Back at the academy, Shen Leng opened the package and took out the armor and looked at it carefully, although this armor was hundreds of years old, it was very well preserved and not damaged, and it was obviously carefully maintained by someone from time to time.

Of course, you can't see the material of the armor from this point of view, but the touch and weight are enough to prove the value of this armor.

Shen Leng casually took an ordinary dagger and slashed it the armor, leaving only a shallow trace on the armor, and wiped it on the knife mark with his hand, and the knife mark was even shallower and almost invisible.

What's wrong with the things in Shen Leng's hand, even this ordinary dagger is made by Seiko, whether it is sharp or hard, it is extraordinarily comparable, plus his wrist strength, it actually only left such a shallow mark on the armor, you can imagine how hard this armor is.

Shen Leng pondered for a moment, spread the armor on the table, held the dagger in his right hand and stabbed it towards the armor, and with a crisp sound, the dagger actually broke.

Looking at the armor again, there is a small pit left in one of the armor pieces.

So Shen Leng's face showed joy.

This armor is heavy, if it is worn by an ordinary strong man, it will be difficult to move and not last long, not to mention any drastic movements, just wearing armor can exhaust people, unless it is a person with divine power, whether it is endurance, Meng Changan is naturally no problem.

Therefore, the more Shen Leng looked at this set of armor, the more he liked it, and he even had in his mind what kind of expression was on the guy's face when he handed over this set of armor to Meng Changan, and that expression should be expressed in four words...... If you want to refuse and welcome.

The mouth says no, but the body will be very honest.

"Sullen."

Shen Leng muttered two words to himself, and then suddenly thought of something, and looked down at the armor.

He reached out and wiped it on his armor and put it in front of his nose to smell it carefully, and after a while, Shen Leng's face was a little wrong.

A buzz in my head.

Tingwei's Mansion.

Qianban Nie Ye came in from outside quickly, and saw that Han Zhaozhi was about to pack up his things and go home, he stepped forward and clenched his fists and leaned over: "My lord, something is not good, something happened." ”

"Huh?"

Han Zhaozhi's face changed: "What else can happen at this time?" ”

Nie Ye approached and said: "The prisoner who was just interrogated is called Yao Jiu'er, he is Yao Chaozong's cronies, and he is also a member of the Yao family's side branch, he was originally an insignificant little person, Yao Chaozong saw that he was clever and did things with his heart, so he stayed by his side to dispatch, and when I interrogated him just now, he suddenly confessed a piece of news. ”

"What?"

He said...... Before Yao Chaozong's accident, he had won over the general Shen Leng, and gave Shen Leng a set of ancestral armor, called obscene scale armor, which was worn by the ancestors of the Yao family after following Emperor Taizu to open the country, and it was also given by Emperor Taizu himself. ”

Han Zhaozhi waved his hand: "Impossible." ”

Nie Ye said: "The subordinates also know that it is impossible, Yao Jiu'er said so, swearing, and said that Shen Leng took something but rejected Yao Chaozong, Yao Chaozong was angry and wanted to go to His Majesty to sue Shen Leng, and fight to break the net, but he didn't start as fast as Shen Leng, and was directly caught by Shen Leng. ”

"That's not possible."

Han Zhaozhi said: "Let's not say that Shen Leng can't accept Yao Chaozong's things at all, even if Shen Leng accepts it and doesn't plan to do anything for Yao Chaozong, he can kill Yao Chaozong, why should he catch a living one and hand it over to our Tingwei Mansion?" Isn't Shen Leng afraid of what we will interrogate? And if Yao Chaozong wanted to break the net with Shen Lengyu, he would have been locked up in the Tingwei Mansion, why didn't he say it before, but a little man under him confessed? It's not perverse, and nowhere is it perverse. ”

Nie Ye asked: "Yao Jiu'er said that he was afraid of retaliation, my lord, what should I do now?" ”

"What about the confession?"

"The confession is sealed."

Nie Ye's face was very ugly, and he said hesitantly: "But ......"

Han Zhaozhi knew what Nie Ye was worried about, His Majesty raised the Tingwei Mansion to a dominant position, and its authority was much higher than that of the Criminal Department, above all the yamen, but His Majesty did not relax the supervision of the Tingwei Mansion, such a huge yamen and the authority was so terrifying, if it was not controlled well, there would be problems.

Therefore, in every case involving officials, the people involved in the interrogation of the case have people from the palace, and the people from the Ouchi Guards Office take turns to come to the Tingwei's Mansion, not fixed people, but irregular rotations, so as to avoid the people of the Ouchi Guards from being bribed by the people of the Tingweifu for a long time and becoming complicit.

Therefore, every time an interrogation is recorded, someone from the Ouchi Guards is present, and the transcript will be made in duplicate, and there is no room for falsehood.

Nie Ye didn't worry about the people of the Tingwei Mansion, no one in the Tingwei Mansion would believe that Shen Leng would do such a thing, and he didn't believe that the Ouchi guards would believe this kind of nonsense, but if it was just the people of the Tingwei Mansion that Han Zhaozhi could suppress this matter, he would not be able to get out of the Tingwei Mansion at all, but with the people from the Ouchi Guards, such urgent and important news would be sent to the palace immediately.

"People are gone?"

"It's gone."

Nie Ye said: "After that person confessed, the people from the Ouchi Guards said that this matter was important and that they should return to the palace as soon as possible, and it was not easy for me to stop ......."

"You send someone back to my house, and they say that I have something important to do and can't go back tonight."

Han Zhaozhi commanded, and then strode out: "Let's go and ask Yao Chaozong again." ”

Yao Chaozong died.

When Han Zhaozhi approached the torture room with Nie Ye, he was stunned at a glance, and pushed open the door of the torture room, the light in the room was dim, but Yao Chaozong was lying on the ground, how could he not see it.

Han Zhaozhi strode over, helped Yao Chaozong's corpse up, stretched out his hand to probe his nose, and pinched his veins again, his face was already ugly like a volcano that was about to erupt at any time.

"Dead."

Han Zhaozhi got up: "Who is on duty?!" ”

The four court lieutenants guarding outside were also stunned, their faces were pale, they knelt on the ground together, and one of them said: "The four of us are on duty, my lord, Yao Chaozong was definitely not killed by us, and it was still good when he brought him food after dark, and there was nothing unusual." ”

"Food?"

Nie Ye walked quickly to the table and looked at it, there was leftover food on the table, and half a steamed bun, obviously Yao Chaozong died before he finished eating, and he didn't even say anything, otherwise it would be impossible for the Tingwei outside not to notice, he should have felt uncomfortable halfway through eating, and he couldn't shout when he wanted to shout, so he walked towards the door to call Tingwei outside, and halfway through the people fell to the ground and couldn't die.

"Send someone to find both Fang Bailu and Fang Baijing."

"Yes!"

Han Zhaozhi sat down on the chair: "Let me come over." ”

After a while, he arrived in a hurry, and Han Zhaozhi pointed to the food: "Go and see if it's poisonous." ”

He checked the food, then squatted next to the corpse to examine it carefully, rolled his eyelids, and the injuries on his body, he got up and looked at Han Zhaozhi: "It's not poisoned, there are no signs of poisoning on the body." ”

At this time, Fang Baijing and Fang Bailu rushed back, Han Zhaozhi was silent for a moment and then ordered: "Fang Baijing, call everyone in the Tingwei Mansion to gather in the courtyard today, no one is allowed to leave without my order, you keep an eye on it yourself." ”

"Yes!"

Fang Baijing immediately leaned over and bowed.

Han Zhaozhi looked at Fang Bailu: "You are guarding this corpse here, so you can carefully examine it again, think about it, what kind of medicine can make people die without seeing it." ”

Han Zhaozhi let out a long breath: "Nie Ye, take Yao Jiu'er and follow me into the palace." ”

Nie Ye snorted, turned around and went out to take someone.

Han Zhaozhi was silent for a moment and then said: "Suspend everything in the Tingwei Mansion, I was waiting for me in the courtyard before I came back, I never wanted to suspect anyone among my own people, I have always said that the people in the Tingwei Mansion are frank and open, before tonight, Your Majesty asked me, I will say the same, but after tonight, I am no longer qualified to say this, Tingwei Mansion...... There is a shame. ”

Han Zhaozhi shook his head and stepped out of the door.

Everyone knows that Yao Chaozong's death is wrong, everyone knows that Yao Jiu'er's confession is problematic, if it weren't for someone sending a letter to Yao Jiu'er in advance, he wouldn't be able to say such a thing, if it wasn't for someone who moved his hands and feet in the meal, Yao Chaozong would not have died, this person could only be someone from the Tingwei Mansion.

Han Zhaozhi's carriage passed through the night, and when he was halfway through, he heard the sound of horses' hooves, his car stopped, and the forbidden cavalry of the brigade also stopped opposite him, and a forbidden army general led by him urged the horse to come over and clenched his fists on the horse: "I've seen Lord Han." ”

Han Zhaozhi asked, "General Yu, what happened?" ”

Yu Jiangnan, the general of the forbidden army, replied: "By order...... Wai Tingwei's Mansion. ”

Han Zhaozhi's face changed suddenly.

Yu Jiangnan said: "Your Majesty is furious and ordered the forbidden army to block the Tingwei Mansion, Lord Han, offended." ”

Han Zhaozhi let out a long breath and nodded: "It's okay, you go, I'll go into the palace to see Your Majesty." ”

"Your Majesty is already waiting for you."

Yu Jiangnan hugged his fists again: "The emperor's order is here, and I also invite Lord Han Haihan." ”

After speaking, he waved his hand: "Go!" ”

The elite cavalry of the forbidden army roared out.

Weiyang Palace.

The emperor glanced at the inner guards who were kneeling there: "What Yao Jiu'er said, you should think carefully before and after, and don't miss a word." ”

The inner guard raised his head and said: "Back to Your Majesty, Yao Jiu'er said that Yao Chaozong heard that Shen Leng, the general of the Water Division, lacked military funds, so he privately sent someone to give Shen Leng hundreds of thousands of taels of silver tickets, as well as a set of armor, and also said to Shen Leng that there were millions of taels of silver hidden in the Yamen treasury of the Ministry of Industry and Water Division, so Shen Leng would find the silver at once." ”

"He also said that Yao Chaozong planned to send his son and nephew to Shen Leng's army, in addition to more than a dozen young people from the Yao family, Shen Leng initially agreed, but after getting the silver, he repented and led troops to break into the Ministry of Industry to arrest people."

The emperor frowned: "If that's the case, why didn't Yao Chaozong say it?" ”

The inner guard replied: "Yao Jiu'er said that Shen Leng threatened Yao Chaozong that if he talked nonsense, the entire Yao family would be overturned, and if he didn't speak, he would only do his family, and he would be beheaded all over the house if he spoke, and he also said that Shen Leng said that the Yao family's money came from an unknown source, and it was all black money, so it was better to use this silver as military expenses to go to war with the Sang people, and use it to buy protective gear to protect his sailor soldiers." ”

The Emperor paced back and forth in the room, turned his head and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Yao Jiu'er also said that when Shen Leng arrested Yao Chaozong, what he said was clear, that is, he wanted his silver to be used for military expenses, and it was a dream to send some indiscriminate people to the water division, and corrupt officials like them should be punished, no matter what kind of means are used, as long as they are done, they will do the right thing for heaven."

Hearing this, the emperor's face changed.