Dong Chengqi looked at the person in front of him and his eyebrows jumped a few times. Then he calmly picked up the tea and took a sip. After swallowing the hard-to-swallow cold tea, he said, "This is really not a good look. Besides, I remember that it's not just the pawning that was wrong, right?"
Zhang Weixun suppressed his anger and looked at him, as if telling him to leave quickly, not wanting to listen to what he was saying at all.
But Dong Chengqi was able to sit still. He grew up in the Jiang family. He had seen all kinds of situations and experienced all kinds of situations. Was there anyone he didn't know how to deal with
He was not helpless with Zhang Weixun. He took one look at him and said directly: "Among the things you pawned, I remember there was one thing called the Analects of Cai Fang? This thing, tsk tsk tsk, how should I put it, it must be priceless, right? You pawned it like ordinary jewelry..."
Zhang Weixun realized it belatedly, trembled twice, and then looked at the person in front of him in disbelief, not knowing what to say.
Dong Chengqi put the teacup on the table with a bang and said in a cold voice: "This is a tribute from the palace! It is a treasure in the inner treasury. How did this thing get here? You don't know yourself. Why don't you go back and ask your elders? If this thing is taken out and its origin is known, do you think your father, who used to work in the inner treasury, will have his house confiscated?"
He helped the emperor manage the private treasury and was originally a person the emperor trusted very much. However, he turned around and enriched himself, and secretly sold the tribute from the palace to his home.
This was one of the charges against Jiang Songwen.
Zhang Weixun's eyes changed. He was at a loss for words when he looked at Dong Chengqi in front of him. He wanted to refute but didn't know what to say. He looked at him for a while before trying to calm down. He stammered and reluctantly asked, "What do you want to do?"
He really didn't want to get involved in the fight between these people, so he couldn't help but lower his voice and beg: "Master Dong, you are all big shots, I'm just a small person who wants to live a peaceful life, please let me go, I beg you... Really, please..."
Dong Chengqi looked at him coldly, not moved at all, leaned down and helped him up: "Sir, please don't say that, you are the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, you have a bright future, and I am the real rat crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats me, how can you say that about yourself?"
Seeing Zhang Weixun motionless, like a stiff corpse, he lowered his voice and sighed: "I know you don't want to get involved, but now that you are involved, it would be difficult for you to get ashore, don't you think? You have already taken the first ninety-nine steps, and there is only this last step left. Why don't you finish it? In any case, if you win, then we naturally don't need to talk about it, and you will be rich and worry-free in the future. If you lose, your situation may not be much worse than it is now..."
Dong Chengqi was patient, and felt that he had said enough. He bent down and said, "Besides, you are also a good left minister. You are no worse than Wei Yangqing. Why do you have to be suppressed under him and cannot move? You still have to do what you should do. Otherwise, your family will really decline from now on. How can you face your father and your mother at that time? Don't you think so?"
Zhang Weixun closed his eyes and slumped on the ground, his back still straight, too nervous to know what to do: "But, but if this doesn't work..."
"How can it be impossible?" Dong Chengqi's eyes were cold and his tone was cold: "As long as we plan properly, Wei Yangqing will be convicted because of this, and the Wei family will fall in the end, then you will be the winner, what's the matter with that?!"
Dong Chengqi clearly did not allow any other options, and used both coercion and inducement. Zhang Weixun knew that if he did not give a clear answer and take a stand, he would probably be the first one to die.
He had no choice. If he took a wrong step, his fate would be in the hands of others.
People really can't make any mistakes. He closed his eyes and sat on the ground. After a long time, he spoke: "But even if I agree, it's useless. The river bank is not my responsibility..."
"It's best if it's not your responsibility." Dong Chengqi smiled and helped him up. "If it's not your responsibility, you won't make mistakes, and naturally you won't be implicated. Don't you think so?"
Zhang Weixun still didn't understand what he was going to do, and said hesitantly: "So what do you want me to do? Before, you asked me to go to Ping'an Marquis Mansion to talk, and I went, but this trick is not very smart. I'm afraid Ping'an Marquis Mansion will not do anything just because Wei Yangqing is a playboy..."
"Of course I know that." Dong Chengqi comforted him: "You don't have to worry. The Wei family has a sharper nose than a dog. I'm afraid that they will be too idle and have more thoughts. It's easy to smell something wrong, so I deliberately find something for them to do to keep them busy. It doesn't matter if I say this..."
People always make mistakes and are always jealous. Dong Chengqi raised his eyebrows and said softly, "Just say that you were just confused for a moment. Wei Yangqing might not kill you for a few words. They always like to complicate things and think that things are complicated. But we don't really want them to fail to get married. Whether their marriage is successful or not is not that important to us. What's important is what's happening on the other side of the river bank."
Zhang Weixun understood Dong Chengqi's meaning a little bit, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "Should we make a fuss about the riverbank?"
"The Wei family is now in a very prosperous period. They are very lucky. It seems that they are getting more and more prosperous day by day. If it weren't for something like this, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to be brought down." Dong Chengqi was sitting opposite him. Seeing that he was already on his way, he said, "You are the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works. Let's think of a way together. Is there any way to get Wei Yangqing to step down from this position while also convicting him of a crime?"
Zhang Weixun understood Dong Chengqi's purpose. He wanted the Wei family to have a hard time and die.
He thought about it for a long time, and his reluctance gradually faded away. No matter what, there were a few words that Zhang Weixun said that touched his heart.
How is he inferior to Wei Yangqing
Why can Wei Yangqing get this lucrative job, while he can only starve to death and work hard to build the imperial mausoleum? If it hadn't been for the incident with Censor Chen, it would have been fine. But after the incident with Censor Chen and Jiang Songwen, who would dare to take advantage of the imperial mausoleum? That would be courting death! He was really desperate. (To be continued)