Reincarnated vassal system

Gu Huai, the champion of the new discipline who was newly released years ago, because he won the first place in the Sanyuan Dynasty, he was unparalleled for a while. People from Huajing gave him the nickname "Gu Sanyuan". Now he is a student in the Imperial Academy. Positive six products.

This official is really not very big in the capital, but according to previous years, the number one scholar is usually compiled by a historian of the sixth grade. Gu Huai raised the rank a little because the emperor praised him for his youth and talent. It is two grades higher than the candidates of the same year.

It's not easy to get a compliment from the emperor, let's not express it here, the Imperial Academy is the palace in the minds of many scholars in the world. Among them, Gu Huai's starting point for his official career is not low due to his qualifications.

At this time, Gu Shidu, who had an extremely bright future, was rushing to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, in order to help his colleague, friend, and relative Shen Lin who is a thousand miles away.The hatred in Gu Huai's eyes flashed when he thought of a certain adult he might meet soon.No matter how great the future is, in the hands of some people, it is just a small ant that can be easily crushed to death.

In today's Ministry of Punishment, Mr. Shang Shu is over sixty years old and has been in the officialdom of Da Shang for many years. He has always been in the world. Generous and kind.But now it's a job, if it doesn't work well, it may be that he won't be able to retire properly at that time, the boss naturally can't take this risk, he just planned to find a cannon fodder to take the post, but today Li Gang, the right servant of the Ministry of punishment, slipped away really fast , There is no way but to entrust the important task to Shen Lin.

The case was decided by Shen Lin as the presiding judge. The Dali Temple and the clan's mansion fully agreed with it, and it was just a matter of celebrating.

It has to be said that Shen Lin is definitely an excellent candidate to take the blame. He is not a senior official or a young official. He has the ability to become an official and worship the third rank, but he has a strong background. After all, not everyone has an old town. The grandfather of the Duke, not to mention his father who commanded the imperial army, uncle of the Duke of Zhen, aunt of the eldest princess, and aunt of the Queen Yuan.

In the backstage, anyway, many colleagues would not believe that Shen Lin would be severely punished if he messed up his job. Naturally, at this time, there would be no short-sighted guy jumping out and saying that Shen Lin was related to Prince Rui and should avoid suspicion. .

Of course, although everyone was annoyed that those guys in the Inspectorate were too provocative, they also knew that this matter was probably a big oolong. Shen Lin only needed to be responsible for tearing the letter away from Prince Rui, but they didn't expect that this matter was really serious. So simple.

When Gu Huai arrived at the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Shen Lin was standing in front of the copywriting with a gloomy face, and there were two people standing beside him, one in official uniform and the other in civilian clothing.The person in the official uniform saw Gu Huai first, and immediately put on a smile on his face, "It turns out that Gu Sanyuan is here, so I am really disappointed!"

This person is Li Gang, the Right Servant of the Ministry of Punishment, and Gu Huai has known him a few times. This person has always been smooth and smooth, and has a daughter who is quite favored in the palace.For such a warm reception, Gu Huai sneered in his heart, and after a short pause, he bowed in return, "Master Li is polite, just call him by his first name."

While speaking, he cast his gaze at Shen Lin, but saw that he frowned slightly, and shook his head at himself.Gu Huai's heart trembled, but Li Shilang went straight over and led Gu Huai to the side of the case, introducing him to people in civilian clothes. "Then I will ask you, how about calling Gu Xiandi?" Without waiting for Gu Huai to answer, "Gu Xiandi, today I will introduce you to this Mr. Guo. Mr. Guo is very proficient in calligraphy. Potentiality has many insights to talk about."

The Taige style is the official style of the Dashang Dynasty. It pays attention to squareness and uprightness. Gu Huai thought of someone who used the Taige style to perfection. "I've looked up to him for a long time," he said to Mr. Guo, who was always sitting on the chair and never stood up. "I think this is Mr. Guo, the great talent who is known as the "No. [-] Talent in Beijing."

Hearing that this talented Guo just raised his hand, "Where, I can't compare to Gu Sanyuan's reputation."

The attitude of this talented Guo is really bad, and of course he can't get better.This person has always been known for his arrogance in the literati circle in the capital. He became famous when he was young, and he once said that if he took the imperial examination, he would get three yuan directly.Sanyuan Jidi has always been a good talk, and no one has won this honor since the establishment of the Shang Dynasty—no, there is now, but it is not a great talent of Guo.

Guo Dacai disappeared from the sight of everyone in the capital after Gu Huai Sanyuan and his death. Judging from this situation, it seems that he became a famous master in the Ministry of Punishment.

Seeing that the greetings were over, Shen Lin was planning to find an excuse to let Gu Huai leave. Unexpectedly, Li Shilang took the first step, "Brother Gu Xian is here to help Mr. Shen investigate the case? Mr. Shen is really clever. Brother Gu Xian is such a talented man, Li admires him, so let Gu Xian brother take a look at the evidence in this case?"

"My lord Li, thank you." The relationship between Shen Lin and his colleague was obviously very bad. "The handwriting on this letter will have to be read by Master Gu." As he spoke, he turned sideways, revealing the items on the copybook.

Shen Lin's complexion was really bad. Gu Huai guessed that something happened before he arrived, but at this moment he didn't think about it. He approached the table and looked at the letters spread out on the table.

This is the letter found on the body of the deceased in yesterday's murder case. There are still some dark and unknown stains on it, probably accidentally stained with blood, but the content on it surprised Gu Huai.

"...The Son of Heaven doesn't allow it. If you don't want to be a king or a father, if you don't seek to be superior, how can you seek for yourself?"

Just these [-] short words caused Gu Huai's heart to stir up huge waves, and he thought everything through in an instant.It turns out that the target of this case is not Prince Rui, but a certain prince, no wonder... no wonder!

No wonder that in just half a day, a small murder case became a household name in the capital, and the corpses were lying in the inner streets of the imperial city. It was impossible to hide it. The Jingzhao Mansion knew the contents of the letter, but dared not take the responsibility of suing the prince for wrongdoing. So he simply made a big fuss, in order to directly reach Tianting, so that the case could be handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the responsibility could be easily shrugged off.

However, Li Shilang and Guo's great talent could directly apply to the emperor for the prince's handwriting based on the content of the letter, but they had to wait to come to Gu Huai because they did not want to bear the responsibility of questioning the prince. .

No wonder Shen Lin's complexion is so ugly, he probably didn't expect the content of the letter to be so straightforward, this handwriting is short of telling everyone that the person who discussed the rebellion with Prince Rui is the third child of the Emperor's family!

Third prince, you are so unobtrusive in the content of the secret letter discussing the rebellion, how manly it is!

The third prince, Shang Xuanchu, fits the description in the letter that "the Son of Heaven does not allow it". This person is indeed not liked by the emperor, as you can tell from this letter.This bad handwriting was also the reason why Gu Huai recognized the letter as the so-called "Third Prince's handwriting" at a glance.The emperor really couldn't like this third son if he couldn't make it.

But even if they were not the emperor's favorite prince, no one dared to rush up and bombard the third prince like they bombarded Prince Rui.Not to mention that the third prince is deeply loved by the queen mother, the difference in severity between "the prince's rebellion" and "the son's rebellion" can completely calm down the censors who love to sue.

As an emperor, he naturally hates rebellion, but his son's rebellion is definitely a taboo for emperors. No matter what the situation ends, outsiders can rarely please him by interfering in the royal family's affairs.

Gu Huai looked at the letter in front of him for a long time, then took out a blank letterhead, flattened it with a paperweight, and took a brush, dipped his sleeve in the ink, and immediately started to write.

Shen Lin was shocked when he saw that the contents of the original letter were gradually written on a piece of blank letter paper, and even the subtle turning of the pen tip was the same.

As a member of the Zhen Guogong family with a long history of martial arts, Shen Lin is completely a top figure in the family who speaks with a pen. Now seeing this scene, and seeing the expression of "this is nothing special" on the face of Guo Dacai, I immediately understand It turns out that the literati circle still needs to master such high-end technology!

Don't you know that Guo Dacai was quite annoyed at this time, literati and poets naturally knew how to imitate handwriting, but it was not easy to imitate the outline essence of a word with just a few glances.Besides, this letter was originally in his hands, but after a few glances, he was sure that it was written by the third prince.After all, the content of the letter is right there, and the word is extremely ugly. You don't need to compare it to know that only the third prince who spends his days joking around with flowers and birds can write it.

In the end, Li Shilang said that the result of the appraisal could not be obtained from their mouths, and instead asked Gu Huai to say this, he was not happy in his heart.However, he also probably knew the seriousness of the matter, but there was still some displeasure on his face.

After a few breaths, Gu Huai copied the entire contents of the letter again, looked up and looked around, and felt that the light in the room was a bit dim, remembering that it was almost twilight at this time.He lightly raised his hand to brush over the newly completed ink blot, then waited for it to dry naturally, took the original letter paper and walked to the window, and picked it upright to let the sun set in the west shine through the letter paper.

"Brother Gu Xian, is this...?" Li Shilang asked puzzled.

"In the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Xu Xuan in the south of the Yangtze River. He was good at small seal characters. Looking at it in the sun, there was a thick ink in the center of the painting, which was right in it." Gu Huai explained slowly. Looking at the strokes in the letter, "When you see these characters, you can clearly see the center of each stroke under the sun. There is no deviation in a stroke of thick ink. fold."

Shen Lin naturally saw the difference in the shades of ink under the light, but half-learned scholars didn't quite understand it. "What does this mean?"

"This method of writing comes from a method called '竵碗' [Note], which cannot be mastered by non-experienced calligraphers." Gu Huai pondered, "Although I have never seen the handwriting of the third prince, I imitate it according to this method. In this way, it is expected that the third prince's calligraphy is not very exquisite."

Shen Guoqi, who is quite familiar with the royal family, feels that Gu Huai's words are too reserved. If this handwriting is really displayed in the palace, anyone can recognize it as the handwriting of the third prince. After all, the ugly and special handwriting is not human. Anyone can write it.However, according to Gu Huai's meaning, "But this word is indeed the same as the third prince's usual handwriting."

"The font is the same, but each person practices calligraphy differently, and the difference between the strokes can still be distinguished." Gu Huai picked up the letter he had imitated before, "Because I have been learning the willow style of everyone since I was a child, and I am used to writing in the willow style. Feel free to shift the stroke left and right, but it can also imitate the font of the third prince."

Guo Dacai added a sentence in his heart, it was because the characters of the third prince were too ugly.

"So, the most urgent thing is to find the person who wrote the letter?" Shen Lin felt his eyes light up, but then his eyes darkened again. "But the capital is so big, where can we find it?"

"The top priority," Gu Huai smiled, "Naturally, I would like to ask Li Shilang to ask His Majesty to compare the handwriting of the prince in the palace one by one."

Li Gang was hit by an assignment inexplicably, and was about to say no, when Shen Lin came to his senses, and immediately opened his mouth to give up the job.

"That's right, Lord Li, Lord Shangshu ordered me to preside over this matter, and the personnel of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs are dispatched by me. It's a pity that I am busy with affairs and cannot handle everything personally, and the rest of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs cannot face Your Majesty directly. I can only trouble Lord Li to file a letter on this matter. " After finishing speaking, Li Gang did not give Li Gang a chance to refute, "It's getting late, everyone should leave early, go home and rest."

After speaking, he pulled Gu Huai up and left quickly, leaving Li Shilang and Guo Dacai looking at each other.

The author has something to say: Note: 竵 [wāi] plaque method, from "Mengxi Bi Tan", written by Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty.