Zhao Fujin, the Emperor who brought disaster to the country

Chapter 44 Cross the river and demolish the bridge

Cai Bian, whose courtesy name is Yuandu, is Cai Jing's biological younger brother. The two have been at odds with each other politically for a long time, and were slandered by Cai Jing frequently throughout his life.

"You! If you are stubborn, you will suffer a loss!" Seeing that Cai You failed to persuade Cai Wei, and was ridiculed twice by Cai Wei, he was so angry that he entered the main courtyard with a flick of his sleeves.

Cai Ji stared at his back as he went to the main courtyard. After a moment, he smiled sarcastically, turned around and walked towards his own courtyard.

But it was said that Cai You was angry at his brother. When he returned to the main courtyard, he saw his father practicing calligraphy leisurely. He couldn't help but sarcastically said: "The old man is really in a leisure mood, and he still has time to practice calligraphy!"

"What's going on? Are you here to vent your anger on me because you haven't reached an agreement with your brother?" Cai Jing didn't even raise his eyebrows. He filled the tip of his pen with ink and started writing again.

"Isn't your father a good leader?" Cai You said angrily: "You have a political disagreement with your uncle, and that kid is using this to stab me now. It doesn't make sense!"

"What he said is correct." Cai Jing put the pen on the inkstone, carefully looked at his handwriting, and said, "You and I can't even talk about it, let alone him!"

"Father!" Cai You said with some depression: "You don't know what was going on at that time. Our family has too much power in the court, and sooner or later it will arouse the taboos of the officials. My son had no choice but to do that. !”

"So, if your brother wants to be in a high position, he will not let you or me stand out. Isn't this extremely natural? What else do you have to worry about?" Cai Jing turned his back and leisurely walked aside to clean his hands.

Don’t worry, it’s time to become an official at such an old age anyway!
Cai You cursed in his heart depressedly. Seeing that he couldn't get the results he wanted with his old father, he changed the subject and said: "Father, tell me, Emperor Mingde is really siding with His Highness King Yi. ?”

His Royal Highness King Yi, Zhao Kai, the third son of the official family.

"That's not necessarily the case." Cai Jing was angry with his son, but he didn't say a word of advice: "The Mingxing floor belongs to His Highness the Third Highness, but in fact it belongs to your brother."

"What!" Cai You shouted in surprise: "Is it the money you gave him, father?"

As he asked the question, he had already defined it in his mind. After all, the land occupied by Mingxing Tower alone was worth over one hundred thousand taels of silver, not to mention building such a tall building and tidying up such an exquisite yard.

"I would like to, but unfortunately, I only found out about the relationship between Mingxinglou and your brother recently." Cai Jing rolled his eyes at Cai You: "It's not like you haven't checked, Liu's cousin-in-law is a private ship According to those who go to sea, his net worth is at least several million taels of silver."

"It's not like he's a relative. How could he give all the money to him and let him do whatever he wants?" Cai You still didn't believe it. After all, there are still several relationships between the Liu family and the Xu family: "Besides, the land in the imperial city, if How could it be possible to take down such a big piece all at once if there wasn’t someone supporting me from behind?”

This is because he is still doubting Cai Jing.

"Did you know that Xu Tao Niang recently sold a screen that was [-] feet high?" Cai Jing stretched out a hand and shook it: "This is the number."

"1 taels? That's not expensive. A flower screen in my son's house only costs 1 taels." Cai You said disapprovingly.

"10 taels, Mr. Tong gets it." Cai Jing rolled his eyes at his son: "You are just too high-profile, that's why you are being targeted."

"It doesn't matter whether I keep a high profile or not. Your good son will bear my grudge!" Cai You said, "I didn't care about their mother and son back then. Now when they see me, they can't say ten or eight sentences." It was stabbed and pulled."

"That's what you deserve. You were in the old house and allowed your own brother to die without saving him. If he doesn't hold a grudge, which one will you hold a grudge against?" Cai Jing educated him again: "According to me, you were just too short-sighted. You didn't give them a grudge at that time. How much does it cost to seek medical treatment? You just let it go and let the Xu family take advantage of it!" "I thought father..." Cai You wanted to explain unconvinced.

But Cai Jing stopped him: "There's no need to talk about the past! Tell me what the Zhu family said again."

When Cai You heard this, he immediately felt no longer aggrieved. He hurriedly took out the seal in his hand: "His Royal Highness is extremely dissatisfied with Emperor Ji's involvement in government affairs, especially Qin Xiang, whom Emperor Mingde took away from Dali Temple prison yesterday."

"Huh? What did Qin Xiang do?" Cai Jing pointed at Qin Xiang's name: "But he is the youngest son of Qin Shilang and the grandson of Right Prime Minister Bai?"

"Exactly, dad has an excellent memory!" Cai You said with a smile on his face: "Otherwise, this woman's family is unreliable. It is said that she received 50 taels of silver from Mrs. Bai and promised to fish the person out. Replace them with those on death row."

"Sure enough, you are bold. When your father and I were in office, we had to cover up some of the things we wanted to do, but she was so blatant!" Cai Jing nodded with his hand and sighed: "God will punish the madness, the ancients Don’t deceive me!”

"It's not that she didn't cover it up, but that one of the servants serving Mrs. Bai was related by marriage to the suffering master. It was she who exposed the matter to the suffering master's old father, so she sent someone to take Qin Xiang away. When I got out of the street, I was stopped by the old father of the suffering master, and that's when things happened."

……

"You mean, the person serving Mrs. Bai is related by marriage to the Fang family?" Zhao Fujin looked at the servant kneeling behind Xu Ruanniang and felt a little headache: "Mrs. Bai didn't hide such a big thing from anyone?"

"There are too many people waiting around the old lady. Grandma Ning's aunt is the old lady of the Fang family who has passed away. This relationship is also a layer apart. Who would have thought..." The servant woman lowered her head and said in embarrassment: " What the old lady means is that since the matter has reached this point, please ask the Emperor Ji to come forward to make peace, otherwise Qin Langjun..."

"You Bai family are not careful in doing things, and now it has affected Di Ji! How can you still have the face to come to ask for help!" Xu Ruanniang glared at the woman beside her and angrily said: "I want to ask, you guys Did he deliberately frame Di Ji? Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence? As soon as my people went to pick up someone, Mr. Fang arrived just in time. What a coincidence!"

"Our old lady doesn't want it either..." The old woman said in a low voice: "When this happened, my old man even wrote a letter of divorce to the old lady."

"You really should write a divorce letter." Zhao Fujin said with a bit of a smile on his face: "Your old lady is so self-sacrificing and disregards the family. If she doesn't divorce in time, she will definitely cause a huge disaster to the family in the future!"

Ah?
The old woman was dumbfounded. How could this be different from the old lady's reaction?

She was stunned for a moment and forced herself to explain to Mrs. Bai: "The old lady usually handles things very well and has never made any mistakes. This time she was too worried about the brother of the Qin family, that's why she acted like this."

"Are you anxious to kill him?" Zhao Fujin smiled coldly: "Your old lady probably only knew that I collected money, but didn't know that I did an investigation before collecting money?
Otherwise, you wouldn't have come up with such a lame trick to lure me into submission! "

What does it mean?
The old woman's heart suddenly trembled, and she said with a bit of luck: "My old lady has always respected the Emperor Ji, and she has absolutely no intention of harming the Emperor Ji."

"Fang Linsheng's wife and daughter, your old lady probably didn't ask where they are now, right?"

Xu Ruanniang said sarcastically: "If your old lady wants to cooperate with others to dispose of our Emperor Ji, it's time to put her in a safe place. You can't do anything like crossing a river and demolishing a bridge!" (End of Chapter)

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