The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 320 Killer Hall
The palace examination was held as scheduled, and the emperor personally presided over it. No one could interfere, and some ministers could only stand aside and watch.

All the people are tested in Chongyuan Hall, and there are many tables specially used for candidates' exams in the hall.

There are no fixed test questions, Zhao Kuangyin can ask whatever he wants, and everyone can answer on the spot.

Of course it's not nonsense, Zhao Kuangyin of course asked about the way of governing the country, and it was based on the current situation of Song Dynasty.

In the last few hours, Zhao Kuangyin finally confirmed the candidates for the top three, namely the number one scholar Yang Li, the second place Song Zhun, and the candidate Xu Shilian.

History still chose Yang Li as the first champion of the Song Dynasty, but Song Zhun was wronged and became the second place.

You must know that in the original time and space, this guy was the No. [-] scholar, but he just stayed at night for several years.

As for the many sons of officials and eunuchs in the second class, what surprised Zhao Kuangyin the most was that Tao Bing was also in the top ten of the second class.

Tao Bing is Tao Gu's son, if his father was playing for personal gain in the past and now the emperor personally tests it, it proves that he still has strength.

Then came the emperor's banquet and so on, which were all happy things anyway, but Zhao Xu couldn't be happy at this time.

One of his Taoxiang buildings was burned down. Although it was only a branch, Zhao Xu was very annoyed by this.

This still happened in the daytime, and someone in the capital city actually acted so boldly in broad daylight.

"Have you found out, who is it, and what did the person who was caught say?" Zhao Xu looked at his two favorite generals with a gloomy face, without any trace of emotion in his tone.

It's not because a restaurant made Zhao Xu like this, but because it was actually a stronghold of Fengying.

There is still information that has not been summarized in time. I don't know how much of this information is the most important.

Could Zhao Xu not be angry? He didn't know how many of them were bought with their lives, and now they were all burned.

"Prince, after our careful interrogation, these people were done by a person called Killer Hall, and we have also fought against this person in Killer Hall."

Dong Zhenhai quickly replied that a man from Wucheng Bingmasi was captured yesterday, and was directly taken over by Jin Yiwei.

"Killer Hall? It's not a good thing to hear this name. How can we have any contact with them? Let's make it clear."

Zhao Xu had never heard of this killer hall, so he didn't know what Dong Zhenhai meant.

"Let Qinhu tell you about this. He knows this best." Dong Zhenhai said to Zhao Xu.

Liu Qinhu didn't say anything, and walked out directly:

"This thing is like this. Didn't we catch a few assassins last night? After our overnight interrogation, these people all came from a place called Killer Hall."

It turns out that those four people are from Killer Hall, now it's all right, I wanted to find you, and now I have a reason.

"You two hurry up and investigate this killer hall for me. I want to know the result tomorrow morning. As for how to investigate, that's still your business. I'm going to see the emperor, you go to work."

Zhao Kuangyin has already finished the things he is most concerned about at present, and he has also given a banquet. These new Jinshi are all the children of his brother.

"Where did you go today, kid? You didn't see such a prosperous world today. These people will be the backbone of my Song Dynasty in the future, hahaha."

Zhao Kuangyin was very proud, this was the first time he held such a grand event for literati, no one would dare to say that he was just an immediate emperor in the future.

Zhao Kuangyin talked excitedly for a while, and found that Zhao Xu still looked unhappy, and it seemed that something was wrong again.

"What's going on, look at your unhappy face, did something happen again?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. It's just that a Taoxiang building was burned down. There's nothing else?" Zhao Xu said expressionlessly.

"I thought it was something, just such a trivial matter, is it worth worrying our prince so much? Wouldn't it be good to rebuild one?"

Zhao Kuangyin thinks it doesn't matter, as long as he has money, isn't it very casual to build another one?But what Zhao Xu said next made him unable to sit still.

"I don't care about the Taoxiang Tower. The key is where all the information about the Northern Han Dynasty and the Khitan is gathered. Can I be happy when someone burns it down?"

"Zhao Kuangyin still has the expression of wanting to die, isn't it just to burn some information, it's nothing special..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly realized something:
"You're talking about the Northern Han and Khitan intelligence, where is it collected and distributed?"

Staring at Zhao Xu closely, I wish Zhao Xu could say no, you heard me wrong, but Zhao Xu's answer made old Zhao angry too.

"It's about the Northern Han Dynasty and the Khitan. A lot of it hasn't been sorted out yet. The information you got before was sorted out somewhere."

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't sit still anymore. The Northern Han Dynasty and Khitan were the great enemies of the Song Dynasty, and he had always been on guard against these two countries.

Therefore, the court also spent a lot of effort to spy on the information of these two places, and Zhao Xu himself asked Fengying to obtain more information.

It can be said that the information Zhao Kuangyin knew about these two countries came from the imperial court and Zhao Xu.

Now that this thing has been burned, can old Zhao be happy:

"Why don't you put it in a safe place, it's over now, I... By the way, who did it, did you find out, intentional or negligent?"

Zhao Kuangyin knew that getting angry was useless, so he might as well find out what was the reason, so that he could have a countermeasure.

"Killer Tang, I don't know where it should be intentional. Now I am ordering people to investigate, and there will be news soon."

Zhao Xu walked back and forth, looking very disturbed, he said to Zhao Kuangyin again:

"I will definitely not let this killer hall go. These people must have done a lot of outrageous things. When I find out, I will take a team of forbidden troops to wipe them out. As for the court officials, what should I say? Dad, look at it and settle it."

Zhao Xu knew that this killer hall should not be a small organization. If he really did it, he would be criticized by some people in the court, so Zhao Xu wanted to say hello to the emperor in advance.

"Zhen, listening to this name is not a good thing. You can handle this matter yourself. There is me in the court. As long as you kill someone who is guilty, you will be killed. Such a person is like a traitor."

Fear of spoiling the court's intelligence can already be compared with traitors, who would dare to talk about it.

Killer Tang, they didn't know that their fate was already doomed when they started to assassinate Yang Li and the three of them, it was doomed to be tragic.

(End of this chapter)