"Not bad! Tan Zhen, for the sake of the safety of the official family, this governor is also willing to save your life.

Tell me everything you know. If we can't arrest and bring to justice those who tried to murder the official family as soon as possible, won't the official family have to worry everywhere in the future? ”

Yang Jian looked at Tan Zhen with a sincere face, but he was gloating and happy in his heart.

"How do I know?

I stay in Yuqing Villa every day, where will I know any dead soldiers?

Aren't you just worried about the box army in our hands? Our family will give it to you, why do you have to put our family to death? How much hatred? ”

Tan Zhen gritted his teeth and glared at Jiang Chen and Yang Jian, almost crying with grievance.

"Humph! The evidence is conclusive, and the dead duck has a hard mouth! ”

Nie Shan glanced at Tan Zhen with disdain, and said to Song Huizong: "Official, for the sake of the safety of you and the nobles of the harem, please play, send Tan Zhen to the prison, torture and interrogate, and be sure to find out the master behind the dead man." ”

"The ministers seconded it!"

The two princes immediately echoed.

"Official! Slaves and maids are wronged, you have to believe in slaves and maids! ”

Tan Zhen didn't expect Nie Shan to hate them so much, and immediately screamed in horror.

This......

Song Huizong frowned and said, "Tan Daban has always been by my side, maybe I don't know it, and I can't know it!" ”

"Master is benevolent, disciple is respectful!"

Jiang Chen saw that Song Huizong was reluctant to kill Tan Zhen, so he immediately retreated and said, "Since you can't bear to punish Tan Tiju, why don't you give him a grace and let him go to Nanjing to retire?"

If you continue to stay in Bianjing, not to mention that the disciples and others are uneasy, even the rest of the people in the account books are afraid that they will also say that the official family is unfair, and they will all shout that they are wronged! ”

Jiang Chen's meaning is obvious: If you don't engage in Tan Zhen, then you won't be able to take back the military power of the Cao family and other nobles, and you won't be able to act justifiably against King Qiong.

This......

When Song Huizong heard this, his eyes immediately became a lot firmer.

Tan Zhen was anxious and shouted, "Why? Our family didn't make a mistake, why should we go to Nanjing for the elderly? We're not going! Even if our family dies, we will die by the side of the official family. What a family is wronged! ”

"Your righteous son openly conspired against the government and put the official family in danger, and your subordinates and brothers of the Du family colluded with the old pole to abduct prostitution and humiliate women, do you really not know at all?

Then where did your mansion and beautiful concubines, fertile land, and massive amounts of money come from? Tan Zhen, don't you think we and the officials are fools, right? ”

Nie Shan asked rhetorically with a sneer.

Not only did Jiang Chen want to kill Tan Zhen, he also wanted to. He not only wanted to kill Tan Zhen, but also wanted to kill Liang Shicheng, because both of them had a close relationship with his sworn enemy Wang Huang and belonged to his political enemies.

"I ......"

Tan Zhen was asked, and hurriedly explained to Song Huizong:

"Official, slaves and maids have indeed received a lot of filial piety, but they have never participated in specific matters! The slave knows the mistake, the slave and the slave admit the punishment, I just ask you not to drive the slave away, the slave and the slave can't do without you! ”

"Keep you in Bianjing, and arrange for a group of dead soldiers to enter the palace to assassinate the official's family?"

Zhao Yu, the king of Yan, and Zhao Si, the king of Yue, snorted angrily.

Since he offended Tan Zhen, he must be killed once, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

Hmm-

Song Huizong's eyelids jumped, and he quickly chose the latter between trust and personal safety, shook his head in disappointment at Tan Zhen and said:

"Du Hui and Du Chong colluded with thieves to abduct and sell women from good families, and they were evil and intolerable, so they were dismissed from all official positions, put into the prison of Kaifeng Prefecture, and were strictly interrogated.

Tan Zhen...... Elderly and deaf, negligent and ineffective, he was reappointed to Hongqing Palace, and took office on the same day, and he was not allowed to enter Beijing unless he was edicted! ”

Hongqing Palace is a place where books are stored in Nanjing, and the promotion of officials is a degraded position, which is just to give the convict the last dignity, which is equivalent to directly pronouncing Tan Zhen's political death sentence.

made Tan Zhen's face pale and full of despair, hugging Song Huizong's thigh and crying: "Official, the slave and maid are wronged, the slave and maid are really wronged......"

"Take it down!

Escort Lord Tan out of Beijing immediately, don't be harmed by thieves! ”

Yang Jian was afraid that Song Huizong would be soft-hearted, so after giving an order, the two little eunuchs immediately dragged Tan Zhen, who was crying and shouting, out.

Liang Shicheng and Cai Jing, who hurried to see this scene after being notified by Tan Zhen, were directly stunned, and after stopping the eunuch at the door, they asked Tan Zhen: "Tan Neiguan, who are you?" ”

"Jiang Chen hurt me! Jiang Chen hurt me! ”

Tan Zhen was so aggrieved that he cried, and immediately told what had just happened, and begged: "Cai Xiang, Shoudao, you must save the old slave, I am unwilling to die if I am so unjustly humiliated!" ”

"Huh? A dead man lurking in the palace? And this kind of thing?"

Liang Shicheng was stunned.

He had already learned about Jiang Chen and the others' actions tonight, but because of the blockade of the streets, he didn't find out the inside story, and he didn't want to get such shocking news from Tan Zhen's mouth.

Cai Jing also had a dignified face, because he didn't know about such a big thing until now, which made him feel very unsure.

frowned and said, "Something is wrong, this matter is very wrong!" The key people involved in the case are all dead, and the underground secret passages have been sealed by them, isn't there no proof of death? Can't find it? ”

"Hey, Cai Xiang, you are really the confidant of the old slave, and the old slave has the same general idea.

Jiang Chen and Yang Jian made it clear that they wanted to eradicate all your cronies around the official family!

He sued to leave Beijing, Lan Congxi died, Jia Shen was bedridden, if the old slave also went, there would be no one to speak for you and report the news in front of the official family in the future!

You must save the old slave! ”

Tan Zhen cried and shouted, and grabbed Cai Jing's sleeve in anticipation.

"Shut up! Be careful! ”

Cai Jing glared at Tan Zhen angrily, turned his head sideways and said to Liang Shicheng: "Shoudao, now the old people around the official family, except for Yang Jian and Tong Guan, who sent an envoy to Liao, only Tan Zhen and you are left." You need to know that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold! ”

Although Cai Jing cooperated with Liang Shicheng through Wang Hao, it was not a subordinate relationship.

And recently, Wang Hao and Cai You have been getting closer and closer, which means that they are out of his control, so he is very polite to Liang Shicheng.

"Yes."

Liang Shicheng nodded, understanding that as soon as Tan Zhen was finished, Jiang Chen's next primary target must be him.

So he said very righteously: "I have been friends with Tan Tiju for many years, and I definitely didn't stand by watching him being killed by traitors, and I am willing to obey Cai Xiang's arrangement!" ”

"Good!"

Cai Jing nodded to Liang Shicheng with a smile, and comforted Tan Zhen: "You wait here, the prime minister will prove your innocence to the official family!" ”

The words fell, and Cai Jing walked into the main hall amid Tan Zhen's continuous thanks.

"The old minister (slave maid) visits the official family!"

Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng first paid homage to Song Huizong, and then said: "Official, when the old minister entered the palace, he saw that Tan Neiguan was dragged away, and he was wronged in his mouth, so he inquired curiously.

I think that there are many strange things hidden in the matter of the dead man, and I am afraid that it is a little inappropriate to convict him so rashly! ”