Chapter 215
There are many charges of slandering the prince that must be carefully considered, how can you take it for granted what is what, even a thorn the size of a needle will affect the whole plan, this is not a joke, and the end may be wiped out.
The officials wrinkled their eyebrows, their eyebrows were full of sorrow, the previous plan was fine, they had the power to fight, and the words after that made people jaw-dropping, cold sweat invaded the whole body.
Mu Zhao's heart sank when he heard this, and motioned for everyone to be calm and listen to the official continue to finish speaking, now they are only discussing the undetermined execution, and there is still room for maneuver.
The official said under the signal of the great prince, as long as the sword in our hands is really imitated by the king of wings in order to escape responsibility, the attitude of the courtiers towards the king of wings is well known, there is the prince to suppress, plus the emperor is not popular, make a choice between the prince and the emperor, I believe that the discerning person will choose the most beneficial to himself, the king of wings is just a girl without the support of the emperor how big a flower can he play, and no one really holds the sword in his hand to take a closer look, as long as the scabbard has done enough work, It is bound to force the Winged King to be speechless, to threaten each other with the power of the ministers, to take a surprise and no one to speak for the Winged King, what is the use of the emperor's insistence, once the Winged King is convicted, the relationship between the emperor and the Prime Minister's Mansion will collapse, and the emperor will not let the eldest prince knead and flatten without the ultimate support.
If you want to make a sword that you can't distinguish, you need to observe it closely, and it is good to say that it is necessary to find a craftsman who specializes in making imperial swords, and everything must be done exactly right, so that the Winged King will never recover.
Some people also raised doubts, regardless of whether other officials would follow Da Yu and act on the same stage. Just said that Zhou Qian, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was the most useful weapon of the emperor, and he once had a delicate friendship with the Wing King in official affairs, and everyone knew that the cold and silent iceman of the Wing King could say so many words to Zhou Gan. Looking at who in the court can have close contact with the Wing King, it is difficult to guarantee whether Zhou Qian will speak out and question whether he is on the side of the Wing King, and there are also officials from the Ministry of Industry, who have been put in the hands of the Wing King, and it is difficult to turn against the water, and these trivial tricks may not be achieved if the plan is not suitable.
It is necessary to throw out all the keys to victory when everyone does not react in time, as long as it is fast, and when those unknown officials are unable to react, they will quickly force the Wing King to overwhelm the emperor and other courtiers. Without waiting for the emperor's order to directly convict, the officials who have no direct evidence to refute can only watch the fall of the Wing King with their eyes wide open, and all they have to do is to seize the main control first. Quickly push the event to achieve the expected effect, and if you grasp this degree properly, you will be able to achieve it fifty percent.
Some officials scoffed at this explanation, and things had to be done by manpower. None of the tricks went wrong. I really can't afford to take such a gamble.
Everyone looked indifferent, Mu Zhao looked even more irritable in his eyes, but it was easier said than done, and it was reasonable for everyone to be reluctant to take risks.
As the saying goes, the bold starve to death the faint-hearted, the official who mentions yì opened his mouth to preach, fight for a glimmer of life, and the road to success is smooth, otherwise once the emperor has spare strength, will he still have the power to fight back at that time?
The last sentence struck everyone's sore spot. There is a glimmer of life, not standing still or worse, and a man's ambition has accumulated and he has the courage.
Mu Zhao glanced at everyone and spoke. This matter is not in a hurry to send someone to keep an eye on the Wing King at one moment, the preliminary work needs to be done well, the first part is executed first, and the rest of the matter is one step at a time, there is no better way now.
Everyone hesitated, you look at me, I see you nodding in agreement, and after the matter is finished, everyone quietly disperses as they did when they came, and each goes back to his house.
On the second day, the household department greeted a group of officials with happy faces, and entered the household yamen with yesterday's name tags, waiting for the final result.
Seventy officials stood in the courtyard of the household department and saluted the Wing King, who was seated at the top.
Xi Chao shouted, and ordered Hongrui to prepare the table, and there were ten abacus on the long table, and ten people stepped forward in turn.
"The main business of the household department is to settle accounts, and those who will not or are not skilled will stand aside, and the remaining ten people will come forward in a group to calculate from one to one hundred, and they can be finished without time." Xi Chao lazily spoke, this is just a step out of the division of labor.
Fifteen officials stood up, unskilled in the plan, although it was only a simple addition and no time limit, no one dared to rely on that little bit of unscrupulous ability to come forward and make a fool of themselves, and stood up in a slippery manner, and the Wing King still had a chance before he said that he would not admit him, and waited.
After a while, the crisp sound of abacus beads tapping sounded in the courtyard, and the officials who got started calmed down and eliminated distractions to complete the assessment.
After a while, Hongrui stepped forward to see the number of added ones one by one, signaled the next group to continue, and the assessment was over in a short time, and he had a preliminary understanding of the level of everyone's plan.
Xi Chao motioned to Hongrui to prepare a pen and paper, and a group of ten people stepped forward, asking and writing down the matters that were all jue's matters and how to deal with them.
Hongrui put away the paper and continued the next group, Xi Chao didn't ask, everyone consciously wrote the answer to the previous question on the paper.
All over, Xi Chao roughly flipped through the answers, some people avoided the important and did not do it, and some people boldly admonished and encouraged, and half of the people were brushed down from it, and the pragmatic people were left behind, and the people who left couldn't help but sigh.
The reason for the vague answer is that one does not know much about the public office of the Ministry of Households, for fear that his ideas are too naïve and will be ridiculed, and he chooses to avoid the answer, looking at the intended touch but not going deeper, and the other is that everyone thinks that although the wing king is the leader in managing the Ministry of Industry, but the household department is not as handy as the Ministry of Industry in a short period of time, it is a little bit of a suspicion of fishing in troubled waters with the answer written, which thinks that the king of the wing can distinguish the good from the bad, resulting in his own exclusion, quite a sense of embarrassment.
Xi Chao's eyes swept over the faces of the remaining officials, and his faint words sounded, "What do you think about the fact that the officials owe money to the household department under the guise of their names?" ”
When the rest of the officials were speculating about what problems the Winged King was going to have, they trembled coldly when they heard such words, this question was very bad, and the officials all knew that the Winged King was asking the courtiers to pay the arrears, and they were also implied to be filial piety, but the family was really not rich and did not take out much, which made Shangguan's face quite unsightly.
Some officials reached a certain consensus with the officials with the mentality of coming to the household department to get oil and water, and once they got into the household department, they found an opportunity to write off the arrears. Now when he heard the Wing King's question, the thief's eyes flashed, and his face changed.
Xi Chao was staring at people and observing, and only one glance found out a lot of people with ill intentions. pointed it out and eliminated it directly, and didn't say the reason, leaving a thin face, and I knew what I had done.
The eliminated officials looked ashen, and after saluting the Winged King, they fled as if they were gone, and the Winged King's eyes were so poisonous that he didn't have time to do anything. Otherwise, he really got a cup of tea from the prison of the Criminal Department, and returned to his post in shock.
Xichao motioned for the others to answer, and selected the people he wanted. Some people have the audacity to talk about the dangers of borrowing silver, while others talk about the situation and analyze the pros and cons thoroughly.
After the officials of the household department decided, the Xi Dynasty specially granted a half-day holiday. Let the chosen ones go to the ministry to change their official positions and handle the affairs at hand. The vacated position is replaced by one's own people, and there is no need to worry about the tide.
Second, the early morning folded the list of new officials in the household department and submitted it to the imperial review for immediate approval, waiting for the new officials to take office.
It's been the fourth day, and there is still no official to pay off the arrears in the household, Xi Chao is not in a hurry, there is still one day, she has to see if the courtier's bones are hard or the stone bed in the prison of the criminal department.
From time to time, the officials of the Great Prince's faction looked at the Winged King, paying attention to the Winged King's every move without being noticed, especially the important objects related to the plan.
In the past two days, the Xi Dynasty has been wearing a sword to the court, the length of the sword body is just enough to wear it on the waist side without hindering, and there is a thumb-sized white jade pendant on the sword spike.
When an official with a good memory returned home, he carefully depicted the imperial sword he saw in the court and sent it to the palace of the great prince. A good one was selected from the many official drawings and corrected to ensure that the portraits did not differ much from the real thing.
The habitual thief has spent a lot of effort to find a decent one. People who are too clever can't be afraid of biting themselves back and confessing the mastermind behind them, even if they don't know that there is a big prince behind them, they can find out the secrets behind the officials as well, and those who connect with habitual offenders also need to be cautious.
The person in charge of spreading rumors should tell the truth vividly, arouse everyone's curiosity, and instantly expand the scope to form an invisible force that cannot be ignored.
Everything is ready only to owe the east wind, keeping an eye on the time when the Winged King leaves the palace, the original plan is implemented in a large number of places, because it is not certain when the Winged King will appear in a densely populated position on the street to start, the difficulty of the plan has increased a lot, some people think why not replace the Winged King when he leaves the palace, it is best to have a few officials around him, take advantage of his unpreparedness, and the probability of successfully stealing the sword will be much greater, and there are officials as witnesses to facilitate the steady spread of the situation, what a good way.
Some people put forward different opinions, the winged king out of the palace is mostly a sedan chair, the habitual offender is flexible for the sedan chair that is not spacious has little chance of success, if the winged king calls for help, closer to the palace gate, the forbidden army guarding the palace gate will immediately come forward to capture, although the official is a witness, but the incident suddenly out of the relationship between colleagues and superiors, how can they sit back and ignore the situation, even if it is not their new person who rushed into battle as a sedan chair driver, they will come forward to help arrest people, it seems that there are many flaws in the plan, why does the thief only stare at the winged king, This alone can ruin the overall layout, and this matter should not be rushed, and it is prudent to deploy slowly.
Mu Zhao carefully thought about the comparison successively, nodded and agreed with the practice of slow work and meticulous work, the previous plan was almost perfect, and it was obvious that if the change was not connected with the subsequent situation, it would probably be suspicious.
On the morning of the fifth day, the officials who owed the money observed the face of the Winged King, and saw that he was calm and relaxed, without the slightest anxiety, and his heart was even more thunderous.
There are timid officials who have not slept well for a day under the torment of these few days, and they always feel that the king of wings is waiting for a stalemate to appear, and the officials who have been thinking for a long time can't help but go to the temptation, and even more have officials go to the household department to pay the arrears, and some officials really don't have enough money to make up the amount of money and learn from the former officials of the household department to fill up the land property under their own name, and barely pay it back, and come out of the household department, the depression up and down the body instantly dissipated, and the body is a lot easier, and the long breath is out, and finally there is no need to stay up all night.
The officials who owe too much do not secretly scold those small officials who can't hold their breath, and they are killed so quickly, everyone drags them together to see if the Wing King can withstand the courtiers? You can't all raid your house. Who does the emperor use, the court is not specially opened for the Wing King, and there is no way to be alone if you want to be alone. Phew, who to scare!
The courtier, who thought he was dragging the huddle to death, stiffened his neck and survived the deadline, and was waiting to go to the court on the sixth day, when he just opened the door of the mansion and did not expect a scene to happen.
Looking at the heavily armed forbidden army surrounding the gate, only the colleagues who were sympathetic to the same disease knew what kind of mood they were in, and they didn't come up in their throats and choked their faces red, and their eyes were round and they couldn't spit out half a word.
I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. It's a big battle, what is this for! It was easy to cough out the qi that was stuck in the middle under the effect of the man's crazy beating, and pointed at the awe-inspiring forbidden army outside the door with trembling fingers, but he didn't care about coughing and didn't care to speak.
Most of the courtiers had the same thing when they encountered this. Everyone was not angry and didn't dare to rush into the forbidden army, so they had to ask the reason first.
The answer given by the forbidden army made the besieged courtiers hate to faint, so they sent the forbidden army for the sake of arrears, and the winged king was really ruthless. Now I fully realized the threat of the forbidden army outside the door. Some officials were so embarrassed that they discussed with the forbidden army to hand over the arrears, and then went into the house to raise silver, and now the silver is not enough to make up for the gold and silver jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and packed them together and carried them to the door, and stuffed a lot of benefits for the forbidden army.
The forbidden army took the silver and counted the number of boxes. But he didn't have the slightest intention of leaving, which made many officials anxious. If the arrears are not all handed over, why don't you leave without a penny, is this what you want to do?
The forbidden army came forward to explain that they were ordered by the emperor to come to assist the Wing King to recover the arrears, and the time limit given by the Wing King at the beginning had expired and now it can no longer be counted.
When a timid official heard this, he sat down on the ground, this, this, how is it good! It is useless to cry and grab the land, and the forbidden army has always only obeyed the emperor's orders.
Starting from the officials who owed the most money, they were sent to the criminal department to confiscate their family property, and the forbidden army liked to do the business of stealing the house the most, and the gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings were carried out from the officials' mansions and piled up in the courtyard.
The officials who were escorted were not directly brought into the Criminal Department, but had to 'pass by' the mansions of other officials, which was a demonstration to the public, so that the officials who had not yet been escorted could open their eyes and take a good look at what would happen to them, as a hint in their hearts, and then it would be smoother to talk about the conditions.
The people who were arrested by the Xi Dynasty were all middle-level officials, and as for the high-ranking officials, it is not appropriate to act rashly now, it is enough to give a profound lesson, don't always look at people with your nostrils, and your eyes are long to the top of your head and you don't know how thick the sky is.
The Criminal Department was busy again, and Zhou Qian, the secretary of the Criminal Department, looked at the officials escorted by the forbidden army, and he didn't know what it was like, because he had a better memory, and knew that the Wing King was not easy to mess with, so he paid back the arrears early and at night, so as to avoid the same downtrodden treatment.
How can there be an official who is not greedy and does not take, what is given for nothing, others take it, you don't take it, how to mix in the officialdom, only you are also involved, everyone stretched out their hands and stopped the thought of reporting and exposing, Zhou Qian has been a criminal department secretary for so many years, how can he not follow the trend and join the crowd.
After the first emperor ordered the Wing King to take over the household department, Zhou Qian always felt that something was going to happen, and when the Wing King revealed that he owed silver, he secretly said that it was broken, "all his wishes have come true"! I almost thought that my criminal department was going to be planted in the hands of the Wing King, but it didn't work to ask for anything, but fortunately, the Wing King had a deadline, in order to prevent himself from being squeezed out by his colleagues, he first discussed with a few colleagues who had a good relationship with him and quietly returned it, and then on the last day, the officials under his hands were encouraged to hand over it quickly, and if he missed this day, there would be no tomorrow.
Sure enough, the officials of the Criminal Department wiped a cold sweat, and thanked the officials for their sake, all of which were secretly returned silver, and the silver was not enough to take anything else, and this was not early in the morning to see the officials who were escorted, there was no need to say anything, this is the appearance, one by one secretly said a good hanging, the king of wings dared to be the first to have to admire, with the strength of one person to fight the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty.
Such a tough attitude of the Wing King undoubtedly gave a resounding slap in the face to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, which made the courtiers who were in a good tone lose an adult, and planted it in the hands of a despised little girl, showing that they had gnashed their already unreliable teeth.
The stiff courtiers had to bow their arrogant heads and submit to softness, and ordered people to hurry up and hand over the number, looking at the hatred in the hearts of the officials who passed by the gate of the mansion and were escorted away by the forbidden army, and greeted the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Wing King one by one, of course, they did not know the true identity of the Wing King, and the greeting naturally became the ancestor of the Ouyang Ye family.
The forbidden army looked at the boxes that were carried out and counted the number according to the rules, and did not move under the cold gaze of the officials, and one person stepped forward to notify him, and the time limit was not revealed because of the full handover, and the king of the wings was magnanimous and intended to leave a line for the courtiers, and the prison of the official punishment department of the same dynasty could be exempted, but it was conditional.
The courtiers just heard that they could be exempted from going to the Ministry of Punishment, and their hearts were relieved, and the Dark Dao Wing King was quite interesting, and he would always be retributed if he was too much, but he didn't know that there was a but!
As soon as he heard that the conditional courtiers were furious, if it weren't for the forbidden army blocking the door, they would have rushed into the Yiwang Mansion regardless of their manners to want the Yiwang to look good, did they take such an opportunity to coerce the fall into the well! It's so simple to slap your face, it's clearly a dead hand to step on someone, and you won't stop if you don't see blood!
Ouyang Ye, that old ghost, what kind of daughter did he raise, a powerful ghost who eats human flesh and drinks human blood, and still knows how to choose people to eat, how can the Wing King dare to serve it in one pot, she is not afraid that this pot will also have hot hands, have you ever thought about whether you want to mix in the court in the future, is there such a play? The meaning is the meaning, how can there be a nose kick on the face!
The emperor is also confused, just for that bit of silver, he followed the wing king to fool around, not afraid that the courtiers would be angry and would not be able to get rid of the gang, and they would not do it, and see who the emperor uses! Either say that the child is short-minded and lacks vision, so he will not hesitate to put himself in danger for the sake of immediate interests, and now it is estimated that the Wing King must count the money and count the cramps in his hands, hum, see when you can be happy, there will always be a day when feng shui will take turns, and we'll see. (To be continued......)