Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 154
Sheng Shaoqing had just fallen asleep with Yuan Che, took a breath, and brought Lu Qingfeng over. As soon as he entered the door, he bumped into Cui Yun who was pushing the door away. The two of them looked at each other awkwardly Looking away, Sheng Shaoqing smiled secretly, "It seems that Lou Yujing really has no chance."

"Master Lu, I heard that you returned to Chenliu the day before yesterday, but there is progress in Fengchun's affairs?"

Lu Qingfeng nodded, "Yes, Master Xia has found out the real culprit behind the murder of Li Lingfeng, but how to deal with the real culprit will have to be judged by the Queen Mother."

"Didn't I let Xia Yuhuai handle it on his own? Why..."

Lu Qingfeng presented Xia Yuhuai's memorial at the right time, "You will know after reading it, Queen Mother."

Among the few people who had a close relationship with Li Lingfeng, there were also people who were suspected of killing him and capable of committing crimes. Only two people were left to be investigated by Xia Yuhuai.

When Sheng Shaoqing saw the names of these two people, he gasped in shock, "It's them?"

Lu Qingfeng said helplessly, "Lord Xia didn't believe it at the beginning, but the evidence is getting more and more convincing, and all kinds of clues point to these two..."

"And... they may be suspected of collaborating with the enemy."

"You mean... Nanjing?!"

"But they are already too busy to take care of themselves, can they still think of harming us?"

Lu Qingfeng hesitated and said, "Li Dabao has helped Mr. Xia to check all the people in the Tian Caihui, and many of them are the remnants of the former Nanjing Taiping Dao. Even Li Dabao didn't know it. The Sky Lottery Club founded has become a sharp blade of the enemy country."

"And the assassin who assassinated Li Lingfeng that night was also from Nanjing, which also confirms this point."

"Then... what I'm curious about is, why did Li Lingfeng have to die? And let them pay such a high price to find an assassin from Nanjing? Could it be that he had something in his hands that made them kill him? ?”

"Master Xia is still investigating this, but roughly... it has something to do with their collaboration with the enemy."

Sheng Shaoqing nodded, "This matter is of great importance. Before the truth comes out, Mr. Lu needs to keep it a secret. Otherwise, I'm afraid you will too."

Lu Qingfeng cupped his hands and said, "Thank you Queen Mother for your concern! I should keep it a secret. However, Mr. Xia is now alone in Fengchun, and Li Dabao's role is very limited, so..."

"Okay." Sheng Shaoqing pondered for a moment, "In this way, I will let Shangshu Yun go with you, and let him sit in charge. If you think about it, some things will be easier."

Before Lu Qingfeng came, he had imagined who the Empress Dowager would send, but he never expected that it would be Yun Zhi, so he couldn't help but wondered, "But the Shang Shu is still in charge of Chen Liu's affairs, is he busy enough to come here?"

"Well," Sheng Shaoqing let go, "Chen Liu, I'm afraid it will not be peaceful for a while, it's for his own good to let him go to Fengchun, you go and pass the decree yourself."

As soon as today's affairs are over, Ji Wenxuan is afraid that he will start to do it. After all, the Wang family is Yunzhi's maternal ancestral family. No matter how impartial he says, others will not believe that he will enforce the law impartially, so they can let him avoid it. Just avoid it.

As soon as Yunzhi heard Lu Qingfeng pass the Queen Mother's order, he was in a hurry to go to Sheng Shaoqing to make a statement, but Ji Wenxuan couldn't stop him from the sidelines, and simply roared, "Go! You go today, and tomorrow will be yours to share the land. Policy will become a dead letter!"

Yun Zhi turned his head in disbelief, "Prime Minister Ji, you!"

Ji Wenxuan roared with all his strength, and after taking several breaths, he said slowly, "You think I'm scaremongering?"

"Don't you know what the Queen Mother means?!"

"You know that this matter involves a lot, but you still want to involve yourself?"

"Juntian Ling just got better, when your grandfather was involved in the forgery case, have you cleared your relationship with him?"

"Outsiders will only think that you and your grandfather conspired to deceive the imperial court. It's not that you don't know that those people dislike you. If you make these things public tomorrow, the Empress Dowager's desk will be filled with memorials to impeach you!"

"It's not easy for the queen mother to nod her head. According to my observation, the queen mother didn't take her anger out on you because of your grandfather's affairs. The meaning of transferring you to Fengchun at such a juncture is already clear. She is protecting you!"

"Are you still so ignorant?!"

"Just go to Fengchun, and when you come back, I will definitely give you Chen Liu from Haiyan and Heqing!"

Yun Zhi said in pain, "Then I."

Ji Wenxuan patted Yunzhi on the shoulder and said, "Have you forgotten what I said to you yesterday?"

"Everyone in the world knows that the pure is pure by itself, and the turbid is turbid by itself, but if the pure can be purified by itself, you can't let people pour dirty water on you."

Yun Zhi sighed, then raised his eyes and asked Ji Wenxuan with red eyes, "According to the Prime Minister's opinion, will the Queen Mother do it?"

"My grandfather. He."

Yunzhi still remembers the principles of life that his grandfather told him when his mother took him to see his grandfather when he was young, but now he himself broke the principles of life that he had taught him one by one.

My grandfather said, "To be an upright official, you need to have the world in mind and put all people in your heart."

But it was my grandfather's father who ordered those people to report the revised booklets to the imperial court. It was also my grandfather's father who ordered that if Wang Yuan's matter fails, he will be killed on the spot.

Is this his official integrity?

Ji Wenxuan knew what Yun Zhi was worried about, so he only comforted him, "Your grandfather used to work in Sheji, maybe it's because he was too comfortable these years, and he has forgotten what he said to me back then, but don't worry, even if you don't say it , I will also intercede for your grandfather."

"After all, we were released as officials together back then, and my friendship with him is enough for me to say a few more words for him."

"It's just that the result depends on your grandfather."

Yunzhi also understood, "I will believe what my grandfather said, it's only the queen mother, and the prime minister needs to take care of me more."

Ji Wenxuan nodded, "Don't worry."

Ji Wenxuan felt melancholy watching Yunzhi's back gradually going away with Lu Qingfeng. He didn't know what happened these days. Wang Junjiang was the same as when he was released with him years ago.

At that time, Wang Junjiang had just entered the court as an official, and he wanted to do something big with high spirits, just like Yun Zhi before he left Beijing. Unfortunately, after the case of Cui Hao, Wang Junjiang was implicated and released, and he was full of power. It was ten years before he was called back to Beijing.

Ten years, how many decades are there in life?

What's more, what about the ten years spent at the border?
Because of Cui Haoming's grievance, "If the Cui family has the heart to disobey me, I will ask you to stay in Jialan Pass forever!"

Cui Hao was imprisoned for making inappropriate remarks in compiling the history of the country, and he was also accused of having an affair with Helian. At that time, Emperor Jing was worried that Helian would repeatedly commit crimes. This crime directly drove Cui Hao's family to a dead end. .

Anyone who has a relationship with Cui Hao will not be spared.

None of the civil and military men of the court dared to speak out, but this new Wang Junjiang dared to challenge Cui Hao and Emperor Jing. What was even more hateful was that this Wang Junjiang had never had a personal relationship with Cui Hao, and even before that, Neither has ever met.

But he dared, dared to openly sing against Emperor Jing, and Emperor Jing was extremely angry, so he agreed to Wang Junjiang's angry words, and really let him go to Jialan Pass to eat sand, which lasted for ten years.

Ji Wenxuan shook his head with a smile, he is really old, and always wants to use those extraordinary years to fill up the spirit that is not getting better day by day.

Forget it, people should obey their old age, and shouldn't worry too much about things that shouldn't be worried about.

"Empress Dowager, minister Ji Wenxuan, please see me!"

"I just wanted Cui Yun to pass it on to you, and you came by yourself."

Ji Wenxuan stroked his beard and smiled at Cui Yun, "Then the old minister will save the trip for Cui."

Cui Yun also smiled and waved his hands, "Then I would like to thank the prime minister for his compassion?"

"Yun Shangshu has already set off for Fengchun, I think the Fengchun case will be resolved in a few days."

Sheng Shaoqing nodded, "I hope so, but I didn't expect it to be them."

"them?"

"Prime Minister doesn't know yet?" Sheng Shaoqing signaled Cui Yun to pass Xia Yuhuai's memorial to Ji Wenxuan, and after Ji Wenxuan opened it and read it, he was also surprised, "How could it be them?"

"I didn't expect that they would eat my imperial salary and actually want to help the enemy country make trouble in Daliang. They are really cheating!"

Ji Wenxuan frowned, "This matter is quite strange. Although the Wang family has made a lot of trouble in the matter of equalizing the land, it may not necessarily betray me. It seems that Shangshu Yun has to pay more attention to this matter."

"Why is the prime minister still helping the Wang family? Isn't Yunzhi's relative grandpa?"

Ji Wenxuan smiled and continued, "I came here for this purpose."

"I didn't want Shangshu Yun to clarify this matter in the village before, just for today, I think."

"I want to intercede for this old friend."

As soon as Ji Wenxuan said this, a big question mark popped up on Sheng Shaoqing's head, "Prime Minister Ji Ji, you...will you still intercede for others?"

"Is this still Prime Minister Ji?"

Ji Wenxuan didn't think so and said with a smile, "Why can't I intercede for others?"

"no no"

Sheng Shaoqing thought of Ji Wenxuan's businesslike attitude towards his daughter in the past, and today he would plead for mercy for an old friend?

Is it a daughter or an old friend?!
"You're not pleading for Wang Junjiang, are you?"

Ji Wenxuan nodded, "Exactly."

"you!"

"He instigated people to forge several books, and even instigated people to frame Wang Shan. If things fail, he will kill people to silence him. Now you want to plead for him?"

The more Sheng Shaoqing said, the more he felt that it was outrageous. Could it be that Ji Wenxuan was taken away?

"Yes."

Ji Wenxuan said firmly, "I know what crime he committed, but I still want to plead for him."

"I hope the Queen Mother can save him."

Sheng Shaoqing breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "What's the reason?"

Ji Wenxuan frowned, "If I say that I have no old acquaintance with Wang Junjiang, then I am deceiving the Empress Dowager, but I and him can only be regarded as casual acquaintances, but in the past, he was kind to me, and my request today is just that." In order to repay the kindness of that day."

"His kindness to you is your business, how can it be compared with the laws of heaven and the country?!"

"Yes", Ji Wenxuan did not deny it, "I know that today's request is really embarrassing, but I have to ask."

"But please listen to the second reason given by the minister."

"Jun Tian's plan originated from Yunzhi, and if something like this happens to his grandfather at this moment, it will definitely make people suspect Yunzhi. Did he conspire with his grandfather, and how much did he know about this matter? These are suspicious."

"But you and I both know, he! He was also kept in the dark!"

Ji Wenxuan said patiently, "I know it well, and the Queen Mother knows it too. It's terrible that I can't stop the mouth of the world!"

"Not to mention the people in the world, Guang Weizhen alone can turn the court upside down!"

"Wei Zhen has been watching the situation in Beijing these days, but he has been collecting information secretly. Guangchen's secret guards have already caught more than a dozen spies."

"He used to have quarrels with Yun Zhi, if he knows what happened to Chen Liu, and what happened to Hu Yushi before he left Beijing, it will be a lesson for us!"

Sheng Shaoqing calmed down and thought for a moment, "What about Wang Yuan?"

"Did he die in vain like this?"

"He bet with his life, did he end up like this?!"

Ji Wenxuan frowned, "The Empress Dowager doesn't want the kindness of a woman."

"My wife's benevolence?!"

Sheng Shaoqing laughed back angrily, "Could it be that such a human life is worthless in the eyes of the Prime Minister?"

"No," Ji Wenxuan said anxiously, "I don't mean that."

It was rare for Sheng Shaoqing to see Ji Wenxuan showing such an anxious expression in front of her eyes, and she really hit the spot in her heart.

"What I mean is that even if you want to punish the crime, you have to change the name. As for Wang Yuan, just compensate him."

"How to compensate?"

Sheng Shaoqing sneered, "How can I make up for the death of a person?"

"Then there is his wife, child." Ji Wenxuan suddenly remembered something, frowned and said, "But Wang Yuan is not a good person, his relatives rely on him to run rampant in Qingshiban Township, this"

"One yard counts for one yard," Sheng Shaoqing said directly, "If you are meritorious, you will be judged as meritorious. If you are guilty, you will be judged as guilty. In short, this matter cannot be pushed down."

Sheng Shaoqing knew that Ji Wenxuan definitely had a way to press this matter down quietly, so he explicitly reminded him not to make mistakes.

"But what you said, I will think about it myself, you go back first."

"By the way, you were asked to try the scientific examination in Chenliu earlier, are you ready?"

Ji Wenxuan knew that the Empress Dowager was issuing an order to evict guests, so he also smiled wryly, "I have already arranged for someone to prepare, and I will ask him to explain to the Empress Dowager in person tomorrow."

Sheng Shaoqing nodded, but didn't speak again, and Ji Wenxuan retreated knowingly.

Cui Yun worried from the side, "Is the Queen Mother's words a little heavy?"

"The minister is worried about the prime minister"

The fire in Sheng Shaoqing's heart has not dissipated, "I used to be too easy to talk, which made them feel that I have no principles at all!"

"That's a living human life! How could it just disappear without knowing why?"

Cui Yun whispered, "The Prime Minister didn't mean that either. What's more, it's just a small township official"

Sheng Shaoqing was stunned when he heard the words, and turned to look at Cui Yun, unable to recover for a long time, "You also think I am making a fuss out of a molehill?"

(End of this chapter)