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Chapter 447 Cut off another arm
On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, in Green Bamboo Alley, a man and a pair of children blocked Xu Hu, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, at the door.

Accused him of seizing his wife.

The onlookers were stunned.

Xu Hu originally placed this outer room quietly in Lvzhu Lane. He would come here quietly a few times a month without anyone noticing. Every time he came back, he would do so quietly and covertly. The neighbors on the left and right didn't know whether he lived in a big house in that courtyard. The official's private room.

Xu Hu only brought one boy with him every time and hired a sedan to deliver it to the door. He was very low-key. After all, he, a second-grade imperial official, also needs a reputation.

Moreover, the tigress in the house is too fierce, and he is afraid that she will know about it, and that the woman raised in the house will be eaten by the tigress.

Xu Hu didn't react until he was blocked at the door.

By the time he came to his senses, the family of four were already crying, crying for their father and mother. Xu Hu was surrounded in the middle. He could neither go in nor go out. His face was ashamed and annoyed. He wanted to hide his face and leave, but was blocked again. A pair of children hugged his thigh and gave it back to their mother. Xu Hu suddenly unexpectedly Can't leave.

Before his servant could call for reinforcements, by chance, Shi Zheng, the head of the East Palace, and Duan Yushi happened to pass by.

Xu Hu knew that he was finished.

On the 20th day of the first lunar month, after so many days of rest and eating meat at home with good wine and food, all the civil and military ministers did not react to the holiday syndrome. They got up before dawn, half asleep and half awake, just waiting. The eunuch of the Si Palace is retreating from the court without any means.

As a result, the upright Duan Yushi lost his integrity and jumped out to sue the chief bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

"Your Majesty, Xu Hu is lawless, bullies others with his power, and seizes wives. Our "Household Code" clearly states that 'any powerful person who seizes the wife and daughter of a good family, or takes them as wives and concubines will be hanged.' Xu ​​Hu is the head of the Hanlin Academy. Academicians who know the law and break it should be hanged to serve as a warning to others!”

On the first day of the court meeting after the New Year, Emperor Zhizheng thought it was nothing serious and was looking forward to leaving the court so he could catch up on his sleep. However, he was hit in the head.

Everyone is awake.

Wenhan, the leader of the Hanlin Academy, edited the history of the country, lectured on classics and history, drafted various ceremonial documents, and drafted confidential documents directly issued by the emperor. The bachelor of the Hanlin Academy participated in secrets and had greater real power. The bachelor of the Hanlin Academy was equivalent to the internal prime minister.

Emperor Zhizheng had great trust in Xu Hu and had high hopes for him, but what happened to him?
"Where is Xu Hu!"

"Waiting for orders outside the palace."

"Xuan!"

"Xuan Xu Hu enters the palace!" The voice of the emperor carrying the decree was heard outside the palace. After a while, Xu Hu entered the palace with weak legs and kowtowed to Emperor Zhizheng to beg for mercy.

The King of Chu stared at the father-in-law with evil eyes, angry and annoyed.

A second-rank minister wants a woman, but there is no one. He insists on snatching the wife of a servant. He doesn't seem to be a man of great power. This Xu Hu has harmed his good deeds and even harmed his third brother.

King Chu's eyes were evil and he wanted to eat him.

By coincidence, he was also seen by the East Palace Chief Shi and Duan Yushi. The King of Chu glanced at the prince hatefully. If it weren't for the prince's handwriting, he would have swallowed up the entire hall.

Listening to Xu Hu's self-defense, which was full of loopholes, the King of Chu felt heavy in his chest and breathless, but he couldn't really ignore him. After all, he is his father-in-law. If he doesn't intercede for him, he will be called callous.

The princess cried all night at his place last night, and the Xu family also came to the door, begging him and his third brother to get a piece of Xu Hu.

If the East Palace Chief Shi and Duan Yushi didn't see this matter, they would have settled the matter quietly, but it was all brought to the main hall.

After Emperor Zhengzheng heard what happened, he scolded Xu Hu so much that the King of Chu even hung his head. I hate him more and more for not being particular about what he does.

If you can't wipe the head and tail clean, if someone pulls the pigtails, it's your own fault.

After hearing that Duan Yuzhang insisted on hanging, the King of Chu came out to plead for mercy, "Father, Xu Hu's crime will not lead to death. The law of Hu said that the wife and daughter of a good family were forcibly taken to be hanged, and the wife of Xu Hu was raised. She is the wife of a servant of the Xu family, and her status is that of a servant. Since she sold herself to the Xu family, she becomes the property of the master's family, and she has made a clear settlement with her husband and promised him gold and silver, so it cannot be regarded as usurping the wife and daughter of a good family... …”

The prince had known that he would intercede like this, so he smiled and did not look at King Chu. He only turned to look at Yushi Duan.

Duan Yushi Fang is the most upright person and will not show mercy when evidence is obtained.

Servant's wife? The family of four was originally harmonious and just ordinary farmers in the village next to Xujiazhuangzi. Xu Hu accidentally went to live in Zhuangzi and was so shocked when he saw the woman that he planned to have all four members of the family sign a contract to sell themselves. He signed a contract and said that he would bring the woman into the house to work, but in the end, she was raised outside and used as a concubine.

Xu Hu doesn't like this yellow-flowered girl, but prefers a married woman, tsk tsk.

This taste is really unique.

He had ordered people to find these evidences, as well as the confessions of the four members of the family, and handed them to Duan Yushi. Duan Yushi was so cruel that he even scolded the emperor, but he was not afraid of the King of Chu.

I heard that the King of Chu sent people to Duan Yushi's home several times last night. The Xu family also sent people to knock on the door in the middle of the night, but Duan Yushi would not open the door.

The prince's mood became more and more cheerful. When King Qin looked over, he smiled at him.

King Qin grinded his teeth bitterly.

The prince's last purge of the Ministry of War resulted in the replacement of many of the men he had deployed for many years. This time he killed Xu Hu again. This time, both inside and outside, the prince vowed to replace them all with his people. But Xu Hu's incident happened so suddenly that he was not prepared at all.

Zhao Guangyuan stood there with his head bowed silently, as if he didn't notice the dispute between their eyebrows, nose and nose.

Duan Yushi lived up to the prince's expectations and immediately refuted King Chu's remarks.

"Your Majesty, that woman is not a servant of the Xu family, but Xu Hu, in order to seize his wife, forced the family to sign the deed of sale as a good citizen. Afterwards, he said that the woman would be allowed to work in the palace and forced the woman to separate from her husband and children. , and drove the father and son far away to Zhuangzi in another province, and sent people to guard them, not allowing them to leave Zhuangzi. "

They were not allowed to take a single step out of Zhuangzi, so how did the three of them, father and son, find their way to the capital?

If there was no one involved here, King Chu and King Qin would never believe it. It's a pity that the other party kept everything secret and didn't reveal any information, so they couldn't take precautions in advance.

The prince took the family of four to the East Palace last night and placed them properly, so that King Qin and King Chu could not force the woman to change her tune and say that she voluntarily committed herself to Xu Hu.

After listening to the imperial envoy Duan's report, Emperor Zhengzheng learned that Xu Hu had ordered good people to become slaves in order to snatch their wives. He was so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. He took the memorial and threw it at Xu Hu so hard that blood sprayed from his forehead.

"According to my decree, Xu Hu seizes the wife, demotes her to a commoner, and returns her to her original place of origin!" Considering Xu Hu's achievements over the years, and because Emperor Zhizheng has killed many people since he ascended the throne, not only did he kill only one brother, but Even the eldest son's family was killed. He was afraid that people would say he was tyrannical, so now he would not kill him if he could, sparing Xu Hu from hanging.

He also scolded the King of Chu and fined him two years' salary.

Although Xu Hu saved his life, he could not even stay in Beijing. Although the King of Chu only fined him two years' salary, which was not painful to him, for him and the King of Qin, it really broke a strong arm.

Xu Hu was in the Hanlin Academy and was a bachelor of the academy. He was favored by Emperor Zheng, who often called him to the imperial study to discuss matters. Xu Hu was able to guess Emperor Zheng's intentions, and from time to time he would be the King of Qin and the King of Chu in front of Emperor Zheng. The two brothers fought for some benefits and were able to deliver the news as soon as possible, which gave King Qin a lot of advantages.

As a result, Xu Hu was masturbated now.

Although he survived, he was completely wasted.

When King Qin returned to his palace, he was furious and held it in for a long time. As soon as he came back, he cursed King Chu bloody.

Although they already knew that the situation was not going to be good last night and tried various methods to protect Xu Hu, in the end they were unable to do anything at the court today and were suppressed by the Crown Prince and Duan Yushi.

"Duan Yushi is already the prince's servant?" Didn't everyone criticize Duan Yushi for his bad temper? Didn't he throw a stone at the prince's side?
"You don't care who he belongs to." King Qin hated him for still thinking about such trivial matters. "Now the prince is staring at our people. He would like to wipe out all our people."

Now it’s Xu Hu, I don’t know who will be next.

"Let the people below clean their butts and investigate themselves. If something goes wrong and the prince's people find out, I can't protect them!"

The King of Qin and the King of Chu were looking gloomy. The prince returned to the East Palace, but celebrated with a group of officials and staff and picked up a general of the King of Qin.

"Congratulations to the crown prince. This academic master can finally be replaced by one of ours."

Everyone congratulated. The prince felt relieved by the compliment.

One of the staff raised a question: "Although our people know that Xu Hu is devoid of virtue and does not like yellow-flowered girls, he only likes widows and mature women. We have also checked his outhouse many times, and Xu Hu has done everything clean." , nothing unusual, how did this news come through?”

It couldn't have been dug out by their people. Someone had delivered the news to them.

Who wants to use their hands to chop off King Qin's arm?

"Is it King Jin?" King Jin didn't want to take action, so he handed the news to them?

"It can't be King Jin. If King Jin got the news, he would stab him. How could he lend us our hand?" King Jin has never been afraid of those two brothers.

Everyone speculated, "Could it be the King of Yue? I heard that Xu Hu's grandson had some unpleasantness with the nephew of Princess Yue, and looked down upon him for being such a jerk. Could it be the King of Yue who was helping the child vent his anger?"

The prince laughed and said, "Children's playfulness is not worth spending so much effort on."

He's not Lao Qi's son, so there's no point in offending someone for such an unrelated child. The seventh child has just returned to Beijing. If he wants to live a more comfortable life, he will not do sinful things easily.

A staff member echoed, "Exactly. Not to mention whether the King of Yue has such manpower, the King of Yue has only returned to Beijing for half a year. He probably still doesn't know the preferences of the ministers."

Xu Hu's aunt has been raising her for more than a year, secretly in Green Bamboo Lane, and even the Xu family themselves don't know.

How do others know?

So who revealed it?
No matter who revealed it, the prince was very happy. If King Qin's arm was taken away, King Qin would probably be seriously injured. King Qin has lost his vitality, how can the prince be unhappy?

Zhao Guangyuan was also very happy.

Aren't you mocking the Prince Yue's family for having no heir? Your Xu family has many descendants, but in the end, you can't even stay in the capital. Go back to your place of origin and start over again. If you want to regain the power you have today, you will have to wait at least several decades.

Xu Hu's sons had no future, and they only had one legitimate daughter who married the King of Chu and was very proud of. As a result, the Princess of Chu no longer even had Xu Hu to rely on.

With the influence of King Chu and King Qin, it is not certain how long Princess Chu will be able to stay, or whether she will be replaced. I am afraid it will be difficult for the Xu family to make a comeback relying on Princess Chu. If the grandchildren want to achieve success, they may not be able to achieve it in a few years.

The officials and staff of Prince Yue's Mansion were also happy, thinking that with Xu Hu down, it would be possible to replace him with someone who would be beneficial to them, so they all started discussing together.

Zhao Guangyuan was in a good mood. Two days later, it was Chang Zhi's weekend. He was about to take his son to ride horses and practice his son's equestrian skills. However, he was told that Fang Er had taken Chang Zhi to the racecourse early in the morning.

He secretly scolded Fang Er for taking his job and preventing him from enjoying the joy of father and son.

I waited for Fang Eryi to come back at noon and gave him a fierce look. I don't know if this big, blind man guessed something. These days, he has been hanging around Changzhi, and Changzhi personally guards him when he goes outside. It has to be like eyeballs.

"Is there nothing left in the mansion?" The soldiers and guards in charge of the entire mansion don't care about anything but work as guards for a child to make a living.

"My subordinates have done all their work and have never been lazy."

Fang Er spoke plausibly. He now wants to cultivate a relationship with the young master. The young master often brought him delicious food in the imperial mausoleum. Why can't he be an equestrian and martial arts teacher for the young master now? He is repaying his kindness.

Yes, it is repaying the favor.

To repay his favor, Zhao Guangyuan swiped his leg, but he avoided it with a smile.

Zhao Guangyuan glared at him. Fang Er couldn't get an answer from him and Cao Cuo, so he went to Mo Changzhi. If he wanted to trick Changzhi, he thought he didn't know.

I had lunch with my son and was preparing to cultivate the relationship between father and son in the afternoon. As a result, Fang Er came over again and said that he wanted to send Chang Zhi to Prince Lu's Mansion and that King Lu wanted to teach Chang Zhi Danqing.

King Lu's painting skills were among the best in Beijing. He learned this skill best in the palace. Later, due to leg problems, he concentrated on calligraphy and painting. Emperor Zheng felt sorry for him and hired many painters who were good at painting. Confucianism taught him painting.

In this aspect, Zhao Guangyuan is inferior to King Lu.

He also couldn’t tell me about asking Changzhi to learn painting from him.

Seeing Fang Er leading Chang Zhi out of the mansion, Lin Zhaoxia asked Zhao Guangyuan in confusion: "Do you feel that King Lu treats Chang Zhi very differently now?"