Yang Douzhi stood aside and saw Gao Zhang opening the envelope and then examining the contents of the letter.
He wanted to speak several times, but in the end he held back. To be honest, the news really surprised him.
Therefore, he hesitated as to whether he should hand over this information to Gao Zhang, the champion.
What's more, there are Tong Zhisheng and Cai Laoliu in this governor's team. The biological fathers of these two, Cai Jing and Tong Guannai, were the backstage backers of the Zhu family.
In the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou, everyone knew that the local officials were in cahoots with the Zhu family and his son.
This made Yang Duzhi nearly drop his jaw in shock. When he thought of Bianliang in Tokyo, even if Cai Jing and Tong Guanquan were in power, they still had to come up with reasons and create evidence to do anything.
But the Zhu family and his son, who were running rampant in Suzhou and Hangzhou, had no scruples at all.
It can be said that I have taken a fancy to your things, so the things in your house belong to my Lao Zhu family.
You say no? Haha, I snatched it from my Zhu family, so who else dares not to belong to my old Zhu family?
If you dare to sue an official, please do so. From the county magistrate to the magistrate, who dares to take this case?
Maybe the victim annoyed the official, so he just threw the victim into the prison.
If you can calm down, then let you go home. If you can't calm down, haha, then just stay inside.
All in all, our officials in Suzhou and Hangzhou cannot deal with the Zhu family and his son, who have a very strong background and have official status.
Isn’t it possible that we can’t rectify this bunch of poor people like you?
Seeing these shocking and evil deeds, even Yang Duzhi, the chief officer of the Imperial City Department, who was accustomed to doing all kinds of ruthless things, was astonished.
There is even a kind of indignant anger, even our family can't do such a thing, but you father and son actually did it?
The important thing is that the officials are still covering up for you when you do these outrageous things.
Think about our Imperial City Division, whenever we do something, those censors will be like chicken blood. Impeachment memorials will fly towards the official censors like snowflakes.
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Gao Zhang's face turned dark when he saw this. He only knew that Zhu Meng and his son were known in history as one of the Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty.
But I really didn't expect that they would do so many outrageous things in the Suhang area.
The reason why during the reign of Master Hunjun, a Fangla Uprising that destabilized the southeast occurred in Jiangnan, the richest region in the Song Dynasty, it must be said that it was this father and son who made the greatest contribution.
Although it failed to fundamentally shake the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty, it seriously weakened the national power of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Just letting these things go is enough to prove that this father and son really deserve to be on horseback.
You father and son forced the people in the richest area south of the Yangtze River to rebel. In my opinion, what you did was simply a conspiracy to overthrow the Song Dynasty regime.
Gao Zhang slowly closed the information and put it back in the envelope. He did not return it to Yang Douzhi, but asked Yang Douzhi.
"Yang Duzhi, you Imperial City Detective, did not spend too much time, and you were able to collect so much information from the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou."
"Then, I believe that this is definitely not all. I am afraid that there are more inside stories that need you to dig deeper."
Seeing Gao Zhang, who was shorter than himself, with his shining eyes, put a heavy pressure on him.
Yang Douzhi's forehead was already covered with cold sweat. What he had been thinking about before was happily following this prodigy champion who was deeply favored by the officials to Jiangnan.
At least he could use his merits to win the favor of the officials, but now it seems that this horse riding is like a fire pit, and it is also bottomless.
reject? Haha... I thought about how my godfather Yang Jian had warned me before I left, never to offend this prodigy who looked young, but was actually dark-minded and scheming.
Yang Douzhi braced himself and bowed respectfully to Gao Zhang.
"There is no reason for our family to disobey the orders of Duke Zhuangyuan. It's just that Duke Zhuangyuan may not know that Prime Minister Cai and Tong Guan are related to the Zhu family and his son."
"And...even the officials are quite satisfied with the work of the Zhu family and his son..."
Gao Zhang looked at Yang Douzhi, Yang Jian's godson, and nodded with no expression on his face, then turned his head and waved not far away.
Fu'an, who usually held the Shang Fang Sword given by the emperor, jumped over. Seeing the young master's signal, he reluctantly held the Shang Fang Sword in both hands.
Yang Douzhi watched in confusion as Gao Zhang held the Shangshu Sword in his hand, then half unsheathed the sword, and looked towards him as if he had just thought of something.
"Um, so what?"
"..." When he saw the Shang Fang sword that Gao Zhang was playing with, and the cold light reflected from the half-sheathed sword, Yang's heart suddenly stopped.
Yang Douzhi didn't hesitate, his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.
"As long as Duke Zhuangyuan orders us, our family dares not to obey."
Gao Zhang saw this guy's cowardly look, and then curled his lips in disgust, but his tone was still so gentle and did not reveal any murderous intent.
"Yang Dou knows that this must not be the case. You are an internal official, and I am an external minister. We are not subordinate to each other. You worship me. This is not suitable..."
"My godfather has told us many times to follow the wishes of Duke Zhuangyuan in everything we do at home, and we must never disobey him."
"Just now our family has no intention of disobeying the Number One Scholar, but we are just afraid that the Number One Scholar will not know about it, so we want to remind you. Our family..."
"Okay, please get up quickly, Yang Douzhi, don't do this."
Gao Zhang stretched out his hand to hold Yang Douzhi's arm, and after letting him stand up, he let out a breath.
He looked distantly at Tong Zhisheng, who was shouting and killing, and Cai Laoliu, who was jumping up and down in the pavilion, shouting and cheering.
"Yang Douzhi."
"exist."
"After reading this information, I have a feeling that the Zhu family and his son are not just doing random things and harming the people of Li."
"..." Yang Douzhi waited for a long time, but couldn't wait for the second half of the sentence, so he simply leaned closer and asked softly.
"I dare to ask Zhuangyuan Gong, do they, father and son, have other ideas?"
"If you had no other thoughts, why would you recruit troops in that wealthy land south of the Yangtze River?"
Gao Zhang turned his head and looked deeply at Yang Douzhi again.
"Could it be that with Yang Douzhi's eyesight as the chief of the Imperial City, you can't see clearly what the father and son want to do?"
These words immediately chilled Yang Douzhi's heart, and he stared at Gao Zhang blankly.
There is an urge to squat on the ground, pull up a handful of grass, and hold it in order to calm down.
(End of chapter)
