Prime Minister Chasing Her Husband

On the fifth day when Xie Xuan brought the emperor's handbook back to the cabinet, the cabinet finally drafted the "Baohou Order".The name is Baohou, but in fact he is abolished. According to the law, the county marquis shall not collect and manage local taxes, and descendants without utility shall not inherit the marquis.On the sixth day in the early morning, Su Yuanshan held the list he had compiled years ago and asked the emperor to depose the prince. The officials were surprised, but quickly stood in line, and for a while it became a scene of the civil and military men of the Manchu Dynasty kneeling to invite Jing Wenhao to depose the prince.

Jing Wenhao said that this matter was still to be discussed, but he called all the officials into the palace to review the draft that night, and announced the order the next day.The princes of all parties were at a loss, and sent servants to contact the surrounding princes to discuss what to do next.

The most fearful thing about the promulgation of the new decree is that it cannot be effectively implemented and is useless, so Xie Xuan and Li Yong were summoned into the palace on the night the decree was promulgated.

"Xie Xuan, you are a sensible person, I will not go around in circles with you. This time I announce you to enter the palace, I hope you can take my place."

"The emperor means to let the minister go to Lanzhou to clean up the descendants of those two counties?"

"Not all, the descendants are only a small part. The order of the decree lies in deeds. I can't think of a person who has the courage to implement this decree in the world. I can't think of anyone who is more suitable than you, so I want you to walk a long way in Daqi. Circle, travel all over seventeen counties, would you like to?"

"The minister obeys the order." Xie Xuan said.

"It's best if you promise. I also know that now is not the best time, but once the draft order comes out, if I don't act immediately, I'm afraid they will take precautions. It's just that now Li Da is guarding the southern border, Li Yong You want to stay in the capital, Marquis An Yong is old, and he is following the orders of the abolished Marquis, this trip is dangerous, what worries me now is who will go with you. Li Yong, do you have someone to choose?"

Li Yong thought about it carefully, then shook his head and said, "Go back to the emperor, no."

"Your Majesty, this trip will take half a year at least, or three to five years at most. The one who will go with the minister must first come with a noble status, otherwise it will be difficult to suppress the princes, and secondly, he must have courage. , I'm afraid he can't even clean up the mess in Lanzhou, the most important thing is that he has to fully support the emperor's new order." Xie Xuan said slowly.

"I know what you said. That's why I'm worried. How can I find such a person in Daqi now? The only one who can do it is Liu Jin, but the defense in the palace was opened as soon as he left. A gap, if you can come back in half a year, it’s fine, but if it really takes three to five years, wouldn’t it be a mess.” Jing Wenhao’s words revealed worries.

"Back to the emperor, I have a candidate in my mind."

"Say, who is it?"

"Brother Xie..." Li Yong felt something was wrong, he seemed to suddenly know who Xie Xuan was talking about.

"Ninghou's son, Lu Tan!"

"Ninghou? The Ninghou who colluded with the barbarians to rebel?" Jing Wenhao was a little displeased when he heard this. "When Ninghou rebelled at the border, didn't his wife take two children and commit suicide in the mansion?"

"Returning to the emperor, Marquis Ning did not rebel back then. The rebellion was all fabricated and framed by Marquis Zijun and King Yi. The purpose was to let Junhou Zi dominate in Beijing and become the internal reaction of King Yi's rebellion." Xie Xuan knelt down. , took out a dossier from his bosom, on which were the confessions of Zi Junhou and Yi Wang, and lifted it above his head.

"Please take a look at the emperor."

When the emperor sent Xie Xuan back to the cabinet to lead his ministers to draw up a draft, Xie Xuan thought of this day. Even if everyone in the court agreed to something like "Baohou Ling", few people dared to put it into practice, and even fewer people could practice it and gain the emperor's trust. Da Qi Xie Xuan couldn't think of anyone more suitable than himself.This trip was extremely dangerous, if he acted carelessly, it would be a question of whether he could return safely, so the emperor would definitely want to find someone who could protect him.It's just that Da Qi, which has just experienced a fierce battle, is not as stable as the people see it. The surrounding countries all want to take advantage of the situation, so Da Qi has no one available.This time is the best time to re-establish Ninghou Mansion.

Jing Wenhao quickly flipped through the dossier, and after reading the testimony, he was furious: "You bastard, you bastard, you framed Zhongliang for your own self-interest, and it's not an exaggeration for those two to die."

"Your Majesty, the trial of the three divisions has just passed, and both of them are in custody. Your Majesty can interrogate them at any time."

"Why didn't you report such an important matter when you tried the case? Xie Xuan, don't tell me that you forgot, tell me, what did you hide?" Jing Wenhao's words were not at all polite.

"Back to the emperor, I didn't dare to hide anything. The reason why I didn't report it at the beginning was because things happened one after another, and I thought that although the case of Ninghou's mansion was wronged, after all, no one was there. Even if it was reported to the emperor It didn’t help, so it wasn’t written into the secret, it was only recorded in the file, and then it was really forgotten.”

"What about now? Why did you think of it again? And can Lu Tan die and come back to life?"

"My lord, Lu Tan is not dead at all." Li Yong didn't want Xie Xuan to take care of everything, so he knelt down and said, "When Madam received a letter from Lord Hou saying that she was framed, Madam found two The corpse pretended to be Miss Shizi, set fire to Marquis Ning’s mansion, and then hanged herself to conceal it, and Shizi has been fleeing for many years until recently when he heard that King Yi was arrested, he returned to the capital and found the minister.”

"Oh, you are so clear about the golden cicada's shelling in the Ninghou Mansion back then. Li Yong, I'm afraid you participated a lot back then. And you wanted to pick Xie Xuan clean, because you thought I didn't know that Xie Xuan was in the academy back then. Is Lu Tan the one with the best relationship at that time? You two are lying in front of me today, why do you think that I dare not punish you for deceiving the king?"

"I don't dare, I deserve death for my crimes." The two said.

"Of course you deserve to die. Xie Xuan, when I hired you, you thought that only Li Yong was sent to investigate you? I knew about the friendship between you and Lu Tan early on, but it was because of your loyalty to the country that you didn't pursue it. , you have the nerve to pretend you forgot today?"

"Your majesty, my minister..."

"Shut up! And you, Li Yong, Li Xi's brother, my son's uncle, you know how I treated you this year, who knew you were so bold, You just helped the suspect escape, and now you are defending a bully in front of me, you really do me a favor."

"Your Majesty, I am guilty of the crime, please punish me." The two said again.

"Punishment, how to punish? To deceive the emperor and defect is to behead the nine clans. How many heads of you can bear such a punishment?"

"Minister, I deserve ten thousand deaths for your crimes."

"Yes, you should die. But now that Daqi is employing people, I will spare you both the death penalty. But the death penalty can avoid the life penalty. Xie Xuan, you will bring Lu Tan to the palace tomorrow, and give the matter of the deposed Marquis to the court." I have completed the paperwork, and you are not allowed to ask me for leave approval for two years."

Xie Xuan was taken aback for a moment, obviously unable to believe what he heard.

"Don't thank me yet?"

"I thank the emperor for his kindness."