On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 584
Inside the Sui Dynasty, there were not many people who knew that Cui Qiji complained about his father Cui Che in the Eastern Palace of Luoyang, but Yu Wenshu, Yu Wenhua and his father and son were just two of them.

The relationship between Yu Wenshu and Yang Guang does not need to be repeated, such as Fang Xuanling's relationship with Cui Che.

And Yu Wenhua and the favor he got won't let his father.

As early as when Yang Guang lived in the Eastern Palace, Yu Wenhuaji was the general of the Imperial Guards of the Eastern Palace. He often went in and out of the Eastern Palace to lie down and had a close relationship with Yang Guang.

Yu Wenshu was naturally tight-lipped about confidential matters, but during the period of Yu Wenshu's entry into the court, he learned a lot of information about the Yan Dynasty from Yu Wenhua and his mouth through insinuations, including Cui Qiji's complaints in the East Palace.

At the turn of summer and autumn, Cui Che verified the existence of Ying in the Eastern Palace through Yuwen Shi and the letters sent back.

He was not in a hurry to startle the snake, so as not to expose the existence of Yuwen Shiji.

On July 611, the third year of Kaiping (AD [-]), a major case occurred in the East Palace. When the prince Cui Qiji was resting in the princess's palace, he lost a jade pendant given by the emperor.

The theft of the imperial gift jade pendant, whether it is small or big, all depends on Cui Che's attitude towards this matter.

However, after Cui Qiji reported the incident, Emperor Dayan became furious at the existence of thieves in the East Palace, and ordered the leading general Mai Mengcai to lead the army into the East Palace to thoroughly investigate the matter.

Princess Nanyang intends to stop it, but Mai Meng has the emperor's life, so he can only let the imperial army turn the East Palace upside down.

Cui Qiji drank tea with Mai Mengcai in the front hall. The two of them were not only the relationship between monarch and minister, but also private relatives. Mai Mengcai was the husband of Cui Che's eldest daughter Cui Wenhui.

Since it is his own family, Princess Nanyang was also summoned by Cui Qiji to meet the guests.

Princess Nanyang took a sip of her tea and said:
"The theft of the jade pendant is a serious matter, but the crime of disturbing the prince's family is not small. General Mai still needs to restrain some of his soldiers."

Although Cui Qiji is not as lustful as his father Cui Che, there are still many side concubines living in the inner courtyard of the Eastern Palace.

The Imperial Guards who searched the East Palace were naturally not very brave, but they could rush in without warning, which would inevitably cause a scene.

Princess Nanyang also kindly reminded her that until now, she thought that Mai Mengcai was really investigating the theft.

In fact, the jade pendant had been hidden on Cui Qiji's body all along, but no one dared to search him, and no one suspected that he would risk Cui Che's anger by telling this lie.

Mai Mengcai laughed, and quickly assured Cui Qiji and his wife:

"Before coming, I have already told my officers and men that no one would dare to be rude to the female family members of the Eastern Palace."

Princess Nanyang nodded slightly, and stopped disturbing Cui Qiji and Mai Mengcai to reminisce about the past.

While the two were chatting, a general of the forbidden army hurried over:
"Reporting to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Mai Lingjun, they have searched inside and outside the East Palace, but they did not find the stolen jade pendant at all."

Cui Qiji pondered and said:

"Could it be that there are servants hiding in a secret place."

Mai Mengcai got up immediately and said:

"Please also ask the prince to allow the ministers to take all the slaves in the palace into custody for interrogation."

Princess Nanyang frowned and objected:
"General Mai's move is a big deal. There were quite a few concubines who had served concubines for nearly 20 years in the palace that day. I know them well. There will never be any thieves."

Mai Mengcai looked at Cui Qiji when he heard the words, and Cui Qiji persuaded him:

"I don't care about a piece of jade pendant when the imperial gift is stolen, but I am worried that there are traitors in the East Palace. If they can steal the jade pendant today, they will not be able to assassinate the king tomorrow.

"Gu knows Father, so he needs to thoroughly investigate this matter.

"If Mai Lingjun returns to his command right now, he will definitely be reprimanded by his father.

"It's better to let Mai Lingjun take them away. If you want to come to Mai Lingjun, you won't embarrass them. Once you catch the real culprit, you will release them back to the East Palace."

Then, Cui Qiji asked Mai Mengcai again:

"Leader Mai, is Gu right?"

Mai Mengcai smiled and said:
"As His Royal Highness said."

When Princess Nanyang saw that she was talking about this, she could only let go and let Mai Mengcai take the person away.

Cui Che attaches great importance to this, he was opposed to extorting confessions by torture in the past.

But now there is an internal response around the prince whom I have placed high hopes on, just like a time bomb, if the other party is not caught out, once the other party takes advantage of Cui Youzhi's visit to the East Palace to visit his parents, the other party plots to assassinate Cui Qiji and his son, wouldn't it be to shake the foundation of Dayan .

For this reason, Cui Che specially sent servants in the palace to torture the imprisoned eunuchs and maidservants in the East Palace. Finally, a female official in the East Palace who followed Princess Nanyang from the Prince Jin's mansion as a dowry couldn't stand it anymore and gave everything to him. Confession, it was she who leaked the news.

Knowing that Princess Nanyang was not involved, Cui Che finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Cui Che had no intention of instigating against the female official, he would not keep this person in the East Palace, so as to plant hidden dangers.

In case this person gets into trouble, it will be too late to regret.

Cui Che declared that the culprit could not be found in the theft of the East Palace, but he could not tolerate bad people hiding in the East Palace, so he simply sent all the eunuchs and maidservants who appeared in the princess' bedroom that day to Mangshan to serve in Yang Lihua's Yuan Palace.

Anyway, according to Cui Che's order, the Ministry of Industry built many houses next to the Yuan Palace of the mausoleum, which can accommodate so many people.

Princess Nanyang was naturally dissatisfied with this, and many of them were her confidants and maidservants.

But Cui Che's will cannot be discussed, and Princess Nanyang can only accept it.

No matter how caring she is, she is just a servant girl after all.

As for the female officer who leaked the news, she was secretly executed.

No one paid attention to her life or death, and the same was true for the Sui Dynasty's intelligence network in Luoyang.

Being in the East Palace and being able to get close to Cui Qiji, the female officer will naturally be valued.

Now in the eyes of outsiders, she was sent to Mount Mang, so how could she gain valuable information.

Could it be that she was really expected to assassinate Cui Che when he went to Mangshan to express his condolences?

Not to mention how close to Emperor Dayan in her capacity.

Cui Che, Cui Qiji and his son were all from the army, could it be that they could really be assassinated by a woman.

She was worthless, and she was abandoned. Even the people who connected with her escaped from Luoyang overnight after hearing the news of the theft of the East Palace and the arrest of the female officer.

Cui Che worked hard to arrange this trip, Sui Dynasty's meticulous work in Luoyang did not suspect that Cui Che was trying to catch the ghost.

It's just that the inner ghost in the East Palace is easy to catch, but the inner ghost hiding in the court hall is hard to distinguish.

Cui Che was not completely at ease with Princess Nanyang, and he secretly hinted that Cui Qiji would leak some false news to Princess Nanyang when the husband and wife were alone, to see if Yang Guang would know about it.

It wasn't until after receiving a letter from Yuwen Shiji that Princess Nanyang completely cleared up her suspicions that Cui Che felt relieved about this daughter-in-law.

It's just that Cui Che, the instigator, never expected that the East Palace theft case would become one of the unsolved cases of Dayan discussed in later generations.

Of course, these are all things to follow.

　Also, before twelve o'clock

　　
　
(End of this chapter)