After thinking about it, Xue Ji understood.

As soon as His Majesty's body has become weaker and weaker recently, the imperial doctor has been guarding the imperial study almost all day long, serving medicinal food on time to nourish his dragon body, urging him to rest at the end of the day, and not daring to let him work more for a quarter of an hour.

Second, for the monarch to avoid party fighting, rumors about the position of prime minister are rife in the capital, and those officials are rushing to make friends, no wonder His Majesty has a grudge.

"Don't dare." Xue Ji bowed his head slightly, and coaxed the master with kind words: "Where can I think about this, don't we all look forward to your longevity."

Qin Xu didn't care, there are many people who put the word on their lips all day long, how many of them are sincere? In ancient times, there were a few people who lived to be more than 100 years old. "As soon as Jiang Yan leaves, the prime minister's seat will be vacant. I've heard a lot of rumors in Beijing, especially about you...... I want to know, what do you think?"

Xue Ji was in a nervous mood, his eyes lowered and looked directly at the masonry on the ground, and said in his heart This is by no means a casual question, there must be a deep meaning of His Majesty.

It is hard to guarantee that he did not mean to tempt his ambitions.

So, he said, "The minister thinks that it is the officials who look up to it. When it comes to qualifications, ministers are not as good as adults, when it comes to affinity, ministers are not as good as Lord Xu, when it comes to knowledge, ministers are far inferior to their colleagues, and when it comes to background, ministers are just the sons of merchants. How can a minister dare to covet the status of this country?"

Qin Xu's voice was a little colder: "Xu Yan is enough, you still dare to mention Yu Huan, you don't know what he did?"

"Dali Temple has not yet been convicted, and the minister does not dare to speak falsely."

Qin Xu laughed, he laughed loudly, and at the end, he looked at Xue Ji and opened his mouth to ask, "You mean, I have lost my eyes, and I have eyes and no beads to use you Xue Ji?"

"It's Your Majesty's love." Xue Ji lowered his head and continued.

"I said I didn't like these people who were going behind their backs!" Qin Xu scolded him, glared at him and said, "You are obviously ambitious, why do you have to hide?".

Xue Ji had a tribulation for a while, who dares to really show his true colors in front of the Son of Heaven? Yu Huan used to have a true temperament, isn't it the end of the road now?

"This temporary prime minister has a lot of affairs and is not a real prime minister, and the minister is still greedy for leisure." Xue Ji pretended to be joking.

Qin Xu's gaze swept over him, and his expression was inevitably mixed with many thoughts. "You're becoming more and more like them."

Who? Xue Ji subconsciously asked in his heart, and soon he came up with the answer, which was nothing more than those sleek and sophisticated officials in the court.

"Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black, it is inevitable."

Qin Xu casually asked about the affairs of the DPRK and China, and Xue Jidu answered them one by one. Time passed quietly, and it was time to rest in the Holy Heaven again, but before he could stop, a shrill voice immediately came from outside the door.

"Long live Lord, you can rest for a while, the dining room has sent medicinal food again."

Hearing the sound, Xue Ji was stunned for a moment, subconsciously looked at Qin Xu on the seat, and as expected, he saw irritability and impatience on his face.

He thought that it was time to kneel consciously, and he was still thinking about the wording in his heart, but at this time, the eunuch outside the door shouted in his throat again.

"Your Majesty, Lord Feng asks to see you."

Feng Mingjian, Dali Temple? Xue Ji lowered his head, and thousands of thoughts welled up in his heart. Now that Feng Mingjian is here, it must be that there has been progress in the corruption case between the DPRK and China, and he is still here...... I really don't want to hear this unheard.

Xue Ji asked tentatively, "That minister retired?"

Qin Xu waved his hand impatiently, then raised his eyebrows and said, "Go." Let Feng Ming check in."

In the cold winter, the capital is unsettled and rising, and it is really worthy of the word "Chang'an".

The position of prime minister has always been vacant, and some courtiers have asked him several times, but they have been rejected by Qin Xu one by one, and he has also reprimanded him harshly. After the winter, no one mentioned it again.

Today's snow was so heavy that it almost broke the branches of the trees in the yard. There has never been a shortage of literati and scholars in Shangshu Province, as early as the previous dynasty this yamen planted plum trees, at this time the plum blossoms are blooming in the snow, wafting to the faint fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed and happy.

In the yamen of Shangshu Province, on the table in the center

It was a mountain of official documents and edicts ready to be issued, Xue Ji pressed his forehead, supported his arms, supported his cheeks in front of the table and closed his eyes to recuperate, and his whole body was full of exhaustion.

At this moment, Xu Lang came in from outside, walked to his table, bent his fingerbones and half-clenched his fists, and gently knocked on the table. "Qingzhi, Yu Huan is only afraid that it will be planted."

Xue Ji pulled out of his tiredness, looked up, struggled to straighten up and sit upright, and then asked, "What's wrong? Dali Temple has finally found evidence?"

Xu Lang sat down in front of him, waved his hand and said, "I haven't found it yet, and it's almost eighty percent. Don't you know, Yu Huan's swaggering temperament makes people grab the handle, and he is fighting in the nest at this moment!"

Listening to his tone, this matter is not small, isn't it? In this way, at this time, I am afraid that it has already spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital, right?

"Tell me carefully, what's wrong with Lord Yu?"

Xu Lang gushed endlessly like a flood in one mouth, and said directly: "People say that family ugliness should not be publicized, and the family affairs that are born in adults are known all over the city. I also heard people mention that it was yesterday, and the wife of Lord Yu's family didn't know what rumors she had heard, and she seemed to be greatly stimulated, and she was so angry that she communicated with the other party, and she was determined to clean up Lord Yu. At this time, Lord Yu's lifeblood is pinched in the hands of the opponent, and he may be joined by someone at any time, but Lord Yu is only afraid of hanging!"

Xue Ji was amazed, everything can be done in these years, Mrs. Yu is not small, but she is ...... Does she really not know what is serious? "Mrs. Yu is also confused, as the saying goes, her lips are cold and her teeth are dead, if Lord Yu falls, what can she please do?"

"Who can know this, the woman is trying to relieve her anger, and it is estimated that she can't think about it so much." Xu Lang sighed.

After another 10 days and a half months, the matter has a tendency to become more and more serious.

Indeed, as Xu Lang said, as soon as this truth spread, it was immediately reported to the emperor, and Qin Xu waited for this day for a long time. He didn't wait for a moment, and directly handed over the song to Dali Temple, and asked Feng Mingzhen to arrest Yu Huan and inquire carefully.

Invisibly, a net has already been laid down, just waiting for Yu Huan to fall by himself. As for Yu Huan, he was really straight-tempered, and he didn't disappoint Qin Xu at all, and sure enough, he fell into the net and fell into the endless abyss.

This trap is completely planted.

I still remember a few months ago, when Yu Huan said very well in the court, he wanted to push away all the blame with the sentence of 'negligence'.

He clearly holds a lot of family wealth, and he still has a lot of nonsense on his lips, seeing that several big officials in Jiangnan officialdom have fallen one after another, he can still eat and sleep peacefully.

It's amazing.

And now it is different, Yu Huan's deepest hidden lifeline was handed to the emperor, and with Qin Xu's order, he was immediately suspended from his official position and handed over to Dali Temple for trial.

Dali Temple is also benevolent and righteous, seeing that the New Year is imminent, it is simply put off for more than half a month, until the snow in the capital melts, the grass grows, and the spring breeze comes again, and the trial is put back on the agenda.

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Changchun, February

Yu Huan was dressed in coarse clothes, and was pushed to the bottom of the Dali Temple by several pawns, and the person sitting in front of the hall was Feng Mingzhen, the secretary of the Dali Temple, who was one level lower than his official position.

Feng Mingjian casually flipped through the notes on the table to participate in the performance, or the letter that reported Yu Huan, and keenly captured a few details between the lines, only to see that he frowned and fell into deep thought.

Yu Huan is still lucky, although he has acted flamboyantly over the years, and he has been straightforward in talking to people, but he has hidden all these dirty things cleanly, and he does not dare to slack off at all, what he is afraid of is that there is a situation like today.

If he was lucky, he naturally refused to tell the truth, but if he could sophistry and shirk, he would dismiss them one by one, and he had the posture of fighting with Feng Mingzhen.

Feng Mingjian had already squeezed a lot of anger in his heart, and he was shocked, and scolded sharply: "You keep saying that you have a clear conscience and think you are honest, but this official wants to ask where did you get the money to feast guests and spend all day drinking?" You don't cry when you don't see the coffin, and you have to find the account book in front of your eyes before you confess!"

Yu Huan snorted without hesitation and choked back: "Since Lord Feng has no evidence yet, why did he force Yu to confess? It's not you, Feng Mingjian also wants to learn

The criminal officer is cool, come and make a trick?"

Feng Mingzhen looked at the sky, and then looked at the attendant officials on the side, thinking in his heart about the time it would take to search the Yu Mansion and interrogate the female dependents, but it was only within a few days.

So, he said, "This official doesn't like to be beaten into a trick, Lord Yu wants to wait, then wait, wait for a few days when the evidence is all the retrial."

Feng Mingjian saw that Yu Huan's eyes were obviously a little more hateful, and his expression was extremely angry and gritted his teeth, the more angry Yu Huan was, the more comfortable he looked.

He got up and commanded the officials in the hall, "Someone! Take it back."