Chapter 162: Enter the palace to defend yourself
Xue Yi stood up slowly, the jade hand pushed away Emperor Cheng's hand, and his warm eyes were suddenly cold and sharp, like a sword stabbing at Emperor Cheng, and the voice fell in Emperor Cheng's ears as cold as ice: "If I open my mouth to beg the emperor to let me go, will my father, the emperor let him go?!" If I say that I enter the palace as a concubine, will the emperor no longer pursue his old man's rebellion?! No, it won't! The emperor also said just now, even if the emperor wants to let go of my father, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military will not let him go, since Hengzhi is a death, Lan Xueyi would rather die with dignity! ”
"It's just gibberish, what dignity do you mention when you die?! I don't want you to die! I want you to live! Emperor Cheng saw that Xue Yi was in a trance, and he was bent on death, shaking her shoulders excitedly.
Xue Yi smiled in her heart, but her jade face was sad and complaining, and her eyes were even more sad and sad, she glanced at the beautiful eyes lowered after becoming an emperor, and her long eyelashes were rolling: "But I don't know how the emperor wants Xue Yi to live?" Do you want Lan Xueyi to break off her father's righteousness and be an unfilial daughter that everyone despises? Or do you want Lan Xue to change her name and surname, and make a living? ”
Emperor Cheng gritted his teeth: "I want you to live in the name of Lan Xueyi, the daughter of Lan Guang!" Believe me, I will protect you from death! ”
Xue Yi knelt down and kowtowed to Emperor Cheng: "How can Xue Yi be so favored by the emperor, even if he dies in this life, he has no regrets......."
Xue Yi knew that Emperor Cheng would use her father's affairs to coerce her into the palace as a concubine, and she knew that once she agreed to enter the palace at this time, then her father would definitely die, and the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, once Emperor Cheng canonized her as a concubine, then she was like a canary in a cage, although she looked infinitely beautiful, but she did not have a trace of freedom, and she could no longer have the opportunity to go out of the palace to rescue her father, so she could only beg for death in front of Emperor Cheng, and it was precisely because of this that she let Xue Wu and Mrs. Qing beg how they should not be allowed to enter the palace.
Xue Yi expected that the reason why Mrs. Qing and Xue Wu came to the Chongqing Mansion again and again to persuade her to enter the palace as a concubine must be that someone was behind her back, and even if this person was not ordered by Emperor Cheng, he should also be instructed by a certain important minister in the court, this person's purpose is obviously not the drunkard's intention is not to drink, he wants Xue Yi to enter the palace is to Xue Yi fall out of favor in the harem, because no one who rebels against the daughter of the criminal can stay with the holy car for a long time!
Before entering the palace, it was already stormy, Xue Yi knew in her heart that this road would inevitably be difficult to walk, but she didn't want to be so careful!
Sure enough, Emperor Cheng said his intentions and his way to save Xue Yi, and he sat on the carved chair with Xue Yi: "Xue Yi, you just promise to enter the palace with me, as long as you enter the palace, I will canonize you as the queen, and Prime Minister Lan is the abbot, I will naturally pardon him." ET”
Xue Yi sneered in her heart, nodded secretly, it seemed that things were as she guessed, she secretly calculated, but she shook her head slowly: "Your Majesty, the concubine would rather die than accompany the king as the daughter of a criminal minister!" Even if the emperor can forgive my father for the crime of rebellion, the Manchu civil and military will not agree, even if the Manchu civil and military forgive my father, I will not forgive him! Therefore, Xue Yi would rather accompany the Lan family to share weal and woe! The emperor can't be put in a dilemma. ”
"You'd rather die than enter the palace?!" Cheng Dijun's face darkened, and he raised his voice.
"How can the emperor let Xue Yi live as the daughter of a criminal minister?! How can you accompany the emperor day and night without fear?! Xue Yi knelt on the ground again, tears streaming down her face.
Emperor Cheng knows Xue Yi very well, she is weak in appearance but actually strong, once the decision is irreparable, the king of Yu died, she was born without love, and now with her father being captured, she will not live alone, he can wait, Xue Yi can also be dragged along, but the child in her womb can not wait, if it is postponed, once the courtiers find out that Xue Yi is pregnant and enter the palace, I am afraid it will be another turmoil, and he can't say that he is the biological father of this child!
Emperor Cheng sighed: "Then what do you say you can do to enter the palace with me?" ”
Xue Yi hesitated for a moment and said, "Return my father's innocence!" Give the Lan family a fair deal! ”
Emperor Cheng leaned over and stared at Xue Yi's eyes dancing with flames: "Do you want your father to be innocent?!" Is the Lan family fair? Your father raised the flag to rebel, and the text flew like snowflakes, and I counted my sins on it, and I still want to return his innocence?! The Lan family is rampant in the township and forcibly occupies the people's land and houses, and I still want to give the Lan family justice?! Who is still innocent?! Who will give justice to the people in Shuangfeng City?! ”
Xue Yi met Emperor Cheng's eyes, neither humble nor arrogant: "The text is written by Lan Guang himself?!" Lin Ji is a scholar, can Lan Guang be captured just by relying on the sage's instructions to secretly Chen Cang's strategy?! When the first emperor was alive, if the Lan family hadn't run rampant in the countryside and robbed the people's houses and land, would the Lan family still have today's peace?! Why didn't the emperor ask the people who had occupied their fields and houses if they had been displaced?! Have they all received the placement of the mysterious person?! Every time the Lan family wins a property, they will secretly send someone to send three times the amount of silver taels! Can these emperors know?! ”
Emperor Cheng stared at Xue Yi, his eyes were full of surprise, this woman who was tied to the high pavilion seemed to know a lot of things he didn't know, when he received the ministers' impeachment of Lan Guang, Emperor Cheng also wondered, why Lan Guang connived at his nephew to act so recklessly, and none of the people sued him, but when he disappeared, some people actually went to the temple to offer incense and pray that he was safe.
Emperor Cheng sneered: "You say this, Lan Guang was forced by the first emperor to do nonsense?" ”
Xue Yi bowed: "Yes, Xue Yi only learned the inside story today, if someone said this to me yesterday, I wouldn't believe it, but now, now I am convinced, my father is a good person!" He had no choice but to do that, because the first emperor suspected that he was inviting people to buy people's hearts, and the purpose was to plot the prince to take the opportunity to usurp power! Since my father did not hesitate to destroy his reputation in order to eliminate the suspicion of the first emperor, how could he seek to usurp the throne when the emperor was inspiring a new policy and the political voice was clear?! I believe my dad is innocent! ”
"Do you have any evidence for what you say?" Emperor Cheng stared at Xue Yi.
Xue Yi met Emperor Cheng's gaze, reached out and took a thick pile of paper from the table and handed it to Emperor Cheng, Emperor Cheng looked at the one on it and wrote: "In mid-May, the Liujia Tea House in the south of the city is worth five hundred taels of silver, and now it will be repaid several times to make other townships businessmen."
The following one reads: In late June, several hectares of good land in Lijia in the north of the city, the compensation was 1,000 taels of silver, and it was also doubled, and a note was set up, and all the money was returned after the political affairs were clear.
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Page by page, counting the fields, houses, and compensation amounts that the Lan family has seized over the years.
Emperor Cheng also had to believe it, but the hatred in his heart did not disappear, Lan Guang may be a good person, or a good official who is the master of the people, but he is the main culprit who framed Madame Butterfly, and the enemy who killed his mother!
"Xue Yi believes that the emperor is as shocked and suspicious as Xue Yi when he sees these notes, if the emperor still doesn't believe it, Xue Yi still has a certification ......."
Emperor Cheng waved his hand: "I believe this is true, I have also secretly investigated Lan Guang's political voice, and there are mixed reviews, but there is no major crime, just some trivial things, which is why I have not made an order to make a decision!" “
Xue Yi kowtowed and thanked him when he heard this: "Xue Yi thanked the emperor on behalf of his father, and the emperor thanked him for his mercy at this time, and the emperor Xie did not issue an order to behead him, give my father a chance to defend himself." “
"You want me to let Lan Guang defend himself?!" Emperor Cheng heard Xue Yi's voice.
Xue Yi nodded, her clear eyes sparkling: "Xue Yi knows that my father is already waiting for orders outside the city, and the emperor is still in trouble about how to deal with him, since this is the case, why not allow him to enter the palace to defend himself?" Or he will give the emperor an answer. “
"Okay, I promise you that I will summon Lan Guang into the palace tomorrow to defend myself, but I also have a condition." Emperor Cheng pulled Xue Yi's jade wrist, his eyes stubborn.
"Your Majesty, please speak."
"Regardless of whether Lan Guang's rebellion is true or not, whether he will be convicted or not, you must live well, and enter the palace with me after the dust settles on this matter!" Emperor Cheng stared at Xue Yi.
Entering the palace is a foregone conclusion, it's just a matter of time or later, Xue Yi has long understood in her heart that she originally intended to follow Xiao Yichen underground, who knew that she was pregnant, for this bit of blood, she had already made up her mind to endure humiliation and steal life, and entering the palace would become the way she had to go!
Alas....... Xue Yi sighed secretly in her heart, who said that the only death is difficult through the ages, how can you be sad and die alone?! Today's Lan Xueyi is also a dilemma of life and death, and now death has become a luxury!
Xue Yi nodded, stretching out her slender and white jade hand: "High-five is an oath, if Xue Yi doesn't enter the palace, then the sky will thunder and die!" “
The applause was crisp, and the eyes were intertwined, each with their own hearts.
Emperor Cheng was helpless and miserable, originally to stay together, but to separate!
Emperor Cheng returned to the palace and secretly prepared for Lan Guang to enter the palace, Xue Yi summoned the servants in the palace to arrange the matters after entering the palace, after Xiao Yichen passed away, Xue Yi had already issued a group of slaves, and now the palace has removed those old slaves who were born in the palace, that is, the eunuchs and palace maids sent by Emperor Cheng, Xue Yi rewarded these palace people heavily and ordered them to go back to their respective palaces.
After everything was arranged, Xue Yijing waited for the news, she knew that although Emperor Cheng was bent on letting her enter the palace, the canonization of the imperial concubine was also an important matter for the royal family, and it was not something that Emperor Cheng could cover up with a word.
Xue Yi was anxious in the palace and waited for news from her father Lan Guang.
Emperor Cheng was also difficult to feel at ease in the palace, after returning to the palace, he summoned his ministers, and handed over all the information collected about Lan Guang and the notes given to him by Xue Yi to the ministers for discussion, and the ministers were also indifferent about this, some shook their heads and sighed, and some nodded in appreciation, but no one could say how to convict the prime minister.
The wait is always long.
On this day, Emperor Cheng waited in the imperial study early in the morning, waiting for Lin Zhizhi to escort Lan Guang to the imperial study to defend himself.