After exchanging lives, I can't get rid of the binding cp

Chapter 165 The wind is surging (3)

In the afternoon of that day, Zhou Yang, who was sent out to investigate the situation, brought back the news that Lou Xiyue wanted.

"According to Miss's instructions, my subordinates squatted outside Linlang Zhenqi's manor, and found a secret passage near a poplar tree three miles away." Zhou Yang said: "When King Xuanping led the crowd to arrest the rebels, Then someone escaped from the secret passage."

Lou Xiyue remembered that before Fu Guan led his men to arrive, the "Big Leader" escaped from Linlang Zhenqi's secret exit, so she asked, "How is the battle going? Has anyone captured Linlang Pavilion's Big Leader?"

Zhou Yang shook his head and said: "During the escape of the group, King Xuanping's troops quickly caught up. His subordinates quietly followed behind for a few glances, but they didn't see what the lady said, the middle-aged man with a mask on his face. young man."

Hearing this, Lou Xiyue couldn't help but frowned deeply.

Judging from the direction in which the head led the crowd to escape, she was right in pointing Zhou Yang's location.But why can't anyone be found?
In order to catch the big boss at the first time, after meeting with Xuan Miao, Lou Xiyue immediately sent a message to Zhou Yang who was protecting him in the dark, asking him to track down the whereabouts of the big boss.

But Zhou Yang didn't catch the big boss, so she miscalculated, or the big boss didn't take that secret path at all?

While thinking about it, I heard Zhou Yang say again: "There is one more thing I need to report to Miss Ming—" Zhou Yang raised his head and said:

"When my subordinates came back just now, they happened to meet someone from King Xuanping. They said that Fu Guan has already returned to the mansion. If Miss needs to find something, she can look for him in the study."

Lou Xiyue: "...I see."

Now that Fu Guan has come back, it means that Linlang Pavilion has handled the same.It's time for her to meet Fu Guan.

Lou Xiyue asked Zhou Yang to go back to rest first, while she went to find Fu Guan.

When she arrived, Fu Guan was writing a memorial.Seeing her, Fu Guan raised his eyes slightly: "Sit down."

"Have you caught everyone who should be arrested?" Lou Xiyue asked: "I heard that the big boss is still at large. Let me explain in detail what happened."

Fu Guan picked up a pen and put ink on the paper, and while writing, he said: "Your bodyguard should have told you the general situation - Old General Yan, Qiu Zhi and others have taken it down, but..."

"But the 'big leader' who has been hiding in the dark hasn't been caught yet?" Lou Xiyue said, "I think you should have set up a tight defense around Linlang Zhenqi."

"So what? That person didn't leave that secret passage at all." Fu Guan said.

Lou Xiyue frowned: "It's impossible, but I clearly saw—"

Fu Guan: "I have sent people to search everywhere, but I haven't found the other party's whereabouts. The person who sneaked out from the secret passage was the bait released by the master to lure away the abandoned sons of the pursuers. As for the master himself, I'm afraid He escaped while taking advantage of the chaos."

Hearing these words, Lou Xiyue couldn't help gritting her teeth.She took a deep breath, and the oppression in her chest was hard to dissipate: "It took so much effort to let him run away..."

hateful.

She followed up and asked: "Have Qiu Zhi and General Yan been interrogated? They have cooperated with the head of the family for a long time, so they must know a lot of inside information. As long as they pry their mouths open, there is no need to worry about not having any clues."

With evidence in hand, it is naturally much easier to find a breakthrough, but because of the involvement of others, the case has become more complicated.

Fu Guan: "If you want to interrogate, you can only start from Qiu Zhi - not long ago, King Yin personally went to the prison of the Criminal Ministry and took old General Yan away."

Xiang Feng and the Yan family have formed an alliance of in-laws. It is not surprising that he will save people, but——

"He did this, and the emperor agreed? That was implicated in a major corruption case of the Daxuan court, and General Yan was the key criminal. Can the emperor spare him?"

Lou Xiyue thought, since Emperor Xuan would agree to King Xuanping's sending troops to destroy Linlang Pavilion, it meant that he also had the intention to get rid of the moths in these countries.That being the case, he has no reason to let go of General Yan and his party.

But Fu Guan said: "You are wrong, the emperor had no intention of eradicating the rebellious party." He looked up at Lou Xiyue, and said, "Do you think that the emperor agreed to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment? Are you determined to punish the treacherous officials?"

Lou Xiyue asked back: "Isn't it?"

If the emperor is unwilling to punish the courtiers, he can directly reject Fu Guan's proposal and destroy the reported evidence.Why bother?
Fu Guan: "Of course not." He caught a glimpse of the puzzled look on Lou Xiyue's face, and suddenly smiled.He said: "You are not a member of the court, so naturally you don't know the emperor's mind."

Naturally, Lou Xiyue doesn't know much about the conflict of interests in the political situation.But right now she really wanted to know more.She said, "What do you mean?"

She asked, and Fu Guan also patiently explained: "These days, the emperor has shown that he wants to crack down on corrupt officials. He wants to be a wise king in his later years, but the court is already corrupt.

"When I presented the evidence you collected to him last night, he was silent for a long time and did not immediately make a decision."

Lou Xiyue couldn't hold back and said: "I found out that all the highly valued officials are corrupt officials, I'm so shocked that I can't speak."

"Maybe." Fu Guan didn't deny what she said, and continued: "But he is the one who said that he will be strictly investigated. Now that I have sent the evidence to him, he wants to stop temporarily, and he can't wipe it off. For this reason, We can only order the capture of the rebels."

Lou Xiyue: "You mean, he didn't want to make a big fuss." She thought about it, and it's not difficult to understand.She said: "Because there are too many people involved in the case, you are worried that officials from the DPRK and China will not accept it?"

Fu Guan: "There is one reason, but going back to the source, getting rid of these people will not be of much benefit to the Daxuan royal family. Because among the main messengers behind Linlang Pavilion, there are still people who regularly donate a lot of money to the royal family. Dan's officer."

"Jindan?"

"The emperor is nearly seventy years old, and he has been pursuing the art of longevity these years. There are many Taoist priests in the palace." Fu Guan said, "And these Taoist priests were all recruited by the officials of the court."

There was an indispensable exchange of money between alchemy priests and various officials, but the emperor himself probably took a lot out of the treasury.

After careful calculation, even the interior of the royal family is not innocent.

If these secret activities are made public, then the royal family will lose face. In order to protect the wise, the emperor can no longer let Fu Guan pursue it.

But it shouldn't look like he's covering up criminals.

So there was the matter that King Yin broke into the prison and forcibly took General Yan away.

Fu Guandao: "For the sake of publicity, the emperor can only let this matter stop here. Fortunately, not many rebels were caught this time, and the biggest bosses are General Yan and Qiu Zhi..."

After he dialed, Lou Xiyue understood: "The emperor agreed with you to lead people into Linlang Pavilion, in fact, he wanted to use your hand to capture the 'culprit'. This 'culprit' was released to take the blame, for those who have not yet The captured rebels will be the ones to blame."

(End of this chapter)