The Prince's Mansion is also located in the northwest of the inner city, a few streets away from Sun's house.

Because this time he investigated the case as a dragon guard, Sun Shaozong also went home to change into a five-bar ink Jiao swallowing cloud robe, so he took Yang Licai and others to track down the prince's 'hanging matter'

However, after arriving at the Prince's Mansion, the first thing he had to do was not to find out the truth, but to meet with Xu Furen, a cabinet scholar - such a monstrous case naturally had to be led by important ministers in the court, and Sun Shaozong was at most an assistant investigator.

In fact, if he is judged solely by his official position, he may not be able to squeeze into the top five in the task force.

Therefore, after Sun Shaozong became famous, he waited outside for half an hour before he could see the face of Xu Ge's old honor.

Belch~

The complexion on this Xu Ge Lao's 'respectful face' seems to be worse than that of Taiwei Qiu, if it weren't for a pair of eyes that are still bright, it would be more appropriate to describe him as a man in his last years and on the verge of dying.

However, it is no wonder that the occurrence of a 'solar eclipse', which is considered a curse, must lead to the resignation of one or two of the emperors.

Originally, there were six people in the cabinet, and this Xu Ge Lao was only one of the alternatives, and he might not be reduced to a backstabber-but but now that the prince has an accident, Xu Ge Lao is the first to bear the brunt, who let him still hold the title of the crown prince and the prince?

It is estimated that the impeachment of him has no way to teach, and the crown prince's virtue is ashamed, has long been piled up on the imperial case of Emperor Guangde.

Compared with a few months ago, when he presided over the Chunqiu Guang to recruit protégés, his high-spirited appearance really made people feel that the sky is unpredictable and the world is impermanent.

Although Xu Ge Lao may fall at any time, Sun Shaozong did not dare to show the slightest disrespect at the moment, and stepped forward and bowed his hand in a proper manner: "Xiaguan Beizhen Fu Si Inspector Qianhu, and Sun Shaozong, who is also in the Shuntian Mansion, has seen Xu Ge Lao. ”

Before the ceremony, Xu Ge Lao had been looking at Sun Shaozong carefully, but after Sun Shaozong stepped forward to greet him, he lowered his gaze again, rubbed the back of his hand, and said gently: "If the old man is not mistaken, Lord Sun is only twenty-two years old now, right?" At the age of twenty-two, he already holds important military and political positions, and it is not easy to break into such a great reputation. ”

"What was the old man doing when he was twenty-two years old? Is it to study by Mr. Qingtian's side, or has he already lived in his father-in-law's house, begging for a meritorious name but can't? ”

"Alas, most of Mr. Tian's subordinates are young people, and the old man barely won the promotion until he was twenty-eight years old."

This old man is babbling bittersweet memories, hasn't he completely accepted his fate?

Slandering in his heart, Sun Shaozong bowed down again and said: "If the elder pavilion is not a sound, it is already a blockbuster, those young people in the past were ambitious, and now which one is not out of reach of you." ”

"Hehe......"

Elder Xu Ge raised his hand and pointed at Sun Shaozong, and said with a smile: "It's really a talkative, no wonder Your Majesty favors you, and even has the heart to transfer you to the prince's side and train you as a future auxiliary minister." ”

Emperor Guangde still has such thoughts?

No wonder he was loyal to the king at the beginning, and asked about training Qiu Yunfei several times - he felt that he was inspecting himself for the emperor, and whether he had the ability to supervise the bear child's progress!

"It's a pity, if I had transferred you to the prince's side earlier, maybe there wouldn't be today's disaster."

Hehe~

This is a nice thing to say, but if he is transferred to the prince's side and fails to avoid the scourge of 'broken roots', I am afraid that the first person to take the blame is Sun Shaozong!

"That's right."

Xu Ge Lao seemed to suddenly think of something, and asked with a frown: "I heard that when you just came back from Qianxiang Country, you had a conflict with Yong Yibo?" ”

At the beginning, because of the assassination of Niu Yongxin, Yongyi Bo Niu Jizong once wanted to put Sun Shaozong to death, but later hit a soft nail in front of the emperor, and he died down and did not move.

But what is Xu Ge Lao for mentioning the Niu family at this time?

Sun Shaozong was suspicious in his heart, so he briefly told what happened at the beginning.

"I see."

After hearing this, Xu Ge first nodded, and then shook his head and said regretfully: "It's a pity, it's a pity!" ”

With a few inconsistency sighs, Sun Shaozong's appetite was successfully aroused, but he suddenly said with a straight face: "Lord Sun is known as 'God Judgment', how to thoroughly investigate this case, there must be no need for the old man to make random noise-come on!" ”

After asking this greeting, a six-rank official in a light blue official robe immediately bowed in from outside to listen to the instructions.

Xu Ge Lao stretched out his hand and pointed at this person, and said: "This person is Liu Luanwei, the governor of Zhan Shifu, and he takes care of all the affairs of the Prince's Mansion on weekdays, so if you have anything to ask, just ask him." ”

It stands to reason that this Zhan Mansion is a yamen dedicated to assisting the prince of the East Palace, and the highest Zhan Shi is the official position of the third grade, and the Qinggui is even above the Shuntian Mansion Yin.

However, because the crown prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty had no real power before ascending the throne, the official position of the Zhan Mansion was generally rewarded to the courtiers as an honorary title, and there was only one person who was really responsible for assisting the prince.

This Liu Luanwei is about thirty years old, as his name suggests, he is a dignified and majestic man, who wants to shake his majesty on weekdays, and he is not under Zhou Mo who is loyal to the palace.

However, now that the prince has been 'assassinated' at home, he has been implicated and reduced to a guilty body, so he is naturally a little less majestic and more flattering.

No, as soon as he came out of that hall, he hunched his waist and said with a smile on his face: "I have heard the name of Lord Sun for a long time, and I can see the true face today, which is really ......."

"Liu Fucheng doesn't have to be polite with me."

Sun Shaozong waved his hand, pulled him to the corner, and lowered his voice: "Don't hide it, I have offended Yong Yibo a lot, and now my heart is also nervous. ”

As he spoke, he fixed his eyes on Liu Luanwei's reaction.

Xu Furen was vague at first, then turned his face and called this Liu Luanwei in, and he didn't mention the investigation case, only said that there was something to ask, although asking Liu Luanwei was - this is obviously something inconvenient to say directly, and he wanted to use Liu Luanwei's mouth to wake himself up.

Therefore, after Sun Shaozong went out, he used his grievances with the Niu family to test Liu Luanwei, and it was no secret that he left and right, even if he made a mistake, it would not hurt.

But I saw that Liu Luanwei was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed a little sympathy.

Seeing this look, Sun Shaozong's heart sank, Liu Luanwei is now guilty, and he can't say that he will lose his official position and be dismissed in a blink of an eye, or even be sent to the army.

But when he heard that he had an old grudge with the Niu family, he actually showed sympathy for himself, doesn't this show that his current situation is actually more dangerous than him?!

For a while, Sun Shaozong didn't care about knocking on the side anymore, and hurriedly said: "Looking at Liu Fucheng's meaning, could it be that the one who will inherit the unification in the future must be the faithful king?" ”

"I didn't say that!"

Liu Luanwei was startled, and he was busy shaking his head like a rattle, but then he thought that he had a slim future anyway, and it was really unnecessary to be cautious, so he lowered his voice and said: "My lord only knows that the faithful king married Yong Yibo's sister, but I'm afraid I don't know that the son of Yishun Wang married Yong Yibo's niece!" ”

"How is this possible?!"

Sun Shaozong's eyes widened suddenly, when he and his eldest brother deduced yesterday, he also felt that if the son of King Yishun could succeed smoothly, it would be the most beneficial situation for the Sun family, how could this be involved with the Niu family in a blink of an eye?

He couldn't help blurting out and questioning: "The prince of Yishun is not married to the daughter of the Zuo Tongzheng Qi family of the General Administration Department, how can it be the niece of Yong Yibo?" ”

"You don't know that."

Liu Luanwei spread his hands: "More than 40 years ago, the previous head of the Qi family followed Old Man Niu on an expedition to Mobei, but because of the injury of the heir, Old Man Niu passed on his grandson, that is, Yong Yibo's half-brother, to the Qi family. ”

After a pause, he said again: "I can't blame you for being lonely and unheard, if it weren't for hearing the elder Ge mention this past before, I would never have thought that this Qi family and the Niu family would have such a relationship." ”

Damn, shit, shit!

Doesn't this mean that no matter whether Emperor Guangde finally chooses the King of Loyalty or the King of Yishun, the Niu family is a situation where they will win and not lose? !

Sun Shaozong couldn't help but feel a frenzy in his heart, but he immediately tried his best to calm down and carefully consider the current predicament.

First of all, Xu Ge Lao Bacheng had already suspected the Niu family, otherwise it was completely unnecessary to tell himself the relationship between the Niu family and King Yishun.

And his purpose in doing this should be to force himself to bite the Niu family to death and 'find out' the 'evidence' that the Niu family was planning the Longgen case behind the scenes......

Wrong!

Even if it is found out that it was the Niu family's doing, for Xu Ge Lao, I am afraid that there will not be much practical benefit, and even once the matter is revealed and the Niu family is not put to death, the Niu family will be summoned to retaliate desperately.

At that time, what awaits Xu Ge Lao is probably not as simple as resigning.

So why did he do such a thankless job?

Could it be ......

This is from the instructions of Emperor Guangde?!

Does Emperor Guangde mean that he really wants to fight to the death with the Niu family, or even with the Queen Mother and the Emperor Taishang, or does he want to pinch some 'unwarranted' handles to force the Emperor Taishang to make concessions?

If it's the former, it's worth it to bite the cow family by yourself, and maybe you can still win a dragon skill.

But if it is the latter, if the two families reach a compromise, I am afraid that this pawn who crossed the river will become an outcast, and if the Niu family becomes angry, Emperor Guangde may not come forward to protect ......

Special mother's!

This battle in the court is really tight, especially these bigwigs, who want to force others to be river pawns, but they are unwilling to speak clearly!

That's it!

The left and right have come to this point, so it's better to simply follow your own ideas and come to a surprise victory!

Even if you fail in the end, you can be regarded as one of the chess players, not a chess piece at the mercy of others!

Thinking like this, Sun Shaozong immediately inquired about Liu Luanwei: "Liu Fucheng, but I don't know if the Li family is okay now?" ”

Liu Luanwei was obviously not very used to this jumping way of speaking, and was stunned for a moment, before hurriedly saying: "Then the Li family was locked up in the backyard, when the prince woke up in the morning, he ordered to kill her to vent his anger, but he was stopped by Xu Gelao." ”

"Then can you take the official to meet her?"

"Yes, yes! Since the adult is one of the hand-picked investigators, he naturally sees whoever he wants! ”

Liu Luanwei said, and led Sun Shaozong all the way to the backyard.

said he was locked up in the backyard, but in fact he was in a secret room surrounded by a rockery in the back garden.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw several eunuchs gathered around a square table, discussing something with a worried brow.

Seeing Liu Luanwei leading Sun Shaozong in, these eunuchs did not mean to get up to greet each other, but scolded with some impatience: "Liu Fucheng, why did you bring people here again, there have been five or six times before and after, right?" ”

It seems that these eunuchs are not the chamberlains of the Prince's Mansion, otherwise they would not have such an attitude towards Liu Luanwei - even if he is guilty, he is also the chief steward of this mansion, and it is not a problem to deal with a few chamberlains on the spot.

Sure enough, in the face of the scolding of those eunuchs, Liu Luanwei stepped forward and said with a smile: "Everyone, this lord is not as good as the previous ones, but the Shuntian Mansion Sun Zhizhong appointed by His Majesty......"

"Huh?!"

Sun Shaozong's name is much easier to use than Liu Luanwei, and the eunuchs got up and looked at him curiously, and said with amazement: "I heard that there is a 'Sun Shenduan' in Shuntianfu, and now a few of us have really caught up, so let's see what kind of 'Shenjuan' method you have." ”

If it were a normal time, Sun Shaozong might have to make a fool of himself with them, but now that it has affected the battle for the emperor's unification, the small boat of the Sun family may capsize at any time, and he is still impatient to talk to a few little eunuchs?

Therefore, he sank his face and shouted unceremoniously: "Bold! This official is asking about the case by order, who are you waiting for? Without the permission of this official, how dare you interfere with this official's investigation of the case?! ”

When those eunuchs saw him with such an attitude, they all had red heads and swollen faces, and they were waiting to argue with Sun Shaozong with their sharp voices.

However, Sun Shaozong didn't wait for them to speak, and said: "This official is now living in Beizhen Fusi Qianhu, if you have any dissatisfaction, you can go to Commander Dai to complain after returning to the palace!" ”

In a word, the little eunuchs suddenly died down.

At this time, they were stationed in the Prince's Mansion to be in charge of guarding the prisoners, they naturally did not have no roots, but if they had roots, could they be compared to the Daming Palace in charge of the palace supervision power?

Hearing that Sun Shaozong moved out of Dai Quan, they looked at each other a few times, and then they had no choice but to walk out with their heads bowed.

That Liu Luanwei is an interesting person, looking at Sun Shaozong's posture, it is obvious that he wants to interrogate the prisoner alone, and without waiting for Sun Shaozong to speak, he hurriedly followed the eunuchs out of the secret room.

When the iron gate disguised as stone slowly closed, Sun Shaozong's gaze fell on the south wall—to be precise, the Li family who was locked on the south wall.

The Li was now being chained to the wall with five chains - presumably to prevent her from committing suicide, and a special layer of cushioning was attached to the wall.

In addition, she also had a delicate mouthpiece on her mouth, which made it impossible for the two rows of silver teeth to close.

However, the gap between Li's teeth is also a little smaller, if this is the style that is usually used by princes, then the caliber of this prince is probably ......

No wonder it was bitten off in one bite!