I was a princess in ancient times

Seeing Princess Anwu suddenly close her eyes and fall down, the governor of Shangzhou got up subconsciously, wanting to check on Princess Anwu's situation.

If Princess Anwu has any troubles in the fief, Emperor Changping's anger will definitely spread to him.

Because of the angle, the governor of Shangzhou only heard the sound of metal falling to the ground and Zhang Siyi yelling "arrest the person who assassinated the princess". Shang, completely unaware that things were moving towards strange developments.

It wasn't until the Jinwu Guard who suddenly appeared behind him knelt on the ground with his back pressed down, and the governor of Shangzhou who heard Li Jinhuan's voice realized the crisis.

He stretched his neck and raised his head, shouting in disbelief, "I'm wronged!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the governor of Shangzhou belatedly remembered that the person who wronged him was the owner of the princess mansion, and indescribable absurdity and anger immediately arose in his heart.

Why did Princess Anwu treat him like this? !

He is the governor of Shangzhou, an official ordered by the court!

Even if Princess Anwu is the beloved daughter of Emperor Changping, she can't turn black and white.

The governor of Shangzhou suppressed all kinds of messy thoughts in his heart with his remaining rationality, and finally turned thousands of words into the first three words.

"The minister is wronged."

Princess Anwu and King Xianglin cannot be questioned.

This is the Princess Mansion, and the person holding him down is the Jinwu Guard who can easily kill him at any time.

The governor of Shangzhou's mind gradually regained consciousness and began to run at high speed.

Princess Anwu must have wanted to care about the cost of banquets when she first came to the fief, so she made a sudden attack. It doesn't matter, he has already wiped out the tail of this matter, and he will never be found out.

Even if Princess Anwu insisted on implicating him, he was the fifth-rank governor of Shangzhou, and his final conviction had to go through the Ministry of Punishment, where he could also be redressed.

If we accuse Princess Anwu and King Xianglin of blatantly framing the court officials now, it may cause Princess Anwu and King Xianglin to be angry or guilty, and have the idea of ​​never having future troubles.

He is not afraid of investigation, even if the house is ransacked.

While consciously thinking about it, the governor of Shangzhou called the minister wronged, but at the same time he did not forget to euphemistically express his willingness to testify for the princess mansion to identify the sugar merchant.

"Princess Chen Tan's mansion is full of delicious spirits, but he didn't notice the evil intentions hidden in the sugar merchant. Please forgive me, the princess and the county king." The governor of Shangzhou slammed his forehead heavily on the ground, expressing his loyalty with tears running down his cheeks.

Compared with the governor of Shangzhou who was still able to think calmly without panicking, the county magistrate of Anye was not at 01:30. He was struggling frantically under the pressure of the Jinwu Guard, screaming and questioning Princess Anwu and Xianglin County King why dare Ignoring the Chang'an court, turning black and white in the fief, and telling right and wrong, isn't it afraid of Chang'an's punishment.

In order to scare Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng, he counted more than a dozen crimes against Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng in a short period of time, among which there are many serious crimes of beheading and even implicating the nine clans.

Relying on his own efforts to suppress the voices of the governor of Shangzhou and the sugar merchants, he attracted all the attention of Li Jinhuan and others.

If Ji Xinxue hadn't kept in mind that she was assassinated and comatose at this time, Ji Xinxue would have wanted to get up and look at the idiot.

The magistrate of Anye yelled so arrogantly and loudly, was he afraid that he would not die fast enough?

Yu Heng turned his head to look at the magistrate of Anye County who was spitting, and signaled the Jinwu Guard beside him with his eyes, "Disrespect the clan, slap twenty, and punish them in public, then send them to the Anye County Government to be held alone."

After finishing speaking, Yu Heng stretched out his other hand under Ji Xinxue's knee, and stood up while hugging the person in his arms.

Ji Xinxue suddenly felt weightless, and subconsciously opened her eyes, only to see Yu Heng's sharp jaw line and the almost invisible curvature of her neck.

He resisted the thought of touching his Adam's apple, and his thoughts went astray again.

Yu Heng is only one year older than him, and he has already started to develop an Adam's apple. Is he about to have an Adam's apple too?

Suddenly, there was an extremely loud slap on the face, followed by the magistrate An Ye's miserable howl.

Yu Heng paused, lowered his head and looked at Ji Xinxue, "Close your eyes."

Not only did Ji Xinxue not close her eyes, but she followed the thoughts in her heart to touch the curvature of Yu Heng's neck.

At least when he first started to grow Adam's Apple, he should be able to dress up as a girl without breaking the law?

Yu Heng's arms holding Ji Xinxue suddenly tightened, and when he spoke again, his voice suddenly became much deeper, "Don't make trouble."

Ji Xinxue blinked innocently, he didn't make a fuss, he just wanted to know in advance what he would look like when he had Adam's apple.

Yu Heng's whole body became stiff from being touched by Ji Xinxue, and he even had the illusion of suffocation. He raised his head stiffly and walked again, his speed was more than twice as fast as the beginning.

Forget it, with the stupidity of the magistrate of Anye, the Jinwu guard who ransacked the house would be able to find out a lot of evidence, and there was no need to force the Jinwu guard who slapped his mouth to back down to ensure that the magistrate of Anye could still speak up during the interrogation.

Ji Xinxue made a very thorough plan when she temporarily decided to go back to the princess mansion and made a big noise at the sugar election feast.

Ever since he and Yu Heng entered the Princess Mansion, the Princess Mansion was only allowed to enter and not to leave, and every place that could be entered and exited was personally guarded by Jin Wuwei.

When the last sugar merchant entered the Princess Mansion, the military guards of the Daying Camp in the suburbs of Beijing, who had been lurking in Anye City for a long time, quietly surrounded all the properties of the sugar merchants in Anye.

At the same time, important places such as the Anye government office and the city gate were all taken over by the Jinwu Guard and the Daying Army Guard in the suburbs of Beijing.

Before the curfew, what happened to the princess had spread throughout Anye.

Jiangnan sugar merchants quoted a high price of 500 taels of silver for sucrose, 500 taels of silver for sucrose, and 5 taels of silver for Jiangnan sugar frosting at Princess Anwu’s sugar selection feast. Princess Anwu's expression changed on the spot, and she ordered her companion to see off the guests with a cold face.

Unexpectedly, the sugar merchants in the south of the Yangtze River were so vicious and daring that they would assassinate Princess Anwu on the spot just because Princess Anwu refused to choose one of them to provide raw materials for the rock sugar kiln.

The king of Xianglin County was furious about this and wanted to punish the sugar merchants in the south of the Yangtze River on the charge of treason. The governor of Shangzhou and the magistrate of Anye County were regarded as the accomplices of the sugar merchants in the south of the Yangtze River because they interceded for the sugar merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, and they were also imprisoned in Anye County. Ya.

All the people in Anye accepted this unbelievable thing well. They believed that the sugar merchants in the south of the Yangtze River had the guts to assassinate the princess, and they also felt that it was normal for the governor of Shangzhou and the magistrate of Anye to shield the sugar merchants in the south of the Yangtze River under any circumstances.

In contrast, it is even more difficult for the common people to believe that the king of Xianglin County has the courage to arrest the governor of Shangzhou, the county magistrate of Anye, and all the sugar merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.

At the beginning, the people in Anye were still skeptical. It wasn't until the Jinwu Guard began to search the property of Jiangnan merchants in the mansion of the county magistrate in Anye that the people really felt that the princess and the county king were more important than the governor and the county magistrate. power.

Suddenly, someone squeezed from the back of the people who were watching from a distance to the front. Amidst the exclamation one after another, they rushed desperately to the Jinwu Guard who was raiding the house, "I want to report the county magistrate of Anye for colluding with Jiangnan grain merchants to embezzle taxes!"

The person who came was grabbed by the Jinwu Guard's shoulders, knelt on the ground and hugged the Jinwu Guard's legs tightly, his voice was like weeping blood, "Since two years ago, our village has to pay two taxes, otherwise it will be based on the unpaid tax." He was taken away by the yamen servants to serve."

This person's surname is Li, and he is a villager in Lijia Village.

Since the autumn when Anye County Magistrate took office, Lijia Village's tax revenue has doubled without warning.

The yamen servants of the county government took the Jiangnan businessmen who opened grain stores in Anye City to the village to collect taxes, and the grain and other tax deductible items were taken away by the Jiangnan businessmen.

All the villagers who failed to pay taxes on time were taken away to serve on the spot. A small number of them built mansions for Jiangnan merchants in Anye City. Most of them disappeared and never appeared in front of the public again.

In just two years, the population of Lijia Village has decreased by a quarter.

The Jin Wuwei neither interrupted the crying of the villagers surnamed Li nor expressed their opinions on the villagers surnamed Li's crying. They would only hold the villagers surnamed Li when they kowtowed to him, and said calmly, "Wait meeting."

The villagers surnamed Li had exhausted all their courage in rushing out from the surrounding people, so they allowed themselves to vent their grievances to cover up their panic, without paying any attention to Jin Wuwei's response.

He hates and is afraid of people wearing official robes. If his family hadn't exhausted their wealth paying taxes in the past two years, someone would definitely be arrested and served in the military this year. His mother was ill, but he went to all the pharmacies in the city. He can't even afford a pair of medicines, and he won't impulsively ask the people from the Princess Mansion to make decisions for him.

"I'm telling the truth, please don't arrest me to serve in the military." The villagers surnamed Li gradually lost their spirits in the fear that could not be ignored, and they just wanted to let the Jinwu guard who grabbed his shoulders let him go.

If the person who comes to the village to collect taxes every year is telling the truth, and the court decides to increase the tax, which suddenly doubles the tax, will the people from the Princess Mansion arrest him and put him in prison?

No, he has to go back to take care of his old mother, even if he is serving in the military, he will have to wait until the second half of the year.

Fortunately, the Jinwu Guard was strong enough to catch the frantically struggling villager surnamed Li, and ran away without letting the villager surnamed Li turn around.

Not long after, the Jinwu Guard who reported back to the Princess' Mansion came back with Bijuan, the female officer next to the Princess, and the rest of the Jinwu Guards also carried tables, pens, ink, paper and inkstones.

Bijuan straightened the folds of her clothes, and walked to the villager surnamed Li, "I am the female officer of Princess Anwu, tell me the grievance you want to avenge again, and I will record the content and present it to the princess. If the investigation is true, the princess's mansion will reward."

The villager surnamed Li who was still struggling only heard the word 'you reward' and immediately said, "I want money! My mother is sick in bed!"

Bijuan patiently repeated what she said just now, "After the investigation is true, the Princess Mansion will reward the first person who exposed it."

The minds of the villagers surnamed Li went blank, they only knew that if he told everything he knew, he would be able to get money for medicines, and he had no time to think about when the Princess Mansion would investigate the truth.

Bi Juan recorded all the revelations of the villager surnamed Li on the paper and asked the man to press his fingerprints, and then said to the villager surnamed Li, "You and Jin Wuwei go to the pharmacy to ask the doctor to treat your mother, and first write down the account of the princess mansion. If you If the revelation is true, someone will send the reward silver to Li Family Village."

The villager surnamed Li nodded in confusion, and felt ecstasy after he was about to walk to the pharmacy. He immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed in the direction of the princess mansion. .

The people in Anye who witnessed all this with their own eyes did not know what the female officer of the Princess Mansion said to the villager surnamed Li, but they saw that the villager surnamed Li not only was not arrested after they reported on the magistrate of Anye County, but also took the medicine out of the city without spending money. .

Soon, people who were ruined by Jiangnan merchants and people from the Anye government office, whose families were ruined and who had lost all hope, came to Bijuan who was still sitting behind the table, and then the second and third

The records of villagers surnamed Li exposing the magistrate of Anye and Jiangnan Liang merchants were immediately sent to Ji Xinxue.

Ji Xinxue read the above content at a glance, and ordered people to place tables, chairs, pens, ink, paper and inkstones outside the property of Jiangnan merchants to allow the people to report.

As long as the people report on the officials of the Anye County Government, they will first ransack their homes and then report back.

That night, except for Ji Xinxue, who was pressed on the bed by Yu Heng for a two-hour nap, the rest of the people sorted out the results of the house raid and the public's revelations overnight.

Zhang Siyi personally went to count the assets of An Ye's officials, and came up with a shocking number.

There are only 6 taels of silver and 8000 taels of gold in the Anye County Magistrate's Mansion. There are countless other house deeds and land deeds, most of which are in the south of the Yangtze River.

After Zhang Siyi made several calculations and discussed with the officials of the Princess Mansion, she solemnly wrote down '20 taels of silver' in the account book.

After all the family property of the magistrate of Anye County is converted into silver, there are actually 20 taels. Based on the monthly military salary of each ordinary Jinwu guard at five taels of silver, as long as a little more is added, it is enough to bring the Jinwu guards who have brought fiefdoms to the Princess Mansion. One year's military pay. "

Zhang Siyi never thought that the magistrate of Anye was just the beginning, and the family backgrounds of other officials in Anye were not inferior to that of the magistrate of Anye.

All the properties of Cheng’s family in Anye County were converted into silver, totaling 15 taels.

The properties of An Yesi and other people's families were all converted into silver, which was between 8 taels and 10 taels.

The rest, such as the head arresters, have only been sent to prison, and have not ransacked their homes.

Counting only those who have confiscated their homes, a total of 98 taels of silver were confiscated.

Previously, it was recorded in the tax account book sent by the magistrate of Anye County to the Princess Mansion that the tax revenue of the entire Anye last year was equivalent to a total of 83 taels of silver.

Yan Meng was in charge of sorting out the records of the people exposing An Ye's officials, and separately sorting out the records involving officials other than An Ye.

Until the curfew, a total of 360 eight records of exposure were sent to the princess mansion.Among them, 86 are repeated, and more than 260 of the 50 records involve Shangluo, Fengyang, Shangjin and other places east of Anye, including the entire Shangzhou.

Yu Heng took Li Jinhuan and Lin Wei to the Anye County Government.

The original principals of the county government are all in prison at this time, and the county government has been completely taken over by the Jinwu Guard and the military guards of the Beijing suburban camp.

The governor of Shangzhou, the county magistrate of Anye, and the sugar merchant were locked in the east prison, and the rest were locked in the west prison.

Li Jinhuan and Lin Wei were ordered to interrogate the people in the West Prison.

The Jinwu Guard will successively convey the clues sorted out by Zhang Siyi and Yan Meng to Li Jinhuan and Lin Wei, so that Li Jinhuan and Lin Wei can quickly break through the guards of An Ye officials.

They were mainly responsible for getting An Ye officials to reveal more crimes involving officials other than An Ye, and to find a reason for Ji Xinxue to attack the entire Shangzhou.

Yu Heng's scrutinizing eyes swept over the original jailers in the Anye County Yamen, and barely picked out two people with calm faces from a group of cowering people.

Previously, Ji Xinxue had asked the military guards of the Daying Camp in the suburbs of Beijing to go to the vicinity of Anye to control the real principals behind the Jiangnan merchants in Anye City. The most resembling tokens were taken off the person and sent back to An Ye.

When Yu Heng ordered people to interrogate these Jiangnan merchants separately, he deliberately let these Jiangnan merchants see the "token" of their respective masters, so that these Jiangnan merchants could relax their vigilance, and then let the old man and girl sent by Emperor Changping to Anye to meet with these Jiangnan merchants. cliché.

This time their task is not to discern whether Ji Xinxue is normal or not, but to influence the minds of the Jiangnan businessmen, coaxing the Jiangnan businessmen to recruit more people who are convenient for them. Extraordinary means can be displayed.

After Ji Xinxue woke up, everyone returned to the princess mansion with the fruits of not sleeping.

In order to save time, when Ji Xinxue looked through Zhang Siyi's account book, she only looked at the final amount converted into silver, and it only took a few breaths to go through the entire account book.

Zhang Siyi also brought back all kinds of letters copied from the Anye official's home. Among them, the most were copied from the Anye County Magistrate's home. There were two small boxes hidden in the middle of the box that hit the silver. The county magistrates of the other six counties in Shangzhou were wiped out.

Ji Xinxue hastily browsed through these letters, ignoring other people's gains, and immediately summoned Guo Yunqi, who had been waiting at the Princess Mansion, and ordered Guo Yunqi to return to the suburbs of the city immediately to organize the camp in the suburbs of Beijing, and then went to the five counties except Anye and Shangluo , arrested officials from the top and bottom of the county government, and took over the city defense in the county.

All the officials in Anye have been arrested. Huo Yu took the Jinwu Guard Shangluo to copy the governor's home of Shangzhou yesterday afternoon. In the remaining five counties, Guo Yunqi could only go to one or two places in person. Ji Xinxue specially asked Li Jinhuan and Lin Wei He Yanmeng and Guo Yunqi walked together.

If I had known that the county magistrate of Anye would be so considerate that he would even keep the correspondence with other county magistrates in Shangzhou, why would Ji Xinxue let the military guards of the Daying camp in the suburbs of Beijing enter other counties and control the entire Shangzhou in order to justify the name, and let everyone look for other county magistrates overnight? The charges against county officials?

After the news that the soldiers and guards of the camp in the suburbs of Beijing were leaving one after another came back to the Princess Mansion, Ji Xinxue, Yu Heng, and Zhang Siyi dispersed separately, and continued to pay attention to the sins of An Ye's officials after making up their minds.

Six days later, Chang'an.

As soon as the voices of the courtiers shouting long live stopped, more and more censors came out. Princess Shen Anwu imprisoned the governor of Shangzhou and Anye's officials and even ordered the Jinwu Guards to search her home for fear of disobedience.

"Huh?" Emperor Changping responded in surprise, carefully looked at the speaking Yushi for a few moments before looking at the other courtiers, "What do you think?"

Ji Jingrou waited for a long time before anyone could speak, and looked at the censor who spoke to join Ji Xinxue with a sneer and said, "Liu Yushi is indeed a censor who moves when he hears the wind. You can know things that I have never heard of."

Ji Jingyu's expression was also not friendly, but his tone was still calm, "If what Liu Yushi said is true, Fifth Sister will definitely write all the matters of the fiefdom in the memorial and send people back to Chang'an. You might as well wait until Fifth Sister Let’s discuss after the booklet is delivered.”

Since Ji Minyan and others left Chang'an, Ji Jingyu and Ji Jingrou who stayed in Chang'an began to go to court during the court meeting. Most of the time they just listened without saying a word. Emperor Ping or the courtiers took the initiative to speak when roll call.

Emperor Changping suddenly let out a short laugh, and without waiting for the courtier to speak, he said to Songnian beside him, "Go and see if there are any new books sent back from An Ye, and bring them back directly."

The courtiers below each exchanged glances, understanding that Emperor Changping's attitude was still towards his daughter, as long as Princess Anwu's explanation was timely enough, the unlucky ones would most likely be the censor who spoke rashly.

When the next court was approaching, Song Nian returned to the court hall with the sealed envelope in his hand, and said loudly to the courtiers, "This is the eight hundred li express that was just sent back to Chang'an this morning."

As soon as these words came out, the courtiers looked at Liu Yushi more delicately, noticing Liu Yushi's suddenly pale face, they all secretly thought that they were fools.

As a censor, the news can be explained by the responsibility, and it is too much to be faster than Babaili.

Judging by Liu Yushi's expression, he was most likely being tricked by an acquaintance. When he received the news, he couldn't wait to act like a fool. He didn't investigate carefully when it happened.

The young censor always wanted to be a blockbuster.

Tsk, what a pity.

Emperor Changping glanced at the contents of the booklet, his originally calm aura suddenly became harsh, and suddenly he was furious, raised his hand and slapped the imperial case fiercely, "Presumptuous!"

Seeing this, Liu Yushi, whose face was pale and faltering, suddenly shot out light in his eyes, and almost threw himself to the center of the hall and knelt down, "Your Majesty, Princess Anwu dealt with the imperial court officials privately without asking Chang'an for instructions. , if His Majesty pampers her this time, wouldn't Princess Huai'an and Princess Jinming have to follow suit?"

There was no turning back when he opened the bow. He was unlucky for more than [-] years and only got lucky once. Because the colleague who was supposed to be promoted to the imperial censor fell ill and replaced his colleague, he must not capsize when he participated in the performance for the first time.

Emperor Changping slammed the booklet in his hand on Liu Yushi's head, "After Xiaowu was assassinated, Fenglang immediately sealed off the whole Anye. How do you know that he imprisoned Anye's officials and ordered the Jinwu Guards to ransack the house?"

Liu Yushi froze in place, his sluggish facial features made up a funny expression, and when he lowered his head to look at the scattered memorials on the ground, he happened to see the words that Emperor Changping questioned him.

He subconsciously said, "It's the princess."

Even if he is an idiot, he can't go on talking at this time.

How could Princess Anwu lie about such a matter that cannot be concealed?

Liu Yushi shivered, no, he would rather be demoted with a reputation of being stupid and useless, than to know about An Ye faster than Babaili when Princess Anwu was assassinated and closed the city. He immediately raised his head and said to Emperor Changping, "It was Cheng Yu who told me this! Your Majesty! It's Cheng Yu!"

Cheng Yu said that as a censor, he couldn't always go along with other censors' performances. He had to become famous quickly in order to gain a firm foothold in the court, otherwise he might be relegated at any time.Doctor Yushi was already very dissatisfied with his inaction for several months after he became Yushi, and the Minister of the Ministry of Officials hinted that he was not capable enough to be a censor. If he did not do anything within half a month, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials would give him The order has been lowered.

Because Cheng Yu was the celebrity in front of Doctor Yushi, Liu Yushi believed in Cheng Yu's words, and begged Cheng Yu to help him with his savings for many years, only then did he learn about Princess Anwu's reckless actions in the fiefdom from Cheng Yu.

The censor named Cheng Yu first showed surprise on his face, and then turned into grief. He walked quickly to Liu Yushi who was crying and knelt down, and said in a deep voice, "I just found out what happened to An Ye today. Please, Your Majesty. Mingjian."

"Cheng Yu!" Liu Yushi suddenly jumped up and rushed towards Cheng Yu, raised his fist and slammed Cheng Yu's cheekbone fiercely.

Emperor Changping got up expressionlessly, and left the hall with windy steps.

Idiots should be demoted, at least there are fewer people involved when they make mistakes.

Two hours later, two orders came from Fengxiang Palace.

In the first decree, Liu Yushi slandered the princess, disrespected the imperial court, and was demoted six ranks in a row.

The second decree, Emperor Changping was worried about the safety of his beloved daughter, and ordered Zhongwu Zhonglang to take a thousand gold guards to Anye to protect Princess Anwu, and return to Chang'an after Princess Anwu recovered.

Those who kept an eye on the movement in the palace immediately saw through Emperor Changping's attitude towards his daughter, and changed their approach at the court meeting the next day, urging Emperor Changping to let Princess Anwu go back to Chang'an to recuperate on the grounds that Anye was not as prosperous and safe as Chang'an.

When Emperor Changping heard the words, hesitation appeared on his face.

Ji Jingrou rolled his eyes, and spoke again, "Xiao Wu is seriously injured, what if the bumps on the road back to Chang'an make the injury worse? Why don't you ask Erchen to take care of Xiao Wu."

How could Aye would rather believe in Xuan Wei's fake cousin than her real sister?She promises to take care of Xiao Wu to be fat and white!

Emperor Changping glanced at Ji Jingrou, a dark color flashed quickly in his eyes.

Dishonest wild girl, if he lets Ji Jingrou go to Anye, Ji Jingrou will never come back unless Xiaowu returns to Chang'an after his tour of the fiefdom.

The prince of Qinghe County who understood his brother's intentions immediately stood up and passed the ladder to Emperor Changping, "The purpose of letting Anwu go to the fief to inspect the land is to let her know the sufferings of the people and grow up quickly. If you let her come back when she just suffered setbacks, how can she come back?" Can it be called growth?"

Immediately, someone agreed with King Qinghe's words, saying that Emperor Changping's love for his daughter was based on long-term considerations. It was already the limit for the thief to assassinate Princess Anwu once when Princess Anwu was unprepared, and there would never be a second time.

The courtiers who persuaded Emperor Changping to recall Princess Anwu saw that Emperor Changping seemed to be persuaded, and refuted it again, specifically mentioning that Princess Anwu is just a princess who is loved by Emperor Changping and respected by King Ling, and does not need much growth, desire and support The courtiers of the Spirit King resonated.

Until the end, Emperor Changping did not make a choice in the debate among the courtiers, and walked out of the court hall with hesitation on his face.

After leaving the sight of the courtiers, Emperor Changping's footsteps immediately became brisk, "Has Xiao Wu's letter been delivered?"

Although he has a lot of work to do every day, he only occasionally writes letters to his children, but the children are all little padded jackets, and they greet him every day.

The recent turmoil in Shangzhou made Xiao Wu's letters more frequent, from one letter a day to three letters a day.

Song Nian nodded, "The letter from three days ago has been delivered and is being kept by the General."

Thinking of Mo Yao who had been extremely indifferent since yesterday, and even unwilling to accompany him to court, Emperor Changping couldn't help shaking his head. He thought Mo Yao would only be influenced by the late emperor, but now that he thinks about it, maybe Mo Yao didn't realize it himself. He cares about Xuanwei.

Back at Fengxiang Palace, Mo Yao was waiting in the study with a cold face, he put the thick sealing envelope in his arms on the table and was about to turn around and leave.

"Brother Yao?" Emperor Changping called Mo Yao to stop, and said tentatively, "Xuanwei doesn't mean to go to Anye."

Mo Yao was silent for a while before opening his mouth in a muffled voice, insisting like an angry black bear and refusing to look back, "No."

Not only no, but also very happy, saying that His Majesty trusted her to let her take care of Princess Anwu.

Emperor Changping nodded in satisfaction, "I was thinking that if Xuanwei didn't want to go, I would let Jingrou go. I didn't expect that Xuanwei was still young but worthy of the word loyalty. I will write a letter and let Xuanwei Give it to Xiao Wu. She has a predestined relationship with Xiao Wu, so she should be called a brother like me and brother Xie. When Xuan Wei comes back, I will recognize her as a righteous daughter and add five hundred households to her."

Mo Yao was silent for a while, then suddenly turned around and walked to Emperor Changping, picked up the ink stick and grinded it on the inkstone, and grinded it into an extremely fine powder without water.

Song Nian hurriedly added water to the inkstone, fearing that Mo Yao would smash Emperor Changping's beloved inkstone.

Emperor Changping immediately picked up the pen, and first wrote a letter to Ji Xinxue in front of Mo Yao, asking Ji Xinxue to respect Xuanwei as a brother, and then gave Mo Yao the red coral skewers that he liked recently, saying that this is a proof , When Xuanwei returned to Chang'an, he recognized Xuanwei as a righteous daughter.

Mo Yao silently took the envelope and the red coral skewers and stuffed them into his bosom, holding the treasured sword that was casually put aside, he went to the corner where he sat for a long time to protect the safety of Emperor Changping.

Emperor Changping coughed lightly, holding back the smile in his throat, and opened the letter from An Ye, the lightness in his brows suddenly turned heavy.

This is the letter written by Ji Xinxue three days ago.

It was the third day of Princess Anwu's 'assassination'.

Ji Xinxue has already grasped most of the criminal evidence of Anye's officials, and the appalling crimes of Anye's officials can completely cover the bad influence of him ordering the Jinwu Guards to search their homes.

At the same time, the Jinwu Guard and the Daying Military Guard in the suburbs of Beijing have completely controlled the seven counties of Shangzhou, and are quickly investigating the criminal evidence of other Shangzhou officials and arresting Jiangnan businessmen.

So far, they still haven't been able to find the criminal evidence of the governor of Shangzhou, and they haven't found out which official in Chang'an is backing these people.

By the time this letter was sent, 360 taels of silver had been converted from the stolen property, of which 680 taels were converted from residences, gardens, and Zhuangzi in Jiangnan.

Emperor Changping carefully memorized the content of the letter in his heart, and suddenly let out a chuckle, "Do you think that when Xiao Wu first closed the city and then asked the Jinwu Guard to intercept all the intersections from Shangzhou to Chang'an, the news received by others How much later than me?"

Song Nian carefully recalled the arguments among the courtiers during the court today, and made a blind guess, "It should be a long time, at least I don't know that this matter has spread to places other than An Ye."

Otherwise, instead of wanting Ji Xinxue to return to Beijing immediately, they would try every means to prevent Ji Xinxue from returning to Beijing again.

Emperor Changping shook his head, "Not long."

He purposely delayed sending the memorial from Anye to report the princess's assassination until the sixth day at the Great Court Meeting, just to see if anyone would participate in the memorial to Ji Xinxue first with the mentality of making the first move, and pass the The content of the participation speculates how much slower the courtiers got the news than him.

Ji Xinxue sealed off Anye City for three days, and on the sixth day, someone in Chang'an knew that when Ji Xinxue sealed off the city, Anye officials were detained and their homes were ransacked.

Either the closure of the city could not completely block the people in Anye City from sending out news, or the time it took for the courtiers supporting Shangzhou officials to receive An Ye's news was comparable to the time it took him to receive Ji Xinxue's news.

Several faces capable of supporting Shangzhou officials flashed in Emperor Changping's mind, and in the end only Situ, Sikong, Bai Qianli and Cui Taibao remained.

After thinking for a long time, he couldn't determine which person had the courage. Emperor Changping simply forgot about it, and said casually, "Bring me the brochure and let me have a look."

Xiaowu is smart, and he will be able to peel off the cocoon from bottom to top to find the person hidden at the end. If he has time, he might as well think about how to send people to fill the official gap in Shangzhou and even the entire Shannan East Road.

At the same time, Ji Xinxue, who was working in peace, did what Emperor Changping hoped, and followed the clues that formed a thin network to find the backers behind these people.

Before finding the big backer, Ji Xinxue still has a difficulty that must be overcome.

The governor of Shangzhou.

In the whole of Shangzhou, even a small policeman is sure to check one by one. As long as the house is searched, the evidence is solid, and there is no need for interrogation. The governor of Shangzhou is really 'white'.

Whether it was following various clear profit networks or ransacking the house, Ji Xinxue did not find any evidence to prove that the governor of Shangzhou was also involved in the Shangzhou case.

The county magistrate and Jiangnan businessman who had accepted their fate were willing to identify the governor of Shangzhou but could not provide evidence. Even the magistrate of Anye, who was keen to collect various letters and tokens, could not produce evidence to prove that the governor of Shangzhou was also involved.

It can be seen that the rank of governor of Shangzhou is very high.

Ji Xinxue decided to meet the governor of Shangzhou in person.

Six days passed, and the only person in the Yadong Prison in Anye County was the governor of Shangzhou.

Because the East Prison is guarded by the Jinwu Guards, all interrogators are not allowed to return to the East Prison, so the Governor of Shangzhou still does not know that the outside world has changed, and he is still dreaming that he can be "sad" and become an official.

Accompanied by Yu Heng and Zhang Siyi, Ji Xinxue went down to the East Prison to meet the governor of Shangzhou with the emerald ball in his hand.

Prison life made the governor of Shangzhou visibly haggard with the naked eye. When he saw Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng, he immediately knelt down and called for grievances. He still didn't mention the tricks of Ji Xinxue's assassination. The sugar banquet was selected, and he didn't know the collusion between the sugar merchant and the magistrate of An County.

Although he was crying for grievances, the governor of Shangzhou was very calm in his heart.

He felt that Princess Anwu's willingness to come to see him meant she had forgiven him, otherwise how could the Anye county magistrate who left at the latest be taken away for three days without interrogating him?

It can be seen that the three days of Duoguan were punishing him.

Ji Xinxue didn't ask the governor of Shangzhou to get up, but condescendingly took the governor's expression into his eyes, and suddenly let out a chuckle, "Don't let him bow his head."

The governor of Shangzhou felt that something was wrong. He wanted to back away but was a step too late. Before he could make a move, the Jin Wuwei who appeared behind him at some point grabbed his hair firmly. It hurts like tearing apart.

"Princess, I know I'm wrong." The governor of Shangzhou struggled to adapt to the pain on his scalp, and immediately calmed down after a brief panic. He thought that although Ji Xinxue didn't find out, he was also involved in the plot when the princess mansion held a banquet. In the matter of the princess mansion, but still angry in his heart, he wanted to vent his anger before letting him go, try not to anger Ji Xinxue, and begged for mercy, "Princess, I am incapable of restraining my subordinates, so I am willing to resign immediately."

Ji Xinxue snorted softly, "You have a good idea."

Zhang Siyi received Ji Xinxue's wink, took out the document in her arms, and read aloud the crimes charged by the magistrate of Anye County against the governor of Shangzhou.