official army also suffered more than 300 losses, which was the heaviest time this year. Hu Zongxian was also scratched his arm by a wandering arrow during the battle. At first, the war was tight and there was no concern. Now, looking at the wounded area, it had swollen and black blood was flowing out.
The medical officer who accompanied the army was a doctor with a short beard and thin appearance in his thirties and forties. He had seen Hu Zongxian's wounds and frowned and said, "It's a grass-headed black."
He pulled the wound, Hu Zongxian sucked the air conditioner and said with a forced smile: "It doesn't matter, there's a gentleman here anyway."
The doctor said angrily: "Do you think I, Li Shizhen, is Hua Tuo's rebirth?" Although he said this, his hands were not vague at all, and he quickly helped him deal with the wound.
Hu Zongxian held a piece of small wooden stick in his mouth, his face turned pale in pain, and his sweat beads rolled in and he insisted not to scream.
Just when he was in such a great torture, his personal soldiers came over with a messenger and knelt in front of him and said, "Zhongcheng, Mr. Wen asked me to bring you a message, saying, 'The imperial envoy Zhao Butang sent troops to Xixi Villa'."
Hu Zongxian was so shocked that he stood up suddenly, forgot about the pain and said, "What did you say? When did it happen?"
“Just in the morning.”
"Hurry up, go back!" Hu Zongxian was about to go down to the gate, but Li Shizhen firmly grabbed it and said, "Treat the wound first."
"I can't care about that much." Hu Zongxian wanted to break free from him.
"I don't care what you have," Li Shizhen said lightly: "Now you are my patient, you must listen to me and treat the wound first." As he said that, his hands also accelerated.
When Hu Zongxian encountered such a stubborn person, he had no choice but to sit down obediently and urged from time to time: "Hurry up, hurry up."
"Don't urge me, otherwise something will happen and you will suffer for the rest of your life." Li Shizhen frowned.
Hu Zongxian had to shut up. He felt anxious as if he had fried and cooked it in the fire. The only benefit was that he completely forgot the pain.
Finally, after the bandaging, Li Shizhen instructed again: "Don't exercise vigorously within half a month, don't get angry, and don't eat raw, cold and spicy food."
Hu Zongxian nodded repeatedly, stood up and asked his personal soldiers to dress him and said, "I have to go back, sir, can you be with me?"
While washing away the blood from his hands, Li Shizhen shook his head and said, "I am a doctor. I will be wherever there are many injuries and patients."
"Okay." Hu Zongxian nodded and ordered his left and right to say, "Take good care of sir." Then he went down to Guancheng. Before he went out, he saw his personal soldiers leading another messenger over and reported: "Mr. Shen went to Xixi Villa first..."
Hu Zongxian felt a little more relaxed, but he still rushed to Hangzhou. After walking for several miles, he met a messenger and reported to him: "Shen Xunzhang had a conflict with Zhao Butang at the Xixi Villa and was under house arrest!"
Hu Zongxian breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the direction of Hangzhou City for a long time, then shouted: "My words, I, Hu Zongxian, will definitely not let you down in this life!" Then he turned his horse's head and ran in the opposite direction.
"Zhongcheng, where are we going?" The soldiers followed closely behind.
"Ninghai, Nanxi Hot Spring." Hu Zongxian gritted his teeth and said, "You can't let that person soak again. He must let him write to the capital immediately and let him rescue Zhu Yan!" As he said that, he slapped his horse's buttocks hard: "If he doesn't agree, I will surrender to myself in Beijing and everyone will finish playing together!"
On the pleasure boat in Jianhu, I was also closely watching the movements in Hangzhou. After only one day, I knew everything that happened in Xixi Villa.
Tang Shunzhi, who came hurriedly, knelt in front of Ji Ben and Wang Ji, and kowtowed: "Two mentors, please be sure to save Zhu Yan," he raised his head, and his face was filled with tears: "Although Zhu Yan is a child who is very scheming, he is aware of the overall situation and takes into account the overall situation. This time he is not trying to protect Hu Zongxian, nor is he protecting Zhao Wenhua, but protecting the last trace of justice in our southeast!"
"You must be clear that in our southeast Fujian and Zhejiang, there are always some ruthless and profit-oriented families. In order to make huge profits, they do not hesitate to collude with Japanese pirates and engage in rampant smuggling. For the sake of their own selfish interests, these things that forget their ancestors will be informed of Japanese pirates, inquire about the news, and even directly participate in the robbery of our Ming people!"
"In order to avoid the true face being exposed, they have attracted corruption and threatened local officials in order to make the government go with them! Once they encounter those who are honest, have ideas and want to do something for the country and the people, they will immediately secretly attack and frame, suppress and isolate, use all kinds of guns and arrows!" Tang Shunzhi said indefinitely indignantly: "If you don't say it far away, you will say that in the past ten years, Zhu Wan, Wang Jun, Zhang Jing, Li Tianchong, and Zhou Ju, these are the best and most capable officials in the Ming Dynasty, but they have fallen into the sewage pit in Zhejiang one after another. Is it just because the mastermind behind the scenes is too powerful?"
Under Tang Shunzhi's stare, everyone lowered their heads and heard him roar, "No! That's not the case... There are only a few big clans along the coast? Most of them are still inland, and their strength is much stronger than their coastal ones. Why can they make trouble again and again? We can only shake our heads and sigh here?"
Everyone was extremely embarrassed, and someone said embarrassedly: "You are not unaware that everyone is in a state of anger, and it is difficult to take action due to their appearance..."
"It's not necessarily?" Tang Shunzhi sneered: "Actually everyone knows it. This statement is just a kind of self-comfort. The real reason is that everyone has large tea gardens and countless looms. They produce so many tea silk cloths every year. Only by selling them can you make money! And those coastal tribes are our biggest buyers! So I said that everyone turns a blind eye and even indulges in covering up, just don't want to cut off this main path of wealth, right?"
Chapter completed!