Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Knowing that Li Tianliu had misunderstood her meaning, Chen Shao did not explain.

Strictly speaking, she didn't quite believe that the General of the State would betray Datang, or secretly assist Prince Guangling in fighting for the throne.

There are three reasons:

First, the General of the State has 300,000 troops at his disposal. If he wants to betray Datong, he can just start a war. Given Datong's current situation, it is impossible for him to attack.

Secondly, if the General-in-Chief really wants to assist Prince Guangling in his fight for the throne, the people he should really win over are the important officials in the court.

Third, the Prince of Guangling was not only the Prince of Guangling, but also led the Guangling Grand Military Governor's Office. The Guangling Grand Military Governor's Office governed Huaiyin County, Liyang County, Shouchun County, Lujiang County, Yongyang County and Tongan County, with a garrison of 50,000 troops. Even if he wanted to win over the local nobles, he should have come forward.

Based on the above three points, in other words, whether it is the Zhu family, the Gu family, the Fan family, the Qi family, or the families in Shu County, none of them are qualified to ask the General Auxiliary State to condescend to win them over.

Especially when giving calligraphy and paintings, he would openly leave his official and private seals.

Of course, it’s not that Li Tianliu didn’t think of these things, he was just “confused because of worrying too much”.

Just like when her second brother died in battle, after he carried the coffin back to the capital, he used the excuse that he was the one who killed her second brother and refused to go to the battlefield again. In fact, he wanted to stay in the capital to protect the Chen Guogong Mansion.

This is also the reason why he would try to stop her from coming to Hongyuan County, and when he couldn't stop her, he would lose his temper and act sarcastic.

After holding down the paintings and calligraphy to stop Li Tianliu from giving them to the General, Chen Shao said, "Don't worry. The Zhu, Gu, Fan and Qi families still have a lot of paintings and calligraphy by the General. It won't be too late to collect them all and send them together."

Hearing this, Li Tianliu immediately reacted: "This is not the calligraphy and painting of the General of the State!"

Chen Shao said the same thing: "Whether it is true or not, we will know after showing it to the General of the State."

Li Tianliu thought about it for a moment and understood her plan.

People's hearts have changed.

Just because the General Auxiliary State has no rebellious intentions now doesn't mean that he won't have them in the future.

Giving him these calligraphy and paintings can be seen as a reminder or a warning.

From a warning perspective, it means that someone is using his name to commit treason, and he should clarify as soon as possible to prevent more people from being deceived.

From the perspective of warning, they already know that he has rebellious intentions and will be prepared to deal with it. If he really dares to act, he will have to think twice before doing so.

"I'm just going to take them to him to confirm their authenticity. There's not much difference between taking all of them and just taking these five." Li Tianliu pushed her hands away and took the five paintings. "On the contrary, keeping his 'handle' will allow us to better deal with various situations."

Chen Shao nodded: "You decide."

After talking to him a few more words about calligraphy and painting, the topic naturally turned to the green jade chess pieces, and then to green jade itself.

Listening to her speculation about Qingyu, Li Tianliu said decisively: "We will know if it is true after we interrogate them again."

This was the reason why Chen Shao told him all this. He told him to ask more carefully, and after watching him leave, he also stood up and went back to the lobby.

After an hour of recording the people and events that the people had accused, the Yulin Guards who had gone to arrest the twenty or so people on the list that Zhao Lin had confessed to came back with their men.

In the next few days, based on the new clues obtained by Li Tianliu, Chen Shao interrogated the more than 20 people on the list one by one, and then went to search their respective homes with the results of the interrogation.

According to the results of the search, the green jade that flowed into Datong through the three caravans of Zhu and Gu, Fan and Qi, Wen and Ren was divided into five categories.