Li Linfu's counterattack really came sharply and swiftly.

Tong Guò is a eunuch by the side of the Son of Heaven, Li Linfu has long known that Huangfu Weiming has been saying bad things about himself in several times since returning to Beijing, and strongly recommends Wei Jian to have both talent and morality, so if you want to say that the two secretly communicate with each other, the Son of Heaven will definitely believe it easily. Therefore, after summoning Wang Ji and the others all, he simply assigned the task neatly. He has always been strong, and he did not attract any opposition, but everyone was full of confidence.

To be able to pull down the always proud Wei Jian is such an opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

On the next day, Yang Shenjin, a member of the imperial history, personally stepped out and accused Wei Jian, as a national relative, of colluding privately with a border commander like Huangfu Weiming on the night of Shangyuan, and sent it to him with a fierce rhetoric. When Gao Lishi saw Song Shu, he didn't think about the generous gifts that Wei Jian had given him, and sent them to the imperial front without any delay. Compared with those generous bribes, he knows the importance more clearly, and there are some innocuous things that he can help Wei Jian conceal, but this is simply a big rebellion in the eyes of the Son of Heaven, and he will never cover it up stupidly.

Li Longji has always been suspicious, Wei Jian has made outstanding achievements in Jianghuai as the envoy, and he is extremely happy that the treasures in the south can be continuously delivered to him, but he has never forgotten that Wei Jian is the brother-in-law of the crown prince Li Heng, otherwise Li Linfu will rise and fall secretly, and transfer Wei Jian to the secretary of the criminal department, he will not acquiesce without saying a word. Therefore, after seeing Yang Shenjin's performance, he was so angry that he threw it on the ground.

"Order Li Linfu and ask him to personally interrogate this case for me!"

Hearing that Li Longji actually handed over the case of Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming to Li Linfu, Gao Lishi only felt a sigh in his heart, and after opening his mouth, all he said was to respectfully agree. Wei Jian has been able to win the Sacred Heart like this over the years, of course he has contributed to it, and he also hopes that this person can compete with Li Linfu, so as not to dominate the outside, but such a fragile result is really depressing. When he saw Mai Xiong who hurriedly entered the palace to report the news in the inner prison, and got a message from Du Shiyi, saying that Wei Jian not only had a private meeting with Huangfu Weiming, but also met Guli Peiluo, he was so angry that he was angry.

"Stupid! Ignorant! Since it was to pull Li Linfu off the horse, and it didn't seem to have anything to do with the East Palace, it was not impossible to send a dead man to send a letter to Bian Town, and he had to meet and discuss, isn't this a handle for people? also go to hook up with the general, what kind of brain is he! ”

As Gao Lishi said, since Li Linfu had received the holy will to personally take charge of the case, he should send his subordinate Luo Xizao, who is the most proficient in interrogation, according to the prior arrangement. As for Wang Ji and Yang Zhao, they acted as witnesses after Yang Shenjin, and they insisted on witnessing Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming's private meeting.

Compared with those cool officials when he was the queen of martial arts, Luo Xixiao is even better, and he knows the way to attack the heart with torture. Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming were high-ranking officials, and he would not torture these two people lightly, but he severely tortured Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming's henchmen, and finally sent a satisfactory report to Li Linfu.

"Good, good!" Li Linfu looked at the confession that corroborated each other, and saw that the names of Du Shiyi and Wang Zhongsi were among them, but Wei Jian wanted to meet him but didn't have the opportunity, he was still very happy, "Your Majesty is suspicious, but if you know that the East Palace intends to hand over the marshal, you must be furious!" Du Shiyi, Wang Zhonghei, don't think that you can be safe and sound if you stay out of the matter? ”

In the evening of the same day, Li Linfu entered the Xingqing Palace and presented the confession concocted by Luo Xizao to the Son of Heaven. As he expected, Li Longji was really furious, but after the anger passed, he was silent, and there was no reaction for a long time. He was a little anxious, and was about to add two sentences of rebuke that were enough to make a final decision, but when he raised his head, he met Li Longji's sharp eyes. At that moment, he remembered the situation when Li Longji summoned him after the palace change. It was the same at the time, and he even felt that his situation was precarious.

Therefore, when Li Longji coldly asked him his opinion on this case, Li Linfu dispelled the initial intention of implicating Du Shiyi and Wang Zhonghei, and just took out his consistent position, bowed his head and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, with all due respect, Wei Jian and Huangfu only colluded openly and secretly to plot to establish the prince as the king, and the evidence of the crime is conclusive!" ”

When Du Shiyi first asked to protect the capital of Anbei, he had faintly pointed out to Li Longji some bad intentions of the crown prince Li Heng, and Wang Zhongji was away all the year round and only returned to Chang'an once in a few years, so Li Longji did not believe the two people involved in this confession. At this moment, when he heard Li Linfu only say that the prince was plotting against him, his face was a little pale, but he asked in a deep voice: "What is the loyal heir of King Du Junli?" ”

Li Linfu glanced at the expression of the Son of Heaven out of the corner of his eye, and finally decided not to expand it too much, it was better to be cautious: "Since Wei Jian is plotting to collude, he has never seen Du and Wang, the two marshals, such a confession is naturally not credible, but I hope that Your Majesty will see clearly." ”

Li Longji gently tapped the armrest with his fingers, and pondered for a moment before asking, "Did Luo Xizheng ever interrogate Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming?" ”

The Son of Heaven suddenly asked about this, and Li Linfu couldn't help but cheer up: "Back to Your Majesty, I haven't interrogated yet." After all, Wei Jian is still the secretary of the criminal department, and the emperor Fu Weiming is the official envoy of the right section of Longxi, and his majesty even attributed all the military power of Hexi Longyou to him. If you can't go to the court, how dare others torture the minister? ”

Li Linfu's implication was that if he received the Holy Order, Luo Xixiao would be able to do it to his heart's content, so that Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming could see the cool methods of officials. However, what the Son of Heaven said disappointed him.

"That's good. As a relative of the country, Wei Jian colluded with the marshal of the border town and strived to make progress, which is indeed an unforgivable crime. However, the ministers of the country should not be disgraced. ”

Until this time, Li Longji was still a minister of the country, and Li Linfu only felt that his chest was tight. But the Son of Heaven had already said this, and he could only agree repeatedly, and only after leaving the Xingqing Hall did he twist his brows into a knot. Just from Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming's entourage, a lot of things can indeed be asked, but without the confessions of these two people involved, there is no ironclad evidence. The Son of Heaven's initial reaction was clearly that the thunderous anger would not be appeased, but why has he become soft-hearted now?

"Your Majesty is not soft-hearted, first, after the disaster of the three concubines before, if the prince is abolished again, where will he, the face of the king of the Holy Ming, go?"

In the evening, Du Shiyi, who got the news, sat in front of Princess Yuzhen leisurely and said such a sentence bluntly in such a tone that was absolutely not respectful. Princess Gu'an on the side also smiled and said, "Brother is right. Moreover, at the beginning, His Majesty allowed Concubine Wu Hui to die of illness, but he still left Li Linfu as the prime minister, one was satisfied with his talent as a governing director, and the other was to keep him to balance the East Palace. If the East Palace changes hands again, Li Linfu will inevitably be dominant. You just said one thing, and the other is that this time it's just that Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming are colluding with each other, which can't be compared with the previous palace change, and suddenly he was implicated in the prison, which is too exciting! ”

Princess Yuzhen's understanding of her brother-in-law is better than that of Du Shiyi and Princess Gu'an, she shook her head lightly, and said in a deep voice: "Brother's heart is unfathomable, and it depends on Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming's punishment. ”

A few days later, when Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming were punished, there was an uproar in the Manchu Dynasty. Wei Jian's crime is "doing things endlessly", which is to put it in layman's terms, he did whatever it took to seek promotion, and he was demoted to Jinyun Taishou; And Huangfu Weiming's crime is much greater, who is the four words of the monarch and minister, it is a dead word, but the result is that he was demoted to the Taishou of Sichuan. No one thinks the punishment is too severe, and everyone thinks that it is really light compared to the charges that are circulating these days.

But in this way, what is vacant is not only a criminal department book, but also a Longyou section envoy. Although last year in the battle to capture Shibao City, Huangfu Weiming suffered the biggest defeat after his Jiedu Longyou, but after all, he had won many battles before, and the defeat of Shibao City only ignored the reinforcements, and he was captured a lot in Beijing this time, so Li Longji was summoned several times, and he also appreciated his ambition, because of the transfer of Wang Qi to Beijing this time, he already planned to let Huangfu Weiming concurrently serve as the envoy of Hexi Jiedu. But this sudden incident made this idea fall short for the time being.

As a result, the vacant Hexi Longyou two sections have become the top priority. Li Linfu has the intention to take this position in one fell swoop, but looking at his relatives and friends, except for Xiao Jiong, who served as an envoy of the Hexi Festival, no one else has such experience.

And such as Wang Jie, Yang Shenjin and others, are all good at financial calculations, the army is slightly mediocre, and what is worse is that no one wants to go to the border to eat sand. And An Lushan, who has always been attached to him, is far away in Youzhou, and Fan Yang Jiedu is also the Pinglu Jiedu envoy, and he will not be willing to move his nest. And this time, although the righteous brother Ashina Rangan sent by An Lushan has met the Son of Heaven twice, he has been quite sacred, and he has given the name Shi Siming, but the qualifications and merits are reluctant to save one town, not to mention two towns. He had heard that An Lushan also had a brother An Sishun, but when he mentioned it to Shi Siming, Shi Siming immediately shook his head.

"An Dashuai and An Sishun are just brothers, but they are not related by blood, and they parted ways in their early years, so they can't talk about any love now. Moreover, if I remember correctly, when Shuo Fang Du was handsome and longright, he used to give a lot of favor to An Sishun? ”

Shi Siming knew that there was harmony between An Lushan and An Sishun in the early years, but after leaving his hometown, he began to make trouble, otherwise An Lushan would not rather be Zhang Shouqi's righteous son than go to Longyou to seek refuge in An Sishun. Therefore, he didn't want to create a powerful opponent for An Lushan for no reason, so he peeked through Li Linfu's mind and carried Du Shiyi out.

In this way, Li Linfu immediately dispelled this plan. He didn't want Du Shiyi's power to continue to expand at all. You must know that even if he can be said to cover the sky in the court, Du Shiyi has a wide range of contacts and can still be at ease, not to mention his high prestige and deep connections in the border towns. Therefore, after sending Shi Siming away, his heart suddenly moved.

The envoy of the four towns of Anxi, Meng Lingcha, has been guarding for many years, if he is transferred to Helong, as for the envoy of the four towns of Anxi, he will be taken over by Gao Xianzhi, the envoy of the soldiers and horses, so it is the most secure! Both Heng and Vertical are Hu people, and it is impossible for them to enter the court to worship the prime minister, so it is impossible to pose a substantial threat to him!