"Lord Kim, I came to visit at night, I don't know what happened?" Zhang Zhen looked at Jin Quan who was kneeling on the ground, and did not let him get up, but picked up the teacup, brushed the tea leaves on it with the lid of the cup, took a sip gently, and then asked casually.

"My lord, my lord, my lord," feeling Zhang Zhen's attitude, Jin Quan couldn't help but regret a little in his heart, he shouldn't have hesitated so much, he should have come earlier. As soon as the holy decree arrives today, the fate of himself and others is in the hands of the old man in front of him, and his relationship with him is no longer his former colleague, and the Ming Emperor has lifted the veil of warmth and affection, and wants to solve the problem with steel knives and blood.

"Xia Guan thinks that it was Li, Li Fangyuan murdered the Marquis of Joseon!"

"What?" Zhang Zhen stopped his movements, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Jin Quan fixedly: "Do you have evidence?" ”

"Although Xiaguan has no solid evidence, he knows that the Marquis of Korea has two hearts for Daming and colludes with Li Fangyuan!"

"Oh?" Zhang Zhen's expression was no longer indifferent, he put down the teacup and looked at Jin Quan with interest: "Lord Jin, get up and speak!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

Jin Quan Xie then stood up and sat on the side seat, but only half of his butt leaned on the seat, looking at Zhang Zhen eagerly like a lecherous dog.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Zhen couldn't help laughing, the previous Jin Quan was not like this, he was Li Fanggan's old courtier, fled to Beijing with him, and then returned to North Korea together, I heard that he had been received by His Majesty, maybe because of these, he felt different from others, not only looked down on Cheng Shixuan, Quan Zhun and others, but also was neither humble nor arrogant to Zhang Zhen.

"Lord Kim, the North Korean Hou is disloyal, do you have any evidence?"

"Xiaguan has, this is the handwriting of the Marquis of Joseon."

As he spoke, Jin Quan took out an oilcloth bag from his cuff and opened it in front of Zhang Zhen, inside was a letter and a few smaller oilcloth bags.

Zhang Zu, who was standing beside Zhang Zhen, took the letter and the booklet, checked it, and then handed it to Zhang Zhen.

Zhang Zhen checked the lacquer seal first, and found that there were traces of opening, and couldn't help but look up at Jin Quan, and saw Jin Quan sneering with a smile on his face: "This, Xia Guan has opened it, this is also for the safety of adults!" ”

Zhang Zhen smiled slightly, noncommittal, lowered his head and opened the letter, and found that there was only one piece of paper inside, and the content was very simple:

"If Ben Hou dies one day, he will die at the hands of Li Fangyuan!"

It is signed by Li Fanggan's signature and the great seal of the Marquis of Joseon.

"Interesting!"

Finding that Li Fanggan had left such a letter, Zhang Zhen's expression became solemn, and he immediately said: "Zhang Zu, you immediately send someone to invite Lord Qu, Lord Huang, and Tao Jia, a thousand households of the Military Intelligence Department in North Korea, to come over, and this official has something important to discuss!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Zhen put down the letter and looked at the oilcloth bags, Zhang Zu understood, and immediately opened the oilcloth bags one by one, and when he opened one of them, Zhang Zu was surprised: "My lord, this has been opened!" ”

Zhang Zhen glanced at the cloth bag, turned his head to look at Jin Quan, who was laughing, and snorted in his nose: "It's okay, go on!" ”

After the cloth bags were opened, Zhang Zu spread them flat on the table, and then checked them before sending them to Zhang Zhen.

Zhang Zhen took it and flipped a few pages, and found that it was Li Fanggan's diary, Zhang Zhen was a little puzzled, and took a few others, and found that from November last year to February this year, there was one book per month, so it was four.

Li Fanggan's diary was written with a hard pen, and it was written very sloppily and briefly, Zhang Zhen flipped through it and found that most of the records were related to Li Fangyuan.

"On December 23, the sixth year of Jianwen, the weather was fine, and the clown who came to the palace to sing turned out to be the fifth brother's person, and he apologized to me on behalf of the fifth brother, I flatly refused, and told him that if he came again, he would send someone to arrest him......"

“......”

"On January 3, the seventh year of Jianwen, it snowed heavily, and the singer who entered the palace to play the piano turned out to be the fifth brother's person, and told me that the fifth brother was in distress, hoping to help him, I was going to refuse, but she explained that the emperor's intentions were sinister, and if the fifth brother died, I would not live long......"

“......”

"On January 23, the seventh year of Jianwen, the weather was fine, and the people of the fifth brother have recently become more and more unscrupulous in entering the palace, of course, it is also the result of my intentional indulgence, I am a ridiculous person who indulges in wine and likes things that are not in the stream, so I gave them the convenience of entering and exiting the palace. I can still help with what they ask for. Although I don't have real power, I can still know some things, such as the movements of Zhang Zhen, Sheng Yong, Qu Neng and others, the progress of the case of King Chu in the imperial court, etc., the fifth brother is interested in these, I told him, but I was a little panicked in my heart, I was really afraid that the matter would be revealed, and it would be all over......"

“......”

"On February 4 of the seventh year of Jianwen, the weather is cloudy, and the mood has become more and more bad recently, and the fifth brother's side is becoming more and more difficult, and there are more and more requirements, but what I can do is very limited, I can only do some small things in Hanjing that are not on the table, and cover his people. It's just that I have a bad feeling recently, it seems that someone is spying on me, but I pay attention to it, but I get nothing, maybe in the eyes of some people, I am a ridiculous prince, and Li Fangyuan is the hope of North Korea......"

"Jianwen February 10th, the weather is cloudy, it feels more and more wrong, for the sake of insurance, I have to make some preparations, once I have an accident, Li Fangyuan will not be better......"

“......”

"On the twenty-eighth day of the second year of Jianwen, the weather is fine, let's indulge in wine, if the matter is revealed, the Ming Emperor will not spare me, even if it is not revealed, the Ming Emperor will not keep me for too long, in addition, the fifth brother is afraid that he will also kill me, although I don't understand what the reason is, but, alas, ......"

“......”

Li Fanggan's diary is very brief, so there is not much content every day, and sometimes it is even skipped, and the time ends at the end of February, maybe he also wrote it in March, but it has been buried in the fire with him, or he was found writing these things, so he was extinguished.

Zhang Zhen glanced at ten lines, and quickly finished reading it, he spread the February diary on the table, and glanced up at Jin Quan: "You have read all of these!" ”

"No, no," Jin Quan wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and said timidly: "After the lower official got these, he was curious for a while, and read the letter and the contents of February, but the lower official didn't read it all, only read a few pages, and the lower official was frightened and didn't dare to read it anymore, so he hurriedly sent it to the adult today." ”

Zhang Zhen was about to continue to ask questions, when he heard the sound of footsteps, Huang Fu, Qu Neng, and Tao Jia walked in in turn.

After saluting each other, Zhang Zhen pointed to the letters and diaries on the table: "These are all brought by Lord Jin, and they are relics of Joseon Hou, and there may be clues to the murderer in them, let's take a look." ”

"What?"

Huang Fu and the others subconsciously looked back at Jin Quan, then sat down, picked up the documents on the table and read them.

......

When the three of them looked at the documents, Zhang Zhen turned his head and looked at Jin Quan: "Lord Jin, this official wants to know how much do you know about the news of the North Korean Hou's secret communication with the traitor?" ”

"My lord," Jin Quan was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowing again and again: "The lower official doesn't know at all, please be aware of it, if the lower official lies, he is willing to thunder and thunder!" ”

"Okay, let's put this aside for a while, when and by what means did the Marquis of Korea deliver his letter to you?"

"This," the sweat on Jin Quan's forehead immediately came out, and he said tremblingly: "It was the end of last month, that is, half a month ago!" ”

"What?" Zhang Zhen was immediately furious, he slapped the table, pointed at Jin Quan and said: "Jin Quan, you are so bold, you dare to hide such an important clue, and you dare to say that you don't have two hearts for half a month?" ”

"Big, big, adult," Jin Quan's frightened soul did not possess his body, he kowtowed again and again, his forehead was bloody, and he said loudly: "The villain was scared at the time, at that time, everyone was saying that the Ming Dynasty would withdraw from North Korea, then Li Fangyuan would take power, would the little one still have a way to live?" So, so ......"

"That's why you only brought the evidence out today, didn't you?"

“...... Be! ”

Seeing Jin Quan prostrate on the ground, a trace of disgust crossed Zhang Zhen's eyebrows, but soon he calmed down and said in a deep voice: "Then who is the person who gave you these things?" ”

"It's Kim Heon's younger brother!" Jin Quan said in a trembling voice.

"Kim Heon? Who is he? Zhang Zhen felt that the name was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it for a while.

"He, he is a close attendant of the Korean Hou, a Jurchen, his younger brother is called Jin Cheng, and he opened a shop selling meat on the streets of Seoul, which is also a back road for the Korean Hou, no one knows that Jin Cheng is the younger brother of Jin Xian, according to small conjectures, the Korean Hou no longer dares to trust the North Koreans, so he chose Jin Xian."

"Oh, that's right," Zhang Zhen nodded: "Jin Quan, then how do you think the Marquis of Korea died?" ”

"According to the letters of the Joseon Hou, it can be basically determined that Li Fangyuan did it, and there are only four people who specifically killed the Joseon Hou, that is, his close attendants, but Jin Xian can rule it out, because his younger brother sent these letters, if it was him, these letters should have disappeared long ago; As for Li Du, he is a Mongol, and it is not very likely; So the most likely should be one of his close attendants, Quan Yong, and of course, it is also very likely that the two of them conspired. ”

At this time, everyone had already finished reading the document, Zhang Zhen took Li Fanggan's letter of accusation, flicked it lightly a few times, and turned around and asked, "Well, what do you think?" ”

"Xiaguan's investigation coincides with what Lord Kim said, the four close attendants of the Korean Hou, Kim Xian and Li Du, have no family, while the families of Deputy Kwon and Quan Yong have disappeared before the Korean Hou's accident."

"Deputy Quan and Quan Yong have been buried in the fire, but their families have disappeared in advance, so it is very likely that these two people conspired!"

Hearing Tao Jia's words, Jin Quan said with some unconvincing: "Do you know that one person is not murderous, and the other person is suspicious?" ”

"This possibility is very small," Tao Jia shook his head: "Their family disappeared two days ago, if one of them is not involved in the case, then there is no way to ensure that this person does not know the situation at home, and once this anomaly is discovered, things may change, so the last general thinks that the possibility of the two conspiring is very high." ”

"That's right," Jin Quan thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "It's still a little wrong, Joseon Hou was killed on the day King Qi arrived in Korea, is it just a coincidence?" ”

"This," Tao Jia was stunned for a moment, and his face suddenly became ugly.

Jin Quan's question stopped everyone, so everyone couldn't help but turn their eyes to Zhang Zhen.

Zhang Zhen pondered for a long time, and finally said with a wry smile: "Regarding this issue of Lord Jin, the lower officials will play Your Majesty, and I hope Your Majesty will pay attention to it." ”

"As for our side, this official thinks that it will be put on hold for the time being, and the case of the murder of North Korean Hou by Quan Yong and Deputy Quan should be enough for the current situation in North Korea."

"Ruxi, Uncle An Yuan, what do you think?"

Huang Fu thought for a moment and said, "What the adults said is very true. ”

"The last general thinks so too."

"That's very good," Zhang Zhen put down the letter, turned his head to look at Jin Quan, and said: "Lord Jin, this time you have the greatest credit, Li Fangyuan is the murderer of the Joseon Hou, then you will draft a document to refute Li Fangyuan, and it will be announced to the world tomorrow, what do you think?" ”

“...... Lord Xie values it, and the lower officials will definitely do their best! ”

"That's very good, Lord Kim, you go back and prepare, it's hard work!"

"Retire!" Jin Quan got up and saluted, turned to leave, and from his relaxed steps, he could see that he was visibly relieved.

......