I was a princess in ancient times

Although the patriarchs of the aristocratic families wanted to threaten Yu Heng, they were no less annoyed than Yu Heng.They haven't seen each other for many days, everyone's eyes are black, and there is indescribable haggardness between their brows.

In contrast, Yu Heng was the one with the most calm expression.

Relying on the deceased Qi Boxuan, Ying Gong once again overwhelmed Grand Master Cui and became the real but unknown leader of the family.

The threat of the small official family is like a sharp knife hanging in the air, making the Duke of England completely in no mood to think about the death of his wife, Qi Baixuan's sudden death, and the family's threat to Yu Heng... Will it cause Yu Heng to have feelings for the family in his heart? gap.

He asked straight to the point, "You have been thinking about it for nearly half a month, do you have a clever plan?"

When the crisis is completely over, it will not be too late to slowly tame this trapped tiger.

Yu Heng's eyebrows twitched, and there was patience between his brows. He forcibly suppressed the sudden emotion before he spoke, "I have seen all the criminal evidence of the small official's family in His Majesty's Fengxiang Palace, all of which are charges of implicating the nine clans. The evidence is conclusive. The chain is intertwined, and there is no room for overturning the case.”

The British Duke exchanged glances with the heads of the families present in turn.

As early as when the Assassin case brought the Xiaoli family to the attention of Emperor Changping and the courtiers, the aristocratic family was prepared that the Xiaoli family would be replaced sooner or later.

Three generations, decades of painstaking efforts were destroyed in one day.

The aristocratic family is heartbroken but has no time to take care of it, because they are under the threat of the remnants of the previous dynasty and cannot protect themselves.

However, they never imagined that the Xiaoli family would bring them a threat no less than the remnants of the previous dynasty.

This is not only a life and death crisis, but also an unprecedented humiliation.

In the eyes of the aristocratic family, it is equivalent to a collective rebellion of dogs raised with leftovers, viciously biting the flesh of their masters.

Fortunately, Yu Heng's relationship with the aristocratic family has been long enough, and the patriarchs of the aristocratic family have gone from being unbelievable at the beginning to now slowly accepting the reality of being bitten by a 'dog'.

Although the faces were still uglier than the last, it was not like when they just found out that the Xiaoli's family dared to hold back and quietly kept the family's handle.As long as thoughts related to this incident arise in my mind, I can't control my violent anger.

The British Duke took a sip of tea and praised like an ordinary elder, "This year's Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, His Majesty specially graciously gave you a seat next to His Highness the Fifth Highness's seat, which shows his preference for you. As long as you are willing to think of a way, sure Just like solving the remnants of the previous dynasty, we can get through the difficulties without any danger."

"That's right!" Patriarch Zheng immediately picked up the conversation, wishing to use all the words of praise on Yu Heng.

The Patriarchs of the Chen family and the Kang family were not to be outdone, and even Taishi Cui only had good things to say, and he didn't say a word of threats with unclear meanings.

Yu Heng waited until everyone had said all good things, then fell silent, and said with a sneer, "The case of the small official's family will be first tried by the Six Departments, and the Shangshu will review it in secret. I can't help you get away with it."

Patriarch Chen became more impatient and couldn't help saying, "It's not entirely for us to get rid of the crime. After all, we can't escape, and you will also be implicated."

"Brother Chen!" Duke Ying looked at Patriarch Chen disapprovingly, "Feng Lang was just saying something angry."

When the rest of the people heard the words, they also opened their mouths to complain about the Patriarch of the Chen family.

It seems that as long as the Patriarch of the Chen family is pushed to the opposite side of Yu Heng, it can be concealed that they are also the culprits who dragged Yu Heng into the water.

As the head of the Patriarch of the Chen family got lower and lower, the mockery in Yu Heng's eyes became more and more intense.

At the critical moment of life and death, they never forget to pave the way for the future, which is worthy of being a family.

When the British Duke asked Yu Heng for the third time what he could do to help the aristocratic family through this crisis, Yu Heng finally hesitated and said what the aristocratic family could do.

It is impossible to overturn the case, only to find someone who has been blamed.

Patriarch Zheng couldn't wait to ask, "You mean..."

Countless faces flashed through Taishi Cui's mind.

Looking at the entire court, there are only a few people who can carry this scapegoat.

King of Xinyang County!

Prince Qinghe is also a good candidate, but he won the trust of Emperor Changping, so it might not be easy to start with.

"Stupid!" Yu Heng didn't show any face to Patriarch Zheng, "Even if you blame the Xinyang County King for everything you did, you still can't escape being accused of being a party member."

The difference is only from punishing the nine clans to implicating the nine clans, at least the whole clan has served hard labor for decades.

The hope in the eyes of Patriarch Zheng was shattered, and he almost bit off his tongue in anxiety, "I beg the king of the county to give us an accurate word."

Of course Yu Heng would not give them permission.

Some words must never come out of his mouth.

Otherwise, as early as when King Ming's tribe in the northern Xinjiang grassland was executed, all the aristocratic families would be imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Justice. How could it be possible to enjoy the glory and wealth for half a month?

Yu Heng lowered his eyes and said meaningfully, "If you are just following orders, no matter how outrageous things happen, you should not be blamed."

"This kind of thing..." The head of the Kang family grasped the clothes on his legs, his eyes were filled with anxiety that could not be concealed, and he murmured, "What's the difference if you're an accomplice under someone's order?"

Party?

Follow orders?

The quickest thinker, British Duke, exchanged glances with Grand Master Cui, and at the same time grasped the flashing thoughts, and a face that was almost completely forgotten appeared in his mind.

Emperor Yanguang.

Obedience to the emperor's orders is a matter of course.

No one dared to say that the emperor was wrong, and naturally there would be no accomplices of the emperor.

Yu Heng immediately noticed the change in the expressions of Ying Yinggong and Cui Taishi, and was not surprised at all.

To catch Emperor Yanguang's scapegoat, for these two people, practice makes perfect.

First, there was the matter of the British government borrowing from Chu Mo, and the tiger skin of Emperor Yanguang was used to force Princess Anguo's mansion.Then Taishi Cui sacrificed his daughter and took advantage of Emperor Yanguang's incompetence to wantonly disrupt the court.

So they must be able to think of Emperor Yanguang, and they also have the courage.

Next, as long as Duke Ying and Taishi Cui believe that Emperor Changping is filial and will never allow Emperor Yanguang's reputation like ink to be damaged, they will gamble again.

A desperate gambler never considers the possibility of losing, especially one who has just won a lot of money on a big bet.

The poems of Xianglin County King were quickly forgotten by everyone, and there were new rumors in the market, all related to the remnants of the previous dynasty.

Although the stories about the remnants of the previous dynasty have been circulated among the people for several rounds, the aristocratic family was extremely willing to spend money and quietly disclosed many little-known things, easily attracting the attention of the people again.

Because the purpose was to want Emperor Yanguang to take the blame, the aristocratic family almost revealed all of Emperor Yanguang's old background.

Indulging the villain to persecute Zhongliang, implying his confidantes to set up clever projects, filling the gold and silver collections that should have been in the national treasury into private treasuries... even angering him because of a certain sentence in the foreign minister's notebook, implying that his confidants look for evidence of his crime or directly forge evidence .

The aristocratic family wanted to imply to Emperor Changping that all the 'evil' things they had done were following orders before Emperor Changping used the confession of the petty officials' family to attack them.

To prevent him from saying anything about the late emperor after being imprisoned, he would be killed and silenced.We must stay behind and let the people believe that there is no outrageous thing that Emperor Yanguang cannot do.

In this way, when faced with the crisis of killing people, they have the 'capital' to bargain with Emperor Changping.

The first person who couldn't sit still was not Mo Yao, but Bai Qianli.

Nearly ten years after the death of Emperor Yanguang, she has accepted the transformation from "white minister" to one of the most powerful ministers.

I don't know when, she began to envy Mo Yao.

It's not because Mo Yao is still the number one general, but what Bai Qianli admires is Emperor Changping's trust in Mo Yao.

She no longer longs for power, she just wants to spend the rest of her life in peace.

So she very much does not want anyone to bring up the late emperor, especially the bad governance of the late emperor.Whenever the late emperor did evil, she and Mo Yao were always indispensable.

Mo Yao has the trust of the new emperor, so he is not afraid.

She is afraid.

Bai Qianli deliberately went to the Jinwuwei Yamen to find Mo Yao, asking him if he knew that rumors about the late emperor were being spread among the people, and asked why Mo Yao didn't stop it.

Even if it is inconvenient to stop, Emperor Changping can be persuaded to stop the rumors that are getting louder and louder.

Mo Yao couldn't understand Bai Qianli's anxiety, he just thought she was inexplicable.

When he first learned of the folk rumors, he told Emperor Changping about it.

Emperor Changping was depressed for a long time because of this, saying that he thought of the late emperor, which aroused the backlog of thoughts in his heart, and told him not to mention the late emperor again.

After repeated questioning by Bai Qianli, Mo Yao finally said, "These are all things done by saints, no one has slandered saints, why stop them?"

Hearing this, Bai Qianli was almost fainted by the anger of this Yumu head, and said through gritted teeth, "You don't know how foolish people insult the saint? The saint hates others to say that he is not good. If he knew these words, he would be so angry .”

Mo Yao was still unmoved.

"The first emperor won't be angry." He said to Bai Qianli, "Your Highness the Fifth Highness told me that if the Emperor Jianxing could entrust a dream to Princess Huai'an, the late emperor could entrust me with a dream. If the saint is angry, he will give me a dream. If you don't entrust a dream, you just don't know This matter. In the past, the sages would not be angry because of things they did not know."

Mo Yao was annoyed by Bai Qianli's nagging, which caused people to throw Bai Qianli out of the Jinwuwei Yamen.

Bai Qianli couldn't persuade Mo Yao, and he was very guilty, for fear that Emperor Changping would use the 'vicious dog' to quell the anger of the people.She was also afraid that the people who had been badly angered back then would take the opportunity to retaliate against her.They can only act in private, trying to stop the rumors.

Unexpectedly, it was because of her actions that the courtiers paid more attention to these rumors.

On the 30th day of Qi Boxuan's death, Yu Heng received an apology from the aristocratic family.

The aristocratic family admitted that they once supported Emperor Yanguang who was still the prince.Claiming that they did not know about the collusion between Emperor Yanguang and the remnants of the previous dynasty until Emperor Yanguang came to the throne.Regretted at the beginning, and could not betray the emperor, so he could only do his best to conceal this scandal for Emperor Yanguang and the Ji family.

Seeing that there are more and more rumors among the people, they are afraid that this matter will also be spread, so they can only give a secret report to Emperor Changping, hoping that Emperor Changping can catch the person who spread the rumors in time, and keep the name of the first emperor and the royal family.

That night, the Jinwu Guards suddenly rushed out of the palace and surrounded the houses of the Qi, Cui, Zheng, Kang, and Chen families. The flames almost illuminated the entire Chang'an.

The five aristocratic families, with a total of 330 people, were thrown into the prison of Dali Temple. Nearly a thousand confidantes and servants were detained separately.The rest are still being held in the government.

In the night, a fire dragon headed west all the way out of the city overnight.

Huo Yu and Yan Meng took people to arrest the Yu clan who still only settled down in Jingji and never moved to Chang'an with his family.

Yu Heng, as the right general of the Jinwu Guard, personally went to Cui Taishi's residence to sit in charge.

He told Taishi Cui with a secret signal discussed in advance that Emperor Changping knew that Emperor Yanguang had colluded with the remnants of the previous dynasty, and was very angry, and he was going to kill people to silence him, so that the secret would remain a secret forever.

Two hours later, new rumors rang out from the corner of Chang'an City.

"The first emperor colluded with the enemy and treasoned the country, and the aristocratic family were his minions."

"how is this possible?"

"Ordinary prodigal sons also rely on selling property to make a living, him? Hmph."

"Don't believe me, I have evidence!"

……

The backhand arranged in advance by the family began to rotate like a gear that had been charged in advance.

In the case of 'conclusive evidence', if Emperor Changping wants to prove the innocence of the late emperor to the people, he must first prove that the late emperor has no 'minions'.