A gust of wind blows, and a yellow leaf is sprinkled on the treetops, indicating that late autumn is about to pass and early winter is coming.

Xue Ruogu took advantage of the days of rest and bath to ride out of Lishui City with two healthy servants early in the morning, and entered Jinling City near dusk. For a man as weak as him, to gallop a hundred and forty or fifty miles on a fast horse in one day was really to scatter all the skeletons of bones.

Shen Yang also understood Xue Ruogu's hard work, and specially ordered someone to lay a soft couch for Xue Ruogu in the pool pavilion and sit down.

"Now it seems that Wei Zhen has concealed too much truth in the Shang Wensheng assassination case, and these are the documentary evidence I obtained after searching in Lishui for many days......" Xue Ruogu put a large stack of documentary evidence on the case and handed it to Shen Yang.

Shen Yang took a stone monkey paperweight and pressed it on this stack of documentary evidence, so as not to be blown away by the wind, he still had to listen to what Xue Ruogu had to say.

Just these documentary evidence, Xue Ruogu can send a close confidant to send him over, there is no need to endure such hard work by himself, and rush back to Jinling City in person.

"......" Xue Ruogu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and found that there were some things that were so complicated that it was difficult to open his mouth to say them.

Although Shen Yang initially recommended him to know that Guangde Mansion failed to succeed, Xue Ruogu had long noticed the many suspicious points of the assassination case, and after going to Lishui, he searched the countryside and luckily found two homeless teenagers who fled to the mountains to hide when Shang Zhongjie led his troops to recapture Shangjiabao, and learned the truth about Shang Zhongjie's massacre of homeless people, and then according to the rumors that Shang Zhongjie's wife had an affair with someone and Shang Zhongjie killed his wife, Xue Ruogu found Wei's personal maid who escaped from Shangfu and married a commoner as his wife, and then according to the confession of Lishui County Pestle and the old officials who were responsible for collecting the corpse , Xue Ruogu has almost figured out the details of the assassination case.

Although there are still some details that have not been clarified, it does not prevent Xue Ruogu from judging what Wei Zhen's intention was to maliciously conceal these many details, as well as what the Jingzhao Mansion and the Criminal Department did not screen to accept all the verdicts given by Lishui County at that time.

Some things, some intentions, are self-explanatory.

To put it bluntly, these people want to provoke more clan lords to remember the new and old hatred for the Chishan Army and the fugitive slaves.

As a result, hundreds or thousands of the old troops of the Zuo Guangde army who remained in the Guangde Mansion were unjustly imprisoned, and hundreds of people were killed or disabled in the prison army.

If it weren't for the imperial court's timely dispatch of Chen Jingzhou to Guangde Mansion to ease the situation, perhaps Guangde Mansion would have set off a civil unrest.

"After confirming these things, I will also send someone to Guangde Mansion to secretly investigate, wanting to know a general understanding of the persecution of the old headquarters of the Zuo Guangde Army after the assassination last year, and originally wanted to have more documentary evidence when I wrote the impeachment of Jingzhao Mansion and the Criminal Department, but the matter seems to be more complicated than I thought before." Xue Ruogu said hesitantly.

Seeing that Xue Ruogu actually had the intention of impeaching Jingzhao Mansion and the Criminal Department behind his back, Shen Yang couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, and asked, "What else have you found more complicated?" ”

"When the assassination case was in full swing, in addition to hundreds of people who were unjustly imprisoned in the old department of the Zuo Guang German Army when chasing the assassination suspects, there were more than 3,000 families, and the farm house was seized by the old owner, and their livelihood was once extremely embarrassed. " At this time, I couldn't help but ask Xiangye, I can go to Lishui to work, is it really that Xiangye simply thinks that I should go to Lishui to avoid the limelight, and no one else has anything to say about this matter? ”

Shen Yang's wrinkled face wrinkled, and his pupils stared at the pool under the pavilion, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

"If I go to Lishui and someone to relieve the old department of Zuoguang's German army and the family, it will be done secretly in Xuzhou, but there is nothing, but the merchant ships in Xuzhou are navigable to Huaidong, and there are some things that no one can not think about......" Xue Ruogu still couldn't help but reveal the subtext directly.

If Han Qian was planning all this behind the scenes, just to redress the grievances of the old army of Zuo Guang, he didn't mind being borrowed as a knife by Han Qian, but the situation in front of him seemed to show that Han Qian was planning more than that, so Xue Ruogu was not allowed to look at all this carefully.

Shen Yang held his chin in front of him, and only sighed for a long time, looked at Xue Ruogu, and asked, "The current situation is only difficult, and the people's livelihood is only hard, can you act as if none of these things have happened?" ”

Xue Ruogu can understand Shen Yang's intentions, with His Majesty's suspicion of Xuzhou, knowing the news that Xuzhou and Huaidong colluded together, I am afraid that he is already angry, if he tells all this again, after adding fuel to the fire, I don't know what kind of decision His Majesty will make.

In fact, at this time, Da Chu could not cut the feudal domain of Huaidong and Xuzhou at the same time.

His Majesty doesn't know how to forbear, and it will only make the situation within Dachu sinister again.

Of course, at the same time, he can no longer impeach Wei Zhen, Jingzhao Mansion and the Criminal Department, to uncover many hidden details of the assassination case, so as not to be used by Han Qian.

"......" Xue Ruogu nodded with difficulty, and said, "Wei Zhen transferred out of Lishui, and I was able to go to work, there must be someone behind the scenes, and Xiangye must not ignore it." ”

"I know this in my heart......" Shen Yang nodded and said.

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"When did Xuzhou send people to contact Huaidong, you didn't know anything beforehand, so what am I raising you slaves for?" Yang Yuanpu's pupils stared coldly at An Jixiang, Chen Ruyi, and Jinyun Sili, the two lieutenants who were in charge of Huaidong and Xuzhou, who were stabbing at each other's intelligence, and he tried his best to suppress the anger in his chest and lowered his voice, but it made people shudder when they heard it.

In his plan, after recovering Chaozhou and Chuzhou, he will have the conditions to suppress Huaidong from many aspects, weaken Huaidong's threat to the court and his second brother, but he didn't expect that at this time, Xuzhou, who seemed to be honest, would come together with Huaidong abruptly.

It seems that they have to resist the pressure of the imperial court together.

Why isn't this angry for him?

An Jixiang and Chen Ruyi knelt in the hall to plead guilty, but they were still shocked in their hearts.

Xuzhou and Huaidong colluded, they were not unaware in advance, it was not that they did not think of this possibility before, but before and after the Sizhou civil turmoil, Xuzhou behaved too well, too leaky, how could they imagine that Xuzhou suddenly colluded with Huaidong and King Xin?

They were so shocked when they learned the news, so how could they have detected the clues beforehand?

Of course, His Majesty was so angry, they could also guess why, and His Majesty may be more worried that Xuzhou and Huaidong might further collude with the rebels of Anning Palace and the Liang army.

Before this, they didn't worry about this, but at present, Xuzhou and Huaidong are colluding together, who knows what choice Xuzhou and Huaidong will make under further pressure from the imperial court?

Of course, they were not aware of this beforehand, and Jinyun Si could not escape the responsibility of dereliction of duty.

Yang Yuanpu was angry for a while, saw An Jixiang, Chen Ruyi and others still kneeling in the hall, waved his hand and said: "You guys who remember to eat and don't use it, get up, even if you kneel through this stone slab, what can you do?" ”

"Wechen is incompetent." An Jixiang and Chen Ruyi still kowtowed again to apologize, and then got up and stood in front of the imperial case to listen to the instructions.

"Chaozhou is advancing more smoothly, right?" Yang Yuanpu asked.

An Jixiang and Chen Ruyi glanced at each other, knowing that Xuzhou and Huaidong were colluding together, which made His Majesty worry that the battle to recover Chaozhou would be repeated.

Although Li Zhihe, who presided over the siege of Chaozhou, and Li Pu, who was in charge of logistics and supply, both had the trust of His Majesty, and almost every other day they would send someone to report the latest progress of the war to the palace, but the entry of Xuzhou merchant ships into Huaidong trade was not a big rebellion after all, and the imperial court could not stop it, so His Majesty could not directly highlight some hidden worries in the letters to Li Pu and Li Zhihe.

Sometimes, Jinyun Si just wants to play a role in His Majesty's unspeakable worries.

"At present, everything is normal to collect information about Chaozhou, but there will be collusion between Xuzhou and Huaidong, but Weichen is incapable of oversight, and there will be some omissions in Chaozhou, so Weichen will go to Chaozhou in person recently." Chen Ruyi said.

"It's okay for you to take a trip, and I can also comfort the Duke of Changguo and the Marquis of Jianning." Yang Yuanpu said.

After the recovery of Jinling, Li Pu was promoted from the Marquis of Xinchang to the Duke of Changguo......