Before the city gate was opened, the two of them attracted the attention of civil and military officials. An old man, wearing a purple robe and an official hat, staggered towards Wangxianmen. He was followed by a young man, shirtless, whip-scarred, carrying dozens of wickers. Walking forward with their heads bowed, their eyes not squinting, everyone's eyes moved down, and the young man came barefoot.

Zhang said that looking at this scene, what trick is the old guy playing and what is the purpose?

Yuan Qianyao sneered when he saw it, quenched a mouthful of foam and spit on the ground.

The old general Wang Hui paused, and Chen Jiachong's ancestors for eighteen generations in his heart.

"This is Prime Minister Chen and his third son, right?"

"Guilty of Jing pleading, this one is playing again? Self-righteous and incorruptible? ”

"Old Chen Xiang, I heard that the slang that Chen Gongzi said that my father is the prime minister is widely spread in the community"

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Chen Jiachong heard the discussion of the ministers, and the corners of his mouth twitched. Yesterday, I heard a report from the housekeeper that the third son had a big disaster. It is rumored that the third prince robbed the Wang family girl in the West Market and confronted a school captain. Unexpectedly, even the master's younger brother Zuo led the army to go and didn't solve it. If things settle down, everything will come to an abrupt end, and all news can be blocked. The problem is that Princess Wan'an turned out to be on the spot.

Rumors are flying.

Chen Jiachong knew that things were not good, and it was still a trivial matter to rob the people's daughters, not to mention that the Chen family had already come to the door to propose marriage, and it was also a wedding gift with the Wang family. Young people's enthusiasm is rising, and it is reasonable to see their beloved move their hands and feet. As for the captain, it doesn't matter much, after all, it was the captain who beat people, not the Chen family. As for the later disobedience to the anti-decree, it can be prevaricated, didn't Chen Jiayou say it? I haven't seen this eunuch in the palace at any time. The queen's decree is to announce that Wang Baguio and Guo Li will enter the palace, what does it have to do with Chen Jiayou?

The problem now is, "My father is the prime minister." Whether Chen Shuxiong said it at the time or not, these are no longer important.

The key is how to deal with the aftermath.

Chen Jiachong can already imagine how to impeach the imperial history, and in the impeachment recitals flying all over the sky, it is nothing more than arrogance and domineering without imperial power, these supervising imperial histories, even the old accounts of twenty years ago have to be turned over and said, I can't even save my life this time.

The rumors are terrible, and the Sacred Heart is even more unpredictable. ：

After thinking about it, Chen Jiachong endured the heartache and asked the servants to be whipped twenty, but he was afraid that he would not be able to get the emperor's forgiveness, so he was whipped twenty more.

Hate iron doesn't make steel!

Forty lashes, Chen Shuxiong died of pain. Tomorrow I want to face the saint, and the forty lashes on Chen Shuxiong are real, and I dare not have the slightest hypocrisy. In order to win the emperor's sympathy, Chen Shuxiong did not treat the wound with any pain-relieving medicine.

Chen Jiachong did not sleep all night.

Thinking about it, just relying on the guilt of guilt and superficial articles may not get the emperor's forgiveness. Now that the emperor is in the prime of life, he planned to seize the door and seize the power from Princess Taiping, how can these little tricks hide from this Ming monarch?

Chen Jiachong thought that there was only one way to save himself.

Write a letter overnight, and ask the housekeeper to go to the house of Wu Lingqi in the imperial history overnight with the token to be exempted from curfew.

At that time, Chen Jiachong had a life-saving grace for Wu Lingqi.

In the fourth year of Kaiyuan, Chen Jiachong served as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites. At that time, the three-year assessment period was up, and the Ministry of Rites and the Supervision of the Imperial History were jointly responsible for the evaluation of officials. Chen Jiachong found that Wu Lingqi's county was originally a medium-sized county, and both his political performance and tax revenue that year were the scale of a high-class county. According to the general situation, the county order Wu Lingqi was excellent in the assessment, and he was not far from promotion.

At that time, Chen Jiachong did give Wu Lingqi an excellent assessment, and the Ministry of Supervision also had no opinion. Later, Chen Jiachong discovered the problem. Wu Lingqi's county was flooded that year, and the imperial court once allocated 200,000 stone of grain to give relief.

If this matter is discovered by the superintendent of the imperial history, Wu Lingqi has engaged in fraud, concealed the truth, fabricated reports, and deceived the king, and none of these charges can escape. Chen Jiachong finally suppressed the evaluation of Wu Lingqi and only gave it to the lower average. Afterwards, Chen Jiachong informed Wu Lingqi of the process, and the other party realized that it was Chen Jiachong who saved his life.

It just so happened that back then, Yao Chong found out that Wu Lingqi had concealed the report, but fortunately, he did not investigate it at the time, and Wu Lingqi was not promoted or demoted, so the matter was over. A few years have passed, and Chen Jiachong has never had personal contact with Wu Lingqi.

This time it was really a helpless move.

Wu Lingqi received Chen Jiachong's distress letter, and immediately burned it after reading it. It's just that I don't understand the meaning. Chen Jiachong begged him to unite with the trusted imperial historian to fabricate lies and concentrate on impeachment. Who wouldn't fall into the well? What's more, the imperial history was originally impeached by using some things to catch the wind and shadows, and when you get the truth, it is not impeachment, but accusation.

Do you have a problem with the matter of Dali Temple, I want to impeach to fulfill my duty. You didn't rebel? You are not corrupt? You didn't buy an official? You go to Dali Temple to reason, and I am only responsible for impeachment. Over the years, Wu Lingqi has summed up an experience, the imperial history is a dog raised by the emperor. It doesn't matter if there is evidence or not, it is important that you impeach. If the official impeaches that person and brings down the impeached person, your saint will have one more point than others, and promotion is just around the corner.

After receiving the secret letter, Wu Lingqi concocted five secret letters and sent them everywhere overnight. The door of the fang, which was usually closed, was quietly opened inadvertently, and news was passed through Chang'an City.

Li Longji had already woken up.

Looking at the excerpts sent yesterday, most of them are the impeachment of Prime Minister Chen Jiachong and Chen Jiayou's brothers. After reading a few letters, Li Longji couldn't help but smile dumbly when he understood what had happened.

My father is a prime minister.

Is there something wrong with the third son of Chen Jiachong's family? Even if it is a prince, shouting in the middle of the city, my father is the emperor. Others thought he was a fool. Not to mention the son of a prime minister.

I'm afraid that now in the various squares of Chang'an City, this sentence has spread.

Are these impeachments really true?

Flattery, deception, corruption, seizure of fertile land...

If these are all facts, I really don't know what to do with this prime minister. Since ancient times, doctors have not been punished, but one after another bloody impeachments, killing the head is just the lightest punishment.

Chen Jiayou, so bold. dared to resist and disobey the order, and even tied up Gao Lishi, it was simply lawless and reversed.

Li Longji pressed the report about the Chen brothers and read a few reports on the border, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is too big, even if something happens on the border, it will be a few months before it reaches the imperial court. There was a joke during the reign of Empress Wu that the Turks entered the border and killed and plundered less, and spread to the capital. Empress Wu was furious and was about to send soldiers and horses to fight back, but before she could set off, there was good news from the border, the Turks had been defeated, and the captives were being taken to the capital.

Looking at the eunuchs beside him, Li Longji knew that the time of the early dynasty had come, and the ministers were entering the palace one after another at the moment.

When Li Longji sang "The Emperor Has Arrived" in Gao Yanfu, he sat on the dragon chair in the center of Hanyuan Palace. The ministers were already kneeling on the ground, shouting long live. When you look up, the stone steps are densely packed with people.

There are really a lot of people in the court today! The temple and outside the temple were full of people.

"Let's get even"

Li Longji has been an emperor for ten years, and his majesty is growing day by day.

"Something to start, nothing to retreat."

Gao Yanfu sang expressionlessly. Anyone can see that today must be a storm, just looking at the temple full of people, who believes anything?

"Minister, Chen Jiachong, the right servant of Shangshu Province shoots, something starts."

Chen Jiachong was the first to stand up and stand in the center.

Shangshu Province is respected by Shangshu Ling, and there is only one Shangshu Ling in the Tang Dynasty, that is, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

There is an interesting fact: during the Taizong period, Fang Xuanling was appointed by Taizong as Shang Shuling. Fang Xuanling insisted on refusing to give it. How can a courtier be an official who has been an emperor? After that, the post of Shangshu Ling was virtually non-existent, and Shangshu Province was honored by the left servant, and after Li Longji succeeded to the throne, the left servant was vacant, and the right servant was the highest governor of Shangshu Province.

The ministers were silent.

Li Longji was a little surprised, he thought that today's Yushitai would be the first to impeach, but he didn't expect that the first one to come out was Chen Jiachong.

Is it a bitter meat trick?

"The courtier Chen Shuxiong, yesterday in the downtown wanton arrogance, the shape of the dissolute, the minister's discipline is not strict, last night the dog was heavily punished with forty lashes, the minister ordered him to kneel outside the palace and wait, His Majesty can be summoned at any time. Since the minister entered the court as an official, he has always trembled, taking state affairs as his own responsibility, this year he is old and mediocre, and he has lost discipline to the dogs, and he also asks His Majesty to allow the courtiers to give office. ”

Shi Yu, who was originally going to impeach Chen Jiachong, trembled in his heart when he heard this, and almost dropped the impeachment chapter that had been prepared for a long time. first took the blame, and then took the lead in making a move, with a handful of snot and tears.

The Minister of Martial Arts seemed to be caught off guard at the same time.

Zhang said that he did not move in place, like an old monk who had settled down.

Lao Chen Yuan Qianyao has a clear heart, this is a bitter trick to perform. However, the current situation cannot be solved by a bitter plan.

Li Linfu, the servant of the imperial history, was already ready to play a twist and impeach Chen Jiachong for the ten major crimes. It's just that Chen Jiachong avoided the important and took the so-called "wanton arrogance, the shape of the wreckage wandering", and brought the phrase "my father is the prime minister" in the downtown yesterday, which is a clever move.

Since the decision to impeach was made, the Goshidai was prepared. It's just that things are a bit unexpected, and we can only wait and see.

All the people in the temple were silent, waiting.

Wait for the emperor to speak, and see the emperor's attitude.

"Xuan Cheng's son's audience".

Chen Shuxiong entered the hall, covered with whip marks and carrying dozens of wickers.

Before the early dynasty, many people were no longer surprised to see it. But Li Longji was taken aback. That's too ruthless, isn't it? There is no piece of meat without red in the entire upper body, and you are guilty of it?

"The criminal minister Chen Shuxiong knocked on the emperor, may my emperor live long live long live." Chen Shuxiong kowtowed to the ground, and his whole body was as hot as pain.

Seeing Chen Shuxiong's appearance, he couldn't bear to step forward to impeach.

It's cruel. Isn't it my father, who beat him so hard.

What should come is always coming. There are a total of 30 imperial historians in the Imperial History Observatory, and there are 23 of them who appeared above the early dynasty, each of whom has an impeachment chapter in his hand, and he has a posture of not giving up if Chen Jiachong is expelled

"Minister, Li Linfu has something to do"

"Minister, the palace servant Li Lin has something to play"

"Minister, supervise the imperial history..."

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Suddenly, a group of people came out standing in the empty seat between the two rows of ministers. Chen Jiachong didn't need to look back to know that the Yushitai was dispatched. Whenever a person came out of the ranks, the corner of the right servant of the high-ranking Shangshu twitched.

The storm is coming!

"Minister, the servant Li Linfu played. Impeachment of Shangshu Chen Jiachong's right servant for ten crimes: First, corruption and accepting bribes. In the second year of Kaiyuan, during Chen Jiachong's tenure as the Assassin of Jiangzhou, he embezzled hundreds of thousands of silver taels of public funds for the construction of the Assassin's Mansion, and when he left office, he asked for the construction cost of taking over the Assassin's History. Second, flattery, deception. During Chen Jiachong's tenure as prime minister, nine miscellaneous servants in the palace died for unknown reasons, and even Jingzhao Mansion had no right to manage it. The relatives of these miscellaneous servants sued Chen Jiachong several times, but they all returned in vain. Third....tenth, neglect of discipline and indulgence of dogs. The minister heard that Chen Shuxiong made a loud noise in the downtown yesterday, and my father was the prime minister and openly conferred the title. This son is arrogant and domineering, and Chen Jiachong is extremely evil. ”

The top 10 crimes are all felonies.

Chen Jiachong had already expected it, but he didn't expect Yushi to be so ruthless. This is killing me, and before I know it, I am sweating.

"Minister, the palace attendant Li Lin has something to play. Impeachment of Chen Jiachong for robbing the people's daughters and conniving at the murder of evil sons. In the eighth year of Kaiyuan, Chen Jiachong saw a woman in the downtown area, and ordered the evil servants in the mansion to rush into the mansion, and then took her as a concubine. The woman did not comply, and Chen Jiachong forcibly accepted it in disregard of national law. In the ninth year of Kaiyuan, Chen Shuxiong injured people on the street in Dongshi, causing a young man to be disabled. Afterwards, the Chen family had no repentance, and only threw five taels of silver to Qingzhuang's medical expenses. So far, the whereabouts of this young man are unknown. Yesterday, Chen Shuxiong robbed the people's daughter in the downtown area, and the sentence that my father is the prime minister is enough to show that he has always relied on power to do mischief. I beg your Majesty to punish him severely. ”

"The minister impeached Chen Jiayou for disobeying Yi's decree and openly flouting the majesty of the royal family...."

"The minister impeached Chen Jiayou and Chen Jiachong, two brothers, for controlling the government..."

Suddenly, several imperial historians stood up for impeachment, and even Chen Jiayou, the leader of the left army, was impeached together. Hearing that someone had impeached him, Chen Jiayou stood up and stood in the middle. 、

"Minister, Your Majesty, Chen Jiayou, the general of the left leading army. As for the impeachment minister's statement, the facts are unclear. Yesterday, when the minister was dealing with affairs, a stranger passed the queen's decree to take the two of them away on the spot. The minister thought at the time, this matter happened to happen to the minister, the queen lived in the palace, how could he know? So he became suspicious and took it on the spot. The so-called resistance to the decree is pure nonsense, and the queen mother did not summon the ministers to enter the palace, so how can she resist the decree. ”

Sophistry, naked sophistry.

After Chen Jiayou finished speaking, Guo Qianqian scolded in his heart, grass your grandma, dare to quibble? See how the emperor cleans you up.

Zhang said that he despised Chen Jiachong, and looked down on this prime minister who climbed up by flattery from the bottom of his bones. However, although Chen Jiachong has a poor character, he is okay to do things. He has been working diligently in charge of Shangshu Province, but nothing has gone wrong. Therefore, Zhang said that he did not specifically target Chen Jiachong. After all, it is rare for the court to have such a prime minister who just wants to do things regardless of things.

Yuan Qianyao was happy. There have been dozens of prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty in the past hundred years, and Chen Jiachong may be the most unqualified one. The old prime minister, who had been watching Chen Jiachong's displeasure, saw the ministers excited, this old thing, he couldn't eat it today.

Li Longji didn't speak, and fell silent for a while, everyone in the hall seemed to be thinking about something. The emperor is also waiting to see if anyone will be impeached. As for the content of the impeachment, it is either an old thing or a shadow. What can really be done is probably what happened yesterday in the West Market.

robbed the people's daughters and acted arbitrarily.

Chen Jiachong is also waiting, waiting for the imperial historian Pei Guangting.

The court battle is also like a swordsman duel. Strike first and strike first, and then strike to put people to death. What really determines the victory is not who has the sword in front of you, but who can stab the opponent with a fatal move

"Minister, Imperial Doctor Pei Guangting impeached Chen Jiachong and Chen Jiayou brothers...."