A few days later, the abolished prince Zhu Yu had already returned to Datong Mansion to be his king of Jin, in fact, the emperor did not kill him completely, after all, it was Zhu Yu's power base, and now although he has lost the title of prince, he has not lost the capital to turn around.

Zhang Hanwen was dismissed from his post on the day of the birthday banquet and sent to prison to wait for his death, because the secret account was still in his mind, and Yao Bingyong had no choice, he could only protect it if he could, and if he couldn't protect it, he could only kill it himself.

The emperor, who had relapsed from his old illness, was finally able to sit up and talk to people under the careful conditioning of the imperial doctor.

The emperor had been thinking about it for a long time on the sickbed in the past few days, and when he calmed down, he didn't want to expand the situation any more, so he called the people of both parties together and prepared to play fifty boards each, so that the matter would be settled.

In the emperor's study, Yao Bingyong and Xu Guangyan stood aside, although the two had no communication, the aura between them seemed to have begun to fight.

Zhu Wanqing accompanied Concubine Shu and the Seventh Prince to greet her father today, and happened to be present together, in fact, this was deliberately arranged by Yao Bingyong, he wanted Zhu Wanqing to intercede for her fiancé.

"Go down." When the emperor ran out of medicine, he ordered the eunuchs and palace ladies to withdraw.

"Zhang Hanwen's case, who is trying it?" The Emperor asked.

"Back to the emperor, the criminal department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the three divisions of Dali Temple are under trial, but the specific facts of the case have to be sent to the local government to find out. But Shen Liang, who is in the brocade guard, is a good hand at catching officials' pigtails on weekdays, and when he encounters a big case, he will only figure it out and pretend to be confused. ”

Xu Guangyan knew very well that Dongchang Jinyiwei was more biased towards Yao Xiang, needless to say, although Shen Liang, the commander of Jinyiwei, was still an upright person, but he had to pretend to be confused in some things.

"Then, according to you, who would be more appropriate to send on this errand?" The emperor asked Xu Guangyan.

Xu Guangyan thought about it carefully, and there was no suitable candidate for a while, and his group of friends from the imperial history were useless except for scolding people and exposing each other's shortcomings. If you really get to the place, you will only play around for people, and you will be embarrassed.

"Father, why don't you go with your daughter, how about you make me a female messenger?" Zhu Wanqing on the side suddenly spoke.

"Qing'er, nonsense, you're a girl, why are you involved in this?" Concubine Shu hurriedly stopped.

"Oh? Why did Qing'er want to be this female messenger? When the emperor heard this, he was interested.

"Zhang Hanwen and his daughter are in love, I thought he was an upright person, but I never thought that he would be entangled in such a lawsuit now. But the daughter always firmly believed that Zhang Hanwen was innocent, or there was something else hidden, so she asked her father to allow her daughter to go to Langcheng to find out. If he was wronged, he would be doing my duty as a fiancée. If he is really an unforgivable sin, this time he will be punished for his father. What Zhu Wanqing said was very reasonable, and the emperor nodded again and again after hearing it.

"What do you think about the two Aiqing?" The Emperor had to consult them.

"The minister seconded the proposal." Both of them thought it was okay.

What Yao Bingyong wants is to let Zhu Wanqing investigate the case, isn't that equivalent to releasing water?

Xu Guangyan knew that Zhu Wanqing was on his side, at least in the matter of Zhang Hanwen.

"Okay, pass the decree, Princess Feng Lingyang is a female messenger, give Shang Fang a sword, and you can cut it first and then play it in case of trouble. In addition, 20 elite backbones were allocated from Jinyi Wei, led by Shen Liang, to assist them in going to Langcheng to investigate Zhang Hanwen's case. The Emperor said.

"Yes!" Zhu Wanqing knelt down to receive the order.

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The next day, the group set out on a journey south. Zhang Xiaohu was promoted to the captain of the Jinyi Guard this time because of his outstanding martial arts and the fact that he was Zhu Wanqing's guard.

This female Qin sent out of the city, which attracted everyone's attention, and the melon-eating masses on both sides of the road were talking about each other.

Shen Liang held Shang Fang's sword in his hand and rode behind Qin Cha, this person was more than eight feet tall, his skin was dark, and there was a terrifying scar on his face, which stretched from his neck to his cheeks.

"Lord Qincha, when I get out of the Jingshi, I will act in plain clothes." Shen Liang, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, is very experienced in doing this kind of investigation. The entire Ming Dynasty is small from rural villages to princely ministers' mansions, all under the strict control of the factory guards. He, Shen Liang, has put a lot of effort into this.

"Lord Shen, this time I will go to Langcheng, I am afraid I will have to rely on you a lot along the way." Zhu Wanqing knew that she could only come up with an idea to set a direction, and if she really wanted to implement it and do a good job, she had to rely on him, Lord Shen Liangshen.

"Since we have been ordered by the emperor, the lower officials should do their best, and we will do whatever Lord Qincha says." Shen Liang's implication is that the ideas are all from you, don't end up eating melons and falling melons.

Out of the border of the capital, the brocade guards changed their clothes, stepped on straw sandals, wore hats, and dressed up as ordinary pawn dealers. Zhu Wanqing was dressed in classic mustachioed men's clothes when she was in Xiangmanlou before.

It has already opened spring, and there are no such lively businessmen on the road as in previous years, and last year's famine affected Henan and Shandong provinces, and what is even more frightening is that perhaps the matter of Langcheng is just the tip of the iceberg.

Zhu Wanqing's original plan was to go to Langcheng to meet the current new prefect first and learn about the recent situation. But before he entered Langcheng, he heard that the people of Hongyan Village had robbed the new prefect who had rushed to take office last month.

Now Zhu Wanqing was stunned, the prefect let the bandits rob her, this is a big deal, why didn't she report it to the imperial court?

Shen Liang thought for a moment and said: "This matter arose because of the bandits, the bandits arose because of the disaster, and the calamity arose because of the corruption and perversion of the law, so there is a reason why some people deliberately suppressed it for fear of making a public statement." This refers to Yao Xiang's party.

Zhang Xiaohu's feet were fast, and he arrived in Langcheng one day before, but found that Langcheng was completely chaotic and became an ownerless city.

Xiaohu rushed back to report the truth to Zhu Wanqing, and Zhu Wanqing and Shen Liang discussed and decided to settle in Langcheng first to stabilize the local situation, and then try to rescue the new prefect who was taken away by Hongyanzhai.

The mansion of the prefect of Langcheng has been left unattended for a long time and is dilapidated. Zhang Hanwen's study, Ziyunxuan, was moved to the capital as a whole, and now only the covered bridge stands alone on the water in this back garden.

I think the two of them made a private agreement here for life, but a few months later, the love between them for many years has disappeared.

Shen Liang and the others were about to go to find someone to clean up the mansion again, but as soon as they went out, they met a team of government officials.

The leading officer looked these people up and down, and said angrily, "Where did you come from?" Trespassing is a felony, take it with me. "A group of errands are going to lock them up.

"Stop!" Shen Liang shouted loudly, making the gang of errands tremble.

"Any idea what this is?" Shen Liang lifted the corner of his shirt, exposed his waist card, and wrote [Daming Jinyi Guard Commands Shen Liang]

The errand official was illiterate, but he knew that he was not an ordinary person when he looked at this waist card, so he had to bow his head slightly and say, "Who is my lord?" ”

"Jin Yiwei, Shen Liang."

"Brocade, brocade guard!" When the gang heard this, they immediately threw themselves down to their knees.

"This is the Lord Qincha sent by the emperor to come to Langcheng to handle the case, and in the future, all of your government officials will actively cooperate with us in investigating the case, do you understand?" Shen Liang lit up Shang Fang's sword, which can be regarded as letting the people of these small places see the world.

"Yes!" The servants were so frightened that they hurriedly threw the things they had just snatched on the ground beside them.

"From today onwards, if you dare to know the law and break the law, and take it by force, I will severely punish you!" Zhu Wanqing said in a thick voice, she remembered that the court had been broken for a long time, so she didn't delve into the mistakes of the people below.

"Lord Sechincha."