"Ahh

The flames burned brightly, and the crackling sound woke up the courtyard of the rich family adjacent to the west courtyard, and people on a street hurriedly got up to help put out the fire. Qingjiang pinched the time, and it was almost time to attract the attention of the imperial capital garrison, and the hidden army changed out of his night clothes and tore his throat and shouted: "Go to the water!" Robbers kill people and set fires! The West Courtyard is on the water! ”

These screams made people even more panicked, it was certainly an honorable thing to be neighbors with royal nobles, but no one wanted to be involved in royal battles, not to mention that the rich have always spared their lives. The wealthy family's family all ran out, and in the middle of the night, they were helping to put out fires and looking for robbers, and the hustle and bustle of a street finally attracted the attention of the garrison.

Jing Zhaoyin led the garrison to arrive in a hurry, and before he entered the door, he saw the broken gate of Prince Ying's mansion and several corpses of black-clothed people lying in a pool of blood, the blood stains spread all the way to the mansion, the mansion was full of broken limbs and internal organs, and several hidden soldiers dressed as family members were supporting each other, and they looked scarred after wiping the blood of the enemy. Jing Zhaoyin gasped, this is the Prince of Ying's Mansion that was recently named Prince Ying by the Emperor and the Queen Mother, and it is on the front, who is so blind to choose this time to sneak attack the Prince of Ying's Mansion?

Early the next morning, Fang Liangzhen came to the palace to complain to the emperor, last night the matter was too big, even the queen mother in the deep palace heard about the robbers in the palace of Prince Ying murder and arson.

"The granddaughter-in-law was incompetent, so the gangsters invaded Xiyuan and burned most of it. Unable to protect the mansion left by His Royal Highness, the granddaughter-in-law is guilty and begs the imperial grandmother to promise to let the granddaughter-in-law take Yun'er to meet his father. Kneeling in front of the Queen Mother, Fang Liangzhen kowtowed, "His Royal Highness died, and his granddaughter-in-law wanted to go with him, but it was the emperor's grandmother and father who took pity on her, and the granddaughter-in-law barely survived in the world." Now even our orphans and widows are not yet in the world, and I am lucky to escape this time but I am not sure that I can escape next time, my granddaughter-in-law thought, it is better to just go down with His Royal Highness, Yun'er is still young, and my granddaughter-in-law can't let him go in the world without parents to take care of him, the royal branches and leaves are luxuriant, and the imperial grandmother is not missing a great-grandson, and the granddaughter-in-law begs the imperial grandmother for permission, so let me take Yun'er to Huangquan to find his father, at least... At least..."

Fang Liangzhen raised her head, her eyes were already teary, "At least our family can still be reunited..."

"What a foolish thing to say!" The Queen Mother slapped the table heavily, "Even if the royal family is prosperous, the descendants are still golden, how can you be injured at will!" ”

The Queen Mother lost her temper, but Fang Liangzhen just knelt and cried and didn't answer.

"Alas..."The first emperor went early, and the queen mother looked at the orphans and widows and couldn't help but think of the thrilling memories when the previous emperor seized the heir, who didn't have to grit their teeth in the whirlpool of the heir? Assassination, assassination, poisoning, she didn't know how many dangers she went through to successfully push the emperor to the throne, and she became the queen mother herself. can think about the previous processes, the Queen Mother couldn't help but be a little moved.

"It's cold on the ground, you get up first." She ordered someone to help Fang Liangzhen, who was kneeling on the ground, to help her up, "The mourning family promises that this matter will let the emperor find out for you, and you must severely punish the real culprit, and you will definitely return justice to Prince Ying's mansion." ”

Fang Liangzhen lowered her head and wiped away her tears, "Daughter-in-law Sun wants to ask for more government soldiers, this kind of thing will come a few more times, I'm just afraid..."

"It's nature." The Queen Mother nodded, "Although the Prince's Mansion can only raise a hundred soldiers according to the law, it is not without exceptions, and this time the mourning family is particularly gracious, so that the Prince Ying's Mansion can raise more soldiers to five hundred, so as to protect the safety of your mother." ”

"Empress Dowager Xie."

After the business was done, Fang Liangzhen's mood was calmer, and the Queen Mother sighed and began to paint with her.

"Why don't you see the maid Qingjiang who is usually next to you?"

"The bandits were fierce last night, Qingjiang was seriously injured to protect her granddaughter-in-law and should not walk, and her granddaughter-in-law asked her to recuperate in the house." Thinking of the bloodstains in the courtyard last night, Fang Liangzhen's face turned pale in an instant.

"She's loyal..."The Queen Mother murmured, rewarding Qingjiang with a pair of gold earrings and two gold ingots as a reward.

Fang Liangzhen lowered his eyes, Qingjiang was indeed injured when he led the enemy army to the abandoned house in Xiyuan alone, but it was not to the extent of serious injury, he just disliked the rules of the palace, and he knelt around kneeling and tossing his kneecaps when he had nothing to do, and he would rather call himself sick and recuperate than come.

At noon on the same day, Fang Liangzhen returned to the house with the Empress Dowager's decree and a large number of rewards. Seeing that yesterday's night attack not only did not achieve its goal, but was self-defeating, allowing Fang Liangzhen to have a legitimate name to raise troops, the fifth prince, who had lost three hundred personal soldiers, was almost so angry that he vomited blood.

He's total, he's been put on the table! The fire brought this incident to light, alarmed the imperial capital garrison and also filed the case in the criminal department, the emperor and the queen mother all ordered the investigation to be withdrawn, the five princes on the one hand heartache his own soldiers on the other hand, they also have to be afraid of what clues have been found by others, you must know that it is the third prince who is in charge of the Dajin Criminal Department, and that guy can have a lot of trouble with him recently.

The Criminal Department dragged away the bodies of those black-clothed people and brought them back for autopsy and examination one by one, checking and checking, and sure enough, the clues pointed to the heads of the five princes.

After all, the punishment is about the prince, the ministry is a little hesitant, and the third prince slapped the holy decree of thorough investigation on his head, "Check!" ”

Good... Examine... Can you not check it when your boss says so?

In the afternoon of the same day, he raided the mansion of the five princes' powerful staff as quickly as possible, and this operation was led by the three princes, so the slightest rumor did not leak out in advance, and when the five princes were arrested and scolded in the palace, he knew that the criminal department had copied something from the staff's mansion.

It was the ledger, and all the correspondence with other officials. All the officials were afraid of being turned over, because there were too many secrets in them, and in the account books they clearly wrote what they bought and how much money they spent on a certain day of the month, and most of them were iron shops, iron mines, and horses. What does this mean? Of course, there are iron and horses to rebel, the horses are okay, iron ore in Dajin is a business that only the emperor can operate, and where can a prince's staff get so much money to buy iron ore? It's not the master's instigation!

"Son! See for yourself what's written in it! The emperor was so angry that he slapped the five princes, and no emperor would be very happy when he heard his son think of overthrowing him, "No wonder, no wonder those black-clothed people in Prince Ying's Mansion will have the jade plate of your mansion on them, no wonder, no wonder you even have to kill their orphans and widows!" ”

"Someone must have slandered Erchen!" The fifth prince knelt on the ground and wept and complained, "That really wasn't done by the son, father, you have to believe the son!" ”

"Don't you admit it, do you?" The emperor sneered, picked up a stack of letter paper and smashed it at the fifth prince, "Look for yourself!" ”