Conquer the king with power

Secretary Yan explained to Xu Jinnian some matters concerning the Ministry of Rites, and then asked Dou Yu to send Xu Jinnian away from the Hall of Zhaohe.

As soon as Xu Jinnian left, Si Yan looked at Dou Yu: "What did he stuff for you?"

When Dou Yu saw Si Yan asked, he reluctantly took out the dried sweet potatoes hidden in his sleeve pocket: "Dried sweet potatoes, it is said that Madam made it herself."

"Xu Jinnian is Xu Jinnian!" Si Yan also shook his head helplessly and laughed.

Seeing the smile on Si Yan's face, Dou Yu also cheerfully whispered: "Don't say it, it's quite delicious!"

Xu Jinnian saw Wei Chun's carriage as soon as he left the palace. As a general, Wei Chun didn't like to ride a horse, so he often rode in a carriage.

"Wei Hou!" Xu Jinnian stepped forward to salute.

Wei Chun pushed the car door open, his eyes were cloudy, and his complexion was also deep.

Xu Jinnian's heart skipped a beat. He had worked with Wei Chun for many years, had known Wei Chun for many years, and even knew Wei Chun's thoughts on Si Yan.With Wei Chun's appearance today, he must have quarreled with Si Yan.

"Master Xu, come up to chat?" Wei Chun made a gesture of invitation.

Xu Jinnian hesitated for a moment before slowly climbing into the carriage.

"Wei Hou, what's the matter?" Xu Jinnian fumbled in his sleeve, took out a handful of dried sweet potatoes, and stuffed them into Wei Chun's hands.

"Your Majesty called you because of the Ministry of Rites?" Wei Chun lowered his eyes, looked at the dried sweet potato in his hand, and frowned indistinctly.

"This...!" Xu Jinnian didn't know whether to tell Wei Chun, after all, he couldn't reveal a single word of what Si Yan said in Zhaohe Hall.

Wei Chun sneered: "Master Xu, do it boldly. If anything happens, the 15 Nanjun army behind me will support Master Xu."

Xu Jinnian was taken aback for a moment, he understood Si Yan's confidence.In Wei Chun!Wei Chun, an important minister in the army.If that day really comes, Si Yan doesn't mind being a tyrant and using iron and blood methods to suppress it.

"Can I ask a question?" Xu Jinnian glanced at Wei Chun.

"Ask." Wei Chun stuffed the dried sweet potato back in his hand.

"Your Majesty, what benefits are there for you? Wei Chun, you are not such a selfless person. There is no need for you, a military general, to participate in the battles between civil servants." Xu Jinnian was just a little curious, and as far as he knew, Si Yan didn't seem to have much love for Wei Chun. At least before the late emperor passed away, he had personally heard Si Yan say that he didn't like Wei Chun.

"Sharing your majesty's worries is really the duty of a courtier, isn't it? Master Xu?" Wei Chun's eyes suddenly became extremely sharp, and he swept Xu Jinnian fiercely.

Xu Jinnian hastily cupped his hands: "I will resign! Resign!"

Xu Jinnian jumped out of the car in a hurry and left. Wei Chun killed a lot. It only took him three years from a pure boy to an iron-blooded Weihou.Who knows what he has experienced in the past three years?At the South County border, they were facing the brutal Southern barbarians.

When Xu Jinnian left, Wei Chun lost his strength and leaned against the wall of the car.After closing his eyes for a long time, Wei Chun suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself hard on the face.

"Wei Chun, you're a fucking bitch!" Wei Chun bared his teeth in pain as soon as his lips moved, the pain made him unable to wake up.

Entering the Hall of Zhaohe by mistake was just the beginning, and that sight made his heart flutter.That kind of throbbing lingered in my heart for a long time, and I couldn't extricate myself.

In order to have a chance to get close to the prince, he asked his father to let him study in the Imperial Academy.In this way, he would have an aboveboard reason to go to the banquet at any time.

At that time, he was disregarding everything, regardless of gains and losses.This seems to have become a habit, and the habit is to put the banquet first, and the banquet is responsive to his requests, and the wind meets the wind, and the rain meets the rain.

Wei Chun didn't know if he could get rid of this problem in his lifetime.

Xu Jinnian finally knew why Wei Chun said those things to him, because the case was thoroughly investigated, and it involved a lot of people and offended too many people.

In the case of Lin Jian, almost all the officials of the Ministry of Rites were involved in the case, but the crime was serious or not.

Xu Jinnian's investigation will surely offend too many people.If there is no Wei Chun behind him, he will be assassinated sooner or later.

After investigating this matter one after another for more than a month, Xu Jinnian felt that he was lucky enough.In a month, he relied on His Majesty's will to take many people and ransacked many mansions.Cai Shoufu and Feng Xiang insisted on not looking for him, which made him a little at a loss.He thought of a lot of rhetoric in advance to face these two mountains.

Wei Chun didn't enter the palace this month, and even rarely went to court, which seemed to be deliberately avoiding the banquet.

Today, Secretary Ji is on duty and has been guarding Zhaohe Hall.The court has been quiet these past few days, Cai Shoufu and Prime Minister Feng have stopped arguing, and the affairs of the court have become much less.

Si Yan is in a good mood, and sometimes he will be called to practice swords together, or to study the art of war with him.

"Has Wei Chun looked for you?" Si Yan asked in front of the desk, looked up at Si Yan who was standing beside him.

Si Ji shook his head: "No, is there anything in the court that needs to be used by the last general?"

Si Yan's brows drooped. He remembered that not long after Si Ji took office, Wei Chun would chat with Si Ji every few days and ask him how he was doing.Not recently, it seems that Wei Chun was bullied that day.

"No, I'm free to ask." Si Yan continued to bury his head in reviewing papers.

As soon as Si Yan bowed his head, Dou Yu walked in with a bow.

"Report to Your Majesty, Xu Jinnian and Master Xu are asking to see you." Dou Yu reported truthfully.

Si Yan immediately sat up straight, Xu Jinnian asked to see him, the Ministry of Rites must have finished investigating the case.

"Xuan!" Si Yan raised his hand, then put his hand on the table and kept hitting it lightly.

When Xu Jinnian came in, he knelt down to say hello, Si Yan waved him up, and then asked, "You're done with the investigation."

When Xu Jinnian heard it, he immediately took out a thick memorial and held it above his head.Seeing this, Dou Yu ran up quickly, took it, trotted back to the banquet table, and handed it over.

Si Yan opened it and looked at it line by line, the more he looked at it, the darker his face became.This case was even bigger than he had imagined, and the inside story was also darker than he could have imagined.

"Almost all officials from the Ministry of Rites are involved in the case, and there are also people from the Ministry of Punishment who fabricated false conviction documents for these good women, and someone from the Ministry of Households changed their household registrations for them! This is my civil and military officials! Good job!" Si Yan said fiercely. Slap the table.

Si Yan took a deep breath, this was a problem left by the former emperor.No one in the court can monitor the officials, which makes those officials more and more courageous.

Organized by Wang Fu, women were abducted from all over the country.Then the Ministry of Punishment forged the documents of conviction, and the Ministry of Household changed these women to low status according to the case files of the Ministry of Punishment.In the end, the Ministry of Rites came forward and sold it to Jiaofang Division to make huge profits from it.The Ministry of Officials also took advantage of it and turned a blind eye to this matter.

"Dou Yu sent an edict to Wei Chun to ask the Imperial Army to confiscate Lin Jian's mansion. Let the Zhongshu order, please resign!" Si Yan said and handed the things in his hand to Dou Yu. This is the evidence Xu Jinnian found out and Case file.

"Send this to the cabinet, and pass an oral order to Feng Xiang and Cai Shoufu, let them think about how to explain to me tomorrow!" Si Yan continued.

Dou Yu immediately picked up the booklet, bowed and nodded: "Yes, the old slave will go now."

Dou Yu quickly went out to give instructions to the children beside him. The children did not dare to neglect after receiving the instructions, and immediately dispersed and went to work according to his instructions.

"This case has exceeded His Majesty's expectations, right? Then why did Your Majesty keep this case until today? I have been curious for a long time, why do you have to ask me to go to the Ministry of Rites? It turns out that you have always known that the Ministry of Rites has Question." Xu Jinnian didn't get up, still kneeling.

Si Yan nodded: "Yes! Before I ascended the throne, I went to the Jiaofang Division and heard some clues from a Le Ji. I checked it in private and learned about it. It's just that I was a prince at the time and didn't I didn't think about the seriousness of the matter. Later, the Ministry of Rites made things difficult for Wei Chun, so I thought about using this matter to inspect the Ministry of Rites and embarrass Zhongshu."

"If I had known that the matter was so serious, when I was the prince, I should have strictly investigated the Ministry of Rites." Si Yan confessed everything in his heart.

"Your Majesty is the emperor, the head of the people, and he should be sympathetic to the sufferings of the people. If he has been like the previous emperor, ignoring the people and focusing on controlling the court, it is not the Ming emperor's doing." In order to bring down Zhongshu, Si Yan didn't take the suffering of the people to heart.

Si Yan took a deep breath: "It's my fault, I shouldn't let things go to this point." Si Yan admitted his mistake.

He was indeed at fault. At that time, the first emperor was already seriously ill, and he knew that he would definitely ascend the throne.The first emperor wanted to leave behind various problems that hindered him, so he had to guard against them.There is Wei Chun behind him, and he wants Wei Chun to hold a heavy army and hold power for a day.

"Your Majesty, I can't understand His Majesty, and I don't understand the methods used in the contest between His Majesty and Chief Minister Feng Cai. But I have a heart for the country and the people, and I am a pure minister." Xu Jinnian kowtowed again, and the voice came into his ears, Every word is heartfelt.

Si Yan rubbed the corners of his brows with a headache, Xu Jinnian's old problem happened again.This time it was Si Yan who was at fault first, and he had nothing to say.

"I know I was wrong, Master Xu's words, I will remember." Si Yan could only admit his mistake obediently.

"Your Majesty, I will take my leave first. There are still some things that I still need to verify." Xu Jinnian immediately stood up and left after hearing Si Yan's confession.

Si Yan hurriedly waved his hand to agree, and Dou Yu also came back at this time, and hurriedly stepped forward to lure Xu Jinnian out.Sometimes it is not necessary for him to go in person when the decree is delivered orally, unless the secretary specifically asks him to go in person, he will go.

After Xu Jinnian left, Si Yan breathed a sigh of relief and leaned on the soft pillow behind him.For the king, he has neglected his duty, no wonder Xu Jinnian is like this.

Dou Yu returned and saw the tired-looking Si Yan, stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to rest for a while?"

Si Yan waved his hands and shook his head: "There will be some excitement later, forget it."

Dou Yu nodded, Si Yan sat up straight again, and said to Si Ji who was next to him: "Si Ji, find some good players to protect Master Xu."

Si Ji nodded and saluted: "Yes!"

Si Yan was worried that someone would jump over the wall in a hurry and die, so he dragged Xu Jinnian to his back.

As for Wei Chun, he was not worried about Wei Chun's safety, but worried that Wei Chun would not be able to handle it, and worried that he would make too many enemies for Wei Chun.

"Dou Yu, pay attention to what's going on in the palace yourself, and don't make any mistakes. Although the Queen Mother is not smart, she can be annoying sometimes." Si Yan turned her head and told Dou Yu again.

Dou Yu knew long ago that when he just went out to declare the decree, he had already told the children around him.