Chapter 466: Hereditary Title

The officer was startled and said: "My lord, are you planning to put him under house arrest? But this won't work. He is the young master of the Hou Mansion. If you put him under house arrest, you will definitely disturb the emperor. I'm afraid you will be even worse off."

Yang Yanzhang frowned and said: "I know the seriousness of this matter. However, I have decided that early tomorrow morning, I will go to ask for an order to depose Yang Yucheng's hereditary title.

In this way, Yang Yucheng will become an ordinary person, and no one can stop us! "

"Your Excellency is wise!" The yamen servant flattered him.

Yang Yanzhang snorted coldly, and then walked towards his study.

After returning to the study, Yang Yanzhang locked himself in the room and waited restlessly.

Finally, an hour later, Yang Yanzhang heard a knock on the door outside the house. He hurriedly got up, opened the door and saw that it was a government servant.

The yamen servant respectfully handed Yang Yanzhang a stack of banknotes and said, "Sir, these are the banknotes you earned tonight. Count them."

Yang Yanzhang took out the banknote and looked at the banknote in his hand, his eyes rolling. Finally, he put the banknote back into the hand of the yamen servant and said calmly: "No one of you is allowed to reveal what happened today! Do you understand?"

"I understand, I didn't see anything!" the two officials replied hurriedly.

Yang Yanzhang nodded with satisfaction and said, "You go back to sleep first."

The two government servants hurriedly left as if they had been granted amnesty.

Yang Yanzhang closed the door and window, and then put the note with "Yang Yucheng's crime" written on it inside his clothes.

Immediately, Yang Yanzhang took out his pen and ink. After it was stained with ink, he picked up the pen again. Yang Yanzhang has been practicing calligraphy a lot these days, and he is good at writing beautiful hairpin regular script.

Yang Yanzhang took up his pen and wrote a few lines, then tied the note tightly, put it close to his ear, bit the note with his teeth, tore off a piece and threw it into the brazier.

After Yang Yanzhang finished all this, he took out a writing brush and a copper coin from his arms, and used it to write a few words on the note.

After writing, Yang Yanzhang burned the note.

Yang Yanzhang looked at the burning paper ball in the brazier, his face filled with excitement.

"Hey, Yang Yucheng, Yang Yucheng, now, I don't think you're going to catch me without mercy?" Yang Yanzhang sneered.

Yang Yanzhang stood at the desk for a moment, seeming to be still thinking about what was going to happen next. After a while, he put the pen and paper in the drawer, quickly packed it up, opened the door and left the house quietly.

After Yang Yanzhang left, two government officials emerged from the corner and exchanged glances with each other.

"Should we report your actions to Madam?" one person asked his companion in a low voice.

"Let's forget it. Let's not get into trouble." The companion shook his head.

"Damn it, you actually dare to frame big brother! This kind of person is so heartless that he is worse than a beast." Another person said angrily.

After scolding for a while, the two of them did not dare to stay for a long time and hurriedly left Yang Yanzhang's residence.

Not long after Yang Yanzhang left, an old woman quietly opened the door and quickly entered Yang Yanzhang's study.

Soon, some strange noises came from the study.

Yang Yanzhang felt hot all over after hearing it outside, and he wanted to rush to the study to have a look. Unfortunately, he endured it.

The old grandma came out soon. She said to the maid guarding the door outside: "Your Excellency, you are exhausted. Please wash up and go to bed early."

The maid took the order, then went to the kitchen and brought in a bowl of hot soup, and served Yang Yanzhang to bathe.

After taking a bath, the maid served Yang Yanzhang to drink the hot soup, then carried Yang Yanzhang to the couch and tucked him in with the quilt.

Just as the servant girl was about to leave the bed, she was stopped by Yang Yanzhang and said: "You stay and sleep with me, so that when I wake up early tomorrow morning, there will be no one around to take care of me."

When the servant girl heard this, she was immediately overjoyed. She hurriedly knelt down on the ground to thank her, then climbed onto the bed and lay down. Yang Yanzhang hugged Mei Jiaoniang and soon fell into a deep sleep.

He had a dream. He dreamed that he became a high official and had more than ten wives and concubines.

Yang Yanzhang was filled with emotion in his dream: "I, Yang Yanzhang, have finally made it through, and I can also enjoy glory and wealth!"

The next day, Yang Yanzhang woke up early. He was so excited last night that he didn't sleep much at all.

After washing and having breakfast, Yang Yanzhang mounted his horse and rushed to the Ministry of Punishment, preparing to ask the saint for an edict to abolish Yang Yucheng's title.

Arriving at the Criminal Department, Yang Yanzhang was stopped by the guards. Yang Yanzhang submitted Yang Yucheng's crime of colluding with bandits to rob people to the guards for examination, and then waited for the guards to come back with news.

Yang Yanzhang waited until noon before the guards returned.

"Master Yang, I have got what you asked for. Your Majesty appreciates your Majesty's suggestion very much. He asked your Majesty to submit it to Your Majesty according to the instructions he wrote." The guard said.

Yang Yanzhang was overjoyed: "Great, great!"

Yang Yanzhang took the secret letter handed over by the guard and read it carefully.

"This is fake!" Suddenly, Yang Yanzhang roared angrily.

The guard was stunned: "Sir, this memorial was written by your own hand, how could it be fake?"

"Nonsense! This is fake!" Yang Yanzhang roared.

Yang Yanzhang saw the memorial written by Yang Yucheng himself. The content of the memorial was: "I, Yang Yucheng, colluded with bandits to rob three or four households of villagers a few years ago, and robbed more than 500 kilograms of property and 27 people. Therefore, I Ask the Holy Judge."

Yang Yanzhang believed that this was a forged memorial by Yang Yucheng.

This memorial is false.

Because this is just a crime compiled by Yang Yucheng, and it was written in his own name. If it was written by Yang Yucheng himself, he would have signed it with his private seal or signature.

But now, there is no private seal or signature of Yang Yucheng on this memorial. Therefore, Yang Yanzhang determined that this memorial was fake.

Yang Yanzhang finished his roar, and then read the memorial carefully again.

The more he read, the angrier he became.

This is clearly frame-up.

"Damn it! Yang Yucheng, I can't spare you. If you wait for me, sooner or later your life will be worse than death." Yang Yanzhang slammed the memorial in his hand, and then strode away from the Ministry of Justice.

After Yang Yanzhang returned to the Yang Mansion, he immediately found the housekeeper and maids to discuss countermeasures and how to deal with the emperor's punishment.

"Master Yang, I think this matter cannot be delayed any longer. It must be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise we will suffer." the servant woman advised.

Yang Yanzhang had a gloomy face. After a while, he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, you follow me and kill that little beast Yang Yucheng tonight!"

That night, Yang Yanzhang took the housekeeper and maid to the manor in the suburbs.

They climbed over the wall and jumped into the courtyard, then went straight towards Yang Yucheng's residence. However, before they had time to rush into the main hall, they found that the courtyard was empty.

"No, this kid ran away."

"Sir, what should we do? Should we report the news quickly?"

"We can't report the news. If the rest of the Yang family is alerted, we will be in danger."

(End of this chapter)

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