Cheng Youhai also tried to quibble, but Lu Heng was impatient to listen and motioned Jin Yiwei to take him down. Cheng Youhai was tied up, stuffed something in his mouth, and the world was immediately clean.
Tao Yiming knew that it was his turn, so he bowed his hands to Lu Heng and said, "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the commander. If the commander is not firm, the minister will come by himself."
Lu Heng was quite satisfied with Tao Yiming's knowledge. He waved his hand, and the Jinyiwei behind him immediately stepped forward and tied Tao Yiming's hands. Lu Heng said: "Look at the two of them, and don't let outsiders approach. I'll report to the Holy Lord."
"Yes."
Only then did Lu Heng go to the Emperor's Palace. Tao Yiming was escorted by Jinyiwei into the dark room. Before entering the door, he had no intention of turning his head and saw Lu Heng wearing a red flying fish suit, stepping on the sunlight and striding away.
Mian Sheng wanted to wear an official uniform, and Lu Heng also put on his true-grade formal uniform—the crimson flying fish bestowing uniform. The flying fish is made of high-quality Yunjin fabrics. Walking in the sun is like a cloud, and it is full of brilliance. The flying fish with four claws and two wings is really like a cloud.
Not everyone in Jinyiwei is qualified to wear flying fish clothes. This flamboyant clothes represent glory and power. Jin Yiwei, who was also dressed in Jinyi and had a knife in front of him, followed him and could only serve as a foil. People in the official circles suffered from the suffering of Jin Yiwei, and they only felt that Jin Yiwei was ostentatious in the market, and his face was disgusting, and no one had a good face when he mentioned Jin Yiwei. However, when it comes to this commander Lu, everyone is very secretive.
Tao Yiming thought of the news he heard at the banquet. Lu Heng was just born in the year he passed the exam. Now he is still circling the seventh-rank sesame official, and Lu Heng is already the third-rank commander of the imperial front, and even the old man is polite when he sees him.
Tao Yiming sighed, everyone has their own destiny, and the hero is a boy, it's really helpless.
Lu Heng walked all the way, and people on both sides hurriedly saluted him when they saw him. He quickly arrived at the palace, and the eunuch hurriedly greeted him with a smile on his face: "Say hello to Mr. Lu. Mr. Lu, are you back today?"
"Yes." Lu Heng nodded with a smile, "I have come to report to the emperor. I would like to ask you to report."
"Lord Lu is very kind." The eunuch put down his whisk and said, "Lord Lu will wait here for a while, and the miscellaneous family will come when they go."
The eunuch entered inside to spread a message, and Lu Heng stopped in front of the hall and waited calmly. The sun was sinking in the west, and brilliant gold was folded in the light. He stood upright in the sun, with an embroidered spring knife hanging from his waist. Besides, his skin was white, his neck was long, and he was tall. The flying fish suit was especially beautiful and gorgeous on him. It seems to glow in the grand sunset.
People who come and go can't help but look in his direction. Facing so many gazes, Lu Heng rehearsed in his mind what might happen next, and suddenly the conversation from last night appeared in his mind.
Wang Yanqing asked him, what exactly do you want to do.
Lu Heng thought that he had not met such an interesting person for a long time.
Lu Heng always felt that the world feared him, hated him, envied him and respected him, and wanted to copy his experience and replace it, but no one really understood him.
Including the emperor.
They are monarchs and ministers, no friendship, but interests glorified by childhood friendship. But after Wang Yanqing asked that sentence last night, Lu Heng was surprised to find that this person seemed to have appeared.
She could see through his disguise and sense his true intentions hidden behind his smile. Lu Heng has indeed been accompanying Cheng Youhai and Tao Yiming in acting for the past two days, but Lu Heng did not expect that Cheng Youhai would be so daring and dare to involve the White Lotus Sect.
Lu Heng secretly said that Cheng Youhai was courting death, but Cheng Youhai provided Lu Heng with a new idea.
In the Qingxu Temple that day, Lu Heng smiled and talked to Cheng Youhai about the rumor that Tang Saier was a soldier with paper-cutting. Cheng Youhai thought that Lu Heng was testing him, but in fact, that was Lu Heng's true thoughts.
Lu Heng did not believe in the idea of praying to the gods, worshipping Buddha, and reincarnation, but the emperor believed it. There are three layers of truth in this case. The first layer is that Cheng Youhai deceived Tao Yiming. Cheng Youhai claimed that the two of them could join hands to deal with the aftermath, first forging an altar, then pretending to collude with the Taoist priest Qingxuguan and the White Lotus Sect to turn living people into paper In this way, all the missing villagers in Hegu Village can be blamed on Tang Saier's sorcery, and no one of them will be implicated.
The second layer is Cheng Youhai's true intentions. The bells and whistles of paper figurines are all a deception. What Cheng Youhai really wants to do is to kill Tao Yiming and lead everyone to think that Tao Yiming is colluding with the White Lotus Sect, imprison the strong man, and commit suicide after being defeated.
And the third layer is the truth of the whole thing. There is no white lotus sect and no sorcery at all. In fact, the villagers accidentally discovered the gold mine, and the local officials wanted to embezzle it. Unexpectedly, the people shouted grievances in front of the royal family and exposed their actions. In order to cover up the gold mine, the prefect and the county magistrate shied each other's responsibilities, and then deduced such a big drama.
Compared with the first two versions, the real result is dull and rudimentary. The real motives for crimes are often very ugly, and they are nothing more than money, sex, and hatred, and they are no different from animals. There are no dramatic and unavoidable reasons at all.
Lu Heng understood Tao Yiming and Cheng Youhai's respective thoughts, but he did not expose it, but took the plan and brought Cheng Youhai and Tao Yiming back to the palace. He provided all three possibilities to the emperor, and if the emperor needed the truth, he would turn the result of solving the case into what it looked like.
Cheng Youhai's aftermath was too rough, leaving many flaws. But if Lu Heng did it, he could handle it flawlessly.
This is the real purpose of him tricking Tao Yiming into acting and deceiving Cheng Youhai into the palace. Jin Yiwei, who was with him day and night, didn't notice it, but Wang Yanqing noticed it.
Lu Heng sighed in his heart at that time, she was so transparent and lovely, how could he be willing to let her go? The situation from last night is still vivid in his mind. After he told Wang Yanqing his thoughts, Wang Yanqing opened his eyes wide and asked with a disillusioned expression, "Why did you do this?"
In her opinion, since Lu Heng has found out the truth, what he has to do is to expose everything and set things right. Lu Heng, on the other hand, kept silent, and even forged the results of the case for the sake of the superior.
Wang Yanqing couldn't accept it, Lu Heng just smiled at her and said, "Because, I am Jin Yiwei."
The "Bao Qingtian" who is upright, hates evil, and wants to make the truth clear to the world no matter how ugly the truth is, was done by the civil servants. He is Jin Yiwei, walking in darkness and conspiracy. What he wants to do is not to be famous in history, but to maintain imperial power and let this dynasty run smoothly.
Some people stand in the light to be praised by history books and admired by all people, but some people stand in the dark and do some dirty work.
These may not be understood by Wang Yanqing now. But it doesn't matter, she doesn't need to understand.
Lu Heng controlled Wang Yanqing's actions, put her under house arrest in the courtyard in disguise, and then returned to the Holy Front. As soon as he thought about it, the eunuch who reported it came back.
Lu Heng nodded and smiled at the eunuch, and calmly stepped into the Golden Palace.
When Lu Heng entered, the emperor was talking to Tao Zhongwen, a Taoist priest. The emperor asked: "During the daytime, I saw a wind circling my car endlessly. This is auspicious."
Tao Zhongwen was wearing a Taoist robe, calculated for a while, and said, "Go back to the Holy One, this is the main fire, and there may be a sign of a big fire."
The emperor heard the question: "Why?"
Tao Zhongwen replied profoundly: "The Holy One does not know anything, this fire is God's will, and it is inevitable in the end. The minister has used Taoism to eliminate disasters, and you can protect the Holy Spirit's well-being."
The emperor looked thoughtful. Although the maids and eunuchs serving on both sides lowered their heads, they didn't think so in their hearts. The emperor asked what the strange wind was about today, Tao Zhongwen said there was a fire, but when he asked him specifically where the fire was, Tao Zhongwen could not say. Tao Zhongwen also said that this is the will of God, which cannot be avoided, and also said that Taoism can be used to eliminate disasters for the emperor. Inconsistent and ambiguous, what else could it be if it wasn't a scam
But the emperor was willing to believe it, so they also showed a look of awe, and they all praised Tao Zhongwen for his profoundness. Standing outside the partition, Lu Heng heard this conversation completely. After the emperor and Tao Zhongwen finished their discussion, the eunuch stepped forward to report: "Long live, Lord Lu is here."
"He's back," said the emperor, not surprised, "call him in."
Tao Zhongwen retire upon seeing this, and Lu Heng came in and happened to have a face-to-face with Tao Zhongwen. Lu Heng smiled and bowed his hands to Tao Zhongwen. Tao Zhongwen also returned a salute and nodded slightly to say hello: "Commander Lu."
The emperor was still waiting inside, and the two of them did not delay. Lu Heng entered and saluted the emperor: "See the saint, long live the saint."
The emperor waved his hand casually: "No ceremony. After you left for two days, did you find out why the woman complained?"
Lu Heng raised his arms parallel to his chest, folded his hands, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said clearly: "Fortunately, I have not been disgraced, and the officials involved have been brought back. The people of Weihui Mansion complained about a gold mine."
When the emperor heard the gold mine, his expression became serious and asked, "What's going on?"
Lu Heng told the emperor about the matter from beginning to end. He didn't say a single word of nonsense, and the complicated case was greatly reduced, but the cause and effect were clear, and people could understand what was going on as soon as they heard it. When the emperor heard half of it, he understood what these officials were doing. Deception and greed for money and profit are all too common, but I didn't expect that there would be a series of tricks such as the White Lotus Sect and the resurrection of the paper figurine.
The emperor was silent for a while after hearing this, and asked curiously, "Why do they have to make it so complicated?"
The more complicated the scheme, the easier it is to make mistakes. On the contrary, the simplest and most primitive means of committing crimes are really difficult to investigate. Lu Heng said, "If they don't muddy the water, how can they cover up the disappearance of more than 100 people?"
The disappearance of more than 100 young and strong men is not a small case, it is enough for a tribunal to interrogate. It was beyond everyone's expectations that Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law broke into the palace. Cheng Youhai was caught off guard, and the time was too tight. He didn't have time to kill Hegu Village.
Even bigger than a murder case, it can only be a rebellion case. They did not dare to frame the vassal king for rebelling, so they could only use the name of the White Lotus Sect.
After Lu Heng reported the cause and effect, he bowed his head and said nothing. If the emperor needs Tang Saier's "Book of Heaven" and "Precious Sword" to prove that he has been appointed by the sky and is justifiable, Lu Heng can arrange it now. This matter was all taken over by Jin Yiwei, and no one would know the truth behind it.
Things in this world are disturbing, true and false, separated by a layer of people's hearts, who knows what is true? What the Ming Dynasty needed most was not truth, but stability.
They were tacitly aware of the silence of the moment. The emperor once again sighed that Lu Heng was a man who really knew how to do things. Not only could he relieve the king's worries, but sometimes he also took the initiative to create opportunities to share his worries.
The emperor did not express his position immediately, but said: "First find the gold mine and the missing people."
Whether the White Lotus Sect is true or false, this gold mine must belong to the emperor. The emperor was worried about the lack of money in Taicang. Coincidentally, someone below sent him money.
Lu Heng bowed his head and bowed his hands and stepped back calmly. The emperor would not make a decision so quickly. Anyway, there was Chen Yin in the palace. Lu Heng unceremoniously threw the safety pressure on Chen Yin and went to find the gold mine easily.
He sent someone to look for it yesterday, and there should be a reply in the past two days. Protecting the emperor's safety is his job, but finding gold mines is his credit. For such a simple multiple-choice question, Lu Heng will not choose the wrong one.
After Lu Heng came out, watching the sunset gradually sinking in the sky, his mind finally relaxed. He successfully solved the case within three days, and gave the emperor a talk and a treasury. After that, Chen Yin could no longer be his opponent.
Lu Heng never made a loss-making business. When he issued the military order three days ago, he had already weighed the pros and cons in his mind. Some people rushed into the palace to complain, and the emperor compared himself to Mingjun. If the emperor did nothing, it would be a shame. But the emperor didn't know the situation, and he didn't dare to speak rashly. At this time, someone needed to relieve the emperor. Lu Heng took the initiative to stand up and promise, and promised not to delay the southern tour. All the emperor's worries were eliminated, and he happily agreed to Lu Heng's request.
If Lu Heng made a military order in front of so many people, it would be ugly if he failed, but once he succeeded, it would be a huge prestige benefit. The reward was worth his risk, and Lu Heng didn't hesitate to gamble. As it turns out, he didn't overestimate his strength, and he did succeed.
Lu Heng headed for the hospital in high spirits. Halfway through the journey, the dark whistle ran over quickly and whispered a word in Lu Heng's ear.
When Lu Heng heard the name of an old acquaintance, his brows rose happily. It was a happy event, and another fish took the bait.