Gao Chong was sitting by the window of the restaurant, and he looked at the avenue from time to time.
Fang Jinshi tapped the table lightly and said, "Don't be impatient, the army will be here soon." He was a little funny that Gao Chong couldn't hold his breath. In fact, he only learned to be calm after experiencing some big things. Well, weren't you the same as Gao Chong half a year ago?
Suddenly there was a burst of smoke and dust billowing ahead, and hundreds of fast horses came running from a distance. Gao Chong's eyes lit up and he shouted: "Here we come."
As soon as Fang Jinshi stood up, he actually jumped out of the window and landed in front of the incoming brigade of officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers were all surprised. Fang Jinshi stood upstairs and not only shook his head, he favored this man, and looked bored on the surface. , but sometimes getting enthusiastic about something is no different from other impulsive teenagers.
Fang Jinshi didn't have the ability to jump directly from the window to the street. He walked down the stairs honestly. When he walked to the door of the restaurant, Gao Chong had already ushered in a military attache. The military attache was in his thirties and had a waist. He was carrying a sword and had a very handsome beard. He walked with long steps and looked quite majestic. From the look of his clothes, Fang Jinshi suggested that his official rank was very low, no higher than the seventh rank.
When Gao Chong saw Fang Jinshi coming down, he said to the military attach¨¦: "This is Mr. Fang who reported to the official." The military attache did not dare to neglect, and stepped forward and said: "Is this Mr. Fang Jinshi?"
Fang Jinshi clasped his fists at the military attache and said, "That's right." The military attache said, "I'm Kong Zhang, I've been ordered to come here. I don't know where the Liao country's fine work is. Please lead the way."
Fang Jinshi said: "Kong Juntou came very quickly." The military attache Kong Zhang said: "My garrison is nearby, and I came here as soon as I got the order." Fang Jinshi looked at the officers and soldiers he led and said, "I don't know who Kong Juntou is. Which battalion belongs to the Forbidden Army?"
Kong Zhang said: "We are not the Imperial Army, but the Xiang Army. Why should the Imperial Army come to catch some spies? Besides, to mobilize a single person from the Imperial Army, the Privy Council must send troops. How can we come in time?"
Only then did Fang Jinshi understand that the Forbidden Army could not be mobilized at will. Even if Zhao Kaigui was the prince, he could not mobilize a single person from the Forbidden Army. To mobilize the Forbidden Army, the Privy Council had to send troops. In the Song Dynasty, the Privy Council had the power to mobilize troops, but they had no troops. The generals of each party had troops, but they did not have the power to mobilize troops. The two sides restricted each other to prevent the general leading the troops from becoming dominant and causing a second Chenqiao mutiny.
However, it was enough to capture a few spies from the Liao Dynasty. Even though they were not forbidden troops, but just side soldiers, it was enough. Fang Jinshi and Gao Chong led these side soldiers to Zheng Yuanwai's mansion. Gao Chong knew that Xiao Bu and others had already Escaped, but still interested.
Zheng Yuanwai had already escaped with Xiao Bu, and the people left behind were irrelevant. Fang Jinshi was paying attention to the civil servant Xiao Bu said they had captured. Sure enough, these officers and soldiers found an imprisoned civil servant in the dungeon in the backyard.
Fang Jinshi and Gao Chong followed the officers and soldiers and came to the cellar together. Behind the iron-locked wooden gate, a civil servant in his thirties and slightly fat was crawling on the ground and writing hard. They saw the official outside. When the military officer opened the lock, the civil servant just looked up, then lowered his head and continued writing.
"Xiao Bu treated this man quite well. He just imprisoned him instead of binding him, and also gave him pen and ink to write.
Kong Zhang stepped forward and said, "I don't know, this official" The civil servant waved his other hand towards him while writing, signaling Kong Zhang not to interrupt his writing.
In the Song Dynasty, the status of military personnel was extremely low, especially when this person was an official. Kong Zhang's military position was very low, so he did not dare to disturb him. He waited patiently for this person to finish writing on the paper. He got up from the ground, threw away the pen, and started writing. The paper looked at it and said with satisfaction: "Yes, that's how it should be."
Kong Zhang just smiled and said nothing. Fang Jinshi saw that the man's writing was very sloppy and he couldn't read a few words. The civil servant ignored the officers and Fang Jinshi and others, walked to the cellar door, opened it and shouted: "Zhang Shun, Zhang Shun."
A man who looked like a servant ran over. The civil servant frowned and said, "I asked you to cross the wall to report to the official last night. Why did the officers and soldiers come only at noon today?" The servant named Zhang Shun said with a grimace: "Go back. Sir, the villain climbed over the wall last night and was discovered by the thief, but he did not send the letter."
Fang Jinshi suddenly understood that it was the servant Zhang Shun who climbed over the wall last night and punched him, and it was Zhang Shun who was so unlucky. The civil servant waved his hand to him impatiently, handed a few pages of paper to Zhang Shun and said, "Send this to Wu Xuexue's office quickly."
Zhang Shun asked in surprise: "Which Wu scholar?" The civil servant stretched out his leg and kicked him on the buttocks and said: "Wu scholar in the east of the city, there can be that Wu scholar. Tell him about Cao Zhi's "Fu Chen" in "Taiping Yulan" The errors in the answer to "The Treatise" have been written down on the paper, and I asked him to check whether he was right or wrong."
Zhang Shun didn't dare to speak anymore, so he took the paper and ran away. The civil servant turned back to Kong Zhang and replied: "I am the editor of the Privy Council, and my surname is Zhang Mingjun. Who do you belong to?"
Kong Zhang was shocked?, he quickly bowed and saluted: "So you are the famous Mr. Ziyan. We are General Deng Heng's subordinates. He is coming quickly." The civil servant named Zhang Jun nodded and said, "Take me there See General Den Heng."
Kong Zhang agreed repeatedly, respectfully invited Zhang Jun to go out, and no one paid any attention to Fang Jinshi and Gao Chong.
Gao Chong asked: "What should we do now?" Fang Jinshi glanced at him and said: "What else can we do? Let's go back."
Gao Chong was a little frustrated and followed him back to the inn to get the horse. The two rode back to Kaifeng City together. When they separated in the city, Fang Jinshi stopped the horse and said to Gao Chong: "The horse you are riding is Emperor Huan Huan." It¡¯s given to you, you handle it yourself.¡±
Gao Chong jumped down from the horse and said, "Can you do me a favor?" Fang Jinshi said, "Say." Gao Chong said, "Please help me return this horse to her."
Fang Jinshi asked strangely, "Why don't you want it?" Gao Chong stroked the horse's neck and said, "Although this horse is good, I didn't earn it myself, so it's better not to give it up."
Fang Jinshi could see that Gao Chong still liked this horse, but he was more resistant to things given to him by women, especially women with too noble status like Roufu Diji, and he didn't know what to do.
Fang Jinshi pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, let's keep this horse in my house for now, and we'll talk about it later." He thought that with his doting personality, it was difficult to convince him to accept Emperor Roufu's kindness, so he might as well wait and see what happens. Go with the flow.
This place was not far from Fang Jinshi's house. He rode a horse and led another. When he returned to his home, Liang Cuirong waited for him to hand the horse over to Wei Chong and take him to the horse gallery behind. Then he frowned and said, "You go there all night. No word has come back, which makes me worried to death."
Fang Jinshi whispered: "Gao Chong and I went to see Princess Roufu. It's not like you don't know what you are afraid of with him."
Liang Cuirong asked one more question: "How?" Fang Jinshi shook his head and did not answer her question. Liang Cuirong knew that this matter would be very difficult without answering.
Liang Cuirong followed Fang Jinshi back to the main hall, and she said: "Now there is a good thing for you to do." Fang Jinshi smiled and said: "It is enough to have three women at home." Liang Cuirong rolled her eyes at him and said, "As soon as I mention the good thing, Thinking about finding a woman again, is this your only ambition?"
Fang Jinshi quickly came closer and said with a smile, "Of course not, I'm afraid you'll think about it too much." Liang Cuirong said with a straight face, "I'm very petty, so don't mess with me again."
Fang Jinshi took her hand and said, "I know you are very big-minded, even the prime minister can't compare with you. Tell me quickly, what's the good thing?" Women are the least coaxed. Liang Cuirong was praised by her husband, so he took her over and showed her seriousness. Said: "Do you still remember Jin Tongda and Fu Xuan?"
Fang Jinshi said: "They should still be detained in the south prison of Kaifeng Mansion, right? What? Did they escape?"
Liang Cuirong said: "How can it be so easy to escape? You don't want to save their lives?" Fang Jinshi said: "How to save them? Didn't you ask me not to interfere in the affairs of your Prince Jing's Mansion?"
Liang Cuirong smiled slightly and said: "One moment, another moment, Zhang Shaozai has already nodded to rescue them. He has already informed Cai Zhifu of Kaifeng Prefecture through Cai Xianggong, but I am a woman, I can't do this, I can only let you come. .¡±
Fang Jinshi said: "Why not ask King Jing to come forward?"
Liang Cuirong said: "Prince Jing is not in Bianliang now. Besides, it is hard for him to come forward directly to rescue these two little people. It would be bad to be too public. If you come forward, Jin Tongda and Fu Xuan will definitely be grateful to you in the future, won't they? A good thing."
Fang Jinshi said: "It is not easy to do things in the government office so that others can't catch anything." Liang Cuirong smiled and said: "Of course I know this. Liu Tong recommended a person to me. This person has been working in the government office for a long time. You know the connection, wait a minute and he will take you to this person for a drink and see what this person can do."
Fang Jinshi asked: "Who is this person?" Liang Cuirong shook his head and said: "I don't know him either, you can go and meet him and you will know."
Listening to your wife will make you rich. Fang Jinshi especially knew that listening to a wife like Liang Cuirong would bring a lot of benefits. He sat at home and waited for a while. Liang Cuirong sent someone to find Liu Tong, the big shopkeeper of the Jinji shop.
Not long after, Liu Tong came over with his subordinates. Fang Jinshi and Liu Tong went to the Huibin Building in Kaifeng City.
Fang Jinshi asked Liu Tong, "Who is this person you invited?" Liu Tong said, "I met him through a friend. This person has been hanging out in public houses for a long time, and he is very familiar with the prison. He also invited me for the Golden Pheasant case." This person came to make suggestions and has already captured Guo Jing as a traitor and put him in the government prison."
Fang Jinshi asked further: "Is that Taoist Guo San responsible for the Golden Pheasant case?" Liu Tong said.He said casually: "It's not who he is. This thief wants to be famous, but he dares to make trouble. Let's see how he escapes this time."
Fang Jinshi followed Liu Tong to the guest building. Not long after he sat down, a small sedan passed through the alley. Liu Tong saw it from the window and said to him, "Here we come."
Liu Tong and Fang Jinshi went downstairs to the door of the store together. An official with a face as long as a donkey and a lean body appeared at the door. This man gave others a very uncomfortable feeling at first glance. It was not that he was ugly, but that There was always a sinister look in his eyes, which made people feel chilly.
Liu Tong greeted him immediately and said, "Governor Wan Qi is here to invite you." Fang Jinshi glanced at the person who came, and it turned out that the person they wanted to invite turned out to be Wan Qi Xi.