Chapter 633: Visiting the Meng Family
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Yuanhai when Mengzhi was the teacher, because Mengzhi was a scholar and politician, Yuanhai was a talent personally selected by Mengzhi, and later Yuanhai High School champion, Mengzhi still did not forget to carry it at the beginning of the office, so Yuanhai was appointed as Huai'an Tongzhi, although he was not a subordinate official of Mengzhi, but when he was sent to Jinling, he still did not forget to visit, and he always respected Mengzhi.
"Not long ago, Meng Shangshu came to Huai'an privately, and asked Yuan to meet in secret, lobbying Yuan to persuade that since Yuan had objections to the tax administration that had been tried in the four provinces in Jiangnan in advance, he should convene a joint boycott of the wealthy families in Huai'an, and even secretly solicited the students of Huai'an Mansion to protest, and used the interests of the people to persuade the imperial court to withdraw the order, and impeached Deputy Zhao for destroying the interests of the monarch because of his desire to seize power, and plotting against him, so as to stimulate the chaos of the people in Jiangnan, and the criminals will bring disaster to the country and the people."
Since Meng Zhi said this in person, then it is definitely not Yuan Ji who can blame him.
Chungui asked: "Yuan Tongzhi rejected Meng Zhi?" โ
"Of course, bluntly refuse." Yuan Hai said: "Although Yuan does not agree with Deputy Envoy Zhao's advice, but since he is an official, it is the duty of the official to write a refutation, how can he act against the imperial court decree to incite chaos and violence to resist the law?" Originally, Yuan had already made up his mind, and after the written advice was rejected by the imperial court, even if he was not convinced, he should also follow the imperial decree to fulfill the duties of a courtier, or meet with His Royal Highness and Deputy Envoy Zhao to discuss in person, and try to persuade the two according to the actual situation, and Yuan Mou said that he would completely abolish the public grain chief, and from then on, the local government or household department would be responsible for collecting and paying taxes. โ
Speaking of this, Yuan Hai's expression was also more solemn: "How do you know that Meng Shangshu said, His Royal Highness will never be able to get the reserve, and it will inevitably be because Yuan openly refutes the trial tax system, and against the crackdown, slander and frame Yuan a criminal who is greedy for ink and lawlessness, only according to his words, Yuan can protect himself, Yuan was shocked and angry at the time, I really didn't expect Meng Shangshu to disobey the yang and yin, get involved in the battle for the storage position, and rebel for his own selfish desires, Yuan persuaded Meng Shangshu to rein in the precipice, and warned Meng Shangshu that if the four provinces in the south of the Yangtze River really resisted the law, Yuan will definitely sue Meng Shangshu and Qian Baipo and other party members, not only corrupt and pervert the law, but also instigate the crime of civil disorder and conspire against it. โ
Although Yuanhai was angry at the time, but in the end, he still cared about the friendship between teachers and students for so many years, so he naturally did not report Meng Zhi immediately, and hoped that Meng Zhi was just confused for a while, and he could regain his consciousness after being angrily reprimanded, so as not to ruin the greed of most of his life for most of his life.
He didn't expect that he couldn't wait for the day when Meng Zhi repented.
"The Lang Zhong who gave me an acupuncture and analgesia was introduced by Meng Zhi." Yuan Hai said in a deep voice: "I have an old spleen fever and it is getting worse day by day, Meng Zhi has always been aware, so he inquired for me about Langzhong Kequan, who is good at internal medicine in Huai'an Mansion. โ
Chungui somewhat understood: "Compared with Qian Baipo and Fang Dongliang, Yuan Tongzhi actually thinks that Meng Zhi is more suspicious? โ
"Yuan is also awakened after death, once he has moved the desire for power, knowing that if there is a mistake, the old man will not be guaranteed, how can he repent and stop because of a few words of persuasion? Meng Gongta...... Although he has the grace of carrying Yuan, but the monarchy is important, Yuan should not hide his guilt, Yuan's crime has been repaid with death, but I hope ...... His Royal Highness the King of Zhou and Deputy Envoy Zhao were able to clear the corrupt eunuchs and traitors in the four provinces south of the Yangtze River, so that the people's hearts were not suspicious, and they truly inherited the emperor and Zhao Taishi Xu Ge Lao, etc., and the prosperous world was free from the will of the world to fall into the catastrophe. โ
Yuanhai's words made Chungui feel like a hammer, and his chest felt dull.
Because she suddenly realized
Yuan Hai is different from the souls she came into contact with in the past, Yuan Hai is not at all like he is bound by delusion and cannot be detached, just like when he mentions Qian Baipo and Meng Zhi at this time, there is really no fierce hatred, but he seems to believe that he will be scattered, why is this?
There was silence in Chungui's mind.
She didn't ask Yuanhai again.
Because the answer is actually clear to her, but the mystery has not been solved, asking Yuanhai will not have any effect, but may lead to Yuanhai being angered and really ending up in a disillusioned end.
"What is Meng Zhi going to do, how do Gu Yiren plan to tell him?" King Zhou interrupted Chun Gui's contemplation.
"Let's borrow the mouth of the trail." Chungui replied that he was really a little absent-minded.
"Do you think Meng Zhi is really a traitor?" King Zhou's expression was solemn.
"We can't leave anything to chance." Chungui sighed: "Next, I will find a way to contact the daughters of the Meng family to see if I can find a flaw." โ
"But at this time, will it startle the snake?"
"Yuan Tongzhi respects Meng Zhi as the teacher, and His Royal Highness has already ordered the investigation of this murder case, it is reasonable for me to ask the female relatives of Mengmen, if I am indifferent, I will leak my beware."
King Zhou bowed his head: "That's true." โ
"So according to what Yuan Tongzhi said, if the Linzi Wang Party intends to incite the people to make trouble, does His Highness have a countermeasure?"
"I have thought of this for a long time." King Zhou said: "But in the eyes of the Emperor, Yuan Ji Dang such as Qian Baipo and others should not dare to personally go out to carry out the gelding, it is too obvious, and they cannot completely control the public opinion of the official, so acting in this way is tantamount to lifting a stone and shooting the foot, which will definitely anger the emperor and trigger Xu Ge Lao and other officials who are still neutral for the time being to target unanimous targets." โ
"Yes, that's why Meng Zhi lobbied Yuan Tongzhi, because Yuan Tongzhi is not the Linzi King Party, and if he takes the lead, the Linzi King Party can enjoy the benefits of the fisherman."
"What's more critical is that Meng Zhi, as such an important traitor of the Linzi Royal Party, will be exposed to the Linzi Royal Party." King Zhou also had to recognize the facts at this time: "They must try their best to protect Mengzhi, then they can only destroy Yuanhai, and use the Yuanhai murder case to plan to kill two birds with one stone, Yuan Ji made a move, which is indeed different from my second imperial brother and Chengguo Gong." โ
However, King Zhou did not reveal this urgent situation to Tao Fanglin, so Tao Fanglin was still complacent when she received Mrs. Qian's invitation, but this time she did not make any more assertions, and remembered to ask King Zhou's consent first: "Mrs. Qian's idea is to be a matchmaker, and match the lady of the prefect of Fang to marry the grandson of Cao Guogong, and the concubine thinks that this is a good thing, if this thing really happens, Mrs. Qian is grateful for the role of the concubine in the middle, and should also try to persuade Qian Shangshu to abandon the dark and turn to the light, if Qian Shangshu turns to His Royal Highness, Wouldn't Your Highness be like a tiger with wings? โ
More importantly, she has made a contribution, not to mention the favor of King Zhou, and established diplomatic relations with Qian and Wu Er, and her strength has increased greatly, and it can be regarded as narrowing some gaps between her high-born Concubine Dong, compared to the return of Gu Chun in that life, it can be said that there is a difference between cloud and mud, since Gu Chungui was able to be invited by King Zhou to be the rank of his wife, it is easier for her to be sealed in this life, and it is easier to compete for Fengbao for the position of Mrs.
Although King Zhou didn't know these whimsical thoughts in Tao Fanglin's heart, he probably understood what her purpose was, and he could hardly hold back a sneer: It's really a woman's opinion, not to mention that Qian Baipo is fighting the idea of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, where will you take care of your prince's concubine after taking the Cao Guogong Mansion to envelop Fang Dongliang, that is, Qian Baipo's wife has this kind of grateful, and she can shake Qian Bai with a few words of pillow wind
Poe's position abandons darkness and turns to light? If it were so easy to seize power, it would be enough for the men to only care about eating, drinking, and having fun, and only to send the women to intrigue?
Life is so easy.
Tao Fanglin was busy establishing diplomatic relations with Mrs. Qian, and Chun Gui also went to visit the home of Meng Zhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, as planned.
Meng Zhi belongs to the six departments of Nanjing, different from local officials, in principle, he is still a central official system, so there is no restriction on his place of residence, his ancestral home is Jinling, and his wife is also a Nanjing family, but Meng Zhi's wife Wang has passed away, and now the inner house is the eldest daughter-in-law Lin family.
Coincidentally, the Lin family and Chungui turned out to be the township party.
However, the two are very different in age, and their temperament is not very good, so the conversation does not seem to be very warm, and in the eyes of Chungui, there will even be an embarrassing cold scene suddenly in many cases.
But of course she doesn't think that it is just the generation gap and temperament caused by age, which causes such "difficult and obscure", the Lin family can even call her grandmother the eldest grandson, as the grandmother of Jinling Mengmen, how can she be so unsociable? She was obviously told that she already knew the meaning of the spring return, so she was prepared to be cautious in her words and deeds.
In other words, in Lin's heart, there must be confusion.
"Grandma, can you know that Yuan Tongzhi has passed away?" When Chungui really couldn't provoke this topic in a roundabout way, he simply asked directly.
Now Meng Zhi has not yet become a scholar, so although the Lin family in the Meng family is already the de facto main mother, she is still called "grandma" by the family, and the spring return is simply "following the customs".
"The day before yesterday, I really heard the old man and his grandson mention it, the old man was very sorry, and the grandson also sighed again and again, Yuan Tongzhi was only a few years older than his grandson, I didn't expect it to ......" Lin sighed, but Chungui didn't see any sadness on her face at all.
On the contrary, it was Lin's daughter Meng Sanniang who wanted to cry: "I really don't know how sad Qiong'er should be, she has always respected Yuan Tongzhi, although Yuan Tongzhi is strict, but he has always regarded Qiong'er as a pearl in his palm, almost responding, I heard Qiong'er talk about her family at that time, and I was straight at the sight that Qiong'er could have such a loving father." โ
"Yuan Tongzhi's youngest daughter's name is Qiong'er, because one year she came to my lord's birthday with the elder of the family, she lived in my house for a while, and she was very close to the little girl." Lin explained a few words in a hurry, clearly unwilling to let his daughter talk more.
Chun Gui asked Meng Sanniang: "How long has it been since Miss Meng saw Miss Yuan?" โ
"I haven't seen it for more than half a year, but I saw it when Qiong'er came to pay New Year's greetings with Yuan Tongzhi when I was in the New Year."
"Miss Meng, have you ever heard Miss Yuan say that Yuan Tongzhi had a grudge against someone in that period?"
"Gu Yiren, where do the boudoir girls know about these things." Lin interrupted Chun Gui's words a little stiffly.
"I know." Meng Sanniang ignored her mother's obstruction, and hurriedly spoke: "Qiong'er lived in Huai'an Mansion with her parents, she told me that the girl of the Fang Governor's family often squeezed her during that period, and Chen Niangzi often blamed their mother and daughter for some trivial things, Qiong'er listened to Yuan Tongzhi, it was Qian Shangshu who made Fang Zhifu embarrassed their family, not because Yuan Tongzhi punished the people of the Qian family, Qian Shangshu intended revenge." โ
Lin became more and more impatient: "Gu Yiren should have heard about these contradictions, you don't need to talk too much, it's just that you have also seen Gu Yiren do her best of courtesy, let's go back to the house, the elders should not bother when they talk to the boudoir girl, and you have forgotten all the rules I taught you?" โ
This almost has the meaning of referring to Sang scolding Huai.