The father-in-law suddenly asked about himself, and Wei Guangde knew that he must have wanted to know the inside story long ago.

Wei Guangde already knew about the matter in the office of the Ministry of Households in the small school. He probably asked Xu Pengju the purpose of asking him, first, to consider how to say it out, and second, to see if there is any possibility of finding a reference from Wei Guangde's handling method.

As for Wei Guangde, he didn't think there was anything.

He was not present during the mutiny. In order to fool the soldiers and say whatever they could, he honestly told them about how he suppressed the soldiers.

"You mentioned the excuse that Huang Maoguan fell to death by climbing over the wall?"

Zhang Liang's mouth was slightly opened. When he heard the rioters sending back Huang Maoguan's body, he was still wondering how Huang Maoguan died.

Did he be beaten to death by a rioter or he really fell to death by climbing over the wall? Now that I know the answer, I must have been beaten to death by someone, but I just found a reason to be decent.

However, this reason is good. At least you can treat the court perfunctorily and will not make the court feel embarrassed.

To deal with those more than 2,000 riot soldiers, killing is absolutely impossible. You can only find ways to mix things up, and make big things turn into small things.

"Yes, Lord Zhang, come back and let people know the people from the Huang family, don't talk nonsense."

He Shou was very satisfied with Wei Guangde's incident. Emperor Jiajing was very proud of his face. This was something that all eunuchs knew. If they knew that a third-rank official was beaten to death by a group of rioters, they would be afraid that they would be implicated for the sake of face. Even if they were afraid that they would not be too late to take over.

With this reason, the so-called mutiny is a misunderstanding, and Huang Maoguan's death is just an accident.

Xu Pengju nodded slightly, then said, "In addition, in order to calm the storm, Lord Zhang and I had negotiated with the rioters in the small school ground."

Having said this, Xu Pengju paused for a moment, looked around everyone in the hall, and then continued: "We learned about the request of the soldiers of Zhenwu Camp. They had a lot of opinions about changing the color from 5 cents to 4 cents of silver since last year. At that time, we asked whether the matter was approved by the court."

Xu Pengju curled his lips and looked at Zhang Liang, saying that it was your duty to talk about this, and you are also an insider.

Zhang Yang was stared by Xu Pengju, of course he knew that the meaning was to let him say a few words. He immediately coughed and continued: "As far as I know, the Ministry of Revenue submitted a memorial last year and mentioned this matter, but he changed the color without receiving the court's approval. This is the main reason why the rioters attacked the Ministry of Revenue's Office this time. They wanted to get the military pay withheld by the Ministry of Revenue."

"Last year, was this Ma Kun's idea?"

He Shou suddenly interrupted and said.

"It should be instructed by Ma Budang."

Zhang Liang replied.

"This Huang Maoguan executed Ma Kun's order but lost his life, haha."

He Shou suddenly chuckled and then shook his head contemptuously, as if he was mocking the Huang Maoguan who died for this, unable to see the actual situation clearly.

In the past two years, Nanjing City and the surrounding areas have been seriously affected.

In the year of disaster, those who should have helped the soldiers were rebelled by them. Not only did they not help the soldiers, but they also deducted the already small amount of money. It would be strange if they didn't cause trouble.

But soon, He Shou put away his smile and asked with a serious face, "What did you say to those people?"

This is something that needs substance, He Shou also heard it. At that time, Duke Xu Pengju and Secretary Zhang Jiao were forced to agree to the conditions for the chaos army, so he had the opportunity to escape successfully.

These things have nothing to do with him. Anyway, I just need to report what I know to the Sili Supervisor afterwards.

The conditions that those chaotic soldiers can raise are nothing more than elimination of sin and giving money. In fact, these are not major issues in He Shou's opinion.

The rebellious soldiers will not cause trouble to Nanjing City, so everything can be cleaned up.

"They asked for 100,000 taels of silver when they opened their mouths. How could they give so much? Even if we agree, the court will not agree."

Zhang Liang smiled bitterly, "So we said we'll discuss it, otherwise it would be really not easy for the gang of chaotic troops to calm down."

At this time, Zhang Yang began to compete for merit. They used the delaying strategy to calm the riots in Zhenwu Camp. Although the riots sent people to chase them later, that was also the matter later. Perhaps they wanted to keep them as hostages for negotiations with the court. Fortunately, Wei Guangde came forward in time to stop them.

In fact, the big reason behind the pursuit was that they found that Huang Maoguan was dead and knew that it was difficult to end a third-rank official in the court. Even if they had a peace talk with the court, there were people on their side who would have to pay their lives to understand the matter.

Although Zhang Liang tried his best to describe the conditions they were forced to accept at that time as a strategy to stop the chaos of the Zhenwu camp, the house was full of humans, so he naturally knew that the fact at that time was probably not as simple as Zhang Liang said.

But if I put myself in my shoes, if it was me at that time, I would have to pinch my nose and recognize it first, just to be able to get out.

As for the explanation afterwards, we agreed, but the court did not agree, so what can we do?

"I won't talk about those things, and tell me what conditions are given to them to solve this matter."

He Shou didn't want to hear Zhang Yang and the others shirk responsibility. This matter had nothing to do with him. He just wanted to calm down the anger of the rioters in the Wuying camp.

Zhang Yang did not answer He Shou's proposal immediately, but looked at each other with Duke Wei Xu Pengju, and seemed to reach an agreement after a look of eyes. Then Duke Wei Xu Pengju ordered to his subordinates who were waiting for the attendant, "You go down first, no one told you not to get close to here."

This is the garrison house. Except for the two little servants who came in He Shouwai, the rest are all his people.

After Xu Pengju finished speaking, the guards and the clerks standing around rushed out of the hall.

"Bangrui, you can go down first, guard outside the door and prevent others from getting close."

After saying that, Xu Pengju looked at Wei Guangde again, but then looked at Zhang Liang again. After Xu Bangrui left the hall, he did not say anything else.

Originally, Wei Guangde thought he could go out and not get into the muddy waters of Nanjing City, but he didn't expect that this would be the result.

Wei Guangde now feels that his position is a bit awkward, and he is not going to leave or stay. The key is that no one speaks this, and he is not sure whether he should have stood up and said goodbye.

However, neither Xu Pengju nor Zhang Liang looked at him again, obviously he had no intention of letting him leave. At this moment, both of them were staring straight at He Shou.

Speaking of which, except for Wei Guangde wearing a green robe, there were only two young servants wearing gray robes. All the others were wearing red official robes, showing their power in Nanjing.

"You guys go out too."

He Shou was suspicious and didn't know what they would do after they sent everyone away. However, Xu Pengju and Zhang Liang ran out together before, and they probably had some concerns on the way.

After the two eunuchs received the orders and left the hall, Xu Pengju was still calm and sat in the upper seat without any intention of speaking. Zhang Liang coughed twice at this time, attracting the attention of everyone in the room, and then he spoke: "The issue of the soldiers' and military pay was originally a violation of the rules before the Ministry of Revenue changed the problem without the approval of the court. I think it should be changed back."

After Zhang Liang finished speaking, Xu Pengju nodded and echoed: "This is a matter of course."

Wei Guangde, He Shou, Li Sui, and Li Tingzhu below also felt that Zhang Yang's words were reasonable. Restoring the old color of the folded color should be able to calm down some of the complaints of the rioters.

"In addition, although no Japanese pirates have attacked Nanjing, there have been Japanese pirates in Jingjiang, Zhenjiang and other places all year round. Zhenwu Camp is also the garrison with the highest frequency of dispatch, and has been deploying defenses by the river all year round.

There is no credit and hard work. I mean, I will give them some compensation and do the same thing that has been broken last year."

Zhang Liang continued.

"It's not easy for soldiers, especially last year, the Japanese pirates were making a big fuss. If they hadn't been on the riverside, I wouldn't know if the Japanese pirates would have gone to Nanjing to cause trouble again."

Xu Pengju assisted again on the top.

At this time, Li Sui, the Minister of War, had come back to his senses, looked at Xu Pengju and then at his immediate superior Zhang Liang. These are all people who are about to retire, and they should have planned to retire before retirement.

Li Sui figured it out, and He Shou and Li Tingzhu naturally understood it too, only Wei Guangde was a little slight at this moment. Although he was already alert in his heart, he still couldn't understand what Zhang Liang and Xu Pengju sold in the gourd.

"Although the storm is short, I think the secret report from the Jinyiwei has been sent out."

At this time, Li Tingzhu suddenly interrupted.

"It's impossible to hide things."

Zhang Liang nodded.

"They want 100,000 taels, how much is it appropriate for us to report?"

Li Sui didn't want to continue to play the puzzle at this time, so he pointed out the key points directly. This should be why Zhang Liang and Xu Pengju didn't know how to speak, so let him point it out.

"What else can I give? I'll just reimburse the arrears of military pay, I'm the discount last year."

He Shou said disdainfully, but when he talked about the color-breaking dispute, he hesitated and did not continue.

"Last year, I just need to give each person a tael of silver. They should be content and let the people below not take action on the money and send it directly to the soldiers. They should be content."

Li Tingzhu was the Admiral Caojiang. Several times the warning messages came, he led his soldiers to the riverside to set up defenses, and he also had some understanding of Zhenwu Camp. "There are more than 2,000 people in Zhenwu Camp. If you continue to issue them in real terms, it will only cost more than 2,000 taels of silver."

Hearing his words, Xu Pengju raised his eyebrows and then stretched out again. It was obvious that he had already recognized Li Tingzhu's meaning in his heart.

"Let's talk about this later. Let's talk about how to report this to the court."

Zhang Liang suddenly stroked his beard at this time, calmly speaking.

Obviously, Zhang Yang also accepted Li Tingzhu's suggestion that the court should be able to accept the matter of thousands of taels of silver. Now it is mainly to discuss how to report the matter to the higher authorities.

Seeing this scene, Wei Guangde understood that he was going to drag him into the water.

He returned to Beijing from Hangzhou and recorded all the way, where he rested at.

When he arrived in Nanjing, he encountered the Zhenwu Camp mutiny. After returning to the capital, he could not say that he knew nothing about it. Xu Pengju's intention to keep him was roughly the same, so he naturally wanted to make this lie for Nanjing officials.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde couldn't help but look at Xu Pengju above. No one spoke. Perhaps the adults were communicating with their eyes.

He sighed in his heart, but he didn't expect that he could not get out of the mud without being stained. This may be the officialdom of this era, Wei Guangde thought so.

While the main officials in Nanjing were discussing how to report the Zhenwu Camp to the court, a team of Lu Bing, who was wearing a python uniform, also arrived in front of the Yan Mansion gate.

Lu Bing and the Yan family don’t deal with each other much, so they naturally have few interactions on weekdays, which means they will only go around on special days like festivals. Of course, it’s just for everyone’s face. After all, they are all ministers in the same palace.

However, before today, Lu Bing had sent someone to send a message to the Yan family. After receiving the Yan family's reply, he determined his itinerary today.

Lu Bing controls the Jinyiwei and monitors the world. He naturally has a lot of secret information, a lot of inattention, and records a lot of seemingly unrelated information.

After receiving the confession from Wang Zhi from Hangzhou, Lu Bing checked various information collected by the hundreds of households in the Jinyiwei in Hangzhou in the past two years. He found that shortly after the arrest of Wang Zhi, people from the Yan Mansion once pulled two large boxes from the yamen. The boxes were then loaded onto the ship and transported to Beijing or directly to Jiangxi.

After all, it is difficult for the Jinyiwei to follow him after the ship leaves the dock. There are countless boats traveling on the Jiangnan Canal every day. If the nails are not buried on the ship in advance, it is difficult to grasp the whereabouts of the ship.

However, this is enough for Lu Bing to confirm some information, making him more confident about the trip.

Lu Bing dismounted in front of Yan's mansion. Yan Shifan and Yan Xin were already standing outside the gate to greet him. After all, they were first-rank officials of the court who passed by the mansion. Although they did not know the purpose of Lu Bing's trip, the Yan family still took 120 cautions and sent servants to intercept the idle people at both ends of the mansion street.

Soon Lu Bing walked into Yan's mansion, where Yan Song was still waiting.

Lu Bing would not be aimless, and he would definitely have some intentions here. Yan Shifan also guessed that it might have something to do with the person who was imprisoned in the imperial prison.

After all, the relationship between the Lu family and the Yan family is now not harmonious, but the one who can really make the two families intersect is Yu Dayou.

I don’t know what the relationship between Yu Dayou and Lu Bing has made Lu Bing maintain it until now.

Perhaps, this is also Lu Bing's last effort to rescue Yu Dayou, and today we are here to negotiate terms.

It is precisely because of this that Yan Shifan did not go out today, but planned to see what Lu Bing could take out in exchange for his own relief.

At this time, in a house in Anfufang, not far from the Yan family, an official in green robe was sitting behind the desk in the room and sighing.

"The Yan family is really not a thing. It's a loss to be a fellow villager. If you don't help me, don't you think I'm not giving away money to their family, huh?"

After sighing for a long time, the man said hatefully.

The official's name is Guo Xiyan. He was once a child prodigy in Jiangxi. He passed the imperial examination at the age of thirteen. He was previously in Zuo Zhongyun, Zuo Chunfang, Zhan Shifu.
Chapter completed!