After offending all the princes

The things Xie Chun sent were very miscellaneous and not easy to store, so Xuanhe tidied them up himself.There is everything in the box, and some gadgets are really interesting, Xuanhe will stop and study after looking at them.

Xuanhe took a grasshopper and studied it for a long time before confirming that it really can't scream or move, there is no mechanism on it, it's just an ordinary grasshopper, it's not that there is no such thing in the palace, but it The ones in the middle are too delicate, none of the ones Xuanhe had seen in his childhood was so crude.

Although these small objects are crude, they are full of childishness. Xuanhe also found a clay puppet in the box. This clay figure is rougher than a grasshopper, and the two eyes are actually asymmetrical. I don't know where Xie Chun found it.

In addition to these ordinary gadgets that can be seen everywhere on the street, there are also many jade products, basically warm jade, and the quality is not bad. Xuanhe recalled, is there a jade mine near Liangzhou?

There is also an unattractive chess box, Xuanhe looked around but did not see the second box, what do you mean?Send only one box of chess pieces?

Xuan He opened the chess box and took a look, it was a white chess, why is it a white chess again?He closed the box and was about to put it back when he suddenly realized something and grabbed a handful of chess pieces from the box.

Suet white jade.

At this moment, he thought he was wrong, looked carefully at the light, and groped for a moment with his fingertips, it was true.

Xuanhe couldn't believe it. Could all the 180 chess pieces be made of Hetian jade seeds?He looked at the gift list and was sure it only said: A box of chess pieces.

Who knew it was such a box of chess pieces?

Some people seem to be so poor that they even save money on clothes, but in fact they can take out a whole box of suet white jade without saying a word.

Suet white jade is nothing, but taking out 180 seeds just to make a chess set, Xuanhe can't do such a thing.

The birthday gift he asked Lin An to prepare was nothing more than routine, but what Xie Chun sent, not to mention the priceless chess set, just those odds and ends, I don't know how much thought was put into it.

A comparison shows that he is a bit perfunctory and not equivalent.

However, there is no difference between them. If you can't figure it out, don't forget it.Now it was too late to make amends, he naturally knew what Xie Chun meant by sending him the invitation.

It's nothing more than waiting for him to say: happy birthday, just like when I was young.

Xuanhe gathered the chess pieces so that someone could move them to the warehouse.

No matter what Xie Chun did or wanted to do, Xuanhe always felt that if it was unintentional, it should not give people the illusion and delay people for nothing.

Can't go there in person, why don't you write a letter?Write a greeting card.

Xuanhe took out a piece of incensed letterhead from the drawer and wrote happy birthday, but regretted it after stamping it.

He threw the letter back into the drawer again. Guilt and pity are both unacceptable. If you want to make people give up, you have to be thorough.

This morning meeting is a little different from the usual.

The small court meeting in summer is usually held under the gate of Qianqing Palace. In the hall, the emperor sits facing south, and the officials stand facing north.

Usually only real-time officials participate in the small court meeting, but today there are a few people who may not be able to meet in the big court meeting.

Several princes and King Baojun are there.

Before the emperor arrived, all the adults looked at each other in blank dismay, what happened?

The sun rises early in summer, so the sky is bright at this time, but Xuanhe is still a little sleepy.

It's not too early for the court meeting to officially start, but the courtiers are not the emperor, and the meeting place is right in front of their house.All the adults have to get up early in the morning and rush to the palace, and then wait outside the palace gate, and then everyone will line up to come in together when the time comes.

Those who have the money to buy a house in the imperial city are fine, but those who can't afford it may have to wake up in the middle of the night.

The county prince's mansion is not far from the imperial palace, and he came here on the spur of the moment. In fact, he didn't wake up too early, but since he stood still, he kept yawning one after another.

Xuanhe stood with several princes, and Xie Chun was in front of him. I heard that they have been here every day recently?

King Yan's Mansion is farther away than him, but it looks very energetic.

The Xiaochaohui is like a routine morning meeting. The leaders of various government offices hand in the memorial and then state the key affairs. The highest official position of the six ministers is the minister, but two of the six ministers are elders of the cabinet. Naturally, there is no need to report on their own work, so the six ministers are ordinary. The left and right servants take turns acting as agents.

Today, the Ministry of Punishment is a little different. When it was the Emperor's turn to take out the documents that the Ministry of Punishment had handed over just now, Lord Qin, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, personally stood up and pleaded guilty, saying: "Four days ago, the Ministry of Punishment ran into water at night and burned some of the old files. The truth is that the night watchman set the fire unintentionally, and all those involved have been dealt with."

At the end of the speech, Master Qin bowed down and said: "The old minister is not strict in his rule, please forgive me."

Xuanhe felt that what Mr. Qin said was interesting, but he didn't have the slightest intention to go into it when the fire happened so coincidentally. He believed it when the watchman accidentally burned it, and the burned file was just an old file, which was an understatement. In the past, there was no mention of the physical evidence he sent.

The emperor didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with Mr. Qin's statement, but Xuanhe knew that he was waiting for others to speak out. He had always been a king who sat firmly on the Diaoyutai.

Sure enough, the third prince stood up and spoke after the official reports were completed.

The adults standing below all winked at each other: here we come.

Xie Run came out and said loudly: "I have something to play."

"speak."

"Four days ago, the files were burnt in the Ministry of Punishment. This is an old matter investigated by the seventh younger brother Tuo Erchen recently. In addition, the physical evidence just sent by the younger brother Xuan was also burned."

"Successful?"

Master Qin came out in response, and was about to argue with the third prince, when Xuan He suddenly said: "The court meeting has been going on for a long time, and His Majesty hasn't had breakfast yet, why don't we postpone the discussion?"

He was the only one who dared to say such a thing, but the emperor was still useful, and he really just broke up like this.

The emperor left first, the ministers stood for a while and then dispersed, others went out, but Xuanhe walked in, no one stopped him, but he caught up with Yujia in a moment.

Xuanhe approached and called out: "Daddy."

A smile appeared on the emperor's face: "Are you willing to get up early today?"

Xuan He acted like a good boy: "The breakfast in the palace is delicious."

They have a tacit agreement that they will not mention the matters of the upward direction.

Xuanhe never let go of the matter of intercepting and killing Mr. Qiu. Half a year later, he still wanted to investigate, but he hardly mentioned it in front of the emperor.

Mr. Qiu came to Beijing to save the emperor's life. In that case, intercepting Mr. Qiu is no different from killing the king, and the person behind it is probably a certain prince. No matter what the relationship between the emperor and them is, they are all father and son. .

Xuanhe didn't want to mention these things more, for fear that the emperor's father would be sad. He is the emperor, so there is no place to talk about how sad he is.

Xuanhe only thought that power was harmful to others, and he had a bad relationship with his own father, but he would never wish for death, because there was no imperial power among them after all.

The emperor's breakfast was changed every five days, and there were [-] imperial meals in total. It was not extravagant, but it was definitely not enough for one person to finish, and there was no need to add it when Xuanhe came.

The breakfast of the father and son is always casual, the emperor remembered that he dragged the seventh and Xuanhe into the water just now, which was a bit unexpected.

Are these three children standing together?

"Have you gotten close to the third child recently?"

Xuan He blew on a soup dumpling and stuffed it into his mouth. At this time, he shook his head with puffed cheeks.

After the matter of the fifth child, the emperor completely let go. The relationship between Xuanhe and them has been like this for more than ten years. It cannot be changed overnight, so it is better to let him go.

Since the third and the seventh are all standing together, the second child is probably involved in this matter.

Now it seems that Xie Chun is probably really interested in Xuanhe, at least it won't hurt his life.As for the third child, in the long run, I am afraid that Xuanhe will not be tolerated.

The emperor only asked a question and didn't say much. After breakfast, he walked with Xuanhe and made a detour to the study.

Master Qin continued what Xuanhe had just interrupted, and explained to the third prince: "In general cases, the criminal department only reviews after the case is closed, and after the review is correct, the evidence will be sealed together with various files. Now the case has not yet been tried. It should be sent directly to the Ministry of Punishment."

The implication is that if you don't follow the rules to collect things, you will be unlucky if you burn them now.

Master Su, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, was a little surprised at first why the third prince wanted to kiss him to discuss matters together, but when he heard this, he suddenly thought of the "evidence" sent by King Baojun that day.

He didn't know that Xie Run himself didn't know about it, but this matter was about to be interrogated by the three divisions, so he invited all the adults from the third division.

"Coincidentally, King Baojun also sent physical evidence to Dali Temple. It's a set of black clothes. I wonder if it's the same as the one from the Ministry of Punishment?"

They didn't expect Xuanhe to send them to both places.

Old God Xuan is here: "Isn't this the joint trial of the three divisions? There are only two pieces of clothes, so it's not good to send them to Yushitai, so I sent them to the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple."

He said it nicely, he made two preparations, but he couldn't believe both of them. Among them, he had even more doubts about the Ministry of Punishment.

Xuan He looked very surprised: "I didn't expect that someone would dare to set fire in the Ministry of Punishment..."

Master Qin corrected him: "Your Majesty, it was an accident to get out of the water."

Xuan He followed the good advice and immediately changed his words: "I never thought that someone would accidentally burn down third brother's house."

Lord Qin: "..."

The Censor of Zuodu and Mr. Wang deserved to be a cabinet minister, he was calmer than the other two, and he asked aloud when he now understood what was going on: "Dare to ask the county prince, what kind of case requires the three divisions to hear it? "

"It was about killing old Qiu earlier."

Master Wang asked: "If the old minister's memory is correct, the case is closed."

Also disposed of a prince.

But Xuan He said: "It's only half of the knot. There were more than one group of people who intercepted and killed Mr. Qiu. The second group is more difficult to deal with than the first group."

The masterminds behind the first batch of people were charged with murdering the emperor, so naturally the second batch had to do the same.

In this way, it is indeed another trial by three divisions.

The last time the case was not difficult to investigate, the Shuntian Mansion had already found out the result, and the delay in handling it was only due to the emperor's attitude, this time it might not be so easy to investigate.

However, Yushitai is generally a supervisor, and investigating cases is the business of Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

When Master Wang understood the matter, he cupped his hands and thanked him, and stepped aside and did not speak again.

The emperor sat on the throne, and waited until they had finished their discussion before saying: "The three divisions will interrogate and find out the truth within one month. The third child, Xuanhe, you all cooperate."

So Xuanhe asked Qian Yi to go to Dali Temple to cooperate with the investigation of the case.

Although it was a joint trial by the three divisions, the presiding judge was still Dali Temple, the Ministry of Criminal Justice assisted in the investigation, and Yushitai was mainly responsible for supervising the investigation.

Xuanhe found Chang Xuan when he was idle at home, Qian Yi didn't count, he had to look again.

Chang Xuan is now in his early forties and unmarried, but unlike General Wei, he has an adopted son. He lost his mother when he was young, and his father died on the battlefield. Chang Xuan found someone to raise him as his son.

At the beginning, Chang Xuan came back to Beijing with General Wei and went to the Xuanhe Mansion as the commander of the personal guards. He was originally full of ambitions, but he didn't expect Xuanhe to leave him without sending the personal guards of the mansion to General Wei.

Later, Xuanhe helped resettle many disabled and retired soldiers, and he realized that he was just a "good deed every day" of the county prince.

I don't know why I came to him again now.

Xuanhe was not in a hurry to talk about serious matters, but just chatted with him every day, asking about Liangzhou's affairs, Chang Xuan just talked casually, he tried to avoid the battlefield and talk about customs and customs, so as not to frighten the little county king.

But Xuanhe was just interested in things on the battlefield, so Chang Xuan couldn't bear it and said something.

"One time, His Royal Highness King Yan discovered the remnants of the Hu army, and led six of them to set a trap, capturing more than twenty enemy soldiers."

Chang Xuan is a military general, and he is dry when he tells stories. The thrilling and exciting things make him talk in a casual and ordinary way. He probably thinks so himself, and adds: "The other day after His Royal Highness King Yan left, the general said He's a natural talent."

Xuanhe suddenly realized that General Wei came back a year after Xie Chun went to Liangzhou, that is to say, Xie Chun was only 15 years old at the time?

"Xie Chun... I mean King Yan, he joined the army as soon as he arrived in Liangzhou?"

Is this the storyline in the book?Xuanhe couldn't remember, he only remembered that the magistrate of Liangzhou died on the way to take office at that time, and Yan Wangfu temporarily took over Liangzhou under the order of General Wei.

"At first we all thought that King Yan was here to make some meritorious deeds, and he would return to Beijing soon. The soldiers fought the enemy from birth to death. Naturally, we didn't like this kind of behavior. The general was not polite. When he said he wanted to join the army, the general Then he said: "You can join the army. If you can read, start as a corps leader.""

"He really started as a corporal?"

"Yes."

Chang Xuan found that the prince seemed to be particularly interested in King Yan, so he said another thing: "His Highness King Yan has been promoted very quickly, and he can make meritorious service in every confrontation. When he was promoted to uncle, he still led the team on tour every day. Once again, he discovered the treasure that the Seventh Prince wanted to collect, and the general asked him to pick one and keep it."

He smiled embarrassedly when he said this: "Well, the confiscated treasures will be awarded one or two rewards before they are listed."

One is to encourage and the other is to prevent private embezzlement.

Xuan He naturally understood, nodded and urged him to continue, and Chang Xuan continued to tell him: "His Royal Highness Yan Wang picked a chess box."

When Xuanhe heard the word chess box, he thought of the one written on the gift list sent by Xie Chun: a box of chess pieces.He unconsciously held his breath and listened to Chang Xuan.

Chang Xuan said that the voice finally had obvious ups and downs: "Brothers said that he was lucky but he didn't know how to pick things. The chess box looks ordinary, and any one of the treasures is worth more than that, humble job!" I think, perhaps His Royal Highness Yan Wang sees too many good things, so he doesn't pay attention to such vulgar things."

Xuan He thought to himself that you don't know what kind of life he lived in the palace, he had a guess in his mind and couldn't wait to ask for proof, so he asked: "Could it be that there is something special about this chess piece?"

Chang Xuan took advantage of the situation and complimented: "Your Majesty knows things like a god." Then he continued: "When His Royal Highness King Yan heard everyone laughing, he lifted the lid of the chess box with a long wooden/cang, pointed to the box of chess pieces and said: 'This It's suet white jade, I just want this box of chess.'"

Xuanhe finally found out where Xie Chun's box of chess came from. It turned out to be a trophy.

There was some subtlety in his heart, Xie Chun said that those things he had accumulated over the years were gifts for him, and this box of chess pieces was among them.

Xie Chun didn't give it away after he arrived in the capital, but he was ready to give it to him as soon as he got the chess piece, and he didn't even change the chess box.

This box of chess pieces is more than 10 taels.

And if what he expected was right, Prince Yan's Mansion was not well off.