I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 434: The Poison of the Yansheng Mansion
Wang Dagui once again accompanied Hu Guangsheng to the Sishui County Prison, and the jailer who received them was the same jailer as last time.

The jailer glanced at the county government document handed over by Wang Dagui.

"Acquitted, with the county magistrate's official seal, the signature of the prison, and even the seal of the registrar. You have a very smooth path."

The jailer shook his head and led the way.

"It must have cost a lot of money."

Wang Dagui didn't say anything, but turned his head and looked at Hu Guangsheng.

Hu Guangsheng shrugged, "Money is a bastard. You earn it to spend it."

The jailer chuckled, "That's true, but the money in this world has eyes, it despises the poor and loves the rich, and only wants to get into the wallets of rich people.

In this world, the more you lack money, the less money you make, and the less you lack money, the more money you make. "

The three men walked into the prison again. A peculiar musty smell hit them in the face. Wang Dagui couldn't help but cover his nose. Hu Guangsheng glanced at him from the side.

"Wang Dalang, you look unwell."

"It's okay." Wang Dagui said to himself.

But just as he finished speaking, a strong feeling of nausea surged up from the bottom of his heart. He swallowed hard, but still couldn't suppress it. He staggered to the side and started to retch.

After vomiting for a while and vomiting out something, Wang Dagui came over with a pale face.

The jailer stared at him for a while and shook his head, "You've been hurt."

Wang Dagui forced a smile and said, "My father was once framed and imprisoned for several months. I stayed with him in the Qufu County Prison for several months."

The jailer nodded, "That's right. In Qufu, the closer you are to the saint's tablet, the darker the people's hearts are! Compared with the Qufu County Prison, our Sishui County Prison is simply a kind home.

Wang Dalang, can you still leave?"

"I can walk."

The jailer continued walking in front, followed closely by Wang Dagui and Hu Guangsheng, and soon they arrived at the cell where Yang Yunpeng lived.

"Yang Peng, your family used their connections to let you out."

Yang Yunpeng stood up, dusted himself off, and bowed to the people in the cell, saying, "I will leave this damn place first. Everyone, take care of yourselves."

The people in the same cell didn't say anything. A man came out from the cell next to him, lay behind the bars, and shouted frantically.

"It's unfair, I am wronged! I have a disability in my right foot and cannot move easily, but they said I chased the second son of the Xu family all over the street and hacked him to death.

This is such an injustice. I have a disability in my legs. Even if I run, I can’t walk as fast as the second son of the Xu family! How could I chase him all over the street? This is so unfair! "

Yang Yunpeng, Hu Guangsheng and Wang Dagui looked at him sympathetically but said nothing.

The jailer chuckled, "You can tell at first glance that he's new. Few of the people in this jail deserve to be punished, but most are wrongly accused. Shout, shout as loud as you can, and others will just listen for fun."

The jailer lowered his head, bent over, and slowly led the three people out of the cell. He then went to the duty room next door to handle the formalities, and then sent the three people to the prison gate.

"Go, stay away and don't come in again." The jailer waved his hand, signaling the three to leave quickly.

Hu Guangsheng and Wang Dagui first took Yang Yunpeng to the river outside the city. "It's hot, so you can take a bath. I've prepared clean clothes for you."

Hu Guangsheng said.

"Okay!" Without saying a word, Yang Yunpeng took off all his clothes, piled them together, and jumped into the river.

Hu Guangsheng took out a tinder, lit the pile of old clothes, then put the new clothes in the bag on the rocks by the river, and went to the side with Wang Dagui to wait.

After waiting for a while, Yang Yunpeng came over with wet hair and changed into new clothes.

"Let's go, so the master won't have to wait anxiously." Hu Guangsheng called out.

Back in the city, at the crossroads, Hu Guangsheng, Yang Yunpeng and Wang Dagui broke up.

"Wang Dalang, thank you for your care these past few days. Goodbye."

Wang Dagui bowed and said, "You are not ordinary people. I think we will have a chance to meet again."

Hu Guangsheng and Yang Yunpeng looked at each other and just smiled and replied: "Wang Dalang, take care!"

Looking at the two people's backs, Wang Dagui wandered on the street, refusing to leave for a long time.

After returning to the yard, Yang Yunpeng was immediately taken into the house to meet Hai Rui.

Yang Yunpeng entered the room, knelt down and kowtowed: "Yang Yunpeng alarmed Lord Hai, it is a great sin."

Hai Rui waved his hand and said, "Get up, sit down and talk.

My original intention was to come to Yanzhou to take a look. This place is so famous that I have filled my ears with it. Saving you is just a matter of convenience entrusted by Prince Jian.

He is now famous, and people are watching his every move. He dare not act rashly for fear of alerting the enemy, so he asks me for help.

Brother Yang, your companions who returned said that everything had been done and they were about to return to Huai'an, so how could something go wrong? "

Yang Yunpeng said embarrassedly: "It's my student's fault for being so reckless. I followed the secret order of Governor Wang and brought a few capable people to Yanzhou to gather information. A few days ago, the Gaoge Department in Beijing sent a land survey team to Shandong to survey the land. There were a series of incidents of team members being beaten, especially in the Yanzhou area.

Wang Duxian asked me to find out in secret. I took some people and pretended to be merchants collecting mountain products. We investigated in Jining, Ziyang, Qufu and other counties. In order not to alert the enemy, we deliberately took a detour to Xintai, passed Jiunu Pass, turned to Baima Pass, went to Mengyin and Yizhou, and then went back to Haizhou.

Unexpectedly, he encountered a bad incident at Jiunu Pass. The fourth son of Han the Butcher was robbing a passing girl. The student could not hold back and saved the girl and her family and beat up Han the Butcher.

The patrol officer of Jiunuguan knew Han Laosi, and he led the guards to surround me. In order not to expose his true identity and alert the enemy, the student hinted to his companions to leave first, and he surrendered himself. He was arrested by the patrol officer and brought to the Sishui County Prison.

Hai Rui sat upright in his chair, stroking his beard, and asked Yang Yunpeng: "You made some inquiries in Yanzhou. What was the result? I am asking about the Kong family!"

Yang Yunpeng shook his head. "Damn it, it's dark under the lamp! Qufu is the hometown of Confucius. These descendants of Confucius, under the banner of Confucius, have done such things that I'm afraid their ancestors' coffins will not be able to hold them down.

Man and God are outraged!
The students were wondering, why can the Yansheng Duke be passed down for a thousand years? During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, when China was in ruins, they lived a comfortable life. When the Khitan, Jin, and Mongolians invaded the Central Plains, they knelt the most decisively.

Confucius said, "It is better for the barbarians to have a ruler than for the Chinese to have no ruler." Yet, his descendants kowtowed loudly in front of Borjigin.

Now, in the Yanshenggong Mansion, there are so many vines that I don't know how many there are. The eldest and second houses of the legitimate bloodline, and the other three, four, five, and six houses; the concubines' houses are the Gen house, the Li house, and the You house.

As long as anyone is slightly related to the Yanshenggong Mansion, anyone can bully the common people.

The students were puzzled!

Is this still the day of the Ming Dynasty?
Is this land still Ming's land?"

Hai Rui waited quietly for Yang Yunpeng to finish speaking, "Brother Yang, leave Sishui as soon as possible, go through Zou County and Teng County, and go straight to Xuzhou. Wang Zijian told me that he has sent someone to Xuzhou to meet you.

Tian Sheng, Zhang Dao, Zhao Kuan, you escort Yang Ge'er and Yu Xiucai's family south. I have already asked Youliang to hire a carriage and buy some dry food. We will leave soon, the sooner the better.

This is a memorial written by me. When you arrive in Xuzhou, you should immediately present it in my name. You can also take my imperial seal, official seal, and official uniform with you, Tian Sheng, and give them to Wang Duxian for temporary safekeeping. "

When Yang Yunpeng heard this, he felt that something was wrong. "What about you, Lord Hai?"

"I have something else to do! After all, I am the Right Vice-Censor of the Censorate, and I have a little reputation in the world. Do you really think I came here just to save a brat like you?"

Hai Rui made a joke, but it wasn't funny at all.

Yang Yunpeng vaguely guessed what Hai Rui was thinking and quickly advised him, "Mr. Hai, why don't you wait until my brother Wang leads his troops over, and then you can go fight those bad guys."

Hai Rui smiled, "I, Hai Gangfeng, rely on my righteousness to conduct myself in society, not on weapons or guns. Hurry up and leave, and don't delay my work any longer."

Hu Guangsheng sighed, "Tian Sheng, Zhang Dao, you two protect Yang Ge'er, and Yu Xiucai's family as they head south quickly. Zhao Kuan, you and I protect Lord Hai."

"Yes!"

Yang Yunpeng, Yu Xiucai and his family, including Yu's mother who was saved from the brink of death by a doctor, got on two horse-drawn carriages and quickly left Sishui County.

Hai Rui and Shu Youliang got on another carriage, while Hu Guangsheng and Zhao Kuan hired two mules and followed behind.

When leaving the city, he was seen by Wang Dagui, who thought about it and hired a mule and rode along.

Shu Youliang kept complaining in the carriage: "My lord, ever since you asked me to buy something, I knew that I would not be able to live in peace again this time."

Hai Rui smiled and replied, "Follow me, Hai Rui, and you still want to live a peaceful life? You are dreaming!"

"Alas, during the Jiajing reign, you impeached the late emperor. A few days after the new dynasty opened in the Longqing reign, you impeached the Emperor Taizu. This time, it seems that you are going to impeach Confucius.

My Lord, can you please be quiet for a moment!

Hai Rui chuckled, "If I stay quiet, the people of the world won't be able to stay quiet."

The next day, they arrived at Qufu County and found an inn to stay for one night. Early on the third day, Hai Rui brought Hu Guangsheng and Shu Youliang to the gate of Yanshenggong Mansion.

The memorial archways here are one after another, all of which were built by imperial decrees of emperors of successive dynasties, and you can hardly see the end of them at a glance.

There is really no place to build a new archway.

A main street runs through the middle of the long dragon of archways. It is the most lively place in Qufu County, bustling with people and crowded with vendors.

Hai Rui was wearing a cotton robe, a student's scarf on his head, holding up the front of his clothes, and walking in front with his head held high.

Shu Youliang followed behind dejectedly, carrying two bamboo poles.

Hu Guangsheng and Zhao Kuan followed closely behind, looking left and right vigilantly.

Walking through the crowded crowds, you will see shops on the street with flying eaves, brackets, carved beams and painted buildings.

The sounds of vendors hawking their wares filled my ears, a scene of prosperity and greatness.

Walk to the main gate of Yanshenggong Mansion and the innermost archway.

Hai Rui stopped walking, turned to Shu Youliang and said, "Shu'er, raise it up, raise it up like a tiger!"

Shu Youliang rolled his eyes at him, took out a piece of white cloth from the bag on his back, strung the two ends onto two bamboo poles, then stuck one into the side of the archway pillar and lifted up the other, stretching out the long piece of white cloth completely. Written on the cloth was a line of large black characters that were shocking.

"The great saint and teacher will live forever, and the Yanshenggong Mansion will leave a legacy of harm to thousands of households!"

(End of this chapter)