The Wenshixuan in Cining Palace is the place where the Empress Dowager Yin Miaotong, who really controls the power of the Darong Dynasty, summons the courtiers and listens to government affairs.

At this moment, the Empress Dowager Yin was dressed in a vermilion phoenix robe, sitting awe-inspiring on the wide and comfortable phoenix chair in the center.

And His Majesty Yu Wengang, the Emperor of Darong, who was dressed in a vermilion dragon robe, sat aside to accompany him. His face, which was already slightly gloomy, added a little more anger and anger than usual.

At the foot of the steps opposite, the Chiyang Sect Master, dressed in a cyan brocade robe, stood proudly and smiling.

Next to him, the chief secretary who was dressed in the dark guard division's dark color official robes, Gong Yu, was prostrate on the ground with his head down, and his body trembled slightly, revealing the fear in his heart at the moment.

"Gongyu Sayan, are you guilty?"

The Empress Dowager Yin, who had already known the general course of the matter, didn't even give him a straight eye, so she asked coldly.

"Wechen...... Convicted!"

Gongyu Sayan didn't dare to raise his head at all, but there was a hint of unwillingness in his voice, "The Dark Guard Division has lost his key criminals today. This crime of dereliction of duty, Weichen will never dare to shirk!"

"Oh, the crime of dereliction of duty?"

Empress Dowager Yin's sparse eyebrows couldn't help but raise slightly, and then she snorted coldly, and said, "You will avoid the important and take it lightly! If you are lost, you are naturally an unforgivable sin, but how can you shirk the responsibility for the destruction of the overpass?!"

Gongyu raised his head with a pale face, and pleaded in a defensive voice: "Please forgive the Empress Dowager!" Weichen did make a request to His Majesty the Emperor on behalf of the Prince of Yuguo, Han Bing, to use the Tianqiao as a place for him to compete with Shen Yunpeng, the commander of the Praetorian Guard.

If today's bridge is destroyed due to this competition, Weichen should be guilty of inconsiderate consideration. But after all, the overpass was collapsed by Commander Shen, and Wei Chen didn't dare to take it alone for the crime of destroying the bridge!"

"That's nonsense!"

Empress Dowager Yin immediately scolded angrily, and turned her head to look at Duxiaoqiong, "Dujiao Master, you were there to witness it with your own eyes, and you should know very well who destroyed that overpass?"

Duxiaoqiong hurriedly bowed down and replied: "Empress Dowager, I think that the overpass was indeed destroyed by cold ice!"

"Why would the Sole Sect Master think so?"

Rong Emperor Yu Wengang, who had been silent, suddenly asked coldly.

Duxiao Qiong was already extremely contemptuous and hateful to this Yu Wengang who killed his father and usurped the throne, and as soon as he opened his mouth at this moment, he questioned his judgment as the number one master of Darong, and couldn't help but feel annoyed in his heart.

He first glanced at the Queen Mother, and saw that her old man's face was calm, and he didn't seem to care too much about the emperor's rudeness and disrespect for him, the Chiyang Sect Master.

Although Du Xiaoqiong felt a little unhappy in his heart, he still lowered his eyes and bowed to His Majesty the Emperor, and said in a calm voice: "Back to Your Majesty, this bridge was built by King Chiyang to pick up the strange materials of the world, and it has stood for decades, and it is beyond the power of ordinary manpower to hurt it in the slightest.

Only a master with peerless martial arts can use internal force to damage or even destroy it. Among the two people competing on the overpass today, the martial arts of the cold ice are the highest, and the person who destroys the bridge is naturally none other than him!"

Hearing his obviously perfunctory answer, Yuwen Gang's face immediately flashed with a look of annoyance, and he sneered, and said, "The explanation of the Sect Master is unique! Whoever has high martial arts skills is the one who destroys the bridge."

The Sect Master himself is a peerless master, and his martial arts must still be on that cold ice. And you were also near the overpass at the time, and if you follow your own words, it seems inevitable that you will be suspected of destroying the overpass!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly asked Gongyu Sayan, who was kneeling on the ground, "Gongyu General, what do you say?"

"This"

It is obvious that the emperor is deliberately competing with his master, and he really has a lot of intention of defending himself, so Gongyu Sayan naturally has to spare no effort to stand on the emperor's side.

But he didn't dare to act too explicitly, for fear of angering the strange-tempered master, and slapped the red sun palm on the spot and took his own life.

So, he rolled his eyes and replied cautiously: "Please Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the destruction of the overpass has nothing to do with the family teacher!"

After learning the news of the destruction of the overpass, Weichen personally led people to the scene for a careful investigation.

According to the oral accounts of those who watched the competition, it was Commander Shen who used too much force when fighting with Han Bing, and did not control the strength of his fists and feet, and successively damaged the guardrails and bridge slabs of the overpass in many places, which eventually led to the complete collapse of the overpass.

Wei Chen was also worried that this might be just a one-sided statement, so he collected the testimony of many people present, including the testimony of Hu Liang, the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard. As a result, they were all unanimously accused that the overpass was indeed destroyed by Commander Shen. ”

"Hmm"

Yu Wengang didn't say anything more, but his face showed obvious satisfaction.

For a while, the people in this Wenshi Xuan fell into an unusual silence.

After a while, the Empress Dowager Yin broke the deadlock again.

"It seems that there are different accounts about the destruction of the flyover, and further detailed investigation is needed. Then the matter will be put aside for the time being, and it will not be too late to pursue responsibility after the clear results are found. ”

Hearing what the Queen Mother said, Gong Yu Sayan knew that in this matter, the Queen Mother had decided to make concessions to the emperor.

Because everyone can see clearly, since there is no result of this matter now, it is even more impossible to make any conclusions in the future.

Even if Han Bing himself came out and admitted in person that it was he who destroyed the overpass, I am afraid that His Majesty the Emperor would not believe the words of him, the prince of the enemy country.

But just when Gongyu Sayan secretly breathed a sigh of relief for this, the spearhead of the Queen Mother Yin was pointed at him again.

"Gongyu Sayan, those killers who shoot crossbow arrows at the ice, but you are the one of the Dark Guard?"

This question is really the one that Gong Yusa Yan is most afraid of.

Because he knew in his heart that in this matter, he was tantamount to violating the holy will.

If the emperor knew the truth, he would naturally no longer have any protection for him, the chief secretary, and it was even likely that he would kill him on the spot in a fit of anger.

But with Gongyu's cunning, he naturally expected that someone would most likely use this matter to drag him into the water, so how could he not come up with a countermeasure in advance?

Therefore, after hearing the queen mother's scolding, Gongyu Sa Yan can be said to be extremely calm.

I saw that he first raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise, and then slowly shook his head and said, "Those killers are not from the Dark Guard. But it is also difficult for Weichen to determine what their true identity and true purpose are!"

"Oh, but this palace doesn't believe it! Is there anything in this world that even your Secret Guard can't find out?"

Hearing the obvious irony in the Queen Mother's words, Gong Yu replied respectfully without any disapproval: "The Queen Mother blames this incident in the capital, and the Secret Guard Division is indeed duty-bound, and must investigate the details of those killers."

It's just that several major events have happened one after another today, and each of them is more or less related to the Dark Guard. Wechen is clumsy, so he can only check them one by one according to his priorities. Therefore, this relatively unimportant matter was put at the end. ”

"Doesn't it matter? Someone openly pretended to be a Praetorian Guard and intended to shoot the prince of Yuguo under the overpass, apparently with the intention of provoking a dispute between Rong and Yu.

How did such a serious matter suddenly become less important in the eyes of your Gongyu General Director? This makes this palace have to wonder, what are the intentions of you, the Chief Minister?!"

In the face of this almost naked accusation, Gongyu Sayan still behaved without impatience and in a good manner.

He first kowtowed to the top of the imperial stairs, and then said in a deep voice: "Please ask His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress Dowager to learn from each other!" Wei Chen did not deliberately ignore this matter, but thought that compared with the two important cases of the lost prisoner and the destruction of the overpass, the assassination of Han Bing was really not a big deal.

Because Weichen has preliminarily ascertained that those killers are probably not our Darong people, and their purpose of assassinating Han Bing is likely to be just out of personal grudges.

As for the claim that they pretended to be the Praetorian Guards, this claim has insufficient basis, and it is inevitable that it will be exaggerated.

First of all, the killers were not dressed in Praetorian Guard uniforms, let alone directly identified themselves as Praetorian Guards.

Secondly, although the chain crossbows they used were exclusively for the Praetorian Guards, they were not difficult to buy privately in some private shops selling weapons.

Therefore, according to Weichen's speculation, the purpose of those killers using this kind of chain crossbow is mostly to cover up their own martial arts path, and at the same time, they should also take a fancy to the powerful lethality of the chain crossbow bow.

It is based on the above judgment that Weichen thinks that this assassination of Han Bing should be committed by people in the rivers and lakes who have personal grudges against him, and it is even likely that those killers are from Yuguo.

In this way, His Majesty and the Queen Mother can also be greatly relieved, and this matter will never cause any trouble between the two countries. ”

Seeing that Gongyu was so eloquent, and she was so eloquent, the Queen Mother Yin really hated this treacherous villain in her heart!

But there was not the slightest annoyance on her face.

In fact, the Empress Dowager Yin was not really angered by Gongyu Sayan's clever words and sophistry at all.

Because, there is always a certainty in her heart, no matter how hard she struggles, today, the head of the Dark Guard, is already in a catastrophe!