Bai Xiangcheng immediately sent someone to the prefect's yamen to get the file, and Ji Qingchen just rode on a horse, standing on Suzaku Street quietly thinking about the doubts in his heart. The people of King's Landing on the street knew that the arrogant cavalry in front of them was His Royal Highness the Nine, and the current Xiao cavalry battalion under the king of Northern Liao was like a commonplace, neither onlookers nor discussions, but walked around the Xiao cavalry camp and went to do their own things.

Ji Qingchen, who had been thinking for a long time, suddenly exclaimed, his expression was awe-inspiring, and he said loudly to Bai Xiangcheng and Mo Chai, "No, hurry, go to Situ Mansion in Anle Fang immediately." ”

Mo Chai was startled by Ji Qingchen's loud shout, but immediately stabilized his mind, rode a horse to lead the way in front, and the murderous Ji Qingchen and Bai Xiangcheng led the remaining two hundred cavalry battalions to follow closely, galloping all the way, and instantly killed the mansion of Situ Zhengtang in Anle Fang.

Everyone walked to the front of the mansion gate and found that the mansion door was closed, but a strong and bloody smell was coming out of Situ's mansion. Ji Qingchen was about to give the order to rush into Situ's mansion, when he saw a rapid sound of horses' hooves coming from the alley on the east side, and then saw a yellow armor, a tall horse with two hundred feathers of forest riding appeared in front of him, and the general who led the army was none other than Guo Lun, the captain he was familiar with.

Guo Lun led Yulin to rush to Ji Qingchen twenty steps in front of him, and then ordered to restrain the war horse. rode out alone and came to Ji Qingchen, "Guo Lun has seen His Royal Highness the King of Northern Liao!" ”

"Captain Guo, why did you come here?" Ji Qingchen tried his best to suppress the bad premonition in his heart and asked.

"Your Highness, just now Yulin Cavalry got the news that thirty backstabbing soldiers were rushing into the mansion of Situ Zhengtang of the Changle Gang to commit murder, and General Li ordered the lowly to come and arrest people." Guo Lun said simply. He seemed to have smelled the pungent smell of blood coming from Situ Mansion, so he asked Ji Qingchen, "Your Highness, what is this?" ”

"This king suspects that Situ Zhengtang has something to do with the disappearance of Princess Lingnan, so he came to take a look, but I didn't expect to meet you at the door, since we have the same purpose, let's go in and have a look together!" Ji Qingchen said.

Guo Lun escorted Ji Qingchen all the way from Shangjing City, where he left the country, to King's Landing, and knew very well that this seemingly weak and gentle His Royal Highness the Ninth Highness, the strength of the current King of Northern Liao, respectfully accepted the order. He didn't let Ji Qingchen and the Xiao cavalry camp do anything, so he ordered a team of Yulin cavalry to step forward and knock open the gate of Situ Mansion.

"Squeak-" sound, as soon as the door of Situ Mansion opened, there was a foul smell of blood like a cool breeze hitting Ji Qingchen and the others, and through this layer of bloody stench, the scene presented in front of them was that people like Ji Qingchen and Guo Lun, who had already experienced life and death, also frowned when they saw this, and their faces were terrifying.

"Send someone to the prefect's yamen and ask Pang Ji to send a servant to come over for an autopsy!" didn't approach Situ Mansion again, but just glanced at the blurred flesh and blood lying on the ground in the mansion from a distance, and Ji Qingchen, who had broken limbs, said coldly.

Because the moment he saw the corpses lying all over the courtyard, he already knew that there was no need for him to go to Situ Mansion to check, the Situ Mansion had been destroyed, and among the dead, in addition to the family members and warriors on Situ Mansion, there were also the corpses of dozens of Lingnan back soldiers.

He knew that this time he was one step too late!

"Your Highness—" Guo Lun said softly, "Look? ”

"This king won't look at it, you have a task on your side, so go in and check it!" Ji Qingchen said lightly, "However, don't destroy the scene, wait for the corpse of the King's Landing Mansion to be examined, and then return the body of the back soldier to Bai Zhiquan." ”

"No!" Guo Lun agreed. He gave an order, and the two hundred Yulin horses were divided into two, and one hundred people guarded outside the Situ Mansion, and one hundred people dismounted and followed him into the Situ Mansion slowly.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Bai Xiangcheng said a little deflated.

"None of us have ever seen Situ Zhengtang, and I don't know if the person who died inside is the real Situ Zhengtang himself, so we will continue to investigate before we determine Situ Zhengtang's true identity." Ji Qingchen said with a deep groan, paused again, and asked Mo on the side, "Besides here, do you know if there are any other courtyards in the Situ Main Hall of the Dao Dao?" Whether in King's Landing, or outside the city? ”

"I don't know about this humble position, I haven't paid attention to it before-" Mo Chai lowered his head and said, "However, as long as His Highness can give His Highness an hour to investigate, Mo Chai dares to promise His Highness that he will find out all the information about Situ Zhengtang." ”

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded slightly, and just as he was about to speak, he saw an anxious figure of Zhang Rang in the distance. Seeing Ji Qingchen riding on a horse, Zhang Rang Laoyuan shouted loudly, "Your Highness, Your Majesty urgently summons Your Highness to enter the palace to face the saint." ”

"You said that my father wants to summon this king?" Before Zhang let the horse approach, Ji Qingchen asked.

"Your Royal Highness, Your Majesty has already learned about the poisoning of the pavilion and the disappearance of the princess, he has appeased Bai Zhiquan, and is now discussing the situation with Prime Minister Pei Cheng, Deputy Privy Envoy Li of the Privy Council, Lord Guo of the Criminal Department, Lord Yu of Dali Temple, Lord Chen of the Ministry of Rites, Ye Shaoqing and the huge people of the prefect of King's Landing City in the Liangyi Palace." Zhang Rang said briefly, and lowered his voice again, "Listen to my godfather, this time, in order to appease Bai Zhiquan and damage His Majesty's face, he was furious after Bai Zhiquan left, and he also scolded an ignorant chamberlain on the spot?" Therefore, when His Royal Highness arrives at the Liangyi Hall to meet His Majesty, he still needs to speak carefully. ”

Hearing Emperor Yan's anger, he was in a very bad mood. Zhilu Dao, now that Emperor Yan was waiting for his Ji Qingchen, he didn't dare to delay for a moment, and immediately rode to the imperial city.

In the time of half a pillar of incense, he rushed to the Liangyi Palace.

When I arrived at the side hall of the Liangyi Palace, I found that Emperor Yan was sitting in front of the jade case with an angry face and was silent, Prime Minister Pei Wenju, Deputy Privy Envoy Li Muzhi, Guo Xing, Secretary of the Criminal Department, Yu Jing, Secretary of Dali Temple, Chen Yan, Secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Ye Qingchen, Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, Pang Ji, Governor of Junlin City, etc., were bowing their heads and contemplative.

Obviously, everyone is thinking about countermeasures!

When Emperor Yan saw Ji Qingchen, he didn't have time for Ji Qingchen to greet him, so he said in a cold tone, "Tell me!" What should I do about this? ”

"Eh-" Ji Qingchen was stunned for a moment, retracted the posture he was about to kneel, and asked without thinking about it, "May I ask my father, what is Lingnan Bai Zhiquan's opinion?" ”

"The poisoning case can be tried slowly, but Princess Dream must be retrieved immediately, and regardless of whether the recovered Princess Dream is complete or not, for the sake of the reputation of Lingnan and Princess Meng, His Majesty has agreed to the request of marrying her to a prince, and also agreed to the request of marrying the two princesses to the prince of the Lingnan Alliance and Bai Shangwu." Ye Qingchen was afraid that his nephew would anger Emperor Yan by saying the wrong thing, so he immediately explained to him.

After listening to Ye Qingchen's explanation, Ji Qingchen was also surprised!

He didn't expect that not long after the poisoning case and the disappearance of the princess happened, Lingnan Bai Zhiquan made such an excessive request, and forced his father to answer all of them. No wonder my father is angry, if this is on himself, I am afraid he would already be angry!

"Now you heard Bai Zhiquan's request, right?" Emperor Yan said coldly, "And he only gave me three days." Now I have ordered the prefect's yamen, Yulin Qi, and Honglu Temple to block the news of the princess's disappearance, but how long can we hide this news? It won't take more than three days at most, so I hope you can solve the case and get the princess back within two days. ”

Emperor Yan seemed to say it to everyone in the hall, but these people all knew the truth, and he said it again, obviously to Ji Qingchen.

Lingnan Bai Zhiquan dared to persecute Emperor Yan and only gave Da Yan three days, which is a shame! As the son of Emperor Yan, how could Ji Qingchen, who understood the emperor's mentality, not understand his father's current anger, so he said loudly, "Back to my father, my son promises to find Princess Dream within two days." ”

This is a seemingly simple case that can be thought about carefully and has no clue.

Because as long as someone who knows Xing Prison has a cursory look, he can see that these two cases seem to be deliberately done by someone to provoke the dispute between Dayan and Lingnan, but as long as you think about it carefully, you will find that you can't find a flaw in this conclusion.

In a word, this case seems simple, but in fact it is very complicated!

There might be a lot of things involved!

A lot of people!

So when Ji Qingchen agreed to Emperor Yan's request, everyone was very puzzled.

Because this case is not Ji Qingchen in charge of the trial, as long as he is silent, Emperor Yan will not forcibly hand over the case to him, but now that he agrees like this, it is equivalent to making a military order, and if he can't find Princess Dream when the time comes, it will be a veritable crime of bullying the king!

"Hmph-" Emperor Yan snorted coldly and threw a pile of folds in front of Ji Qingchen, "You are self-aware, otherwise I will definitely not spare you this time." See for yourself—"

More than a dozen books were scattered in front of Ji Qingchen with a loud bang, and when he saw the words "Metropolitan Procuratorate" and "Imperial History" on it, he knew that this must be the impeachment of his own music by the imperial historians, and he could guess without thinking about it, he must have been poisoned in the Lingnan Pavilion and the princess disappeared.

The speed of these imperial historians is really fast! Less than two hours after the case happened, they put the chapter on Emperor Yan's jade case, and they were really staring at themselves all the time!

Without quibbling, and also without admitting it, Ji Qingchen bowed down and picked up the recital, without glancing at the content of the recital, and put more than ten recitals back on Emperor Yan's jade case.

"What? Don't you look at what is written on it? Emperor Yan looked coldly at his proud son in front of him, and suddenly found that his current son was like himself for thirty years, arrogant and awe-inspiring, and had the courage not to take the world in his eyes.

"There is no excuse for the sin that you want to add!" Ji Qingchen said righteously, "Erchen is worthy of the people of Dayan and the society of Dayan, so he doesn't need to justify, he doesn't need to admit his mistakes, and he can also be framed by people with ill intentions." ”

"Good!" Emperor Yan was murderous, "I will let Yulin Cavalry, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple and the Yamen of the Prefect of Junlin assist you, and if you want to find the princess within two days, you will atone for your sins; If you can't find the princess after two days, don't do it, the king of Northern Liao, and stay in the mansion with peace of mind in the future! ”

Emperor Yan's words were ruthless enough, saying that if Ji Qingchen found Princess Meng, he would atone for his sins; If he can't find Princess Meng after two days, he will be revoked from the title of King of Northern Liao, and Ji Qingchen will be allowed to think about it behind closed doors in the palace, to put it bluntly, he will be confined. This punishment is indeed too ruthless, in addition to punishing Ji Qingchen, at the same time expressing another meaning to the outside world, that is, all the responsibility for the poisoning of Lingnan Pavilion and the disappearance of the princess is put on Ji Qingchen.

"Erchen takes orders!" Ji Qingchen replied without thinking. He didn't pay attention to Emperor Yan's words, and he had already put all the blame on him.

"Do you have any requirements?" Emperor Yan said.

"Back to my father, my sons need the full support of two thousand Yulin Cavalry, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Yamen of the Monarch's Landing Prefect." Ji Qingchen said, "I also need a talisman that can mobilize the defenders of the Nine Gates. ”

"Accurate!" Emperor Yan replied without thinking, he hadn't considered how big Ji Qingchen's request was to him.

But Prime Minister Pei Wenju, Li Muzhi, Guo Xing, Chen Yan and others, who heard the conversation between Ji Qingchen and Emperor Yan, were stunned. Not to mention that Ji Qingchen asked Emperor Yan for 2,000 feathers to ride in the forest, not to mention the full support of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Yamen of the Junlin Prefect, and let the dignified second- and third-grade officials listen to his dispatch, just this request for enough soldiers to mobilize the defenders of the Nine Gates is enough to scare their courage.

Among the four elites of Dayan, the Longxiang Army is stationed in King's Landing.

Therefore, the current nine gates are all guarded by the Longxiang army.

And now Ji Qingchen opened his mouth to ask Emperor Yan for the talisman to mobilize the defenders of the Nine Gates, which was actually asking him for the military power of the Long Xiang Army. A prince dares to ask His Majesty the Emperor for a talisman to control the army of the nine gates of the capital, from ancient times to the present, this is definitely a taboo in the court!

Just when everyone was stunned, Emperor Yan said loudly, "Spread the decree, Jin named Ji Qingchen, the prince of the Nine Emperors, as the hussar general and the deputy general of the Longxiang army." ”

Everyone was once again shocked by Emperor Yan's reward.

And Ji Qingchen was already in the stunned expressions of everyone, thanked Emperor Yan and withdrew from the Liangyi Palace.