An hour after Zhang Yao's body was found, Li Tong reported the situation to Zhu Jun.

"Your Majesty, Weichen searched Dong's Mansion again in the afternoon, and found a secret tunnel in the west courtyard, leading to the outside houses, this is the reason why they evaded surveillance, Weichen searched everywhere for a day, and still couldn't find Dong Xizhi's family, I'm sure that if no one assists, they can't escape at all, but if someone covers up and assists, it will be difficult for the internal guards to find it."

Zhu Jun was silent for a while and asked, "Has the messenger been found?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I have found him, he has been wiped out, Weichen first asked the housekeeper of the Dong Mansion to identify him, he is indeed the person who sent the letter to Dong Xizhi's family last night, and Weichen asked the housekeeper of the Yuan Mansion to identify him, he is Zhang Yao, the third housekeeper of the Yuan Mansion."

Zhu Jun snorted heavily and said to Li Tong: "Don't spread this matter first, wait for me to think about it." ”

"Obey!" Li Tong saluted, slowly retreated and left.

Zhu Jun took a few steps with his hand in his hand, and ordered: "Quickly send Yao Xiangguo to see me!" ”

Half an hour later, Yao Lingyan hurried over, he bowed and saluted, "See Your Majesty!" ”

"Yao Xiangguo, I have something to discuss with you."

"Wechen is willing to share his worries for His Majesty!"

Zhu Jun nodded and said, "What is the relationship between Dong Xizhi and Yuan Xiu?" ”

The Son of Heaven actually called him by his name, which made Yao Lingyan's heart skip a beat, and sure enough, he pondered for a moment, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, Weichen knows that they are fellow villagers......

"I also know this, I want to know something deeper."

"If you look at it from the aspect of blood and family, they basically have no relationship, whether they have a marriage in their hometown, Wechen doesn't know, but Wechen knows that they have a very close relationship in terms of human contacts."

"To be more specific, how is it close?"

"Every year, Dong Xizhi has to send a lot of treasures to Yuan Xiangguo, and Yuan Xiangguo has a treasure pearl, which is said to be worth 100,000 yuan, and Weichen knows that this treasure pearl was given to him by Dong Xizhi last year."

The murderous intent in Zhu Zhu's heart became stronger, and he asked coldly: "If Dong Xizhi wants to rebel, what impact does Yuan Xiu have in the phase?" ”

"Your Majesty, the financial power is in the hands of the right minister, if the source of the prime minister allocates more military rations and money to Dong Xizhi, wouldn't it be helping to abuse?"

Zhu Zhu paced back and forth a few steps with his hands in his hands, and then asked, "How is Shangshu Ling Liu Feng?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, although Liu Feng is a little rude and a little less capable, he is loyal to His Majesty, which is the most rare, it depends on how he must choose, whether he wants ability or loyalty?"

Yao Lingyan's mending knife at the critical moment finally made Zhu Jun make up his mind, and that night, Zhu Jun issued an order to remove Yuan Xiu from the position of right minister, reappointed the governor of Shaanxi, and appointed Shangshu Ling Liu Feng to replace Yuan Xiu's right minister and continue to hold the financial power.

On the way to Shaanzhou, Yuan Xiu was killed by the enemy and cut off his head, Zhu Jun immediately ordered the internal guards to raid Yuan Xiu's mansion and seized countless gold and silver treasures, copper coins, and silk, worth more than one million yuan.

……..

Chang'an is also covered in silver, and a heavy snowfall covers the entire Guanzhong area, turning Chang'an into a snowy world on New Year's Eve.

On the 10th day of the first lunar month, the snow has melted a lot, and the ground has become wet, and snow crystals on the pine branches are constantly falling.

Guo Song's carriage drove into the Danfeng Gate of Daming Palace, the imperial court was officially relocated to Daming Palace three months ago, the number of people in the entire imperial court has more than doubled than before, the number of officials has reached nearly 1,000, plus a large number of low-level scribes without rank, and the number of officials who enter and exit Daming Palace every day reaches 3,000 people.

Guo Song's official house is located behind Zhongshu Province, is a three-story red building covering an area of about eight acres, here is called the Jianguo Building, the outline of the building is in the shape of a main house, in the middle is a compound for rest and walking, and there is a building on each side.

In addition to Guo Song's official room, the secretary is also the location of the secretary and supervisor, the secretary is actually the former Jin King's staff body, the former Tiance Building was also merged into the secretary supervisor, from the secretary of the third product of the order by the former counselor Xue Changshou, there are two young eunuchs from the fourth grade, Lu Lun and Wang Yu, Lu Lun is in charge of the secretary platform, mainly involved in government affairs, Wang Yu is in charge of the Tiance platform, mainly involved in the military.

In addition, the official offices of the internal guard and the Jin Wei Mansion are also here, but this is only an office place, there is no prison, interrogation and the like, and then there is the Jixian Hall Bachelor's Building is also here, and the Jixian Hall Scholar is also the former senior minister, this is only a nominal place, and there are also official rooms, but basically people are in their own homes, and when they need to discuss, they will send someone to invite them over.

Especially in early October, after the death of Senior Minister Li Mi, the current Senior Minister only has the heads of several major families and Xue Xun.

Guo Song walked into his official room on the second floor, and the layout of his official room has not changed, it is still composed of more than a dozen rooms, including the main official room, the outer hall, the library, the staff room, the night room, the meeting hall, the small meeting hall, the tea shop and so on.

There were four officials on duty in the outer hall, who obeyed the call of the King of Jin at any time, and Lu Lun's also had his own official room, which was in the east building, of course, he would sit outside Guo Song's official room every morning, and only go to his official room in the afternoon to sort out the documents.

Guo Song walked into the official room, and a soldier said at the door: "Young Eunuch Wang has urgent matters to see!" ”

Wang Shaojian is Wang Yu, he is the secretary and young eunuch, because he has military merits, and his rank is actually from the third grade silver Qingguanglu doctor, and the situation is more special.

Wang Yu is in charge of intelligence and operational planning, which is equivalent to a military advisor and is in charge of Tiance Terrace.

"Your Highness, there is important news over there in Luoyang!"

Guo Song smiled and waved his hand: "Don't worry, sit down and drink a cup of hot tea, roast and roast the fire, the snow is not cold, the snow is cold, the snow is cold, it is really like this." ”

Wang Yu saw that King Jin was very calm and not a little anxious, he was a little embarrassed, and smiled apologetically: "I forgot that His Royal Highness came to the official room, because I was too eager to do it." ”

At this time, the tea boy brought two hot teas, and Guo Song beckoned Wang Yu to sit down in front of the brazier, and the coals in the brazier burned vigorously, making the room dry and warm.

The two sat opposite each other and drank two sips of hot tea, and then Wang Yu said: "After receiving information from Luoyang, Yuan Xiu was demoted to the governor of Shaanxi, and Shangshu ordered Liu Feng to officially become the right minister. ”

Guo Song smiled faintly: "These two have been fighting for more than half a year!" So shrewd Genxiu actually failed, what's so strange about this? ”

"It is said to be related to Dong Xizhi, the king of Xiangyang County, and the intelligence said that Yuan Xiu assisted Dong Xizhi's family to escape from Luoyang, which caused Zhu Zhu's anger."

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "Liu Feng must have played an important role in the dismissal of Yuanxiu, but this is not important, I am concerned about other things, first of all, why did Dong Xizhi's family flee from Luoyang, is it Dong Xizhi going to do something?" Secondly, I want to understand Liu Feng and dig out his old bottom thoroughly, these two things are more urgent, I want to go as soon as possible! ”

"Let's arrange it."

Guo Song stopped him again, "After the arrangement, come back to me, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Wang Yu nodded and walked quickly.

Guo Song pondered for a moment, got up and came to the staff room next door, the staff room is actually the map room, including the sand table and map, the sun shines through the window, making the staff room extraordinarily bright, the staff room is very large, at least more than 100 square meters, there is a huge sand table in the middle, two zhang long and one zhang wide, composed of eight small sand tables, this sand table is actually Zhu Zhu's dynasty.

In addition to the sand table, the four walls are full of maps from all over the place, and the huge vase is also full of map scrolls.

In fact, last year's battle of Liangchuan did not end, and there was still an army of the eunuch party that was not annihilated, this is Liu Bi, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, Liu Pi is actually Huo Xianming's nephew, he is the envoy of the Shence Army, he replaced Hun Xuan's Jingnan army, Hun Ying was reappointed as the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and he was actually overhead.

The Jingnan army initially had only 12,000 men, but after Liu Pi took over, it received the full support of Huo Xianming, and the number of troops quickly reached 30,000.

At present, Liu Pi proclaimed himself the king of Jiangling, and divided the twelve prefectures of Jingnan, and his sphere of influence reached Guizhou and Liuzhou, that is, the area of Guilin and Liuzhou in Guangxi, which was actually Lingnan West Road.

Guo Song used the Empress Dowager's edict to announce that Ma Sui, Liu Qia, Han Rong and Li Si entered the court to report on their work, and at present, except for Han Rong and Li Si who promised to enter the court, Ma Sui and Liu Qia have not moved, among which Liu Qia is seriously ill, and the military and political power has been controlled by his son Liu Shining.

Therefore, Guo Song considered destroying Liu Pi first, and then continued to destroy Ma Sui and Liu Qia to the east.

And at this time, Zhu Jun's Xiangyang County King Dong Xizhi had a change, which would affect Guo Song's strategic arrangement. So Guo Song had to reconsider his strategic plan.

At this time, the clerk said at the door: "Your Highness, Young Eunuch Wang is here." ”

Guo Song nodded, "Please let him in!" ”

Wang Yu walked quickly into Guo Song's staff room.