high official

Chapter 490 Resentment
"Is Lu Meiren?" Wang Xian asked slowly: "What's the relationship between her and Lu Jieyu?"

"They are all surnamed Lu," Jin Yingze said, "After the tribute in the sixth year of Yongle, Xiaguo made another tribute to Daming. Among them, a merchant's daughter, Lu, was selected into the palace and made a beauty. Listen It is said that because of the same surname as Lu Jieyu, Lu Meiren wants to befriend her, but Lu Jieyu thinks her status is low, so she is not happy, so Lu Meiren holds a grudge against her, and often has resentment towards Lu Jieyu," said angrily. : "How can you believe the words of such a person?"

"You mean, Lu Meiren made a false accusation? Is there any evidence?" Wang Xian asked.

"Is there any evidence to use this step?" Jin Yingze said dejectedly: "What's the use of relying on these rumors? At this time, we found out that we were being targeted by Jin Yiwei. I advised my cousin to forget it. He said Jin Yiwei Since they are eyeing us, there is absolutely no possibility of letting us go. The reason why we don’t do anything now is because we have the status of a mission as a cover, and we are in the capital. Once we leave the capital, it will be the day for Jin Yiwei to attack.”

"It's possible." Wang Xian nodded after thinking about it.

"I was terrified at the time and asked what to do. My cousin said that we had to give it a go." Jin Yingze said: "Later we found Cui Chengze and helped him design Dengshan. Then Cui Chengze was worried, what should we do?" Standing out at the lantern festival, my cousin is a master of Danqing, so we hit it off right away. He designed the interior of the lantern mountain, with fire nitrate hidden in the bamboo tube. He said it was used for setting off fireworks. After a demonstration, we did not have any doubts. .”

"At that night, he suddenly said that Jin Yiwei was coming, and then lit the lamp mountain, and the lamp mountain exploded at that time, igniting the whole audience." Although it has been two days, Jin Yingze still remembers the scene at that time. His face turned pale and he said: "I was terrified at the time, but my cousin took my hand and fled into the crowd first, then was dragged away from Yuqian Street, and hid in a merchant ship on the Qinhuai River. The name of the ship owner I won't say anything, he didn't know about it at all. It was agreed that we would be sent out of the city at dawn. The merchant ship has a mezzanine in the bottom of the bilge, so it can completely escape the search. Who knew that there were too many people killed in the fire, and the nine gates of the capital were all closed. We can only hide on the boat first."

"Originally, there was food and drink on board. We hid for ten days and a half months, and we could always wait until the city gate opened. Unexpectedly, this afternoon, the merchant brought a notice and handed it to us without saying a word. The two of us I saw that the imperial court had angered the North Koreans in Beijing, and wanted to wipe them all out. I advised my cousin, we have become bereaved dogs, and we can’t even go back to North Korea, so why bother to involve others? My cousin is escaping from the fire In the end, all thoughts were lost, and he agreed to surrender to me without even thinking about it." Speaking of this, he looked at Wang Xian bitterly and said: "Although I did not intend to do evil, but killing thousands of people from the former dynasty is really a crime that cannot be punished. But please keep your promise and spare my family in North Korea."

"I'll do my best." Wang Xian looked at Young Master Jin with pity. In fact, there was nothing heinous about, but kindness on the contrary.But the soft ears have caused this tragedy, and there is always a heavy price to be paid for it...

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After taking Jin Yingze down, the guards brought the second person, Lu Chengjian.This Lu Chengjian should not be much older than Jin Yingze, but he is unshaven and looks downcast, not like Jin Yingze's cousin, but rather his cousin.

The guards asked Lu Chengjian to kneel down, but Lu Chengjian stood upright and refused to kneel. The guards pushed him to the ground and held him firmly, but he still stiffened his neck, staring at Wang Xian with blood-red eyes.

Seeing him like this, Wang Xian was also furious, and his anger burst out immediately: "You sinful lunatic, don't you have a trace of guilt?"

"Your emperor burned my sister to death and forced Li Fangyuan to kill my father and mother. Isn't there a trace of guilt?!" Lu Jiancheng said bitterly.

"No matter what your reasons are, what are you doing with innocent people? You have killed thousands of people in a fire, how many families have been broken, how many old people have lost their support, and how many parents have lost their orphans?" Wang Xian hated him deeply and slapped him hard. The table desk said: "Can hatred turn you into a beast?!" In all fairness, Wang Xian is not a good person, and even kills people without blinking an eye. If you say kill, you will kill, there is no ambiguity!But what he believes in is that the injustice has its head and the debt has its owner, and the most despicable thing is to kill innocent people indiscriminately.Even Emperor Yongle, who met the standards of a generation of heroes in his heart in all aspects, was turned into a tyrant in his heart because of this.Not to mention Lu Jiancheng who came to the capital to create a tragedy.

"It was an accident..." Lu Jiancheng said in a low voice after hearing the words.

"Do you want to say that you originally wanted to set off fireworks?" Wang Xian smiled and said, "Bring out the master who makes fireworks for you, and I will trust you."

"I'm not going to set off fireworks. How can there be fireworks that can write?" Lu Jiancheng gritted his teeth and said, "I was going to assassinate Zhu Di!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the room was shocked. After a while, Wang Xiancai asked, "How do you want to assassinate?"

"The location of Dengshan is facing the Meridian Gate. On the shelf of Dengshan, I placed more than a dozen sky cannons aimed at Wufenglou." Lu Jiancheng said regretfully.

"Sky cannon?" Wang Xian had never heard of this thing.

"This is our secret weapon in North Korea. For the sake of confidentiality, it is not usually produced. Only the master craftsman knows the blueprint. Before my family lost power, I was the master craftsman in charge of this." Lu Jiancheng said bitterly: "The production method should have been Keep it secret, but Li Fangyuan is also a beast, why should I keep it a secret for him, so why not tell you?” Li Fangyuan is the king of Joseon, so now North Korea is also called the Lee Dynasty.

"Let's hear it?" Wang Xian asked curiously.

"To put it bluntly, it is simple. It is to hollow out the bamboo poles, leaving only the middle compartment, and install gunpowder at both ends, and plug in the lead wires. But the back door at the bottom is not blocked tightly, so that after the lower gunpowder explodes, it will push the whole. At this time, the lead wire just ignited the airtight upper layer, causing an explosion." Lu Jiancheng said proudly: "If you don't believe me, just try the method I said and you will know."

"I don't think so, you're talking so lively." Wang Xianxin said, isn't it just a sophomore kicker?He smiled and said, "I didn't see you showing your supernatural power that day."

These words hit Lu Jiancheng's weakness, his face flushed immediately, and he said, "Who knew that your profiteer, Daming, had a bad conscience, and the saltpeter he sold to me was fake, but it caught fire and didn't explode..."

Wang Xian and the others are so sweaty, a strange thought arises in their hearts, should they find this profiteer and give him a gold medal of "the savior has meritorious service"?
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The facts of the case are now completely clear, and Wang Xian asked further, what Lu Jiancheng said was basically the same as what Jin Yingze said.Wang Xian waved his hand, motioning to take him down.He also ordered people to arrest the boatman who harbored the two of them and the owner of the fireworks shop who sold gunpowder to Lu Jiancheng... Just kidding, people should be arrested.

However, Wang Xian didn't need to worry about these trivial matters anymore. He was frowning in the main hall of the hotel's private guest room at the moment, writing a closing statement to the emperor.This is not the first time he has written this stuff, and he knows the power of the knife and the pen, and the results are very different if the wording is different.

How should the words be used to grasp the emperor's emotions?
After thinking about it for an hour, Wang Xian finally decided to tell the truth.So he sat down and picked up a pen to write a memorial to the emperor... His handwriting can only be regarded as passable. Generally, such things as memorials are copied and submitted to the emperor.In his draft, he described the arson case as an assassination case. As a result, the emperor was full of blessings, which caused the rocket to misfire, and the explosion turned into combustion.Coupled with the strong wind that day, it caused the tragedy.

Wang Xian described the ins and outs of Kim Young-taek and Lu Xiucheng with a lot of pen and ink, and also pointed out the suspects of the two by the way.Wang Xian believed that with the emperor's wisdom, it was impossible not to think about Lu Jieyu's case after calming down. In fact, there was something strange about it.Now Wang Xian just wants to give the emperor an excuse... If the emperor wants to continue the investigation, he can naturally order to investigate the case.If the emperor doesn't want to investigate further, naturally there will be no further action, but it will still create a rift between the emperor and Ji Gang, so why not do it?

After using up all the ink in his belly, he finished writing a not-too-long memorial, but Wang Xian felt more tired than fighting a battle.Rubbing my sore and numb arm and asking, I realized that I had been writing for more than an hour, and it was already Xu Shizhong.Seeing that his brothers stayed with him until midnight, he smiled embarrassedly and said, "Okay, go home and go to sleep."

"It's already this time, let's make do with it for the night." Shuai Hui suggested: "Why bother the family when you go back?"

Everyone cast contemptuous glances... that's because you have no one to bother you.Everyone is still in a hurry to go home and get into the hot bed of their daughter-in-law!

Wang Xianji was worried about the sick Lin Qing'er, so naturally he would not stay in a small hotel. When he came out of the small hotel, the sky was already full of stars, and the air was fresh and cold, but Wang Xian was not in the mood to appreciate the rare night scenery, so he hurried go back home.

At this time, the door of the house was closed early, and Wang Xian wanted to knock on the door lightly and go in, so as not to disturb his sleeping parents.Unexpectedly, before Zhou Yong knocked, the door opened at once, and the servant who guarded the door saw that it was him, turned his head with a happy face, and shouted: "Master, madam, the high official is back!"

"What are you calling in the middle of the night?" Wang Xian was a little annoyed, what if he disturbed his parents and the little brother who was still breastfeeding?
"Don't worry, my lord, Master and Madam are not asleep, they are waiting for my master to come back, and I have good news for you to tell your lord." Ding, the gatekeeper, said with a smile on his face.

"What good news?" Wang Xian was so exhausted that he was about to die, but he was refreshed when he heard the words.

"I don't dare to chew my tongue. I'd better ask Mrs. Madam to tell the high officials." The servant accompanied him with a smile and said, "I'll ask the high officials for rewards then!"

"It depends on your mood." Wang Xian smiled, strode into the brightly lit main hall, and asked with a smile: "Father and mother, what's the good news? I have a younger brother again?"

　Basically, the rhythm was messed up yesterday, and I couldn’t find the status today. I have only written two updates until now, and I can’t write the one update. I can only see the status tomorrow.sorry sorry.

　　
　
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