His Majesty once married me

The military discipline of the imperial army is strict, and the officials are all good people. After reporting the experience of escaping from death, these people invariably shut their mouths and did not say anything more.

Because of this, the disturbance in the northwest did not form a wave in the court, but only a few rumors in the Ministry of Industry.

But the orphans of merchants who went to Beijing with these people could not forget their hatred.

After resting in the capital for two days, one of the orphans led his servants to stop the sedan chair carried by Minister Zhu Bian of the Ministry of Punishment, and shouted for grievances in the street.

Zhu Bian took his pleading paper, but turned around and ordered someone to take it down, and put it in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

When the incident happened, several family members of orphans who had entered Beijing with this person were watching from the side of the street.

These people originally wanted to see if the most famous Master Qingtian in the capital would take the pleadings, but they never thought that this one would not play the cards logically, but he accepted the pleadings, but immediately changed his face and arrested people .

The orphans who were watching could not help but be dumbfounded, and then burst into anger.

The next day, an orphan knocked on the Tianlei Drum at Zhengyang Gate.

After being rejected by Ouyang mockingly, Su Su originally wanted to let the surviving members of the Northwest Business Group go to the gate of the palace to file a lawsuit.

However, when she made this decision, Su Su found that she couldn't find anyone.

After tracing, Su Su found out that everyone was taken away by the housekeeper Zhuang.

Although Su Su is Ouyang's big shopkeeper, but in this era, no matter where, the money-making people can't compare with the powerful.

Under Ouyang's hands, Su Su is the one who makes money, but the butler Zhuang is the one with power.

When Su Su and Steward Zhuang issued two contradictory orders at the same time, no one would pay attention to Su Su and would only follow Steward Zhuang's orders.

Su Su also knew this very well, so she could only stop the butler Zhuang angrily, asking him what was going on.

Steward Zhuang twitched the corners of his mouth, and asked back, "You ask me? I also want to ask you, the Northwest Merchant Group's residence is so tightly arranged by the master, why was it slaughtered like melons and vegetables? "

Su Su was taken aback for a moment, but her expression changed immediately, and she blurted out in shock, "There is a ghost?!"

"Just thought of it now?" Steward Zhuang gave Su Su a bitter look.

Su Su gritted her teeth, but she didn't say anything to ask Steward Zhuang to let him go.

It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge.

But if the matter of the inner ghost cannot be investigated as soon as possible, they will not know how many secrets they have exposed, and whether they will face greater trouble or even crisis.

In fact, Su Su knew very well that if he hadn't been obsessed with bringing those who deserved their crimes to justice, Ugly Bull would have been able to sneak back to the border town and kill all the border town generals involved in this matter as early as after they escaped from the northwest.

Of course, even if they don't have this kind of attachment, they still have to think about their boss's wife, lest chasing the mouse hurts the jade bottle and makes it difficult for the emperor's wife.

Seeing Su Su's gloomy face but no longer insisting on asking for someone, the butler Zhuang softened his heart and reminded her.

"You don't even think about it. Even if our master can't talk to the emperor's wife, you can do it by suing the imperial court?"

"It's just that there is a master... Bah, bah! It's because of the relationship between Boss Ou and the emperor that I would think of asking them to sue!" Su Su argued unwillingly, "If there is no such relationship, I would still Don’t dare to let people suffer in the past! Officials protect each other, who doesn’t know!”

"I said Su girl, you only think about the relationship between the master and the emperor's wife, and you don't think about it. There is such a relationship, so why do you need to sue for imperial court?" Zhuang Butler continued to raise something helplessly, " Also, you saved people and brought all the surviving businessmen's families to the capital. How can you keep the fact that the master has a business group in the northwest? What do you think? Ah, the imperial husband's subordinates actually went to sue the imperial court. This is because the imperial husband has fallen out of favor and can't ask the emperor to "make decisions" for him, or did he fall out with the emperor and purposely use the imperial court to embarrass the emperor? "

Su Su curled her lips and remained silent.

Steward Zhuang continued: "Actually, you have caused a lot of trouble for the master now-do you think that doing business is a good reputation? And it's still on the sensitive territory of the northwest border! Just wait and see, this It’s good if things don’t cause serious problems, but once they become serious, our master will definitely be entangled by Yushitai’s speech officers forever!”

Butler Zhuang's words became a prophecy.

On the second day after these words were finished, the orphan of the northwest businessman made a complaint.

After some procedures, no matter how reluctant the court's grand lord, he could only bite the bullet and accept the pleadings, and began to interrogate the case.

Soon, the ins and outs of the whole incident spread, causing an uproar in the court.

Three years have passed peacefully, and there has been no major incident in the court. Whether promotion or relegation is done step by step, many courtiers are already hungry and thirsty, and some people outside the court are even more anxious. Eye,

In the Song Dynasty, Qin Guogong was the first to be imprisoned because of his son's murder.

Immediately afterwards, the imperial concubine Jiuqiantui was also charged with trespassing with the enemy country because of his involvement in commerce and trade at the northwest border.

Then, the entire Northwest Army became the target of civil officials—not just speech officials—as if they were not escorted back to Beijing, and it would not be enough to relieve the people's anger and grievances.

Without waiting for His Majesty to express his attitude, Zhu Bian, who has always been independent, stood up and asked His Majesty the Emperor to stop border trade and prohibit all merchants from entering the border town, exaggerating the behavior of these merchants doing business with foreigners as a heinous crime .

As soon as Zhu Bian's memorial was handed in, Song Shi, Duke of Qin who had been silent all this time, stepped forward and submitted a self-defense memorial to His Majesty the Emperor, defending his second son Song Gong and the entire Northwest Army, just as Ouyang expected , admitted the murder, but denied the robbery, only said that the money was normal spoils, and had been put into the warehouse of the resident according to the rules, and it was only to be reported to the imperial court, and it would be handed over to the imperial court for disposal.

As soon as the old official Youzi heard this, he knew that the Northwest Army was planning to spend money to avoid disasters in exchange for His Majesty's pardon.

It was almost the new year, and there were only trivial matters in the court, so Qi Yunheng didn't express his opinion at all, and let the courtiers criticize each other and make a lot of noise—anyway, as long as there is no grand court meeting, they can only write memorials To express my own opinions, and now there is an attendant room to help His Majesty solve problems, there is no need for him to read the memorial book himself, but there are more papers that are cleaned out from the attendant room every day, and the warehouse for storing memorials has become crowded. some.

Ouyang in the summer palace was also so quiet, he ignored the chaos in the court, and didn't even hand over a memorial for his self-defense.

But Qi Yunheng refused to allow the courtiers to criticize his imperial husband, and quickly picked out those officials who had participated in his imperial husband and charged him with a felony. dismissed.

Today's Golden Knife Guards are all-pervasive, but they are not far behind. Are you afraid that you won't be able to catch the pigtails of a few officials?

But what happened to these officials quickly aroused the vigilance of the courtiers.

Although these speech officials were all demoted or dismissed for crimes such as restlessness in their homes, dishonesty, corruption and perverting the law, no one with a discerning eye would be able to see that they simply joined the wrong target and were rejected by His Majesty the Emperor.

With these officials as a lesson from the past, the courtiers who noticed this did not rush to react. After thinking about it carefully, they suddenly realized——

The emperor made his fortune in the northwest, and the emperor's husband did business in the northwest. How can there be no tricks in this?

The emperor's husband probably provided the funds for His Majesty's establishment. The officials tried to use this matter to pull the emperor's husband off his horse, but they didn't know that the emperor would still be sitting there!

If you want to pull the emperor off his horse, why don't you wait to be beaten? !

No wonder His Majesty the Emperor loves his husband so much, there really is a reason!

It's not just the courtiers with big brains who think this way, in fact, Qi Yunheng also had the same guess.

When he was in the Northwest, Qi Yunheng had this feeling. No matter what he lacked in his hand, he would definitely find a way to buy it or get it. At that time, he only thought that he might really be destined for him. Now that he thinks about it, he feels that maybe it is his royal husband. "Haunting" behind the scenes.

Qi Yunheng was used to the straightforward way of getting along with Ouyang, so he came to the Summer Palace to spend the night as usual, so he asked about it bluntly.

However, Ouyang's head was full of black lines, and he looked at the sky speechlessly.

"I've told you that I'm in charge of spending money, and Su Su is responsible for making money." Ouyang reluctantly denied Qi Yunheng's guess, "I only ordered a meal for you in the northwest. In the granary, I never asked about the rest of the matter—if not, how could I even hear about your being the emperor from other people's mouths?"

Ouyang had already moved on, taking this matter from Emperor Xinghe and placing it on Ou Mo and Ou Fang.

Hearing Ouyang bring it up again at this moment, Qi Yunheng didn't think too much about it, and only emphasized what happened to him back then.

Ouyang thought for a while, and guessed: "In fact, most of the people in the Northwest Business Group don't know about my relationship with them. They only met Su Su and knew that Su Su was the big shopkeeper in the hands of the owner. Maybe Su Su set up a granary in the Northwest When you talk too much, it makes them think that you have something to do with the boss above them, so they open the door to you and let you get a bargain—it seems impossible."

"Why is it impossible?" Qi Yunheng raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Su Su is in the business of luxury goods - those flashy but extremely expensive things, such as pearl beeswax, such as women's makeup powder, such as the glass workshop that has just started operating in Huangzhuang." Ouyang explained, "but All you need are practical things like food and weapons, and it’s impossible for the business groups in the Northwest to provide you with these things—none at all!”

"Is that true?" Qi Yunheng suddenly showed regret.

"I don't know!" Ouyang spread his hands, and did not give a definite answer, "All those who know the truth are dead, and if you ask me that I don't know anything, naturally there is no way to determine the truth. "

Qi Yunheng laughed, stretched out his hand to hold Ouyang, and wanted to say something, but felt that saying anything was superfluous.

But Ouyang changed his voice and asked about the incident in the northwest.

"It's not over yet? Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, can't we cut the mess quickly and let everyone feel at ease for the New Year?"

"It has been decided to let the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment and Yushitai jointly investigate this matter, but there will definitely be no results a year ago." Qi Yunheng shook his head helplessly, "Don't worry, I will definitely not let you be wronged in vain—although this matter Song Shi can't be shaken, but it is a matter of course for his son to pay for the life of the dead."

"Be careful that that guy sneaks away, or in the name of committing suicide, use someone else to die for him, and play a golden cicada to escape his shell." Ouyang reminded.

"He can't escape." Qi Yunheng raised the corner of his mouth, "This matter has a great impact, and there must be someone with enough weight to take the blame to calm the worries of the officials and the anger of the people. And this point, many generals of the Northwest Army It couldn't be more clear."

So, they decided to blame Song Gong?

So, the massacre of border merchants was not actually Song Gong's whim, the first of its kind?

Ouyang lowered his eyelids.

Now that the imperial court has made a decision, and there is a huge difference between this decision and his expectations——

Then, he doesn't have to wait any longer.

It's time to act.