An anonymous report letter that was thought to be insignificant, but in the process of investigation, conjured even more surprising clues.
Master Cheng Qi in the Imperial History was so busy, he was troubled by all kinds of clues that couldn't be distinguished from true or false, so he had to ask Ji Xuanxian, the eldest son of Ji Daogong, to sort out all the clues in the case of Gu Huaijiang.
"Master Ji, there are so many clues that are detrimental to Gu Houye. It is really puzzling. This officer does not believe that Gu Houye will collude with Xikun to treason with the enemy."
The more Master Qi tidyed up, the more angry he got, and he simply sat down on the chair and poured himself a cup of tea to rest for a while.
Ji Xuanxian was still reading the document before the case. He looked at every page very carefully. Hearing this, he raised his head and glanced at Master Qi, "Why Master Qi is so sure? My father once said that some people are innocent or dirty, often not with their eyes. It can be judged that only tangible evidence will not deceive people."
Master Qi heard him mention Ji Daogong, and immediately sat upright, "Master Ji said that is good, but..." He paused and looked at Ji Xuanxian suspiciously. Or did Mr. Ji tell you something?"
Ji Xuanxian put down his paperwork, flexed his muscles a little bit, and sat next to Master Qi, "Don’t get me wrong, Master Qi. My father didn’t ask about the affairs of the court when he was ill, so naturally he didn’t say anything to me. As for me... I trust Gu like Master Qi. Hou’s character."
Master Qi looked at him thoughtfully, as if he was suspicious of his Ji Daogong not asking the government.
After a while, he asked again: "Since Master Ji also believes in Gu Hou's character, what do you still look through the messy documents? Those clues are forged at first glance, so let's not check it. In the end, he declared to check. If Guhou has any problems, won't it be over?"
Ji Xuanxian nodded while thinking, seeming to agree with his opinion, and looking closely, it seems that he does not agree.
Master Qi frowned suspiciously, and Ji Xuanxian said: "I looked at those documents seriously, but I didn't actually find evidence of Guhou's collaborating with the enemy. I knew that I couldn't find it at all. I wanted to find clues to those who falsified those evidences, including We still don’t know who wrote the report letter at the beginning."
He glanced at Master Qi, "Master Qi doesn't want to know, who is framing Guhou? Not only framing Guhou, but also treating us Yushitai people as fools holding our noses and playing, is it tolerable or unbearable ?"
Master Qi slowly nodded, "This official also has this intention, but this letter of complaint has been checked, but there is no clue. The people who want to come behind the scenes are strong and do nothing, and they are extremely scared of thinking!"
Ji Xuanxian smiled, noncommittal.
Master Qi always thought that he was laughing a little weird, and he was hesitant to say something, and said: "Master Ji, can't you say anything to me? I'm the same age as you, and I have worked together with my father Ji. For eight years, everyone is so familiar with each other, can you still believe in my character?"
Ji Xuanxian said hurriedly: "No, no, Master Qi misunderstood. I don't know how to say something, I'm afraid that if you say it, it will cause trouble for you and me, and I'm afraid Master Qi will be upset when you hear it."
"Hey, just say what you have. There are no outsiders here except you and me. No matter what you know, I know, I will never be unhappy!"
Ji Xuanxian hesitated for a moment, "Well then. Master Qi just said that the people behind the scenes are strong. Please think about it. From the time of the first emperor to the present, how strong are the ministers that we have not touched?"
Master Qi thought for a while, "Yeah, isn't the old prime minister one of them? Who else can be strong enough to be a prime minister?"
Ji Xuanxian smiled, "Unless there are spies in the Yushitai who deliberately confuse the audience and fish in troubled waters, we are at a loss. Or, this person's power is far greater than the old prime minister back then, so big that our ministers simply intervened. Can't handle it?"
Master Qi suddenly jumped up from the chair with a horrified expression. He pointed to Ji Xuanxian for a long time and was speechless, "You, you are alluding to... you!"
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside, and a group of palace officials came in and delivered an order, "According to your majesty's verbal order, I will call Master Cheng Qi in the Imperial History to see him in the Imperial Study."
Master Qi looked at Ji Xuanxian subconsciously. At this moment, he understood that Ji Xuanxian's suggestion was true...
"Weichen knocked on your Majesty."
"Oh, is Qi Qing here? Sit down, sit down and talk."
Ning Chengzhi was lying on the inner couch. When Master Qi came to turn over, he changed to a sitting position and asked Master Qi to sit down and talk.
Master Qi knew that he was not a king who treated courtiers courteously, and his politeness today further confirmed Ji Xuanxian's suggestion.
He couldn't help sweating on his forehead, bowed his hands, "Return to your majesty, the ministers stand and reply. If your majesty summons the ministers, the ministers must do their best to complete them."
After that, he raised his eyes subconsciously and found that the bruising wound on Ning Chengzhi's face had healed a lot, but his cheeks were slightly swollen, which had not completely subsided.
Ning Chengzhi was no longer polite when he saw him being humble, and he looked in a very good mood.
I don't know if it is because the wound on his face is almost healed and he is happy, or because he is happy because of the reason for calling Master Qi.
"I heard that Yushitai took a big case, why didn't Qi Qing come to report it to me?"
Master Qi hurriedly said: "The minister is frightened. The minister does not know which major case his majesty said, please express it clearly."
"Huh? Are you still pretending to be stupid to me?"
Ning Chengzhi got up from the couch, grabbed a brush on the book case, and walked to the round window to play with the thrush in the gold wire cage, "Apart from the Guhou incident, what other minister in the court has to do? Is it a big case?"
The big beads of sweat rolled down, Master Qi's forehead seemed to be roasted by fire, but his heart was as cold as sinking into a cold lake.
He was almost certain that Ji Xuanxian alluded that the person who framed Gu Huaijiang was your Majesty, and this conjecture was true.
The thrush was teased by the brush, but it was a pity that the gold wire cage was only so big that it couldn't completely avoid it no matter how reluctant it was, so it wailed reluctantly.
Ning Chengzhi laughed loudly, "This broken bird requires me to tease for a while before it screams. If it weren't for singing well, I would have been impatient to tease."
Master Qi raised his head and looked at the bird in the cage with pity, thinking that Ning Chengzhi couldn't even hear whether the bird was singing or wailing, how faint.
After a pause, his voice has become more calm than before, "Reporting to your Majesty that the matter of Guhou was maliciously reported, and the said matter is not true. Therefore, the minister did not report to his majesty. The minister is now preparing to investigate and write anonymously. Who is the reporter of the letter. If a person who has framed the loyalty of the DPRK, if he is also the Minister of the DPRK, he will definitely endanger your majesty's country. I ask your majesty to order the Dali Temple Investigation Office to assist..."
"Snapped!"
The brush was slammed to the ground, and the heavy noise interrupted Master Qi's narration.
Grandpa Chi stood on the edge and took a breath of fright. He subconsciously went forward to pick it up. He saw that the delicate golden hair on the tip of the pen had been thrown into a mess, and a good pen worth a hundred gold was broken.
He secretly said a pity, holding a pen and looking up, Ning Chengzhi's complexion turned blue, "Bold, can you convict?!"
There were two voices in tandem, and Master Qi and Grandpa Chi knelt in fright at the same time.
Ning Chengzhi glanced at Grandpa Chi displeasedly, and the latter realized that he was not scolding himself, and quickly got up from the ground.
Master Qi knew that he was scolding himself, and even more understood that he was angry into anger, so he straightened his back and said, "The minister is dull, dare to ask your majesty, what is the sin of the minister?"
Ning Chengzhi held his breath in his heart, secretly cursing that Yu Shi Zhong Cheng was so stupid, that the old people in Yu Shi Tai were so stubborn and inflexible, as expected to be trained by the old fairy Ji Dao Gong.
Had it not been for the merits of Ji Daogong's rule of the prince, but now he is still in bed, he would have thought of a way to get rid of Ji Daogong.
I don’t want this Master Qi to be even more ignorant. He walked around impatiently, and then spoke for a while, “I mean, you haven’t checked Guhou’s affairs carefully, how can you say that it’s not true? Maybe it’s true. How serious is the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason, you dare to say that he is not guilty? If you prove Gu Hou guilty in the end, do you want Master Qi to bury him?!"
Gu Hou could not be guilty.
Master Qi almost blurted out this sentence, but fortunately he didn't say it, he reluctantly handed it over, "Then your Majesty has any good suggestions?"
After Ning Chengzhi cast his gaze on the screen subconsciously, he looked at it for a long time before turning to Master Qi: "In this way, the two cases will be investigated in one case. Investigate carefully! If Gu Hou is not guilty, then the anonymous informant will be reported. If you find out the Fa-rectification, if you are guilty, you must not tolerate it!"
He looked behind the screen again, and then said: "As you wish, I will send Dali Temple to assist you Yushitai, and this case must be investigated!"
Master Qi frowned, wondering why Ning Chengzhi was so angry when he heard him asking Dali Temple to assist the investigation, so he took the initiative to ask for the investigation.
In any case, with the Dali Temple in charge of the investigation, Gu Huaijiang's black pot can be washed out faster.
Master Qi responded respectfully, Ning Chengzhi waved his hand impatiently, sat back on the couch, Master Qi slowly retreated and left.
After he left, the screen sounded for a while, and Yin Shuo walked out from behind.
In the warmth of the early spring, he was wearing a Luo robe with a high collar. Ning Chengzhi took a closer look, "What are you wearing? What's wrong with your neck?"
After talking, he stretched out his hand and saw that the place where Yin Shuo's collar was covering, the skin was purple, and it was pinched like this.
Ning Chengzhi was startled, "How did this happen? Someone wants to kill you? Speak up, I will be fair for you!"
Yin Shuo said lightly: "It's the Moon Fox Medical Immortal."
"Oh, it's her."
Just now he talked about the person who presided over justice for Yin Shuo. He heard that it was Yuehu. He immediately threw his promise to Java. "If it's her, don't care about it. People from Immortal Valley have always been so casual. Yes. She is Yufu's elder sister, and my face has been healed, so I can't punish her."
In the end, it was because of the reasons he had said, or because Yuehusheng was so beautiful that he couldn't bear to be punished, Yin Shuo knew in his heart.
Fortunately, he didn't intend to do anything to Yuehu, so he said: "Your Majesty, you just acted too excited in front of Master Qi, but you seem to be guilty of conscience. You are the emperor. With so much evidence of Guhou collaborating with the enemy, why do you have a guilty conscience?"
Ning Chengzhi murmured: "I didn't want Gu Hou to die. Although I don't like his high position, I can't deny that Dongling has him on the border to maintain peace. I just use him as a threat and threat. Yufu, when Yufu promises to be established, I will still respect Guhou as the head of the state."
He has always been naive, thinking that there will be no strong relationship when forming in-laws, and that there is no threat to Gu Huaijiang becoming the head of the state, just like his trust in Yin Shuo.
Yin Shuo smiled at the corner of his mouth, a cold smile before it formed and fell.
Ning Chengzhi suddenly said: "By the way, why did you allow me to agree to the Dali Temple's investigation? The Dali Temple's Pei Zheng is known for his integrity and his name. There is also the investigation office that is very powerful in investigating this matter. Let it be checked by Dali Temple, I'm afraid it will ruin our plan."
"Your Majesty, rest assured."
Yin Shuo was confident, "The minister has already had a more suitable candidate for Dali Temple officials than Pei Zheng, and he is ready to introduce him to his majesty. Your majesty will find someone to transfer Pei Zheng from his original post, and then replace this person."
Ning Chengzhi curiously asked, "Who are you talking about?"
"Liu Zhen, the former official book of the Ministry of Rites, is Miss Liu Ruyi Liu's father."
"Liu Ruyi?"
Ning Chengzhi was confused and had a vague impression of the name Liu Ruyi, but couldn't remember who it was, "Who is this Liu Ruyi?"
Yin Shuo looked at him steadily, "It's the Liu Ruyi who offended Princess Zhenjiang at the New Year's Eve Palace Banquet and was bestowed to die by His Majesty."
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"Unreasonable! Ahem..."
"Father, you have to take good care of yourself, and don't get angry about big things."
Chen Chuxiu patted the old man on the back for Chen Ge. The latter coughed violently and said intermittently: "Your Majesty actually listened to Yin Shuo's slander and removed Dali Temple Qing Pei Zheng from the post without asking the cabinet. His name is promotion. , But sent such loyal ministers to do idle duties. On the contrary, it is Liu Zhen who is not four or six. Why should he be the Dali Temple Secretary?"
Old Chen Ge was heartbroken, "What about keeping the cabinet back then? Your majesty was still coaxed by Yin Shuo. How can we put the cabinet elders in my eyes? I am a cabinet minister, but I can’t be loyal to the country. It’s better to die. !"
"Father, what are you talking about!"
Chen Chuxiu was not polite, and it was useless to persuade with gentle words in his heart. He simply used a posture to accuse Chen Ge, "You should just take care of your own death and gain a virtuous name, and abandon Dongling’s Jiangshan and Chaotang. No? You are Yin Shuo's biggest stumbling block in the cabinet. If you die, isn't Yin Shuo just right?"
"My son, how can you say that sir..."
The subordinate stepped forward to persuade him, and Chen Chuxiu pushed him aside, "Don't persuade me, anyway, I will soon become an orphan with no one to take care of. Wouldn't it be okay for me to say a few more words to vent my anger? Father, you have been teaching since childhood. I want to be in the mirror of Sheji and the lord. You are now ignoring the maintenance of yourself and only seeking death. Is this called loyalty?"
Old Chen Ge was embarrassed by what he said, and slowly calmed down, no longer looking for life or death.
Chen Chuxiu sighed helplessly, and then stepped forward to help his old father up, and changed a gentle tone, "Okay, well, I know that my father is loyal, but he was frustrated by the darkness in front of him. , Isn’t it? It’s okay, we still have hope. There are many loyalists in the DPRK, like Lord Gu and the Princess of Zhenjiang, aren’t they still trying their best to save the situation?"
Old Chen Ge stood up slowly, covering his chest with one hand, and looking at Chen Chuxiu with a strange look.
After a long while, he said slowly: "When you grow up, even if your father is really dead now, you can rest assured."
How to say it is still going to die
Chen Chuxiu was very anxious. Fortunately, Mr. Chen Ge quickly said: "Don't worry, I understand for the father. Although the power for the father is weak, you can't just abandon the young majesty like this. Your majesty is not enough. It is easy to be tempted by traitorous officials. If I don't assist, can I let the villain Yin Shuo assist?"
"Don't watch the villain lose power and your majesty repents, my old bones will never fall apart!"
Chen Chuxiu breathed a sigh of relief, "Just think about it this way, who is not old, you can see how old Mr. Ji is, and he's still standing in the middle of it!"
While talking, the servant came in and preached: "My son, there is a young girl outside the door who wants to see you, saying it's your friend."
"My friend? What does she look like?"
The next person recalled for a moment, "She wore an ordinary cloth and came on foot. She didn't look like a lady from a prominent family."
Chen Chuxiu had a number in his heart, but he was not too sure, and quickly got up and said, "Okay, I'm going out now, you take good care of your father."
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Yuehu's name is the same as Tianshu, both of which are stars. I want them to have some haha.
The name of this star was originally called Xinyuehu. I thought it was a bit non-mainstream when it was used as the name. So I changed it to Yuehu. I wrote and found that it sounds a bit like Yufu’s name...
ps These chapters are high-energy, don't miss it.