Reincarnated vassal system

Now the old Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment has written a letter to Emperor Jianyuan to beg for the bones. His Majesty has pressed a little to express his retention, but it is only a matter of a few months. It is almost a certainty that Shen Lin will become the new Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. The weight is far heavier than in the past, and his proposal has naturally won the support of some Zhen Guogong parties.

In the handling of such major events, the factions of the imperial court immediately became distinct.Currently in the court, there is a faction headed by Shen Lin who is pro-three princes, and there is a faction with Gu Shiping who is faintly supporting the fifth prince as the core. There are also cabinet elders and many officials with ambiguous attitudes, wandering between political opinions In the meantime, no one is to blame.

As soon as Shen Lin's proposal came out, it was rare that no one in the court opposed it, but there were serious differences in the selection of the new governor and imperial envoy.

Gu Shiping's tone was steady, "The emperor's speech, I think, follow the old example, and the new governor of Yunnan and Guizhou should be appointed by the deputy governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, so as to fill all the vacancies in Yunnan and Guizhou."

Du Yushi, the right deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, raised his head, squinted his eyes and looked at Gu Shiping, a cold light flashed in his eyes.

Who knows, this is a big chore.The imperial envoy has a big name, but it also depends on what kind of affairs the imperial envoy is going to inspect.It is not difficult to see from the urgent report that the people in Yunnan and Guizhou are already full of complaints against the government, and the people sent by the imperial court may not be able to please.

In addition, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, the officials of the frontiers listened to the scenery, but there are many ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, and it has always been difficult to manage; moreover, the climate in the southwest is hot and humid, and few Huajing people can stand it. Ten Huajings go to Nine of the governors suffered from some red, itchy symptoms, which was really uncomfortable.

Taking a step back, Beijing officials are much more noble than local officials. Even though they have all made it to the central government, few are willing to go down.

However, it is also the practice of the Dashang dynasty for the capital censor to concurrently serve as the governor of the province. The former Zuo Fudu censor also served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Anti Japanese in the past.

The right deputy Du Yushi was not an official of any faction, but he was dragged into the battle by innocent people at this time. He was dissatisfied with Gu Shiping in his heart. I'm weak, so I'm afraid I won't be able to take on this heavy responsibility." He paused and spoke again, "I personally think that the position of the left deputy capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is vacant, and the person who holds this position can take on the responsibility of the governor."

Before he could finish his words, a person in front of him suddenly clutched his chest and trembled, and fell down with a "bang".

"Duke Wei!" The official standing next to this person quickly supported him, and Emperor Jianyuan quickly walked down, "Master Guo!"

The civil and military forces of the whole court could not help but surround him. Gu Shi'an, who was standing a little behind, made three steps in parallel, and hugged his father forward, "Everyone, please step aside!"

The people were not such reckless people, so they immediately moved out of the way, Emperor Jianyuan frowned, "And send Wei Guogong to the back hall, and pass on the imperial physician!"

The early court ended with Wei Guogong's sudden fainting, and the ministers who had some relationship with Wei Guogong chose to stay.Gu Shi'an hugged his old father and walked towards the apse. Gu Shiping looked at his elder brother's slightly thin back, his sleeves clenched into fists, but followed him.

In the apse, the imperial physician checked the pulse for Duke Wei, and walked out of the room very heavily. Seeing the imperial physician's expression, Gu Shi'an had a very bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, the imperial physician immediately sentenced him to death, "It's useless...the age is up."

Then Gu Shiping, who came in, stopped, but Gu Shian frowned and didn't speak any more.

The Duke of Wei's mansion is an established family, the Duke of Wei has both power and fame, and Emperor Jianyuan has always respected him.Naturally, he heard the imperial physician's diagnosis immediately. He shook his head and left the apse.

The news and the Duke of Wei were sent back to the Duke of Wei's mansion together. When the old lady saw the Duke who was lying on the collapsed and unconscious, she couldn't catch her breath and pouted for a moment. It was Du Liyu who helped her aunt in time. , saved another old man from suffering.

Wei Guogong is still breathing, so naturally he wants to let the old man go away with peace of mind.Emperor Jianyuan granted grace, Gu Zhiyi and Gu Zhili sisters received the grace and went back to the mansion, Gu Zhiling also rushed back from Zhen Guogong's mansion, but the whole family was missing Gu Huai.

The current concubine of Yi, Gu Zhiyi, took Yiluan from the palace to Gu's mansion and found that Gu Huai was not there, so she couldn't help scoffing.And the nobleman Gu Zhili who returned to the palace together still hid some old restraint in his eyebrows, and the wild words he made before entering the palace seemed to have never been realized.

Wei Guogong’s health has not looked bad all the time, he seems to be dying every minute, and the old minister of the Ministry of Punishment who invites him to serve every day, he does not look like a dying old man at all, but it is only half an hour, and he returned from the palace. When he arrived at the Duke of Wei's mansion, the old man's face had aged many times, as if his years had been emptied in an instant.

At this time, he seemed to feel that his children and grandchildren had come to his side, people were about to die, but at this moment, he felt that he had never been so sober in his life.

He tried his best to open his eyes, and looked around at the people on the field, "...Where's Gu Huai?"

Unexpectedly, it was Gu Huai that Duke Wei was looking for at this time, everyone looked at each other, Du Liyu couldn't help but feel distorted, does the old Duke have some treasures for Gu Huai...?She tentatively said, "Master, Gu Huai didn't come."

"Didn't come?" Wei Guogong's eyes were cloudy, "Go, go find him for me!"

Du Liyu confirmed her guess even more, and Gu Huai must not be allowed to come here at this time.She was about to open her mouth to stop her, but Gu Zhiling said, "Grandpa, I know where he is, but Grandpa, what are you asking him to do at this time?"

Duke Wei looked at Gu Zhiling, and shook his head with difficulty, "You know, so go find him."

"grandfather!"

"I'm here." Suddenly a very familiar voice came from outside the door, and Gu Huai walked in with a calm expression, ignoring everyone's attention, and went straight to Wei Guogong, "Grandpa."

"Gu Huai..." Duke Wei felt Gu Huai in his misty eyes, and he waved his hand lightly, "Everyone get out! I have something to say to Gu Huai alone."

"master……"

"grandfather……"

"Father……"

"Come out, cough cough, get out!" Wei Guogong suddenly coughed a few times, everyone feared that the old man would die of anger, they looked at each other, and exited the room, Gu Shian, who was walking at the back, looked at his own face in the room. The father and son glanced at each other, and then closed the door, hiding everything from everyone's sight.

In the room, Gu Huai stood quietly beside Wei Guogong without saying a word.

In fact, Gu Huai and Wei Guogong didn't have much grandchildren's feelings, and Gu Huai couldn't figure out that Wei Guogong asked him to come here before he died.But at this time, he didn't know what to say to his dying grandfather who was unfamiliar to him, so he was only silent.

Duke Wei knew that his time was approaching, but at this moment his heart was extremely peaceful.He didn't look at Gu Huai, but stared straight at the gauze curtain in front of him, "Gu Huai, you've been in Gu Mansion all these years, are you alright?"

Gu Huai pursed his lips, "It couldn't be better."

"Do you resent us for ignoring you?" Duke Wei asked.

"To me, the Gu family has done the utmost of benevolence and righteousness."

"You know everything, don't you?"

Gu Huai couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, people always asked himself if he knew everything.The villain in his heart sighed heavily, "Do I know everything? Do you know why the Gu family has ignored me all these years, a person who was frightened when I was a child and can't remember everything? Or do you know why my half-crazy, half-devil Mother, you always call me the executioner, thinking that I killed my brother?"

Duke Wei was silent for a long time before speaking slowly, "You really know everything."

"I know everything, what do I know? Is it because I don't care about my family that I know all of this?" Gu Huai finally vomited out the doubts about his life experience that he hadn't spoken about these days.

"A while ago, I was thinking that my day is about to come." Wei Guogong's speech became extremely slow, "Looking back on my life, there are two people who are most sorry, one is your grandmother Shen Ling, and the other is you. "

Gu Huai remained silent.

"You don't need to think too much, you are indeed a child of my Gu family."

"But, at least it's not my mother's child, is it?" Gu Huai spit out each word, "What does my biological mother have to do with Duke Ning?"

This time Wei Guogong didn't show off again, he was very frank. "Your father and mother were married not long ago, and by chance, they met a confidant, who was in harmony with each other. They were about to marry, but when the queen mother chose a concubine for the emperor, she entered the palace with an imperial decree, and they have been separated ever since."

A terrible idea immediately appeared in Gu Huai's mind. The truth explained by Duke Wei in a few words made Gu Huai's hair stand on end.

The mother of the third prince, the late Concubine Xian, was born in Ningguo Duke's Mansion.

He suddenly thought of the irrepressible sense of intimacy when he first met the third prince.

He looked at Wei Guogong whose tone became more relaxed, but he couldn't even squeeze a smile on his face.

"I didn't want to go into the details of Gu Lue's victimization back then. With my heart in mind for Du Niang, I didn't want to hurt her. I have to swallow the bitter fruit that resulted..."

"Did you swallow?" Gu Huai directly interrupted Wei Guogong, "Today you said a thousand things to me, but you turned your back on it just to make your life easier on the road to the underworld! How can life be so easy! What you brewed Bitter fruit, whoever tastes it for you, I will let you die clearly!"

"There are no two ends in the world! Since you are married to grandma, why bother to provoke the daughter of the Du family again! I once heard my uncle talk about how you were attractive to grandma back then, but you were just a fake skin!"

"You didn't want to disappoint the Du family, so you let my elder brother be abused to death. If you had the heart to pursue it back then, how could it be possible to hide this matter with the help of those in the second room? Could it be that my elder brother who died tragically was not your grandson?"

"Who is bearing these bitter fruits? The big house fell into pieces overnight. How many years have you been hiding in the yamen for so many years since Duke Wei's mansion changed his surname to Du's, haven't you?"

"Perhaps the Gu family was born with this kind of blood, you are like this, and father is like this." A wry smile appeared from the corner of Gu Huai's mouth, "I am also like this."

Duke Wei's eyes widened slowly, his pupils dilated, but Gu Huai's words kept lingering in his mind.

However, Gu Huai stopped looking at him, turned around and walked towards the door, and flung open the door, many eavesdroppers almost fell in.However, Gu Huai walked out of the door as if he didn't see them.

Gu Zhiling called him to stop, "Gu Huai, where are you going!"

"Where you go has nothing to do with you." Gu Huai did not turn around, "It has nothing to do with the Gu family anymore."

With that said, his figure disappeared in front of the Gu family and never appeared again.

Everyone rushed into the house, and saw Wei Guogong staring at them blankly, but there was no focus in his eyes, and he muttered a sentence, "... look at my life, only the word cowardice remains."

After speaking, there was no more sound.

Suddenly, howls tore through the sky above Duke Wei's mansion.

The funeral of the Duke of Wei's mansion was published in a small section on the Huajing Huabao in a straightforward manner, crowded in a corner and inconspicuous. Although the funeral was very grand, and even the emperor gave a funeral frame, Wei The decline of the Duke's Mansion seems to have become an established fact.

Or it should not be said that it is the Duke of Wei's mansion. After the fifth generation of the Duke of Wei's title was replaced, Gu Shi'an had no great achievements, so he was downgraded and inherited, and Wei Yuanhou was given.

When writing this article, Gu Huai felt nothing in his heart, as if everything in the past disappeared into the dust of history along with the Duke of Wei.

As soon as he turned around, he received Shang Zhi's letter again, this time there was no charm or laughter in it, only a few lines, it was about the flood in the southwest.

"Many civilians lost their homes and their crops."

"I rescued a little girl whose parents put her in a driftwood barrel."

"But I couldn't find her parents."

"Some people are starting to get sick."

"It's contagious very quickly."

"It's good that you're still alive."

Gu Huai looked at the sky, and suddenly remembered that he was in prison in his previous life, and it seemed that he did hear that the flood broke out in Yunnan and Guizhou, and there was no future after that.

He picked up a pen and wrote an article about the floods in the southwest, and directly marked his name on it, "Gu Huai, donate 1 taels of silver."

"I didn't expect you, little Gu Huai, to be such a shameless person!" Suddenly a familiar voice came from behind, and Gu Huai's hand holding the pen paused slightly, then turned around as if nothing had happened, "Why am I so shameless?"

Shang Xuanchu walked over with a smile, "Everyone says good deeds don't leave names, but if you really want to donate money and write your name on the flower newspaper, isn't that too cheeky?"

"You donate money, and I also write your name, how about it?"

Shang Xuanchu shook his head, then nodded again, "I think it's actually okay, don't you all know me now? Come on, I'll donate too! How much is appropriate?"

"Naturally, the more the better."

"But I don't have that much silver..."

An Xiang made trouble beside him, "Didn't you say you were rich before?"

"It's not these days, my father is not in good health, my grandmother is very worried, and I don't care about me. I don't even give me a flower envoy on weekdays. I'm really poor." Shang Xuanchu sighed, "Wait a while , I will leave the palace and build a mansion."

"The emperor's dragon body is not in good shape?" Gu Huai suddenly noticed.

"Yeah, it's been a long time." Shang Xuanchu thought back, "After the emperor's grandmother's birthday banquet last time, father's health has been poor."

"Hmm..." Gu Huai was thoughtful, and then added a vertical line to his own silver donation, and 1 taels immediately became 10 taels.

At the same time, he marked at the bottom that if you want to donate, you can hand it over to the imperial court together, and let the imperial court send the new governor and imperial envoy to take it with you when you go to the southwest, so as to contribute a bit of love to the disaster-stricken Dashang people.

No one expected that just one day later, the imperial court received money donations from many merchants and civilians for such a small flower report. They also made it clear that they needed Huajing flowers for this amount of money The person who reported it will come to watch and take care of it.

The place where people donate is in Tianxianglou. Gu Huai's expression was a little warm. Looking at the people who came to donate, he turned to look at the shopkeeper of Tianxianglou, "Have you all donated?"

The big shopkeeper patted his stomach, "My boss asked me to donate naturally! Don't worry, young master. I have seen many diners holding this flower newspaper these days, and naturally many people read it. Since you agree to sign on the flower newspaper to donate Money, wouldn’t it be more smooth if more people come to Tianxiang Tower?”

The shopkeeper is worthy of being an old businessman, and he has great trust in Huabao's influence in Huajing.Mrs. Shen stayed in more than one or two shops under Gu Huai's command. After one after another posted donations in the flower newspaper, all the merchants in Huajing couldn't sit still.

One batch after another of merchants, with more and more merchant names and silver taels published in the flower newspaper, there has been no dispute about the new governor and imperial envoy. The court finally noticed this large amount of disaster relief silver taels, and the whole The court exploded again.

"Qi Zou Shengshang! The silver taels donated by the people have reached nearly one million taels of silver. With this amount of silver, the imperial court doesn't even need to allocate silver taels from the treasury!" An official who got the news said excitedly, but this Before the excitement could infect the people around him, he was poured down by a basin of cold water.

"The common people have said that this money will only be handed over to the writer of the flower newspaper. If the imperial court wants to get a foot in the door, the only way the overlord can do it is to force the bow. Many people may be familiar with this method." Shen Lin said coolly.

It is true that Emperor Jianyuan was also tempted by this money, but the southwestern border is also Dashang's royal land, and the people there are also his own people, so he can't easily gather money to save his life. More importantly, Shangzhi is also in the southwest.

"What does Shen Aiqing think?"

"Qizou Your Majesty, how about letting the writer of Huabao join the team sent by the imperial court to the southwest?" Shen Lin suggested.

Emperor Jianyuan looked at the other party's well-developed appearance and couldn't help asking, "Shen Qing knows the writer?" Seems to be just pure curiosity.

Shen Lin supported the ivory wat, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty also knows this person."