Detective in the Red Chamber

But before he could speak, Jia Yucun put down the curtain again, then invited Sun Shaozong aside, and asked in a low voice, "Brother, did you see clearly just now?"

Sun Shaozong nodded, and wondered again: "Why is he in brother Yucun's sedan chair?"

"Ah~"

Village Chief Jia Yu let out a breath, and said with a wry smile, "Isn't it because of those unruly people? Did you hear recently that some disaster victims froze to death near the porridge shed in the inner city?"

Listening to his explanation of the cause and effect, it turned out that it was the Yamen servant of Shuntian Mansion yesterday. When he was ordered to drive away the victims, for some reason, he let Li Enxian mix in and sent him to the refugee camp in the outer city.

This morning when the refugee camp was giving out porridge, others flocked to line up, but this Li Enxian was beside the line, holding up a few golden ornaments, and shouted that he was an envoy of North Korea, and he had something big to do, so he had to go immediately. Meet the head of the refugee camp.

If it was just empty talk, no one would believe it, but the few playthings he took out were all of great value.

The guards in the refugee camp did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so they could only report to the steward of the refugee camp.

The manager of the refugee camp was even more afraid to be professional-if not so many people saw it, maybe the money would be really attractive, but there were thousands of people in the refugee camp who saw it, so he naturally didn't dare to think about it.

So they reported it layer by layer, and finally reported to Jia Yucun.

Jia Yucun had never met Li Enxian before, but after hearing what he said was logical, and he clamored to meet the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty, he believed it [-]% of the time—after all, this guy was visiting for the second time, and there were many people in the palace who had seen him. over him.

Therefore, he used his own sedan chair to bring the North Korean envoy to the palace, and was going to ask the eunuch in the palace to recognize him first, and then decide how to deal with it.

Coincidentally, as soon as he arrived outside the Xihua Gate, he bumped into Sun Shaozong.

Knowing that he had dealt with Li Enxian before, he rushed to stop him and asked Sun Shaozong to help him identify one or two.

But after hearing Jia Yucun's words, Sun Shaozong suddenly felt regretful.

Li Enxian is a dignified envoy, and now he refuses to choose the serious diplomatic channel, and instead mixes into the refugee camp unkempt.

What's even more strange is that he acted so sneakily, but he didn't intend to keep it a secret in the refugee camp. Instead, he deliberately revealed his identity in full view of the public.

All of these are really mind-boggling.

But just thinking about it, if he had known it was such a big trouble, Sun Shaozong would never have stepped forward to identify it.

Fortunately, it is not too late to withdraw now.

"Brother Shi Fei."

Sun Shaozong arched his hands and said: "Since the North Korean envoys are involved, I am afraid that Dali Temple will not be able to intervene. Besides, my younger brother has to deliver the memorial, so please stay with me."

As he said that, he bowed his body, and regardless of Jia Yucun's reaction, he turned around and strode straight to the presentation office.

Jia Yucun opened his mouth in the back, but he didn't open his mouth to stop him. He looked back at the sedan chair, but sighed dejectedly, and then walked towards the guards in front of the palace gate with heavy steps.

…………

After Sun Shaozong submitted the proposal of "Puting the Law to the Countryside" according to the established procedure, he saw the official sedan chair being carried into the palace gate by four guards.

He looked at the sedan chair and pondered for a while, pondering over a dozen possibilities in his mind, and finally came to the following conclusion: Is this my fault?

So he turned his head and got on his official sedan chair, huddled in front of him and rushed back home.

Speechless all the way.

After returning to Dali Temple, it was about noon, and Sun Shaozong invited Master Qin Kejian to have a meal with him as usual - this guy's mocking face may only change a little at the dinner table.

Not to mention Sun Shaozong's usual turmoil, but Qin Kejian was also completely ruined at the dinner table. After this meal, the standard meal of twelve dishes and two soups was almost wiped out.

Of course, more than [-]% of them entered Sun Shaozong's stomach.

After lunch, and rested for about half an hour, Sun Shaozong handed over the recent case files that Yang Zhiming tried—several corruption cases transferred by the Metropolitan Procuratorate—to Qin Kejian for review.

Unlike Shuntian Mansion, Dali Temple did not have officials in charge of investigating cases, but a total of five hall officials supervised each other. Therefore, the cases heard by Yang Zhiming were sent to Sun Shaozong for investigation as usual.

And Sun Shaozong transferred it to Qin Kejian to do it for him, mainly to see if he was unfamiliar with the officialdom during his three years in exile in Lingnan.

In terms of the results, Qin Kejian handed over the answer sheet, and it is no problem to rate it as "good", but the reason why it can't reach "excellent" is mainly because the guy's words and sentences are too harsh.

Sure enough, in the future, I still need to hire another copywriter.

As for Qin Kejian, let him concentrate on handling the case.

After going back and forth, he saw that it was time to go to the yamen. Because of an appointment with Li Wenshan, Sun Shaozong was going to Dingxianglou to have a few drinks, and then discuss the legal basis of "Puting the Law to the Countryside".

Therefore, I went to Yousi ahead of schedule to show my respect for Li Wenshan.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the You Temple, Zhao Nan chased after him, saying that Qiu Yunfei, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, came to visit suddenly, and he was still carrying a corpse.

As soon as Sun Shaozong heard this, he guessed that Qiu Yunfei had encountered some difficult and miscellaneous cases, so he came to the door for help as a last resort.

but……

Even if you ask for help, there is no need to carry the corpse here, right?

Although he was quite disapproving of this kid's recklessness, Sun Shaozong still accused Li Wenshan of the crime, and then returned to the Zuo Temple official office with Zhao Nan.

When he entered the door, he saw Qiu Yunfei staring at Qin Kejian. It was obvious that the lips of the donkey were not right, and they had already chatted to death.

"grown ups!"

Seeing Sun Shaozong enter the door, Qiu Yunfei jumped up as if seeing a savior, and said, "There is a man, I want you to help me identify him!"

This word...

Why does it sound familiar?

Sun Shaozong's heart moved, and he didn't bother to talk to him politely, so he asked straight to the point: "Where is the corpse?"

"In the morgue of Dali Temple."

Without saying a word, Sun Shaozong turned his head and left, followed by Qiu Yunfei and Qin Kejian.

Everyone rushed to the mortuary in a hurry, and saw four servants from Shuntian Mansion, together with the inspector Zhao Wuwei, guarding the door as if they were facing a big enemy, but there was no one doing the autopsy inside.

"master!"

"grown ups!"

Seeing this battle, Sun Shaozong felt more and more that his guess was probably correct, but how could he have the leisure to meet Zhao Wuwei and others?

Stepping into the morgue, he tore off the white sheet in the center, and as expected, a familiar face came into view immediately, it was the North Korean envoy Li Eunxian whom he had seen in front of the palace this morning!

Chapter 870 The Death of the Leading Party

Really weird tight!

Li Enxian appeared in Jiayu Village's sedan chair in the morning, which was surprising enough, but half a day later, he was lying in the morgue of Dali Temple again.

But what surprised Sun Shaozong even more was that this guy actually froze to death!

You must know that the last time Sun Shaozong saw him was around noon.

Although the temperature in winter this year was much lower than in previous years, Sun Shaozong would never believe that it could freeze a alive and kicking person to death at this high noon.

At this time, Qiu Yunfei and Qin Kejian had already followed in. Seeing that Sun Shaozong was frowning and looking at the corpse on the bed, he guessed that he knew the deceased at first.

So Qiu Yunfei couldn't help asking: "My lord, who is this fellow?"

Sun Shaozong turned his head and glanced at him, seeing his inquisitive face, it didn't seem like he was asking the question knowingly.

So he asked back: "How did you find this corpse?"

Qiu Yunfei hurriedly said: "The Department of Health and Welfare collected it in the morning. When Lao Xu was conducting an autopsy this afternoon, he was found to have a lot of valuables on him, and one of them was engraved with the words Supervised by the Korean Internal Construction Bureau."

"And Lao Xu found out that this man should have been a pampered master in his life, which means that his tattered clothes are probably for camouflage."

"After Jia Fuyin heard about this, he suspected that this person was an important person in the North Korean mission, and thought that you had dealt with them before, so he asked the humble official to bring the body here, please help identify it."

Sure enough, it was sent by Jia Yucun!

But what is he doing this for?

And how did Lee Eun Hyun die?

He had obviously been carried into the palace by a sedan chair at that time.

Could it be that……

Do you mean the emperor?

But why did Emperor Guangde quietly kill an envoy of a country, and still intend to deal with it as a wayward?

With countless doubts in mind, he frowned and looked at Li Enxian's corpse for a while, then Sun Shaozong suddenly turned around and walked to the desk in the corner, took out the blank autopsy booklets prepared by the clerks, and laid out the pens, inkstones and inkstones on the table one by one.

Qiu Yunfei desperately wanted to help Yanmo, but was forced back by Sun Shaozong's stare.

"I want to think about something alone, you guys should go outside and wait."

Although the two were puzzled, they couldn't disobey Sun Shaozong's order, so they hurried out of the morgue.

When there was only one person and one corpse left in the morgue, Sun Shaozong finished his ink, picked up a pen on the booklet, and sorted out all the information he had so far, as well as the unsolved doubts.

…………

Li Enxian, the eldest son of the late North Korean power minister Li Guizhi, is naturally far less influential than his father, but he can barely be regarded as one of the most important officials in the court, and he is quite trusted by the Joseon King Cao Dongxu.

This can be seen from the fact that he has led missions to pay tribute twice.

He has a gentle and elegant personality, with a gentleman's style but not pedantic. During the incident in the Jinmen Mansion, he showed the courage and tact that he missed at the beginning.

He highly respects Da Zhou and is a standard leading party.

This is not difficult to judge from his daily words and deeds, as well as his reaction to the theft of new firearms.

In addition, although Li Enxian has never shown his martial arts, judging from the traces of the corpse, he should have practiced martial arts.

As for whether it can be used in actual combat, it is unknown.

…………

Listing Li Enxian's personal information in the autopsy book one by one, Sun Shaozong hesitated for a moment, and added two more words at the end:

anxiety.

Compared with his first mission, although he tried his best to restrain his speech this time, the smell of restlessness still failed to escape Sun Shaozong's eyes.

But at that time, Sun Shaozong only thought that his anxiety was caused by the aggressiveness of Liaodong Nuzhen.

After all, what he was thinking about at the time was to facilitate the two countries to send troops together to attack Liaodong Jurchen.

But now it seems that what caused his anxiety may also be the pressure from within—even the pressure from within is the biggest cause of his anxiety.

This inference stems from the announcement by the North Korean mission that Li Enxian was too ill to be a director, but today he appeared alive and kicking in the refugee camp.

And even though he had a quick glance in the morning, he could see that he didn't look sick, at most he was a little embarrassed.

In addition, he did not propose to meet the emperor through diplomatic channels. Instead, he took a slant and ran to the little manager of the refugee camp for help.

It can basically be deduced that he was probably under house arrest by the mission before!

After further deliberation, Li Enxian, as the envoy and one of the most important ministers in the court, was able to put him under house arrest without making a sound. Either the embassy still hides one of the most powerful ministers in North Korea, or the internal situation of North Korea is not good. Change, and a huge change!

Sun Shaozong is more inclined to the latter.

Because he vaguely remembered that the current king of Joseon, Cao Dongxu, seemed to be close to 80 years old. If it was because of his health problems that caused the instability of the court, Sun Shaozong would not be surprised at all.

As mentioned earlier, Li Enxian is Cao Dongxu's favorite...

and many more!

Could it be that the factions in power in North Korea are now disobedient to Da Zhou?

This can also explain that when Li Enxian met him at the beginning, he never revealed a single word, but now he escaped from the post house and clamored to report the big secret.

At the beginning, he didn't think about exposing the internal conflicts to Da Zhou.

Unexpectedly, when he returned to the post house, the internal response arranged by the enemy in the mission put him under house arrest.

Under Li Enxian's displeasure, coupled with the fact that he already had the genes of the leading party, after escaping from the embassy, ​​he wanted to pass the news of North Korea's instability to the Great Zhou court.

Ok……

Judging from his eagerness to promote an alliance between the two countries and attack the Liaodong Jurchen at the beginning, it may be that he is oriented toward the power faction in the country, and he also intends to conspire with the Liaodong Jurchen.

Li Enxian, on the other hand, was eager to destroy this alliance.

…………

After writing this, Sun Shaozong frowned suddenly and stopped writing, because if his deduction did not go wrong, Li Enxian's follow-up plan was already infinitely close to success.

After all, Sun Shaozong saw with his own eyes that the sedan chair he was riding entered the palace from the Xihua Gate.

That being the case, why did he die unexpectedly and was sent to him in the name of Ludao?