No one expected that a number of court officials from aristocratic families would fail to impeach Xiao Yan, and the final result was that the Lu family would be punished.
Lu Zhao was imprisoned and Lu Chongyuan was imprisoned.
The Lu family's backbone was almost broken.
Lu Chongyuan didn't expect Emperor An to issue such an order. His face pale instantly and he whispered loudly to the hall: "Have you ever colluded with officials from the south? My son has no corruption. How can Your Majesty believe Xiao Yan? The traitor made a wrongful accusation of the Lu family by one side. The old minister was the minister of the regents appointed by the late emperor. He was loyal to Your Majesty. The old minister asked to see Your Majesty..."
Lu Chongyuan didn't bother to kneel down, so he got up and wanted to steer quickly into the hall, but before he could go up the steps, he was blocked by Eunuch Feng.
"Shu Lu, Your Majesty's decree will let you go home."
Eunuch Feng reached out to block Lu Chongyuan. Behind him was the guard in front of the palace, and directly blocked the way.
Lu Chongyuan's previous calmness was gone, and even if he tried his best to calm down, he was a little nervous: "Eunuch Feng, Your Majesty is indecently believing in the traitor and wronged the loyal and kind, the case has long been settled, Xiao Yan and my Lu family have even more personal grudges. If you want to blame the Lu family for your words and deeds, your Majesty will have to give me a chance to defend myself. How can you treat the Lu family like this just by saying the eunuch..."
Eunuch Feng heard him speak out as a eunuch, and his expression was slightly cold: "Lu Zhongshu misunderstood, and it was not the one who reported the Lu family that governor Xiao."
Lu Chongyuan was stunned.
Master Liang next to him frowned: "Isn't it Xiao Yan?"
"No, it's the former disciple's recorder, Lord Song."
Song Jinxiu?
Master Liang showed a look of surprise on his face, and heard Eunuch Feng say, "Mr. Song personally met with the emperor and submitted the grain account book, accusing Lu Lang of colluding with officials from the southern region to embezzle disaster relief funds, intercepted and killed the Privy Council and sent it to Jiangnan to retrieve evidence. He has been excluding dissidents from the court for many years, and has framed and murdered other court officials."
"Your Majesty relies on the Lu family and did not want to believe it, but today I issued an order to send Governor Xiao and Shangshu Qian to the Lu family to search, but unexpectedly got something, which made Your Majesty extremely angry. If it were not for the fact that Lu Zhongshu was old and had many years of assisting in the administration, Your Majesty would I don't want to take my anger on you, I'm afraid that it's not just Lu Lang Ling who is indicted today."
Eunuch Feng looked at Lu Chongyuan whose blood color disappeared on his face and advised warmly: "Your Majesty is angry. Lu Zhongshu should go back home first, so as not to be charged with disobedience."
Lu Chongyuan's body shook, his face was almost pale and there was almost no blood left, and the court officials of the aristocratic families were also constantly changing their faces at this time.
Grain account book?
How could such a thing be!
Didn't the Lu family say that they had already destroyed them and had cleaned up the tails in the south, how could a grain account book appear now? !
The "business" of the aristocratic families in the southern part of the country are more or less involved in the government, and almost all other companies are involved in the reselling of grain. Although it was mainly the Lu family, they were not clean. Later, after the incident was exposed, He even gave up a large number of interests in the southern region and only wanted to cut off the tail and protect himself. Lu Chongyuan once personally promised them that there would never be any problems in this matter, and Xiao Yan would not catch any handle and would never implicate them.
But what about now? !
The court officials were filled with anger when they looked at Lu Chongyuan, and even Grandmaster Liang frowned tightly, and his uneasiness became more and more uneasy.
"Eunuch Feng, is that the account book really given by Song Jinxiu?" Grand Master Liang asked in a deep voice.
Eunuch Feng said, "It's still fake. I heard that Lord Song got it from the hands of the Sanlangjun of the Lu family. In the past, Song and Lu families were close to each other. Lord Song often went in and out of the Lu family, even those who Lu Lang Ling framed the court officials. He also heard the evidence of the crime from Sanlang Lu's heart with his own ears."
"Although Lord Song's father was guilty of colluding with the daughter of a traitor, Lord Song made meritorious service this time. Your Majesty has ordered him to restore his post and assisted Secretary Qian and Governor Xiao to check the account book and thoroughly investigate the case of grain."
The Grand Master Liang felt heavy in his heart. The Duke of Song was no longer possible. Emperor An wanted to "kill the chicken to warn the monkey" and warned the court officials who were biased towards aristocratic families that even if Song Hong was not dead, he would never be able to enter the court again. Therefore, don't say it when the Song family was in trouble. It was the Lu family, and even they had no help.
But who would have expected that Song Hong was guilty and Song Jinxiu could actually step on the Lu family and re-enter the court.
"Shu Lu, Your Majesty's order has been issued. Please do not make things difficult for the slave."
Several guards in front of the hall stepped forward and surrounded Lu Chongyuan in the middle. Eunuch Feng said, "Send Lu Zhongshu back to his house."
After saying that, Eunuch Feng looked at the other people who were still kneeling in front of the steps: "Do you guys still wait for His Majesty to summon him?"
The others looked at each other for a moment, all looking at Master Liang.
Master Liang's face was slightly dark. Looking at Lu Chongyuan who was almost "escorted" by the palace guards, he stood up without hesitation and said, "No need, since Your Majesty has discussed the important matter with Shangshu Qian and the others, I will not disturb you. Your Majesty, I will come to the palace to meet you again."
Seeing that Master Liang had retreated, the others who were already panicked also quickly spoke.
"I remember that there is something else in the yamen, so I went back first."
"Me too."
After a group of people agreed, they turned around and left without waiting for Eunuch Feng to speak. In just a moment, the court officials who were still knelt all over the ground had dispersed in an instant.
After everyone was finished, the little eunuch who followed Eunuch Feng couldn't help but whisper: "These people left happily, and the servant thought they would continue to entangle..."
"What are you entangled?"
Eunuch Feng sneered, his eyes full of kindness just now were full of contempt.
The people of the aristocratic family have always been like this. They rely on their large numbers of people to repeatedly threaten His Majesty, but in fact they are just a pool of loose sand. As long as they pinch the one among them, the remaining people will endanger themselves when they see their interests are damaged. He would be impatient to retreat, but Lu Chongyuan still wanted to use these people to deal with Xiao Yan, which was really ridiculous.
Thinking of Lu Chongyuan's eunuchs before, Eunuch Feng's eyes were frosty.
Although he didn't like Xiao Yan very much and always felt that the man was dangerous, he hated Lu Chongyuan even more: "Please be careful when going to the Lu family and take Lu Zhao into the imperial prison as soon as possible. If someone resists the order, you don't have to be polite."
The little eunuch understood it: "Don't worry, father-in-law, I understand."
Nympho
Things in the palace cannot be hidden from the people outside.
The incident of Xiao Yan trespassing the Lu family to search has long been causing a lot of controversy. After the people from the aristocratic family entered the palace, Wen Xinhou and others all made a cold sweat for Xiao Yan, and they only felt that he would meet him today. It was a big trouble, but who knew that in less than an hour, Lu Chongyuan was "escorted" back to the mansion by the palace guards, and Lu Zhao was locked and imprisoned. More than ten members of the Lu family were tied up and taken away due to conflicts with the imperial guards.
Not to mention the mighty posture of Wen Xinhou and Cao Dejiang were shocked, even Cui Lin, who had never entered the palace before, was shocked.
When Feng Qiuli saw Cui Lin, he said first before he could speak: "Mr. Cui, did you give the evidence from the Lu family in Xiao Yan?"
Cui Lin opened her mouth: "I just want to make Lu Chongyuan suffer some losses, but I didn't expect that they actually had an account book..."
The things in the southern part had been destroyed long ago, so he dared to secretly believe it, wanting to use Xiao Yan's hands to suppress Lu Chongyuan's momentum, so that the person he assisted could step forward and suppress the fourth prince, but who would have thought that Xiao Yan Can you find the grain account book?
"You are!"
Feng Qiuli seemed to be angry, and even his tone became heavier when he spoke: "I have told you a long time ago that Xiao Yan was not trustworthy. He had long been determined to kill all the aristocratic families, so it was not so easy to use. It is also a matter of our aristocratic family to be inseparable from Lu Chongyuan. How can you hand over the Lu family's handle to Xiao Yan?!"
Cui Lin is older than Feng Qiuli. If someone talked to him like this in the past, he would have been angry long ago, but at this time he was already in the wrong, and Feng Qiuli scolded him and explained: "I didn't expect Lu Chongyuan to do things so unclearly."
Feng Qiuli's face was tense: "What should I do now?"
"I don't know how many things are in the account book, and the Lu family may not be able to save them. After Lu Zhao was imprisoned, Xiao Yan will definitely try his best to ask him to speak. If he really reveals something, we will probably follow Lu. The family is over. Even if Lu Zhao bite him to death, if Lu Chongyuan knew that it was you who secretly sent Xiao Yan, he would definitely not let you go."
"We have already violated the taboo in secretly supporting the second prince. If this matter is brought up again, the people from other families will never allow us..."
Feng Qiuli spoke more and more anxiously, his face turned pale, and he was walking around in fear, and what he said in his words made Cui Lin look tight.
There are often intrigues among aristocratic families, and fighting for interests is also normal, but betraying the Lu family has ruined their "tactic understanding" to the outside world. Once it is discovered, the Lu family will not let him go, and the other companies may also follow him. They turned against each other. Not to mention wanting to be the leader of the aristocratic family, even the Cui family would have to be rejected by the other families.
Cui Lin frowned tightly and said in a deep voice: "Then let the Lu family have no chance to cause trouble for us!"
Feng Qiuli looked up suddenly, full of shock: "Mr. Cui, you..."
Cui Lin looked at him: "What, don't you dare?"
Feng Qiuli's face was pale.
Cui Lin said, "You said that Lu Chongyuan is not a broad mind. If he knew what I did, he would never let us go."
"I just wanted to suppress the Lu family's arrogance so that I could help the second prince to gain some support from the aristocratic family. But who would have thought that something unexpected happened? Now that things have come to this point, it would be better to take the opportunity to replace the Lu family. This will not only help the second prince go further, but also cut off the possibility of the grain plagument that will affect us."
Seeing Feng Qiuli's face full of hesitation, Cui Lin said in a deep voice: "The family shared honor and disgrace on the surface, but you should be very clear about what is inside. Do you want to see Lu Chongyuan escape and deal with us? Besides, the reason why the Lu family can become the leader of the family? That was also stepping on the bones of the He family back then. Lu Chongyuan was able to deal with the He family, so why can't we deal with him? "
The Lu family can do it, so can they.
If the Lu family could be divided, the Cui family would definitely be far better than now. Without Lu Chongyuan's suppression, he would naturally be able to subdue the other families for his use!
Feng Qiuli was obviously moved by Cui Lin, and the hesitation on her face faded away little by little, and a hint of ambition appeared in her eyes: "Then Mr. Cui thinks, what should we do now?"
Cui Lin waved to Feng Qiuli, and when he came forward with his ear, he whispered a few words.
Feng Qiuli looked up in surprise: "Can this work?"
Cui Lin said in a deep voice: "Of course it can do it. I will ask someone to do this well, so that the Lu family will not have the chance to speak again. You just need to help me at critical moments."
Feng Qiuli nodded: "Okay."
When Cui Lin saw him agreeing, he showed a little joy on his face: "Don't worry, as long as Lu Chongyuan is solved, you and I will decide the future family. The Feng family will definitely not lose to the Lu family in the future."
Feng Qiuli listened to Cui Lin's repentance, and couldn't help but look a little longing on her face. She looked excited and looked expectant, as if she was already thinking about the situation after the Feng family replaced the Lu family, but when Cui Lin turned around, she turned around. When he called his confidant in and discussed carefully how to attack the Lu family next, he lowered his eyes slightly to cover his cold eyes.
What Xiao Yan said was indeed correct.
The aristocratic families are really colder than the other. Lu Chongyuan is like this, and Cui Lin is also like this. As long as they arouse their ambitions and make them feel unwilling to live under others, they will be able to turn their faces off even if they are close. Ruthless, treat the other party as a stepping stone to your own progressive gain.
Xiao Yan guessed the thoughts of these people exactly.
Feng Qiuli suddenly felt a little lucky that the man was not his enemy.
Nympho
On the other hand, after Xiao Yan and Qian Baokun "comfort" Emperor An, when they came out of the palace, Qian Baokun had already led Xiao Yan as a confidant for forgetting his age . He was extremely kind to this treacherous person whom he once hated very much. In his words, he has been teaching Xiao Yan not to be too straightforward and to learn to be selfish when he should be selfish.
Xiao Yan pursed his lips: "I just don't want to implicate Qian Shangshu."
"That's why I said you are really a treacherous person!" Qian Baokun frowned and said, "You can protect yourself by just shirking responsibility just now, but you are so good, you keep taking the charges for fear that Your Majesty will not do it." I blame you, you are too straightforward and too serious, and think about everything yourself, so that you will have a lot of bad reputation."
He said earnestly: "The people outside always follow the crowd. You are a clean and honest person, but you say so badly that everyone misunderstood you, and you should learn when you act in the future Be more tactful, be selfish when it's time to be selfish, and don't rush upwards in everything."
Qian Baokun looked at Xiao Yan, who was actually "hearted" and was fucked by him.
"I know you don't care about these things, but for a lifetime, you have to take care of your reputation after life. If you don't want to be famous for a lifetime, you can't be infamous for thousands of years."
Xiao Yan was silent for a moment before speaking: "I understand, thank you, Shangshu Qian."
Qian Baokun smiled and said, "Okay, it's a matter of this. I'll go back to the mansion first. I'll look for you to discuss the account book later." He looked at Song Jinxiu not far away, "That person, You should be careful, too."
The dog that bites people does not bark. The Song family's Dalang used to look at the rules, but he didn't expect to bite half of the Lu family's life in one bite.
Xiao Yan smiled gently: "Okay."
After Qian Baokun took his three sons away, he couldn't help but turn his head and look at the handsome and unparalleled young man not far away. He looked at the beautiful young man, and felt more and more in line with his eyes.
He said to Qian Qingran and the other two who were following him, "This Xiao Yan is an upright person. It turns out that rumors are misleading people. You three will follow him to learn more in the future."
Qian Qingran: "…"
I always feel something is wrong.
"Father, Xiao Yan him..."
"What's the matter with Xiao? He is older than you, and he is good at me. He calls me Uncle Xiao Shi later."
Qian Qingran: "…"
The second brother of the Qian family, the third brother: "…"
Their dad is crazy!
After the Qian family and his son left, Xiao Yan's face calmed down, and the coldness that had been deliberately suppressed in his sword's eyes appeared again.
Song Jinxiu, who had been following behind, couldn't help but speak: "Governor Xiao, good means."