Compared with the three father and son of the Ye family who happily ate the reunion dinner as a family, Mo Rongzhan's Chinese New Year's Eve was a little unpleasant.

"Empress Mother, why did you suddenly remember to arrange for the people of your mother's family to go to Kyoto?" Mo Rong Zhan did not spend Chinese New Year's Eve with the other concubines in the palace, but accompanied the Empress Dowager with the two brothers with Mo Rong Yi in Cining Palace.

During the banquet, the Queen Mother suddenly mentioned that she wanted to arrange her mother's family in Weicheng to Kyoto, she had not seen her brothers and sisters for many years, and suddenly missed them.

This request made Murong Zhan a little surprised, he remembered that the Queen Mother was not close to her mother's family at all, if it wasn't for the Cen family who sold their daughter into the palace in order to support their son, the Queen Mother probably wouldn't have had a hard time before, but married her beloved.

The Queen Mother said, "Although the mourning family is not close to them, after all, they are blood relatives, and it is not okay for them to suffer in Weicheng." ”

Murong Zhan didn't really want the Cen family to come to Kyoto, as the queen mother's maiden family, naturally she wanted to be a marquis, being a marquis in Weicheng was very different from being a marquis in Kyoto, how the Cen family's tutor was unknown, he was only worried that there would be people who would use them to make trouble in the future.

"Your Majesty, don't you want the people of the Cen family to come to Kyoto?" asked the Queen Mother with a frown and looked at Murong Zhan.

"Mother, that's not what I meant. Murong Zhan said, "If you want to see someone from your mother's family, it is better to let them enter the palace to greet you, and then stay in Kyoto for a longer time." ”

The Queen Mother sighed, "When people are old, they will miss their hometown and family, Your Majesty, you don't understand." ”

"Brother Huang, don't you just let your uncle go to Kyoto, anyway, they don't understand anything, and when the time comes, let them go to the palace more to accompany their mother. Murong Yi said beside him.

Murong Zhan said, "It is not possible to let my uncle and them all go to Weicheng immediately, I will have someone to take them over." ”

The Queen Mother had a smile on her face, "Okay." ”

Returning to Qianqing Palace from Cining Palace, Murong Zhan still didn't understand why the Queen Mother took the Cen family to Kyoto, she didn't want to mention the Cen family before.

Something must have happened!

"Your Majesty, Lord Tang is asking to see you outside the palace. Father-in-law Fu whispered to Mo Rong Zhan.

Mo Rong Zhan's eyes were slightly dark, Tang Zhen came back so soon?

"Let him in. Murong Zhan said in a deep voice.

After a while, Tang Zhen walked in from outside with a solemn face and knelt in front of Murong Zhan, "Your Majesty, the minister has got the booklet." ”

"Is there really that booklet?" Murong Zhan's voice suddenly turned cold, and his eyes became sharper and more compelling.

The minister also found out that Lin Zhanhong, the businessman who colluded with officials and coerced Lin Maoping, did not die in the fire that year, but changed his name and surname and left Jiangnan. Tang Zhen said.

Murong Zhan's face became even more gloomy, "Do you know where Lin Zhanhong is now?"

Regarding the fact that Lin Zhanhong once coerced Lin Maoping, it was Lin Maoping who told Murong Zhan before he died, he asked Tang Zhen to go to Jiangnan this time, in addition to finding this booklet left by Ye Rongquan, there was also to find out the truth about the Lin family's fire that year.

"I only know that Lin Zhanhong fled to Dongqingguo, and the specific name changed to what the surname was, and the minister has not found out. Tang Zhen said.

Murong Zhan looked down at the contents of the booklet, and found that there was no other evidence that could be used except for Ye Rongquan crying about his wrongs.

"Has this booklet been checked?" asked Murong Zhan in a deep voice.

Tang Zhen had actually found out that something was wrong with this booklet, but he would not tear it open and check it until the emperor agreed, "The minister thinks that this booklet is a little strange, and the paper on each page is much thicker than usual. ”

Murong Zhan took the booklet and put it on his hand, turned around and took a sharp dagger on the bookcase, and gently cut a page.

One page turned into two, and there was a thin piece of oiled paper in the middle, on which dense words were written in charcoal ash, and Mo Rongzhan cut the entire pages of the booklet with a calm face, and there were a total of five sheets of oiled paper.

The coherence of the above is the truth of the year.

"Your Majesty?" Tang Zhen saw the above content, and his calm face had completely changed.

"What a Ye Yisong! What an official and thief colluded!" Murong Zhan laughed angrily, this is the evidence that Ye Rongquan wants to stay to avenge himself, this is the reason why he was inexplicably wronged and greedy for ink at the beginning, and was assassinated before the case was even tried.

Tang Zhen looked at the contents of the five pieces of oiled paper, and looked at Murong Zhan in surprise, "Your Majesty, there has always been a problem with the salt tax in Jiangnan at the beginning, but where will such a large sum of silver be hidden?"

"Cao Lei. Murong Zhan's fingers looked at the fourth piece of oiled paper, "Ye Yisong and Cao Lei have already colluded, and the silver that should have been handed over to the treasury must have been hidden somewhere." ”

"Your Majesty, isn't Cao Lei dead?" Tang Zhen frowned, "How can I find out this batch of silver?"

"Cao Jiazhai is dead, but he still has a son. Murong Zhan whispered, "Ye Rongquan knows too much, so he can't survive in Jiangnan." ”

Tang Zhen said, "Is that silver still there?"

Murong Zhan remembered the news from Xue Lin that Bai Ziqi and Shen Yuexuan were going to find Cao Lei's treasure house, and they thought that it was the place where the tax silver was hidden.

"I'm going to go to Dongqingguo in person. Murong Zhan said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty?" Tang Zhen looked at him in shock.

Murong Zhan said, "Cao Lei's son must be in Dongqing Kingdom, Bai Ziqi and Shen Yuexuan are both looking for Cao Lei's treasure house, they may not know anything." ”

Now the only clue is the treasure trove left by Cao Lei, and why Bai Ziqi is desperate to kill Cao Lei, he was also one of the people framed by Ye Yisong at the beginning, maybe he also knew the truth.

Tang Zhen said, "Your Majesty, that's Dongqingguo after all. ”

"I went to Dongqing Kingdom, who knew that I was the emperor of Jinguo?" Murong Zhan said lightly, "That batch of tax silver is too important to Jinguo and cannot fall into the hands of others. ”

"The minister went to Dongqingguo with the emperor. Tang Zhen said immediately.

"No, I still need you to go to Jiangnan again, Ye Yisong can be greedy for such a large amount of tax silver, Jiangnan must have a lot of minions, in the past two years, I have only eradicated his power in Kyoto, Jiangnan has not been able to spare a hand, and now is the opportunity. Murong Zhan said in a deep voice.

Tang Zhen nodded, "The minister understands what to do." ”

Murong Zhan pondered for a moment, "Let Qi Quan come back!"

Qi Quan is also Murong Zhan's confidant, and now he is guarding the territory of Jinguo in the border town, and let him come back to Kyoto in order to suppress some people who are fluctuating, and prevent those people from making small moves behind their backs when Murong Zhan is not in Kyoto.