Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Sizheng stood up immediately, and put his hands covered with dirt and grass behind his back: "Go back to the prince, the minister is here..."

The Eighth Wise King sized him up from head to toe: "I haven't seen you for a few days, why are you stuttering?"

Si Zheng pulled out a smile: "I didn't, I just... blew a little cold wind..."

The Eighth Sage King turned his head and glanced at Master Liu of Qin Tianjian: "You two come out together to enjoy the cold wind?"

Master Liu also nodded in cold sweat: "Go back to the lord, I have a bit of a headache sitting on the boat, so I took Master Zhao out to blow some air."

The Eighth Sage King smiled: "I can't find a good place to blow the wind."

He looked around, a little sad: "Here... oh."

This is where the emperor's mausoleum is located. The emperor was his elder brother. The man has passed away and the mausoleum is empty. How can one not feel sad.

Sizheng hurriedly said: "I have walked around and my mind is much clearer. I am going back to the palace now."

Although he is not from the royal family of Taizong Taizong, but in the final analysis, he is also a relative of the current emperor who has not been out of five clothes, and the emperor will call him uncle.Now the emperor brings people to Gong County to worship the ancestors, and he justifiably lives with them in the palace.

The Baxian King said: "This king just came out of the palace to look for you, and you are going back to the palace. Isn't this a coincidence?"

Sizheng said: "I don't know why the prince is looking for an official?"

The Baxian King said: "It's not a big deal, it's my son's marriage. The daughter of the family who was appointed before has become a monk and cannot be married. It just so happens that my nephew is also getting married recently. The princess and this king are planning to do it for me again. My son found a good family and arranged the marriage of the two children together, which is also a joy on top of happiness... What is that?"

It is Sizheng's duty to be in charge of the royal family's weddings and funerals. As soon as the Baxian King mentioned this, Sizheng's attention was attracted. Miss, but saw the eight virtuous king's eyes look over his shoulder and landed on the grass behind him.

Oops!

Temple is cold hands and feet.

The burrow has been discovered!

The Eighth Sage King pushed away Sizheng who was still trying to stop him, walked to the front of the robbery cave, knelt down, and brushed away the weeds covering it, revealing the dark entrance of the cave.

Can't go wrong...

He closed his eyes, his hands trembled, and his heart was filled with desolation.

When the emperor showed him the heavenly book, he was still lucky. Maybe Zhao Jue didn't go crazy enough to dig up the tomb of the late emperor. He might have forged the book that day.

but……

The Baxian King stood up, turned his head to look at Zongzheng Temple Sizheng, his voice was as cold as ice: "Master Sizheng, what is this?"

Si Zheng clenched his teeth, his face turned purple, and he knelt down at the feet of the Eighth Wise King with a plop, clutching the hem of his clothes tightly: "Your Majesty, save me!"

In the post station, Kou Zhun copied the last stroke of the memorial presented to the emperor, rubbed the center of his brows, suddenly felt palpitations, and felt a chill in his back.

Ouyang Chun jumped off the beam, and supported him with a worried face: "My lord? What's wrong with you?"

The last time he was tricked by someone to lure the tiger away from the mountains, he almost told those Xixia people to kill Di Qing and kidnap Li Yuanhao outside Bianliang City, wasting their efforts for more than a year.Since then, he has learned from the painful experience and never dared to leave Kou Zhun's side.

Kou Zhun waved his hand: "Nothing."

Just some very bad premonition.

He has been immersed in officialdom for almost 40 years. Sometimes, a momentary hunch is always more accurate than a careful and careful speculation.

What the hell...what the hell happened...

Kou Zhun said: "Martyr Ouyang, please trouble..."

Just as he was about to say something, he saw one of his servants rushing in from outside, sweating profusely: "Master, something serious happened!"

Kou Zhun asked him, "What's wrong?"

The servant glanced at Ouyang Chun, Ouyang Chun listened attentively, and said, "No one."

The servant then said: "The Baxian King just came back from the imperial mausoleum. He wants to meet the officials. There is an urgent matter. Eunuch Liu said that the officials have just rested and asked the prince to come back tomorrow. The prince is in a hurry. What should I say?" Son of man, let the officials see him immediately, otherwise it will be extremely unfilial..."

Ouyang Chun was startled and said, "Is the Eighth Wise King crazy?"

Although he is a man of the quack, he has been with Kou Zhun for some years, and he still knows who the Eight Worthy Kings are.The current emperor's own father, the one who usually doesn't care about world affairs, why is he making such a fuss at the moment when the emperor worships his ancestors?

What about filial piety to the emperor... His identity is so sensitive, it is actually a taboo to talk about filial piety.

The servant said: "That's the thing. Now that the officials have seen the Eight Wise Kings, sir, they don't know what's going to happen. Our side..."

Kou Zhun said, "Wait and see what happens."

Why the Eight Sage Kings and the Emperor suddenly performed this drama in front of people is still open to discussion.

That's right, he decided almost instantly that the Eight Sage Kings and the emperor were just playing.

The Eighth Sage King is not such a bluffing temper, nor is he a person who likes to show off his status as the emperor - if he was such a person, the late emperor would not have adopted his son as an adopted son.Even if he adopted his son as an adopted son, the first emperor would take him away with him before he died.

Even if Emperor Xian did not want to take him away, Kou Zhun and Liu E would send him away with Emperor Xian.

But the Eight Sage Kings are naturally aloof from the world, and they don't pose much threat to anyone.So his behavior today must be a play.

Then who exactly cooperated with him in this scene...

Who else but the emperor?

What is the purpose of the emperor?

Kou Zhun suddenly raised his head: "You said, the Eighth Sage King came back from the imperial tomb before he went to the palace to ask to see the emperor?"

The servant nodded hurriedly: "Yes, it is said that Zongzheng Temple is surveying the land at the Imperial Tomb, and the Eighth Sage King happened to have something to do with Sizheng, so he went to the Imperial Tomb to look for him, and that's it when he came back."

"Zongzheng Sizheng..." Kou Zhun murmured, "Sizheng went to the imperial mausoleum less than half a day after disembarking. He is a person who is good at showing off and earning credit. Going to the imperial mausoleum is either crying for the emperor's grave." Look, either there is business to do..."

Sizheng is not a descendant of the Zhao family from Xuanzu's line, and none of the buried in the imperial tomb is his ancestors.If he went to cry at the grave, it would only appear that his mind was not pure, and he was climbing the dragon and the phoenix.

Either to cry the grave, or to do serious things.

He is a Zongzheng temple, what serious things can he do when he goes to the imperial mausoleum?

... The emperor asked someone to ship a batch of bones of the clan to Gong County for burial. Among them was Taizong's son, Zhao Jue, King of Xiangyang who died in Yingtian last year.

Zhao Jue's status is noble, and it is worthy of his temple that he personally chooses the place to bury his bones.

Kou Zhun said slowly: "Did the emperor say before that King Xiangyang is the younger brother of the late emperor, and his mausoleum will be built near the mausoleum of the late emperor?"

The servant thought for a while, then nodded: "It is true."

Kou Zhun turned to Ouyang Chun and said, "Master Ouyang, I need to trouble you."

Ouyang Chun hurriedly said, "My lord, please give me instructions."

Kou Zhun said: "It's getting dark now, please trouble Ouyang Yishi to go to the imperial tomb to check and see if there are guards nearby. If there are guards, don't be alarmed and find out what they are guarding. Be sure to hurry up." .”

Ouyang Chun said, "Okay."

He usually wears a dark shirt with narrow sleeves, so he doesn't need to change into his night clothes at this time, as he disappears into the night as soon as he moves.

Kou Zhun leaned on his seat and said softly: "The big thing is not good..."

The emperor was determined to take him under the knife, and he understood that.

It's just that he is getting more and more uncertain about the emperor's way.

This is not a good sign.

Ouyang Chun is worthy of being the Bei Xia who has no rivals in the arena nowadays. Kou Zhun counted the time, and he came back in less than half an hour.

After returning, he said to Kou Zhun: "There are indeed people guarding the imperial mausoleum with open flames. I'm afraid that others will not know what happened inside."

Kou Zhun laughed: "Since it's a play, if you don't let others know about it, what kind of play is it?"

Ouyang Chun said: "Many officials and clans have received the news and sent people to inquire about the situation. The guards are either ambiguous or say they have no comment. There are still some people who are secretly spreading the news. There are all of them, and there are even those who say that the ancestors are manifesting spirits, it seems that someone deliberately muddied the water. I went to the inside of the emperor's tomb, and there was a robbery hole near the tomb of the first emperor."

Kou Zhun sighed, "Sure enough!"

Sure enough, there was a problem with the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.

Burrow...

Even if he didn't understand the lingo of Mojin captains, he should understand the word "pirate".

The Mausoleum of the First Emperor was stolen.

No wonder the eight virtuous kings ran to the emperor and said that he was not filial. The tomb of the emperor's father was stolen. Isn't the emperor extremely unfilial!

He regained his composure.

The Mausoleum of the First Emperor was stolen, and the emperor should have gotten the news a long time ago.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that the Eighth Sage King went to the imperial tomb for business, and then found out that the tomb of the first emperor was stolen?

But what purpose did the emperor want to achieve with this matter?

Mausoleum of the First Emperor, Mausoleum of the First Emperor...

Someone must take responsibility for the theft of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.

The tomb robbers couldn't be found for a while, so the officials who were in charge of repairing the mausoleum had to be responsible.

When the first emperor passed away, it was...

...it's Xia Song.

Xia and Song.

Kou Zhun read the name again.

Of course he is familiar with this name.Later, he became his right-hand man, succeeding Yan Shu as the Deputy Privy Envoy.

Back then, the Empress Dowager was still in the party, and because she listened to the eunuch Lei Yungong's suggestion, she moved the location of the emperor's mausoleum to the north by a hundred steps.

Then the emperor's tomb leaked, and the queen mother was furious, and Xia Song turned to him.

He spoke for Xia Song in the court hall, saying that the eunuch Lei Yungong should be responsible for all this matter. Xia Song is just a person who doesn't know people clearly, so he has downgraded his official rank by two levels and still stays in Beijing to serve.

Since then, Xia Song has been branded as Kou Gongdang.

I don't know people...

Kou Zhun almost wanted to laugh.

At the beginning, Xia Song presided over the construction of the imperial tomb, and he believed Lei Yungong's words, which caused the imperial tomb to leak. He defended him, saying that he just didn't know people clearly.

Now Xia Song, whom Kou Zhun is protecting, has finished repairing the emperor's mausoleum, which was stolen by tomb robbers within five years.

Kou Zhun, I'm afraid he has to wear a hat that doesn't know people clearly.

He let out a long sigh, got up and said: "Let's go, go to the palace to see the official."

Ouyang Chun asked, "What are you doing there?"

Kou Zhun said: "Apology. Say I don't know people clearly. Please punish me."