Chapter 40: Rumors

Later, a rumor came out of nowhere, saying that the Gu Da who died before was related to the descendants of the Anping Palace. Now that I think about it, Gu Da's death may have offended King Anping for some reason, so he was killed!

The rumors were all over again, and everyone in Chang'an knew about it.

When the royal historians heard about this, they were enthusiastic about impeaching the uncle and nephew the next day.

When the old emperor saw the impeachment notes piled up in front of him, he suddenly became angry. immediately decided to order the inner servant to pass the word that these two people entered the palace to face the saint.

King Anping shouted injustice again and again in front of the emperor, saying that those were rumors spread by people with good intentions and deliberately framed him.

Chen Zhaoran also agreed.

The emperor Lao Tzu had already asked the Prosecutor's Office to find out the truth, as long as these two obediently admitted their mistakes, he was ready to make a big deal small. Unexpectedly, these two people sang and shouted injustices again and again. But the emperor is angry!

These two idiots, do you really think that the prosecutor's office is a dry meal? is still staging such a drama in front of him, do you really think that being the emperor Lao Tzu is so idle?

As soon as the emperor was angry, the punishment came down.

Afterwards, I heard that King Anping was fined half a year of confinement and confiscated for three years.

And Chen Zhaoran was also demoted from the general of the Left Guard to the general of the Left Guard, and directly replaced the vacancy of the exiled one. He was also fined for two or three years.

When Chen Guifei heard about this, she cried in front of the emperor for several days. Seeing this, the old emperor, who was already in poor health and irritable, directly locked up Chen Guifei. It was decreed that there should be no disturbance without a holy order.

Where did Chen Guifei, who has always been quite favored, receive such treatment, and she was so frightened that she shut up on the spot. Pear blossom with rain, I saw pity to follow the waiter back to his bedroom.

The emperor also wondered! He has always felt that this King Anping is a smart and knowledgeable person, although he is not from the queen, he has taken everything with literature and martial arts. In comparison, the King of Changyang produced by the queen is slightly inferior. This is also the reason why he hesitated between the two princes.

Now these two cases have made him see the unknown side of King Anping.

Perhaps, he was blind before.

The emperor is old and frail, and the position of crown prince is vacant. Now the one who is capable of the position of crown prince is the king of Changyang, and the queen is the prince. The second is King Anping. The rest of the princes were either mediocre or too young.

However, the king of Changyang has been weak and has hidden diseases since he was a child, and his uncle's mansion has no real power, except for the occasional care of the queen's mother, he basically did not attract many courtiers.

On the other hand, on the side of King Anping, the mother concubine Chen Guifei has been favored since she entered the palace, and her maternal uncle holds an important position in the palace, the Yue family is still the Duguo Mansion, the eldest brother is a well-known general stationed in the north, and his maternal uncle is the pillar of the court. It can be said that in addition to not being born by the queen, King Anping's strength in the court is basically better than that of King Changyang.

Therefore, not only the emperor was optimistic about King Anping, but even many ministers in the court secretly supported him.

In the past year or two, officials who thought that the crown prince must be the cyst of King Anping have quietly changed their minds because of the two recent cases.

They didn't care about whether the two cases were really related to King Anping, but cared about the emperor's attitude towards King Anping.

If the emperor has the heart to defend it, King Anping's position will naturally not be shaken by half a point. But if the emperor handles it impartially and insists on punishing King Anping, then the matter will be mysterious!

At the juncture of seizing the heir, a prince lost his sacred heart, which is not so easy to recover! The same is true for these courtiers, once they stand on the wrong team, they may lose more than their own lives in the future.

It looks like this is going to be done slowly! Don't be careless!

Since then, most of the officials who have always been optimistic about King Anping have sounded alarm bells in their heads, and all of them have reined in a lot.

And on the side of the Changyang Palace, which has always been cold, King Anping was punished and grounded, and in order to avoid suspicion, he also closed the door.

King Anping, who has always been smooth, planted such a heel for the first time, and immediately remembered his resentment on Cheng Chang'an's head.

If he hadn't eaten enough to investigate the case of losing his daughter, how would the emperor know about it, and how could he have today's humiliation? Even his mother and uncle were implicated, and he swore that he would never share the sky with this Cheng Changan in the future!

got the news that King Anping and Concubine Chen were punished and grounded, and Queen Cui was so happy.

The mother and son have been secretly adding to her many blockages, and now, they can finally breathe smoothly!

Just when King Anping was still grounded, Jingzhao Yamen finally had a new task to escort those rescued girls home.

This time for the escort, Cheng Xiangjin volunteered again. She wanted to witness the hardships of those girls!

Cheng Chuyang didn't agree at first, but when he saw Cheng Fuyin nodding, he didn't say much.

Several officials of the Jingzhao Yamen were grouped according to the location of the girls' hometowns, and they were divided into five groups. Cheng Xiangjin followed Cheng Chuyang, Gan Lin, and Xiaoliu all the way. Their group's task was to escort eleven women back to their hometowns.

Cheng Xiangjin was in a good mood all the way.

When Cheng Chuyang saw it, his mood was a little complicated.

"I carefully checked the origins of these girls, and before they were sold, most of their families were not wealthy, and they had many brothers and sisters."

Cheng Xiangjin didn't understand, "So what?" After all, it is their home, and no matter how bad it is, there are relatives looking forward to reuniting! I sent them home, and it was a merit to say that! ”

Cheng Chuyang saw that she was so innocent, and was silent for a moment. After a long time, he spoke again, "I just want to remind you that no one knows what their family has developed after a year or two, and now that they have been rescued, it is unpredictable whether they can be accepted or not." ”

Cheng Xiangjin waved his hand disappreciatively, "Impossible!" How so? It was their own home, and everyone in the family was their loved ones. They have gone through hardships, they will not die, they are the lucky ones among more than a thousand girls, and now they can finally go back, and it is too late for their families to be happy, how can they not be accepted? ”

Cheng Chuyang knew that he would tell her this for a while, but she couldn't understand it. So I chose to shut up. Cheng Xiangjin saw that he didn't speak, but looked at him twice like he was looking at something else.

"Brother, have you seen too many bad people, and even the family affection of normal people has begun to doubt? That's not going to work! My father asked you to come to the yamen to help, mainly to train you. I don't want to distort your integrity. It's really not good, after you go back this time, you can tell your father that it's better not to stay in the yamen at all, or to study directly at home. Reading and preparing for the exam, coming back from the top three in the spring exam next year, is better than anything else. That's more in line with your style. ”