The royal family reads her mind, and the cannon fodder daughter creates the Feihou Mansion

Shen Qiaoping suddenly came to his senses, glanced at Emperor Qinglong, whose emotions were hard to discern, and knelt down in shock: "Your Majesty, I just want to find out the truth as soon as possible."

During this period, the emperor's thoughts were becoming increasingly difficult for him to understand.

Just like now, if it were in the past, the emperor would have smiled heartily and asked him to stand up, and praised him for his loyalty in sharing the emperor's worries. But now he didn't express his opinion for a long time, making him feel like there was a sword hanging over his head that could fall at any time.

There was silence in Chongzheng Hall. Shen Qiaoping's forehead was covered with cold sweat. He kowtowed again and said, "I am guilty."

Emperor Qinglong finally chuckled twice and broke the suffocating silence: "My dear minister, you are loyal to me, what crime have you committed?"

The tone was as intimate as usual, not only Shen Qiaoping breathed a sigh of relief, but even Ye Xuanrong and Zhao Chengan beside him finally calmed down.

[I thought he suddenly came to his senses, but I was overthinking! He is a blind and incompetent ruler who cannot distinguish between loyalty and treachery. Even if God reincarnates him ten times, he will still be like this! ]

Emperor Qinglong: Just scold me, why are you scolding me more and more harshly?

Ye Xuanqi lowered his head, and no one noticed that the corners of his lips were raised and he couldn't suppress it.

Ye Xuanrong carefully probed: "How does Father plan to deal with Jiang Shengchuan?"

"Not urgent."

Emperor Qinglong said slowly: "I would like to hear what he has to say."

[It's almost time, why haven't they come yet? How can I perform this play if the clown doesn't come on stage? ]

Emperor Qinglong frowned slightly. Is this little girl waiting for someone? Who else will come?

Song Yunxi complained in his heart while making a formal statement: "Your Majesty, the grain donated by the Jiang family was personally inspected and collected by the Prime Minister and Lord Yan. The Jiang family would never do anything wrong."

Shen Qiaoping snorted coldly, his eyes filled with a determined and vicious look: "Master Jiang, are you sure there is no evidence against me?"

"I don't know what the Duke means by this."

"What do you mean by 'I don't know'? Why should Master Jiang pretend to be ignorant of what he did?"

Then he bowed to Emperor Qinglong and said, "Your Majesty, the head of the Jiang family colluded with Zhou Shidong and Yan Wenjie to use wheat bran as food. After the incident, he hired someone to kill the court officials to silence them. Such lawless lunatics will be a threat to the court if they are not killed."

"I still don't understand what the Duke means."

[Come on, dance quickly! If you don't tear off a piece of Ningguo Mansion's flesh this time, everyone in Shengyun Mountain will follow your surname! ]

Emperor Qinglong: I am also from Shengyun Mountain!

You can just talk about yourself, why do you have to bring up the entire Shengyun Mountain? I am the king of a country, is it appropriate for me to take the surname of my subject?

You little bitch, this is forcing him to take ruthless action against the Ningguo Mansion!

Emperor Qinglong cleared his throat and asked, "My dear, do you have any evidence?"

"Your Majesty, we have witnesses!"

Shen Qiaoping gave Zhao Cheng'an a look, and Zhao Cheng'an immediately stepped forward and said, "I received news that Jiang Shengchuan hired someone to assassinate the Prime Minister and Lord Yan. When he brought people there, it was too late. Lord Yan was killed on the spot, and the Prime Minister was also seriously injured."

"Fortunately, the Prime Minister received timely treatment and finally saved his life."

[I was wondering why Yan Wenjie was involved. Just because he has some friendship with Ye Xuanqi, you want to eliminate dissidents and get rid of him. If the Jin'an Dynasty falls into your hands, do you have to kill all those who disagree with you? ]

It turned out that this was their intention to recommend Yan Wenjie. Emperor Qinglong felt murderous and called the commander of the imperial guards: "He Wenrui, bring Zhou Shidong up to me!"

Everyone could see the anger of Emperor Qinglong, but Ye Xuanrong, Shen Qiaoping and Zhao Chengan were overjoyed in their hearts. This time they had killed two birds with one stone!

And Song Yunxi also completely understood the purpose of their going to so much trouble.

[I originally didn’t understand why they quietly disposed of Zhou Shidong, who died of poison, and arranged for a fake Zhou Shidong to stay in the Prime Minister’s Mansion. But today, it suddenly dawned on me and I understood everything! ]

[In their previous life, they killed Zhou Shidong and replaced him with an obedient one, firmly controlling the position of Prime Minister and the entire government. But in this life, they want to use the dead Zhou Shidong to seize the Jiang family's enormous wealth, and get rid of Yan Wenjie, who was not won over by them and was very talented.]

[Who is the person behind this idea of ​​killing two birds with one stone? ]

Emperor Qinglong was horrified that Zhou Shidong was actually dead!

I was really shocked by their meticulous planning and ambition, and I was also quite wary of the strategist hiding behind them.

If they succeed this time, the position of Prime Minister and the Ministry of Revenue will be completely in their pockets. At the same time, they can also take over the Jiang family's business and wealth. Even he, the emperor, may not be able to fight against them.

[However, there is always a loophole. They never dreamed that the so-called Jiangnan Jiang Family was nothing more than my third brother's business. They actually dreamed of taking away the business territory and wealth that my third brother had worked so hard to build. They even wanted to see if I would agree! ]

This time, not only Emperor Qinglong, but even Ye Xuanqi was shocked.

Emperor Qinglong: Not only did they not expect it, I didn’t expect it either.

I remember Jiang Yanting only because he was Song Wentian's disciple.

At that time, he didn't understand why his junior fellow apprentice chose the illegitimate son of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery. Shouldn't he have chosen the eldest son who was capable and self-disciplined?

Later, when he heard that Jiang Yanting was just a playboy who spent all his time in brothels and lived a life of drunkenness and dreams, he had even less good feelings towards this nephew.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yanting, whom he looked down upon the most, actually possessed such a huge wealth.

No wonder every time he couldn't help but talk about Jiang Yanting, his junior brother always smiled so mysteriously.

That's right, what kind of person is his junior brother? How could the disciple he taught be a useless playboy?

Ye Xuanqi narrowed his eyes slightly. Jiang Yanting, that brat, had kept the secret from him and Lao Wu. He would definitely teach him a lesson the next time he saw him!

Song Yunxi had no idea what was going on in the father and son's minds. She was not sure whether the person behind the scenes was targeting the third brother or Jiang Shengchuan.

If they were coming for the third brother, it meant that they knew the secret that the third brother was the head of the Jiang family, and they might even know everything about their Imperial Master's Mansion...

Song Yunxi suddenly felt murderous intent in his heart, that man must die!

While he was thinking about this, He Wenrui had already returned the seriously injured "Zhou Shidong".

However, neither Ye Xuanrong's faction nor Emperor Qinglong had expected that "Zhou Shidong" would actually testify that Shen Qiaoping had instructed him and Zhao Cheng'an to secretly replace military rations with wheat bran, and provided letters to Shen Qiaoping as physical evidence.

Shen Qiaoping and Zhao Chengan were caught off guard, and finally had to admit in the face of irrefutable evidence that they were blinded by money and accepted the charges of corruption and abuse of power.

Compared with the crimes of eliminating dissidents, being disloyal, and deceiving the emperor, corruption and abuse of power is the lesser of two evils.