Nightwatcher

At dusk, Xu Qi'an waited until Wei Yuan came back from the palace.

The spacious and luxurious carriage drove into the yamen, Wei Yuan got out of the carriage on a small ladder, Xu Qi'an leaned over and said in a low voice: "Wei Gong"

Wei Yuan, with gray temples, glanced at him, and said as he walked, "King Yu wrote a letter in blood, suing Uncle Ping Yuan, Du Ge Shizhong of the Household Department, and Shang Shu of the Ministry of War for murdering the royal family."

Xu Qi'an had already learned about King Yu's operation from Princess Huaiqing, so he nodded, "Your Majesty handed it over to the third division for interrogation?"

"No!" Wei Yuan shook his head: "Your Majesty's anger is no less than that of King Yu. He couldn't wait that long, so he immediately wrote an imperial decree, asking the prisoner to enter the palace and confront the three of them face to face. Those who were present at the time were also court officials. The Lords of Dagon and Gun."

"What's the result?" Xu Qi'an already knew the result, but he still wanted to ask.

Wei Yuan sighed: "Murdering the royal clan, the Yi clan. The report will come down tomorrow morning at the latest. The Liang party is over."

Xu Qi'an of the Yi tribe was slightly moved.

The so-called three tribes of Yi are the three tribes of father, mother, and wife, which can be classified as capital punishment. Second only to the rebellious Yi Jiu Clan.

"Hey, I'm afraid the heads of those who are going to be killed will roll away tomorrow." Xu Qi'an also sighed, not knowing whether to applaud or feel sorry for those innocent people who were implicated.

Although Uncle Pingyuan was exterminated, compared with the Yi tribe, at least dozens or even hundreds of people had to die. None of those relatives within the three clans of Uncle Pingyuan could escape.

The same goes for the other two.

"Liang Dang?" Xu Qi'an asked doubtfully.

Wei Yuan nodded: "The Liang Party is the biggest beneficiary of King Yu's withdrawal from the stage of power. It is headed by Zhang Feng, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Sun Mingzhong, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Uncle Ping Yuan joined the Liang Party last year."

"Wei Gong, then, then my business," Xu Qi'an said in a low voice. The court party is too far away from him, Xu Qi'an is not reconciled.

He only cares about his own future and his own life.

"Don't worry, His Majesty is in a fit of anger. It's not good to mention this at this time." Wei Yuan shook his head.

This is the reason Xu Qi'an nodded, bid farewell to Wei Yuan, and walked towards home in the afterglow of dusk.

At dusk, in a certain room.

A white hand holds a pen and writes on the letter paper: “…

Dear Master:

The Sangbo case has come to an end. The Minister of Rites once said that cooperating with us is seeking skin from a tiger. Hey, he is really accurate.

A year ago, I inadvertently witnessed the encounter between Princess Pingyang and Monk Henghui. Henghui was dead but not stiff, and Yuanshen condensed resentment. I made him into a puppet and kept him by my side.

And tell you this matter, you said that the opportunity has come, the year of Jingcha is the beginning of our 500-year great cause.

Please forgive my disrespect, I was not optimistic. The supervisor of Sitianjian and the Taoist capital of Renzong are one of the few strong men in the world.

But in this incident, out of some kind of tacit understanding, the two chose to stand by and praise you again. The master's intelligence is unparalleled in the world.

Emperor Yuan Jing's attitude towards this case was not positive, otherwise he would not have appointed a Tongluo as the organizer, all of this is within your expectations.

But that Tonggong is extremely powerful and has a keen sense of smell.

In the process of investigating the case, he discovered your presence. He came to the Jiaofang Division several times to spy on the evil spirit. I would like to ask, did you do it on purpose?

In addition, other watchmen also secretly investigated.

As a last resort, I had no choice but to push Hui Ji out to block the disaster. I know she is a member of your clan, so please forgive me for making such claims.

Rest assured, things have been handed over to those who deserve them.

I'm very sorry, all the clues of the tax and bank case have been cut off. I have contacted Zhou Li many times. He is indeed just a little clever dude who doesn't know everything his father Zhou Shilang is planning.

Here, I would like to report four things to the master:

One: On the way to escort the tax money, Zhou Shilang had many opportunities to make a move, which was safer, but he chose to embezzle 150,000 tax money in the capital.

This point is really puzzling. Zhou Shilang is a smart man, but he made a foolish move. I think there must be a reason for it.

However, Zhou Shilang "accidentally died" on the way to exile, and no one can give me an answer.

Two: According to reliable sources, Zhou Shilang has confiscated more than one million taels of silver in the past 20 years, but when the Zhou Mansion was ransacked, the court only confiscated thousands of taels of silver.

Where did the money go?

Three: Through the secret investigation of Si Tianjian, it is found that the youngest disciple of the supervisor is Chu Caiwei, a very beautiful and interesting girl. Of course, she is far from being able to compare with the noble and beautiful master.

What I want to say is that the sorcerer of the Sitianjian called her little junior sister, or sixth senior sister. As for Jianzheng's direct disciples, there are only five of them.

Four: People from the Witch God Sect killed the Magistrate Zhao of Taikang County, who was the official who discovered the saltpeter mine.

Yes, the wizards of the Witch God Cult intervened in this matter, and they could have used more ingenious and covert methods to silence them, but they chose to kill people in dreams.

It is not difficult to infer that they tried to mislead the court, pour dirty water on King Zhenbei, and alienate the relationship between Emperor Yuanjing and King Zhenbei.

In the end, there was a little thing that was difficult to talk about. I fell in love with a man, a man who should not be loved. I want to ask the master to take pity on me and rebuild my body.

——A servant who is always loyal to you.

In another secret room, a man in a cloak wrote with a pen:

Dear Sir:

The planning of the tax and bank case failed, and I have to bear the main responsibility. Zhou Shilang's death was purely due to his stupidity. His son who thought he was smart led to the failure of a series of plans.

As you expected, Wan Yao Kingdom's plan succeeded, and they released the sealed item under Sangbo.

In the letter, I will describe in detail the intelligence I have gained in the past year.

About a year ago, the struggle between Xungui and the civil servants entered a fierce stage. King Yu, representing the entire Xungui forces, served as Minister of the Ministry of War under the acquiescence of Emperor Yuan Jing, and was only one step away from entering the cabinet.

During this process, his daughter Princess Pingyang fell in love with a monk of Qinglong Temple, and the two decided to elope and asked for help from the eldest son of Pingyuan Bo

Because they coveted Princess Pingyang's beauty, the three dudes planned to humiliate her and then kill them, but encountered fierce resistance from the other party, Princess Pingyang swallowed her hair and committed suicide

The spy placed by Wan Yao Kingdom in Dafeng capital accidentally discovered this scene. She used corpse gu to make Heng Hui into a walking corpse puppet, grasping this secret, and hibernating.

Dafeng launched a new round of Jingcha, and the infighting between factions intensified. It has to be said that Emperor Yuan Jing was a terrible emperor, and his emperor's mind was perfect.

But he is not a good emperor, in his eyes, only power and longevity.

The spies of Wan Yao Kingdom hold this secret in their hands, and are quietly looking for partners in Beijing. In the end, she chose the Minister of Rites and the forces behind him as her target.

Because it happened during that period that saltpeter mines were discovered in Dahuang Mountain in Taikang County, which was exactly what the remnants of Wan Yao Kingdom needed.

No one in this world can sneak into Sangbo and destroy Yongzhen Shanhe Temple quietly under the noses of Jianzheng and Renzong Taoist chief, but gunpowder can help them complete this task.

And the forces behind Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites have always been eager to take sole control of the government and overwhelm all parties. Liang Dang, one of the roadblocks, is of course also on their cleanup list.

The two parties hit it off and reached an agreement. The Minister of Rites helped the remnants of the Wan Yao Kingdom to blow up the Shanhe Temple in Yongzhen and release the sealed artifacts at the bottom of the temple.

The remnants of Wan Yao Kingdom pushed Heng Hui to the front of the stage and led the watchmen to investigate the disappearance of Princess Pingyang.

In order to get rid of his own suspicion, the Minister of Rites used Anzi, Zhou Chixiong, a hundred householder of the Jinwu Guard, to send gunpowder to the imperial city through him, and buried it under the Shanhe Temple in Yongzhen. He also killed nine servants in Dali Temple, the Ministry of Rites, and the palace in order to confuse the public and mislead the officials in charge of the three yamen.

They even wanted to use gunpowder to frame Qi Dang's minister of the Ministry of Industry, but it was a pity that they underestimated Tonggong Xu Qi'an. I assassinated County Magistrate Zhao and tried to mislead him by asking him to investigate King Zhenbei, but unfortunately he was not fooled. This child is astute.

Zhou Chixiong, a hundred-family member of the Jinwu Guard, deliberately killed Liu Han, a small banner official, to attract the attention of the watchman and the government office. During the interrogation of the other party, he used a magic weapon to block the qi-watching technique, leading the watchman to turn his attention to Qinglong Temple. To discover the elopement case of Monk Henghui, and follow the clues to explore the factional dispute a year ago.

This move is so wonderful that I feel that only a hundred households can do it. There is no doubt that it was the daughter of the demon emperor who gave birth in person.

The general course of the matter is like this, there are still two points that have not yet been clarified:

One: The humble staff have worked hard, but they still haven't found out where the sealed artifact under Sangbo is. But one thing is clear, it has a great relationship with Buddhism. The purpose of releasing it by the remnants of Wan Yao Kingdom has not yet been ascertained.

Two: The attitude of the supervisor is really unpredictable. If it is said that the purpose of Emperor Yuan Jing's opening of the city ban, the humble official can guess one or two, but the mind of the supervisor is not speculated by the humble official.

Obviously he didn't do anything, but he always felt that everything was within his expectation and under control.

--complete

Xu Qi'an returned home, had dinner, and informed his second uncle about the progress of the Sangbo case and the truth about the Pingyang princess case.

Second Uncle Xu was stunned when he heard this. He didn't eat for a long time, and murmured: "These scholars are really worse than each other. Although I killed a lot of people back then, compared with them, they are very bright and aboveboard.

"Ning Yan, remember not to talk to scholars in the future, don't hesitate if you can use a knife, or you won't even know when you fell."

Xu Qi'an nodded her head ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,.

After eating, he teased Xu Lingyin and talked to sister Lingyue. Xu Qi'an was planning to go back to his small courtyard.

"Ahem." My aunt coughed hypocritically, turned her eyes to one side, and said, "I have someone make you a dress, and Lingyue will send it to you later. I don't care if it fits or not. You like to wear it anyway." Don't wear it."

"Hey, does the sun come out from the west today?" Xu Qi'an looked out in surprise.

Auntie gritted her teeth, and a word popped out of her ruddy mouth: "Get lost."

Xu Qi'an immediately rolled back to his small courtyard.

The moment he pushed open the door, he suddenly felt palpitations, not the kind of palpitations that were conveyed by the fragments of the underground book, but the palpitations that caused the hairs to stand on end and goose bumps to protrude.

Xu Qi'an turned his head stiffly, looked at the bed, and saw a red severed hand lying quietly on the bed.

His scalp tingled instantly, his adrenaline soared, and cold sweat rolled down one by one.