Chapter 213: Confronting the Present, Collaborating with the Enemy
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Chapter 213: Confronting the Present, Collaborating with the Enemy
Emperor Shou frowned, and glanced at Xie Anyang suspiciously. Xie Anyang has always been steady, and he would never make such a low-level mistake and let the emperor summon an old bustard in a green building. Is there anything in this that should not be taken lightly?
Xie Anyang nodded slowly, turned his head sideways, and whispered a few words in Emperor Shou's ear.
Emperor Shou's face changed slightly, and he waved his hand: "In that case, bring someone up." โ
Xie Anyang went down to deliver the decree, and after a while, a slightly chubby woman followed behind Xie Anyang and walked into the hall with her head down. She shivered like chaff, and when she walked into a place like this, a cough from someone else could almost scare her out of her mind. When Emperor Shou saw her, he couldn't help frowning, but the matter was too big, and he couldn't be careless, the woman knelt down and kowtowed, so he asked, "This dancing girl next to him came out of your building?"
"Yes. The old bustard glanced at Marando, and said in a trembling voice, "It came out of the grass people's building." โ
"She's not from the Central Plains, do you know?" Emperor Shou raised his voice slightly, and suddenly frightened the old bustard to the ground.
Although the Great Wei ordered the officials not to engage in prostitution, the control of the ordinary people was not strict, and it was no secret that there were many green buildings in the Great Wei. Although the song and dance workshop is in the name of singing and dancing, everyone knows that most of the song and dance studios are engaged in the business of skin and meat. Needless to say, the women of the Central Plains have fine skin and tender meat, gentle and lovely, and in the past dynasties, there were many foreign women in the Great Wei Dynasty who survived in the Qinglou.
These women have a unique charm and have their own subtleties, and they have become a major sight in Kyoto for a while.
But during the period of the first emperor, there were foreign women who openly performed the first emperor at the palace banquet in the name of dancing, and after that, there were many fewer dancing girls in the Great Wei.
Originally, it was also a sparse and ordinary thing, but Emperor Shou asked with a straight face, and the naturally sensitive old bustard suddenly thought of this incident in the period of the first emperor, and thought that Ma Landuo had done something, so he quickly kowtowed and asked for guilt: "Your Majesty spares her life, the grass people take her in without authorization, and she commits a big crime, I beg Your Majesty to spare the grass people's life! When she came to Kyoto to join her relatives, she was unfamiliar with the place, and she didn't even understand the language, and the grass people saw that she was really pitiful, and they were moved by compassion for a while, so they took her in!"
"Since the language barrier, how do you know that she is here to join her family?" asked Emperor Shou.
The old bustard said: "Back to Your Majesty, the grass people were born in the family of merchants when they were young, and they once went to Saiwai with their father in business, and learned some nonsense, so they can understand. It was only later that the family fell into the middle of the road, and the grass people became prostitutes, which only got to the point where they are now. โ
"Oh!" Emperor Shou nodded, secretly saying in his heart that this was the case, and asked again: "What did she say?"
The old bustard told her about her life experience before, and it was really similar to what Ma Landuo said, only in some details, and at the end, she said: "The grass people saw that she was here to join her relatives, and she was born beautiful, and she couldn't help but think about the situation when the grass people were down, and they didn't want to see her fall to this, so they had the courage to take her in, and only hoped that she would find her relatives as soon as possible, which could be regarded as accumulating yin virtue!"
The court was quiet, and everyone's eyes looked at Fu Xingjian, only to see Fu Xingjian in a cold sweat.
A dancing girl's life experience has nothing to do with him, but what shocked everyone was that Fu Xingjian was so bold that he dared not to say anything about Princess Pingle, who was friendly back then, and let the fake maid replace the real princess to be the princess of Udan, and after getting the princess, he abandoned the princess in a blink of an eye, and let the real princess fall into the situation of marrying a frontier wildman!
Among them, the most painful is Emperor Shou.
When he couldn't beat Chimeng, he asked his cousin to seek an alliance with Qin Wudan, which was the pain of his father's life, and it was also something he blamed for his whole life. Later, Udan was in turmoil, and his cousin disappeared as a princess, and he once secretly hurt himself.
I thought it would be a very sad thing, but I didn't expect the truth I heard today to be a hundred and ten times more cruel than the news of my cousin's death!
Emperor Shou was angry and forbearing, the green tendons on his forehead jumped, staring at Fu Xingjian's face, and his eyes seemed to be on fire.
Fu Xingjian was in a hurry, knowing that he had touched Emperor Shou's sad old things, even if he retreated today, he was afraid that he would leave a gap in Emperor Shou's heart in the future, and it would be difficult to make progress in his official career.
Obviously, everyone believed Marando's words, what did he use to refute it?
The events of that year, because of Wei Changle's disappearance, were concealed forever, and those colleagues who had worked together in Beijun were either killed in battle, or transferred from afar, he had long thought that it was foolproof, but now, how could a Marando suddenly appear and ruin his big thing?
After today, there will be no one to stop him!
Just when Fu Xingjian was speechless, he saw Mei Xiangrong slowly stand up, bow down and say, "Your Majesty, the ministers have a question in their hearts, and I don't know whether to ask or not." โ
"You say. Emperor Shou knew that Mei Xiangrong had always spoken little in the court, but every time he spoke, it was important, so he suppressed his anger and spoke softly.
Mei Xiangrong turned to Fu Xingjian and said word by word: "If what this dancing girl said just now is true, then she said that Princess Pingle was once imprisoned in another palace by the three princes of Chimeng for a year, and Lord Fu once met with the three princes and reached some agreements, and the three princes promised not to hurt Princess Pingle a single hair, is it also true?"
There's something wrong with that!
These words successfully aroused everyone's vigilance, and everyone looked at Fu Xingjian in unison, waiting for his explanation.
Today's matter is what Wei Mingyuan is happy to see, since Fu Xingjian married his daughter to Wei Mingyu, he completely fell to Wei Mingyu's camp. Now, Wei Mingyu firmly holds the important two parts of the six departments in his hands, and in the military, there is Fu Xingjian's sharp knife, which is really a threat to Wei Mingyuan that should not be underestimated. Although Fu Xingjian's role was weakened in the wake of the military and political reform, as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Fu Xingjian is placed in an insignificant position, and a sword always hanging over his head, how can Wei Mingyuan feel at ease?
After listening to Mei Xiangrong's words, Wei Mingyuan was the first to stand up and fan the flames: "Yes, Master Hou, I also feel puzzled, a dignified third prince, the current Emperor Chimeng, what would he want the help of an enemy general?"
Emperor Shou was silent, when he was still in the Northwest Army, he had dealt with the third prince of Chimeng, the current Emperor Yeluhong of Chimeng, more than once, and knew that this person was insidious and cunning, and would do whatever it took to achieve his goal.
What conditions did Fu Xingjian agree to Yeluhong?
This is no longer simply a matter of disappointing the princess, if there is anything in it, it is related to treason!
Emperor Shou understands this in the end, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty also understand this truth, and Fu Xingjian understands it even more!
Even Wei Mingyu cast a suspicious look, which shows the seriousness of this matter!
Fu Xingjian's fists were secretly clenched in his sleeves, he never knew that a little dancing girl would become his obstacle today. At that moment, endless remorse and killing intent suddenly emerged from the bottom of his heart, he knew that this was the case, he shouldn't have let Wei Changle live in the first place!
However, the top priority is how to dispel the suspicions of Emperor Shou and others. Evidence...... He desperately needs proof that Marando is lying!
Fu Xingjian tried his best to calm down and make his head clear, but gradually, Fu Xingjian discovered the most fatal point: the incident happened suddenly, he couldn't find any evidence in his favor at all, and others would think, how could a little dancing girl bite the dignified marquis for no reason, unless, the whole thing is true! Public opinion is like this, everyone's opinion on this matter is not right from the beginning, and this situation is simply scary if you think about it!
At this moment, Fu Xingjian felt what it meant to be pointed out by Wanfu!
Fu Rongyue sat in her place, looking at everything that happened today, starting from the announcement of the New Year banquet by Emperor Shou, this big drama seemed to have kicked off, and finally pushed Fu Xingjian to the high stage step by step.
It was one last step before this person fell to pieces.
She picked up the wine glass with a smile, took a sip of wine gently, and her eyes fell softly on Mu Qingli not far away. This elegant and gentle man nodded with a smile, and his demeanor was so personable that it was impossible to see that the chaotic situation at today's New Year's Banquet was planned by this person.
Qin Wentang leaned sideways and whispered in Fu Rongyue's ear: "There is news from the ears and eyes, there is movement over there." โ
"Good. Fu Rongyue smiled faintly, put down the wine glass, stood up and blessed her body, and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has something to say." โ
"You said, "Emperor Shou has a lot of worries today, so he didn't treat her differently because of the Fu family."
Everyone's eyes also looked at her, everyone knew that Fu Xingjian had already broken off with this daughter, and they all thought that Fu Rongyue had come to fall into the well.
Fu Rongyue turned to Ma Landuo, looked at it, and then said, "Your Majesty, what this woman said is about the Hou Ye, and the minister thinks that it should not be negligent." Just now, the minister listened to the whole thing, did not comment on the events of decades ago, and the question raised by Mei Guogong thought that this was based on the fact that what this woman said was true. If it is not true, there is no such thing as the conditions of the three princes. Therefore, the minister thought, if it is really as she said, Hou Ye placed Princess Pingle in the other courtyard, there will always be someone who will see it, right? If Hou Ye is really innocent, there should be someone in the old department of Beijun who can prove Hou Ye's innocence. โ
"You mean, let Beijun be a witness?" Wei Mingyu frowned, he was the one who most hoped that this matter was fake.
Fu Xingjian was also secretly relieved in his heart, now, he needed the most time to find evidence!
It's just, why would Fu Rongyue help him?
As if to answer his doubts, Fu Rongyue continued: "That's what the minister meant. Moreover, if this matter is true, then many years have passed, what conditions and what serious consequences, it is not a meal that can be completely stopped, today is the New Year's banquet, Your Majesty rarely has this interest, and after the New Year's banquet, it is the same to let the three divisions go to investigate. โ
Her voice was crisp, her words were moving, and she spoke reasonably, Emperor Shou sighed, and was about to order the interrogation to be postponed, when he saw Xie Anyang leave him without knowing when, and came in through the side door with a cautious face......