Chapter 145 Things of the past, love of the past
Guo Zixuan smiled sadly and said nothing.
He knew that it was useless to say anything now, but this matter had not happened after all, and the most he was accused of was demotion.
Although I am unwilling, I am not too afraid.
"If you don't speak, do you think it would be wrong to speak too much? Anyway, based on your crime, you will be demoted." Zhao Xing said.
Guo Zixuan remained silent after hearing this.
"You have been an official for so many years, it is impossible that you don't have other problems. As far as I know, Master Jin has been following you for more than ten years, and he should know a lot of your secrets. Don't you think it's nothing more than that? It’s just exile. With your connections, those people will definitely take care of you, and your life won’t be too difficult?”
Zhao Xing said with a smile: “But being alone will not make it easy for you, you won’t survive. If you go to a place of exile, will anyone take care of your family without you? Then you will be alone..."
For such a person, it is useless to tell him to be frank and to be lenient but not to be strict. .
Only threats are the most effective.
Before Zhao Xing finished speaking, Guo Zixuan's face turned pale and he stumbled, almost losing his balance.
"Your Highness, if you want me to do anything, just tell me directly." Guo Zixuan said.
Zhao Xing smiled brightly when he heard this.
Half an hour later, Guo Zixuan was taken out.
"Your Highness, do you really want to let him go like this?" Gu Tingye asked.
"What? Do you want Gu to break his promise?" Zhao Xing asked.
"I don't mean that. It's just that he embezzled so much money, and His Highness gave him the opportunity to return to his hometown as an official, which is a bit too tolerant." Gu Tingye said.
"Zhong Huai, although Guo Zixuan is not a good official, he is not a heinous person. Don't you understand the principle of buying horse bones for a thousand gold?" Zhao Xing said with a smile.
Guo Zixuan has confessed to many people. After today, someone will definitely be able to guess it.
If Guo Zixuan ends badly, who will cooperate in the future?
Of course, the reason why Zhao Xing allowed him to resign was because although he was greedy for money, he had not done any serious evil.
This allowed him to hand over the money he had been greedy for all these years and let him go.
"Your Highness is far-sighted, but I am ignorant." Gu Tingye said with shame.
"Stop flattering, let's go to Dongchang Hou Mansion with Guo Zixuan's confession." Zhao Xing said.
He originally thought that Xiao Qin was behind this incident, but he did not expect that the Qin family was also an accomplice.
"Yes!"
Gu Tingye was extremely excited when he thought that his revenge would soon be avenged.
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Zhao Xing came to Dongchang Hou Mansion. Qin Wei quickly welcomed Zhao Xing in after getting the news.
Qin Wei didn't know that Guo Zixuan had confessed him yet. When he saw Gu Tingye, he said hello with a smile and blamed Gu Tingye for not coming to play at home for a long time.
Gu Tingye felt sick in his heart when he looked at Qin Wei's appearance.
He and Xiao Qin had been to Dongchang Hou Mansion several times before. Qin Wei was very kind to him, and he even called Qin Wei uncle.
This is all just a scam.
"Your Highness, please sit down." Qin Wei asked Zhao Xing to sit down and ordered tea.
“I won’t drink the tea anymore. Zhonghuai will take it out and show it to Marquis Dongchang.” Zhao Xing said.
Gu Tingye took out Guo Zixuan's confession and handed it to Qin Wei.
With doubts, Qin Wei opened the confession and read it. When he saw the content above, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes. He quickly calmed down and said angrily: "Your Highness, this is all slander."
"Oh?" Zhao Xing said lightly: "So Dongchang Hou has not gone to Kaifeng Mansion to ask Guo Tongpan for help?"
"Your Highness is aware that I have indeed gone to Kaifeng Mansion to seek help. Guo Tongpan, but that was because there were escaped slaves in the palace, and he wanted to ask Guo Tongpan to help find them, but he did not let him help kill those slaves. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, the escaped slaves could have been executed directly, so why bother. Guo Tongpan helped and killed people in the prison cell of Kaifeng Mansion," Qin Wei said with an aggrieved look.
"But the escaped slaves from the Dongchang Hou Mansion have confessed. They were ordered to kill the three people living in that house. It is natural and reasonable for Dongchang Hou to want to silence them." Zhao Xing said lightly.
"Your Highness, those cheap slaves stole things from the house and deliberately slandered me. Your Highness, please be more careful!" Qin Wei hurriedly defended.
"Dongchang Hou!"
Zhao Xing was too lazy to talk nonsense with him and shouted: "You are still making excuses at this time? Just based on the confessions of them and Guo Tongpan, we can already determine It's your fault!
He sent someone to assassinate him in Bianjing City. After the incident was revealed, he bribed the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture and killed him to silence him. "
"Your Highness. , I have all been wronged, I..."
Qin Wei still wanted to defend, but Zhao Xing interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said, "I know who you sent people to kill, and I also know the reason. I don't want to waste words with you, and the ancestors of the Qin family are also great. Song Li has made great contributions, and Gu does not want to take away the Qin family's title. However, Xiao Qin must be sent to the Shenjie Department. As for the Gu family, you can find a way to communicate with him tomorrow. If there is no result, Gu will report the matter. Father, when the time comes, the Qin family will wait to be deprived of their title and questioned."
After saying that, Zhao Xing walked away directly.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"
Qin Wei shouted several times, and seeing that Zhao Xing did not stop, he said anxiously: "Erlang, please help me and beg for mercy, your mother treats you like Ji..."
"Shut up!"
Gu Tingye stopped, turned around, looked at Qin Wei and said coldly: "She is not my mother, and she is not worthy."
After saying that, he turned around and left quickly.
Zhao Xing got on the carriage and sighed.
In fact, he really wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to seize the Qin family's title.
But after thinking carefully, he gave up the idea.
Indeed, what happened this time was enough to deprive the Qin family of their title. But the other lords will inevitably feel in danger, thinking that the court wants to take back their titles.
Even if there is a legitimate reason, those lords will think so.
After all, many of these lords have been passed down for hundreds of years. Who doesn’t have a little bit of trouble?
Who knows if the court will investigate them?
Although the late emperor had seized many titles during his reign, those same people were also involved in the battle to establish the crown prince.
Furthermore, after his father succeeded to the throne, he also restored titles to some families.
Moving the Qin family at this time will have a huge impact.
The harvest this time is already big enough, and Zhao Xing doesn’t want to cause any problems.
And if there is a reform in the future, the nobles can win over.
Although most nobles have little power, they should not be underestimated.
The reform actually had the least impact on Xungui.
On the contrary, most nobles have little real power, and the reform is still a good thing for them.
But what you like most is to protect yourself wisely. After all, with your title, your wealth is guaranteed.
If you mix it up randomly, you will lose your title and it will not be worth it.
It makes little sense to disturb the Qin family, and it is completely unnecessary.
After leaving the Qin family, Zhao Xing returned to Kaifeng Mansion.
Guo Zixuan confessed not only Qin Wei, but also some officials from the Kaifeng government office.
Zhao Xing only touched a few of those with serious problems, and did not touch those with relatively minor circumstances.
Even so, it will make everyone in Kaifeng government panic and have been in chaos for some time.
As the governor of Kaifeng, he naturally has to take charge in Kaifeng.
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After Zhao Xing left, Qin Wei thought for a long time and knew that there was no room for change in this matter.
Although he didn't want to, he had no other choice in order to keep the title of the Qin family.
Qin Wei asked people to inquire and learned that Gu Yankai was in the camp in the western suburbs, so he sent someone to invite Gu Yankai over.
Gu Yankai came to Qin's house and stayed for nearly half an hour before coming out.
When he came out, he returned to Ningyuan Hou Mansion with a gloomy expression.
After returning home, Gu Yankai went straight to the backyard.
When Xiao Qin saw Gu Yankai coming back, he smiled and said, "Why did the official come back so early today?"
Gu Yankai came to sit down in front of the main seat and looked towards Said to mother: "You all stand down!"
Hearing this, Mom looked at Xiao Qin.
"What, I can't speak well?" Gu Yankai said coldly.
Mom Xiang did not dare to delay after hearing this, and quickly bowed and left.
"Official, what's wrong with you?"
Xiao Qin always had a bad feeling in her heart for some reason.
"Ms. Bai came to question me back then. She also said that someone told Ting Yu that she killed Ting Yu's mother. Is that person you?" Gu Yankai asked.
Xiao Qin's face froze and she said, "I don't know what the officer is talking about. Could it be that the officer is drunk in the bar and talking nonsense."
Gu Yan Kai looked at Xiao Qin and said: "Erlang found the servant who was a traitor in the family. After you found out, you asked your eldest brother to send someone to assassinate him. The assassin was caught, and you asked your eldest brother to bribe the Kaifeng Mansion. The judge wanted to silence him, but His Highness the Crown Prince already knew about it and got the evidence.” After a while, he came back to his senses, crawled up to Gu Yankai, grabbed the hem of Gu Yankai's robe and said, "Officer, you must save me."
"I can't save you, but His Highness the Crown Prince kindly spared your life. He only asked that you be sent to the Shen Jie Department." Gu Yankai said.
When Xiao Qin heard that Gu Yankai said that His Highness the Crown Prince was kind enough to spare her life, her face was filled with joy, but when she heard that she was going to be sent to the Shenjie Division, her smile froze.
“Hahaha~”
For a long time, Xiao Qin laughed crazily.
"The official said that His Highness the Crown Prince was kind, he probably meant that he sent me to the Shenjie Department to save the face of the Gu and Qin families."
Gu Yankai closed his eyes in pain and said: "What you did is not a pity to die. Your Highness will spare your life. What is it but mercy?"
"It is not a pity to die. A good death is not a pity. "Xiao Qin said with a smile: "When Bai Shi died, the official didn't feel sad at all, but now he doesn't look sad at all when he says that I don't regret my death. The official is so cruel.
The official has given his heart to his sister, but has he ever cared about me?"
Gu Yankai opened his eyes and frowned: "Why are you mentioning your sister when we are talking about you? "
" Ha." Xiao Qin sneered and said, "Because I hate her, I hate her for taking over your heart. I envied her when I was a child. She is frail and sick, and no one in a normal family would marry her. She, but you insisted on marrying her despite the opposition of your family, and you took great care of her after marriage. At that time, I felt that you were the best man in the world. ”
Today is two chapters combined out of three, and the word count is still 6,000.
Last night I was drinking with my friends, and my car hit a tree. There was surveillance nearby. I drank again, and I didn’t dare to apply for insurance. Repairing the car was estimated to cost 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. I was so depressed, my brain was gone. It's a bit messy.
I am not saying this to make everyone miserable, but to remind everyone to take a warning and never drive after drinking.
(End of this chapter)