The fire candle in Chongwen Hall was burning, and Yang Yuanpu stood behind the imperial case, and the fire candle was reflected on the tall wall, which was particularly majestic.

In front of the imperial case, except for Chen Ruyi and An Jixiang kneeling on the cool grinding stone, there was no eunuch waiting on the left and right.

In the main hall, only Yang Yuanpu, Chen Ruyi, and An Jixiang Junchen stood or knelt, but the hall seemed to be so empty.

"Wechen knew that the assassination case was not trivial, and the slightest mistake or omission would cause the society to be unstable, and the minister was centrifuged, and the Jinyun Division was withdrawn, and Wechen returned to Donglushan in civilian clothes, wanting to see if the thief had the possibility of sneaking back, thinking that if he could see the assassin in person, or catch the assassin, it would always be much more reliable than guessing by his figure. But he didn't want me to sneak back to the vicinity of Shangjiabao and see more than a dozen slaves in Shangfu rebelling and imprisoning Shang Wensheng in the room. Shang Wensheng was seriously injured by the assassin and was caught by the traitor slave, Wei Chen thought that he probably had no way to escape this catastrophe, in order to see if there was no one behind the traitor, he did not startle the snake......

An Jixiang knelt in front of the imperial case, listening to Chen Ruyi's eloquent words, he was also secretly frightened, but he didn't expect Chen Ruyi to witness the rebellion of the Shangfu family slaves, just to see if there was any instigation of others behind these traitorous slaves, Shang Wensheng, who could barely be regarded as an important minister of the court, was he not saved?

However, he saw His Majesty standing in front of the imperial case with an indifferent look, and he didn't seem to care about Shang Wensheng's death?

Shang Wensheng replaced Shen Yang out of Guangde Mansion, naturally there were many people in the court who did not want Guangde Mansion to be too peaceful.

There are many reasons for this.

Some people, especially officials from neighboring prefectures and counties such as Jinling Naixuanhu, were the ones who suffered the most direct benefits from the rise of the Chishan Army.

The nearly 300,000 women and children gathered in Guangde Mansion, except for a small number of destitute civilians, most of them were slaves and maids who had escaped from nearby families; Even in the process of the slaves and maids escaping, there were more or less bloody armed resistances, and thousands of children of the family were killed and injured as a result.

They have now become the ministers of the new emperor from the dragon, how can they look at Guangde Mansion, how can they be pleasing to the eye, how can they not hold a grudge?

By extension, in the eyes of the vast majority of officials from the family, Guangde Mansion is a taboo existence.

It was only before the pacification of Shouzhou and Chuzhou that they were still afraid in their hearts, and they were afraid of intensifying the contradictions, so they did not directly propose the abolition of Guangde Mansion, and they did not even more nakedly demand that the women and children of Guangde Mansion be demoted to slaves and maids again and the land recovered.

But no matter what, in the hearts of most people in the court, they still hope that with someone like Shang Wensheng, they can make some waves in Guangde Mansion, right?

And the reason why His Majesty agreed to recommend Shang Wensheng to Zhiguangde Mansion was that An Jixiang guessed that His Majesty might be in a hurry to transfer Shen Yang back to Beijing and had to make some compromises, but looking at His Majesty's attitude at this time, he thought in his heart that His Majesty probably had the intention of planning at the beginning, and he had a deeper concern about the existence of Guangde Mansion, right?

Think about it, after the recovery of Jinling, in addition to the more than 7,000 generals of the Zuo Guangde Army and nearly 50,000 women and children of their dependents who are moving out of Guangde Mansion one after another, as soldiers moved into the cantonment military mansion of the forbidden army of various departments for resettlement, in addition to the nearly 50,000 generals of the Longque Army who have moved back to Taowuji, the number of slaves and maids who have finally settled down in the three counties of Guangde Mansion and received good citizenship is still as high as 170,000.

This includes the dependents of the fallen generals of the Chishan Army (Zuowu German Army); By the time of the recovery of Jinling City, more than 12,000 generals and soldiers of the Chishan Army had died on the battlefield before and after, and nearly 70,000 dependents had been corresponding.

In addition, the main reason is that when the Chishan Army was reduced to the Zuoguang German Army, the generals and their dependents who were dismissed and resettled, this part of the population was even higher than 100,000.

No one can deny that in a short period of time, Han Qian still has a very high reputation among these people.

Besides, Han Qian really handed over the military power completely before, and didn't do anything secretly in the three counties of Guangde Prefecture?

Zuo Si is from Han Qian's hand, and the secret spy lurking can be said to be what Han Qian is best at.

His Majesty agreed to Shang Wensheng to go to Guangde Mansion, this is the real reason, right?

Besides, even if Shang Wensheng made a big mess in Guangde Mansion, His Majesty could kill Shang Wensheng to calm down the dispute at that time, and even use this as a bargaining chip to blame those court ministers who recommended and agreed with Shang Wensheng to know Guangde Mansion.

Killing many birds with one stone, why not?

In the final analysis, Shang Wensheng has always been just a chess piece in the eyes of His Majesty.

As long as there are other chess pieces available in his hand, now he can break one or two chess pieces that he didn't play directly, and His Majesty is indifferent, right?

Thinking of this, An Jixiang secretly felt that it was not easy to serve such a master, so he knelt in front of the imperial case more and more respectfully, and listened to Chen Ruyi continue to tell the follow-up plot.

It wasn't until the next day that the rebel slaves of Shangfu fled with their families, and Weichen found an opportunity to enter the castle. At that time, Shi Wensheng had died of anger, there were no new injuries on his body, he should have been angry to death, and six house slaves who did not want to fornicate were tied up indoors. When Wei Chen questioned them, he learned that there was a soldier named Su Lie among the rebel slaves who was most likely acquainted with the Assassins. And the reason why the assassins broke into Shangjiabao and killed them was most likely not for other reasons, but just a woman who was killed by Shang Zhongjie to take revenge,"

Chen Ruyi saw that His Majesty's face had not changed, and truthfully reported some of the things he had investigated in the past few days.

This woman is Shang Zhongjie's wife Wei, Shang Zhongjie suspected that Wei had an affair with Han Donghu, a guard next to the Marquis of Qianyang, and killed her by mistake. It should also be the soldier named Su Lie, who accidentally met Han Donghu in Jinling City and told him about it. When Xuzhou sent an envoy to congratulate His Majesty on the canonization of the queen's mother, Jinyun Si sent spies to keep an eye on every move of the envoy from Xuzhou, and there were indeed people who looked like Su Lie and met Han Donghu in front of the Caiyuanzi Restaurant. Weichen guessed that Han Donghu was most likely angry and killed Shangjiabao because his adultery was revealed and the adulteress was killed, which should not be the direct instruction of the Marquis of Qianyang......"

An Jixiang glanced at Chen Ruyi quite suspiciously, wondering in his heart, how did Chen Ruyi clear up his grievances for Qianyang Hou Han Qian, could it be that he didn't know that His Majesty wouldn't like such speculation too much?

"Han Donghu killed someone for adultery, why did he go straight into the inner house after killing Shang Zhongjie, intending to assassinate Shang Wensheng?" Yang Yuanpu couldn't help but ask at this time, he obviously didn't think that Chen Ruyi's speculation was reasonable, and the letters from the Criminal Department and Jingzhao Mansion were more inclined to think that the assassins had not found Shang Wensheng's exact location at that time, or mistakenly thought that Shang Wensheng was in the courtyard where Shang Zhongjie was at that time.

Chen Ruyi continued:

"Shang Zhongjie has no official status, and when he left Jinling this time, he should want to return to Shangjiabao to run the family business, but Shangjiabao was occupied by more than a dozen homeless households at this time. After Shang Zhongjie captured these people, he killed them all to vent his anger, and the Shang family had the intention of concealing the report and covering it up, and the report to Lishui County only said that these homeless people did not surrender to the death, and drove the women and children into the house and burned them to death - this happened before the assassination, and Weichen guessed that after Han Donghu assassinated Shang Zhongjie, he knew about it, so he hated Shang Wensheng and temporarily had the heart to kill Shang Wensheng. And it was precisely this incident that chilled the hearts of the slaves of the Shangfu family, and when the assassins broke in, most of them did not do their best to savior the Lord......"

"The dozens of traitorous slaves who rebelled against and killed the head of the family also caused this disaster?" Yang Yuanpu stood with his back to the high candle, his face hidden in the shadows of the candlelight, and he looked even more gloomy and asked.

"Wechen asked the six people who were bound, it was indeed Shang Wensheng who woke up and learned that the savior of these house slaves was ineffective, so he wanted to send someone to inform his eldest son Shang Mengtong to come back to deal with these house slaves, but somehow leaked the news and was preempted by these house slaves," Chen Ruyi replied, "Wechen also verified the list of people from Xuzhou, although in the list of people who came in and out of the city, there were Han Donghu and his people, but the Xuzhou envoy left the city and deliberately took the sailor warship to Yueyang, and Wechen thought they wanted to cover up the ......"

In the past ten days, Jinyunsi has ostensibly withdrawn from the Donglushan assassination case, but Chen Ruyi has been secretly investigating, although An Jixiang and Chen Ruyi are in competition, he has to admit that he secretly investigated the case quite meticulously and analyzed it quite reasonably, seeing that His Majesty couldn't help but nod slightly at this time, admitting that Chen Ruyi's analysis was very reasonable.

Maybe the truth is like this, the whole case is a love murder case and vendetta murder case in the final analysis, although the murderer is someone next to Qianyang Hou Han Qian, but there is no direct involvement with Qianyang Hou Han Qian.

Seeing that His Royal Highness's face was cloudy, Chen Ruyi said again: "Wei Chen thought that if these things came out, it might attract great criticism, and it might also shake the hearts of the people of Guangde Mansion, so he made an arbitrary proposition at that time and stabbed to death these six Shangfu slaves who were bound......

"......" An Jixiang looked at Chen Ruyi in shock.

The transcript submitted by the Jingzhao Mansion and the Criminal Department had all kinds of speculations about the deaths of Chen Xiang and other six Shangfu soldiers, and in the end, after discussion, they all tended to think that they were rebellious domestic slaves and sneaked back to Shangjiabao to kill people.

He didn't expect that these things would be done by Chen Ruyi.

An Jixiang looked at His Majesty again, but he didn't know what His Majesty thought of Chen Ruyi's murder.

Yang Yuanpu groaned a little and said: "Such a small thing, just do it, you don't need to ask me for everything." ”

Seeing that His Majesty approved of Chen Ruyi's approach, An Jixiang was more or less jealous in his heart, what could he say?

"Shang Wensheng's assassination case, should Jinyun Si follow up? Your Majesty, please make it clear. Chen Ruyi asked again.

"Since these people have all asked you to kill them, Jinyun Division has no excuse to follow up, so let's hand them over to the Criminal Department to deal with, and see what waves they can make." Yang Yuanpu said.

An Jixiang noticed that when His Majesty said this, there was a hint of strangeness in his pupils, and he thought to himself that even if Shang Wensheng died, His Majesty still didn't want to see Guangde Mansion too calm?

"By the way, the Queen Mother's birthday is approaching, Your Majesty understands the hardships of the people in the state and county, and prohibits the state and county from paying tribute, but the Shuzhou defense makes Du Tao, the son of Du Chongtao, travel with the eunuchs in Beijing, and has said many times in private that His Majesty understands the people's sufferings and forbids the state and county to offer, but as a courtier, he can't forget the number of courtesies......" Chen Ruyi said again.

"I see." Yang Yuanpu waved his hand.

Seeing that His Majesty showed a hint of laziness and tiredness, Chen Ruyi and An Jixiang retired with an informed and interesting taste.

Walking out of the Chongwen Palace, An Jixiang arched his hand towards Chen Ruyi and said: "I really want to congratulate my junior brother this time, I was able to investigate the assassination case so clearly and thoroughly in such a short period of time, and handled it cleanly for Your Majesty, I really underestimated you in the past......

"I'm just thinking more about your majesty." Chen Ruyi smiled slightly.

"If this case is completely revealed, it has nothing to do with the Marquis of Qianyang, and now the half-concealed, half-truthful and half-false gossip is circulating in the ears of the princes and ministers of the court, and the Marquis of Qianyang can't say it clearly," An Jixiang twisted his chin and said, "Your Highness is really getting more and more powerful, in the final analysis, I still don't believe that the Marquis of Qianyang didn't do anything in the three counties of Guangde Mansion, but it is inconvenient to directly instruct you and my senior brother to take the people of Jinyun Division to turn Guangde Mansion upside down." Then I could only use the Criminal Department and those family lords who were angered by the half-truths and half-truths to go to Guangde Mansion to startle the snakes first. According to me, the old slave of the Shang family mentioned in the official letter of Lishui County, he had come into contact with the six Shang family soldiers who were imprisoned in the room before his junior brother, maybe he had already told Wei Zhen about some details......

"What does Wei Zhen know, he didn't kill the old slave of the Shang family by torture, didn't he omit Shang Zhongjie's killing of his wife and indiscriminate killing of homeless people, etc., and he didn't mention it in the official document?" Chen Ruyi said with a smile, "Since it is Wei Zhen and these people who want to make things bigger, why don't we and Your Majesty be happy to watch the fire from across the strait?" ”

An Jixiang pointed at Chen Ruyi and made a pitched laugh.

At this moment, they were triumphant, but they didn't know how big the fire would burn, or they thought that His Majesty could control the fire, or they didn't care how big the fire would burn......