The people from Dali Temple left Chenyang Palace with the evidence that Jin Jiawei had secretly collected in Changyao Prefecture. In the main hall, only the Ji family, the Hua family, and Xie Shizi, who stood in the corner and did not speak, were left.
Emperor Changlong glanced at Xie Shizi and sighed. Xie Pin wanted to commit suicide with his son after his deeds were revealed. In his bones, he looked down on ordinary people and could not accept the fall of the Xie family from a high position.
On the imperial case, it clearly records what Xie Pin and the Xie family have done in private over the years.
Suspecting that the waiter of the teahouse heard the words of him and the counselor, the waiter's family died in the water. There were seven members of the clerk's family, young and old, and the youngest was not even a year old, so he just died in a vague way.
The Xie family also secretly adopted orphans, selecting dead men by raising gu. The qualified children were kept, and the unqualified children all lost their lives.
In the Xie family's plan, the life and death of the civilians are not important, they are aloof and indifferent to the point of cruelty. Emperor Changlong loved the people like a son, and could not bear the many evil deeds committed by the Xie family. He took a deep breath and picked up the file: "Zhao Sancai, show this file to Xie Shizi."
Xie Shizi took the file with shaking hands, and every time he looked at it, his face turned white. The life recorded in it was like a big hand, tightly holding his conscience, making him unable to breathe.
Before the dossier was finished, Xie Shizi knelt down.
Thank you, the sin is unforgivable.
Emperor Changlong looked at Xie Shizi, who was defeated by guilt: "For these unjust souls, I will severely punish the Xie family, don't hate me."
"Your Majesty." Xie Shizi no longer dared to call Emperor Changlong as his uncle, so he kowtowed to Emperor Changlong: "It's all up to the Xie family, and the guilty ministers only feel guilty, how can they blame them."
Emperor Changlong sighed and called a little eunuch: "Send Xie Shizi back."
According to the rules of the Great Jin Dynasty, the children born of the out-married princess, the eldest son will be crowned the prince of the county, and the eldest daughter and the queen will be crowned the county master.
"The minister of the ministry of propaganda has entered the hall, and I want to confer the eldest son of Princess Leyang as the Marquis of Ping." Emperor Changlong was silent for a moment: "Give the Marquis of Ping to the Jingzhong mansion, and no one will be summoned to the capital."
This is his greatest kindness as an emperor.
The day after Xie Shizi was granted the title of Marquis Ping, the numerous crimes committed by the Xie family were revealed to the world, shocking everyone in the world.
Assassination of civilians, privately raising dead soldiers, seizing private land, colluding with other countries, selling officials and titles...
Compared with these horrific acts, the drowned scholar case that happened before was simply too small to be mentioned.
When the Dali Temple opened for trial, it attracted countless people to watch. Some of these witnesses were brought back by Jin Jiawei, and some were found by Hua Changkong "unintentionally".
Listening to these witnesses weeping and bloody complaining about the tragedy that happened at home, the people were furious and shouted that they would slash the Xie family with thousands of pieces.
"You don't know yet, the principal committed suicide at the time of the crime." A well-informed commoner complained in a low voice, "It's really cheap for him."
"I really didn't expect that the Xie family would do so many evil things." Others shook their heads: "These scholars, on the surface, seem to be knowledgeable and reasonable, but I didn't expect it to be so bad."
"Don't talk nonsense, the Xie family made a mistake, what do they have to do with other scholars?" The reasonable people immediately retorted: "Many of those who do things for our people are also scholars, even the people who went to Changyao Prefecture to investigate the case this time. One of the imperial envoys is also the champion of the new division, is he also bad?"
Others also agreed.
The people who were refuted were ashamed and hid their faces. Some southern scholars felt a lot better when they heard this dialogue. Who wants to have a bad reputation for doing nothing
"I really didn't expect that Concubine Xie would commit suicide by taking poison." Under the pomegranate tree, Hua Liuli and the prince sat chatting together, and the table was full of snacks that Hua Liuli liked.
"Xie Pin is very proud. It is his lifelong pursuit to make the Xie family stand above all scholars. When this hope fails and the entire Xie family falls, he would rather die than admit that he has taken the wrong path." The prince took a sip of tea, his tone a little light: "In the end, he doesn't want to admit that he failed."
A self-proclaimed smart person who sees the world as stupid, has his unique "pride", and the lives and deaths of other people are not in his eyes.
The Xie family's big drama ended, Hua Liuli felt a little uneasy in her heart, and she always felt that there was something else that she ignored.
"Who is the tortoiseshell person who colluded with the Xie family?" Hua Liuli frowned: "The tortoiseshell prince died of illness, and the third prince is still in our Great Jin capital. Could the other princes or the tortoiseshell emperor have contacts with the Xie family? people?"
"The tortoiseshell emperor emphasizes literature over martial arts, indulges in pleasure and women's sensuality, and neglects to manage the domestic government affairs of the tortoiseshell, not to mention the effort to join forces with the Xie family to sing this play." The prince took a grape and fed it to Hualiuzui Bian: "The one who is willing to do such a thing is naturally an ambitious prince."
There are more tortoiseshell princes than Jin Po and Dajin princes. This is a sequela of the tortoiseshell emperor's obsession with women's lust. Among all the tortoiseshell princes, it is said that the prince's last benevolent appearance, many tortoiseshell officials who care about the world, are full of expectations for this prince.
Who knew that the prince died suddenly, and how many civil servants cried and wet their pillows
"His Royal Highness, Your Majesty has called you to Chenyang Palace to handle government affairs." The little eunuch of Chenyang Palace has already learned a skill. As long as there is Fushou County Master, if the prince is invited to Chenyang Palace, the prince will obediently agree.
The prince who wants face should also maintain a responsible, capable and positive image in front of his beloved girl.
"Your Majesty summoned you?" Hua Liuli said, "Don't delay, Your Majesty, go to His Majesty. My brother just came back from the south, so I should go back to accompany him more."
"Oh." The prince deeply doubted that his father was doing it on purpose. In order to let him go to Chenyang Palace to help deal with the memorial, he really did everything he could.
But what can he do? As a man, he can't make his daughter-in-law feel that he is not motivated.
The prince walked away with his head drooping, Hua Liuli remembered that the Queen Mother said a few days ago that the flowers in the imperial garden were blooming well, so she was going to pick a few flowers and send them to Shoukang Palace before going home.
When she arrived at the Royal Garden, she saw the second princess and several palace maids fluttering butterflies in the garden, accompanied by sweet laughter from time to time, very happy.
She stopped and watched for a while, without stepping forward to interrupt.
The second princess didn't pounce on the butterfly, she stretched out her left hand and picked a flower and pinned it to her temples. She turned her head to see Hua Liuli standing beside the rockery, and said with a smile, "Fu Shou County Master, why are you here?"
"Second princess is well." Hua Liuli walked in front of the second princess and bowed to her: "The minister came to pick a few flowers and sent them to the Empress Dowager's Shoukang Palace."
"So it is." The second princess nodded: "Please feel free."
Ever since Hua Liuli returned to Beijing, the grandmother liked Hua Liuli very much. As a granddaughter, she is not as good as Hua Liuli's position in the heart of the grandmother.
Originally, she thought that the grandmother liked Hua Liuli because of her parents' relationship. Later, the emperor appointed Hua Liuli as the crown prince, and she realized that the imperial grandmother was Aiwu Jiwu.
They all prefer the prince, and naturally they also like Hua Liuli, the future prince concubine.
The second princess took the palace maid out of the imperial garden, and when she saw the British Dynasty approaching, she paused: "Eldest brother."
"Second Huangmei, where did you come from? Why did your face turn red from the sun?" The King of England saw the second princess's forehead with fine sweat: "It looks like a monkey's butt."
"Brother Emperor, this is the latest trendy makeup look." The second princess smiled reluctantly with the corners of her mouth pulled.
"Who paints a monkey's butt on his face, how ugly." The king shook his head and expressed his confusion. Sometimes women's aesthetics are too strange.
"Maybe... Maybe it was just now that he fluttered the butterfly in the imperial garden and accidentally put on makeup." The smile on the second princess' face was almost unbearable, she took out a handkerchief and wiped her cheek lightly: "Fu Shou County later The Lord came to pick flowers, and I left with the maid."
"Fu Shou County Master?" The King of England was horrified: "Fu Shou County Master also put on makeup like yours?"
The smile on the face of the second princess disappeared completely, and she said dryly: "No."
King Ying breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the aesthetics of Fushou County is normal.
"The Princess of Fushou is in the west of the Imperial Garden." The second princess added, and she was blessed: "Brother, I will say goodbye first."
The King of England looked at the back of the second emperor's sister leaving, and thought inexplicably, what does the Fushou County Master have to do with him in the Xiyu Garden
Unable to understand, the King of England had no choice but to shake his head and walk away.
After going to Shoukang Palace to deliver flowers, when Hua Liuli passed by Dali Temple in a carriage, she saw many people around the gate, thinking that something major happened, so she asked Iris to go over and ask.
After a while, Iris came back after inquiring about the news: "The county master, the Xie family's judgment has come down."
"Tell me." Hua Liuli lowered her eyelids slightly as she looked at the people who were pointing around the bulletin board. Xie's ancestors had famous great writers, and the descendants should have cultivated their morals under the protection of their ancestors, and did not fall into the fame of their ancestors, but they were overwhelmed by their desires and made so many mistakes for the sake of their own reputation.
Their desire to be remembered in history has been fulfilled, but it will remain infamous for thousands of years, not in history.
"The Xie family involved the men and women in the crime. Twenty people were sentenced to beheading, and more than 30 people were sentenced to exile. The punishment for other crimes varies. If the female relatives who marry into the Xie family have no knowledge of the case, they can return to their parents’ family with the dowry.” Iris sighed: “If I had known what happened today, I wonder if the Xie family would regret what they did?”
"If there really is a medicine for regret in the world, they will only regret that things were not concealed enough and were discovered by His Majesty, rather than regret that these things should not be done." Hua Liuli shook her head: "Desire, as long as it sprouts from the heart, it will be more difficult. eliminate."
"In the bulletin board, there is no mention of what to do with Princess Leyang." Iris picked up the fruit in the ice bowl, cut it open, put it on a plate, and brought it to Hua Liuli.
Hua Liuli was about to speak when a man's voice came from outside the carriage.
"Excuse me, is Fushou County Master in the carriage?"
Hua Liuli lifted the curtains of the car and saw Pei Jihuai standing not far away.
"Master Pei." Hua Liuli raised her eyebrows slightly: "I don't know why Master Pei stopped the little girl, why?"
"Xiaguan wants to ask the county master to help him with some things. Please go to the Dali Temple to talk about it." Pei Jihuai gave Hua Liuli a salute.
Hua Liuli got off the carriage and nodded to Pei Jihuai: "Sir, please."
"Please come this way, the princess."
"My brother came home and said that Mr. Pei took care of him a lot along the way. Here, the little girl thanked Mr. Pei on behalf of my brother." Hua Liuli stepped into the Dali Temple, and saw that the people inside were in a hurry.
Looking around, people with thinning hair actually accounted for nearly half.
She glanced at Pei Jihuai with thick hair. Such a person would be jealous in Dali Temple.
"The county master is joking, it is Master Hua who is taking care of him." Pei Jihuai's expression was a little subtle. After they returned from Changyao Prefecture, they went directly to the palace to meet the saint. In front of His Majesty, Hua Changkong presented the silver note and jewelry list he received to His Majesty.
Afterwards, His Majesty not only asked Hua Changkong to take these things, but also praised him for being flexible.
After Hua Changkong left the palace, he donated most of the bribes he received to the shantang, adding half of the remaining bank notes to him.
He had been an official for so many years, and this was the first time he saw someone who was bribed and praised. But His Majesty is right, Hua Changkong's move not only appeases the Xie family and Changyao, so that they can return to the capital peacefully, but also catches them by surprise, and there is no chance to cover up the evidence.
Hua Liuli followed Pei Jihuai to the office of the officials of Dali Temple. After entering the door, she found Zhang Shuo, the minister of Dali Temple, and Gou Jingqi, another Shaoqing.
I don't know if it was her illusion, but the moment she stepped into the door, Master Zhang looked at the top of her head with resentful eyes.
The author has something to say: Master Zhang: I hate people with a lot of hair.