The imperial study of the morning light from the hexagonal hole on the red lacquer door, refracted into a few rays of sunlight on the red carpet, the emperor was sitting on the dragon collapse after the end of the court and watching the table top piled up into a mountain of twists and turns, at this time the eunuch standing aside and waiting suddenly looked up and saw the doorman whispering to him, and behind the doorman stood the criminal department Shangshu Leng Duyi.

The eunuch instantly understood what he was doing, and turned to the emperor and spoke, his voice soft and long.

"Your Majesty, Lord Leng Du Yi Leng asks to see..."

After the emperor picked up the pen and played the fold in his hand, he hummed unhurriedly, and after getting the answer, the doorman let Leng Duyi slowly step into the imperial study.

"Chen Leng Du Yi see my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

As soon as Leng Duyi walked into the room, he bowed down, and the top of his head was against the ground for a long time, and the emperor asked slightly:

"Get up and speak, but there's progress?"

Leng Duyi hurriedly stood up, his voice trembled a little, and he didn't know if it was caused by excitement or fear, maybe he lowered his head and replied:

The emperor was wise, and his ministers were ordered to arrest Li Yuan and Li Duwei for interrogation until last night, and finally the result of the interrogation came out from his mouth, which was Li Yuan's confession.

The emperor looked at Leng Duyi without smiling and did not speak, but just signaled to the eunuch, and then took the confession from the eunuch's hand, looking at it from top to bottom, who knew that the emperor did not become more and more happy, but frowned tightly, and a Sichuan shape appeared on his forehead. Leng Duyi stared at the emperor's expression suspiciously, full of doubts in his heart, and repeatedly asked questions in his heart.

"Isn't this the result the emperor wants? Still not convinced? ”

After reading the confession, the emperor raised his eyes and looked at Leng Duyi, and asked coldly:

"What about Li Yuan?"

When Leng Duyi heard this, his expression quickly relaxed, and he was secretly glad that he didn't really kill Li Yuan by mistake, the emperor was suspicious and would not easily trust anyone, so he hurriedly asked the doorman to bring in Li Yuan, who was kneeling on the ground.

"The criminal minister Li Yuan sees my emperor, long live long live long live."

"Raise your head and speak."

Li Yuan knelt on his feet against the emperor on the dragon collapse, and greeted Sheng'an in a weak voice, the emperor stared at Li Yuan with a sense of oppression in his calm tone, the emperor looked at Li Yuan's kneeling body trembling continuously, and asked indifferently:

"Leng Duyi passed on your confession to me, can you confess? The stakes are high, and I need you to tell me personally. ”

Li Yuan looked at the emperor and turned his head to look at Leng Duyi who was standing aside, he was instantly frightened by this gaze and broke into a cold sweat, and the constant churning and roaring emotions in his heart could only fight back Li Yuan through his eyes, at this moment, the emperor also followed Li Yuan's gaze to Leng Duyi, and the moment he crossed his eyes with the emperor, his body was like falling into a deep cave, from top to bottom and then to his soul.

The emperor withdrew his gaze from Leng Duyi, as if he had discovered something, and the majesty of the Son of Heaven once again spread throughout the imperial study, and said solemnly:

"Li Yuan, my Nanzhao, my world, no one can threaten you and tell the truth."

After hearing this, Li Yuan thanked Long En again and told the emperor all what happened to him in the prison of the Criminal Department and the process of Leng Duyi threatening him with his own sister and making a false confession to frame You Tianming, the general of Nanzhao. Leng Duyi listened to Li Yuan's words, not acting according to the script at all, every word he heard was like a knife scraped on him, and the emperor looked at Leng Duyi with the eyes of death, and suddenly sat on the ground like dehydrated dry grass.

"Someone, bring over the jailer who interrogated Li Yuan with Leng Duyi yesterday."

The emperor did not give the order of the Son of Heaven angrily, but laughed, and after a while, the jailer in the prison of the Criminal Department who interrogated Li Yuan with Leng Duyi was dragged into the imperial study with sincere fear, how could a jailer who was not in the rank think that he could still see the Son of Heaven in this generation, so his feet were carried all the way by Yu Linwei and put on the ground, and his front body was crawling on the ground for a long time, before he remembered to bow to the emperor, his head was on the ground, and his body was trembling.

The emperor looked at the jailer and asked only one question:

"Tell me all the process of interrogating Li Yuan with Leng Duyi yesterday, word by word, and dare to deceive and punish your nine clans."

The jailer nodded vigorously when he heard his head pounding garlic, and his tone changed from incoherent at the beginning to gradually coherent sentences, for fear that if he didn't speak well, his life would be lost. When the emperor got the corroboration from the jailer again, he sneered and looked at Zhang Leng Du Yi, his calm voice pulled his soul like a hell soul messenger, he sat on the ground, no longer had any hope, just looked at the roof of the imperial study sluggishly, two tears slipped from the corners of his haggard eyes and fell to the ground, maybe it was also mixed with regret! It's a pity that life didn't start over, and a vague voice echoed repeatedly in my ears, and then I was dragged into the prison by the emperor in a daze.

……

At the court meeting the next day, when the chief eunuch read out the news that Leng Duyi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was dismissed and investigated and bent the law for personal gain, the Manchu Dynasty was shocked, although he knew some news, but wasn't it aimed at You Tianming? How did this event come to a 360-degree reversal! Caught the officials who were still speculating off guard. At the same time, it also made some officials have a fear of accompanying the king like a tiger, the prince Nanxu looked at his father's unangry and self-righteous expression, and he didn't want to step forward to touch the head, but the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty who didn't know that the criminal department Shangshu was the prince's person, if he didn't stand up at this time to perform one or two, who would dare to hand over his net worth and life to him in the future.

Father, Leng Du Yi bent the law for personal gain, and it was not a pity to die, but I still hope that my father remembered that he had some hard work before he spared him from death, so as to show the grace of heaven. ”

The prince was in the court where all the civil and military officials did not dare to come out to intercede, and he took a few steps to the middle, and his voice was generous and powerful, so as to achieve a better performance. The emperor first glanced at the civil and military officials, and finally focused his eyes on the prince, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, with a little appreciation in his eyes, and then slowly spit out a word: "Quasi." ”

At this moment, a white-haired, but energetic fifty-year-old Zhongshu Ling Yao Cheng stood behind the crown prince and the second prince in the second row of the civil official procession, and after bowing, he asked the emperor:

"Your Majesty, the post of Shangshu of the Criminal Department is now vacant, I don't know if I can select personnel, I will make preparations in time."

The emperor did not answer directly, but raised his eyes to look at the other officials in the Taihe Palace, and asked softly:

"Regarding the position of secretary of the Criminal Department, any of you can recommend candidates."

As soon as the emperor finished asking this question, the civil and military officials in the palace were suddenly silent, at this time, who dared to come forward to recommend candidates, no matter whether the recommendation was good or not, in the end it was something that the emperor had to consider, even if he wanted to recommend it, the emperor had to mention it first, otherwise he would be able to afford to form a party for personal gain.

Seeing that no one spoke in front of the palace, the emperor chuckled and asked Nan Xu, who had deserted:

"What do you think, Prince? If there is a suitable person, you can also say it. ”

When he was bowing his head and regretting the help of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, he didn't expect the emperor to personally name him to recommend candidates, I don't know if it was lucky or unlucky, so I could only bow down and reply:

"Father, we have a lot of talents in Nanzhao, but if you want to find a person who can handle official affairs immediately, you can only choose a talent in the existing criminal department to take on such a heavy responsibility, and the son does not know much about the criminal department, and the father can let the second brother recommend and recommend."

The crown prince Nanxu knew that their father could tolerate some of their small actions, but he would never tolerate stretching out his hand too long to affect the operation of the court, so he could only throw vague questions to the second prince Nan Yu, and the emperor looked at this Mu and did not break it, his eyes moved to Nan Yu, only to see that his face did not change, and he bowed and replied:

"Back to my father, the sons think that Yuan Chongxing, the servant of the Criminal Department, is more suitable, one of them Lord Yuan is honest and honest in the mouths of all the adults, and there is no bad record, and the second is as the second-in-command of the Criminal Department, but there is no favoritism in this incident, and he is not afraid of power, in this raid, two-thirds of the officials of the Criminal Department have violated the law to a greater or lesser extent, and it is enough to see that Lord Yuan can stand the test without being stained by getting out of the mud."

The crown prince Nan Xu turned his head to look at Nan Yu in surprise, he didn't expect him to dare to recommend him directly by name, isn't he afraid that the suspicious emperor will be unhappy. What he didn't expect even more was that his father was really pondering what the second child said, and then snorted lightly:

"Yuan Chongxing, the servant of the Criminal Department, you will temporarily take over the post of Shangshu of the Criminal Department in the Criminal Department, and manage it for me, if a similar situation occurs again, I will scrape you."

Yuan Chongxing, who was standing in the back of the line, hurriedly walked out of his fat body and knelt down to thank him, wiped the sweat from his palms, and was nervous and more of a cake fell from the sky, it was too sudden. As soon as the emperor decided on the candidate, Wang Zhiran, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, walked to the middle and bowed and asked:

"Your Majesty, the spring hunt in March is approaching, and the emperor still needs to appoint a date, so Weichen should make arrangements as soon as possible."

When the emperor heard this spring hunt, his solemn expression slowly relaxed, and the civil and military officials were also discussing in a whisper, which added a little vitality to the tense atmosphere of the Taihe Palace.

"It's set for March 1st, and the rest will be done according to your statute."

Wang Zhiran bowed down and retreated to his original place after receiving the order, until there was no official to start again, the eunuch shouted a long and firm retreat, and helped the slightly tired emperor back to the imperial study.

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In the blink of an eye, it is March when the grass grows and the warbler flies, and every spring, Nanzhao will hold a hunt according to the system. Every year, the spring hunt is huge, and the regulation is far better than the autumn hunt.

On this day, the gate of Shangjing City was wide open, and the royal guard of honor slowly stretched out of Shangjing, and the people on both sides of the street stopped to watch, hoping to see the majesty of the Son of Heaven with their own eyes.

Long Wind Hunting, a group of servants riding tall horses, bearing the brunt of the way for the emperor in front, followed by the dragon banner held high by twelve soldiers. The emperor's jade chariot was surrounded by the Praetorian Guards, and the tall finch fans and basalt towers could be faintly seen behind them. After the Praetorian Guard, there are the chariots and horses of the major mansion families, and as for the future, there are only the teams of the various mansions.