The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 198
Shen Qu was lying in the room, when Gu Huaishou and the others went in, they only saw Shen Qi sitting at the coffee table by the window, and his brother Qu lying on the bed without saying a word, still the same as before.

Kui Xiayuan first asked a doctor to look at it, but under Shen Qi's gaze, he was a little trembling, even his eyelids were trembling.

After a while, the doctor from Shen Yuan finally arrived, carrying a big medical box, and looked like an old man with a white beard.

As soon as he entered the door, he said: "Don't rush, don't ask, whether you can be rescued or not, you will be resigned to fate. The idlers, etc., all get out—"

After finishing speaking, Shen Qi wanted to throw the teacup, but he didn't dare to stay in the house after all, so he went out anyway.

Naturally, Gu Huaishu and Zhang Tingyu didn't want to stay too long, and after they came out, they saw Zhang Ruoai and Liao Simian standing outside.

Zhang Ruoai was a little strange, she turned around and asked, "What's the matter..."

Liao Simian shook his head and told him not to speak.

This is the moment when Shen Chong's anger is the greatest, so it's best not to say anything to provoke him.

After a while, Zhong Heng also came out, looking at Shen Chao cautiously.

"Father..."

Sitting under the railing, Shen Qi said indifferently: "Recycle all the account books I gave my brother before, and throw them in my room. I only leave Jiang Ning's small plate to him, and make plans when he recovers. The other So... are you ready?"

"...prepared for a long time."

That's what my brother said, prepare a coffin first, lest you have to find someone to beat you when you die.

Zhong Heng felt helpless after thinking about it.

It was obvious that it was almost better before, and no one in the garden said that the elder brother had survived, so he didn't expect it all of a sudden.

Yu Chenqi was like a thunderbolt.

Gu Huaishu looked back at Zhang Tingyu, only to be a little confused.

But she had a vague sense that that didn't sound like a good word.

Zhang Tingyu glanced at the curtain hanging in the room, then at Shen Yang, slowly clenched the hand behind his back, but the hand holding Gu Huaixiu was still loose, with a bit of carelessness.

"That Dr. Zhou seems to be a strange person. He has good medical skills. My brother should be fine."

Shen Yang didn't say a word, and Zhong Heng just watched coldly.

When will this mess after another be sorted out?

Originally, I planned to hand over the business of the tea shop today, but now that I think about it, it is impossible.

A group of Shen Yang's subordinates came before, but now Zhong Heng just went down and told them to go back. Shen Yang was in a bad mood and no one was seen.

Ade came in with a letter from outside the garden and handed it to Zhang Tingyu. Zhang Tingyu frowned when he saw the name on the envelope.

He took the letter and walked aside to open it, then frowned.

So quickly, what do you say that the rebellious party has a clue?

just now...

Looking back at the room, then at Gu Huaishu, Zhang Tingyu slowly folded the letter paper and stuffed it into the envelope, put the envelope in his sleeve, walked back and said to Gu Huaishu: "There is something on the other side of the government office. Don't worry too much here..."

"Go and do your work first, I'll just stay and take a look, and I'll just go back to the other courtyard in a while."

Seeing what happened today, he has no intention of eating Liao Fengyuan's banquet.

Shen Chi just looked at Zhang Tingyu coldly, and then watched him glance into the room, then turned and left.

He also couldn't tell what kind of wonderful feeling it was. Shen Qi was able to break into such a big business in his life, most of the time, besides his intelligence, he had to rely on a little bit of luck and intuition.But now his intuition is very bad, making people very uncomfortable.

Maybe it's because he is a villain in the first place, and he treats the belly of a gentleman with a villain's heart, so naturally nothing is good.

Just as he was thinking, there was a suppressed and painful groan from inside the room, and the maids outside the room were a little bit worried when they heard it, and they didn't know how Doctor Zhou treated the illness inside.

Shen Chao sat there, his expression was in a trance for a moment, and soon became dull again.

It was obvious that he had listened too much.

After tossing and tossing until noon, Doctor Zhou came out sweating profusely and told Shen Yang that it was all right.

Gu Huaishu also got up while supporting Qing Dai's hand, and wanted to ask, Liu also got up and asked someone to send the doctor to rest.

But after all, the child's father is Shen Chao, and now he only looks at Shen Chao.

Shen Qi waved his hand, and asked someone to take the doctor away. He got up and opened the curtain to enter the room, and saw the servant girl going out with her soaked clothes. There was sweat on the son's forehead, he opened his eyes and looked up, and when he heard the sound of someone lifting the curtain, he turned his head and smiled at Shen Chong: "It seems that the son will drag father down for a few more years. I'm afraid the business of the tea shop can't be done." Let me share your worries."

"It was said that I could do it alone, so why do you worry?"

Shen Chong sat down and smiled.

Gu Huaishu's curtain was lifted halfway, and he felt relieved when he saw that his elder brother was fine.

She saw the rare warm scene between father and son, and saw the back of Shen Qi sitting on the side of the couch, warmed by the skylight outside, but she couldn't help smiling knowingly.

But after laughing, I feel bitter again.

She didn't know whether she was thinking of her son back then, or because she was thinking about Shen Yang's defenseless and easy-going appearance, so she was suffering.

After leaving, Gu Huaishu saw that Mrs. Liu was giving orders to the maidservants: "Find two more nimble men to serve you, and the carriages and horses have to be prepared first. Young master is not in good health now, although I don't know when he can leave. , prepare it first, lest Master Shen get angry... Hey, yes, let’s boil some hot water.”

After Mrs. Liu gave her orders, she came back to save her and saw Gu Huaishu, and asked again, "Is the child all right?"

"I took a look from a distance, and it's all right. Master Shen is sitting inside talking with the child." Gu Huaishu thought about it, and felt relieved, "I heard that his son was sick, but he didn't expect a What happened was so shocking..."

"It's thanks to you that you have the courage to go in and have a look. I never dared to go in."

Liu touched her heart, and sighed after finishing speaking: "I don't know why God treats this child so poorly..."

Gu Huaixiu didn't want to stay longer at this time, so he said: "Everyone has their own destiny, sometimes you can't force it. Heaven will send a great mission to people, maybe it's more difficult? I'll go back here first, and take my brother if it's okay. it is good."

"I'll give you a ride."

Liu Shi only took Gu Huaishu's hand and sent her out of the round gate, then watched Gu Huaixiu get on the sedan chair and leave.

Such a thing happened for no reason, but I lost any mood.

Gu Huaixiu sat on the sedan chair, went back to the house, and heard that there were traces of rebellious parties in Jiangning City, and the people sent by the emperor were investigating.

At this moment, she finally understood that Zhang Tingyu left in a hurry, probably because of this incident.

The traces of the rebellious party were only a flash in the pan, but a monk Yi Nian was found, who said he had fled to Yangzhou.

Some young people have been arrested, at least they have gained something, and they know some news, which is very fragmentary.

Originally, the Nanming rebels had quietly withdrawn the night before Kangxi visited the mausoleum, but today the leader suddenly told them to stop, saying that they wanted to catch an old beggar, but they didn't catch them, and instead leaked their tracks. As a result, he was caught.

Pull out the radish and bring out the mud, as long as you start catching people, things will be easy.

Zhou Daoxin of the Ministry of Criminal Justice assisted in the trial of the case, using all kinds of punishment methods, only in the Jiangning Prison, he got the news within half a day and passed it to Zhang Tingyu.

Seeing that the emperor Luanjia had already left and Zhang Tingyu was still here to handle business, it would be best if the matter could be settled before Kangxi returned to Luan.

Zhang Tingyu was sitting by the Jiangning government office, looking through all the files over the years. In this dynasty, there are countless people who pretended to be "the third prince Zhu" and committed trouble. miserable.

The murder is serious...

Most of them are overwhelmed.

Nanming's reputation in the south of the Yangtze River is indeed very high, but Kangxi's methods of maintaining his authority are also very fierce.

The "Lu Tinglong Ming History Case" mentioned by Zhang Ying is one. This man is a wealthy businessman, but he also wants to compile history. Following the example of Lu Buwei in the past when he created "Lu Shi Chunqiu", he recruited a large number of Jiangnan literati to compile Ming history. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the old reign title of the Ming Dynasty was used, but it was seized and the family suffered.

Later, another Shen Tianfu came out and wrote an inverse book, which was signed by hundreds of court ministers.This Shen Tianfu himself engraved the names of these people on the page of the author, and then took this reverse book to the home of Wu Yuanlai, the secretary of the cabinet at that time, to blackmail 2000 taels of silver, claiming that if he did not give money, he would report them for writing. "Reverse book".As a result, Wu Yuanlai really refused, Shen Tianfu went to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to report Wu Yuanlai in a fit of rage, and the government and the public were shaken for a while.

Kangxi knew that he was furious and ordered a thorough investigation.

Unexpectedly, after checking the truth, it turned out that the minister had never written a letter of rebellion, and that everything was a forged threat by Shen Tianfu.

Kangxi ordered that Shen Tianfu's crime was extremely heinous, and all his families were copied and beheaded.

The last page of the dossier was slowly covered by Zhang Tingyu.

Counting the old cases of this dynasty in detail, it is rare to see such bloody ones.

What should he do about this matter?
After the rogue party is caught, there must be a blueprint for how to judge.

Just as he was thinking about it, the master in front of him put down a large stack of blue leather notebooks, because there were few people in the room, so he didn't see Zhang Tingyu at the side, so he was startled: "Master Zhang... "

Zhang Tingyu only put the file back, but looked at the pile of books on the ground, and asked, "What is this?"

"County Chronicle, just came up today."

The major and important events of the year, as well as celebrities from all over the country, are all famous in the county annals.

The master was very tired and was still panting.

Zhang Tingyu smiled: "Don't worry about me, just do your own work, I'll just read the file."

"You are really diligent, our government officials are not as diligent as you..." the master secretary said casually, and then began to get busy.

He put the big blue book in his hand according to the position of the book grid, and when he reached the celebrity annals, he accidentally knocked down the old year's book with his elbow, and it happened to be at Zhang Tingyu's feet.

Seeing that there was still a large pile of things in his hand, Zhang Tingyu leaned over and picked up the dusty county annals. Unexpectedly, just as he moved his fingers and accidentally turned a page, he suddenly froze. .

Chongzhen's 14-year country gentleman and businessman?

The master bookkeeper put away the book, and when he looked back to see Zhang Tingyu holding the book, he was startled: "Don't pick it up, don't pick it up. The younger ones come, the younger ones come!"

As he spoke, he pulled back the county annals in Zhang Tingyu's hand.

Zhang Tingyu's expression changed suddenly, and he said, "Get out of the way."

After he finished speaking, he opened the county annals he was holding earlier. Jiangning has a very large area under its jurisdiction, but the local area is only a small place inside and outside Qinhuai, so the county annals are also here.

He opened the book just now, turned it back and forth a lot, and aligned the post-Chongzhen to the early Kangxi. Only this one was named Shen Tianfu, who was a great salt merchant. The canal is full of the sails of the Shen family.

Zhang Tingyu threw the file away, turned around and took two steps, and said, "Go ahead."

The head of the government office felt that Zhang Tingyu was a weird person, so he didn't dare to stay any longer, so he kept saying goodbye.

Here, Zhang Tingyu turned over the dossier he had read earlier, which was the case of Shen Tianfu's blackmail.

Comparing this person's birth year carefully, who else is the Shen Tianfu I saw on the county annals just now?

It's just one person!

How could such a family of a wealthy businessman, who was so brightly displayed, blackmail a secretary in the cabinet for a mere two thousand silver?
The whole case is ridiculous.

Zhang Tingyu frowned, and looked through the records of beheadings all over the house. There were 230 people in the Shen family, all of whom were executed.

But there are indeed a lot of things copied from the house, but...

It is too inconsistent with a wealthy businessman who is famous in the south of the Yangtze River and whose net worth is at least several million silver.

This case was the biggest case after Lu Tinglong Mingshi's case of being convicted of "wen".

To be convicted of writing is called "literary prison".

Throughout the ages, there have been dynasties, but this dynasty is more...

Zhang Tingyu thought of something, and suddenly went to look at the list of the Shen family when they were copied and killed. Haohao is a big family, all of which start with the word Shen. Starting from Shen Tianfu, there are five sons of him, two descended from the lineage, but one is still alive. He was not named when he was young, and the other two grandchildren were already included in the family tree when they were young.

The whole family, young and old, regardless of gender, was killed.

Zhang Tingyu flipped through the pages, and remembered the case in his hands, but he didn't know how many innocent people would be implicated.

Slowly put the dossier back, Zhang Tingyu saw that it was late, so he went back to the other courtyard.

After eating with his father and two younger brothers, his face finally sank when he returned to the house.

Gu Huaishu felt that something was wrong with him, but he didn't say anything because he watched everyone eating.

Now that he returned to his room, he only lowered his voice and asked, "Isn't there already a clue about the chaos?"

"...If there is, it is tiring to check."

Zhang Tingyu pressed his forehead, sat down, clasped his hands together, and suddenly raised his head to look at Gu Huaishu: "I thought... Maybe the net from 'Luo Xuanwen' is not needed anymore, the net is for fishing in front , and now I have found a dose of poison, can it? Kill me in an instant, would you like to hear about it?"

Not only will he be put to death, but all his current industrial families will be uprooted, like a wild fire passing through, and there will be no ashes left.

Zhang Tingyu closed his eyes, clenched his fingers, and said again: "It's just that the method is too vicious... It's a wrong that adds to the wrong, I'm a little afraid to do it..."

(End of this chapter)