After explaining to Song Yongchen, Zhao Xu led him to Qingshou Palace and told the two palaces about sending Song Yongchen to inspect Jingdong Road and Huainan East Road.
The two palaces would not stand in the way of such a thing and readily agreed.
Song Yongchen accepted the order and retreated.
However, Zhao Xu was retained by the two palaces.
"Official, there is something that my mother-in-law needs to tell you." The Queen Mother called Zhao Xu in front of her, looked at Zhao Xu's expression, and said softly.
But his expression was a little excited, vaguely, eager to try.
"What's the matter, Mother?" Zhao Xu smiled, pretending that he didn't know anything.
"Alas!" Empress Dowager Xiang took Zhao Xu's hand and said, "The officials must not be angry after hearing this."
Zhao Xu blinked.
"Yan Shouqin reported that the former prime minister, Dr. Jin Ziguanglu, and Wang Zhongxiu, the son of Duke Wang Gui of the Xi Kingdom, had contact with prostitutes while observing filial piety in his hometown in Huayang..." Empress Dowager Xiang said sadly from the side.
Wang Gui, no matter what, he is still the prime minister.
It would be too embarrassing for the Queen Mother to have something like this happen now.
Zhao Xu exclaimed: "How could this be so?!"
Then he asked: "Is there any evidence?"
He sighed to the Queen Mother: "I know Chiang Kai-shek's strange words in Chengdu, and the evidence is conclusive..."
Naturally, this can only be attributed to Yan Shouqin.
Otherwise, how could Jiang Zhiqi keep an eye on the Wang family when he was full? How could he be so active in trying to find something to do with Wang Zhongxiu?
You know, although Wang Gui died in a strange way.
After his death, he didn't even receive a posthumous title, but he was still the prime minister after all!
Under normal circumstances, no one is willing to hunt down and kill all the descendants of a prime minister's family.
It can only represent the efforts of the ministers in the palace.
The Empress Dowager observed Zhao Xu's expression and said: "Guan family, that Wang Gui has been punished by heaven!"
At first, if the officials and the Queen Mother hadn't stopped her, Wang Gui would have peeled off the hemp by her temper.
The Empress Dowager hated Wang Gui with all her heart.
Moreover, this hatred is also mixed with concern for his beloved son Zhao Hao.
Naturally, the Empress Dowager would attack Wang Gui and his family fiercely whenever she had the opportunity.
"Now that his son has done such an unfilial thing, the officials can no longer tolerate him!" the Empress Dowager said calmly.
For scholar-bureaucrats, filial piety is the most basic moral requirement.
If Wang Zhongxiu causes such a thing now, his social death is certain.
But the Empress Dowager refused to be satisfied.
If the Wang family is not dead, she will feel really uneasy!
After all, the official family is getting bigger and bigger.
If the Wang family is not killed or extinct before the official reaches adulthood, what if the Wang family talks nonsense in front of the official in the future?
Just thinking about this, the frost on the face of the Empress Dowager became even colder.
Zhao Xu let out a slight breath, met the Empress Dowager's eyes, and said: "Mother, the Duke of Xi is the prime minister after all, so he should have some dignity!"
Wang family, how could Zhao Xu let it go?
Even if we don’t mention his feud with Wang Gui.
Just the wealth that Wang Zhongxiu and others brought back to their hometown from Bianjing after Wang Gui's death still makes Zhao Xu miss it to this day.
That’s a huge fortune of at least one to two million yuan!
The tea tax has been on the rise for several years!
If all this wealth can be put into the pile sealing warehouse, then the capital for disaster relief in Huainan this year and even the opening of Hong Kong will be available.
If you are not a householder, how can you know that firewood and rice are expensive?
Zhao Xu knows very well that the country needs money everywhere.
War costs money, disaster relief costs money, and construction costs even more money.
Redundant officials, redundant personnel, and redundant soldiers still have to be supported with money.
Therefore, Zhao Xu is thinking about how to make money all the time.
Every time he thought about how much money the Wang family still had, he felt as uncomfortable as a cat scratching his head.
My money! It’s all my money!
Naturally, he couldn't let Wang Zhongxiu end like this.
It should be noted that if Wang Zhongxiu died like this, then other members of the Wang family might cut off Wang Zhongxiu and cut off their tails to survive.
He even put his tail between his legs and became a human being.
If so, what should Zhao Xu do?
It would be better to keep him and forgive him.
The Empress Dowager looked at Zhao Xu's obedient appearance and his eyes full of prayer.
My heart couldn't help but soften.
"Officials!" The Empress Dowager sighed: "You are so benevolent and sage!"
This grandson always gave preferential treatment to the ministers left by the late emperor.
Cai Que went out to learn about Fujian, and Zhang Dun went out to Guangxi.
It's all like this.
Even Wang Gui benefited from this.
Otherwise, for Wang Gui's crime, he should have been stripped of his hemp and even had his writings destroyed since his birth.
This is a good thing!
It shows that this grandson is very emotional!
Now that he has made mistakes even for the descendants of the late emperor's ministers, he is willing to forgive them.
Then in the future, we will definitely be able to treat the two imperial uncles and the Gao family kindly and preferentially.
Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager held the grandson's little hand and said earnestly: "Officials, from ancient times, kindness does not control soldiers, and righteousness does not control wealth!"
"As the emperor, it is good to be benevolent and saintly, but you must also pay attention to the methods and methods."
"In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was Zheng Beke and Duan Yu Yan... the officials should take this as a warning!"
"There are times when the minister of love and care should be beaten! Let him know the appropriateness. He should not do things he shouldn't do, and he shouldn't say things he shouldn't say!"
As she spoke, the Empress Dowager thought of her youngest son, King Xu and Zhao Hao, whom she loved dearly.
Zhao Hao is still imprisoned in the east house of Qinxian's house to reflect.
According to reports from the ministers who were sent to serve King Xu, King Xu often lost his temper in the East House and frequently beat and scolded those around him.
There were even ‘words of resentment’.
Not like an official family.
Rensheng, filial piety, smart, generous...
Zhao Xu lowered his head and said seriously: "Mother, my grandson knows."
"Whoever treats Sun Chen well and who is Sun Chen's relative, Sun Chen knows in his heart."
The Queen Mother immediately laughed: "What a child!"
Indeed, in addition to having affection for the late emperor's Yuanfu ministers and taking careful care of them, this child also has family affection for the Gao family and the Xiang family.
other people?
He can really do it, and he can really do it to death.
Apart from other things, had the two concubines not come forward to intercede, the prince-in-law Guo Xianqing would have almost been regarded as a role model by him.
Even so, Guo Xianqing is still studying in Taixue.
As a result, the Empress Dowager felt relieved and said, "As long as the officials understand in their hearts."
Queen Mother Xiang looked on, smiling all the time.
After the grandfather and grandson finished speaking, she asked: "Concubine, what should I do with Wang Zhongxiu?"
Zhao Xu immediately raised his head, blinked his lovely eyes, and looked at the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager couldn't help but feel soft in her heart, and said: "Since Duke Xi is the late emperor's prime minister, let's give him a lighter sentence this time!"
"Wang Zhongxiu behaves improperly in keeping his filial piety and seizes an official position. Stop!"
This is a punishment of being demoted one level and suspended for inspection.
Compared with the crimes Wang Zhongxiu committed, this kind of punishment was extremely gentle.
Because according to tradition, those who are unfilial will definitely have their letters taken away from them since birth.
Now Wang Zhongxiu only seizes an official position and restrains him.
It can only be said that God’s grace is so great that no matter who comments, they must sing praises to Zhao Xu.
No one would know that Zhao Xu was an official who was generous to the Wang family and rescued them many times.
In fact, what he wanted to do was to wipe out the Wang family and put all the one to two million yuan that Wang Gui had gained from corruption into his own pocket.
