Jingshi, Nanjing City.

In the afternoon, the sun is shining.

The carriage stopped in front of a relatively secluded teahouse, and the British public Zhang Fu lifted the curtain and got out of the car.

His tall, burly figure sat curled up in the cramped carriage for a long time, and he felt a little suffocated all over.

He stretched his waist, stretched his limbs, and looked up at the three big characters on the plaque on the door of the teahouse: "Lu Yuxuan".

Zhang Fu was wearing civilian clothes today, and he didn't bring a close-fitting entourage, obviously he didn't want to attract attention.

He walked quickly into the teahouse, which was located in a bustling area, so there were not many customers, but it was better to be secluded, so there would often be two or three tables of guests here to discuss some more secret topics.

Zhang Fu took a step directly through the main hall and walked towards the backyard.

He was a frequent visitor here, or rather, they were a frequent visitor here, and the shopkeeper saw that he was obviously already acquainted with him, and he did not speak, but turned around and silently walked in front to lead the way.

I came to the empty backyard, there was nothing in the yard, it was desolate, except for some dry firewood and grass piled up in the corner of the wall against the wall.

The shopkeeper stepped forward and removed the firewood and grass, revealing a small secret door in the wall, which he pushed open and stood beside him.

Zhang Fu didn't speak, and walked quickly into the secret door with his head down.

The secret door behind it was closed, and the shopkeeper would naturally put the firewood and grass back in its place, covering the secret door on the wall.

With such a seamless design, no one would have thought that there would be a hole behind this wall.

Behind the secret door is a small and delicate courtyard, rockery and flowing water, green trees and grass, birds and flowers. Compared with the bustling and noisy market scene just now, the quiet and beautiful scenery here is like a paradise hidden in the middle of the city.

Zhang Fu stepped on the fine stone road under his feet and slowly walked into a fine house in the small courtyard.

This ashram is very elegantly renovated and has a bookish atmosphere.

Walking into the house, there were two people who had been waiting for a long time, and they were the important ministers of the court who invited Zhang Fu to come to meet, the official secretary Jianyi and the household secretary Xia Yuanji.

You must know that in the Great Ming Law, the important ministers of the DPRK and the senior military attachés who hold military power meet in private, which is a very serious violation, and once it is discovered by the imperial history of the DPRK and China, it is completely possible to impeach the emperor in this way.

Emperor Zhu Di originally relied on raising troops and launching the Battle of Jingyan to overthrow his own nephew, and he sat down in this Ming Dynasty, and the importance of the army to power was naturally very clear to him.

Therefore, he has always been very sensitive to the private dealings between these civil officials and military generals under his command.

Therefore, Zhang Fu, as a very prestigious general in the army, if he wants to meet Jian Yi and Xia Yuanji, in his own mansion, it is naturally very dangerous.

That's why Jian Yi came up with such a solution.

This teahouse was actually opened by Jianyi at private expense, and the shopkeeper and buddies in the building were all Jianyi's most trusted confidants, and such a secret place was built next to the backyard of the teahouse, just to be able to meet and talk privately with officials like Zhang Fu and Xia Yuanji, who had a good relationship with each other.

In this way, you can hide from the brocade-clothed guards all over the capital, as well as the ears and eyes of the old men of the Imperial Historical Tower.

Zhang Fu saw Xia Yuanji present, obviously a little surprised, and asked, "Brother Wei is also here, didn't you go to Beiping a while ago, when did you come back?"

Xia Yuanji smiled: "Brother Lao Wenbi is worried, and he has sent a holy edict to escort the materials and craftsmen needed for the new imperial city to Beiping, and he has just returned to the capital this morning. ”

Zhang Fu nodded and said, "This journey must be really hard enough." ”

Xia Yuanji said with a smile: "Eat the king's lu, bear the king's worries, what do you say about hard work?"

The two of them were polite for a while, and Jian Yi on the side couldn't help but interrupt them and said: "Brother Wei, Brother Wen Bi, you two are old acquaintances, don't chew on the words and engage in this kind of vain stuff anymore, let's get back to business quickly!"

Zhang Fu sat down on the chair with a big grin, and sighed: "I knew that your Yizhi brother was in such a hurry to come to me, he must not be just here to taste tea, let's say, what are you going to ask me about?"

Jian Yi smiled a little embarrassedly, pushed the tea bowl that had been brewed on the table in front of Zhang Fu, and said: "Nonsense, this is the alpine snow flake winter tea that has just been sent to the capital, I specially invite you to come and try it, how can you be kind enough to treat it as a donkey's liver and lungs?"

"Kind?" Zhang Fu sneered, didn't answer, picked up the tea bowl and put it to his mouth and took a small sip, a hot and rich aroma suddenly made his mouth linger.

Zhang Fu couldn't help nodding again and again: "Good tea, good tea, it is said that it is spring water and autumn fragrance, and the tea in autumn and winter is particularly fragrant compared to spring tea, and it is true." ”

Jian Yi looked at Zhang Fu's satisfied expression, smiled, and said, "Now that the tea has been tasted, by the way, I want to ask Brother Wen Bi about something, I don't know if it's okay?"

Zhang Fu frowned, and asked rhetorically: "You old man is really strange, you are all important ministers of the court, and you have to review the newspapers from all over the country every day, and I am just a veteran in the army, how can I say that I am not as well-informed as you adults, why do you always come to me to inquire about the news?"

He opened his mouth and called Jian Yi as an "old man", but Jian Yi was not annoyed, he was still giggling and smiling, and at a glance he knew that the two must be extremely familiar with each other, and their friendship was not shallow, and they were usually used to making fun of each other.

Jian Yi smiled and sighed: "Brother Wen Bi made fun of it, what we see in the so-called news is just some official words written on the paper in black and white, how can it be compared to you, Brother Wen Bi." ”

"Now the emperor is around the guards and pro-army, the flag bearer, the left and right Jin Wuwei, these are all the old departments of your British duke, from the Lingzun who died in the battle of Dongchang that year, after Zhang Yu, the king of Hejian, the emperor can be said to have a lot of trust in Brother Wen Bi's family, and in just a few years after ascending the throne, he added you from Xincheng Hou to the British Duke, which shows the desire of heaven. ”

He smiled and said, "If you want to inquire about the emperor's thoughts, besides Brother Wen Bi, who else can you go to in this capital?"

Zhang Fu's face sank deliberately, and said: "The power of heaven is unpredictable, how can the emperor's mind be something that my courtiers can figure out?"

Jian Yi waved his hand and said: "It's definitely not that we are trying to figure out the holy will and guess the emperor's mind in vain, it's just ......."

He suddenly lowered his voice and said softly: "This morning, after Brother Wei returned to Beijing, he entered the palace to hand over the emperor's decree, but the emperor looked angry and angry, and felt as if the sky was about to fall. I don't know what happened, can Brother Wen Bi give me some advice?"

Zhang Fu squinted his eyes at Jian Yi and asked rhetorically, "What are you doing asking about this?"

Jian Yi hurriedly argued: "I have no other intentions, it's just that we are tired of official business, and we have to go to see the emperor often these days, because I don't know what happened, lest I didn't say anything right and touched Long Yan and set himself on fire, so I came to ask Brother Wen Bi about it, and I have no other intentions!"

Zhang Fu retracted his gaze, thought for a while and said, "Actually, this matter has nothing to do with you, even if I tell you, it doesn't hurt, but you must not spread the word." ”

Jian Yi and Xia Yuanji nodded in response: "This is natural, natural." ”

Zhang Fu blinked and said slowly: "Actually, I don't know exactly what happened to this matter, but I just heard some general content, about a few days ago, five hundred Jinwu guards suddenly left the imperial city and went to the vicinity of Shaanzhou. ”

Jian Yi couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

Jin Wuwei left the imperial city? This is not a trivial matter.

Left and right Jin Wuwei, originally one of the three guards of Beiping, was the pro-army of Zhu Di, the king of Yan at that time, after the battle of Jingyan, Zhu Di ascended the throne as the emperor, and the three guards of Beiping such as Jin Wuwei were also transferred to the forbidden army, and were organized as one of the twenty-six guards, responsible for the task of guarding the imperial city.

This Jin Wuwei is the emperor's old subordinate all along, and he is also one of his most trusted henchmen.

The forbidden army in the imperial city has always been strictly managed, and even if a soldier wants to be transferred out of Beijing, it needs to be written by the military department, reported to the cabinet for review, and then submitted to the emperor.

Now the five hundred Jinwu guards suddenly left Beijing and went to the border of Shaanzhou, but there was no one in the court

Know, this in itself is quite unusual.

Jian Yi frowned and asked, "These five hundred Jin Wuwei went out of Beijing without going through the military department in advance?"

Zhang Fu shook his head.

Jian Yi was unconsciously surprised and said: "Then who are they transferred to the border of Shaanzhou? Privately transfer the forbidden army, this is a great crime of rebellion!"

Zhang Fu turned his head and glared at him, and said in a low voice: "Who else do you think can cross the military headquarters and directly mobilize the forbidden army sergeants?"

Jian Yi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly his heart was shocked, and he suddenly said: "Mo Fei, Mo Fei is the emperor's ......"

Halfway through speaking, he didn't dare to say the rest.

Zhang Fu nodded silently, indicating that his guess was correct.

Except for the current emperor Zhu Di, who has the courage to mobilize the forbidden army in the imperial city without permission? and whose orders will these forbidden troops follow?

But the emperor just transferred a forbidden army of 500 soldiers, why was he so angry and angry?

Jian Yi felt a little uneasy in his heart, and he had a hunch that things would not be so simple.

Sure enough, Zhang Fu took a deep breath, lowered his voice and said: "However, this group of 500 Jin Wuwei was killed in a valley on the border of Shaanzhou, and not a single person was left alive!"

What the?

Jian Yi and Xia Yuanji couldn't help but be shocked and looked at each other.

You must know that the Imperial City Forbidden Army is all selected from the army and is well-trained, if the combat power is one of the best in the army, it is really not the same as the miscellaneous troops of the local guards.

If you want to completely annihilate a 500-strong Jinwuwei army, it will take several times the number of troops to encircle it, and it will have to pay an extremely heavy price before it can succeed.

Now a group of 500 Jin Wuwei suddenly appeared silently in the territory of Shaanzhou, and was inexplicably annihilated by all people, such a big military operation, the government and the opposition did not hear a single word of the wind, it is really a little unbelievable.

Jian Yi was shocked and asked inexplicably, "Who did it? Which unit is it?"

Zhang Fu shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I heard that none of these dead soldiers had any external injuries, but they seemed to have been poisoned or suffered from an emergency and suddenly died, which is really incomprehensible." ”

In this way, there are some possibilities.

To say that a force capable of annihilating 500 Jin Wuwei was mobilized and ambushed, such a large battle could not be without movement, and no one noticed it at all.

Therefore, these Jin Wuwei should not be surrounded and annihilated by any troops, but to say that all 500 people were poisoned or suddenly died of an emergency illness is too far-fetched and equally unconvincing.

Jian Yi pondered for a moment and asked, "How is the emperor going to deal with such a big matter?"

Zhang Fu sighed and said, "The emperor doesn't seem to want to make a public announcement, but he just secretly summoned Zheng Ci, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and asked him to arrange a secret investigation of the case. ”

Jian Yiqi said: "Isn't Zheng Ci seriously ill?

Zhang Fu sighed: "So, he naturally threw this hot potato out, and he couldn't get sick himself, so he let others be responsible for secretly investigating this matter." ”

This case is the emperor's secret decree, and it involves the forbidden army of the imperial city, and the emperor's personal guard led Jin Wuwei, just why Jin Wuwei suddenly appeared inexplicably in the boundary of Shaanzhou, I am afraid that it is a secret that the emperor himself is unwilling to mention.

And it is by no means an ordinary force that can kill all the five hundred Jin Wuwei in one fell swoop, but I am afraid that the truth behind this case is far more shocking than these five hundred lives!

How to investigate?

If it is changed to Jian Yi, I am afraid that he will be as ill as this old man Zheng Cizheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and he will not be able to go out of the door.

Jian Yi shook his head and sighed: "This old fox, come here again." I just don't know who the unlucky guy who took over this hot potato this time?"

Zhang Fu snorted coldly and said, "Who else could it be? Isn't it the famous chief arrester of the criminal department under Master Zheng who is famous for carrying black pots, and he is often unrighteous!"