Shortly after mid-afternoon, Jia Langzhong returned to Taicang from outside and went straight to Zhang Guancu’s office room with a serious face.
Soon after, all of Taicang’s important officials were also called to the room by Zhang Guancu.
After the people of Taicang heard the news brought by Jia Langzhong, their mouths opened wide in surprise and some disbelief.
According to their previous guesses, the people from the East Chamber were here to monitor Zhu Pingan and prevent him from vanishing like the other officials from the Taicang Inspection Team. However, they did not expect that the people from the East Factory were the ones that Zhu Ping An had gone to great lengths to beg from the West Garden!
This kind of upside down contrast made the crowd in Taicang surprised, and at the same time, they could not help but think of it.
“He Zhu Pingan head by the door pinned it, even went to the West Garden to beg the East Chamber of Commerce to spy on himself?”
“He bothered to pull the whole of this out to do what?!”
“Could it be that he, Zhu Ping An, deliberately begged the East Chamber’s people to participate in the audit, so as to ensure that, even if something goes wrong in the future, he, Zhu Ping An, will be able to rely on the East Chamber’s proof to get away with it?”
“It is not possible that this guy really found out something, fearing that there will be accidents, so he went to the West Garden to beg people from the East Chamber to protect the account books?”
“Impossible, how he Zhu Pingan can find out the problem, our Taicang account books can be ‘ghost hand Zhang’ they do, the entire capital account office to check for months can not find out the problem, he an abacus will not play the brat, just yesterday one day can find out the problem, impossible, absolutely impossible. ”
“Then could it be that Zhu Pingan is playing a trick? Trying to ask for favours from us?”
“Yes, I think Zhang Daoren said reasonable, the countryside ragtag family imperial examination to become an official, for is not glory and wealth, he Zhu Pingan so, huh, appetite is very big ah ……”
Taicang crowd expressed their own views, opinions are not unanimous, but many people have expressed vigilance, suspicion and worry about Zhu Pingan’s perverse behaviour.
“If I say, if we want to have a long night and not dream too much, let’s just not do it at all, and directly give Zhu Pingan a …… “Zhao Langzhong is a ruthless one, and with a hideous face, he said that he stretched out his two fingers on his neck and gestured a throat slitting gesture.
“No, no, bloody ……..Besides, the people of the East Chamber are guarding, how to start, besides, if he Zhu Pingan is killed inside Taicang, we can’t eat it. But if outside Taicang, he Zhu Pingan is obviously early defence, every time there are two guards close to follow him. These two guards of his are not simple, when they were waiting for Zhu Pingan outside, they somehow matched fists and feet with a few Qubas of the Shen Ji Battalion, and the Qubas of the Shen Ji Battalion were not even a match for them.”
As soon as Zhao Langzhong’s words fell, one of Taicang’s treasurers voiced his opposition, he had witnessed the scene of Liu Dazhou and Liu Mu competing with the soldiers of the Shen Ji Battalion, and knew that Liu Mu and Liu Dazhou’s skills were extraordinary.
Shen Ji Battalion is the elite of the Ming elite, even the well-trained soldiers of the Shen Ji Battalion were Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou easy to dry over, that unusual people four or five can not get close to Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou, if you exclude more than ten people assassinated, that is a small battle, which is in the capital sphere of influence it, the foot of the Prince of Heaven to make a commotion so big, even if the cover up of the more thorough, but also will certainly be found out.
“Hehe, what if it is poisoned, he Zhu Pingan is a rice bucket reincarnated, last time that plate of stewed earth chicken, the plate was almost licked by him. People are iron and rice is steel, it’s impossible for him Zhu Pingan not to eat, on his starving pig reincarnation look, make him a few good dishes with adulterated ingredients, and it’s sure to make him fly to the west with one stomp of his legs.”
An official in Taicang who was better with Zhao Langzhong mentioned the suggestion of poisoning hemlock to kill Zhu Pingan.
“Stop, the meal we sent from Taicang poisoned his Zhu Pingan, how can we get off the hook, no, no ……”
When the people of Taicang heard this, they all shook their heads, feeling that the suggestion made by this person was even more unreliable than the one made by Zhao Langzhong.
“Of course I thought of this, but what if the one who poisoned him, Zhu Pingan, was one of Taicang’s cooks who had an old grudge against Zhu Pingan. Zhu Pingan came to Taicang’s first meal was this cook’s food, Zhu Pingan disliked the food was difficult to eat, called the cook to swear, let the cook heart to Zhu Pingan hate gnashing teeth. In addition there is the most crucial point, Zhu Pingan was bullying others, and robbed this cook’s unmarried concubine outside, so this cook did not do anything about it, and poisoned Zhu Pingan to death, huh, the motive, the witnesses and the material evidence are complete, this is his Zhu Pingan’s personal grudge with the cook, and what does it have to do with us, Taicang?”
The official who had just made the suggestion slightly tugged at the corner of his mouth, a chesty smile blossoming on his face as he followed up on the suggestion he had just made, speaking without haste.
“Is that so? When did Zhu Pingan create such a conflict with our cook? How come I don’t know, didn’t he still say the food was delicious last time?”Someone asked with some surprise.
“Oh, I also do not know, but this is not the point, the point is to wait for Zhu Pingan was poisoned, what the cook said, the truth is what it is, the death of no evidence Well, heh …… “Suggested the official smiled very confident.
As long as they can afford enough silver, not to mention a cook scapegoat, is ten cooks, can also find out.
“Well, I think it’s fine.”
“Although it’s a bit hurtful, but there’s a road in heaven that he didn’t take, and there’s no door in hell that he walked into, so if you want to blame him, blame him for tripping into this muddy water, it’s a step that he took himself.”
“Dead Taoist friends do not die of poverty …….”
For the official’s proposal just now, there were quite a few people who showed their approval.
However, in the next second, Liu Siku’s words made the crowd dismiss the idea.
“It won’t work.”Liu Siku looked at the official who made the suggestion and shook his head.
“Why?”The official asked.
“In the morning, Lord Zhang asked me to keep an eye on Zhu Pingan, I was in the room not far opposite Zhu Pingan lying on the back window and watched, that Zhu Pingan is very cautious, anything we send from Taicang, he doesn’t get his hands on it, tea, snacks, food and so on, he didn’t move a single bite at all, it seems like he has long since been on guard against us.”Liu Siku shook his head and said.
After Liu Siku finished speaking, Senior Zhang, who had proposed poisoning Zhu Pingan, then sighed and gave up as well.
“If you ask me, this fighting and killing is the next best thing. Whether or not he, Zhu Pingan, can find out what’s wrong is still a different matter, but killing an imperial official, this is an undoubtedly great crime that will definitely be pursued all the way. Even if the human evidence and material evidence are all there and can prove that it has nothing to do with us, Taicang, but we are the first ones that others will suspect!”
“I think it is also, he Zhu Pingan so much trouble, is only to seek wealth and promotion, a countryside rags, we casually show some dregs from the crack of the finger, for him are all amazingly rich, by then, we have his handle, then he Zhu Pingan is still not a dog that we raised …….”
“Well, that makes sense ……”
The discussion of the Taicang crowd gradually shifted from eradicating dissenters to luring assimilation, and then gradually gained resonance.
