The carriage moved slowly.

Shen Baokun's face was very ugly, and the anger in his eyes could not be restrained in time. He clenched the crutch tightly and said, "Don't mention it, it will dirty your ears."

"Grandpa, my grandson asked Mr. Nanshan for two days' leave. Do you know why?"

Shen Baokun raised his head and looked at the young man with a handsome face. He had thick eyebrows, deep eyes, a high bridge of nose, and an elegant temperament. He was the direct bloodline that he had cultivated with great effort, and he was also the pride of Shen Baokun.

This year, after Sun Tzu entered Nanshan Academy, he gradually rose to prominence. Sun Tzu Shen Xunzhi informed him of the overall situation in the court and analyzed it one by one.

He valued Shen Xunzhi's opinion. After all, he was the young man who would become the head of the Shen family in the future.

"Xunzhi, did the children of those aristocratic families tell you something?"

"Grandpa, Zhongshu Ling's son secretly revealed to me that the emperor intends to find fault with the Shen family and kill the Shen family."

Kill the Shen family with one arm! !

"The head of the family has made frequent mistakes recently and caused many jokes in the court. The emperor has already had the idea of ​​abolishing the Shen family. However, due to the recent massacre of the Jiang family, the emperor has not taken action against the Shen family for the time being. The Jiangmen massacre can temporarily save the Shen family. But His Majesty has already had this murderous intention, and recently because of sending fake paintings, the Emperor has been neglecting the Queen."

"There is another seemingly inconspicuous little thing, which was secretly revealed to me by the young man of the Gu family."

"He said that on the day of the Empress Dowager's birthday, ladies and empresses gathered at the Ziwei Pavilion. The second girl from the Shen Mansion stole the poems written by Princess Jin before her death, took them as her own poems, and recited them in public, but she was caught on the spot by Princess Jin. Lost face."

"Is there still such a thing?" Shen Baokun's voice rose a little higher. If he hadn't already been in the carriage, he would have gone back and cursed the Shen family. Where did he learn these evil habits?

"Yes, I heard that Madam secretly took the poems of Sister Shen Wan in order to build momentum for Miss Shen. It turned out that those poems were sent by Princess Jin to Sister Shen Wan during her lifetime. Madam took the wrong poems by Princess Jin and gave them to Shen Wan. The second girl is building momentum.”

"Absurd, extremely ridiculous." Shen Baokun's chest rose and fell obviously in anger.

Shen Xunzhi put his hand on the back of Shen Baokun's hand: "Grandpa, fortunately the queen covered up the matter, but she was wrong in the end. Princess Jin came from the Gu family, and the Gu family had some gossip."

After hearing Shen Xunzhi's words, Shen Baokun was trembling in his heart: "Why do I feel that the Shen family has been obsessed with ghosts recently, and I can't do anything well."

"Grandfather." Shen Xunzhi looked back at Shen Baokun: "Is it possible that the head of the family is planning something? Zhongshu Ling's son said that the Jiang family's tragedy was somehow involved..."

He didn't say the word "house master".

But Shen Baokun had already guessed the next words.

"The Shen family has been targeted by the emperor. If you want me to die, I have to die. We, the Shen family, made a wrong move twenty years ago, and the Shen family consumed half of the family. Even the queen and the prince at the time were gone. If something happens to the Shen Mansion again, my Shen family will be implicated!"

Shen Xunzhi's last words were like a mountain weighing on Shen Baokun's heart.

Shen's previous queen was his sister-in-law.

The Prince of Junlin whom she taught loved the people like a son and was considerate of the people at the bottom. As the crown prince, he made many political changes, but they also touched the interests of the family and made it difficult to move forward.

You said that such a respectful and humble prince, who thinks of others in everything, why would he want to rebel?

He only needs to wait a few more years, and when the late emperor dies, he will be the legitimate heir. There is no need to go on the road of rebellion to get that position.

They all knew in their hearts that both the prince and the queen of Junlin were killed.

After Emperor Jinglong came to power, why did he not dare to take action against the Shen family and instead married the Shen family as his queen?

He just wanted to imitate Prince Junlin's Ren.

Appease the remaining members of the Prince of Junlin and quickly win over the people.

This allowed the Shen clan, which was originally going to be executed by the Nine Clans, to avoid the death penalty.

But in the past twenty years, the Shen family has only produced one Shen Zhengyi, and there is no more talent.

The Shen family only prospered the Shen Mansion.

All Shen Zhengyi's resources were directed towards his son, and the career of the younger members of the family was hindered.

If Shen Zhengyi hadn't paid dozens of taels of silver to the clan every year as an offering to his ancestors, Shen Baokun would have had a seizure long ago.

Now twenty years later, Emperor Jinglong has firmly sat on the throne.

He strengthened the Liu family and supported the Gu, Lan, and Chen families.

The Shen family has long been at the bottom of the family, and I am afraid that they have already disliked the Shen family.

If the emperor wants to find fault with the Shen family, as long as he is willing, he can directly blame Shen Zheng for the massacre of the Jiang family.

Once the crime is found guilty, the nine clans will be punished, and then the Shen family will be wiped out by Shen Zhengyi.

Thinking of this, Shen Baokun was horrified.

He placed the hopes of the Shen family on Shen Xunzhi and said, "Xunzhi, please join the official position as soon as possible."

After all, Shen Zhengyi is not from the Shen family, and he is not of the same mind as the Shen family.

Then the only choice is to change someone to be the head of the family.

Three days later, Shen Zhengyi was dismissed.

"The emperor said that Mr. Shen was injured and it was inconvenient to try the Jiang family and Xie family cases again, so he handed it over to Gu Dali Temple Minister, with Shen Xunzhi assisting in the investigation. Now there are some clues. Wang Dequan changed his confession, and the testimony was different. "Master Shen, please take a good rest first." After delivering the oral instructions, Eunuch Gao returned to the palace.

Shen Zheng's already pale face was twisted and ferocious: "Gu Dali Temple Minister?"

Gu Yuzhou succeeded him as the third-rank minister of Dali Temple, so what happened to Shen Xunzhi, the direct grandson of the patriarch?

"What's going on with Shen Xunzhi?" Shen Zhengyi gritted his teeth and asked, "Go and check."

"Father, there is no need to check." Shen Chengxiao's voice came from outside the door.

Shen Zheng looked at his eldest son.

Shen Chengxiao's face didn't look much better either. The heartache tortured him last night, but now he felt a little better.

He dragged his empty footsteps into Shen Zhengyi's house, sat on a chair, and said: "After the patriarch left the Shen Mansion yesterday, he asked the old lady to hand a post to the queen, and the queen asked Grandma Guan to come out of the palace to pick her up. The old lady entered the palace, and after entering the palace, the old lady told the queen... My father has made many mistakes recently, which angered Long Yan. Among all the fathers of my Shen family, my father is the only one who is an official in Shangjing City."

"If the emperor intends to break my father's arm, then the queen will be left alone. The only plan now is to select outstanding talents from the younger generation of the Shen family as soon as possible to serve as officials, in order to consolidate the position of the crown prince and heir apparent."

"The Queen's aunt has also become somewhat separated from Shen Mansion due to the recent events in Shen Mansion, so she agreed to the old lady's words and asked the prince to bring Shen Xunzhi to the emperor to replace his father."

"The most important thing is that the emperor can replace his father's third-rank minister of Dali Temple with a low-ranking official position and choose the person he likes. He can also use his father's recommendation to continue to let the Shen family hear the Jiang family's cases. To appease the public sentiment outside, I can also... justifiably remove my father from his position."

To put it more clearly, the emperor has long disliked you. It was only because Jiang Lin kept saying that he only trusted Shen Zhengyi that he had to let him act as the third-rank minister of Dali Temple.

Now that he can select one of the descendants of the Shen family to become an official, give him a seventh-grade Dali Temple judge position, and let him follow the newly appointed Dali Temple minister Gu Yuzhou to handle the Jiang family's cases, the emperor will definitely be happy.

But... Shen Zhengyi became angry. He knocked over the table with the medicine bowl in front of him with a punch, and roared: "They are all a bunch of ungrateful bastards!"

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