The First Traitor [Rebirth]

When the first snow fell in the capital, the emperor fell ill again, not only did not go to court, but also did not deal with the affairs of state.The imperial physicians took turns guarding, for fear that arriving late would delay the treatment of the emperor's condition.The government affairs were all handed over to the five serving bachelors to handle them together.

At this time, a secret book fell into the hands of Jiang Guang, the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs. As the head of the academicians, it was common for him to secretly open it occasionally to read this kind of secret book handed over to the emperor.Among the five great scholars, he has been in office for the longest time, and others, including Yuan Ye, will not criticize his behavior.

Jiang Guang opened the secret and looked at it, and he broke out in a cold sweat, and the content on it pointed directly to Feng Ying, the prince's mentor.It is said that when he was recuperating in his hometown, he allowed his children to run wild in the countryside and bought a large amount of land, which amounted to [-] mu in his hometown.

In the capital, his grandson, nephew Feng Qiaozhou and others bought 1000 mu of land by force. They bought the land and never used it for farming, just to fill up the [-] million taels of corruption and bribery that the Feng family had embezzled over the years.

Jiang Guang quickly handed over the secret to the prince, and the prince panicked after seeing it.He was also somewhat aware of the Feng family's situation, but in his opinion, it was just common sense, so he didn't pay much attention to it.However, according to the secret document, the purchased land amounted to 1000 mu, and the capital’s land was bought for [-] million taels obtained by burying corruption and perverting the law. This is a bit appalling.

If this secret is passed on to the emperor, not to mention whether it is true, the emperor will order Feng Ying to be punished, and even implicate himself!

The prince called Feng Ying and showed him the secret book.Feng Ying calmly said: "Your Highness, this is slander!"

"Really not? Do you know what's going on with Liu Che? That's only ten acres of fertile land, so... not to mention how many acres you have?!"

"Have you ever thought about who submitted this secret?" Feng Ying asked.

"It's all said to be secret, who knows?!" the prince said.

"Someone deliberately framed the old minister!" Feng Ying said.

The crown prince waved his hand: "It's good for you to know for yourself, don't let yourself be caught!" He ordered someone to find out who wrote the secret.

After Feng Ying went back, he felt that someone was going to attack him. He thought about it again and again. Will give someone a handle!

So I contacted my former colleagues and inquired: "I don't know who dares to go to Mishu to wrong me, saying that I condoned my children and domestic slaves to do evil and evil in the village; and that my children and grandchildren corrupted the law in the capital. This is really nonsense. If I don't find out who framed me, I'm afraid my reputation will be ruined in my later years."

But before finding out who did it, the paper of the complaint fell into the hands of the Minister of the Household Department again, and he gave the pleading to the prince for review.This time someone else signed the lawsuit to sue the Feng family for using their power to buy their land at a low price, making them unable to make a living, and so on.

"Why hasn't this matter been resolved?" the prince asked Feng Ying displeased.

"Your Highness, this..." Feng Ying was at a loss for words. This person signed his name, afraid that what he said was the truth.

Feng Ying went back to Feng's residence, called his son, grandson, nephew and grandnephew, and asked who did it.Feng Qiaozhou's eyes flickered, and Feng Ying dared to admit it after repeated questioning, "I bought this."

One day when he was dating prostitutes in the Tongxiang Pavilion, he heard someone talk about a story, saying that there was a family of seven people who fell ill and died. In the end, only an old mother and a scholar were left to depend on each other.The old man can't work in the field, and the scholar has no strength to restrain the chicken, let alone work in the field. It's a pity for their family's field.

When Feng Qiao heard the location of the place on Monday, his heart moved: That's a good place!

So he sent someone to buy land, but the scholar refused, so he used the usual method, first arrested his old mother and threatened him, and then ordered someone to beat him up.In the end, he threatened that if he refused to do so, then he would definitely only be a scholar in the future.

The scholar had no choice but to compromise, so the scholar was dissatisfied and could only sue him.

"Who handed in his pleadings?!" Feng Ying was furious, and asked the newly appointed magistrate, who said that all the pleadings of the scholar were backlogged in the yamen, so he was not the one who handed them in.

The new magistrate is timid, he doesn't stand for any faction, but in the face of such a direct attack on Feng Ying, he can only carefully suppress the pleadings in order not to be affected.But I never expected that someone else would hand over the pleadings for Xiucai.

"How dare you hand over the paper, he doesn't want to live anymore!" Feng Qiaozhou said sternly, but Feng Ying had a clearer mind than him, he said, "That's enough, return the field and give me a hundred taels of silver to make up for it. And you Don’t bother him again! This incident can only calm his anger and not make things worse!”

Feng Qiaozhou had no choice but to follow suit. Although he didn't care about Feng Ying's actions, he also knew that Feng Ying was the one who made the decisions in the Feng family.

Feng Ying did not sit still, he contacted all the disciples to find out who was following him.Soon, he discovered a clue: the scholar's land was not the scholar's before, but someone sold it to him.

The transaction of land is not uncommon in ancient times, but because of the poor family of this scholar, even with the corresponding tax-free amount, he could not afford to buy so many fields. It was not until recently that someone put the land under his name that he only had so many lands. .

"You said this field originally belonged to Zhang Songwei's family?" Feng Ying asked uncertainly when he heard the news.

"Although these fields have changed hands several times, they were indeed established under the management of the Chen family for many years." The person who reported was cautious, "Should we ask Mr. Zhang for clarification?"

Feng Ying was so angry that he blew his beard and stared at his eyes. It took him a while to suppress his anger, and said with a sneer, "Would he admit to looking for him? Don't mention this to others in advance, so as not to startle the snake."

Afterwards, Zhang Songwei vaguely realized that he didn't seem to be taken seriously in front of the prince, and the prince didn't tell him many things anymore. He felt that he would definitely be demoted when his official position in the court changed.He wanted to ask the prince to clarify, but he couldn't ask, once he asked, it might make the prince unhappy.

When Zhang Songwei was in a hurry, the atmosphere in a corner of the Imperial Academy was very peaceful.

Yuan was sitting in the pavilion playing chess with an old man who was over half a century old. Both sides fought each other with black and white pieces, and a war without smoke filled the air.

After a while, Yuan was completely defeated, and said with a wry smile: "The junior's chess skills are really not good!"

The old man looked at her with a smile, and said: "You still have great potential, but you are a little anxious. This game of chess is like being in a court, and every move will affect the changes of the court..."

It turned out that he looked like he was being educated with an open mind, and the old man in front of him was a student of Luo Lao Hanlin, and now Lin Xuanda, a Hanlin scholar.He already knew about Luo Lao Hanlin's relationship with Yuan Jing, and he also knew that the teacher asked Yuan Jing to come to him so that he could help her more.

After telling Yuan Jing about his experience as an official in the court, Lin Xuanda talked about Feng Ying.He is also a great scholar, but he has a neutral position, so the crown prince and King Qi are on guard against him, but they don't guard against him, which makes it easier for him to learn about some things in the secret letter.

Lin Xuanda didn't know about the matter between Yuan Jing and Feng Ying, he just used it as an example to explain to Yuan Jing.It turned out that he had benefited a lot from hearing about it, and also regretted that he had acted on Feng Qiaozhou too early.Because according to Lin Xuanda's understanding, Feng Ying is an old fox with a deep mind, and it is not easy to be provoked by a little thing, and thus do something reckless.

Only then did she understand why Feng Ying still didn't do anything after that incident for so long, and only occasionally said bad things about Zhang Songwei in front of the prince.

But even though he didn't move to keep the prince away from Feng Ying, it was worthwhile to punish Zhang Songwei by the way.

I have been busy for so many days, but for the first time I tasted the frustration of getting twice the result with half the effort.It turned out that the time was gone and he returned home on time, but he heard the news from the servants that people didn't know whether to cry or laugh——Yuan Li was going to be a father!

An hour ago, a woman came to the gate of Yuan Mansion with a baby in her arms and asked to see Yuan Li.When the butler heard that the child belonged to Yuan Li, he didn't dare to hesitate any longer, but hurriedly went to sue Yuan Lu.

Yuan Lu asked: "Who wants to see Li'er, don't you know that Li'er is working in the Dudu Mansion?"

"It was a girl who was holding a baby and said she was the son of the young master."

Yuan Lu almost fell off the stool, her mind went blank for a long time, and after realizing it, she quickly said, "Li'er's child? Come on, bring it in."

The one who came in was a dusty woman, about eighteen to nine years old, and she was holding a baby who didn't look very healthy in her arms.Yuan Lu looked at the child for a long time, and his brows were filled with joy: "Oh, this child really looks like Li'er..."

"Madam..." The housekeeper hesitated to speak, Yuan Lu was about to pick up the child, but suddenly remembered something.She asked, "Who are you? Why is this Lier's child?"

The butler breathed a sigh of relief, the lady of the Yuan family is still out of her mind after all.

When the woman heard Yuan Lu's question, she told her story.

Her name is Gong Liang, and she was originally a peasant girl from the outskirts of the capital.At the beginning of the year, Yuan Li and a group of sons and sons went hunting near the forest on the outskirts of the capital. When they passed the village, it rained heavily, so Yuan Li stayed in the farmhouse for one night.And that farmhouse is Gong Liang's house.

Yuan Li fell in love with Gong Liang's beauty at a glance, told her sweet words, and even groped into her room at night.She was already seduced by Yuan Li's skin, but she couldn't resist Yuan Li's rhetoric, and the two had a relationship that night.

Yuan Li promised to come back to marry her, so she waited happily, but until she found out that she was pregnant with a child, Yuan Li didn't show up.

She dared not let others know, but her growing belly still worried her very much.Finally, one day, her affairs were found out, and everyone spurned her, thinking that she did such shameless things before she was released from the cabinet.

When the village head wanted to put her to death by dipping her in a pig cage, her family couldn't bear it, so they arranged for her to escape at night.

She didn't know where to find Yuan Li, and she went all the way, and gave birth to this baby.Later, she accidentally learned about the Yuan family and heard about the two sons of the Yuan family. She felt more and more that Yuan Li was the person she was looking for, so she came to the door.

After hearing what happened to her, Yuan Lu was a little dubious, but she remembered that Yuan Li did hang out with a group of cronies at that time.It happened that Yuan Li came back from work early, the woman saw him, she jumped on him as if grabbing a life-saving straw, and shouted: "Yuan Lang!"

Yuan Li was taken aback by the sudden appearance of a disheveled woman, and kept pushing her: "Hey, who are you?!"

"Yuan Lang, it's me, Gong Liang!" The woman tried her best to tidy herself up, showing her appearance.

Yuan Li looked at her and thought about it for a long time, and then he was overjoyed: "Ah, it's you!" Suddenly, he remembered that this is Yuan's house, so his face changed again, "I don't know you, go away!"

The woman was hurt by her ruthlessness, tears just flowed down, and she cried bitterly while holding the baby who also cried.Yuan Li looked at the child in a daze, and Yuan Lu didn't know what happened, so he could only watch helplessly.

For a long time, the butler couldn't see it, and when he wanted to invite Yuan Ye back, Nan Lian appeared.

The author has something to say:

Let's spoiler first, although Pingyao doesn't appear much, but she will be a person who runs through the whole story.