Jiajing Chengming

Chapter 274 They are all traitors! I will not be at peace unless I kill them!
"Prime Minister Rong reports!"

"This is not what we want to do, we have no choice!"

"As the saying goes, if one prospers, all prosper; if one suffers, all suffer. The disputes that have arisen over several dynasties are so complicated that if someone commits an illegal act, the lotus will inevitably be affected, and the lotus roots will also be affected."

"So sometimes we have to protect, defend, and even help hide it."

"You are a senior minister of two dynasties, so you should understand better than me."

Jin Chengxun said with a serious face.

Fei Hong waved his hand and said, "I don't want to hear these explanations. I just want to know who killed Doctor Zhou!"

"Isn't the truth already known?"

"The murderer Liu Yinghuai died suddenly in the imperial prison."

Kim Seung-hoon said.

Fei Hong sneered, "You are a dishonest young man, pretending to be stupid in front of me! In this case, you can go back."

After hearing this, Jin Chengxun knew that what Fei Hong meant was that he had to sell out some people in order to appease the emperor, so he had no choice but to grit his teeth and say:
"Your Excellency, I only know that it was done by the Liu family. Although Liu Yinghuai is the son of Liu Wentai, his family has long moved to Tongzhou, but his native place is still in Jiangxi. He murdered Doctor Liu this time under the instruction of Liu Qi, the censor of the Metropolitan Censorate."

Fei Hong asked, "Isn't this Liu Qi a descendant of Liu Hanlin from Tongzhou?"

Jin Chengxun said: "He is the descendant of Liu Hanlin, but Liu Hanlin is actually Liu Yinghuai's brother! Liu Yinghuai's real family is in the Liu family in Tongzhou, and the Liu family members arrested by the Jinyiwei are fake, used by the Liu family to fool the court."

"Why did his Liu family do this?"

Fei Hong asked again.

Jin Chengxun bowed and said, "Please don't ask any more questions, Prime Minister. If you ask again, I can only say I don't know!"

After hearing this, Fei Hong nodded slightly.

At this time.

Fei Maozhong came outside the study.

Fei Hong raised his eyes and looked at him: "What's the matter?"

"Uncle, Censor Liu Qi wants to see you."

Fei Maozhong replied.

Fei Hong couldn't help but frown after hearing this.

Jin Chengxun looked at Fei Hong in surprise.

Fei Hong said: "Bring him to see me!"

Fei Maozhong bowed and agreed.

Not long after.

Censor Liu Qi came to Fei Hong, glanced at Jin Chengxun, and then saluted Fei Hong.

Fei Hong asked, "Why did you come to see me?"

Liu Qi smiled and said, "It's nothing else, but your son has a letter from home and asked me to present it to the Prime Minister."

Fei Hong frowned even more after hearing this: "Why would my son ask you to deliver a letter home?"

Liu Qi had already taken out a letter from home from his sleeve and held it in front of Fei Hong with both hands: "The Prime Minister will know after reading it."

Jin Chengxun said at this time: "Prime Minister, do you need to take shelter for a while?"

"No need!"

Fei Hong waved his hand.

After that.

He opened the letter from home with a serious expression, and then took out a letter written in blood on silk.

When Fei Hong saw this thing, he couldn't help but take a step back.

Jin Chengxun was shocked when he saw this and suddenly turned to look at Liu Qi.

Liu Qi still had a smile on his face, but it became increasingly eerie and terrifying.

But Fei Hong couldn't bear to look at it carefully. He just glanced at it and threw the blood letter aside. He turned his back to Liu Qi and asked, "What did you do to my son?"

"It's nothing serious, just putting your son under house arrest."

Liu Qi said with a smile.

Fei Hong took a deep breath and said, "Tell me, why did you do this?"

"I have no other intentions. I just want the Prime Minister to advise Your Majesty to stop here and not investigate further. I also want you to return the profits from the grain transport to your government."

"Now that His Majesty cannot leave you, I think he will give you face, Yuan Fu!"

For Liu Qi now.

This was the only solution he had. Yao Tan had already been arrested. As long as the emperor gave him a trial, Yao Tan would reveal the fact that he had betrayed the Liu family of Tongzhou to gain merit. Then, his Liu family would be exterminated!
So, for him, his family has now reached a desperate situation, and he can only take the initiative to come to Fei Hong and threaten Fei Hong with his son!

This was a risky move that his Liu family had prepared long ago. It would not be used until the mutiny failed and it was absolutely necessary. But now was the last resort.

Now he can only hope that Fei Hong still cares about his son.

"otherwise."

Before Liu Qi finished speaking, Fei Hong asked, "How about that?"

"Otherwise, what you see is not just your son's blood letter!"

Liu Qi said lightly.

But Jin Chengxun, who was standing by, shuddered after hearing this, and gasped as he said to Liu Qi: "How can you be so vicious?!"

"Isn't giving advice sinister?!"

Liu Qi asked Jin Chengxun in return, still with a creepy smile: "If I am not mistaken, the censor has sold us to the prime minister in exchange for the safety of himself and other people in the Ministry of War, right?"

Jin Chengxun looked at his thin, pale, pointed face and said through gritted teeth:

"Isn't this because you guys forced me to do this? You are so bold and want to punish His Majesty, but you implicate us and bring us misfortune too!"

"Then you shouldn't have accepted our benefits in the first place! Don't ask Lu Cheng and others for promotion in the first place!" "The Ministry of War is not in our hands."

"Instead of blaming us, you might as well blame your father-in-law Yang Xindu. It was he who took advantage of the opportunity to seize power when the previous emperor passed away, allowing you to enter the military department, letting his brother become an official in the Ministry of War, and letting his second son become the head of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War. That's how the disaster of today was laid!"

Liu Qi continued to refute Jin Chengxun.

Jin Chengxun did not reply.

Liu Qi looked at Fei Hong and said, "Prince, please take a look at this blood letter. Your son is in a very miserable state now. Every word in this blood letter is filled with tears. He is just waiting for you to save him!"

Liu Qi then laughed again, ignoring Fei Hong's already livid face, and said: "The Prime Minister should have understood long ago that the profits from the grain transport are not so easy to grab. Not to mention that you are only the Prime Minister, even if you are the emperor, you can't get it!"

"In the final analysis, it's Wang Jinxi who is so powerful. He set up such a trap, and you took the initiative to get into it. Now your son is suffering terribly and is in hell."

"Somebody come!"

Fei Hong suddenly yelled.

The sound was so loud that it seemed as if the entire roof beams were shaking.

"Somebody come!"

And Fei Hong continued to shout.

Liu Qi and Jin Chengxun were both shocked.

Soon.

Fei Maozhong came with a few servants and asked, "Uncle, what's the matter?"

"There are rebels. Lock the door immediately! Send someone to report to the Pacification Office and the Censorate!"

"Then lock up these two traitors!"

Fei Hong pointed at Liu Qi and Jin Chengxun as he spoke.

Liu Qi and Jin Chengxun were confused.

Fei Maozhong was also stunned.

Fei Hongze was already sitting on the chair with red eyes and a serious expression.

Fei Maozhong came to his senses first, and hurriedly took his servants to arrest Liu Qi and Jin Chengxun.

Liu Qi came to his senses only after being detained by the servants of the Fei family, and shouted at Fei Hong: "Fei Qianshan, don't you even want your son?!"

"What son?"

Fei Maozhong was even more shocked. He looked at Liu Qi, then suddenly realized what was going on and grabbed Liu Qi's collar: "What did you do to Maoliang?"

"That wicked boy, unlike you and your elder brother, loves to flirt with women and indulge in sensual pleasures. It's better for him to die! It's worth it to exchange him for the Fei family's hundred years of wealth! It's worth it!"

Fei Hong answered Fei Maozhong's questions on behalf of Liu Qi, and he laughed as he spoke.

After hearing this, Fei Maozhong was stunned and felt a chill down his spine. Even the look he gave his uncle Fei Hong showed a hint of fear.

Jin Chengxun was also very surprised, but at the same time he was also very frightened: "Are they going to report me to the court?"

Liu Qi was also shocked at this time.

At this time, Fei Hong waved his hand and asked Fei Maozhong to take the two men away to be sent to the authorities.

When Liu Qi was dragged away by the servants of the Fei family, he could not help but curse at Fei Hong: "Fei Qianshan, for the sake of the grain transport profit, you even gave up your own son. Are you still a human being?!"

"You are a bunch of greed-blinded fools! I almost persuaded him to plead for us, but you wanted to use your son to force Fei Qianshan to work for you and give up the profits from the canal."

"I've seen stupid people, but I've never seen stupid people like you who want both!"

"What a bunch of idiots Liu Wentai gave birth to!"

Jin Chengxun was very depressed because of this, and he couldn't help but spit at Liu Qi and cursed at him.

Liu Qi was enraged by the saliva that Jin Chengxun sprayed on his face, and he also yelled at Jin Chengxun: "Shut up! You are not stupid, but you want to use my Liu family as the price! You people love to do such things, starting from your father-in-law Yang Tinghe, you love to use others as the price! But not everyone is willing to be your price!"

At this time, Liu Qi had been dragged out of the Fei family's house by the Fei family.

But just as he finished cursing, a cavalryman from the Beijing camp who was on duty in the inner city suddenly rode over and hit Liu Qi on the head with a golden gourd.

Liu Qi's head exploded on the spot and blood gushed out.

The servants of the Fei family who were escorting Liu Qi were also frightened and turned pale, their mouths opened wide, and then they all fainted and fell to the ground with Liu Qi.

Jin Chengxun also widened his eyes and looked at the tall and mighty cavalry who had reined in his horse and ran to the opposite side.

The cavalryman soon fell off his horse and began to spit blood.

When the guards on duty at Fei's house rushed over, they saw that the man was already dead.

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Zhu Houcong learned about these things that night.

Therefore, he had to admit that these conservative ritualists were really like a pot of loose sand, with no real organization, which made the rational ones be dragged down by the stupid ones and even forced to do stupid things. However, there were also more rational ones who saw through the kind of people their teammates were and were only busy re-positioning themselves. They had no awareness of making sacrifices for the common advocacy of the ancestral system and striving to establish their own internal organization of the ritualists.

of course!

Zhu Houcong knew that these conservative ritualists did not really believe in following the laws passed down by their ancestors. Instead, they came together for their own selfish reasons and were a group of people who had lost faith and no longer even believed in Confucius. Therefore, it was impossible for them to have any common consciousness, or even to maintain and establish a common organizational program.

After all, if Zhu Houcong really followed the laws of his ancestors and restored the system of the Zhu Yuanzhang period, they would be more furious than anyone else. Or, if Zhu Houcong really directly restored the ancient times they admired and followed Wang Mang's example to vigorously promote the well-field system, I am afraid the confrontation would be even more intense than it is now.

"Draft an order to order the Imperial Guard to immediately send the Imperial Guards to Tongzhou to arrest the entire Liu family!"

After thinking this, Zhu Houcong gave instructions to Fei Hong who came to the palace to see him.

"Your Majesty, Liu Qi is dead. It may not make much sense to arrest Liu's family members."

Fei Hong reminded at this time.

Zhu Houcong smiled slightly: "Yes!"

Fei Hong was shocked after hearing this, and wondered if Liu Yinghuai didn't die suddenly?
"They are actually guarding the inner city and there are people in the Beijing Camp Military Academy. I won't be able to sleep or eat well unless I dig out all of them!"

(End of this chapter)