Jin Shangshu's face was red and his neck was thick, as if he had been fried on the fire, "This, this ......"

Seeing that Jin Shangshu was speechless, Duanmu Rui asked: "Could it be that at that time, Jin Shangshu, you had already begun to plot to let the princess die on the soil of your country, so that you could use this as an excuse to criticize us?" ”

Jin Shangshu knelt down towards the emperor, "No, the prince is just speculating, we are here to kiss, how can we have such thoughts?" In fact, the lord of our country wants the princess to fill the harem of the emperor of your country, so as to serve the emperor, who knows that the princess will fall in love with the prince because she was saved by the prince. ”

The emperor's face was gloomy, and he exhaled coldly, compared to wanting to get rid of Duanmu Rui's thoughts, he naturally took state affairs more seriously, and he said coldly: "Then Jin Shangshu will explain the matter of that grass." ”

"Your Majesty really doesn't know why the horse is shocked, your lord said that it was a broken intestine grass, and your lord thought it was really it, and only echoed it casually, because His Majesty couldn't think of any other reason at the time, and he didn't realize that it was the prince's temptation."

The emperor listened to Jin Shangshu's explanation, glanced at Duanmu Rui coldly, and said: "The imperial brother said that most of the people who quarreled and fought with the princess in the princess's outhouse last night were murderers, if this is indeed the case, who this person is still needs to be verified, I sent Lu Qian of the Black Armor Guard to go back to the house with you to investigate this matter." ”

He glanced at Jin Shangshu and said: "This matter must be investigated, give Jin Shangshu an explanation, and return the innocence of the palace." ”

The emperor can be regarded as hearing that there are indeed many suspicious points in the people of this mission, most of them are engaged in conspiracy, so he is generous but let the people of the Black Armor Guard investigate.

The Black Armor Guard is an institution personally controlled by the emperor, responsible for the supervision, arrest and torture of officials, and Lu Qian is the right commander of the Black Armor Guard, and he is a close confidant of the emperor, so he naturally knows what to do about this matter.

Lu Qian followed Duanmu Rui back to the house, sent someone to inquire about the maid beside the princess, searched the maid's residence, searched the courtyard where the princess lived, and asked the person who specialized in autopsy to re-examine the princess's body.

Duanmu Rui took Lu Qian to the main hall of the hospitality, and the subordinates served snacks and tea, and waited for the reports of his subordinates.

Duanmu Rui suddenly remembered the meeting gift that Princess Shuya gave him on the first day, he hadn't opened it yet, and now she died strangely. He should open it to see what it contains, and let the personal guards go and fetch it for him, and open it in front of Lu Qian.

The delicate box contains a fan, the fan bone and the handle are made of transparent green jadeite, and the fan surface is painted with a very delicate picture of a lady, looking at the appearance of the lady, it is probably the princess herself.

Duanmu Rui took it to Lu Qian, "Lord Lu, this is the first time this king has opened this box, can you see if there is anything strange for this king?" ”

Lu Qian stretched out his hand to take it, opened and closed the fan, back and forth twice, and something fell out of the fan bone.

"There's really something." Duanmu Rui reached out and picked up the thing suspiciously, "A note!" ”

He opened it and looked at it, and there was a small piece of small writing on it.

The prince respects: If this palace dies during your country, the maid who killed me, Hong Yao, will also. If the prince finds out early, please save the life of the palace, and the palace should repay the prince with a grass ring. In the Jiayuguan Palace, I knew that the prince was a hot-blooded person, and the prince would not abandon the palace.

Duanmu Rui watched it twice, pondered for a while, and figured out that the accident in Princess Shuya's carriage in Jiayuguan that day should be the princess testing whether he would come to the rescue.

He thought to himself that this woman is crazy, in that case, for the sake of the relationship between the two countries, he will definitely save people, how can she conclude that she is a warm-hearted person?

Lu Qian also read the note and asked Duanmu Rui: "Does the prince think the words on this are credible?" ”

Duanmu Rui was suddenly asked, "This, this king doesn't know Princess Shuya very well, and he needs to be verified, but this Hong Yao can be used as a key interrogation target." ”

In the evening, the murderer of Shu Ya's death was found out, the murderer was really Hong Yao, the princess's dress was made of wine when she was fighting with Hong Yao, and the venom on the poison needle was also stained on the clothes, so after the princess died, Hong Yao buried the dress in the flowers in the yard, and the clean underwear that the princess wore was put on by Hong Yao when her body was not stiff.

She also found a secret letter written to the lord of Nanyuan from the red Yao room, she reported to the lord of Nanyuan country, Princess Shuya did not obey the arrangement, and her reputation was ruined in Nanyuan country because of water-based poplar flowers, and she still did not change her life when she arrived in the Central Plains, and she wanted to entangle the young prince, she was disloyal to Nanyuan country, and if she did not repent, she would get rid of her, so as not to become a disaster for Nanyuan by attaching herself to others.

In terms of witnesses, the maids said that when Princess Shuya returned from outside last night, Hong Yao sent them all back, leaving her to serve alone.

Duanmu Rui guessed that it should be after Princess Shuya was driven back by him, Hong Yao asked everyone to step back and asked the princess why she went to him again, the princess bumped into her, and said some rebellious words, Hong Yao killed Princess Shuya in a fit of anger, and then wanted to blame the palace, using this incident as an excuse to embarrass the emperor, so that the emperor agreed to some conditions.

That night, he escorted Hong Yao and a kind of maid to the post house where Jin Shangshu was, and the emperor came to personally supervise the matter.

Hong Yao is very cunning, she is not an ordinary maid, she is a deadpool trained by the lord of Nanyuan himself, specially sent to supervise Princess Shuya.

She didn't kill someone she had bitten to death, and the so-called human evidence could not prove that she was the murderer at all, maybe someone had gone to the princess's residence and killed her after she left.

Since no one could see when she returned to her own residence, it could not be concluded from the approximate time of the princess's death that she had killed her.

There is also physical evidence, the note is indeed the princess's handwriting, but the princess is originally a person of bad character, which is known to everyone in Nanyuan, and her words cannot be trusted at all.

And the secret letter found in her house, it was the same, except that if the princess did not change her, she would get rid of her, but this was only a hypothesis, and there was no obvious definition of the extent to which the murder was going to be made, and no one knew what the princess and her quarreled with that night.

Now she is about to find the murder weapon, as long as she finds that the quenched silver needle is from Hong Yao's hand, she can confirm that she is the murderer, but after searching all over the palace, she can't find the murder weapon, so she knows that the person was killed by Hong Yao, but if she doesn't recruit her, she can't be convicted.

Hong Yao is worthy of being a deadpool, Lu Qian's people used all kinds of criminal laws against her, she didn't recruit her, and Hong Yao was from Nanyuan Kingdom, so they couldn't torture her too much, lest Nanyuan Country say that she was tortured to extract a confession.

Unable to convict Hong Yao, Jin Shangshu sent what happened here back to China, and brought his members of the embassy to negotiate with the imperial court, asking the imperial court to hand over the real culprit, otherwise he would have to cede the land and compensate.

The Nanyuan Kingdom has been coveting the rich area from the southern border to the south of the Muluo River for many years, and now it is just taking advantage of this incident to claim this piece of land, and if it is not allowed, it will definitely meet each other.

The Nanyuan Kingdom is now a strong country, and now that things have developed to this point, they are also famous, and they will definitely send troops to attack. The emperor was not confident that he could defeat them, and the ministers of the court and the central government were divided into two factions, the main battle and the main peace, and they argued endlessly above the main hall.

Some people advocate reactivating Su Sui, or they will promote new capable generals to meet the battle, and if they don't believe in the strength of one country, they will not be able to defeat a small country in the south of the abyss.

The Lord and the faction are still the same old-fashioned, thinking that the war will drag down the country and bring disasters to the people, so it is better to accompany some money to buy peace.

"But what Nanyuan Kingdom wants is not a little money, they want the vast land south of the Muluo River." The veteran of the main battle had a hoarse voice, and his voice spread to every corner of the hall.

"Whoever says that he will be given a vast amount of land, this is all negotiable." The Prime Minister of the Lord and the Autumn Prime Minister is still in his prime, and his voice is also very loud.

"Peace talks just won't work, if you don't beat him, he will only go even more too far in the future."

"It's still a problem to fight or not to win, not to mention the long distance to the southern border, and the southern Xinjiang is full of miasma, poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, where can we soldiers stand that kind of environment."

"A soldier's vocation is to fight, do you still have to find a comfortable place, raise fat and fat, but only fight?"

The main battle lord and faction argued endlessly, and the emperor sat on the dragon chair with his eyes half-closed, listening to the noise below, and said for a long time: "Okay, don't fight." ”

Everyone stopped, and the emperor opened his shining eyes, "Aiqing, I know your loyalty to the country and the people, but now there are no generals in the court who can adapt to the climate and environment in the south, and they have just finished fighting with the Xiongnu, the treasury is empty, and a large amount of money and materials will be required as soon as they go out, and I don't know when this fight will last, so I think it is still peace." ”

The ministers below began to whisper again, and some main battle factions came out to persuade the emperor to think deeply.

The emperor waved his hand and said to the officials of Honglu Temple: "Aiqing, discuss the countermeasures, hand over the fold to me for me to see, and then we can negotiate." ”

"Okay, that's it, let's disperse."

The officials of Honglu Temple negotiated with the envoys of Nanyuan Kingdom for nearly a month before the contract was finalized, and they lost 100 li of land, plus tens of thousands of taels of silver, plus tens of thousands of loads of grain, and then Nanyuan withdrew the troops gathered on the border.

In this way, the DPRK and China barely settled down for a while, but after losing the Nanyuan Kingdom, other small surrounding countries were like flies seeing an egg with a seam, and they all felt that there were benefits to be fished, but the Nanyuan Kingdom was definitely useless, and several small countries joined forces to gather troops to attack the border pass.

This time I want to negotiate reparations, and I don't know how much to pay, last time because of peace, compensation for Nanyuan has made the people complain, the emperor has lost the hearts of the people, and he does not dare to easily send money and land in vain, so he hurriedly sent generals to lead troops south to resist the enemy, but it didn't take long for the news of defeat to come repeatedly.

The court was cloudy all day long, and the ministers were helpless, in fact, it was not impossible, but no one dared to say it.

In the end, the veteran who had lived enough at that age, and was not afraid of the emperor's blame, proposed to activate Su Sui, restore his military power, and let him go on the expedition, maybe there was still hope for victory.

As soon as he played, other officials also echoed him, all advocating Qi Sui, the emperor was a little happy in his heart at this time, he did not have a ruthless heart to get rid of Su Sui, but he was still very unhappy when he saw that so many ministers spoke for Su Sui.

Although the war was very urgent, he was not in a hurry At this time, he knew that Su Sui must have heard the news of the border pass emergency at home recently, and the person who went out to inquire in the black armor came back to say that there were court officials who went to Su Mansion to visit Su Sui.

He guessed that someone must be ventilating him and informing him of the current situation of the imperial court, maybe seeing that the imperial court is now pointing at Su Sui again, these snobs have begun to cling to Su Sui again.

Su Sui must be very proud now. He, the emperor, had never fought him, and now he still asked to come to him.

The emperor didn't want Su Sui to be so proud of this, so he rejected the ministers' suggestion, and he planned to cool down the matter for a few days.

Duanmu Rui informed Su Wanyan of the affairs of the court, and Su Wanyan had recently heard that the border war was not going well, and he had been defeated repeatedly, thinking that the emperor would use Su Sui sooner or later, and Su Sui was bound to go on the expedition.