They were confident that they would win the battle against the Northern Desert.
Shen Yu flipped open another report on the table. It was from the Ministry of Justice, asking about how to deal with Feng Pingqi.
The Feng family's influence had been removed from the center of power in Dahuan. Elder Feng, who used to be in the limelight, had been imprisoned. The officials under his protection who were involved had also been punished. Now, only the Feng family had not been dealt with.
"Your Majesty, how do you plan to deal with Master Feng?" Shen Yu closed the report.
Shang Junlin also saw the report and frowned, "The Ministry of Justice can convict him on his own. Why are you asking me?"
Shang Junlin approved, "Deal with him according to the law" and threw it aside.
"Speaking of Master Feng, why did he frame Prince An in the first place?" Shen Yu walked to Shang Junlin and sat down.
He put the hallucinogenic drug next to the flower. If something happened to Shen Yu, the first person Shang Junlin would punish would be Prince An, who sent the flower into the palace.
"He said it was the other side's idea."
Shang Junlin was referring to the people who manipulated Feng Pingqi behind the scenes. That group of people was now imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice's prison.
"I asked the Ministry of Justice to interrogate those people. They said that because I favored you, they wanted me to have a taste of losing my true love." Shang Junlin's voice was full of coldness.
"What about when I first entered the palace? Could they have predicted that Your Majesty would fall in love with me in the future? If so, they should have stopped me from entering the palace from the beginning. "Shen Yu was puzzled.
But the fact was that his entry into the palace was facilitated by these people.
Shen Yu could understand why they wanted him to disappear. At that time, Shang Junlin did not hide his love for him. Although at that time, only they knew that there was some sincerity in this love.
Outsiders did not know. From their point of view, Shen Yu was favored by the Emperor as soon as he entered the palace. Until today, he was still favored by the Emperor.
Shang Junlin: "According to the news from the Ministry of Justice, they were just following orders. The medicine that caused you to fall sick was also given by the mastermind."
Shen Yu: "Can you get information about the prison breakers from these people?"
Shang Junlin: "After Prince Yue was taken away, I had the Ministry of Justice interrogate him, but there was no result."
The Minister of Justice was also very troubled recently. His Majesty had given him the matter of Elder Feng to deal with, and the murder of His Majesty had also been implicated. Anyone with eyes could see how much His Majesty valued His Majesty. Because of this, the Minister of Justice did not dare to be careless.
"Sir, are we still going to interrogate him today?" The subordinate cupped his hands and asked.
"Interrogate him. We can't relax for even a day before the interrogation results are out. His Majesty has given him to us to deal with. He thinks highly of us. No matter what, we can't let His Majesty down," the Minister of Justice said righteously.
"Yes!"
Feng Pingqi was no longer as dignified as he used to be. His hair was messy and fell on his face. His prison uniform was covered with dirt and blood. After a long period of interrogation, he was in a very bad state.
"I've already told you everything I know. No matter how you interrogate me, I can't tell you the rest." Feng Pingqi's voice was hoarse as he looked at the Minister of Justice who was walking toward him.
It was hard to describe the feeling that a former subordinate had become a high and mighty judge.
The Minister of Justice waved his hand and his subordinate brought him a whip.
At the same time, the same thing was happening on the other side. When dealing with that person, they were not as polite as when dealing with Elder Feng.
Shang Junlin did not need to care about how they interrogated him. He only needed to know the final result.
Autumn passed and winter came. The weather was getting colder and colder. Shen Yu changed into thick clothes. As Imperial Physician Gu said, he had a much easier time this winter than in previous years.
After several probing attacks, the Subei Army and the Northern Desert Army faced each other head-on. The Subei Army caught the Northern Desert Army by surprise.
Shang Junlin was very happy when the news of the victory reached the imperial court.
The Prince of the Northern Desert was still detained in the capital. After the war between Daheng and the Northern Desert, his life became more and more difficult. If the Northern Desert won, he would still have a chance to return to the Northern Desert. If the Northern Desert won, he would be in danger.
The capital was not affected by the war. Every time the news of victory came, the imperial court would reveal it to the people when the time was right.
After the war with the Northern Desert, the people were already prepared.
"The Subei Army deserves to be called the Subei Army. They were able to defeat the Northern Desert people in the past. This time, they can beat them back!"
"They wanted to rob us while the Subei Army was in drought. If you ask me, this war was well fought. We should teach these Northern Desert barbarians a lesson!"
"They even sent people to hide in the Subei Army. Now that things have happened, they are threatening to start a war if we don't let them go. How shameless!"
With the guidance of the people's newspaper, the direction of public opinion was under control.
Shang Junlin got the news from outside the palace and told Shen Yu, "I didn't expect that a small newspaper could play such a big role."
"Your Majesty, don't underestimate the power of the people. In the past, those people took advantage of the information gap between the people and the imperial court to slander Your Majesty. In the future, don't think that this kind of situation will happen again." Shen Yu lowered his eyes and restrained the darkness in his eyes.
"A Yu is so protective of me?" Shang Junlin squeezed Shen Yu's hand.
"Your Majesty has done such a good thing for the people. We can't let people with malicious intentions slander you." Thinking of how Shang Junlin's reputation had been deliberately ruined in his previous life, Shen Yu felt a wave of displeasure in his heart.
The imperial court changed its practice in the past. Everything the Emperor did had a reasonable explanation. The appearance of the people's newspaper completely changed the image of the imperial court and Shang Junlin in the eyes of the people.
This was an outcome that Shen Yu was happy to see.
"I sent the Hidden Dragon Guards to Hanzhou City. Along the way, they found traces of King Yue. But the other party was very cautious. After tracking for a while, the traces disappeared." Shang Junlin said.
"This means that our guess wasn't wrong. They were indeed planning to go to Hanzhou City." Shen Yu rubbed the cup in his hand and asked, "Is there anything special about Hanzhou City?"
In the beginning, they all thought that those people would bring King Yue back to his fief. Shang Junlin had sent people to track them down. Hanzhou City wasn't on the path between the capital and King Yue's fief. So if they went to Hanzhou City, they would have to take a big detour.
"It's most likely that there are people in Hanzhou City waiting for them." Shang Junlin replied.
"Your Majesty, don't you think that this is a coincidence? Lord Xu's daughter committed a crime in the hunting ground, so Your Majesty sent people to Hanzhou City to investigate their past. Those people managed to kidnap King Yue with great difficulty, and they were heading to Hanzhou City. If they knew that Your Majesty's men were heading there, what would they think? "
As long as Shen Yu thought about the scene of those people who thought they were foolproof, but in the end, they fell into a trap that had been prepared long ago, he felt it was very interesting.
"If that's the case, then A Yu is probably their nemesis, right? Every single matter can coincide with them." Shang Junlin was also shocked.
Putting the previous matter aside, this matter was too much of a coincidence. That day, he went hunting with Shen Yu and met Lord Xu's daughter.
"Perhaps." Shen Yu smiled.
As the people involved, Lord Xu's family was imprisoned. Regardless of whether they participated in the assassination or not, they were the ones who brought those people in. So they had to be charged as accomplices.
"The servant that Lord Fang caught that day said that he was delivering a letter to Mrs. Xu. Did Your Majesty find out what she said to Hanzhou City?" Shen Yu asked.
Shang Junlin replied, "According to Mrs. Xu, she wanted Hanzhou City to cover up what her daughter did in Hanzhou City."
Shen Yu replied, "With the Xu Family's daughter's arrogance, she must have caused quite a bit of trouble."
Shang Junlin replied, "A Yu's thinking is right. She even has a few murder cases in her hands."
"Your Majesty found out the results so quickly?" Shen Yu was shocked.
"It was the Xu Family's daughter. After she was imprisoned, she spoke a lot about the Xu Family. I have already sent people to verify it. If what she said is true, then it's time for Hanzhou City to change."
A single sentence easily determined the fate of Hanzhou City's major forces.
The Xu Family was imprisoned together.
"Why did you tell them that? Do you think that you can slander your sister now that we're imprisoned?" Mrs. Xu looked at the woman curled up by the wall with hatred.
"She even dared to do it, so why can't I say it?" The woman lifted her head from her arms and looked at Mrs. Xu. "Instead of questioning me, why don't you worry about your daughter? She has so many lives on her shoulders, isn't she afraid of vengeful spirits coming for her in the middle of the night?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lord Xu unhappily rebuked, "Junjun is your sister. She's just a little unruly at most, but how can she have harmed anyone? No matter how unhappy you are with her, you shouldn't slander her like this. "
"So, father doesn't know about this. Then why don't you ask your wife and daughter? How did the Wu Family's daughter die three years ago? Or, how did the daughter of the Yu Family drown to death two years ago? There are many similar things, do you want me to list them out one by one? "The woman's lips rose into a mocking arc.
Knitting his brows, Lord Xu hesitantly looked at the person beside him.
Mrs. Xu seemed to have been poked in a sore spot as she jumped up. "You believe everything she says? Junjun grew up by your side, so how can you not know her character? "
"There's no need to explain. There are already officials heading to Hanzhou City, and it will be clear if I'm lying or not when they return." The woman replied indifferently.
"What's with the noise? You guys like to quarrel the most." The prison guard walked over unhappily.
Silence returned to the prison once more.
The officials that were sent to Hanzhou City initially met with resistance, but when they arrived, they realised that the small Hanzhou City was filled with complicated forces. Although Lord Xu was transferred to the capital, his influence was still significant. So it was harder for them to investigate the Xu Family than they had imagined.
It was only after the Xu Family was implicated in the assassination that they found an opportunity to investigate.
As the investigation deepened, shocking cases surfaced one after another.
The officials in charge of this matter did not dare to delay and immediately wrote a report and handed it over.
"Even if they weren't implicated in the assassination, the Xu Family still deserves to die!" Shang Junlin raged after reading the report. "Who was the one that promoted her?"
The Imperial Study was silent as Eunuch Meng lowered his head, not daring to speak.
None of the officials that came to discuss the matter dared to speak. They never expected that a case of a junior offending the Emperor would be implicated in several bloody cases.
As the daughter of Hanzhou City's Provincial Governor, she was responsible for so many lives, and this was only the investigation so far. It was hard for them not to suspect that the Provincial Governor and his family played a role in this matter.
"Prime Minister, I'll leave this matter to you. I want to know how this person was transferred to the capital and if there are any similar cases in the court."
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