It has to be said that Qiu Rui reacted quickly and was thick-skinned. He immediately thought of using a scapegoat to deal with the matter. Yang Jian obviously did not want to push Qiu Rui too much and said coldly: "Qiu Rui, these
Do you know the matter? You know it best. I will see how you thoroughly investigate the matter and how you give me an explanation. If you cannot satisfy me, I will send Huang Baochang to bring a hundred officials to your house to further investigate this matter.
I hope you can take care of yourself!"
Having said this, Yang Jian suddenly stood up, waved his sleeves, and shouted sternly: "Retreat from the court!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Jian turned around and walked angrily to the back hall. There were whispers in the hall, and no one could figure out what happened for a while.
Some ministers were curious and wanted to see the contents of the account books and pamphlets, but seeing Qiu Rui holding them firmly in his hands, they had no choice but to give up. The backer king Yang Lin stood closest with his mountain-like body, and his face was so gloomy that it could drip.
Qiu Rui, who was coming from the water, faintly heard Qiu Rui mutter: "It's over, it's really over this time."
Yang Lin chuckled and left with Zhang Sun Sheng, who looked unpredictable.
Soon the civil and military officials in the palace left one by one, and Wang Junlin also left among the crowd. However, compared with before going to court, many officials looked at him differently now, with some fear, some fear, and some...
There is disgust and ridicule, but also kindness and appreciation.
Soon the ministers in the hall left in twos and threes. Dugu Qingyun, the young eunuch in the hall who had always had a close relationship with Qiu Rui, deliberately walked at the end. At this time, he came over and said with a worried look: "Old Qiu, your big
What exactly did Hammersmith do? What did Wang Junlin show to His Majesty? It actually made His Majesty so angry with you."
Qiu Rui said with a look of remorse: "My scoundrel sold pig iron to the Khitans and Turks behind my back, and even some weapons."
"What!"
Dugu Qingyun was shocked and said: "This... how can you do such a thing of betraying the country by supporting the enemy? How much pig iron and weapons were sold?"
"Alas! The evidence presented by this little thief Wang Junlin said that there were more than 30,000 kilograms of pig iron, and there were also more than 5,000 various weapons." Qiu Rui did not hide anything, and sighed truthfully.
Dugu Qingyun is sweating on his forehead. Qiu Rui is really confused. The biggest hidden danger or enemy in the Sui Dynasty is the wolf-like nomadic people in the north who are mainly Turks. Even though the border has been relatively peaceful in recent years, no one has
Knowing that it is only temporary, hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry may come south at any time to kill. As long as the Khitan people encounter black disasters or white disasters, they will not hesitate to raid the villages and towns on the border of the Sui Dynasty.
It's okay to secretly sell some household iron items such as iron pots. With the ability of those savages, they can't turn the shaped iron items into weapons. But pig iron and weapons are different.
This is outrageous and taboo!
Qiu Rui grabbed Dugu Qingyun's arm and said, "Brother Qingyun, what do you think I should do now? I'm going to explain to the Holy One now. I don't know if there is any possibility of saving it?"
Dugu Qingyun shook his head, sighed, looked around, and saw that the guards were far away from them, so he whispered: "Brother Qiu, your Majesty is a reasonable person, and he never punishes any official without evidence of crime, but
Since the day he ascended the throne, His Majesty has been trying to find ways to catch people like us from aristocratic families. Otherwise, why do you think he pushed out the poisonous boy Wang Junlin? Now that Your Majesty has caught the evidence or the evidence of your crime, I'm afraid it's just
You can't get past this level with explanations."
"Then what should I do? Brother Qingyun, you must help me!"
Dugu Qingyun thought for a while and said: "Brother Qiu, Your Majesty is a nostalgic person. You saved his life in the midst of thousands of troops and made great military achievements, so I will definitely not kill you. Otherwise, you would have just been killed."
Instead of resigning from the imperial court, he ordered you to be imprisoned directly and then confiscated your palace in Changping. Now His Majesty has not directly punished you, but just wants you to resign and retire with dignity! Only in this way can you, the Qiu family, escape.
This calamity."
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An hour later, Qiu Rui sent twenty-five people from the Changping Palace who "privately" sold pig iron and weapons to the Khitans and Turks to the Ministry of Punishments. At the same time, he wrote a letter of apology, willing to give away all the 200,000 taels of silver that the Sledgehammer Iron Shop had earned in ten years.
He donated the shop to the imperial court, and at the same time asked to resign from the prestigious official position of Kaifu Yitong Sansi.
Yang Jian accepted his resignation and ordered that twenty-five people who had collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country be beheaded in public. At the same time, he appointed Shangshu Zuo Cheng Yuanshou as the third division of Yitong in the Kaifu, replacing Qiu Rui.
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Qin'anhou Mansion, study room.
Wang Junlin, who had learned about the series of actions of the Changping Palace, Qiu Rui's resignation, and Yuan Shou's replacement of Qiu Rui's official position, was frowning in thought.
After an unknown amount of time, he sighed with a look of surprise on his face.
Yang Jian was clearly pretending when he left the court angrily before. He just wanted to take this opportunity to suppress the family of ZTE heroes, mainly the founders of the Sui Dynasty.
The appointment of Yuan Shou, the head of the Yuan family, who was second only to the Dugu clan among the Guanlong nobles, obviously wanted to send out a signal to reuse the Guanlong nobles, and deliberately provoked a conflict between the family that was responsible for the founding and resurgence of the Sui Dynasty and the Guanlong nobles.
Conflict and struggle.
Wang Junlin made this judgment not only because Yuan Shou took over Qiu Rui's position, but also because he had just received the news from the Nighthawk envoy, who cooperated with him to bring the sledgehammer iron shop and obtain the evidence.
Lang Jiang Huang Baochang was Yuan Shou's biological son-in-law.
It's just that Yang Jian did it very covertly, or in other words, he showed his king to the public to attract everyone's attention.
"Yang Guo is still soft-hearted. If Yang Guang were to take the opportunity, he would definitely seize the Changping Prince's palace and exterminate his family. Fortunately, now, although Qiu Rui resigned from the official position, the title of Prince Changping is still there, and there are still many old disciples in the imperial court. Two hundred thousand
The two taels of silver did not damage him in terms of wealth. But with my current power, wealth and martial arts master, I am still far from being able to compare with the old thief Qiu who has no official position!" Wang Junlin muttered to himself.
, some complaints about Yang Jian.
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At this time, in the imperial study, Yang Jian was also thinking about this issue. Qiu Rui's disciples were all over the court and the army. Should he use this opportunity to eliminate all Qiu Rui's influence in the court?
In fact, Yang Jian was not as soft-hearted as Wang Junlin thought, but in his position, he had more and more comprehensive issues to consider.
He was very hesitant at this time. If Qiu Rui was defeated all at once, the founding Zhongxing family headed by Qiu Rui and Yang Su would be severely damaged. Then the Guanlong nobles headed by the Dugu clan and the Yuan clan would be severely damaged.
One family is a big one. As for the third-party forces in the DPRK and China, the Shandong Clan and the Hedong Clan are mostly among the civil servants. The forces in the military are too weak and cannot currently compete head-on with the first two major forces.
Therefore, while severely damaging Qiu Rui, we must also preserve the Changping Palace, and use this opportunity to create enmity between the Changping Palace and the Yuan clan. This will naturally lead to a struggle between the Guanlong nobles and the founding Zhongxing family, which is obviously more complicated than the general. It would be more beneficial for the royal family to uproot the Changping Palace.
Thinking of this, Yang Jian called the eunuch who came to deliver the order and said: "It is my will that King Junlin, the Marquis of Qin'an, and Huang Baochang, the Hou Guanfu Lang, have made great contributions in the Dachui Iron Shop case. Wang Junlin is named the Supervisory Censor, and Huang Baochang is the Chief Five. "Pin Wu Ben Zhonglang General."
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"Shen Guang, how is the matter of controlling Yang Su's grandson-in-law Zheng Guang'an now?" After thinking clearly about Yang Jian's intentions, Wang Junlin called Shen Guang again and asked about the most critical part of dealing with Yang Su.
"Don't worry, Lord Marquis. Zheng Guang'an likes everything, he eats, drinks, whores and gambles. He is also fond of gems and is full of problems. His humble position has plenty of ways to catch him. Now that the matter has been almost done, we only need to wait for one more day. If the situation continues to ferment, Zheng Guangan will have to listen to our words and act." Shen Guang said with a confident look on his face.
Wang Junlin nodded and said: "Very good. Although Qiu Rui has a noble title, his bravery outweighs his intelligence, but Yang Su is different. This is a real old fox. There must be a perfect strategy to deal with him, otherwise once a flaw is revealed, he will definitely... If we are caught by it, it might put us in a situation where we will never recover."
Hearing this, Shen Guang said solemnly: "Don't worry, Lord Marquis. In this humble position, you must be careful in doing things and not expose any flaws."
"Let's go check on Guo'er and Zimo and see how their condition is." Wang Junlin nodded and walked towards where Yu Zimo lived while Shen Guang hurriedly followed behind.
On the day Shen Guang and Shen Guoer entered the mansion last time, Wang Junlin took them to see Yu Zimo solemnly and introduced them to each other.
There are currently only nineteen guards in the mansion. Except for the four who guard the main entrance and the two who guard the side entrance, and the four who have been with Wang Junlin for a long time, the remaining nine were all sent by Wang Junlin to protect Yu Zimo personally.
Wang Junlin thought that with Yu Zimo's character, he would not be able to bear loneliness and could not stay in bed. Unexpectedly, when he came, Yu Zimo's face was not decadent and depressed, but there was some shyness unique to teenagers and something different from the past in his expression. The evil spirit is different from the sunshine and vitality.
Wang Junlin was very curious about what caused Yu Zimo to undergo such a wonderful change, until he saw Shen Guoer, who had a little more rosy face, coming to the place where Yu Zimo lived, holding a string of unknown origins in his hand. Only when he picked up some cherries from the local place did he understand the reason for Yu Zimo’s change.
For a teenager, nothing can change him faster and more effectively than a cute girl of the same age.
As for how the boy and girl met in the past two days, and what lovely things happened between them, Wang Junlin no longer needed to know.
Although Shen Guoer is young, she has shown maturity far beyond her peers, and even has some scheming, but so what? As long as she can make Yu Zimo like and be happy, even if Shen Guoer deliberately approaches Yu Zi Mo, that is also a very good thing.