"boom!"
At the northwest corner of Bei'an Street, the door of a two-entry house was violently kicked open, and then dozens of wolf-like and tiger-like guards rushed in.
However, there was silence inside the house.
The moment Guo Guanseng entered the house, he frowned deeply and sniffed the night air vigorously. It seemed that there was some smell that he was very familiar with.
"Sir!" A guard in golden clothes who was the first to rush into the house turned around and ran out of the main hall of the house, whispering, "They are all dead!"
"Ouch!"
Guo Guanseng sniffed hard again and swept his cold eyes across the courtyard and walls...
"Take the dog and look around for any traces of blood or footprints."
"yes!"
In the main hall of the house, the ten members of the Zhang family were lying neatly, as if they were fast asleep.
The owner of this family is Zhang Baisheng, the general magistrate in charge of public security and household registration in Yingtian Mansion.
Guo Guanseng's footsteps were very light, as if he was afraid of waking up these sleeping people, and he slowly entered the house.
His eyes swept over the faces of the dead people, and then drifted to the study next door.
A rope hung from the beam, and a body swayed in the wind.
"Sir, the lower rank has been inspected!" Another Jin Yiwei reported in a low voice, "The Zhang family died of poisoning!"
"Did you take it while you were alive, or after you died?" Guo Guanseng looked at the hanging body and asked coldly.
Without thinking, the Jin Yiwei said, "They must have taken it while they were still alive. I looked at their tongue coatings and they were all black!"
"Where is he?" Guo Guanseng murmured at Zhang Baisheng's corpse, "Was he hanged while he was still alive?"
"This subordinate dare not speak nonsense!" The Jin Yiwei said again, "On the surface, there is no trace of Zhang Baisheng taking poison, only the broken Adam's apple, it seems that he was really hanged!"
"Ha!" Guo Guanseng laughed softly, "In other words, can it be inferred that... Zhang Baisheng first poisoned a whole family of children and then hanged himself?"
Jin Yiwei didn't say anything, he didn't dare to say anything.
"Is there another possibility?" Guo Guanseng squinted his eyes, "Someone deliberately created such an illusion?"
"This needs to be tested by selecting capable workers. Those with low-level positions dare not speak nonsense!"
"Tsk, tsk!" Guo Guanseng walked a few steps with his hands behind his back and sneered, "You don't know how to hide something, you are such a waste!" He said, turning around sharply, "Go to the kitchen and have a look!"
~
Fusi, Jinyiweinan Town.
He Guangyi's official office was now unceremoniously occupied by Zhu Yunxi.
"Too reckless!" Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhao Sili standing in front of him and said softly, "Just let the Jin Yiwei and so many officers and soldiers do the arresting. You are so old and your legs and feet are not in good condition. If something happens,
How should I tell the queen?"
"I'm incompetent, I'm sorry for the Emperor's concern!" Zhao Sili leaned over and saluted, "I just felt hot in the head at that time, and coupled with the fire in my heart, I couldn't care about anything!"
"Sit down, sit down and talk to me!" Zhu Yunxi said softly, then looked at Zhao Sili, "Are you hurt?"
"I'm fine!" Zhao Sili said again, "It's just that... the officer who went with me to catch the assassin suffered heavy casualties. Fan Guanghua, the commander of the Military and Horse Division, was seriously injured in order to save my minister!" At this point, he sighed,
"One general was incompetent and exhausted the three armies. In the final analysis, it was the minister's improper actions that led to their deaths at the hands of the enemy!"
"Send the list! I'll give you a good pension later!" Zhu Yunxi said lightly.
In essence, his father-in-law is quite a kind person.
If it were any other Guan Youzi, he wouldn't say this now. It's not that the timing is wrong, but in Guan Youzi's heart, no matter how many people die, it's not worth mentioning.
The most important thing is credit!
Zhao Sili's willingness to not take credit is very rare!
At this moment, Pu Wuyong came in from outside with Guo Guanseng.
"Didn't you catch him?" Zhu Yunxi asked first.
"Back to the emperor, all eleven members of Zhang Baisheng's family are dead!" Guo Guanseng saluted, "It looks like he committed suicide out of fear of crime!"
"Looks like it? Then it doesn't look like it!" Zhu Yunxi sneered, "That's really a magical power, killing people and eradicating traces..." He said, thinking slightly, "Zhang Baisheng? A civil servant, given such a name?"
Guo Guanseng's eyebrows raised slightly, but he stopped talking.
"Say!" His expression could not escape Zhu Yunxi's eyes.
"Zhang Baisheng was originally a military officer! He was a member of a thousand households." Guo Guanseng immediately said, "In the 27th year of Hongwu's reign, he became a civil servant and served as the magistrate of Shangyuan County. In the first year of the present year, he was promoted to the general magistrate of Yingtian Prefecture."
"Ha!" Zhu Yunxi sneered, "The roots are strong enough!"
Although the status of military officers in the Ming Dynasty was slightly higher than that of civilian officials at this time, it was extremely difficult for military officers to change to civilian positions.
And this is not an ordinary civil service. Shangyuan County Magistrate sounds like just a county magistrate, but he is a county magistrate affiliated with the capital, and later he was promoted to the general magistrate of the capital. How can this be a resume that a thousand households can have?
Zhu Yunxi smiled again, "Who recommended it?"
"I don't know about this minister, but..." Guo Guanseng said, paused, and continued, "This Yum Sheng used to be a subordinate of the late Duke Xin Guo..."
Bang!
Zhao Sili shivered and touched the tea bowl on the coffee table next to him.
He is not a smart person, but he is definitely not stupid.
The assassins disguised themselves as dung haulers, and the person who helped these assassins obtain their identities was Duke Xin's former Japanese general.
So the Tang family...?
"The Tang family is the mother clan of the second son of the emperor!" Zhao Sili felt frightened in his heart.
Zhu Yunxi turned his head slightly and asked, "What is the abbot thinking?"
"No..." Zhao Sili quickly shook his head, "I didn't think anything of it!"
"What you are thinking is probably wrong! Don't think nonsense!" Zhu Yunxi's eyes were a bit warning.
"My lord..." In an instant, Zhao Sili was trembling all over.
"You said that the death of Zhang Baisheng's family of eleven seems to be a cover-up." Zhu Yunxi said to Guo Guanseng, "It is clear that there will be no evidence of death! But if you think about it carefully, Zhang Baisheng's identity may also be a source of trouble.
To arouse suspicion?"
Guo Guanseng was silent for a moment and said, "I come from a noble family. Among the Huaixi nobles who founded the country, Duke Xin has never been very fond of exalting old friends as favors. Even the old subordinates who have followed him for a long time are mostly in the frontier army.
Rather than occupying a key position in the capital!"
"Do you think the death of Zhang Baisheng's family occurred before or after the assassin was caught?" Zhu Yunxi asked again.
"It should have been before!" Guo Guanseng said, "I have seen it and the time when I took the poison was before the emperor was assassinated. In other words, before the assassins took action, someone killed Zhang Baisheng's family!"
"This is getting more and more interesting!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "Following the assassin's line, we actually pulled out the nobles of the dynasty, haha!" As he said that, he stood up, "The flowers are gradually charming...
.But it seems so self-defeating?"
"As for where the assassins came from, and who are the people behind the scenes? Ask the assassins, and it will be clear!"
After saying that, Zhu Yunxi stepped out, followed by Guo Guanseng, while Zhao Sili was stunned where he was at a loss.
"Your Majesty, you don't mean the Tang family? I guess they don't have that much courage?"
Zhao Sili thought to himself, "But just now, what did the emperor mean when he looked at me with that scary look?"
At this time, Pu Wuyong came over quietly and said with a smile, "Master Marquis, long live the Lord, I want you to follow me!"
"Oh!" Zhao Sili said hurriedly, "Thank you, father-in-law!"
With that said, he quickly stepped out.
Pu Wuyong followed closely behind, and after a moment of silence he said, "Master Hou, the Za family are not talkative people!"
Zhao Sili paused in his steps.
"But there are some things that Zajia has to make an exception to remind you!" Pu Wuyong said again.
"My father-in-law made it clear, I am all ears!" Facing the eunuch Pu Wuyong, Zhao Sili didn't have the airs of an emperor, his father-in-law, a prince's grandfather, or an empress.
Among the two or three eunuchs in the palace, Mei Liangliang was the most amiable, and because he was the chief eunuch of Kunning Palace, he often treated Zhao Sili like a slave.
The bastard is a person in front of the emperor, a smiling tiger.
This simple and useless thing always gives people a gloomy feeling.
"You're welcome!" Pu Wuyong smiled and whispered, "There are some things you shouldn't worry about too much!" After saying that, he paused and continued, "The princes are still young, and the emperor only has a few of them now.
Prince!"
After saying that, Pu Wuyong shut up and said nothing.
This chapter has been completed!