novelaction Chapter 418
Chapter 418
Yang Shengzhai received a letter from his grandfather, opened it, and read it carefully. After reading it, he gasped in shock.
That’s it, that’s it!
No wonder my teacher was so vague; it turns out he wanted me to cause a huge uproar in this Jiangnan province.
Yang Shengzhai always disdained the ideas of his own father and two older brothers who were pedantic scholars, but he always had great faith in his grandfather.
Previously, Zhou Chu had asked him to write a letter to ask his grandfather. Yang Shengzhai did not have much of a resistance. As the saying goes, "An elder in the family is a treasure." His grandfather had served as an official in the court for many years and saw many things more clearly than he did. It was always necessary to ask his grandfather's opinion.
He hadn't expected the reply to be like this. Yang Shengzhai looked at Yang Yiqing's reply again, his eyes flashing with excitement.
He was never a person who followed the rules. Now that his teacher had arranged this job for him, it suited his wishes perfectly. Yang Yiqing had made it very clear to him in the letter that after this matter was completed, he would at most go to prison for a period of time. Yang Shengzhai did not care about this at all.
In prison, he would have more time to study the science of things.
As for what his grandfather said about him coming into the Emperor's sight after this matter was completed, Yang Shengzhai didn't care much. Yang Shengzhai only cared about Zhou Chu's opinion of him and his research on the study of natural philosophy; nothing else was very important.
A fourteen-year-old commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard arrived in Suzhou Prefecture. Upon hearing this news, countless people were shocked. Everyone thought of Zhou Chu, the young commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Who else could reach this position at such a young age besides Zhou Chu?
When everyone learned that Yang Shengzhai was the grandson of Yang Yiqing, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and also Zhou Chu's student, they suddenly realized the truth.
No wonder he became a commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard at such a young age. With his status and background, how many people in the entire Ming Dynasty could compare?
Before Yang Shengzhai took office, both Zhou Chu and Chen Zhao gave strict orders to the Jinyiwei of Suzhou Prefecture: to carry out Yang Shengzhai's orders 100% and to simply follow his lead, no matter what he wanted to do.
Therefore, Yang Shengzhai's takeover of the Jinyiwei in Suzhou Prefecture was exceptionally smooth and uneventful, with no tactless Jinyiwei officers expressing any dissatisfaction with him.
Everyone was convinced.
Yang Shengzhai, along with the entire Jinyiwei (Imperial Guards) of Suzhou Prefecture, began to run rampant and tyrannical in Suzhou.
They entered the Yan residence whenever they wanted, and they did so many times, seemingly not taking Yan Song, the top official in Jiangnan Province, seriously at all.
Yan Song seemed to have no way to deal with this young man and could only watch Yang Shengzhai's aggressive behavior, and could only tolerate him at every turn.
When those officials from the Jiangnan faction received this news, they were immediately delighted. How could Yan Song have met his end like this?
However, they were all puzzled. Wasn't Yang Shengzhai supposed to be Zhou Chu's student? Or a commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard appointed by Zhou Chu? Why would he take action against Yan Song?
"You don't understand, do you? This Young Master Yang is, after all, the Grand Secretary's grandson. How could he let Zhou Hengqi manipulate him? Zhou Hengqi probably miscalculated. He probably used Young Master Yang to avoid suspicion."
Faced with the puzzled looks of his colleagues, an official from the Jiangnan faction, who believed he understood everything, spoke eloquently.
The other officials nodded in agreement, for they could find no other reasonable explanation.
However, these officials soon stopped laughing, because the young master Yang they were talking about began to lead the Jinyiwei (Imperial Guards) of Suzhou Prefecture to arrest people one by one according to the list given to him by Yan Song, without any evidence whatsoever.