Powerful

Chapter 21

What Fu Ming's words mean, Gu Zhan and Gu Chong'an who live in Jingzhao know very well.

Most of the dead soldiers were raised by honorable families, which was a unique practice of the rich families in the previous dynasty.Although when Dading established the country, an imperial edict was issued to prohibit noble families from raising dead soldiers, but how can this be strictly prohibited?As far as Gu Zhan knew, there were still some dead men in Jingzhao's major government houses, as well as Qinghe Cui, Fan Yanglu, and Taiyuan Wang outside Jingzhao.

The several big families outside Jingzhao regard themselves as Qing Dynasty leaders and never interfere with the affairs of the court.Fu Ming meant that it was Jingzhao's honorable family who attacked the Gu family?

For more than [-] years since the founding of Dading, it has been cutting down nobles and depriving honors. Today, there are not many Jingzhaoxun nobles. In addition to the six major kingdoms that hold real power, there are also five princes and three uncles with prosperous sons. Of the dozen or so families, which one had feuded with the Gu family?
None of them! ——This point, Gu Zhan is very clear in his heart.

As a new family of powerful officials, the Gu family has never been on the same road as the long-standing noble family.Although everyone in the world calls them noble, powerful and honorable people are still different after all.

The current situation of Dading's national destiny is like this, the powerful ministers are increasingly valued by the emperor, and the nobles gradually stay away from the government.The Gu family came from powerful officials who held real power, and they always avoided the honorable and noble families.

Until the first emperor ordered the two to intermarry each other in order to quell the disputes between the nobles and nobles, and Gu Chongting married a girl from Uncle Zhongyong's mansion, the Gu family maintained a friendly relationship with the nobles' family in Jingzhao.

How could such a Gu family have any enmity with the Xungui family?
However, this ambushes clearly existed!
Based on Gu Zhan's understanding of Fu Ming, what he said is probably true. The one who killed Gu's family in Kongcui Mountain was the Xungui's dead man!
Only when he understood the connection, Gu Zhan's complexion became more and more ugly.The Quan family is easygoing, and the back door is ruined, this sentence suddenly appeared in Gu Zhan's mind.

Gu Zhan and Gu Chong'an didn't say anything, and Fu Ming and Shen Du didn't know what to say for a moment, and the room fell silent instantly.

Only the breathing of the four people could be heard, as well as the "cracking" sound of the lantern falling.

Seeing this, Shen Du stood up, cupped his hands to Gu Zhan, and said, "Master Gu, I thought I had something to do, so I left first. If there is any progress in the matter of the man in black, I will inform Mr. Gu. "

Shen Du didn't know and didn't want to know why the man in black ambushed and killed the Gu family.Although he had all kinds of doubts in his heart, it seemed that the Gu family couldn't solve these doubts.

Both Gu Zhan and Gu Chong'an stood up, expressed their thanks to Shen Du repeatedly, and said that if the Gu family had news about the leader of the man in black, they would definitely inform Shen Du immediately.

Shen Du has the great kindness of saving the Gu family's life, and the exchange of news is a little bit, of course Gu Zhan will not think there is any problem.

"So, I will wait for the good news from Mr. Gu." Shen Du smiled and said goodbye to Gu Zhan, Fu Ming and others.

Before leaving, Shen Du took a meaningful look at Fu Ming.He always felt that Fu Ming was hiding something, and the reason for guarding Kongcui Mountain seemed too far-fetched.

However, if he didn't open his mouth, he couldn't pry his mouth open. Let's wait for a while. If it's really urgent, you can also call the spies of Jingjiwei to talk back and forth.

Thinking this way, Shen Du left the Gu family, and was once again amazed at the many stone rockeries of the Gu family.

After Shen Du left, Fu Ming and Gu Chong'an told Gu Zhan about the attack again in detail. Gu Zhan listened carefully, but still didn't say a word.

It didn't take long for Fu Ming to leave, and he still had to deal with the affairs of Gyeonggi Wei and the man in black.When leaving, Fu Ming frowned, and said puzzledly:
"My nephew is a little curious. The fact that my uncle and others went to Fuyuan Temple to offer incense is not an important matter. How can outsiders know about it? Can the man in black still go and kill him?"

What he said was tantamount to saying that there was a traitor in the Gu family, and someone had leaked the itinerary of Gu Chong'an and the others.The Gu family needs to be rectified!

"I know about this matter, you go ahead. The matter of the Gyeonggi Guards must be handled properly. The identities of those men in black must be verified. Digging three feet, we must also dig out the people behind them!"

When Gu Zhan said this, he frowned tightly.

This night, the candlelight in the Songlingyuan was not extinguished until Yinshi.No one knew what the two father and son, Gu Zhan and Gu Chongting, were talking about, and all the servants who were accompanying them withdrew from the second door.

This night, Gu Chongting happened not to be at Gu's house. He got drunk in Wenxiang Pavilion due to his colleagues' banquet and spent the night.

At this time, no one felt that the sky had changed, and everything was gradually different.

In the morning of the second day, the Xuanzheng Hall, which is usually very solemn and quiet, seemed quite noisy because of a single person's report.

Minister of Criminal Affairs Lu Qing looked at the serious Shen Du with itchy teeth, and really wanted to take off his boots and throw them at him on the spot!

This little bastard threw such a big honeycomb on the Xuanzheng Hall without notifying me in advance, which made me dumbfounded by the emperor's questioning!
"Your Majesty, I have stepped up investigations into the matter of Kongcui Mountain yesterday. The corpses of those men in black were reviewed by the court and found that they were all serious criminals arrested by the Ministry of Criminal Justice. The escaped man in black, I have sent officials , searched in Kongcui Mountain with the soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion. The details of this case will be submitted after we collect them."

Lu Qing arched his waist and said in a respectful tone, without anyone noticing that he was gnashing his teeth.

It turned out that it was the Kongcui Mountain incident yesterday that made the officials in the Xuanzheng Hall noisy.Originally, there were court officials who shot and killed about twenty bandits, so it was not worth making a fuss about.

But the problem is, after verification by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, more than half of the [-] people who died were repeat offenders who committed the bloody crime, and three of them were sentenced to death by Qingzhou Prison and executed last fall.

Of course, this is not the resurrection of the dead. I am afraid that there is something tricky in Qingzhou Prison. The water under this case is very deep, which is the consensus of the court officials.

This case involved more than a dozen felons, Qingzhou Prison, Huben Army, and Gyeonggi Guards. This is no small matter.Especially when the court officials learned that the person who was attacked yesterday was the eldest son of Gu Zhan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, their expressions became even more exciting.

Well, it also involves the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. The twists and turns in this case are worthy of people's careful consideration. Even in the Xuanzheng Palace, the court officials couldn't help talking about this case. The noise in the Xuanzheng Palace is because of this Come.

Gu Zhan stood upright in the court, with a tired look on his face, which made the court officials guess who the Gu family had offended, or what kind of bad luck the Gu family had, why did they encounter so many repeated offenders?
After Shen Du finished the matter, he lowered his head and looked at the left side of the hall without any trace—this is where Dading Xungui stood.

Xungui is not in power, but has the privilege of listening to politics in the Xuanzheng Hall.In particular, Emperor Chongde was generous and kind, and treated nobles much more preferentially than the first emperor.

Shen Du was disappointed, all of these people looked calm, and the one who moved the most was just a little stunned, just like hearing any ordinary case, there was nothing special about it.

He only focused on looking at the left side, but he didn't notice that the upper right side, where the princes were standing, the Seventh Prince Zhu Xuanxin's legs and feet couldn't help shaking, and he didn't notice that Gu Chongting, the provincial official in the palace, had an extremely ugly look on his face.

That's right, Gu Chongting's expression was extremely ugly.In order to avoid the affairs of the Gu family, he specially got drunk in the Wenxiang Pavilion. He didn't want to find out when he returned to the Gu family this morning that it was impossible!
What made him even more terrified was that this matter was brought up in the Xuanzheng Hall, and the one who reported it was Shen Du, a Zhongshu Sheren who the emperor trusted very much recently.

Why things developed like this, Gu Zhongting didn't know at all.Why did Fu Ming and Shen Du appear on Kongcui Mountain by such a coincidence?Damn it, he even saved Gu Chong'an's family!

Moreover, as soon as this matter got out, the court officials must have fixed their eyes on Kongcuishan and the Gu family, he was afraid that something would be found out, and he was even more afraid that he would be exposed.

All things, no matter big or small, once exposed in the Xuanzheng Palace, it will be difficult to be good!
(End of this chapter)