Chapter 21: A Case Within a Case
Hua Sanniang sent a post, saying that she had personally taken a carriage and came to pick up the General Institute of Literature to go to Sihailou for a banquet.
It was in the evening, when Lu Ning looked at the post, Jiao Cailian and Pan Yingying had just been served and washed by the maidservant, and there was a maidservant girl holding her, coming to ask for peace to the long-lived lord, of course, not far from the pavilion, they changed to a female guard and helped the two of them over.
The maids in the house are all not long in the house, of course, they are all long-term employees who eat and live in the house, and they have a day off every ten days, and they can go home to save their relatives, and none of them have signed a deed of sale.
didn't use Gong'e for confidentiality, if Gong'e was used, then it was inevitable that they would know their identity, in this case, Gong'e in the house was bought or coerced and tortured, etc., and their identities would be exposed.
The Seven Cabinet should know their identities, but if too many people in the capital know, it will be inconvenient after all, and it will be easy to cause unnecessary incidents.
"Sit down, wasn't it enough to worship yesterday?" Lu Ning didn't mean anything else when he spoke, but Pan Yingying's pretty face immediately turned red, and she didn't dare to raise her head.
Lu Ning looked at her and smiled, being supported by the female guard, they were all staggering, and now sitting down, it was extremely unnatural, thinking about her shyness when she was held in her arms last night, it was really pitiful, and now this miserable appearance faintly made people feel a sense of self-satisfaction after a man's conquest.
Pan Yingying caught a glimpse of Lu Ning looking at her and smiling, as if she was looking for a crack in the ground to get into.
Lu Ning smiled and stopped teasing her.
"Before going to the girls' academy, you can all go back to your hometown to have a look, and Xiaohua will arrange someone to escort you." As he spoke, Lu Ning said to the female guard next to him: "Go to the door and tell Hua Sanniang, just say that I am sick and I will not leave the house recently." ”
The female guard agreed.
"Long live the slave, slaves don't need to go back to their hometowns." Jiao Cailian replied categorically.
Pan Yingying also said softly: "Slaves don't need to go back to their hometowns. ”
When the two of them said this, they were a little sad in their hearts, and they both had the same thought, if they hadn't met the Long Live Lord, they didn't know what happened to them now.
Lu Ning nodded: "Then you can rest for a few more days......"
Before the words fell, the outside shouted: "Secret Prison Emergency!" A female guard hurriedly entered, and the red lacquered letterhead she was holding in her hand had the secret prison special express logo, so the female guard outside did not stop her, but hurriedly helped her push open the wooden door of the attic.
When the female guard arrived, she knelt down on one knee and delivered the letterhead to Lu Ning.
Lu Ning was stunned, he was a Khitan, so he wanted to do it first?
I took the letterhead and opened it, but inside were a few pieces of paper full of numbers.
In this Bianjing City, the secret supervisor sent a special urgency, sprinkled a large article, and used a password letter?
The codebook was in Lu Ning's mind, and looking at this letter, Lu Ning's face became more and more solemn.
Jiao Cailian and Pan Yingying were beside them, and they were a little worried in their hearts, not knowing what earth-shattering events had happened.
Finally, Lu Ning put down the paper and made a gesture, and a female guard came up, put away a few pieces of paper, took it to the brazier next to it, and lit a fire to burn it.
Lu Ning slowly picked up the teacup and thought about things intently.
This secret letter was written by Gao Xiaojian himself, saying that there were many things in it that still needed to be verified, but the stakes were so high that they had to be reported.
A while ago, Lu Ning ordered the secret supervisor to visit the details of "Boss Lu" and his wife.
The secret supervisor's investigation found a big thunder.
As expected, Boss Lu and Lu Ping naturally have nothing to do with each other, but he and Lu Ping's ancestral home are both in Xuzhou, Huaibei, and they are barely considered to be fellow villagers, and they have the same surname as Lu Pingyuan.
And the real behind the scenes of Boss Lu is Song Yanwu, from the day he did the raw business, it was Song Yanwu who contributed the capital, but I am afraid that Lu Ping's original surname was also instructed by Song Yanwu, so it was far-fetched to connect, otherwise, how would Boss Lu know where Lu Ping was? What is the original surname? Although this is not a secret, it is not something that the private market can know.
And the unexpected thunder is that Song Yanwu is likely to pass through Liao.
Gao Gong said that the secret agent was in Song Yanwu's mansion, and accidentally discovered the golden mask that only existed in the Liao Kingdom, and even heard Song Yanwu humming a Khitan tune.
It is a Khitan custom to cast a mask with gold, and the patterns on the mask are obviously not from the Central Plains.
Even if his mask was obtained by accident, but the Khitan minor tune was depressed, and there was a faint sense of revenge, if it weren't for this capable agent, he would have been sent to the Khitan land, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to hear what he was humming.
In the house, there should be Khitans, but it is not easy for secret agents to visit.
In addition, Song Yanwu supported the raw dealers, and used Changhelou to provide beautiful maids to many dignitaries and nobles, although these maids may not be spies, but Song Yanwu's move, if it is through Liao, is using Boss Lu to win over the family of the powerful in the court, with the intention of forming a party, and its intention is self-evident.
Of course, all this still needs to be verified.
Gao Gonggong also said that it was just that he didn't know whether to use the secret agents in the Khitan to investigate the matter with all his might.
Lu Ning frowned slightly, speaking of which, in the Khitan land, a lot of fine works have indeed been buried in recent years, but basically for the purpose of leading the way in the future or doing internal applications, the identity of fine works in the Khitan land is very low, and even some of them are pretending to be slaves, as if they were secretly sold by Hu Shang.
Neither bought the Khitan high-level officials, nor did they send them to the Khitan nobles' mansions in Beijing, otherwise, once exposed, it would inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Khitan people, and the Khitan nobles had no contact with the Central Plains, so there would be no safe channels for buying or relocating the fine works.
Therefore, even if there are really important ministers of this dynasty who pass through Liao, it is normal for the secret supervisor not to know, but in the future, Bianjing City will really rely on the secret supervisor to keep an eye on it.
Of course, Song Yanwu is not a heavy minister now.
But his identity is very remarkable, he is the grandson of Song Yao, the envoy of Tiande in the Later Tang Dynasty, the eldest son of Song Tinghao, the envoy of Bishui Pass in the Later Jin Dynasty, the grandson of Li Cunqiao of Zhuangzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, and the son-in-law of Liu Zhiyuan, the ancestor of the Later Han Dynasty.
The prominence of the Song family is not even weaker than that of the Fu family.
When the three families were divided, Song Yanwu was the envoy of the Wusheng Army, but he had always had an ambiguous attitude, and neither fell to Li Chongjin nor Zhao Kuangyin.
At that time, he was in Dengzhou, leading the land of Sanzhou, and far away from Bianjing, entrenched near Xiangzhou, so Li Chongjin and Zhao Kuangyin were courting him in many ways.
Until he entered Bianjing, defeated Zhao Kuangyin, and took advantage of the situation to obtain Li Chongjin's territory, Song Yanwu immediately surrendered.
At that time, he did not treat him badly, and appointed him as the envoy of the Hubei Daying, and added the deputy envoy of the privy council.
Later, he was transferred to the Jiangxi camp to recruit envoys, and it was also the first time that three envoys were transferred.
In fact, at that time, these three tricks were reversed, mainly because of him.
Because the Hubei battalion was adapted by Wu Shengjun, the entire Hubei battalion was mostly his old department.
It's not that he doesn't trust him, it's that he doesn't want to be in this dynasty, and there will be a flood of private soldiers.
But who knew that when he was recruiting envoys in the Jiangxi camp, there was a case of bribery and fraud in the Jiangxi Provincial Military Academy, that is, the soldiers who were selected to enter the Military Academy to learn cultural knowledge and officer talent were admitted by bribery.
The army was corrupt, and it was even more intolerable, and he was furious at the time.
After the incident, the soldiers and generals involved in the case, and the officials were all severely punished, and Song Yanwu, the envoy of the Jiangxi battalion, was removed from his official position and demoted to the common people, and Wang Yanchao, the privy envoy, was also dismissed from office, but he was retained and sent to the Military Academy in Bianjing to be a professor.
Speaking of which, Wang Yanchao was really wronged, and where did he know about the fraud in the local military academy?
However, Song Yanwu, although he dealt with it more seriously, the fraud cases in his army had a lot to do with his previous dynasty's faction and turning a blind eye to many unspoken rules of the previous dynasty.
However, last year, Song Yanwu was newly married, and he named him the Duke of Dongwu County, and his wife Liu was the Lady of Bohai County.
With this, it can be regarded as drawing an end to this matter.
The county duke is the fifth-class title of this dynasty, from the second rank, which is equivalent to the grade when he was appointed as a recruiting envoy, and he is not unkind to him.
It's just the first time that there has been a fraud case in the army, and he naturally wants to make an example, Wang Yanchao is still a professor in the Military Academy Museum.
However, in the eyes of many courtiers in the outside world, it was natural that they took the opportunity to cut off his military power, purge him of influence in the army, and make him live at leisure.
But looking at it now, is Song Yanwu unwilling? Tongliao?
Of course, now the national concept of the country is not strong, and the new dynasty and new learning are being inculcated.
In the past, the concept of barbarianism, except for the Central Plains, was barbarian, and now, in the south of Liao, is using the Central Plains etiquette, for Song Yanwu, in his opinion, Tongliao is actually no different from Zhao Kuangyin, and there will be no additional ideological burden.
Therefore, if he really understands Liao, it is not unusual for him to use the power of Liao to turn the world upside down.
Of course, all this is speculation.
Speaking of which, this Song Yanwu is also extremely prominent in history.
He had many wives and concubines, and many children, and there were only a dozen sons and a dozen daughters on the record.
If he hadn't changed the course of history by himself, his eldest daughter would have married Zhao Kuangyin and became the queen, that is, the Empress of Song who was persecuted by Zhao Guangyi.
The newlywed Liu is the same as in history, and she is also the daughter of the Liu family who has made friends in the world, and in history, she was named Mrs. Juguo.
The ninth daughter and eleventh daughter of Song Yanwu born to Liu.
The ninth daughter was married to the son of Gao Huaide, and the eleventh daughter became a bhikshuni.
I have watched a wild history TV series about Gao Huaide, in which there are Liu and his two daughters, a nonsense Lei drama, the ninth and eleventh daughters are jealous of Gao Huaide's son, and Liu and Gao Huaide once had emotional entanglements, because of family relations, they were not allowed to marry Song Yanwu, who was more than 20 years older than her, in short, it is the kind of thunder drama that requires more thunder and more thunder.
However, the basic relationship between husband and wife and children is correct.
Yes, I still know this historical Mrs. Ju Guo, the current Mrs. Donghai County.
is also because of this TV series, I know that Song Yanwu has more than a dozen daughters, the eldest daughter is the queen, and the rest are almost all married to the nobles of the court.
This kind of family is also my least favorite, Fu Yanqing in front, this one, is even more excessive than Fu Yanqing.
may make Song Yanwu idle, and he is somewhat subconsciously bored with his family, after all, he is not yet forty years old, and it is a punishment to let him retire now, even if he is given a second-grade honorable position.
Having said that, Song Yanwu was born in a noble family, his father and grandfather were both Linggong, his mother was a princess, and his first wife was still a princess, which was in the new dynasty, and he made a lot of friends, and the relationship was intertwined.
Judging from the fraud case in the army, Song Yanwu stayed in the army again, afraid that the bad customs in the army of the previous dynasty would not be eliminated at all, so no matter what, sooner or later, he would be kicked out of the game one day, and it was better to be sooner rather than later.
If he really wants to be through Liao, then don't blame himself for being polite.
Don't blame yourself for handling a case with a lot of heads, all along, in terms of governance, maybe the courtiers seem too magnanimous. But through the different races, he touched his own bottom line.
Speaking of which, it is also ironic, in history, Zhao Guangyi's Northern Expedition failed, and he incarnated the ironic "Sorghum River Car God" in his later life, Song Yanwu was one of the important ministers who were appointed to stabilize Northern Xinjiang.
Now, he is suspected of being in Tongliao?
Therefore, human beings are very complex creatures, and their paths are naturally different depending on their circumstances.