Brothers and friends are respectful to each other, and the times are harmonious and the years are prosperous.
When a gentleman drinks wine, he enjoys endless pleasure.
If you are not a gentleman, you will have endless pleasure in drinking.
Li Qinzai made an exception and drank a lot of wine today.
The wine of this era was not actually delicious. Even the Sanlejing grape wine that noble families used to drink was incomparable in taste to what it would be a thousand years later, so Li Qinzai didn't like drinking very much.
It's just that today I was drinking with my cousin, and the brothers were very close. Li Qinzai drank a lot without realizing it, and by the end he was seventy or eighty percent drunk.
Li Jingye finally knew how many great things his cousin had done in the past year or so.
The more he listened, the more surprised he became. He couldn't even think of how his cousin could be so powerful. The cousin who used to be unscrupulous and cause trouble has now transformed into a pillar of the country. The British family has a long-lasting fortune because of him.
As the eldest grandson of the eldest son who will inevitably inherit the British Dukedom in the future, Li Jingye's mood is actually a bit complicated.
If it weren't for the fact that he is the eldest grandson of the eldest family member, the most suitable person to inherit the British Dukedom should be Li Qinzai, right?
For a moment, a trace of jealousy flashed through Li Jingye's heart, but he was relieved in an instant.
Zui looked at Li Qinzai, he was still his cousin, the little bastard who cried and made trouble when he was young, and made the whole family worry when he grew up.
In the dead of night, people are quiet, and there is a solitary lamp in the bright hall.
Under the shadow of the flickering lamp, the two brothers swayed with their shoulders crossed.
The banquet lasted until dawn.
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Chang'an City.
The number of memorials to impeach Li Qinzai has not decreased, and they are still being sent to Shangshu Province like snowflakes every day.
The background of the Wang family in Taiyuan is indeed extraordinary. Li Qinzai's act of burning down his ancestral home was like poking a hornet's nest. After several days, the situation not only did not cool down, but intensified.
In the court, all the courtiers related to the Wang family were participating in the impeachment of Li Qinzai with righteous indignation.
What's more interesting is that the ancestral home of the Wang family in Taiyuan was burned down, and several other aristocratic families became restless. Taking advantage of the public outrage, except for the Cui family of Qingzhou, several other aristocratic families in the five surnames and seven sects instigated their disciples to participate in the impeachment of Li Qinzai.
Li Qinzai burned not only the Wang family in Taiyuan, but his actions had also touched the back of all the aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty.
The ancestral home of a thousand-year-old family is set on fire when asked. If there is no severe punishment, will anyone be able to set fire to the ancestral home of the family in the future?
This is something that the aristocratic family will never allow. Even if he is the grandson of an English duke, no matter how powerful his background is, he must be eliminated this time.
When Li Qinzai sold the white jade Pegasus given by the late emperor, the consequences of such a stupid thing were not as serious as they are today.
Li Qinzai already had a title and official position, so burning his ancestral home was no longer an act of ignorance and frivolity. To the courtiers, Li Qinzai was an adult and should be responsible for his actions and bear the consequences of his troubles.
This consequence is not only an understatement of being fined, but there are many memorials demanding severe punishment from the emperor. Even if he is demoted and dismissed from office, he must be exiled thousands of miles away and even be brought to Dali Temple for severe interrogation.
In the past few days, there were more and more memorials about impeachment, but the emperor turned a deaf ear to them. Even if someone participated in the impeachment in person at the court meeting, Li Zhi would laugh a few times, and then his right minister Xu Jingzong came out to change the topic.
With the tacit understanding between the monarch and his ministers, the matter was postponed and no results were seen for several days. Xu Jingzong even shelved Shen impeachment's memorial and ignored it.
The court hall was boiling and the sky was full, and the people among the people were not quiet either.
I don't know who inspired the students of the Imperial College to sit in front of the British Duke's Palace. They also stuffed a joint letter under the door of the Imperial Palace, asking the old master to clean up the house. My husband has lived a life of meritorious service and a clean life.
The door of the British government was closed tightly, and the troops at the door were withdrawn. Li Ji made up his mind to let these ignorant students run wild.
When the situation gradually got out of control, news finally came out from Tai Chi Palace.
The first is a notice from the palace, which was posted at the entrance of the Ministry of Justice office outside Zhuque Street for passers-by to check.
The notice contains the confession of Wang Cong'an, the Chang'an steward of the Taiyuan Wang family, and all the details of the Wang family's secret plot to assassinate Li Qinzai, the grandson of the British duke, including instigating the dispatch of envoys to the Tang Dynasty, and the use of dead members of the family, etc.
After this notice was posted, the government and the public were shocked, and the private sector was astonished.
Everything has a cause and a result. It was only then that people discovered that there was a reason why the grandson of the British Duke led people to burn the Wang family's ancestral home all the way.
Comparing one's feelings with one's own, if you are in a different place, after being secretly assassinated, will you take revenge and go back? Just burning down your ancestral home is already very polite, okay?
Public opinion in Chang'an City instantly reversed, and the perpetrators became victims. The number of memorials to impeach Li Qinzai decreased by more than half overnight.
Most of the remaining people who are still participating in the impeachment are official disciples related to the Wang family in Taiyuan.
Two days after the notice was posted, Li Zhi and Empress Wu finally took action.
A decree suddenly came out from the Taiji Palace, severely reprimanding the three provinces and six ministries. Yushitai, the most popular person who participated in the impeachment of Li Qinzai, was even scolded bloody by Li Zhi.
After the reprimand, Li Zhi ordered the officials of the three provinces and six ministries to reflect on themselves and conduct self-rectification and self-examination.
Right Minister Xu Jingzong understood this and took the lead in pleading guilty to Li Zhi at the court meeting. At this time, Li Yifu, who had never dealt with Xu Jingzong, did not know who had inspired him, and unexpectedly stood on the same front as Xu Jingzong and petitioned Li Zhi together.
Then, the direction of the court suddenly changed.
After several days of self-correction and self-examination, evidence was inexplicably revealed that some officials in six ministries in three provinces had violated the law.
These evidences are like magic weapons descending from the sky, they came inexplicably. Some were reported by colleagues for backstabbing, some were discovered by Baiqisi, and some were evidence that had been sealed for an unknown period of time. Things that happened in the year of the monkey were suddenly revealed.
The courtiers who had been jumping happily a few days ago were all confused now.
It was obviously about the British Duke's grandson burning down the Wang family's ancestral home in Taiyuan. Why did he actually cause the fire and burn himself just two days later?
Some smart courtiers smacked their lips and tasted the unusual taste.
From the assassination of Li Qinzai to the burning of Wang's ancestral home by Li Qinzai, many officials from three provinces and six ministries were finally involved... Why does this look more and more like a trap?
The memory of the emperor deposing Wang Liwu many years ago came to mind again. When I thought about it, my thoughts suddenly became clear.
Damn, this is the time to take action against the aristocratic family.
Whether Li Qinzai was assassinated or his ancestral home was burned down, it was just a foreshadowing.
What the emperor and the empress really want to do is to use this matter to beat the aristocratic family, not only the Taiyuan Wang family, but all the aristocratic families.
Yes, it is just a knock. With Li Zhi and Empress Wu's current abilities, they cannot completely eradicate the family, but the Tian family has shown an obvious attitude of suppressing the family.
The purpose of this turmoil is to let the major sects see the attitude of the Tianjia.
As many illegal evidences surfaced, officials related to the Wang family in Taiyuan were arrested one after another.
This time, the focus of the attack was on the Taiyuan Wang family, but several other powerful officials were also involved, and a few of them were more or less demoted. As for the Taiyuan Wang family, more than 20 officials were taken into Dali Temple alone. , some of them have serious crimes and may be subject to confiscation of their homes and execution.
May 22, the second year of Longshuo.
After dozens of officials were taken to prison, Taiji Palace once again sent a decree.
The Wang family in Qi County was engaged in lawlessness and plotting to assassinate meritorious officials, so the Wang family in Qi County was ordered to change their surname.
From then on, the Wang family in Qi County changed their surname to "Mang", and the clan members were no longer allowed to use the surname Wang.