This martial artist just wants to be an official

Chapter 444: Changle's Plan
A trace of horror emerged in my uncle's heart.

He looked towards Li Zhen, who at this moment had a look of uprightness on his face.

He raised his head, his face extremely serious, and bowed deeply:
"Your Majesty, please put state affairs first!"

After saying this, he looked straight at the Second Prince, his face extremely solemn:

"If the traitors are not eliminated, how can Your Majesty keep the world at peace?!"

hiss~
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the hall looked at Li Zhen in horror.

They thought that today Li Zhen was just making a move against Hai Rui, but they didn't expect that he actually wanted to kill Hai Rui!

"You are slandering me!!"

Of course, my uncle would not surrender. He also knew that now was not the time to act on impulse. With a look of grief and indignation on his face, he fell to his knees on the ground with a thump.

Looking at the Second Prince on the Dragon Throne, tears welled up in his eyes:

"Your Majesty!! I am innocent!!!"

While he was speaking, the tears in his eyes had already flowed down to his chest:

"I have devoted my heart to the country and have been working hard every day between the court and the people, all for the sake of the prosperity of Great Yong, so that Your Majesty can be praised by the people for his virtues! But..."

At this point, he suddenly raised his head and stared at Li Zhen intently, his eyes almost spitting fire:
"But there are treacherous ministers who want to trip me up and don't want me to have a good life! They want to openly harm me in the palace and join others to slander me!!"

"Your Majesty, please judge!!!"

At this point, a trace of blood appeared from my uncle's gums, which flowed out from the corners of his mouth. Everyone was moved by his loyalty to the emperor and his desire to serve the country.

My uncle’s acting was actually a bit exaggerated.

But in the court, this is exactly what the second prince wants. As long as his uncle dares to resist, he can protect his uncle first. If his uncle does not even resist, then even he himself will have to look at the faces of Li Zhen and Prince Qing in the court in the future.

Li Zhen felt a little uneasy when he saw his uncle acting unconventionally.

He didn't expect that his uncle would kneel in the hall first to prove his innocence, or to say that he framed someone first...

This made him feel somewhat passive...

Because if we ask those dozen people to come forward and identify Hai Rui now, it might be too late.

After taking a deep breath, a ruthless look flashed in Li Zhen's eyes. At this point, he would never be able to sleep unless Hai Rui died.

"Your Majesty, if the evidence of our ministers is not iron-clad, then what about the current Jingzhao prefect?"

Li Zhen stood up directly, with a sinister look in his eyes.

At this point, I have no choice but to use this trump card.

? ? ? ?
who? ?

Jingzhao Prefecture Governor? ? Sun Lianting? ? ! !

As soon as these words came out, my uncle's eyes widened instantly.

He looked at Li Zhen in disbelief, and then suddenly turned his gaze to Sun Lianting among the ministers.

He would never have thought that Sun Lianting would kneel down and lick his ass so deliberately, and his ultimate goal was actually...

He was actually a nail planted by Li Zhen? ? ! !

So their purpose of persecuting Sun Lianting was… to make me believe in him? ? !!

Thinking of this, my uncle was completely exhausted.

At this point, he had no other choice.

Victory or defeat in the court takes only a moment.

I have only been in the court for a little over three years.

But Li Zhen has been in the court all his life. He has seen through many things that he himself has not even thought of.

clothes.

At this moment, my uncle was completely convinced.

Older gingers are more spicy!!

At this moment, Sun Lianting had no expression on his face. He didn't even look at his uncle. He knelt directly in the court and knocked his head hard on the ground with a "bang":

"Your Majesty, I accuse Hai Rui of forming a clique for personal gain, selling official positions and bribing officials. Despite my advice, he continues to do so. Please punish Hai Rui for his crime of being a traitor to the country!!"

After one sentence.

My uncle's back seemed to collapse.

He knelt on the ground with an expressionless face.

After entering the officialdom, who can say that he is completely clean?

Now is simply the moment when everyone pushes the wall down.

"This……"

The second prince became anxious when he saw that his uncle had nothing to say.

What happened today taught him a direct lesson.

Li Zhen's behavior of making clouds and rain with a wave of his hand in the court has unknowingly touched the bottom line of every emperor.

No matter how incompetent the Second Prince was as an emperor, he still felt a sense of threat from this.

He glanced at Li Zhen inconspicuously, then sighed slowly and said:
"Is there any evidence?"

"Have."

Sun Lianting spoke lightly, then stood up, took out a few letters from his arms, and handed them respectfully to the second prince:

"Your Majesty, please take a look."

The second prince took a deep breath, took the letter in his hand, and looked at the words on the letter with a very serious expression.

They were all letters between my uncle and Sun Lianting, as well as between my uncle and his subordinates. There were even some case files that my uncle had worked on in the Dali Temple, and even correspondence between my uncle and some officials in the Ministry of Personnel, all of which were letters to promote his own cronies.

If these letters are verified to be true, my uncle will never be able to make a comeback.

"Circulate it."

The second prince glanced at Hai Rui, who was kneeling on the ground in silence, and a complicated expression appeared on his face.

A young eunuch took the letter and circulated it around.

All the officials who saw it remained silent.

Everyone was speechless with shock at Li Zhen's decisive move.

The fact that Sun Lianting surrendered to Hai Rui was already known to everyone in the court.

Who would have thought that this guy was Li Zhen's pawn? ?
As a second-rank official in the court, he is willing to be a pawn of the Prime Minister. This is not something that ordinary people can do.

Even Prince Qing, who was in the crowd, looked at Li Zhen with an expression of doubt and surprise.

He didn't even expect that Li Zhen had become so powerful.

But if you think about it carefully, Li Zhen has been in power in the court for such a long time, at least thirty years.

It is not impossible to have such a foundation.

At this moment, fear also grew in Prince Qing's heart.

"First, take Hai Rui to the Heavenly Prison. Instruct the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice to work with Pei Yinlang to thoroughly investigate this case!!"

The second prince had no way to protect his uncle at this time, so he could only order him to be imprisoned.

"Yes!!"

After hearing the second prince's words, armored soldiers came in from the court gate, carried my uncle and walked out.

Seeing this scene, a smile appeared on Li Zhen's face.

Then it flashed by.

He glanced at Prince Qing in the hall.

Now that Hai Rui has fallen, his only opponent is Prince Qing.

I will work on it slowly later.

As for the second prince on the dragon throne?
Haha, Li Zhen never took it seriously.

Today's court has undergone tremendous changes.

Hai Rui's party was almost uprooted. In addition to my uncle being imprisoned, more than a dozen other officials were also harmed.

Even several officials following Sun Lianting were involved.

These officials used to be his staunch supporters.

Now if you say it's sold, it's sold...

Li Zhen's heart can be said to be cruel.

……

When my aunt at home received the news from the court, she fainted.

When Youyou woke up, her aunt's face was as pale as paper.

My lips were trembling and I couldn't speak.

She naturally could not imagine that her uncle, who had gone out in the morning, would be sent to prison in the evening...

"Go... ask Princess Changle... to send someone to the Kewu Division to tell Lingzhi about this, and ask her to think of a solution..."

My aunt was sitting on the bed with a haggard face. She didn't even have time to take medicine. She said this as soon as she woke up.

After hearing his words, some servants took the order and left.

"Northern Duke's Mansion."

Now the plaque of Lu Yuanzhi's mansion has been replaced again.

In just three years, he went from being an ordinary Pei Yinlang to becoming the most sought-after Duke of Beiguo in the court.

It only took Lu Yuanzhi less than three years! !
After hearing the news from the servants, Princess Changle, who was pregnant, did not care about anything else and directly prepared the carriage and visited the palace at night.

When she saw her brother, her face turned extremely ugly.

Because the dignified Emperor of Dayong was now walking out of a concubine's courtyard in revealing clothes with his breasts exposed, which was extremely indecent.

"Princess."

When he saw Changle, a hint of unnaturalness flashed across the second prince's face.

Because of my uncle's incident today, his birthday party was cancelled.

"How did you come?"

A smile appeared on the second prince's face.

"Brother, you should know the purpose of my coming."

Changle held her waist, and with her big belly bulging, she faced the Second Prince and said seriously:
"Your Majesty is in dire straits now, why do you still have the leisure to relax in the harem?!"

Hearing Changle's words, a gloomy look flashed across the second prince's eyes.

He naturally knew what Changle meant. He looked around and said coldly to the eunuchs and palace maids:
"Go down."

"Yes."

After everyone left, the Second Prince looked at Changle anxiously and said:
"I know what you are going to say, but right now in the court, Uncle Qing and Li Zhen are both powerful. I can only deal with them and cannot really turn against them."

At this point, he looked at the patrolling imperial guards within the palace wall from afar:
"Believe it or not, if I behaved in any unusual way these days, at least half of the guards inside the courtyard wall would put their knives to my neck without hesitation."

"you……"

After Changle heard what the Second Prince said, her face became expressionless. She said angrily:

"So are you really going to allow these two to be so presumptuous?! Your Majesty, you should know that Hai Rui is my sister's elder! My sister's husband has been fighting for the Great Yong, and he would have died on the battlefield if he wasn't careful. How can you treat his elder like this?!"

The second prince sighed and said:

"So I just put him in the prison. Now there is only one way to save him."

"What?" Changle raised his head slowly.

"You enter Peiyinlang in the name of Lu Yuanzhi's wife and children. If someone is willing to help for Lu Yuanzhi's sake, you can muddy the waters when investigating the case. This will delay it for a while, and then secretly send someone to recall Lu Yuanzhi from the border..."

At this point, the second prince sighed:
"But we have to hurry up, otherwise it will be too late."

Having said this, the Second Prince slowly turned his back:
"I don't know how many people within the palace walls are Li Zhen and Prince Qing's spies, so today I can only tell you this much. When you walk out of this door later, you have to scold me a few times, understand?"

After saying this, the second prince's eyes became blurry again, and his voice was filled with a disgusting lewdness:

"My beauty, I'm back! Come quickly!"

……

Looking at the second prince's back, Changle's heart was filled with shock.

He could not imagine that his second brother, whom he had always looked down upon, could actually be so scheming!!!
This……

But after being shocked, Changle was not stupid. She forced herself to cry and walked out of the door in despair, then staggered:

"When the birds are gone, the good bows are put away; when the cunning rabbit dies, the running dog is cooked..."

The voice was so desolate that it was quickly spread outside the huge palace.

When Changle returned home, he took a deep breath.

She looked towards Pei Yinlang's yamen and took a deep breath:

"Somebody come!"

"Princess."

A servant walked up to her respectfully and said, "Please come in, Sister Qingying."

"Yes."

Not long after, Bai Qingying, who was also pregnant, slowly appeared in Changle's house.

"Have met the princess."

Bai Qingying's face was full of respect.

She always knew what was important and what was not in the family.

He never imagined that his status could be higher than Changle.

Changle's status was naturally much higher than hers.

She got used to it.

"Sister Qingying."

Seeing the pregnant Bai Qingying, Changle felt guilty, but she still walked slowly to Bai Qingying's side and held her hand:
"There is something concerning my husband, so please go there, Sister Qingying."

Although Bai Qingying is older than Changle, in the Northern Duke's Mansion, she must always call Changle "Mistress".

That is to say, Changle is kind-hearted, so she and Bai Qingying call each other sisters.

"Sister, please speak."

After hearing this, Bai Qingying's eyes flashed with curiosity. This was the first time Changle had asked her to do something since she entered the mansion.

"My husband...is in big trouble."

Changle took a deep breath, his expression solemn.

Hearing this, Bai Qingying's body trembled, and she hurriedly looked at Changle.

"Today, Prime Minister Li Zhen attacked my uncle in the court..."

Slowly, Changle told everything that happened today, except what the second prince said after entering the palace.

After hearing Changle's words, Bai Qingying first breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter what, it’s not her husband’s fault. Although her uncle is equally important, in her heart, Lu Yuanzhi will always be the most important.

Its importance is even greater than your own!
"I know all of Pei Yinlang's Luan Peis and can talk to them. I also know a few of the Yun Peis."

Bai Qingying knew that this was not the time to be humble.

"Well, you need to go to Pei Yinlang's yamen and find your husband's trusted confidants in the yamen and tell them about this."

"be quick."

Changle gently grasped Bai Qingying's hand:

"Now that my husband is not in the mansion, it will only be you and me who will hold up this mansion. When my husband comes back, those ignorant people will be weighed down by my husband..."

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)