"No."

After Xia Shiren received the order, he left the palace directly and went straight to the base of the Thousand Machine Pavilion.

The base of the Thousand Machine Pavilion was originally on Qingquan Mountain, which was close to the suburbs of Kyoto, but because Su Ling inherited the throne, the entire Thousand Machine Pavilion was moved from Qingquan Mountain in the suburbs to the west of the underground palace of the Imperial Palace.

The underground palace of Su Qianguo was originally prepared for the royal family, in order to let the royal people take refuge in the underground palace after they were in trouble. The original design of the dungeon was like a tomb, in order to let the royal heirs have a stable burial place after they could not escape, but after Su Ling inherited the throne, he felt that this dungeon was too unlucky, so he changed a quarter of the dungeon to Qianji Pavilion for use, and at the same time sealed the original south gate and north gate of the dungeon. Only the east and west doors remained. The west gate is only for the entry and exit of the Thousand Machine Pavilion.

Xia Shiren had just stepped into the Thousand Machine Pavilion and saw Xia Ji who was about to leave the palace, and the expression on his face was panicked. Xia Shiren stopped him and asked, "Xia Ji, where are you going?" ”

Looking at Xia Shiren who suddenly appeared, Xia Ji immediately stopped, and then hid the silk cloth in his hand behind him when Xia Shiren was not paying attention, and quickly stuffed it into his sleeve.

"Father." Xia Shu called his expression particularly serious.

"Where are you going in such a panic? Could it be that there are too few arrangements for the Ministry today? So that you can have the opportunity to go out of the palace in style? ”

"No, father. I just got an order to leave the palace. ”

"What order?"

"The minister said that I should go to Mu Jin Kingdom now and follow the elite troops who are preparing to rebel into the palace."

Hearing his words, Xia Shiren was stunned, he didn't expect that the eyeliner in the palace had already brought the news to Qianji Pavilion. Then, he said, "Then do you know what you are going to do after you enter the palace?" ”

"I don't know." Xia Shu lowered his head and waited for his command.

In fact, Xia Ji didn't receive the news of going to Mu Jin Kingdom at all, but he heard it before he came to Qianji Pavilion.

Xia Ji originally planned to go to the Qianyuan Palace to find the notes of the emperor, but what he didn't expect was that on the way back from the Qianyuan Palace, he passed by the military plane and happened to see Su Ling, who was in a hurry to ride in from outside the palace. Seeing his anxious movements, Xia Shu was suspicious, so he followed him to the military plane. In fact, he was very afraid that Su Ling would receive news from Su Ling from other places.

When he followed to the military plane, and after listening to Su Ling's arrangement for him to go to Mu Jinguo, he went directly back to the Qianji Pavilion and took out the silk cloth that was supposed to be given to the intelligence department of the Qianji Pavilion from the secret compartment of his room. Who knew that he was about to hide this silk cloth again when he met Xia Shiren who came over, so the previous scene happened.

Xia Shiren looked at Xia Shu's lowered head, and he said with relief: "It seems that it is still beneficial for you to choose to go out to practice by yourself, and now you have learned all the rules in the Thousand Machines Pavilion." ”

"It's also because my father is willing to let his children go out to practice, so I know all kinds of things in the cabinet." Xia Yu continued to bow his head and compliment.

"Very good, very good." Xia Shiren stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and then said, "Since you already know the news that you are going to Mu Jin Kingdom, then Father Wei will continue to tell you about your mission to Mu Jin Kingdom." ”

"Father, please."

"In addition to supervising the implementation of the ten-person team when you go to Mu Jinguo this time, you also have to bring back the heads of the two, Luo Ge and Lu Zhi."

Hearing this, Xia Shu was slightly shocked.

Looking at the trembling of his body, Xia Shiren comforted: "Father knows that you have liked Luo Ge since you were a child, but Luo Ge is just a chess piece in the Thousand Machines Pavilion after all, and now that she has no martial arts, it is equivalent to a waste without any ability, and the only thing she is useful now is to be able to bring us news about Mu Ziqin." However, soon the emperor will destroy the Mu Jin Kingdom, and by that time, Luo Ge will have no use value. Chess pieces that have no use value should naturally be removed. Therefore, no matter how reluctant you are, you must carry out the emperor's orders. ”

"Father, do you really want to be so desperate?" Xia Ji was always reluctant, after all, the person he liked since he was a child, how could he be able to do it, even if he wanted to get rid of her last time as ordered, but if he really let him do it, he would definitely not be able to do it.

"You just have to remember one sentence now, you can never have feelings as a killer."

After Xia Shiren finished speaking, he entered the Thousand Machines Pavilion, Xia Ji stayed where he was and didn't know whether to be happy or sad, and when he eased up a little, he jumped out of the Thousand Machines Pavilion.

When Xia Shiren came to the cabinet, it happened that the ministers of various ministries also gathered in the hall.

"I've seen the prime minister."

Looking at the uniform movements and expressions, he knew that the entire Thousand Machine Pavilion already knew the news from the military aircraft department today. He said, "Looks like you all know the news. What is needed now is for you to speed up and get all the news out. According to the previous plan, everyone who should release fake news in Mu Jin will start. As for the ten people mixed in the 100-person elite team, now the Lord has sent Xia Ji from the Hai Department to go, so there is no need to bother arranging manpower. All other plans remain the same. ”

"Subordinates obey."

Looking at the crowd and the empty hall, Xia Shiren had the pleasure of being about to achieve something, he looked at all the records on the wall, and laughed out loud.

And Xia Ji, who escaped from the Thousand Machines Pavilion, rode directly to the Mujin King's Palace, instead of the border camp where he was supposed to go.

Mu Ziqin, who had finished analyzing the general situation with Mu Ziheng, mentioned to him the strange people he found in the court today.

"Gu Jing saw a few suspicious characters in the court, and when the ministers were discussing whether to negotiate peace or send troops, they did not move or bowed their heads and smiled."

"Then Brother Wang, are you sure who it is?" When Mu Ziqin mentioned it, Mu Ziheng's mind began to quickly recall all the information he had received in the past year.

"If you look at the officials below the fifth grade according to their ranks, the newness of the court clothes can be inferred that they are officials who have taken the official examination in the past six months and entered Beijing. In total, there are six people. ”

"Brother Chen, I know." Mu Ziheng replied and retired.

He went directly to the liaison office located in the northwest corner of the palace before he came out of the palace. The size of that liaison office was only half the size of a room in Weiyang Palace. However, it is not directly exposed to the various buildings of the palace, it is hidden under the towers of the palace walls, and the palace next to the city walls is the treasury area of the entire palace. As a result, no one came here all year round, so one of its first rooms was converted into a liaison office.

Before entering the liaison office, Mu Ziheng asked people to take out the record book of official behavior below the fifth grade in the past year, and then quickly looked through it. About an hour later, he screened out ten officials who met Mu Ziqin's suspicions.

"Copy all the records of the deeds of these ten men in the last year in a new book, and the king will bring them to the king."

Mu Ziqin asked the ten people of the Monkey Department to transcribe all the information, and when it was dark, he came to Weiyang Palace with the scroll. Mu Ziqin, who had just finished dinner with Luo Ge, was about to send Luo Ge back, but he didn't expect to meet Mu Ziheng who was dodging in.

"Who is it?" Luo Ge, who was the first to hear the footsteps, opened his mouth.

Mu Ziheng came out of the shadows and said, "I didn't expect to see you for a few days, your Wei family's mental method has been practiced better, and even my movements can be heard." ”

Hearing Mu Ziheng's praise, Luo Ge said with a smile: "Originally, it was impossible to hear, but I blamed you for being too anxious today and not paying too much attention to hiding your steps, so I heard the voice." ”

Listening to the conversation between the two without identity, Mu Ziqin frowned slightly, and said, "You are in a hurry to come here at the moment, what is the matter?" ”

"If you go back to Brother Wang, you want the person your brother is looking for, and Brother Wang has already found a suspicious candidate, so now I'll show Brother Wang."

Mu Ziheng was questioned, and immediately presented the scroll in his arms. He knew that now Luo Ge and Mu Ziqin had confessed their identities, so he didn't deliberately avoid Luo Ge.

Looking at the scroll in his hand, Luo Ge stepped forward and handed it to Mu Ziqin, then consciously turned around and walked outside the palace.

"Brother Wang, you let Sister-in-law Wang ...... like this" Mu Ziheng signaled Luo Ge's action with his movements.

"Out of the way, she's definitely trying to find a way to keep people from coming in and disturbing her. You just have to analyze it with me. She'll definitely be back in a moment. ”

Mu Ziqin guessed correctly. As soon as Luo Ge left the palace gate, he said to the chamberlain outside the door: "The king is now reviewing this morning's recital, and he doesn't want anyone to disturb him." At this moment, the palace is going to the imperial dining room to prepare some snacks for the king, and whoever comes, you will stop them from the palace gate for the time being. ”

"No."

Luo Ge nodded with satisfaction, and took Lu Zhi and Han Yu to the imperial dining room to prepare the walnut cake for Mu Ziqin that she had recently thought of cooking.

In the imperial study room of Weiyang Palace, Mu Ziqin quickly flipped through the scroll and quickly flipped it over, he first determined the people he saw this morning through the portrait at the beginning of each scroll, and first identified three of them: Jia Lin, the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, He Su, the director of the Zongren Mansion, and Zhang Wei, the cabinet attendant. Because these three people have proudly revealed their expressions this morning, there is no element of concealment at all.

But for the remaining three, Mu Ziqin spent a lot of time. He and Mu Ziheng read the whereabouts records of several other people over and over again in the past year, and they didn't even pay attention to Luo Ge when he came in.

Looking at the serious expressions of the two, Luo Ge put the honeysuckle tea and walnut cake he had brewed on the table beside him, and then asked, "How did you check it?" ”

Mu Ziheng looked up and saw her come in, and gave her a copy of the scroll in his hand with relief, and said, "Brother Wang found six people from the hundred officials who were abnormal, and now we have selected three people from the list of suspicions, but it is difficult to find three more people from the remaining seven people." Now I've looked through the volume for the third time, but I still can't find out who they are. ”

Luo Ge looked at the scroll in his hand and said, "Can you tell me what the identity of these people should be first?" ”

"It is very likely that these people are officials who were bought off by Su Qianguo, but it is also possible that Qianji Pavilion was directly arranged in the eyes of the Great Jin Kingdom." Mu Ziqin didn't look up, and replied while looking at the scroll.