"Brother, since you know that no one can quell the rumors, what will happen if Prince Gong cannot control the rumors?"
"If the Holy Spirit wants to hold someone accountable, who will he look for?"
"Will you find Prince Gong?"
Yan Jing asked several questions in succession, and Yan Mei fell completely silent.
The person in charge of the Imperial City Division has always been Yan Mei, the military commander. Once Emperor Yongping wanted to hold him accountable, he would definitely not go to Prince Gong. After all, Prince Gong was only his successor, and he only took office after the incident happened. .
"Second brother, if eldest brother leaves Beijing now, doesn't it give people the feeling of absconding in fear of crime?"
"My ancestors have spirits in heaven, and they will never forgive me."
Yan Mei didn't want to leave.
He is the heir to the Zhenjun Marquis Mansion. Zhenjun Marquis is a title passed down from his ancestors. Now that he has lost this title, he has no face to face his ancestors. If he fled the capital now because he was worried about being held accountable, wouldn't he have ruined all the glory and achievements that his ancestors had paid for with their blood
"Brother, if you stay in the capital and are sentenced by the Holy Emperor to confiscate your family and exterminate your clan, will your ancestors forgive you?"
Yan Jing's words were not ambiguous at all.
As soon as these words were said, Yan Mei was completely dumbfounded.
There are three kinds of unfilial piety, the greatest of which is to have no descendants.
If he was really forced to exterminate his entire family due to this inexplicable pursuit of blame, it would be more serious than having no heirs.
"Brother, don't hesitate, listen to me, and leave quickly!"
"I originally planned to take care of it, but now I just want to borrow your style, big brother."
"…?!"
When Yan Mei heard Yan Jing's words, his eyes widened and he wanted to beat this brother up. He was deprived of his title. Is this Dongfeng? This brat was usually the most talkative, but now his words were like knives, piercing his heart.
However, no matter how unhappy Yan Mei felt, he could only admit that Yan Jing's words made sense.
"Sure, I listen to you."
Yan Mei is not a stupid person.
If he was stupid, he would not have inherited the title of Marquis of Zhenjun, let alone been in charge of the Imperial City Division for so many years, and would have been reused by Emperor Yongping.
If this incident hadn't been too big and Emperor Yongping was angry and needed someone to take the blame, Emperor Yongping would never have been able to remain silent.
However, even if Emperor Yongping calmed down, as long as he calmed down, he would realize that he had made a super wrong decision. As an emperor who is not too stupid, Emperor Yongping realized his mistakes and would definitely correct them as soon as possible and reuse Yan Mei.
Why was Yan Jing eager to ask his eldest brother to leave Beijing, and even scare his eldest brother with alarmist words such as confiscating his family and exterminating his family? It was because he didn't want his eldest brother to continue working under Emperor Yongping.
Yan Jing was really disappointed with Emperor Yongping.
In other words, Yan Jing was disappointed with the entire royal family.
As the old saying goes, good birds choose trees to roost in, and loyal ministers choose their masters to serve.
Today's Emperor Yongping and the Imperial Family of the Tang Dynasty are no longer worthy of allegiance.
Yan Jing never felt that he was such a noble person. After knowing what Emperor Yongping had done during this period, Yan Jing became disloyal.
If there had not been the previous invasion by the Northern Barbarians, Yan Jing might have tried his best to advise him. But now, Yan Jing has no such intention.
On the same day, Yan Mei left the capital with his family and generals from the Zhenjunhou Mansion.
As for where to go
Without even thinking about it, Yan Jing's suggestion was to let him go to Anshun County.
At the same time, Yan Jing wrote two letters, one to Shen Wansheng and one to Mr. Xu, asking them to help take care of his eldest brother, a member of the family. Of course, the most important thing is that if Emperor Yongping has a decree to restore his eldest brother's title and let his eldest brother return to Beijing, he must stop him.
Yan Mei didn't know Yan Jing's true inner thoughts at all, because his thoughts had been led astray by Yan Jing.
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After Prince Gong Li took charge of the Imperial City Division, he issued an order immediately without any hesitation, that is, to arrest people in the upper realm. If anyone spreads rumors about Emperor Taizu, he will be captured directly.
In the view of Prince Gong Li?, it does not need to be too simple to suppress the spread of this rumor.
It's a pity that the ignorant Prince Gong didn't know that there is an idiom in the world that is better to defend the people's mouth than to defend the river.
The more Prince Gong Li did this, the more the truth of this rumor was confirmed.
In just two days, both the capital city and the imperial city were overcrowded, but the rumors in the capital were getting worse.
At this time, Yan Jing made a mistake and resigned.
After receiving the news about Yan Jing's resignation, Emperor Yongping was a little stunned at the time and didn't quite understand why Yan Jing wanted to resign. He had obviously explained this matter to Yan Jing, but Yan Jing didn't say anything at that time.
"Come here, tell Yan Jing to come see me!"
Although Emperor Yongping was puzzled and angry about Yan Jing's resignation, he still wanted to hear Yan Jing's explanation.
However, the chamberlain who was ordered to report that Yan Jing had entered the palace quickly turned around and brought back a letter, but did not bring Yan Jing's person.
"Your Majesty, Academician Yan has left, leaving only this letter."
The waiter carefully held the letter left by Yan Jing over his head.
Emperor Yongping was stunned for a moment, and Eunuch Lan stepped forward, took the letter from the hand of the chamberlain, checked it for a moment, and then handed it to Emperor Yongping.
Emperor Yongping let out a long breath, slowly stretched out his hand, took the letter, pulled out the letter paper from the envelope, slowly unfolded it, and started reading.
Yan Jing's letter is not long, it can be said to be very short.
In the letter, Yan Jing did not say why he resigned. He only said that when he went north to fight against the Northern Barbarians, he saw a different Tang Dynasty. He planned to take this time to take a good look at the country of the Tang Dynasty.
By the way, Yan Jing mentioned the stupidity of Prince Gong Li? in suppressing the rumors.
The reason why I mentioned this was because it was Yan Jing's last repayment to Emperor Yongping, which fulfilled the relationship between emperor and minister.
"Yuanshu, even you don't believe me!"
Emperor Yongping was really heartbroken at this moment.
Among the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty, the person he relied on and trusted the most was Yan Jing. This kind of trust even exceeds the trust in King Yan. After all, King Yan is his brother, the brother who may seize the throne. But there is never a possibility for Yan Jing to seize the throne.
"You, go and summon Prince Gong to see you immediately!"
Although heartbroken, Emperor Yongping quickly calmed himself down and turned his attention to what Yan Jing said about Prince Gong Li?'s suppression of rumors.
In the past two days, Emperor Yongping also summoned Prince Gong to ask about quelling the rumors. Prince Gong’s reply was that it would be done soon.
Originally, Emperor Yongping was going to ask Prince Gong how he dealt with it, but at that moment he received a message, a message that forced Emperor Yongping to pay close attention.
The Master of Jie Luck appears in the southwest and is planning a rebellion! (End of chapter)