Madam, protect me!

Honglu Temple is the most easily overlooked government office among the nine temples.

The entire Honglu Temple is lifeless and has no sense of existence in the court. Even if the officials in the temple are often late and leave early, the Ministry of Rites and the Censors will just ignore them.

Until a few days ago, a new temple secretary came, and Honglu Temple became more lively.

However, this Li Temple Secretary is also unconventional. He often practices martial arts in Honglu Temple when he goes to the government office. Today, he brought a woman to Honglu Temple. The two sneaked into the warehouse and no one knew what they were doing.

These young people are really hot-tempered. In broad daylight, they don’t pay attention to the impact.

However, he is the temple secretary, and he can do whatever he wants. How dare others say anything?

At this time, in the warehouse of Honglu Temple.

Li Nuo and An Ning were working hard.

They searched for the required information one by one in the piles of files.

The warehouse of the Honglu Temple was not as neat as the Ministry of Personnel. The information was piled up in a mess, especially some expired information, which was piled up in a corner in a mess, giving off a musty smell of books that had been stored for a long time.

Fortunately, hard work paid off. Although it took a little longer, Li Nuo still found what he wanted.

"In the 22nd year of the Holy Emperor, the list of officials in the Eastern Palace and the Prince's Inner Palace."

The prince is the future crown prince, and the Prince's Mansion also has an institution similar to the harem, called the Prince's Inner Palace, which was established to serve the prince's concubines.

The information in the Honglu Temple was more complete than Li Nuo had imagined, and there was even a list of female officials in the Inner Palace.

He couldn't help but sigh again, God arranged him to come to the Honglu Temple, and it really had a purpose.

Perhaps it was destined that he came to the Honglu Temple to find out the Eastern Palace case of that year.

Li Nuo put the book away and left here with An Ning.

After the two left, heads popped out from all the offices of the Honglu Temple.

It's been almost an hour, right? This temple secretary is a young man after all, but he's really persistent...

No wonder he practices martial arts every day. It seems that practicing martial arts can really strengthen one's physique.

...

After returning to Li's house, Li Nuo and An Ning came to the room.

They sat at the table and opened the list they found in the Honglu Temple.

The highest-ranking official in the Eastern Palace is the Prince's Third Master, who is usually an old minister in the court. He is mainly responsible for educating the prince. His official position is very high, and his rank is higher than the prime minister.

However, this kind of official position is usually more in name than in reality, and the power in his hands is not great. It can only be said to be an official position for retirement.

The same is true for the Prince's Third Young Master and the Prince's Guests.

The real power in the Eastern Palace is the Prince's Zhanshi Mansion, which is in charge of all the affairs inside and outside the Eastern Palace, corrects violations, and judges the affairs of the palace.

The Prince's Zhanshi can be said to be the chief steward of the Eastern Palace.

The Prince's Secretary is named Xu Wei.

Li Anning looked at the name of the Prince's Secretary and said, "Old Xu is a veteran minister of three dynasties. He was already old and seriously ill at that time. My father asked him to be the Secretary, but he only gave him a noble and empty position. The one who really held power in the Secretary's Office was the Junior Secretary..."

Li Nuo's eyes moved down and looked at another name.

He was not unfamiliar with the Junior Secretary of the Prince's Office at that time, who was now the Jingzhao Yin Lin Fuzhi.

Comparing the Eastern Palace to the court, his position in the Prince's Office at that time should be like a prime minister, in charge of all the affairs of the Eastern Palace.

There are two prime ministers in the court, but there is only one Junior Secretary of the Eastern Palace.

Li Nuo's eyes moved.

It's Jingzhao Yin again.

He has seen the name of Jingzhao Yin Lin Fuzhi frequently in the past few days.

As the Junior Secretary of the Prince's Office, he should be the absolute confidant of the prince. If the prince ascends the throne, he may really sit in a position under one person and above ten thousand people.

Although the prince died of illness, his development is not too bad.

Although Jingzhao Yin was not as good as the prime minister, he was also a high-ranking official. Moreover, after the crown prince, he was also connected with the eldest prince, the King of Han. If the King of Han ascended the throne, he would still be second to none.

No matter how the situation changed, he always stood on the side of the eldest prince.

Li Nuo's eyes continued to move downwards. He didn't recognize the officials after that. Soon, he saw the names of Gu Wenhan, Wu Zongguang, Zheng Tianxing, He Dong and Xu Zhi in this booklet.

The files of the Ministry of Personnel would not be wrong. They had indeed served in the Eastern Palace.

In addition to serving in the Eastern Palace and dying due to various accidents, looking at the long-term development of these people after leaving the Eastern Palace, they were all quite good.

In about five years, they were at least promoted from the ninth rank to the seventh rank. Gu Wenhan became the seventh rank county magistrate, and Wu Zongguang was promoted to the fifth rank Guanglu Temple Secretary.

For these officials who ranked last in the imperial examination and had no backing, this was incredible.

Although Zheng Tianxing did not become an official, he also accumulated a lot of wealth in a short period of time. His business in Chang'an was stable and he could be called a wealthy man.

Fenghuang also did business in Chang'an, but her business was undoubtedly small compared to the Zheng family.

Even so, Yuyin Pavilion was coveted by countless people at the beginning and was almost forcibly bought at a low price. If there was no one behind the Zheng family, it would have been swallowed up without leaving any residue.

Li Anning continued to flip through the booklet. When she saw the list of female officials in the inner palace, her eyes stayed on a certain name for a moment, and she was surprised: "Zeng Yan..., why is this name so familiar?"

After a moment of silence, Li Nuo said: "Do you still remember the Huang family's case?"

Li Anning glanced at him and said: "Of course I remember!"

That case was a turning point in the relationship between the two people.

It was because of the investigation of that case that the two pretended to be husband and wife for a few days, getting along day and night, inseparable, and she developed a strange feeling for him.

When the Huang couple were murdered, they first suspected that someone had broken into the door. After a lot of effort and effort to remove the door, they discovered that the murderer was someone else.

She thought for a while, with a look of surprise on her face, and said: "I remembered, isn't Zeng Yan the name of the mistress of the Huang family? I remember that at that time, the Ministry of Punishment found a lot of East Palace property from her home... "

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly looked at Li Nuo and said in a daze: "You mean, that case is also..."

At that time, the two of them thought the case was strange.

It was all such a coincidence that the thief they caught happened to be the murderer of the Huang couple. However, at that time, the two of them did not think much about it. At this moment, they connected this case with the cases of other officials in the East Palace. How do they think about it? wrong……

Just like the case of Wu Zongguang, the chief minister of Guanglu Temple.

When they discovered that there might be something wrong with Guanglu Si Cheng's death, the murderer jumped out.

It's as if... someone is afraid that they will continue to investigate.

Li Anning has been practicing law for several years and has solved countless cases. Even if the case has not yet been investigated, she knows just by intuition that this is abnormal...

More importantly, if it was really Brother Youwang who killed the prince...

Although brothers killing each other was a very common thing in the royal family, when it really happened to her, she still couldn't accept it for a while.

Li Nuo knew that this case had different meanings to him and An Ning. Seeing her silence, he did not disturb her. He walked out of the room and found Butler Wu in the concierge.

Butler Wu, who was chatting with Lao Huang while smoking, stood up and asked, "Master, what's the matter?"

Li Nuo handed him the booklet in his hand and said: "Let the Mirror Department check for me. The current situation of these officials should be more detailed. For those who have passed away, also check why they died. This case Don't rush things, don't make a big deal about it, it's best to investigate secretly, try to be as secretive as possible..."

Butler Wu took the booklet and nodded: "Okay."

Li Nuo handed him another piece of paper and said, "Check these people again, check their promotion process over the years, and who is behind it..."

There must be a hidden reason for the prince's death.

Gu Wenhan, Zheng Tianxing, Wu Zongguang and others were silenced because they must have known something, but since they were dead, Li Nuo had no way of asking questions.

However, as long as we can find out who was behind their promotions over the years, we can follow the clues and catch bigger fish.

The big fish behind them must have something to do with what happened back then.

Butler Wu left quickly, and Li Nuo had to go back to comfort An Ning.

Not long after.

Dali Temple.

A young man walked slowly into the Temple Qing Yamen, bowed slightly, and said: "Sir, the young master wants the Mirror Division to help find out the current situation of some former East Palace officials, as well as the promotion process of several officials..."

Li Xuanjing put down the book in his hand, opened a drawer under the table, took out a file and handed it to him.

The young man took the file and turned to leave.

Li Mansion.

Li Nuo had just comforted An Ning. When he walked to the yard, he found Butler Wu walking in with a file in his hand.

He was stunned for a moment and asked, "Did you find out so quickly?"

He knew that Mirror Division was very efficient, but it couldn't be that fast, right?

This whole thing didn't even last an hour...

Butler Wu said: "It does take a lot of time to investigate the officials of the East Palace one by one, but the few people the young master asked to investigate later will not be so troublesome..."

Li Nuo took the file he handed over and returned to the room to open it.

Contained in this file is an investigation report.

Investigation reports on Gu Wenhan, Wu Zongguang, Zheng Tianxing, He Dong, and Xu Zhi.

Li Nuo's guess was correct. The reason why these four officials were promoted so quickly was because someone was behind them.

Zheng Tianxing's business is so big, and there are noble people behind him to help him.

Although they went through several circles in order to deceive others, the Mirror Division followed the clues and eliminated all confusion and misleading actions, and finally found the real person behind the scenes.

Jing Zhaoyin and the King of Han.

Li Nuo looked at the conclusion on the paper and felt a little confused.

He thought it was King You, but after searching, he found King Han again...

King Han and King You are the oldest and most powerful among the princes. They have the support of aristocratic families and are surrounded by officials in the court. If both of them are involved in the murder of the prince...

Didn’t King Chun take off directly?