Chapter 45 The forty-fifth round of Lu Lusheng's mischief and entry into the French Open

After sending Sun Jiagan away, Yin Jishan just hesitated standing on the bank of the misty Yangtze River.Of course he noticed that Qianlong only mentioned Kangxi incidentally in this secret passage, and did not mention "government with leniency", but only talked about "my emperor will clarify the administration of officials and turn the world around".Coupled with the two corruption cases in Shanxi and this decree, even the blind can see that the imperial court is going to rectify the administration of officials again.But how it will be done, it is difficult to guess based on this decree alone: ​​whether it is like Kangxi, who persuaded all officials to "obey the law and be vigilant" and kill others; A big nest?He looked at Sun Jiagan's official ship that had become as big as a sesame seed, and the vast river swirled and flowed rapidly to the east from under his feet.Looking at the river flowing eastward, he felt that the stone bank he was standing on was drifting westward... He had already lost his mind.

"Zhong Cheng," said a long follower behind him, "it's still a long way from the city. You should always keep an eye on this place. Let's get some wine and food nearby. The sun is already setting in the west." "Huh? Huh." Yin Jishan woke up from his reverie, turned around and mounted his horse in front of the Wangjiang Pavilion, and said, "I just had a drink with Mr. Sun, so why are you hungry? Let's go to the city together. I'll go to the Hedao Yamen to meet the imperial envoy." Mr. E, just deliver the decree, and then go back to the post station. You go back to eat." He stabilized his horse, pondered for a while, and said: "In the east of the city and west of the Forbidden City, our house may have dozens of rooms. Bar?"

"Yes, there are hundreds of rooms! It's because of Hurd's bad deeds, the late emperor rewarded the master—" "Don't talk about that. Clean out that place. The gentlemen who live in Yali Garden, Xueqin and the others, will move there tomorrow." "Yes! If gentlemen ask--" "Just say that the garden here needs to be repaired." Yin Jishan pinched his legs lightly, and the horse was already walking slowly. "Of course it will be moved in after it is repaired." He stopped talking.Several fast horses trot along the post road of Xuanwu Lake.After Yin Jishan broke up with his family, he went to see Eshan alone.Passing through the deserted treasury area, you can see a green hall covered by lush bamboo, and the river government has arrived.Eshan's imperial envoy is located here.The soldiers guarding the gate all recognized Yin Jishan, and when they saw him dismounted, they came up to greet him, and wanted to go in to report, but Yin Jishan stopped him with a wave of his hand, and walked into the courtyard alone.Hearing E Shanzheng talking to someone, he smiled and said: "E Gong, the unexpected guest has come!"

"Is Brother Yuan Chang here?" E Shan replied with a smile in the room.Then when the bamboo curtain was raised, E Shan came out quickly, followed by a middle-aged man in his thirties, wearing a gray poplin shirt, with a handsome appearance but a rather humble expression.He retreated to the side, waiting for E Shan and Yin Jishan to meet, then he carefully gave a thousand dollars to each of them, and said: "Master E, you want to see a guest, and if you have nothing else to do, I will leave the humble position. Yin Zi, I will definitely come back in a few months." Seeing that E Shan nodded and said nothing, the man backed away and hurried away.Only then did E Shan ask Yin Jishan: "Haven't you already moved to the station and thanked the guests behind closed doors? What brought you here?"

Yin Jishan glanced at the man's back, followed E Shan into the study without saying a word, and without taking a seat, looked at E Shan and said slowly: "There is a secret order for you." Don't be too busy, let me change my clothes and take orders." "No need." Yin Jishan said dryly, "Because things are in a hurry, I also came here in a hurry." After Eshan knelt down, Yin Jishan explained Qianlong's order for Eshan to enter the palace to preside over the rural examination, but omitted the secret order Original text by Sun Jiagan and himself. "Minister, lead the decree, thank you!"

When E Shan got up, Yin Jishan said, "Sun Xigong has another mission. I don't know why there is such an imperial decree. You have made great contributions to water control here. The emperor asked you to run a school mission, so there is a meaning of experience." E Shan said: " Shengen Gaohou, I didn’t say that, I just thought it was too abrupt. Just now I was thinking about strengthening the Gaojiayan Dam, and asked them to calculate the cost of money. One purpose, I have to deal with literati again. Because Yin Jishan had something on his mind, he didn't want to sit any longer, so he stood up and said with a smile, "Is that person in the cashier? I thought he was asking you to borrow some money from you! How about this, you tell them about the matter here." Let’s go, tomorrow, come to my place at the latest, study and play chess, okay?”

"I really guessed it for you," E Shan also stood up with a smile, "It was a post written by someone who worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Beijing. The year before last, he went to Yunnan and Guizhou to make up for a military vacancy. It is said that his family was rewarded. I want to go back to my hometown to have a look, and temporarily borrow a thousand taels of silver from my river project. We often meet in Beijing, but it’s not too sympathetic. I will give him five hundred taels and send him away. I will come tomorrow Go ahead, bring more sets of rare edition books with you, worry about river construction every day, listen to the sound of abacus and beads, think about earthwork, stonework, and labor expenses, I am almost becoming a philistine!" said After reaching the gate, the two bid farewell.

Yin Jishan did not return directly to the post station, but turned back to the governor's office.I want to meet Liu Xiaolin and others, and personally comfort him a few words.It was just after lunch, and all the book offices in the governor's yamen went back to eat and did not come back. It was very deserted, but I saw old trees whirling and yellow leaves falling.Qiu Jing is very chilling.Yin Jishan walked step by step, and was about to reach the entrance of Xihua hall. Seeing that there were still people in the office next door, he couldn't help being surprised: someone rushed to the yamen to handle an errand?Then he stepped in and saw a few booksellers who were sweating profusely binding up some newly printed documents, and asked with a smile, "It's so early! What are you busy with?"

"Ah, it's Mr. Zhongcheng!" The book office were all taken aback, and rushed over to say hello, and the secretary in charge of the book office said: "These are some documents captured at sea. I made it up last night and just printed it. Send it to all states and counties. The younger ones will eat in the big room." He said and handed over the manuscript.Yin Jishan glanced at it, and it was the text of the Ministry of Punishment, signed by Shi Yizhi himself: In order to find out who pretended to be Sun Jiagan's censor and submitted a false manuscript without authorization, the imperial order wanted to make trouble for Lu Lu.After receiving the document, the governors' yamen of each province immediately investigated and arrested them.Lu Lusheng, 30 years old, was originally a writer of the Yungui Tribute Library of the Imperial Household Department...

There were still many writings below, and Yin Jishan impatiently looked at them carefully, threw the documents on the table, turned and left.After walking a few steps, Yin Jishan's heart suddenly moved: 33 years old, written by the Ministry of Internal Affairs-Yungui!Couldn't it be the man I met at Eshan's place just now?Turning around quickly, he grabbed the document, read it carefully again, and murmured: "The age and appearance match... Huilu? Borrowing money——" He conveniently handed the document to the book office in front of him.He said anxiously: "Ride a horse and fly to report to Mr. Eshan, and ask him if he is this person! I'll wait in the flower hall!" After that, he didn't go to the garden, but went straight into the flower hall, brewed a pot of tea and ate it, distracted Ning waited for someone to report back.

After about a quarter of an hour, there was a sound of horseshoes outside the hall. Yin Jishan saw E Shan coming through the glass, and knowing that it was probably true, he stepped out quickly, stood on the corridor and asked, "Grand E, is it right?" this person?" "It's true, he is the Lord Lulu." E Shan turned and got off the horse, "It turned out that the person who made the big case was out! How dare you borrow money from me, this thief is really audacious!" E Shan said Hurrying up the steps, he looked very angry, blushed and sat down on the chair, and said: "I have good intentions, and I almost got a reputation as a capitalist! But now I don't know where he is, how should I deal with it?" "I can't run away from him!" Yin Jishan gritted his teeth and sneered: "He is Tu Xingsun, and he will not be able to leave Nanjing City at this moment. Tell everyone in the book office to come over!" Several secretaries in the book office had long been listening to the movement here, and when they heard the greeting, they rushed in, stood down and bowed their hands to obey. "There are a few orders, you immediately pass them on!" Yin Jishan stared out of the window, and said word by word: "Attend to the Nanjing city gate and lead the yamen to dispatch immediately to block all the main roads in and out of Nanjing; the Eight Banners stationed in the suburbs of Beijing, guard all the main land roads, martial law day and night, all pedestrians passing by, Strict investigations will be strictly enforced; the Xuanwu Lake Naval Office will immediately enter the docks and docks to conduct strict searches; ships will be sent to block the waterways; the inspector's office will immediately send people to write letters to the counties around Nanjing City. Immediately detain him for interrogation; the Nanjing prefecture and county yamen immediately sent yamen servants to search all the hotels, Qinhuai brothels and other places one by one. We must get this Lu Lusheng before dawn tomorrow—it's over!" "tie!" "Come back!" Yin Jishan sternly said: "Tell them, the smaller the noise, the better, and the more intensive the interrogation, the better! Bring the arrest papers and send them to the yamen. Once the criminal is found, all suspicious persons must be released immediately—go! " "tie!" The yamen servants roared in unison, and immediately split up to convey Yin Jishan's constitutional order, and there were only the two of them left in the huge flower hall.E Shan had a gloomy face, drinking Yan tea one after another as if in a state of anxiety, looking outside the door from time to time.Yin Jishan knew what he was thinking: this great-grandson of E Bilong has been careful and hardworking since he entered the official career, and he is very favored by Qianlong. He does not want to leave any stain in Qianlong's mind.If this Lu Lusheng can't keep it, the five hundred taels of silver you donated is an inexplicable matter; even if he is caught, he will inevitably be punished if he borrows money from the treasury to support bandits.Seeing that he was holding an empty cup in a daze, Yin Jishan got up and poured tea for him, and said with a smile, "Your ancestor Conglong has fought more than seventy battles and achieved great feats. Is this your guts? Tell you, I'm here to prevent Just in case you make such a strict arrangement—come on, let’s play a game of chess, and within two hours, I’ll ask you to meet this Lu Lusheng again!—don’t be so distraught. Not even a small mistake!" "I can't beat Yuan Chang today." E Shan reluctantly smiled and took the white handed by Yin Jishan, "Now I can't say anything about my ancestors, but if I catch up with that time, I will usually kill people and set fires. I don't want to surpass my ancestors, I just want not to humiliate my ancestors." Yin Jishan said: "Conservation is a way of preservation, and aggressiveness is also a way of preservation. I think it is better to be aggressive than to be conservative." "Don't talk about it," E Shan smiled and said: "You always lose to me in Go, so you blindly 'advance' for you, your own chess is full of faults, and you are greedy for my pieces, this is a downgrade." Yin Jishan thinks about it, and it is true. His chess style is fierce and careful, and when he plays chess with a person who is aggressive and melee, he often makes the opponent completely defeated.E Shan's chess looks weak, as if he was timid and dare not face the enemy head-on, but Yin Jishan can hardly win a game in ten games between the two of them.The two chatted while walking.Yin Jishan had completely forgotten about going back to Yamen to find Liu Xiaotian.But Eshan was in a slump today, and he really couldn't make a good move. After more than a hundred moves, the Southwest Great Cape was overwhelmed by black chess. There is a threat of annihilation of the entire army.In desperation, I had no choice but to break through the siege by force, and then made a robbery in the southeast corner to resist stubbornly. I was at a loss and found a fake robbery. You play a game, move to the posthouse and we will fight again!" Yin Jishan also smiled and said: "To be honest, I am also uneasy today. Xueqin told me what I just said. If you want Junzizhize V to not be killed, than It is difficult to start a business. It is extremely difficult to preserve and be flexible and enterprising. If you do not preserve, you will only be aggressive, and you will often fall into the trap. stiff……" "Cao Xueqin, that's a great character." E Shan raised his face and let out a sigh of relief, "Yuanchang, why don't you persuade him to play with those flamboyant people? Think how great his grandfather Cao Yin was back then? His cleverness can be put to good use. The future is really limitless in a decent place!" Yin Jishan said: "There are so many books since ancient times, I always feel that I can't match them. Lide, Liyan, and meritorious service are all serious things. I don't think it is best to be an official. You I am a big official who lives in eight seats. When I go out, I will be like a cloud of subordinates, and I will be greeted by everyone in the hall. When I see the superiors, we will offer them with a smile. Once a decree comes down, maybe you will become a prisoner, and those who are close will not be kissed, and those who are close will not be close—how many are heart-to-heart friends, and how many really obey us? Xueqin will not, go to the prince , elder brother, when you come down to poor scholars, or even people in wine shops and brothels, they are all fascinated when they touch the edge. Xiaotian is a prodigy, why is he a failure, and he is willing to grind the inkstone shop for him Paper—you and I can’t help but buy this account! This is a career!” E Shan bowed his head and remained silent for a while, then changed the subject, “I’m just surprised that this Lu Lusheng would write that fake memorial? It’s unbelievable How can he do it when he is the general manager of the governor’s yamen in Yunnan and Guizhou, and he is still a military officer? How can he have the guts?” Speaking of this, Yin Jishan also felt at a loss, thought for a long time, and said: "I don't understand, this matter is very strange. Liu Tongxun really has some skills." hand, and said: "I am here to draft a message to Shi Yizhi, saying that Lu Lusheng has been captured, and when I get it, I will immediately hand it to the Ministry of punishment with 800 miles, and the rest has nothing to do with me." Ghoshha came in, Yin Jishan and E Shan stood up at the same time.Yin Jishan asked: "Have you caught the one surnamed Lu?" "No," Nagoshha hurriedly reported, "Master Yu Bingshui, the chief envoy who casts money, has come. He heard that Zhong Cheng is not at the post house at the moment, and he said he has something to see." Yin Jishan tilted his head and thought for a while, then suddenly remembered that last year Fantai Ge Shunli told him about Xiang asking him to make up for the shortage of money, and at that time he brought a copy of Cai Jing's handwriting worth thousands of gold.He played with the book for a few days, but finally he dared not accept it, so he returned it to Yu Bingshui and made up for it.Presumably this person is also a greedy man.Yin Jishan said resolutely: "Let's say that the two imperial envoys are very busy, arranging to search for the imperial convicts. If you have something to do, please wait until the autumn chamber is over!" After Geshha withdrew, E Shancai said: "Yu Bing I know Shui, even though he came from a miscellaneous background, he is actually very sensible and elegant." Yin Jishan smiled and did not answer.Slowly put the chess pieces into the box.Suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside, and several Goshhas shouted excitedly while running: "Master Zhongcheng, hold it—that bastard surnamed Lu is holding it in front of the Tianfei Gate!" E Shan stood up straight at once, and seeing Yin Jishan sitting steadily with a determined expression on his face, he sat down again.All of a sudden, a few personal soldiers came in quickly carrying Lu Lusheng who was tied up like a rice dumpling.That Lu Lusheng was very stubborn, and he was being wronged as he walked. When he came in and saw E Shan was there, he twisted his head and slapped his face, and said straight away: "E Zonghe, I have a loan with money, why take me?" E Shanli Eyebrows glaring, he said sharply: "It's not about that kind of thing! What you committed, you know in your heart!" "I do not understand!" Yin Jishan sneered, and without looking at Lu Lusheng, he fiddled with the floating tea with a bowl cover, and said, "Tell this upright thing to kneel down and talk!" "I don't understand, I don't kneel!" Although the official is small, he is also an official of the court. I am not your subordinate. Who are you?" "Kneel down!" Behind him, Geshha clasped his elbows with both hands, and kicked him hard behind his knees. "This is our Yin Zhongcheng!" ——Following the trend, Lu Lusheng already knelt down straight. Yin Jishan chuckled, put down his teacup and said, "I can't see that you are still an all-rounder in civil and military affairs. The position of President Qian really wronged you. Untie him." "tie!" "Search for him!" "yes!" The Geshhas were veterans of the torture chamber. They shook off the rope several times, searched their bodies, but found nothing else.All of them are silver bills, ranging from seven or eight hundred taels to as small as a dozen or twenty taels, and there are forty or fifty bills.Geshha presented them carefully, and said, "That's it, nothing else." Yin Jishan flipped through one by one, handed them to E Shan, and turned to Lu Lusheng, "Do you understand now?" E Shan naturally knew Yin Jishan's intentions, and silently put the bank note he lent to Lu Lusheng into his sleeve.Listen to Lu Lusheng say: "Humble job is innocent, humble job doesn't understand!" "These bank notes total 13,742 taels. Where did they come from and what are they used for?" "Water ran out of Humble's house, and it was burned to a white ground. ——This is all Humble's savings from his salary, and he wants to take it home." Yin Jishan smiled "puchi" and said, "Forget it! Let me ask you, how much money does Mr. Qian have in a year?" Lu Lusheng was taken aback by his knife-like question, and hurriedly added: "Some of them are borrowed by me. Can E Zonghe prove that—" Before he finished speaking, Yin Jishan stopped him: "How much did you save from your salary, how much did you borrow, and whose money did you borrow? What is the total? Tell me!" "When the ground hit the table, the pens, inkstones, paperweights, and teacups all jumped up, and even E Shan who was sitting next to him was startled! "This..." Lu Lusheng's face was soaked with sweat, and he crept for a while, but he didn't say a word. "Probably you don't know me, Yin Jishan." Yin Jishan stood up with a grin, and walked slowly behind the case, "You faked the name of the minister, wrote a fake memorial, and caused a catastrophe. When the incident happened, you fled in a hurry. With a lot of acquaintances bluffing and cheating, you want to take money and go far away? The Internet was restored that day, and I didn’t miss a few words, so I didn’t care about it!” With a sudden movement in his heart, he said faintly: “You just want to be fooled by your idea of ​​‘learning’ People in the world—do you know, it’s not Egong today, how can you fall into my hands?”—He has realized that if this case is turned upside down, there may be many hot and noble people involved, so he pushed gently, Without any trace, he vaguely gave E Shan the "first achievement" in capturing Lu Lusheng. How did E Shan know that this young governor had so many thoughts in an instant.It's a blessing not to get involved in the case, and it's naturally a wish to get some credit.An imperceptible smile flashed across his face, and he deliberately tightened his face and said: "I can see you are nothing at a glance! I never imagined that you are so bold that you dare to forge manuscripts! Just this crime is enough to lose you ten heads! Tell me, are you the one who pretended to be the fake memorial in Mr. Sun's name?" "No...how can you be so bold in a humble job?" "You refuse to recruit?" "It's really wronged!" Lu Lusheng was exhausted, and he didn't dare to play tricks anymore. He murmured: "I really don't know what is a fake manuscript or not..." Yin Jishan knew that E Shan's question was very inappropriate.But he also wanted to know a little bit of the inside story, and now he was happy to be supported by E Shan, a bookworm who didn't involve in worldly affairs, so he smiled gloomily beside him and said, "But I'm afraid that under your five punishments, the suffering of flesh and blood will be unbearable..." "Yes!" The words reminded E Shan, and E Shan thought to himself that he was also an imperial envoy, so he naturally asked the question, so he shouted to the left and right: "This is an imperial case, there should be no delay—come here, and I will serve you with great punishment!" Dozens of Ghoshhas looked at each other, they couldn't figure out whether it was their chief officer asking the case or Mr. He was asking the case. Seeing Yin Jishan like a stone man, they sat dumbly and said nothing.A Goshha agreed, and flew to the front torture room to fetch the torture tools. With a bang, a brand new pair of oak wood sticks were thrown on the ground. "Did you see it?" Eshan smiled triumphantly, "Piaogao possessed sorcery, and when he arrived at the lobby of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the three ropes were tightened, and he recruited. Are you a steel and iron frame?" Seeing that Geshha had wrapped the stick Get ready on Lulu Master's calf.E Shan gritted his teeth, and shouted fiercely: "Take it!" The four old torturers each pulled a rope end, seeing that Yin Jishan seemed to ignore it, they had no choice but to obey and pull it back with all their strength.Lu Lusheng yelled "Oh my god", and his upper body was struggling desperately in pain.The lower body was clamped tightly, but it couldn't move at all.He was covered in cold sweat, barely made a few bucks, and then passed out. A yamen servant took a sip of cold water from a bowl and sprayed it on his head with a "poof".Seeing him waking up leisurely, E Shan smiled and said, "If you don't want to do it, your bones will be pinched next time!" "Recruitment..." Lu Lusheng collapsed on the ground like mud, gasping heavily, "I'm recruiting. That - the fake manuscript is from me..." "Whose mastermind, whose instigation?" "Ok?!" "Don't, don't!" Lu Lusheng looked in horror at the imperial envoy Zonghe who had generously lent him money just now, and looked helplessly at Yin Jishan, who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, and said, "I really don't know whose mastermind it is. As you know, I have a lot of acquaintances in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Last year, a man named Qin Chuan took a few people to Yunnan. We had a drink together and talked about many things in the palace. Understood. He also said that even the first emperor was not a serious master. It was Long Ke who was supposed to pass the throne to the Fourteenth Lord. The master and the prince were cheated. I said at the time, "If it wasn't for the bad luck of the eighth master, I would at least get a general to do it. My father was implicated in it and froze to death on the road in Heilongjiang. Selling children to buy cages, in order to fight (steamed) ) With this tone, what kind of person am I? I really want to write these nonsense things so that everyone in the world will know what kind of thing the emperor is'. "As soon as I said it, Qin Chuan laughed and said, 'Do you want to exterminate the family by doing that? The most daring person in the world is Sun Jiagan. The late emperor and the emperor are afraid of him. You make a fake memorial for him and spread it all over the world immediately— ——People believe him—even if the emperor messes with this matter, and Sun Jiagan stands up to it, you are fine. I just... wrote it. I handed it over to Qin Chuan and brought it back to Beijing. How did he do it in Beijing? I really don't know..." Speaking of this, Lu Lusheng swallowed a sigh of relief, and said with a sad face: "I somehow made this bastard... I did this thing-I wanted to make a blockbuster, but I entangled myself... He muttered, Cursing, no one could hear what he said. E Shan said impatiently: "Don't say these things are useless!What about Qin Chuan? " "Response...to my lord's words, I heard that when he returned to Beijing, he contracted typhoid fever...and died!" "fart!" "Really...really!" Yin Jishan saw that E Shan, who was eager for success and fame, was going to be tortured again, and knew that if the case went on, he could not stand by and be involved, so he stepped on E Shan's toe under the case.E Shanben is not stupid, but today he was angry and wanted to get rid of it, but Yin Jishan used him as a spearman.At this time, he knew there was another reason, so Po'er rolled down the stage and said, "I've been put in prison! Think about it, the bamboo tube and the beans have been recruited truthfully!" After everyone retreated, E Shan looked at the unpredictable Yin Jishan and asked, "Mr. Yuan, do you seem to have something to say?" "It's nothing important." Yin Jishan looked at the white clouds flying south in the sky leisurely, let out a long breath, and said, "The superior ordered this person to be taken, and we caught him, that's enough. It's Liu Tongxun's business to ask questions. "