Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 342
The three students quickly turned around and returned to their seats and sat down obediently.

Ye Chen then said: "My subject is rather complicated. In addition to traditional poetry, poetry, scriptures and literature, I also need to learn arithmetic and the way of studying things. The way of studying things is all-encompassing, but you don't need to study it in depth. , as long as you understand a little. In addition, I am not good at poetry, poetry, classics and literature, so my teacher has already reported to His Majesty, and asked His Highness to move several great Confucian teachers in the palace to our residence to continue to teach His Highness. Hu Zi and Shui Er can listen to poetry, songs, scriptures and scriptures when they have time. As for His Majesty’s mathematics and Gewu courses, the basic part is taught by Hu Zi on behalf of his teacher. From the teacher’s point of view, these are for you, Your Highness. They are all foundations, and His Highness needs to learn some more important things based on these foundations."

Ye Chen didn't say what the 'important thing' was, but the three teenagers said yes at the same time.

"Okay, Huzi and Shui'er take your highness to the mansion for a walk! You can also visit the half-dead labyrinth. Oh... By the way, the three of you are called brothers and sisters." Ye Chen finally said, After speaking, he turned and left.

The three quickly stood up and saluted Ye Chen.Shui'er's dark eyeballs rolled around, and some strange thoughts came to her mind, Zhao Defang's eyes lit up, and she couldn't bear to go to the half-dead maze right now.Only Huzi looked thoughtful.

Ye Chen left the school and came to the living room in the front yard, where Xu Fangyi and Li Junhao had been waiting for a long time.

"The criminal evidence of Tangzhou Zhizhou has been verified one by one!" Ye Chen asked directly, nodding to Xu Fangyi and Li Junhao who were saluting.

Xu Fangyi said softly: "This subordinate is about to report this matter to the lord. All the criminal evidences of Tangzhou magistrate have been verified one by one, and the evidence is ready. As long as it is reported to His Majesty, according to the results of previous judgments in Dali Temple, it is enough to directly put to death."

Ye Chen said: "Give all the evidence to the Supervision Department and ask Li Junhao to send someone to arrest the prefect of Tangzhou. In a word, the prefect of Tangzhou must die."

Xu Fangyi and Li Junhao nodded at the same time.Ye Chen had arranged for the intelligence department to do this matter before the adjustment of the Huaxia Weifu organization, so it was the intelligence department that was investigating, not the supervision department.

Both Xu Fangyi and Li Junhao were full of doubts about why they suddenly attacked a fourth-rank magistrate of Dazhi Prefecture, but he could tell that Ye Chen attached great importance to this matter, and because Ye Chen specially ordered it to be extremely concealed, so Ye Chen Chen didn't tell them, and they would never take the initiative to ask Ye Chen.

As if guessing what Li Junhao and Xu Fangyi were thinking, Ye Chen's eyes flickered with murderous intent, and he said: "Although the magistrate of Tangzhou is capable of guarding one side, he caresses about human lives, occupies villagers' property, kills people and exterminates clans. Take him to the supervisor It's not bad for Si Kai to make the first cut."

Li Junhao hurriedly said: "Your Excellency said so."

Ye Chen remembered something, and said: "There is also Xin Yu who bought calligraphy and painting in Nancheng, recruited into our Huaxia Weifu, and gave him an official position of eight ranks. He is a scholar and has read a lot of books. Let him be in your intelligence first. After this matter is settled, Xu Fangyi will handle it in person, remember not to let interested people know about it. After Xin Yu comes, let him change his original name."

Although Xu Fangyi and Li Junhao were more and more puzzled, they respectfully agreed.

After Li Junhao and Xu Fangyi left, Ye Chen closed his eyes and rested his mind leisurely, but his mind was running fast - the reason why the supervisory department was asked to deal with the prefect of Tangzhou first was because he wanted to sell the little eunuch Xin Shi for a favor , a great favor.A favor that Xin Shi will have to repay whenever he thinks about it in the future.

The young eunuch Xin Shi, who is now transferring memorials back and forth between Chongzheng Hall and Zhongshu Province, is from Tangzhou, and his original surname is Hu.The magistrate of Tangzhou, who was used by Ye Chen to make the first cut, once forcibly took away the land property of the Hu family because of a certain property when he was still the county magistrate. However, there was a scholar in the Hu family, namely Xin Shi's elder brother, Xin Yu, who now buys cheap poems and paintings on the streets of Nancheng.Naturally, Xin Yu refused to follow suit, and went across mountains and mountains to file a lawsuit across the state, even claiming that she would bring the lawsuit to Kyoto.

The county magistrate was terrified and relentlessly killed him. He colluded with the bandits in the middle of the night and forcibly wiped out the Hu clan!
That night, none of the nearly one hundred members of the Hu family who lived in the mansion were left alive.

And Xin Shi was still a child at the time, and he forgot to go home after playing on the mountain, which was considered a fate. Xin Shi's brother Xin Yu was not at home.The two escaped by chance and survived.

After the two brothers met, they were heartbroken and hated at the same time, but they also knew that they could not fight against the enemy, so they climbed over the mountains overnight and begged all the way to Kaifeng, but they never dared to go to Dali Temple and other government offices to file a complaint. They even concealed their identities and changed their names to Xin Yu and Xin Shi, struggling to live in Kaifeng City.

One day, the two brothers really couldn't bear it any longer, plus they wanted to avenge the annihilation of the clan, Hu Xiaodi...that is, the present Xin Shi was thrown into the palace, purged and made a eunuch.

Xin Shi was originally smart and quick-witted, coupled with the experience of childhood tragedy, his disposition is quite mature, and his actions are extremely calm.After entering the palace, there has never been the slightest mistake.The palace was cleaned twice, and the personnel were rotated several times. This little eunuch was lucky enough to directly enter the Chongzheng Palace and began to work by the emperor's side.Later, he was favored by Zhao Kuangyin, and he was promoted several levels directly, and let him take on the crucial task of delivering memorials.This is the so-called chance and luck.

Since assuming the current position, Xin Shi has seen a lot, knowing that the palace is like this, and the magistrate is not a high-ranking official, the flame of revenge in Xin Shi's heart ignited again, but he is still young and doesn't understand I don't know how to proceed, should I directly state my grievances to His Majesty?He didn't have the guts.

Just at this time, Ye Chen took the initiative to avenge him, and said that after the Huaxia Weifu accidentally heard about this incident, he deliberately wanted to avenge him, and Ye Chen also gave his brother Xin Yu a way out, and even found an official position .

Considering that there may be hidden people from the temple lurking in the palace, and what Ye Chen knew about Zhao Kuangyin's sudden and violent death in the original history.Whether it's for Zhao Kuangyin's safety or his own safety, Ye Chen needs a very useful eye in the palace.So that if something big happens, I can know it at the first time and make a timely response.

And he also knew that based on the current development trend of the little eunuch Xin Shi in the palace, judging Zhao Kuangyin's trust in him, in just two or three years, this little eunuch will definitely have considerable influence. In other words, some officials in the DPRK and China are willing to sell Xin Shi's favor and rush to avenge him, so Ye Chen must rush to do it before everyone else, and do it early when the eunuch's status is still low, and do it Be clean and tidy, don't coerce, don't show favor, and don't leave future troubles.It didn't even make it clear what to do for the Xinshi Gang.

This is the best way to give favors.Ye Chen spent a lot of thought on this.He was the only one who knew about this Anzi who was buried next to the Son of Heaven. Even Li Junhao and Xu Fangyi didn't know it very well.

The prefect who died was the prefect of Tangzhou. Xin Shi’s record before entering the palace was from Chuzhou. Regarding Xin Shi's relationship with this incident, he was very careful not to tell anyone about it.

As for the Supervision Department of the Huaxia Weifu's first cut on the Tangzhou prefect, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty would only think that the Tangzhou prefect was unlucky.

On the second day, the eunuch announced the imperial decree. On the basis of Ye Chen's original appointment as an envoy to the Wuyue Kingdom, Ye Chen was appointed as a marriage envoy to escort Princess Yongqing to the Wuyue Kingdom and give money to marry the prince of Wuyue. Zhi Yin.And asked Ye Chen to enter the palace immediately to discuss this matter with the emperor and Princess Yongqing in detail.

Ye Chen accepted the imperial decree and asked Ma Gangzi to withdraw money to reward Wang Jien who delivered the decree. While getting the carriage and guards prepared, he wondered when Xin Shi would be qualified to deliver the decree.At the same time, he thought to himself: "Princess Yongqing is beautiful and kind-hearted, but I don't think she is very gentle. But it's still cheap for Qian Zhiyin."

Chongzheng Hall of the Imperial Palace.

The eunuch reported to Princess Yongqing to see her.Zhao Kuangyin glanced at Ye Chen and told the princess to come in.As soon as Princess Yongqing entered the study, she threw herself into Zhao Kuangyin's arms, burst into tears, and said, "Father, daughter... daughter... I don't want to marry into Wuyue Kingdom, I don't want to leave Father, I beg Father to take back the imperial decree." .”

Zhao Kuangyin loved this precious daughter since he was a child, and now he couldn't bear to see her crying pitifully, but after all, he was the emperor of Song Dynasty first, and then Princess Yongqing's father, and his considerations had already surpassed the scope of ordinary fathers.In addition, Wu Yueguo offered to make a marriage proposal and asked him to give him a marriage. On the premise that the younger brother of Wuyue Guozhu, Qian Wu, was killed by mistake, if he did not agree to this matter, it would really be possible for Wuyueguo and Song Dynasty to completely separate from each other.

What's more, the matter has come to this point, and it is hard to take it back. Zhao Kuangyin patted Princess Yongqing on the shoulder, and said softly: "Yongqing, a girl will always marry when she grows up. The husband that the emperor chose for you is very good. Yes. Ye Chen, tell Yongqing that Qian Zhiyin is quite handsome, isn't he?"

Ye Chen hurriedly said: "Exactly. Your Royal Highness, your son-in-law is the most famous handsome man in the south of the Yangtze River. I heard that in Wuyue Kingdom, there were more than a dozen extremely beautiful girls who fought for him and killed three people."

Princess Yongqing was startled, and asked curiously: "Then why?"

Ye Chen turned quickly in his mind, and a story took shape, saying: "The prince of Wuyue was born handsome, and he is very famous in Jiangnan, and even the world. Once... During the Lantern Festival, the prince of Wuyue went to enjoy the lanterns by the West Lake Well, thousands of girls and women in Hangzhou City crowded to see. There were more than a dozen girls who squeezed each other, and I squeezed you, first there was a quarrel, then a fight, and then it turned into a tragedy."

Princess Yongqing smiled through tears, and spat: "Bah! You are lying, how can such a thing happen?"

Ye Chen said: "Your Highness, guess why His Majesty sent officials to escort you to Wuyue Kingdom? He also told me to bring more experts from Huaxia Weifu to protect His Highness's safety?"

(End of this chapter)