An inconspicuous little man has a past entanglement with the new prefect. When the new prefect was ready to severely punish the criminals, this disciple stopped the prefect with his eyes and privately recognized the past relationship between the two. It turned out that this disciple was a little monk, and the prefect was a down-and-out scholar in the boarding temple back then. Later, Menzi reminded the prefect that this case involved the four powerful families, and if the prefect made a mistake, it would inevitably bring disaster to his career. After some weighing, Governor Jia finally followed Menzi's advice... And just when Menzi thought that he was about to soar, he suddenly suffered a catastrophe and was accused of stealing official silver and colluding with bandits. What is the secret behind this? Where will Menzi go? How will Jia Zhifu justify himself?
When Taizu built the capital of Nanjing, Yingtianfu was the center of the entire Ming Dynasty as the first good place at that time. Now there is a conspiracy and trickery going on here, what kind of bizarre past event is driving this drama behind the scenes?
Menzi threatens the new prefect, but he has a relationship with him in a previous life?
It is said that back then, Ying Tianfu Menzi's surname was Huang Mingtong, which was originally a scholarly home in Yangzhou. Alert by nature, he loved to read and write at the age of six, although his family was barely fed, and the elders had a special cultivation of laxatives. Tong has been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood, and has a little literary brilliance. However, his family was so poor that he could not afford to provide for his education, so he had to send him to a local monastery to serve as a small novice.
Huang Tong is well-behaved and intelligent, and although he is a young novice, he has no enthusiasm for becoming a monk in his heart. The temple is simple, the elders are vegetarian and drink, and the life is simple, but they don't know that Huang Tong is greedy for the world's wine and delicacies. Although he has never tasted the delicious food of the world, he has some feelings for his children and fantasizes about the outside world.
Whenever there were monks in the monastery, Huang Tong humbly asked them for advice on the worldly conditions, but the answers were often insignificant. It wasn't until the spring of one year that a down-and-out scholar came to stay in the dormitory, and Huang Tong made some gains.
This person's surname is Jia, and he has a big weapon, but his fate is ill-fated, and he is trapped in the temple to make a living. Huang Tong saw that his aura was extraordinary, and he admired it. After going back and forth, Jia Sheng also had a good impression of Huang Tongben, and often talked and laughed with him. Huang Tong tried his best to please him, and he was wide open and intelligent. Occasionally, when a master in the capital passed by, Jia Sheng would also ask the master about the unresolved doubts that Huang Tong had asked before. Therefore, Jia Sheng has a rare and superior identity in Huang Tong's heart.
Not to mention Huang Tong's respect for Jia Sheng, it is only said that Jia Sheng actually had some dealings with a wealthy businessman named Zhen nearby at that time. When Huang Tong saw the conversation between the two, the rich businessman was quite complimentary, which showed that he had a request from Jia Sheng. Huang Tong was curious, but it was inconvenient to inquire, and when he only occasionally received one or two gifts from Jia Sheng, he felt like a treasure.
However, no one expected that although Jia Sheng had some talent in the past, he was ragged after all. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year, the wealthy businessman suddenly took out a bag of silver coins and gave it as a gift, which was to sponsor Jia Sheng to go to the capital to take the exam. Jia Sheng went to the west, and Huang Tong never saw him again.
Half a year later, the wealthy merchant fell into a huge crisis, and his youngest daughter suddenly disappeared at night during the Lantern Festival. Huang Tong and his family are quite familiar with each other, so they also participated in the search for a few days, but they returned in vain. Just when the wealthy merchants were full of sorrow, in the spring of the following year, a fire broke out in the temple, and the temple and the wealthy businessman's home were burned down overnight.
Huang Tong accompanied the monks to hide in Tibet, and finally arrived at the Nanjing City Monastery to settle down. Despite this, he still imagined that Jia Sheng had a bright future, but unexpectedly, decades had passed, and when he met Jia Sheng again, he saw that he had already been promoted to the prefect of Nanjing Yingtianfu. When the two met, Jia Zhifu was no stranger to Huang Tong's pity for the children back then.
At this time, Governor Jia was faced with a murder case and was ready to punish the son of the Feng family for his capital crime. Who knew that Huang Tong interrupted his eyes, and took the prefect Jia to whisper together, knowing that this case implicated the old grievances between the prefect and the powerful. Huang Tong ordered the prefect of Jia to act according to his words, so that he could turn the crisis into safety. Sure enough, Governor Jia followed Huang Tong's instructions and finally ended the murder case with a strange trick...
The talisman of the four major families, Jia Shi Wang Xue's strength is beyond imagination
It is true that since the time of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the capital was built in Nanjing, and Tianfu was the first place of goodness, and its status was transcendent. However, even such a prominent government was inevitably influenced by the local clan. At that time, there were four major families in Nanjing, such as Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, who had been prominent for generations and had a lot of wealth, among which Jia and Wang were the most well-known.
The ancestors of the Jia family once had a prominent official background, but now there are no heroes in the world, only the heirs are self-indulgent. The Wang family has a long foundation in the local area, and the ancestor was the Dongping Wang family, although there is no prominent official position, but because of the good relationship between the world, it has a relationship with the royal family and the powerful. The two families are close to each other, and they are even friendly with the officials of the current dynasty, so they are the main party.
Although the Jia and Wang families have a very large family background, they are not omnipotent. Nanjing has been an important commercial port since ancient times, and the home of merchants is also a force to be reckoned with. Shi and Xue are the most famous merchant families, the former controls the Nanjing wharf business, and the financial resources and caravans can be compared with the dignitaries; The latter is a famous cloth village in Nanjing, and has a close relationship with the weaving craftsmen in the south of the Yangtze River.
The four major families are strong, and although they all have a wealth base, they also rely on different forces. Although the Jia family has declined, it still has the name of descendants of official eunuchs, and has supported many protégés to become officials; The Wang family has close contacts with the emperor's relatives and relatives, and whenever a new upstart is promoted, he must always be favored by the royal family to become his dependent; By virtue of their control of the wharf trade, the historians had a lot of dealings with officials and merchants; And the Xue family has been a wealthy family because of their ancestors, and the government has also given a lot of favors.
Even the prefect of Nanjing, who guards Yingtianfu today, is greatly influenced by the four major families. Not long ago, at the beginning of the prefect's arrival, a murder case was discovered. The culprit was the famous young master of the Xue family in the local area, and he actually beat Yiyouling to death. This matter caused a storm in the city, and the prefect did not hesitate to take care of the young master of the Xue family with heavy hands.
Who knows, at this time, a lowly disciple stepped forward to intervene and dissuade the prefect from acting rashly. The prefect was puzzled, how could he listen to the words of the little menzi. Menzi then told the past and old things of the two. Only then did the prefect suddenly realize. It turned out that this disciple was a small novice in a nunnery, and the prefect was just a poor man who came to stay in the nunnery.
Menzi went on to explain that the case involved four major families in Nanjing, the most critical of which were the Jia and Wang families. The prefect gradually understood that with such a big force, he was only afraid that he would be killed if he acted recklessly. It was precisely because of this that the prefect uncharacteristically followed Menzi's advice and no longer wrote down the matter of the young master of the Xue family.
The past of the Taoist monk leads to strange mysteries
mentioned the causes and consequences of Jia Zhifu's involvement in this bizarre murder case, which originated from the past of a Taoist monk. At that time, Jia Zhifu had just arrived in Nanjing, and he was still very unfamiliar with everything here. He originally wanted to focus on governing the people and cultivating his self-cultivation, but he unexpectedly got involved in this strange mystery as soon as he made a move.
At that time, there was an old incident in the city of Nanjing. It is said that a few decades ago, a monk and his apprentices passed through Nanjing, but they were dragged by the locals to cause trouble, and the monk did not want to be entangled and was forced to stay in a monastery. Unexpectedly, soon the monk was killed and died, and his whereabouts became a mystery. The monk's apprentices also had a bad fate, and only one of them escaped.
The murder of the monk quickly caused a shock in the city. A high monk is a figure with a head and a face, and his status in the capital is transcendent. The apprentices were anxious and cried and complained in the court, but unfortunately they did not have the determination to thoroughly investigate the truth. The magnates secretly paid a lot of money to make the matter seem to be covered with a veil.
However, the shocking secret is always difficult to hide from the world, leaving a clue for future generations. Before his disappearance, the monk left behind a precious calligraphy and painting, which he made when he was abused in Nanjing. Calligraphy and painting were naturally left in the temple of that year, and the strange thing is that I don't know what year and month, the ink of calligraphy and painting quietly changed.
At that time, the words asked for the price were the four characters of "Daming Shengping", and many years later, the calligraphy and painting became the four big characters of "Jia Shi Wang Xue". The four big characters are neatly arranged, and they happen to be the surnames of the four major families in Nanjing. People of insight concluded from this that the four major families must have some relationship with the monk back then, no wonder the matter of the monk was over.
The mystery of the monk has caused countless literati and writers to speculate, but Jia Zhifu has already heard of the reason. Faced with the murder of the young master of the Xue family, he wanted to have a correct attitude and vowed to punish the criminals. Who knew that when he was about to be executed, he was pulled by a small doorman and talked about right and wrong.
It turned out that the disciple was the novice who witnessed the abuse of the senior monk. Although the novice left the temple due to the fire, he was always thinking about the cause of the monk's death. Many years later, he reunited with the poor scholar who was staying in the temple where the monk was killed, and he knew that the other party was already Jia Zhifu. The two reminisced about the past, and Menzi told everything he saw and heard back then.
Robbing women and maids caused a big disaster in the pond and fish farm
It is true that after Menzi revealed the origin of this case to the four major families to Governor Jia, although Governor Jia was a little suspicious, he finally followed Menzi's advice and temporarily released the young master of the Xue family from prison. It's just that Jia Zhifu never expected that this decision would put him in a greater predicament.
It turned out that the cause of this case actually stemmed from the good family relationship between Jia and Wang for generations. The Jia family has a son named Jia Rong, and the Wang family has a young lady Wang Xifeng. The two are the pearls of the gateway between the two families, and the marriage has been agreed more than ten years ago. It's a pity that the Wang family suddenly suffered a catastrophe, Wang Xifeng accidentally fell into the water during a visit to the garden, and although he was finally rescued, he was unrecognizable and became disabled.
The Jia family heard that the woman was embarrassed, and they wanted to quit the family affair. The Wang family had no choice but to marry their daughter to a slave backroom, and they could only be ashamed and mourn all day long. And Jia Rong was pointed out to another confidante, that is, the daughter of a wealthy businessman who had a close relationship with Jia Sheng back then. It's just that the rich merchant was soon punished by God, his family was ruined, and Jia Rong and the girl finally lost their marriage.
Since then, the Jia and Wang families have had grievances. Although the Jia family is still an official in the court, they do not have the embarrassment of the Wang family, but they often complain. The daughter of the Wang family lost her appearance in vain, and she had to hate the rest of her life. The head of the Wang family looks forward to the day when Jia Rong will take the initiative to marry her daughter back and be ashamed of herself. It's a pity that Jia Rong has no such intentions, which makes the grievances between the two families more and more intense.
The grievances and grievances of the two families of King Jia are not without gossip. When Wang Xifeng fell into the water, there was also a little maid in the garden. This little maid's name is Mandarin Duck, and she is the personal maid of her protégé Jia Rong. The grapevine said that it was not Wang Xifeng who accidentally fell into the water, but listened to the words of the mandarin duck for a while and fell into the pond. Whether Mandarin Duck's move was intentionally murdered Wang Xifeng has always been difficult to explore.
And just after Jia Rong learned that the mandarin duck might be related to Wang Xifeng's life experience, Mrs. Xing, the hostess of Jia's mansion, also disappeared. A few days after her disappearance, Mrs. Xing was suddenly rescued in a pond. All kinds of bizarre signs are suspicious. But Governor Jia did not link these things with the murder of the young master of the Xue family, but blindly followed Menzi's advice and released the murderer of the Xue family from prison.
However, no one expected that the decision of Jia Zhifu would make the situation even more confusing. Soon, an even greater calamity befell Ying Tianfu, leading to a thrilling conspiracy and reversal...
There are strange injustices in the family, and the Forbidden City kills each other
Instead of linking all the strange events that happened before with the murder of the young master of the Xue family, Governor Jia let the murderer go, which led to an even more terrifying conspiracy and murder. On that day, Jia Zhifu had just come out of the study, and suddenly saw a servant girl coming in a hurry, with a frightened look on her face. That maid is the mandarin duck who was suspected of slandering Wang Xifeng and falling into the water.
As soon as the mandarin duck saw Jia's prefect's mansion, he knelt down and pleaded guilty, saying that there was a big disaster in Jia's mansion. Jia Zhifu was puzzled, and hurriedly ordered the mandarin duck to get up and say in detail. Only then did the mandarin duck tell the story, it turned out that there was a tragic tragedy in Jiafu, and the bloody corpses lying next to the pond turned out to be Mrs. Xing, the master mother of Jiafu, and two children!
Governor Jia was shocked when he heard this, and immediately ordered someone to go to the pond to check, and sure enough, the pond was in a mess, and the bodies of Mrs. Xing and her two young sons were floating on the water, covered in blood, shocking. The maids next door were also frightened. Everyone unanimously suspected that the murderer was very likely to be the young master of the Xue family who was released for killing Youling.
When Jia Zhifu heard this, he couldn't help but feel scared in his heart. It's my own fault, it was because I listened to the words of that man in a moment that I let the murderer go, causing such a catastrophe. It's just that Jia Zhifu didn't expect that the truth was far more cruel than it seemed. The truth of the case is far from being something that an outsider can participate in, but an earth-shattering act of "his own family".
It turned out that the young master of the Xue family had indeed killed Youling that day, but the person who said this was a mandarin duck. Just before Mrs. Xing and several children of Governor Jia's Mansion were killed, Mandarin Duck had told them that the young master of the Xue family was going to come to the mansion to commit murder. Not only did she say, but she also implied that she had taken revenge on the young master of the Xue family for his lewdness, so she was killed by him.
But in fact, the mandarin duck is the real murderer! She just wanted to use the notoriety of the young master of the Xue family to blame him for killing Mrs. Xing and the children. When Governor Jia was appeasing the mandarin duck, the mandarin duck pretended to be frightened and cried that he couldn't face the cruel truth. When Jia Zhifu heard her words, he was skeptical.
At this moment, an old servant suddenly appeared and reasoned. It turned out that he had witnessed the whole murder. On that day, Mrs. Xing took her two children to play by the lotus pond, and the mandarin duck took the opportunity to play a black hand on them. It's just because the mandarin duck in order to cover up the scandal of his adultery with his predecessor that he took the risk of killing the master's mother and the little master. She originally wanted to frame the young master of the Xue family, but unexpectedly, the truth was exposed.