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Chapter 565 Yuan Chen? Who is Yuan Chen? !

The gentry directed their attacks at Jia Xu, and many of them even prepared to collude with certain officials to write letters to impeach Jia Xu.

The poor scholars all spoke up for Jia Xu. "The Minister of Rites established a book club so that scholars all over the world could read books. How can you slander the Minister of Rites?!"

"Slander? Where did Jia Wenhe get his classics? Could it be that he got them by magic? The classics that Jia Wenhe has brought out these days coincide with what my family has learned. Jia Wenhe must have tricked them out of the hands of a great scholar! Return the classics! Return the classics!"

"These are just a few of your words. You are so shameless to say that this is your family tradition! The only thing in common between your family tradition and the classics that the Minister of Rites brought out is that they are the same books. But can your family tradition have such annotations?"

Taichang Palace.

The huge Taichang Palace was filled with an uneasy atmosphere, and the officials were anxious and worried like ants on a hot pan.

Even Kong Rong couldn't calm his mind, even though he knew that all this was within Jia Xu's expectations, he still couldn't help but glance at Jia Xu frequently.

Jia Xu was as steady as a rock, and even had the leisure to drink tea.

"Taichang Cheng, what's wrong?" Jia Xu put down the teacup and said in a calm tone.

Kong Rong hurriedly said, "Minister Taichang, there is a quarrel outside!"

Unexpectedly, Jia Xu replied calmly: "Yes, I understand."

Hearing Jia Xu's nonchalant answer, Kong Rong even suspected that Jia Xu was pretending to be so.

The next moment, a heroic voice rang out, "Hahaha, Wenhe, you are really awesome as the Taichang. There's a huge noise outside!"

Kong Rong was shocked and thought: Who? Isn't this just trying to please the Minister of State Affairs? !
Kong Rong looked in the direction of the voice and saw a dark-skinned man walking over carelessly. Before Jia Xu could speak, the man found a seat and sat down. It seemed that Jia Xu's reputation had disappeared in front of the man.

If an ordinary person dared to act like this, Kong Rong would not even need to say anything, as the guards would probably frown and take the person away.

However, when facing this big man, not to mention Kong Rong, even Jia Xu greeted him with a smile.

"What brings the Grand Minister of Agriculture here?"

The unremarkable man in front of him was none other than Jian Yong and Jian Xianhe, the Minister of Agriculture who succeeded Zhao Yun.

Jian Yong said in a clear voice: "It's been a long time since we last met, I missed you so much. I came here to see Wen He, why doesn't Wen He welcome me? Then I'll leave?"

"The Grand Minister of Agriculture is joking. It is my honor for the Grand Minister of Agriculture to visit the Imperial House of Rites."

Seeing Jia Xu and Jian Yong talking and laughing happily, Kong Rong couldn't help but feel a little dazed. Although the Minister of Agriculture was also one of the Nine Ministers and managed finances together with the Minister of the Treasury, the Minister of Rites was the head of the Nine Ministers!
Normally, shouldn't Jian Yong be polite to Jia Xu? Why is it the other way around?!
"Hmm? Wenhe, who is this gentleman?"

Just when Kong Rong was distracted, Jian Yong's gaze swept over him.

Jia Xu introduced: "Grand Minister of Agriculture, this gentleman is the Minister of Rites, his surname is Kong Rong, and his courtesy name is Wenju."

Kong Rong clasped his fists and said, "Rong, I meet the Grand Minister of Agriculture."

Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened again. After hearing the name Kong Rong, Jian Yong was stunned for a moment, then he quickly stood up, walked quickly to Kong Rong, helped him up, and his tone became humble and kind, "So it's Kong Beihai, I'm so sorry."

"?"

The huge change in Jian Yong's attitude stunned Kong Rong. Why did he feel that this scene was familiar?

Alas, earlier, Xuande told me that Kong Beihai served as the Minister of Rites in the Taichang Palace.

I have been busy with breeding these days and have neglected this matter. I am ashamed. Jian Yong has some respect and pity for Kong Rong.

Kong Rong once welcomed the emperor together with Tao Qian, and he was always an upright person, but he did not have a good ending.

Cao Cao once said that he didn't care about Kong Rong's "unfilial piety", but in the end he killed Kong Rong on the charge of "unfilial piety", which is really sad.

"?" Kong Rong always felt that Jian Yong's eyes were very strange.

Jian Yong shook his head and stopped thinking about it. "Kong Beihai, please sit down."

After inviting Kong Rong to sit on the chair, Jian Yong explained his purpose to Jia Xu, "Wenhe, I see that the book club incident has caused a lot of uproar. Isn't it time for you to take action? If you want me to help, just say it!"

"Don't worry, Grand Minister of Agriculture. If I really encounter a problem, how can I not ask for help from him?" Jia Xu gently waved his feather fan, and his originally relaxed tone gradually became serious. He murmured, "But what Grand Minister of Agriculture said is right. We really have to take action."

"Oh? Where is Wenhe going to operate the knife?"

"Yuzhou."

"Yuzhou," Jian Yong muttered to himself, "No wonder. No wonder, no wonder some time ago, when Wenhe asked Xuande about Yuzhou's dream minister, it turned out that he wanted to take action against Yuzhou."

Just when the nobles and the poor scholars were arguing endlessly and trying to find a way to intimidate Jia Xu.

Shocking bad news came unexpectedly from Yuzhou. The scholars who had just been arguing were tied up tightly by the sudden appearance of the court judge.

The scholar shouted angrily: "What are you doing? Why are you tying me up?"

The Chief Justice Wu Ban said coldly: "Not only did your clan obstruct the land measurement, but you also secretly hid the armor. Your crime is tantamount to treason. You are now thrown into prison and await your punishment!"

The whole place was silent, so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.

Everyone stared in amazement at the captured soldiers; they were the ones who had been shouting the loudest in recent days.

Everyone knows the principle of killing a chicken to scare the monkey.

But no one expected that Jia Xu would be charged with treason as soon as he took action.

This made the remaining soldiers swallow their saliva involuntarily, and a chill arose in their hearts.

The captured soldiers struggled violently, shouting, "Slander, it must be slander! My clan is loyal to the Han Dynasty, how could we have the intention of rebellion! I want to see the general! I want to see the emperor! Everything is Jia Wenhe's slander!"

"We have both witnesses and evidence. If you have anything to say, go to the prison and speak!" Wu Ban waved at the court judges. They understood immediately and took out a piece of rag to cover the scholar's mouth.

Wu Ban ignored the gazes of others. After capturing the target, he left with the court judges, leaving the scholars looking at each other in bewilderment.

The scholars all saw a trace of paleness on each other's faces. Some of them said timidly, "Lord Jia is not someone we can compete with. How about... how about we just give up? You don't want your property to be confiscated, do you?"

Someone else said, "I know those people just now. They are against the land allocation, so Jia Wenhe took out the re-annotated classics to squeeze their family learning."

"It's so."

After a moment of silence, the scholars finally reached a consensus, "For now, we should remain silent and contact the clan more often."

The scholars who contacted the clan were shocked to learn that a man from Yingchuan named Yuan Chen had inherited the inheritance of a noble family whose property was confiscated for privately storing armor.

Who is Yuan Chen? !
(End of this chapter)