In the dead of night, there are many figures in Emperor Ning's bedroom.
"Is there anything important that I have to let me know on the night of the new year?"
He was wearing bright yellow pajamas, and the glazed crown had been removed, revealing the mottled silver threads on the top of his head.
Eunuch Gao came out after him, waited for him to take a seat, and waved his hand to let the palace maid and others back down.
Several important ministers in the court suddenly came to see them during the rest of the year, and it was late at night, so there must be some important things that should not be heard.
Emperor Ning sat down at the case, looked up and looked down, and suddenly felt that the people standing below were very familiar, and he had only summoned them recently.
"Ji Daogong, Pei Zheng, Lin Yi?"
Ji Daogong is the censor of the imperial censor Taidu. He specializes in correcting and impeaching hundreds of officials, arguing wrongdoing, and admirals.
Pei Zheng is the Minister of Dali Temple, in charge of prisons and case trials, and Lin Yi is the Shaoqing of Dali Temple and his deputy.
Why did they come together
Emperor Ning waved his hand, motioning for everyone to sit down and talk.
It must not be a trivial matter for two second-rank officials and one third-rank official to come by night.
Eunuch Gao ordered someone to serve tea with great winking, and Emperor Ning looked at Pei Zheng, "I have explained the assassination of Guhou's son, and handed it over to your Dali Temple for review. The investigation bureau in your Dali Temple is a good hand at investigating cases." , is there any result?"
Pei Zheng got up and cupped his hands and said, "I came here at night precisely for this case. Your Majesty, Lin Shaoqing is in charge of the Investigation Bureau. He has found some clues, but this clue involves a higher-level official. The two of us dare not continue the investigation without authorization." .The court officials heard that impeachment has always been a matter of Yushitai, so I took the liberty to invite Mr. Ji."
Ji Daogong is the chief official of Yushitai, who is over sixty years old, and a former court official with great prestige in the court.
Because of his prestige, he has no conclusive evidence for the impeachment of hundreds of officials, and has always been reluctant to speak out easily.
Since Pei Zheng could invite him, he naturally had some confidence in his hands.
Emperor Ning looked at Lin Yi, "Lin Shaoqing, tell me, what have you found?"
Lin Yi stood up and said: "Return to Your Majesty, the attack on Prince Gu Hou happened in the middle of the twelfth lunar month, and the investigation began in the late twelfth lunar month. At that time, all the agencies of the imperial court were preparing to seal and close the yamen, and began to rest. According to common sense, each government Apart from buying new year's goods, there should be no other big moves. But the officials found out that there was a large-scale personnel transfer in the prime minister's mansion at that time."
"Xiangfu?"
Emperor Ning frowned, "What is the Xiangfu's mobilization of personnel? What is your so-called large scale?"
Lin Yidao: "Master Gu has always kept a low profile. He rarely dispatched his own soldiers in a big way. He even sent only forty people to escort the Su family's mother and daughter back to Jinling. But to deal with these forty Gu's soldiers, at least Double the number of elite fighters has a chance of winning. The prime minister mobilized three times as many personnel, and according to the news from the Changzhou government, the corpse of the assassin he collected at the bottom of the cliff happened to be right."
Three times, that is more than one hundred people.
For such a major event as escorting the female relatives in Guhou's mansion, only forty people are needed, so why does the Prime Minister's mansion need more than a hundred people
He had never heard Yin Yan mention that it was impossible for more than a hundred people to buy new year's goods
After a moment of silence, Emperor Ning stroked his beard, "This matter involves the prime minister of the current dynasty, so it is not easy to be sloppy. If it is just a coincidence in the number of people, it cannot be concluded that it was the prime minister Yin's work, right?"
Lin Yi hurriedly said: "That's true. But Prime Minister Yin is a first-rank official, and I have no right to investigate this case with him, so I can only report to His Majesty for disposal."
That is to say, at present, it is only suspicion of the Xiangfu, and it cannot be concluded yet.
Emperor Ning looked better, and then he looked at Ji Daogong, "Just because of such a little suspicion, I invited Mr. Ji late at night, you two juniors are too rude."
Ji Daogong supported the back of the chair and stood up, with his hunched waist slightly bent, "Your Majesty, you don't have to blame the two adults. It is the old minister who has something to say. This matter has a lot to do with what the two adults said, so come here together. The old minister You want to impeach Prime Minister Yin, secretly communicate with Xikun envoys, and intend to endanger our Dongling community!"
Slap.
Emperor Ning shook his hand, and the lid on the blue-and-white teacup was about to fall, almost falling to the ground.
He hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him, hiding his gaffe.
"Secretly communicating with Xikun envoys? How did the boss know about this?"
Ji Daogong looked at Lin Yi, who nodded slightly, and then said: "Your Majesty, in fact, after the attack on the son of Marquis Gu, I first suspected the Xikun people. The Gu family army is guarding the land of Dongling at the border. If the Gu family army hadn't been there , the Xikun people may have invaded our borders and harassed our people a long time ago. So I sent people to monitor the envoys in the post, and found that they did not have the manpower to mobilize. Fortunately, there is an unexpected harvest."
"The servants found out that the poison that Gu Hou Shizi and his party were poisoned was the secret poison of the Miao village that is unique to Xikun."
The manpower of the Xiangfu and the poison of the Xikun envoys combined to assassinate Gu Shubai, and then discovered the fact that the Xiangfu and the Xikun envoys were secretly communicating.
This is the scene.
Ji Daogong said again: "It's the same reason why Dali Temple can't continue to investigate. Prime Minister Yin is a first-rank official higher than an old minister, and Xikun envoys have a special status. The identities of both parties are very important. The minister cannot be easily impeached in the court. Come and report to His Majesty at night."
Emperor Ning completely understood their intentions, "It seems that I have to invite Prime Minister Yin and Xikun envoys to come and explain this clearly in person?"
The three of them bowed their hands tacitly, "I also ask for your majesty's permission."
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The next day is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Shangyuan Festival.
The imperial court has not yet opened the seal, the courtiers are still resting and bathing, and all the mansions have hung up various colored lanterns.
When the lanterns are lit at night, it will look more beautiful than during the day.
Yin Jiqian took people around the mansion, but was uninterested, "Why are the lanterns this year old, the same as last year? Don't we even have money to buy lanterns in our prime minister's mansion?"
The Xiangfu's family has a big business, so it's not that they don't have money to buy lamps. This is obviously to blame for the ineffectiveness of the servants.
The steward who was hanging the lamps by the commanding servants stepped forward and bowed in fear, "Miss doesn't know something, she should have bought a new lamp. But the eldest son has no time to take care of the affairs of the house these days, so he ordered that we should keep it simple, so we put last year's Take out your old lamp."
There is no mistress in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Yin Yan is busy with official duties in the court, and all the family affairs in the Prime Minister's Mansion were originally taken care of by Yin Shuo.
I don't know why these few days, Yin Shuo is always locked in the outer study in a sullen mood, and he is lazy in managing the affairs of the mansion, and keeps everything simple when asked, and he gets annoyed when asked again.
After a few times, the people below did not dare to bother him anymore.
The steward said again: "Miss, if you don't like these old lamps, you can talk to the eldest son. As long as he approves the right cards, he can go out of the house to buy new lamps immediately."
Knowing that Yin Shuo was in a fit of anger, the manager still let him get into trouble, did he want to hurt himself
Yin Ji rolled his eyes at him, and was no longer in the mood to look at the lamp, and led the maids and women back to her yard.
Behind her, the manager shook his head lightly, with a faint smile of contempt on his lips.
"Hang it up quickly, it must be hung up everywhere in the mansion, and it must be hung up before dark."
It was rare to take a rest, Yin Yan didn't stay bored in the outer study, but he didn't rest in the upper room, but went to the ancestral hall in Fuzhong alone.
The Prime Minister's Mansion is not like Ding Xingwang from Guhou's Mansion, there are not many tablets on the seat, the first tablet belongs to his original wife Yang, and behind it are several ancestors of the Yin family.
Yin Yan's generation is a single child, unexpectedly, Yin Shuo's generation is still an only child, and there is barely one Yin Ji to make up for the regret.
"The Yin family in Dongling has been loyal to the king for four generations. The four generations are among the three princes. Five people. Yin Yanxi ranks among them. He has worked hard for half his life, but he has not been able to restore the glory of his ancestors in the Yin family. The body of a military minister has great prestige in the court. People in Dongling only know the generals, but not the prime ministers. Maybe in a short time, even the king will not know."
At the end of his speech, his voice became lower and lower, he knelt down on the futon with three sticks of incense, bowed respectfully three times, and put the incense in his hand in front of the spirit tablet.
"Yin Yan, the unworthy descendant, is incompetent and cannot stop Gu Huaijiang from throwing his power into the court. Fortunately, Yin Shuo is still at my knees. If I can't do it, let him do it..."
"master."
Outside the courtyard, the servants at the door hurried over, stood outside the ancestral hall and bowed in salute.
"What's the hurry?"
"Your Majesty delivered an order to order the master to enter the palace immediately, there must be no mistake!"
Those eagle-like sharp eyes became old and cloudy at some point, Yin Yan closed his eyes slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a while, he stood up slowly, raising his hands above his head to straighten the purple gold crown on his head.
"Prepare chariots and horses, enter the palace immediately!"
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