Lowering my body, I sneaked under the window of Jia Chun's bedroom, put my ear on the wall and listened, only heard Jia Chun's breathing, and did not hear the voices of others.

There was a tall screen erected in front of Jia Chun's bed, and there was a white pearl curtain behind the screen.

After lifting the veil, I finally saw Jia Chun's bed curtain.

What the hell is this Jia Chun doing, making so many tricks in one bedroom?

"If you don't come out yet, do you have to invite the prime minister in person?" I took my hands and snorted coldly.

There was a movement from behind the curtain of the bed, and after a while, a small figure wrapped in a blanket rolled out from behind the curtain.

"Oops!" With a painful cry, Jia Xin touched his head pitifully and looked at me.

"Is that you?" I was both surprised and expected.

"Brother Shen, good evening." Jia Xin got up from the ground embarrassedly, and wrapped the blanket on his body a lot tighter by the way.

"What, does Xin'er like to sleep in her father's room?" I turned and brushed the beaded curtain open and walked out of the screen.

When Jia Xin saw me leaving, he immediately followed, "My father is busy with official business, and I haven't gone back to the room to rest at this time, I think that in ancient times, filial sons would lie on the ice for their parents and ask for carp, and they would entertain their relatives in colorful clothes. ”

"At a young age, you are very sleek, no wonder Jia Chun will rest assured that you are here alone." I snorted coldly, lifted my clothes and sat down, "Go and invite your father to come, just say that Shen Xiang has arrived, come and greet him." ”

Jia Xin's eyes rolled, knowing that he shouldn't talk more, so he ran out of the room wrapped in a blanket.

I was just about to take a break and take a sip of tea, when Jia Xin ran back again, but this time he was dressed neatly.

"My father said that he is busy with government affairs and can't spare time to see you, please go back first," Jia Xin took a breath and conveyed Jia Chun's words to me.

Is it so straightforward? This was not what I expected.

I motioned to Jia Xin to pour water for me with my eyes, and I took a fold from my sleeve and handed it to Jia Xin.

"Go to your daddy."

Jia Xin poured good water, closed the fold and hurriedly ran out.

This time, Jia Xin didn't come back immediately, but entered the house with a figure after a while.

"The lower official meets the Prime Minister." Jia Xin bowed to me, "My lord came late at night, and I hope my lord will forgive me." ”

I sneered, and just got off the teacup, "How dare you bother Lord Jia to welcome his true appearance?" Lord Jia is an important minister in the court, and he is also an elder senior, and his official authority is very great, and it is really difficult to meet Lord Jia in this regard. ”

Jia Chun was not afraid of my harsh words, on the one hand, he was indeed an important minister in the court and had a wide range of contacts, and I was just a junior prime minister who had just been in office for less than a year, I just wanted to attack him, and I had to weigh how many catties and taels I had; On the other hand, he also knows that I didn't come to him today to find fault with him.

However, he still has to say enough to say what should be said on the face, after all, the dog will jump off the wall when he is in a hurry.

"Lord Shen Xiang laughed, Xia Guan is a contemptuous and stubborn man, how can he be presumptuous in front of adults, but the adults come late at night without telling him, Xia Guan will inevitably have to take precautions, and some chicken and dog thieves in the province take advantage of this troubled water to fish and steal into the mansion." Jia Chun said unhurriedly.

"What do you mean by that?" I frowned and snorted: "Could it be that the true appearance is those roosters and dog thieves?" ”

"The lower officials don't dare to criticize themselves." Jia Chun said: "It's just that I still ask the adults to forgive me and take back this impeachment note." As he spoke, he took out the piece of music that Jia Xin gave him and put it next to my teacup.

When Jia Xin heard that what he gave his father was actually an impeachment of him, he couldn't help but raise his head and look at me in admiration.

This kid!

I thought I was a bit of a, so I hurriedly cleared my throat,

"Governor Jia." I put on a cold face and smiled very kindly, "Although you and I have never met before, but Benxiang has heard a lot of rumors about you, and I respect you very much, plus your father-in-law happens to be Benxiang's mentor, so we should have more contacts with each other to enhance our relationship." ”

Jia Chun didn't care much about my change of face, he just said in a normal mood, "Adults raise love." ”

The words of greeting have been almost said, and it's time to get down to business.

"Since we have a layer of affection, some words will be said directly." I stretched out my hand to signal him to sit down, and made an exception for Jia Xin to stay, "I once told Master Jia that I came to inspect the people in Jiangnan, but the current situation is ...... It really makes the appearance very confused, I don't know how Lord Jia should solve the confusion to the appearance? ”

Jia Chun's expression seemed to be extremely puzzled, and he said strangely, "Jiangnan has always been calm, there are no bandits, and there are no ruffians to bully neighbors, what puzzles adults is ......" Qishu.com

Or do you have scruples? He is a cautious person.

I took out the gold medal order arrow and secret decree given by the emperor, and said with a smile on my face, "The person who can threaten Lord Jia, it's time to talk about it now, right?" ”

Jia Chun took the token and the secret decree, and read it carefully before he was relieved.

"Don't blame me, my lord, it's really that the lower officials have become frightened birds, so I have to be cautious."

I nodded in understanding,

It is said that this Jia Chun is worthy of a generation of talents, and he is so strictly guarded and controlled by that force that he can even report to the emperor.

However, this has exempted him from a lot of responsibility, and after the Jiangnan case is over, he must still be able to sit firmly in the position of governor of Jiangnan.

In fact, I can guess this matter, and I only thought it out on the way here, after all, according to Gu Yuancheng and my guess, only Jia Chun in Jiangnan has the ability to let the emperor know the strangeness of Jiangnan.

This Jia Chun is really a close confidant of the emperor, no wonder he has been able to dominate the court for decades.

I want to come to Jiangnan for Cen Xi, in order to win him over, and by the way, when Jiangnan is changing blood, he will install his own forces. Just don't you know that he has made a deal with Jia Chun?

"How much do adults already know about Jiangnan?" Jia Chun asked, "Please also say it clearly, and the lower officials can make additions." ”

I thought for a while and said, "I don't know a lot about the prime minister, I only know that there are a lot of new taxes in the Jiangnan area, and the people who are harmed are miserable, and the reason for this seems to be related to the assassination of the masked man of the prime minister, and the rest is not very clear." ”

"Your Excellency was assassinated by a masked man?" Jia Chun was surprised.

I think it's funny, such a big movement, and it's under his nose, how could he not know? But he wanted to pretend to be stupid and shirk responsibility, so she sold this favor to him.

"yes." I said, "It's not just what it is. and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who came with him. ”

"Really? These thieves are too daring!" Jia Chun said angrily.

"Assassinating the crown prince and exterminating the clan, we must find out these people and give an explanation to the emperor and His Royal Highness." I followed his words.

Jia Chun didn't dare to object, "What the Prime Minister said is true." ”

"Lord Jia's loyalty, the sun and the moon can be seen at that time." I smiled and said, "Now I have to rely on Lord Jia's help." ”

"The lower officials will serve the country and do their best for the emperor." Jia Chun said, "The incident in Jiangnan actually started as early as when you went to Tuzhou City to quell the turmoil, Your Excellency. ”

"It's a shame to say that although Xia Guan is the governor of Jiangnan and the head of Jiangnan officials, when were the officials below bought by that force, Xia Guan didn't know, Xia Guan knew that things were bad in Jiangnan or when those people were looking for Xia Guan."

"At that time, Xia Guan was about to go out to visit a friend, but he didn't want anyone to report government affairs to Xia Guan in the name of the subordinate official, so Xia Guan received that person, but he didn't expect ......."

"That person threatened the lower officials with the lives of all the Jiangnan officials and their families, and asked the lower officials to post announcements to collect the people's finances. Xia Guan would rather die than obey, and would rather all the officials in Jiangnan die, and would never do such a thing that will leave a reputation in history. ”

"When the man saw that this could not be done, he asked me to do something else."

"Grounded in Jiangnan, ignoring everything that happened in Jiangnan?" I guessed.

Jia Chun was a little surprised when he saw that I guessed, "Yes, that's right." They demanded that the lower officials never take half a step out of the south of the Yangtze River, nor were they allowed to report to the capital, and they could not stop the private increase in taxes in Jiangnan, but the lower officials could not stop it. ”

"There are thousands of officials in Jiangnan, and their families are even more thousand, and the officials dare not take risks, so they have to wait for the opportunity."

"Master Jia." I interrupted Jia Chun's words, "I am very curious, you also know that there are more than 1,000 officials in Jiangnan, no matter how powerful this gang is, how can it kill so many people in an instant?" Besides, there should be more than 100,000 troops hoarded in Jiangnan, could it be that these people are all eating dry food? ”

Jia Chun's face froze, but he had obviously already thought of his words.

"At that time, Xia Guan Ben was as suspicious as you, and after the man left, he immediately ordered his subordinates to investigate, it seems that those people deliberately wanted me to know, and an official below me came to me and told me that those people had a poison in their hands, which was very toxic and difficult to eliminate, and the poisoned person would lose his strength, be confused, and even hallucinate, and at most in January, the poisoned person would die of poison, and only they had the antidote in their hands."

"The lower officials can't, so they are at their mercy."

"Master Jia has not thought about it, since it is a strange poison, how can there be so much poison to all the officials in Jiangnan?" I say

"The officials also thought about this matter, but the officials in Jiangnan somehow, without the orders of the officials, began to collect money for them, and Liu Yushi, who came to Jiangnan to inspect at that time, suddenly fell ill and returned to the capital in a hurry, and died at home a month later, and the officials believed their words." Jia Chun explained.

I stared, frowned, and shook my head, "No, there are still things that don't make sense." According to you, they already control the whole of Jiangnan, but how did they control it? By poison? No way, there will never be so many poisons, and there will never be so many antidotes. ”