"It's a bit regrettable after all."
A carrier pigeon rested on Concubine Shang's shoulder. She handed the note to His Majesty and said, "Since we can't charge him with treason, we'll have to send him to Lingnan."
The emperor took the note, took a look at it, and then threw it into the stove and burned it.
"How could Fei An fall for such a trick?"
Concubine Shang sighed and asked, "What are Mr. Ji's plans for next?"
"Let him go to the Eastern Frontier Army. It's always better to have an extra pair of eyes watching."
"Do you really want to fight?"
"The Fu family's food has been shipped out in batches, and the first batch is expected to reach Lanling City at the beginning of next month. According to Yan Beixi and my estimation, this war will break out after the Fei Kingdom returns to the Eastern Frontier Army. After all, another purpose of this war is that the Fei family wants the Fei Kingdom to regain control of the Eastern Frontier Army. Therefore, when the Fei Kingdom returns to the Eastern Frontier Army, this first batch of food will be arriving soon."
Thinking about Fu Xiaoguan's reminder about this matter and his subsequent initiative to undertake the transportation of the grain, I owe this kid a lot.
This is the young man from the Yu Dynasty, who will live forever. I will remember his kindness, and in the future... I will let him rule the country without borders!
"But the weapons and armor reported are lacking a lot."
"That's fine, let's just destroy it and rebuild it... But it's time to set up the capital."
…
Last night's dark night and cold wind finally brought down the snow that had been brewing all night.
Amidst the falling rain, the huge city of Shangjing seemed to be covered by a veil, and nothing was clear as far as the eye could see.
The door of Prince Hui's mansion was never opened again, and more than 300 heads piled up outside the door formed a small hill.
This street has a very pleasant name, called March Alley. On both sides of the alley are many old willow trees, which have naturally lost their green and are now bare and lifeless.
But when March comes, these old willows will grow new willow leaves and bloom white petals.
When the spring breeze blows, the willow catkins in the alley fly everywhere, which is the famous March snow in the capital.
It was certainly not March at this time. Today was the seventh day of the first lunar month, but there was heavy snow falling, whitening the old willows and the blood that had already turned black on the streets.
When the daylight dawned, a black dog smelled the blood and ran to the gate of Prince Hui's mansion. It looked at the large group of people's heads and seemed to be frightened. It barked wildly at the door a few times.
Then a desperate roar came from the mansion: "Ji Yungui! You have ruined my destiny. This king will not let you go!"
The black dog was so scared that it turned around and ran away, leaving a string of plum blossom-like marks on the thin snow on the street, which was very beautiful.
Prince Hui's eyes were red as he picked up a green-glazed lady's vase handed down from the previous dynasty and smashed it to the ground with a "bang", breaking it into pieces. The lady holding the zither was also scattered on the ground. The eldest son Yu Le and the second son Yu Huan who were standing next to the bookcase were shocked, thinking that this item was their father's favorite. It seemed that the situation was extremely bad.
Prince Hui did not sleep all night and did not receive any news, so he knew that Ji Yungui had set a trap for him.
He took a deep breath and calmed himself down, but what he was thinking in his heart was that Ji Yungui finally ran away to Nanling County. If he really asked Fei An to come to his aid... this would be a damn way to kill me!
"Prepare the car, prepare the car!"
Prince Comet screamed and ran out of the study in panic, only to find that it was already dawn, the snow was heavy, and his body was very cold.
He got on the carriage, and the guards opened the door of the prince's palace, but the carriage did not move forward.
He opened the car window and saw the most elite Jingyu Guards of the Jinling government office standing solemnly in front of the door.
There was another sedan chair in the Jingyu Guard. At this moment, a man walked out of the sedan chair. He was Ning Yuchun.
"Ning Yuchun, the prefect of Jinling Prefecture, greets His Royal Highness Prince Hui!"
"Humph! I have to leave the city urgently. What do you mean by this?"
"Your Highness, last night a woman beat a drum to complain about an injustice involving your Third Prince. However, I suspect your Highness may not be available last night, so I have decided to wait for you here today... Your Highness, why are there so many heads at the gate of your mansion? This is a serious case. Since I have witnessed this, I invite you to move to the Jinling government office. Of course, I will investigate the truth and clear your name."
"You... you are just a mere prefect of Jinling, and you dare to block my way? I have no interest in your government office. I want to leave, and see how you can stop me!"
Ning Yuchun shook his head with a smile, reached out to catch a snowflake, watched it melt, and then squeezed his hands.
"I knew it was difficult to invite Your Highness, so..." Ning Yuchun turned and said to the sedan chair, "Eunuch Jia, if you don't come out, Prince Hui will run away!"
Run? Why should I run?
Prince Hui was startled, and saw the sedan door open, and Eunuch Jia, the eunuch who was delivering the emperor's orders, came out.
With his hands tucked into his sleeves, he trotted over to Prince Hui's carriage with a smile on his face and whispered, "Your Majesty means... the royal family's reputation still needs to be maintained by Your Highness. Your Majesty told this servant that Prince Hui would definitely go with Prefect Ning to the government office to prove his innocence. You see, Your Majesty was wrong. He didn't expect Your Highness to run away. After all, this country belongs to Your Majesty, where can Your Highness run away? In my opinion, Your Highness, please go with Prefect Ning to the government office and make this matter a small matter. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
"I don't intend to run away!"
"This... I will report to His Majesty when I get back. Your Highness has no intention of running away. So, Your Highness, please follow Prefect Ning now, okay? Otherwise, I won't be able to complete my mission. If things really get tense and a fight breaks out... then, Your Highness, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to step down."
Prince Hui closed his eyes and raised his head, counting his breaths in silence. "Alright, I'll go to the government office and take a look."
Ning Yuchun took Prince Hui away. Eunuch Jia looked at the gradually blurred figures in the wind and snow, shook his head, got on the carriage, and saw Fu Xiaoguan's smiling face.
"Master Fu, if His Majesty were to find out about this false imperial decree, I would be beheaded!"
"What imperial decree did the eunuch pass on? No, the eunuch simply persuaded Prince Hui. Prince Hui originally wanted to flee Shangjing, but under the eunuch's persuasion, he took the initiative to go to the Jinling government office to await trial. This is the eunuch's great contribution!"
"But this old slave has already brought up the Emperor!"
"Yeah, that's not wrong. Isn't the emperor used to carry it on his back? Isn't he used to intimidate these villains?"
It seemed to make some sense. Eunuch Jia yawned and said, "Let's go. I need to go back and take a nap. The court will start tomorrow. But it's a big court meeting, so you should remember to come to the palace early."
"Thank you, eunuch. Take care."
Fu Xiaoguan took out a five thousand tael silver note and stuffed it into Jia Gonggong's hand. "We are so familiar with each other, there is no need to say more. I didn't come to pay you New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival. This is a small gift from me. Please accept it."
As he said this, he jumped off the sedan chair and waved to Eunuch Jia. Eunuch Jia smiled and shook his head. The sedan chair was lifted up and headed towards the palace.
Su Su was standing in the snow in a white dress. The ponytail that was originally tied behind her head had been untied and turned into long hair draped over her shoulders.
The long hair was flying in the wind and snow, looking... Fu Xiaoguan took a deep breath. Fortunately, it was daytime. If it was night, this look would be a bit scary.
"What are you doing here?" Su Su asked curiously.
"have a look."
"What are you looking at?"
"See if anyone else comes."
Fu Xiaoguan really stopped in front of the gate of Prince Hui's mansion and looked at it for half an hour.
The door had been closed when Prince Hui left, and there was no sound from inside. Su Su was confused. In fact, Fu Xiaoguan didn't understand it either. He thought that the strategist named Ji Yungui would return to Prince Hui's mansion, but now it seems that this person has probably run away.
Su Rou went to Prince Hui's mansion last night, but did not find Ji Linchun.
So before dawn, he ran into the palace with the jade token given to him by the emperor, found Eunuch Jia and came here with Ning Yuchun.
He wanted to try his luck and see if he could wait until Ji Yun returned, because he thought that Prince Hui's mansion was so big that it would be easy to hide someone there. If Ji Linchun was an important person, then there must be very few people who knew her hiding place.
Prince Hui must know about it, but because of his identity, if he refuses to tell anyone, Fu Xiaoguan will have no way to deal with him.
But dealing with a staff member is much easier. Fu Xiaoguan has countless ways to make him speak.
"Let's go."
"Not watching anymore?"
“There’s nothing to see anymore.”
"So where are we going now?"
"Let's go to the Jinling government office and see what's going on."
…
Because the court session had not yet begun and because the matter involved Prince Hui, the person presiding over Jiang Yu's case in the Jinling government office was the Minister of Justice Xi Xunmei.
This is a shitty thing!
Xi Xunmei felt terrible when he received the imperial edict this morning. It was not because he was afraid of Prince Hui, but because of what his father said to him in the morning when he came back from the Mo Nan Ranch to celebrate the New Year.
"Dad has been raising horses all his life, and he's learned one thing: let the dog bark as much as he can, as long as the horse stays on the right path!"
What's the reason for this?
"Just focus on this case and don't worry about what Prince Comet says. If a dog gets tired of barking, its owner won't beat the horse, only the dog. Trust your father, you won't be wrong."
All right!
Xi Xunmei collected her thoughts, her face trembling, and she slammed the gavel in her hand. "Bring the plaintiff Jiang Yu to court!"
Fu Xiaoguan and Susu were peeking out from outside. He seemed to have thought of something and muttered, "No, I have to sue this too!"
He turned and went to a lawyer's office across the street. He spent a tael of silver and asked the lawyer inside to write a complaint. After the lawyer finished writing, he kept looking at Fu Xiaoguan. Fu Xiaoguan touched his face and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Oh, could you please sign this book for me?"
Fu Xiaoguan took it and looked at it. It was another Dream of the Red Chamber. "Then return my one or two taels of silver."
The lawyer returned the silver to Fu Xiaoguan with a painful look on his face. Fu Xiaoguan picked up the pen and signed his name. The lawyer took it and looked at it, then glanced at Fu Xiaoguan again, thinking, "This handwriting... Am I going to be cheated when I open my business today?"
Fu Xiaoguan ignored him and ran to the gate of the government office with the complaint, and started beating the drums outside with "dong dong dong..."
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