Shen Ao put the golden arrow rewarded by the emperor in the palm of his hand and played with it for a while, and the arrow was indeed made of pure gold, with dragons and phoenixes dancing on it, engraved with four small characters on behalf of the heavens, which was extremely fine.

There are only a dozen taels of arrows, but when they are placed in their hands, they make Shen Ao smile bitterly, dare to love the emperor and use himself as a gun?

first issued a decree and scolded him to deprive himself of his status as a prisoner, and then issued a decree to return the prisoner and give him a heavy responsibility!

This method is almost the common means of the superiors, which is to make the person who is appointed to understand the unfathomable words of the king's heart, so that people can know that all honor and disgrace are between the king's thoughts; On the other hand, after receiving orders and being given heavy burdens, there is still a little luck in my heart and I can work harder to do errands.

It's just that why did the emperor give himself the task of arresting the arsonist? Shen Ao suddenly felt bad, this is a cheat father, Fang Cai's own analysis, I am afraid that it coincides with the emperor's old son.

Those people dared to support people to set fires, and the origin must not be small, and it was definitely not something that a few household officials dared to do. Behind them, there must be a few predators, and these predators will never be easily cut off by the emperor without evidence.

The emperor Lao'er is taking himself as a pioneer to take the lead, and it is okay to do it well, but the other party is by no means easy to provoke, one is not good, maybe he will be assassinated.

Shen Ao's back was instantly wet with cold sweat, to be honest, he was really afraid of death, but behind his back, it was as if there was an invisible big hand that wanted to push him to the cusp, just like this golden arrow, although it was light and delicate, it was as heavy as a thousand catties.

Fang Cai's two wills are actually a kind of warning, warning Shen Ao to be smart and do things for the emperor well, which is equivalent to completely sealing Shen Ao's back road.

At this point, Shen Ao had a feeling that he had to be on the edge, took the arrow, and said to Yang Jian: "With this golden arrow, can the students mobilize all the soldiers and horses in the city?" ”

Yang Jian said with a smile: "On behalf of the heavenly patrol, as long as it is not a bad plot, all the ministries and yamen can obey the son's dispatch when they see this arrow." ”

The emperor Lao'er finally showed kindness, and at least gave his son full trust. Otherwise, if he really wants to fight with a group of predators behind the arsonist alone, he will not live long even if he has nine lives, and nominally, he is cooperating with the investigation of the case by the Duke of Weijun, and he can borrow the prestige of the Duke of Weijun, so he is safe for the time being.

Shen Ao finally sighed with relief, suddenly smiled, and said, "If you take this golden arrow and go to places like the Flower Pavilion and Tianxiang Building, will they obey my dispatch?" Father-in-law Yang, don't get me wrong, this son-in-law has no other meaning, just an analogy, and discuss a thing or two with Father-in-law Yang. ”

Yang Jian was speechless, since it was a discussion, he had to say: "Under the whole world, on the shore of the land, as long as the Son of Heaven is endeavoured, this golden arrow can play an effective role." ”

Shen Ao put away the golden arrow and said sincerely: "I'm relieved, in order to confirm this, I'm going to find a chance to test it." ”

Trial? This guy won't go to the Flower Pavilion and Tianxiang Building to try, right?

Yang Jian felt that the skin on his face couldn't help twitching, and said, "Shen Gongzi, it's important to get down to business, how can a man be bound by red powder?" ”

Yang Jian patted the young man who thought differently from ordinary people, and continued earnestly: "The matter of the grain depot is bigger than the sky, as long as you do your errand well, do you still care about beautiful women?" Catch Ming'er, you go to the Jiaofang Division with the miscellaneous family, and the beauty of the country is chosen by the son. ”

As soon as Yang Jian said this, Deng Long's eyes lit up, his chest couldn't help but straighten up, and his eyes looked at Yang Jian hotly.

Shen Ao hurriedly said: "Okay, Gonggong Yang's golden and jade words woke me up all of a sudden, and I immediately went on an errand, but ...... What should I do if this is bad? ”

Yang Jian said with a little embarrassment: "Naturally, I went to find Wei Jungong first, and Wei Jungong is now on business in Dali Temple." ”

"Yes, go find the Duke of Weijun." After Yang Jian mentioned this, Shen Ao had a clue.

Since he had no choice, Shen Ao could only choose to fight, and if he wanted to play, he had to play with his heartbeat. With the order arrow, the holy decree, riding a BMW to Dali Temple, and Deng Long also rode a horse to follow, on one side of the defense, at this time he did his best, eyes and ears, one hand stiff, one hand held the hilt, as long as there is a movement, can respond in the shortest possible time.

Dali Temple and the Criminal Department are both institutions that control the names of criminal cases, but the function of Dali Temple is more like the procuratorate of later generations, generally only hearing major cases, important cases, or cases involving officials.

The yamen of Dali Temple occupies a wide area, at first glance it is an unpopular yamen, only to see that there are many forbidden army guards at the door, it can be seen that the impact of the grain depot fire has not been eliminated, and the whole Bianjing City is inevitably rumored.

took out the holy decree and the arrow, where did the messengers and the forbidden army dare to stop them, while welcoming Shen Ao and Deng Long inside, and reporting on the inside.

Like all yamen, Dali Temple sits in the east and faces west, all the way past is the holy oracle and the Taizu tablet, and then go forward, is a photo wall, the wall is engraved with the name of the criminal law, in addition, there is also a new newspaper of the imperial court.

Beyond the wall, there is a hall about ten zhang long, a total of six public doors, all open at this time, a person came out of the public door, waited for Shen Ao to pass with bated breath, and then saluted. Naturally, what they worship is not Shen Ao, but the two supreme tokens in Shen Ao's hands.

Duke Wei came out with a few officials from Dali Temple, Shen Ao handed over the holy decree to him, and after reading the holy decree, Duke Wei said with a smile: "I have long wanted to meet Shen Gongzi, but I didn't think of this fate, but at this moment, please." ”

Shen Ao naturally didn't dare to hold it up, and shouted Shibo, Weijun Gong Quartz responded, and led people into the court first; In fact, in the bottom of his heart, Quartz was quite shocked in his heart, this shocking case, why did the official family teach a prisoner to co-organize, and also gave an order arrow, with a golden arrow, although he only said that it was an investigation, but who would call the bullets at that time was still an undecided number.

Fortunately, he and Qi Guogong are world friends, and this Shen Ao can be regarded as half of his own people, so there is no need to be wary.

Wei Jun went straight to the door and asked directly: "Where does the nephew think this case should start?" ”

There were messengers who handed over tea, and seven or eight Dali Temple's Zhengqing, Shaoqing, Sizheng, and Tuicheng all came, and they all sat down under the Duke of Weijun.

Shen Ao took a sip of tea, didn't make any arrogance at all, and smiled slightly: "I don't know how Jun Gongyuan plans to start?" ”

Kicking the ball back again, Quartz smiled and said, "Naturally, I sent people to search everywhere and ask the officials on duty in the household department." ”

Shen Ao laughed and said, "This is a good way. But he looked like he wanted to say something.

Quartz said: "What? What else does the nephew have to say? It's all your own people here, and there's no need to be taboo. ”

Shen Ao immediately comprehended this sentence of his own person, and said: "County Prince, the other party committed such a shocking case, and acted so meticulously, leaving almost no clues, to use common sense to investigate, I am afraid that it will be difficult to receive results." Instead of this, it is better to lure the snake out of the hole. ”

"Lure the snake out of the hole?" Quartz was not surprised, and said, "The nephew continues." ”

Shen Ao said his conjecture, quartz is just a slight jaw, guarding and stealing, this kind of thing has existed since ancient times, the treasury is greedy for ink, and the court is coming to inspect again, it is better to burn the treasury clean with a fire, the crime of negligence is better than greedy ink.

It's just these four words, the official family can say, Shen Ao, the stunned young man, can say, only he Quartz, as well as the officials of Dali Temple, must not confide half a word before there is sufficient evidence; Therefore, after Shen Ao finished saying his thoughts, Quartz just smiled slightly and continued to ask, "Then how does the nephew plan to lure the snake out of the hole?" ”

Shen Ao said: "It's very simple, if someone is really greedy for these grains, it must be the collusion of officials and businessmen." This grain cannot be sold for a while, it must be hidden somewhere. Now that the wind is blowing, they need to avoid the limelight before they dare to come forward. ”

"The grain depot is burning, the news is out, the price of rice in Bianjing City must rise, especially some rice merchants, seeing such a great opportunity, where will they miss it?"

Quartz said: "Your Majesty has made a will, and has sent people to keep an eye on these rice merchants, if anyone dares to hoard goods and sell grain at a high price, they can be immediately locked up and investigated." ”

Shen Ao shook his head: "I mean, you can let these rice merchants raise the price of rice, as soon as the price of rice rises, the people in the city will inevitably run to tell each other, and within a few days, the rice in this Bianjing City will be sold short." ”

This is reasonable, once the price of rice rises, it will inevitably cause psychological panic, and the people are afraid that the price of rice will continue to rise, and they will often rush to buy grain, that is, no matter how much the inventory of rice merchants is, it will be swept away. At that time, the price of grain remains high, and the annihilator who hid the stolen rice will be able to sit still? will inevitably take out Kumi and sell it, and then whoever has a steady stream of food will be able to do it, and the merchant who colluded with the officials will be him; Directly broke into the door, took the annihilation businessman, and then touched the melon, you can catch all the participants in this matter.

Quartz listened to Shen Ao's words, although he was even jawed, but he did not express his position, Shen Ao's approach is indeed effective, since these people are so bold that they dare to even use the grain depot, for the sake of money, it is expected that they will take risks.

However, if the price of rice is allowed to rise, the risk can be imagined, if the case is solved and the stolen rice is recovered, the price of rice can naturally be suppressed; But if you don't catch someone, the consequences are extraordinary.

Quartz pondered for a moment and said, "The holy decree to suppress the price of rice has been issued, and if you do this, you are afraid that you will be disrespectful to the decree; But there is a way, the official family gave you a golden arrow, which is the intention of patrolling the sky on behalf of the sky, if you take out the golden arrow, you may be able to make the departments suspend the inspection. ”

Shen Ao scolded in his heart, the officials really don't have a good thing, they pushed their responsibilities one by one, and took out the golden arrow, didn't they ask themselves to take this responsibility, they did it well, they were all happy, something went wrong, they were unlucky, they were really speechless!

But if you don't use this method, I'm afraid that I won't want to find out the case for the rest of my life, and I will be in a hurry, Shen Ao feels that I can gamble!

As long as this case is a collusion between officials and businessmen, this method will definitely work, and Shen Ao can almost conclude that more than ninety percent of these grains have been drifted away, gritted his teeth, and said: "Okay, this matter has nothing to do with the county government, everything is on me, but we can't blatantly resist the decree, it looks like we have to do it." ”

Quartz couldn't help but shake his head in his heart, this nephew, he has talent, but he doesn't know how to be tactful, just one sentence, he has to bear his own responsibility, such a person will suffer sooner or later.

I shook my head in my heart, and the impression accumulated from the mouths of others from hearsay in the past disappeared without a trace; When it came to this, he couldn't object, so he said, "Okay, just do what your nephew says." ”

Shen Ao took out the golden arrow, and immediately informed the subordinates of Dali Temple to discuss the matter, until it was dark, he finally had a clue, the deployment was seamless, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and got up to leave.

The night wind is cold, riding a horse in this empty street, the taste of the cold wind blowing the face is very uncomfortable, the forbidden army on the street passes by in a team, encounters the check, Deng Long came forward, and no one stopped it, and when he returned to the mansion, it was already late at night, and he saw someone waiting with a lantern in front of the house from a distance, Shen Ao's heart was warm, I don't know who still remembered that he had not returned, and the horse went over, but saw Zhou Ruo with a girl, waiting quietly in the cold wind, a pair of slender hands and skin like jade carrying a palace yarn lamp.

In the dim light, a head of black hair, a princess bun, a beaded hairpin on the bun, with tassels hanging from it; Seeing Shen Ao riding over, his eyes flashed like stars under his slender and picturesque eyebrows; The corners of his mouth are slightly curved upward, with a little sad smile; The whole face is delicate and beautiful, without the slightest smell of fireworks in the world.