An Guogong's mansion and Jingyanghou's mansion were raided overnight, and everyone was imprisoned except for the report to Yanbei.
Sun Zeyu led the imperial guards to work for the whole of the night until dawn, before he finished checking all the property in the two mansions, and rushed into the palace to renew the order before the morning court.
The emperor didn't go back to the palace, but just closed his eyes in the imperial study and took a nap for a while. Since the day he ascended the throne, he has never made a drastic move to the courtiers, and he has never let the court gang be bloody. This is the first time that he rectified the court, cleared the court, and punished treacherous people.
He has always felt that for many years, he has boasted that he has no merit or fault, but now he thinks deeply, in the final analysis, the Southern Qi Dynasty has become a situation of internal and external troubles, and his weakness and kindness are a big fault. As early as when King Rong An and his concubine died in battle, he should have thoroughly investigated the case. Perhaps it might not be the case where he is raising tigers for internal and external troubles.
It's too late to say anything now.
After Sun Zeyu entered the palace, he came to the imperial study, and reported to the emperor about the search of the two government offices, and also reported to the emperor about the report of following Xu Yunchu to Yanbei.
After hearing this, the emperor raised his eyebrows, "The statement from the Duke of Anguo followed Uncle Xiaoguo to Yanbei?"
Sun Zeyu bowed his head in response, and replied, "Last night, when the mansion of An Guo was raided, according to what the steward of the An Guo mansion said, when Second Master Chen heard that Uncle Xiaoguo had brought fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army to Yanbei for emergency, he also chased after him on horseback alone. Yes. I hereby ask the emperor whether to send someone to pursue him or bring him to justice or... "
The emperor thought about it and asked, "According to what I know, among the people who are friends with Ye Chang, only the second son of the Duke of Anguo's mansion is different from others. He is very friendly and often lives in the mansion of Rong'an Prince?"
Sun Zeyu nodded, "The second son of Duke Anguo's mansion was born to Mrs. Mrs. An Guogong. After Mrs. An Guogong's wife left, his life in the mansion was not very easy. The estrangement between him and Mr. Anguo became more and more serious, especially during the Mid-Autumn Festival in recent years. They all went to Rong An Palace to spend time with Ye Shizi after attending the palace banquet. This year he heard that something happened to Yanbei, and he heard that Uncle Xiaoguo led the Imperial Forest Army to Yanbei, so he couldn't sit still and chased after him."
"He is a man of friendship and devotion to the country, much stronger than Duke An." The emperor said in a deep voice, "But he is the son of Duke Ango. If he hears that Duke Ang's mansion has been raided and executed, it's hard to say what he thinks. "After the words fell, he ordered, "Send someone to Yanbei to arrest him and bring him to justice."
"Yes." Sun Zeyu bowed his head.
The emperor asked again, "Is everyone else in prison now?"
Sun Zeyu replied, "Princess Ruiyue wants to see you, Your Majesty."
"My eldest aunt, she gave birth to a good son, Marquis Jingyang. Back then, she raised the late emperor to adulthood, and when he ascended the throne, how honored was she to the Marquis of Jingyang's mansion? I have treated the Jinghou House badly. I never expected that the Jingyang House would do such deceitful and traitorous things behind the scenes. Even if Eldest Aunt has the late emperor’s gold medal in her hand, how can I forgive the Jingyang House?”
Sun Zeyu didn't answer.
The emperor said, "Close it first! Let me think about it for a day and see her again tomorrow. Even if I send Jingyanghou's mansion to the guillotine, I should see my eldest aunt."
Sun Zeyu should be.
The emperor asked again, "Has the imperial guards withdrawn from the mansion of Duke Anguo and Marquis Jingyang now?"
Sun Zeyu nodded, "The two government offices have been inspected, and all things have been counted. I will hand over the check list to the Ministry of Rites later, and then hand it over to the Ministry of Households for the treasury."
The emperor nodded and praised, "As expected of the prime minister's son, your father recommended you without hesitation. You handled this case cleanly and neatly, which made me feel relieved." Give you another day, and the rest may be investigated and dealt with?"
Sun Zeyu thought for a moment and replied, "One day is enough for officials in the court, but it may take a lot of time for officials from various prefectures and counties to be escorted to Beijing."
The emperor immediately said, "Today's officials in court, anyone involved in the case, will be escorted to justice according to the crime. Outside Beijing, officials above the fifth rank will be escorted to Beijing for trial, and officials below the fifth rank will be punished according to severity. Long delay."
"Yes." Sun Zeyu accepted the order.
The emperor waved his hand, and Sun Zeyu exited the imperial study.
The case of An Guogong's mansion and Jingyanghou's mansion had shocked countless people last night, and this morning, the whole capital was shocked. Whenever the mansions involved with the two mansions, everyone is terrified.
After Sun Zeyu came out of the imperial study, he led the imperial guards to search the mansion involved in the case according to the list of involved cases.
Several officials were put in chains on the way to the early court and brought to justice.
For a while, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were in a state of panic.
Prime Minister Sun entered the palace early in the morning, and many officials gathered around to listen to the news. Prime Minister Sun kept his mouth shut and said nothing about the two old cases. He only said that Uncle Xiaoguo had already investigated the case, because Uncle Xiaoguo went to Yanbei to rescue the emergency, and the dog son Sun Zeyu took over the case, and everything was investigated according to the emperor's order.
Seeing that they couldn't find any news, the ministers could only give up and wait for the emperor's early court.
That night, while Sun Zeyu was investigating Duke An's Mansion and Marquis Jingyang Mansion, Su Qing was not idle, and was ordered by the emperor to thoroughly investigate the case of the insider who attacked Yanbei Prince's Mansion in Beijing but did not get the slightest news of blocking the news.
It stands to reason that Yanbei is trapped around the north, and the military situation is important. When the local Yanbei or the nearest post station and beacon tower get the news, they will rush to Beijing to report immediately. However, it has been six days since the accident in Yanbei, and a report has not yet entered Beijing. Naturally, there is something wrong with the beacon tower at the post station.
Su Qing took the staff of the Ministry of War and the government office out of the capital overnight, and searched all the way.
After walking five hundred miles, at dawn, a post station in Hejian County was found, and all the corpses in the station were found. In the post station, no one sent three urgent military reports for eight hundred miles.
Su Qing opened it and saw that it was Yanbei Zuobao.
Now that Yanbei's report has left the land of Yanbei and arrived three hundred miles away from the middle of the capital, but no one sent it to the capital, it is obvious that someone behind the scenes killed everyone in the post station and blocked the post station's access to Beijing. communication in .
Su Qing immediately ordered someone to find the Hejian county magistrate.
With such a big case, the county magistrate of Hejian also looked confused. Obviously, if Su Qing didn't come to investigate, he still didn't know. He immediately pleaded guilty to Su Qing, quickly ordered Wu to conduct an autopsy, and ordered the people in the government office to investigate the matter thoroughly.
After the autopsy, it was concluded that these people died about four or five days ago in the night. They were all wiped with a knife on their necks. There are a total of 12 people in the post station, and one person is quite a few.
Su Qing was furious. Something happened at the post station four or five days ago, and no one around found the reporter. He was about to punish the Hejian county magistrate. Chang is the cousin of Mrs. Jing Jinghou. Hejian County is located in a place extending in all directions, and there are countless letters and correspondences every year. Although it is a place for business, it often receives letters from officials' residences and escorts private errands. This job is very fat . This postmaster likes to drink and have fun on weekdays, he often visits the door alone, and eats and plays with a group of people behind closed doors, because he has Hou Jingyang as his backer, he can't afford to offend him, so he doesn't dare to provoke him on weekdays. Now that he died behind closed doors in the station for many days without being found, he just regarded it as drinking for several days and didn't pay much attention to it. Unexpectedly, such a big thing happened.
After Su Qing heard this, he continued to order people to thoroughly investigate who had killed the people at the Hejian Station, and at the same time ordered people to quickly submit a memorial and go to Beijing.
After Sun Zeyu left, the emperor went to the morning court on time when it was time for the morning court.
After Sun Zeyu's sewing and investigation last night and this morning, apart from An Guogong and Jingyang Hou, there were seven or eight important court officials missing in the early court. After the officials knelt down and worshiped, they didn't dare to breathe. For the first time in many years, I saw the emperor's thunderous means, and the imperial power killed Tianwei.
The emperor sat on the dragon chair and watched the palace full of civil and military affairs for a long time before he asked in a deep voice, "My dear friends, do you have a book to play?"
Everyone raised their heads slightly, seeing the emperor sitting high on the golden chair with a hint of anger on his face, they all shrunk their necks.
Wang Lu took a look at the officials and went out to report, "Your Majesty, early this morning, I received a report from Su Qing's fast horse to Beijing. Something happened at the Hejian Station three hundred miles away. A few days ago Everyone in the post station was killed, and the three expedited 800-li letters related to Yanbei's military situation could not be sent to Beijing."
The emperor was furious when he heard the words, "So it's not that there was no rush for 800 miles, but that it was not sent to Beijing? Submit it."
Koizumi quickly descended the jade steps, and took the report and three urgent letters from Wang Lu.
The emperor first read the three memorials. The first of these three memorials was dated ten days ago. Northern Zhou soldiers and horses sneaked into the Yanbei territory from the thorny forest of Wuwang Mountain. . King Yanbei felt that something was wrong, and expected that the Northern Zhou Dynasty would not go to the west this time, but to the north, so he sent an urgent letter of 800 miles to report to the emperor. This letter was written by King Yanbei.
The second letter was sent out eight days ago when Northern Zhou used the siege cannon to open the gap in the Wuwang Valley mountain range, broke the formation in the Wuwang Valley, and entered the Yanbei Palace. It is also from the hand of King Yanbei.
The third letter was written six days ago by the eldest son of Yanbei Prince's Mansion, Su Che's younger brother Su Zhen. Yanbei Zhou had 300,000 soldiers and 50,000 troops from the Yanbei Palace were not enough to resist. He wrote a blood book, and it was also 800 miles away. He said that if the emperor didn't send troops to rescue Yanbei, Yanbei would surely perish.
These three 800-mile urgent reports are vivid in my mind.
After reading it, the emperor was so angry that his blood boiled. He stood up and threw the three 800-mile reports on the head of the Minister of the Ministry of War, and said angrily, "Look! One was sent to me. Is the Ministry of War doing nothing all these years? There is such a big mistake in the station, and the Ministry of War doesn’t even know about it.” After saying that, he said angrily, “Come here, let me drag the minister of the Ministry of War out to chop it up. gone."