Manchu traitor, how can you let me be the emperor of the ages

Chapter 230 The person who takes the initiative to take the blame

"My lord, someone outside Mr. Wei came to surrender, claiming that he knew the inside story of the test leak."

Surrender?

Li Yuan and Wei Zheng looked at each other, with a hint of doubt in their eyes.

At the moment, the two are investigating the case in the Gong Yuan, and according to the plan, they should go to the Cai Mansion next.

Because Song Qiaonian went to the Cai Mansion again after sending the test questions back to the Gongyuan, the Cai Mansion was also suspected of leaking the questions.

But at this critical moment, someone unexpectedly surrendered himself, is there really such a coincidence in the world?
"Go, go out and have a look."

Li Yuan got up immediately and walked out quickly, followed by Wei Zheng.

There were already a crowd of people kneeling outside the tribute courtyard, led by two gentlemen with thin skin and tender flesh, but at the moment they were wearing thin coarse clothes, with thorns attached to their backs, shivering under the cold wind.

Behind him stood more than a dozen servants, escorting a few miserable people with disheveled hair.

"My lord, my lord Wei, Caomin pleaded guilty, Caomin came to surrender..."

Li Yuan and Wei Zheng came out.The two sons began to cry with snot and tears.

Wei Zheng frowned and took a step forward, not angry, but arrogant: "You went to Dali Temple and the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion after you surrendered, why did you come to the front of the Gongyuan to act wild? Why don't you retreat quickly!"

The power of a first-rank official is not a joke, not to mention that there is a Duke who looks at him coldly.

The servants in the back almost ran away in fright, but they held back in the end, and the two young masters also turned pale, but they still trembled and said: "My lord, I'm just here to vote for the case of leaking questions in this meeting." !"

"Bullshit!"

Wei Zheng scolded angrily, his beard and hair all stretched out: "Ignorant child! Do you know what this is about?"

"The mastermind who will test the leak, the Yi family who copied the family!"

He stared at the two slender and tender sons, and said coldly: "If you come to interfere with the court's investigation, even if the crime is lowered, it's not something you two can bear!"

"Today, you retreat quickly. I believe that there is a good life in the heavens, but if you expose this matter, you will not be held accountable! Why don't you leave quickly? Don't cause trouble for your family!"

The two young masters trembled from the accusation of confiscating the Yi tribe, and the censors who followed around looked at them coldly.

If the crime of confiscating the Yi people's homes is brought up in the past, there will always be "sages" who will jump out and say that this punishment is too cruel.

But when this matter is brought up today, no one will react like this.

Probably because most of these people are civil servants, military generals who have been bloody and slaughtered on the battlefield can't say such words.

And this time, the time for leaking the questions in the meeting is to dig out the roots of the civil servant group. Any civil servant who has a little foresight and has not participated in this matter is very resentful, so even the most staid old pedant It is also silent and will not object.

The two young masters seemed to have foreseen their own fate. They gritted their teeth and said, "My lord, the grass people are not talking nonsense, but really guilty."

"There are thousands of mistakes in this matter, and it's all the fault of the grassroots. Now I can't bear to see too many innocent people involved in this matter, so I came here to surrender."

Many people sneered, they couldn't bear to see innocent people being implicated in this matter, so they implicated themselves and their whole family. Are you lying to ghosts?
Is there such a selfless person like you in the world?If this is the case, every Bodhisattva will burn incense sticks when they see you.

No matter whether others believe it or not, anyway, everyone present does not believe it very much.

But Li Yuan suddenly said: "Your Majesty Wei, don't worry, just listen to him first, what if there is a clue about the leak in this person?"

Wei Zheng was startled, nodded and said no more.

"Thank you, Lord Guo, thank you, Lord Wei!"

The two young masters were not very happy when they heard this, their faces were filled with sorrow, and they began to introduce their backgrounds. : "Liu Fu, a grassroots man, a native of Linchuan, my father, Liu Qingde, a fellow magistrate of Hengshan County."

The other also followed up: "Chen Chengye, a grassroots man, is a native of Chen Guo."

Hearing the two people's self-reports, the surrounding officials were shocked. One was the son of a fifth-rank co-prefect. If this was true, his father's official position would not be possible. The only way to save his life would be to smoke from the ancestral grave.

Another person from the Chen Kingdom was surnamed Chen, so he must belong to the Chen royal family, or have something to do with the royal family. Now that this happened, Chen Guo must be punished by the court, and he will not be able to please him.

What kind of person can have such great ability and such ruthless means, directly bought the life of a fellow confidant himself and even his whole family, and made Chen Guo suffer so much!
The two people continued to cry in pain: "Just because there is an elder brother in the family who participated in the current science examination, the grassroots were deceived by the lard, and found out the day when the Tribute Court took the questions, and specially invited a few burglars to spy on the secrets of the court."

"Then he became interested in making money again, and sold the exam questions to candidates in the city for money! The grassroots deserve death, and they deserve it. Please don't implicate others..."

Wei Zheng snorted coldly: "It's not up to you whether to implicate others or not!"

"Since you are willing to surrender, let me explain one by one. Where did this snitch come from? How much money did you pay him to work with you? When did they steal the exam questions from whom? How did they steal the exam questions? They were sold? Who were they sold to? How much were they sold for? Where is the money... explain all of these clearly!"

Li Yuan listened and sighed softly.

Wei Zheng heard it and understood what he meant. If Han Mulu's note and Song Qiaonian's strange behavior in the Ministry of Rites hadn't been found out, the two sons really had a chance to get rid of this matter.

But now with the evidence, no matter how many of these people come, they are just delivering food.

But if you understand it, you must understand it, but you must do what you should do.

"These people are world-renowned 'explorers of clouds'. They come and go without a trace. It is rumored that even the stars in the clouds can be stolen. This test question is stolen by them..."

"Since you come and go without a trace, how did you two get caught? Could it be that you are faster than them?" A censor asked coldly.

"Taking advantage of these people's unpreparedness, the Caomin drugged the tea they were drinking, and only then did they capture a few thieves and cut off their tendons so that they would not escape..."

Their tendons and hamstrings have all been broken, and now there is no way to prove their kung fu.

The censors around kept blaming them, but the two of them seemed to be well-prepared, and they were able to deal with every problem, and they were stitched together tightly, basically without mistakes or omissions, as if it happened in real life.

Until the end, all the censors had nothing to ask, and turned their heads to look at Li Yuan and Wei Zheng in the middle.

Several sons and servants also looked over with trepidation, although they dealt with all the censors, they still didn't have any joy on their faces.

Because apart from the first two sentences, Li Yuan didn't say anything else from the beginning to the end, and Wei Zheng didn't ask any more questions.

"Let's go to Yushitai first, and then interrogate!"

Wei Zheng said in a cold voice: "Order all the places to imprison all relatives of these two people, and not one of them will be spared."

Good words are hard to persuade the damned ghost, so many good words, do you think he won't kill people?
That being the case, it's not bad to be an extra.

The two young masters seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but then their faces turned pale again.

This is related to the lives of the whole family, and it may just be gone...

This incident quickly caused an uproar in the capital.

Small charges are fine, but this kind of crime of copying the house is also a stupid hat that is thrown at the body, but it really doesn't come out once in thousands of years.

Could this be true? Could it be that these two people really found out their conscience and came here to surrender and ask the court for leniency.

But you don't know, to be honest and get out of prison, to resist and be strict, and to go home for the New Year? ?

Regardless of whether it was found out in the end that the matter was done by these two people, their end may not be very good in the end...

Cai Mansion, study room.

Cai You walked back and forth a little anxiously, while Deng Xunwu and Gao Xuan were not in a hurry, but flipped through the official letters in their hands.

"Uncles, what are we going to do about this matter?"

There was a little panic on Cai You's face: "Now Liu Fu and Chen Chengye have been arrested, and even the elder brothers of these two people in the Gongyuan have fallen into the prison of Yushitai. Get through with these two people in advance, if they turn their backs, wouldn't it be a total loss?"

"Besides, Tang Guogong and Wei Zheng still haven't stopped searching and interrogating, and they have intensified. I heard that they will attack the Song Mansion when they come in!"

Han Mulu was his brother-in-law, and his mother was worried all day long when his brother-in-law had an accident. Song Qiaonian was his father-in-law, and now his father-in-law's house was about to be ransacked.

Deng Xunwu's face was a little gloomy: "The matter was originally caused by those two idiots. If Wei Zheng is allowed to investigate like this, they will be found out sooner or later. They don't want to be charged with this crime."

"Come out and bear this crime now, but it won't hurt your family. They must know what to do!"

"Instead, it's Wei Zheng's side..."

Speaking of this, Deng Xunwu also hesitated.

Tang Guogong was originally their ally, but this time the ally's face is not very good.

Of course, Cai Dang also understands Tang Guogong's concerns, but as an ally, you have to reveal something, right?

But after asking for so many days, they only got a vague reminder that the matter was very serious, and they were prepared to cut their own arms. Prepare?
"What exactly does Tang Guogong want to do?"

Cai You was so angry that he slammed the table hard, with a look of exasperation on his face: "When we cooperated in the past, I was full of food, but now something happened to my Cai family, and he fell by the side and made trouble. I really thought I Can the Cai family not cure him?"

"The rabbit is in a hurry and bites!"

Deng Xunwu and Gao Xun looked at each other with solemn expressions, and the former said in a deep voice, "Young Master, don't say that."

Cai You raised his head suddenly, and couldn't help but said, "He Li Yuan did the first grade of junior high school, why don't we let us do the fifteenth grade?"

"Of course I know that he has difficulties. Let's take someone with him that day. It is a helpless move to seal up the Gongyuan, but the two uncles saw what he did afterwards?"

Cai You's face turned red with excitement: "First, I went to my uncle's house to search wantonly, and now I'm entangled with Lord Taishan, who is below me. If he keeps searching like this, wouldn't everyone in the Cai party be in danger?"

Deng Xunwu and Gao Xun sighed in unison. This eldest son really has extraordinary eyesight, and he immediately discovered the crux of the matter.

But his energy-raising skills are still far behind those of Mr. Cai.

"The Duke has already given a hint, it's better than not knowing anything."

Gao Xun said in a deep voice: "Although I don't know the specifics, I probably found something from Song Shilang and Han Shilang."

"And no matter what the matter is, don't offend the Lord if you can't offend him."

After this incident, Cai Dang was already seriously injured. If he loses his mind and falls out with Tang Guogong again, it will really look like a sunset.

Cai You also seemed to understand this truth, as if he was discouraged, he slumped on the chair.

"What about the memorials of the past few days? How about the memorials we played?" His voice was weak.

Deng Xunwu didn't speak, Gao Xun shook his head with a sullen face: "It's all gone."

These days, the Cai party has also gathered many officials to write a letter about the leakage of the test questions. Some said that this is a scandal, and it is not suitable to handle it and publicize it. It is better to investigate secretly. , don't fall for their tricks...

But in any case, these various memorials have all come to nothing. They were either left unpublished by His Majesty the Emperor, or they were "reading", "knowing" and "um" and so on. .

When encountering this kind of thing, the civil servants are generally more perfunctory and more energetic. The more you ignore me, the more I will write a letter, keep going on the ground, gather colleagues, colleagues, and even go on strike...

But at this time, this trick is not very effective, because the current situation is already very urgent, and the longer it is delayed, the more likely Li Yuan and Wei Zheng will find out something.

"In that case, let's proceed with the original plan."

Cai You straightened up forcefully, forced a smile: "Please, uncles."

The two looked at each other and said in unison: "Young Master Cai, don't worry."

After speaking, he turned and left.

Cai You looked at the backs of the two of them and rubbed his face fiercely.

Until now, he doesn't know whether his choice is right or wrong, but now he can't turn back...

The next day, the meeting.

In the Qianyang Hall, the red candles with golden dragon patterns were burning quietly. Some officials were resting with their eyes closed, and some were whispering to each other.

There was a sound of trampling footsteps from far to near, and Li Gan, wearing a red-yellow dragon robe, appeared in the hall.

Before reaching the dragon chair, Li Gan looked at the old eunuch.

"If you have something to play, you will retreat if there is nothing!"

The sharp eunuch's voice spread throughout the Qianyang Palace, causing many drowsy officials to shake their spirits, and many people were angry to get up, injecting vitality for the day.

"See my emperor."

Seeming to be infected by them, Li Gan also yawned, and after waiting for a while when no one spoke, he was about to turn his head and leave.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Ye, the right minister, has something to report."

An official standing at the end suddenly raised the wat board in his hand.

Li Gan opened his mouth, sat down on the dragon chair, and said helplessly, "Let's talk."

(End of this chapter)