Song An hesitated for a moment and said, "Young Master Hui, I have already been there, but when I arrived, those four people had already taken poison and died." ”

Wu Zheng suddenly reacted at this time, these four of his mothers are dead soldiers, so it seems that it was really Zhu Yujiao who did it.

But Song An's next words made Wu Zheng quickly change his mind.

Song An said: "When I reviewed the four murderers, one of them revealed that he was a fellow villager with the officer who instructed him to assassinate him, and that he had received a reward before the order was given that day, which was two pieces of silver weighing ten taels. According to his confession, there are words on it that are supervised by the imperial court. ”

Silver nuggets? Wu Zheng frowned.

At that time, almost all the taels of silver in circulation were broken silver, because the price was cheap, and one tael of silver could pay for eighty or ninety percent of the goods.

Therefore, almost more than ten taels of silver can only be used as long as they are used for display and collection, or cut with silver scissors.

Moreover, it is not performed in later film and television dramas, and a fifty-tael ingots are taken out at every turn, and this era really wants to take out a shining ingot, that is, a work of art.

The real ingots may only exist in sacrifices and burials.

In the entire Shaoxing Mansion, ordinary people would not store ten taels of silver at all.

Such silver nuggets are common in only two places, one is the storage of money houses, and the other is the warehouse of the imperial court or government.

And the murderer's confession has the word "government", which can only mean that the silver nugget comes from the government.

There are no other government offices in Shaoxing, and there are no workshops for smelting silver in the counties.

Only the household department of the imperial court has a special yamen.

Wu Zheng asked sharply: "The silver nuggets produced by the imperial court are all numbered, so can the murderer have a confession number?" ”

Song An replied: "That murderer is just an ordinary guard soldier, he has never owned such a large piece of silver, and since he has been staying in the cottage, the silver piece cannot be passed on to the family for use." So, according to his confession, I found two silver nuggets. ”

As he spoke, he took a small package from the soldiers beside him, opened it and handed it to Wu Zheng.

Wu Zheng glanced at it, "Then why don't you go to the household department to investigate the credentials?" ”

Song An said: "I've been there. According to the household department, the whereabouts of this silver nugget are the silver taels supplied to His Royal Highness the Imperial Court. ”

Wu Zheng was depressed in his heart, and turned around, but the suspicion still returned to Zhu Yujiao.

At this time, Song An said: "Young Master, it stands to reason that if His Highness instructed the guards officers to buy murder, why use silver taels with such obvious marks?" If she wasn't afraid of being exposed, why would she be so secretive? ”

Although this is not necessarily true, it is not recognized by Wu Zheng, but it is indeed a doubtful point.

After all, Zhu Yujiao is a gentleman, and she is a minister.

If she really wants to do it, Zhu Yujiao can completely use the way of orders, as long as she wants to, there is no shortage of people in the court who obey her fate.

Why use such filthy assassination methods.

Even if you use stratagem, you can be more official.

But the silver nugget and the testimony and identity of the murderer show that this matter must be from the prison government.

Wu Zheng frowned and asked, "What exactly do you want to say?" ”

Song An said: "I mean, this matter may not have been instructed by His Royal Highness the Prison State. ”

"On the basis?"

"Young master, imagine that this silver nugget and the murderer are indeed from the prison country's mansion. But as a prisoner, does His Royal Highness need to buy a murderer? What is not more appropriate than buying a murderer? ”

Wu Zheng was silent.

"Moreover, the officers who instruct the murderers to kill are all under the general banner, and their money is not enough to have such silver nuggets to reward the soldiers. And this silver nugget comes from the household department of the imperial court, the entire prison state mansion, and there are not many people who can use this silver nugget, although His Royal Highness can also do it, but His Royal Highness will not touch these silver nuggets according to common sense. ”

Wu Zheng interjected and asked, "What do you mean...... The main envoy is not His Highness, it is very likely that he is the person in the prison palace who can use these silver nuggets? ”

Song An nodded in response: "The young master is wise." ”

Wu Zheng listened to Song An's sycophancy, and he should have kicked it away with his temperament, but at this time, Wu Zheng's heart was in turmoil, and he didn't have that thought.

He groaned, and suddenly remembered Uncle Zheng's panic after Zhu Yujiao brushed his sleeves away.

Wu Zheng's heart moved, and he turned his head and said, "Find a way to arrest Uncle Zheng next to His Highness and take his confession." ”

Song An was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Young master, this is a popular person around His Highness, arresting him will cause public anger." ”

Wu Zheng sneered and said: "Everyone wants the life of your young master, do I still have to care about the monarch and ministers?" ”

Song An was silent, then bowed down and responded, "Yes." I sent troops to surround the prison mansion. ”

Wu Zheng shook his hand and said: "You don't need such a big battle, if you do this, won't you cause a fight between the two armies in the village before you catch anyone?" ”

Song An scratched his ears and looked for his cheeks for a while, but he couldn't think of a way.

It's no wonder that the inner prison around His Royal Highness can't be seen on weekdays, and he can't be arrested openly, which is really difficult to do.

Wu Zheng patted Song An's head and reprimanded: "I have nothing to shake my wit on weekdays, but I can't use my brain when something happens?" Go, just say that I want to feast him, and he has to come for my face, as long as he brings him, isn't it up to you to deal with it? ”

Song An is depressed, use your face, then you have to speak, otherwise you will blame it, wouldn't it be my fault again?

However, since Wu Zheng had already spoken, Song Anxin was relieved and responded: "This is the arrangement for me." ”

Watching Song An leave, Wu Zheng felt relieved, although he also had a friendship with Uncle Zheng, but compared to Zhu Yujiao, Uncle Zheng was nothing.

The key is that Wu Zheng really doesn't want to see him turn against Zhu Yujiao, because that will be an eternal pain in Wu Zheng's heart, and once the two turn against each other, it will greatly weaken the strength of the Ming army in Jiangnan.

……。

In the prison mansion, Zhu Yujiao was still sulking.

At this time, she had completely lost her calmness and majesty as a prisoner.

Zhu Yujiao has a reason to be angry, Wu Zheng actually came to accuse him of wanting to harm him?!

God knows, in his heart, how could he have the slightest thought of harming him?

Even in his heart, he kept finding reasons for him to forgive, and the reason why he didn't return to Shaoxing Mansion before.

But today, he actually wronged himself and harmed him violently?

It's really infuriating.

But Zhu Yujiao is not a stupid person, she can think that since Wu Zheng came to accuse herself, she must have evidence in her hand, although she doesn't know why this evidence points to herself, or whether it is perjury, but one thing is certain, that is, Wu Zheng's assassination before, there is another hidden secret.

Zhu Yujiao remembered the situation when Dong Yingdi confessed that day, and now it seems that it may not be him who was the main assassin.

Although she was not interested in overturning the case for Dong Yingdi, Zhu Yujiao also realized that it was unusual.

Could it be that some of them are deliberately creating an incident and provoking a dispute between themselves and Wu Zheng?

Thinking of this, Zhu Yujiao broke out in a cold sweat.

It's horrible.