Chapter 158: Betrayed
Lu Cheng's expression when he saw Cui Jian shouting grievances was particularly realistic, not like a fake. Lu Cheng began to find it interesting, why did she think it was a simple corruption case, but she didn't expect that this was a serial case.
"I believe in Cui Qing!" As for your swelling appearance, the brain cells are almost degenerating into single cells, and you don't have the brains to design such a complex serial case.
"Minister...... The minister ...... "Cui Jian didn't know what to say, he burst into tears, and he was inexplicably moved.
Liu Jingxin obviously got it back by Lu Cheng, and it is not bad to trace back to the source that Lu Cheng is the murderer who should be so embarrassed by him, but why can't he hate it?
Maybe it was the influence of Wei Changgong's deterrent power around Shengshang, or maybe Shengshang was too strong, so he didn't have the motivation to resent.
Lu Cheng looked at Cui Jian with a touched face, as if he instantly understood Cui Jian's brain circuit. This is the legendary bullying of the soft and afraid of the hard, right?
But before the matter is thoroughly investigated, I have to bother Cui Qing to go back to the house and think about it behind closed doors. Where is Yu Linwei? ”
With Lu Cheng's order, two eight-foot-tall men walked into the main hall, knelt down on one knee and said, "The last general." ①”
"Take Cui Shilang home to recuperate. Cui Shilang's illness can't see anyone, and from now on, the entire Cui Mansion is allowed to enter but not leave. ”
"No." The two lieutenants gave up their orders, and they didn't talk nonsense, and they didn't care about Cui Jiangao's military department.
The two lieutenants made a move unceremoniously, one grabbed Cui Jian's left arm and flipped it back, then twisted it to the right, and the other held Cui Jian's right arm and also flipped it backwards, and then twisted it to the left.
"Ahh Cui Jian's wolf howl and begging for mercy were useless, Yu Linwei would always be loyal to the Great Zhou Tianzi and only obey the dispatch of the Great Zhou Tianzi.
The two captains, one on the left and one on the right, escorted Cui Jian out of the hall.
"Liu Qing, in this way, are you still satisfied?" Lu Cheng asked.
"Convict first and then punish, all hesitation, according to the serious illness, what the Holy One did, how wise it could be." Liu Jingxin did not relent, but took the opportunity to pat Lu Cheng on the back.
It is a compulsory homework for literati, don't say that an upright person can't, it depends on whether the person wants to say it, after all, the knowledge is there.
"Good, Liu Qing can be included in the list, presumably the colleagues of Yushitai are a little anxious."
"No."
Lu Cheng and Liu Jingxin, the two monarchs and ministers, asked and answered, and got along very well.
Some people who are familiar with Liu Jingxin feel a little different.
Liu Jingxin sprayed the existence of the first emperor head-on, but she sprayed the first emperor at the beginning, and the first emperor had to withdraw the order to punish the younger brother of the favorite concubine.
No way? Go home and think about it behind closed doors? Not to mention the silver taels and the store, just looking at the abnormal number of acres can't be a sentence lightly, go home to recuperate, and think about it behind closed doors, right?
Getting along with people who have been immersed in officialdom for many years, some officials are no different from fledglings, they may have the following doubts, such as after Yu Linwei escorted back to the house, Yu Linwei will definitely block Cui's mansion next, and then raid the house, how can such a punishment be said to be light?
When I go home and think about it behind closed doors, there are two results, one is that I don't have a backstage, I think about it behind closed doors, and then I become dead. The second is that there is a backstage, just like Cui Jian, he has Xie Xiang as his uncle, and he is also one of the facades launched by Qinghe Cui's family, his backstage is a relatively hard kind, according to the old practice of Zhang Heshi, that is, surround for a few days, and then can't find strong evidence, and finally it is gone.
However, the old precedent of the Immortal Period has not yet been figured out, and it is still unknown whether the Immortality will follow the old precedent.
Some officials are speculating that if Lu Cheng did not deal with it vigorously and resolutely, then he should not turn over the accounts again. This is based on Lu Cheng's speculation in just a few months since he ascended the throne, and I don't know if their speculation is accurate.
For example, in the Liaoyang disaster relief corruption case, Lu Cheng said that if he didn't pursue it, it was really a spit and a nail, and he didn't even bother to wear small shoes for you. Some officials who have paid fines still act with their necks shrunk for the first month after being fined, and after a month, their necks are stretched as straight as they want.
Some officials secretly guessed that Cui Shilang was probably in danger, and with his rich family property, it would be strange that Lu Cheng would not be moved. So how can you smoothly get a good fortune? The easiest way is, of course, to raid the house. Lu Cheng's year name should not be called Changsheng at all, what is Changsheng, and calling Kong Fang is in line with her surprising temperament.
Lu Cheng loves money, and especially loves to raid the house, and wool picking has also become one of the rules that the courtiers have figured out to a certain extent. Emperor Kong Fang, the ministers used this "nickname" to ridicule Lu Cheng in private.
It is really normal for officials to fumble with the emperor's rules.
Lu Cheng is the sun, and the ministers are the planets revolving around the sun.
If there was a magnifying glass at this time, every minister would be eager to have a magnifying glass in their hands to observe how thick each pore of Lu Cheng was.
The feeling of being surrounded by officials may be similar to that of a star living in the spotlight. It is the pervasive, observed feeling, as if the emperor is not a person, but something that is similar to being studied.
If you want to wear its crown, you must bear its weight. ②
"Zhu Qing can continue, the early dynasty can't revolve around Cui Jian alone, right?" Lu Cheng's tone with a slight reproach also made the ministers speechless.
Ministers: Holy Lord, haven't you been circling around one person all the time? And we are not allowed to discuss anything else, just let us think about what 10,000 words of the article. Well, well, you are the emperor, you have a point.
The early dynasty continued.
But there was nothing lively to see in this early dynasty. There is a lively look at the Cui Mansion.
Kyoto, Choifu.
At this time, Cui Jian was still on his way to be escorted to the club.
The housekeeper of the Cui Mansion can only find Xie Ling, another master in this mansion.
"Madam, about a hundred Yu Lin Guards came outside, surrounding the entire Cui Mansion," the housekeeper of the Cui Mansion reported to Xie Lingyu in a little panic.
The housekeeper of the Cui Mansion felt that everyone who lived in this part of the west recently was unlucky, and this area had made some mistakes. He laughed a few months ago that the neighboring house was besieged, but he didn't expect that just a few months later, their house would become one of the besieged.
The housekeeper of the Ning Mansion next door glanced at the Cui Mansion that was heavily surrounded, and he couldn't help but sigh: "The world is really impermanent, and feng shui takes turns." A few months ago, it seems that Brother Cui Fu (the housekeeper of Cui Mansion) had told him about the tragic experience of the neighboring mansion. I didn't expect that it would be the turn of Cui's Mansion to be besieged today, this is really ......"
The steward of the Ning Mansion shook his head slightly, and then ordered the servants to fold more willow branches and come back. None of the ninjas who came back from outside had to get rid of bad luck. Too unlucky!
In Cui Mansion, Xie Ling's flat expression was in stark contrast to the panic of the Cui Mansion housekeeper.
"Don't panic, let the people in the house do their own things, don't think about stealing and cheating. Otherwise, before the soldiers outside will arrest you, I will deal with the thieves first. Xie Ling said nonchalantly, she even had the heart to catch the cheating and cheating servants.
A kind of servant in the Cui Mansion listened to Xie Ling's calm tone, and they all looked at Xie Ling with the same star eyes.
There is a calming backbone in the Cui Mansion, and the blind servants in the Cui Mansion have also calmed down, they should sweep the floor, wipe the ashes, and the entire Cui Mansion is orderly even if it is surrounded.
After Cui Jian returned home, or was escorted back to his house by two Yulin lieutenants, what he saw was a gratifying picture.
Sure enough, when he asked Xie Fu to marry Xie Ling, it was the most correct decision he made.
The head of the house still has to ask to marry the famous concubine of the family. As for the cousin and the brightly colored beauty, it is just a pastime, and it has to be his wife who can take charge!
"I'm back." Xie Ling saw that Cui Jian's tone was also light, no surprise, no worry, just like two strangers.
Cui Jian was very guilty: "It's a certain lady who suffers." ”
"It's good to know that you're the one who has caused me to be tired." Xie Ling was also unceremonious, and replied with a smile.
Cui Jian choked, although his wife became more and more cold, when Cui Xiao and Cui Xiang were admitted to the fame, Xie Ling was even more indifferent to the extreme, and the husband and wife respected each other like ice.
However, being choked like this, Cui Jian experienced it for the first time. In the past, these people gave him a light look and let him experience it for himself.
Okay now, Xie Ling has spoken, but it is better to give him a look and let him experience it himself.
However, being choked like this, Cui Jian remembered that Xie Ling had concealed that Cui Xiao and Cui Xiang had spent a lot of money in the Golden Phoenix Pavilion and the Silver Phoenix Pavilion in Jiangling.
Thinking about it, of course he had to ask: "Dare to ask Madame, why did Madame hide the fact that the eldest lady and Erlang spent a lot of money in the Golden Phoenix Pavilion and the Silver Phoenix Pavilion in Jiangling?" ”
"You know."
"I know?" Cui Jian was about to laugh angrily at Xie Ling's answer. How did he know?
"Don't pretend to be ignorant here, Cui Jian, you're not too young. When you educate your aunt and Erlang, in addition to using family law as a threat, what else will you do? Xie Ling's tone was very impulsive, and he was not weak at all.
Cui Jian seems to know why, Mrs. is afraid that he will use family law to punish the eldest mother and Erlang.
"And, is there a lot of money? Isn't it just my set of money, what's wrong with the money of the eldest mother and Erlang to have fun. Xie Ling looked like a loving mother and a defeated child, and said indifferently.
Xie Jian was so angry that he couldn't do it, but he still had to endure it, who made her brother Xie Yun? And if he wants to be safe, he must not be without the operation of his eldest brother. You can't be angry, you have to be reasonable.
"Madam, you have hurt me!"
"Oh." Xie Ling said that he understood, and then, please continue.
Cui Jian choked again, this feeling is different from the feeling of being dumbfounded by Liu Jingxin in the court, but it is also painful.
"Liu Jingxin has returned to the court."
Xie Ling's expression didn't change, she knew that. And she knew that Liu Jingxin's return to the dynasty and the exact time of his arrival in Beijing were definitely earlier than Cui Jian. The news has been known for a long time, and of course there is nothing surprising about it.
"So what?" Xie Ling asked expressionlessly, as if Cui Jian was singing a one-man show alone.
"So?" Cui Jian took a deep breath, "So the matter of the eldest lady and Erlang spending a lot of money in the Golden Phoenix Pavilion and the Silver Phoenix Pavilion in Jiangling was stabbed out by Liu Jingxin, and he used this to attack me." Madame, you are very smart, don't ask me any more. I know, you must be able to imagine how Liu Jingxin will attack me and Cui Mansion next. ”
"Of course, that image even came to life in my mind." Because there is her plan in it, and she participates in making plans, of course she knows what will happen to Cui Jian in the court.
"Madame, I have one last question for you, and give me a sincere answer for your sake." Cui Jian said.
"Okay, you ask." Cui Jian has suppressed the relationship between the two of them for many years, Xie Ling, of course she has to give Cui Jian a face, although their relationship between husband and wife is not worth much.
"Three hundred thousand taels of silver, and washing...... What the hell is going on with these stores? Madame, can you give me an explanation? Cui Jian clenched his fists, it was his others, it was not his who poured dirty water on his head.
At the same time, after the end of the early dynasty, Lu Cheng, who was in the Flying Frost Palace, was also conducting a similar questioning.
Lu Cheng asked, and Wei Zhongxian answered.
And Wei Zhongxian and Dongchang's efficiency this time is a little scary, and it has been found out not long after the next dynasty.
Among them, there must be Wei Zhongxian's shame and courage after the defeat of the person behind the investigation of Peng Choufu, of course, one thing that must not be ignored is that the person who did that thing, and it seemed that the person who wanted to frame Cui Jian did not want to cover it up at all, and everything went exceptionally smoothly.
"Back to everyone, Cui Jian's family originally had 100,000 taels of silver, which was a little unclean, but the remaining 200,000 taels of silver were all earned, and the source was innocent. And those extra shops are also leading to the normal business dealings, little by little. Wei Zhongxian said.
Lu Cheng's eyes were glowing when he heard this, if everything was legal and innocent, then the person who ran the business would be a real business wizard.
As for her? Hehe, she just grabbed a little bit from the scattered advanced knowledge of later generations, that is, some of the knowledge that was crammed in by political teachers and others, no matter how much it is, she is already exhausted.
It just so happens that her inner library has been hollowed out because of the reward for the frontier soldiers, and she has not yet taken a breath, and she continues to be such a business wizard!
"Who is it? Who is that person? Lu Cheng stared at Wei Zhongxian with blazing eyes.
Of course, Wei Zhongxian knew what Lu Cheng was asking: "Back to everyone, is it Mrs. Cui Shilang's wife, Xie Ling?" ”
Lu Cheng's eyes widened, and his face was full of incredulity: "It's her?" ”
Switch the view to Choifu.
Xie Ling gave Cui Jian a two-word answer: "It's me." ”
At this time, Cui Jian and Lu Cheng had the same surprised face: "Madam, is it you?" How so? Why? ”
Cui Jian, he was betrayed by his wife. The cause is unknown.
(1) Here are two lieutenants, leading generals with false ranks, who can be called generals. If you have any doubts, just treat them as unfixable bugs.
(2) Western language, also mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry IV: Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Explanation: If you want to wear this hat, you have to bear its weight.