allendalepharm Chapter 352 The royal cat that catches mice
Chapter 352 The royal cat that catches mice
Chapter 352 The royal cat that catches mice
It is said that Shui Rong is an old man, but compared with Wang Ziteng, he is far behind.
When Ning Rongjia's family was getting better, Mr. Jing and Mr. She carefully investigated Wang Ziteng. This investigation almost depressed him to death.
Because in all the major events in these years, the Wang family can say that except for the trash Wang Zisheng, the clean Dragon Guards can't find any evidence of guilt.
Back then, the Zhen family obeyed the orders of Concubine Zhen and the old fourteenth Liu Wei, and colluded with Jiangnan officials, gentry and salt merchants to assassinate the Lin family, killed Jia Min and Lin Ruhai's youngest son, and poisoned Lin Ruhai.
The poison that killed Jia Min's mother and son was administered by the Zhen family through Mrs. Wang's men. Wang Ziteng most likely knew about it and watched coldly without directly participating.
The assassination of Lin Ruhai, an important official of the imperial court, was done by the salt merchant. From the evidence found, it had nothing to do with Wang Ziteng.
Everyone in the capital knew that Wang Ziteng hooked up with Prince Yizhong's residence and Prince Zhongxin's residence, but there was no evidence of Wang Ziteng's involvement in all the outrageous incidents in the two palaces, no matter how they were investigated.
Even for those evil things that Wang Zisheng did, Mr. Jing suspected that Wang Ziteng had done them deliberately.
Because what Wang Zisheng did was simply a common thing in the circle of nobles.As long as the prince cannot fall, the most he can do is to be exiled.
In addition, Wang Ren's "conspicuous package" is displayed in the open, no matter in the palace or in the court, everyone will think this is normal.
A "virtuous king" character like Shui Rong would make the Second Saint always vigilant and suspicious.
As for Wang Ziteng's exact crime...
There is only one thing to think about: the family is not strict.
What the hell kind of crime is this?
Mr. Wei can be said to be the richest and most famous person in the country, and his nephew and grandson have even smoked lotus ointment.
For this crime, the punishment is as high as the salary.
When Liu Sui was demoted to the confinement of a commoner, he often yelled that Wang Ziteng conspired with him to rebel.But he has lived in the imperial mausoleum for a long time, and Uncle Wang is still jumping around.
Wang Ziteng played Liu Wei, Liu Ye, Zhen's family, and the four major counties' palaces around, and he was able to play with people without losing the slightest bit of tricks.
Just relying on this, Jia Cong had to call the other party the King of Yin.
Without Baoyu involved, the old lady's IQ regained the high ground.
On the second day, she called Jia Jing, Jia She, and Jia Zheng to Rongxi Hall. They discussed it all morning and made two major policies against the Wang family.
First, Wang Ziteng's title was inherited from Wang Xifeng's father by his younger brother.Therefore, the title of county magistrate must be inherited by Wang Ren or Wang Ren's son.
As for Wang Ren not being a human son, it doesn't matter. Wang Ren only needs to be a fertility tool. The Rongguo Mansion will focus on cultivating Wang Ren's son.
Secondly, the Jia family follows the emperor's footsteps closely. Whatever the emperor says, the Jia family will do.The emperor asked Wang Ziteng to go to the Armed Forces Academy to shine, and the Jia family supported Wang Ziteng to become the vice president of the Armed Forces Academy.
However, the Jia family must cut off the relationship between the clan members and Wang Ziteng, including Baoyu and others. This uncle cannot recognize him.Mrs. Wang also continued to stay in the Buddhist hall to eat fast and chant Buddha's name. The Jia family only recognized Wang Xifeng's father.
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The remaining days of Dongyue were relatively comfortable, and the emperor directly granted the pardon master a two-month vacation to let him rest well.
The news of the Anbei Protectorate's Mansion has not yet come back, Jia Cong asked Nie Chaoyi to continue to hang on to Gao Li and other vassal states, and stayed in the mansion without going out.
After staying up for a few days, I drew the design sketch of the battleship in my head, and threw it to the master craftsman of the Ministry of Industry. The rest of the day was either to be filial to his father, or to play with my sister and sister.
The only time he left the mansion was to go to the Deqing Princess' Mansion. Jia Qiang returned to Beijing, and his marriage with Tu Siqi was officially on the agenda.
What is the greatest advantage of the Jia family?That is good-looking.
In addition, the royal family is basically a faction of the Yan party, even if Jia Qiang is less lonely, it has won a lot of praise on the day of accepting the levy.
As for the heroine of this marriage, Tu Siqi has long been fascinated by Jia Qiang's handsome face.
The comfortable days passed day by day. On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, Wang Ziteng took the lead in returning to Beijing.The emperor ordered his fifth son, Liu Shuo, to go out of the city to greet him on behalf of Tian, which was regarded as a great honor for Prince Teng.
Both Jia and Lin didn't leave the city with the crowd, so the emperor naturally wouldn't warn his confidants about it.
It was not until the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month, when Prince Liu Hong returned to Beijing, that Jia Cong finally walked out of the Rongguo Mansion and went out of the city with a group of ministers from the East Palace twenty miles west to meet the crown prince.
Liu Hong's biggest gain after being out of Beijing for a year was that he actually experienced a battle, and more than [-] Hexi troops became his fans.
Jia Cong and others did not disturb the reunion of the royal grandparents, father and son, and welcomed the prince into the city and escorted him all the way back to the palace. They agreed to meet in the East Palace at a later date, and then went home.
Because it will be spring next February, many candidates have come to Beijing to prepare for the exam.
Jia Cong, who was riding a donkey, walked slowly south along Zhengyang Street. The sun was just right, warming his body, making Jia Cong sleepy.
"Hey, Jia Xiaosan..."
Jia Cong raised his head and looked to the right. On the second floor of the teahouse facing the street, King Zhongshun Liu Ke was leaning on the railing and waving at him.
Recently, the emperor didn't arrange a job for this man, and the old dandy is messing around again.
Jia Cong handed over the donkey to the soldiers, went up to the tea house and entered the private room, not wanting to see two familiar faces in the private room.
"Master Thirteen...His Royal Highness King Wu, Mr. Zhang, I didn't expect to meet two of you here."
It turns out that Liu Chen, the king of Wu who sits in Jinling, and his son-in-law Zhang Sanzhang Zhengju, the king of litigation, were also tasting tea in the elegant room with Liu Ke.
"This king really didn't expect that it was only two years since Jinling was separated, and the little Jia Qianhu had already become the hereditary earl of the dynasty."
Liu Chen always looks like a cheerful old man, but Jia Cong doesn't dare to look down on him at all.
At the beginning, it was this person who ran all over Jinling city with cannons, washed the ground with cannons, and greeted the unjust gentry in Jinling one by one.
On the contrary, Zhang San was ordered by the emperor to enter the capital early on, and was sent to Dali Temple to serve as Shaoqing. At the same time, he also served as a member of the Ministry of Justice, Wailang, and participated in the improvement of "Great Xia Law".
Jia Cong still has a good impression of the king of lawsuits, but Zhang Shaoqing has been fettered by backlog of cases for more than a year, and has little time to follow Jia Cong's mischief, and rarely has free time to get together.
After exchanging pleasantries, Liu Ke blinked at Jia Cong: "Where's your father? This king has encountered something interesting, he must be interested."
"Oh?"
Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "My father has recently become obsessed with the joy of raising children, and he probably will hold my second brother's daughter to show off the baby."
This is the truth, Elder She has a new favorite—the eldest granddaughter.The good boy immediately turned into someone picked up in a stinky ditch.
Liu Ke thought of his daughter, hey, I got it!
"That's a pity. I even said I would take him to see the fun."
Leaving aside this little episode, Liu Ke nodded at Zhang Zhengju: "You should talk about it. This kid needs to help with this matter. He has a good brain, and it will be much easier for you to have him around."
Zhang Zhengju opened a box on the table, and there was a stack of files inside.
"Uncle, take a look at this file first..."
Jia Cong took a look and took a deep breath after reading the beginning.
"Hey, Mr. Zhang, are you sure it's true?"
"Seven or eight out of ten."
hiss!
According to Zhang Zhengju's caution, it is [-]% certain.
Good guy, there are people who dare to take action against people everywhere and risk their lives?
It turns out that Dali Temple has recently received several cases. Some people reported that many people who went to Beijing to prepare for the exam had taken hibiscus ointment.
As it was related to poisons such as hibiscus ointment, Dali Temple naturally did not dare to delay.Zhang Zhengju personally led people to raid the guild halls all over the country, and already found 27 people who smoked hibiscus ointment.
Among them, Jiangxi Guild Hall, Fujian Guild Hall and Nanzhili Guild Hall were most involved.It can be said that the three places with the most flourishing culture in Great Xia are surrounded by hibiscus ointment.
According to the clues found so far, these candidates have only been in Beijing for more than a month, and they all came into contact with hibiscus ointment after entering Beijing. They had only heard of it before but never actually seen it.
The beginning of their smoking hibiscus paste was also extremely scary. Someone added hibiscus cake to their incense, which made them addicted to it without knowing it.
This is not surprising, what is even more strange is that someone will deliver hibiscus ointment to their desks on time every day, rain or shine.No money required and no appearance.
Even the joint investigation between Dali Temple and Longjian Guard failed to find out who was behind the case.
"The guards of the Dragon Guard squatted for several days, and only arrested a few servants of the guild hall, as well as the watchman who brought hibiscus ointment to these servants. The clue was completely cut off when the watchman reached the watchman, because the watchman didn't know how to give him Who is the masked man of silver and hibiscus ointment?”
Zhang Zhengju looked very tired, seeing more and more people entering the capital, and spring was approaching.If we don't find out who's behind it and let people mess up next year's competition, the emperor's face and the court's face will really be lost.
Of course, there is another reason for him to investigate this case...
Liu Chen went to Prince Zhongshun's palace again. Liu Ke was curious, but he knew he didn't have the ability to investigate the case, so he thought of Jia Cong who had uncovered the hibiscus ointment case in the palace.
It just so happened that the prince returned to Beijing today, and Jia Cong would go out of the city to meet him, so Liu Ke brought Wu Wang Liu Chen and Zhang Zhengju to Zhengyang Street to block people.
Jia Cong put the dossier back and asked suspiciously: "His Royal Highness, Mr. Zhang, it is said that such a big case will involve next year's Chunwei. The Dragon Guards must have taken over. Why does Mr. Zhang have to go through this muddy water?"
Liu Chen smiled wryly, looked at Zhang Zhengju, saw him nod, and then replied: "Because someone in the Nanzhili Guild Hall was arrested by the Dragon Guards, and that person went so far as to slander the Wu Palace, saying that the poison was the king's lord." People were sent to the Nanzhili Guild Hall."
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"Even so, His Majesty won't believe it."
Zhang Zhengju took the words and replied: "Your Majesty doesn't believe it, but the Nanzhili Guild Hall has already spread the rumors. If the case is not found out, if the case is not clear, the reputation of the Wu Palace will be damaged if there is a disturbance in the spring of next year." It's completely ruined."
Jia Cong nodded: "I understand, it is indeed a big trouble."
If the reputation of Prince Wu's Mansion is ruined, what is the world town south of the Yangtze River?Even if the emperor knows the inside story of this case and trusts Wu Wangfu, he may have to transfer him back to the capital.
But there is one thing Jia Cong has already seen the clue, that is the source of hibiscus ointment.
Since the case in the palace, it can be said that everyone in Daxia has been clamoring for hibiscus ointment.All poppies in various places have been eradicated, and with the ongoing war in southern Xinjiang, there are almost no channels for hibiscus paste to enter the country.
So, where did the hibiscus ointment that is spreading in the capital come from?
Jia Cong expressed his doubts, and Zhang Zhengju shook his head.
"Xiaoguan also had this doubt. After discovering this matter, Xiaguan and Long Jinwei carefully investigated. This batch of poisons circulating in the capital seemed to appear out of thin air, and the source could not be traced at all. Even though Xiaguan had arrested many people Poisonous people, but every three to five days, the shadow of hibiscus ointment will appear in guild halls everywhere."
"Could it be that those juzi brought it themselves? Mr. Zhang has interrogated them."
Jia Cong's question made Zhang Zhengju even more bitter. He nodded: "I have asked several people, but..."
Zhang Zhengju led the people from Dali Temple and surrounded the Nanzhili Guild Hall, Jiangxi Guild Hall, and Fujian Guild Hall. He originally planned to interrogate the residents one by one.
I don't want to be scolded severely by the people sent by the Minister of Rites, He Yaomin, as soon as he started.
Spring is approaching, and Dali Temple has made a lot of noise in the place where the candidates for the exam live because of the investigation, and they have to interrogate the candidates.
What do you want to do?Do you want to mess up the Chunwei Grand Competition in the eighth year of Yuanyou?
The Dragon Guards didn't even have the guts to do this before the talent ceremony!
"That's the reason. If something happens to these people who are preparing for the exam, it will be a big trouble. In this case, Mr. Zhang and I will go to the Dragon Guard to see if there is anything found there."
Jia Cong also knew that what he was thinking was simple, and sighed: "In investigating the case, we need to peel off the cocoons, so there is no need to rush. Your Highness, King Wu, there is no need to rush, the legal network is wide and open, and no matter how cunning a mouse is, it cannot escape the eyes of a cat... "
Liu Chen felt relieved when he saw that Jia Cong agreed to the matter.
Although his family is the prince of the clan, he really can't compare with Rongguo Mansion in the capital.With Jia Cong, a helper who is familiar with hibiscus paste, the chances of finding out who is behind the scenes are much greater.
Liu Chen stood up and held hands with Jia Cong: "Please leave it to Uncle Yongfeng. He will definitely come to thank you one day."
Jia Cong responded with a salute: "Your Highness, you're welcome."
After finishing speaking, he bid farewell to Liu Ke, walked out of the teahouse with Zhang Zhengju, and rushed to Fusi, North Town of Longjianwei.
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The method of the Dragon Guard is better than that of the Dali Temple. According to the investigation of the Dragon Guard, the hibiscus ointment that appeared in the Fujian Guild Hall is very likely to be related to the Quanzhou Bosi.
Of course, there is no definite evidence yet.It's just that the spies of the Dragon Guards accidentally learned a piece of news from a Hongmaoyi merchant: when a merchant ship returned to Hong Kong from Quanzhou Shipping Division, it privately carried hibiscus ointment into the customs.
Since finding out the news, the Long Guard has already sent people to go south to investigate at a high speed, and there will be no news back in a while.
Jia Cong and Zhang Zhengju didn't delay, and hurried to the residence of the red-haired merchant in Xishi.
"Western Treasures Museum, such a straightforward store name."
Jia Cong groaned and looked at the shop in front of him.The three-storey shop shows the financial strength of its owner. The Daxia capital, where every inch of land is expensive, can afford such a large shop, and it is impossible without a few 10 taels of silver.
"Oh~ God! It turned out that the Earl is here in person, my lord, Huon Raymond, to meet the Earl... Oh, and this Lord."
As soon as Jia Cong stepped into the door of the store, he saw a tall red-haired Xiyi approaching with an exaggerated smile of surprise.
This Xiyi's official language is good, without a trace of accent.Wearing a common official uniform, his red hair was tied up with a silver hairpin.
Nondescript, quite funny.
But it also made Jia Cong see his shrewdness: this is a red-haired man who understands the psychology of the Han people!
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Let’s stop here today and continue tomorrow.Good night!
(End of this chapter)