In the basement of the Pingwang Mansion, an assassination weapon identical to the Assassin's crossbow was also found.

King Ping's henchmen, who could not withstand the torture in prison, also confessed that King Ping plotted to assassinate the prince and abducted and sold young girls.

After more than two months of evidence collection and trial, the vigorous assassination of the prince and the abduction of the young daughter were finally concluded before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Wei Yuanze, the secretary of the Criminal Department, has a resolute and resolute style in handling cases, which has been well received by the government and the public.

Through these two cases, many people finally understood that Wei Shangshu, who had never known which side of the team was, turned out to be more inclined to the side of the crown prince Xiao Qiyi.

For many years, Xiao Qijin, the king of Ping, and An Lu Lulu, the behind-the-scenes boss of Cui Yuxuan, don't know how many innocent girls have been kidnapped.

Those girls who were abducted, with particularly outstanding appearances, were selected by King Ping to stay, and were trained to be able to show off their posture and charm men since they were young, especially to secretly collect intelligence.

When they grow up a little, these girls will be inadvertently encountered by dignitaries and dignitaries, and then brought back to the palace to become favored concubines, and some courtiers will build separate courtyards for them and provide them as an outer room.

A steady stream of information was transmitted back to the Pingwang Mansion through these girls who had been trained since childhood.

No one knows how many of those girls were mutilated by King Ping when they were young, because some girls were destroyed and died before they reached adulthood.

The person responsible for transporting the girls to the ministers' mansions has never been caught.

During the search of the Pingwangfu courtyard that day, in the panic, someone was forcibly fed poison, and I don't know if the person who transported the girls was in the list of people who were poisoned.

Many girls, who were rescued and returned, were still frightened and panicked, and did not dare to expose Xiao Qijin's crimes.

It wasn't until later that a girl said that whenever King Ping spent the night in another courtyard, two girls would be ordered to accompany him at night, and some girls never came back, and some came back, but they were covered in bruises and looked sluggish.

Some girls go crazy or become demented when they are minors.

It's not that no girl has escaped, but these girls who were abducted at a young age, even if they escaped by luck, didn't know how to find their parents, and in the end they were almost recaptured.

Most of the girls who were captured were beaten to death.

It was beaten to death in front of these girls, which was called killing chickens and monkeys, so that in the end, no girl dared to run away anymore.

In the end, Xiao Qijin, the king of Ping, was stripped of his title for plotting to assassinate the prince, abducting and trafficking in human beings, and mutilating young girls, and was demoted to a concubine, and was imprisoned in the underground prison of the imperial capital, and finally waited for the emperor to order him to be executed.

Ping King Xiao Qijin's accumulated crimes, even the queen could not protect him.

The queen made trouble in front of the emperor several times, and found that it was useless to be coquettish and crying, so she knew that the emperor was hard-hearted, so she didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore, and only waited for her brother to return to Beijing to discuss again.

The letter from the queen to the brother stationed in the north has been brought, but the brother's reply, the queen does not expect any suggestions, because the letter sent to the Fengqi Palace will definitely be secretly checked.

And the battle-hardened general of Zhenbei naturally knows that there is no secret in the palace, so he will not write some words in the letter that can make people grasp the handle.

The dust settled, but Wei Linze, the secretary of the Criminal Department, still couldn't calm down.

Wei Shangshu had no way of knowing, in the imperial capital Jiankang, and even in the frontier fiefdom, how many women in the people's mansion were spies exported by the Pingwang Mansion?

Wei Shangshu faintly felt that as long as Xiao Qijin did not die, one day, Xiao Qijin would still walk out of the underground prison, and those hidden forces in the shadows were not only impossible to prevent, but also easy to dodge with open guns and difficult to prevent with hidden arrows.

Thinking of this, Wei Shangshu was secretly worried about the prince.

As soon as King Ping fell, most of King Ping's henchmen in the dynasty were connected, but some of them were transferred to some positions at most because they did not have a full handle. It can be seen that Xiao Qijin has been in business for many years, and his wings are abundant and his foundation is solid.

Because the queen is still there, General Wang Da stationed in the north is still the pillar of the Liang Empire, and the emperor knows that the Xiao family's country is still inseparable from the Wang family, so Xiao Qijin's head is still there for the time being.

The crown prince Xiao Qiyi is the biggest beneficiary of this variable, and the prince took over some of Xiao Qijin's affairs in the court.

Xiao Qijin's henchmen, how could the prince let it go? It's also slowly being cleaned up.

Considering the drawbacks brought about by the centralization of power, the officials arranged for some centrist personnel to fill the vacant positions of Xiao Qijin's henchmen, which made the prince very dissatisfied, and his people have been looking at those vacant positions since the fall of King Ping.

However, most of the people on the prince's side, most of the candidates who were put forward were rejected by the ministry, because those people were found to have bad behavior by the ministry, so they were not appointed.

In view of the fact that it was difficult for the crown prince to completely take over the things left by Xiao Qijin alone, the young fifth prince Xiao Qixuan also took over some of the things in the hands of King Qianping.

Xiao Qixuan, the king of Qi, who had been training in the military department for a few days, slowly began to contact the government and politics.

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The scorching heat gradually subsided, the summer cicadas went out, and the imperial capital Jiankang entered a dull season.

Mu Yunyin stood under a peach tree in Fuzhong and found that the autumn in Jiankang came earlier than in Yunnan.

A cold wind blew, and the bluestone-paved courtyard fell to the ground with fallen leaves, just like Mu Yunyin's yellowed heart.

The case of King Qianping, like a thousand waves stirred up by the vast sea, although it is surging and rushing, it is also in a hurry, leaving behind a lot of turbidity that has not surfaced.

But who knows when the next storm will come? In the depths of the invisible ocean, there are still undercurrents, brewing for the next earth-shattering tide.

The waves receded, revealing grains of sand, and Mu Yunyin saw many things that she had overlooked.

On that day, outside the courtyard of the Qianping Palace, many people shouted and cried at once, how did those people know that there were those girls locked up in the courtyard?

Mu Yunyin asked Fukang to come over, but he didn't expect so many people to come.

With the ability of Fukang's one person, he will not find so many people at once, even if Fukang contacts him in advance, ordinary people will not dare to cry and accuse in front of the emperor like that.

Mu Yunyin had been looking for a suspicious shadow in those crowds, and found a familiar figure flashing by.

That figure was the coachman of Baili Feiyan, that time Baili Feiyan came to the mansion as a guest, after his carriage was delivered to the door, although he immediately turned around and left, Mu Yunyin remembered the horse driver with a square face and broad cheeks and stubble.

Baili Feiyan, what kind of person is he? Is Fookham also his man?

Mu Yunyin felt as if she had been being used.

Xiao Qijin used her to lure the prince to the place where the assassins were ambushed, and some people used her to expose Xiao Qijin's crime of abducting and mutilating girls.

And the case has been pending during the time she was unconscious, is it waiting for her to simulate the situation of the day on the spot?

The crown prince has been waiting for the moment when he will hit King Ping with one blow.

Mu Yunyin's brain is a little messy, the imperial capital Jiankang is really not a calm capital, and there are undercurrents surging everywhere.

Looking up at the sky, the sky was covered with clouds, which seemed to be still, but in fact, the wind was surging.