"Long live the emperor, long live!"

Xu Chenlun walked past the civil officials and generals kneeling on the ground on both sides, and walked straight to the dragon chair that symbolized supremacy.

"Everyone loves to be flat."

"If you have something to play, if you have nothing to do, you will leave the court—" Eunuch Li's high-pitched voice resounded throughout the hall.

"The minister has played!"

Upon hearing this familiar voice, many ministers quietly raised their heads to glance at the emperor sitting on the seat.The person presenting the performance is called Pei Mao, who is in his early forties this year, but he is extremely pedantic and ignorant. When the late emperor was alive, he had contradicted him many times, which made the late emperor displeased. Therefore, Pei Mao has been in the officialdom for more than ten years, and he is still the same today. An official has not been promoted, and he is a petty official.

At present, he is the one who opposes Mu Zecang the most. Sometimes Xu Chenlun is so angry that he doesn't even want to eat lunch.Every time Mu Zecang saw him angry like a puffer fish, he was both funny and heartbroken, and once advised him to be more generous and not to be angry with his courtiers.

Xu Chenlun is very reasonable at this time, my father can't get used to him, what's wrong with me being angry with him?He didn't demote him.

Tang Taizong couldn't be more angry than Wei Zheng, bluntly said that one day he will kill that country bumpkin, but I am much more magnanimous than him.Xu Chenlun muttered.It's a pity that this dynasty is empty, and there is no such person as Tang Taizong in history.

After all, Xu Chenlun still loves and hates Pei Mao's stinky temperament. Such a person can speak up and give advice. Although he is old-fashioned, his heart is not bad. neutral position.

But sometimes it's annoying, like now.

"...□□The harem...shelters the criminals...so I dare to speak up, I hope His Majesty will take this traitor into custody as soon as possible, in the name of righteousness!"

"I hope that His Majesty will take this traitor into custody as soon as possible, in order to honor his prestige!"

The people on the regent's side knelt down in unison, with the intention of coercing the king. Some people gritted their teeth and knelt down when they saw others kneeling. Half of the court fell down in an instant, and only a few generals were still standing. with.

"You!" Xiao Yang was about to go mad with anger. It was estimated that this was in the court hall, and the king of Beichang Kingdom was sitting at the top, so he could barely hold back his hands and turned his dark face into red. It is not easy for the people who are here, and they are filled with righteous indignation, wishing to use their eyes to shoot through the ministers who are kneeling on the ground and wanting to send their brothers to the guillotine one by one.

"I beg your majesty to see clearly!"

Xiao Yang opened his lips several times before he uttered these words tremblingly, and then he knelt down on the ground, and the generals behind him also knelt down.

"I beg your majesty to see clearly!"

Good fellow, there is no one standing in the hall except Xu Xuanming.

"What's the meaning of this?" Xu Chenlun's mouth slowly spread into a smile, with a dangerous air, "Are you trying to force the king?"

"I dare not wait!"

There were sparse answers at the bottom, but no one got up, which proved that everyone was determined to ask Xu Chenlun for an answer this time.

Whether it is a person who believes that Mu Zecang is guilty and intends to rebel, or a person who has other plans in his heart and is calculating interests, or a person who desires to restore Mu Zecang's innocence, they all knelt on the ground and waited for the supreme ruler of Beichang Kingdom to give him the answer. an answer.

An answer that dusts this thing off.

Finally pushed them to the extreme, Xu Chenlun thought to himself.

"Uncle Huang, what do you think?" He looked down at the man in black who was first down.

"But it's up to His Majesty to decide." Xu Xuanming cupped his hands and put on an attitude that it's none of his business.

Well, that's what you said.Xu Chenlun sneered secretly.

"Now you can stand in the court hall and talk to me, and when you go home, you can see your wife sewing new clothes. If you have nothing to do, you can test your children by reciting books and practice calligraphy. In the afternoon, you can go to a teahouse to listen to a play and drink tea with a few old friends. , there can be a table of good food in the evening, and everyone gathers together to laugh and chat."

Many people thought of their family and friends following Xu Chenlun's words, and their hearts softened.No matter how many misfortunes you encounter outside, your family and close friends will always be your reliance.

Seeing that the hall fell silent, Xu Chenlun's voice changed abruptly: "Who do you think brought you these years of tranquility? Do you really think that this Beichang country is as peaceful and peaceful as you?"

"No! I tell you that everything you have now was bought with the blood and tears of the border guards! Just a few days ago, I received a secret report that the Lituo tribe in the south launched a small conflict against our army , due to the sudden incident and lack of preparation, more than 40 soldiers defending the south sacrificed their lives."

"What is the concept of more than 40 people? It's you, plus your wife, children, parents, brothers, and attendants in the mansion. Not one of them will be killed! Those sacrificed people have no relatives? Don't they have any concerns in this world? Don't talk to me It is said that they died for the honor of Beichang Kingdom."

"I tell you, no! But if I can keep them alive, I will never sacrifice any of them!"

Many people were stunned by these sonorous and powerful words, and many generals couldn't help but their eyes were red, these words were simply poking into their hearts!The people who died in every battle may be just a number to the ministers far away in the capital, but to them, they are brothers who are brothers and sisters. They drink and brag together, go to war and kill the enemy together, and sometimes even brothers and sisters come back from the war. None of the corpses could be found.

But the person who he tried his best to protect, said behind his back that he was brave, brave and foolish, and he was ashamed to be with him.They don't care about these, anyway, they don't look down on weak and weak scholars.But it was this group of people who made the Mu family, who had dedicated their lives to the country and shed their blood and tears, feel sad for the crime of treason.

How could the Mu Family Army not hate this?How can the generals not complain?

I have to say that Xu Xuanming's move is poisonous enough. If Xu Chenlun really let Mu Zecang beheaded to show the public, there will be many forces to offend. When he joins hands with the Huns, who will be able to wholeheartedly reunite at that time? Playing for Beichang Kingdom?

After all, what comes back from victory may not be honor, but a heavy shackle.

"As for Mu Zecang, how old was he when he lost all his relatives? Was he as old as your son? What was your son doing? Fighting cocks, walking the dog, or playing truant while listening to music? And what about him? Support, defend the first line of defense against the Xiongnu cavalry for Beichang Kingdom!"

"Three generations of the Mu family joined the army, and they were named generals, but none of them died well. All the men of the Mu family went to the battlefield, and the corpses of the horses were shrouded in heroic souls. When all the men died, the women went. Who knows that the Mu family fought with Chang Gaozu back then How heroic and valiant is the female general, how can a woman not give way to a man?"

There was compassion on the faces of the people below, and many veterans could still recall the scene when Mu Zecang was born. General Mu, who had always been unsmiling, laughed heartily and bluntly said that God favored him.

In such a loyal and loyal Mu family, would there really be traitors and collaborators?Many people have such questions quietly floating in their hearts.

Seeing that everyone's minds were shaken, Xu Xuanming said inwardly that it was not good: "The loyalty of the Mu family is admirable, but the evidence of Mu Zecang collaborating with the enemy and treason is also real, and it is impossible to refute it. I know that the emperor has a deep relationship with Mu Zecang. , but you can’t be emotional and be influenced by your emotions.”

When some people hear it, they feel that this is the truth, and people's hearts are unpredictable. What if... Mu Zecang really did something wrong by a single thought?

Xu Chenlun smiled unhurriedly, and Xu Xuanming had a bad guess in his heart when he saw his calm expression.During this period of time, he had been restless, and he sent out manpower to investigate but found nothing. He did not find the so-called "drunk man" that Xu Chenlun called, and there was no movement from Xu Chenlun.He even thought that Xu Chenlun was blowing him up, to see if he would reveal any tricks.

"What I'm going to talk about next is precisely this matter." Xu Chenlun's words made many people quietly prick up their ears.

He repeated what the drunk man had seen and heard: "I didn't believe it at first when Shi Lang Sun reported it to me, but I really found something interesting during the subsequent search."

After a pause, seeing that everyone's appetite had been whetted, he continued: "In the northeast corner of the General's Mansion, in a courtyard that has been deserted for many years, Sun Shilang found a well, and there was a dead man lying in it!"

Hearing the dead, many people gasped.

"Sun Shilang, tell me about your next investigation process."

"Yes." Sun Shilang took the order, and walked to the center of the hall on his knees, "When the ministers salvaged the dead man, they guessed whether the man fell into the water because of the remote place and no one to rescue him, and finally drowned. After the corpse, the minister immediately dismissed this idea."

"Ordinary people drowned, with a large amount of water and sand in the abdominal cavity, but there is no foreign object in the abdominal cavity of this person. It can be seen that he was killed and pushed into the well before his death. The scars became more obvious after soaking hair. After the inspection, the fatal injury was a sword in the chest, which pierced the left lung, resulting in tension pneumothorax, and died due to untimely treatment.”

"More importantly, the wound on this sword is strange. It doesn't look like any weapon recorded in Beichang Kingdom, but it looks a bit like..."

"Like what?" A minister couldn't hold back and asked first.

Sun Shilang looked up at Xu Chenlun unobtrusively, and continued after receiving his instruction: "Instead, it looks a bit like the weapons of the Huns."

"Hiss—" Many ministers gasped.

"Then why did the Huns sneak into the general's mansion? What kind of conspiracy is this?"

"It must be for my Beichang military intelligence. Maybe they put in the evidence of Mu Zecang's rebellion."

"That's right, maybe it's just to make us wrong General Mu. When the Beichang Kingdom loses a lot of power, their plot will succeed."

The ministers were discussing a lot, and the dark chess planted by the original body in the early years played its role, fanning the flames among the ministers, and unconsciously guiding public opinion in a direction that was beneficial to him.

Seeing that the situation was not right, one of Xu Xuanming's ministers couldn't sit still.

"Your Majesty, how do you know that the assassin killed and threw the body away in order to forge evidence and was found out, instead of Mu Zecang colluding with the assassin and killing the attendant in order to cover up people's eyes and ears?"

"You are talking nonsense, General Mu is not that kind of person!" A general here couldn't bear it anymore, accusing him of spitting blood.Some ministers also began to disagree one after another, and psychologically fell to Mu Zecang's side.

"It's interesting here." Sun Shilang smiled unhurriedly, and stroked his beard, "During the autopsy, I found that the deceased was holding a hickory nut that was not the size of a fingernail." , and a few strands of red thread. I have asked the best embroiderers in the capital to distinguish, this red thread is the most unique, it is torn from the fabric of the wedding dresses made by the official ladies, and it is usually given to the lover to show that he agrees."

According to the custom of Beichang, women began to sew their own wedding dresses after learning how to work as women.Hearing this, Wu Ren's heart jumped up.

Sure enough, in the next second Sun Shilang looked at him with blazing eyes: "Master Wu, I heard that the eldest daughter of your mansion recently fell in love with a young man who traveled from the north. She is good at swordsmanship and became your guard. The troubled capital city is full of ups and downs, I wonder if you, Mr. Wu, know about it?"

How can you not know?Wu Ren and his main wife gave birth to this child, and they loved and loved Miss Wu so much that she was arrogant and domineering.Recently fell in love with their guard, Wu Ren was having a headache about this matter, but in the end he couldn't hold back his little girl, and promised to let the two get married as long as the young man helped him with one thing, secretly thinking about letting this person go and never return, Quietly find someone to do him.

But what he didn't expect was that this young man belonged to Xu Xuanming, and he was stationed in the Minister's Mansion for a different purpose, but this incident happened unexpectedly, which made everyone laugh.

No matter how much I hate Wu Ren in my heart, I can only bite the bullet and continue: "Your Majesty, there is such a person in the minister's mansion, but the loyalty of the minister to you can be learned from heaven and earth, and the sun and the moon can be shown, how can you let that foreigner do such things? "

loyalty?Xu Chenlun snorted coldly, usually he didn't pay attention to the original body at all, and looked like his nostrils were turned upside down.He treats Xu Xuanming as respectfully as the emperor, like a dog wagging its tail, very servile.

"I don't know what Master Wu wants that young man to do?" This time it was Xu Xuanming who spoke, he and Xu Chenlun both knew that Wu Ren was just a scapegoat pushed by Xu Xuanming, a poor shield.But seeing that his confidant was about to fall, Xu Xuanming still couldn't sit still.

Without giving Wu Ren a chance to defend himself, Sun Shilang cupped his hands and made a big salute: "I would like to ask the emperor to issue an order to let the ministers arrest this person. The truth will be known at the first trial."

"Sure." Xu Chenlun waved his sleeves, "Catch him immediately, without delay!"

"Yes!" Sun Shilang bowed his head to accept the order, and bowed down. He wanted to hurry to Shangshu's mansion and apprehend this person, so as not to let the news from the court leak out and make him feel empty.

Xu Chenlun's meaning is already very clear, and he must give an explanation today.

"Why are all the loves still kneeling, aren't your legs sore?"

This--

The ministers looked around, looked at each other and smiled wryly.

"Get up."

"Thank you Lord Ron."

All the ministers stood up under the command, and some of them were weak and swayed a few times.

The atmosphere in the hall was extremely solemn, making people even breathe unconsciously.

No one dared to look up to see what the monarch who was completely different from their impression was doing at this time, so they didn't know that Xu Chenlun was playing with a piece of suet jade pendant with a carp carved on it.

The jade pendant starts with a warm and fashionable variety, the carp is vivid and the details are vivid.This jade pendant was found by Xu Chenlun from Mu Zecang, and he begged for it, and played with it every day when he had nothing to do, to pass the boring time of going to court occasionally like this.

Seeing the jade pendant, Xu Chenlun couldn't help but think of Mu Zecang.Before going to court today, I specifically told him not to wait for him to have breakfast, and it might be very late today.

I wonder what he is doing now?I've already finished practicing at this time, maybe I'm having breakfast.Amu seems to like the cherry meat yam and stewed tofu better. He specially asked the imperial dining room to make it yesterday.

Xu Chenlun found that time always passed very quickly when he was thinking about things, especially when he was thinking about Mu Zecang, he couldn't help but recall everything that happened between the two of them.

In less than half an hour, Sun Shilang entered the hall to have an audience.

"Xuan."

"Sun Kangwu, Minister of Proclamation and Punishment, has an audience—"

A person walked in from outside the hall, it was Sun Shilang, who in his middle age now had the vigor and vigor that he only had when he was a teenager.

"Your Majesty, you have fulfilled your mission." Sun Kangwu knelt down on one knee, "I brought the sinner, Chaganbala."

"Bring it up."

"Yes!"

A foreigner in shackles was brought up. He was still wearing the uniform uniform of the guards in Wu Ren's mansion. He must be the man in black who was accidentally seen by the drunk that night.

Chaganbala obviously had never seen this battle before, his legs trembled with fright, and his face was pale. During the interrogation, Sun Shilang kept stuttering and couldn't answer. At first, he reluctantly refused to admit his guilt. Xu Chenlun noticed that he had been Looking secretly at Xu Xuanming, Xu Xuanming moved his fingers slightly, making a gesture that can only be seen between two people.

Xu Chenlun should be forcing him to confess his crime, because the next second after seeing this gesture, Chaganbala's face was pale, and his body could not bear it and almost passed out.

He finally admitted his crime, saying that Wu Ren, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, forced him to do things, and he had no choice but to act against his conscience for the sake of his beloved girl.Wu Ren asked him to find a way to put some evidence of collaborating with the enemy and treason into Mu Zecang's secret room. The drunk himself didn't notice at the time, but only saw a servant.

I wanted to kill him casually, but I didn't expect that every servant in the general's mansion had some skills, and I was injured without noticing. The servant stabbed him to death with a sword and threw him into the well.

As for the location of the secret room, Chaganbala only said that Wu Ren told him, and he didn't know how he knew it.

Tsk, Xu Chenlun secretly hated, it seems that Xu Xuanming cannot be involved in this matter.But it's not bad to be able to pull down a big confidant around him, at least it will reduce many obstacles to his future development.

Wu Ren went crazy when Chaganbala confessed his crime, and kept trying to rush over, but was held up by the Imperial Forest Army.

"Say it! Who told you to say that?"

"You nasty villain! I saw you wrong at the time!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please don't believe his nonsense!"

Shouting until the end, I was exhausted, almost hopeless.

Jian Xu Chenlun ignored him, he crawled and knelt down to Xu Xuanming's feet again.

"My lord, my lord, your uncle, old minister, I have worked hard for the Beichang Kingdom for more than ten years. If there is no credit, there will be hard work. Do you really have the heart to let my minister suffer such injustice?"

Speaking of it later, there was even a sense of threat, but Xu Xuanming had already distrusted Wu Ren when he inserted Chagan Balan into the Shangshu Mansion, and he was always ruthless, so he just kicked Wu Ren away.

"At this time, the emperor has his own decision, and you are worthy of begging for mercy even if you are a wolf with ambition!"

After watching the dog-eat-dog scene, Xu Chenlun issued the imperial edict with great satisfaction.

"By God's favor, the Emperor Zhao said: Mu Zecang's case ended because of Wu Ren's harm. You are innocent. Gu will resume his position as Hussar General immediately, and his title will be promoted to first-class duke, and he will be titled Zhongguo Duke. Hereby."

Mu Zecang wanted to read the book after breakfast, but he waited in the study for this edict.

"General Mu, accept the order." Eunuch Li finished reading the imperial order with a smile and said to Mu Zecang.

"Sir, thank you Lord Long En." Mu Zecang took it with both hands, his eyes were a little moist.

He thought that he was innocent and hopeless. After all, Xu Chenlun's own situation was very worrying. Xu Chenlun blocked some news in the past few days, but he still let himself know.

Seeing the pressure he put on him is getting bigger and bigger, but Xu Chenlun still clings to himself with a smile every day, wishing that the two of them are conjoined twins, and he has never mentioned any unsatisfactory things in front of him. I secretly looked at it in my heart, not to say that the emotion was fake.

Recently, Mu Zecang seems to be messing around with Xu Chenlun in Fengling Palace every day as if he doesn't know anything, living a leisurely and happy life, but he has secretly contacted his subordinates, arranged the funeral, and let Mu Jiajun commit suicide by himself Afterwards, it belonged to Xu Chenlun, and even Xiao Yang and other generals had entrusted them.

But I didn't expect that there would be a day when it would be revealed to the world.

Mu Zecang caressed the imperial decree, his heart couldn't bear the excitement.

Father, brother, have you seen it?Ze Cang did not discredit the Mu family.

The loyalty of the three generations of the Mu family has been guarded.

Mu Zecang's trembling body was surrounded by a pair of strong arms.The palace people had already retreated, and there were only the two of them in the hall at this time.

Mu Zecang turned around, Xu Chenlun held him tighter in his arms, and followed his back one after another, silently comforting him.

The author has something to say: Thank you for giving me an extra day.I was suddenly inspired today, and wrote 6000 words passionately in an afternoon, because it was done in one go, without chapters, I hope you understand.As for the name of Wu Ren, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, it is almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the author looks at the Wuren mooncake in his hand and has an idea =w=

Finally come to an end, start the next stage!

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