A gust of wind blew by, and a piece of yellow leaf pattered down from the treetops, indicating that late autumn was about to pass and early winter was coming.
Xue Ruogu took advantage of his rest day to ride out of Lishui City early in the morning with two healthy servants, and entered Jinling City just before dusk. For a weak man like him, he could ride a fast horse for 140 or 50 miles in one day. Here, all the bones and frames are really going to fall apart.
Shen Yang also sympathized with Xue Ruogu's hard work and specially ordered someone to prepare a soft couch for Xue Ruogu to sit in the pool pavilion.
"Now it seems that Wei Zhen concealed too much truth about Shang Wensheng's assassination case. These are the documentary evidences I obtained after many days of searching in Lishui..." Xue Ruogu put a large stack of documentary evidences on the case and handed it to Shen Yang. in front of.
Shen Yang put a stone monkey paperweight on the stack of documents to prevent them from being blown away by the wind. He still wanted to listen to what Xue Ruogu had to say.
Just for these documentary evidences, Xue Ruogu could send a close confidant to deliver them to him. There was no need to go through all the trouble and rush back to Jinling City in person.
"..." Xue Ruogu swallowed and found that some things were so complicated that it was difficult to say them out loud.
Although Shen Yang initially recommended that he go out to Guangde Mansion but failed, Xue Ruogu had already noticed many doubts about the location of the assassination case. After he went to Lishui, he searched the countryside and luckily found two people who had been recaptured by Shang Zhongjie's troops. The refugee boy who fled to the mountains to hide in Shangjiapu learned the truth about Shang Zhongjie's massacre of the refugees. Based on the rumors that Shang Zhongjie's wife had an affair and that Shang Zhongjie killed his wife, Xue Ruogu found the way to escape from Shang's mansion. , the personal maid of the Wei family who married a commoner, and based on the confessions of Lishui County Chuzuo and the old officials responsible for collecting the corpses, Xue Ruogu has almost figured out the details of the assassination case.
Although there are still some details that have not been clarified, it does not prevent Xue Ruogu from judging that Wei Zhen maliciously concealed these details, and what the intention of the Jingzhao Mansion and the Ministry of Justice was to accept all the verdicts given by Lishui County at that time without any screening.
Some things and some intentions are self-evident.
To put it bluntly, these people want to provoke more aristocratic clan clans to remember their old and new grudges against the Chishan Army and the escaped slaves.
The consequence was that hundreds of people from Zuo Guangde's old army who had stayed in Guangde Mansion as officials were unjustly imprisoned, and hundreds of them died or were maimed in prison.
If the imperial court had not dispatched Chen Jingzhou to Guangde Mansion in time to ease the situation, civil unrest might have started in Guangde Mansion.
"After confirming these, I will also send people to Guangde Mansion to search secretly. I want to have a general understanding of the persecution of the old Zuo Guangde Army after the assassination last year. I originally wanted to have more information when I wrote a letter to impeach the Jingzhao Mansion and the Ministry of Punishment. Documentary evidence, but things seem to be more complicated than I thought before." Xue Ruogu said hesitantly.
Seeing that Xue Ruogu actually had the intention of impeaching the Jingzhao Mansion and the Ministry of Justice behind his back, Shen Yang couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, and asked: "Did you find anything more complicated?"
"When the assassination trend was at its peak, Zuo Guangde's old army not only had hundreds of people unjustly imprisoned while hunting down the assassination suspects, but also more than 3,000 families whose fields and houses were taken away by the old owners, and their livelihoods were once extremely difficult. At that time, if there was a civil unrest in Guangde Mansion, these people would be the pioneers. However, I sent people to Guangde Mansion to search secretly, and found that the livelihood of these former left-Guangde Army troops and their families who had lost their land seemed to be as difficult as imagined, and they even had secret contacts. "There was a gathering of people at Sitian Dun near Taihu Lake," Xue Ruogu said. "I couldn't help but ask the Prime Minister if I could take up a post in Lishui. It turned out that the Prime Minister simply thought that I should go to Lishui to avoid the limelight. No one else has anything to say on this matter?"
Shen Yang's wrinkled face wrinkled up tightly, her eyes stared at the water under the pavilion, and she remained silent for a long time.
"If I go to Lishui and someone rescues Zuo Guangde's old army and his family, it is all done secretly by Xuzhou, but it doesn't matter. However, Xuzhou merchant ships sail to Huaidong, and there are some things that cannot be ignored..." Xue Ruogu still endured it. Continuously reveal the subtext directly.
If Han Qian was planning all this behind the scenes just to redress the grievances of the old Zuo Guangde Army, he would not mind being borrowed by Han Qian as a knife, but the situation in front of him seemed to indicate that Han Qian had more than that, and Xue Ruogu could not be careless. Take all this seriously.
Shen Yang put his hands in front of him, resting his chin on his hands. He sighed for a long time, looked at Xue Ruogu, and asked, "The current situation is difficult and people's livelihood is miserable. Can you pretend that none of these things have happened?"
Xue Ruogu could understand Shen Yang's intention. With His Majesty's suspicion of Xuzhou and the news that Xuzhou and Huaidong were colluding, he would have been extremely angry. If he told all this again, he would add fuel to the fire. , I still don’t know what decision His Majesty will make.
In fact, Da Chu could not cut down the vassal vassalage of Huaidong and Xuzhou at the same time at this time.
Your Majesty's lack of patience will only make the situation within Dachu become dangerous again.
Of course, at the same time, he could no longer impeach Wei Zhen, the Jingzhao Mansion and the Ministry of Punishment to uncover the many hidden details of the assassination case, lest they be used by Han Qian.
"..." Xue Ruogu nodded with difficulty, and then said, "For Wei Zhen to be transferred from Lishui so that I can take up my post, there must be someone behind the scenes, and the Prime Minister must be aware of it."
"I know this in my heart..." Shen Yang nodded and said.
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"When Xuzhou sent people to contact Huaidong, you were not aware of it beforehand, so what do I do with you slaves?" Yang Yuanpu's cold eyes stared at Anxiang, who was kneeling in front of the imperial case, Chen Ruyi As well as two captains in the Jinyun Division who were responsible for intelligence operations in Huaidong and Xuzhou, he tried his best to suppress the anger in his chest and lowered his voice, which made people shudder.
In his plan, after recapturing Chaozhou and Chuzhou, he would have the conditions to suppress Huaidong from many aspects, weaken Huaidong's threat to the court, and weaken his second brother's threat to him. However, he did not expect that he would appear to be more honest at this time. Xuzhou of Xuzhou unexpectedly came together with Huaidong.
It seems that they want to jointly resist the pressure from the court.
Why isn't he angry?
Anji Xiang and Chen Ruyi knelt in the palace to plead guilty, but they were still shocked deep inside.
They were not aware of the collusion between Xuzhou and Huaidong beforehand. It was not that they had not thought of this possibility before. It was because before and after the civil unrest in Sizhou, Xuzhou acted too well-behaved and watertight. How could they imagine that Xuzhou Suddenly and openly colluded with Huaidong and King Xin?
They were so shocked after hearing the news, so how could they have noticed any clues beforehand?
Of course, they can guess why His Majesty is so angry. His Majesty may be more worried about Xuzhou and Huaidong, which may further collude with the Anning Palace rebels and Liang Jun.
They didn't worry about this before, but now Xuzhou and Huaidong are colluding together. Who knows what choices Xuzhou and Huaidong will make under further pressure from the court?
Of course, they were not aware of this beforehand, and Jinyun Division could not escape the responsibility for dereliction of duty.
Yang Yuanpu was angry for a while, then looked at An Xiang, Chen Ruyi and others who were still kneeling in the hall, waved his hands and said: "You guys who remember that it doesn't work, get up. Even if you kneel through this stone slab, what will it do?"
"The humble minister is incompetent." Anji Xiang and Chen Ruyi kowtowed again to apologize, then stood up and stood in front of the imperial case to listen to orders.
"Is it going more smoothly in Chaozhou?" Yang Yuanpu asked.
Anji Xiang and Chen Ruyi looked at each other and knew that Xuzhou and Huaidong were colluding together, so His Majesty was worried that the battle to regain Chaozhou would be repeated.
Although Li Zhigao, who was in charge of the siege in Chaozhou, and Li Pu, who was in charge of logistics and supplies, both had His Majesty's trust and would send people to report the latest war progress to the palace almost every other day, but the Xuzhou merchant ships entered Huaidong trade.
After all, it was not a treasonous act, and the imperial court could not stop it, so His Majesty could not directly mention some hidden worries in his letters to Li Pu and Li Zhigao.
Sometimes, Jinyun Division just wants to play a role in solving His Majesty's unspeakable worries.
"At present, everything we have collected about the situation in Chaozhou is normal. However, there is collusion between Xuzhou and Huaidong. It is because Weichen is incompetent and overlooked. It is impossible to say that Chaozhou will also miss something. Weichen recently went to Chaozhou in person.
One trip." Chen Ruyi said.
"You may as well come and express my condolences to Duke Chang Guo and Marquis Jianning," Yang Yuanpu said.
After regaining Jinling, Li Pu was ennobled and promoted from the Marquis of Xinchang to the Duke of Chang...