King Beijing's letter can be said to have caused a thousand waves with one stone.
Originally, although there was an undercurrent in the courtroom, it still maintained the calm on the surface, but the book on the paper ripped the fig leaf to pieces.
The quickest responses were naturally those officials who chewed their tongues and juggled their pens—in just half a day, the impeachment memorials were piled up on the cabinet desk.
Just in response to the old adage that "thousands of people beat the drum, and everyone pushes the wall", among these dozens of memorials, no one came forward to say a few words for the Niu family. home's.
For a while, it seemed that King Beijing, the head of honor, was also the leader of Qingliu.
However, in the face of this snowflake-like memorial, Emperor Guangde only said, 'Catch the wind, it's not enough', and ordered that King Beijing's confinement be extended for one month, and he completely ignored it.
On the contrary, the Empress Dowager Niu was unrelenting. She issued several decrees in succession, urging Emperor Guangde to conduct a thorough investigation of her own family, and insisted on resigning all official positions except the lord for her children and nephews. The family will never set foot on the court.
Because of this, Emperor Guangde finally dispatched several trusted ministers to 'help' the Niu family to prove their innocence.
Checked out
Sun Shaozong repeatedly chewed on the mimeographed italics on the Di Bao newspaper, laughed for a while, and threw the newspaper to Yang Li. Lamb old wine.
This is a small wine shop located in the northwest of Qingxuguan. There is nothing novel about the wine and dishes next to it. Only this hot and sour dried bamboo shoot is very appetizing and refreshing, and it can be called a must in Nancheng.
Seeing that Sun Shaozong was not in a hurry, he picked up a plate of dried bamboo shoots, and it was boring. He fiddled with the chopped dogwood with chopsticks. Yang Licai couldn't hold back his temper. Said: "Sir, either you are humble enough to remind me..."
"No need."
Sun Shaozong shook his head and placed his chopsticks on the plate.
The shopkeeper of the shop had been looking at the counter for a long time. Seeing that Sun Shaozong had put down his chopsticks, he hurriedly trotted over and said with a smile, "Is the master still satisfied with the dried bamboo shoots in the shop?"
Sun Shaozong smiled: "If I'm not satisfied, I won't visit your house three times in just four days."
The shopkeeper immediately flushed with joy, took out a small note from his sleeve, put his hands in front of Sun Shaozong, and said respectfully: "Since the master likes it, you might as well pass this recipe to the chef in the house, if you are a distinguished chef If there is anything you don’t understand, just ask the villain to ask carefully.”
"how?"
Sun Shaozong looked at the recipe and said, "Does this recognize me?"
"My lord, when you went up to the court to ask the case, the villain almost returned to the scene!"
This also met the fans.
Sun Shaozong smiled, and was waiting to say something to the shopkeeper. A few unremarkable men suddenly filed in from the outside. The rest of them found an empty table and sat down on their own. The one in the lead quickly walked to Sun Shaozong Beside the voice, he whispered a few words.
Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, then got up and took the recipe handed over by the shopkeeper, and said with a smile, "Since it's the shopkeeper's kindness, this official is disrespectful."
The shopkeeper hurriedly waved his hand like a rattle, and even said 'What a trivial matter', and then returned behind the counter with pride.
Sun Shaozong sat down again, then raised his chin to Yang Licai and said, "Zhou Ying, the verification is correct."
Yang Licai hurriedly took out the writing brush cinnabar from his backpack, and pulled out a booklet, where he wiped out the name of 'Zhou Ying' with cinnabar.
There are as many as eleven names on the booklet that are also covered with cinnabar, and the rest...
"Sir, how do we check the remaining five?!"
After collecting the booklet, Yang Licai looked at Sun Shaozong expectantly. After investigating the four-day scene in a row, among the seventeen suspects, those who could be ruled out were basically eliminated, and the remaining five were the real tough ones. .
And this is also a good opportunity to witness the true nature of Master Sun's 'Shen Dian'!
Sun Shaozong first folded the recipe, carefully put it into his sleeve pocket, then raised his head to meet Yang Licai's expectant gaze, and said indifferently: "Close the team and return to the yamen to return to life."
"what?!"
Yang Licai almost thought he heard it wrong, why did he have to close the team just at the critical moment? !
Besides, I still haven't found out who the spy is. How should the yamen return to the Zhenfu envoy this time
However, before he could question anything, Sun Shaozong took out a piece of silver and put it on the table, got up and walked away.
When Yang Licai reacted and chased out the door, Sun Shaozong had already got into the carriage neatly. He couldn't catch up to ask what was going on for a while, so he angrily called his subordinates to get on the horse and escort him in front of and behind Sun Shaozong's carriage.
Speechless all the way.
It wasn't until he entered the Beizhen Fusi that Yang Licai found an opportunity, and leaned over to Sun Shaozong to remind him in a low voice, "Sir, Lu Zhenfu is very concerned about the traitor. You report back like this, I'm afraid it's not easy to explain?"
"Not good to explain?"
Sun Shaozong paused slightly and asked back: "So, you can be sure that in a short period of time, who among the five of them has leaked the rumors?"
"This… "
Yang Licai was at a loss for words. If it was really easy, he could tell the real spies from among these five people. Why did he expect Sun Shaozong's 'spirituality' ability
"These are all the elites that Lu Zhenfu brought back from the south. It's not easy for the spies to mix in and not be detected. If there is no circumstantial evidence, how can we tell them apart?"
As Sun Shaozong spoke, he took another step forward and said as he walked, "So from the very beginning, I was prepared to find no spies."
"But… "
Yang Licai couldn't help but said, "If you can't find out any spies, how can you explain it to Lord Zhenfu?"
Sun Shaozong suddenly sighed, stopped again, turned his head and asked, "I'm not confused, why did you confuse Shuntian Mansion with Beizhen Fusi?"
Before Yang Licai responded, he stepped into the front hall again.
Not to mention how inexplicable Yang Licai looked at his back.
But he said that Sun Shaozong entered the hall and told Lu Hui about the investigation in the past few days in detail and properly. Finally, he took out the cinnabar-coated list and presented it with both hands: "Please take a look at it."
Lu Hui took the roster and spread it out in his hand. He looked at the five names several times, and his face became more and more gloomy.
One for thousands of households, two for one hundred households, and two for general banners.
The first three were the commanders of this operation, and the last two had sneaked into the inn alone to spy on the enemy—all of them were cronies that Lu Hui had painstakingly cultivated when he was in Jiangnan.
Sun Shaozong continued to report: "Xiaguan is not familiar with these five people, so it is difficult to distinguish clearly for a while, I am afraid that I can only ask adults to come forward and personally..."
"No need."
Following the cold three words, Lu Hui threw the booklet on the ground, only to hear him say: "Since we can't clear the suspicion, let's put it in the dungeon together. It's not too late for the Governor to apologize to them in person - if they can't get rid of the suspicion, I'm afraid they can only blame them for their bad lives."
it is as expected!
Sun Shaozong sighed inwardly, but pretended to hesitate and said, "I'm afraid this is..."
"Sun Qianhu."
Lu Hui straightened his body, interrupted Sun Shaozong, and said indifferently: "It should be noted that this is Beizhen Fusi, not that mother-in-law's Shuntian Mansion. For us, the word 'no need' is enough!"
After tomorrow, the 6,000-word update will be resumed.