The Royal Palace, the Imperial Study.

The horseback messenger who almost bumped into Su Juning on the street was already holding a fold and kneeling in front of Emperor Jianning.

"Your Majesty, an urgent letter of eight hundred miles from Yuzhou."

"Bring it up!" Emperor Jianning immediately said.

Wang Lianyi, who was waiting next to him, hurriedly took the fold and handed it to Emperor Jianning.

After a while, after reading the excerpt, Emperor Jianning's face became solemn and gloomy.

For nothing else, this excerpt was written by Su Yi, and the content is about the situation of a group sent by Bianjing to investigate the case in Yuzhou.

It was written that the batch of gunpowder was bought by a group of mountain bandits in Yuzhou, and someone was hired to make firearms in Yuzhou to strengthen the protection force of the cottage, and used it for burning, killing and looting.

With the assistance and cooperation of King Yu, all the people who made firearms have been arrested and confessed.

And forced to ask that it was true that they colluded with the Ministry of Industry Shangshu to obtain saltpeter mines, but they never revealed what they were for, so Feng Qianzhu, the Ministry of Industry's Shangshu, only used his power for personal gain, but he did not collude with the mountain bandits.

This is the same as the result found by King Jin in Bianjing City.

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu was only for money, and did not participate in anything else.

However, Su Yi mentioned in the excerpt sent back that the investigation in Yuzhou was too smooth, and there was a suspicion that King Yu planned and arranged it, but at the moment, he could not find any evidence to prove that this matter was related to King Yu.

Moreover, King Yu had already written an excerpt of the plea in his own hand, and he had already handed it over.

This Emperor Jianning knew that he had already received the excerpt a few days ago.

However, what made him a little annoyed at this time was that Su Yi mentioned in the excerpt that King Yu hoped that Emperor Jianning would send a capable general to lead the troops to surrender the bandit's Fuhu Village.

This Fuhu Village, Emperor Jianning also knows.

It has been entrenched in the mountain of Yuzhou for many years, the mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, under the mountain is a canal on one side, on the other side is a trade road, there are people and merchants on both sides, the mountain bandits of this Fuhu village rely on the terrain, rob cargo ships and caravans, and now it is very large-scale.

Especially before Emperor Jianning ascended the throne, the mediocre Emperor Zhengde never cared about these, and in the eight years of his reign, the people of Fuhu Village became more and more rampant, and there was no official government to suppress it.

Originally, Emperor Jianning didn't think that King Yu had nothing to do with the gunpowder case, but now that King Yu escaped suspicion, he was asked to send troops to help him suppress bandits, and Emperor Jianning's heart was full of anger.

Wiped out the mountain bandits in Fuhu Village, didn't he directly help King Yu destroy a cancer, Emperor Jianning was naturally unwilling.

But King Yu took this opportunity to propose to suppress the bandits, if he did not agree, it was easy to lose the hearts of the people of Yuzhou, and he felt that he, the emperor, did not care about the suffering of the people, and second, King Yu pushed the gunpowder case to the mountain bandits in Fuhu Village, if the court did not care about it, it would also damage the prestige of the court.

"What a good calculation!" Emperor Jianning snorted coldly and threw the fold on the table.

Wang Lianyi glanced at the official messenger who delivered the letter and asked him to retreat, and then poured a cup of tea and gently handed it to Emperor Jianning.

"The emperor is angry, no matter how others jump up and down, it is also a clown who jumps off the beam, and the emperor is angry about the dragon body, which is not worth it."

"This King Yu, he was not honest when his father was still there, and now that Zhengde is gone, I am still restless, if it weren't for the brotherhood, I should have executed him directly!" Emperor Jianning slapped the table.

Wang Lianyi hurriedly bowed his head, "The emperor is lenient, it is King Yu's misconduct." ”

After he said this, Emperor Jianning didn't say anything for a while, staring gloomily at the fold on the table.

When he started his army from Yanzhou, King Yu secretly helped the reigning Emperor Zhengde, but he was just thinking about the idea of reaping the benefits of the fisherman.

But King Yu didn't expect that although Zhengde was made the crown prince since he was a child and successfully ascended the throne with the support of the first emperor, he was indeed a straw bag, and he was defeated not long after he was beaten at all.

At that time, Emperor Jianning was still the king of Yan, and he wanted to destroy the dishonest King Yu in one go, but he killed his brother and took the throne, and he was already afraid of leaving a handle, so he didn't dare to kill another one.

Unexpectedly, after these two years, King Yu was actually restless again.

"Go, call the crown prince and the king of Jin." Emperor Jianning commanded.

Wang Lianyi responded and hurriedly went to spread the word.

Not long after, the crown prince and the king of Jin arrived at the imperial study.

After listening to the affairs of Yuzhou, the prince took the lead in speaking.

"The long whip is out of reach, in the fiefdom of King Yu, he is prepared, this time to go to Yuzhou to investigate the case, it must not be smooth, presumably the officials who went there have also done their best, and please don't blame my father."

Emperor Jianning nodded, "Don't worry, I won't blame them, Su Yi has already mentioned in the excerpt that he has suspicions, but he can't find evidence, King Yu is cunning, third child, what do you think." ”

King Jin was named, so he stepped forward and gave up.

"Erchen thought that since this matter could not be investigated, it would be useless to delay any longer, but Erchen thought that he could do it when it came to suppressing bandits in Fuhu Village."

"Why?" Emperor Jianning asked rhetorically.

"Gather the hearts of the people and shock King Yu." King Jin said in a deep voice, "The bandits of Fuhu Village have been troubled in Yuzhou for many years, and the people have many complaints, if the imperial court can send troops to exterminate the mountain bandits, the people of Yuzhou can know in their hearts that the imperial court is more powerful than the King of Yu, in the same way, if the court can destroy the Fuhu Village in one fell swoop, it will also make the King of Yu fearful, after all, the King of Yu has also brought people to Fuhu Village, but they all ended in failure. ”

The prince on the side frowned when he heard this.

"The third brother's words are reasonable, but the bandits in Fuhu Village have been plagued for many years, and those mountain bandits have become the climate, I'm afraid it is not easy to exterminate, if it fails, it won't damage the face of the court."

"So we can send generals, but we can use King Yu's soldiers." King Jin said with a smile.

When he said this, the prince understood, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Yes, there is a garrison in Yuzhou, let King Yu send half of the troops, and the court will transfer troops from elsewhere, just here to investigate the case, Mingwei General Shen He is in the list, he can lead troops to suppress bandits."

Watching the conversation between the two sons, Emperor Jianning's face also showed a look of relief.

Finally, I added.

"I have few heirs under my knees, and I don't have a daughter, the county lord of King Yu is also sixteen years old this year, so I asked Lao Qi to bring her to Bianjing when he comes back, and I can point out a good marriage for her, and the prince of Yu Wang, who is also thirteen years old this year, the eldest sister goes alone, it is inevitable that she will be lonely, and she will also ask him to accompany her."

After hearing this, the prince glanced at the king of Jin, and then gave up his hand.

"The father is benevolent, and he feels sorry for his nephew and niece, this is the blessing of Uncle Yu, and the son will go to write a letter to the seventh brother to inform him."

"Go ahead." Emperor Jianning waved his hand, his face had returned to normal, and he was not half annoyed.

And soon, the news about Yuzhou spread outside the palace.

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu used his power for personal gain, was dismissed and imprisoned, and on the side of Yuzhou, the court decided to send people to exterminate the bandits in Fuhuzhai Mountain, and ordered Shen He, the general of Mingwei, to be the general and lead the troops to the mountain to suppress the bandits.

This news means that the people who went to Yuzhou will not come back for a while, at least until the mountain bandits in Fuhuzhai are exterminated.

For a while, the people of the Su family and the Shen family were worried about the pillars of the family.