Chapter 150: The Good Name of the Four Princes
Hearing that Mu Yihan wanted to use the method of joint writing, the two immediately agreed.
Joint letters are a common method of invitation in ancient officialdom, which can not only leave off personal involvement, so that the important ministers who dare not offend cannot catch the initiator and are helpless, but also can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
What's more, Mu Yihan also proposed not to forcibly admonish him, but to beat around the bush, only saying that the situation of the exile is getting more and more serious, and it is better to remove the crown prince and let someone else temporarily take over the affairs of the chief disaster relief, so that the refugees will not vent their grievances on the prince.
In this way, if the status of the crown prince is not threatened, the prince and the emperor will not be too angry, and the ministers who are the prime minister and the head of the household department will be able to avoid the catastrophe.
Tobe Shangshu personally drafted this invitation, which can be described as euphemistic and accommodating to the extreme.
Mu Yihan got the signatures of these two people, so he went to lobby the others.
The two also volunteered to help lobby the officials of all sizes in the officialdom.
But in one day, there were forty or fifty more officials on the joint letter, including the names of the princes and princes.
After that, Mu Yihan led the officials, large and small, to wait outside the palace gate, waiting for the results to come out.
When this petition went through the normal procedure and arrived at the emperor's desk in the imperial study, the emperor read it, and the anger in his eyebrows can be imagined.
He slapped the table and reprimanded angrily: "These princes and grandsons, do you just look at the prince so unpleasantly? ”
It can be seen that everyone is standing and waiting in the snow, and he knows that if they don't give them a satisfactory answer to this matter, they will not give up.
What's more, they also presented him with another more impressive "weapon"?
He sighed and said, "It seems that the prince's behavior is too unsatisfactory, and it is time to remove him." ”
When Empress Chen heard the news, she hurried over, just in time to hear about the emperor's decision.
She walked over a few steps and begged: "Your Majesty, if you remove the crown prince here, aren't you saying that the prince is incompetent?" In the future, when he inherits your great business, will he be truly convincing? ”
But no matter how she begged, the emperor was still determined to do so, and threw her another thick account book.
"Look at it, the relief food on it has been calculated clearly by these people, and the prince has deducted nearly 100,000 stones! Even when I saw it, I had to be embarrassed by it. This is the good son you raised with your own hands! ”
Under the emperor's reprimand, Empress Chen really knew that the prince's mistake had really caused public anger, so she no longer begged bitterly, just lowered her head and wiped her tears, and said in a snort, "The prince is young and ignorant, and I hope the emperor will give him another chance to repent and reform......
The emperor sighed heavily, and lamented again: "I can't bury the Jiangshan Sheji that my ancestors fought hard to fight for the sake of a son!" ”
Thinking that the King of Gudan in the southwest had long been ready to move, and at this time, the capital in turmoil had become a thorn in his side, and he was a little nervous.
Empress Chen raised her head suddenly, a touch of yin owl crossed her eyes, and she sneered: "Since it is the fourth prince who took the lead in the book, then let him replace the crown prince." I'd like to see how he turns this mess around. ”
The emperor couldn't wait to embarrass Mu Yihan a little, and nodded, "It's okay." ”
After he had thought twice about the wording, he had the decree drawn up and read it out to the people.
"Holy Heaven carriers, Emperor Zhao said. Now the prince is unwell and is not suitable to travel outside, which causes the disaster relief to be delayed and slowed down, so he recuperates in the palace and takes over this post after he recovers. During this period, the fourth prince temporarily took over the post of disaster relief director, and I hope to learn from the prince's conscientious and conscientious work, dreaming of sleep, being virtuous and capable, and the spirit of selflessness ......"
Everyone looked at each other, and then looked at Mu Yihan, who was the leader, and felt unfair in his heart.
Where is this holy decree appointing him, which is clearly openly praising the crown prince and finding an excuse for his dismissal?
Mu Yihan is likely to be busy in vain, but the final credit belongs to the prince.
If his disaster relief is unfavorable, the emperor will only punish him......
Even the relief grain that was privately swallowed by the crown prince, the emperor had no intention of asking him for it.
So where did Mu Yihan get so much food to fill the shortfall?
The emperor simply threw a hot potato to him!
On the other hand, the emperor defends the prince so high-soundingly, which shows his love for the prince.
It's just that this also makes everyone worry about the future, and they only feel that the Apocalypse Country Society, which will be led by the crown prince in the future, is worried......
Mu Yihan didn't say a word, stepped forward and silently accepted the holy decree, and then turned back.
After that, Mu Yihan came to the Household Grain Savings Office.
Under Mu Yihan's questioning, the head of the household finally admitted that the prince had received a lot of relief food, but it was not distributed to the victims at all. As for the real whereabouts of the grain, he did not know.
Mu Yihan didn't care, but planned to distribute one-fifth of the remaining grain in the granary to the displaced people outside one after another, so as to calm their emotions.
However, this suggestion was immediately opposed by the emperor, who only said that they could not even send their own rations in order to help the victims, and did not agree.
Mu Yihan saw that this road did not work, so he had to make a ruthless move.
In the middle of the night when the wind was dark and windy, he ordered someone to send a letter anonymously to the crown prince Mu Zichen in the form of flying arrows in the air.
Mu Zichen saw that the above was evidence that he had embezzled and accepted bribes of tens of millions of taels, all of which were ironclad and irrefutable, and finally became afraid.
Seeing that this person was just asking him for relief food that had been privately swallowed by himself, he had to grit his teeth and unwillingly return tens of thousands of stone of grain to the household department.
At the same time, he decided that this matter must be related to Mu Yihan.
Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental that when Mu Yihan had just taken office, this deadly threat came to him by surprise?
Thinking that Mu Yihan was holding so much evidence of his corruption and bribery in his hands, he was terrified and couldn't sleep well.
He gradually formed his hands into fists, his face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and muttered in a low voice: "Fourth, you wait for me!" ”
When these life-saving grains were delivered to the surrounding provinces one by one, the displaced people around the capital all cheered and bowed down to the towering city gate.
"The fourth prince is really a good person, for the sake of us ordinary people, where is he like those princes and ministers who are pretending to be public and private? We finally have a way to live, thanks to a living bodhisattva like the Four Princes......"
"The fourth prince is a thousand years old, we will worship and pray to you every year, and we will not forget your great kindness!"
"There are four princes who ask people to give porridge outside the city every day, so we homeless people don't have to starve......
The good reputation of the four princes who helped the world and saved people and Kuang Fu Sheji has also spread all over the world since then.
And Mu Yihan didn't care about these very much, he just hoped in his heart that those people could release Ye Yun'er back to him as they promised.
At the same time, Ye Yun'er was not very comfortable with this group of homeless people.