Leaving Ji Kuaima to rush back to Luoyang, the eastern capital, and presented Zhuo Yilin's handwritten letter to Empress Wu, who handed the letter to Shangguan Wan'er.

After Wan'er saw it, she said, "Queen of Heaven, what crime do you plan to condemn Zhang Yue?" ”

Empress Wu thought for a while and said, "Send him to Youzhou to guard the north." ”

After Shangguan Wan'er knew the intentions of the Empress Wu, she said, "The rest will be handed over to the minister." ”

The next day, in the court, Empress Wu pretended to be angry and said: "Zhongqing's family, do you know that there are people in the court who are greedy for wealth and wealth and secretly collude with profiteers to make profits?" ”

The ministers looked at each other, not knowing what Empress Wu was going to do today.

Emperor Li Xian saw his mother's angry appearance and was so frightened that he wanted to burrow into the ground.

"I have a letter here, come, show Zhang Aiqing whose handwriting it is?"

When Zhang Yue heard this, he knew that he was lucky today, so he trembled and took the letter handed by the eunuch, and was shocked when he opened the envelope.

"Zhang Yue, do you know the crime?" Empress Wu stood up and said.

"Minister, wronged." Zhang Yue knew that it must be fake evidence fabricated by Empress Wu, but the handwriting was indeed written by Zhuo Yilin.

Empress Wu glanced at Shangguan Wan'er, gave her a look, and asked her to read the contents of the letter.

Shangguan Wan'er, after receiving the letter, was actually reframed according to her penmanship, Wan'er said: "Zhang Yue Jingqi: Zhuang Zhou is poor and poor, and there are few people. Everyone is happy to be superior to others, politicians, businessmen, take the world's things as their own, why not be rich. The emperor is above the people in the world, and he is noble. Only when you reach a businessman can you get rich. Zhuo Yilin. ”

Zhang Yue thought to herself: The meaning of the text is so unsmooth, how can it be Zhuo Yilin's willingness?

"Zhang Yue, you have teamed up with private businessmen and relied on power for personal gain, and now you have letters as proof, what else do you have to say?"

Zhang Yue shouted that he was wronged, but no one dared to defend him.

Empress Wu said to Li Xian: "Your Majesty, don't you hurry up and issue an order to take Zhang Yue into custody." ”

Li Xian was afraid of his mother, so he said timidly: "Come on, take Zhang Yue down." ”

Zhang Yue knew at a glance that the general trend was gone, so he had to resign himself to fate.

Liji stayed in Luoyang, waiting for the next dispatch of the Queen of Heaven.

The next day, Empress Wu issued an edict in the name of the emperor:

Zhang Yue, although he received the emperor's holy grace, did not want to serve the country and benefit the people. colluded with Zhuo Yilin, a businessman in Shudi, to monopolize iron smelting and accumulate huge wealth. These two wolves are ambitious and plague the people. When the chapter has worked for the country for many years, without merit, it is specially opened, and it is degraded to the order of Yuyang County, Youzhou. Zhuo Yilin confiscated most of the assets to replenish the state treasury and allowed him to keep a small part of the assets to make ends meet.

It's really a time when no one knows, and I know that it's a full path. Zhuofu is still immersed in the joy of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The envoy rode a fast horse to Chengdu day and night, and within ten days, the emperor's edict came down.

Surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Zhuo Yilin sighed and had to accept his fate.

"Dad, my son doesn't want to leave, but Zhuofu is comfortable."

"Good, like rain. Daddy will find you a better place to live. ”

When Ling'er heard the news of her father's demotion, she was sad but glad in her heart: her father's demotion without being killed was her greatest hope.

Wen Jun was so angry that she was about to scold the emperor, but she was gagged by Xiang Lu.

As a result, the Zhuo family suddenly lost its status as the richest man. But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is still possible to be one of the richest people in Chengdu.

In order to avoid angering the imperial court, Zhuo Yilin bought a new house half smaller than the original and moved in, along with Ruyun, Ruyu and Ruan's second wife.

Rufeng and his wife still live in the east of the city and manage several shops.

Ling'er lived in Zhuo Yilin's house.

Xiang Lu and Wen Jun returned to the country house and continued to be their landlords, while Wen Jun was uncomfortable but also accepted the reality, after all, she did not feel that her family was poorer than before, she could only say that their family was too rich before.