RPAGF Chapter 248 Summoning Xiao Yunjing back to Beijing
Chapter 248 Summoning Xiao Yunjing back to Beijing
Jiangnan, a large prison.
In front of a wide variety of torture instruments, Magistrate Su confessed everything clearly.
"The silver I embezzled was hidden under the peach tree in the backyard. There were two large water jars buried under the tree, and the silver was hidden in the water jars." Magistrate Su confessed tremblingly.
Han Xun looked at him coldly, "As for the corruption case, you should explain it to the officials of the Ministry of Justice yourself."
"Ah? Then why are you going to interrogate someone with so many torture instruments..." Magistrate Su was terrified, his eyes full of confusion.
"Su Ruhuan, your background."
"She?" When Magistrate Su heard the name Su Ruhuan, he felt very regretful.
Originally, after this daughter entered the palace, she was promoted step by step, gave birth to a prince, and became the mistress of the palace.
Because of this, he was flattered by many officials and received a lot of money.
Unexpectedly, she actually offended the emperor in the palace...
This caused the emperor's most popular figures to travel thousands of miles to Jiangnan to interrogate him.
"She was brought to my house by my concubine. If she really did something wrong...she might not be my daughter! She...she might be the child of my concubine having an affair with someone else outside. Yes, yes, that's definitely the case!" Magistrate Su quickly distanced himself from the matter.
Han Xun weighed the file in his hand and said, "It says in this file that she is your concubine's daughter who was raised in the countryside. You are committing the crime of deceiving the emperor."
"General Han, spare my life! My concubine's daughter has a bad reputation, so I announced it to the public. I dare not deceive you!" When Governor Su heard this, he begged for mercy:
"I was deceived by them and their daughter. I just wanted to give them a place to stay and take them in. I was kind-hearted..."
Han Xun was too lazy to listen to his nonsense and asked directly:
"Do Su Ruhuan and her mother have any acquaintances?"
"No." Magistrate Su shook his head.
Han Xun interrogated Su carefully, but Magistrate Su knew nothing about anything.
"Are there any special marks on the mother and daughter of the Su family?" Han Xun asked.
Members of some organizations may have totemic tattoos on their bodies.
This is also one of the problems in routine tracing of origins.
"No." Magistrate Su continued to shake his head and suddenly remembered something:
"There is a scar. Cui Niang (Su Ruhuan's mother) has a scar on her leg, about this size..."
Governor Su gestured and said, "It seems like she fell accidentally..."
Han Xun became suspicious and rolled up his sleeves, revealing a scar on his arm. "Is this what he looks like?"
"Yes, yes, exactly the same... Commander Han, have you fallen too?"
Han Xun's eyes were deep.
This was the scar left by a crossbow arrow when he was being chased the last time he sneaked into Daliang.
crossbow……
It is a controlled weapon in the military.
It is rarely seen among the people.
An ordinary woman had crossbow wounds on her body. The most likely possibility was that she once lived in the frontier.
Han Xun also arrested and interrogated the servants who had served the Su mother and daughter one by one.
The main check is, have the mother and daughter of the Su family ever mentioned anything about other places?
With such a clear goal, relevant clues were quickly found.
Southwest Bamboo Sea, Southwest Cuisine.
southwest……
Han Xun's expression was a little complicated. He would rather Su Ruhuan came from the southeastern frontier and was sent to the palace by the Xue family.
There is the Dong family in the southwest, but there is also Xiao Yunjing.
At that time, Your Majesty was still in the palace and trained eleven generals.
Five are buried on the Southeast Battlefield.
Four are buried on the Southwest Battlefront.
Now only Han Xun and Xiao Yunjing are left.
At that time, the young men who were sitting on the wall drinking were full of vigor and scolded the treacherous people in power in the court and the former emperor for being incompetent and being held hostage by the nobles. They said that they were grateful for the cultivation of their lord and were willing to repay the emperor's kindness with their lives.
They were once comrades-in-arms who shared the same ideals and were loyal men who dared to risk their lives on the frontier for Your Majesty.
The last time Han Xun escaped from Daliang back to Yan State, it was Xiao Yunjing who met him at the border.
After many years of separation, Han Xun reunited and thought that the Cen family was gone, and the southwest was in the hands of Xiao Yunjing from then on...
Everything is getting better.
But the world is changing too fast.
Han Xun was in an extremely heavy mood, but as always, he wrote down every suspicious thing about Su Ruhuan and her daughter truthfully without missing a word, and sent the letter back to the palace thousands of miles away.
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Imperial Palace, Qianxin Hall.
Helian Qi received Han Xun's letter and his face became serious.
Southwest, military crossbow, Su Ruhuan.
Behind her could be Xiao Yunjing or the Dong family.
But the emperor never took chances.
As an emperor, Helian Qi has always been very clear that even your closest ministers cannot be fully trusted as long as they hold power.
People change.
Xiao Yunjing holds military power in the southwest. Although the Dong family provides checks and balances, the southwest is still under his control.
If he had any idea...
The situation in the southwest will collapse drastically.
The emperor couldn't use the Great Yan River and the people of the southwest to bet on whether a general was loyal. So he made arrangements first.
Helian Qi pondered for a long time, and finally wrote a letter to Han Xun, a secret decree, and sent it to Han Xun together with an imperial letter.
After receiving the reply, Han Xun immediately went from Jiangnan to the southwest.
Half a month later, Han Xun quietly arrived in the southwest and waited for orders.
Helian Qi instructed Wang Degui:
"Pass on my order, Concubine Yan, reflect on your mistakes behind closed doors. Send the fifth prince to Linlang Palace."
Wang Degui was very surprised. Could it be that he was angry with Concubine Yan because her father was corrupt?
In the past, Your Majesty has never held concubines accountable because of accidents happening to their fathers and brothers.
However, since the emperor had issued an order, Wang Degui naturally went to make arrangements immediately.
The emperor wrote another imperial edict: summoning Xiao Yunjing back to Beijing to report on his work.
If Xiao Yunjing returns to the capital with an open mind and finds out that Su Ruhuan has nothing to do with him, the emperor will continue to use him in the future.
On the contrary, if he heard that something happened to the Su family and Su Ruhuan was under house arrest, she would not dare to return to Beijing.
It was clear at a glance who Su Ruhuan belonged to.
One order to test loyalty and treachery.
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Jingxi Palace.
Su Ruhuan considered carefully.
Now the eldest prince is imprisoned and the second prince has gone to the palace to recuperate, leaving only the third prince and the fourth prince.
Currently, the only chess piece that can be used is Concubine Rong.
As the prince's adoptive mother, this is a natural hostile position. In addition, Yao Jieyu and Ning Wanyin have an old grudge, so she can also take advantage of it.
Su Ruhuan secretly calculated the chess pieces that could be used in the palace and planned to deal with Ning Wanyin.
At this moment, Wang Degui came in with a group of eunuchs and bowed:
"Your Majesty has ordered Concubine Yan to reflect on her mistakes behind closed doors."
Su Ruhuan was stunned, "I wonder what mistake I made?"
"This... I don't know..."
At the same time, two eunuchs went to the back hall and took the fifth prince away.
Su Ruhuan's expression changed slightly, "Where are you taking the Fifth Prince?"
"His Majesty has ordered that Concubine Yan should reflect on her mistakes at home and is not able to take care of the prince. Therefore, the prince should be sent to Linlang Palace first." Wang Degui said.
Su Ruhuan's heart sank, and she had a bad feeling...
The emperor suddenly took the child away and confined himself to his room. Something must have happened.
The only thing that happened recently was that her father was imprisoned for corruption. But her father knew nothing about it, and at most he could only find out that she was a concubine's daughter.
But so what.
The so-called crime of deceiving the emperor ultimately depends on what the emperor thinks.
The parents pretended that their daughter from outside the family was a concubine's daughter for the sake of their child's reputation, which was of course a lie. But the emperor was never one to quibble over minor details.
If he valued family background, he would never favor Su Ruhuan.
If the emperor could be unhappy, it must not just be the concubine's business.
Is it...
Did the emperor know her secret?