"Your Highness, what are you doing this for?"
On the carriage, Cao Huachun looked at Zhu Xu, and still asked in doubt.
Zhu Xu shook his fan and said, "Don't worry, it won't take long to know." ” Cao Huachun looked weird, but Cao Wenzhao, who was in front, suddenly turned his head and said, "Your Highness, Luo Sigong, aren't we going to see each other?"
” Zhu Xu pondered for a while, and said, "Don't see you yet, I'll talk about it when this matter is over." ” Regarding Luo Sigong, Zhu Xu has always been more vigilant, not because he was afraid that he would tell Zhu Youxiao or anything, but out of a strange fear in his heart, he was unwilling to face this spy leader.
Zhu Xu had no way to stay outside the palace for longer, so Cao Wenzhao drove the carriage back to the palace.
The three of them got out of the carriage and walked into the palace, Cao Wenzhao observed the surroundings, approached and whispered: "Your Highness, there are two groups of people following us, one should be the queen's mother, and the other should be His Royal Highness Xinwang." ” Zhu Xu's shaking fan was immediately stunned, Empress Zhang, Zhu Xu understood, since the last time she was sick, Empress Zhang had a very strict control over Zhu Xu, for fear that he would make a mistake.
But King Xin, what is the reason for his suspicion again?
"Is it because of the last raid on the treasury of the six ministries?"
Zhu Xu muttered to himself thoughtfully as he walked.
Since the imperial doctor diagnosed that Empress Zhang might not be able to have children, Zhu Xu felt that the inertia of history was still difficult to change, and perhaps the future Emperor Chongzhen would come as promised, so Zhu Xu was extremely vigilant against Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, but he didn't expect it to attract his attention again.
Zhu Xu thought for a long time, and said, "Brother Xinwang, think of a way." ” Cao Huachun understood, bowed over and whispered: "It's Your Highness, the slave and maid will arrange it, and any movement will come immediately." ” Zhu Xu nodded, and a group of people walked briskly back to Jinghuan Palace under the sun.
At the same time, Suncheonfu was lively.
Fu Yin Shen Yan stood in the lobby, facing a middle-aged man with a square face and thick eyebrows and big eyes, he looked like the kind of hard-tempered scholar, staring at Shen Yan with big eyes and angry eyes, staring at Shen Yan with a blazing eye: "Lord Shen, why haven't you seen the trial of the case yet, isn't it that my son is not as expensive as his ** star's grandson?"
” Shen Yan smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency, it's not that the officials are deliberately delaying, it's just that the case has just been born, and the officials have just transported back the corpses, and the inspection has not yet been completed, how do you want the officials to open a court to try the case?"
” Guan Yingzhen's expression became even more angry, and he said loudly: "Shen Yan, this official doesn't have time to talk nonsense with you, either open the court today to make a clear trial, or meet the emperor with me, I want to see if he can cover the sky with one hand and take care of people's lives!"
” "Who wants to take human life!"
Outside the door, an ancient old man, with a voice like stone, stepped forward.
When Guan Yingzhen turned his head and saw it, he rushed over angrily, and shouted at the same time: "**Xing, you traitor, what is happening to me, how can you implicate my son!"
” Shen Yan was startled, hurriedly ran over, grabbed Guan Yingzhen and said, "The official is angry, dissipated, there is something to say." ” Xing's expression seemed calm, and his eyes were full of endless anger, looking at Shen Yan and said, "Lord Shen, my grandson was also poisoned, shouldn't you give this official an explanation?"
” Although he is also a Beijing official and ranks in the court class, **Xing is a secretary of the ministry, a teacher of the world, and a high and powerful position, not comparable to the Yin of the Shuntian Mansion.
He stopped Guan Yingzhen, smiled bitterly and hugged his fists and said, "Lord Zhao, the case has not been half an hour now, and the lower officials still don't know what happened." ” Guan Yingzhen glanced at the ** star angrily, turned his head to look at Shen Yan and said in a deep voice, "You don't know, then find someone who knows, do you Shuntianfu only eat and can't do things?"
” Shen Yanyue smiled bitterly, he couldn't afford to offend these two people, so he had to play Tai Chi, and even shirked, of course he didn't know anything, but he couldn't say it at this time, otherwise this Shuntianfu would be demolished.
In the prison of Shuntianfu, Zhao Han interrogated the middle-aged man who had just come to himself.
He glanced at the big box at his feet, frowned, and said, "You say, your surname is Shen, a member of the Shen family in Huai and Anfu?"
” The middle-aged man had already changed into prison clothes, he knelt on the ground, shackled, and said in a calm and firm voice: "Yes, my name is Shen Aonan." ” Zhao Han had previously wondered that His Royal Highness King Hui couldn't have worked so hard just to take revenge on ** Xing, but now he understands everything.
Huai and Anfu are the yamen of the governor of Caoyun, and the Shen family and the Li family are in-laws for several generations, and more importantly, the Shen family is the most powerful and powerful in the northern and southern Caoyun.
It is said that the Shen family alone has nearly 100 large and small ships, not to mention those that can be directly and indirectly influenced.
Zhao Han was at ease, so he got straight to the point and said: "Well, Your Highness asked me to protect your life, don't worry, I will find a death row prisoner to replace you when the time comes." ” Shen Aonan shook his head slightly, and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness, I want to die in the next place, and I hope to be fulfilled." ” Zhao Han looked at him, thought for a while, picked up the pen and said, "Then you tell me what happened first, why did you poison the two of them, tell me in detail." ” Shen Aonan had already thought of all the rhetoric, and opened his mouth and said: "I am a person from Huai and Anfu, and the Shen family has a separate father and operates Caoyun for a living......
Zhao Han shook his head secretly as he wrote.
It's all a bad drama that has been performed countless times, the down-and-out branch of the family is jealous of the wealthy other, and unites with outsiders to seize the family property, among which they rob people's wives and daughters, kill people and set fires.
And this Shen Ao Nan is the protagonist of it, but it is more miserable, most of the family property, wife and children are gone, and he has been incognito for many years, just for revenge.
Shen Aonan's mouth was dry, and finally looked at the box at Zhao Han's feet, and said: "In the box, it is the account books of Shen Aodong's correspondence with the Zhao family, the official family, and the Li family that I have collected, as well as the testimony of various docks, shopkeepers, and crew members, which is enough to convict Shen Aodong of capital crimes." ” Zhao Han bowed slightly, this Shen Aonan is estimated to be really hateful, otherwise he would not have spent so much effort to collect evidence.
But if it weren't for the involvement of His Royal Highness King Hui, I'm afraid that this would be the case, and he wouldn't be able to bring down Shen Aodong, who had a relationship with the Zhao family.
Zhao Han wrote, asked Shen Aonan to sign and draw, and said: "Okay, now you just stay here, wait for the hall, what to say and what not to say, don't need this official to teach you, right?"
” Shen Aonan had already let himself out, nodded and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I know what to expect." ” Zhao Han glanced at him again, turned around and walked out with his testimony.
In the lobby, Guan Yingzhen was still angry, staring at Shen Yan and said, "Lord Shen, how long do you want to delay, if you can't be tried by the Shuntian Mansion, then let's go to the emperor to fight a lawsuit!"
” Xing sat on the side, his expression majestic and his expression faint.
For that grandson, he knew something, he was a nonsense bastard, he didn't care about it, but he didn't expect that this time he actually poisoned the son of Ying Zhen, the leader of the Chu Party, and the eyewitness was still his Donglin descendant, Qian Qianyi!
He didn't care about any of this, the Chu Party was already struggling under his blow, but from this, he smelled a little different.