Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 683: Surprising Explanation
Gu Wenxuan was surprised. He guessed what his wife wanted to say when she suddenly winked and said let's talk about it when we got back to the room in the board room in the front yard.

But why is the hereditary title of Duke of Liang the root of all evil? Why would the rulers not tolerate the existence of the Duke of Liang's Mansion, which was responsible for half of the founding of Daliang?

No matter how you look at the Duke of Liang's Mansion, you will feel annoyed. If you meet a narrow-minded emperor, if he offers you a knife, it would be strange if he doesn't destroy your Duke of Liang's Mansion.

Unexpectedly, his wife also deduced the main reason why the gentleman would rather be a knife for the current emperor. After the New Year, the gentleman will have to return to Yangzhou Prefecture in accordance with the secret order.

When the wind blows, it may kill the "old friend".

This is also the best time to fish in troubled waters.

“It’s not that the Yangzhou Zhou family is not weak. In terms of power, your Zhou family is still as powerful as the Dingzhou Zhou family. It’s just that you have been separated for nearly two hundred years, and the world has long forgotten that you were once a single force.

When the Dingzhou Zhou became weak, your master handed over most of the personal connections to the current direct descendants of the Yangzhou Zhou. The only condition was to protect your uncle.

This is why the power of the Zhou family in Yangzhou has grown rapidly in the past two or three decades, especially since your uncle won the first place in the Yangzhou Prefecture's provincial examination. It can be said that he was on the rise.

Furthermore, although your aunt's family has very few people above the fifth rank, there are many scholars and juren, and it can be considered a wealthy family in the local area, which has provided an invisible boost.

This has also led to the fact that Yangzhou Zhou is now a mixed bag of good and bad people. Among them, some people are now ambitious enough to get involved in the dispute over the prince's purse. Sir, you will have to clean up the mess next."

sweat!
It's like looking for death.

"Do you remember that in June and July, Uncle Qi went to Zhoujia Village and we met. At that time, I guessed that something big was going to happen in Zhending Prefecture?"

Zhou Banxia nodded hurriedly but did not dare to interrupt. He did not know what had happened, but later on the Double Ninth Festival on September 9th, he was imprisoned for embezzling military supplies.

Mrs. Qian's husband, Qian Tongzhi, was almost implicated because of this. When she learned about this matter in November, she had heard Xuanzi mention that this case did not seem to be handled by the Gongwei Division.

Taizu, the founding emperor of Daliang, did not set up the Jinyiwei nor any public factory, but he still used the very sound organizational structure of the Gongweisi to convince people with reason.

It is said that the Gongwei Division still has a department similar to the Sticking Rod Division, which has infiltrated every corner of society, from the royal palace and the central government to teahouses, taverns, and brothels. As long as this department feels there is a problem, they can submit the collected information.

As for who it would be submitted to, it would definitely be the head of the Gongweisi. The Ministry of Justice, which was in charge of criminal law, would not be able to do anything about it. The Gongweisi became the emperor's private judicial institution.

And since this case was handled by the Ministry of Justice, it certainly didn't seem like a case handled by the Guard Bureau. At least it didn't seem like the Guard Bureau's style of "rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let one go."

The power of the Gongwei Division is extremely great. Not only is it in charge of the imperial guards, but more importantly, it has the privilege of patrolling and arresting people which is above the law.

“In fact, privately, it was because there was a big problem at the Land and Water Transport Tax Inspection Office, which involved the second son of Duke Cheng’en. Duke Cheng’en is the prince’s maternal family, and the second son is the prince’s cousin.

The Censor of our province is Lord Taishan, the second son of Duke Cheng'en. I don't need to explain what the Censor does.

According to you, no problems were found with this person, but he had previously served as prefect of Yingtian Prefecture, and one of his relatives is now the governor-general of the grain transport system.

It just so happens that this Grand Canal Governor has a granddaughter who is the Crown Prince's Consort, another granddaughter who is the Third Imperial Consort, and another granddaughter-in-law who is the granddaughter of the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner."

The relationship is messy!

What was the current emperor thinking about this governor of the grain transport system? Why did he put him in this position? Did he want to use the third prince as a whetstone?
"What's interesting is that, originally, we thought this was a matter between the Crown Prince and the Third Prince, but after the investigation by the Royal Guard Bureau, several adult princes were implicated." Zhou Banxia had a toothache.

Sure enough, it was still beyond her understanding. Making money was simple, but the things between these big shots were too complicated!

"As the saying goes, a small move can affect the whole body. Sir, you have been on the mind of the current emperor. Initially, he wanted to reinstate you to serve as the governor of the grain transport system.

You must be kidding. I managed to get away with great difficulty, but I cannot disobey the imperial order. I don't know what you said in the secret memorial, but he became the imperial envoy.

Of course, he is not an imperial envoy in public, but he is sent to Jiangnan under a secret order as you think. The gentleman did not mention in detail what he was investigating. "

Now that we have come to this point, there is nothing to hide, so Gu Wenxuan simply told us everything, "The gentleman only told me that there is no risk in his trip.

He said he was in secret, and the emperor had sent important officials to the open, but if he wanted to go to the south of the Yangtze River, it would be for a short period of time, a year or so, and we need Uncle Master Qi to look after him more.

Sir, you are not worried about whether Mr. Gao had embezzled money during his tenure in Jiangnan. Instead, Mr. Gao may not be innocent and may involve Mr. Gao.

This possibility that is not so innocent is not mainly about taking bribes, but whether Lord Gao Er has secretly relied on some prince. If so, no one can protect him.

Is it possible to inform Madam Gao about this? Otherwise, your uncle will be implicated. This is not a matter that can be handled with emotion, understand?"

"Am I crazy?" Zhou Banxia couldn't help rolling her eyes. "It depends on what you are doing if you want to repay a favor. Uncle, aren't you hiding this from me because you're afraid that I'll tip you off?"

"Not really. The main reason is that you are pregnant and I don't want you to worry. Also, the master was worried that someone might take advantage of us while he was away from Zhoujia Village and couldn't pass on the information in time, so he reminded me.

It's not just the Gao Mansion, the gentleman also gave me a lot of advice on how to deal with problems in other mansions. I won't go into details, but it's not a bad thing anyway.

I had always thought that Mr. Xu would not go to the south of the Yangtze River so soon, and wanted to wait until after the New Year to confess to you, but in today's letter, Mr. Xu hinted that he was about to leave.

According to the method of deciphering the secret letter that I was shown before, the gentleman left before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but just in case it is deciphered——"

"Leaving on the first night of the first lunar month?"

"clever!"

How simple.

It is impossible not to show up to worship the ancestors on New Year's Eve, and I have to go to the ancestral temple on the first day of the first lunar month. I can't pretend to be sick and not show up, so I ran away on the first night.

"I'm not hiding it from you, my dear, this is a very big matter, and I don't know if what Mr. said about there being nails around us was just to scare me.

The master didn't let me accompany him to Jiangnan, and asked me to wait here and keep in touch with your eldest brother after he is not at home, and to find Uncle Cheng if there is anything. "

Zhou Banxia nodded to show that he understood, "Don't blame you, the fact that uncle can tell you so much is enough to show his love for us, and he won't let me worry about you for nothing.

No wonder they sent Dr. Lin and the midwife here so early. I told you that my uncle has been acting strange lately. He is not impatient, so why wouldn't he ask them to come back after the New Year?"