The Regent makes me unstoppable [Transmigration Book]

After Shen Ying got up, she learned the news that Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials had been killed.

And when he knew it, the news had already spread among the officials in the capital, and they all knew that because he offended Gu Min, Zuo Shilang was detained in the palace by the emperor and punished for almost two hours before leaving the palace. On the way back home, he was assassinated.

It snowed heavily last night, and the snow on the ground was too deep to walk on, so today civil and military officials do not have to go to court, but because a third-rank official died, Shen Ying still sent officials such as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Dali Temple Minister to the court. Called into the palace.

At the foot of the Son of Heaven, near the imperial city, such appalling incidents as the assassination of an official ordered by the imperial court happened. The perpetrators simply defied the imperial power and provoked the imperial court. He also ordered the Ministry of Criminal Justice to solve the case and find the murderer before the end of the year.

However, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs said: "Report to the emperor, Gu Hou has already taken the body of Zuo Shilang from the Ministry of Officials to Beizhen Fusi this morning, and claimed that he will ask the emperor for instructions to let the Jin Yiwei be responsible for investigating the case. Do you want to ask the emperor for instructions?"

Gu Min has been waiting for the results of the autopsy in Beizhen Fusi, and has not yet returned to the palace to report the matter to Shen Ying, so Shen Ying does not know that Gu Min has already taken over the case first.

When Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice said this, the eyes of several other officials became meaningful.

Jin Yiwei only conducts inspections and arrests, and does not care about criminal and prison matters. This kind of criminal case should have been investigated and dealt with by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple, but Gu Min took over the case without asking the emperor for instructions. At this point, if the emperor doesn't care about it, what law and order does the court have?

Although Gu Min has made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion, he is withdrawn and aloof, and has little contact with officials in the DPRK and China. In addition, his methods are vigorous and ruthless, so the ministers in the DPRK and China dare not make friends with him, and treat him behind their backs. There are many complaints.

However, Gu Min is the number one celebrity in front of the emperor, and he is favored by thousands of honors. Even if he acts domineeringly, others can only dare to be angry and dare not speak out. Enthusiasm has always been difficult to last, even if Gu Min is now in the midst of his holy family and is proud of the spring breeze, there may not be a day when he loses the emperor's favor and falls seriously.

Facing the question from Minister of Criminal Justice, Shen Ying reacted very quickly, and said without changing his face: "Of course I know, Linyang Hou asked me for instructions earlier, and I agreed. This is not an ordinary murder case. Dare to kill the court?" The power behind a third-rank official must not be small, so I plan to let the Criminal Department and Jin Yiwei cooperate with each other to investigate the case, and you must do your best to find out the person behind the scenes as soon as possible!"

With the emperor as a cover, even if the other officials were dissatisfied with Gu Min, they couldn't say anything, they could only praise "the emperor is wise", and then resigned and left.

Ever since she found out about the death of Zuo Shilang, Shen Ying has been restless all day long, always feeling that something bad is about to happen, and waited until night for Gu Min to enter the palace.

At night, the snow outside stopped and started to fall again. Gu Min walked in with a chill in his body to pay his respects. A lot of snow fell on the fox fur cloak he was wearing, and when he moved, the snow fell on the floor tiles rustlingly , the ground dragon was burning in the warm pavilion, and the snow that fell on the ground quickly melted into a puddle of water.

The freezing weather outside and the warmth of spring in the warm pavilion seem to be two different worlds.

The little eunuch helped Gu Min take off his fox-fur cloak, served him hot tea, and retreated. Shen Ying sat on a soft bed covered with a thick blanket, holding a small hand stove in his hand, and beckoned Gu Min to sit down. Next to him, he first handed him the stove to warm his hands, and then asked him about the case of the death of Zuo Shilang.

Gu Min turned around the hand stove that seemed to be still reflecting the body temperature in his hand, bowed his head and said, "To tell you the truth, the murderer has actually been found."

Shen Ying raised her eyebrows and asked in surprise: "Found it? So fast? Who is the murderer?"

Gu Min raised his eyes and looked at Shen Ying seriously, "It was a small flag officer from Jinyiwei Upper Middle School. He found it outside the city. When he found it, he had already committed suicide by taking poison."

Shen Ying was a little surprised, "...then how can you be sure that he is the murderer of Liu Shilang?"

Gu Min said: "He was wearing night clothes, and there were bloodstains on the clothes and the weapons he carried, and the weapons matched the wounds on the three corpses, and there were no other murders in the capital, so the murderer who killed Liu Shilang is likely to be .Nine is this person."

Shen Ying rubbed her chin, frowned and asked puzzledly: "But why did a Jin Yiwei kill Liu Shilang? There is a grudge between the two of them?"

"No enmity, no grudges. After investigation, the two of them don't know each other at all." Gu Min shook his head, "So it's because there is no enmity that this case is even more difficult."

Shen Ying thought for a while in silence, and said: "The murderer killed Liu Shilang for no reason. It wasn't for revenge or for money. It was someone who ordered him to kill a Jin Yiwei..." Shen Ying Ying paused at this point, turned his head and looked at Gu Min deeply, "The most likely one is you, the commander of Jinyiwei."

Gu Min pursed his lips and smiled lightly: "Your Majesty thinks that I will be the one behind the scenes?"

Shen Ying sneered and said: "Of course I won't be so stupid as to fall into the trap of the real murderer. Although Liu Shilang offended you, I know that you are not a narrow-minded person who will kill innocent people indiscriminately. Besides, even if you want to kill him, why not kill him?" If you want to send a Jin Yiwei to fight, wouldn’t it be better to find a Jianghu killer to hide your identity? The real culprit obviously wants to pour dirty water on you, if I can’t even see through this, wouldn’t I be as stupid as a pig?”

Gu Min looked at Shen Ying and nodded happily, "There is no one who knows me better than the emperor."

"It's no use for Guangzhen to believe you, other people don't believe it." Shen Ying sighed with a serious face, "To be honest, you shouldn't take this case on yourself. Liu Shilang was assassinated and died after offending you. The murderer You are still a member of Jinyiwei, you should avoid suspicion. Even if it is finally found out that this case has nothing to do with you, others will say that you bent the law for personal gain and justified yourself, but you will not be able to convince the public."

Gu Min laughed at himself and said, "It's easy to hide from open guns, but hard to guard against hidden arrows. The black hands behind the scenes are obviously targeting the minister. Even if I don't get involved in this case, I may not be able to protect myself from it alone. I am afraid that in the eyes of other people in the court, Chen has long been like Du Qianren and Guo Jiuchen, who have no political agenda and exclude dissident ministers. But Chen is a little different from Du and Guo, they don't form cliques for personal gain, so compared to Du Qianren and Guo Jiuchen, those people are more afraid of ministers."

That's right, Gu Min is like a sharp sword in Shen Ying's hand, where Shen Ying's heart is directed is what Gu Min's sword points to.

But the other ministers don't know the relationship between them. From their perspective, they only think that Gu Min is so arrogant and domineering because of the emperor's favor. Who can guarantee that Gu Min will not be the next one? A treacherous official who plays power and wreaks havoc on the court?

What is more frightening about Gu Min than Du Qianren and Guo Jiuchen, two treacherous ministers, is that Gu Min does not cultivate his own party members. When Du Qianren and Guo Jiuchen are in power, other ministers can at least protect themselves by relying on their influence.

However, Gu Min neither made friends with ministers nor accepted bribes. In this officialdom where officials protect each other, he is like a strange existence. Even if other officials want to rely on him, they have no chance, especially since he is still in power. He doesn't pay attention to the elders of the three dynasties. Who else in the court is he afraid to touch?

That's why the officials are afraid of Gu Min, and believe that once they get a chance to trample Gu Min to death, these people will never be soft-footed and will attack Gu Min to death.

No one would like to be treated as a different kind, Shen Ying understood that Gu Min did all this for him.

Gu Min's arrogance and domineering is to help him intimidate his officials, Gu Min does not form a party for personal gain, but also because he is afraid that making friends with ministers will arouse his suspicion as a monarch and affect the relationship between them.

Shen Ying felt a little sour in her heart, the reason why Gu Min was regarded as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh by those ministers, it was because of him that they wanted to pull it out quickly.

Shen Ying leaned towards Gu Min, hugged Gu Min's arm, lowered her head and said in a low voice, "It's all because of me that you became the target of public criticism."

Gu Min rubbed Shen Ying's face with his backhand, and said disapprovingly: "I don't blame the emperor, I am willing. Helping the emperor is helping myself. When the emperor's power is stabilized, the emperor can clean up the Xu family's grievances, isn't it?"

Shen Ying pursed her lips. "But I'm worried that those who hide in the dark and want to harm you will not stop until you are killed."

Gu Min comforted him with a smile: "Don't worry, they want to harm me, so I will sit and wait for death? How can I be so easy to deal with? The emperor don't worry, I will act carefully in the future."

"That's good." Shen Ying sat up straight, held Gu Min's face with both hands, looked at him solemnly, and said, "Jun Shu, no matter what happens, I will believe in you and stand by your side. You remember your promise, and I will never let you down."

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The assassination case of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials, on the surface, was handled by the Ministry of Punishment, but in the dark it was Jin Yiwei's investigation.

The first thing to investigate is naturally the murderer's situation.

The murderer's name was Chen Fu, a man from the capital city, and he was a small banner officer who had just been promoted this year from the upper middle school of Jinyiwei, and he was in charge of ten Jinyiwei.

According to Chen Fu's subordinates, both of Chen Fu's parents died in his early years, and there was only one eldest brother in his family. Because he was born tall and powerful, he was selected into Jinyiwei.

Chen Fu usually has nothing wrong with him.Good hobbies, don't like gambling, drinking, or sex, the only thing he likes is going to the theater to listen to people's stories and songs. Although he works as an errand in Jinyiwei, he is a kind-hearted person.

Chen Fu is in his 20s and has never married a wife. Later, relying on the money his elder brother earned from doing business, he donated a small flag official for him, and a matchmaker came to help him marry him, but he didn't know why. All pushed.

On the night of the murder, several of Chen Fu's subordinates discussed going to the restaurant for a drink, but Chen Fu refused to go. They thought that Chen Fu had returned home or went to the theater to listen to music again. No one thought that the next day Chen Fu's body was found outside the city early in the morning, and no one could figure it out. Well, why would Chen Fu assassinate a court official whom he had never met before.

As soon as Chen Fu's body was found, his elder brother and sister-in-law were arrested and interrogated. According to their confession, Chen Fu was always reticent at home and never told them about himself when he got home, but he He has a generous temperament and never makes enemies with others. Chen Fu's brothers and sisters-in-law do not believe that Chen Fu will kill people.

Jin Yiwei searched Chen Fu's house inside and out, but found nothing unusual, so Chen Fu's brother and sister-in-law should not lie.

After Chen Fu killed Liu Shilang, he took poison and died outside the city. There was no trace of a fight at the scene of the death, indicating that he took the poison willingly, and no one forced him. It is very unlikely that the expenses will be bought by money, so it is very likely that something has fallen into the hands of others, so they have to commit suicide, and for unknown reasons afterwards, they voluntarily died.

As for the reason, we have to investigate from the people Chen Fu usually associates with.

While Jin Yiwei was wandering around the capital looking for clues, suddenly one day, Gu Min received a letter from Fusi in Beizhen. The person who wrote the letter said to ask Gu Min to go to Lianhua Hutong. He knew something about Chen Fu. You can tell Gu Min about it, asking for 1000 taels of silver.

Lianhua Hutong is a famous flower street and willow alley, a place where prostitutes gather, and according to the investigation, Chen Fu has no bad habit of whoring, so what does he have to do with the people in Lianhua Hutong?

However, an ordinary person should not be so courageous as to dare to tease Jin Yiwei, and Liu Shilang's assassination case has been investigated for many days without any clues to solve the case. Unbelievable, Gu Min brought a few cronies, Jin Yiwei, and went to Lianhua Hutong to find the person who wrote to him.

Lianhua Hutong does business at night, so during the day, the doors of every house are closed, and no cats and dogs can be seen on the road. I walked to the eighth house in the alley that had a wintersweet tree by the courtyard wall. At the door, Gu Min ordered his subordinates to knock on the door. After knocking twice, a schoolboy came out to open the door for them and lead them in.

Walking into the yard and looking around, the yard is very clean, and it doesn't look like someone doing that kind of business at all.

The book boy looked at Gu Min and the others, and said, "My master said that the room is too small to accommodate too many people, so I can only invite adults in alone."

Gu Min frowned and looked at the closed door, and said in a deep voice, "It's unreasonable for a lonely man and a widow to live in the same room. Since everyone has called me here, why bother to hide their heads and show their tails, please come out and meet each other!"

"Don't worry, my lord, my master is a man." The book boy stopped Gu Min and said, "My master said, if your lord refuses to meet in private, please go back. As for what you want to know, he doesn't know a word Said."

A Jin Yiwei sneered disdainfully and said: "Don't say it? You can't help but keep your mouth shut when you come to the imperial prison with eighteen instruments of torture in turn! Sir, why bother with them? According to my subordinates, it's better to arrest their master and servant directly. !"

Suddenly a man's voice came from the room: "Sir, only I know about Chen Fu, I don't want others to see his appearance, so as not to expose my identity and be retaliated by others, if my lord insists on forcing me, then I will I would rather die, but my lord, you will never know the truth of the matter."

The subordinate walked to Gu Min's side and reminded: "My lord, be careful of fraud!"

Gu Min naturally thought that there might be a deceit in it, calling him over in such a mysterious way, and asking him to see him alone, it looked like a trap no matter what.

But how can you catch a tiger if you don't enter the tiger's den? If he doesn't pretend to be a trap, how can he attract the black hands behind the scenes?

"It's okay," Gu Min waved his hand, and ordered his subordinates, "You stay in the yard, and I can go in alone."

"My lord, it's not right..."

The subordinate wanted to persuade Gu Min to think twice, but was interrupted by Gu Min, "Don't talk about it, I have made up my mind, you stay outside and act according to the situation."

Gu Min walked to the door of the house, touched a dagger pinned to his waist, opened the door and walked into the house.

Gu Min quickly looked around the room, but found nothing unusual. There was a young man dressed as an actor sitting cross-legged behind a guqin by the window. He was the only one in the room. He should be the master that the book boy said.

"It's the letter you wrote to me?" Gu Min walked up to the man, examined it carefully and asked, "What do you know?"

The man looked at Gu Min and smiled, "Have you brought your 1000 taels of silver?"

Gu Min took out a bank note from his sleeve and threw it on the case where the guqin was placed. The man picked up the bank note, checked the authenticity, nodded in satisfaction, and put the bank note in his sleeve.

"Your Excellency, I will tell you everything I know." The man put his hand on the strings of the guqin and said, "My name is Zhao Lin, and I am a young lady in the Nanfeng Pavilion. , Chen Fu... is my good friend..."

Next, Gu Min learned about Chen Fu from Zhao Lin's mouth. No wonder Chen Fu didn't want to marry a wife even though he was already in his 20s, because he liked men.

Chen Fu likes to listen to music. One day, he was brought into Nanfeng Pavilion by his friends. He fell in love with Zhao Lin, a young lady who played the piano inside. Since then, he often went to Nanfeng Pavilion to look for Zhao Lin, and all the money he earned was spent on Zhao Lin. Pro body.

But one day, a wealthy businessman from other places also fell in love with Zhao Lin. The rich businessman was rich and powerful, and Chen Fu's meager salary was no match for others, so he privately approached the rich businessman to ask the rich businessman not to pester Zhao Lin anymore. Unexpectedly, during the dispute, Chen Fu accidentally beat the rich businessman to death!

Having committed a life lawsuit, Chen Fu knew that a catastrophe was imminent, and planned to abscond and run away, but he was reluctant to part with Zhao Lin, so before leaving, he wanted to say goodbye to Zhao Lin, but he didn't expect that the murder of Chen Fu was caught by the guest next door to their room. Hearing this, the man threatened Chen Fu to agree to help him with this matter. If Chen Fu refused, he would send both Chen Fu and Zhao Lin to the government. In order not to hurt Zhao Lin, Chen Fu had no choice but to agree.

"My lord must know what happened next. In order not to implicate me, Chen Fu finally agreed to help that person kill someone." Zhao Lin looked down at Qin Xian and murmured, "He told me that he killed someone. If someone finds out, he will die sooner or later, if he can exchange his death for my life, it would be worth it, he also gave me the money to redeem my body, and asked me to redeem my death, leave the capital to find another livelihood and live a good life.”

Gu Min didn't want to comment on the grievances between Chen Fu and Zhao Lin, so he just asked indifferently: "Who made Chen Fu kill someone?"

Zhao Lin shook his head, "I don't know who he is, and I haven't seen his face. I only know that he is very powerful in the capital. Even if Chen Fu killed someone, he can suppress the matter..."

Is there such a person in the capital?

After much deliberation, Gu Min couldn't figure it out, and then asked: "Since Chen Fu has helped that person kill someone in exchange for your freedom, why didn't you listen to Chen Fu's words and leave the capital?"

Zhao Lin raised his head and smiled strangely at Gu Min, "Because Chen Fu is a fool..." He raised his hand and plucked the strings twice, and the Guqin made two strange sounds, "He has planned everything for me , but I didn’t know that all of this was planned by me. Chen Fu didn’t know that besides him, I had another lover. He gave us a large sum of money and asked us to perform a play so that Chen Fu agreed to help him kill. The rich businessman Chen Fu thought he accidentally killed was not dead at all. He was my other friend. Chen Fu would die I don't even know, I was deceived by our cooperation. It is said that bitches are ruthless and actors are ruthless, sir, how can there be such a stupid person as Chen Fu in the world?"

After hearing Zhao Lin's confession, Gu Min didn't feel any disturbance in his heart, and said indifferently, "Why did you tell me these things?"

"Because... I just want to say all the words hidden in my heart before I die..." Zhao Lin suddenly pushed Gu Qin down and stood up, clutching his chest and staring at Gu Min, "My lord, what do you say?" Are there really ghosts in this world? You said that I will go underground to find Chen Fu now, will Chen Fu forgive me for lying to him?"

"Why, do you regret lying to him again?" Gu Min looked at Zhao Lin coldly, stood motionless with his hands behind his back, and sneered, "You think you can be freed by telling the truth? Chen Fu treats you sincerely, But you killed his life, you can't pay him back all your life, even if you die today, you can't atone for your sins."

After hearing Gu Min's harsh words, Zhao Lin's face turned pale, and a miserable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, a ray of bright red slowly seeped from the corner of his mouth, "My lord is right, I don't deserve his forgiveness, I just live in this world I'm so tired, even if he doesn't want to forgive me, I still want to see him earlier..."

Seeing the blood on the corner of Zhao Lin's mouth, Gu Min seemed to have expected it, and said calmly, "Have you taken poison?"

Zhao Lin frowned and spat out a big mouthful of blood, his body shook twice, and he fell to the ground with a painful expression: "My lord is in a high position, he wants the wind to get the wind, and the rain to get the rain, how can we know that people like us who are as cheap as worthless Can't help it? Thank you for coming to listen to my story today... I'm also sorry, I have no grievances with you, but today I have to implicate you..."

As soon as Zhao Lin finished speaking, there was a burst of noise in the courtyard. It seemed that many people rushed in. Gu Min heard the door opening and footsteps behind him, and looked back. The people who came were all officials from the Ministry of Punishment. .

One of the leading hunters saw Gu Min in the room, he was at a loss and said, "Master Gu, why are you here?" Then he saw Zhao Lin who was lying on the ground and spitting blood inside, pointed at him and asked in surprise, "what 's wrong?"

Zhao Lin spat blood out of his mouth, stretched out his hand to the officer as a sign for help, and shouted with all his might before dying: "Help, my lord! The Marquis of Linyang wants to kill people!" After saying that, he rolled his eyes and lay down On the ground, die of breathlessness!