Looking at the court that was still full of spirits, but now he has become a madman who has lost his soul, and the breath in Shen Gui's heart has also disappeared by half; He looked back and saw that Qi Yan had already gotten up, pulling his pants awkwardly and patting the dust on his tail vertebrae; And Zigge had just dragged the four people out of the carriage, and they were looking at the old horse on the ground in a daze......

From this point of view, this Lu Zhukuai should not have any malicious intentions......

Shen Gui turned around and just wanted to say a few words to him, but he saw that the expression on the other party's face was even more distorted than just now, only the right side of the teeth was clenched, the muscles of his face were extremely uncoordinated, and the corners of his mouth began to twitch incessantly! Shen Gui was afraid that the other party would have a stroke under the horror, so he immediately stepped forward and slapped him with a loud slap!

Whether this kind of local method really works, or whether Lu Fang's own eight characters are too hard, Shen Gui can't say this. In short, with a crisp sound coming from his face, Xiao Lu Zhutou, who was on the verge of a stroke, was really pulled back by this slap! Lu Fang, who had returned to his normal expression, couldn't stand it, and sat on the ground with a slump of his buttocks, staring up at Shen Gui with a dull gaze, not knowing what was going on in his head.

Shen Gui looked at him and sighed in despair, then grabbed his right hand and put it on the top of his bare head and comforted:

"If you touch it yourself, the head is still there, but the hair and hat are gone."

Lu Fang, who had just "passively bowed down" outside the thirties, still nodded to Shen Gui sluggishly, but he still couldn't say a word. Shen Gui thought about it again, and said in a consultative tone:

"Or else...... How about I give you another hairstyle? ”

The sky was bright and the gate of Tancheng was opened.

Lu Fang, who had a large area of baldness on the top of his head, retied his hair in a bun with the help of Shen Gui, except for being pulled by his scalp a little hanging eyes, he could barely see it.

After returning to normal and entering the city to have a full meal, Lu Fang finally expressed his true intention to Shen Gui this time.

It turned out that he came to provoke this time, and he had nothing to do with Xin'an Hou Zhou Changfeng; Instead, he was ordered by his direct boss, his own son Lu Yuan, to go to Jishui City, the capital of Ludong Road, to investigate the case. The case itself is not big, just a female official from Ludong who was released from the palace, and when she left Beijing, she secretly brought some royal things; According to the news received by Lao Lu, the last time this batch of royal items appeared was in Jishui City. Send your son to hand over the stolen goods, lock up the criminals, and then go to the Jishui City prison, and the case will be closed!

Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, Xiao Lu Yukuai, who has just taken office, thought that this was an opportunity to show his strength; However, after arriving in Jishui City, I found that from the yamen to the ground, the case had already been settled, the prisoner had been imprisoned, and the stolen goods had been confiscated and sealed, just waiting for him to sign the closing file, which was more than the credit on his own head!

However, just when the "Beijing God Hunting Lu Fang" was about to return to Beijing on a business trip, another strange thing suddenly happened.

Lord Qiu, the prefect of Jishui City, personally sent him a decree, saying that it was a secret decree sent from Beijing for 800 miles. According to the will, the Confucian Governor of Xilin Mansion recently reported a case to the Criminal Department, saying that in Xilin City under his jurisdiction, three Youbei spies were caught. After his rigorous interrogation, the three criminals confessed to the crimes they committed in Beiyan and signed their bonds. Since then, the case has been handled as an iron case, and the human and material evidence and confessions are readily available, so the Confucian prefect submitted it to the Criminal Department as usual and waited for the Beijing Central Committee to approve the case.

The Codex had only a few words, but His Majesty's meaning was already clear. Lu Fang didn't think much about it after receiving the order, so he immediately changed his route and went straight to Xilin Mansion. Although this Lu Fang is a novice in the rivers and lakes, after all, he was also born in a family of Beijing officials, and the last two generations were close to the emperor, and he was no stranger to the twists and turns in the court.

From the perspective of Emperor Tianyou, no matter whether these three spies are true or not, considering that the two norths are currently in the period of alliance, they must be extremely cautious in handling this kind of matter. Therefore, he ordered Lu Fang to secretly investigate the cause and effect of the case, and try to save the lives of the three Beiyan criminals before the official approval of the Criminal Department and the delivery to Xilin Mansion.

Yes, not only Zhou Yuanqing didn't believe that this case was so simple, but even the fledgling Lu Fang scoffed at this so-called "iron case".

As everyone knows, forty percent of the young talents of the past dynasties came from Jiangnan Road, forty percent came from Ludong Road, and the remaining two percent were shared by all places. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, when successive monarchs formed the imperial court, they were indispensable to the talents of Jiangnan and the great Confucianism of Ludong.

And Xilin Mansion, where the three Youbei spies were arrested in this case, is the core holy place of the Luxi Confucian School, and it is also the basic plate that their Confucian family can't beat. Logically speaking, such a local scholarly force that has been entrenched in Ludong for thousands of years, even if he meets a more enlightened monarch, he must at least be treated with the same cold reception and shackles as the Minjiang people; However, it may be due to the reason of academic philosophy, more than eighty percent of the leaders of all dynasties are from the two schools of Ludong!

Because throughout thousands of years of history, there is no one who has risen into trouble in trouble, or the founder of the Dingding Huayu Continent, who was born in Ludong. To paraphrase a folk saying, what is planted in the water and soil of Ludong grows, but the emperor Laozi is not produced.

Although Ludong Road has always been attributed to Wanghua, in fact, the real helmsman is only the local scholar and gentry forces. Anyone who can get in touch with the local famous family does not pay taxes or food on weekdays, and in their eyes, except for the head of the family, there is no court at all. Whenever the successive emperors of the Zhou family mentioned the matter of taxation, the next day there would be countless Beiyan students outside the Chengtian Gate, sitting on the ground without noise or noise; And those important officials of the imperial court who also came from the Confucian school would wear white clothes and plain clothes, carry mourning sticks and spirit flags to meet the dead people, or cry and scold the king. They will also "lecture and explain" with students from all over the country and the people in Beijing, denouncing His Majesty of this dynasty as a ruthless faint monarch who only knows how to covet pleasures, unscrupulously expropriates and extorts tyranny, knocks bones and sucks the marrow and loots the people's fat, and he wants to wake up this unconscious monarch with this blood and iron bones, otherwise he will be ashamed of the previous kings and his ancestors...

This kind of situation is not only a unique scenery that is unique to this dynasty; For thousands of years, it has been like this, and it has never stopped because of the change of kings and the change of dynasties.

These gentry who have the right to speak, even if Emperor Tianyou is unbearable, what can he do to others? If you want to tax silver, it is impossible for people to give you a copper plate anyway; Want to completely turn your face and slaughter the descendants of the saints? Then the criticism of the first tyrant of the past and present was settled in the history books of later generations, and how hard work and hard work he made in this life, future generations will not know it. And the most critical point is that even though the Luxi Confucianism School has deep roots and is entrenched in a corner of Ludong; But they did not raise private soldiers, nor did they make private friends with the rough billets of the army. In other words, these people have always put the handle of the knife in the hands of the emperor, and they can help the imperial court build and cultivate a complete set of endless and endless civil official system!

The emperor will figure out which of the stakes is more important than the other.

The roots of this great tree have been rooted for hundreds of years, and it is a great insult to describe it even as ironclad!

This is still the case in all dynasties, and Zhou Yuanqing does not want to risk the disapproval of the world. Therefore, he has always taken a respectful and distant attitude to deal with the relationship between the imperial court and the Confucian school. All taxes and silver are not wanted by the imperial court, and the names and titles on the face are also responsive. Anyway, you can toss around in Ludong as long as you stay away from me!

But right now, Xilin Mansion claims to have caught three Youbei spies, and has also convicted them of beheading and reported them to the Criminal Department, although this matter is reasonable and legal, but it can't be left to your will!

After all, the current Northern Yan Dynasty, optimistically, is already in a desperate situation of being attacked on three sides! The flames of war in the Mobei grassland on the northern front may burn south of the Great Wall at any time; And the rebel son of the perimeter of the Western Front, who has recently been with the two golden boy Buddhas in the Western Xinjiang, is also eyebrow-raising; Although those profiteers in Nankang have not made any big moves, they have always been waiting to fish in troubled waters, and they have made war profits with the two families. At this juncture, as long as one of his own problems is not handled properly, the entire Northern Yan Dynasty will immediately collapse!

Regardless of the fact that such a thing as sending spies to each other is an open secret; Even if he really caught the three Youbei spies, at this stall, he could only quietly send Yan Qinghong back! The reason is also very simple: judging from the current national strength and situation of the Northern Yan Dynasty, it does not even have the ability to fight on two fronts; If the north moves at all times, causing the other three lines to bloom at the same time, then he Zhou Yuanqing can directly open the city and surrender!

However, fortunately, the three of them have not yet been executed, and there is still room for maneuver in this case, plus Lu Fang, the new golden knife catcher, is in the hinterland of Ludong, so he will be assigned a real errand to see if this person's ability to do things. Therefore, Zhou Yuanqing ordered the Criminal Department to temporarily delay the approval, and wait for Lu Fang to investigate the cause of the matter before making another decision.

But for Lu Fang, the case was not so easy.

He, a fourth-grade Beijing official and His Majesty's confidant, swaggered with his royal waist card to interrogate three Youbei criminals. But after he figured out the ins and outs, the urine was almost scared out! He thought that this time he was ordered to come to Xilin Mansion to dig out a rat hole and gild it along the way; As a result, his hand had just reached into the hole, and a tiger was pulled out!

One of the three so-called Youbei spies is actually one of the three troikas of Youbei - the governor of Zhongshan Road in Youbei, Fu Yi!

Although Lu Fang, a fourth-grade official, is only a salary level, he does not have a specific position, and he does not belong to the sequence of civil and military officials; However, he had heard of the name Fu Yi.

If the iron triangle of the Northern Yan Dynasty is His Majesty and the prime ministers, then the iron triangle of Youbei Third Road is Wan Changning, Li Zilin and Fu Yi in front of him. In the end, what kind of crazy people from the three roads of Youbei will become, so that they can send a feudal official like Fu Yi to Ludong to spy on what news?

This is obviously an unjust case, but the Xilin prefect also knows this, why did he allow himself, a close minister of the Son of Heaven, to interrogate the criminal alone?