Chapter 406: Entering the House
Everything was as expected when Ye Jiang returned to Beijing ten days ago, His Majesty the Emperor was really ready to suppress the Spring and Autumn Academy.
Otherwise, even if it is the Adjudication Division, even if it is the Criminal Department, even if it is His Royal Highness the Prince, how dare he reach out to Bujushan?
In Luoyang, the adjudication department is the most loyal eagle dog beside His Majesty the Emperor, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince represents the most solid will of the emperor and his old man, not to mention, in the hands of Li Chengwen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, he also holds a holy decree.
They want to check the Spring and Autumn Academy, that is, the emperor wants to check the Spring and Autumn Academy.
In the past, the five halls of the Spring and Autumn Academy, only the Hall of Eternal Life and the Zhengyang Hall were still left in the hands of the academicians and disciples of the major academies, and the other three halls were vacant, the people of the Adjudication Department were stationed in the Law Enforcement Hall, and the Criminal Department was responsible for raiding the Xunlu Palace.
It stands to reason that when the dean of the academy, Bai Qiu, has not yet returned to the mountain, the vice dean Tang Zi'an has died, and Wei Qiuyue is nowhere to be found, the only one who can still preside over the overall situation in the Spring and Autumn Academy is now Hu Shuo, but on the contrary, when the Adjudication Division, the Criminal Department and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince were at the foot of Buju Mountain, Hu Shuo did not even appear.
It is said that he went to Shuoming Peak to concentrate on cultivation.
Without the support of a backbone, the teachers and disciples of the academy, even if they complained about the imperial court's approach, it was difficult to set off any big storms.
The only time a conflict broke out between the two sides was when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked to enter the Academy's library pavilion.
At that time, even Lao Qian, who had always been timid and afraid of things, and had always appeared in front of everyone as a good man, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to fight with the guards around the prince.
You must know that the Library Pavilion, the Divine Weapon Pavilion, and the Field of Hope have been merged into the three forbidden places of the Spring and Autumn Academy, not to mention outsiders, even the ordinary disciples of the Academy are not qualified to enter them casually, this is the symbol of the Spring and Autumn Academy, and it also represents the dignity and bottom line of the disciples of the Academy!
However, this fierce conflict did not turn into bloodshed in the end, but was quelled under the indifferent gaze of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and under the joint efforts of the now prestigious Academician Zhou and Zhong Weiwei.
The final result was that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince entered the library of the academy as he wished.
As for whether he took any rare and solitary books from the library pavilion, or casually copied the exercises and swordsmanship handed down from the Spring and Autumn Academy over the years, no one knows.
From a certain point of view, this incident did make everyone in the academy question the prestige of Academician Zhou and Zhong Weiwei, but there is no doubt that as long as the dean does not return for a day and Vice President Hu Shuo does not leave Shuo Mingfeng for a day, these two people will have the greatest right to speak in the Spring and Autumn Academy today.
In the next few days, almost every day, more than a dozen disciples, teachers, and academicians of the academy were taken to the Law Enforcement Hall for interrogation, and the Criminal Department also looted a huge amount of wealth and spiritual treasures from the Xunlu Palace.
In comparison, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had a big quarrel with the people of the academy outside the library pavilion, and there was no movement, which seemed extraordinarily leisurely.
Every day, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only travels back and forth between the Library Pavilion and the Mingde Palace, accompanied by thirty forbidden army guards, but other than that, he seems to be very restrained in other aspects.
The Divine Weapon Pavilion and the Field of Hope have long been blocked by the people of the Judgment Division, and although no one has gone in to copy anything, they are not allowed to trespass on the academy without permission.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stayed on the main peak of Buju Mountain for almost five or six days, and then went to the back mountain of the academy to take a look at the Dusk Cloud Cave, the Xuanpu Garden, and the spiritual spring that had long been abandoned.
For the teachers and students of the Spring and Autumn Academy, the Lantern Festival, which was supposed to be celebrated by the whole world, was spent in an atmosphere of slaughter and panic.
By the time His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned to the Mingde Palace, the deputy envoy of the Ruling Division, Yin Shizhen, had already been in the dark room of the inner hall, and he also brought the real controllers of the Spring and Autumn Academy, Academician Zhou and Zhong Weiwei.
Once upon a time, this darkroom was used by Xia Sheng to draw up the list of the Spring Prince's big competition, but now, it seems to have become the prince's bedroom.
The thirty guards of the forbidden army who accompanied him stood guard outside the door, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince entered the dark room alone, and slowly sat down on the main seat with a smile on his face.
"How's it going?"
Yin Shizhen took a step forward, put a stack of notes on the table, and said, "Report to the Supervision Envoy, after the interrogation of the Adjudication Department in the past few days, some problems have indeed been discovered. ”
"Oh?" the prince slowly picked up the notes and asked, "What are the problems?"
"It is said that before the Spring Festival, there was a barbarian powerhouse who broke through Buju Mountain and released the Gu poison technique, which caused heavy casualties in the entire Spring and Autumn Academy, and Vice President Tang Zi'an was also killed in that battle. ”
This matter is no longer a secret now, so the prince did not say much when he heard it, but signaled Yin Shizhen to continue.
"But the subordinates carefully investigated, but found that there was a lot of strangeness in this matter, first of all, no one knew how the barbarian powerhouse sneaked into it without the academy's mountain guarding array, secondly, no one knew how Vice Dean Tang died, and finally, and most importantly, from beginning to end, no one had ever seen the so-called barbarian powerhouse!"
As soon as these words came out, Academician Zhou and Zhong Weiwei immediately glanced at each other and were silent.
And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finally became interested, and said again and again: "Go on." ”
Yin Shizhen nodded: "Therefore, my subordinates speculate that there is no such thing as a so-called barbarian powerhouse breaking into the mountain at all, and this war is simply a trick directed and acted by the people in the Spring and Autumn Academy!"
The prince secretly frowned: "But why did they do this?"
"Of course, it's because among the teachers and students of the academy, foreign spies have been mixed in, and they want to shake the foundation of my great jin!"
"But......" A trace of doubt flashed in the prince's eyes, and he asked, "When there was a riot in Buju Mountain, Mo Yuan and that student named Zhou Bo were not in the academy. ”
Yin Shizhen sneered: "From the perspective of my subordinates, I'm afraid that the foreign spies are not the only ones, because the subordinates learned a very important clue from the mouths of the teachers and students of the academy!"
"What is it?"
Yin Shizhen's eyes flashed with coldness, and he said with a murderous awe: "As far as I know, when the turmoil broke out that day, there should have been a teacher who was imprisoned in the Twilight Cloud Cave in the mountain behind the academy, but he didn't know why he appeared in the main hall, and before Vice Dean Tang Zi'an disappeared, it was this person who chased after him and spread the false news that Vice Dean Tang had left the mountain!"
"This person is Xia Sheng!"
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