Song Mingyue

Chapter 160 The Mysterious Brocade Box

Zhao Hao was not at ease when he left the prison.

He was originally the director of this drama, but after acting in the beginning, he didn't know how to end it perfectly.

Rebellion and killing the king have been taboos in all dynasties, especially for Zhao Ji, who can't wait to be the emperor for 1 years. A rebel, even if the other party is really his own son.

This game of chess, in fact, Zhao Hao has been a bit difficult to play this game.

It is impossible for Zhao Ji to know the truth, so he can only fabricate it, or even put the blame on others.But if you want to blame someone, you must have enough evidence. Where does this evidence come from?If it is made up indiscriminately, the person who has been blamed will definitely fight to the death. He will not be facing one person, but an entire faction. How can he ensure that he will not show his feet?

The best way now is to put all the blame on Gao Qiu. After all, Gao Qiu is doomed. Only one Gao Qiu will be killed and no one else will be implicated. The faction behind Gao Qiu will not fight back and defend desperately. The best of both worlds.

It's just that Gao Lian's crime of dereliction of duty has been convicted, but he will never admit to the crime of treason and regicide... unless there is solid evidence, but where does the hard evidence come from?Although Zhao Hao is extremely favored, but his foundation in the court is not deep, how can he create convincing evidence?
After much deliberation, Zhao Hao turned to Tong Guan for help.

Click on a sound transmission talisman (small) to summon Tong Guan, Tong Guan's deep voice came from his ears, saying that he was going to Yanfu Palace to meet the official family, and also asked Zhao Hao to meet in Panlou at night, Zhao Hao had to give up.

Before returning to the mansion, Zhao Hao led the crowd to inspect the imperial city's yamen, and then returned to the mansion in a carriage.

As soon as he returned to the mansion, the old housekeeper hurried over, with a slightly nervous expression, and mysteriously handed Zhao Hao a golden key in a square brocade box measuring one foot in size.

A golden brocade box, extremely exquisite, with a seal on a small exquisite lock, sealed firmly with paste, the seal must be torn badly to be opened, obviously the sender of the brocade box did not want to let Others move this brocade box.

Zhao Hao was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Who sent this thing?"

The old steward said respectfully: "The visitor did not want to reveal his identity. After handing it over to the old slave, he claimed that the brocade box contained the top-secret thing that the young master wanted. It should not be touched lightly, and must be opened by the young master himself."

Zhao Hao asked the old housekeeper to open the brocade box in doubt, revealing a piece of rice paper with the words "Top Secret" written on it. A stack of torn letter paper was revealed.

Zhao Hao took out one of the letterheads, unfolded it and read it carefully, his face changed slightly, and the expression in his eyes became extremely complicated.

Immediately afterwards, he took out a few more letterheads and read them hastily. After reading three letterheads in a row, Zhao Hao showed a strange smile and muttered to himself, "Interesting, very interesting!"

He suddenly looked serious, and said to Zhao Dian next to him in a deep voice: "Prepare the horse immediately, and follow me to the Imperial City Division!"

Seeing his expression, Zhao Dian knew that the matter was of great importance, so he immediately turned around and went to prepare.

Zhao Hao asked the old housekeeper to find a sheepskin bag, locked the brocade box himself, smashed it into the sheepskin bag, handed it to Fang Baihua beside him, and said in a deep voice, "The box is here!"

Fang Baihua rolled his eyes at him, but still took it and held it in his hand.

A group of people came out from the Zhao Mansion and rushed to the Imperial City Division in a mighty manner.

……

In the east of the city, the former Taiwei Mansion.

The gate was full of guards in armor and armed with knives and guns. They looked murderous. Ordinary people would not dare to approach.

Ever since Gao Qiu was arrested, the Taiwei's Mansion has been surrounded by the imperial guards who were ordered to come, only allowed to enter, not allowed to leave.

Knock da da~
Dozens of riders came galloping around a carriage, and the horseshoes knocked on the bluestone floor, bringing out sparks.

Xi Yuyu~
Following the violent neighing of the steed, the tall rider galloping at the front reined in, stopped at the gate of Taiwei's mansion, flew down, and went straight to the gate of the mansion.

The imperial guards guarding the gate immediately greeted him with swords and guns. The tall man held up a token in his hand and shouted in a deep voice: "The Imperial City Commander, Mr. Zhao, came to handle the case."

The leader of the imperial guards all turned their heads, with an expression of awe immediately on their faces, saluted the tall man, and then waved their hands behind him, all the imperial guards immediately gave way, and the gate of Taiwei's mansion slowly opened.

A young official in a red robe stepped out of the carriage, it was Zhao Hao, Doctor Zhengfeng, General Zhongwu, and Secretary of the Imperial City!

Under the leadership of the capital of the imperial army, Zhao Hao led all Zhao Dian, Fang Baihua and a group of marriage officials from the imperial city department into the gate of Taiwei's mansion.

As soon as he got down the steps inside the gate, he heard a loud noise coming from the front.

An extremely ostentatious voice came: "It's unreasonable, even King Yun is a guest of honor in our house, Mrs. Cai is also my father's close friend, you are just a few Qiu Ba, how dare you stand in my way? "

What answered him was a slightly sarcastic voice: "Gao Yanei, please respect yourself at this moment and at that moment!"

Zhao Hao and the others rushed forward in a hurry, but it was Gao Yanei Gao Sheng who was entangled with several forbidden soldiers endlessly.

It turned out that Taiwei's mansion was besieged for ten days, and people in the mansion were only allowed to enter but not to leave. Even the melons, vegetables, fruits, rice, grain, salt and oil were purchased by the imperial army on their behalf.Goldman Sachs has always been used to wandering around in style, where can he be free?In the first few days, knowing that "father" was in danger, he was fairly honest, but after staying for ten days in a row, he couldn't get bored anymore, and wanted to go out and fool around.

However, if he wanted to leave the mansion, he had to pass the barrier of the forbidden army.At the beginning, Gao Yanei wanted to bribe the imperial guards with money to secretly open the door for convenience, but the matter was of great importance, and all the imperial guards were sober people, so they would not dare to risk their heads and refused to accommodate.Seeing that being soft doesn't work, the second generation official in Gao Yameni lost his temper again, he angrily reprimanded and threatened all the imperial guards, but the imperial guards didn't buy it at all, and he was so angry that he jumped into a rage.

When they were entangled, suddenly there was an angry voice: "Zhao Tiju is here, why are you making such a fuss?"

Gao Yanei was taken aback by the shout, and when he raised his head, he saw Zhao Hao coming proudly surrounded by a group of marriage officials.

At this time, Gao Yanei was committing the petty temper of the second generation of high-ranking officials. In addition, when the enemy met, he was extremely jealous. He didn't care about his own situation for a while, and pointed at Zhao Hao and scolded: "Zhao Hao, why are you here?" ? Get out!"

Zhao Hao smiled lightly and did not speak.

"You bastard, how dare you be rude in front of Zhao Tiju!"

Following an angry reprimand, the two marriage officers behind him suddenly flew forward, only to hear two clear and loud slaps, the two slapped their bows left and right, and slapped them twice at the same time.

Immediately, five red finger prints appeared on both sides of Gao Yanei's face, followed by Lao Gao's swelling on both sides, and two streams of blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, which looked extremely symmetrical.

In an instant, Gao Yanei was dizzy from the beating, his eyes were lost, and he was completely stunned.

It took him a long time to react, and he burst into tears unconsciously, and sat down on the ground with an extremely sad expression.

At this moment, Gao Sheng, who had always been domineering and unscrupulous in Bianliang City, finally understood that he was no longer the majestic Gao Ya Nei, but the son of a prisoner, let alone Zhao Hao. A high-ranking official can't afford to offend, even a family official who has no rank or rank can teach him a lesson.

Zhao Hao looked at Goldman Sachs, a big man who was crying like a woman, with disgust in his eyes, and shook his head.

If I knew today, why was it in the first place?
Under the leadership of the imperial army, Zhao Hao and his party continued on their way to Gao Li's wing.

……

In the study room, Zhao Hao sat on the grand teacher's chair in the middle with a big horse and a golden sword.

The desk in front of him is filled with Gao Qiu's letterheads, which are exactly the same as those on the letterheads in the brocade box.

His mysterious brocade box is full of letters from Gao Qiu and Liao people. There are not only evidences of Gao Qiu colluding with the Liao people, but also evidence of Gao Qi and the Liao people conspiring to rebel and letting Liao spies into the hunting grounds. .

More than a dozen secret letters formed a complete chain of evidence, proving that the rebellion and rebellion were carried out by Gao Qi and the Liao people.

The proof is like a mountain!

However, intentionally or unintentionally, it proved that this rebellion had nothing to do with other people in the DPRK and China, but Gao Qiu alone.

From Gao Qiu's study, many secret letters of collusion with the Liao people were also found, but most of them were only exchanges of interests, and there was no evidence of rebellion...

For Zhao Hao, it was completely because someone sent a pillow when he was dozing off, and the problem that had plagued him for several days was solved in an instant.

This evidence did not come very well.

However, Zhao Hao felt uneasy.

Although this evidence is solid, it is just a false testimony. There is only one truth...that is, he himself is the mastermind behind the scenes and the real culprit.

Who in the end concocted this false certificate, and it was so lifelike?If it wasn't for Zhao Hao himself to be the real murderer, he would have believed it.

What is the intention of the person who concocted this evidence, and is there an ulterior purpose behind it?
This drama seems to be getting more and more exciting... Originally, he was the director and the mastermind behind the scenes, but now some weird plots have been added to the plot, and even he can't control the direction of the plot.

Did someone help him, or did someone set a trap for him?
Zhao Hao became confused for a while.

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Pan Lou, the second largest restaurant in Bianliang, second only to Fan Lou.

On the third floor, in the largest pavilion of the Pan Tower, Tong Guan, the privy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty and Duke of Chu, was holding a banquet, waiting for Zhao Hao's arrival.

At this time, Tong Guan was quite full of spring breeze, full of energy, and his eyes were shining brightly.

Although Tong Guan, Wang Fu, Liang Shicheng and others have formed their own faction in recent years, competing with Cai Jing's faction in the court, but after all, Cai Jing has been prime minister for decades, how can his power, energy and official strategy be comparable to Tong Guan's?Therefore, it has been suppressed by Cai Jing's faction for a long time. If it weren't for the balance of the officials, it might have been defeated.

However, since last year, Tong Guan destroyed Xixia and Fangla, and his status in the hearts of the officials has greatly increased. The fact that the family accomplished the incomparable feat of recovering the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun caused great displeasure among the officials.

Now Gao Qiu has committed another major event of dereliction of duty, and he is doomed. Not only will Cai Jing's faction lose troops, but if he is not careful, he may even implicate a large number of people, causing Cai Jing's faction to completely collapse.

What made him most happy was that originally he was worried that if the prince would be implicated in this matter, and then they would be implicated, but he found out that it was Zhao Hao who was in charge of investigating the case, which made the last big stone in his heart finally fall.

The young master is very ambitious, so why don't you say it in the future, but if he wants to use himself to achieve great things, he will not let himself and the allies of the same faction be implicated.

Footsteps came from outside the pavilion door, and the personal guard reported: "Doctor Zhao is here."

Hearing this, Tong Guan hurriedly stood up to greet him, and when he looked up, he saw that handsome and extraordinary young man entering, hurriedly motioned for everyone to close the door and leave, and then went forward to greet him: "Old slave pays homage to the young master!"

Zhao Hao waved his hand slightly, signaling Tong Guan to sit down.

After the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, Tong Guan lowered his voice and said with a flattering smile: "Nearly [-] imperial guards surrounded the hunting ground, and the rebels descended from the sky, maybe it's the master's fairy art?"

Zhao Hao just smiled and didn't speak.

Tong Guan's eyes brightened, he gave Zhao Hao a thumbs up, and praised: "Young master is really clever in this strategy of killing two birds with one stone! But don't worry, young master, only the old slave knows about this matter, and he never dares to tell a third person. Er, please rest assured, young master."

Zhao Hao remained motionless, and lightly clapped his hands twice. Fang Baihua, who was outside the door, immediately entered and handed over the mysterious brocade box.

Zhao Hao opened the mysterious brocade box, gently pushed it towards Tong Guan, and said in a deep voice: "I don't know who sent this thing to my house, just take a look, what's so strange about it?"

Tong Guan's expression became solemn, and he hurriedly took out a few secret letters from the brocade box. After reading them carefully, he fell into deep thought, suddenly slapped his head, and laughed loudly: "This old slave knows who did it!"

PS: I finally met the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, try to update five chapters in two days.

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