Chapter 338
Jiang Fuguang sat back on the chair: "Let's get down to business, what does Marquis Chengan want me for?"

For a cunning person like Cheng Anhou, when having a formal conversation with him, he must first break down his psychological defenses, so that he can get more valuable things from him.

What Marquis Cheng'an is most afraid of now is that his collaborating with the enemy and treason will be exposed.

She wanted to mention it.

Cheng Anhou said: "I know that the eldest princess is investigating clues about the remnants of the old faction. I can provide the eldest princess with clues, but I have a request?"

"A request?" Jiang Fuguang laughed. She looked at Marquis Cheng'an contemptuously. "To this day, what qualifications do you have to negotiate with Gu and negotiate conditions? Your Majesty has never treated the Lin family badly. For the last sliver of kindness in the world, you should also confess everything you know for the long-term peace and stability of the Southern Dynasty. Your Majesty is a person who cares about old love. Maybe he can still remember some old love. I will give you a light punishment for the rest of Cheng'anhoufu."

These words hit the sore spot of Marquis Cheng An. These days, he has been struggling repeatedly. He doesn't know whether to confess and ask His Majesty for the last ounce of mercy, or to use this as a condition to make a deal with Jiang Fuguang. But in the end, He chose to make a deal with Jiang Fuguang.

Because of the unpredictable power of the sky, he dared not gamble.

Trading with the eldest princess will be more sure. Although he doesn't want to admit it, deep down in his heart, he likes to recognize the eldest princess's open-minded character.

Jiang Fuguang's expression was indifferent: "You know better than anyone else that the old party forces are far more terrifying than imagined. They seem to hide their heads and show their tails, and they are not popular, but they were also prominent old honored nobles from a family in the Southern Dynasty. The family has a long history and a deep foundation. The wide network and deep roots make people frightened. Even the emperor can't do anything about them. Over the years, it was my kinsman Qi who barely frightened them and made them hide in the dark. Now Cheng'an If the Marquis Mansion is defeated, it is hard to guarantee that the old party will not take advantage of the situation, and once they gain power, there will be endless troubles in the future."

Cheng Anhou laughed at himself: "The princess is right, but it's a pity that Lin doesn't have the heart of the princess to worry about the country and the people. All the schemes of Lin's life are selfish and selfish. It's not an exaggeration to say that he is greedy for profit. When the situation is imminent, there is no one who is about to die, and his words are also kind and relieved, only the choice and calculation between the two sides."

Jiang Fuguang looked at him quietly without speaking.

Cheng Anhou's expression was very calm: "The evil I have done has nothing to do with my son Xianzhao. If the eldest princess can save his life, I am willing to tell the truth everything I know, and it will be detailed."

At that time, Qi Rulie supported His Majesty to ascend the throne and conferred the title of Duke An. At that time, the Yong'an House was conferred the title of Marquis of Yong'an because of his contribution to the dragon.

However, the Yong'an Hou Mansion is just a poor nobleman with no real power in the court. It cannot be compared with the Qi family at all. In order for His Majesty to make Lin's daughter the queen, his father did not hesitate to fight to the death during the rebellion.

When His Majesty ascended the throne for the first time, the throne was not stable. Due to the old honor forces at that time, he had to confer the title of the Lin family as the emperor, and then posthumously named the old Marquis of Cheng'an who died in battle as Duke Chengen, and he inherited the title.

In order to cultivate party members in the court, he secretly recruited many old party members, and this formed a trend of confrontation with the Qi family. He had to restrain the Taiwei's mansion and suppress the Qi family army for many years.

Jiang Fuguang frowned.

Cheng'anhou continued: "The power of the old party in the court is buried far deeper than you can imagine. The eldest princess wants to rely on my case to pass the joint trial of the three divisions and clean up the old party in the court. It is possible to eradicate the evils of the old party.”

Jiang Fuguang felt slightly worried: "What do you mean?"

"Back then, Duke Cheng'an's government recruited some old parties to fight against the Qi family," Cheng'an Hou laughed at himself, "but that was only a temporary measure. I never thought of relying on the forces of the old parties, let alone be safe. His Royal Highness left behind such a hidden danger, so after the Chenganhou Mansion gained power, I used the clues I had in my hands to investigate many times, but the depth of the old party was frightening."

Jiang Fuguang said slowly: "I will order Dali Temple to carefully investigate what Lin Xianzhao committed. If Lin Xianzhao is really as you said, and has never participated in any evil deeds you have committed, I can express his feelings for him in front of His Majesty. I beg you His Majesty spare his life."

"The eldest princess speaks volumes, with the words of the eldest princess, Lin can feel at ease," Chengan Hou felt relieved, and slowly stood up, the iron chains on his body made a clanging sound, and he bowed his hands, "Lin Definitely know everything.”

……

The two talked in secret for two full hours, and Ji Ruxuan wrote down some important information.

After the secret conversation ended, Jiang Fuguang looked at the box full of confessions, her heart was heavy, she got up slowly, looked at Cheng Anhou: "Do you regret it?"

Cheng Anhou asked with a smile: "What does the eldest princess refer to? Collaborating with the enemy and treason? Selling private salt? Repeatedly planning to harm you? Or destroying dikes and flooding the people?"

"You know what I'm talking about." Jiang Fuguang looked at him fixedly.

"Yeah," Cheng Anhou's face was in a daze for a while, and he suddenly realized, "With a heart like the eldest princess, the only thing you care about most is destroying the embankment and flooding the people."

Jiang Fuguang thought of the rising water level of the dam. She stood in the heavy rain that day and two nights, looking at the vast rain curtain and the surging river, not knowing how she survived.

She also silently prayed for God's mercy in her heart, and she also recited the 36 road gods and Buddhas in her heart, asking them to show mercy, and she was so tired that her legs were numb, and she wanted to sit down and rest, but all these tiredness, and How could it be, those soldiers who braved the heavy rain to resist sandbags to build embankments, and those soldiers who jumped into the water and tried their best to block the weir.

She was very scared and didn't dare to take a step back, but her heart was filled with anger, and she said to Ji Ruxuan, "I won't let them go."

"Never."

"I swear."

"I'll make them pay."

Cheng'an Hou Dingding looked at her, and said word by word: "I don't regret it."

"Marquis Cheng'an." Jiang Fuguang suddenly raised his voice, "Do you know how many people in Xin'an County died because of your selfish desires, and how many people suffered because of your selfish desires, disaster relief and epidemic prevention, and post-disaster reconstruction certainly made them start You have created a new life, but it is not enough to heal the pain they have suffered. You have ruined countless once happy families and made their lives full of holes."

"So what?" Cheng Anhou's expression was calm to indifferent, "I have already paid the price for this, so why do I need to regret it?"

Jiang Fuguang's eyes were red with anger, he stared at him, and gradually calmed down: "I promise you, I will keep my promise."

After speaking, she turned and left the interrogation room.

Marquis Cheng An looked at her leaving back, and when she was about to step out of the interrogation room, he suddenly said: "Princess, you are a smart person, with means, courage, strategy, and mind. , you are too immature, and your foundation in the court is too shallow. It is impossible for you now to fight against those old parties. Maybe in another ten years, maybe it won’t take so long. At most, three to five years, those old parties will not your opponent."

(End of this chapter)

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