Do you know: I am Yuan Wenshao

Chapter 305: Turning against guests

"I don't care whether others know it or not, but since I am an admonisher, I can't ignore it if I know it." Qi Heng said.

"You...you...you are going to piss me off."

Princess Pingning pointed at Qi Heng with trembling hands and said: "If you go and expose something that the official family and the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty do not want to deal with, do you want our entire Qi family to fall into eternal disaster?"

The honorable nobles of Bianjing have been married to each other for many years, and they can basically have some relationship.

Moreover, King Yan himself was one of the candidates for the crown prince, and many people fawned over him at first.

But these people are not necessarily involved in rebellion.

After all, King Yan conspired to rebel. In order to keep it secret, it was impossible to let many people know about it.

This is also the reason why Zhao Zongquan did not investigate further.

Because there is no way to investigate further.

We can't regard those who supported King Yan and those who fawned over him as participating in treason, right?

If this is true, more than one-third of the officials in the court will be implicated, and many generals in the Northern Army will be questioned.

"Mom, the royal family has regulations and the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. The son is an admonishment officer. He has his own plans for what to do, so I don't need to worry about it, mother." Qi Heng said lightly.

"Okay, you are very kind. Yes, I can't control your petition, but if you really dare to petition, don't recognize me as your mother." After Princess Pingning finished speaking, she walked out with a pale face.

Qi Heng watched his mother leave and closed his eyes in pain.

He is not stupid, how could he not know what Princess Pingning knows.

But he had no choice.

But he said that Princess Pingning left Qihengyuan and returned to her own yard.

When Qi Guogong saw his wife coming back with an ugly face, he sighed and said: "Okay, it's normal for Heng'er to not forget the sixth girl of the Sheng family for a while, but the sixth girl of the Sheng family is already married. As time goes by, he will naturally give up. Yes. As for your daughter-in-law, you should go and talk to her more often when you have time, and find out things."

"It's not because of this. Do you know what Heng'er wants to do? He wants to break the truth." Princess Pingning said.

"What do you mean?" Duke Qi frowned.

Princess Pingning told Qi Heng about the report he was going to make to thoroughly investigate King Yan for rebelling against the party.

"Do you think he is crazy? No one in the official family or the officials in the court mentioned this kind of thing, but he wants to pierce this layer of paper. When the time comes, those people will remember this on our Qi family. Princess Pingning gasped.

"wrong."

Qi Guogong shook his head and said: "Although Heng'er is a bit stubborn, he is not stupid either. It is impossible for him not to know the interests behind this matter. Moreover, he has been in the Admonition Court for some time, why didn't he have this idea before?"

After all, Duke Guo of Qi was involved in official circles and looked at problems much calmer than Princess Pingning.

"You mean someone forced him to do this?" Princess Pingning asked in surprise.

Duke Qi was silent for a while and nodded.

"No, I'm going to ask clearly. If this is really the case, I will go into the palace and ask the Queen Mother to make the decision." Princess Pingning said and walked out.

"What if this person is the Queen Mother?" Qi Guogong said solemnly.

Princess Pingning stopped when she heard this and said in a voiceless voice: "This is impossible!"

"How many people can force Heng'er to do this? I can't think of anyone except the Queen Mother." Qi Guogong said.

In addition to the Queen Mother, officials also have this ability.

But it is impossible for the officials to do this, because it will not do him any good, but will make the already stable situation chaotic again.

After Princess Pingning figured this out, she sat down in despair.

"The Queen Mother treats me so kindly, why does she do this?"

"Everyone is aware of the conflict between the Queen Mother and the official family. The Queen Mother's move should be based on the official family. Heng'er is just a pawn." Qi Guogong said.

"No, our Qi family can't be a chess piece that can be abandoned at any time. I want to tell Heng'er and ask him to go to the official family to confess." Princess Pingning said anxiously.

"So what if we confess? Our Qi family has a close relationship with the late Emperor and the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother helped arrange Heng'er's position. Can the officials believe it without any evidence?

Even if the officials believe it, they can't do anything to the Queen Mother. Instead, the Queen Mother becomes angry and wants to deal with the Qi family, and the officials may not protect us. "A trace of misery flashed in Qi Guogong's eyes.

To put it bluntly, their Qi family no longer has any influence in the military.

It has no value to the official family. It is impossible for the official family to fight with the Queen Mother for the sake of the Qi family.

"Can we only be this chess piece?" Princess Pingning said.

"Heng'er must have some plans. Don't disturb him yet and let him do it. With Mr. Shen here, there shouldn't be any major events." Qi Guogong sighed.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Shen is here." Princess Pingning said in surprise.

She had forgotten about Mr. Shen. Qi Heng was now Mr. Shen's son-in-law. Mr. Shen couldn't care less if anything happened.

Duke Guo of Qi was not so optimistic. He just said that just to appease his wife.

In this kind of thing, even Shen Xianggong can't protect Qi Heng.

……

Royal palace, morning

Because there hasn't been much happening lately, and because they got up early in the morning, all the officials, both civil and military, are a little drowsy.

Even Zhao Zongquan found it a bit boring.

Yesterday, the internal officials around the Queen Mother came to report that the Queen Mother was not feeling well and would not come to listen to the government today. Zhao Zongquan still thought that he could finally preside over the morning court alone.

Although the Queen Mother returned the jade seal, she did not open the curtain. During the morning court, he still needed to ask the Queen Mother for instructions to show respect.

This is like asking your mother for advice on everything.

If you are young, others will think you are normal.

As you get older, others will think you are respecting your mother.

But this presupposes that they are biological mother and son, which unfortunately he and the Queen Mother are not.

As a man in his thirties, he became an emperor and ruled the world, but he had to ask for instructions on everything in the morning, so he naturally felt aggrieved.

No matter how well some things are handled, the outside world will think it is the Queen Mother's credit.

He originally wanted to take advantage of the Queen Mother's absence today to handle a few important matters and let others publicize them. As a result, officials one by one reported some minor and minor matters.

The morning court had lasted for nearly half an hour. When Zhao Zongquan saw that no one came out to perform the memorial, he looked at the official Shen who was standing aside.

Official Shen understood and was about to announce the disbandment of the court when Qi Heng came out.

"I advise Qi Heng, the official of the court, to have a memorial." Qi Heng saluted.

"Sure!" Zhao Zongquan said calmly.

"Last year, the rebels rebelled against the king. Fortunately, your majesty put down the rebellion and purged the world. However, the remnants of the rebels were not eliminated. I sincerely request your majesty to thoroughly investigate the rebels and rectify people's hearts." Qi Heng said.

After Qi Heng finished speaking, all the civil and military ministers in the hall looked at Qi Heng in surprise.

Sitting on the royal seat, Zhao Zong was expressionless, but his eyes were a little ugly.

Doesn’t he know that there are many people who rebel against the Party in King Yan and have not been found out?

But can this matter be thoroughly investigated?

Apart from anything else, among the people who originally supported King Yong, I am afraid that many people secretly showed favor to King Yan and thought about hedging their bets.

If this investigation continues, all the people involved will be dead.

Zhao Zongquan knew that Qi Heng belonged to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother might have been behind this incident.

Once he orders an investigation, people will definitely be panicked.

At that time, many people may turn to the Queen Mother in order to save their lives.

But it won’t work without checking.

The late emperor died because of King Yan's rebellion, and he inherited the throne through adoption by the late emperor. Speaking of which, this can be regarded as revenge for his father.

If he doesn't check, who knows what rumors will spread outside?

For a time, Zhao Zongquan was in a dilemma.

Seeing that the official was silent, Han Zhang knew that the official was in trouble, so he said: "Qi Jianyi's words are wrong. When the official came to the throne, he had already thoroughly investigated the rebels and eliminated them." , you are now proposing a thorough investigation, what are you thinking about?"

"My lord, I propose a thorough investigation of the rebellious party to eliminate the remaining evildoers. I am only an admonishing official. Even if the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty are implicated, what is the benefit to me?"

After Qi Heng finished speaking, he raised the memorial with both hands and said: "Your Majesty, I have evidence to prove that there are still many remnants of the rebel group who are at large. I would like to ask your Majesty to take a look at it."

Zhao Zongquan looked at Shen Naiguan, who understood and winked at a young eunuch.

The young eunuch quickly stepped forward to take the memorial and handed it to Shen Neiguan.

Shen Neiguan sent it to Zhao Zongquan, who took it and opened it and read it.

Qi Heng's memorial contains the names of many people, including when these people had contact with King Yan and what help they provided to King Yan.

Although there was no confirmation, it was so detailed that he could confirm it with a little investigation. He believed that Qi Heng would not dare to lie.

After a long time, Zhao Zongquan gathered the memorial together, pondered for a while, and said: "In this case, the thorough investigation of the rebels will be left to Dr. Qi Jianyi, and the Ministry of Punishment will send someone to assist!"

If you don’t want to investigate, then I’ll leave it to you.

The relationship between the Qi family and the Queen Mother was known to all the ministers in the court.

When more people are involved, these people will naturally ask the Queen Mother for mercy and see how the Queen Mother deals with it.

If he helped, he could take the opportunity to catch the Queen Mother.

If the Queen Mother doesn't help, not only will the courtiers be disappointed, but he can also wait for Qi Heng to finish investigating the case and find an opportunity to deal with Qi Heng and calm people's hearts.

Zhao Zongquan looked at Qi Heng with a smile, and was very satisfied with the method he came up with in a hurry to focus on customers.

Qi Heng was stunned. He didn't expect that the officials would let him take charge of this matter.

However, he had no room to refuse and could only respond: "I obey your order!"

"Retreat from the court!" After Zhao Zongquan said this, he stood up and left the hall.

"I respectfully send you off to Your Majesty!"

After Zhao Zongquan left, the court ministers straightened up and left the hall in groups.

When leaving, many people glanced at Qi Heng with different expressions.

With a dull look on his face, Qi Heng left the palace and got on the carriage, thinking about how to break the situation.

The Queen Mother wanted her to be a river pawn, but the officials wanted to use it as a trick.

No matter which side wins, he will be abandoned.

However, Qi Heng did not want to sit still and wait for death.

After returning home, Qi Heng went back to the study and locked himself in the study.

He already had a rough idea of ​​how to break the situation, but he still had to think carefully about the details.

Princess Pingning got the news and rushed over.

Qi Heng did not see her, but asked Princess Pingning to tell her that this dynasty would not kill scholar-bureaucrats.

He entered the official position through the imperial examination, so even if he was abandoned, his life would not be in danger.

In the afternoon, Qi Heng left home and went to the Ministry of Punishment to transfer people.

The Ministry of Punishment had Zhao Zongquan's instructions and arranged for several officials and some officers to be assigned to him.

Qi Heng summoned these officials, gave them some instructions, and sent them down to do their work.

For the past few days, there was no movement from Qi Heng.

This reassured many worried officials.

In their view, Qi Heng's performance was just for the sake of grandstanding.

The officials put him in charge of a thorough investigation, and he no longer had the courage to offend so many people.

Just when many officials felt that Qi Heng's thunder was louder than the raindrops, and he was perfunctory.

Qi Heng, who had been silent for a few days, suddenly made a move.

Qi Heng took people directly to the Gu family and captured two cousins ​​of the same generation as Gu Tingye.

In addition, several children of Lord Bianjing's family were captured.

People in Bianjing were panicked for a while, and many people realized that Qi Heng was not going to do anything casually.

Didn't you see that he even arrested the Gu family, the Yuan family, and several members of the government?

……

Qi Heng submitted a report to thoroughly investigate the remnants of King Yan, and Yuan Wenshao also knew about it.

He never expected that the Yuan family would be involved.

The person who was captured by the Yuan family was a descendant of the same clan of the Yuan family named Yuan Wenrong, who was considered the same generation as Yuan Wenshao.

The two teams haven't released their fifth server yet, so their relationship is relatively close.

Yuan Wenrong was arrested, and his wife Yuan Weili directly blamed Yuan Weichang.

Yuan Weichang had no choice but to find Yuan Wenshao for help.

"Dad, this is a serious crime of rebellion. Our family may be implicated. How can my child help me to plead for mercy?" Yuan Wenshao said.

This matter is obviously a fight between the officials and the Queen Mother.

It's not appropriate for him to beg anyone.

Once one of them becomes hemiplegic, the other party will take advantage of them.

"Erlang, if your cousin really participated in the conspiracy, I would be too shameless to beg you. The problem is that your cousin only drank a few times with Erlang of the Qiu family and talked nonsense, and there was nothing else. Come on, why are you plotting rebellion?" Yuan Weili said hurriedly when he saw Yuan Wenshao didn't help.

"Yes, Erlang. Wen Rong just made some nonsense before, saying that King Yan was more suitable to be the crown prince. King Yan didn't rebel at that time, so how could it be considered treason?" Yuan Weichang said.

He is now the head of the Yuan family, so he cannot ignore this kind of thing.

Yuan Wenshao frowned slightly when he heard this and asked: "Father, uncle, are you sure this is the only thing and nothing else?"

If it is really just nonsense, there is no reason to be arrested.

The two brothers of the Gu family were arrested because they helped King Yan purchase women, and these women were used by King Yan to win over the courtiers.

"This is really the only thing. At that time, the officials were angry and kept many people in the palace. When I found out, I was scared and anxious. I beat him and locked him up at home. I didn't let him out until the officials ascended the throne. Yuan Weili said.

"Uncle, don't worry. I'll inquire about this matter and find out why my cousin was arrested. If it's just a trivial matter, it will definitely be fine." Yuan Wenshao said.

"Erlang, I'll leave it to you. Your cousin must have done nothing else." Yuan Weili quickly assured him.

Yuan Wenshao nodded, comforted him a few words, and asked him to go back and wait for the news.

After finally sending the person away, Yuan Wenshao said: "Dad, you have to be mentally prepared. Things shouldn't be that simple, otherwise you won't be caught. It's hard to plead for mercy in this kind of thing, otherwise our family will be implicated."

"Erlang, I understand what you mean. If Wen Rong is really involved, just leave it alone." Yuan Weichang said.

"Officer, officer, it's not good!"

At this moment, Hua Lan hurriedly walked in.

(End of this chapter)