Tang Ning sat in the duty room, holding a thin book in his hand.

The "Collection of Grievances" has been sorted out and printed, and the first edition is in his hands, and some actual cases will be compiled and published in the future, and the publication fee will be directly bought out by the imperial court.

He checked for any omissions, and then sat back in his seat.

Today is the first early dynasty after the Hugh Dynasty, and the Shangshu of the Criminal Department has not yet returned, indicating that the early dynasty has not dispersed.

The imperial court has not been running much for half a month, and it should have accumulated a lot of things, just like the criminal department, it has not opened for half a month.

Lang Zhong's foot injury has not healed, and he has not returned to the yamen so far, and the affairs of the entire torture room are still decided by Tang Ning alone.

Before and after the Shangyuan Dynasty, it was the most prosperous and noisy time in Beijing, and it was also a time when public security cases were prone to occur, and there were too many people gathered in the Jingshi area these days, and there were many people in chaos, and there were several homicide cases in the stack of files on Tangning's desk.

Of course, these cases do not need to be solved by the Criminal Department one by one, Tang Ning opened these files one by one, found out the problems in them, and retried them, while the others were submitted and waited for the Criminal Department to review again.

Similar to the Criminal Department, after the Shangyuan Dynasty, the major officials of the Beijing Division were extremely busy.

Ping'an County Ya, Zhong Mingli looked at a case file in his hand, and frowned.

Zhao Zhijie finished reviewing several files, looked up and saw the expression on his face, and asked, "What's the matter, you're in trouble?" ”

"In the pleadings of this case, the Marquis of Yanping, the Marquis of Changxing, the Marquis of Yongchuan, and the Bo of Huining......" Zhong Mingli shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not easy to investigate." ”

Zhao Zhijie looked at him and said, "You have His Majesty's token in your hand, what else is there that you don't dare to check?" ”

"Yes." Zhong Mingli nodded and said, "Peng Chen, let people go to the Yanping Hou, Changxing Hou, Yongchuan Bo, and Huining Bo Mansion to summon these people to the county government to ask about the case." ”

Peng Chen arched his hand and walked out quickly.

……

Yanping Marquis Mansion.

Jingshi is a place where the powerful gather, the Marquis of Yanping is in many public candidates, the background is quite profound, the eldest son of the family is on an errand in the palace, and he is considered to be the best among the children of the magnates, if there is no accident, it can continue the glory of the Hou Mansion generation.

In addition, the Hou Mansion took refuge in King Kang in the early years, and now King Kang's power in the court is in full swing, and if you take a small step forward, you will be able to set foot in the East Palace.

Yanpinghou sat in the study, took a sip, and only drank a little half of a cup of tea, and then a figure walked in and called "Dad" with a little nervousness.

Yanping Hou glanced at his youngest son and asked, "What trouble is your kid causing outside?" ”

His eldest son is outstanding among the children of the powerful, but this time, he has been stubborn since he was a child, and he has been in trouble.

However, he didn't take this to heart, it was nothing more than being young and vigorous, fighting for the wind outside, fighting for the strong, this is a common thing in the powerful family, as long as there is no trouble, each family will let it go, as for other disasters, with the power of the family, it can also be easily settled.

"It's not a big deal." The young man looked up and said hesitantly: "Yesterday Li Ping and they were also there, and we accidentally set a fire and burned a private house outside the city......

"If you burn down a private house, will you be nervous like this?" Yanping Hou put down the teacup heavily, and said angrily: "You guys killed people? ”

The young man shuddered for a moment and said in a trembling voice, "......No, I don't know." ”

Yanping Hou's face sank, if it was an ordinary disaster, it could be settled with money or power, once a person was killed, within the scope of the Jingshi, it would not be so easy to suppress it.

As soon as he got up from his chair, an old man knocked on the door of the study and walked in, glanced at the young man, looked at Yanping Hou, and said, "Master, someone from Ping'an County is here, let the little boy go to the county government to ask about the case." ”

Fear appeared on the young man's face and asked, "Dad, what should I do......

Yanping Hou glared at him and said angrily: "What are you guys doing first!" ”

The young man whispered: "I, we just wanted to spend money to play with that woman, but she didn't let her, and lit a torch to scare us, so we let people take his torch and burn their house......"

"You bastard!" Yanping Hou couldn't help but kick him on the leg, and said angrily: "There are so many women in Qinglou, you don't play, you have to go to those innocent women, why did I give birth to you like this!" ”

The young man bowed his head and said nothing. In the past, they were strong, but with their identity, they could settle it with a little silver at most, and yesterday they were really aroused by the old man, and they were impulsive, and they regretted it at the moment.

The old housekeeper hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master, now is not the time to blame Gongzi, the people from Ping'an County are still waiting outside." ”

If it was half a year ago, how could the Ping'an County Ya have the courage to come to the Yanping Marquis Mansion to ask for someone, but since the new county magistrate arrived, he somehow got His Majesty's favor, if he entered the Ping'an County Ya, it would not be easy to come out.

Yanping Hou looked at the young man and asked, "Who else was there besides you yesterday?" ”

The young man immediately said: "There are also Li Ping, Cui Jiang, and Sun An." ”

Yanping Hou looked at the housekeeper and said, "You take him to the Ping'an County Ya first, find out the truth, and then come back immediately to tell him." ”

The old man nodded and said, "Yes, sir." ”

Yanping Hou beckoned, and said, "In addition, send someone to invite Changxing Hou, Yongchuan Bo, and Hui Ningbo." ”

The old man bowed and said, "I'll ask someone to invite me right away." ”

Not long after the old man and the young man walked out, several carriages stopped at the Yanping Marquis' Mansion, and a figure hurriedly got off the carriage.

In the mansion, Yanping Hou looked at a few people and said in surprise: "I just sent someone to invite you, you arrived so soon?" ”

One person looked at Yanping Hou and asked, "Presumably, the Ping'an County Ya has already sent someone here, right?" ”

Yanping Hou looked at them, nodded, and said, "You guys are here, presumably for this matter, why, the matter is very serious?" ”

The man who spoke just now said: "There is a human life, you also know, this Ping'an County Order is very difficult to entangle, he has His Majesty's support behind him, and it is not easy for us to interfere." ”

Yanpinghou nodded and said: "This Ping'an County makes me know that Shou Anbo is planted in his hands, and if he doesn't let go of this case, things will indeed be a little difficult to handle." ”

He thought for a moment and said, "I have a plan......

……

Tang Ning read the files in the Criminal Department for a whole day, and when he went out, he was already a little dizzy.

The affairs of the criminal department are busier than those of the household department, but fortunately, in another half a month, the burden on his shoulders can be put down, and he doesn't know where the next one is going, as long as it is not the official department, he should be able to relax for a while.

Xiao Jue stood at the entrance of the criminal department and waited for him, this was something that he had agreed with him yesterday.

Tang Ning rubbed his eyebrows and asked, "How is the situation above the early dynasty?" ”

Xiao Jue glanced at him and asked, "Why are you so concerned about the princess?" ”

"Isn't it okay to care for friends?" Tang Ning glanced at him and asked, "Come on, have the imperial court and the envoys of the Chu State talked about it?" ”

"No results yet." Xiao Jue shook his head and said, "We can't agree to whatever the envoys of Chu State ask, we have to refuse a few times before we can look like a great country." ”

"By the way, there's one more thing." Xiao Jue suddenly said: "Above the court, King Kang and King Duan are asking to marry the county lord of Changning of Chu at the same time, who do you guess Your Majesty chose in the end?" ”

Tang Ning shook his head: "I don't know." ”

The county lord of Changning likes to marry whoever he marries, and he won't marry him anyway, and Tang Ning is generally not very interested in things that have nothing to do with him.

"King Kang." Xiao Jue's tone was a little surprised, and said: "The county lord of Changning is the only daughter of the regent of Chu State, and her status is extraordinary, I thought that Your Majesty would choose King Duan to balance their power again, but I didn't expect Your Majesty to choose King Kang, it seems that during this time, King Kang's status in His Majesty's heart is much higher than that of King Duan......"

Tang Ning and Xiao Jue guessed about the same, Emperor Chen's move would exacerbate the power gap between King Kang and King Duan, perhaps in his heart, the balance of the crown prince has been tilted.

Thinking of an interesting thing, Xiao Jue looked at Tang Ning again and said, "There is another thing that is very strange, this Changning county lord of Chu State is actually called Li Tianlan, and he has the same name as Miss Li, do you say it is a coincidence......"

He said a lot, looked at Tang Ning, and said in surprise: "Why don't you speak, you speak......"