In fact, among the two major neighbors to the east of the Ming Dynasty, not only the situation in Korea has become turbulent, but the situation in the country has also become more and more severe.

And it was precisely because of the severity of the domestic situation in the Wa Kingdom that Keiko Yamaguchi sent Li Shan to the Ming Dynasty, so as not to be affected by the war, due to the intensification of the conflict between the Eastern Army and the Western Army in the Wa State, a war that swept the whole country of the Wa State was launched at any time.

The so-called Eastern and Western armies of the Wa Kingdom refer to the military alliance of the two great Wa Kingdoms, led by the two powerful ministers of the Wa Kingdom, Yamana, Mochito, and Hosokawa Katsumoto.

In recent years, the power of the shogun has gradually declined due to social turmoil and rebellions and wars in various parts of the country, and the real power of the shogunate has fallen into the hands of powerful guardians such as Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochito.

The focus of the conflict between the Eastern and Western armies was the succession of the shogunate, and the current shogun, Ashikaga Yoshihito, in order to maintain the inheritance of the shogunate, made his younger brother Yoshimoto the shogun's successor and Hosokawa Katsumoto as his protector.

But who would have thought, on the second day that Ashikaga Yoshimoto became the successor of the shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshihito's wife gave birth to a son Yoshitake, and in order to protect her son, Ashikaga Yoshihito's wife persuaded Ashikaga Yoshihito to take Yamana, another great guardian of the Japanese country, as the protector of Ashikaga Yoshitake.

At this time, there were two heirs to the shogun of the Wakuni Shogunate, one was Ashikaga Yoshimoto, and the other was Ashikaga Yoshitake.

On the surface, the turmoil in the Wa Kingdom was due to the struggle between Ashikaga Yoshimoto and Ashikaga Yoshibu for the position of heir, but in fact, it was the result of the power struggle of the daimyo such as Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochitoyo, which split the central power of the Wa Kingdom.

In addition, the power of the local lords in each of the daimyo lords was increasing, and they began to intervene in the inheritance disputes of the daimyo guardians, and as a result, the power of the daimyo was also divided.

As a result, centered on the confrontation between Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochitoyo, the split between the central and local feudal forces intensified. Hosokawa Katsumoto's base camp was in the shogunate, so it was called the Eastern Army, and Yamana's base camp was in his mansion west of the shogunate, so it was called the Western Army.

In the battle between Yamana and Hosokawa Katsumoto, almost the entire local forces of the Wa Kingdom were involved, and the territory of the guardian of the Ming Dynasty who supported Yamana and Hosokawa Katsumoto was entangled, which also led to constant wars in various places.

Li Yuntian watched this dispute in the country of Wa with a cold eye, and he naturally hoped to see Yamana Chitoyo and Hosokawa Katsumoto go to war in an all-out way, so that the military strength of the Wa State would be greatly weakened and the country would become even poorer.

Compared with other guardian daimyo of the Wa Kingdom, Keiko Yamaguchi's biggest advantage is that she has Li Yuntian as her backing, which allows her to get a lot of money from the transaction with Daming, and she can get Li Yuntian's funding, otherwise how can she become a famous female guardian daimyo of the Wa Kingdom in a short period of time?

This is also the main reason why Chen Guangzong wanted to get rid of Keiko Yamaguchi, Keiko Yamaguchi not only threatened him in the Wa Kingdom, but also regarded Keiko Yamaguchi as Li Yuntian's spokesperson in the Wa Kingdom, and getting rid of Keiko Yamaguchi greatly weakened Li Yuntian's intervention in the Wa Kingdom.

Unlike the Korean State and the Wa Kingdom, although the Ming Dynasty had just experienced the great battle of the Western Regions Campaign, because the war was limited to the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty had enough grain and grass to fight this war, it did not have much impact on the Ming Dynasty.

However, if the national strength of the Korean and Japanese states is bound to decline after experiencing civil strife, Li Yuntian will be able to take advantage of the situation and strengthen his control over the two countries.

In his opinion, it is not the time for the Ming Dynasty to intervene in the internal disputes between the two countries, but it is already possible to prepare for armed intervention, and at that time, it will destroy those forces that dare to hinder the progress of the Ming army.

The fire in the county government of Linyun County not only made Li Yuntian angry, but Wang Lu was also furious about it, which undoubtedly made it much more difficult for him to investigate the case.

Therefore, the suspect who set fire to Wang Lu's house in the county seat of Lin'an County with great fanfare, based on the fact that the fire in the county government was arson, he did not believe that he could not find any clues.

Wang Lu is different from Li Yuntian, although he also works hard to learn Li Yuntian's hearty way of handling cases when handling cases, but he is not Li Yuntian after all, and he is facing the pressure of solving the case, so he naturally wants to punish those main suspects, and he wants to use punishment to pry open the mouths of those people.

As for those who have been punished, they can only think that they are unlucky, and whoever dares to deal with the people in the government will be arrested again.

Besides, Wang Lu will not arrest people for no reason, those main suspects are not clean, and even if they are punished, they do not want to.

In addition, Wang Lu also offered a large reward for collecting clues, adopting a two-pronged strategy.

I have to say that although Wang Lu's approach is more rude, but the effect is very good, a ruffian in Linyun County reported for a reward, saying that another gangster in the county town has a major suspicion, because since the county government fire, the kid became rich overnight, not only eating and drinking spicy food but also going to the casino to gamble money, there must be something unknown in this.

Wang Lu sent someone to arrest the gangster and beat him with a crackling stink, and the other party didn't last long to pour beans into the bamboo tube, admitting that he set the fire in the county office, but he was not the only one who set the fire, there was also an accomplice.

Although the accomplice ran away after setting the fire and his whereabouts are unknown, the gangster confessed that the mastermind behind the scenes was the **** boss in the county who asked the two to do it.

After the **** boss was arrested and brought to prison, he flatly denied that it was related to the arson case, so Wang Lu let people punish him, and after a series of punishments, the **** boss failed to bear it, and confessed to a warden in the county yahu room of Linyun County.

So, Wang Lu Shun Teng touched the melon and arrested the warden, and at the same time that the warden was arrested, the official of the Yahufang of Linyun County hanged himself and committed suicide in fear of crime, because he secretly instructed the warden to do this.

Wang Lu felt very sorry for this, it was obvious that the priest was just a pawn, and there must be a big fish behind him, but it was a pity that the priest had already closed his mouth, so that he could not know the details of the other party.

However, Wang Lu didn't mind this, he knew why the other party did this, it was nothing more than to destroy the account books of the county government so that he could not start investigating the case, but the other party could not eliminate all the evidence, so Wang Lu began to look at the stubs of the government and the account books of related merchants, so that he could deduce the content of the disappeared evidence.

Moreover, Wang Lu not only checked the account books of those merchants who had business dealings with Linyun County, but also checked the account books of merchants related to the business of those merchants, which he learned from Li Yuntian, because the other party must not have thought so carefully and forged the account books of other merchants.

At the same time, Wang Lu sent people to the villages and towns of Linyun County to investigate the situation when Zhao Dezhang built the river embankment on the spot, to see if Zhao Dezhang was cutting corners and filling his own pockets at that time.

Among all the people in Songjiang Mansion, the one who is most concerned about the process of Wang Lu's investigation is undoubtedly Butterfly Dance, which involves the life and death of his parents and family.

In fact, Zhao Dezhang's case is not complicated, Wang Lu quickly figured out the original story of the case after some investigation and visits, and some human and physical evidence unfavorable to Zhao Dezhang were overturned one after another.

In particular, the two county officials who testified against Zhao Dezhang in the crime of bombing Zhao Dezhang that year, the household department secretary was afraid of hanging himself, and the Ministry of Industry secretary overturned his previous confession and admitted that he had been instructed by the government to frame Zhao Dezhang.

The people who participated in the construction of the embankment have confirmed that the embankment that Zhao Dezhang led them to build at that time was very strong and strong, and Zhao Dezhang took out a lot of private money for this.

Wang Lu personally went to the embankment built by Zhao Dezhang and his people, and found that the embankment there was really very strong, if Zhao Dezhang was greedy for ink and repaired the embankment, how could he do this, from here he could already judge that Zhao Dezhang was wronged.

As more and more new evidence appeared in Zhao Dezhang's case, the atmosphere in the sky above Songjiang Mansion became solemn, and everyone knew what it meant.

Li Yuntian gets the most detailed report of Zhao Dezhang's case every day, but in fact, he is not very interested in those reports, because he has long guessed that this is an unjust case, and Zhao Dezhang's bad luck has become a scapegoat.

Butterfly Dance is very satisfied with the progress of Wang Lu's investigation, under Wang Lu's arrangement, everything is going on in an orderly manner, and the case is gradually presented in front of the world, more and more people in Songjiang Mansion have been implicated, and they have been thrown into prison by Wang Lu, and many people have committed suicide in fear of crime.

Among those who died by suicide, the official of Songjiang Prefecture left a suicide note admitting that he had let him set the fire from the county government of Linyun County, and its purpose was to prevent Wang Lu from auditing his accounts.

The situation in Songjiang Mansion made Wu Shan extremely embarrassed, carefully coping with everything that happened in front of him, and hating the former prefect in his heart, if it wasn't for the other party not wiping his buttocks, there would be no current situation.

Regarding Wang Lu's investigation, Wu Shan naturally did not dare to resist in the slightest, and he had no ability to resist, so he could only pray in his heart that things would not make too much trouble.

However, when several important people involved in the case committed suicide one after another, Wu Shan knew that Zhao Dezhang's case was a big problem, no matter how this case was dealt with in the end, his career would be ruined, and there would be no hope of promotion in the future, after all, there was such a big case in Songjiang Mansion during his tenure, and he, the prefect, would definitely have to bear this black pot.

At the same time, Li Yuntian has ordered Diewu's family to be sent to Songjiang Mansion from other places, and since there has been a major development in the case, their culpability must also be reconsidered, which makes Diewu very excited, she can finally see her parents again.

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some are worried, and Butterfly Dance is naturally happy, but the families of those involved in the case can't sit still, and they are inquiring about the progress of the case, waiting for their fate in trepidation.

For a time, there was a lot of rumors in Songjiang Mansion, and the grass and trees were all soldiers, because of Zhao Dezhang's case of greedy ink, the entire Songjiang Mansion was shaken, and the people discussed it in private, and no one knew how the case would be concluded.

For Zhao Dezhang's rehabilitation, the people are happy in their hearts, after all, what the people need is a good official like Zhao Dezhang who is dedicated to the people, although five years have passed, everyone still remembers Zhao Dezhang's goodness, and they don't want Zhao Dezhang to be wrongfully imprisoned.