In the study, the crown prince Li Shi was working hard to write a book, reviewing and reading the folds, he went out for seven or eight days, piling up a lot of unhandled court affairs, perhaps because of running outside, his skin was slightly dark.

Guo Song stepped forward and bowed, "See His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Li Shipen pointed to an embroidered pier next to him and said with a smile: "Guo Yuanjun will sit for a while, and I will finish the fold in my hand." ”

Guo Song sat down on the side, and a palace maid came in and placed a cup of tea on the small table beside him.

The study was very quiet, filled with a faint sandalwood, only the rustle of Li Shi's writing was heard, Guo Song took a sip of tea, and looked at the prince's study again.

It was his first time coming, and the study was very large, at least two hundred square meters, surrounded by bookshelves against the wall, on which there were books, atlases, porcelain, and various knick-knacks, and in the middle was an ebony and white jade screen, on which landscapes were drawn.

At this time, Li Shi put down his pen and smiled: "I'm sorry, let Guo Yuanjun wait for a long time." ”

Guo Song was just about to get up and salute, Li Shi hurriedly waved his hand, "Just sit like this, let's chat a few words casually." ”

Li Shi said: "We reached an alliance with Tubo last autumn, in fact, it is to join hands to exterminate the Tuyuhun entrenched in Hehuang, these ten years Tuyuhun has attacked Longyou year after year, destroyed production, plundered people and property, and brought huge losses to Longyou, I went to Fengxiang this time, but also to inspect the army, boost morale, and hope to completely exterminate Tuyuhun in two or three years, get rid of Longyou, a big trouble. ”

Speaking of this, Li Shi asked Guo Song again: "What do you think?" ”

Guo Song smiled and said, "His Royal Highness is testing me!" Of course, Weichen also supports the extermination of Tuyuhun and the reconstruction of the Hehuang defense line, but we should not have too many illusions about Tubo, once Tuyuhun is destroyed, we will inevitably face the eastward invasion of Tubo, so the establishment of a strong and powerful army is the most important, even more than the alliance itself. ”

Li Shi nodded, "You're right, the Holy Lord is considering an alliance with Tubo to jointly exterminate Tuyuhun, in fact, it is also to gain time, we have also calculated that after destroying Tuyuhun, Tubo also needs to recuperate, at least they will not send troops to the Tang Dynasty for at least five to ten years, winning this time is enough for us to concentrate on sweeping away the internal feudal towns." ”

Guo Song sighed secretly, how could it be possible to sweep away the division of feudal towns in five to ten years, and the Tang Dynasty was not able to exterminate it, didn't the five dynasties and ten kingdoms evolve from the division of feudal towns?

What's more, there are also the Hui people, who have completed the competition with Tubo and have begun to set their sights on the Tang Dynasty, and the Shatuo army should begin to be active.

He did not say anything, and remained silent.

Li Shi glanced at him, and then asked: "Recently, I saw a letter of impeachment from Yu Shitai, saying that you embezzled 100,000 yuan worth of loot gold, to be honest, I don't believe it, you are not a person who values money, but Yu Shitai swore again, saying that the evidence is conclusive, I am a little confused, I want to hear your own explanation." ”

Guo Song sneered and said, "I don't know what the conclusive evidence of Yu Shitai's swear is?" ”

"They confirmed that the Treasure Pavilion has half of you, don't deny it!"

"Wechen doesn't deny it!"

"Here's the problem, the gold utensils shipped from Toyosu have all been sent to the Treasure Pavilion, and the chief shopkeeper and another proprietor have also signed to admit the matter, what do you say?"

"And then?"

Guo Song asked, "What happened next, what did Yushitai say?" ”

Li Shi shook his head, "The next thing is not mentioned in the report, it just proves that you sent the gold to your shop." ”

Guo Song sighed softly and said: "Your Highness, this is to frame Weichen, they pinched the confession of the treasurer of the Treasure Pavilion from the head to the end, and kept the unfavorable side of Weichen, but the truth was concealed, should Your Highness investigate the crime of bullying the emperor of Yushitai?" ”

"I want the truth, you say it!"

Guo Song restrained the anger in his heart and said: "The matter is not over, I handed over 8,400 taels of gold to the Treasure Pavilion, and the Treasure Pavilion took out 100,000 taels of silver as the price of accepting this batch of gold, and the 100,000 taels of silver were transported back to Fengzhou, and given to the families of the 1,500 soldiers who died defending the city, and each of the fallen soldiers received a pension of 50 taels, and there were about 25,000 taels of silver left, which were to be used to build a ferry and a school, and this matter was over."

Your Royal Highness, 100,000 taels of silver, not a penny fell into the pockets of the lowly officials, why didn't Yu Shitai find out the matter clearly, and he was impatient to frame Wei Chen, who are they ingratiating? ”

Li Shi's face changed several times, and after a while, he finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Do Guo Yuanjun and Chang Xiangguo have a personal grudge?" ”

Guo Song sneered and said: "I didn't know Chang Xiang before, so I shouldn't have any personal grudges, but I may have offended his relatives." ”

"Offending relatives?"

Li Shi was stunned, "Where do you start with this?" ”

"Chang Xiangguo's mother's surname is Zhang, a native of Fengzhou, the Zhang family in Fengzhou is a local hero, and the county lieutenant of Jiuyuan County is the Zhang family, but when he gave land to the displaced people last year, he did something in secret......."

Guo Song told Li Shi in detail what happened last year, and finally said: "Weichen has also given the Zhang family enough face and will no longer pursue this matter, but the premise is that Zhang Wenlong, the county governor, must leave Fengzhou and cannot become the black sheep of Fengzhou, it should be this matter, I offended Chang Xiangguo." ”

A hint of anger flashed in Li Shi's eyes, "The dignified Xiangguo, if he even has to take revenge on such a small matter, he is not qualified to be the Xiangguo again." ”

He immediately said to Guo Song: "I know about this matter, I believe that I will uphold justice for you, and I will never let this kind of thing that frames you succeed!" ”

"Thank you, Your Highness! Does His Highness have anything else to ask Wei Chen? ”

"There's nothing else, the court will definitely commend you for your efforts to defend the land, wait patiently, have a good rest in the past two days, and report on your work in a few days, you have to prepare well."

"Wechen has taken his leave!"

Guo Song saluted and withdrew, and Li Shi took the impeachment of Guo Song and fell into deep thought.

After pondering for a moment, he handed the fold to a eunuch and said, "Give this fold to Chang Xiangguo and let him handle it impartially!" ”

........

Guo Song came out of the Qinzheng Palace, just walked down the steps, but met an official coming, the two took a look, Guo Song vaguely felt that he was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

The official was also stunned for a moment, and walked more than a dozen steps, Guo Song suddenly heard someone behind him shouting to him, "Guo Yuanjun, please stay!" ”

Guo Song turned around, it was the official just now, he hesitated and asked: "In Xia Fengzhou Guo Song, Your Excellency is a little familiar, have we seen it?" ”

The official stepped forward and smiled slightly: "When Zhao Mansion celebrated his birthday, I met Guo Yuanjun once, but Guo Yuanjun should not have seen me." ”

"But I think Your Excellency is a little familiar."

The official laughed, "That's because my daughter looks like me, and I am Xue Tao's father, Xue Xun." ”

Guo Song suddenly realized, he said how familiar, it turned out to be Xue Tao's father.

He hurriedly saluted, "The younger generation is rude, please forgive Uncle Shi!" ”

"Where! It should be that I salute you to express my gratitude, Guo Yuanjun helped Tao'er and solved the urgent needs of our family, our family is full of gratitude to you, when you are free, come to the cold house for a light meal. ”

Xue Xun invited Guo Song with a sincere face.

"This ......."

Guo Song hesitated a little, but still readily agreed, "Yes, it will be arranged by Uncle Shi." ”

Xue Xun was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Then tomorrow!" Tomorrow evening, please Guo Yuanjun to come to the cold house as a guest, and Guo Yuanjun will know about it. ”

"Okay! I will definitely come. ”

"Then we're done."

Xue Xun bowed his hand to Guo Song, and quickly walked into the inner hall, but Guo Song didn't expect that he actually met Xue Tao's father, with his uneven character, he has not been deposed until now, which can be regarded as his luck.

.........

Chang Gon took the recital that the crown prince Li Shi transferred to him, he was really confused, this impeachment memo was not handed to the prince by himself, but directly submitted by the imperial history platform, after the prince looked at it, it should be transferred to the saint, and the saint decided, even if he did not approve, he should also reject it to the imperial history platform, but now he called back to let himself deal with it impartially, what does this mean?

Chang Gon paced back and forth in the official room with his hands in his hands, and after a while, an entourage hurriedly came in to report, "Qi Xiangguo, the humble position has been investigated, early this morning, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did meet Guo Song." ”

Chang Gon gasped, obviously, the prince decided to hand over this memo to himself after talking to Guo Song, could it be that the description of this impeachment memo was wrong?

He had personally reviewed the original draft of the confession before and confirmed that there was no problem, so he asked Chen Lun to submit the impeachment report to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and now he was actually beaten back.

Chang Gon was a little uneasy, and immediately ordered: "Go to the Imperial History Observatory and find Chen Lun, the supervising imperial historian, to see me!" ”

Chen Lun, the superintendent of the imperial history, is a protégé of the Chang family, and is also a henchman of Chang Gon installed in the imperial history platform.

This time it was the Zhang family who provided important clues, and Chang Gon provided the clues to Chen Lun and asked him to find out the matter, but Chen Lun quickly came up with a report.

After a short time, Chen Lun, the superintendent of the imperial history, hurried to Chang Gon's official room, Chang Gon threw the report on the table, and asked with a gloomy face: "What's going on with this report, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince directly returned it to me, and he didn't even have an approval, do you still have something to hide from me?" ”

Chen Lun said for a while: "How can His Royal Highness the Crown Prince know what is wrong?" ”

"Guo Song has entered Beijing, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince met with him this morning, you tell me the truth, is there a problem with this report."

Hearing that Guo Song had entered Beijing, Chen Lun's face turned white all of a sudden, and it took him a long time to say: "Why don't you go and check again?" ”

"Fart!"

Chang Gon was furious, "I have already reported to the prince, and you just told me that I have to check again, you tell me the truth, is there a problem with the confession?" Say it! ”

Chen Lun was forced to be helpless, so he had to lower his head and say: "Actually, there is another confession, which is slightly different from this. ”

"What's the difference?"

"It was Jubaoge who took out 100,000 taels of silver, and the other party transported it back to Fengzhou, I estimate that the silver was still greedy by Guo Song."

Chang Gon was so angry that his eyes turned black for a while, and he threw the report on Chen Lun's face, "You idiot wants to kill me, get out of here, get out!" ”