I have to say that Qiu Rui reacted quickly and was thick-skinned enough, so he immediately thought of dealing with this matter by scapegoating. Yang Jian obviously didn't want to persecute Qiu Rui too much, and said coldly: "Qiu Rui, do you know these things, you know best in your own heart, I will see how you thoroughly investigate this matter and how you can give me an explanation." If you can't satisfy me, I will send Huang Baochang to your mansion with a hundred marquis officials to further investigate this matter, I hope you will do it yourself! ”

Speaking of this, Yang Jian suddenly stood up, waved his robe sleeves, and shouted: "Retreat!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Yang Jian turned around and walked towards the apse angrily, and there was a whisper in the hall, and everyone didn't figure out what was going on for a while.

Some ministers were curious to see the contents of the ledger and booklet, but seeing that Qiu Rui was holding it in his hands, he had no choice but to give up. The backer king Yang Lin's mountain-like body stood closely, looking at Qiu Rui, whose face was so gloomy that he could drip water, he faintly heard Qiu Rui muttering: "It's over, it's really over this time." ”

Yang Lin smiled and left with the unpredictable Changsun Sheng.

Soon the civil and military officials in the palace left one by one, and Wang Junlin also left by himself in the crowd, but compared to before the previous dynasty, at this time, many officials looked at him and their eyes changed again, there were fears, fears, disgust and ridicule, and of course, kindness and appreciation.

Soon the ministers in the hall left in twos and threes, and Dugu Qingyun, the young eunuch in the hall who had always had a close relationship with Qiu Rui, deliberately walked at the end, and walked over at this time, and said with a worried face: "Old Qiu, what did your sledgehammer iron shop do?" What did Wang Junlin show His Majesty? It makes Your Majesty so angry with you. ”

Qiu Rui said with a look of remorse: "My son of law sold pig iron to the Khitan and Turks behind my back, and even some weapons. ”

"What!"

Dugu Qingyun was taken aback and said, "This ...... How can you do such a traitorous thing to the enemy? How much pig iron and weapons were sold? ”

"Alas! The evidence presented by Wang Junlin, the thief, said that there were more than 30,000 catties of pig iron, and more than 5,000 pieces of various weapons. Qiu Rui didn't hide it, and said truthfully with a sigh.

Dugu Qingyun sweated on his forehead, Qiu Rui was really confused, the biggest hidden danger or enemy of the Great Sui was the wolf-like nomads in the north, mainly Turkic, even if the border had been relatively peaceful in recent years, but everyone knew that it was only temporary, and hundreds of thousands of Turkic iron horsemen could go south at any time to kill. As long as the Khitan people encounter black disasters and white disasters or something, they will not hesitate to fight grass valleys in the border villages and towns of the Great Sui.

Usually it is okay to secretly sell some iron pots and other living iron tools, but with the ability of those wild people, they can't turn the formed iron tools into weapons. But pig iron and weapons are different.

This is a matter of public anger and taboo!

Qiu Rui grabbed Dugu Qingyun's arm and said, "Brother Qingyun, what do you say I should do now?" I am now going to explain to the Holy One, I don't know if there is any possibility of salvation? ”

Dugu Qingyun shook his head, sighed, glanced left and right, and saw that the inner guards were far away from them, so he said in a low voice: "Brother Qiu, Your Majesty is a reasonable person, and he never punishes any official without evidence of guilt, but His Majesty has been trying to find a way to catch the handle of our family lords since he ascended the throne, otherwise what do you think he is doing by pushing out Wang Junlin, a poisonous boy." Now that your incriminating evidence or trick has been caught by His Majesty, I am afraid that you will not be able to pass this level with explanations alone. ”

"So 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 army back then, and made great achievements, so you will definitely not be killed, otherwise it was not a retreat from the dynasty just now, but an order to directly put you in prison, and then copy your Changping Palace." Now His Majesty has not directly punished you, but wants you to resign with dignity! Only in this way may your Qiu family escape this catastrophe. ”

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An hour later, Qiu Rui sent the twenty-five people in the Changping Wangfu who "privately" sold pig iron and weapons to the Khitan and Turks to the Criminal Department, and at the same time wrote a letter to ask for guilt, willing to donate all the 200,000 taels of silver obtained by the sledgehammer iron shop for ten years to the imperial court, and at the same time he asked to resign from the prominent official position of Kaifu Yitong Sansi.

Yang Jian accepted his resignation and ordered the beheading of 25 people who participated in the collaboration with the enemy and traitors, and appointed Shangshu Zuo Cheng Yuanshou as the third secretary of Kaifu Yitong to succeed Qiu Rui.

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Qin Anhou Mansion, study.

Wang Junlin, who had already learned of a series of actions by the Changping Palace, Qiu Rui's resignation, and Yuanshou's replacement of Qiu Rui's official position, was frowning and pondering.

I don't know how long it took for him to sigh, and his face was suddenly pale.

Yang Jian had obviously pretended to leave angrily in the court before, he just wanted to take this opportunity to suppress the Zhongxing meritorious family dominated by the nine elders of Kaisui.

And the use of Yuan Shou, the head of the Yuan family, who is second only to the Dugu Gate Valve among the Guanlong nobles, obviously wants to release a signal to reuse the Guanlong nobles, and intends to provoke the contradiction and struggle between the family of heroes and the Guanlong nobles in the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Wang Junlin made such a judgment, not only because Yuanshou took over Qiu Rui's position, but also because he had just received news from the Nighthawk Envoy and cooperated with him to carry a sledgehammer iron shop, and Huang Baochang, the general of the Houguan Mansion who obtained the evidence, was Yuanshou's own son-in-law.

It's just that Yang Jian did it very secretly, or he showed his king in front of the public to attract everyone's attention.

"Yang Nut Ran is still soft-hearted, if Yang Guang is definitely taking the opportunity to wipe out the Changping Palace. Fortunately, although Qiu Rui resigned from his official position, the title of King of Changping is still there, and there are still many protégés in the court, and 200,000 taels of silver have not hurt him in terms of wealth. And with my current power, wealth and military master, I am still far from being able to compare with Qiu Lao, who has no official position! Wang Junlin muttered to himself, complaining a little 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 protégés were all over the court and the army, should he use this opportunity to eliminate Qiu Rui's influence in the court?

Yang Jian is actually not as soft-hearted as Wang Junlin thought, but in his position, there are more issues to consider and more comprehensive.

He was very hesitant in his heart at this time, if Qiu Rui was really defeated at once, the founding Zhongxing family dominated by Qiu Rui and Yang Su would be hit too hard, then the Guanlong nobles dominated by Dugu Gate Valve and Yuan Clan would be the majority, as for the third-party forces in the DPRK and China, most of the Shandong Shi clan and Hedong Shi clan were only among the civilian officials, and the forces in the army were too weak and could not compete with the first two forces head-on.

Therefore, while severely damaging Qiu Rui, it is also necessary to retain the Changping Palace, and use this opportunity to create a grudge between the Changping Palace, and the Yuan's gate valve, which will naturally cause a struggle between the Guanlong nobles and the founding Zhongxing family, which is obviously more beneficial to his royal family than uprooting the Changping Palace.

Thinking of this, Yang Jian called the eunuch and said: "Passing on my will, Qin Anhou Wang Junlin and Hou Guanfu Lang will make great contributions to Huang Baochang in the case of sledgehammer iron shop, and crown Wang Junlin as the supervisor of the imperial history, and Huang Baochang as the general of the five-grade martial arts." ”

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"Shen Guang, how is the matter of controlling Yang Susun's son-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.

"Hou Ye rest assured, that Zheng Guangan eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, likes everything, and is a good gem, full of problems, and there is a way to catch his handle, and now this matter has been almost done, just wait for another day of fermentation, Zheng Guangan has to listen to our words." Shen Guang said with confidence.

Wang Junlin nodded and said: "Very good, although Qiu Rui has a noble title, but his bravery is too mental, but Yang Su is different, this is a real old fox, there must be a perfect strategy to deal with him, otherwise once the flaws are exposed, they will definitely be caught, and maybe we will fall into a place of no return." ”

When Shen Guang heard this, he said solemnly: "Don't worry, Master Hou, you must be cautious in doing things and will not show flaws." ”

"Let's go, go see Guo'er and Zimo, and see how their condition is." Wang Junlin nodded, and as he spoke, he walked towards the place where Yu Roe was staying, and Shen Guang hurriedly followed.

On the day when Shen Guang and Shen Guoer entered the mansion last time, Wang Junlin took him solemnly to see Yu Romo and introduced the two sides to each other.

There are only nineteen guards in the mansion now, except for the four people who guard the main gate and the two people who are guarding the side gate, and the four people who have been following Wang Junlin's side for a long time, the remaining nine people are all sent by Wang Junlin to protect Yu Romo closely.

Wang Junlin thought that with Yu Romo's character, he would definitely not be able to endure loneliness and stay in bed. Unexpectedly, when he came, Yu Romo's face was decadent and depressed, not to mention, and there was more shyness unique to teenagers and a sunny vitality that was different from the previous fierce atmosphere.

Wang Junlin was very curious about what caused Yu Romo to undergo such a wonderful change, and it was not until he saw Shen Guo'er, who had a little more ruddy on his face, came to the place where Yu Romo lived, and held a bunch of cherries in his hand that he didn't know where to go, that he understood the reason for Yu Romo's change.

For a teenager, there is nothing faster and more effective than the change brought to him by a lovely girl of the same age.

As for how the young boy and girl met in the past two days, and what lovely things happened between them, Wang Junlin didn't need to know.

Although Shen Guo'er is young, she has already shown maturity far beyond her peers, and even has some scheming, but so what? As long as you can make Yu Romo like and happy, even if Shen Guoer intends to get close to Yu Romo, it will be a good thing.