"Bang!" A good official kiln porcelain fell off from the hands of Emperor Zhao Xu and fell into pieces. The eunuch next to him immediately rushed over and knelt down to clean up. However, Emperor Zhao Xu kicked the little eunuch aside in anger and asked hurriedly: "How is the prince consort now?! Has the thief caught the Kaifeng Mansion?!"

Seeing the hideous face of Emperor Zhao Xu, the little eunuch who came to report the news said stutteringly: "... It was the escort of the prince consort who came to report it... It seems that the prince consort has returned to the prince consort's mansion now, and the others... know!"

Hearing Wang Jinghui back to the Prince Consort's Mansion, Emperor Zhao Xu's heart finally calmed down. He immediately said to the eunuch in front of him: "Call the guard who informed me quickly, I want to ask in person.

talk!"

The little eunuch ran out in a panic and called the prince's escort in. After confiscating the guard with a knife, Emperor Zhao Xu saw the guard's left arm wrapped with a white ribbon, which seemed to be directly removed from his clothes. The white ribbon was seeped with blood, which made Emperor Zhao Xiang's heart rise again - was the prince's escort injured?!

"I will meet your Majesty..."

Emperor Zhao Xu made a stern statement and asked sternly: "I want to ask your son-in-law how is he in the present situation? Are you injured? How did the incident happen?!"

Emperor Zhao Xu was determined to be a great emperor who surpassed Emperor Wu and Tangzong of Han. He only restrained himself and promoted many ministers with a spirit of reform to change the Song Dynasty. In his eyes, only Wang Anshi and Wang Jinghui were the only ones who could help him realize his great ideal. In the words of the prince consort, "high change and bottom change" were missing. Wang Anshi's reform was too easy to be jealous and progressed slowly. On the contrary, the prince consort's small measures played a big role, and this brother-in-law was his own money bag. His expectations for the prince consort was above Wang Anshi. If something went wrong now, then let him stand up in the middle with the high and low achievement, what should he do?! He felt that his tone was very heavy, and the guard leader would doubt that if the prince consort really had a problem, his head would move!

The guard knelt on the ground and said, "Today, in the end, a total of 16 people escorted the prince-consort to the civilian clinic in the east of the city, and rushed back in the middle of the night. In the past, even in the east of the city with the worst public security, the people would automatically give way when they saw the prince-consort's carriage. After a long time, the thieves found the way and arranged in advance to launch an assassination! Eight people in the imperial inner squad before assassination were killed on the spot. Two others were too seriously injured. Although the prince-consort was still trying to treat him, the prince-consort was still alive. He died of excessive blood loss, and others, including the last general, were injured by severe and other swords and arrows! All the twenty-seven assassins who participated in the assassination were killed on the spot. The prince consort was not injured at all, and now he has returned to the prince consort's mansion. If the prince consort is brave this time, no one will survive! Now that Kaifeng Mansion has been notified, the official commanders have blocked the streets where the accident is being investigated, who has ordered the assassination operation behind the scenes. It depends on how the official commanders in Kaifeng Mansion handle the case!"

After hearing Wang Jinghui's safety and safety, the An in the heart of Emperor Zhao Xu finally disappeared. Now he is more interested in the words of the "Sir-Consort" in the head of the guard. He is very clear about the ability of the guards in the imperial inner squad. There are more than 3,000 guards in the imperial inner squad, but these people are selected from the huge 1.5 million imperial guards in the Song Dynasty. Each of them has a wealth and background. His background is clear and clear, and his martial arts are also the best. Wang Jinghui is his brother-in-law. With his care and the special "care" of the Empress Dowager, the guards of the prince-consort will definitely be worse than the sword guards around him in terms of personal qualities. Only six of them came back this time, and they were injured. Although they met an assassin on his own side, the heavy casualties made Emperor Zhao Xu discolored.

"Your Majesty, Lord Han of Kaifeng Prefecture requested an interview!" Just as Emperor Zhao Xu wanted to ask about the assassination process, a small eunuch hurried in and reported to him.

"Take Lord Han in!" Emperor Zhao Xu temporarily suppressed his curiosity and said to the little eunuch.

The current leader of Kaifeng Prefecture is Han Wei, which is a political compromise. Wang Anshi wanted to implement his new law, but was greatly resisted. Wang Jinghui's appearance made this resistance more flexible. The position of Kaifeng Prefecture is the second choice of the Secretariat and Privy Councillor. Even Su Shi, as the procurator of Kaifeng Prefecture, became a key position as the magistrate of the imperial edict. It can be seen how important the "Kaifeng Prefecture experience" is for an official who is determined to be at the top of the Song Dynasty. Both sides strive for this official position. Han Wei is a square and honest official, and the emperor trusts him very much. Moreover, because Han Wei's younger brother Han Jiang is a capable general under Wang Anshi, so after thinking about it, Emperor Zhao Xu gave this position to Han Wei, who is still a Hanlin scholar, which is also a show of kindness to the Hanyi family in Hebei. There is nothing to say about the appointments between the old and the new parties.

It was extremely sad to live Han Wei's life tonight - officials of the Song Dynasty were assassinated. Although they were not successful, Han Wei knew that this was so easy and good. The Song Dynasty's independent country had never had such a serious case in Kaifeng, Bian capital. What's more, the person who was assassinated was the most favored brother-in-law of the emperor - this was one of the important members of the royal family! After receiving the report from Wang Jinghui's guards, Han Wei hesitated to mobilize the official officers of Kaifeng Prefecture to rush to the scene, blocking the streets that had happened, and sending capable personnel to investigate the scene, hoping to find clues to solve the case.

When the case handlers of Kaifeng Prefecture arrived, the prince-consor Wang Jinghui had already left, but he left a guard to guard the scene. Wang Jinghui did not let his guards move the bodies of the assassins. He strictly asked his subordinates to protect the scene and let the officials find out the identity of the assassins. His own group of people were okay to fight, but they were far worse than those of the case handling experts. In this way, Wang Jinghui did not even move his own carriage, but just moved the horse away and put it on a cage and carried the injured guard back to the prince-consor's mansion.

After seeing the well-preserved crime scene, the officials in Kaifeng Mansion felt a little nervous - except for the dozen men dressed in poor costumes with obvious knife wounds, the rest of the people had blood holes as thick as chopsticks on their foreheads. Although their eyes lost the color of life, they could not hide the fright of the ground they were frightened during their lifetime. The Kaifeng Mansion officers who were used to seeing the deaths lacked the scenes of corpses, but this was the first time they saw this method of death with a blood hole on their heads. They figured out what caused this, and the dead's head opened up front and back to show that there were wooden sticks and other things passing through the heads of the deceased. In the era without guns, this strange scene was really a bit horrible.

An official ran to Han Wei with a thin black stick wrapped in silk cloth in his hand and said, "Sir, my subordinates have found weapons such as steel knives, crossbows and arrows here, but... but most people died under such weapons. I'm sorry that my subordinates are incompetent. This may be a chopstick, but I know what it is made of, so it looks a bit like iron. This is definitely iron. Please check it out!"

Although Han Wei was a civil servant, he was quite brave. He took the "chopped sticks" in the servant's hands with no concern, and the weight was also light. He believed that the officer's eyes were definitely an iron thing. It would be strange to see knives at the scene of the crime, but the appearance of a crossbow made Han Wei's face change - bows and arrows are the leader of all soldiers. The court can tolerate the people's knives, but it will definitely tolerate private hiding bows and arrows. This thing is like the blocking rifle in later generations. It is the only cold weapon that can kill targets from a distance in this era. This thing is definitely possible to enter Kaifeng City! The assassin used crossbow arrows in his hands. Although the range was not as far away as the bows and arrows, it was the most suitable weapon in this ambush environment. This weapon was even more important for the supervision of the Song Dynasty. Only elite troops had it. This thing appeared at the scene and made Han Wei's brows frown even tighter.

What made Han Wei even more surprised was the thin stick in his hand. His eyes turned to the guard left by the prince-consort. The guard was also injured, so Guo was just fine.

The guard saw Han Wei looking at him with "chopsticks" in his hand, and said, "This is the prince consort. Those people wearing poor clothes are assassins. If the prince consort is, we may all be planted here. I know what this is made of!"

The fact that the prince consort is good at making various exquisite mechanisms has been very popular in the Song Dynasty. Moreover, among the weapons used in the Song Dynasty, there are a few of them designed by the prince consort himself. Han Wei would be surprised at all about this. As long as he is sure that this thing is on the prince consort, it would be much easier to do.

Han Wei nodded gently, walked to the scene in silence, carefully examined everything around him and said loudly: "Carely search for the corpses in poor clothes. These people are assassins! You need to search carefully, let go of anything on the assassin, and to prove what the assassin is, it depends on their own things!"

What made Kaifeng Prefecture's case-handling yamen runners depressed was that they found anything that could prove the assassin's origin on the spot. Han Wei also knew in his heart what handle could be left behind by those who could plan the assassination of Wang Jinghui. Even if something valuable was discovered, he would hesitate to frame him. Always staying in a bloody scene was a pleasant thing. After Han Wei saw that he could find any valuable clues, he sent people to continue blocking the streets, and he took a car to the palace to face the saint to explain the progress of the case.

Under the leadership of the eunuch, Han Wei quickly came to the imperial study room to meet the emperor Zhao Xu, reported the results of the on-site investigation to Zhao Xu, and asked the eunuch to present the on-site weapons he brought to him.

"Master, there is no evidence on the assassin who assassinated the prince's consort that can identify his origin. They are all dressed in ordinary poor people's costumes, and the ambush is also in the slums in the east of the city. The only thing they are worried about is that they used crossbow arrows during the assassination!" Han Wei said with a bow.

Emperor Zhao Xu picked up a crossbow arrow from the tray on the eunuch's hand, looked at it and said, "Your dear, do you suspect someone has an affair with the army and took out a crossbow arrow to assassinate the prince-consort?!"

If someone in the military wants to assassinate Wang Jinghui, only Emperor Zhao Xu believes that even Han Wei believes that although the relationship between the civil servants of the Privy Council and the prince-consort is very good, especially Wen Yanbo has many differences with Wang Jinghui in political affairs, it is far from the point of meeting swords and weapons. What's more, the civil officials took out weapons such as crossbows, and the generals of the army felt very good about the prince-consort from top to bottom. Guo Kui and Wang Shao can be said to have received the kindness of the prince-consort. Even Zhong Yan, who was in the battle of the Dingbian Army, was also taken care of by Wang Jinghui, so he was not drowned by the civil officials. Senior generals in the army may participate in this matter!

"This crossbow arrow is roughly made, far more so as the crossbow arrows equipped in the Imperial Guards of the Song Dynasty, not to mention four years after the Zizhiping. The crossbow arrows in the Imperial Guards of the Song Dynasty have been modified and replaced according to the advice of the son-in-law. The crossbow arrows designed by the son-in-law were installed on them to increase the rate of fire. The crossbow arrows appeared on the scene were only this one, and all the ground crossbow arrows were not equipped with the Jingzhu hooks. It can be seen that the crossbow arrows were definitely not flowing out of the army. In my opinion, this was more like it was made by myself, or..." Han Wei's voice suddenly lowered when he said that.

"Your dear, please hesitate. Or something? Let's continue!"

"I secretly think that if this crossbow arrow was not made by the assassin himself, it came from... from Dangxiang or Khitan! Because these two countries also have crossbow arrows, it looks more like the ones equipped in the armies of these two enemy countries! The crossbow arrows are much more complicated than bows and arrows, and the materials consumed are also very particular. I think that I want to make more than twenty crossbow arrows with my personal strength, and the only explanation is that it is smuggled from the enemy country!" Han Wei said carefully.

Han Wei already had his own ideas about this case. In his opinion, such a complicated assassination of the prince-consort is nothing more than revenge. But everyone knows that the prince-consort will always offend someone easily. Conservatives and reformists are very harmonious with Wang Jinghui when it comes to personal relationships. The only person who can make enemies is that in the case of Liu Jingyu, the prince-consort made a secret move and almost broke up the Liu family. In Han Wei's eyes, the Liu family is just a small role, and he does not have the ability to plan such an assassination.

In addition to vendetta, what Han Wei could think of was the enemy country of the Song Dynasty. Although Wang Jinghui was relatively low-key in his work and did not have any prominent official positions, there were too many things that he had to come to the front desk in the past few years. In addition, Emperor Zhao Xu's favor for him that everyone envied, it was not necessarily a possibility to cause the opponent's concerns and kill the prince-consort. What's more serious is that the prince-consort once humiliated Dang Xiang to make Aliti during the military parade last year. In addition, very harsh conditions were put forward in the negotiations between the two countries, which almost made the Dang Xiang people raise their heads. Speaking of which, it is possible that the Dang Xiang people made such a big noise for this!

"Yeah!" Emperor Zhao Xu nodded. Although Han Wei's words were not made clear, it was like a lice on a bald man's head. It was obvious that Wang Jinghui's tough measures in dealing with the issue of Xixia were enough to give Dangxiang people sufficient reasons to attack. Although Dangxiang people knew that the prince consort was doing tricks behind the scenes in recent years, relying on the prince consort's tough attitude in the negotiations between Songxia and holding more than 100,000 prisoners of war in his hands was enough to make Dangxiang people want Wang Jinghui's head!

"Thank you for your hard work! Before you can investigate this matter clearly and obtain enough evidence to prove that it was done by the enemy country, you must disclose the joints in it so as not to cause trouble!" Emperor Zhao Xu said.

"I obey the order! It is extremely serious to assassinate the prince-consort, and the assassination site is in the slums in the east of the city. I believe many people have been alarmed and it is possible to block this news. I want to block the news simply. Can I just ask me to search all the inns in the slums in the east of the city and Kaifeng, Biandu. These more than 20 assassins can also be known to rats. I believe they can investigate their residence in Kaifeng, Biandu. This will definitely gain something!" Han Wei said.

"Okay! My dear, please inform the Privy Council. I will issue an order to the three yamen to mobilize the imperial guards in the city to cooperate with my dear, will the whole city be martial law?"

"The whole city's martial law will interfere with the lives of the people, so it is best to do this. These assassins are so clean, I believe the person behind the scenes has made complete preparations to find some strong evidence. The search I have wanted to see where the assassin stayed before. As long as the painter draws the assassin's avatar and post it out for a generous reward, it is still difficult to investigate the location of these assassins!" Han Wei replied.

Although it was already late at night when Wang Jinghui was assassinated, it did not hinder the spread of news. Living late at night in Kaifeng, Biandu is just the beginning of nightlife. As long as there is nothing important tomorrow, the residents here will fall asleep so early, not to mention the officials of the court.

Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Zeng Gongliang and others have known the news that the prince consort was assassinated. These people know everything Wang Jinghui has done in recent years. In their eyes, the people who directed this assassination must be the Liao and Xia countries, especially the Xixia, who have reason to kill Wang Jinghui.

Due to his identity, although Wang Anshi and others were very concerned about Wang Jinghui's physical condition, they gave up the idea of ​​going to the Prince Concubine's Mansion when they heard that the prince concubine was safe and sound. They were just thinking about what Wang Jinghui's attitude would be in the future - he would use this as an excuse to launch an offensive against Xixia again?! Of course, the current handling of the case by Emperor Zhao Xu is even more eye-catching!
Chapter completed!