Under the morning light, the golden sword paved the way.
Outside Danfeng Gate, all ministers entered the palace.
After the crowd in front had dispersed, Li Xuan walked to Danfeng's door with a solemn expression.
He was dressed in a deep crimson provincial governor's official uniform of the fourth rank, holding a two-foot-six-inch ivory wat in his hand. He had a tall and straight posture and a respectful expression.
On one side of him stood Shangyuan Zhao Bin and Shancheng Gao Wei, both of whom looked extremely ugly.
Li Xuan glanced at the two of them, with a trace of pity in her eyes.
Of these two people, we still don’t know who will survive today.
At this moment, inside the Danfeng Gate, the servant's voice shouted loudly: "It is said that Li Xuan, the king of Nanchang County, has a chariot to serve Zhao Bin, and a chariot to serve Gao Wei before him."
"I will receive the order." Li Xuan bowed seriously, Shan Chaan served Zhao Bin, and AM Cheng served Gao Wei, the same thing happened.
Even outside the palace gate, where the emperor could not see them, they still saluted seriously.
After getting up, Li Xuan took the lead and strode towards the palace.
The other two quickly followed.
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Standing in front of the Zichen Palace, Li Xuan carefully adjusted her collar, then held the ivory wat and stepped into the main hall.
When they saw Li Xuan entering the palace, all the ministers, ministers, ministers in the East Palace, and Yushitai Di Renjie and others all looked at Li Xuan in surprise.
Although there were some gains from last night's case, in the end we still couldn't completely find out the mastermind behind it.
The ministers originally thought that it would take some time for this case to come to a conclusion. Who would have thought that today, the emperor suddenly announced that Li Xuan had entered the palace.
The two people who came in later, Shangnian Fengyu Zhao Bin, and Shancheng Fengcheng Gao Wei, even lowered their heads and trembled.
When Zhang Daan saw Zhao Bin, his face had already completely darkened.
The news that Zhao Bin was assassinated last night could not be hidden from Zhang Daan, but he did not expect that Zhao Bin, who was supposed to know nothing about it, would also appear here today.
Li Xuan stood still, then moved forward and cupped his hands: "Your Majesty, Wang Xuan of Nanchang, pays homage to your Majesty. Your Majesty may be blessed with endless blessings."
"I pay my respects to your Majesty. May your Majesty live forever." Zhao Bin and Gao Wei saluted at the same time.
"Get back on your feet." Li Zhi looked calm, his eyes fell on Li Xuan, and he said softly: "The King of Nanchang, please tell me about the situation. Who did what happened to Zhang Qing?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, what happened to Prime Minister Zhang was that someone used the position of the prince to sacrifice his own life, to lure AM Chen to flatter Gao Wei, and used the daughter of a servant who had been married into the Zhang family more than 20 years ago to frame Prime Minister Zhang for slipping and falling. As for his subsequent infection, The wind and cold were caused by a fall, not intentional.”
"Your Majesty, I am guilty, please punish me." Gao Wei took a step forward, knelt down, and knocked his forehead heavily on the ground, as if he was willing to die.
This is completely different from the way he was afraid of death before in Shen Guogong's Mansion.
Li Zhi frowned, then waved his hand and said: "Your matter will be decided after the review of the Three Laws Division. I ask you, who used the position of prince to sacrifice others to lure you to attack Zhang Qing?"
"I originally thought that the letter was sent by the Crown Prince Zuo Shuzi through the hand of Shang Nian and Zhao Bin, but later I discovered that the letter written by the Crown Prince Zuo Shuzi was forged and that Shang Nian and Zhao Bin were also inadvertently used. That's what happened next." Gao Wei seriously told everything he knew.
Li Zhi raised his head and looked at Li Xuan: "Where is that letter?"
"Here." Li Xuan took out a letter from his sleeve with a solemn expression, and then handed it forward.
The waiter on one side stepped forward to take it off, and finally handed it to Li Zhi's hand.
Li Zhi took the letter and opened it directly. In an instant, familiar handwriting appeared in front of him.
Li Zhi raised his head and his cold eyes fell on Zhang Daan.
Zhang Daan immediately stood up, raised his hands in panic and said, "I am guilty."
Li Zhi glanced at Zhang Daan, and finally looked at Li Xuan and asked, "I can't see anything wrong with this letter. Why do you say it's a fake?"
"Your Majesty, please use your fingers to touch the gap between the two words. You will find that there is a slight flaw in the middle." Li Xuan cupped her hands, looked up at Li Zhi who was touching the words, and said, "If you put this letter When put into warm water, the glue used inside should lose its effectiveness, and the lettering blocks will emerge on their own.”
"Here comes someone!" Li Zhi looked to the side, and in an instant, a basin of warm water was brought up, surprisingly quickly.
Some people were already looking back and forth between Li Xuan and the emperor with sensitive eyes.
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Li Zhi conveniently put the letter paper into the basin. Soon, just a dozen breaths later, a small piece of writing on the paper had already risen.
Soon, word blocks rose up one after another. There were no two words connected together at all. They were all one word after another, stuck together with glue.
Li Zhi waved his hand, and Wang Fulai immediately held the basin and walked to Liu Rengui, Dai Zhide, Hao Chujun and others on the left, and then quickly walked to the generals on the right.
Finally, when he came to Zhang Daan, he was shocked as he looked at each word: "This, this, this... Your Majesty... this..."
"It's none of your business. This method has been used before. But at that time, someone cut out the imperial edict left by the emperor's grandfather and prepared to forge the edict. Later, it was discovered by the King of Nanchang. Now, some people still You are really desperate for using that trick." Li Zhi's face turned cold for a moment, and his eyes passed over all the ministers in the palace.
Among the ministers, Wu Chengsi lowered his head deeply, his face looking ugly for a while.
Li Zhi looked at Li Xuan and asked: "Continue, how is the investigation of the fake letter, and what's going on with Zhao Qing?"
"Replying to your majesty, someone secretly put that letter into Gao Wei's hand while he was drinking too much. After Shang Nian Fengyu clinked glasses with him, Shang Nian Fengyu had no idea what was going on. Today There are still people who are trying to assassinate him and then frame everything on him." Li Xuan handed over seriously.
"Who?" Li Zhi asked directly, who put the letter into Gao Wei's hand.
"It was another Shang Nian serving Yu Su Hui, but when I came to the door, he had already been silenced."
Li Xuan bowed and said: "As for the assassin who assassinated Shang Nian Fengyu, Qianniu Guard has asked him to speak. He said that he was from the secret guard, but the secret guard searched the files and could not find that person. For related things, that person is not from the Secret Guard..."
"Someone is pretending to be a secret guard in Beijing." Li Zhi couldn't help but lean forward, and his face suddenly became extremely ugly.
In the capital, someone dared to act in the name of a secret guard. What did he do?
Anyone who dares to do this has a huge purpose. Who has such ambition?
Why didn't all the officials notice it at all?
How long have people been acting like this?
Li Zhi's eyes fell on Li Xuan, his mind calmed, and then he continued to ask: "The follow-up to that false letter?"
"When I sent people to find the bookstore where the forged letters were made, I found that the owner of the bookstore had been killed for three days, and it seemed that his throat was cut when he was about to pack up his things and leave Chang'an." Li Xuan bowed seriously and said this matter He went a step late.
"It is inevitable to be silenced." Li Zhi nodded, then looked up at Li Xuan and asked, "What else is there? You didn't just find out here, right?"
Li Xuan looked up and hesitated for a moment.
"I asked you to tell me!" Li Zhi suddenly became furious. He slammed the memorial on the imperial case to the ground. He stared at Li Xuan fiercely and cursed: "I asked you to investigate the case, not to do it for me. I’ve covered up my ugliness, and if I ask you to tell me, just tell me what you have to be afraid of!”
"Your Majesty, calm down!" Li Xuan quickly bowed deeply, and all the officials in the palace also quickly bowed: "Your Majesty, calm down!"
Over the years, the emperor has never been so angry. Even the Li Jingye incident last year did not make him so angry.
"Everyone, get up." Li Zhi waved his hand, and all the ministers breathed a sigh of relief and stood up.
Li Zhi looked at Li Xuan again and said, "You continue."
"Yes!" Li Xuan took a deep breath, cupped her hands and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, in fact, I found out that it was a fake not long after I came into contact with the fake letter. However, I did not say anything about it, but asked Qian Niuwei to immediately Check out all the famous calligraphers and painters in Beijing who are good at mounting."
"So you found that bookshop one step ahead of time?" Li Zhi understood somewhat.
"Your Majesty, I don't." Li Xuan bowed and said seriously: "I just asked the Jinwu Guards all over the city to keep an eye on every suspected target for me. But later, when I found the bookstore in Dongshi, I was surprised. Three groups of men suddenly appeared from the darkness and then left quickly."
"Someone found there before you?" Li Zhi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked coldly: "Who is it?"
The emperor's faint eyes passed over the ministers, and everyone shuddered involuntarily.
"The three groups of people went in different directions, and some of them transferred the message to others, and some were even forced to use carrier pigeons..."
"Homing pigeon?"
"It's your Majesty. In the middle of delivering the message, the curfew was imposed in Chang'an." Li Xuan lowered her body and said solemnly: "Among the three parties, two parties opened the door and continued to deliver the message, and one party was forced to stop. Footsteps, messages sent by carrier pigeons, all details are in the memorial."
Li Xuan held the memorial in her sleeves between her hands with a solemn expression.
Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Tell me the result!"
"Yes!" Li Xuan held the memorial in both hands and said seriously: "The first eyeliner finally spread the news to the East Palace..."
"My son is guilty!" Li Xian stood up to accept the crime before Li Xuan finished speaking.
Li Zhi waved his hand expressionlessly and looked at Li Xuan: "You continue."
"Yes!" Li Xuan continued to raise her hand and said, "The second group of informants finally spread the news to Lijingmen."
"Secret Guard." Li Zhi's fists clenched immediately.
Lijingmen is where the secret guards of the imperial court are located.
Yuan Wanqing immediately stood up, cupped his hands and said, "I am guilty."
Li Zhi raised his head expressionlessly, looked at the five-clawed golden dragon in the center of the hall, and said in a calm and steady voice: "King Nanchang, continue."
"Here!" Li Zhi continued to hand over his hand, and then said: "The third eye, the homing pigeon finally landed in Wubenfang, Zhou Guogong's mansion."
The next moment, in the eyes of countless ministers who looked at them in disbelief, Wu Chengsi stood up with a confused look on his face. Then he hurriedly raised his hands in panic and said: "I am guilty!"
"Chengsi?" Li Zhi turned to look at Li Xuan and asked, "Are you sure it's the Duke of Zhou's residence?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the Jinwu Guards are still watching outside the gate of Duke Zhou's Mansion. Your Majesty can send people into the mansion to investigate. The informant is also under the surveillance of the Jinwu Guards and can arrest people at any time." Li Xuan held the memorial and said, "Duke Zhou may not have really been involved in this matter. He may have been used by others. The East Palace and the secret guards may also have other opinions."
"Are you trying to excuse them?" Li Zhi looked at Li Xuan funny.
Li Xuan bowed and said: "I don't dare. It's just that I didn't enter the East Palace and Lijing Gate to investigate. Although I followed the informant, I don't know the details and I haven't obtained any evidence, so I don't dare to make a conclusion."
Li Zhi turned to look at the three people standing on one side, with a sneer on his face, and then said: "Prince, Zhang Qing, Yuan Qing and Cheng Si, who among the four of you speaks first."
The hall suddenly became awe-inspiring.
Although this case only caused the waiter Zhang Wenguan to fall down and suffer minor bone fractures in his body, and then contracted wind and cold, and is now mostly recovered, it almost killed him in the end.
Not to mention, this is not the first time someone has targeted the prime minister.
If it cannot be effectively stopped, everything will be different in the future.
That's why the emperor's attitude was so bad this time.
East Palace, Secret Guard, Duke Zhou.
Now, it depends on who can get rid of his own suspicion.
(End of chapter)
