Although scholars are equipped with swords, how can they stop the angry Lu Ben army?
Without Su Ce's orders, the murderer couldn't escape, but needed to be investigated carefully.
An hour later, four people were pulled out, four with two barrier knives.
At this time, the prince Zhao Zaicheng was entangled in a mountain of memorials, which were related to the people's livelihood and the changes in the East Palace. When he heard that Su Ce had arrived, he calmly dealt with it formally and planned with the officials of the Capital Water Supervisory Bureau which rivers needed to be widened.
, what needs to be cleared.
"Tell me who it is!" Su Ce looked at the four officials in front of him. They were young, only in their twenties, and they were officials of the East Palace. They were all talented people. Su Ce couldn't figure out why they wanted to do this.
Take action against the prison guards.
Will the civil and military battles in the court also be staged in the East Palace?
"General Su, I am wronged. That knife does not belong to me, Liu Xing." One of the officials knelt down and cried loudly.
The other three people also shouted that they were wronged!
For an hour just now, no one from Jiang Lan and the 500 Brigade Ben Army asked any questions. They just looked at these East Palace officials coldly and quickly found the murder weapon from a pile of knives. Some people like to hang the barrier knife on their waist.
Some people like to keep them in their robes, while others don't like to carry knives, so the ownership of these two barrier knives was finally narrowed down to four people.
Everyone present knew that if the investigation could reach this point, further investigation would only involve torture to extract a confession.
But Su Ce lost his patience. If these East Palace officials in front of him were really protecting the prince from the bottom of their hearts and wanted to cause trouble for the three prime ministers, Su Ce didn't believe it.
"For the last time, who is it?" Su Ce's temples were beating fast. Jiang Lan was holding a riding crop and looking at Su Ce.
The four of them still complained about their injustice and refused to admit that they had done it themselves. However, Su Ce also discovered some clues. The four of them had calluses on their hands. It would be difficult to find out if a person wanted to pretend.
"Still not saying it?" Su Ce suddenly pulled out the thick horizontal knife from his waist.
It was waved over the heads of four people, two of them collapsed on the ground in fear, and two others were standing.
"Plop! Plop!" There were just two pops, and the two men suddenly fell to the ground, with black blood flowing from their mouths.
Jiang Lan hurriedly stepped forward and opened their mouths. Su Ce took a deep breath. He could make two East Palace subordinates become dead soldiers. The person behind it was extremely extraordinary.
Jiang Lan shook his head at Su Ce. It was obvious that these two people were caught out, and when they saw that they were exposed, they swallowed the poison in their mouths.
"Jiang Lan! The thief has been executed. This is the end of the matter. Today's events cannot be spread outside." Su Ce cuts through the mess quickly. It is best if this matter can be suppressed at the moment. As for investigating later, the officials of the East Palace are uneasy. This East Palace
It's going to be chaos.
And now the prince Zhao Zaicheng still needs the officials of the East Palace to do things, otherwise Su Ce would not be able to let these officials of the East Palace go.
Su Ce stood at the gate of the palace, two rolls of grass wrapped around the bodies of the two guards. They were both in good years. They were only eighteen years old. Which of the generals who could come to guard the East Palace was not valued by the family since they were young.
Compared with the generals who fought for their lives in the frontier army, these generals in the East Palace were trained according to the embryos of the generals.
In a few years, when he is put into the army, he will be the best choice for lieutenant colonel. If there is a big battle and he has made some achievements, the Zhonglang General of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya is not incapable of doing so.
They were all good candidates for fighting in the army, but now they were here, which made Su Ce feel very unhappy.
After asking the officials in the East Palace to go back to work, Su Ce stood at the entrance of the palace, waiting for the prince.
The current situation is so chaotic that the number of people in Chang'an City who can see clearly can only be counted on one hand, and of course, this does not include Su Ce.
Su Ce looked at the two East Palace officials who died from the poison. Their identity cards were also given to Su Ce. They were Jinshis in the ninth year of the Longsheng Dynasty. They had studied for three to five years and were at least six-rank Xiazhou when they were sent to serve as officials.
More than ten years later, the prince succeeded to the throne. Once he entered the capital, he became the minister of various ministries. The positions of three provinces and three prime ministers were right before his eyes and within his reach.
Su Ce couldn't figure out who the people behind these two people would be. The officials at Chunfang in the East Palace were also called Prime Ministers, otherwise they wouldn't have had four old admonishers as their chief officials to build the character of these young officials.
Treating a Jinshi as a dead man is too much. If it weren't for what happened today, Su Ce would have to be polite on the surface when he saw these two dead men.
In the evening, the prince took off his royal robes and put on a blue shirt. While dining with the prince, he rarely drank half a bottle of wine. Apparently Zhao Zaicheng also felt the pressure on his body.
A few days ago, the three prime ministers finally revealed their bottom line, or it may be the request of the local aristocratic families. They want to restore the imperial examination system of the previous dynasty. The imperial examination system will not be abolished, and the two systems will run in parallel.
Whether it is the imperial examination or the imperial examination, each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
The imperial examination allowed many middle- and lower-level people to enter official careers through the imperial examination system, thereby giving full play to their personal strengths. The advantage was that it was fair, open and universal, but the disadvantage was that it was not flexible enough. The meaning of electing politics is obviously higher than selecting talents.
Chaju is a local selection and recommendation of talents. It has the advantage of checking for deficiencies and filling them in a timely manner. Any talents needed can be recommended immediately. It is flexible and changeable. However, Chaju is very easy to be controlled by local big families. There have been many cases of cover-up and collusion in the previous dynasty.
matter.
At that time, the imperial examination system in Da Qi was used to select talents and enrich local aristocratic families. Land annexation and buying and selling, and the appointment and dismissal of officials were all controlled by aristocratic families.
Emperor Xian of Qi abdicated, and Emperor Qian Taizu raised his troops high. He had no selection orders and no imperial examinations. This blocked the necks of important officials from local aristocratic families. I am afraid that Da Qian will be like the later period of Qi Dynasty. Officials have no virtue and talent, and the officialdom is feminine.
The wind prevails and the Great Yuan rises. If Taizu Wuqian and Emperor Xian of Qi command the last elite of Da Qi from east to west and defeat the Great Yuan, I am afraid that everyone in this land will be enslaved by the Great Yuan.
Now, with a small defeat in the army, these aristocratic families who have been dormant for hundreds of years have jumped out and tried to restore the previous dynasty's policies. How is this possible!
Sanxiang is just a messenger, and the big families in this place can't do anything. But if you want to bow your head to the emperor of Daqian, you must first ask whether the soldiers of Daqian Mansion should respond.
Asking his grandma to take the prince to rest, Zhao Zaicheng drank a cup of hot tea and asked Su Ce to see him.
"I've met the prince!" Su Ce entered the study and looked at the tired prince, which was very different from the energetic prince in the past few months.
"Sit on your own stool!" Zhao Zaicheng put down the former manuscript in his hand and looked up at Su Ce, who was in black clothes and armor.
What happened in the East Palace today and the result of Su Ce's quick and easy way of cutting through the mess satisfied him very much.
"Su Ce, how long are you going to recuperate? Do you have to ask me to find my father to heal my back injury?" Faced with the prince's teasing, Su Ce's face turned red. He had known the prince for less than a year, and the prince had been really good to him in the past six months.
, but Su Ce still doesn’t like to do things that are too gloomy.
"The back injury has healed. I wonder what the prince's orders are?" Su Ce said in a muffled voice.
Zhao Zaicheng turned the ring on his thumb and said: "My father has made a decision regarding matters in the court. The three prime ministers and my father played a drama, and it will be over soon. The crickets killed in the Northland last time were just
Part of the people, Lao Er's people, found out that Molecule has been secretly supported by the family, and Molecule's general alliance is in Chang'an. The Beiya Forbidden Army is newly built, but it can be used. Unless it is a national war, the Beiya Forbidden Army cannot be used, and the Nan Ya Sixteen Guards
There are also shadows of mole crickets, so in order not to alert the snake, the only one we can use is the Lu Ben Army."
After saying these words, looking at Su Ce's thoughtful expression, Zhao Zaicheng stood up and walked to Su Ce. Su Ce also stood up. Zhao Zaicheng looked at Su Ce, who was half a head taller than him, and said softly: "
Su Ce, can I trust you?"
Su Ce did not answer, but nodded firmly. Zhao Zaicheng also nodded and said softly: "The crickets are the remnants of the Great Yuan Dynasty. They are inextricably linked to the great families. They are known as the nine thousand crickets who restored the great Yuan Dynasty.
Except for the Zheng family, no one else messed around for money. They just did business with anyone and made money. There is nothing wrong with that.
These crickets were the instigators of the Zheng family's wine-trading and ruining the country. The millions they earned from selling wine were all obtained by the crickets. The previous eradication of the Northland crickets was just a branch. There were nine branches of such branches in total.
At the end of the second month, the second brother and the Peony Guards took away the treasure house hidden by the mole cricket in Nanshan. In March, the father and the third phase tried to lure out the mole cricket, but there was no movement from the mole cricket because they had no money.
If Molecule has no money, it will be useless. Both of Molecule's north and south treasure houses have been raided by the second brother. In addition, in the past two years, the third and fourth sons have cut off Molecule's overseas trade routes.
Now that the mole crickets have no way to make money, the movements of the mole crickets are much smaller. According to their temperament, they must find a new way to make money, otherwise they cannot afford the so-called nine thousand mole crickets.
The second child buried in the hidden pile of the mole cricket sent back the news that the mole cricket in the north is not the largest one, but the one in Chang'an is the largest one. The list of nine thousand mole crickets is in the hands of the Chang'an mole cricket, and the mole cricket
The inherited items are also in the hands of Chang'an Mole Cricket.
As a new way to make money, they are eyeing Suzhuang’s Baiguojiang."
Hearing the word "Su Zhuang", Su Ce's pupils shrank: "Prince, please speak clearly!"
"In March, the crickets had already contacted Li Chang, the housekeeper of your house, but Li Chang ignored them. Gu and Lao Er's idea was to let you contact the crickets openly and make money. When these crickets become active,
, the second brother will contact you secretly, and when the time is right, completely pull out these crickets. The Northern Expedition was ruined by the mole crickets, and Da Qian used one more army. Three years later, Da Qian marched eastward to the south, and there can be no more trouble. "
Su Ce nodded: "Here!"
Prince Zhao Zaicheng returned to the desk to do some work and picked up the note. Su Ce also exited the study.
Su Ce returned to Shili Mansion to rest, but couldn't sleep. He thought about why he always felt powerless during the Daqian Northern Expedition. He was afraid there might be some crickets playing tricks on him.
Five thousand miles away, in the territory of Duke Lviv of the Kingdom of Rus, Duke Lviv was hosting a banquet to entertain several guests. He withdrew his troops in winter after hearing the news from these people before he withdrew his troops.
To the north of the mountain, otherwise he would be bitten by Daqian's army and he would not be able to escape.
However, his desire for the land in the south was not dampened at all by the two defeats. These people who called themselves Mole Cricket said that his opportunity would come in a few years when Daqian sent troops in other directions.
Therefore, Duke Lvov held a banquet in his castle to entertain these crickets. He needed to know every move of the southern empire.
And these northern mole crickets also contacted the mole crickets in Chang'an after suffering a blow. What they have to do now is to hibernate and wait until Da Gan goes to war to give Da Gan a fatal blow.