The sky was not yet fully light, but the road leading to the palace gate was already full of traffic.

Naturally, the officials in the court come and go, and a soft sedan chair comes slowly, although everyone usually goes to the court like this, but today there seems to be something different.

Instead of stopping to say a few words of greeting when they met, as in the past, everyone greeted each other with a simple nod and smile, and then went their separate ways.

Because just yesterday there was a major event that shocked the government and the opposition, and even the emperor, who had never even been out of the palace gate, heard about it and was extremely angry.

So this is what the early dynasty must be doing today.

Regarding the attack on Qin Xiang's family, all the officials of the court also had different thoughts, some lamented the impermanence of the world, and some clapped their hands and applauded, saying that Qin Hui was doing many evils and deserved it.

But no matter what Qin Hui is in everyone's hearts, the imperial court will react when it learns of this, which is understandable.

It's just that it depends on who the emperor will send to investigate and deal with this matter, which is very important, because many people understand that there are two major events in the imperial court that are imminent and need to be decided, and the emperor's attitude has not been clear.

First, the current battle of Yuncheng has broken the Jin army for some time, the Jin army returned to the north, and the imperial court also sent twelve times to recruit Yue Fei's class with twelve gold medals, and Yue Fei although he had hesitated in his heart, but in the end he returned according to the will of the imperial court, he placed the army outside, and soon he would come to face the saint, so whether it was war or peace with the Jin State was also a major matter that the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces once debated, which was related to the safety of the country, but the important thing was the emperor's attitude.

Second, is to choose the prince, the current emperor has no heirs, although he himself deeply regrets, but also understands the importance of this matter, so he also recruited Zhao Xuan, Zhao Ying two Taizu descendants of the royal family to follow him, but his attitude towards the two is quite ambiguous, before Zhao Ying fled and returned, he personally led a hundred officials to greet him, what kind of situation was that? But when the "Nancheng Massacre" was closed, he praised Zhao Xuan a lot, but he didn't even mention Zhao Ying a word, so who he belonged to became a little "confusing".

The civil and military officials stood on both sides, and everyone held their breath, because they heard the footsteps slowly coming from behind the main hall, except for the personal eunuchs, only the emperor could walk from that road.

Sure enough, the emperor appeared in front of everyone in a dragon robe, Qin Hui's afterglow was slightly oblique, and he saw that the emperor's eye sockets were deeply sunken, obviously he didn't sleep well last night.

After the court, Emperor Xuan Wenwu got up.

He sat alone on the throne of the dragon chair, but his hand slammed down, and he didn't say anything as gently as usual, but snorted coldly, obviously full of anger that had not subsided.

"Everyone, Aiqing, does anyone know what happened yesterday?"

After this sentence was asked, the emperor stared at the ministers under the imperial ranks.

The civil and military officials seemed to have turned into kind and quiet statues in an instant, and they all kept silent, because everyone knew that no one could tell whether it was good or bad when they stood up at this time.

At this time, in full view of everyone, a person walked out, bowed down and said: "Long live Your Majesty, Qi Lin of Dali Temple, yesterday Qin Xiang's family went to Wan'an Temple to make incense, and was ambushed by gangsters, fortunately, Wang Jinyu, the grandson of former Prime Minister Wang Boyan, arrived in time, and Mrs. and Miss are fine!"

The emperor nodded, got up and said, "The family of the prime minister of the great Song Dynasty is in broad daylight

He was actually ambushed by someone, hey, what a big deal this is, does anyone really dare to attack the court officials and the family of the prime minister so blatantly?"

He had rarely been like this in the past, and most of the time he would not get angry in front of the minister even if he was in a bad mood, but this time it was different, not only angry, but even more angry.

Because he was too emotional, he was also a little out of breath while talking.

"Investigate, we must find out the truth of the whole thing, find out who planned and instructed the people behind it, no matter who it is, I will definitely punish it severely!"

The emperor threw off the dragon robe and turned away, so that people couldn't see his expression at the moment, carrying his hands behind his back, and his body trembled slightly.

When he turned around to face the ministers again, he no longer had the excitement just now, and then waved his hand to the old eunuch behind him, and everyone understood that he was about to "announce the decree".

Obviously, the emperor has already made a decision in his heart, and the temper he just had was to appease Qin Xiang, whose family was attacked, and secondly, it was also a warning, because since someone dared to plot to attack Qin Hui's family, then the hundreds of officials in the court, even together with himself, as long as they left the palace and no longer had "iron walls" to protect them, they might also encounter some unpredictable dangers.

Gonggong Sa carefully took out a scroll rolled in yellow cloth from his arms, and skillfully unfolded it inch by inch with both hands.

"Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and said: I heard that someone is plotting to attack Qin Xiangguo's family, this matter is appalling, the perpetrator is extremely evil, not killing is not enough to show the majesty of Huanghuang Tianwei, although the killers have been ambushed, but there must be the master behind the people, must not be investigated, specially ordered Dali Temple Qing Qi Lin to find out the truth, if there is any obstruction, you can enter the palace in my request!"

After saying that, Gonggong Sa turned slightly to look at the emperor, and when he saw the emperor nodding, he slowly walked down the jade steps.

"Lord Qi, this will is for you, or you will take it!"

Qi Lin was already kneeling on the ground, and only then did he come to his senses, obviously he never thought in advance that the investigation of this matter could actually fall on him, just now the emperor asked, he saw that the officials were silent, so he could only walk out of the ranks of the ministers and tell the truth.

Qi Lin himself knows that the court has always paid attention to the door and standing in line, and paid attention to human feelings, but he is a special person who is a cold-hearted person.

It's not that he doesn't understand those "sophistication" at all, but he understands the three flavors deeply, so he has to be such a person, the reputation of not being affectionate has long been spread in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, and the reason why he can still sit in the position of Dali Siqing, one of the nine Qings, is also because he is a "unemotional" person.

Qi Lin bowed three times and reached out to receive the holy decree from Gonggong Sa's hand.

He didn't have to look back, knowing that all eyes were on him now.

He was not easy to receive the holy decree, because he knew that this "task" was not easy, it involved Prime Minister Qin, who was most trusted by the emperor in the imperial court today, and it was even likely to involve "two major events".

Moreover, the emperor chose to issue an order directly, and did not give Qi Lin any opportunity to prepare and choose, indicating that the emperor had already thought about it, and now he is just here to "tell everyone".

Then, the emperor has never blamed himself for being a Dali temple, and he has little encouragement, and even Qi Lin feels that the emperor actually doesn't want to see himself, but just keeps himself in order to leave a "direct minister".

It stands to reason that if the emperor

If you want to speak out for Qin Xiang, then you will definitely choose a suitable person, not a person who has never been good friends with anyone in the court.

He still couldn't guess the emperor's thoughts, but the matter had come to this, and he had no choice.

Next, the emperor personally walked down the jade steps, and asked Qin Hui's family about the situation of the daughters, were they frightened?

Qin Hui was naturally grateful.

Qi Lin went down to the court, unlike other adults, he came on horseback by himself, and did not bring any entourage, this is his temperament, some people say it is true temperament, and some people say that it is superficial kung fu.

The horse was tied to the stone pillar outside the palace gate, which had long been known to the civil and military people of the Manchu Dynasty.

Qi Lin had just taken off the reins of his horse from the stone pillar when a burly figure was already standing behind him and stopped him.

"Lord Qi!"

It was a thick, slightly magnetic voice.

He turned his head, although the person behind him was wearing the court clothes regulated by the imperial court, but a wisp of long beard fluttered on his chest, and his eyebrows were clear, and he looked like an elegant scholar.

Qi Lin hurriedly let go of the reins of the horse, put his hands in front of his chest, bowed down and said, "Qi Lin to meet Qin Xiang!"

Qin Hui smiled, stretched out his hand to help Qi Lin up, and said, "Although it is Your Majesty's personal will, but I still have a deep feeling in my heart to bother Lord Qi for a family matter......

Qi Lin said with a straight face: "Why did Prime Minister Qin say this?"

"As Your Majesty said, Qin Xiang, as the chief assistant of the dynasty, what a person, and the person who was secretly plotting to attack was really bold, he dared to attack Mrs. and Miss in broad daylight, if the court ignored it, it would not only be a heinous person, but also damage Your Majesty's face and divine might!"

Although Qin Hui was dumbfounded by Qi Lin's "scolding", he still kept a smile gently.

"Lord Qi really won the heart of His Majesty, Qin Mou admired it so much, so he won't be polite with Lord Qi!"

He paused, Qi Lin knew that he had specially stopped him, it couldn't be just to say a few kind words, so he waited for him to continue.

"Qin actually has something that he wants to implore Lord Qi to answer......

Qi Lin immediately frowned and asked, "I don't know if Qin Xiang wants me to do anything......?"

Qin Hui shook his head and said, "I don't want Lord Qi to have other intentions contrary to the facts of the investigation, I just want to implore your lord to tell me before reporting to His Majesty after he has drawn a conclusion!"

His eyes were blazing, obviously waiting for Qi Lin's reply.

Qi Lin was a little hesitant in his heart, although he didn't want to do anything according to his intentions, but this matter was personally assigned by His Majesty, and it stands to reason that he should report to His Majesty as soon as he finds out the results, but the dignified prime minister is so active and kind to ask for words, even if he has always been upright, he is really a little embarrassed.

In the end, Qi Lin gritted his teeth, then nodded and said, "Qi do his best......"

Qin Hui smiled, didn't speak, just bowed slightly, he knew that although Qi Lin said "do his best", at least he didn't explicitly refuse, according to the impression he usually gave people, this was already a great face.

He suddenly found that the Dali Siqing in front of him, who was called the "man in the iron mask", was actually not completely ignorant of the "way of sophistication".

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