In the Xue manor, Hangzhou Sima Yuan Yi stood in front of everyone with a secret order in his hand.

Everyone present stared at the secret order in Yuan Yi's hand, and it didn't matter whether Xue Zhongzhang had anything to do with the King of the East China Sea at the moment.

The important thing is that everyone wants to know the content of this secret order of the Criminal Department.

"Read." Lai Jingye glanced at Yuan Yi and said unceremoniously, "Read it directly!"

"Whoa!" Yuan Yi did not hesitate at all, and in front of everyone, he directly read out the secret order of the Criminal Department: "Lang Zhong of the Criminal Department, order Xuanyi Lang Xue Zhongzhang to inspect the officials of Hangzhou, the family, and the common people through the case of the traitor of the King of the East China Sea, and everything done is convenient for all states and counties."

Yuan Yi read out the secret order of the Criminal Department, and Xue Zhongzhang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This is the only way he can eagerly come up with to exonerate himself, otherwise once the official document is played, then he will not only end his career with the suspicion of rebellion, but I am afraid that he will also be imprisoned.

Li Xuan glanced at Xue Zhongzhang lightly on the other side, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes.

The poor boy didn't know anything, if he didn't take out this secret order, then in Chang'an, Pei Yan would take his life anyway, but after taking out this secret order, Pei Yan couldn't say that he was in charge of him, he wanted to kill him.

Xue Zhongzhang raised his head sharply at this time, and saw the pity in Li Xuan's eyes at a glance.

As if he could see through what Li Xuan was thinking at a glance, a trace of disdain flashed at the corner of Xue Zhongzhang's mouth, but his eyes gently turned to the secret order on the side, with a trace of resentment in his eyes.

What kind of person his uncle Pei Yan is, there is no one in this world who knows better than him.

If he was really directly framed for being involved with the King of the East China Sea this time, then his uncle Pei Yan would not only not save him, but even personally took action to remove him from all his official positions.

After that, when he returns to Chang'an, Pei Yan may compensate him, but the so-called compensation is at most a county lieutenant.

It's not as good as his previous secretary Lang, and it's not as good as his current Shangzhou Facao joining the army.

And he has to be grateful to Pei Yan.

This is the kind of man of his uncle, cold and ruthless, partial and hypocritical.

At this time, Lai Jingye turned his head to look at Xue Zhongzhang, and said unceremoniously: "Pei Shangshu's hand is really long, and he sent someone to Hangzhou with a secret order to investigate, but he didn't even know about this assassin's history, it seems that he is also suspicious of this assassin's history!"

When he said a word, everyone present changed their faces at the same time.

You must know that in the official documents of the Criminal Department, almost everyone in the Hangzhou Assassin Mansion was investigated, and even to put it bluntly, anyone who lived in the land of Hangzhou was suspected by the Criminal Department.

Suddenly, everyone present looked at Xue Zhongzhang angrily and angrily.

This thing, if it is a secret order, then even if one or two people know about it, they can only cooperate obediently, but if this thing is known to everyone, and the loyalty of the entire Hangzhou people to Datang is doubted, how can these people not be angry in their hearts.

Of course, no matter how angry they were, they wouldn't do anything to Xue Zhongzhang, at most they would just snub him and alienate him.

The sixteenth family of Jiangnan is a local landlord in Hangzhou, if they are alienated and indifferent to Xue Zhongzhang, then even if Xue Zhongzhang, the Hangzhou Facao, can continue to do it, he will not be able to do anything.

Social death, this is the fate of Xue Zhongzhang.

Li Xuan looked sideways at the other people present, his eyes cautious, because he knew that the person who was really in trouble was Pei Yan.

Xue Zhongzhang secretly investigated all the officials and families in Hangzhou, but he didn't come to Jingye to report, and if he didn't come to Jingye, he would immediately ask the center to resign because of suspicion, and many officials in Hangzhou, the big families, all had to ask the center for guilt.

They will not impeach Pei Yan, Pei Yan is the secretary of the Criminal Department, and it is his duty to investigate the traitor, so it is useless to sue him.

They had no choice but to plead guilty and resign from all their official positions and titles.

Think about it, all the officials in Hangzhou, the big families, all of them asked the court for their resignation, which caused a sensation

How big.

I'm afraid the whole southeast will shake.

Does the emperor not believe in all the families and officials in Hangzhou, or does he not believe in all the families and officials in the southeast?

Pei Yan's trouble is big.

"Ahem!" At this time, Li Xuan suddenly coughed twice, attracting everyone's attention, and then looked at Xue Zhongzhang again, and said, "Xue Lang's matter, although there is an official document from the Criminal Department as a basis now, but between you and Wen Xu, what you heard and said, you still need to explain in detail one by one.

Especially now in this courtyard, did you take it to get close to him, or did you take it and be approached by him?

Did you reveal to him something he shouldn't know, especially the city defense and personnel of Hangzhou......

"Nope." Xue Zhongzhang immediately defended himself and denied: "Wen Xu is the lieutenant of Xiaoshan County, and his familiarity with Yangzhou is above me, how can he ask me, and more importantly, I ask him who is suspicious in Hangzhou......

"Alright, don't talk about it." Lai Jingye suddenly interrupted Xue Zhongzhang's defense, and after glancing at him coldly, he looked at everyone again and said, "Tonight's matter, for the time being, Nancheng and Xicheng still need to put out fires, the corpses on Dongcheng Street still need to be cleaned up, and there are lifeless thieves who need to be hunted down, so let's go and get busy." As for Xue joining the army."

Lai Jingye looked at Qianniuwei behind him, and said in a deep voice: "From today on, Xue will join the army in this mansion, and Qianniuwei will guard it, and he will be sent by the state government every day, and he will not leave without an order."

This is to put him under house arrest.

Although his face was embarrassed, Xue Zhongzhang was still relieved in his heart, and said to Lai Jingye: "The official obeys the order!"

"Let's go!" I don't want to stay in this yard for a moment.

Soon, a group of people came to the alley outside, and followed Lai Jingye back to the Assassin's Mansion together.

In the backyard of the Assassin's Mansion, Lai Jingye looked at the open silver vault, and said coldly: "Move all the silver back to the silver vault, seal it, Hu Changshi, Yuan Sima, and about joining the army, tonight's matter, you discuss, write a book, and send it to the official tomorrow, after the official reads it, sign it together and send it to Chang'an."

"The Lower Officials obey the order." In a word, none of the people present dared to slack off.

Everyone could clearly feel the anger in Lai Jing's heart.

At that time, the sky was bright.

In the back hall of the Assassin's Mansion, Li Xuan handed a piece of music to Lai Jingye, and said softly: "This book, the little nephew will send it to Chang'an today and deliver it to the prince.

"Don't worry, it won't be much slower than your nephew." Lai Jingye gently pushed Li Xuan's recital back, shook his head and said, "What's yours is yours, I'm waiting, it's better not to interfere with each other in this matter."

Li Xuan raised her eyebrows, and suddenly nodded, "What Uncle Shi said is extremely true."

"This incident, if it weren't for Xue Zhongzhang's incident in the end, I'm afraid it wouldn't be so troublesome." Lai Jingye couldn't help frowning, how could he be willing to push things to the point where he is now, but there is no way, when Xue Zhongzhang, the fool, said the four words of the secret order of the Criminal Department, everything was already doomed, and there was no room for maneuver.

Li Xuan shook his head slightly, and said softly: "Uncle Shi is too worried, if you want to end this matter, it is actually easy, find Wen Xu, arrest it, and then deliver it to Chang'an, and everything will be over."

Hearing Li Xuan say this, Lai Jingye nodded slightly, and said softly, "Uncle Shi knows what to do?"

Li Xuan smiled faintly, and then said: "Next, there is the matter of the little nephew, there is no danger in Hangzhou this time, although the little nephew has His Majesty's secret decree, but it is not appropriate to make it public, so it is necessary to ask the name of Uncle Shi to leave the Hangzhou sailor to temporarily clean up all the seafarers in the coastal waters, and then ask for an order to ask this half of the sailor how to deal with it."

Lai Jingye nodded, the reason why the secret decree is a secret decree is because he can't easily disclose it to the public.

Just like the secret order of the Criminal Department in Xue Zhongzhang's hand, although he suspected that there were people from the East China Sea King in the Hangzhou officials and families, he could secretly investigate, and even the people in Hangzhou and all the clans could help, but when he made this secret order public,

has already forced everyone into a corner, and everyone has no way to retreat, so they can only grit their teeth and fight Pei Yan.

"It's a pity that Wen Xu's trace has never been found." Lai Jingye couldn't help frowning.

Li Xuan was very calm and said: "The brigade of lifeless black pawns has been almost annihilated, and now although some people have fled into the mountains, they have been nailed to their tails, without these lifeless black pawns, Hangyue Muwu Hutai is jointly wanted, he can't escape."

"What the virtuous nephew said is very true." Lai Jingye nodded slightly, then looked at the sun outside, stood up and said, "Let's go, everyone is still waiting."

"Obey!"

In the lobby of the Assassin's Mansion, Lai Jingye sat on the official seat of the Assassin's History, and Li Xuan stood silently on the side.

"Changshi, what is the situation in Hangzhou City now?" Lai Jingye turned his head to look at Hu Yu.

Hu Yu immediately bowed his hand and said: "Returning to the envoy, the southern city, the western city, and the eastern city have all been dealt with, and a total of more than 300 Zhoushan Haikou were killed last night, and more than 500 people abandoned their weapons; More than 600 people were killed, more than 200 abandoned their weapons, and nearly 100 people fled into Tianmu Mountain.

Lai Jingye nodded, he knew that this was the big families in Hangzhou.

"The people have great hatred for the lifeless bandits, and those who deserve to be rewarded will be rewarded as they have been said." Lai Jingye looked at Sima Yuanyi on the side, and said in a deep voice: "Sima, from now on, let Yuhang County send experienced hunters into the mountains to cooperate with the strangulation of the rebels, and inform the villages in the mountains in advance, so that they can dig up the inner and outer mountain roads to avoid being broken into the mountains by the rebels and start killing."

"Make the king love the people." Yuan Yi sighed with emotion and bowed his hand to the dedication.

"There's also the matter of Xiaoshan Wenxu." Lai Jingye said coldly: "Guan joins the army, after you leave the hall, you personally and Xiaoshan, and all the people and things related to Wen Xu, all the people and things related to Wen Xu will be thoroughly investigated, this official does not believe it, he has been in Xiaoshan for many years, and there is no trace left."

"The Lower Officials obey the order." Guan Mi immediately retreated.

"There is also the matter of the Hangzhou Water Master." Lai Jingye looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "This time, Zhoushan Haikou attacked Yuhang, fortunately, Hangzhou returned to help and returned in time, and the official intends to ......."

A gong sounded outside the door of the Assassin's Mansion, and immediately, Xu Zhutou ran in frantically: "Envoy, the holy decree has arrived!"