After parting with Chen Xi, Wang Shouren went to meet Zhu Hui. .

Zhu Hui did not want to see Wang Shouren at first, but at this point, Zhu Hui also knew that if he wanted to return to the capital, he had to smooth out his account, otherwise he would not even be able to leave the city.

It is useless to reason with Chen Xi. Chen Xi stayed away from Wang Shouren, the imperial envoy, which determined Chen Xi's attitude of staying out of the matter, otherwise he would not have given up the dominance to Wang Shouren.

In this way, Zhu Hui had to patiently meet a sesame official who was in his eyes.

However, Wang Shouren was an imperial envoy after all, represented the imperial court and was the son of former Hanlin scholar Wang Hua. After being considered a famous minister, it would not make people feel that the price was reduced.

After Zhu Hui met Wang Shouren, he roughly figured out the current situation... The evidence of the shortage of money and food is conclusive, and now it depends on who will be punished.

Zhu Hui did not immediately make the decision to abandon his son, and was about to ask Chen Xi for his opinion and discuss how to deal with it. After all, he still didn't want to bear the risk of offending all the civil and military officials of the three sides by himself, and wanted to use Chen Xi's hands to help him get rid of his crime.

Zhu Hui asked to see Chen Xi twice on the 21st and 23rd day of the first lunar month, but he had not seen him.

Chen Xi kept Zhu Hui out of the house on the grounds of busy official duties. On the 25th day of the first lunar month, Zhu Hui broke into the Governor's Mansion and waited for more than two hours in the main hall of the Yamen, but he still didn't see Chen Xi. He thought that Chen Xi was in the inner house, but in fact, Chen Xi had already led a thousand musket soldiers out of the city to train.

At this time, Chen Xi could not see Zhu Hui. The imperial envoy has been here for almost half a month. If he meets Zhu Hui and then cleans up the officialdom, others will think that it is the joint efforts of the two three-way generals. Although the responsibility is not on Shen Xi, others will still hold a grudge against Chen Xi afterwards.

Chen Xi did this to divert the contradictions.

Zhu Hui, since you are about to leave the Northwest officialdom, you can only do this evil person. I am only responsible for taking out the criminals according to the list designated by the imperial envoy. From beginning to end, I am always a "victim".

Just when Zhu Hui went to the Governor's Office to ask for help but see Chen Xi, Wang Shouren visited Zhu Hui's mansion every day. Zhu Hui was unsure and did not dare to make a decision immediately. So Zhu Hui later refused to see Wang Shouren.

Until the 26th day of the first lunar month, Chen Xi took the initiative to write to Zhu Hui to inquire about the deficit of money and grain in the northwest.

This time, Chen Xi came prepared and directly listed in the letter many places where the imperial court's money and grain allocation in recent years did not match the actual expenditures...

Zhu Hui thought Chen Xi didn't know how to check the accounts, but he didn't know that Chen Xi used the advanced double accounting method to draw all the data into a table. The accounts that seemed to be tight were full of flaws. Chen Xi clarified the deficit in a few days.

Chen Xi listed the carefully selected details of the deficits in the account, and even indicated any link of corruption, and asked Zhu Hui how to solve these deficits.

After seeing the accounts, Zhu Hui was in a state of ease.

"...Mr. Mr. Shen has been running around these days, and he has not seen him have time to check the accounts. He has sent the account book to the inn to Lord Wang, but he has not known where he has the time and energy to check the accounts?"

Zhu Hui trusts his master very much. It can be said that more than half of the accounts are made by the master and the accountant.

Now the master feels very panicked. If this matter is exposed, he will be responsible.

Zhu Hui paced back and forth, muttering to himself: "If I had known this, I would have tried my best to return to Beijing even if I didn't... I underestimated him. Seeing his careless look, I was afraid that all these conspiracies were not created by him? The court suddenly checked the accounts. I was blocked from returning to Kyoto twice. Then the imperial envoy came, and he chose to avoid it. Now the imperial envoy is constantly annoying me, it would be fine if he didn't see me, but now he is putting pressure on me, which is really annoying!"

The master didn't know how to answer Zhu Hui's question.

Because he had long suspected that Chen Xi used some measures in this matter, in order to avoid involvement in the case, Chen Xi himself did not want to offend the civil and military officials of the three sides, but instead pushed the responsibility for the report and expose it to Zhu Hui.

The master said, "Mr. Master, then why should we take the opportunity to leave Yansui and return to the capital earlier? The road is now clear and I haven't heard of the movements of the Tatars for a long time. When will we wait until we don't go back to the capital at this time?"

Zhu Hui said angrily: "If all this was done by Shen Zhihou, do you think he would let me return to Beijing easily? It would be fine if the imperial envoy had not arrived yet. Now he is going to leave at this moment. He is a fool who knows that I am evading responsibility. Let's take a step back, even if I escaped from the city by chance? This move is tantamount to confirming the guilt, so he can take the opportunity to participate in the report..."

"Then...what should I do?" The master didn't know what to do with this matter.

Zhu Hui cursed: "What's the use of raising you? There will be problems with a single account. Now Shen Zhihou has put all the blame on me. I said I didn't know. Wouldn't that mean that I have a big problem in addition to the poor supervision? Now I can only push people out based on the suspicious points he listed... Let these guys die, who made them greedy and improper the law and let Shen Zhihou stare at me?"

The master said with a bitter face: "Master, now Lord Shen doesn't check these people by himself, but letting him do it. It is obvious that he wants to use the master..."

Zhu Hui looked angry: "Shut up, if you don't speak, I won't treat you as a mute. Now I still have the value of being used, so you can be content. If one day I completely lose power, I will become someone else's scapegoat... So, no matter what, I can't have any relationship with corruption!"

When Zhu Hui was scolded, the master dared not say anything anymore. It was indeed the same as Zhu Hui said. Now even if Zhu Hui knew that this was Chen Xi's trap, he would have to be deceived.

If Zhu Hui didn't care about this matter, then it goes without saying that Chen Xi's next step was to hand over all the accounts to Wang Shouren. At that time, what Wang Shouren wanted to investigate was not just the shrimp soldiers and crab generals below, but they must start from Zhu Hui.

After Zhu Hui found that he could not buy Chen Xi and Wang Shouren, he knew that he could only come forward and be a villain.

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On the evening of that day, while referring to the results of Chen Xi's account check, Zhu Hui planned to introduce who to take responsibility to minimize the impact of the matter, while thinking about how to write this memorial to the court.

It is inevitable to apologize for guilt. The guilt of poor supervision seems to be held accountable, and Wang Sousen may find himself by following the clues. So while Zhu Hui was pushing these people out to take the blame, he was also thinking about how to block these people's mouths.

Either threaten the family members of these people, or killing people to silence them, these are all means he needs to consider.

Just when he was in a dilemma, the housekeeper came in and saluted: "Master, someone outside the mansion asked for a visit and said he was from the capital."

Zhu Hui said angrily: "Wang Bo'an, right? Tell him, I won't see you!"

The housekeeper said: "Master, that person said he was sent by Eunuch Liu, the chief minister of the Ministry of War. You are talking about Lord Wang of the Ministry of War. Master, this is his visit. You can read it first."

When Zhu Hui heard that it was someone sent by Liu Jin, he felt a glimmer of hope in his heart. After reading the greetings, he realized that this person was Jiang Liwei, the Jinyiwei guards the comfort of Jiang Liwei. He smiled a little on his face: "Since it was sent by Eunuch Liu, and I will invite people in. I want to hear what Eunuch Liu has to think."

Jiang Liwei came to see Zhu Hui and made great decisions.

He knew that he could not get rid of Chen Xi while being loyal to Zhang's relatives, so he settled down and defected to Liu Jin, and continued to fulfill his wish to frame and kill Chen Xi. Without Liu Jin's approval, he began to regard himself as a member of Liu Jin.

Jiang Liwei was invited to the main hall by Zhu Hui.

When he saw Jiang Liwei, Zhu Hui smiled and asked, "Are you Qianhu, Fushi, the North Town of Jinyiwei?"

Jiang Liwei said: "In the lower part, Jiang Liwei in Putian, is the Nanzhen Fushi... but he is not on duty now and is on duty. I have met the prince."

Zhu Hui nodded, made a gesture of invitation, and asked, "Bigby from Putian? Isn't that a mansion below Fujian? Are you a fellow townsman with Shen Zhihou?"

Hearing Chen Xi's name, Jiang Liwei looked a little unfair and said, "I am the old friend of the current three-sided general system. When we first met, he was just a child."

When Zhu Hui heard this, he couldn't help but cough twice. He raised a lot of warning to Jiang Liwei, who knew Chen Xi, who was very familiar with Chen Xi, and said, "This is also a fate... In which year did you have a Jinshi?"

Jiang Liwei said: "I am in Xia Nai's martial arts rank for the sixth year of Hongzhi."

"Wu Jinshi?"

Zhu Hui felt contempt in his heart, but his face remained silent: "Then should you be a military family?"

"No."

Jiang Liwei said, "The mansion is a scholarly family. However, when he was young, Kong Wu was powerful. His family asked him to learn literature while following martial arts. Wen was not a scholar. Who would have thought that he would pass the imperial examination occasionally and then go to Beijing to get the imperial examination and become a military officer. He would be a military officer and enter the Jinyiwei with the military officer..."

Zhu Hui came up and asked about Jiang Liwei's situation, hoping to know more about Jiang Liwei.

When he learned that Jiang Liwei's family had moved from Putian to Nanzhili during the Chenghua period, he thought that Jiang Liwei and Chen Xi might not have a close relationship. After asking for more questions, he found out from Jiang Liwei that the truth and feeling that Jiang Liwei's attitude towards Chen Xi was not very friendly.

Zhu Hui made an open and honest statement: "You are from Putian, Fujian and are old friends with Shen Zhihou. I'm afraid you have visited him a long time ago when you arrived in Yansui?"

Jiang Liwei stood up and said seriously: "If you say goodbye, I will be ordered to go to the northwest to thoroughly investigate local corruption cases. We must not meet the chief criminals without permission from the court!"

When Zhu Hui heard Jiang Liwei define Chen Xi as "the leader of the criminal", he was stunned for a moment. Unexpectedly, Jiang Liwei's attitude towards Chen Xi was so bad.

He frowned and said, "Aren't you old friends with Shen Zhihou?"

Jiang Liwei sneered: "The old friend is true, but this man is ambition and does not care about his appreciation and love for him at all. After he became famous, he humiliated him in every possible way and even brought him to prison for being punished, and almost died unjustly..."

Zhu Hui began to hear Jiang Liwei betrayal. Although Jiang Liwei had a grudge with Chen Xi and it sounded like a deep hatred, Zhu Hui always felt that Jiang Liwei was making trouble when he heard this.

Zhu Hui thought to himself: "This person said that Shen Zhihou was ungrateful, but he didn't know that he was just a brave warrior. He thought that Shen Zhihou was the top scholar and was born as a master of the emperor. How could he be so scrupulous to you? You really took yourself seriously. Could it be that you felt a grudge when you saw Shen Zhihou's success and wanted to take revenge on Shen Zhihou?"

Then I thought again, "No matter how your attitude towards Shen Zhihou is, if you are willing to stand on my side, I will regard you as someone who can cooperate with me."

After hearing Jiang Liwei's words, Zhu Hui sighed, "I never thought that you and Shen Zhihou had such a marriage. This time you came to ask for a meeting and said that you were from Eunuch Liu, but I don't know if it is true?"

Jiang Liwei said: "Before going down to the northwest, I personally visited Eunuch Liu and asked him for his orders."

The person who had just given gifts but did not meet Liu Jin was said by Jiang Liwei to meet Liu Jin in person, with the purpose of raising his identity and urging Zhu Hui to cooperate with him.

Zhu Hui frowned and said, "Before I left the capital, Eunuch Liu had not returned to the capital. I never thought that in the past or two years, he was in charge of the Chief Lecture Supervisor and called the wind and rain in the court... How did you and Eunuch Liu meet?"

Jiang Liwei was confused and felt that Zhu Hui had doubts about him. He didn't want to answer many questions, but he had to explain carefully, and explained his past relationship with Liu Jin. Even Liu Jin had a lot to do when he was doing business in Quanzhou.

In this way, Zhu Hui believed Jiang Liwei's nonsense, put aside his guard and asked, "Eunuch Liu told you about his fate, but he didn't know what to tell me?"

Jiang Liwei said: "Get rid of Shen Xi!"

One sentence made Zhu Hui stand up in surprise and couldn't get out of the huge shock of the four words for a long time.

Zhu Hui frowned: "What a joke? Liu Jin wants to kill Shen Zhihou? He doesn't think about the current situation in the northwest. Can he push the Ming border to the brink of war for his own selfishness?"

Jiang Liwei stood up and saluted respectfully: "Mr. Master Liu misunderstood. Eunuch Liu wanted to kill Shen Xi because this person was secretly ill-telling. He once killed Eunuch Liu. Moreover, when Shen Xi was an official in Jiangnan, he was corrupt and abused the law, accumulated countless money, and had also raped... He deceived the women of the people and did things that would not tolerate the laws of the court... This son's crimes are too numerous to be written. Eunuch Liu just wanted to use the laws of the court as the criterion to imprison him, rather than seeking his personal revenge."

Zhu Hui didn't believe any of the charges Jiang Liwei convicted Shen Xi.

He thought to himself: "Who is Shen Zhihou? How can I not know? Although this kid is a bit stubborn and likes to be clever, he has not been corrupted by the officialdom, and even corruption may not be necessary. He said that he was accumulating money and traitoring the Wumin Girl, such crimes as robbing the mistress are simply false..."

Zhu Hui said: "You said Shen Zhihou has so many charges, is there any evidence?"

Jiang Liwei said seriously: "I came down to the northwest to find evidence. The officialdom in the three sides was full of money, and it was under his rule that the prince did not notice it?"

Zhu Hui simply wanted to curse people, and thought that I wanted to escape from my sins, but I couldn’t tell lies with my eyes open!

Everyone in the world knows that Shen Xi has only been in the northwest for only one or two months. Now he attributes all the financial deficits in the northwest to Shen Xi, saying that he has emptied the Northwest money granary in the past or two months. Who would believe this kind of nonsense?

Zhu Hui raised his face and said, "The root cause of the deficit in Northwest money and grain has been long-standing, and it is not caused by Shen Zhihou alone."

Even though Zhu Hui knew that this matter had nothing to do with Chen Xi, he still didn't say anything. He just said that this matter was not caused by Chen Xi alone, and wanted to use this to remind Jiang Liwei.

If you want to find the crime, please pass the brain first and don’t let people get loopholes when they hear it.

Jiang Liwei said: "Is the Duke trying to protect the thief? When he was in the southeast, he took the opportunity to accumulate money. After arriving in Huguang, he became even more aggressive. He even secretly colluded with the Tatar National Commander two years ago in the Battle of Tumu Fort and the Battle of the Capital. After the war, he secretly let the Tatar main force go..."

In order to make Zhu Hui believe in him, Jiang Li did everything he could do.

As long as he could snatch the shit basin he could snatch Chen Xi, he would not let go of any of them. Even after he said many things, he would not believe them, not to mention that Zhu Hui did not believe them, even he himself felt that it was unreliable.

Zhu Hui became more and more surprised when he heard it. Finally, he looked at Jiang Liwei with disgust and thought to himself: "Such a shameless person is the only one who has seen in his life. If Shen Zhihou can't get along with such a person, it's like a dog biting a dog. No, it's a person biting a dog..."
To be continued...