Winter in Japan is a season prone to fire. The weather is cold. Poor people rely on shaking to resist the severe cold, while rich people use charcoal fires to keep warm. If you are not careful, it will lead to catastrophe.
After Zeng's mansion, Xinwang's mansion also caught fire last night.
In terms of scale, degree of damage, and impact, the former is far from the latter.
Not only Prince Xin's mansion was burned, but even the neighbors on the left and right of the mansion were affected. The mansions of the two ministers in the court were burnt down. Fortunately, it was discovered in time and the damage caused was not large.
The Xinwang Mansion was miserable. The entire Wangfu became ruins almost overnight.
As for King Xin himself, he was in a terrible state during the fire last night. Although he was not in danger of his life, his hair was burnt. When he escaped from the house, he tripped over the threshold and broke a leg. He is still lying in the Imperial Medical Office. inside.
It is said that the fire in Prince Xin's Mansion was so intense last night that it dyed half of the sky in Kyoto red...
It is also said that when King Xin escaped from his room yesterday, he didn't even wear any clothes.
It is also said that there was another naked man who escaped from the room with King Xin last night...
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Lao Fang walked over with a resentful face and complained: "Master, why didn't you tell me about such a big matter..."
Li Yi held a copy of "Kyoto Entertainment" in his hand. The headline on the front page was that Xin Wang's mansion was burned, and Xin Wang was suspected of coming out of the closet. He looked up at Lao Fang and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Burn Xinwang's mansion!" Lao Fang sat down opposite him and said, "My lord, you still lied to me that you are going to do it after he leaves the capital. I didn't expect you couldn't even wait a day..."
"You really did the burning of Prince Xin's mansion?"
Zeng Shichun hurried in from the outside and looked at Li Yi, "You, you are too reckless, no matter what you say about King Xin, he is still a prince, you..., you wait for him to leave the capital, and just do it secretly, You're making things impossible!"
"not me."
Li Yi shook his head, wondering which hero did a great deed, although he was happy, but his fault was really inexplicable.
He thought for a while and said, "Perhaps the people in Xinwang's Mansion were not careful when heating?"
"Do people in Prince Xin's mansion use kerosene to keep warm?" Zeng Shichun's face turned dark: "A lot of kerosene was doused around the room where King Xin lived. He died in the sea of fire last night."
"Think about it a little bit, and I know that I will not do this." Li Yi shook his head and said: "The king of Xin burned Zeng's mansion, and the court couldn't deal with him. I deal with it myself, but the letter was burned only one day later Wang Fu, this is too obvious, as you said, I originally planned to wait until he left the capital before breaking his two legs, but now that he has broken one leg, I can only break the other two... "
"Are you really planning to do it?" Zeng Shichun looked at him in shock, then shook his head, and said solemnly: "But the common people don't think so, they only make the simplest guesses, people's words are scary..."
Li Yi put down the limited copy of "Kyoto Entertainment" in his hand, shook his head and said, "The people in Kyoto are not fools, they will give me justice."
"I hope..." Zeng Shichun sighed, "The person investigating this case is Liu Dayou. He is a careful person, so he should be able to find some clues..."
Li Xuan and His Royal Highness came together again, Li Yi had already explained it just now, he didn't want to waste any more saliva, looked at them, and said helplessly: "If I say that I have nothing to do with this matter, would you believe me? "
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"It's him, it must be him!"
Although King Xin was no longer as dark as before, most of his hair was burnt, and there was still pain in one leg, his face was ferocious, and he said loudly: "Bold, really bold, this is the capital, and he burned the palace." , he... he is going to rebel!"
In front of the bed, an official whispered: "His Royal Highness Xin Wang, the county government has already sent people to investigate the cause of the fire last night, please stay calm and rest assured that you can recover from your injuries..."
"What are you still investigating, what are you still investigating!" Xin Wang looked angry, and wanted to get up from the bed, but accidentally dragged the wound, lay back down, and said loudly: "There is nothing to investigate, he is revenge, he is here Revenge this king for burning Zeng's mansion, so he came to burn down this king's mansion!"
"It turns out that the arson case in the Zeng Mansion the night before was instigated by His Royal Highness Xin Wang." Liu Dayou stood below, holding a small notebook in his hand, wrote a few lines on it, and said: "What His Highness Xin Wang said, next The official will submit it verbatim."
"What Zeng's mansion, I will burn it if I want!" King Xin waved his hand, and said disdainfully: "But he burned the mansion of the king. This is a big treason, and the nine clans should be punished!"
"After the Wangfu was burned last night, four servants of Xinwangfu disappeared." Liu Dayou looked at him and said, "According to what the steward of the Wangfu said, these four people bought a batch of spirits from outside yesterday. Judging from the current situation, what they purchased was not spirits, but kerosene, which was the kerosene that burned the entire Xinwang Mansion last night."
King Xin's complexion changed, and he immediately said: "What servant of the palace, he must have found someone to impersonate, he wants to kill this king!"
"According to the steward of the palace and the rest of the servants, His Highness brought those four people here from the fief. Before that, they had been with His Highness for two years and had never been to the capital. Naturally, it is impossible for someone to fake it." of."
King Xin was stunned, and said angrily: "It's nonsense, how could the servants of my palace set fire to it!"
"I'm going to ask His Royal Highness Xin Wang." Liu Dayou looked at him and asked, "Your Highness Xin Wang might as well think about it carefully. Before coming to the capital, did His Highness offend anyone, for example—what empress..."
"What empress!" King Xin patted the edge of the bed suddenly, and said angrily: "This king is the only one who offended him, and it must be him!"
Liu Dayou looked at him, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, rest well, and I will take my leave..."
When he walked to the door, he bowed to a figure who walked in, "I have seen His Royal Highness King Qi."
"Brother Qi!" King Xin's eyes lit up suddenly when he saw King Qi walking in, and he said, "Brother Qi, you have seen how arrogant and domineering he is. If this person is not eliminated-the court will be in trouble! !"
King Qi looked around, and the idlers in the room retreated immediately.
He walked up to King Xin and whispered: "You just sent people to burn his house the day before yesterday, and he sent people to burn your palace yesterday—do you think he is a fool, or is everyone in the world fools?"
"Brother Qi..." King Xin looked at him in disbelief: "You, even you..."
"Do you know what people outside say?" King Qi leaned down and said, "I heard that it was a few servants in your mansion who burned the mansion last night—you used too much bitter tricks. Stupid!"
Xin Wang: "—"
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Liu Dayou, who walked out of the Imperial Medical Office, let go of his fists, his palms were already full of sweat.
King Xin is not scary, and King Qi is not scary either.
The scary thing is, that holy religion, that empress...
Before King Xin arrived in Beijing, there was an undercover agent of the Holy Church in his mansion. Who would dare to say that there was no such person in other princes, officials and dignitaries in the court, even in his own mansion?
The power of this holy religion once again exceeded his expectations.
"For Empress..."
Liu Dayou had a complex expression, muttered something, and left quickly.