The file recorded the bloody case that occurred in the Eldest Princess's Mansion that year.

It's just that the whole capital was in chaos at that time, when the first emperor died violently, the seven kings seized the heir, and the whole capital was in a storm, and the current emperor was just a lowly prince with no power at that time, and compared with other brothers, there was no chance of winning.

He didn't even have his own soldiers, so in desperation, he could only hide in the princess's mansion of the eldest princess's sister and seek refuge.

But not long after that, six of the Seven Kings failed for various reasons, and the only one left was Lin Yu, the fourth prince.

But just when Lin Yu was about to ascend the throne, someone suddenly dug up a secret edict, which was set up by the former emperor during his lifetime, and it was clearly written that Lin Jing, the tenth prince, would inherit the throne.

Lin Jing, that is, the current emperor.

As a result, the situation changed abruptly, and the old ministers in the court and the ministers in the frontier could turn to Lin Jing and push him to the position of the Ninety-Five.

That is, on the night of Lin Jing's accession to the throne, the eldest princess's mansion caught fire, and the eldest princess died in the fire.

Pei Qingyan escaped by the nurse, he hadn't seen the nurse, to be precise, he should have seen it when he was a child, but he didn't remember.

When he woke up, he was already in the palace.

He was lying on the emperor's bright yellow bed, and the emperor's uncle was smiling and teasing him, it was said that his mother died, and his uncle sent people to find him, take him back to the palace, and raise him personally.

Later, the emperor's uncle also told him that the fire was very likely to have something to do with the fourth prince Lin Yu, who had lost power.

Because he couldn't win the throne, and he hated the eldest princess who had always favored his younger brother, so when the army was defeated, he simply set fire to the eldest princess's mansion and burned it.

But he didn't believe it.

Because there are too many doubts.

But if he asks again, the emperor's uncle will be unhappy.

And at that time, the emperor was in the palace for the enthronement ceremony, and he had no time to care about things outside the palace.

This matter has become an unsolved case that no one has been able to find out for many years.

Pei Qingyan closed his eyes.

He could memorize the dossier so well, but he still didn't know what he didn't know.

The fire that year not only burned the eldest princess, but also burned all the people in the eldest princess's mansion.

The only person who was still alive back then is now only willing to be accompanied by the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha, ignoring Hongchen, not asking about the world, and refusing to tell him the cause and effect and truth of what happened back then.

Pei Qingyan laughed sarcastically.

He closed the file and leaned back in his chair to empty his mind, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long time, I heard a knock on the door outside, and the voice of the old butler sounded outside the door.

"Childe, Uncle Guo's mansion sent someone and sent a piece of ointment, saying that it is for the treatment of external injuries, do you want it?"

Pei Qingyan was stunned for a moment and frowned.

He remembered the county lord of Danyang he met on the street, presumably she sent someone to bring it.

He said in a deep voice: "I sent someone to reject them, and they said that my injuries were no longer in the way, and there was no need for any more medicine." ”

"Yes."

The old butler slowly left.

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Song Anning stayed in the capital for a few more days.

The main thing is to observe the current situation, so that you can know what preparations you need to make later.

Observing it all the way, she felt very bad.

Although the real war will not be until three years later, the court in the capital at this time is already very unstable.

In the face of the invasion of the northern enemy, the court was divided into the main battle faction and the main peace faction.

The main battle faction hopes to fight and make the northern enemy afraid with a strong fist.

But fighting a war involves conscription and money.

At the moment the treasury is empty, and the emperor simply cannot come up with so much money.

But the strange thing is that the emperor has no money, and the ministers under him are all very rich.

In the past few days of Song Anning's stay in the capital, he found that the inns and restaurants in the city, fireworks and willow lane, cost dozens of taels of silver in one night, not to mention those gold and jade porcelain, I heard that even the vegetable leaves that were supplied to the mansions of high-ranking officials and nobles only took a few pieces of cabbage, and discarded the rest, and only ate the most tender piece of meat on a sheep, and the rest were also discarded.

Song Anning himself is in business, although the family has no power, but the money is not bad.

From childhood to adulthood, it can be regarded as fine clothes and fine food, but it has never been extravagant like this.

She slowly discovered the cause of the dynasty's corruption.

It is nothing more than a large number of gates, many families, rights and land are distributed to these people, they use the power in their hands, continue to expand their territory, gradually, there is less space left for the emperor, and less land for the people.

Therefore, the emperor tightened his clothes and food, secretly complaining, but the people still did not have enough to eat and did not wear warm clothes.

Song Anning couldn't help but sneer.

This may be the reason why the emperor set up the embroidery department.

It's a pity that it was set too late.

The Dayuan Dynasty was founded two hundred years ago, and the first four emperors were all mediocre and incompetent, and now Pei Qingyan wants to save the building alone, how is it possible?

After Song Anning came to a conclusion, he began to buy grain, cotton and other things more vigorously.

At the same time, the Qianqing Palace.

Emperor Duanming received a secret message.

The secret report described Pei Qingyan's itinerary today.

He sneered.

Sure enough, the woman was still kept in the house.

But immediately after, he saw Pei Qingyan's encounter with the county lord of Danyang on the street.

Emperor Duanming recalled for a while, and then remembered who this Danyang county lord was, and couldn't help but ask Fuquan beside him, "This Danyang's age and Yan'er seem to be the same age?" ”

"Yes." Fuquan's father-in-law smiled: "When I was a child, they always played together, and the queen also loved this niece, who was always called into the palace a few years ago, and when she was older in the past two years, she slowly entered the palace less." ”

The Emperor's jaw.

"The daughter of Uncle Guo's family, very good, I still remember that when she rescued the prince in the tiger's mouth, I named her the lord of Danyang, she is a woman who can write and martial arts, such a woman can be a royal woman."

As he spoke, he became more and more satisfied with the Lord of Danyang.

Father-in-law Fuquan guessed what he meant, and said tentatively: "Your Majesty, then ...... or not"

The emperor said with a smile: "You go and inform the queen, just say that I think this Danyang county lord is very compatible with Yan'er, and I want to give them a decree to marry, Danyang is the queen's mother's family after all, and it is more appropriate for the queen to come forward and talk to the uncle's family about this matter." ”

Father-in-law Fuquan smiled and said, "Yes, the old slave will go now." ”

The emperor waved his hand, "Slow, bring the imperial pen, go with my holy decree, I forgive the royal family and dare not resist the decree, hum." ”

Father-in-law Fuquan lowered his eyes slightly, as if he was thinking about something, but he didn't say anything, just smiled and went to take a pen to prepare a holy decree for the emperor, and then stamped it, and then left with the holy decree.