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.
At that time, the Zhen family followed the orders of Concubine Zhen and Liu Bu, the fourteenth old man, and colluded with Jiangnan officials and salt merchants to assassinate the Lin family. They 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 poison that assassinated Lin Ruhai, an important official of the imperial court, was the work of a salt merchant. Judging from the evidence found, it had nothing to do with Wang Ziteng.
Everyone in the capital knew that Wang Ziteng was in cahoots with Prince Yi Zhong's Palace and Prince Zhongxin's Palace, but for all the treason and treachery in the two palaces, no matter how much they were investigated, there was no evidence that Wang Ziteng was involved.
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...
After thinking about it, there is only one thing: lax management of the family.
What the hell kind of crime is this?
Mr. Wei can be said to be the most famous person in the country, and his grandnephew even smoked hibiscus ointment.
For this crime, the fine and salary are sky-high.
When Liu Fu was demoted to a commoner and imprisoned, there were many complaints that Wang Ziteng was conspiring 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 Yan, Liu Ye, the Zhen family and the four major princes' palaces around, and he was able to play tricks on others without losing any control.
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 from the Anbei Protectorate has not yet come back. Jia Cong asked Nie Chaoyi to continue to hang on to Goryeo and other vassal states, while he stayed in the mansion and did not go out.
After staying up for a few days, he sketched out the design sketch of the battleship in his mind 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 his sister and sister.
The only time he left the house was to Princess Deqing's house. Jia Qiang returned to Beijing, and his marriage to Tu Siqi was officially put on the agenda.
What is the greatest advantage of the Jia family? That means it looks good.
In addition, the royal people are basically from the Yan Party, even if Jia Qiang is less and alone, he won a lot of praise on the day of the recruitment.
As for the heroine of this marriage, Tu Siqi had 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.
Neither Jia nor Lin left the city with everyone, so the emperor naturally would not give orders to his close officials for this.
It was not until the twenty-first 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 to meet the prince twenty miles west.
Liu Hong's biggest gain after being out of Beijing for a year was that he actually experienced a battle, and more than 100,000 Hexi troops became his fans.
Jia Cong and others did not disturb the reunion of the royal grandfather, grandson, father and son. They welcomed the prince into the city and escorted him all the way back to the palace. They agreed to meet at the East Palace at a certain date after the new year, 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, was walking slowly south along Zhengyang Street. The sun was just right, and it was warm on his body, making Jia Cong feel a little 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 to him.
Recently, the emperor has not arranged work for this man, and the old man has become promiscuous again.
Jia Cong handed the donkey to the soldiers, climbed up the teahouse and entered the private room. Unexpectedly, he saw two familiar faces in the private room.
"Thirteenth Master...His Royal Highness King Wu, Mr. Zhang, I didn't expect to meet you two here."
It turned out that those who were drinking tea with Liu Ke in the elegant room were Liu Chen, the king of Wu who was in Jinling, and his son-in-law Zhang Sanzhengju, the king of lawsuits.
"I really didn't expect that after only two years of separation from Jinling, Xiao Jia Qianhu had already become a hereditary and irreplaceable earl of the country."
Liu Chen always looks like a cheerful old man, but Jia Cong doesn't dare to look down on him at all.
It was this man who pulled artillery all over the city of Jinling, used it to wash the ground, and greeted the unjust judges and gentry in Jinling one by one.
Zhang San was ordered to the capital by the emperor early and sent to Dali Temple to serve as Shaoqing. At the same time, he also served as a member of the Ministry of Punishment, Wai Lang, and participated in the improvement of the "Daxia Code".
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 the greetings, Liu Ke winked at Jia Cong and said, "Where is your father? If this king encounters something interesting, he must be interested."
"oh?"
Jia Cong spread his hands and said: "My father has been obsessed with the fun of raising children recently and can't help himself. I guess he will take my second brother's daughter to show off the baby."
This is the truth. Master Pardon has a new favorite - his eldest granddaughter. The good son immediately turned into a man picked up from a smelly ditch. He looked disgusted with him horizontally and vertically, and he was disgusted.
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."
Putting aside this small episode, Liu Ke nodded to Zhang Zhengju: "It's up to you to say it. This guy needs help in this matter. He has a bright mind. It will be much easier for you with him."
Zhang Zhengju opened a box on the table, which contained a stack of files.
"Uncle, take a look at this file first..."
Jia Cong took it and took a look. He only read the beginning and took a deep breath.
"Hey, Mr. Zhang, are you sure this is true?"
"Seven or eight out of ten."
hiss!
According to Zhang Zhengju's caution, it is 99% 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 received several cases recently. Some people reported that many people who went to Beijing to prepare for exams smoked hibiscus paste.
When it comes to poisons like hibiscus ointment, Dali Temple naturally does not dare to delay. Zhang Zhengju personally led people to raid various guild halls and found 27 people who were smoking hibiscus cream.
Among them, the Jiangxi Guild Hall, Fujian Guild Hall and Nanzhili Guild Hall were involved in the most cases. It can be said that the three places with the most prosperous culture in Daxia are surrounded by hibiscus paste.
According to the clues found so far, these people have only been in Beijing for more than a month, and they all came into contact with hibiscus cream after entering Beijing. They had only heard of it before but never actually seen it.
The beginning of their smoking of hibiscus paste was also extremely scary. Someone added hibiscus cake to their incense, which made them addicted without knowing it.
This is not strange. 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 Longjing Guard could not find the mastermind behind the case.
"The Dragon Guards squatted for several days and only captured a few slaves in the guild hall and the watchman who brought hibiscus ointment to these slaves. The clue was completely broken when it came to the watchman, because the watchman didn't know how to give it to 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 why he investigated the 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 definitely go out of the city to greet him, so Liu Ke took Wu Wang Liu Chen and Zhang Zhengju to Zhengyang Street to block people.
Jia Cong put the file back and asked doubtfully: "His Royal Highness King Wu, Mr. Zhang, for such a big case involving the spring of next year, the Dragon Guard must have taken over it. Why would Mr. Zhang need to go through this muddy water?"
Liu Chen smiled bitterly. After looking at Zhang Zhengju, he saw him nodding, and then replied: "Because someone in the South Zhili Guild Hall was arrested by the Dragon Guards, and that person actually accused the Wu Palace, saying that the poison was given by the king. People were sent to the Nanzhili Guild Hall."
ah?
"Even so, His Majesty won't believe it."
Zhang Zhengju took the words and responded: "Your Majesty does not believe it, but the South Zhili Guild Hall has been rumored. Prince Wu's mansion is in the south of the Yangtze River. If the case is not clearly investigated, if there is a commotion in the spring of next year because of this matter, the reputation of Prince Wu's mansion will be ruined." It’s completely ruined.”
Jia Cong nodded: "I understand, it is indeed a big trouble."
If the reputation of Prince Wu's Mansion was ruined, how could it ever exist in the south of the Yangtze River? Even if the emperor knows the inside story of the case and trusts the Wu Palace, he is afraid that he will have to transfer him back to the capital.
But Jia Cong has already seen a clue, and that is the origin 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 cream currently spreading in the capital come from?
Jia Cong expressed this doubt, and Zhang Zhengju also 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 who took the case themselves? Did Mr. Zhang interrogate 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 to surround the Nanzhili Guild Hall, Jiangxi Guild Hall and Fujian Guild Hall. He originally planned to interrogate the people living among them one by one.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he got up, he was severely punished by someone sent by He Yaomin, the Minister of Rites.
Spring is approaching, and Dali Temple has made a fuss about the place where the candidates who are preparing for the examination live because of the investigation, and they have to be interrogated.
What do you want to do? Do you want to mess up Yuanyou's eight-year Spring Festival Competition?
None of the Dragon Guards had the guts to do this before the talent promotion 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 he is a prince of the clan, he is really no match for Rong Guofu in the capital. With Jia Cong as a helper who is familiar with hibiscus cream, I think the chance of finding out the mastermind will be 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 that, he said goodbye to Liu Ke, walked out of the teahouse with Zhang Zhengju, and rushed to Fusi, Longjin Guard North Town.
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The Dragon Guard's methods are better than those of Dali Temple. According to the Dragon Guard's investigation, the hibiscus paste that appeared in the Fujian Guild Hall is most likely related to the Quanzhou Ship Division.
Of course, there is no conclusive evidence yet. It's just that the spies of the Dragon Guards accidentally learned a piece of news from a red-haired Yi merchant: when a merchant ship from the Quanzhou Shipping Department returned to Hong Kong, it secretly brought hibiscus paste into the customs.
Since finding out the news, Longjing Guard has sent people to go south quickly to investigate. There will be no news back for a while.
Jia Cong and Zhang Zhengju did not delay and hurried to the residence of the red-haired Yi businessman in the West City.
"Western Treasures Museum, such a straightforward store name."
Jia Cong complained and looked at the shop in front of him. The three-story shop shows the financial resources of its owner. In the capital city of Daxia, where every inch of land is precious, it is impossible to afford such a large shop without hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
"Oh~ God! It's actually the Earl who is here in person. I, Huon Raymond, pay homage to the Earl... Oh, there is also 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 Mandarin is pretty good, with no accent at all. Wearing a common military uniform, his red hair was tied up with a silver hairpin.
Nondescript and 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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I’ll stop here today and continue tomorrow. Good night!
(End of chapter)
