The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

Zhu Mian only learned the superficial aspects of Gao Ming, but did not learn the essence of Gao Ming.

That is to say, any event you organize, not only can you benefit from it, but also let the officials and the prince benefit from it.

Thinking that Zhu Xi's behavior of only caring about himself and damaging the emperor's reputation is clearly digging a hole for himself.

Not only Zhao Kai, but also Zhao Ji who heard the common people's discussion also had a very ugly face, with a trace of livid in his pale face.

Tong Guan's face was also green and white for a while, like a radish field, and he secretly complained in his heart, isn't Zhu He looking for his own death?

Tong Guan thought that the oiran competition was organized by Gao Ming, because he just likes to mess with it, but who knew that it was Zhu Xi behind the scenes, it was just a mere imitation.

He secretly looked at King Yun. As we all know, Zhao Kai has a very good temper, and he always smiles when he sees him, so the displeasure on his face shows that he is really angry.

Gao Ming said in his heart, this cannot be blamed on the common people's wild thinking. After all, the winners of the Taihu Stone Contest held at the same time will go to Beijing to face saints. .

The common people themselves had the germ of such thoughts, and Gao Ming's secret release of news fueled the flames, and the result was what was shown to Zhao Kai today.

The two princes were furious, there was no need to wander around the oiran competition, and everyone returned to the Yingfeng Bureau in silence.

Zhao Kai didn't even take a sip of tea, and said angrily: "This Zhu Xi is really audacious. In order to flatter the monarch, he went so far as to go crazy. Such a person, how can he be allowed to continue to do his best. The emperor called me the king. When I came to Hangzhou to question Zhu Xi, I originally thought of arresting him in a few days, but he is so good, I really don’t leave any room for myself.”

Gao Ming was taken aback for a moment, he was still wondering why he handed over the memorial of the complaint, and there was no sign of Zhu Xi being punished by the officials.

It turned out that it was not not to punish, but to ask the king of Yun to question Zhu Xi.

It has to be said that the official family really favored King Yun too much. Knowing that Zhu Mian had a bad reputation, they asked King Yun to come over to deal with him and gain a good reputation.

And Zhu Xi also played the last use value of the courtiers-to serve as a stepping stone for the successor of the imperial power.

At this time, Gao Ming heard Zhao Kai say, "You tell Zhao Mingcheng to bring his guards to arrest Zhu Xi immediately, and the king will personally question the crime!"

Gao Ming replied without hesitation: "Yes!"

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Zhu Xi was devastated.

He knew that King Yun Zhao Kai had come to Hangzhou, and originally planned to ask Tong Guan to come in for an interview in the next few days, but before he could make a move, he was arrested by King Yun himself.

His mind is full of doubts, he has managed a lot of money from Gao Ming, and he should have bought him off, and recently he only holds the Oiran Competition, and he only wants to make money to subsidize the money extorted by Gao Ming. As soon as he arrived in Hangzhou, he was interested in accusing him?

He turned to Tong Guan's eyes for help, Tong Guan's eyes were watching his nose, nose and heart, and he was already in a state of samadhi, he would not look at Zhu Xi at all.

Zhao Kai didn't talk nonsense to Zhu Shi, and said coldly, "You hold an oiran contest to raise money under the pretense of presenting beauties to the officials. Such actions are tantamount to slandering your majesty, are you guilty?"

"I... I am wronged. I never said that the purpose of holding the Oiran Contest is to present it to the officials." Zhu Qian hurriedly defended, "Your Highness, please be careful."

Gao Ming said unhurriedly: "But you didn't clarify. The Taihu stone competition is held over there, and the winners will go to Beijing to face the saint. You hold the oiran competition on the other side. How can you not let people associate it? Even if you don't This idea, but if you go out to inquire about it, it is widely spread among the common people. You should be punished if you don’t think carefully and cause the reputation of the official to be tarnished.”

Gao Ming is not soft-hearted at all, if this stone does not add to the trouble, when will it be.

Zhu Xi was dumbfounded, he had made such a big mistake, he couldn't recover for a moment, but seeing Zhao Kai's cold gaze, he realized that he had really fallen this time, so he quickly kowtowed and confessed, "Your Highness, How could I endanger the reputation of the official family, it was really unintentional."

Zhao Ji snorted and said, "If you have the heart, you can pay it back?! We have heard the common people's comments on the street, the mistakes you made, death is not enough to make up for it."

Zhu Xi burst into tears and said: "Your Highness, I am wronged, I am really wronged. It must be someone who deliberately misinterpreted the meaning of the competition, framed me, and framed the officials. This black hand should be caught and cut off. I am really wronged."

After Zhao Kai heard this, he dumped the stack of articles on the table to Zhu Xi, "Are you wronged by these too?"

These articles are the articles collected in the "Story of Taihu Stone and Me" that sued Zhu Xi in various styles.

Guaranteed true feelings are definitely more empathetic than dry complaints.

Before Gao Ming went to ask Zhao Mingcheng to arrest Zhu Shi, he showed Zhao Kai all the articles he had saved.

Zhu Xi looked at the articles all over the floor, and picked out one to read, "These articles are all literary writing, and there must be elements of imagination, and they can't be true."

Gao Ming immediately said from the side: "Your Highness, this matter can be verified. For example, there is an article in it, which seems to be a drama story, but in fact the characters and plots are real. On the way to Hangzhou, Wei Chen, I just met the person concerned and handed Weichen a blood certificate. The blood certificate and the description in the article can be verified with each other, and this is just one of them. Others are also well documented."

In fact, how could Zhao Kai not be clear about Zhu Xi's blood and debts over the years.

"Gao Ming, don't spout blood!"

"Am I spouting blood? I'm just stating the facts." Gao Ming said: "I have already investigated you secretly. If people don't know, you have nothing to do. Now you have made all the evidence one by one."

Zhu Xi knew Gao Ming's background in the Imperial City Division. If he had investigated himself, the files he had found would have been piled up very thick, and he couldn't refute them one by one with his current strength.

So he didn't prepare, and retorted on his own. He wanted to drag people into the water.

Zhu Xi couldn't help sneering twice, "Gao Ming, you said this well, if others don't know it, you have to do it yourself." Then he said loudly to Zhao Kai: "Your Highness, I have a brochure here, please read it .”

He has nowhere to go, so everyone should simply destroy together. This directory records all the gifts he gave to the officials of the capital during these years in Hangzhou.

Of course, the last item on the list is the gift given to Gao Ming a few days ago.

When Zhao Mingcheng came to arrest him just now, he knew that something bad might happen, so he took the roster with him.

He thought that Gao Ming's face would change drastically when he heard about the roster, but Gao Ming was calm and composed, without any nervousness at all.

Zhao Kai looked at the brochure Zhu Miao took out, then looked at Gao Ming, and couldn't help thinking, did Gao Ming accept Zhu Miao's belongings?

If this is the case, then it will be difficult to deal with, Gao Ming's own shadow is crooked, how can he accuse Zhu Xi again?

Zhao Kai looked at Gao Ming with some disappointment, why are you so careless, you still need to collect pig's eyes in the city of Hangzhou, you are short of such a few money

He frowned and slowly flipped through the roster, and found that everyone in the court who had some dignity in front of the officials was on the roster.

If this list is reported, it will overthrow all the court officials, for example, Tong Guan, who is standing in front of him at this time, is on the list.

He glanced at Tong Guan reproachfully, of course Tong Guan understood what King Yun's look meant, and couldn't help but look at Zhu Xi angrily, you really don't pay attention, how could you do this?Want to die together? !

Zhu Xi ignored Tong Guan, you don't care about me, do you still want me to care about you? !

Zhao Kai turned to the last page and recorded the place where Gao Ming accepted bribes, he couldn't help but pay more attention to it, and then he was taken aback.

At least the "Peony Picture" recorded on it, he seemed to have seen it with his father before leaving.The father and son are still appreciating together.

Zhao Kai instantly understood that it turned out that Gao Ming gave the things Zhu Mian gave him to the official family as a trick to borrow flowers to offer Buddha.

He was relieved, and said in a cold voice: "Zhu Shi, think about it carefully, are the things you gave Gao Ming given to him, or to someone else?"

"That's right! It was given to him! When I counted and packed the boxes and sent them to the Fengfeng Bureau, not only me, my brother and family members, but also the servants who delivered the goods, and the people who were received by the Fengfeng Bureau can all testify. Gao Ming did take my stuff!"

At this time, Zhu Xi saw Gao Ming raise his eyebrows, "I said, do you have a problem with your memory when you are too old? Where did you give these things to me? Didn't you ask me to hand them over to the officials? You It is said that the Jiangnan is full of wars, but Tokyo is safe. Tell me to dedicate these things to the official family. You said that it is safest in the official house. I have done so."

Zhao Kai said in a cold voice: "Zhu Yu, the "Peony Picture" that you gave to Gao Ming recorded in this booklet. Before I came to Hangzhou, I saw it at my father's place, and it was sent by Gao Ming. .”

If Zhu Xi was struck by lightning, if the things ended up in the hands of officials, then Gao Ming would not have accepted bribes, and his denunciation of Gao Ming would not be valid.

Zhao Kai said angrily: "Zhu Yu, when you were promoted by the bureau, you were a fish and meat commoner. After collecting money, you went to Beijing to bribe, formed a party for personal gain, corrupted the super class, and now you are slandering the Holy One. The crime cannot be punished!"

Zhu Xi knew that he was really facing a catastrophe this time, and it was impossible to escape, his face turned ashen for a moment, and he fell limp on the ground.

Zhao Kai said in a cold voice: "Take Zhu Yu and put him in prison, and the first battalion of servants of the relevant family members will be sent to prison, and escorted to Tokyo for adjudication!"

Zhao Ji sneered at Zhu Mian, who was about to die, this kind of silverfish should have been dealt with long ago, I only regret that he fell too late.

He found that Gao Ming also showed a happy expression, and he couldn't help thinking coldly, you are really proud that you don't have to compete with your favorite minister again.

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Zhu Xie fell, but gradually another courtier who was more annoying than Zhu Xie rose up, which Zhao Ji didn't want to see

So, he found an opportunity and said to his third brother: "This Gao Ming is not a good thing. I don't believe he didn't see the fatal flaw in the oiran competition. But he didn't stop him and chose to let it go. He just wanted to let Zhu Xi To cause trouble, and then use the royal family's hand to get rid of Zhu Xi. He even dared to plot against the royal family. In my opinion, such a person should not be kept. To some extent, he is even more hateful than Zhu Xi."

Zhao Kai was quite patient with this frail younger brother, so he explained some reasons to him, "The art of a powerful minister lies in how to use the trust of the emperor and the omissions of other officials to achieve his own goals. He didn’t remind him of his mistakes, and he didn’t go out of his way. Besides, if you don’t let Zhu Mian make such a big mess, are you sure that the father will execute him completely? Although he asked me to ask Zhu Mian to blame him, he said he would How to punish Zhu Xi. He has done so many things for the father for so many years, maybe he will be put down gently if his heart softens."

Zhao Kai knew well that his father was indecisive and would change his orders from day to day, which is why he rushed to question Zhu Qian without a trip to Hangzhou.

"Third brother, in the final analysis, this is still a battle for favor between Gao Ming and Zhu Qian, but we and he both want to make Zhu Ming die."

Zhao Kai directly refuted his younger brother's point of view, "I don't see him that way."

Since Gao Ming came back from Liangshan, how many of those sleazy people who surrounded his father were wiped out by him in one go?

First it was Yang Jian, and now it's Zhu Xi's turn.

Zhao Kai believed that his evaluation of him was correct.

Seeing that his elder brother was still protecting Gao Ming, Zhao Ji's face turned sour, he left immediately, turned around and left the door.

When he walked to the corridor, Gao Ming, who just happened to be disgusted by the top of his head, was waiting there, presumably waiting for the third brother to be summoned, so he couldn't help squinting at him.

Gao Ming naturally caught this supercilious look and thought, what are you staring at me for? The imperial doctor let you out because he couldn't cure your brain, but said politely, "His Royal Highness King Jing."

"Zhu Xie fell, some people will be proud. What do you think?" Zhao Ji wanted to hear how Gao Ming would explain this matter, so he could take the opportunity to hit him.

Unexpectedly, Gao Ming actually admitted it, "Yes, Your Highness, someone must be complacent about Zhu Xi's collapse."

Zhao Ji was laughed angrily by Gao Ming, and went straight to the point, "Then, is that person you?"

"Return to Your Highness, yes, I am very happy."

Zhao Ji was stunned. You actually admitted it. Shouldn't you argue and refute yourself, describing yourself as a loyal minister who has made great achievements and selfless for the country and the people?How could he show such a blunt expression of gloating.

But any normal person who wants to save face would not admit it so straightforwardly, what's the matter with this person?

"Your Highness, you should also know that the Zhu family and I have always had feuds. From last year's Chinese New Year, when I arrested Zhu Xi's younger brother, Fang La sent Jiang Yan to create a series of suspended animation incidents, until I went to the Yingfeng Bureau. There was an assassination on the road in Hangzhou. The outside world rumored that it was Zhu Xi who did it. I also think it was him. Also, I was almost killed while guarding the city. Save him in your hands. After all these things, if I still say that I can not be happy, it would be too hypocritical. Your Highness, you are a person who is sincere and sincere. You are straightforward, so I will not pretend to be in front of you. "

Zhao Ji blinked, after this set of rhetoric, he actually felt that it was well-founded, and he didn't know what to say.

"Your Highness, do you have any orders?"

"No more, you can go down." Seeing that Gao Ming stood still, he reiterated, "This king said, you can go down."

"But His Highness King Yun summoned the minister, and the minister cannot go down." Otherwise, why do you think I am standing here?Is it possible to wait for you?

Zhao Ji immediately realized that he was the one who had to leave, so he couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed, snorted, flung his sleeves and walked away.

At this time, a eunuch came out from the room and said, "His Royal Highness King Yun asked you to come in, Mr. Gao."

Gao Ming walked into the house and saw Zhao Kaishen frowning, as if he was worried about something.

In fact, Gao Ming could roughly guess what was going on.

Zhao Kai said straight to the point: "Although Zhu Yu is in prison, but I thought about it for a moment, this oiran contest is highly anticipated, if you call it off at will, it may cause unexpected problems."

Gao Ming thought to himself, if the oiran competition ended abruptly, and the common people in Xingtou suddenly had nothing to watch, they would definitely take their anger out on those who obstructed the competition.

Now the oiran competition has become a national entertainment activity, if it is called off abruptly, it will be difficult for the general public, and I am afraid that it will arouse rebellious psychology and be spit wildly.

Grasping the word of mouth accumulated by Zhu Xi, it might collapse in an instant.

But if you don't call a stop and let the bad influence spread, the damage to Huangwei will only be worsened day by day, and this matter cannot be delayed.

"Is there anything you can do?"

Gao Ming was also troubled and shook his head slowly.

Zhao Kai felt that Gao Ming was just being polite, and he must have a solution, "This king will leave this matter to you, I believe that no matter what problems come to you, you can easily solve them."

"Your Highness, my minister..."

Zhao Kai got up and walked up to Gao Ming, patted him on the shoulder, and threw out his chips, "If you stop the oiran competition successfully, I will take you to conquer Fang La together. In this way, you will have a chance to meet again It's Huarong, otherwise, if you go back to Tokyo, he will beat Fang La, and when you meet again, it may not be until next year."

In fact, Gao Ming thinks it would be nice to meet again next year, but now that we see each other, he might have to give Hua Rong an answer.

He had the feeling that teacher Zhao Kai forcibly took away the paper before he finished answering it, and took it to Hua Rong for grading.

Zhao Kai thought this reward was very attractive, after all Gao Ming was trapped in Hangzhou, and it was Hua Rong who led his troops to relieve Gao Ming.The two met at a time of crisis, and their relationship deepened, but Huarong left in a hurry to fight again, and the two must be reluctant to part.

So Zhao Kai felt that it would be a generous reward for him to take Gao Ming to participate in the conquest of Fang La and let him and Hua Rong meet again.

But Gao Ming's performance was not as good as he imagined, Zhao Kai's first feeling was: "Did you quarrel?"

Gao Ming didn't know how to explain, "Uh, this..."

Zhao Kai felt that they were arguing, "It's just a good time that you meet him, so as not to deepen the misunderstanding and chill the relationship. So, think about how to shut down the oiran contest without anyone noticing."

Gao Ming couldn't help but start to struggle again, go see Hua Rong, maybe he will give an answer, he can no longer be his little ostrich with peace of mind.

But if you don't go...

Alas, he admitted that he still kind of wanted to see Hua Rong.

"...Although I can't think of it for a while, I think I should come up with a solution."

Sure enough, there is motivation to be motivated.Zhao Kai smiled in satisfaction, "Then you go back and think about it first, I am waiting for your good news."

"Your Highness, I have to make it clear that I stopped the Oiran Contest. I really didn't want to meet anyone. I really wanted to solve the court's problems." He looked straight at Zhao Kai, Your Highness, look at my selfless eyes.

Zhao Kai said insincerely, "Well, I trust you."

"real."

"Yeah, I believe in you, I really believe in you. Okay, let's go."

Gao Ming went out, stood on the porch and sighed, also, if he didn't even believe it, how could King Yun believe it.

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"Girl, rich man Zhang from the south of the city wants to see you. This is the headgear he prepared for you. You should take a look at it anyway. Hey, do you hear?" Mother Bai said earnestly to her daughter Bai Xiu across the door. .

"Can you stop asking these people to bother me, I'm going to sleep." Bai Xiuying's impatient voice came from inside.

"What time is it? Are you going to sleep?" For those of them, the night falls is a good time to do business.

"I was tired from participating in the competition during the day, and now my muscles and bones hurt badly. If I don't rest earlier, I won't be in good shape tomorrow. How can I win others?"

This mother Bai didn't dare to offend her too much, after all, she is gaining momentum now, and many people are optimistic that she will win the championship, "Then you can go to sleep."

No one disturbed her anymore, and Bai Xiuying fell asleep peacefully.

But after an unknown amount of time, she felt the coolness in the mist, woke up suddenly, and suddenly found that she was not sleeping on her own bed, but was tied hands and feet, her mouth was blocked with a rag, and she was put in a bag .

After confirming that this was not a dream, she understood one thing, she was kidnapped.

At this time, when she heard footsteps approaching, she didn't dare to move around at will, and just watched the changes without moving.

"Are you sure that you bitch have the same figure as our holy lady?"

"Don't worry, I've been watching the competition for several days, and there are quite a few women with the same body shape as our saintess. This is just one of them. If her skin can't be peeled off, then just find another one." .”

"Do you think this ghost hand Ada can really peel off a woman's face and make a human skin mask like he said?"

"Of course I can, peel off this woman's face to make a mask, stick it on the face of our holy aunt, and when they win the oiran contest, these girls will be sent to the emperor's dragon bed, haha, after a knife, this world is not our Fang La of."

Bai Xiuying understood that these people were going to peel her face, make a human skin mask, paste it on the face of a so-called holy aunt in Fang La, and go to Beijing to assassinate the emperor.

Tears welled up in her eyes, and she almost cried out.

At this time, she heard another man's voice, and the man said in a rough voice: "You just tied up this girl? I have to practice first, why did you just tie up one?"

"Then how many do you want? Let's tie them up."

Bai Xiuying exclaimed in her heart, so she wanted to tie up more girls?terrible.

"By the way, does this mask have to be peeled off while alive?"

"Well, you have to peel off the whole skin while you're alive. Let me see if this little girl is alive enough."

Upon hearing this, Bai Xiuying immediately closed her eyes, held her breath and pretended to be dead.

She felt the rags in her mouth being removed, and then a big hand touched her nose, "Did you suffocate?"

"I'm not dead, I still have a pulse." The other hand tried it on her neck.

"That's not new anymore, I want to be alive and kicking, forget it, throw it away."

"Then I'll throw it away. I'll find some fresh ones for you later on."

After hearing this sentence, Bai Xiuying felt that she was carried up by someone, and she might be thrown away.

After a while, she felt the wind blowing her face, opened her eyes quietly, and saw them walking to a ditch.

Suddenly, Bai Xiuying heard what seemed to be a group of people talking in front of her, and she shouted desperately: "Help—kill—"

Seeing that the shouts attracted the attention of the group of people in front, the man who was carrying her seemed to panic, threw her to the ground and ran away.

Bai Xiuying was saved because of this.

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The next day, rumors spread that Fang La was going to peel off the faces of the participating girls to make masks, and then go to Beijing to assassinate the emperor after wearing them.

As for whether the human skin mask is real, and the operability of the human skin mask, it is not within the scope of consideration of ordinary people.

I just feel that Fang La is really rampant, if he can't do it clearly, he will come secretly, and his methods are really insidious and despicable.

As things got worse and worse, pretty girls didn't dare to participate in the oiran competition, for fear that they would be picked by Fang La's holy lady and made a human skin mask.

After all, only those with good looks are eligible to be the oiran, and then sent to the dragon bed.

Who can admit that they are not beautiful?So these girls scrambled to show fear and fear.

"I'm so beautiful, Fang La's target must be me. I found out that there are sneaky people yesterday, and they must be their people."

With her beautiful face, she must be the target of Sister Fang La.

Participating in the competition at this time, not only is not afraid of death, but also admits in disguise that he is ugly and will not be a target, so he dares to show up with peace of mind.

Under the blow of who is ugly, who will participate and the concerns of personal safety, the girls withdrew from the competition one after another. Within a few days, even the last one also withdrew from the competition, leaving no one left.

If there are no beautiful girls to participate in the competition, naturally no one will go to watch.

Only then did the government stand up and say that in order to protect the safety of the girls, the Oiran Competition will be suspended indefinitely, and a special person will be sent to thoroughly investigate Fang La's black hands.

The common people expressed their understanding for the girls' withdrawal, and blamed the hateful Fang La, who calmly accepted the result of the indefinite suspension of the game.

The Oiran Contest, which was once lively for a while, cooled down in an instant.

The oiran competition was suspended, the passenger flow returned rapidly, and the scene of the Taihu Stone competition became lively again.

At least these Taihu stones don't have to worry about being peeled off.

In a warm and festive atmosphere, the Taihu Stone Contest came to an end.

The faces of the top three winners were all filled with festive and happy smiles.

Some people have even started to quietly take tonics to strengthen their bodies, so as to avoid getting sick before the face-to-face, and the trip cannot take place.

As for the Taihu Stone Essay Competition, Li Qingzhao personally screened and selected three beautiful essays.

Gao Ming personally offered the manuscript fee, hello, hello, hello everyone, a successful conclusion.

The oiran competition is nothing but a cloud, and only the Taihu stone competition can become stronger over time.

At this point, Gao Ming, the mastermind behind everything, finally showed a satisfied smile.