Goshidai.

In front of the steps of the government office, a small official looked at it for a while and walked quickly to meet Pei Mian.

"Pei Yushi, where have you been? The colt has been waiting for you for a long time. ”

"Which colt?"

"Princess Xianyi's concubine."

A trace of doubt flashed in Pei Mian's eyes, and he went to the public house to meet the guest.

Before stepping onto the steps, he carefully arranged his robe, smelled the sandalwood on his sleeves, wiped the slight sweat from his forehead, and raised his feet to look at the mud on the soles of his shoes...... Make sure that there is no suspicion that he has just gone to see the people of the East Palace.

"The horse is here, I must have heard about Lu Xuan?" As soon as they met, Pei Mian immediately apologized, "This matter is an improper arrangement by the lower officials, and Xue Bai was not eliminated, please give the lower officials some more time." ”

Yang Wei smiled and said, "I'm not here for this today. I heard that the Criminal Department took Zheng Qian? ”

Pei Mian lowered his head to sencha, and his eyes rolled in an instant.

"So the colt heard about it, too? Zheng Qian did write an article privately, and his evil words slandered Concubine Wu Hui, and the Criminal Department took him down in time. Xia Guan also just got the news and was about to monitor the matter. ”

"Who reported it?"

"I don't know about this for the time being." Pei Mian said: "Someone secretly put Zheng Qian's autographed article on Xiao Shangshu's desk. ”

"Didn't you arrange it from the right side?"

"This ...... The lower officials don't know. ”

Yang Xun walked around in the public room, looked around, and looked out, but there was no one else. He motioned to the servants to guard the courtyard and closed the door himself.

"What is this?"

"There is no one here, Pei Yushi said it directly, who arranged this matter?"

Pei Mian said: "Xia Guan really doesn't know. ”

"Huh."

Yang Wei grinned, his eyes were instantly ruthless, he raised his hand, and slapped Pei Mian directly.

"Smack!"

This slap was extremely heavy, Pei Mian couldn't react, and the head on his head fell to the ground.

Half of his face was immediately red and swollen, he covered his face, looked at Yang Wei in a daze, stunned.

"This slap makes you recognize clearly who is the master."

"What do you mean, a colt?"

Before Pei Mian's words fell, the document with the seal of the East Palace's subordinate had been unfolded in front of him, his pupils shook, and he immediately understood that it was Xue Bai who instigated Yang Xun.

He knew that he wanted to fight fast and get rid of Xue Bai first.

"Listen to me......"

"Try to coax me again!" Yang Wei was angry, raised his hand and slapped again, extremely skilled, "You dare to shake your tongue in the drum!" ”

Pei Mian's cheeks were red and swollen, and he finally didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly bowed down, bowed his head deeply, and was still calming down, thinking about countermeasures.

Seeing this situation, Yang Wei was quite satisfied, and paced in front of Pei Mian with his hands.

"I don't care if you were the right minister or a person from the East Palace in the past, you will be my person in the future. I ask you something, and you answer. ”

"Yes."

Yang Wei wanted to ask a lot, but after pondering for a while, he decided to test Pei Mian with the case in front of him first.

"Zheng Qian's case, what's going on?"

"Zheng Qian was entrusted by Zhang Jiuling's nephew Xu Hao to prepare a draft Shinto inscription for him, which includes the sentence 'King Ying's former prince Suojia 2,000 collars'."

Sure enough, Li Linfu deliberately concealed this matter, saying that it was Concubine Wu Hui.

Yang Xun asked again, "Who sued?" ”

"Xia Guan really doesn't know ......"

"Jiri!" Yang Wei picked up Pei Mian, slapped him again, and said, "Do you know that I can kill you." ”

"Yes, yes. But Xia Guan really didn't know who was suing. ”

"You dare to say it's not Donggong?"

Pei Mian was stunned for a moment.

Yang Wei grinned proudly and said, "Hide it from me? ”

"The next official went to see Fang Xuan and asked about it. Fang Xuan got the orders of King Guangping and told Zheng Qian not to let Xue Bai pass the annual examination and teach him a lesson, Zheng Qian did not agree, and did have a dislike with Fang Xuan, but this matter was not done by Fang Xuan. ”

"What do you mean?"

"The complainant is someone else."

"Who?"

"I don't know for the time being, but no matter who sues, the Right Prime Minister's Mansion will inevitably use this matter to deal with the East Palace, Wang Ji has ordered me to go to the prison of the Criminal Department to interrogate Zheng Qian, induce confessions, and bite the East Palace."

Yang Wei asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

"How do I have any plans?" Pei Mian still wanted to be smart, but halfway through the conversation, he smiled helplessly, and said honestly: "Only the disaster leads to the east, involving King Qing, Xue Bai and others." ”

~~

Penal Department.

When Xiao Yin saw Yang Xun, he knew why this colt came.

"And even alarmed the colt? This case is Zheng Qian's slander, and the horse doesn't have to care. ”

"How can I not care if I dare to slander the queen of chastity?" Yang Wei responded: "Can you find out what is behind the scenes?" ”

Xiao Yinzhi's gaze looked at Pei Mian who was following behind Yang Wei.

Pei Mian nodded and said, "According to the right minister's intentions, I have to let Zheng Qian bite the East Palace." ”

"yes."

Xiao Yinzhi relaxed, knowing that there were all his own people in front of him, and there was no need to hide it, so he took out a list from his arms.

"These are Zheng Qian's comrades, and there is no escaping the crime of 'reprimanding public opinion'."

Yang Xun took a look, the list was very long, and it was all political enemies of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

Pei Mian analyzed on the side.

"Xu Hao in the Criminal Department, Zhang Jiuling's nephew, Donggong Arm, another key criminal in this case; Beihai Taishou Li Yong, the arm of the East Palace, and Zheng Qian are both famous calligraphers, and there are correspondence with each other; Xue Bai, the prisoner of Guozi, was also deeply involved in this case; Du Fu, the secretary of the Puzhou Salt and Iron Envoy, and Yuan Zai, the judge of the Salt and Iron Envoy of Quanli, are all friends of Xue Bai......"

After that, Xue Bai led out many people, the first of which was Pei Kuan, the head of the household.

In short, there are both the East Palace and the salt official, all of them are the thorns in the eyes of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, and they are thorns in the flesh.

Yang Xun nodded again and again, thinking to himself, he is Li Linfu, his mouth is to defend Concubine Wu Hui, and all he fights is selfish calculations.

He sneered slightly and glanced at Pei Mian.

Pei Mian was helpless, and after a moment of reluctance, he took out a document from his sleeve and handed it to Xiao Yinzhi.

"Wang Zhongcheng wants to transfer the prisoner to Dali Temple Prison, the document is here, please Xiao Shangshu take a look."

"But this is the case of the Criminal Department......"

"The Criminal Department is in charge of punishment, Dali Temple is in charge of the trial, this case involves many officials, and Dali Temple should handle it." Pei Mian said unhurriedly.

Although Xiao Yinzhi is a scholar, he is afraid of Wang Jie's power and agrees.

~~

It was nearly dusk.

Guozijian, Du Wulang finally completed the answer to the annual exam.

He walked out of the academy, looked up at the sunset on the horizon, listened to the sound of the twilight drums, and was worried.

Thinking that after all, he and Dr. Zheng had a friendship that had drunk together and criticized current affairs, and he was determined to do something, so he hurriedly went to find Xue Bai.

When I rushed to the school hall where Kao Cewen went, I saw that many people had walked in the examination room separated by layers of bamboo curtains.

"Xue Bai."

Du Wulang shouted a sentence, and was suddenly pulled aside.

"Su Siye, have you seen Xue Bai?"

"Come this way."

"Hey, we still have to go to the prison of the Criminal Department to rescue Dr. Zheng......"

~~

Zheng Qian was slowly taken out of the prison of the Criminal Department with shackles and walked through the streets of the Imperial City.

Dali Temple is in the west, raise your head to see the sun about to set, twilight, he looked at this scene, his eyes were full of doubts.

Those articles have been written for several years, why have they been reported recently?

With this kind of thinking, he walked into the Dali Temple Office and was led through the corridors, but unexpectedly did not enter the Dali Temple Prison.

……

Before the dusk drums stopped, a carriage passed through the Shunyi Gate on the west side of the imperial city and entered a mansion in the Buzheng Fang.

This house is not big or small, but the pavilions and pavilions are very exquisite.

As night fell, in the main courtyard, a beautiful woman moved lightly, greeted Yang Xun, and said coquettishly: "Lang Jun is finally willing to come to see the slave family." ”

The next moment, she stopped, because there was another tall man behind Yang Wei, and he didn't show his face in the night.

"You go and rest, I still have something to do, don't let people come and disturb me."

"Yes."

A few words to appease this beautiful outer room, Yang Wei glared at Xue Bai behind him with a warning look.

The two rushed to the side yard, only to see that Zheng Qian had not been brought over.

Bypassing the screen, Yang Wei let out a long breath and complained, "You are too bold." ”

"It's okay, the person was brought out in the name of Pei Mian, who would have thought of you and me?"

"Heh, I believe your nonsense."

Xue Bai smiled, still calm.

It was risky to kidnap Zheng Qian in private, but he had no choice.

The power struggle during the Tempo period has become increasingly fierce, and if he does not act decisively and quickly this time, his power will be the first to be uprooted.

Yang Wei paced two steps, pondered, and finally decided to hand a few documents to Xue Bai.

"This is amazing evidence, I brought it."

"The pony is very good."

Xue Bai didn't forget to praise him, and took the paperwork and looked at it.

First of all, there is a list, densely packed with the names that Li Linfu intends to be involved in this case...... This is a crucial piece of evidence, but unfortunately the handwriting is not Li Linfu's.

A confession from the Criminal Department, Zheng Qian has been taken into custody and admitted to the crime of privately writing national history.

Then there is Zheng Qian's manuscript.

There is a draft of the Shinto tablet, which recounts the exploits of Zhang Jiuling's life, and mentions the fact that Li Jian secretly told Li Ying to ask for armor, and Zhang Jiuling persuaded the saint to calm his anger.

There are only a few sentences about the case of the three people, but it shows the attitude.

The fact that this incident is recorded in the Shinto tablet shows that Zheng Qian believes that this is one of Zhang Jiuling's merits. In other words, he was sure that the request for the armor was a false accusation.

Finally, there is another manuscript that records some court trivialities in the twenty-fifth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

The crown prince Li Ying played polo with the kings, and gave the "Preface to the Stadium Poem", a scene of father's kindness and filial piety, brothers, friends and brothers; The saint sacrificed to the Qingdi, and the loyal king Li Heng and the Ying king Li Jian served as the saints for loyalty and sub-sacrifice respectively.

Xue Bai looked at it repeatedly, slightly disappointed.

He originally thought that the Criminal Department was unprecedentedly taking people for the crime of "privately writing national history", which should be because Zheng Qian wrote something great.

And only these, the Right Prime Minister's Mansion will immediately affirm that this is a big crime, and the East Palace will immediately ask Fang Xuan to explain to Pei Mian and cause trouble...... Either they overreacted, or they knew that something great could be involved.

Yang Wei stepped forward and said in a low voice, "Can you see it?" These pieces of paper can kill you people. ”

"Thanks to the colt." Xue Bai said: "But look at the handwriting, this is not the original." ”

"The original manuscript Xiao Yinzhi handed it over directly, how could he give it to Pei Mian? This was copied by the Criminal Department. ”

"What about Pei Mian?"

"I let the two henchmen watch and block it in the public room of Dali Temple."

"Well, that's good, and I'll be able to make the pony a great achievement."

Yang Wei sneered slightly, as if he didn't believe it.

After a while, someone brought the blindfolded Zheng Qian into the house.

Xue Bai did not go out to meet Zheng Qian, lest his lies to Yang Wei be exposed.

He wrote down what he wanted to ask on a piece of paper and asked Yang Xun's subordinates to ask.

……

"You wrote the history of the country privately, you should not only write these manuscripts, right?"

Zheng Qian's eyes were dark, he couldn't see anything, and asked vigilantly, "Who are you?" ”

After a while.

"This case will implicate many people, and we will help you get out of prison to avoid this, if you don't want to harm your relatives and friends, tell us directly."

Zheng Qian thought for a while and said, "It's true that it's not all, I also wrote about the interrogation process of the Sanshuren case back then, but it was burned a few years ago. ”

"How is it written?"

"Taizong abolished the crown prince and ordered all the ministers to participate in the trial, and everything was verified; The grievances between Empress Wu and the crown prince are deep, and the abolition of the prince is in accordance with the procedure, and the book and the subordinates can be tested...... Only the saint abolished the prince, all by one person's arbitrariness, forbidden to participate in the division, and the three concubines' wives and uncles were widely implicated. ”

"How did you know about these things?"

"Some of them were told by Zhang Qujiang, and some of them I saw with my own eyes with the Son of Heaven."

"You burned the manuscript?"

"Yes."

"Why did it burn?"

"A few years ago, a friend reminded me that I might be guilty of writing a national history privately, so I burned it."

"Who's this friend?"

Zheng Qian said: "Forgive me. ”

"Since you burned it, why did two manuscripts fall on the desk of the criminal department?"

"I don't know." Zheng Qian recalled and said slowly: "Back then, there were more than 80 manuscripts, all of which I threw into the brazier, thinking that they were all burned out. ”

"Stolen?"

"Perhaps, it was many years ago."

Zheng Qian said, and after waiting for a while, the other party didn't ask anymore.

~~

"Why didn't you ask?"

"I know everything I need to know, did I lie to you?" Xue Bai said lightly: "If you know more, it will be dangerous." ”

Yang Xun's heart froze, and when he looked at it, he saw that Xue Bai was putting the questions he had just written down on the fire candle and burning them.

He burned it very carefully, obviously not leaving one or two copies stolen like Zheng Qian.

"Who's suing?" Yang Wei said: "It's the East Palace, right?" ”

Xue Bai said: "It's not important, the important thing is that the Right Prime Minister's Mansion and the East Palace will attack each other because of this matter." Are we going to be the fish in the pond that suffers, or are we going to be the fishermen who benefit? ”

"How?"

"Pei Mian. He is from the East Palace, and this time it was he who robbed Zheng Qian for the East Palace. ”

Yang Xun's eyes moved, guessing that this was going to frame the East Palace.

Xue Bai burned his handwriting, patted off the ashes on his clothes, and pointed to the evidence he had taken from the Criminal Department.

"The right minister used the Zheng Qian case to suppress political opponents again, and the prisoners have not yet been tried, and a bunch of sinners have been listed, including the salt official who has just collected the salt tax for the saint; Donggong is not honest, he actually planted an eyeliner to Wang Jie's side, and when he learned about it, he wanted to kill him. ”

"How can we expose them and clear our name?"

"Because Zheng Qian has always been friendly with the East Palace, the right minister told the princess Zheng Qian about slandering Concubine Wu Hui, and instigated the princess to enter the palace to sue the East Palace, and every time she used Princess Xianyi, the concubine noticed that something was wrong, and went to the Criminal Department to ask Xiao Shangshu and got these evidences, but I didn't expect that Pei Mian took the prisoner away in a blink of an eye."

"How to prove that Pei Mian is from the East Palace? If you use the evidence you give, we will also reveal the truth. ”

"That evidence was used to scare him." Xue Bai said: "Tonight's prisoner was taken away in the name of Pei Mian, how could the brother slave suspect you?" Since you will guess that Pei Mian is doing things for the East Palace, presumably now Nan Ya has begun to search people, as long as Pei Mian's home is searched, there will always be clues. ”

"Feasible?"

"Feasible."

"Saints are not easy to deceive."

"Rest assured, almost everything we say is true." Xue Bai smiled calmly: "And I have some connections in the palace......"

Yang Wei learned.

Xue Bai is like this every time, turning Li Linfu and Li Heng into bad people, pretending to be innocent in front of the saints. This time, it is to give them the opportunity as a couple.

Princess Xianyi is too simple, so she will be used every time.

Xue Bai seemed to be calm and clear, but the incident happened suddenly, he was still taking the annual exam, and at this time, he was just coaxing Yang Wei with a rough plan, but he hadn't thought about the details yet.

For example, how do you hide what he did in this matter? Lest anyone point out that it is he who mixes in it.

There are many more loopholes to be filled.

Yang Wei thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "But Pei Mian knows all this. ”

Xue Bai was surprised: "Do you want me to teach you about this matter?" ”

"Huh." Yang Xun grinned, cut his neck with a knife, and said meaningfully: "Donggong still dares to kill people and kill people, it's really ruthless." ”

(End of chapter)