What Zheng Yun took out was a sheepskin bag.
Ye Chang reached out to take it, opened the sheepskin bag, and saw a piece of sheepskin and a suet jade buckle inside. Dragon-shaped patterns are engraved on the jade buckle, and the words of King Rong An are written.
Just looking at this jade buckle, it is indeed related to the Rong An Palace, and it is related to Ye Chang.
Ye Chang carefully looked at the front and back of the jade buckle, handed it to Su Fengnuan, opened the sheepskin again, and found that there was no word. He fiddled with it for a while, but found nothing, and handed it to Su Fengnuan.
Su Fengnuan reached out and took the jade buckle, looked at it for a while, then took the piece of sheepskin, watched it for a while, and said to Ye Chang, "This should also use special drugs, concealing the writing or patterns, so that it looks like an ordinary jade buckle." Plain sheepskin."
Ye Chang said, "Do you have a way to unlock the medicine and reveal something?"
Su Fengnuan nodded, "Of course."
After saying that, she took out a bottle of medicinal powder from her arms, spread out the piece of sheepskin, put it on the table, and sprinkled the medicinal powder on the sheepskin.
Zheng Yun said from the side, "I just can't figure out what's on this piece of sheepskin. I only know this sheep fat jade buckle. I think it's related to Ye Shizi."
Ye Chang said, "You just said that this is left by the former postmaster of the Hejian station?"
Zheng Yun nodded, "Exactly, I just discovered it a few days ago, in the mouse hole in his room."
Ye Chang frowned, "In the mouse hole inside?"
Zheng Yun nodded, "That's right, the Hejian station had a murder case. After I arrived, I ordered people to renovate the Hejian station. I didn't find it at that time. At the end of the year, I cleaned the house and found a mouse hole. I used to burn the fire. The stick wanted to find out how deep the mouse hole was so that it could be blocked with earth and rocks. Unexpectedly, the fire stick touched something iron and made a noise. I felt something was wrong, so I dug the mouse hole and found this. It's bulging inside the sleeve, so I didn't bring it with me today."
Ye Chang nodded after listening.
Su Fengnuan looked at Zheng Yun, "Uncle Zheng, do you think this thing was dragged into the mouse hole by the mouse, or was it deliberately hidden in the mouse hole?"
Zheng Yun said, "Although the iron box is not big, it is very heavy. I don't think it should be dragged by a mouse. It should be hidden in it on purpose."
Su Fengnuan looked at Ye Chang after hearing the words, "I remember that the postmaster of the former Hejian post station was the cousin of Mrs. Jing Jinghou, right? It is said that when he was on Princess Ruiyue's birthday more than ten years ago, I gave her a snuff bottle and won Princess Ruiyue's favor, and when I learned that he wanted to be the postmaster of the Hejian station, I asked the emperor for an order and recommended him."
Ye Chang nodded, "That's right, the emperor thought it was rare for Princess Ruiyue to speak to him, and it happened to be her birthday, and the Hejian station is a station official, so he agreed."
Su Feng warmly said, "Jingyang Hou's step-mother's cousin? The relationship with Jingyang Hou is not too close. Could it be that Jingyang Hou gave him something important and asked him to hide it?"
Ye Chang said, "After the accident happened at the Hejian station, I checked him and found out something."
Su Fengnuan looked at him, "Huh? What's the matter?"
Ye Chang said, "Thirteen years ago, he was in the army in the western region. Later, in the early stage of the war with the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he was removed from the army because he broke the military regulations by drinking alcohol. Originally, on the eve of the war, he drank in the army to ask for a stick. Execution. But because he is the cousin of Mrs. Jing Jinghou, he was dealt with lightly. Later, after returning to Beijing, he idled for two years and got close to Jing Jing Hou. Years ago, when Princess Ruiyue was born on her birthday, she thoughtfully gave gifts, and was appointed to the Hejian Station, and took this fat post."
Su Feng raised his eyebrows warmly, "It turns out that he was in the army before, and something happened on the eve of the war. From this point of view, he really can't take it lightly."
Ye Chang nodded.
Su Fengnuan turned her head to look at the piece of sheepskin on the table, but nothing was revealed yet, she said, "I guess it will take a while."
Zheng Yun said, "I know the former postmaster of the Hejian post station. When he was in the army, although he didn't train well, he was still passable. The general turned a blind eye. I didn't expect him to fight The general got annoyed when he drank in the early stage, and sent him back to Beijing without his military status."
Su Fengnuan said, "Uncle Zheng, do you remember who he made friends with when he was in the army?"
Zheng Yun said, "The few people he made friends with were all descendants of the nobles in Beijing, and they all died on the battlefield."
Su Fengnuan was silent.
Zheng Yun said, "So, after the prince and concubine died in battle with all the soldiers, no one paid attention to him except for his military status. If there was no accident at the Hejian Station, after I arrived, I would have forgotten that he had been in the army. .”
Su Fengnuan nodded.
The three of them waited for a while, and writing gradually appeared on the piece of sheepskin, and the three of them immediately moved forward to take a look.
I saw that what was written on this piece of sheepskin was nothing but an imperial decree to pass on the throne. And it was the imperial decree of the late emperor.
On his deathbed, the former emperor learned that the emperor was not his own, and learned about the events of the previous court, but he was unable to return to heaven, so he secretly wrote an imperial edict in sheepskin, passing on the throne to King Rong An.
This piece of sheepskin was covered with the late emperor's private seal.
Su Fengnuan looked at Ye Chang in amazement after watching it.
Ye Chang's thin lips were slightly pursed, his brows were covered by heavy clouds, and he didn't speak.
Zheng Yun, on the other hand, opened his eyes wide and said in disbelief, "This...Since ancient times, the imperial edicts have always been based on pornographic stories? Why is this imperial edict written on sheepskin, or..." He wanted to say that he still came from the mouse hole He took it out, but felt that it was insulting the imperial decree, so he stopped talking.
Su Fengnuan didn't speak for a while, carefully distinguishing the authenticity from the falsehood, after watching for a while, she found that this might indeed be the emperor's imperial decree. It's just that I don't know why the first emperor didn't use the silk specially used for the imperial decree, but sealed it with such ordinary sheepskin.
Seeing that Ye Chang was silent for a while, she reached out to hold his hand.
She felt that these things one after another were really horrifying. The emperor's succession of Ye Chang shocked her heart. She didn't expect that there would be another suicide note from the former emperor.
She was wondering under what circumstances the first emperor abandoned the imperial decree for silk and used ordinary sheepskin. The biggest possibility is that the imperial edicts used by the emperor are all in abundance, and the blank imperial edicts can only be written and sealed after someone takes out the blank imperial edicts from a special place for storing the imperial edicts. To put it bluntly, it must go through human hands. It can be seen that the first emperor did not want to be known at that time, did not want things to be leaked, or in other words, was afraid of spying, so he had no choice but to do so.
Since I met the current emperor two days ago, went to the imperial study, read the mountain of memorials, and went to the observation deck, I realized that it is not easy for an emperor, and presumably it was not easy for the previous emperor.
Ye Chang was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth and said, "So that's how it is."
"What?" Su Fengnuan asked him softly.
Ye Chang said, "If my guess is correct, the imperial decree of the first emperor should have been sent to my father, but my father was concerned about the Southern Qi. After all, it was for the sake of the people. Take out this imperial decree. The father may have known about the fact that the emperor was replaced by a different son."
Su Fengnuan nodded, "King Rong An did it for the sake of the Southern Qi Dynasty, the court and the society, and the common people. After all, the Xu family is powerful, and the son born to the queen mother is also a serious prince. It must satisfy the people. Even if the prince has this piece of sheepskin imperial decree from the late emperor in his hand, I am afraid that it will cause turmoil and go to war."
Ye Chang nodded, "After all, the power of the king, the queen mother, and the king is easily available. How can others be allowed to grab this piece of cake? What's more, although my father has the people in his heart and the world in mind, he is not the one who values that chair."
Su Fengnuan nodded, "This can also explain why this piece of sheepskin is kept together with this suet jade buckle. It can be seen that it has been kept by King Rong An. This suet jade buckle should belong to your father What he wears with him, the dragon pattern represents his royal status."
Ye Chang nodded, "This mutton fat jade buckle was made for my father when he was born. It is undoubtedly his. Back then, why couldn't I find my father's bones? It was because I searched all over the pile. After the mountain of bones, there is no evidence to prove which bone belongs to the father. I did not find this sheep fat jade buckle."
Su Fengnuan said, "I vaguely remember that's what happened, so although you were still young at that time, you said to the devastated battlefield that they should be buried on this battlefield, so after returning to Beijing , and made a tomb for them."
Ye Chang nodded.
Su Fengnuan said, "Now, your father's belongings were found in this Hejian station. Who can take away his personal belongings from your father?"
Ye Chang shook his head, "Father Wang Wentao and Wu Lue, it's not easy for ordinary people to get close to him. What's more, this sheepskin edict, the edict of the first emperor, he naturally didn't want to reveal it to the world, so he naturally wanted to store it properly in his personal clothes. Mother concubine and father Wang Xiang'ai will definitely not take what he keeps privately. It may be that he gave it to someone else."
Su Feng raised his eyebrows warmly, "Who did you give it to? Could it be that it was given to the previous postmaster of the Hejian Post Station? The cousin of Mrs. Jingyanghou? So, on the eve of the war, he drank and made trouble, and was deliberately dismissed from the army. In the army, after returning to Beijing, they have been keeping this thing, brought it to the Hejian Station, and hid it in the mouse cave?"
Ye Chang said, "I don't know about this matter, but what is certain is that my father had the emperor's sheepskin imperial decree to pass on the throne. It should have been leaked. That's why people conspired with the Northern Zhou Dynasty to betray the country thirteen years ago. He killed his father with the help of Bei Zhou."