Chapter 1201 Mature Z-customer!
After Murong Yuliang walked out of the prison, he looked up and saw Sun Xiuquan looking at him with a smile. The two looked at each other and the atmosphere was a little complicated for a while...
At this time, Sun Xiuquan took the initiative to speak:

"Master Murong, I have some excellent Maojian in my room. I wonder if you are interested in having a look?"

Faced with Sun Xiuquan's show of goodwill, Murong Yuliang felt that this guy was extremely hypocritical, but after a little thought, although Murong Yuliang said nothing, he still walked towards the classroom nearby. Seeing this, Sun Xiuquan followed closely behind him, but a hint of pride appeared on his face.

After a cup of tea, Sun Xiuquan tasted the fragrant tea in the classroom. He wanted to say a few meaningless polite words to Murong Yuliang, but seeing that Murong Yuliang didn't even touch the teacup, Sun Xiuquan gave up this idea and went straight to the point:

"Master Murong, now that you have seen Xie Wenjun, you are not worried that I will frame him, right?"

Murong Yuliang's face darkened when he heard this. Today, at the hour of Yin, he was still asleep when he learned from the guards' report that Sun Xiuquan had led people to arrest Xie Wenjun.

After learning the news, Murong Yuliang was shocked. His first reaction was that Sun Xiuquan was going to rebel, and his second reaction was that Sun Xiuquan was framing him!

After all, almost everyone in the Huainan officialdom knew that Xu Zhaojie almost caused Xie Wenjun's family to be destroyed, and even Xie Wenjun himself was tortured in prison by Xu Zhaojie's followers. So how could he be harboring the remnants of the Zhennan Army and planning to assassinate Marshal Ye together with the remnants of the Zhennan Army?

Xie Wenjun was his right-hand man whom he promoted personally. In the struggle between him and Sun Xiuquan, he also stood firmly on his side.

Therefore, Murong Yuliang instinctively believed that after he saw through Sun Xiuquan's conspiracy and decisively dealt with Fang Lin and three others, Sun Xiuquan was desperate and attacked Xie Wenjun in an attempt to frame Xie Wenjun in order to bring him down...
So Murong Yuliang’s first thought was to find Sun Xiuquan and order him to release Xie Wenjun immediately!

Murong Yuliang did the same, but the Censorate ignored his orders. Just when Murong Yuliang was angry and was about to request the garrison to bring the person out of the Censorate's cell.

Sun Xiuquan took the initiative to send someone to invite Murong Yuliang to the Censorate, and then showed a series of witnesses and evidence to Murong Yuliang!
Murong Yuliang originally firmly believed that Sun Xiuquan framed him, but after seeing the evidence and the complete and detailed chain of evidence, his original firm belief began to waver. For this reason, Murong Yuliang also proposed to meet Xie Wenjun!

Sun Xiuquan, who was confident of winning, agreed to this request without any hesitation and asked Murong Yuliang to meet Xie Wenjun accompanied by the officers.
Sun Xiuquan knew that Murong Yuliang was worried that he would make Xie Wenjun commit suicide out of fear of punishment, but now the evidence was irrefutable and it would be better for him if Xie Wenjun was alive than dead!
From the moment Sun Xiuquan took action, Xie Wenjun had gone from being Murong Yuliang's most trusted right-hand man to Murong Yuliang's biggest political burden. Sun Xiuquan could use this to trade for a good price!

Murong Yuliang looked at Sun Xiuquan deeply and asked in a deep voice:
"Did you plan all this?"

After he finished speaking, Murong Yuliang added:
"Including the matter of Fang Lin and the other three?"

Seeing that Murong Yuliang seemed to have realized what was going on, Sun Xiuquan picked up the teacup and took a sip. Then, without hiding anything, he nodded slightly towards Murong Yuliang's gaze...

He had planned today's drama more than a month ago. At that time, he and Murong Yuliang had irreconcilable differences and conflicts over a series of problems arising from the reform, and his personal relationship with Murong Yuliang was also on the verge of breaking down.

It was also at that time that Sun Xiuquan learned that several remnants of the Zhennan Army had kidnapped Xie Wenjun's two children with Xu Kang, and used this and the letter Xie Wenjun had written to Xu Zhaojie as a threat to force Xie Wenjun, the prefect of Shouchun, to hide them in his home in order to avoid being hunted down by the Censorate and the United Coordination Office!

Although Sun Xiuquan was the Huainan Censor, in charge of the entire Huainan's S-law and criminal law work, this news was not captured by the Censorate, but discovered by Sun Xiuquan's nephew Sun Gui. The process of discovery was also very coincidental.

Sun Gui owned a gambling house. He relied on his uncle Sun Xiuquan who was the Censor, and used this relationship to attack the business of other gambling houses. He developed his own gambling house into the largest one in Shouchun and even in the whole Huainan. As the gambling house grew bigger, more customers came, including Liu Wu, the brother of Xie Wenjun's concubine Liu!
Liu Wu was originally a small trader. Although he didn’t make much money from his small business, he could still make a living. But later he got addicted to gambling, and his wife and children left him, and his family went bankrupt. Because of his concubine Liu, Xie Wenjun helped him pay off his gambling debts once...

But later, seeing that Liu Wu still did not repent and lost another two hundred taels of silver in Sun Gui's gambling house, he came to Xie Wenjun to ask for help in paying off his gambling debts.

Seeing that he still did not repent, Xie Wenjun completely gave up on this cheap brother-in-law and ordered the servants in the mansion to beat him out with sticks.

Originally, Sun Gui was somewhat wary of Liu Wu because of his relationship with Xie Wenjun, but when he saw that Xie Wenjun didn't care about Liu Wu, he wanted to capture Liu Wu and throw him into the river to feed the fish.

In order to survive, Liu Wu told Sun Gui the news that his sister, Liu, Xie Wenjun's concubine, had accidentally discovered that several mysterious people had come to their house and had been hiding in the house all day long!
This news immediately attracted Sun Gui's high attention. Because Ye Mingsheng was on a southern tour, Sun Xiuquan also wanted to make some achievements in front of Ye Mingsheng, show his face and increase his presence, so that the current Marshal Ye and the future Emperor Ye would know that there was such a person as Sun Xiuquan in Huainan.

As an inspector, Sun Xiuquan's only achievements were to solve a number of cases and arrest a number of criminals. The whole world knew that Ye Mingsheng and Xu Zhaojie were sworn enemies, and Huainan was Xu Zhaojie's old nest. So Sun Xiuquan's idea was to capture more remnants of the Zhennan Army, and then show his ability and loyalty in front of Ye Mingsheng!

In order to capture the remnants of the Zhennan Army more efficiently, Sun Xiuquan did not rely entirely on the Censorate. His idea was to catch both the black and white hands, so Sun Xiuquan asked his nephew Sun Gui, who ran the largest gambling house in Huainan, to keep an eye on this matter for him and try to provide more clues in this regard... On the one hand, Sun Xiuquan is Sun Gui's uncle, and on the other hand, he is BHS, Sun Gui's biggest backer in running the gambling house. Therefore, Sun Gui is very attentive to Sun Xiuquan's instructions, and he also wants to help Sun Xiuquan show his face in front of Marshal Ye!

Therefore, when Liu Wu said that there were several mysterious people hiding in Xie Wenjun's home who dared not see anyone, although Sun Gui could not be sure that these mysterious people were the remnants of the Zhennan Army, he was still interested in this matter!
After all, Xie Wenjun had already defected to Murong Yuliang at that time, and with Murong Yuliang's help he became the prefect of Shouchun, and was an enemy of his uncle Sun Xiuquan!

Therefore, if it can be confirmed that the mysterious person hidden in Xie Wenjun's home is the remnant of the Zhennan Army, then on the one hand, it can complete the credit of his uncle Sun Xiuquan, and on the other hand, it can also play a role in striking at ZD. This is simply killing two birds with one stone!
So with this idea in mind, Sun Gui let Liu Wu go, and even gave Liu Wu a sum of money, asking him to find out the background of the mysterious man hiding in Xie Wenjun's house!

A few days later, Sun Gui received news from Liu Wu, and had someone describe the appearance of the mysterious man in Xie Wenjun's home. When Sun Gui saw the portrait drawn according to Sun Gui's description, he was surprised to find that the mysterious man hiding in Xie Wenjun's home was most likely Xu Zhaojie's youngest son Xu Kang and several guards around Xu Zhaojie.

Sun Gui immediately informed Sun Xiuquan of the news. The Huainan Anchashi was also very surprised when he heard the news, and even felt a little unbelievable...
But in addition to being surprised, the cunning Sun Xiuquan immediately realized that if the story was true, then this would be a great opportunity to bring down Xie Wenjun and even Murong Yuliang!
For this reason, Sun Xiuquan also asked Sun Gui not to make it public and keep it secret. Then he asked his men to deal with Xie Wenjun's housekeeper, and then further confirmed from the housekeeper that Xie Wenjun was coerced by his children and the letters he had written to Xu Zhaojie, and hid several remnants of the Zhennan Army, including Xu Kang, in his home.
Seeing that the story was true, Sun Xiuquan was ecstatic and started his plan. He wanted to take advantage of this incident to stage a big show when Marshal Ye arrived in Huainan and drive Murong Yuliang out of Huainan.

He deliberately leaked the news that he was targeting Fang Lin and the other two to Murong Yuliang. On the one hand, he wanted to lower Murong Yuliang's vigilance because he could not hide the truth. On the other hand, he also wanted Murong Yuliang to sacrifice his pawn to save his king and take down Fang Lin and the other two.

As long as Murong Yuliang does this, then after he takes down Xie Wenjun, it will be easy for people to wonder whether Fang Lin and the other two are also involved in Xie Wenjun's affairs. If Xie Wenjun committed the crime alone, Murong Yuliang can still argue that he did not know the person well!

But once Fang Lin and the other three also seem to be involved in Xie Wenjun’s affairs, Murong Yuliang who promoted them will no longer have any excuse...
It has to be said that Sun Xiuquan's plan was very successful. Every step was linked to the next, making Murong Yuliang deeply involved!

Now that he had spoken to Murong Yuliang, Sun Xiuquan no longer concealed anything. He looked at Murong Yuliang and said in a deep voice:

"Lord Murong, based on the clues we have obtained so far, the hiding of Xu Kang and other remnants of the Zhennan Army was done by Xie Wenjun alone, and has nothing to do with anyone else!"

As soon as these words came out, Murong Yuliang glanced at Sun Xiuquan and said coldly:

"If you have anything to say, just say it! Don't hesitate!"

Upon hearing this, Sun Xiuquan immediately began to preach very seriously:

"I heard that Lord Murong was not feeling well and needed to leave Huainan to recuperate for a while. Is this true?"

After saying this, although Sun Xiuquan still looked very serious on the surface, he was very proud in his heart. A few days ago, you, Murong Yuliang, broke in front of me and threatened to report to the Marshal, asking me to retire on the grounds of illness. Now, I will use the same method against you and ask you, Murong Yuliang, to leave Huainan on the grounds of illness!

After hearing what Sun Xiuquan said, Murong Yuliang thought of his threats to Sun Xiuquan a few days ago and felt a little ashamed and annoyed, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt a little surprised!
After the incident with Xie Wenjun, Murong Yuliang's position as the governor of Huainan has been completely shaken, and there is a high probability that he will not be able to continue in this position.

Although he was completely unaware of Xie Wenjun's affairs, Sun Xiuquan was the Censor and had both the witnesses and the evidence in his hands. Therefore, Sun Xiuquan could easily add fuel to the fire and exaggerate the evidence to hint to the Marshal that he was involved in the matter. This was not a difficult thing for Sun Xiuquan...
But now Sun Xiuquan wanted to say that he had nothing to do with the Xie Wenjun incident in exchange for letting himself leave Huainan on the pretext of illness to Marshal Ye. In a sense, this actually gave Murong Yuliang a way out, allowing him to leave Huainan in a seemingly decent way!

Sun Xiuquan noticed the change in Murong Yuliang's expression and realized that Murong Yuliang understood his good intentions. He then said seriously:

"Master Murong, although I have had many disagreements with you during this period, I always disagree with you on the matter, not on the person. Public is public, private is private. I, Sun Xiuquan, still respect your abilities and character, Master Murong!"

"As the saying goes, it's better to resolve a feud than to create one. There's nothing serious between us, don't you think?"

Although Sun Xiuquan seemed very magnanimous when he said this, he actually didn't think that way at all. If possible, he also wanted to use this incident to completely destroy Murong Yuliang!
However, Sun Xiuquan knew very well that although the Xie Wenjun incident caused Murong Yuliang to suffer a major setback and made Lord Murong look very embarrassed and embarrassed, it was not enough to completely bring down Murong Yuliang!

After all, Murong Yuliang is a veteran of the Fengwu Army and has deep roots in the Yijing court. His daughter Murong Qingwu is Ye Mingsheng's wife and will most likely become a royal concubine of the new dynasty in the future. So even if Murong Yuliang fails in Huainan, he may make a comeback in the future!

Therefore, it would be very unwise to add fuel to the fire and offend Murong Yuliang completely at this time. As a mature politician, Sun Xiuquan knows that one more friend means more roads, one more enemy means more walls. Therefore, he hopes to ease the relationship between him and Murong Yuliang on the condition of letting Murong Yuliang go.

(End of this chapter)