Emperor Xingyuan looked at his son who was shouting wronged, and his heart became colder and colder.

"If you don't know about the slaughter of the people, what about the greed for ink and silver?"

King Qing suddenly got stuck.

He glanced at Emperor Shangxing Yuan coldly, and glanced at the paralyzed Pei Shilang, and the courage to quibble dissipated suddenly.

Wu Yanting reversed, Pei Shilang admitted it, if he was still hard-mouthed and was accused by Pei Shilang, then his father would not believe the truth.

"Son-" King Qing opened his mouth, full of unwillingness and regret, "The son just accepted some jewels, gold and silver from Pei Shilang and them. When the street was stopped by Miss Zhu's father, he heard about the situation in Taiping Town and the inexplicable death of the official of Beiquan County, and asked Pei Shilang and them to handle the matter well. ”

Speaking of this, King Qing was aggrieved: "My son really didn't know that their handling was to kill someone!" ”

When he went to that kind of ghost place, he couldn't eat or live well, and he hadn't been anywhere, so he stayed in the Fucheng Office. The arrangement of disaster relief has Pei Shilang, and he has cooperated with the implementation of the commander of the army, he has not done anything, thinking about the hard work to collect some treasures offered by the next head, why not?

"It was they who deceived their son, father Mingjian!" King Qing slammed on the gold brick with a bang.

Emperor Xingyuan looked at the person kneeling on the ground, and was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Come on, put Pei Zuo in the prison of the Criminal Department, and King Qing in the Zongren Mansion." ”

Pei Shilang even forgot to cry when he was dragged away, like a ball of soft mud.

King Qing kept shouting: "Father, my son is wronged—"

Emperor Xingyuan glanced at the ministers with an expressionless face, and said in a deep voice: "He Yushi, He Zhenfu envoy, the two of you and Zhang Shilang, the right attendant of the household department, will leave for Dingbei tomorrow to investigate the case thoroughly." ”

"Commandment." He Qingxiao and He Yushi said in unison.

Zhang Shilang, the right attendant of the household department, was not in the palace, but someone soon went to spread the word.

In addition to these three people, Emperor Xingyuan appointed a eunuch from the celebrant to accompany the supervisor.

After the arrangement, Emperor Xingyuan left He Qingxiao behind.

"Go and ask what's going on in Wu Yanting's mansion."

As early as when he heard that Wu Yanting had defected, at the signal of Emperor Xingyuan, He Qingxiao arranged for Jin Linwei to go to Wu Yanting's mansion. At this time, the entire general's mansion was surrounded by the Jinlin Guard, and when He Qingxiao walked out of the palace, some of his subordinates who were waiting outside the palace to report the situation came forward.

After listening to the report of his subordinates, He Qingxiao entered the palace again.

"After the investigation, Wu Yanting has three daughters and one son, and now only the three daughters are in the mansion, and his son is nowhere to be found......" After reporting the situation, He Qingxiao hesitated and said, "After interrogating Dingbei from Wei Changqing's mouth, Weichen sent Jinlin Wei to quietly stare at Wu Yanting's mansion, but he didn't see his son go out. Weichen guessed that Wu Yanting's command pursued Wei Changqing unsuccessfully, worried that the matter would be revealed, so he quietly took his son away in disguise in advance and took precautions. ”

"What a rainy day!" Emperor Xingyuan sneered.

He Qingxiao lowered his eyes: "Weichen is derelict in his duties, please punish Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Xingyuan definitely glanced at the young man who asked for sin, and there was indeed dissatisfaction in his heart, but compared to the series of bad things, this dissatisfaction was insignificant.

"There are two things I need you to do."

"Your Majesty, please."

"The first thing is to thoroughly investigate the situation in Dingbei, I don't want to be deceived anymore, and I will reward corrupt officials and ministers as meritorious heroes."

"Yes."

"The second piece-" Emperor Xingyuan slowed down his tone, a cold light flashed in his eyes, "From now on, outside the mansion of the military generals above the fourth grade, there must be Jinlin guards to guard them." ”

At this time, Jin Linwei said that he was supervising hundreds of officials, but it had not yet reached the level of pervasiveness. It can be said that Wu Yanting's defection greatly strengthened the function of Jin Linwei as the emperor's eyes and ears.

He Qingxiao knew in his heart that from now on, Jin Linwei's power would increase, and his reputation would slide towards the stinking abyss.

But these are not things he can control, and in his position, he can only do the things assigned by the emperor under the best possible conscience, and bear the scolding and fame.

"We're in command."

"Go ahead."

After the hall became empty, Emperor Xingyuan sat on the dragon chair and was speechless for a long time.

Regarding Wu Yanting's defection, he was more annoyed than worried. Those famous generals who followed him to fight the world are still there, and there is no shortage of outstanding young generals, and it is only a matter of time before the chaos is quelled.

What really made him depressed was Pei Shilang and others, especially King Qing.

He had the intention of passing on the country to this son, and now, Emperor Xingyuan closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, it was already cold.

So much has happened on this day, and dusk is approaching.

With the return of the chief, the people of the various yamen more or less knew what had happened, and they were silent one by one, lest this catastrophe spread to themselves. When it was time to go down, there were fewer people calling friends and fewer people entertaining colleagues, and they ran home one by one.

Among them, Duan Shaoqing was even more frightened, and went to Ruyi Hall as soon as he got home.

When the old lady saw her son, she was stunned: "Did something happen?" Why is your face so bad? ”

"Something big is happening in the middle of the court."

The old lady was busy asking what was the matter.

Duan Shaoqing looked panicked, and his tone was hesitant: "The details are not clear, I only know that King Qing was imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion, and the left servant of the household department was also put in prison...... It seems to be related to the greed for ink. ”

The old lady didn't know much about these things in the court, but she grasped one point: "Something happened to King Qing?" And what about Guchangbofu? ”

Guchangbo Mansion is closely related to King Qing, originally Guchangbo had an accident, and people thought that Guchangbo Mansion would not completely overturn, just because there was King Qing. But now that King Qing has been imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion, Guchangbo Mansion is likely to be the disaster of annihilation, and even implicate others.

Duan Shaoqing naturally thought about the worst-case scenario, and when the old lady asked him like this, his face became even more ugly.

"I knew about this family—"

The old lady's face sank: "Boss, are you blaming me?" ”

"Mother is too careful, how can my son blame you, I just think our family has been unlucky for a while."

The old lady sneered: "The wife and husband are not in trouble, and it didn't start with Qiao's evil!" ”

The mother and son were relatively worried for a while, and Duan Shaoqing sighed: "Mother asked her younger siblings to restrain the family to go out less, and my son also paid more attention, I hope this disaster will not affect our family." ”

In the middle of the evening, Wang's mother came to Xin Yu to report: "Girl, the golden hairpin over there in Ruyi Hall whispered that the eldest master went to Ruyi Hall as soon as he came back, and his face was very ugly. The old lady sent out all the attendants and spoke for a long time. ”

There are two big maids beside the old lady, Yuzhu and Jinchai.

Why did the big girl of Ruyitang send a message to Wanqingju, I have to mention Mother Wang and Mama Li.

When Xin Yu moved out of Shaoqing's Mansion, she left these two people to guard the Wanqing Residence, and later became richer and richer......

Mother Wang and Mama Li also received more and more rewards, and both of them loved to show off, and soon became the envy of the people in the house. These subordinates were happy to come to the close, and Wang's mother mentioned it to Xin Yu.

Xin Yu thought about it and was not a bad thing, so he simply gave a sum of money for the two to socialize.

didn't think about it, and without paying attention, he "bought" the big girl Jin Hai of Ruyitang, who was slightly less valued than Yuzhu.

To clarify, the gold bricks here are not really made of gold.