After rebirth, I became a national teacher

"Mother, I heard from my aunts that the people in the Shangshu Mansion are very bad. One of my aunts was sold to Jingci Temple. A wealthy family in their village had their land seized by the Li family, causing their family to be broken up. Why don't we let the Duke's Mansion eradicate them?"

Chen Qingzhu carried her back to the roof.

Since Rongniang is such a studious person, she naturally wouldn't fool her with childish words.

"Because the Li family is a fat sheep. If we kill them now, we will be helping others to kill them."

Rong Niang seemed to understand, but Chen Qingzhu did not explain it to her more clearly.

Some things really shouldn't be announced to the public too early.

Children still only have the concept of good and evil, black and white, and believe that evil people should be punished.

However, Chen Qingzhu is not a true messenger of God who saves people from suffering.

At any time, she cannot save everyone, nor does she have the pure desire to save the world.

All her good deeds must be based on the fact that she can gain sufficient benefits.

"Although we have to maintain the dignity of Cihang Temple, we cannot offend and die. We are far from being that powerful now. Your Majesty cannot even be so bold as to deal with the officials, so how can you tolerate a Taoist temple being so overbearing?"

Knowing that Rong Niang might not understand, she explained it in more detail:

"Although the Imperial Guards and the Factory Guards have long been corrupt, if a first-rank marquis and a second-rank minister are successively dismissed in the Southern Capital within half a year, it will be difficult for the court not to pay attention to Cihang Temple."

By the way, he also explained to Rong Niang the two major supervisory agencies in Nandu City, as well as their origins, past glory, and current status.

The Jinyiwei monitored all officials and was once very famous, making all officials in the world tremble in fear.

But since the rise of the eunuch-controlled factory guards, the Jinyiwei began to decline.

Today, the funding for the Imperial Guard has been severely cut, and coupled with corruption, the local members of the Imperial Guard are impoverished and have long lost the ability to supervise officials.

Although the Censorate and the Imperial Guards enjoyed great glory, it was only the glory of the upper class. The lower-level eunuchs who served as tentacles also lived a poor life and had very limited abilities.

Therefore, as long as Cihang Temple is not too ostentatious, it probably will not attract the emperor's attention for now.

Rong Niang finally understood what her mother meant, and she also learned something new, so she was very happy:

"I understand, mother. Before you have enough strength, you should stay dormant when necessary. You can't just think about the glory and pleasure for a while."

Chen Qingzhu touched her head with relief.

"exactly."

But I was thinking in my heart that now that Cihang Temple has become so famous, it will always attract some unruly people for one reason or another.

The arrival of Shangshu Mansion was unexpected, but also inevitable.

There will be more and more people like this in the future, and some of them may want to flatter their superiors by using the Cihangguan and put it into action.

After all, she couldn't control everything, so this was not a safe approach.

The most important thing is to make your cultivation as powerful as possible before being noticed by the current emperor.

It is time to make some changes to the previous plan of sticking to Cihang Temple.

*

When Chen Qingzhu's words reached the ears of Duke Dingguo and his wife, they were also greatly puzzled.

"What kind of timing is needed to eradicate the Li family? Isn't it just a matter of collecting enough evidence of their crimes and then secretly sending it to the emperor to catch them off guard?" said the wife of Duke Dingguo.

Duke Dingguo also couldn't figure out what Chen Qingzhu meant.

After thinking for a while, he said:

"The master is as good as a god in predicting things. I'm afraid he knows something we don't know. Since he has instructed us to do so, we will do as he says."

Originally, they thought that by overthrowing the Li family, their Duke's Mansion would be able to gain great merit both in Cihang Temple and in front of His Majesty.

Now that the abbot has clearly expressed his opposition, it would be difficult for him to act on his own.

"Given Minister Li's character, he should come again tomorrow, and we will receive him as usual."

Minister Li and his wife came over in the afternoon.

At that time, they were thinking about dealing with the Li family, so they didn't meet him.

However, the words were not final, they just asked the doorman to say that they were not in the mansion, so there was room for maneuver.

Duke Dingguo believed that Minister Li would not give up easily.

The strange thing is that although the abbot is an outsider, he is very sure that Minister Li will admit his mistake and apologize when the situation is tense.

"Since the temple master wants them to sincerely apologize first, we will ask for more benefits on behalf of Cihang Temple."