Chapter 240 Take the initiative

"Old Tian thought I should deal with this matter?" Tang Feng asked in a low voice at Tian Jing. He did not delay after sending the bag and left. He immediately rode a horse to ask Tian Jing. After reading the letter, Tian Jing closed his eyes and said for a while, "Sir, it seems that this Yang Prefect is not someone who can be dealt with at will. I think he also saw that there must be a rift between you and Cui Chengxiu before he dared to write a letter for help."

"I never thought of this." Tang Feng said stunnedly, "When you mean, I don't care about this matter?"

"No, in my opinion, this Yang Bin is intentional or has no way to write a letter. You should still interfere in this matter." Tian Jing had already figured out a little at this time and slowly said after taking a sip of tea.

"What about your reason? Although I also want to take this opportunity to suppress Cui Chengxiu, now I am an eunuch party on the surface. Will doing this make Wei Yan and others suspicious?" Although Tang Feng wanted to intervene in his heart, he still had some concerns.

"Don't worry, sir. If you reach out to care about this matter, only Cui Chengxiu will hold a grudge. Others will not doubt your position. The reason is also very ready-made. When you were the magistrate, you dared to be enemies with Wang Wenyan's brothers and nephews. Now that you have become a senior official in the court, will you still be afraid of him, Cui Chengxiu? Moreover, this is also of great benefit to your reputation in Nanzhili. Now even the people of She County do not agree with you, and people from other places will look down on you even more. But if you stand on the side of the Zhao family in this matter, they will look at you differently." Tian Jing said.

Tang Feng nodded and said, "What Mr. Tian said is that this is a good opportunity to establish my righteous image, but will the eunuch party more doubt me?" Tian Jing smiled and said, "Sir, you actually have no friendship with the eunuch party members. It's just that Wei Zhongxian valued your role in the army and used you. At this time, you are just doing it based on your nature. What's wrong with Wei Zhongxian?

"In addition, I have thought about what happened in the Beijing Central Committee of the past two days, sir, and I know that you and Choi Chengxiu have actually had a conflict. This time he had a holiday with you on the matter of King Xin. It is reasonable for you to make things difficult for him this time. Moreover, if this matter is successful, it will inevitably hit Choi Chengxiu's reputation in the eunuch party and may even reduce his status. This will be very helpful to what you will do in the future.

"Although the adults belong to the same party as him, there is no conflict between him. Since he has become an enemy, why not take action first? Because Wei Zhongxian is here in Beijing, you are not a strong leader, but it is not his opponent to Cui Chengxiu, but it is different here. You can use this matter to hit him hard!"

After hearing this, Tang Feng's eyes flashed with excitement. As Tian Jing said, since he was destined to be unable to get along with Cui Chengxiu, then just take action first. Even if Wei Zhongxian asked, he could not swallow his previous breath, so that others could know that he was not easy to insult him. Thinking of this, Tang Feng immediately slapped the table and said, "Okay, then I will do it according to your wishes, Mr. Tian, ​​and do it once with Cui Chengxiu. But how should we fight him?"

"What sir needs to do most now is to rush to Xuanzhou to support Yang Bin, and then we will determine the situation!" Tian Jing also said with a red face. Over the past year, he has forgotten what he had done in the yamen when he read books and planted flowers here. It was not until today that he found the feeling of being in the county yamen when he was overwhelmed. Moreover, this time the incident was bigger than that before, so how could he not excite him?

Yang Bin just let the two brothers of the Cui family go away and prepared two plans, he heard that Tang Feng was here. He immediately became happy, calmed down his original uneasy heart, and then went out to welcome Tang Feng in. This time, more people came to Xuanzhou than when they came last time. Tang Feng knew that there might be some major conflict in the end, so he brought over a hundred guards who came with him, and of course Tian Jing was also among them.

Seeing that Tang Feng brought so many soldiers to come, Yang Bin felt even more confident. After meeting and greeting each other, he said, "Master Tang, you are indeed a fair person, and the official did not ask for the wrong person." As he said that, he told him again about the trouble he encountered, and then complained: "Master Cui is powerful. I, a small fifth-rank prefect, really dare not fight him, so I didn't know if you could come, let the few people who bumped into my official before I came. However, as the culprit of this case, the official did not dare to let him go easily. I will rely on you to make the decision in the future."

Tang Feng did not express his opinion, but just smiled and said, "After hearing about this, I also felt that what the Cui family did was a bit too much, but I don't know enough about the matter, so I can't draw a conclusion in vain. Let's do this, Lord Yang will take all the case files of this case to me, and what if I have a detailed understanding before making a decision?" Yang Bin only wants Tang Feng to help him now, and of course he will not hide the case files. After hearing his words, he immediately ordered someone to take out all the information from the beginning to the present, so that Tang Feng and the others can read it.

In the inn in Xuanzhou Prefecture, Tang Feng carefully looked at all the files of the case, and then said: "It seems that the Cui family made a mistake first. Killing is a serious crime. Later, he relied on Cui Chengxiu's power to make trouble in the yamen. This is very similar to what Wang Wenhao did back then. However, this Yang prefect is much worse than me. Mr. Tian, ​​where should we start?"

Tian Jing also finished reading the file and said with a smile: "It's very simple, that is, to make this matter bigger and make the prefect Yang have no way out to retreat. Only in this way can he not withdraw when the situation is unfavorable to us. Then the lord ordered him to capture the two Cui brothers back to prison and convict them of sin according to the law."

"Will Prefect Yang dare to do this?" Tang Feng asked with some doubts.

"As long as the matter is broken, the prefect Yang will have to do this in order to protect himself. And now if you support him later, he will naturally lose his worries and will do this even more. Once the Cui family is punished, Cui Chengxiu will definitely intervene. At that time, the adults can use this matter to attack him!" Tian Jing smiled and said.

Seeing that he was so confident, Tang Feng naturally believed it very much, so he let several soldiers brought from Liaodong wear common people's clothes to promote all the details of the case in Xuanzhou Prefecture. Even the Cui family found Cui Chengxiu, of course, there was also the news that the prefect released the Cui brothers out of prison for fear of the Cui family's backing in the court. The news spread very quickly, and within two days, even Yang Bin, who was in the prefect's yamen, knew about it.

After learning that these things were spread to the streets by the people, Yang Bin was panicked. He immediately went to the inn to see Tang Feng and asked him for help. Tang Feng pretended to be surprised after hearing this: "Master Yang, how did this matter spread? Even Lord Cui's involvement in this case is known."

Yang Bin is not a stupid person. He knew that this was what Tang Feng did when he thought about it, but now he had something to ask for, so he could only say something bitterly: "It's not clear that you have made a decision. I wonder if you have made a decision now. Now I'm in a difficult position. Please help me."

Tang Feng was amused, but he said seriously: "I think this is the Cui family that is too much. Killing people to pay for their lives and owing debts is a matter of time. How can the Cui family be exempted? So I think Mr. Yang, what you did before is right. As for the two brothers of the Cui family, they have violated the national law. In my opinion, I cannot spare them easily."

"Sir, what do you mean..." Yang Bin already knew Tang Feng's thoughts in his heart, and at the same time he also understood one thing, that is, Lord Tang wanted to completely make things difficult for Lord Cui, and he turned from a borrower to a knife for him. However, when things came to this point, he couldn't help himself. Yang Bin only wanted to know a definite answer from Tang Feng's mouth.

Tang Feng glanced at Yang Bin and smiled faintly, "Since the people are very dissatisfied with you, you should correct your mistakes and arrest the people who should be severely punished by the national law. Only in this way can you be justified, otherwise I will not be able to help you."

If he stopped at this time, not only would he not be able to get it well in the Cui family, but he would also offend Tang Feng in front of him. Besides, the people were not easy to explain, so Yang Bin had no choice but to continue to do this. So after a long silence, he said: "Sir, I'll give you a lie to take the two Cui brothers who were released from prison back to prison!"

Tang Feng nodded with satisfaction and said, "If you do this, I will have a reason to help you later. As long as we occupy this word of law, the general will be sued to the front of the imperial court, and I will not be afraid!"

Once Yang Bin made up his mind, he was very quick to move. The two Cui brothers who had just been put home for less than two days were thrown into prison again. Then Yang Bin did not delay and immediately cut the case in public in the government office. He understood what Tang Feng thought, so he was convicted of the crime of being extremely serious. Cui Chengguang was sentenced to Qiu Jue for instructing murder and murder, while the two Cui brothers were sentenced to hang for the crime of great rebellion and were also executed after Qiu Jue.

After this judgment, the people were naturally happy, but the Cui family was panicked. Their housekeeper immediately went to Beijing to ask Cui Chengxiu for help, while Tang Feng looked at all this coldly, waiting for Cui Chengxiu's move.
Chapter completed!