Being a Lady of an Influential Family

Governor Fu looked at Prince An and said in a deep voice: "Someone is selling weapons from the capital to Nile and Naga, and the time is probably not a day or two."

Hearing this, Prince An couldn't help frowning, "Are you sure it's from the capital? Is it related to the Royal Arsenal back then?"

Governor Fu sighed, took out a cigarette, and said, "I know what you're thinking, but no matter how greedy those people in the military department are, they would not dare to play such a big game. After all, there is Lou Yun. Moreover, such a large-scale They can't cover up the smuggling of weapons."

Prince An frowned and said, "So, do you think there is an unknown arsenal hidden near the capital?"

Governor Fu nodded and said, "I think so."

There was silence in the study for a long time and no one spoke. The cigarette in Governor Fu's hand was almost half lit before Prince An stood up and walked towards the bookcase behind him.

After a while, Prince An came over with a booklet, pushed the booklet in front of Governor Fu, and said, "Although the arsenal was called royal, you also know that it was actually under the management of the Ministry of War. When it was split up, it took turns. It wasn’t until I came to ask, this is the situation of the personnel and equipment of the arsenal and where they went when they were split up, I don’t know what has changed over the years.”

Governor Fu flipped through the booklet in front of him. The handwriting on it was very old, and even the paper was a little yellowed.

Governor Fu sighed, frowned and asked, "Do you think... who did this?"

Prince An laughed a little, raised his eyebrows and looked at Governor Fu and said, "Are you asking me?"

Governor Fu rolled his eyes, "Otherwise?"

Prince An didn't care either, and said with a smile, "It's hard to say, if I were to guess, the first people I would suspect would be you and Long Xiao."

This time Governor Fu rolled his eyes even more frankly, and by the way, he gave you a sick expression.

Prince An said helplessly, "Isn't it? Leaving aside the manufacture of weapons, just transportation is a big problem. If I want to sell weapons abroad, I will definitely not build an arsenal in the capital. If you want to send things out of the country, you have to go through so many people and places."

The six southern provinces are different from the four northern provinces. They can all be shipped directly through their own seaports without worrying about being discovered by outsiders.

"Are you reminding me that people from the military are involved?" Governor Fu said sharply.

Prince An smiled lightly and said, "I didn't say anything."

"Okay." Governor Fu didn't force himself, stood up and said, "It's okay, I'm leaving." Naturally, Prince An would not keep him, and just nodded slightly.

Governor Fu took the file bag and the booklet and walked out, and when he reached the door, he stopped and looked back at the man sitting behind the desk, "Are you planning to just let this go?"

Prince An looked up at him and asked, "Then how do you think I can live?"

Governor Fu shrugged and said, "To be honest, those people from your Xiao family... I wouldn't care about their life and death at all. If you didn't have to protect some royal family back then, you wouldn't have squatted here for more than 20 years. In the small yard."

Prince An shook his head and smiled, "Which one do you think is more comfortable, sitting in the palace or sitting here? Besides, just because you and Long Xiao rest assured that I am sitting in the palace does not mean that others are also relieved. But... if you want to help me , in fact, there is no way.”

Governor Fu refused without hesitation, "I don't want to help you, we don't have that kind of friendship."

Prince An smiled and said, "Aren't you even going to listen?"

Governor Fu said, "Tell me, you won't miss a piece of meat."

Prince An said, "As long as Anxia is officially unified, I can go out naturally. No one has any objections to you now, but if there is a fight in the future and it can't be resolved quickly, people may start to miss the royal family."

Governor Fu sneered, "I thought you could say something extraordinary, but unfortunately labor and management don't have that ability, so go find Long Xiao."

Prince An was not in a hurry, and smiled, "You don't have that ability, I think your family Fengcheng is quite capable. Otherwise, in the future, send Fengcheng's son here, and I will teach you for you?"

Governor Fu said with disgust, "No, no one in my old Fu's family wants to be emperor, let alone... even if you become emperor, you are very loose, and you want to teach others? Don't make mistakes."

Watching Governor Fu leave, Prince An couldn't help laughing and shook his head, took a sip of tea from the teacup.

"Third Master." The housekeeper came in, and was a little surprised to see Prince An's appearance, "Third Master is in a very good mood."

Prince An nodded and smiled, "It's not bad, Fu Zheng... is quite amusing."

The butler couldn't help but wiped his sweat secretly, no one outside thought that Governor Fu could be amused. That master is also a master who can pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger. He looks rough and unconstrained, but he has a lot of scheming.

Prince An said with a smile, rubbed his temples and said, "Show me the list of officials in the court and the names of the various families in the capital."

The housekeeper was a little surprised, "What is the third master looking at that for?"

Prince An frowned and said, "I've been thinking about it for more than half a year, and I always feel that... this person doesn't behave like the people who are disturbing the situation now, but he is vaguely familiar with him. He is probably an old friend from back then. Look carefully at the palace of the past. The list before and after the change is among these people without accident.”

The butler nodded and said, "Yes, I'll find it right away."

When Governor Fu returned home, the butler greeted him, and said respectfully, "Director Fu."

Governor Fu nodded and asked casually, "Where's the eldest couple?"

The butler replied: "Young Master and Young Madam are in the backyard."

"Let them come to see me in the study." Governor Fu said.

The butler left in response, and Governor Fu turned around and went straight to the study.

After a while Leng Sa and Fu Fengcheng pushed the door open and came in, Leng Sa smiled and asked, "Is there anything the warlord told us to do?"

Governor Fu casually threw away the document bag at hand, and Fu Fengcheng raised his eyebrows slightly as he took it in his hand.

Governor Fu said, "Take a look, both of you."

The two sat down, took out the documents and read them together. There was too much content in this document, and it would not take a while to finish reading it, so both of them raised their heads and put the document aside after only reading the first few pages.

Governor Fu asked, "How is it?"

Leng Sa blinked her eyes and said nothing, she is not very good at these things, she just wanted to join in the fun. If I had to sum up her impressions after reading it, it would probably be——Although I can't understand it, it seems very powerful.

Governor Fu looked at Fu Fengcheng and asked, "How is it?"

Fu Fengcheng said in a deep voice, "Very good."

"That's it?" Governor Fu stared at his son with some dissatisfaction, Fu Fengcheng raised his eyebrows, "What else can I do? This plan is really good, but... If An Xia is still the way he is now, it is almost impossible to realize it. If An Xia It will take ten or twenty years to unify, and there are many things that need to be changed. Where did father... get it from?"

"Guess." Governor Fu said with a bit of complacency.

First Young Master Fu was speechless, and after a while he said calmly, "The handwriting looks like a lady's. There should be only one person in An Xia who can write this thing and get it to my father. As for the comments on it...An Xia Prince."

Governor Fu was a little surprised, "How do you know?"

Fu Fengcheng said, "I have seen Prince An's handwriting."

"..."

After being silent for a while, Governor Fu snorted softly, "Okay, let's ignore these things that are too far away, and talk about the recent things in the capital."

Fu Fengcheng nodded, and said: "Three days after the awarding ceremony, the Nile people will also come to the capital to discuss the exchange of Shidan in two days. In addition... what should the Sun family do? Do the military department and the warlords have any plans?" ?”

Governor Fu frowned and said, "Sun Liang was still talking about labor at the meeting just now. Those who didn't know thought how much wronged his Sun family had suffered."

Fu Fengcheng frowned and said, "Aren't you going to announce what Sun Rui did?"

Governor Fu frowned and said, "The Sun family occupies the southwest border, and a large area borders the Nile. Once they are pushed into a hurry, no one can predict what will happen. Both the military and the cabinet hope to appease Sun Liang for the time being. Of."

Fu Fengcheng frowned, obviously dissatisfied with this way of handling, "How about detaining Sun Liang directly in the capital?"

Governor Fu sneered, "If you detain Sun Liang today, another person from the Sun family will come out tomorrow to avenge Sun Liang and start a rebellion. The Sun family is a group of bandits and bullies. Do you expect them to have any consideration for the overall situation?" ? They will only be happy that Sun Liang is gone, so they can sit by themselves when the seat is vacant."

Leng Sa said: "Is that all?"

"Of course we can't forget it like that." Dujun Fu said, "It's just that right now...people are not in harmony."

It has never been possible to deal with border issues only after the Central Plains was established. But now that the whole of Anxia is still divided and doing its own thing, who has the time to manage the frontier?

The Sun family's place has been a wild land outside the border since ancient times, and the folk customs are tough, not to mention that the past dynasties have not obeyed the control of the Central Plains. When the national power of the Central Plains was strong, they could still suppress them. Once the national power weakened, they would be the first to rise up and make trouble.

Even if it is now said that troops can be sent to suppress, then the question arises, who will send troops? Who pays? How to divide the loot? Can the local army let the central army pass through its own territory? Is the central army worried that the local army will set fire to their buttocks? If the families next to the Sun family were allowed to send their own troops, would other forces be willing to see the expansion of the territory of the Song, Chen, and Liang families?

Maybe in the end, the massive crusade army was restrained by all parties and could not defeat the Sun family, which would be embarrassing for nothing.

Just like today, don't others know what Sun Rui did? Why can Sun Liang speak out at the meeting? Isn't it because some people don't want to deal with Sun Liang at all? With Sun Liang, a mad dog, he can also contain other warlords.

Leng Sa slumped on Fu Fengcheng's shoulder, feeling very boring for a moment.

Fu Fengcheng helped her to sit up, and shook her slender hand slightly.

Fu Fengcheng raised his head and said to Governor Fu, "Let Sun Rui stay in the capital, and besides... let Sun Liang send his fifth son, Sun Duo, to the capital."

Governor Fu frowned slightly, "Sun Duo? I remember that kid... only eighteen years old?"

Fu Fengcheng said, "He is more capable than Sun Rui, even without this incident, Sun Rui may not be able to fight him."

Governor Fu was a little surprised, "Are you sure? I haven't heard of the greatness of the fifth young master of the Sun family before." Sun Rui is much older than his younger brother, and he can't even fight against an eighteen-year-old child. This is a bit too useless.

Fu Fengcheng looked at his father with deep eyes and didn't speak, Dujun Fu was dumbfounded. After thinking for a moment, he patted the table and said, "Okay, I will do as you say!"

Leng Sa didn't take much part in the intrigue among these bigwigs in the capital and weighed the pros and cons. In fact, she couldn't understand many of the relationships.

In contrast, Leng Sa was more curious about the so-called behind-the-scenes boss, Gong Si and Xing Wei.

As soon as the two came out of the study, Xu Shaoming and Su Ze had already returned and were waiting for them.

Xu Shaoming handed over a document and said, "Young Master, Young Madam, these are Ms. Zhuo's biographical information and all the information before and after the palace change. They have been re-checked by the people in the capital, and the accuracy rate should be quite high. High."

Fu Fengcheng took it and didn't open it immediately, just nodded and looked at Su Ze, Su Ze said, "Princess Chaoyang is currently imprisoned in the palace, Mrs. Xing and Gong Sihe are locked in a special prison, and special approval is required to visit. Apart from her son, there were eleven people who visited Madam Xing recently, including three senior cabinet officials, two senior military generals, two business people, and four people from the literary and art circles. The three people who tried to get her out of prison, They are the vice-minister of the Executive Yuan, Song Yu, the vice-principal of the National Military Academy, General Wang Zhaohe, and Li Zhi, a well-known wealthy businessman in the capital, all three of whom coincided with the people who visited Xing Wei."

"Did someone assassinate Xing Wei?" Fu Fengcheng asked.

Su Ze's expression changed slightly, he glanced at Fu Fengcheng in surprise and nodded, "Yes, Xing Wei was poisoned twice on the way back to Beijing after getting off the boat, and some guards tried to kill her after she was imprisoned, but they failed .”

The young master specially arranged someone to protect Xing Wei in advance, did he already know that the guards in the special prison are unreliable?

Fu Fengcheng lowered his eyes to think about something, and Su Ze continued, "We have checked all these people, and most of them have personal relationships with Xing Wei, and even those who have no personal relationships have expressed their affection for Xing Wei on various occasions. Behind them Whether there is a deeper relationship is still being investigated. But..."

Su Ze looked at Fu Fengcheng hesitantly, and Fu Fengcheng said indifferently, "Say."

Su Ze said, "We have no direct evidence that Leng Yan's death and other things are related to Xing Wei, and Princess Chaoyang's statement can't accuse Xing Wei of participating in the murder of Leng Yan. Deputy Chief Lu said what to do, please sir." Don’t hurry up, otherwise the prison will have to release people.” Just helping to dispose of the corpses is not enough for people like Xing Wei to go to jail.

I have to say that the other party did this very cleanly. Even Princess Chaoyang can't produce conclusive evidence to accuse Xing Wei, let alone Princess Chaoyang may not cooperate.

Fu Fengcheng nodded and said, "Got it, I'll see Xing Wei tomorrow."

Leng Sa sat beside Fu Fengcheng while flipping through the materials in his hand, while listening to Su Ze's report with a random one. After Su Ze finished speaking, he asked, "What is the relationship between this person and Xing Wei?"

Su Ze looked down and said clearly, "This Guo Ruyun is a well-known painter in the capital, but I have never heard of him having a close relationship with Xing Wei. And he is more than 20 years younger than Xing Wei No one thinks about that, they are all engaged in literature and art, must they have some friendship?"

Leng Sa shook her head and said, "No, there are problems with his biography and resume, as well as problems with daily expenses and income. The most important thing is... Didn't you find out that the prison guard tried to murder Xing Wei after he went to meet Xing Wei .”

Su Ze was startled, took the documents and compared them carefully, only to find out that they were correct.

However, Guo Ruyun is just an ordinary painter. He has no right or influence. Even when he went to visit Xing Wei, he went with another big picture artist who had a close relationship with Xing Wei. No one thought that Xing Wei's assassination would have anything to do with him. relation.

Even they mostly focused their attention on the few big guys in front.

Su Ze looked left and right with some documents, and couldn't help but ask, "Young Madam, how do you know that there are problems with his income and expenses?" He really didn't see it.

Leng Sa raised her eyebrows and said, "His paintings are not worth that money at all. Look carefully who are the people who bought his paintings at high prices? Are there any real lovers of paintings or powerful collectors?"

Su Ze hesitantly turned to the page of the sales record, stared at it for a long time before finally cursed, "This is such a badass."

It's just that he is much more low-key than Xing Wei, and he probably doesn't dare to really have anything to do with those rich and powerful wives, so no one pays attention to this matter.

However, these evidences to be regarded as suspects are still a little weak.

Su Ze looked at Fu Fengcheng, Fu Fengcheng said calmly, "Go and ask, will you know?"

Su Ze understood instantly, "Understood, Young Master."

I had a bit of a headache before going to bed last night, but it didn't feel bad after I woke up. The result...was still sore in the morning! So, if you are sick, you have to take medicine quickly~o(╥﹏╥)o go to sleep~