Chapter 24: The Three Evils of the Capital

When he first arrived, Xu Mengmeng naturally did not participate in the discussion of the ministers, but only listened quietly to their remarks, while looking at the yellow figure at the top without a trace.

Speaking from the heart, Sima Wei's appearance can only be regarded as slightly better than ordinary, the face is an ordinary oval face, the bridge of the nose is a little high, but the eyebrows and eyes are not good, the sparse and short eyebrows are not heroic, and the eyes are a little like drooping eyes, perhaps due to age or recent poor sleep, and the eyelids are slightly shrugged.

Although his face is not stunning, and his temples are dyed with a little gray hair, the majesty and nobility of his whole body, as well as his eyes with a little vicissitudes of life, have a different kind of handsomeness and elegance.

Recently, there have not been too many major events in the DPRK and China, not to mention that many ministers have handed over excerpts before, so the early dynasty ended in less than half an hour.

As soon as the chamberlain shouted to go down to the court, and after the ministers knelt down and saluted, Xu Mengmeng got up quickly and dragged his body that was scared out of a cold sweat and ran fast. When the ministers came back to their senses, how could there still be General Ning Xiao?

Unexpectedly, on the first day of the court, he put himself on the fire and roasted him, Xu Mengmeng felt that he still underestimated the current saint!

When there were no soldiers in their hands, the princes gave gifts one after another, and now there are 50,000 horses at once, and they are also soldiers and horses in the capital, and the people's prestige and army are in their hands.

"From today onwards, whenever someone comes to give gifts, they will say that I have gone to the camp on the outskirts of Beijing to train my troops!" Xu Mengmeng didn't wait for everyone to come forward to talk, so he quickly slipped away, returned home, hurriedly changed into a strong outfit, and took a few people to the camp on the outskirts of Beijing.

Fortunately, she is still only a third-grade minister, and she is not qualified to go to court every day for the time being, so she only needs to appear once in five days! So she simply lived in the barracks.

In the first few days, as she expected, many people came to the door with gifts every day, but they didn't see her for two or three days in a row, and the smarter people came back to their senses, and they were no longer so eyeless to go up.

However, Sima Hao has never given up, and what Xu Mengmeng is most afraid of now is to have a relationship with those princes, so he naturally thinks of a way to avoid him, so he didn't see Xu Mengmeng until he went to court again.

After going to the court a few times, everyone found that Xu Mengmeng almost had the same attitude towards several princes, even the crown prince, but he looked loyal to the emperor, most of the time he was an independent gesture, even if he communicated with people, he only chose those neutral generals or imperial historians, as for the three princes, he had long since dared not come to her side because of the emperor's warning.

No matter how hot the topic is, it can't avoid the fate of drowning in the long river of time in the end, so even if I revere Ning Jun, the young general, in my heart, his unsightly face has already spread, and the heroic deeds have been talked about for a month, and the heat has passed.

Xu Mengmeng finally breathed a sigh of relief. It's not so noticeable anymore, and it's time for some things to start investigating.

"Speaking of which, there were three main evidences that pointed out that Baifu collaborated with the enemy and treason! The witness is Wang Gang, the current general of the military department under his father, I have carefully observed it these days, he has never had close contact with any prince, and he is one of the neutral factions in the court, so it is very likely that his testimony was instructed by the emperor, but it is also possible that he is hidden too deeply, so that I am not aware of it.

There are two pieces of physical evidence, one is the secret letter written in imitation of his handwriting found in his father's study, which was found by Liu Yi, the commander of the Imperial City Forbidden Army, and I observed that he had more contact with Sima Xun, perhaps his person.

There is also a piece of jade pendant found from her sister, so it was rumored that she had an affair with Mu Jingyun, the prince of Beiwei, and her sister liked Sima Xi, and many people knew about it. Mu Jingyun is the prince of Beiwei, he has been arranged to live in the palace, and he has never been out of the palace, and the person who can get his personal jade pendant must be a person in the palace, so it seems that this person's power in the palace will not be small. Xu Mengmeng analyzed to the twelve horsemen.

"At the beginning, only the eldest lady and Mu Jingyun knew about the jade pendant, the eldest lady had passed away, and Mu Jingyun was also far away in Beiwei, so this clue was broken, and now we can only start with Wang Gang and Liu Yi!"

"Wang Gang's old guy is very vigilant, check the people in his house first, and see if you can find clues! The people in Liu Yi's mansion can also be checked, yes, several of his right-hand men can also be checked! ”

"By the way, are there any of our people in the palace?" Although Xu Mengmeng also knew that there was little hope, he still had some expectations, after all, it was the place where the struggle was fiercest and the place where the news was most intensive.

"Yes, not much, there are only three people, one of them is Aunt Qin, one of the most favored aunts around Concubine Li, the second is Xiao Yezi, a eunuch under the emperor's close attendant Fu Gonggong, and the third is a small palace maid Yuemei in the imperial dining room." Personnel arrangements have always been in charge of Lixing, the most vigilant in the Twelve Cavalry.

"Concubine Li? Zhu Ping's sister? The biological mother of the Seven Princes? ”

Xu Mengmeng was indeed a little surprised, how strict the palace guards were, it was not easy to arrange people under the emperor's close father-in-law, let alone the aunt in charge of the concubine's side? These twelve horsemen are inevitably too capable!

"It's not as the general guessed, Aunt Qin was not arranged by us, then Aunt Qin has a daughter named Xiuxiang outside the palace, who lives in Jingzhou in the south, and met mountain bandits on the way to visit her mother in Beijing two years ago, and happened to be rescued by passing by Qiye, so she has some friendship!" It's no secret, and the twelve riders know a little bit about it.

"Then why did she leave home and enter the palace when she has a daughter?" Aren't all the maids and grandmothers in the palace generally unmarried?

"General, have you forgotten that Concubine Li's maiden home is Jingzhou? When Aunt Qin was a nurse in the Zhu family, it coincided with the draft, and the Zhu family saw that Aunt Qin was a shrewd and stable person, so they let her enter the palace with Concubine Li. ”

Hearing Lixing's words, Xu Mengmeng rolled his eyes directly, and said in his heart I don't even know where you are, let alone an emperor's favorite concubine who has never met? I can know that she is Zhu Ping's sister and Sima Xun's mother!

"Although she has this level of friendship, but after all, she has been in the palace for so many years, and no one knows how much this friendship has in her heart, so this person is still careful to contact!"

Xu Mengmeng doesn't believe how clean the hands of an aunt in charge who has a high status in the palace can be, even if she has not been contaminated with human life, she must have seen a lot of inner court injustice, such a person would really value a person's life-saving grace to his daughter who has never been raised under his knees?

"By the way, general, these days, I often look for delicious food in the streets and alleys, but I heard a news, I heard that Wang Gang, the secretary of the military department, is very fond of his only son Wang Haowei, and Wang Haowei often relies on this favor to be powerful in the capital.

And he is very lustful, and Zhu Ping's son Zhu Tianrui, and Furui Wang's concubine Sima Zhao are called the three evils of the capital, and the three often oppress the people, and everyone dares to be angry and dare not speak! ”

"I have also heard about this matter, it is said that no one in the entire capital except for the young lady of the Li Yushi family, they dare to provoke, and recently they have fought because of the top girl Yu Yan in Chunfeng Building, and many of the children of the official family have been injured by them! Someone sued the matter to the Jingzhao Yamen, but they didn't dare to care about it at all. ”