Chongzhen Fu's first case, constantly reviewing the memo, frowned, pale, coughing, but still holding on.
Li Zhong, who was watching the night, looked really worried, stepped forward for the fifth time, and whispered: "Long live Lord, the day is about to dawn, tomorrow is still early, let's squint for a while."
Chongzhen could hear the voice of concern, coughed, and sighed: "I want to rest, but with so many things, how can I have the mind to rest..."
At this moment, an internal supervisor hurried in and said, "Long live master, Yang Shangshu, please see me."
Chongzhen raised his head fiercely, and said, "What happened again? Quickly pass it."
In recent years, there has been no good news inside or outside the capital, and Chongzhen's instinctive premonition is not good.
Li Zhong hesitated, then backed away.
Yang Sichang hurried in, ignoring the courtesy of the emperor and his ministers, and came to the Chongzhen case, and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, Shaanxi Governor Zhou Zhengyun's memorial report said that he had defeated the bandits near Xi'an and captured the bandit leader, the thief Gao Yingxiang."
Chongzhen didn't notice anything before, but finally stood up abruptly and said anxiously: "What did you say? Zhou Zhengyun captured the thief?"
Without waiting for Yang Sichang to reply, Chongzhen snatched Zhou Zheng's memorial, looking serious, and said in a deep voice before finishing reading: "Quickly, pass the decree Zhou Zhengyun, immediately escort the thief into Beijing, go!"
Yang Sichang hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Your Majesty, it is not uncommon for the Northwest to take meritorious services. Zhou Zhengyun has just entered the Northwest. This matter needs to be confirmed to avoid making a joke."
Chongzhen calmed down fiercely, as if afraid that the huge hope would be lost, his expression hesitated.
Li Zhong knew Zhou Zheng very well and would not play scheming on such a major event.
Seeing that Chongzhen and Yang Sichang stopped talking, they took a step forward and said softly: "Long live master, Zhou Zhengyun should not dare to deceive the long live master and the court in such a thing. This is a capital crime."
The hope in Chongzhen's heart rekindled, and he continued to say: "Yes, right, right, right, even though Zhou Zhengyun made a soldier privately and concealed money and food, but the war was never false. It can't be faked. Quickly, pass the decree to Zhou Zhengyun and Lu Xiangsheng. He checked it out and escorted the thief into Beijing!"
Yang Sichang listened, suppressing suspicion, and said, "Yes, the minister abides by the decree."
Chongzhen looked at Yang Sichang's back, his face was pale and ruddy, looked at Li Zhong, and said with a quick breath: "You said, Zhou Zhengyun dare not deceive me about this matter?"
Li Zhong actually played a little drum in his heart, still saying: "Yes, long live master."
Chongzhen seemed to be affirmed. He felt excited, and looked at the dark outside, muttering to himself: "If Zhou Zhengyun really captures the thief, then I can ignore his previous affairs and even promote him to official. Give him a generous reward!"
Li Zhong looked at Chongzhen's uplifted and uneasy expression, feeling a little worried, and prayed to himself, "Zhou Zhengyun, don't hurt me. If you mess around, you will kill us..."
Chongzhen was indeed excited and uneasy. The excitement was that if he did catch Gao Yingxiang, then Daming Sheji could be saved, and he could still revitalize Daming! But if Zhou Zhengyun took the initiative to do anything, it would not be as simple as making him happy for nothing.
Daming has no secrets. Before Yang Sichang was out of the palace, the news spread all over the capital.
Liu Liuzhe's child had already given birth and moved back. Hearing the news, he ignored the rest and ran directly to Zhou's house to wake Zhou Qingli who was sleeping.
Zhou Qingli put on her clothes, listening to Liu Liuzhe's words, surprised and shocked: "What you said is true?"
Liu Liuzhe's mouth was dry and excited, and said, "I don't know yet. It's just that it is spreading all over the capital. There is no letter from the Second Young Master, and I can't guarantee it."
Zhou Qingli's eyes twinkling, sitting on the chair, the light shining on her dark complexion, her eyes twinkling.
Gao Yingxiang has always been a confidant of the Ming court. The court and the emperor have been troubled day and night, and even rumors of the subjugation of the country have been repeatedly reported.
This is a great achievement, far surpassing Zhou Zheng's military exploits in defending Liaodong!
On the one hand, Zhou Qingli was excited about Zhou Zheng's capture of Gao Yingxiang, but also worried about the development of this matter.
At this time, doing things often indicates danger, the bigger the thing, the greater the danger!
Zhou Qingli was pondering for a long time, suddenly looked at Liu Liuzhe, and leaned close and whispered: "Liuzhe, I know you know many secret things about Zhengyun. Now is a critical juncture, we have to do things first."
Liu Liuzhe was taken aback, and said at a loss: "Master, what are you going to do?"
Zhou Qingli's eyes flickered and said, "First, immediately spread the news of Zhengyun's deduction of food and wages and bullying Shaanxi officials. Second, let the supervisors write a letter to impeach Zhengyun, accusing him of arrogance and greed of merit, so that Kaifeng was encircled. Three, and the most important thing, is to say that the accusation that Zhengyun captured Gao Yingxiang is false. It is a wanton request for credit and deception, and the momentum must be big, just like the real thing! You know?"
Liu Liuzhe is no longer Wu Xia Amen. He suddenly understood, with a solemn expression, and said, "It's the master, I'm going to find someone. I'll pass a letter to the second young master! Is there anything else?"
Zhou Qingli paused for a while and said, "Send a letter to Zhengyun and ask him to be impeached by one of his cronies. For some insignificant charges, you can remove him from office."
Liu Liuzhe responded and said, "It's sir, I'm going now."
Zhou Qingli put on her clothes and said, "Be cautious and don't let others know."
Liu Liuzhe agreed and quickly turned and left.
Liu Liuzhe's movements were very swift. Before dawn, the excited Chongzhen had no time to sleep, and piles of memos were brought into Chongzhen's desk.
Chongzhen couldn't fall asleep with excitement, but was very tired. He watched Li Zhong come in with a stack of melodies, and said angrily: "What's the matter again?"
Li Zhong carefully glanced at Chongzhen, and said in a low voice: "Long live Lord, these are all impeaching Zhou Zhengyun. The political envoy did not dare to delay and was sent to the Superintendent of Li overnight.
Chongzhen was startled, and said, "Impress Zhou Zhengyun? What is he impeaching him?"
He just finished speaking, his expression sank, and said: "Has the news spread?"
Li Zhong put the plate on the table in Chongzhen, and took it out as he said: "Yes. The servant had asked the prison guard, saying that Zhou Zheng was impeached for false military exploits and did not catch the thief at all. He will definitely write a book to quibble later, please long live Lord punished severely."
Chongzhen listened, two anger spurted out of his nose, curled his eyebrows to look, the more he looked at it, the anger became more and more, and finally he threw it out.
"Incompetent! Asshole!"
Chongzhen's angrily expression was blue, and his chest was up and down and cursed: "Zhou Zhengyun's matter has not been settled yet. They are so anxious to impeach them. What do they want to do? I don't want Zhou Zhengyun to capture the thief? I want the thief to enter the capital. From the merits of the dragon, can you add officials to the nobles?!"
Li Zhong knelt down with a thud, trembling, not dare to have the atmosphere.
Chongzhen gritted his teeth angrily, stood up fiercely, and said with a trembling body: "Go, immediately send the guard to Shaanxi, and I will bring Gao Yingxiang back to me! If there is no thief, I will tell Lu Xiangsheng to take Zhou Zhengyun back to the capital. capital punishment!"
Li Zhong quickly kowtow and said: "Yes, the slave and maid will go now!" (End of this chapter)