On the way back, Sun Xuan and Hou Dabiao reported some things about the Jinyi Wei Yamen, especially some of the things that Song Nan confessed to the two of them secretly visiting before leaving.

The first thing is the investigation of the cause of death sentenced by the Lu Yuan of the Tai Hospital, which is quite related to the matter of Zhengde infertility revealed by Gu Dayong before his death, and only a few people who know this news, including the Empress Dowager Ning Wang and a certain minister in the court. According to Song Nan's judgment, he must have been forced to commit suicide and let Hou Dabiao investigate the matter, which is also to confirm the authenticity of what Gu Dayong said from the side.

Hou Dabiao replied softly: "I personally took people to Jizhou, the hometown of the Lu Yuan, to investigate, the Lu family has indeed moved out of Jizhou to Yunnan, according to the neighbors on the left and right of the original Lu Yuan's residence in Jizhou, the Lu Yuan returned to his hometown and did not go out, and he only went out once in more than ten days, and he only walked in the mountains for a while, but his expression was as usual, and he did not look like an old disease. The humble duty found the burial place of the Lu Yuanju, and brought the coffin for an autopsy, and the lower part of the laryngeal bone judged by the Lu Yuan was broken and dented, which was the symptom of the person who hanged himself. Although the person who hanged himself may not necessarily have his throat bone shattered, given the size and weight of the Lu Yuan, the bones of his neck could not bear the weight of his body when he hanged himself, and it was normal for the throat bone to be shattered. ”

Song Nan nodded slightly, he was not surprised by Hou Dabiao's behavior at all, Jin Yiwei did not do much to dig people's graves and break into private houses at night in order to handle the case, Song Nan didn't think it was good at first, but over time he got used to it, this is also a means of handling cases, and there is nothing to point out about.

"This is not enough, can there be traces of the Lu family who moved to Yunnan? Only by finding them can the true cause of death be confirmed. ”

Hou Dabiao hurriedly said: "The lowly post has sent someone to Yunnan to find out, I am afraid it will take some time, after all, it is not easy to find a few people who have relocated to the big place, and the lowly post suspects that the Lu family intends to conceal the traces, otherwise why don't you see the Lu family on the naturalization record of the official government?" ”

Song Nan said: "That's also ordinary, since they are forced to relocate, they naturally don't want to cause trouble anymore, and it is possible to be incognito." Someone forced them to move away from home, and maybe they also hid their tracks, and you need to dig it up. This is a very important matter, you have to do it well, and you can't slack off. ”

Hou Dabiao nodded yes, retreated behind Zhang Xu, and then Sun Xuan hurried a few steps to Song Nan's side to report, this is the rule of Jinyiwei, when one person reports something, others have to retreat outside Zhang Xu without permission, and they are not allowed to listen to the words and interject.

"The matter between the southern officials and King Ning that my lord ordered to investigate is seventy-seven-eighty-eight." Sun Xuan said in a low voice.

Song Nan stopped, pulled him to the corner of the street and stood still, and said in a low voice, "Say." ”

Sun Xuan said: "King Ning has frequent contacts with nearly forty officials from Yingtianfu and Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, this is the list, please take a look." ”

Sun Xuan took out a roll of parchment paper from his close-fitting leather bag, on which dozens of names and official positions were densely written, which was obviously an extremely secret thing, so Sun Xuan took this thing with him and did not put it in the iron cabinet of Jinyiwei.

Song Nan swept his eyes, and it listed several leading generals of the Nanjing Military Department, Jin Wuwei, and Qinjunwei, the lives of officials in the northwest prefectures of Jiangxi and Anhui, and the facts of the general exchanges with King Ning. For example, on a certain day in a certain year, he went to the palace of the king of Nanning, Jiangxi Province to have a banquet, and on a certain day in a certain year, he was entertained by King Ning and presented a concubine, and he traveled to Jiuhua with King Ning on a certain day in a certain year.

Seeing Song Nan's deep brows, Sun Xuan said in a low voice: "My lord, there is a saying in a humble position that I don't know whether to say or not." ”

Song Nan said: "Just say what you should say, don't swallow and spit out." ”

Sun Xuan said: "Although I don't know why the adults want to investigate the relationship between King Ning and these people, but the lowly position is not a fool, this investigation, the lowly position is really shocked." Regarding this list, I don't know if the adults have seen any clues. ”

Song Nan said lightly: "Do you still need to watch this?" The officials on this list are all generals who lead the army, and their subordinates are more or less holding some soldiers and horses, and King Ning is mixed up with them, hehe, things are a little tricky. ”

Sun Xuan raised his big finger and praised: "My lord is aware of everything, I only discovered this secret after reading it a few times, and my lord's eyes are like a torch looking through it." King Ning, what is this going to do? Even a local vassal king, it is nothing to make friends with local officials and gentry, and it is nothing to make friends with local celebrities and literati, but it is unusual to make friends with generals who lead the army of the imperial court. Besides, with the respect of the prince, why should he give these concubines to these people, it seems a little abrupt. It is said that King Ning bought more than a dozen green houses in Nanjing City, and these women were all selected from them, all of them were good at color and art, which is a bit like, like ......"

Song Nan knew what Sun Xuan was going to say, so he waved his hand to stop it: "It's good to keep some things in your heart, at present, it seems that these don't mean anything, you still have to investigate, but you have to be careful not to be caught." Your lord doesn't want to mess with this prince yet, the relationship between him and the emperor is very harmonious, and I don't want to make the emperor unhappy. ”

Sun Xuan nodded and said: "I understand, when I was investigating these things, I felt that there was a person who was a little strange, and the adults didn't know if they knew this person. ”

Song Nan frowned and said, "Who?" What's so strange? ”

Sun Xuan said: "This person is Wang Shouren, the governor of southern Gansu, when my Jinyiwei investigated these things, I found that he seemed to be secretly investigating these things. ”

Song Nan frowned and thought, "Wang Shouren? It's a familiar name, I think I've heard it somewhere. ”

Sun Xuan said: "This person was originally a Beijing official, he had been the chief of the Ministry of Industry, and he had a very bad temper, and he had received Liu Jin's board in front of the Qianqing Palace. ”

Song Nan slapped his forehead violently, and suddenly remembered that back then, the cabinet Li Dongyang, Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and others led all the adults to write to Zhengde to kill the Eight Tigers of the Inner Court, and they were also involved. Dai Su'er's father, Dai Miao, was humiliated and died in front of the Qianqing Palace after being humiliated by the court staff. At that time, a young official who came out wanted to stand up for Dai and was fined ten rods by Liu Jin, but he couldn't see it and said a few words at that time, so Liu Jin bypassed him.

Wang Shouren said to himself afterwards: Don't think I will be grateful to you for saving me, you are all all goods all the way, and you are all ministers! This sentence made Song Nan deeply impressed him, although after more than seven years, Sun Xuan reminded him a little, and he still remembered it immediately.

"It turned out to be him." Song Nan nodded slightly: "He has become the governor of southern Gansu, this is a promotion." ”

After Liu Jin was ambushed, all the civil officials who were demoted back then were reused, and Wang Shouren was naturally promoted all the way. I heard that this person has a lot of prestige, since the establishment of the academy, what theory of the unity of knowledge and action is promoted, there is a tendency to oppose Cheng Zhu Lixue, the reputation in the capital is not obvious, but in the area of Jiangxi and Anhui, and even in the circle of scribes in the Ming Dynasty, he is very famous. ”

"Is knowledge and action one?" Song Nan frowned, although he did not have the slightest interest in philosophy and science in later generations, but after more than ten years of study, his mind was stuffed with many historical celebrities and their works and theories that he was not interested in.

Wang Shouren...... Wang Yangming...... Mr. Yang Ming...... Unity of knowledge and action...... Xinxue ......" Song Nan muttered blankly.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency?" Sun Xuan saw that Song Nan looked a little confused, and hurriedly asked.

"Oh, it's him, he's here, why am I so confused." Song Nan suddenly shouted, frightening Sun Xuan and everyone around him.

"Your Excellency knows him?"

"Not only do you know, you can say that you admire him." Song Nan said admiration, but there was no respect in his tone, for Song Nan, it was just another historical celebrity, as for what kind of mental learning, what kind of unity of knowledge and action, Song Nan didn't want to get involved with these.

"I'll have to meet this person by chance." Song Nan smiled and walked forward, not far in front of him was Zhengnanfang Caishi Street, and the Song Mansion was in front of the green willows.

(PS: If you write this history, you can't write this history without mentioning Wang Shouren, you can search for Wang Shouren's life and height in history; But for me, I really can't write this person well, I have no interest in what Confucianism, science and mind are the same as Song Nan, and it seems that I have to do my homework to write. Try to reduce this kind of content, if it weren't for the fact that I couldn't get around, I'd rather not touch this person from beginning to end. In pain...... ）