With the clue of poison, the Inspection Institute quickly arrested a group of spies planted by Jin Yiwei in the capital.

After being tortured and interrogated, these Jinyiwei spies also admitted that they were the ones who instigated Xia Keming to kill Li Hongcheng.

As for the motive, they didn't know. They only knew that it was an order from the top brass of Jinyiwei, and they were only responsible for executing it.

Regarding this investigation result, Fan Xian was more certain of his guess, but he did not immediately confront Qin Hao, but reported the results to Emperor Qing.

The second prince hurriedly entered the palace and dealt with Fan Xian.

"Fan Xian, you have to know that the person who died was Prince Jing and a relative of the emperor. With such a light memorial, you want to close the case?"

Fan Xian clenched his fists and asked word by word: "The lives of the emperor's relatives are lives, but the lives of old Jintou are not lives? Aren't the lives of countless wronged souls in Shijia Town not life?"

"Fan Xian!"

"What do you think the Second Prince has to say!"

Just as the two were at war with each other, Emperor Qing suddenly spoke.

"Since it was a Northern Qi spy who did it, then write a letter of divorce to the little emperor of Northern Qi and ask them to hand him over."

The second prince hurriedly stopped him: "Father, this is clearly someone using the help of Northern Qi spies to kill people..."

"Oh? You mean to say that the mastermind behind the scenes is from Qingguo? They attacked and killed the royal family in the capital of Qingguo?" Emperor Qing shouted sternly with a straight face.

The second prince's legs gave way and he knelt down on the ground. There was a trace of panic hidden in his unwillingness. He vaguely felt that Li Hongcheng's death might have some connection with him, but what the connection was, he couldn't figure it out.

"Okay, you two go down, I want to be quiet."

After sending Fan Xian and the second prince away, Emperor Qing asked Eunuch Hou to call Chen Pingping over.

"The murderer behind Xia Keming's instigation has been found out. It was a Northern Qi spy. What do you think?"

Chen Pingping said calmly: "Beijing Qi suffered a new defeat and sent the eldest princess to come and make a marriage proposal. It must not be the intention of the Queen Mother or the young emperor of Northern Qi."

"Shaun is back." Emperor Qing said in a gloomy tone.

Chen Pingping's face changed slightly when she heard this, but she quickly recovered: "It is true that I made a miscalculation. I didn't expect that Ku He and Zhong Zhong could not kill him even though they joined forces, and they even let him return to power. However, with the current national strength of Northern Qi, a

Sean is not enough to change the situation."

"Shawn has no grievances against Li Hongcheng, so why kill him? Can I still trust your inspection agency?" Emperor Qing asked in a deep voice.

Chen Pingping lowered her head with horror on her face: "Your Majesty can always trust the Inspection and Inspection Institute. I will definitely investigate this matter and give you an explanation."

"Tell me, does Fan Xian know something? Otherwise, with his character of asking for answers, he didn't refute me just now."

"Perhaps young people have experienced setbacks, matured, and learned to focus on the overall situation?"

Emperor Qing glanced at Chen Pingping: "Do you think it's possible?"

"When I met Fan Xian a few days ago, he was wiping the stone tablet at the entrance of the inspection institute." Chen Pingping lowered her head and answered respectfully.

Emperor Qing put his hands behind his back and sighed softly: "Maybe it is a good thing for young people to suffer some setbacks."

........

After leaving the palace, Fan Xian went home first and waited until midnight before sneaking out.

The Palace of the Minister of Justice.

Qin Hao was meditating and practicing, with beads of sweat falling layer by layer on his forehead. Just two days ago, his skill had returned to the peak of the ninth level, but he was still far away from reaching the threshold of the Grand Master.

The main reason is that the true energy in the body is not perfect enough.

"I've been standing at the door for almost half an hour. Aren't your legs sore? Come in."

Fan Xian opened the door and slowly came to Qin Hao.

"Did you kill Li Hongcheng?"

"yes."

"Why?"

Qin Hao asked: "Why?"

"Why choose Xia Keming?"

"You have to find a justifiable reason."

Fan Xian looked at Qin Hao in disbelief: "That's it?"

"That's all. Even if it's not Xia Keming, there will be someone else."

"Why? Lao Qin, I always thought you were different from them before, why have you become like this now? Is it so interesting to play with the fate of others in your hands?"

Facing Fan Xian's question, Qin Hao stood up slowly, looked straight in the eye, and spoke slowly.

"Don't you understand yet? This is the nature of this world. Does your ideal fairness really exist?"

"From the moment human society came into being, there have been classes. If you want to seek justice for Lao Jintou, how is it considered justice? Only killing someone to pay for life is justice, but can you do it? The identity of the second prince is destined.

As long as the Qing Kingdom is immortal, it is impossible for him to pay for the life of a common man!"

"I admit that I did take advantage of Xia Keming and exchanged his life for Li Hongcheng's. But do you want to know what he said when the Northern Qi spies found him?"

Fan Xian asked with a trembling voice: "What did you say?"

"It's worth trading a commoner's body for the life of an imperial relative!"

Fan Xian's pupils trembled, and his eyes seemed to reappear in Xia Keming's desperate and crazy look when he was in the dungeon.

Qin Hao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Fan Xian word by word: "I am not as great as you. I have to save the common people. I am very selfish. The only people I can protect with all my strength are my family.

, in my heart, Ruoruo has long been a family member, no matter who tries to hurt Ruoruo, I will make him pay a heavy price, even the aloof Emperor Qing."

For a long time, Fan Xian didn't say another word, and he only dropped one sentence before leaving.

"What about Ye Ling'er?"

"She's family, too."

Fan Xian paused. He knew that soon there would be an even more violent bloody storm in Kyoto.

........

The next day, Fan Xian went to the Inspection Institute. Eunuch Dai from the Vegetable Inspection Department was the culprit who caused Lao Jintou's daughter to voluntarily sell herself to Baoyue Building. He also temporarily accused the two real culprits behind Lao Jintou's death.

The prince had no choice but to send Eunuch Dai down first to make amends to Lao Jintou.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The seizure of the Vegetable Inspection Department forced Princess Dai to take bribes. Fan Xian collected the bribes in full view of the public, which immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he repeatedly complained

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As a result, Fan Xian ignored him at first, but when the imperial censors started to make a fuss, he asked Wang Qinian to send a letter saying "The barking barks", which completely aroused the indignation of everyone in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the memorial was like snowflakes.

The letters fell in front of Emperor Qing's desk, demanding that Fan Xian be punished for corruption.

When Eunuch Dai heard about this, he was so frightened that he almost fainted.

At the court meeting that turned around, Lai Mingcheng, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, stood up emotionally to impeach Fan Xian, accusing him of accepting bribes and being arrogant and perverting the law. Fan Xian refused to plead guilty and shouted that he was wronged. Lai Mingcheng took out a thick witness book

Emperor Qing did not read the testimony and sent someone to call Eunuch Dai to go to court for confrontation.

As a result, Eunuch Dai was inevitably punished, but Fan Xian had already handed over the three thousand taels of silver that Eunuch Dai had given him to Chen Pingping, and was acquitted on the spot.

Under Fan Xian's flattery, Lai Mingcheng, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, took over the hot potato of investigating official corruption.

Qin Hao watched the whole process with cold eyes. In fact, in Qin Hao's view, the entire power structure of the Qing Kingdom was quite backward. Officials were corrupt, princes formed cliques, and aristocratic families from all over the country were crazy about annexing land and raising slaves. It was difficult to support their slaves.

Imagine this is a country that has just emerged.

The entire superstructure is crooked. Checking and filling the gaps will not solve the Qingguo problem at all. What Ye Qingmei failed to do back then will be even harder to do twenty years later. Once someone tries to change the existing structure, vested interests will

The group will definitely make him disappear from this world at all costs just like it did when it killed Ye Qingmei.

After coming out of the palace, Qin Hao took the initiative to find Fan Xian and directly handed him a five thousand tael silver note.

"Do you think this is a bribe? Aren't you afraid of being targeted by Lai Mingcheng?"

Qin Hao shook his head: "Let me make a deal with you."

"What deal?"

"Sell Baoyue Building to me."

Fan Xian looked at Qin Hao in surprise: "Why did you buy Baoyue Building?"

"Since Li Hongcheng's death, Liujing Riverside has been closed for half a month. We don't know when it will be reopened. Si Lili doesn't plan to continue working in Zuixianju. He has to have a place to go. It just so happens that Baoyue Tower is now

It's a hot potato for you, so you might as well sell it to me."

Fan Xian thought for a while and pushed the banknote in front of Qin Hao.

"What, do you think the money is too little?"

"It has nothing to do with money. The Baoyuelou incident started because of Versace, so I should take care of it to the end. Besides, I promised Miss Sang Wen that I would give her her freedom."

Qin Hao did not take the banknote, but pushed it back: "What? Are you afraid that I will continue to exploit them and force them to sell themselves?"

"Then why would you buy Baoyue Building?"

"You should know my relationship with Si Lili. Do you think I will let her become a brothel madam?"
To be continued...