Hearing Yang Zhen's question, Wu Qingbo Li Wei, who was angry just now because of what his nephew did, finally came back to his senses, and then asked, "You give me an honest explanation, who are your fox friends and dog friends?" If what Wu Liqing said is true, then the murderers are these people, and he naturally wants to investigate to the end, and he refuses to take the blame for these gentlemen. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Don't look at him Li Wei is just a small earl, but the backer is not small, and his daughter is the biological mother of today's son, the queen mother. No matter how powerful those gentlemen are, he is not afraid to reason with these guys.

Seeing his uncle's angry look and hearing his reprimand, Wu Liqing didn't dare to hide the truth even if he wanted to hide the inside story, so he whispered in a somewhat deep voice: "The little nephew is with Gu Ming and Gu Lang, the two sons of the Hou family of Zhenyuan, and Chen Ding, the nephew of the Hou family of Taining...... Doing such a wrong thing together. ”

Hearing him report these names, even Li Wei's face sank, these marquis are all descendants of the founding heroes, and unlike him, an earl who has no real power, these marquis still hold this certain power in their hands, especially the Zhenyuan Marquis family, and they are in charge of the appointment and transfer of tens of thousands of soldiers in the Beijing camp, and he really doesn't have much confidence that he can match them.

After Yang Zhen heard this, he was also slightly stunned, and then shook his head slightly, saying that one generation is not as good as the other, at least it can still be clearly reflected in these princes' families. Think about how the heroes who followed Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to revolt and fight the world at the beginning, why did their children and grandchildren just shine like this? Not only did the right to speak between the government and the opposition gradually disappear, but they also did such things, which is really not angry, no wonder these nobles and nobles will be suppressed by the civil officials and unable to raise their heads.

Then, he found that Li Wei was a little embarrassed and silent, and immediately guessed something. Obviously, Wu Qingbo thought that the gentleman who had done such a pickled thing with his nephew must not be too noble, but now it seems that the situation was completely unexpected, which made the uncle, who was already a low-key person, have some sense of retreat.

Yang Zhen, who knew it, smiled: "It turns out that the sons of these families committed such atrocities?" The lower officials understand, uncle, it's better that you don't come forward directly in this matter, and let the lower officials ask these marquis for justice. ”

"How does this work? The matter was provoked by my uncompetitive nephew, how could I ask Yang Zhenfu to offend people? Li Wei immediately shook his head and said. He is still an honest man after all, since the fault lies in himself, of course he doesn't want Yang Zhen to take the blame.

"What are you going to say, uncle? Did you really ask these descendants of the marquis to fight for those women? Yang Zhen didn't insist, but just asked according to the other party's statement.

"This ......" Wu Qingbo suddenly fell silent, in fact, he didn't make up his mind what to do.

"Uncle, you should know that since this case has been handed over to the lower officials, I must investigate it to the end, so this wicked person has to be done by me, the suppressor of the brocade guard. However, ......" Speaking of this, Yang Zhen frowned a little embarrassed: "After all, these people have extraordinary identities, and to put it strangely, they are even higher than your uncle, if the lower officials go to them directly to theorize, I am afraid it will be difficult to succeed." So if Uncle Zhen really wants to help Yang Zhen, please come forward to gather them together, and then the lower officials will share with them. I wonder what Uncle thinks of this? ”

Wu Qingbo was originally a little worried that he would bring trouble to his daughter and grandson if he really did that, but now that Yang Zhen said this, his heart relaxed a lot. After thinking for a while, he nodded and said, "In this way, according to what Yang Zhenfu said, everything is up to you to decide." ”

"Thank you Wu Qingbo for your trust, the lower officials will definitely get things done." Yang Zhen arched his hand.

"It should be Ben Bo Xie that you are. If you hadn't found out the truth, Ben would have been on their back for an unknown amount of time, and they would have been kept in the dark by these guys in the end. Wu Qingbo said and glared at his nephew hatefully, seeing that Wu Liqing's neck suddenly shrank.

"Is that the truth? It's unbelievable! After listening to Yang Zhen's story, Yang Chen couldn't help but sigh: "These gentlemen are too unscrupulous, so they have killed five innocent lives, will they be at ease?" ”

"I'm afraid yes." Yang Zhen laughed: "If I didn't happen to see through everything today, then Wu Liqing would have kept it a secret until everyone forgot about it." And, when I brought it up, he had only fear, fear of possible punishment rather than regret and shame. Even he is like this, not to mention the other little marquis or something. In the eyes of those of them who were born with a golden spoon in their mouths, what was the point of killing a few lowly (female chang) (female branches)? In fact, it's not just them, but their parents, such as Wu Qinghou, who must be very disapproving of this in their hearts, just because it involves their own reputation, which is why they are particularly concerned. ”

Listening to his heart-wrenching remarks, Yang Chen's expression became even more solemn. But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that what he said is reasonable, after all, it is an era of clear strata, that is, in the era of the rule of law in later generations, the evil things done by the privileged class are not the same, can they get away with it, it's a big deal to find a temporary worker or something to take the blame in front. And now, they are afraid that they don't even need to do this superficial effort, as long as they exert a certain amount of pressure on the yamen investigating the case, they can suppress the matter, just like what happened before this case.

Thinking about all this, Yang Chen was even more worried: "Since you know this, why do you insist on investigating this case to the end?" Aren't you afraid of being held grudge by these powerful people and settling accounts with you when the time comes? ”

"If everyone does this, what else does the world need to do?" Yang Zhen replied angrily. And when the elder brother was stunned, he smiled again: "And things have come to this point, do you think it is still possible for me to stop?" Liu Shouyou and Feng Baoke have been staring at me all the time, and if I make a move to shield a few powerful people in this case, they will definitely take the opportunity to deal with me. If there are troubles both horizontally and vertically, why should I choose to back down? ”

"Hmm......" Yang Chen nodded approvingly, but then, he already knew his brother very well, and he thought of something, and looked at him thoughtfully: "This shouldn't be the only reason why you decided like this, right?" ”

"Big brother is really shrewd, and I also think that there is still something to be done about this matter, so I followed it."

"What do you mean by that?"

Yang Zhen stretched out a finger and said, "If only one person commits this case, then it will be difficult for us to investigate this matter deeply." Because no matter which magnate he is, it is impossible for him to lose face and make his children and nephews suffer for the sake of any law. But now, with three involved, the situation is completely different. As long as the matter is explained in front of the three of them, the three families who have scruples about each other will form a containment. At that point, impartiality may be the final result for them. Otherwise, each of them will mutter, and at some point this matter will become a fatal lever and bring a great threat to the future of themselves or their families.

"So at this time, I came forward to ask them to hand over their sons and nephews in accordance with the laws of the country, but they did not dare to have too much resistance and opposition. Although they felt offended at the time, they didn't feel much resentment towards me when they went back to calm down. ”

Yang Chen thought about it carefully, it was really like this. Therefore, many cases such as homicide are mostly committed by a single person, and because such vicious cases involve different characters, things are easier to be solved by people. But soon, he saw the strange light flashing in Yang Zhen's eyes again, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that in addition to the above two reasons, there is another bigger reason for you to do this, right?" ”

"Oh, big brother, why can't I hide anything from you?" Yang Zhen smiled: "What I said just now is just under normal circumstances. If it weren't for the involvement of the sons and nephews of these two marquises' families in this matter, I would have done the same, and these gentlemen would have suffered a lot of crimes. But after knowing who they were, I had another idea. ”

"Huh? What is special about their identity? Yang Chen hesitated for a moment, and then said a little suddenly: "Yes, Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Huan is in charge of the Beijing camp, and you have been fighting with them recently, so you want to take this opportunity to make friends with Zhenyuan Marquis's family?" ”

"Exactly. I want to fight with Feng Bao, in addition to Jinyiwei's side, I also need some foreign aid. On the courtiers' side, because of the existence of Zhang Juzheng, it is difficult to get any reliable help, but on the side of the military generals and nobles, because they have been pressed by the ministers, I feel that I may be able to find some way out. In the past, I couldn't get in touch with them because of the disparity in status, but this time, I had a chance. As Yang Zhen spoke, his eyes glowed with strange eagerness.

Yang Chen looked at his brother's appearance, and didn't know whether to be happy or worried, so it seemed that he had completely reversed his previous decision, and it was impossible to uphold justice for those five poor women anymore.

Although there was some unhappiness in his heart, Yang Chen still raised his last question: "That's just the Hou of Zhenyuan's family, what about the Hou of Taining?" ”

"Taining Hou Chen-Liangbi?" Speaking of this name, a strange light flashed in Yang Zhen's eyes, and his voice became a little different: "He has a lot to do with another case that I have been trying to find out." I didn't know where to start, but today I was caught! ”