After the rebirth, the queen took the Meiqiang tragedy script

Chapter 137 Capital punishment
"Is there any problem with his background?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

She didn't pay attention, and Lu Yanchen's brows darkened.

"His father's name is Lin Motang. He used to be the servant of the Ministry of Punishment. He was sentenced to death for disrespect. Emperor Xingrui once said that the descendants of the Lin family will never be reused." Su Hong said slightly.

Ye Qinghuai had long heard that Lin Yuxiu's parents died early, but he had never heard that his father was an official in the court.Not only has he been an official, but he also has such a tragic past.

She was about to ask, but Gu Shihai asked Su Hongwei: "Is he Lin Motang's son?"

Gu Shihai was obviously as surprised as Ye Qinghuai.

But his surprise was not Ye Qinghuai's kind of bewildered, but more of an accident.

"Old Gu Ge knows this person?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

Gu Shihai withdrew his gaze from looking at Su Hongwei, lowered his eyes and said, "My father was an official in the same dynasty as Lin Motang."

Ye Qinghuai thought about it, Gu Shihai's father had been Minister of the Ministry of Punishment for several years, if Lin Yuxiu's father had been the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, then the two should be closely related superiors and subordinates.

But judging from Gu Shihai's complicated expression, the relationship between the two is not as simple as that of ordinary subordinates.

"What did he do?" Ye Qinghuai asked Su Hong slightly.

Su Hong paused for a moment, with a hint of embarrassment showing on his face.

Not only him, everyone was silent.

"What? Did he do something hard to say?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

Su Hong sighed slightly, and replied: "He questioned Emperor Xingrui face to face in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and he was sentenced to the punishment of Dabi for his insulting remarks."

Ye Qinghuai frowned.

She was only four years old when Emperor Xingrui died, so she didn't have much impression of the emperor's grandfather.But from the historical materials she has learned, Emperor Xingrui was not a tyrannical emperor.

What did Lin Motang say that made him so angry that he cut him off?
Su Hongwei took a peek at the emperor's unsightly expression, and said, "Your Majesty, Lin Motang's incident was a big one at the time, and all the senior officials in the court knew that if His Majesty insisted on disobeying Emperor Xingrui's will and reusing Lin Yuxiu, I'm afraid it would be a breach of filial piety. Demonstration."

When Ye Qinghuai decided to hand-pick Lin Yuxiu as the number one scholar, she thought that someone would stop her.

He was born in white clothes and a student of Wang Lisong, so it was inevitable that he would be used as a fuss.

She even had a rebuttal answer in mind.

But she never thought that Lin Yuxiu would have something wrong with his life experience.

But she knew nothing about this Lin Motang, even if she wanted to refute it, she would have nothing to say.

Ye Qinghuai closed his eyes, pressed his forehead and said: "Emperor Xingrui said 'not to be reused', not 'not to be in high school', and it does not prevent him from nominating the number one scholar. The Chunwei list will not be adjusted. As for what position he will hold "Ye Qinghuai sighed and said, "Let me think about it and discuss it later."

After speaking, Ye Qinghuai ended the long palace examination that lasted all day.
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"Do you understand what happened to Lin Motang?" On the way back to Jingshou Palace, Ye Qinghuai asked Li Baoquan beside him.

"Returning to Your Majesty, when Lin Motang served in the court, the old slave was still working in the Prince Liang's mansion, so he didn't know the details of the affairs in the court. Moreover, after Lin Motang's death, Emperor Xingrui issued a ban to prohibit the court and the palace from discussing this matter." It’s been so long now, I’m afraid not many people know about it.” Li Baoquan replied.

Ye Qinghuai frowned, and murmured: "Lin Yuxiu should know the whole story. But it is inappropriate for me to summon him at this moment."

As she spoke, she stopped suddenly, and Li Baoquan and the eunuchs and guards who were following her also stopped immediately.

"Li Baoquan, come with me to Wenyuan Pavilion." After speaking, Ye Qinghuai turned around and strode towards Wenyuan Pavilion.

Although Li Baoquan didn't know what to do, he hurriedly beckoned his servants to follow.

Wenyuan Pavilion is the library pavilion in the palace, which stores hundreds of thousands of ancient and modern books.

In addition, there is also a special attic in Wenyuan Pavilion, which is used by historians and the inner court. It stores imperial decrees promulgated by successive emperors of Dajing, minutes of various court meetings held, and records kept by the inner court. Note on daily life.

Dajing has a history of 200 years, and more than half of this attic has been used up. The bookshelves that reach the rafters are densely piled with various volumes.

On weekdays, except for the clerical officials who came to store materials, few people visited this attic.

At this time, Haizheng had passed, and there was no one in the building.

"Li Baoquan, do you know which year Lin Motang was executed?" Ye Qinghuai's voice echoed among the towering bookshelves.

"Remember, old slave, it should be the ninth and October of the 21st year of Xingrui, the year His Majesty was born." Li Baoquan answered quickly.

Ye Qinghuai couldn't help being surprised: "Oh? How do you remember it so clearly?"

Li Baoquan said: "Your Majesty doesn't know something. In that autumn, Emperor Xingrui fell seriously ill, and the late Emperor went to the palace to accompany him. It was because of this that Empress Dowager Jingmin had to give birth to Her Majesty alone in the Liang Palace. Because of this, the late Emperor Later, I often blamed myself. The old servant remembered Lin Motang because there were rumors back then that Emperor Xingrui would be so seriously ill, and he was angered by Lin Motang."

This Ye Qinghuai has some impressions.

The birth of twins in the royal family has always been regarded as an auspicious event from heaven, but one of the twins of Empress Dowager Jingmin was born. Emperor Shunping always believed that it was because he was not in the mansion at that time and failed to suppress the evil spirits. .After Ye Qinghuai remembered the incident, he saw him blaming himself for this matter many times.

"Where are the historical materials of the autumn of Xingrui's 21st year?" Ye Qinghuai asked the officials guarding Wenyuan Pavilion beside him.

The official flipped through a thick book in his hand, and after a while, he replied: "Your Majesty, the documents archived in the Taiqing Pavilion from Xingrui's 20 to 24 years are in the seventh row of this column. In Xingrui's 21 years, the inner court The recorded daily life is here, those booklets wrapped in blue silk."

Ye Qinghuai looked along his hand, and saw that the booklets on a whole row of shelves were wrapped in blue silk, and there were hundreds of books at a glance.

Ye Qinghuai frowned. The volumes here are all highly confidential, and no one present except her is qualified to read them.

She let out a long breath and walked to the bookshelf.

This time, it turned over for more than an hour.

When it was near Zishi, there was no sound in Wenyuan Pavilion.

Ye Qinghuai looked at the brochure in front of her, her eyes looked like a bottomless sea under the cover of the fire.

Perhaps it was because Emperor Xingrui had ordered the suppression of speeches about Lin Motang, and there was neither an imperial decree nor official records in the historical materials that the descendants of the Lin family should not be reused.

Ye Qinghuai searched through the historical materials, and only found a simple description left by the historian in "Ting Yi Chao Ji": From the court meeting to the Jiedu envoy's military power control, Lin Motang brought up the old story of the king of the northern capital again, and the emperor reprimanded him in anger. Remorseful, he still spoke wildly of offending his superiors, and the emperor punished him greatly with his vulgar and rude words, preventing his descendants from entering the court as officials.

(End of this chapter)