I'm a bully in troubled times

Dong Xiong flicked his sleeves and said, "I didn't say that!"

Xia Zaifu: "Then what do you mean? Your Highness and all the officials have seen it clearly, the evidence is conclusive, you not only refuse to admit it, but also bite at will!"

"Your Highness!" Xia Zaifu said to Marquis Yan, "All the evidence is here, Your Highness please judge!"

"Your Highness, I have been wronged!" Dong Xiong was not far behind.

Dong Xiong insisted that these people were false accusations, while Xia Zaifu believed that the evidence was conclusive.

All the officials looked at each other in blank dismay, realizing that something was not quite right.Regardless of whether this matter is true or not, it will inevitably set off a turbulent wave in the country of Yan.Those from Dong's lineage all had worried eyes, while the reformers showed a subtle sneer.

At this moment, Hou Yan raised his eyelids lightly, and said slowly: "Since you say you have been wronged, what's the use of shouting? Instead, show evidence like Xia Qing to prove that they are false accusations."

Although Yan Hou's tone was not harsh, the meaning revealed in these words was clearly aimed at Xia Zaifu.

Dong Xiong knew in his heart that because of Xun Shu's implementation of the New Deal, Yanhou was somewhat dissatisfied with him.He said with a sullen face: "Your Highness, as long as you give me time, I will definitely find the evidence..."

"Wait for you to forge some false evidence to deceive the widow and the officials?!" Yanhou's voice suddenly rose.

Dong Xiong gritted his teeth: "Your Highness said that, it seems that you don't believe me anymore."

Marquis Yan sneered: "I believe in the evidence."

"Get rid of the shame on your head, remove your official position, and put it in a prison pending trial."

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, from the emperor to all the officials, they all had to wear court clothes during the court meeting.

With a pale face, Dong Xiong slowly raised his hand to hold the edge of the face, and was about to pick it off.

"Your Highness, you mustn't do it!" At this time, an old official from the Dong family came out from among the officials, he hurried to the center of the hall and knelt down, bent down/body and said, "Your Highness, you can't!"

"Master Dong is a pillar of the imperial court. For many years, he has devoted himself to the imperial court. How can he be relegated from his official position and put in prison because of a false accusation and trumped-up charges?"

"Lord Shen is right!" Another old minister stood up and knelt down beside Dong Xiong, "Your Highness, don't you still know the character of Lord Dong? How could he do something like murdering the imperial court official! Please take it back, Your Highness." Fate!"

"Your Highness, please take it back!"

"My minister agrees!"

"My minister agrees!"

Hurrah, most of the officials of His Highness knelt down, all begging for Dong Xiong, and at a glance, it was dark.The blackness of Xuanduan weighed heavily on Yanhou's heart.

Yan Hou suddenly became angry, stood up suddenly, pointed at all the officials and cursed: "Why, can't I deal with an official even if I want to deal with it?"

"Is this the Dong family's Yan country, or the widow's Yan country?!"

"Your Highness!" The old stubborn people who were lying on the ground buried their heads even lower, almost crying, "I can't watch Your Highness die a virtuous minister in vain, and get a bad reputation as a senseless and foolish king!"

"No way to fool the emperor?!" Yanhou sneered, "There are all the witnesses and material evidences. I will go to Dong Xiong's official position according to the law and send him to the sky prison. Why not? How can I have no way to fool the emperor?"

Master Shen said: "Your Highness! How can you believe the words of such evil slaves? How can they be regarded as witnesses?"

Si'er panicked when he heard this, Jiang Yu gave him a reassuring look.

Marquis Yan: "His words don't count, and the words of Imperial Physician Qu don't count either. Just your words?"

Lord Shen grabbed the ground with his head: "Why didn't Your Highness give Lord Dong a chance to plead his case, and sent him to prison? How can the pillar of the country suffer such injustice?"

At this time, Jiang Yu took a step forward and said, "Lord Shen's words are wrong. He was just sent to prison to await trial, but he has not been convicted yet. How can it be said that he has suffered innocent injustice?"

Before Lord Shen retorted, Jiang Yu continued: "Master Dong is the pillar of the country, but my uncle Xun is not the pillar of the country when he is in power? They are all pillars of the country, and there is a distinction between superior and inferior? If Sir Dong is not afraid of the shadow, it is true." If you are innocent, why should you be afraid to investigate?"

"Are you afraid that His Highness will wrong Mr. Dong? Or, are you afraid that Mr. Dong will be found out for something unspeakable?"

"you……!"

Jiang Yu spoke quickly, asking questions sentence by sentence, without giving them a chance to refute, so angry that Master Shen held his breath in his chest and almost didn't come up.

Jiang Yu smiled: "Master Shen is old and weak, so it is unavoidable that he will lose his dignity in the palace. As a junior, I advise you to take good care of your body, retire as soon as possible, and take care of your life. Lord Shen's body."

"you……"

Mr. Shen is over fifty years old, and he is slow to speak. After being provoked by Jiang Yu, you didn't say a word for a long time.

"You, you are... curse, curse..."

"Your Highness!" Jiang Yu didn't let him finish, and knelt down towards the Marquis of Yan, "My uncle has worked hard all his life, all for the prosperity of the Yan Kingdom, and even became sick from overwork, leaving behind his aunt and the child who has not reached the crown, alone and helpless When my uncle passed away, I was still away, so I didn't know the truth of the matter, but I couldn't even see the last side of my uncle!"

"I originally thought that my uncle died of illness, but now that I heard Master Xia's words, I realized that there was something else hidden."

"I don't know if Mr. Dong has done such a thing, but I ask His Highness to investigate this matter thoroughly and return my uncle justice. If Mr. Dong did not do it, Mr. Dong should also be innocent. Only in this way can the hearts of the people of the world be reassured."

"Otherwise, who else in this world would dare to be loyal to His Highness and do things for Yan?"

"Jun Suiyang is right!"

Dong Xiong has accomplices, and Xun Shu naturally has them too, but the number is smaller, but they are not bad when it comes to lip service.

"If Mr. Dong is sitting upright, why should you be afraid to investigate? If you really wronged Mr. Dong and made Mr. Dong suffer in prison, I am willing to go to Mr. Dong's house to plead guilty."

"Second minister, please investigate this matter thoroughly, Your Highness!"

Seeing this, Marquis Yan looked at Dong Xiong and the group of old men kneeling next to him, and said, "Have you all heard this?"

"Your Highness!" Master Shen wanted to save him again.

"Needless to say, Doctor Shen." Marquis Yan said, "The widow's decision has been made. This matter concerns two important officials of the court. It must be thoroughly investigated. If there is a false accusation, this evil slave will be torn apart and killed. If not... "

Marquis Yan glanced at Dong Xiong: "Dispose according to Yan's law."

"That's the end of this matter," Yan Hou said, "Come here, take Dong Xiong down, put him in the prison, and keep him alone. No one is allowed to visit without the widow's permission!"

"Your Highness...!"

"Retire!" Yanhou gave an order, and immediately guards with knives came forward and held Dong Xiong one by one on the left and one on the right.

"Don't bother, I'll go by myself," Dong Xiong said.

Now that the matter has come to this point, no matter how unwilling Dong's party is, they have no choice but to shut up and bow their heads:

"The minister waits to send you off to Your Highness."

All the ministers knelt down and got up after seeing off Marquis Yan. Everyone from Dong's faction gathered together, looking anxious and resentful, whispering.Xia Zaifu did not change his face, and walked out of the hall calmly.

"Xia Zaifu stay!" Dong's group stopped Xia Zaifu.

Xia Zaifu turned around and said, "What's the matter? If you're speaking for Mr. Dong, you don't need to say it."

"This……"

Seeing this, Xia Zaifu bowed slightly, turned around and left.

It made everyone in the Dong family very angry.

On the other hand, the reformers all look happy.Once Dong Xiong falls, the resistance to reform will be much smaller.

Someone came to chat with Jiang Yu, and before they had a word, a servant close to the Marquis of Yan came over and whispered to Jiang Yu with a smile: "Jun Suiyang, Your Highness invites you to go to the imperial study."

These reformists met each other's eyes, they knew what they were thinking, and they reached an agreement. They cupped their hands and said to Jiang Yu: "Let's go, Mr. Suiyang. The ruling lord passed away unfortunately. Mr. Suiyang is not only the nephew of the ruling Xun, but also won the favor of His Highness." Believe me, we are also willing to follow Lord Suiyang and continue this transformation, even if we die without regret.”

"Jiang Yu is relieved with the words of your lords." Jiang Yu nodded and said, and immediately followed the servant to look at the imperial study room.

When Jiang Yu arrived at the imperial study, Marquis Yan was sitting on the soft couch, squinting his eyes to read the scriptures, and a servant next to him was pinching his legs for him.

Yanhou's leg hurts badly when the seasons change.

Especially in the recent rainy, cold and humid weather, Yan Hou's leg hurts even more.I always read booklets at night, and my eyesight is not good.

"Your Highness." After Jiang Yu entered, he bowed to Marquis Yan.

"You don't need to kneel, just sit down." Yanhou raised his head from the bookcase and gave him a look.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

"Have you drawn up the details of the innovation that the widow asked you to go back to and draft?"

Jiang Yu took out a memorial from his bosom and presented it to Marquis Yan: "Your Highness, please have a look."

Yanhou put down the notebook in his hand, took Jiang Yu's and looked at it.

Jiang Yu wrote it in detail, and analyzed it in detail, mainly based on what Xun Shu left behind, and the experience he learned from Zhao Di, and combined with the situation of Yan State, he wrote it.

Due to the large amount of content, Marquis Yan read it for a while. After reading it, he raised his head in surprise and said, "I thought you wouldn't be as radical as your uncle, but I didn't expect that what you wrote was better than your uncle's." More aggressive."

"From the title to the land, from the central government to the local government, from the nobleman to the common people, it took a lot of effort to be so perfect and meticulous."

Jiang Yu said: "I'm just picking up the wisdom of others. Most of these are learned from the experience of my uncle, Jin, and other countries' reforms. I just modified it a little."

"If such a change can be made successfully, it would be good. I'm afraid that... if it fails, it will cause a mess in the whole Yan country and arouse the resistance of those old stubborn people." Yanhou said, "Although the widow supports you , but you have to know that those old and stubborn people will make trouble for no reason and make trouble, and the widow will have nothing to do with them."

"I know." Jiang Yu said.

"Besides," Marquis Yan looked deeply at Jiang Yu, "From your father to your uncle, as a result, you are still so radical, aren't you afraid of death?"

Jiang Yu said, "Of course I'm afraid."

Yanhou looked at him.

"But I think that there must always be someone to do it. If it's not the minister, there will be another person. Both father and uncle have worked hard for this, and Jiang Yu should naturally contribute to this. Otherwise, Jiuquan will die in the future." Under the circumstances, how can I have the face to meet my ancestors?"

"Well said!" Marquis Yan patted his leg, "If the Kingdom of Yan is declining day by day in the hands of the widow, how can the widow have the face to meet the ancestors under the nine springs?"

"Your Highness thinks I'm aggressive, but I think His Highness is still not tough enough." Jiang Yu said.

"Oh?" Marquis Yan looked sideways.

"The reason why those old ministers dare to be so presumptuous in the palace is that they rely on His Highness's favor and don't want to do anything to them easily? They are so proud of their favor, disregarding the emperor's favor, and only have immediate interests in their hearts, but they don't look far into the future. Together with His Highness, we will plan a great plan to rejuvenate the country. So, is this the way to be a minister?"

Jiang Yu woke up Yanhou with one word.

"I think that His Highness needs to use iron and blood to let the world see His determination to change. It is definitely not just empty talk!"

"What do you think should be done?" Yan Hou asked.

"If they want to grab the ground with their heads and hit the pillars to death, let them hit them. I want to see if these old officials who cherish their lives really have the courage, and they are all so bloody." Jiang Yu's eyes showed a little coldness meaning.

"But they are all the pillars of the country..."

"Your Highness," Jiang Yu said sonorously, without being polite at all, "I'm sorry to say bluntly, these adults eat official salaries, eat thousands of households, and have inherited nobles for generations, but what they are doing now, are they really worthy of it?" These rewards are still unknown. If Your Highness is worried that no one will be available, you can recruit wise men from all over the world, regardless of their background, just relying on their talents. In this way, there will naturally be people who are willing to follow His Highness and think about great plans for change."