"Husband, what's wrong?" Li Sha'er, who was sitting next to Yun Xi, immediately took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth and asked.

"Nothing." Yun Xi said. Although he did not hide Li Sha'er's thoughts about this matter, and he would inevitably make it public in the future, he would not be able to hide it, but since Li Sha'er only asked such vaguely in order to avoid suspicion, he would not take the initiative to say it.

But Yun Xi, who saw the confession, was not in the mood to continue eating, so he hastily finished the rest of the meal and got up to go to the outer study.

Soon he came to the outer study, and Qian Minglin, who was waiting here, immediately bowed and saluted; Yun Xi sat down in a chair, waved his hand to get him up, and then picked up the confession he handed him and said to him, "This is all true? ”

"Your Majesty, this is Zhang Sanfeng, Zhang Zhenren, and the ministers interrogated Wu De and Su Dongli after they performed the spell." Qian Minglin said.

Of course, Yun Xi understood what Qian Minglin meant by saying this, that is, it was not my responsibility in case there was a problem with the confession, he was not very happy in his heart, but he immediately suppressed it, and asked again: "Have you asked the two of them the same question and got the same answer?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister did ask the two of them the same question, and they both answered the same question." Qian Minglin replied.

"In that case, then this confession is true, but," Yun Xi said abruptly before he finished speaking.

Qian Minglin had already understood what he meant, if he was not the one who personally interrogated him, and he had interrogated him many times, he himself would not have dared to believe that the country behind the scenes was actually that country.

Yun Xi suddenly asked him to retreat at this time. Qian Minglin understood in his heart: Your Majesty is going to gather his cronies to discuss how to deal with this matter; And he is just a general judgment of the six grades, even if he stays in Guangzhou City, he is not a big official, but because Li is the inspector of the evil spirit, and he has always been good at adjudicating cases, he was appointed to be responsible for the two major cases of Caisheng and Wu Gu, so he can often face the saint these days.

But now that the case has been interrogated clearly, in other words, his role to the emperor has ended here, the days when he used to be often received and directly ordered by the emperor are gone, and the emperor will not discuss with him how to deal with this matter.

But although he knew it very well in his heart, he was still a little depressed. I can only comfort myself and say: 'Solving two such important cases, even if the credit is diluted, Your Majesty has always rewarded and punished clearly, at least you can be promoted to a first-class official position, and it will not be in vain for these days' hard work. ’

Unexpectedly, just when he was about to go out, Yun Xi suddenly said to him: "Qian Aiqing, I have taken your credit to heart this time, and I will at least promote you to the second grade to reward your merits." ”

"The minister is just a small achievement, how can he afford such a promotion, and please ask Your Majesty to take back his life." Although Qian Minglin was very happy, he still knelt down and said.

"What? Are you worried that it will rise too quickly and cause criticism? You don't have to worry about that. In the second year of Jianye, I personally promoted Zhang Yanfang from the five-grade Shanghai City Shipping Division to the envoy of the Maritime Affairs Institute from the third-grade, and he was also promoted to two grades, and the ministers did not oppose it; Your contribution this time is not small, and there will be no criticism. Yun Xi said.

What Yun Xi just said was indeed what Qian Minglin was worried about. It is not necessarily a good thing to be promoted to two grades and four levels of official positions at a time in the officialdom, except for a few special circumstances, everyone is promoted to one grade and one grade or even one level at a time, just you have been promoted to two grades at once, it is too eye-catching, and he is not from Zhan Shifu back then.

However, he has indeed made a great contribution this time, involving a big case related to the emperor, and everyone should not dare to say anything. What's more, since His Majesty said so, he can't shirk it anymore.

So, "Thank you, Your Majesty." Qian Minglin knelt down and said.

Yun Xi said a few more words to him and let him go down.

Then Yun Xi called Song Liang, Yang Ren, and several Zhongshu Sheren and Tongshi Sheren who came with him.

After all these people arrived, Yun Xi did not speak, but handed them the confession that he had copied a few copies.

After several of them got the confession, they all looked surprised after a few glances, and the lowest people in the city even shouted: "How is this possible!" ”

Only Yang Ren and Song Liang, who had been in the big scene for a long time, could still hold on, but Yang Ren had to sigh after reading the entire confession: "If it weren't for this confession, the minister would never have believed that this matter was actually related to the Timurid Khanate." The country that can't be beaten with eight poles will be the mastermind behind these two big cases. ”

Yes, the mastermind behind the Caisheng Torture Case and the Witch Gu Case, the mastermind behind the scenes that surprised Yun Xi and everyone present, turned out to be the Timurid Khanate.

Of course, it is slightly problematic to say that the Timurid Khanate was behind the scenes, since Timur himself did not know about it.

According to Su Dongli's confession, the details of the matter are as follows. In that year, when Zhu Yuanzhang died and Yunxi succeeded to the throne, Timur sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty, called the court to see the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, to explore the situation of the Ming Dynasty.

In that year, the Ming Dynasty set up the Shanghai City Division, and the envoy Manrakha sent by Timur remembered this matter, and when he returned to Samarkand, he told Timur about the Ming Dynasty's establishment of the City Division.

Timur himself didn't care about this, it was just a place to do business; But the head of Timur's intelligence agency kept the matter in mind.

Daming is different from other countries. At this time, Daming has the most complete household registration system in the world, and it is not easy to send people to mix in; The people in charge of the intelligence agencies had a headache about how to spy on the situation of the Ming Dynasty in addition to sending an upright envoy, so they set their sights on the Shanghai City Division, which had just been established at that time.

Since the city shipping department has been established, it is necessary to allow merchants from all countries to come here to do business, otherwise it is still only the merchants of the Ming Dynasty who do business, and a fart market shipping department will be set up. And since businessmen from various countries are allowed to come, they are given the opportunity to do intelligence work.

Several spies of the Timurid Empire were sent to Shanghai City in the first year of Jianye, and used the name of Fanguo merchants as a cover to spy on intelligence.

At the end of the second year of Jianye, Yunxi wanted to set up the news of Bao'an City, although Bao'an was far away from the capital of Daming, but the person in charge of intelligence also felt that a person should be arranged there, Su Dongli was sent to Daming at this time, first studied in Shanghu City for two months, and then came to Bao'an City.

Su Dongli was originally Sinhalese, so there was not much difference in appearance from the Han Chinese, but when his father was in his father's time, due to the discriminatory policies of the Sinhalese government at that time against the Celestial Sect, the family migrated to the Delhi Sultanate in the north, and later to Persia. After the conquest of Persia by Timur, he became a member of the Timurid Khanate.

Su Dongli may have been forced to leave Sinhala because of his faith in his childhood, his faith was very pious, and he was very hostile to people who did not believe in the Heavenly Religion, and because he looked close to the Orientals, he was absorbed by the intelligence agencies and specialized in spying on intelligence in the East.

After the news that Yunxi was going to come to Guangdong to inspect in September this year, Su Dongli put forward a bold idea because it was becoming more and more obvious that there would be a battle between Daming and Timur at this time: to assassinate Yunxi in Guangdong.