At this time, the triage of the three divisions, that is, the Dali Temple Siqing, the Criminal Department Shangshu, and the Imperial History Zhongcheng co-chaired the trial system, such a lineup is very luxurious, and generally only particularly major cases are tried by these three departments. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In such a ratio, Dali Temple occupies one, so Xiao Yan immediately agreed, on the side of the Criminal Department, Zhang Yi presided over, and Yu Shi Zhongcheng was Gao Yue. In addition to Zhang Yiliang, Gao Yue is brilliant, and he is as famous as Jiang Wenwei, and the two cherish each other and have a good relationship.

A few years ago, Jiang Wenwei was demoted, and died of illness three years later, which was a blow to Han Xizai, Chang Mengxi and others, because of Jiang Wenwei's relationship, Gao Yue was inclined to Yan Wang's party, so it was said that the three divisions would be tried, which was beneficial to Yan Wang, no wonder Li Hongji was busy agreeing.

After Li Jing agreed, Xiao Yan was expressionless, but he was groaning in his heart, with his understanding of Yang Lian, Yang Lian is like this, is there any conspiracy? But thinking about the officials of the three divisions, this is not good for Yang Lian.

Yang Lian arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, since this matter has been decided, Weichen hopes that the officials who will be tried can handle it fairly and give Weichen justice." ”

"This is natural, no matter who it is this time, the evidence must be conclusive, if someone deliberately frames me, I will definitely not spare it." Li Jing said that he also hoped that this matter had nothing to do with Yang Lian, if it really was, what should he do?

Xiao Yan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, this matter is very important, and the ministers will definitely deal with it impartially." ”

Li Jing was still a little uneasy, and said: "After this matter is reviewed, the three divisions will write the excerpt and hand it over, I want to take a look at it and then decide!" ”

"Whoa!" Xiao Yan replied, and when he saw Li Jing's tired face, he said goodbye and walked out.

Li Hongji snorted coldly, and after saluting his father, he also took his leave.

Yang Lian was about to turn around and leave, when Li Jing suddenly spoke, stopped him, and said, "Wu Hou, does this matter have anything to do with you?" ”

"Your Majesty, according to what Zhang Denghai and Xiao Siqing said, when the place in the south of the city exploded, Weichen was inside, but in fact, Weichen was safe and sound, and he was not injured at all, which proves that Weichen was not there when the explosion occurred."

"Wu Hou, do you mean that Xiao Qing's family is lying?" Li Jing asked.

"Weichen is not sure, maybe Xiao Siqing recognized the wrong person." Yang Lian said.

Li Jing nodded, according to Xiao Yan, it was night at that time, and it was normal to recognize the wrong person, but why did he recognize Wu Hou? This thing is indeed a bit strange.

The Son of Heaven ordered the three divisions to interrogate and deal with the explosion in the south of the city, and the news quickly spread to all the ministries, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Officials of all ministries feel that although the Tang Dynasty has not fought a war today, every day is no easier than when there was a war.

Zhang Yi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, got the news and was very depressed, this matter seems simple on the surface, but it actually involves the dispute between Qi Yan, how should he deal with it? Now it seems that the King of Qi is more powerful, but if this thing is really done by Wu Hou, the private manufacture of weapons alone is enough for him to make a full house, let alone secretly make gunpowder.

Zhang Yi felt that this matter must be cautious, and he must grasp more information in order to guide how to do it.

Compared with Zhang Yi's hesitation, Gao Yue seems to be much more relaxed, he is good friends with Jiang Wenwei, and Jiang Wenwei is politically in the same party as Chang Mengxi, Han Xizai, Sun Sheng and others, so this choice is not difficult.

As soon as Yang Lian walked out of the imperial city, Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, rushed over, he got the news and hurried over, he felt that this thing could not be done by Wu Hou, but he must ask clearly, otherwise he couldn't let go of his heart. Yang Lian explained and told King Qi that there was no need to worry about this matter, it was not done by him. Li Jingsui was relieved.

Yan King Li Hongji returned to Yan Wang's Mansion with a smug face, and as soon as he entered the door, Chen Dongshen walked over quickly with a panicked expression, and said, "King Yan, something is wrong." ”

"What happened? All the fuss? Li Hongji, who was originally in good spirits, was very depressed by Chen Dongshen's words, so he asked puzzledly.

"King Yan, Prime Minister Sun is waiting inside." Chen Dongshen said.

Li Hongji frowned, walked over quickly, Sun Sheng was anxiously pacing in the secret room, only to see him frowning, looking worried, when he heard the footsteps outside the door, hurriedly raised his head, and walked quickly to Li Hongji.

"King Yan, save me!" Sun Sheng only spit out these four words, but every word seemed to weigh a thousand gold.

Li Hongji was slightly stunned, Prime Minister Sun is an important minister of the imperial court, and he can let him say this, which proves that this matter must be very serious, and it is so serious that he can't keep his status as prime minister. "Prime Minister Sun, what happened?"

"Alas!" Sun Sheng sighed and said, "King Yan, have you heard about the explosion in the south of the city?" ”

"Not only did I hear about it, but I also experienced it, judging from the information that Gu had, Yang Lian committed a serious crime, and Yang Lian couldn't escape as long as the evidence was collected. This time, even if he doesn't die, he will have to shed a layer of skin!" Li Hongji said.

"Oh, King Yan, that place is not Yang Lian's industry, but an old industry!" Sun Sheng said.

Li Hongji was dumbfounded, and said in a lost voice: "This, this, how can this be your industry?" ”

"King Yan, have you forgotten? The previous assassination of Yang Lian in Su Chang failed, and King Yan suffered a great loss, and later in order to make up for the loss and recruit dead soldiers, King Yan spent a lot of silver taels. This can only go in and out, and it can't make ends meet, so the old man set up an armory shop in the south of the city, and prepared gunpowder at the same time, which is also for the future needs. Sun Sheng explained.

"Ahh Li Hongji was taken aback at first, and slowly sat down, Sun Sheng had told him about this, but he didn't reveal it in too much detail. It was precisely by relying on the money from selling gunpowder that Li Hongji was able to quickly recover his strength, and now there are more than 100 dead soldiers under his subordinates.

"King Yan, this matter is a big problem, King Yan must save me, otherwise, King Yan will be equivalent to breaking his arm." While pleading, Sun Sheng did not forget to remind King Yan that if he was removed from his post or killed, the result would be the same, and King Yan's power would inevitably be further weakened.

Li Hongji also understood this truth, he pondered for a while, and said: "It's really hateful, now it seems that this matter is clearly set up by Yang Lian." "Now that the three divisions will be tried, it is not trivial, and my father is also extremely concerned, and it will be difficult to make trouble from it.

"This explosion, I think some evidence should be destroyed, Prime Minister Sun, think about it again, who else knows that this is your property?" Li Hongji asked.

"Wang Cheng, yes, it's Wang Cheng. That property was bought by the old man Wang Cheng, and the owner's name was also Wang Cheng. Sun Sheng said busily.

"So, if Wang Cheng is dead, there will be no clues?" Li Hongji said.

"After all, this matter is a big deal, and only Wang Cheng knows about it." Sun Sheng said.

Li Hongji suddenly laughed and said, "Since this is the case, this matter will be easy to handle." ”

Wang Cheng was dressed in green clothes, carrying a burden, looking left and right, ready to escape from Jinling City.

More than half a year ago, Wang Cheng took refuge in Sun Sheng, which is something that many businessmen dare not think of in his life as an ordinary businessman. In order to get more benefits, Wang Cheng did not hesitate to take refuge in Prime Minister Sun, working hard for him, with Prime Minister Sun's help, his business road is indeed much easier, many local officials, knowing that he is doing things for Prime Minister Sun, not only not embarrassed, but even gave some gifts, hoping that he can say a few good words in front of Prime Minister Sun.

Relying on the name of Prime Minister Sun, Wang Cheng was very lucky to make a lot of money. Originally, this kind of life could go on, but what happened last night changed his fate, and Prime Minister Sun entrusted him to buy a property to secretly make gunpowder and weapons. Prime Minister Sun naturally made money in the name of making money, but the shrewd Wang Cheng found that a certain amount of gunpowder and weapons would be missing every month, and these things were not sold.

So where did all this stuff go? The answer is about to come out, Prime Minister Sun is the person of King Yan, and these gunpowder and weapons must have flowed into King Yan's mansion. If it was usual, Wang Cheng would naturally not care, but now that such a thing has happened, the explosion has leveled a place within a radius of hundreds of steps, destroyed dozens of houses, and killed many people.

Once it is investigated, Prime Minister Sun is a dignified first-class official, so he naturally has nothing to do, but what about himself? I'm sure I'm going to be pushed out as a scapegoat. Therefore, as soon as Wang Cheng got the news, he immediately packed up and prepared to hide for a while.

As for his wife and children, he has been sent to a friend to take care of him. In this way, it is convenient to flee by yourself.

Because Princess Yan was stolen a few days ago, the murderer has not been caught so far, so the inspection at the city gate is still relatively strict, and there is a long queue in the city, with more than 30 steps, and the soldiers guarding the city gate are checking one by one. However, the inspection is fake, and it is actually just taking the opportunity to blackmail.

Wang Cheng took out a piece of broken silver from his arms, about two taels, he had already made up his mind, and when he arrived at the door, he immediately bribed these soldiers, although it would be safe to go out of the city.

The team slowly moved forward, and Wang Cheng waited anxiously, and it took a long meal before it was his turn.

"Where are you going?" A soldier looked Wang Cheng up and down, Wang Cheng was wearing silk, but looking at his appearance, it was obvious that he was not an official eunuch, so it was very likely that he was a businessman.

"Master Jun, the villain is going to visit relatives outside the city." Wang Chen said, handed his hand over, and quietly put two taels of broken silver into the soldier's palm.

The soldier put it away very quickly, the heavy silver fell in the palm of his hand, he could tell how heavy it was, the number of two taels of silver was a lot, the soldier was overjoyed, nodded, and said: "Go quickly, go quickly, don't delay Lao Tzu's time." ”

Wang Cheng was overjoyed in his heart and was about to leave, when suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves in the city sounded, Wang Cheng felt that something was wrong, he hurriedly ran up a few steps, and wanted to leave, but at this time, someone shouted, saying: "Stop, no one is allowed to leave the city!" ”

Wang Cheng was startled and was about to rush out of the city first, but the two soldiers reacted extremely quickly to block him. Wang Cheng stood helplessly, hoping that it had nothing to do with him.

It was Zhu Lingyun who came on horseback, he was ordered by King Yan to hurry all the way, just to prevent Wang Cheng from going out of the city, and glanced at the crowd, Zhu Lingyun found from Sun Sheng's description that there was a person who looked like Wang Cheng.

"What's your name?" Zhu Lingyun asked.

"The villain Zhang Bin has seen the military master." Where is Wang Cheng willing to tell the truth, and he said a name nonsense.

Zhu Lingyun glanced at him, nodded, and said, "Since your surname is Zhang, then it's none of your business, you can go!" ”

Wang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, walked away, and just walked seven or eight steps, a voice suddenly came from behind, saying, "Wang Cheng!" ”

Wang Cheng reflexively responded habitually, and suddenly he felt that something was wrong, and was about to deny it, but Zhu Lingyun had already pounced and took down Wang Cheng with one move.

"Tie it up and send it back." Zhu Lingyun ordered.

"Whoa!" The soldier who came with him said, tying up Wang Chenghuada.

"General, what is this?" A brave soldier asked.

"Alas, this person is a domestic slave in the prince's mansion, but he coveted the prince's wealth, stole gold and silver and fled, but fortunately, he found it in time, so he led his troops to chase him." Zhu Lingyun said.

When these soldiers guarding the city gate heard this, although they didn't know which prince it was, they didn't dare to ask more, so they had to laugh together.

"You are all loyal people, you will be able to capture the thief, thanks to you, this credit, the prince has written down, he will ascend the throne as the emperor in the future, and you will inevitably have the credit." Zhu Lingyun said again, and the words were still very vague.

The soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then they all understood, this is the person from the Qi Palace, the emperor's younger brother of the Tang Dynasty today is the King of Qi, and the future Tang Dynasty will be his. Several soldiers laughed and said good things to Zhu Lingyun. Zhu Lingyun chatted for a while, and left in a hurry with someone.

Wang Cheng was stuffed into the carriage, and no one could see that there was an important person with an ordinary identity hidden inside. Half an hour later, Wang Cheng was escorted to the Yanwang Mansion. Zhu Lingyun had great strength, carried Wang Cheng like a chicken, and threw it in front of Li Hongji, the king of Yan.

"Ouch!" Wang Cheng shouted, raised his head, and saw Li Hongji, who was majestic and imposing, and couldn't help but be stunned, and then he saw Prime Minister Sun Sheng and Prime Minister Sun on the side.

"Prime Minister Sun, I'm Wang Cheng, it's Wang Cheng!" Wang Cheng pounced.

"Hmph, the old man knows that you are Wang Cheng, Wang Cheng, the old man asked you, what are you going to do when you dress up like this?" Sun Sheng asked.

Wang Cheng naturally wouldn't admit it, so he said: "Prime Minister Sun, the villain is going out and buying a batch of goods." ”

"When you buy a batch of goods, you need to send your wife and children somewhere else?" Sun Sheng accused unceremoniously, he looked at Wang Cheng coldly, and said bluntly: "According to the old man, you want to escape!" ”

"Run? Why did Prime Minister Sun say this? Wang Cheng said, still refusing to admit it.

Li Hongji was on the side, snorted coldly, and said, "Prime Minister Sun, why do you have to talk to him too much?" ”

"Yes, King Yan." Sun Sheng hurriedly responded, waved his hand, and said, "Come on, bring everyone up!" ”

With Sun Sheng's voice, two women with three children walked up crying, Wang Cheng looked at it, it turned out to be his wife and concubine, in addition to several of his children, he didn't expect to be arrested.