Chapter 140 Stratagem

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It snowed for three days in a row in the winter moon before it slowly cleared.

Bitter cold and hunger are intertwined, the city is full of hunger, and the people are living in misery.

There were beggars robbing shops in Shengjing City, and they were beaten to death if they were caught, but it was to no avail.

Ling Qingyun's second uncle and second aunt also moved back to Zhaochifang the next day, although they were not angry.

The old lady still didn't believe it.

After Jing's settled down, the house was cleaned up, and as soon as it was as usual, he sent someone to Cheng's house to ask when the old lady would come back.

The second aunt and grandmother said that the uncle was still in prison, and the old lady had no intention of coming back. The family is all filial children, why don't you care about the old lady's life or death? "The maid who went to Wenxin was a light rain, and came back to Jing's Dao.

When Jing heard it, he was both angry and funny.

"Who the hell doesn't know filial piety?" Jing shook his head helplessly, "Since the second aunt and grandmother are filial, they still pull the old lady to blackmail me?" ”

"Mother, don't pay attention to it!" Ling Qingyun said on the side.

Ling Qingyun also knew about this.

The second uncle did embezzle the silver taels for disaster relief. During these days, people starved to death everywhere, and the imperial court opened the treasury for relief, but they were filled with corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they were exploited layer by layer.

If this continues, people will still starve to death.

As soon as people starve to death, there will be unrest. If there is turmoil in Shengjing City, the entire imperial court will not be protected.

Therefore, whoever dares to touch the disaster relief silver two this time is a capital crime.

has already cut down three senior officials from the third rank, and several small officials under him. At this time, it is the idea of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, and no one is allowed to fight the idea of disaster relief food.

If the Cheng family's uncle had nothing to do with it, he would have been convicted and sentenced by now.

In the end, King Ji and the Cheng family's aunt are brothers-in-law, the Cheng family's aunt is locked up in Yingtianfu, the Cheng family's second aunt and grandmother frequently come to the door, and even went to the yamen in person, King Ji is unbearable, and it is not good to see death and not save him.

Therefore, King Ji put aside the case of the Cheng family's aunt, and wanted to lock him up for about half a year first, and then find a reason to release the Cheng family's aunt when the rumors of this matter passed.

In this way, it is equivalent to saving the life of the Cheng family's aunt, and King Ji may face impeachment by the imperial history.

Harboring corrupt criminals will also be impeached and may lose office.

Cheng Xuanguan was in a low position, and no one paid attention to him now, so King Ji boldly put him aside.

King Ji took such a big risk to protect the Cheng family's aunt in prison, but the Cheng family was not satisfied, so they had to let King Ji release the Cheng family's aunt.

I don't know what to do!

"Mother, the best way for the second uncle to be in the case was to hide in prison, otherwise he would be in danger. But what about the second aunt, I don't know if it's stupid or greedy, I have to dream of beauty to let him come out and be reinstated.

Their wife's wife seems to be shrewd, and she has no idea at this time, so she lets her second aunt mess around! Ling Qingyun said.

Speaking of this, Ling Qingyun felt that King Ji was really kind-hearted.

It's okay to help others, but it's futile to put the Cheng family. Not to mention gratitude, they didn't pull King Ji into the water, which is already a blessing.

A few days ago, her second aunt also said that she wanted her second aunt to come out a year ago, hoping that King Ji would open the net.

It seems that King Ji is deliberately embarrassing his second uncle.

Isn't it infuriating?

The maid said lightly: "The maid and the maid have heard that the heads of many officials have been cut off at the entrance of the vegetable market, all of which are embezzled for disaster relief food. The second aunt encountered this incident, and it was a great fortune to be able to save his life, but the second aunt and the old lady, what are they dissatisfied with? ”

Jing smiled bitterly.

"That's right." Ling Qingyun also said, "How can they be grateful? Not only is it not grateful, but it is not satisfied. Did they want to watch their second uncle die? ”

"Forget it, ignore it!" Jing said, "The old lady can't go back, anyway, she can't be busy with these things at home." ”

Jing's family did not send anyone to Cheng's house again.

There's a bunch of things going on at home.

Grandfather finally returned from King Ji's mansion. When he returned, he was still locked up in his own small study, writing and talking, and not covering his family.

Jing is also busy with household chores. The two months of leisure finally came to an end, and Jing's began to be busy again.

Halfway through, Shi Ting came to Ling's house twice.

He also met Ling Qingyun and told Ling Qingyun some things.

"Mei Jiangyan is the head of the family, and he is the power of the eldest princess of Huaiqing, and he has the most trust of the eldest princess of Huaiqing. This man is scheming and cunning. He is one of the brains of the eldest princess Huaiqing, and Huaiqing trusts him very much.

I am afraid that the case of disaster relief grain this time will be very widespread, and I plan to use this case to get rid of Mei Jiangyan first and cut off one of the arms of the eldest princess Huaiqing. Without this wise trust, the eldest princess of Huaiqing will sooner or later kill herself. Shi Ting said to Ling Qingyun.

When Lu Yu was killed, it was the Queen Mother and the eldest princess Huaiqing.

Their purpose is completely different.

The queen mother is to sabotage the alliance between the eldest princess's mansion and the queen, and wants the queen to mess with herself, and then kill the queen, replace the queen with the queen mother's own cronies, and ensure the status of the queen mother herself and the royal family.

Empress Lu was ambitious, and in those years, she squeezed out the Wang family a lot, and wanted the Lu family to monopolize the northwest forces.

How can it be that easy?

The Lu and Wang clans have been evenly divided for many years, and they have not given in to each other in the northwest, how can they let Queen Lu suppress the Wang family?

Therefore, the Wang group instructed the Queen Mother to get rid of Queen Lu and replace her with a queen without a back, so that she could be controlled.

killed Lu Yu, sure enough, Queen Lu was in chaos, her mind was all in the harem, and she didn't care about the government and the Lu family.

During that time, the Wang and Lu families regained their balance.

And the eldest princess of Huaiqing killed Lu Yu out of selfishness. She likes Wang Qilang's appearance and wants Wang Qilang to be her male pet, regardless of Wang Qilang's high family and his own dignity.

After she was rejected by Wang Qilang, she inquired about the relationship between Wang Qilang and Lu Yu, and became jealous, so she killed Lu Yu.

Especially if Lu Yu spoiled the children of the Wang family, the Queen Mother and the eldest princess of Huaiqing would not let her live in public or private.

The eldest princess of Huaiqing is desolate, and she privately raises young beautiful men, and has intimate contacts with many ministers in the court, allowing them to enter her background.

She hid behind her back, so the courtiers were all called the daughters of the queen mother, and they acted in a low-key manner.

In fact, they are just smart, but they are not low-key at all.

The veteran nobles of the Wang family for hundreds of years have their own rules for dealing with imperial power. These experiences will naturally be taught to several princesses. And the four princesses are all smart and obedient.

Therefore, the daughters of the Queen Mother are low-key on the surface, but they are secretly powerful.

The real stupid one is the eldest princess of Runing. As the emperor's sister, she acted without knowing how to hide it, openly interfering in court affairs, and the courtiers were dissatisfied with her.

Women interfering in court politics, whether it is the eldest princess or the palace concubine, is a taboo, and sooner or later they will be impeached and cleaned up.

"Okay, you can do it." Ling Qingyun said.

Shi Ting wanted to kill the eldest princess of Huaiqing, not only because of Lu Yu, but also for himself.

Wang Qilang was also killed by the eldest princess of Huaiqing and the queen mother.

"I'm in the inner house, my father and brother are not officials, and I can't do anything, if I am needed, just sue me." Ling Qingyun said again.

"No need, I'll discuss it with An Erlang." Shek Ting Road.

Seeing that Ling Qingyun seemed to be annoyed that she couldn't exert her strength, he comforted her: "We're just pruning the branches now. When it's time to actually cut down the trees, I'm sure I'll need your help. ”

The eldest princess of Huaiqing is a big tree.

If you don't cut the branches first, it will be very difficult to cut down the tree, and it will be easy to be injured by the drooping branches.

What Shi Ting is doing now is only cutting off the forces of Princess Huaiqing.

The court knows so much about the eldest princess of Huaiqing, it is none other than Wang Qilang, who used to be his cousin.

After Shi Ting left, An Wai soon came.

He asked Liansheng to follow Ling Qingyun, as long as Ling Qingyun and Shi Ting met, he would know immediately.

"What did you say to him?" An Wei asked Ling Qingyun. He seemed to have believed Lu Yu a little, and he didn't rush to speak as before, just asking about important things, and he wasn't so angry.

"He said that the case of the embezzlement of disaster relief grain this time was very wide-ranging, and he wanted to take the opportunity to cut off the right-hand man of Princess Huaiqing." Ling Qingyun said truthfully.

"Who are you going to cut first?" An Wei asked.

"Mei Jiangyan." Ling Qingyun replied.

Shi Ting sued her so.

An Wei knew that Mei Jiangyan was quite handsome, but he was ruthless. Being in a high position and misbehaving. However, the official family was quite jealous of him, and heard that he was behind the Wang family.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the private of the eldest princess Huaiqing.

An Wei also heard his father say something about the eldest princess of Huaiqing, and it was vaguely rumored that the eldest princess was not as gentle and virtuous as the courtiers said.

An Wei came out of Ling's house and walked to the Shiting Mansion by the way.

It was his first visit.

Shi Ting was a little surprised, welcomed him into the mansion, and made tea for him. The two had a secret conversation in the study.

"How do you get rid of Mei Jiangyan?" An eaves got straight to the point and asked Shiting.

"On the concubine's mansion of the eldest princess of Huaiqing, the chief steward bought back a batch of grain from Qizhou, which is enough for a thousand stones. Let the imperial history impeach the horse involved in the case first, and bite it tightly. "Stone Ting Road.

An Wei raised his eyebrows and asked him, "Sound east and west?" ”

Framing the colt for corruption. The horse committed a crime, involving the face of the queen mother and the eldest princess, and they must try their best to protect the horse. At that time, the eldest princess of Huaiqing was lacking in skills and had no strength to protect Mei Jiangyan.

This is the sound of the stone court.

An Wei thinks it's not bad.

Shi Ting looked back at An Wei, and there was a little smile between his eyebrows: "You An Erlang is burly, and everyone in the world relaxes their vigilance against you, thinking that you are tall and reckless."

But no one knows that you An Erlang is naturally sharp and intelligent, and he is very shrewd. The misunderstanding of others about you is your advantage, and you will be able to do something in the future. ”

The stone garden admires the eaves.

An Wei was able to point out Shi Ting's intentions at once, without any doubts, and he could keep up with Shi Ting's train of thought, and Shi Ting felt that he was very good.

An Wei paused and didn't answer.

"Now that you have an idea, do it." An Wei said coldly, got up and said goodbye.

Shi Ting stopped him.

"You've got to help me." Shi Ting said with a smile, "I have little power in the DPRK, and without your help, it would be quite difficult for me to act." ”

An Wei was silent and sat up.

The two begin to conspire.

These things, they hid from Ling Qingyun.

Soon, Ling Qingyun heard from Liansheng that the concubine of the eldest princess of Huaiqing was suspected of conspiring with the courtiers to embezzle disaster relief food.

"Oh, the sound hits the west." Ling Qingyun thought to herself.

Shi Ting would not touch the hard stone of Princess Huaiqing so directly, there were Wang and the Queen Mother behind her.

Therefore, the purpose of attacking the concubine of the eldest princess Huaiqing is to make her flawless and thus to attack her strategists.

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