Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, was in the Xuanming Hall of the North Palace, lying on the couch, and his distraction was written on his face. The assassination of the princess this time must not be simple, Fang Cai has already called Chen Wang Liu Chong, Zhongchang Zhang Rang, and Henan Yin Hejin one by one to ask, but what can be found out just by asking? I couldn't figure it out for a while, and they had been locked up for two days, so I sent them back to their homes to be grounded, and they could rest and rest. But because I've been worried about Liu Qian's comfort, how can I rest well?

was sleeping hard, and a little yellow door reported that Jian Shuo was back, Liu Hong reluctantly cheered up and got up to summon Jian Shuo to meet him.

Jian Shuo trotted into the main hall, and made a big salute, but before he finished the salute, he hurriedly said: "Back to Your Majesty, the captain of the Tun cavalry has been looking for the princess, the princess is safe, and she is being escorted back to Yong'an Palace by the captain." ”

Liu Hong was waiting for this news, and when he heard that Liu Qian was fine, he was relieved. He asked Jian Shuo to come closer, and then retreated from the service in the temple. He looked at Jian Shuo's tall figure and resolute face, patted the other party's shoulder, and then said: "Jian Shuo, since I ascended the throne, you have been serving the Zhonghuang Gate for more than ten years!" ”

The emperor patted his shoulder, which was a great favor, and Jian Shuo knelt on the ground with a thud, and said gratefully: "How can the minister be virtuous? Being able to serve His Majesty is already a supreme grace, what more can a husband ask for? ”

Liu Hong was very satisfied with Jian Shuo's performance, he helped Jian Shuo up again, and asked: "It's just that you are still a little yellow door now, and you are not among the regular servants of the middle school, have you ever been wronged?" ”

"The minister only wants to always be with His Majesty, how dare he covet fame?" Jian Shuo is also a petrification is really mysterious, when he is not a permanent servant, he is not a marquis, Jian Shuo does not care, as long as he can follow the emperor all the year round, it is a blessing. Thinking that the ten permanent servants are all marquis, and there is no other one in the limelight, but the people of the court and the opposition are punished by their own bodies, and they gradually lose their favor, that is not what Jian Shuo wants.

Liu Hong rubbed his palms, recalled his career as a monarch for more than ten years, remembered an old incident back then, and said: "Back then, Cao Cao once killed your uncle with a rod on the grounds that he violated the forbidden night behavior, you didn't inform me, and I didn't punish Cao Cao after I knew, did you ever complain in your heart?" ”

Liu Hong's words were sincere, and they sounded sincere, but they startled Jian Shuo, and he hurriedly knelt on the ground again, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said, "Your Majesty...... Family...... Uncle Jia violated the ban first, and he couldn't survive the cane punishment, but he couldn't complain about others. The minister didn't dare to plead with His Majesty, how could he dare to complain to His Majesty! Your Majesty Mingjian, Mingjian! ”

Liu Hong helped Jian Shuo up again, smiled, and said: "Why bother, I'm just afraid that you have a grudge and do things for me, which is inevitably partial." ”

Jian Shuo now saw that Liu Hong had a task to hand over to him, so he stood up, restrained his sad expression, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, but there is a sending, the minister will not give up, and he will not dare to be partial!" ”

"Well," Liu Hong nodded appreciatively, and got down to business: "On the day of the hunt, Cai Yong asked Lu Qiangshangshu to impeach Zhang Rang, and Yan Zhang Rang instructed Zhuang Xing, the county seat of Suozao, and his family Wang Qiao to rob the military horses, and attached his correspondence. In addition, the assassination of Princess Wannian had quite a hidden secret, King Chen, He Jin, and Zhang Rang, or instigated. In addition, both cases involved a scholar named Jiang Hyun, and I have placed him in Luoyang Prison. A copy of the relevant details has been transcribed and sent to you, and you can deal with it yourself, and if there is any urgency, you can deal with it cheaply. "Jian Shuo is the most trusted person by Liu Hong now, and in order to be involved in these two cases, he can use both courage and resourcefulness, so it is most appropriate to send him to investigate secretly.

Jian Shuo received the edict, bid farewell to Liu Hong, and began to investigate.

Luoyang Prison, as the name suggests, is located in the Luoyang County Government Office, and is jointly governed by Si Lixiaowei, Henan Yin and Luoyang Ling. The Luoyang Prison was huge in scale and had a large and complex organization, and had the functions of the Imperial Prison of the Son of Heaven and the local county prison, and the objects of imprisonment included bureaucrats and nobles at all levels and ordinary people, which had a great impact on the security of the capital and the political situation of the imperial court. For decades, political forces have fiercely competed for jurisdiction over the prison, which has had a significant impact on political changes.

In the prison school of Tianzi No. 2 Prison in Luoyang Prison, a small song echoed leisurely. The singer was dressed in a dark blue soap suit, with a crown slightly larger than his head, an old red cloth ribbon tied around his waist, and a pair of ill-fitting gangster black-faced straight boots at his feet.

The jailer was intoxicated with a song, and a jailer in his thirties walked over quickly and said, "Prison chief, there are newcomers in room 36 who are picking up provocations, saying that the food is poor and the clothes are damp, how is it good?" ”

The jailer stopped the song and asked, "Which blind dog slave and shameless death row prisoner dares to be presumptuous here?" Do you know where it came from? "What is the reason, the jailer must ask. There are quite a few officials who come and go back and forth in Luoyang Prison, even if they are more than 2,000 stones. If you are offended regardless of whether you are good or bad, and you are not sure which one day you will go out to reinstate your official position, then you will have no place to bury yourself.

The jailer replied, "But an ordinary scholar......

The jailer was also anxious, and without waiting for the jailer to finish speaking, he stood up suddenly, rolled up his sleeves and shouted: "There are people from the left and right!" Come with me and teach the new prisoner a lesson! As he spoke, he led a group of jailers who rushed out of the four directions, and walked directly to the prison. The jailer who had spoken before stayed in the prison and opened his mouth to stop him, but in the end he didn't speak, just followed closely.

The door lock sounded, and the jailer led a large group of people into room 36. This cell is quite large, but there is only one young gentleman, who is Jiang Hyun, who was escorted over this afternoon.

The wounds on Jiang Hyun's left shoulder and right arm have begun to inflame, and he feels that his cheeks and forehead are a little burning. Wound infection is the main cause, but there is also a fire in the heart. Although he did not resist and entered the Luoyang Prison with peace of mind, it seemed to be light, but the fire in his heart was not so easy to extinguish.

When the cell door opened, the jailer led seven or eight jailers in. looked at Jiang Hyun, who was sitting on the ground and leaning against the wall, and said, "It's you picking quarrels and provoking trouble?" Do you think the food is poor and the clothes are damp? ”

Jiang Hyun was unhappy in his heart, he just wanted to find it unhappy. He didn't lift his eyelids, just mumbled.

When the jailer saw Jiang Hyun's attitude, he was even more angry, and shouted: "Brothers, give it to me!" ”

Seven or eight people surrounded Jiang Hyun is a punch and kick, Jiang Hyun is arrogant, where is he willing to suffer these losses? stood up abruptly and used his old fist, but the two wounds on his body were only hastily bandaged by the two Orions, and this movement broke the wound again, plus the wound was infected and inflamed, and he had no strength, and he was pushed to the ground again by the other party after only a few struggles, and his fists and feet fell on his body like raindrops. only hit Jiang Hyun dizzy and didn't argue about the west and the east.

"Stop!" A few people were fighting, and as soon as they heard someone talking behind them, the jailer stopped, and when he turned around, his heart sank, and he immediately changed his smiling face. This person is known to the jailer, who is the history of Henan Prison, and is the boss of the jailer.

Luoyang Prison is jointly under the jurisdiction of Captain Sili, Henan Yin and Luoyang Ling, and the prison history is in charge of the prison in the county dynasty of Yin Hejin in Henan, but he is in charge of the lives of this group of jailers and jailers.

The jailer accompanied the smiling face, nodded and walked to the prison history, slammed it to the ground, and said: "I've seen ......" Before he finished speaking, the prison history was also hot-tempered, and he slapped it over, only beating the jailer to the point that Venus was scattered and the world was spinning.

Not to mention the prison officials, even the prison history of beating people felt that his palms were sore and his arms felt like they were about to be thrown off. Prison History moved his arm and shouted angrily: "Get out! The jailer escaped from the cell with the help of the dazed jailer.

Prison Shi looked at Kang Hyun, who had collapsed on the ground. Walk up and lift him up and let him sit on the haystack with his body against the wall.

Jiang Hyun wiped the blood on his face and asked, "Who is under the feet?" Why help me? While asking, Jiang Hyun was also looking at the prison history. This prison history is twenty-five or six, with a square face, a short and thick beard, and a bit heroic and righteous.

The prison history did not think that the environment in the cell was bad, and sat on the hay on the side, and said: "I am the prison history of the Yin Dynasty in Henan, Zhao Wei of Bajun, the word is right, and I came to visit Bo Pei on behalf of He Fujun." ”

Jiang Xun nodded and said, "Thank you Brother Zhengran, you still need to thank Fujun for me......"

Zhao Wei saw that Jiang Xun was weak when he spoke, and then looked at the wound on his body that was bleeding out, so he withdrew first, and hurriedly arranged for a doctor to look at the injury, and severely reprimanded a prison official to take care of it, and those jailers and jailers naturally did not dare to slack off. After the doctor helped Jiang Hyun reapply the medicine and bandage it, he prescribed some decoction. Zhao Yun instructed the jailer to help Jiang Xun take the decoction, Jiang Xun fell asleep, and Zhao Wei stopped bothering and went directly back to Yinfu, Henan. When He Jinfang came back, he was ordered to be grounded in the mansion and not allowed to meet with his subordinates, and he didn't know what happened at this time.

In the Han Palace in mid-autumn, the dusk has gone, and the night is gradually rising. The gold brick paved ground shimmers warmly in the remnant sun. Qionglou and jade pavilions are staggered, each hugging the terrain. The palace seems to be shrouded in mist, and in the midst of its splendor, everything is not so real.

Luoyang North Palace, the southwest corner of Yong'an Palace built a new palace half a year ago, called Jingyang Palace, and now the princess Wannian who has returned to Beijing has entered this palace.

In this Jingyang Palace, Liu Qian leaned on the window railing alone, dressed in a pink flowery palace dress, wearing a plain gauze coat outside, with dark hair draped on the side, dancing lightly in the wind. In the eyes like a lake, there is a sadness. Looking at the falling night, he muttered to himself: "If the queen mother is still alive, how good it would be......"

The queen mother in Liu Qian's mouth is Song Jing, the first queen of Liu Hong, the son of heaven. Although Empress Song was in the position of queen at that time, she was virtuous and generous, and she was cautious everywhere, but she was jealous of all the concubines. In the first year of Guanghe (178), the palace concubines headed by He Yan united with the ten permanent servants to frame the Empress Song for cursing the palace people with the method of witchcraft. As a result, Empress Song was deposed as the empress, sent to the cold palace, and soon died of depression.

When her mother left, Liu Qian was eight years old and had no one to rely on in the palace. Empress Dowager Dong saw her pitiful and felt pity, so she was raised in Yong'an Palace. After living here for three years, the prince Liu Xie was born, and the Empress Dowager Dong sent them to her hometown in Hejian in order to protect the two brothers and sisters. A few months ago, Liu Qian left her younger brother and returned to Luoyang, and the Empress Dowager Dong opened Jingyang Palace in Yong'an Palace for Liu Qian to live in. The experience of losing her mother at a young age prompted Liu Qian to get in touch with the dangers of the world early, and compared with her peers, she understands the rules of the game in this world better.

Since returning from a hunt in Guangchengyuan, although Liu Qian is safe and sound, Jiang Xun was arrested and imprisoned, and was also charged with plotting against him. What happened was so sudden that it was unexpected and unexpected. For Liu Qian, Jiang Hyun's safety moment tugged at her heartstrings. Although she is a princess, she does not have any real power, and it is difficult to control the situation.

At noon, Liu Qian had just returned to Jingyang Palace, and Liu Hong came to visit, and then Liu Qian pleaded with Liu Hong to release Jiang Xun, but Liu Hong refused. The father and daughter, who were originally happy, almost quarreled because of this incident.

"Who can help me save Kang Hyun?" Just as Liu Qian looked up at the window, a flock of geese swept over the palace, from north to south.

"Huh...... Big Mom! Liu Qian was overjoyed. The eldest mother is Liu Qian's grandmother, the Empress Dowager Dong, who is the biological mother of the Son of Heaven, if the Empress Dowager Dong comes forward, she will definitely be able to help Liu Qian save Jiang Xun from prison.

"Someone, go see the imperial grandmother." The situation is volatile, and there is no need to wait. Liu Qian didn't care about the darkness of the night, took the palace maid, and hurried to Yong'an Palace.