Soon after Shi Nan and Xu Li left, Yu Wenyan suddenly sent someone to arrest the patriarch of the Xu clan and Li Zheng of Xujia Village.

It turned out that Yu Wenyan felt that the patriarch of the Xu clan treated Xu Li's attitude was too weird, but if there was a scholar in the family, who wouldn't be a baby? But Xu Jiacun did the opposite, so he had to be suspicious.

After some investigation, they were surprised to discover that there was a private mint in the village, and the privately minted coins were pulled out every night.

In front of the conclusive human and physical evidence, Li Zheng and the patriarch of the Xu clan confessed their guilt, and they also climbed out of the Hengtai Money Village in the capital.

Yu Wenyan sent someone to touch the melon, and found that the shopkeeper of the silver building that he had been staring at a few months ago was also involved.

Then they searched for letters from the shopkeeper of the silver building and the palace of King Kang in the southwest.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

In terms of generation, Prince Kang in the southwest is still the uncle of Emperor Gyeongdeok and the favorite youngest son of Emperor Sejong.

Therefore, when Emperor Sejong was still in power, he named him King Kang and gave him the rich land in the southwest as a fief.

King Kang lives in the southwest corner, but he is also honest and peaceful, and he will enter the table to the court every New Year's holiday, and the court will also reward it every year to show his favor.

So much so that for decades, it has never been suspicious.

Regardless of dynasty or generation, it is a felony to mint coins privately.

Emperor Qingde, who got the report of the Zhenfu Division, still didn't want to believe it, so he instructed the Xingren Division to write a will to question King Kang.

I never thought about it, not only did I not wait for King Kang's guilty book, but I waited for the news that King Kang had established himself as king in the southwest.

As a result, the entire government and the opposition were shocked.

The court was divided into two factions, one faction believed that troops should be sent to the southwest to conquer, and the other faction believed that Qin should be sent to persuade surrender.

The people of the two factions quarreled in the court.

But sending troops is a matter that can be decided overnight, and the persuasion faction naturally has the upper hand.

What everyone didn't expect was that as soon as the sent Qin Cha arrived in Longyin City, where King Kang was located, he had people assassinated in the post house.

When the news reached the capital, it was the day of the winter solstice, which made everyone lose interest in eating dumplings.

You know, the two countries are not at war.

Qin Cha was killed in Longyin City, obviously because King Kang's Mansion had no intention of peace talks, and the suspicion of war hung over everyone's heads, and some people even blamed Yu Wenyan, blaming him for not stabbing the hornet's nest of King Kang's Mansion in the first place.

"Are those people still on the merits?" Because it was almost the end of the year, Shi Jinxiu went out to Xinxiang Pavilion to settle accounts with Mrs. Ye, but she didn't want to be smashed with a rotten egg on the way back, just because the carriage she was sitting in hung with the lantern of the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion.

While walking, Shi Jinxiu pulled the rotten egg white on his head, and hurriedly ordered someone to prepare water to wash his hair.

didn't think about pouring a spoonful of hot water on it, but the rotten egg white on her head not only didn't go, but scalded into egg flowers.

In desperation, she had to call a group of maids to help her clean up the egg flowers on her hair.

Therefore, when Yu Wenyan came back, he saw Shi Jinxiu half-lying on the fire pit, and a group of people playing with her hair.

"What's wrong? Got lice on your head? Yu Wenyan saw that he went into the house to change his clothes.

"No, someone smashed an egg when I went out today, and then I washed my hair with hot water......" Shi Jinxiu rolled her eyes and said.

Yu Wenyan rushed out of the back room as if he had been touched by someone: "Someone actually threw eggs at you?" What about the Nie Lan'er people? She didn't protect you? ”

Seeing that Yu Wenyan was about to be angry with others, Shi Jinxiu hurriedly sent all the people in the house down: "I was careless, thinking that I just went to Xinxiang Pavilion and didn't go to the other place, so I didn't take Lan'er out." ”

Seeing that this was Shi Jinxiu's self-assertion again, although Yu Wenyan was unhappy in his heart, he was not as angry as before: "Come here, let me take a look." ”

Shi Jinxiu sat beside Yu Wenyan with her long hair scattered.

The egg flowers on her head had been picked, leaving only a few crumbs, but Yu Wenyan couldn't help but hang an upturned arc at the corner of her mouth when she saw it.

He asked Shi Jinxiu to rest his head on his lap, follow the example of those maids just now, and help her pick up the crumbs.

"You say, do you really want to send troops to conquer King Kang?" Shi Jinxiu was lying there, talking to him without a match.

"Judging by the current situation, there is a chance that there will be nine times out of ten." Yu Wenyan's expression became solemn, but the movements in his hands did not stop, "King Kang is now eighty years old, and he has long stopped asking about the world, and the entire King Kang's mansion is decided by King Kang, and I have had a meeting with King Kang in the past, and he is a ruthless and scheming person." ”

"He is willing to tear off the mask of disguise, and he must have been prepared for everything." Yu Wenyan paused, "That is, what it looks like in the past half a month, there will be a will in the palace." ”

Shi Jinxiu's heart tightened when she heard this, and she hurriedly tugged at Yu Wenyan's shirt and said, "What? What did you hear? ”

"I saw Zheng Guogong enter the palace today, if I am not mistaken, the emperor should want to send Zheng Guogong to fight, after all, he took people to the southwest to fight Jiaozhi back then, and he is also familiar with that side." Yu Wenyan said lightly.

What a war!

Shi Jinxiu sat up with a grunt.

But there has been no such thing as a war in her dreams, and the matter of the third and fourth princes competing for the crown has not yet happened.

Could it be that things are going wrong?

Shi Jinxiu tugged at Yu Wenyan's shirt: "What about you?" Do you want to go with Zheng Guogong? ”

Looking at her concerned eyes, Yu Wenyan smiled slightly: "I hope to go!" It's a pity that I don't know how to arrange troops, and it's useless except to be able to fight people single-handedly. ”

Hearing this, Shi Jinxiu put her heart back in her stomach.

In this kind of thing, she is still selfish.

Sure enough, three days later, I heard the news that the emperor was going to use troops against the southwest.

On a day of heavy snowfall, Zheng Guogong led the army from the capital, and many people took the initiative to go out of the city to see each other, and Shi Jinxiu was no exception.

In the bustling crowd, she found Cai Xiang'er, who was crying like a tearful person.

"Will they come back safely?" Cai Xiang'er, who saw Shi Jinxiu, couldn't help but ask.

"Hmm." Shi Jinxiu responded lightly.

Because of this war, everyone's New Year was not good, and even the palace canceled the big court meeting on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Just when everyone was waiting for the battle report of the great victory ahead, they suddenly received news from the northwest that the Great Xia Kingdom suddenly fell and advanced eastward, swallowing two cities in one breath.

In the face of such internal and external troubles, Emperor Qingde spit out a mouthful of old blood in anger on the spot, fainted, and the court immediately fell into chaos.