With the clue of poison, the Inspection Institute quickly arrested a group of spies planted by Jin Yiwei in the capital.
After being tortured and interrogated, these Jinyiwei spies also admitted that they were the ones who instigated Xia Keming to kill Li Hongcheng.
As for the motive, they didn't know. They only knew that it was an order from the top brass of Jinyiwei, and they were only responsible for executing it.
Regarding this investigation result, Fan Xian was more certain of his guess, but he did not immediately confront Qin Hao, but reported the results to Emperor Qing.
The second prince hurriedly entered the palace and dealt with Fan Xian.
"Fan Xian, you have to know that the person who died was Prince Jing and a relative of the emperor. With such a light memorial, you want to close the case?"
Fan Xian clenched his fists and asked word by word: "The lives of the emperor's relatives are lives, but the lives of old Jintou are not lives? Aren't the lives of countless wronged souls in Shijia Town not life?"
"Fan Xian!"
"What do you think the Second Prince has to say!"
Just as the two were at war with each other, Emperor Qing suddenly spoke.
"Since it was a Northern Qi spy who did it, then write a letter of divorce to the little emperor of Northern Qi and ask them to hand him over."
The second prince hurriedly stopped him: "Father, this is clearly someone using the help of Northern Qi spies to kill people..."
"Oh? You mean to say that the mastermind behind the scenes is from Qingguo? They attacked and killed the royal family in the capital of Qingguo?" Emperor Qing shouted sternly with a straight face.
The second prince's legs gave way and he knelt down on the ground. There was a trace of panic hidden in his unwillingness. He vaguely felt that Li Hongcheng's death might have some connection with him, but what the connection was, he couldn't figure it out.
"Okay, you two go down, I want to be quiet."
After sending Fan Xian and the second prince away, Emperor Qing asked Eunuch Hou to call Chen Pingping over.
"The murderer behind Xia Keming's instigation has been found out. It was a Northern Qi spy. What do you think?"
Chen Pingping said calmly: "Beijing Qi suffered a new defeat and sent the eldest princess to come and make a marriage proposal. It must not be the intention of the Queen Mother or the young emperor of Northern Qi."
"Shaun is back." Emperor Qing said in a gloomy tone.
Chen Pingping's face changed slightly when she heard this, but she quickly recovered: "It is true that I made a miscalculation. I didn't expect that Ku He and Zhong Zhong could not kill him even though they joined forces, and they even let him return to power. However, with the current national strength of Northern Qi, a
Sean is not enough to change the situation."
"Shawn has no grievances against Li Hongcheng, so why kill him? Can I still trust your inspection agency?" Emperor Qing asked in a deep voice.
Chen Pingping lowered her head with horror on her face: "Your Majesty can always trust the Inspection and Inspection Institute. I will definitely investigate this matter and give you an explanation."
"Tell me, does Fan Xian know something? Otherwise, with his character of asking for answers, he didn't refute me just now."
"Perhaps young people have experienced setbacks, matured, and learned to focus on the overall situation?"
Emperor Qing glanced at Chen Pingping: "Do you think it's possible?"
"When I met Fan Xian a few days ago, he was wiping the stone tablet at the entrance of the inspection institute." Chen Pingping lowered her head and answered respectfully.
Emperor Qing put his hands behind his back and sighed softly: "Maybe it is a good thing for young people to suffer some setbacks."
........
After leaving the palace, Fan Xian went home first and waited until midnight before sneaking out.
The Palace of the Minister of Justice.
Qin Hao was meditating and practicing, with beads of sweat falling layer by layer on his forehead. Just two days ago, his skill had returned to the peak of the ninth level, but he was still far away from reaching the threshold of the Grand Master.
The main reason is that the true energy in the body is not perfect enough.
"I've been standing at the door for almost half an hour. Aren't your legs sore? Come in."
Fan Xian opened the door and slowly came to Qin Hao.
"Did you kill Li Hongcheng?"
"yes."
"Why?"
Qin Hao asked: "Why?"
"Why choose Xia Keming?"
"You have to find a justifiable reason."
Fan Xian looked at Qin Hao in disbelief: "That's it?"
"That's all. Even if it's not Xia Keming, there will be someone else."
"Why? Lao Qin, I always thought you were different from them before, why have you become like this now? Is it so interesting to play with the fate of others in your hands?"
Facing Fan Xian's question, Qin Hao stood up slowly, looked straight in the eye, and spoke slowly.
"Don't you understand yet? This is the nature of this world. Does your ideal fairness really exist?"
"From the moment human society came into being, there have been classes. If you want to seek justice for Lao Jintou, how is it considered justice? Only killing someone to pay for life is justice, but can you do it? The identity of the second prince is destined.
As long as the Qing Kingdom is immortal, it is impossible for him to pay for the life of a common man!"
"I admit that I did take advantage of Xia Keming and exchanged his life for Li Hongcheng's. But do you want to know what he said when the Northern Qi spies found him?"
Fan Xian asked with a trembling voice: "What did you say?"
"It's worth trading a commoner's body for the life of an imperial relative!"
Fan Xian's pupils trembled, and his eyes seemed to reappear in Xia Keming's desperate and crazy look when he was in the dungeon.
Qin Hao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Fan Xian word by word: "I am not as great as you. I have to save the common people. I am very selfish. The only people I can protect with all my strength are my family.
, in my heart, Ruoruo has long been a family member, no matter who tries to hurt Ruoruo, I will make him pay a heavy price, even the aloof Emperor Qing."
For a long time, Fan Xian didn't say another word, and he only dropped one sentence before leaving.
"What about Ye Ling'er?"
"She's family, too."
Fan Xian paused. He knew that soon there would be an even more violent bloody storm in Kyoto.
........
The next day, Fan Xian went to the Inspection Institute. Eunuch Dai from the Vegetable Inspection Department was the culprit who caused Lao Jintou's daughter to voluntarily sell herself to Baoyue Building. He also temporarily accused the two real culprits behind Lao Jintou's death.
The prince had no choice but to send Eunuch Dai down first to make amends to Lao Jintou.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The seizure of the Vegetable Inspection Department forced Princess Dai to take bribes. Fan Xian collected the bribes in full view of the public, which immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he repeatedly complained
.
As a result, Fan Xian ignored him at first, but when the imperial censors started to make a fuss, he asked Wang Qinian to send a letter saying "The barking barks", which completely aroused the indignation of everyone in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the memorial was like snowflakes.
The letters fell in front of Emperor Qing's desk, demanding that Fan Xian be punished for corruption.
When Eunuch Dai heard about this, he was so frightened that he almost fainted.
At the court meeting that turned around, Lai Mingcheng, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, stood up emotionally to impeach Fan Xian, accusing him of accepting bribes and being arrogant and perverting the law. Fan Xian refused to plead guilty and shouted that he was wronged. Lai Mingcheng took out a thick witness book
Emperor Qing did not read the testimony and sent someone to call Eunuch Dai to go to court for confrontation.
As a result, Eunuch Dai was inevitably punished, but Fan Xian had already handed over the three thousand taels of silver that Eunuch Dai had given him to Chen Pingping, and was acquitted on the spot.
Under Fan Xian's flattery, Lai Mingcheng, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, took over the hot potato of investigating official corruption.
Qin Hao watched the whole process with cold eyes. In fact, in Qin Hao's view, the entire power structure of the Qing Kingdom was quite backward. Officials were corrupt, princes formed cliques, and aristocratic families from all over the country were crazy about annexing land and raising slaves. It was difficult to support their slaves.
Imagine this is a country that has just emerged.
The entire superstructure is crooked. Checking and filling the gaps will not solve the Qingguo problem at all. What Ye Qingmei failed to do back then will be even harder to do twenty years later. Once someone tries to change the existing structure, vested interests will
The group will definitely make him disappear from this world at all costs just like it did when it killed Ye Qingmei.
After coming out of the palace, Qin Hao took the initiative to find Fan Xian and directly handed him a five thousand tael silver note.
"Do you think this is a bribe? Aren't you afraid of being targeted by Lai Mingcheng?"
Qin Hao shook his head: "Let me make a deal with you."
"What deal?"
"Sell Baoyue Building to me."
Fan Xian looked at Qin Hao in surprise: "Why did you buy Baoyue Building?"
"Since Li Hongcheng's death, Liujing Riverside has been closed for half a month. We don't know when it will be reopened. Si Lili doesn't plan to continue working in Zuixianju. He has to have a place to go. It just so happens that Baoyue Tower is now
It's a hot potato for you, so you might as well sell it to me."
Fan Xian thought for a while and pushed the banknote in front of Qin Hao.
"What, do you think the money is too little?"
"It has nothing to do with money. The Baoyuelou incident started because of Versace, so I should take care of it to the end. Besides, I promised Miss Sang Wen that I would give her her freedom."
Qin Hao did not take the banknote, but pushed it back: "What? Are you afraid that I will continue to exploit them and force them to sell themselves?"
"Then why would you buy Baoyue Building?"
"You should know my relationship with Si Lili. Do you think I will let her become a brothel madam?"
"You still have the nerve to talk to me about being a manager. If you just want a Ye Ling'er, you can also get a brothel girl. Where do you put my sister?"
"You don't need to worry about this. Uncle, please give me a few words to tell you whether it works or not."
Fan Xian stared at Qin Hao for a long time and said seriously: "What on earth do you want to do with Baoyue Tower?"
"Well, I know that Mr. Xiao Fan is upright and upright. I have discussed with Si Lili and plan to build Baoyue Tower into the most elegant song and dance hall in the capital. The singers and dancers will only sell their skills and not their bodies. I guarantee that they will not sell themselves.
Is that okay if you don’t engage in any intelligence gathering work?”
Fan Xian pondered for a long time: "Baoyue Building can be sold to you, but the deed of sale must be destroyed. The people inside can stay or leave of their own free will."
"Sure, it's not sweet to be strong-willed, and Si Lili doesn't keep anyone. She doesn't want anyone with poor skills."
Fan Xian then agreed to sell Baoyue Building to Qin Hao.
Soon the handover was made between the two parties. In the Baoyue Building, Fan Xian burned their contracts of prostitution in front of everyone. Most of the women who were deceived chose to leave, except for a few who really had nowhere to go.
Choose to stay.
Si Lili wore a long black dress and slightly opened her red lips: "Thank you sisters for staying. I used to be like you, making a living by the Liujing River. Now I can work with you. I dare not say anything else, as long as I
If I have a bite to eat, I won't treat you badly."
"The world is tough, and women are even more harshly treated. From now on, we will be together and depend on each other. If you think highly of me, just call me shopkeeper. If you don't want to, just call me by name. It doesn't matter."
"Thank you, shopkeeper."
"Shopkeeper, I will follow you from now on."
Si Lili nodded with satisfaction and looked at Qin Hao with a smile.
Fan Xian saw that he had nothing to do here, so he left Baoyue Building on the grounds that he was busy with official duties.
Qin Hao stayed.
"Who among you is Yuan Meng?"
A woman wearing a green dress and holding a round fan stood up.
"Yuan Meng has met General Qin."
Qin Hao looked at the woman and frowned slightly: "Do you know me?"
"Everyone in the capital knows that General Qin is famous, let alone you and Miss Lili... The romantic stories of the shopkeeper are widely circulated along the Liujing River." Yuan Meng said with a smile on his face.
Qin Hao looked at Si Lili and asked, "So I'm so famous?"
Si Lili gave Qin Hao a charming and angry look.
The scene of the two flirting with each other also caused a burst of laughter from the girls present.
Qin Hao cleared his throat awkwardly: "I remember you were managing Baoyue Tower before, Yuan Meng, right?"
"That's right, the eldest boss and the second boss rarely ask about the specific affairs of Baoyue Tower. Everything is taken care of by the slave family." Yuan Meng replied politely.
"From now on, you will be responsible for teaching girls singing and dancing skills. You don't need to worry about other things."
Yuan Meng's expression changed, but soon returned to his original state, and he agreed with a smile on his face.
Qin Hao glanced at her meaningfully, then turned to look at the guard thugs on the side.
"I heard that there have been many fatalities in Baoyue Tower before. Is it all your fault?"
Upon seeing this, the nursing staff quickly defended themselves: "General Qin, we are all following orders..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Oh? Acting on orders, whose order is it? I think Mr. Xiao Fan should be interested in this meeting, why don't you call him back?
"Listen to what you guys have to say?" Qin Hao said with a cold face.
None of the nursing staff dared to say anything anymore.
"From today on, you will have nothing to do with Baoyue Tower. Get out of the capital before sunset tonight, otherwise..."
"Young men, please leave now, General, please calm down."
These nursing homes only bullied ordinary people. Qin Hao could make their lives worse than death with just one word. He did not dare to ask for severance pay, so he hurriedly packed a few clothes and left Baoyue Building in a hurry.
The girls in the building had been bullied by these ferocious guards many times before. Seeing that they were all gone, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Only Yuan Meng had an inexplicable emotion flashing in his eyes, but he quickly covered it up and pretended to be angry.
Looking very happy.
"I will make other arrangements for the guards of Baoyue Tower in the future. If they do anything inappropriate, you can just complain to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper will punish them. Don't be afraid. Now you are all free. If there is any
If you are dissatisfied, you can ask the shopkeeper to check out and leave at any time, Baoyuelou will not deduct a penny of your wages."
Hearing the word "wage", the girls all smiled like flowers, which means that all they will earn in the future will be clean money.
After the explanation, Qin Hao and Si Lili came to the single room upstairs.
"Shawn has agreed to destroy your Jinyiwei spy files, and your brother has been properly placed. You don't have to worry about it anymore."
Before Qin Hao could finish speaking, a hot body fell into his arms.