The father of the Prince of Jin was once the regent who held all the power, and he was the default crown prince for many years...
Although he is now showing signs of decline, many of his former followers have begun to think about leaving, but a lean camel is still bigger than a horse.
Prince Jin still has a lot of people under his command.
Last year, something happened to the Lou family. After Governor Zhang was promoted, the King of Jin wanted his men to deal with it.
Governor Zhang even wanted someone to kill him directly.
But his advisers and confidants persuaded him.
All the civil and military officials in the court knew that Governor Zhang had offended Prince Jin. If something happened to Governor Zhang at this time, Prince Jin would definitely incur public anger!
At that time, everyone around Prince Jin advised him to keep a low profile and find a way to regain the emperor's favor.
As for Governor Zhang... when the emperor dies and Prince Jin ascends the throne, can't we just deal with it however we want
Therefore, the Prince of Jin just placed some people around Governor Zhang and did not do anything else.
But what was unexpected was that just after Prince Jin kept a low profile for a while and regained the emperor's attention, a book called "Record of Escape from Famine" came out, which brought up the flood in Yuxi Prefecture seven years ago, and once again dealt a heavy blow to Prince Jin.
This "Record of Fleeing from Famine" was printed and brought to the capital by the wealthy Shen family, who were affiliated with Lu Qingxi. According to information obtained by Prince Jin's people... the original manuscript of this book was given to the Shen family by Governor Zhang.
Their people did not find out the identity of Qiongdusanren, but Qiongdusanren... even if this person is not Governor Zhang, he has a close relationship with Governor Zhang!
Prince Jin hated Governor Zhang so much that he wanted to kill him, but was stopped by the people around him.
Assassinating Governor Zhang at this critical moment, are they dissatisfied that the Jin Wang Party is not defeated fast enough
These people advised the King of Jin to be patient for the time being, and then gave him some advice, saying that they could trip up the people around Governor Zhang and cause some trouble for Governor Zhang.
As for the person who caused this trouble...
After Governor Zhang was promoted, he strongly recommended the former magistrate of Chongcheng County to be the prefect of Hexing Prefecture. It is said that Governor Zhang also asked this magistrate Gou Tong to investigate the Linhu County incident at the beginning...
Now everyone knows that Gou Tongzhi is Governor Zhang's man. If he does something illegal, such as making arbitrary judgments, accepting bribes, or raping women... Governor Zhang, who strongly recommended him and promoted him from county magistrate to Tongzhi, will also lose face.
After Prince Jin handed the letter to his people in Jiang'an Province, those people immediately set about setting a trap for Gou Tongzhi.
But the pit is not so easy to dig, especially since their manpower in Hexing Mansion has been cleared out.
They did bribe a few minor officials in Hexing Prefecture, but those people were only willing to pass on some information that would lead to their support, but were unwilling to do anything illegal or criminal.
They live a good life and don't want to be beheaded after doing something bad.
After much thought, the people of King Jin could only use the beauty trap on Gou Tongzhi.
According to the information they found out, Gou Tongzhi had only one wife.
Gou Tongzhi's wife was already old and pregnant, but he still did not take a concubine.
There is no doubt that he likes such women.