No matter how powerful the Weng family is, he doesn't dare to fight with Emperor Hong, as long as he thinks, the Bo family, the Huang family, the Wen family, the Rong family, the Bu family, and the Ou family can immediately turn against each other, it's just that he doesn't want to do this, otherwise he doesn't have to come to the Weng family in person to discuss it, and then this matter, it is easy to clear the Weng family from the imperial political map, and the vacated seats can be exchanged for more allies for the emperor.

Therefore, Wen Nan is not wrong at all, Emperor Hong has a way to untie this dead knot, but this method will not achieve this effect if it is put in the hands of others. Some things must be done by the emperor himself, although he is an emperor with little power, although he does not want to play with power, but he is the founding emperor of the empire after all, and he has incomparable prestige and connections in the empire.

At this time, in the northeast corner of Jinhe City, the three-story building was also brightly lit. Not only did the prime minister and ministers not leave work, but also many government employees had to work overtime, because in the evening two salmon-class armed cargo ships sailed into the military port of Jinhe Bay, on which not only did the military police look for Ciqi, the director of the Internal Affairs Bureau and the police department, who had been preparing to detain him for many days, but also Langya and hundreds of marines.

These are all trivial matters, but the two Great Song Maritime Merchants, Weng Xiaoyi's uncle and nephew, five beautiful women, and forty-one slave sailors in the cabin are no longer trivial. Coupled with a bunch of investigation reports, interrogation records, witness testimony, and evidence lists in Cixi's briefcase, it is the No. 1 case in the empire that no one can suppress.

Regardless of whether the inspection process is legal or not, the case must be investigated by the Internal Affairs Bureau and then submitted directly to the Supreme Court for a public hearing in accordance with the procedure. This is not an ordinary case, this is treason, the first felony of whoever gets involved and who dies. Even if you assassinate the emperor, imperial law allows you to have a lawyer to defend you and a jury to decide whether you are guilty or not. But if you commit the treason clause, as long as the evidence is complete, whether you admit it or not, the result will be the same, and this crime must be tried publicly, and you can't do it if you want to cheat.

"Who allowed you to investigate Weng Xiaoyi's case privately? Do you still have me in your eyes as a minister? You forged these signatures, right? Don't think that if you pull Your Majesty into the water, you will have nothing to fear, and Your Majesty will not be able to protect you this time! No sooner had the two gendarmes escorted the weapon into the conference room, and before the door was closed, Ichichi began to roar open with his baritone.

"Minister Yi, are you mistaken? I started the investigation after I got the legal procedures, and these procedures were given to me by His Majesty, so I can't question His Majesty's credit, right? If Your Majesty gives these formalities to you, who would dare to say that you will go through them after verification? This is not in line with the procedure, but this is not the first time that our majesty has played cards out of common sense, he dares to shoot in the parliament, and for me, the little bureau chief who has even exposed my younger brother, who dares to guarantee that your majesty will not pull out a gun and destroy me? What is the relationship between my brother and His Majesty, you don't know, right? You don't like to see us brothers, I know, I don't want you to like me, but you can't put any on my head! Otherwise, I'll invite Your Majesty to come over, and we'll make this matter clear in front of Your Majesty!" ”

Ciqi's voice is not as good as Yiyi's, but the sound pressure level is not inferior at all. A man in his early fifties shed tears when he spoke, and he was wronged when he looked at it. If Hong Tao is present, he will immediately ask the gold and silver jewelers in the city to create two small gold figures, this kind of performance level is not enough to explain the problem, you must hold one in one hand!

"Director Ci, are you sure that His Majesty gave you these documents? You didn't know anything beforehand? This matter is about the imperial family, you must think clearly! Listening to Ciqi's tearful accusation, Wen Nan, such a steady person, couldn't help but be a little confused. If Ciqi really doesn't know about this matter, then the problem is too big, and all the methods planned by everyone before have to be invalidated, and the emperor can't really be found out as a defendant.

“…… Hey, hey, Minister Wen, no wonder Your Majesty always says that you are an official, you do speak much better than some people. I understand what you mean. Alas...... Pity my loving brothers, who have worked hard for the empire for more than ten years, and in the end, one has traveled thousands of miles away, and the other has to be a scapegoat. It doesn't matter, I carry this black cauldron. But I have to make it clear that I am not carrying it for you, I am carrying it for Your Majesty. If it weren't for him, our brother and our brother's sons and daughters would still be living in a shack in the woods and eating dried fish, and it was he who let us know that we could still live like this, and I was obligated to carry the black pot for him. But you have to promise me one thing, bad things can't always be done by the Ci family, it's okay to ruin our brothers, but you can't touch the next generation of our Ci family! ”

Who is Ciqi? The big spy leader, his brain can't catch up with Cixi's exquisiteness, but whoever puts him in this position for more than ten years will no longer be a fool. Wen Nan's voiceover, the ministers present may not have heard it, but Ciqi understood it. He was really single, he only thought about it for a few seconds, and then agreed. However, he didn't save face for Wen Nan, he became a scapegoat, and he couldn't explain it in this generation, so who else did he need to save face?

"Minister Wen, are you doing this ......" After listening to Ciqi's words, Li Niang understood what Wen Nan meant by what she just said, and she couldn't believe her ears. Minister of Culture, who has always been recognized as the most upright and gentlemanly in the government, would actually do such a dirty thing, and he did it so obscurely, but the more obscure, the more filthy he became.

"Your Majesty has told me more than once that as a high-ranking official of the country, how you behave is secondary. At the time I didn't think that this was true, and to put it mildly, I thought it was His Majesty's quibbling for his character. In my mind, His Majesty is a man of great wisdom, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the first emperor of the ages. But I really can't bear to judge His Majesty's character. ”

But through a series of things, I slowly came to agree with His Majesty's words. As everyone knows, I used to be an official in the Great Song Dynasty, but I was forcibly arrested by His Majesty...... Don't mention it! The officials in the court of the Great Song Dynasty, like my previous thoughts, put how to cherish their feathers in the first place, even if they want to do dirty things, they will make themselves impeccable in character, as for whether the country will be damaged, it has to be ranked second. ”

"This time Weng Xiaoyi's case has made me understand a lot. His Majesty could have done this more tactfully, if he came to Minister Yi, Minister Kong, or even Prime Minister Bo directly, he could have solved Weng Xiaoyi in private, and there were countless ways to make this matter as if it had never happened. But Your Majesty has to do this, why is this, have you ever thought about it? ”

"Just as Director Ci was just speaking, I figured it out, and it was Director Ci who reminded me. Your Majesty is teaching us how to govern the country and how to choose between various interests. That's right, I was just going to force Director Ci to be the scapegoat, and Director Ci understood what I meant, and was willing to go back to be this unlucky bastard. What is he for? I think he's a patriot and a victim of rules. ”

"Your Majesty's set of rules is not perfect, it can't even be said to be complete, it has only one foundation, and the rest of the things need to be added by you and me slowly. And in the process of perfecting it, there are constant trade-offs, sometimes for interests, sometimes for people. Unfortunately, this time Director Ci was chosen by His Majesty, because he did not satisfy His Majesty on the issue of Cixi, and was even a little ruthless. ”

"Your Majesty is a very grudgeful person, a very rule-abiding person, and a smart person. His Majesty had already calculated that Director Ci would carry this black cauldron, and from this point of view, His Majesty was very ruthless, and took it as fun to torture people he didn't like. At the same time, His Majesty is a very affectionate person, Cixi's affairs have passed for so long, His Majesty is still unrelenting, and for those he likes, His Majesty can remember their good for the rest of his life. ”

"How to say, I have both respect and contempt for Your Majesty; I like it and I hate it; Both moved and trembled. Many people and even the people of the Great Song Dynasty say that His Majesty has a relationship with God, and you may not believe it, but I believe it. I have never seen what a god looks like, but the things that His Majesty's head has in his head are not something that mortals can understand. You can think about it, before His Majesty came here, who had seen the ships of the Royal Navy like warships? Who has ever seen a sail like a cloud on the horizon? Who has ever seen a cannon with incredible power? Who has ever seen a musket shot farther than a bow and arrow? Who has ever seen an open-hearth furnace that can be made directly into good steel? Who has ever seen what is in the bottles and cans of the chemistry lab? Who has ever seen a machine that can make lightning? ”

"Your Majesty not only let us see it, but also use it very skillfully, this is by no means as easy as Your Majesty said, I have seen it in His Majesty's former hometown. My Majesty and I have sailed to the Great Qin Kingdom, and the distance is more than 10,000 miles. If there is a place like His Majesty's hometown, why have the locals never been to the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Food, and the Great Qin Kingdom? I have asked people everywhere, including the Emperor of the Great Qin State, who have never even looked at these things that His Majesty has made. ”

"I have said so much, just to let everyone understand what His Majesty wants to do this time. Since everything in this empire was brought by His Majesty, what does it matter if we follow him again? In addition, I have a feeling that Your Majesty may not be with us for a long time, and Your Majesty has expressed more than once over the years that he does not want to be the emperor again. Now that the crown prince is here, and His Majesty is forcing us to learn how to run the country according to the rules he has set in such a drastic way, all this is definitely not untargeted. Am I right, Director Ci? You know more than we do, right? ”

If Hong Tao was present, he would definitely applaud Wen Nan, the little golden man would not be able to send it, but Wen Nan did study himself thoroughly. Even if he has been paying attention to hiding some aspects of too appalling knowledge over the years, he has been making up a set of nonsense for more than ten years, and he is still deceived by people who have frequent contact with him, and he still has to make people unable to see the abnormality at all, Hong Tao asked himself if he really has this ability. If you practice this ability, it will be really your own if the head of the earth is not good.

"Minister Wen, I really don't know what Your Majesty is going to do, but I agree with what you just said. Since His Majesty had to do this, he must have his intentions. Even I, the one who carried the black pot, is not in a hurry, you might as well wait, let's see together how Your Majesty should solve this matter. The history of this case is already very clear, and it is more convenient to read the documents than to listen to my ramblings. I've been tossing and turning at sea for more than a month, and I'm really tired, so let me go and let me get a taste of what it's like to be in a detention cell at the Internal Affairs Bureau. I designed and built the place myself, but unfortunately I haven't lived in it all the time, but this time it's a complete one. ”

Ciqi really didn't know how to answer Wen Nan's question, and most of what Wen Nan said was wrong except for the contradictions between his brothers. This emperor is indeed too mysterious, in fact, he and Cixi did privately investigate the details of Hong Tao a few years ago, but unfortunately they couldn't find anything, and then they simply stopped investigating. The main reason is that he is afraid that the emperor will know, so he may be thrown into the sea to feed the fish. Now he just wants to find a quiet place to sleep, as for whether this black cauldron will crush him to death, whatever, he can't figure it out at all, he has to think clearly, this is not masochism.

"Premier Bo, I will send an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty tomorrow afternoon, the muskets and artillery aided by the empire have been equipped in the New Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and their second batch of new troops should have crossed the river in time, in order to avoid the recurrence of what happened last time, some problems need to be coordinated by me in the past, this time the staff officers of our army will go north together, and there must be no accidents." Now that Director Ci's problem is solved, let's implement the original plan, as long as the Weng family doesn't make trouble, the rest of the things will be easy to do, what do you say? Wen Nan felt that his judgment would definitely not be wrong, and Ciqi's virtue just now confirmed his opinion even more. There must be a plan between His Majesty and Ciqi, and waiting to see what happens is the best way at the moment.

"Then so be it, Minister Yi, strictly control the actions of those in the know, and don't make it known to everyone before the public trial. The two Huang ministers, the Huang family and the Ou family, please, I will deal with my Weng Weng, the Bu family, the Wen family and the Rong family, alas...... Four! How should I open my mouth with my third uncle and third aunt!! Could it be that when you become prime minister, you have to cut your own relatives? And have to hang on the pier...... Just hang me! Don't be idle, these two proposals to the council still have a lot of preliminary work to be coordinated, so please leave it to you, and dismiss the meeting! Bo Jiao estimated that he now had the heart to strangle Hong Tao, and he wanted to go to the cell of the Internal Affairs Bureau to break the body of Weng Xiaoyi, who had been stabbed with thousands of knives.

(To be continued.) )