Chang'an City, Weiyang Palace.

The atmosphere in the Mao Zhai was a little solemn, and His Majesty cut off the heads of all the Fengning Guan Daoists in a fit of rage, and even the person who held the True Dao did not stay for even one more day, and even directly Ling Chi Qingcang.

This is a very abnormal thing for His Majesty's state of mind.

If His Majesty's mind is not calm enough, any thing in Daning in the past twenty years may make him mess up, and His Majesty will kill people directly without interrogation, which makes many people not understand.

"Declare war."

The old dean glanced at Lai Cheng next to him: "Your Majesty is really angry." ”

"Yes, Mu Zhaotong is declaring war."

Lai Cheng pouted: "I just haven't figured it out until now, what is that Mu scholar's hole card?" The ups and downs in the past few years are nothing more than some Jianghu methods, and I haven't seen him come up with anything that can really be put on the table. ”

"But he must have."

The old dean shook his head: "I just can't see through it." ”

At this moment, the sound of footsteps was remembered outside, and the two people hurriedly stood up and walked to the door and bowed to greet each other, and His Majesty returned.

After the emperor entered the door, he looked at the old dean and Lai Cheng: "How is it?" ”

"People are frozen."

Lai Cheng lowered his head and replied: "The minister has talked to a few people. ”

"Hmm."

The emperor snorted, casually opened a piece of music on the table and looked at it, but his eyes were a little fluttering, what a clever person he was, seeing that His Majesty was a little absent-minded, he hurriedly bowed down and retreated, and there were only three monarchs and ministers left in the house.

"He's venting."

The emperor suddenly smiled: "I have suppressed him for more than 20 years, taking his rights out of his palm little by little, he is unwilling to take it, so I broke his fingers and dragged it out, but speaking of Mu Zhaotong's acting skills is really good, even I thought he had accepted his fate." ”

The old dean said: "His kind of temperament ......"

The old dean didn't continue to say the words later, how could Mu Zhaotong's kind of retributive temperament really accept his fate, but his acting skills were so good that he deceived everyone, and the performance came with an embarrassing heroic twilight sadness, saying that Mu Zhaotong was an old fox, wasn't the old dean? The old dean didn't see Mu Zhaotong's true thoughts.

"He wasn't convinced."

The emperor said: "He thinks that the reason why I can break his hand is only because I am the emperor, not because I am smarter than him, so he has vented his grievances that he has suppressed for twenty years, and I asked Mr. You two to come back first and wait for me, because I can't understand what cards Mu Zhaotong has in his hand?" He worked hard to escape from the Eight Alleys, and he had to be disgusting and disgusting. ”

The old dean and Lai Cheng had just talked about this, and they naturally understood that the emperor had not yet gone to the court, so the two of them came over and waited for the only reason for Mu Zhaotong.

The emperor's finger tapped lightly on the table: "I found that I was one step slower than him, and I had already fallen into his calculations, on the surface, it seemed that his plans were broken one by one, he came up with the question, I solved the problem, but now I have come to my senses, his question I have not solved, he wants to make me uncomfortable, I have destroyed the queen of the descendants, his calculation has been completed, I am indeed uncomfortable, fortunately, about Shen Leng's question, I broke it." ”

At this time, Dai Fangzhou ran in from outside: "Your Majesty, Lord Han Zhaozhi Han asks to see you." ”

"He didn't have a good time to recuperate, and what did he come to do."

The Emperor got up: "Help people in." ”

After a while, Dai Fangzhou and the two little eunuchs carefully helped Han Zhaozhi into the door, Han Zhaozhi looked like his complexion had recovered a lot, although his face was still a little pale but in good spirits, but there was some anxiety in his eyes, and he rarely had such anxiety.

"There are no outsiders, just say what comes to mind."

The emperor waved his hand and motioned for them to go out, and after helping Han Zhaozhi to sit down, Han Zhaozhi hurriedly withdrew from the Maozhai Zhai, Han Zhaozhi lowered his head and said: "The minister came because of Mu Zhaotong's matter, and the Tingwei Mansion has been tracking down his whereabouts, first found his whereabouts in a small village in Fangcheng County, but the person has already left, and then there is no useful news back." ”

The emperor asked, "You don't look like you're here to tell me that you can't catch him, what's the other?" ”

Han Zhaozhi replied with a face: "The minister has never figured out what Mu Zhaotong's plan is, and then I thought that if there is a reasonable explanation, it can only be that he is venting his dissatisfaction with His Majesty and wants to take revenge on His Majesty." ”

The Emperor nodded: "Go on." ”

Han Zhaozhi continued: "The minister asked the court to sort out the files of the Tingwei Mansion, and it took an hour in the morning to sort out the big things that Mu Zhaotong had done as an official for so many years, after all, he was a university scholar, which was beyond the scope of the daily investigation of the Tingwei Mansion, and there were not many useful things in the files, but the minister found that something seemed to be not quite right. ”

Han Zhaozhi said: "Mu Zhaotong rarely left Chang'an after becoming the first assistant of the cabinet, more than 20 years after His Majesty entered Beijing, he never left Chang'an in the first ten years, and in the next ten years, he would go out once every two years, his reputation is too good, he almost never leaves the cabinet, and he only leaves Beijing once every two years, so no one has paid attention to this matter at all, and even the itinerary of leaving once every two years is not detailed." ”

The Emperor asked, "Speak clearly." ”

Han Zhaozhi said: "The minister thinks that Mu Zhaotong may be in any place he has been to at this time, and these places must send someone to check what he has done in those years as soon as possible." ”

"The Cabinet has a record."

Lai Cheng hurriedly got up: "The minister will go and get it." ”

After a while, Lai Cheng ran back, holding a dossier in his hand.

"In the spring of the eleventh year of Tiancheng, Mu Zhaotong took leave to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, in the summer of the thirteenth year of Tiancheng, Mu Zhaotong took leave to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and in the spring of the fifteenth year of Tiancheng, Mu Zhaotong took leave to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors......"

Lai Cheng raised his head and glanced at the emperor: "It's all back to their hometown." ”

The old dean shook his head: "I'm afraid that if you don't really return to your hometown, Tingwei Mansion can send a document to the local place to ask, it is the matter of the past ten years, if Mu Zhaotong really returns to his hometown, there will be a lot of circumstantial evidence." ”

Han Zhaozhi nodded and then looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has already sent a document to ask." ”

The emperor frowned slightly, how much did this Mu Zhaotong do in private?

Two months later.

Han Zhaozhi has recovered almost, it seems that his complexion is still a little insufficient, he has returned to the Tingwei Mansion a month ago to be in charge, the two most important cases handled by the Tingwei Mansion now are with him personally, one is about the case of who put the Bohai people in Northern Xinjiang, Gu Le and Geng Shan still have no clue, those entry certificates are fake, but the work is enough to be fake, it is not easy to find out who these fake certificates are from, and the investigation in Northern Xinjiang is deadlocked, and they can only keep staring at Huo Ding.

Another case is Mu Zhaotong's matter, and the investigation of the Tingwei Mansion has just been sent back from Mu Zhaotong's hometown.

Han Zhaozhi opened the file and looked at it: "In the spring of the eleventh year of Tiancheng, Mu Zhaotong returned to his ancestral house, and he didn't see many people on the grounds that he was sick after a tiring journey, but he only saw a few important people in the family, and he didn't meet him face to face, and he was lying on the bed through the bed veil......"

Han Zhaozhi flipped back: "It's the same in the thirteenth year of Tiancheng, and it's the same in the fifteenth year of Tiancheng." ”

He frowned: "I go back every two years, but I don't see any people after I go back?" ”

Nie Ye bowed his head beside him and said: "Maybe he didn't go back at all, he went back is a fake, because he is afraid of being recognized, he will pretend to be sick, he is in a high position, no one will say anything, and it is impossible for the court to stare at the court when he is the first assistant scholar......"

Han Zhaozhi said: "Check how he went back over the years." ”

Nie Ye said: "I have already checked, every time Mu Zhaotong returns to his hometown, he takes the waterway, the route is fixed, and even the place where he stops is fixed, and the time of each stop is almost the same." ”

"Check all the places you've stopped."

Han Zhaozhi let out a breath: "Although it is slow, what needs to be checked is not where Mu Zhaotong is hiding, but what Mu Zhaotong wants to do...... Nie Ye, you lead the team south and investigate carefully. ”

Nie Ye leaned over: "My subordinates will arrange manpower." ”

Han Zhaozhi looked at Fang Baijing: "You continue to investigate the matter of the Tianzi Division, and carefully flip through it in Gyeonggi Province." ”

Fang Baijing clenched his fists: "My subordinates understand." ”

Han Zhaozhi looked at Yao Hunu again: "I have read all the poems written by Mu Zhaotong in the past few days, most of his poems are written about landscapes, and I didn't pay attention to it at first, but then I woke up and missed a place, and I read it again, most of the places in the poems he wrote have been, but he has not been to the mountain jumping, but he has written three poems about Qingxian Mountain Jumping and Yuhu Lake before and after, there is a sense of seclusion in the poetry, and he should be fascinated by a place that he has never been to, how can he have the feeling of retreating here." ...... You go and check that place. ”

Yao Hunu clenched his fists: "My subordinates will set off." ”

"Fang Bailu, both of you can go."

Han Zhaozhi frowned: "I always feel that something is wrong in that place." ”

Yao Hunu said: "He is still staring at other cases over there, and it is enough for one of his subordinates to lead the team." ”

Han Zhaozhi was silent, the people in his hands were indeed a little insufficient, and all the people in the Tianzi Department had not been arrested, but these people were not difficult to check, they were all Taoists from various Taoist temples in Chang'an City, all of them were registered for the record, but these people were not good at martial arts, and it was a little troublesome to deal with, Fang Baijing and Nie Ye Yao Hunu all left Beijing, and he has not fully recovered now, and it is indeed unsafe for a thousand offices in Chang'an City to stay.

"It's okay, you lead the team by yourself, be careful in everything, wait for support if you find anything wrong, the people of the Tianzi Department have always followed Mu Zhaotong, and those people should not be underestimated."

"My subordinates understand."

Yao Hunu clenched his fists and turned around to go out.

Mu Zhaotong would never have thought that Han Zhaozhi would read the poems he had written carefully, let alone that Han Zhaozhi would actually find clues from his poems, but Mu Zhaotong was not worried about anything, he let out the courtyard and gave it to the mother and son.

But Mu Zhaotong did not leave Yuhu Lake, he really loved this place.

At the same time, Shen Leng had also arrived in southern Xinjiang, rushing to the south non-stop, and it took more than two months to catch up with Chen Ran's brigade, and the sailors assembled in southern Xinjiang.

It seems to have left the land of right and wrong.

But wherever he goes, it seems that there is right and wrong everywhere.