Chapter 148: Knocking Down the Big Stone
So according to Zhu Heyu's rhetoric, the second lady swapped Mrs. Hou's baby girl with a talented daughter again?
"Master Zhu...... Have a grudge against the Suiping Marquis Mansion, or the second lady? He asked, confused.
The reason why he was puzzled was because he felt that it was not difficult to do.
Wen Po said that the second master of the Hou Mansion is a concubine; Although the second lady is an official lady, her father is a young official, and her family is still poor, so she is not a person with status.
In this case, it is enough to directly transfer the file to Dali Temple. It was the second lady who was convicted; Although the Suiping Marquis Mansion will be discussed because of this matter, they helped the Suiping Marquis get justice, didn't they?
"Lord Zhu is the uncle of Zhao Yuanxun, Marquis of Suiping, and Mrs. Marquis of Suiping is his sister." Zhang Shun smiled bitterly and drank all the wine in the wine cup, "But the father of the second lady is no longer a petty official." Today, fourteen years later, he has been promoted to the third rank and is now Taichang Siqing. ”
A peanut on Shi Maodian's chopsticks fell to the table with a "bang", rolled along the table for a while, and fell to the ground.
Shi Maodian put down his chopsticks, looked at Zhang Shun, and was silent for a long time.
He knew that the reason why the three rank members of the court were called "big officials" was because there were very few officials in this rank, and each of them had extremely heavy authority. Such a person is either very favored by the emperor, or there is a big force standing behind him. Otherwise, it is almost impossible to climb from the fourth product to the third and third products.
Lin Anbo and Suiping Hou wanted to use the manual of his family to move Zhang Shun into the fire kang.
"We can't do this." He said solemnly.
Zhang Shun smiled bitterly again and shook his head: "He used Caoyin's matter to blackmail me, and he didn't know where to get the evidence." ”
Shi Maodian's mouth was wide open. It took him a moment before he closed his mouth and swallowed his dry throat.
"So, we have no choice?" His voice was hoarse.
Zhang Shun nodded.
Gusu is a land of abundance. Being an official in this place is very tempting. Some of the ink greed is well known to everyone. When no one is impeached, naturally everything is easy to say. But once someone is impeached, and someone deliberately embarrasses him, provoking the imperial history to attack, and there are people who fall to the ground.
"In a moment, I'll send the file up. You let people take a good look at that stable woman, don't let her make any mistakes. Zhang Shun commanded.
Shi Maodian agreed.
At this point, he could only say comforting words to the owner: "Let's just go through the normal procedure, after all, the case involves the nobles of the capital, and it is not something we can try here." Even if the Wei family wants to move you, they can't move it on the surface, at most they will do something in their official position. But Lin Anbo is a member of the ministry, and if the Wei family wants to move you, you have to go through them, which has a layer of protection. Anyway, things don't get that bad. ”
It's better than offending Lin Amber, being impeached for greed, and losing your life.
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Before leaving, Zhu Heyu told Zhao Yuanxun to walk slower on the road for the sake of his body. But the journey from Gusu to the capital in three or four days, Zhao Yuanxun completed it in two days.
After entering the city, he did not go home, but went to a house somewhere in the capital.
He asked someone to rent it before he left.
Zhu Heyu's younger brother Zhu Hehuai estimated the time, and he had been waiting in the house for the past two days. At this time, seeing Zhao Yuanxun coming back, he hurriedly greeted him: "Brother-in-law, are you back?" How's it going? ”
Zhao Yuanxun was helped out of the carriage by his subordinates, his face was pale and tired.
"It's going well." He said, "What about your sister?" ”
Zhu Hehuai stepped forward to support Zhao Yuanxun, with an excited look on his face: "When my sister said that she wanted to try Li Mu's family, I thought I wouldn't be able to judge anything. I didn't expect it to be quite a big gain. ”
A smile appeared on Zhao Yuanxun's pale face, and he suddenly became much more energetic: "That's good, that's good." ”
The two entered the house, exchanged information with each other, and discussed it carefully.
If the Wei family just changed the children in the two rooms, and let the children of Zhao Yuanxun and the Zhu family live under her name and enjoy the brocade clothes and jade food of the Hou Mansion, even if Zhao Yuanxun and the Zhu family are angry, they will not kill the Wei family, at most, let the old lady punish her, and then drive her to the temple to spend the rest of her life.
But the Wei family coveted the title, changed the child, and deliberately threw their daughter to a strange village woman. finally found out that the child was holding the wrong one, and she also wanted to use Xu Xue to mix fish and wood. After Xu Xi returned home, she wanted to learn about this child again.
Thinking of her practice of killing Xu Xi to the fullest, and then looking at Zhao Jingli, who was carefully raised by them, and thinking about the pain of driving this child away, Zhao Yuanxun and Zhu's hatred for the Wei family went deep into the bone marrow. So this matter can't be easily ignored. They wanted Wei to go to prison and pay the due price for her crimes.
And if you want to punish Wei, you can't bring down Wei's father, Wei Qiu. Otherwise, not only would the Wei family not be punished, but in order to maintain the reputation of the Wei family, Wei Qiu might also harm the old lady and Zhao Yuanxun's family in turn and really take away the title.
But Wei Qiu can climb to the third grade, naturally he has a backer, and his backer is the fourth prince from Concubine Jin, if you want to bring him down, how easy is it? Therefore, Zhao Yuanxun discussed with Zhu Heyu and Zhu Hehuai and then discussed, and then decided on a series of actions.
"I'll freshen up and go to the Patriotic Mansion right away." Zhao Yuanxun said.
"It's still early, brother-in-law, you can rest for a while before you go." Zhu Hehuai persuaded.
"No, you don't." Zhao Yuanxun waved his hand, entered the bathroom, hurriedly washed his hair and bath, changed his clothes, and then took the confession signed by Li Mu's family and went to the Weiguo Mansion.
The reason why the noble family is called Wei Qiu and Zhang Shun, the children of ordinary people who were born in Jinshi, is afraid because of their connections.
Although the Suiping Marquis Mansion has declined, no one has advanced and no real power, but the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, and there are still a few in-laws who hold real power.
This Wei Guogong is the son of the aunt of the old lady Tang. Zhao Yuanxun had to call him his cousin. Although the relatives of the two sides are not close, they are not far away, and they still have to move around during the New Year's holidays.
The reason why Zhao Yuanxun wanted to go to the Weiguo Mansion was because Wu Huaisi, the brother-in-law of the Duke of Weiguo, was a secretary of the ministry. Wu Huai Temple was promoted by the crown prince and Fu Cen. And Lord Cen is the father of the concubine, the grandfather of the second prince and the fifth prince.
At the beginning, Wei Qiu wanted to be promoted to the position of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials, and he fought hard for this position. At that time, his rival suddenly exposed a scandal and was impeached by Yushi for no reason, and this matter was instructed by Wei to Li Mu. This competitor is Mrs. Cen's person. Later, it was also Cen Taifu who intervened, and Wei Qiu failed to serve as the left attendant of the Ministry of Officials, so he was appointed as Taichang Siqing.
Wei Qiu had already offended Taifu Cen when he seized power, not to mention the factional struggle between the princes.
Now Zhao Yuanxun is going to hand Wei Qiu's handle to Cen Taifu and pry this big stone that he can't move.