Early the next morning, Li Yanqing was standing by the well and brushing his teeth with a soft branch dipped in bamboo salt, 'Bang! The door was pushed open, and I saw Zheng Rongtai rushing in from the outside in a hurry, "Lao Li, something is wrong!" ”

"I'm shocked all day long, can you kid let me brush my teeth quietly!" Li Yanqing said impatiently. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"What a big deal!"

Zheng Rongtai rushed to the well and said urgently: "Zhu Tao was killed last night!" ”

Li Yanqing was taken aback, "What's going on, who killed him?" ”

"I don't know, this kid came out of Zhu Fenglou last night, and a dagger was inserted into his forehead, and he died tragically on the spot, this assassin is not only ruthless, but also clever, and disappeared without leaving a trace."

Li Yanqing snorted, "The dignified Taixue actually went to the Qinglou to fool around, it really gave Taixue a 'long face'!" ”

"Everyone is dead, don't say such cool words, it's a big trouble now, Zhu Mian's baby son is dead, how can he give up?"

"Is there any clue from the government?"

"There are no clues, Kaifeng Mansion has posted a reward notice to find witnesses, and those who provide clues to the murderer will be rewarded with a thousand yuan."

"A thousand times!"

Li Yanqing said with a smile: "In fact, it's not easy to catch the murderer? This must be revenge killing, it depends on who Zhu Mian has offended, how many people want to kill him and then quickly, just rule it out one by one. ”

Zheng Rongtai was stunned for a while, there are more than 10 million families who have been ruined by Zhu Mian, if you want to find an enemy, where can you find it?

"Old fat, you came to me to talk about this?" Li Yanqing asked with a puzzled expression.

Zheng Rongtai scratched his head, "I thought you did it?" Two days ago, I happened to tell you about the rouge shop, and I thought you were going to take revenge on him! ”

"What am I going to do with him?"

Li Yanqing snorted disdainfully, "My family's rouge shop is fine, and he is fine, is it necessary for me to kill him?" And I don't have the skills to do it. ”

"Yes! I didn't expect his father just now, thanks to you for reminding me, you are right, there are too many people who want to kill him, and his father has done evil, and in the end he actually retributes it to his son. ”

Zheng Rongtai sighed. Turning around and walking outside, "I still have to talk to someone else, you are busy!" ”

"Fatty, how are you losing weight?"

Zheng Rongtai patted his fat buttocks, and Lao Yuan replied: "It's already starting to work!" ”

Li Yanqing saw him go away, so he squinted his eyes and laughed, the only thing that could think that the murderer was his own was Zheng Fatzi, and now even Zheng Fatzi was misled by himself and pulled it to his father's enemy, who would have thought that Zhu Tao was actually killed by an ignorant student.

Zhu Tao has no direct relationship with the red Wang family rouge shop, the Wang family rouge shop was opened by his uncle, although the matter did not fall on the Wang family, but Zhu Tao's death, the entire Zhu family will set off stormy waves, and the Wang family has no heart to deal with Baoyan Zhai for the time being, which is called Wei Wei to save Zhao.

But Li Yanqing killed Zhu Tao not only for this, he also had a deeper purpose, the turmoil caused by Zhu Tao's death will eventually become a storm that will sweep the entire imperial court, and the power structure of the Great Song Dynasty will probably change from now on.

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In the morning, Xiangguo Cai Jing took a sedan chair to Yanfu Palace, Yanfu Palace is an independent palace in the imperial palace, although it has been expanded for several years and has not been completed, but it does not affect the son of heaven Zhao Ji here to enjoy the wind and snow, enjoy his artistic life.

Yanfu Palace occupies more than 20 miles in a circle, extends to the outside of the city, there are both magnificent palaces, there are pavilions and pavilions that capture the sky, jade bridges, all kinds of furnishings are elegant and exquisite, although it is not magnificent, but it is more extravagant and expensive than magnificent.

In particular, Genyue is located in the middle, imitates the Phoenix Mountain of Hangzhou and builds, up to dozens of zhang, piled up to the soil, more than ten miles in radius, it is covered with all kinds of rockery strange stones, precious flowers and trees, the flower stone gang is to build Genyue and from all over the south of the Yangtze River to transport it continuously, Zhu Mian's wealth is also from the expansion of Yanfu Palace begins.

In order to plunder wealth and build Yanfu Palace and Genyue, tens of thousands of wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River were ruined by Zhu Mian, their property and land were plundered, and the people at the bottom were even more miserable, which directly triggered the Fangla Uprising.

The Fangla uprising has lasted for several years, and after it was extinguished, it broke out again, and after several ups and downs, each time it became more serious, the imperial court finally realized the seriousness of the problem, and in order to calm the people's grievances, Cai Jing felt the need to lose the car to protect the commander.

Cai Jing came directly to the Imperial Pavilion, the Imperial Pavilion is not a pavilion, it is actually a group of buildings, including the Shangqing Palace, the Stargazing Pavilion, the Lanyue Pavilion and other more than a dozen pavilions and pavilions, the Son of Heaven Zhao Ji lives here most of the time every day.

After waiting for a while, a young eunuch stepped forward and saluted, "Let the prime minister wait for a long time, the official family invites the prime minister in!" ”

Cai Jing's hand shook, and a bead the size of a pigeon's egg appeared in his hand, he quickly stuffed it to the eunuch, and asked with a smile: "How is the official family feeling?" ”

The eunuch is called Yang Qiu, and he also won Zhao Ji's trust by kicking the bow, plus he can speak and write, smart and clever, especially good at imitating Zhao Ji's handwriting, Zhao Ji simply handed over the trivial matters of the usual review and folding to him to do, although it caused an uproar among the courtiers, but he was helpless.

Of course, Cai Jing was also annoyed, but his countermeasure was not to persuade the Son of Heaven to take back the imperial power, but to bribe this Yang Qiu in every possible way, so that he could approve the fold according to his own ideas, and the two gradually reached a power-for-money trading model.

Yang Qiu won the pearl, his heart was happy, and he hurriedly whispered: "The Son of Heaven is painting a map of the southeast of the tiger's roar, painting the tiger in the name, but in fact, he is worried about Jiangnan, hoping that a tiger will calm Jiangnan." ”

"What about Zhu Mian?"

"Zhu Mian is not a tiger, and he is the first to suffer!"

Cai Jing knew in his heart, and sure enough, he guessed by himself, and the official family also wanted to use Zhu Mian to take the blame.

He smiled slightly: "Thank you! ”

Cai Jing walked into the lobby quickly, only to see that in the lobby, Zhao Ji, the son of heaven wearing a white dark coat and a green hat, was splashing ink and painting in front of the painting case, he was so engrossed that he could not be disturbed at all, Cai Jing did not dare to disturb, so he stood motionless in front of the lobby.

After a long while, Zhao Ji said slowly: "Cai Xiangguo might as well come and enjoy my new work!" ”

Zhao Ji's voice is very soft, although he is middle-aged, he is extremely well maintained, his skin is moist and fair, there is no wrinkle on his face, he looks like he is in his thirties, but he looks very average, with light eyebrows and a flat face, it is difficult to distinguish in the crowd, but his gaze is very calm, unwavering, giving people an unfathomable feeling.

Although Zhao Ji is very mediocre in governing the country, obsessed with calligraphy and painting, advocating Taoism and nature, and loving Keju, and even occasionally sneaking out of the palace to drink a glass of wine in the alum tower, he is too busy to have time and energy to deal with cumbersome government affairs.

But Zhao Ji is not ambiguous at all in terms of power, he would rather trust the eunuchs than the prince or the hundred officials, and it is also in his dynasty that the eunuchs in power emerge in an endless stream, Liang Shicheng, Tong Guan, Yang Jian, Yang Qiu and so on.

Cai Jing is also a master of calligraphy, he stared for a moment, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty borrowed the painting of Mingzhi, and Weichen is ashamed that he failed to solve problems for His Majesty!" ”

Zhao Ji saw that he saw his painting intentions, so he sighed: "I am really distressed in the southeast!" I can't figure it out, I don't want to be rich and noble, I have to do things that are arrogant, is it really the emperor who is far away, and I don't know anything? ”

Cai Jing knew that the Son of Heaven was referring to Zhu Mian, ostensibly ashamed of the people in Jiangnan, but in fact, Zhu Mian also built a shrunken Yanfu Palace in Suzhou for his family to enjoy, which offended the Son of Heaven.

Cai Jing was really worried in his heart, Zhu Mian was recommended by him at the beginning, once it was investigated, he would have an unshirkable responsibility, at this time, Cai Jing could only push his son out to prevent disasters for himself.

He took out the list and presented it to Zhao Ji: "Wechen's family education is not strict, and the rebel son concealed that Wechen accepted bribes from someone Zhu and misled Wechen. ”

Zhao Ji was slightly stunned, he took the list and looked at it, and couldn't help but snort coldly, "He is very generous!" The capital house actually gave away five, I can't afford it! ”

"Wechen didn't sleep all night last night, hated his son for not cherishing feathers, and hated himself for listening to his son's misleading, and recommended Zhu Mian to His Majesty.

Cai Jing kept saying that he was willing to accept the punishment, and put the responsibility on his son, on the one hand, let his son block the arrow for him, on the other hand, he was already responsible, and no one could question him about Zhu Mian anymore.

Although his trick is very despicable, his skills are very clever, so Zhao Ji can't say anything, Zhao Ji said: "Just release these properties into the inner treasury, if you really track it down, I'm afraid the court will have to close the door, don't take it as an example!" ”

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Cai Jing breathed a long sigh of relief, he got the best result.

At this time, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Zhu Mian's son was assassinated in front of Zhu Fenglou last night!" ”

"What!"

Zhao Ji was taken aback, Zhu Tao was assassinated, and he immediately said angrily: "Who did this?" ”

"Weichen also just got the news, it is said that Kaifeng Mansion has not found the murderer, but there are rumors that I am afraid that Zhu Mian's enemies in Suzhou did it."

Zhao Ji paced back and forth in the lobby with his hands, very annoyed in his heart, he didn't care who killed him, but as soon as Zhu Tao died, the consequences would be very serious, Zhu Tao was a hostage placed by Zhu Tao in the capital, there were hostages in the capital, forgive Zhu Mian and dare not mess around, now that the hostage is dead, I am afraid that Zhu Mian will have no worries.

Zhao Ji was anxious, time could not be dragged on any longer, he had to make a move on Zhu Mian immediately, he pondered for a moment and said: "Quickly recruit King Jia to see me!" ”

He then said to Cai Jing: "You first write a letter to stabilize Zhu Mian and tell him that I will definitely catch the murderer and give him an explanation." ”

Cai Jing was stunned, and he suddenly realized that the Son of Heaven didn't believe that he had nothing to do with Zhu Mian at all.

Bitter in his heart, he asked, "What about tracking down the Assassins?" ”

"Spread my message to Kaifeng Mansion, asking them to handle the case with great fanfare, and offer a heavy reward, if not, they will investigate the people who came from Suzhou one by one, and I ask them to solve the case within ten days!"

"Wechen obeys!"

At this time, the eunuch reported in the hall: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Jia has come down!" ”

"Announce his audience at once!"

Zhao Ji glanced at Cai Jing again, Cai Jing immediately woke up, got up and said, "Weichen retires!" ”