Yang Guang wanted to follow his father to the Linde Hall to check the scene of last night's incident, but after thinking about it, his father did not order him to accompany him to the Linde Palace, presumably he didn't want to disclose the matter prematurely to the courtiers who entered the palace today to discuss court affairs, so he stopped, turned around and greeted his mother: "When did the queen mother learn that something happened to the Linde Palace, and she wasn't frightened, right?" ”

Dugu Jialuo beckoned Yang Guang to sit beside him, and introduced the incident to Yang Guang: "It's about four days." You know, Su Yi'er usually lived in the Linde Hall with two little eunuchs on duty, last night he slept until midnight, heard the movement outside the hall was wrong, took people out of the hall to take a look, and found that the four eunuchs on duty outside the Linde Hall all fell to the ground, unconscious, and the beams outside the hall had been hung up with a woman's intimate clothes at some point, so he hurriedly ran to report to the emperor. Alas, it's a pity that Su Yi'er made a mistake in her busyness, and only ran to Zhengyang Palace to report to the emperor, but forgot to order someone to control the scene of the incident, and as a result, this matter was shouted by the two little eunuchs who lived in the palace with him to the palace, which caused more than 100 eunuchs who were on duty in the palace last night to rush to the outside of the Linde Palace to see the excitement, which caused a small riot in the palace this morning. ”

"My father was worried that the news of the accident in the Linde Hall would be rumored outside the palace by these eunuchs who came to watch, so he ordered the army to mobilize a thousand thousand thousand guards to enter the palace?" Yang Guang heard his mother's words come to this, stopped talking, and asked.

"You guessed right. Your father was indeed worried that the news of the successive accidents in the palace would spread to the outside of the palace and the streets, so he transferred the forbidden army into the palace and detained all the more than 100 eunuchs who rushed to the Linde Hall to see the excitement outside the Linde Hall this morning to the Changqiu Prison. Fortunately, the forbidden army entered the palace in time, and found that one of the four eunuchs on duty outside the Linde Hall was not dead, so Su Yier was ordered to send the imperial doctor to enter the palace urgently to treat him. Dugu Jialuo said, sighing, showing fatigue in his expression.

Yang Guang knew that his mother was woken up in less than four watches, and discussed countermeasures with his father At this time, he was inevitably a little tired, so he asked Dugu Jialuo to go back to the dormitory and sleep again, and rest assured that he would leave the next things to himself to preside, bid farewell to his mother, went out of Zhengyang Palace, and took Guo Yan to the Changqiu Supervision Office located in the southwest corner of Daxing Palace.

Changqiu Jian was the Sui Dynasty responsible for the management of the affairs of the Inner Dynasty and the eunuch's inner court office, and later developed to the Tang Dynasty renamed the Inner Servant Province, especially in the middle and late Tang Dynasty eunuch power, the Inner Servant Province was in power for a while, and its chief was called the Inner Minister, and the power even surpassed the Prime Minister of the Outer Dynasty.

However, throughout the Sui Dynasty, the emperor reused foreign ministers and did not leave the opportunity for the eunuchs around him to participate in court politics, so Changqiu Jian was just a palace service organization running errands at that time, with a low status and little power.

Even so, since the opening of the Sui Dynasty, with the expansion of the territory, the number of people has multiplied, and the affairs that need to be managed by the imperial court have increased day by day, and the Changqiu Prison, which is the daily service organization in the palace, has gradually expanded, and the number of eunuchs in the palace has increased from a few hundred in the first year of the Kaihuang to thousands in the six years of the Kaihuang, so for eunuchs like He Zhuer and Su Yier, being able to sit in the position of the Changqiu Supervisor can be said to be the ultimate goal of their lifelong pursuit (Yang Su's brother Yang Youyin accidentally fell from a tree when he was a child, Losing power and becoming a eunuch is different from He Zhu'er and Su Yi'er, who have been castrated into the palace as eunuchs, and should also belong to the scholar class, so they are deeply ashamed to be the envoy of the Changqiu Prison, and they will do everything possible to transfer out of the Changqiu Prison. ）

It is precisely because of the increasing number of personnel under the management of the Changqiu Prison that the scale of the Changqiu Supervision Office built in the southwest corner of the Daxing Palace has also been expanded many times, from the original three-entry courtyard to the current three courtyards, of which the largest courtyard is five before and after, which is much larger than Yang Guang's Zhongjin Palace, the new capital of Chang'an.

Yang Guang took Guo Yan to the Changqiu Supervision Office, and after being instructed, he walked into a three-entry courtyard on the easternmost side, revealed his identity to the people inside, explained his intentions, and directly entered the second courtyard to inquire about the situation of the imperial doctor's treatment of the injured.

The imperial physician who was ordered to enter the palace to treat the injured eunuch let Yang Guang and Guo Yan into the room where the injured man was lying, and the injured man who was unconscious shook his head and introduced to the two: "Lord Wang, this person's internal organs were pierced with a sharp blade, and due to excessive blood loss, the incompetence of the officials has saved him from life." ”

Yang Guang approached the injured man, leaned over to observe his injury, and asked the imperial doctor: "I see that he was injured in the left shoulder, not a fatal part, why does the imperial doctor say that he can't save him?" ”

The imperial physician stepped forward, gently pushed the injured man's body to the side, pointed the wound on his back with his hand, and explained to Yang Guang: "The assailant did stab him in the back of his left shoulder with a knife, but found that he could not be killed with a single knife, and then entered the knife from the original wound and pierced his lungs, which was a fatal knife." ”

Yang Guangda was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "You mean, the murderer stabbed him first, and after finding out that he was still alive, he stabbed him deeply from the original wound to hurt him like this?" Can you estimate the time between the two stabs of the murderer? ”

The imperial physician nodded and replied: "Lord Wang, now the wound is wrapped, and I can't ask you to see it really, but when the lower official was ordered to enter the palace to treat him, he did find traces of two incisions in the same wound, but it is difficult to determine the time interval between the two incisions. ”

"Since you say that it is difficult to revive him, will you try to awaken him, and will this king ask him two questions?" Yang Guang seemed to have found a major clue to quickly solve the case, and asked the imperial doctor in a hurried tone.

The Imperial Physician hesitated slightly, shook his head again, and replied, "I can only try my best, whether I can wake him up, and I don't know how long he can hold him up after waking up." ”

Yang Guang was reluctant to let go of the current great opportunity to directly find out the murderer, and insisted that the imperial doctor wake up the injured person so that he could ask who the murderer was from his mouth.

The imperial doctor was forced to have no choice but to order someone to forcibly pry open the wounded's mouth, feed him a few mouthfuls of ginseng soup, hang his heart, and stimulate his spirit.

After drinking a few mouthfuls of ginseng soup, under Yang Guang's anxious and expectant gaze, after about a cup of tea, the injured eunuch opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of black blood, and then woke up and turned around.

"Listen, I now want to know who stabbed you outside the Linde Temple?" Yang Guang was surprised and hurriedly asked the injured.

The wounded eunuch opened his mouth, but could not utter a word.

"Well, I'll guess who the murderer is, and if I'm right, you can just nod your head, can you do it?" Yang Guang was not discouraged, and immediately decided to ask a different question.

Looking at the injured eunuch nodding effortlessly, Yang Guang asked him the first question: "Do you recognize the murderer?" ”