"Husband, what's going on?" Li Shaer, who was sitting next to Yunxi, immediately took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth and asked.
"It's nothing." Yunxi said. Although he did not hide Li Sha'er's thoughts on this matter, and he would inevitably make it public in the future and could not hide it, but since Li Sha'er himself only asked vaguely to avoid suspicion, he also
I won't take the initiative to say it.
But after seeing the confession, Yunxi was not in the mood to continue eating. He hurriedly finished the rest of the meal, got up and went to the outer study.
Soon he came to the outer study room, where Qian Minglin was waiting and immediately bowed and saluted; Yunxi sat on the chair, waved his hand to let him get up, then picked up the confession he handed over and said to him: "These are all
real?"
"Your Majesty, this is what Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Zhenren used to cast spells and the ministers and others interrogated Wu De and Su Dongli." Qian Minglin said.
Of course Yunxi understood what Qian Minglin meant by saying this, which was that it would not be my responsibility if there were any problems with the confession. He was not very happy but immediately suppressed it and asked again: "Did you ask the two of them one after another about the same problem?"
question, got the same answer?”
"Your Majesty, I did ask them both the same question, and they both gave the same answer." Qian Minglin replied.
"In this case, then this confession is true, but," Yun Xi stopped abruptly before finishing his sentence.
Qian Minglin already understood what he meant. If he was not the one who interrogated him personally and interrogated him many times, he himself would not believe that the country behind the scenes was actually that country.
At this time, Yunxi suddenly asked him to step down. But Qian Minglin knew in his heart: His Majesty is calling his cronies to discuss how to deal with the matter; and he is only a general judge of the sixth grade, even if he is left in Guangzhou City, it will not count.
He was promoted to a high official, but because Li Yincha was possessed by evil spirits and he was always good at investigating cases and was appointed to take charge of two major cases of harvesting and cutting and witchcraft, he was able to meet the emperor often these days.
But now that the case has been clearly investigated, in other words, his role for the emperor has ended here. The days when he used to be frequently received and received direct orders from the emperor are gone forever, and the emperor will not discuss the matter with him to the end.
How to dispose.
However, although he was very clear in his heart, he was still a little depressed. He could only comfort himself by saying: 'After solving two such important cases, even if the credit is divided by others, His Majesty always has clear rewards and punishments, and at least he can be promoted to the first rank.
The official position is not worth the hard work these days.'
Unexpectedly, just when he was about to go out, Yunxi suddenly said to him: "Qian Aiqing, I will keep your contribution in mind this time. I will promote you to at least the second rank to reward your contribution."
"I have only made a small contribution. How can I deserve such a promotion? I ask Your Majesty to take back my life." Although Qian Minglin was very happy, he still knelt down and said.
"What? Are you worried that you will be promoted too quickly and cause criticism? You don't have to worry about that. In the second year of Jianye, I personally promoted Zhang Yanfang from the fifth-grade Shanghai Shipping Department to the third-grade Maritime Affairs Council envoy.
You have been promoted to two ranks, and there is no objection from the ministers; your contribution this time is not small, there will be no criticism." Yunxi said.
What Yunxi just said is indeed what Qian Minglin is worried about. In the officialdom, it is not necessarily a good thing to be promoted to two or four ranks at a time. Except for a few special circumstances, everyone is promoted one rank at a time or even one rank at a time.
Yes, you are the only one who has been promoted to two ranks at once. It is so eye-catching. He is not from Zhan Shifu back then.
However, he has indeed made a great contribution this time. When it comes to major cases related to the emperor, no one should dare to say anything. Besides, since His Majesty has said so, he can no longer shirk it.
Therefore, "I thank your Majesty for your kindness." Qian Minglin knelt down and said.
Yunxi said a few more words to him and asked him to go down.
Then Yunxi called over Song Liang, Yang Ren, and several people from Zhongshu Sheren, Tongshisheren, etc. who came with them.
When all these people arrived, Yunxi did not speak, but handed them several copies of the confession to take a look at.
After receiving the confession, several of them glanced at it and immediately showed signs of surprise. The lowest-ranking people in the city even shouted: "How is this possible!"
Only Yang Ren and Song Liang, who had experienced big scenes for a long time, could still hold on, but after reading the entire confession, Yang Ren had to sigh with emotion: "If it weren't for this confession, I would never believe that this matter actually happened.
The country related to the Timur Khanate, which is beyond our reach, turned out to be the mastermind behind these two major cases."
Yes, the mastermind behind the sheng-cutting case and the witchcraft case, which surprised Yunxi and everyone present, turned out to be the Timur Khanate.
Of course, it is slightly problematic to say that the Timur Khanate was the mastermind behind this, because Timur himself did not know about this.
According to Su Dongli's confession, the details of the matter are as follows. When Zhu Yuanzhang passed away and Yunxi succeeded to the throne, Timur sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty. It was called a court meeting but in fact it was to investigate the situation in the Ming Dynasty.
It happened that that year, the Ming Dynasty established the Shanghai Shipping Department. Manlaha, the envoy sent by Timur, remembered this matter. When he returned to Samarkand, he told Timur about the establishment of the Shanghai Shipping Department.
Mu'er.
Timur himself didn't care about it, it was just a place to do business; but the head of Timur's intelligence agency kept this in mind.
The Ming Dynasty is different from other countries. At this time, the Ming Dynasty has the most complete household registration system in the world. It is not easy to send people to sneak in; the semu people are discriminated against and cannot get much useful information. The few semu people in important positions are also
Having turned against Christianity, the people in charge of the intelligence agency were having a headache how to spy on the situation in the Ming Dynasty other than sending honest envoys, so they turned their attention to the Shanghai Shipping Department, which had just been established at that time.
Now that the Shipping Department has been established, merchants from all over the world must be allowed to come here to do business. Otherwise, it will still be just merchants from the Ming Dynasty doing business and there is still a shitty Shipping Department. And since merchants from all over the world are allowed to come here, give them
Opportunities to do intelligence work.
In the first year of Jianye, several spies from the Timurid Empire were sent to the Shanghai Shipping Department to spy on intelligence in the name of foreign businessmen.
At the end of the second year of Jianye, news came that Yunxi was going to set up a shipping department in Bao'an. Although Bao'an was far away from the capital of Ming Dynasty, the person in charge of intelligence also felt that someone should be arranged there. At this time, Su Dongli was sent to Daming.
, first studied at the Shanghai Shipping Division for two months, and then came to Baoan Shipping Division.
Su Dongli was originally a Sinhalese, so his appearance was not much different from that of the Han people. However, when his father was a Sinhala government at the time, the Sinhalese government implemented discriminatory policies against Tianfang believers. The family migrated to the north of the Delhi Sultanate, and later to the Delhi Sultanate.
After Persia was conquered by Timur, he became a member of the Timur Khanate.
Su Dongli may have been forced to leave Sinhalese because of his faith in his childhood. He is very devout in his faith and very hostile to people who do not believe in Tianfang religion. And because he looks close to Orientals, he was recruited by the intelligence agency to spy on intelligence in the Oriental region. .
After the news came that Yunxi was coming to Guangdong for inspection in September this year, Su Dongli came up with a bold idea: to assassinate Yunxi in Guangdong because it became increasingly obvious that Ming Dynasty and Timur would have to fight.