Wang Mang did not return to the big tent of the Chinese army, but returned his consciousness directly to Chang'an City, and fell on Wang Laoshi's body, Wang Laoshi's eyes flashed, and he became Wang Mang in an instant.

Chu Feng is routinely reporting to Wang Laoshi on the recent situation in Chang'an City, as the director of law enforcement, Chu Feng is still relatively busy, but no matter how busy he is, Chu Feng will find Wang Laoshi to report his work regularly, Chu Feng knows that he is not treated by Wang Mang, and now he looks like a flower, but in fact, life is not easy.

As a minister, if there is no holy family, then what is the meaning?

Seeing Chu Feng for the first time, Wang Mang was stunned for a moment, then thought about it, and directly interrupted Chu Feng's report: "Chu Feng, this king remembers that you once made the Hedong Order, right?"

Chu Feng was stunned for a moment, not knowing why the left-behind prince suddenly asked like this, so he nodded and said: "Yes, prince, Xia Guan once served in the Hedong Order fifteen years ago, that was the only local experience of the minister, and the minister was deeply touched. ”

"Since Chu Feng has such an idea, why don't you let you do the Hedong Order, Your Majesty?" Wang Mang said with a smile.

Chu Feng's expression froze, he said kind words, and then bragging, where would he really go to Hedong, so he smiled bitterly: "The prince is joking, the lower official is now leading the Law Enforcement Bureau, this is the newly created yamen of His Majesty, there are many affairs, the minister is busy until midnight every day, and he feels that the time is not enough, if the lower official has more leisure time, he can go to Hedong, but now the lower official is really inseparable from the errand that His Majesty has explained." ”

Wang Mang looked at Chu Feng with a smile, and said a lot of nonsense, but in fact, he didn't want to go, but Wang Mang was too lazy to expose him, so he said: "When you do Hedong Ling, do you have any dealings with Hexi Ling?"

When Chu Feng heard this, the whole person's thinking suddenly diverged, the news of Hexi's suicide of Chen Hongliang had reached Chang'an, although he didn't know much, but as one of the high-ranking officials of the imperial court, Chu Feng still knew about it, and when he mentioned Hexi, Chu Feng immediately understood what the person in front of him wanted to ask.

Chu Feng said directly: "Back to the prince, Xia Guan was young at that time, and he didn't have much contact, and he didn't have any dealings with Hexi Ling at that time. ”

"Really?" Wang Mang said: "How did this king hear that the people of Hedong and Hexi often fight together for a golden river, and the county orders of the two places often sit together to deal with the contradictions caused by the Jinhe, are you really not familiar with the Hexi order at that time, or are you ......?"

"Xiaguan remembered, it's really like this, every year Xiaguan has to discuss the problem of the water use of the Jinhe River with Chen Li, the Hexi Ling at that time, but the contact between the Xiaguan and Hexi is limited to the affairs of the Jinhe, which is really a trivial matter in the affairs of the Xiaguan to govern Hedong, and it is not worth mentioning, so the Xiaguan didn't think about it for a while. Chu Feng wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and refused to admit it.

Wang Mang knew that Chu Feng had scruples, and he didn't want to say a lot of things and didn't dare to say them, but at this moment he had to say, snorted coldly, Wang Mang said: "Chu Feng, you have to know that this king, the left-behind prince, His Majesty has given him the right to cut first and then play, what to say, you should understand." ”

"Xia Guan understands. Chu Feng wiped the cold sweat again.

"It's good to understand. Wang Mang snorted coldly: "This king tells you one thing, Hexi ordered Chen Hongliang to collude with South Korea to lead Korean soldiers into Qin, and repeatedly harassed the imperial court to rescue the army of Hangu Pass, Your Majesty was furious and ordered a thorough investigation. Do you know what that means? ”

"Xia Guan doesn't know. Chu Feng was really frightened at this time, he only knew about Hexi Ling's suicide, but he didn't know why he committed suicide, now I heard that he colluded with the Han army to lead Han soldiers into Qin, this crime is too big, Chu Feng really can't imagine how Chen Hongliang dared to do such a thing.

"You know it, you don't know. Wang Mang continued: "What this king wants to tell you is that Chen Hongliang is a spy of South Korea in Hexi, and the eight counties near Hexi also have more or less inexplicable relations with South Korea. ”

After a pause, Wang Mang continued: "So Your Majesty has ordered Haifeng to send someone to thoroughly investigate the officials of all the counties and counties near Hangu Pass, not only to investigate the current affairs, but also to investigate the past, and you are also listed." ”

Chu Feng was just frightened just now, and now he collapsed directly on the ground, looked at Wang Mang with a pale face and said: "Lord Wang, you have to tell Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with the lower officials, the lower officials have been away from Hedong for more than ten years, and the affairs of Hedong don't care about the affairs of the lower officials no matter what." ”

"You have been away for more than ten years, but the question is, did the matter between Han Jun and Hexi only happen in the past few years or months?" Wang Mang asked.

The tunnels in the Yamen of Hexi Ling are by no means repaired in a while and a half, this kind of tunnels that can communicate the two countries, whether they are newly built or repaired before the tunnels, the manpower and material resources it will cost are astronomical, so the Hexi Orders of the past dynasties may not be clean, and the counties near Hexi may not be clean.

Wang Mang also saw Chu Feng, and suddenly had a whim, wanting to try this old boy to see if he had something in his hands, but he didn't expect to look at the old boy's expression, as if he really knew something, and now Wang Mang was going to ask him completely.

Chu Feng is really afraid of Wang Mang now, he finally saved the identity of the minister of the court and the central government, he is not willing to give up the current glory and wealth no matter what, the king in front of him is honest, no matter what he came from before, now he is the prince who stayed behind, is Wang Mang's most trusted prince of the clan, and is Wang Mang's henchman, Chu Feng even doubts that what the person in front of him said is what he said or Wang Mang wants to ask him, but Chu Feng also understands that no matter which one, he is powerless to resist.

After racking his brains and thinking about it in his head, Chu Feng said with a sad face: "Lord Wang, you just let go of the lower officials, the lower officials really don't know about the affairs of Hedong and Hexi." ”

"Didn't you just say that you have done a lot of practical things for the people there?" asked Wang Mang.

"I think I've done a lot. Chu Feng said weakly.

"What should be, what should be, shouldn't be shouldn't, what should mean?" Wang Mang said coldly.

"This ......" Chu Feng gritted his teeth and said directly: "Lord Wang, in fact, this is the case, although the lower official served as the Hedong Order, but the lower official really couldn't interfere in the affairs of Hedong, the lower official served in the center of the imperial court when he was an official, and to do the Hedong Order was to get a resume of governing the place, in fact, the lower official did not understand the governance of the place at that time, after the lower official arrived in Hedong, he did a lot of poetry and friends, and the lower official really never did it in this governance place." ”

"Then why do you say that you have done many things?" Wang Mang said.

"This was reported to the subordinate officials of the lower officials in Hedong at that time. Chu Feng said with an embarrassed face: "Lord Wang, in fact, it's really not that the lower officials are inactive, in Hedong, the lower officials are just outsiders, and those local officials in Hedong are the real masters of Hedong. ”

"Hmph!" Wang Mang snorted coldly, and Chu Feng, who had just stood up in fright, collapsed directly again.

(End of chapter)