Updated: 2012-09-12

Chapter 536: Stand out

Everyone at the scene was shocked by the scene in front of him. No one expected that the guard would slap Cao Yongshan heavily in front of everyone. You must know that Cao Yongshan is the leader of the Five City Military and Horses, and he is also a ninth-rank official, who beats the imperial officials in public.

Because the incident happened suddenly, the soldiers from the Five City Military Command came to their senses for a while and hurriedly walked up to support Cao Yongshan, looking at Tan Zong in some horror. What made them frightened was not that the guard hit Cao Yongshan, but that the guard said, "How dare he threaten my elders?" Doesn't this mean that the young man who just spoke was an official, which was too unexpected.

"Rebel, rebel!" Looking at the two bloody teeth in his hand, Cao Yongshan was so angry that he trembled all over. He broke away from the sergeant who was supporting him. He pointed to Tan Zong and said viciously, "Come on, arrest this guy who instructed to beat the imperial court officials."

Several soldiers from the Five City Military Command couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this. They stood there without any intention of taking action. One of them came to Cao Yongshan and whispered in his ear, telling him what Tan Zong might be an official.

"What?" Cao Yongshan's face suddenly showed a look of surprise. He was dizzy in his head by the slap just now. He didn't notice the words of the guard, so he looked at Tan Zong in surprise, wondering if Tan Zong was making a fool of himself.

"I'm not leaving yet, I'm waiting to find a beating, right?" Seeing Cao Yongshan standing there looking at Tan Zong, the previous guard who slapped him came over again.

"I don't know what position this master is, so I can report to the higher authorities when I go back." Seeing this, Cao Yongshan's face couldn't help but feel numb. He was afraid that the guard would take action again, so he quickly bowed to Tan Zong and asked loudly, deciding to find out Tan Zong's background first.

How could Tan Zong take care of a pawn like Cao Yongshan? So he glanced at Niu Wu who was standing aside and gave him a chance to stand out.

"Listen, this is Lord Tan Zongtan, Jiangnan Guerrilla of the Supervision Office." Seeing this, Niu Wu was excited, raised his chin and said proudly to Cao Yongshan.

"Guarantees in the Jiangnan guerrillas in the Supervision Office..." Cao Yongshan murmured to himself after hearing this, and then his face turned pale. He looked at Tan Zong in great horror, and his calves trembled. He didn't mean that he was locked in the imperial village of Jingji by the official family, how could he appear here?

"Tell Zhang Chang that I have something to do with Niu Wu. If he wants to mention Niu Wu, then come here to meet me." Tan Zong stared at Cao Yongshan coldly and said expressionlessly, "If he doesn't come today, then I will visit the Wucheng Military Office tomorrow!"

"Low...Low...Low...Low...Low...Low...I know." Hearing Tan Zong's murderous words, big beads of sweat suddenly oozed out of Cao Yongshan's forehead and he stammered at Tan Zong. He knew what Tan Zong meant by "visiting the door". If the people in the Supervision Office wanted to cause trouble for the officials here in the court, then there was a way.

After learning about Tan Zong's identity, Cao Yongshan dared not stay here again. He led the soldiers under his command and stumbled away. He knew very well that if Zhang Chang was in trouble by the people in the Supervision Office because of this matter, he would be one step ahead of Zhang Chang, and Zhang Chang would definitely take him as a cushion.

"You go to the Supervision Office to find Lord Lin Qingliang and Lord Lin." Seeing Cao Yongshan leave, Tan Zong casually called a guard beside him and whispered a few words at him.

The guard kept nodding, arched his hand at Tan Zong, and quickly walked out of the yard.

"Do you know where that copper head is?" Tan Zong then turned to Niu Wu and asked quietly.

"I know, his cheap brother-in-law finally had a son. Today is the day to hold a full moon banquet for his son. He should help with his brother-in-law." Niu Wu said in a deep voice when he heard this, and felt excited in his heart. It seemed that Tan Zong was about to teach Tongtou a lesson.

"Brother-in-law? This is just right, so you can avoid arresting people twice." Tan Zong couldn't help but sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth. It should be the judge Liu Tong from Jingzhao Mansion. Niu Wu's affairs must have been secretly instructed by Liu Tong. Otherwise, the military and horse officials of the Five City would definitely not target Niu Wu so obviously. Since the judge Liu Tong was looking for death, he would do his best this time.

"Do you know the dirty things that Tongtou and Liu Tong secretly happened?" Tan Zong pondered for a moment and asked Niu Wu.

"We are all doing it on the south road of the city. Who doesn't know who has done the private activities." Niu Wu was sure that Tan Zong really was going to take action, and not only Tongtou, but Liu Tong looked like he was in trouble, so he patted his chest and said with certainty.

"Now you take them to the home of Liu Tongzong and take him and Tongtou to the Supervision Office." Tan Zong looked at the guards beside him and said to Niu Wu in a deep voice.

Although Tan Zong did not say it clearly, Niu Wu knew that Tan Zong asked him to go to the Supervisory Office to report the illegal and illegal affairs of Liu Tongtou. This was to avenge him for being bullied by Tongtou during this period, and to show the outside world that he was Tan Zong's person and gave him a chance to be proud. In this way, no one would dare to make any decisions about him again.

"I heard that the Tongzhi of Jingzhao Prefecture also went today, so I'm afraid we won't let us take people away so easily." Niu Wu knew what Tan Zong meant, hesitated for a moment and said to Tan Zong, "It's better to let the people from the Supervision Office go there, as this would reduce a lot of trouble."

In Niu Wu's opinion, although the guards around Tan Zong looked good, they obviously could not solve the problem by relying on brute force alone. You should know that Tongzhi of Jingzhao Prefecture is a fifth-rank official in Jingzhao Prefecture. How could he watch his subordinates be taken away inexplicably? Maybe there will be a big fight at that time, so it is better to make the people of the Supervision Office safer.

Tan Zong knew Niu Wu's concerns and couldn't help but smile slightly, turned his head and looked at the guard beside him who had slapped Cao Yongshan before. The guard took out a sign from his waist and stretched out his eyes to Niu Wu.

"Big...Big Inner Guard!" Looking at the words on the waist sign, Niu Wu was stunned. He never expected that these guards would be big guards, and he never expected that Tan Zong would actually have big guards beside him. You must know that these big guards are the emperor's personal guards and would not easily be entourages for outsiders.

The front of the guard's waist card looks the same as that of the big inner guard, but the back is a little different. The four small calligraphy "Gyeonggi Imperial Village" are written in the lower right corner, which is distinguished from the big inner guards in the Forbidden City.

With the support of these big inner guards, Niu Wu's concern had long been thrown away. He washed his hands and took the guards to Liu Tong's house with his head held high.

The reason why Tan Zong arrested Liu Tongzong's son's full moon banquet was to provoke him and warn those people with ulterior motives in the capital that Tan Zong was not a tiger with all his teeth, and could still tear the tiger's butts to pieces.

After Niu Wu left, people in the yard continued to kill pigs and restored the previous lively scene. Inspection inspector Zhao took over Niu Wu's work, regardless of the dirt and blood, rolled up his sleeves and scattered the pieces in the pig's belly.

According to Sanqiao's plan, we will distribute wine, food and red envelopes to the beggars in Dongcheng at noon tomorrow. In the afternoon, it is the south city, the day after tomorrow it is the west city and the afternoon it is the north city.

In order to prevent people from taking advantage of troubled waters and re-collecting, Sanqiao asked the beggar leaders in four urban areas of Beijing to count the number of beggars in each urban area, and then distributed according to the head, and the beggar leaders sent someone to supervise on the spot.

After killing a few pigs, it was already noon. Sanqiao had already asked the canteen to prepare lunch. Since there were too many little beggars at home, she specially built a canteen. Whenever she was having a meal, the little beggars would come to the canteen to make a meal with bowls, and then sit around the dining table in the canteen to have a feast.

Although the food in the cafeteria is not as good as the dishes in the restaurant, eating with the little beggars who were taken in by Sanqiao, chattering and noisy, Tan Zong felt the warmth and fun of the big pot rice.

Perhaps, those little beggars are no longer suitable for being called beggars. Under Sanqiao's care, they were wearing brand new clothes, with neat faces, and living a carefree and happy life. Sanqiao specially invited a teacher from the capital to teach those little beggars to read and read, and they could find a better way out when they grow up.

From the words and deeds of the people in the yard, Tan Zong clearly felt that everyone respected Sanqiao very much. If it weren't for Sanqiao, they might still be wandering on the streets and living a hungry and cold life.

In the summer, Sanqiao bought a lot of grapes and made several barrels of wine. This was the craft she learned from a northern Xinjiang person when she was in the world.

Tan Zong tasted it and found that the wine was sweet and mellow and had a full taste. It was indeed rare for a long time. It can be seen that Sanqiao has spent some time on it.

Ergou and some young men took this opportunity to ask Sanqiao for wine with a smile. Since Sanqiao was successfully brewed, they had never tasted it. If it weren't for Tan Zong, they wouldn't know when Sanqiao would be put to it.

In front of Tan Zong, Sanqiao seemed very generous and gave a barrel of wine to Ergou and others, which was also a way for everyone to try it out.

"Mr. Tan, I've been away for several months, so it's been so good recently." Just as Tan Zong and Sanqiao were drinking wine in the hall while chatting and laughing, several people hurriedly walked in. The leader saw Tan Zong and smiled and almost walked in.

The person who spoke was Zhang Chang, the commander-in-chief of the Five Cities. Zhang Chang went out to do business in the morning and was not in the military yamen. It was not until he returned to the yamen that he learned that Cao Yongshan had provoked Tan Zong, so he didn't even have time to eat lunch, so he rushed over with his people.

Zhang Chang had heard about the matter between Tongtou and Niu Wu. He knew that Niu Wu had defected to Tan Zong and knew that Tongtou was the person of Liu Tong. One was Princess Zhaoning's future son-in-law, and the other was his colleague. He did not want to offend him on both sides, so he chose to protect himself and ignored this matter and allowed Judge Xue, who was in the military and horse sect of the Five City Army and Judge Liu Tong, to deal with the matter.

The reason why Zhang Chang watched the fire from the other side of the river was ultimately because he could not see the future direction of Tan Zong's career, so he did not rashly interfere in this matter, so he avoided offending Liu Tong's time, which would be more than worth the loss.

"I have thought about it, but someone doesn't let me do it." Tan Zong sneered when he heard this, put down the wine glass in his hand, and saw all his dissatisfaction.

"Oh? Who is so bold that he dares to make Lord Tan angry!" Zhang Chang's face filled with a smile, and said in surprise, and then walked over with a smile, "Lord Tan, Mr. Zhang hasn't eaten yet, I don't know if he can ask for a glass of wine."

Seeing that Zhang Chang was coming in time and his attitude was very positive, Tan Zong knew that this guy must have not mixed with Niu Wu and Tongtou, so he calmed down and gave a wink at San Qiao beside him. San Qiao immediately pulled Du Min and took the few people at the table to sit on the surrounding dining table.

"Good wine, good wine." Zhang Chang sat down on the seat on the side of Tan Zong, tasted a mouthful of blood-red wine, slapped his mouth a few times, and said to Tan Zong with a smile, "Such wine, Zhang only drank it at a banquet by Lord Jingzhaoyi."

"Mr. Zhang, what's going on in Niu Wu's case?" Tan Zong didn't have time to talk to Zhang Changxu, so he said coldly, "During the New Year, the people from the Five City Military and Masjids came to provoke him. It's just too much to deceive others. Lord Zhang, do you really think that I am an official, that Princess Zhaoning is so easy to bully?"

"Master Tan, you are wronged by Zhang." When Zhang Chang heard this, he glanced at Tan Zong and immediately shouted injustice. "Niu Wu's case was told by Judge Liu Tong of Jingzhao Prefecture, and was handled by Judge Xue of the Military and Ma Si. Zhang didn't know what was going on in the beginning."

"Mr. Zhang, since you know now, what are you going to do next?" Seeing Zhang Chang using Judge Liu Tong as a shield, Tan Zong stared at Zhang Chang with expressionless face for a while until Zhang Chang felt a little nervous, and then he said quietly, "The military officers of the five cities are also Lord Zhang in charge."

"Don't worry, Lord Tan, Zhou will personally inquire about the case. Once you investigate it to the end, you will give Lord Tan an explanation." Zhang Chang knew that Tan Zong was expressing his dissatisfaction with him. Why did he be the leader of the Five City Military and Masjids? He would definitely be blamed for such a thing, so he solemnly made a statement to Tan Zong.

When Tan Zong heard this, he didn't say anything. He picked up the red wine on the table and savored it in small sips, ignoring Zhang Chang. Zhang Chang's words just now were obviously perfunctory and had no sincerity.

"Come here, arrest Judge Xue and throw him into prison. There are many doubts in the Niu Wuyi case. I will try it myself." After Tan Zong didn't say anything, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became a little cold. Zhang Chang had been an official for many years, but how could he know that Tan Zong was expressing his dissatisfaction with him? After pondering for a while, he turned his head and shouted to a follower beside him.

Now that things have come, Zhang Chang has no way out. The reason why Tan Zong is here today means that he is fine and still enjoys the holy family of the official family. Niu Wu’s affairs are not big, but he just asks him to assist in the investigation of the case. However, it is absolutely not small, and it involves Tan Zong and Princess Zhaoning. In order to avoid being implicated and to protect himself, he has no choice but to push Judge Xue out.


Chapter completed!