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Dachen Kingdom, Tianhua for 30 years.

"A hundred years ago, the Eight Kingdoms were in chaos and the people were dying. In the past 27 years, Jin, Liang, Sui, Chu, and Wei were completely destroyed. Today, two points have been divided. Since the defeat of the Taihua River in the Zhou Kingdom four years ago, I have asked for peace from Dachen and sent Xihe. The princess is married to His Highness the Crown Prince to pray for a hundred years of peace between Chen and Zhou..."

"Who doesn't know that.

His Royal Highness is about to set off to pick him up in person. "

"That's it."

"Now that I, Chen, have great strength and strong soldiers, if you want me to tell you, if you want to marry me, you should destroy the Zhou country in one fell swoop!"

"That's right, all the famous generals in the world are in my great Chen. His Royal Highness is the God of War. Lu Fang used the natural power of General Lu, and General Xiao Bai is also brave and good at fighting. He has the style of General Bai back then. Didn't our Sixth Highness just arrive in Liaoshan?" The county won the battle and beat the northern Hu tribe to the ground."

The storyteller rushed out from the crowd, and snatched the words back: "Ahem, when it comes to famous generals, 20 years ago, the famous generals in the world can be counted with one hand. I have old general Fu Xun Fu , General Bailiu, Qi State has Zhenbei Marquis Xu Zheng, General Fu Shouguang, and Zhou State has Xun'an Marquis Tang Yao."

"Old Huang Li, what can I say? Xu Zheng and Fu Shouguang's graves are half as tall as a person."

"Hey, don't you all want to hear about the battle against Qi three years ago, so let's start with these few people. You know, except for General Lu who did not participate in the battle three years ago, Chen, Famous generals from the three kingdoms of Zhou and Qi are all in the territory of Qi, and they meet each other in battle, a battle that has never happened in a hundred years."

"Don't interrupt, speak quickly."

"From 20 years ago to now, Old General Fu and General Bai Liu have both died of illness, but General Lu was taught by Old General Fu alone, so let's not show it.

General Xiaobai of Baixiqiao inherited his father's mantle and followed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was still the King of Chu at that time, and there was another person who went south with them, Tang Ling, the son of Marquis Xun'an. Extraordinary, unparalleled wisdom, essential ah.

Chen Zhou's coalition forces were able to succeed, and this little duke deserved a lot of credit. "

"His Highness the Crown Prince's military strategy, siege of cities and territory, invincible in all battles, killing Xu Zheng with a single blow, that's a clean one! Can you tell me? Why do you keep talking about that insignificant person?"

"That's right. I've heard people say that the son of Marquis Xun'an has been weak since he was a child, and now he is dying of illness."

……

Qi Xiao frowned slightly, feeling extremely displeased.

"His Royal Highness invited me to this market place quietly, just to let me hear the book and praise you for being brave and good at fighting?"

The Seventh Prince Qi Ting looked at Qi Xiao and took a sip of tea. The tea was old tea or low-quality tea, with an inexplicable musty smell, which made his whole face wrinkle all of a sudden: "... ...How can this teahouse survive?"

Qi Xiao suddenly felt better when he heard the dissatisfaction of the old seventh brother: "Didn't I invite Brother Seven to experience the suffering of the people?"

"..." The seventh prince seemed to have swallowed a fly alive, and he almost wanted to curse directly. In the past three years since Qi Xiao returned to Yuanjing, he finally got to know this younger brother. Everything is digging a hole for people, and if one is not careful, it is easy to be lost.

After holding back for a while, the Seventh Prince said: "I have experienced it. I still have official duties, so I will not accompany His Highness the Crown Prince."

"Brother Seven just arrived, don't be in a hurry to leave."

Qi Xiao smiled, "If the tea is not good, then change to a pot of wine."

"...The sky is bright and bright, and I have to go back to the Ministry of Criminal Justice soon. What's the matter with the smell of alcohol? Tomorrow, the imperial father's case will be full of papers to impeach me."

"It's just my lack of thoughtfulness."

The Seventh Prince looked at Qi Xiao with a smile on his face, and felt angry in his heart, Qi Xiao wasn't thinking carefully, he was just playing with him.

"After all, what is it that you have to ask to come here?" He was also asked to come here quietly, not even bringing his entourage and guards with him, making him look like a thief.

"Brother Wu is coming back soon?"

"Well, I should be able to come back before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

What's wrong? "

Qi Xiao said with a smile: "Please Seventh Brother, please tell Fifth Brother not to take the risk of bringing the army back.

Raising private soldiers is already a capital crime, and there is still room for stopping as soon as possible. "

"What did you say?!" The Seventh Prince's eyes widened and he almost jumped up, "How can such a crime of treason be credible?!"

"It seems that Seventh Brother really doesn't know anything."

"If you have evidence, you can go and sue in front of the emperor! Why tell me?!" The seventh prince stared at Qi Xiao, wondering what the hell he was planning. Can the plot of treason be joked about? !If he really has evidence in his hand, as long as he presents it to His Majesty, the Gongsun family must be the result of a full family of robbers and beheads. With such a good opportunity, Qi Xiao shouldn't be plotting secretly.

"Whether I lied to Seventh Brother, you can go back and check for yourself.

At that time, Luo Yu, the minister of Dali Temple, died unexpectedly, and the military payment case dragged on for more than half a year, but the lost money was not recovered. In the end, it was closed because there was no evidence.

Seventh brother has been in Yuanjing all along, so he probably hasn't forgotten it yet. "

His Majesty gave up on the investigation of the case back then, but Qi Xiao never gave up.

Qi Xiao has no contacts or roots in Yuanjing, even if he is established as the prince, he will be surrounded by people coming in and out, but there are almost no other benefits except that his hands are bound.

The turning point happened at the end of Tianhua's 27th year.

Back then, His Majesty dealt with the Household Department vigorously and vigorously. After a bloody storm, someone had to come to cover the lack of the Household Department. After deliberation, His Majesty promoted Cao Weishan to be the Secretary of the Household Department.

As the new year was approaching, Cao Weishan discovered some clues when sorting out the year-end documents of the various divisions of the household department.

That year, Da Chen Faqi allocated 1405 million taels of military expenditure from the Ministry of Households, which was almost half of the revenue of the treasury that year, and 50 taels of it happened after Qi Xiao left Yuanjing and before Cao Weishan took over the Ministry of Households. The most important thing is that the whereabouts of this part of the military salary is ambiguous, and not all of it was allocated to Yuanzhou Mansion.

Cao Weishan is a fine person, he knows that this matter is serious, if he investigates it carefully, many people will be killed, he should turn a blind eye and pretend that he doesn't know, he did the same, but he didn't expect that His Majesty would Hand over the household department's year-end performance appraisal to Qi Xiao, and Qi Xiao is still investigating the case of military pay.

The Seventh Prince frowned: "What do you mean? Could it be that you suspect that Sixth Brother was greedy for military pay and almost put his own life on it? He must be seriously ill to come up with such a stupid idea!"

"Stupid?"

As soon as the Seventh Prince said the words, he noticed something strange.

Back then, the sixth prince was demoted to guard the border, but was recalled to Yuanjing by His Majesty because of the military payment case, and because of this, the sixth prince took the 15 troops of Liaoshan County under his command, and made a lot of military exploits in the past two years.

It's really not bad at all.

"..."

Back then, the household department was a mess, full of mistakes and omissions. It took Cao Weishan more than half a year to straighten it out. Everyone thought he could get away with it. Even Cao Weishan wanted to be confused, but Cao Weishan still knew Qi Xiao a little bit after all. He knew Qi Xiao was still investigating the military salary case, so after hesitating for a moment, he "turned to the light" and came to help Qi Xiao.

His Royal Highness is the future Emperor Chen.

As soon as His Majesty issued the Prince's edict, the thresholds of Cao Weishan's and Pei Hao's mansions were almost leveled, and they all came to him to build a relationship.

Qi Xiao has been in the Yuan capital for just a few months, and has been handling cases with the two of them. Is there anyone in the court who is closer to His Royal Highness than them?Pei Hao didn't take it seriously, but Cao Weishan knew in his heart that this was His Majesty's intention, and he could only follow along.

The chaos in the household department did make Qi Xiao and Cao Weishan hit a wall everywhere, but the good thing is that His Majesty pulled out almost half of the people in the household department and chopped off their heads. There were not many people left who could move a huge sum of 50 taels. After protecting the mansion for many years, how can they not know who they work for.

They didn't move, they only kept a close eye on these few people, and it took another year, the sixth prince fought Hu Bu again in Liaoshan County, and they finally caught the fox's tail, and finally found the place where the army was paid.

Qi Xiao didn't have time to explain to Lao Qi in detail, so he only told him the results of his investigation.

Those people in the household department are all familiar with the old seven, and the time and events are all right, which made him dazed for a long time.

"...I don't have time to listen to your nonsense."

The seventh prince didn't believe this, even if what Qi Xiao said was true, at most he was greedy, maybe it wasn't the sixth son, but the people under him were greedy.

But if you are greedy for the army's salary and secretly amassing private soldiers, that is a rebellion, even if the sixth child has ten heads, it is not enough to chop off!

Qi Xiao took a sip of tea and was not in a hurry, he just said, "I'm leaving in three days, before that, you know how to find me."

The Seventh Prince clasped his hands tightly, stared at Qi Xiao, and couldn't help saying: "If what you said is true, you are not afraid that I will let you go and never return."

The Seventh Prince's words were not asking Qi Xiao, he knew he was not afraid, otherwise he would not have said it to him at all.

But what he didn't know was, why did Qi Xiao tell him these things, whether it was true or not, what exactly did he want to do?Forcing Sixth Brother to rebel, he killed them openly?Or use the sixth brother to rebel and kill people with a knife, so that he can rise up in the name of King Qin and ascend the throne early?Or was he trying to force them to plan an assassination and draw the wrath of his father?

Qi Xiao raised his eyes to look at the seventh prince, and asked lightly: "The seventh brother likes the princess of Jinyi, right?"

Princess Jinyi is the niece of the late General Fu Xun.

General Fu Xun has no heirs, only this niece.

The mother of Princess Jinyi, the younger sister of General Fu Xun, married a general under Fu Xun's command and died on the battlefield ten years ago. A powerless orphan.

Concubine Zhao wanted to choose a famous lady for the Seventh Prince last year, but the Seventh Prince actually dared to spread rumors that he had a hidden disease and kept running to the imperial hospital.

Of course he wasn't sick, the imperial doctor even said he wasn't sick, but no one dared to believe it, the marriage would be lost if it was delayed.

The Seventh Prince stood up abruptly: "What do you mean?" At this time Qi Xiao suddenly mentioned Princess Jinyi, and the Seventh Prince's reaction was even greater than hearing him say that his own brother, the Sixth Prince, was planning to rebel.

"It's nothing, I just want to tell you that I will hand over the evidence to Princess Jinyi before leaving Yuanjing."

"Don't get her involved!"

Qi Xiao looked at the Seventh Prince, and suddenly lowered his head and smiled. The smile was a bit bitter, but extremely gentle. The Seventh Prince had never seen such an expression on Qi Xiao's face. He froze for a moment, as if he had seen a ghost.

"I won't hurt her, and neither will you, so she's safe."

Qi Xiao didn't intend to continue talking, he stood up, turned around and left, leaving the Seventh Prince anxious, annoyed and at a loss.

The author says:

I originally wanted to update the day, but I couldn’t catch up after going out for a meal... (The case is not important, it’s important that we wolf cubs meet Aya Ayako, let’s move forward on the case quickly!)