Daming capital, somewhere inconspicuous house.

No one knows that this seemingly inconspicuous place is the secret mansion of Hu Jiucheng, the head of the West Factory.

It's not that Hu Jiucheng is low-key, but because of the nature of his profession, he must try to integrate into ordinary people.

This is similar to Sun Dong, neither of them is the master of publicity, otherwise they would not have gained Ye Xun's absolute trust.

News has been sent back from Shuzhong that Ye Xun is about to leave Shuzhong and return to Beijing, and before Ye Xun arrives in Beijing, Hu Jiucheng must also complete one thing, an absolutely confidential matter.

Although Hu Jiucheng's yard is small, what people don't know is that there are tunnels extending in all directions under the yard.

With the current status of the West Factory, of course, the tunnel is not used to escape for life, but to transmit messages and orders, because only in this way can it truly be unaware.

In the dim candlelight, two black-clothed men knelt in front of Hu Jiucheng, and it was not difficult to see from the situation reflected by their bodies that they were very frightened now, obviously doing something wrong.

"When my father-in-law was leaving, he handed over such an important matter to me, but he never thought that you would mess it up, you say! What to do? ”

People who have been in the top position for a long time have their own power in their gestures, don't look at Hu Jiucheng's little follower in front of Ye Xun, in front of his subordinates, he is also the master who can make his subordinates breathless.

"The adults don't know, it's not that my brother shirks the responsibility, it's that those people appeared too suddenly, and my brother was caught off guard, so they got their hands on it."

A man in black said without raising his head.

Hu Jiucheng frowned and continued to ask, "Do you know who they are?" How's that guy? ”

Another man in black said: "That person was taken away by them, from the figure of those people, the subordinates analyzed, it should be a widow."

"Widows?"

Hu Jiucheng knows that the martial arts of the Japanese people are very different from the martial arts of the Central Plains, and it can be said that they are very easy to recognize.

Hu Jiucheng is undoubtedly a very smart person, since the queen gave birth to the crown prince, he has an intuition that the child born by the queen is likely to be Ye Xun's, that is, the grandfather Ye they admire is actually a fake eunuch.

After coming to this conclusion, Hu Jiucheng himself was shocked, but reason told him that whether this matter was true or not, it must rot in his stomach, otherwise with Ye Xun's methods, he would die an ugly death.

Since the child born by the queen may be Ye Xun's child, then this child will definitely ascend to the throne in the future, so before that, should he do something?

Emperor Zhu Youxiao is already half a dead person, and he may hang up at any time, if Zhu Youxiao dies, and the crown prince is too young, will the ministers choose another emperor in the imperial family?

The answer is very likely, and the biggest candidate for this is Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters.

Zhu Youzhen was locked up in King Xin's mansion, and he has always been very honest, according to Ye Xun's thoughts, he planned to let him hang up unconsciously after he became a vassal, so that no one would associate King Xin's death with Ye Xun.

Now that Ye Xun is not at home, Hu Jiucheng made his own decision and was ready to send Zhu Youzhen a ride in advance, but he didn't want to be cut off halfway.

This is not only a great shame for Hu Jiucheng, but if it reaches Ye Xun's ears, his slapping of the sycophants is likely to be self-defeating.

However, this matter has developed so far, but there has been a reversal that no one expected, a brother of the emperor who is imprisoned, who would be interested in robbing him? What's the use of taking him away?

"Give you two bastards a chance, secretly search for the whereabouts of these people, and don't be alarmed when you find them, report back to me immediately"

"Don't worry, my lord, we will mobilize all the brothers to investigate, and we will never let those bastards escape..."

Before the man in black could speak, he was driven away by Hu Jiucheng with a wave of his hand, and after his subordinates missed, they reported themselves as soon as possible, and the West Factory was also launched immediately, so Hu Jiucheng felt that the person should still be in the city.

After pondering for a while, he first sent a secret report to Ye Xun, of course, this matter cannot be said to have been provoked by himself, he has to wash himself first.

"Come on, prepare a sedan chair, I'm going to see Yang Ge Lao"

Yang Sichang is the first assistant of the cabinet, and he once taught Zhu Youzhen, although he has been on Ye Xun's side since then, but who dares to guarantee that this matter has nothing to do with him?

In fact, if this matter were considered by Ye Xun, he would not have taken Yang Sichang into account, because Ye Xun was not in the past six months, and the cabinet headed by Yang Sichang could be said to be the biggest beneficiary.

There is no emperor to restrain it, there is no powerful minister in the court, and the scholars of Yishui are in power, once upon a time, this is not the goal that the Donglin Party people diligently pursue?

It's a pity that the Donglin Party didn't see the situation clearly and didn't stand in line, but Yang Sichang and others stood on the right side.

can give full play to his political views in the court, how could Yang Sichang participate in Zhu Youzhen's affairs?

Yang Sichang was met by Hu Jiucheng in the inner study, Yang Sichang can be arrogant in front of others, but in front of this big spy leader, he still behaves very modestly.

After listening to Hu Jiucheng's introduction, Yang Sichang's brows also furrowed deeply.

Obviously, the person who did this must be Ye Xun's opponent, but Ye Xun's opponent is too many, countless, there is no exact goal, and it is really difficult to sort out the clues.

"Ge Lao, I have already mobilized the Xichang manpower to carry out a secret visit in the whole city, and Jinyiwei also said hello, but I don't think it is enough, Ge Lao thinks this is not okay, we declare to the outside world that King Xin died of a sudden illness, so we should be able to test the reaction of all parties"

Listening to Hu Jiucheng's words, Yang Sichang pondered for a moment, and was just about to speak, when he suddenly reacted, this bastard didn't want to test others, I'm afraid he was testing Lao Tzu, right?

Thinking of this, he nodded and said: "This is a good idea, these people must have some ulterior motive for robbing King Xin, as long as the news of King Xin's death is spread, then no rumors will be destroyed."

"By the way, it's about to be the New Year, and Grandpa Ye should come back, right?"

Hu Jiucheng nodded, and said in his heart that this old fox was talking very quickly.

"How can I, as a subordinate, know the whereabouts of my father-in-law? Since the elder also agrees with this method, then immediately start implementing it and say goodbye! ”

It's rare that two people along the way can talk for such a long time, Hu Jiucheng would rather go to the edict to interrogate the prisoners than deal with these sanctimonious scholars, and turned around and strode away after giving a salute.

Looking at Hu Jiucheng's distant back, Yang Sichang first pursed his lips disdainfully, and then frowned again, who kidnapped King Xin? What is the purpose of kidnapping the king of faith? ...