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Since August, officials in the DPRK and Central Government have gradually pointed their attacks at Qin Hui's bad debts from that year. Although Qin Hui's explanation seemed to have no flaws, and there were also endorsements from the then Prime Minister Fan Zongyin and the Privy Councilor Li Hui, but at one time and another, Fan Zongyin

and Li Hui have both passed away, their words have long been useless, and the rumor that Qin Hui is a masterpiece of the Jin Dynasty has been fermented many times in the past 20 years. But this time, they hope to use this issue to pull Qin Hui down.

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The focus of the attack is still to ask Qin Hui to explain clearly what happened back then, in detail, without any ambiguity or unsubstantiation. Li Xianzhong, Wang Dagui and others proposed that the emperor should establish a special investigation team to investigate Qin Hui's actions that year.

The investigation team led by Jin Guo verified Qin Hui's self-report one by one, and sent personnel to find people who knew the story at the time to interrogate and verify the confessions.

Li Xianzhong and others believed that Qin Hui, who held the important position of Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, must be clean and worthy of heaven and earth. As for the rumors circulated in the Song Dynasty that Qin Hui worked for the Jin people, it is necessary to investigate and get to the bottom of it. It does not mean that what the people say is the truth.

Whether Prime Minister Qin is a Jin man or not, we need the support of definite evidence. This time we have to find out clearly. This is not an attack on Prime Minister Qin, but a clarification. If Qin Hui is innocent, it will just let the people spread rumors.

Eliminating it is a good thing for both public and private affairs, the court and the Prime Minister of Qin personally.

It has to be said that this time the officials who opposed Qin Hui found a good entry point, and the strategy was appropriate. They stood on a seemingly neutral position and did not admit that this was an impeachment and impeachment of Qin Hui.

The attack was said to be to stop the rumors and clear up the reputation of Prime Minister Qin. They reported to Zhao Gou and requested that Qin Xiang suspend his position as prime minister until the facts were clarified to avoid suspicion. In fact, the purpose of this was to suspend Qin Hui.

As for whether it can be found out whether Qin Hui is really the work of the Jin people, it doesn't actually matter. After so many years, it will definitely take a long time to find out the matter. It doesn't matter how long it takes. Anyway, before the clarification, Qin Hui

Failure to perform his duties would be tantamount to impeaching Qin Hui.

Naturally, the thoughts and actions of Li Xianzhong, Wang Dagui and others could not be hidden from Qin Hui's eyes. He had been in court for more than 20 years and had twice paid homage to the prime minister. There were countless people who opposed him. He had never seen any kind of methods. Qin Hui could see clearly.

It is clear that this action was clearly prepared by the opponent, and Li Xianzhong and others had the support of others. Such an organized and strategic action has not happened in the past ten years. He Qin Hui, more than ten years ago,

It is true for the past few years that officials in the DPRK and China are all frightened when they see him, and even if they have the courage to do so, they dare not openly provoke him. If they dare to do so, they have someone behind them.

However, Qin Hui maintained a cautious attitude, because the other party's impeachment of him was not a trivial matter. He knew that the reason why he could stand still was that he was good at calculation and good at figuring out what he wanted. But there was a more important factor.

The reason lies in the trust of the emperor, which is the basis of everything. Qin Hui can still sit in the position of prime minister despite the disapproval of the world and become the enemy of the world, because of the trust of the emperor in him. If he loses this

Basics, there is nothing to talk about.

Therefore, before exerting force, he needed to know the emperor's attitude.

Qin Hui wrote a memorial to Zhao Gou in mid-September. It was a memorial voluntarily confessing his crime and asking for his retirement. Qin Hui said in the memorial that although he was very

He wanted to work harder for the court, but he had worked too hard for many years and was under great mental pressure. He said that he was not capable enough, so that during his reign, there were frequent divisions in the court, and the court's policies were controversial.

Nowadays, some people are making a fuss about what happened back then, and he is no longer able to deal with these criticisms of himself. Qin Hui said that he was very vague about what happened back then, and now he is asked to recall and retell what happened back then.

It has been difficult for him to remember these things accurately. These will obviously give the impeachment officials a clue to accuse him of deliberately covering up. Qin Hui said that instead of doing this, he might as well simply comply with everyone's wishes and resign from office.

.If the emperor thinks that he is guilty, he is willing to accept the punishment. If the emperor thinks that he is innocent, he will also resign because he has lost his energy just from attending to government affairs and can no longer cope with the criticism and impeachment of the courtiers.

This memorial was written in a very humble and low-key manner, even a little emotional. Qin Hui's purpose of doing this was actually very simple. He just wanted to know Zhao Gou's attitude. He knew Zhao Gou. If the emperor really felt sorry for his impeachment this time,

If he cares about it, he will issue an edict approving his resignation. If the emperor disdains it, he will issue an edict to appease himself. There is no need to ask more, just wait for the emperor's reaction, and his attitude will be clear.

Of course, this memorial was actually a policy of retreating into advancement. Qin Hui knew that the emperor still needed him very much. All his actions were done according to the emperor's ideas, and he took a lot of blame for the emperor. If

After he resigned, no one would take the blame for the emperor anymore. The way he recounted the past in the memorial was to remind the emperor to understand this.

A few days later, the emperor's decree was issued, which was a memorial to comfort Qin Hui. Qin Hui's heart suddenly dropped to his stomach. Qin Hui knew that the emperor could not live without him. But at the same time, Qin Hui also realized that there was actually something in the emperor's heart.

Doubtful, because the emperor did not issue a decree to comfort himself immediately, nor did he comfort himself and issue an decree to end the impeachment at the same time. This shows that in the emperor's heart, there is still some doubts.

Qin Hui understood this. After all, there were so many strange things about his return to the south that everyone had doubts. Now that the old matter was brought up again, he did not give a convincing explanation, but excused himself by saying that he could not remember. This was inevitable.

Zhao Gou was very dissatisfied.

However, Qin Hui doesn't care about this. As long as the emperor thinks that he still needs to survive, it means that the emperor does not want to delve into this matter and does not fully believe those people's impeachment. And next, Qin Hui only needs to concentrate on dealing with these things.

Just impeach someone.

Qin Hui's counterattack came soon. On September 16th, at the court meeting, Qin Party general Tang Siti submitted a petition to the court, requesting a thorough investigation into Li Xianzhong's allegiance to the puppet Qi, Jin and Xixia. The reason for Tang Si's retreat was simple.

Let’s check the old man’s background. Let’s check it out together. If you say that the Prime Minister of Qin is a Jin man, then your butt, Li Xianzhong, is not clean. Back then, you first worked for the Puppet Qi, and then you worked for the enemies of the Song Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom and Xixia, then your

What does your behavior mean? Did you surrender to the Song Dynasty for a certain purpose? If you want Prime Minister Qin to make it clear, you should also make it clear.

Li Xianzhong did work for the Puppet Qi in his early years. Later, the Puppet Qi was overthrown by the Jin. Li Xianzhong briefly served as an official under Wanyan Zongbi. Later, he fell out with the Jin and defected to Xixia. Finally, he returned south to the Song Dynasty. But Li Xianzhong In fact, as early as when he was working for the puppet Qi, he ordered people to send letters to the Song Dynasty to express his loyalty to the Song Dynasty. Later, he sent letters to Lin'an many times to express his intention to return to the south. Later in Xixia, he even sent letters to Lin'an to express his intention to return to the south.

He led an army of 40,000 to defect to Wu Jie and made great achievements. Even the name "Xianzhong" was given to him by Zhao Gou.

But now, Tang Situi and others actually used this matter as an excuse, which was extremely crazy. What's more, some members of the Qin Party actually called him a "family slave with four surnames" in the hall. Li Xianzhong's fiery temper was suddenly suppressed. It was lit. In front of Zhao Gou, he knocked Tang Si Tui to the ground and punched him seven or eight times, almost beating Tang Si Tui to death. But the result of this was obvious. Zhao Gou angrily accused Li Xianzhong of being ignorant. He doesn't know the etiquette and self-restraint. Who is Tang Si Tui? That is the position of participating in politics in the political affairs hall, and he is the deputy prime minister. He should not commit murder in public. Of course, Zhao Gou also thinks that Tang Si Tui's impeachment is a bit excessive. Well, Li Xianzhong's loyalty was well known to the world, but Tang Si retreated to talk about this matter, which seemed to be provocative.

After weighing the situation twice, Zhao Gou ordered Li Xianzhong to be demoted to the deputy envoy of Guozhou Tuanlian and asked him to leave the capital and reflect on himself.

Someone caught the weakness of Li Xianzhong's character. With just one blow, he threw himself into disarray and accepted the punishment. It didn't matter that he was demoted. The officials headed by him who were trying their best to impeach Qin Hui were dumbfounded and didn't know what to do. What's better.

Of course, Qin Hui refused to give up, and his subordinates successively launched impeachments against Wang Dagui, Huijun, Liu Jizhong and others. I don’t know where they got the information. Wang Dagui stopped his wife and remarried when he was young, and Liu Jizhong did it in southern Hunan. When he was an official, his mother took hundreds of taels of silver from a local wealthy businessman to celebrate his birthday, etc. All these things, both insignificant and insignificant, were uncovered. All the officials who participated in the impeachment had their share, and all of them had their old accounts settled. As the saying goes, no one is perfect. Unless he is a saint, there is no one who does not make mistakes. In fact, many of these mistakes are innocuous and are rarely dealt with. However, they are regarded by officials in the court as some huge and intolerable mistakes. Amplify and render the same.

These mistakes did not need to be investigated, because the evidence was there and could be investigated and punished immediately. Therefore, these officials were all labeled guilty before they even responded. However, they were unable to argue at all, and Qin Hui's gang members said those things was extremely important, which caused them to be in chaos.

From mid-September to early October, there was this kind of collective impeachment and criticism every day in the DPRK. A large number of officials demanded that these officials who had behaved badly should be punished first. They themselves had behaved badly, but they came to impeach Prime Minister Qin. , it was obviously an attempt. Some people even started to propose a thorough investigation of the motives behind the impeachment of Prime Minister Qin. Is there someone who wanted to hand the Jin people a knife, deliberately wanted to bring down the Prime Minister of Qin, and increased troops in the border towns to cause trouble, so that the Jin people could take advantage of the opportunity? It was like sending troops. In short, Qin Hui didn't do it. Once he did, it was like a violent storm, giving the opponent no chance to breathe and no one could argue. It was originally an impeachment against Qin Hui, but later it became everyone's self-protection. Too busy to launch a counterattack.

Simply this time, Yang Cunzhong, the commander of the front department, and Zhao Yuan, the king of Pu'an County, did not remain silent. They spoke in front of the emperor one after another, asking the emperor to stop the exaggerated behavior of these courtiers. Zhao Gou also knew full well that this was Qin Hui's behavior.

What he did behind the scenes was to act as a peacemaker and demote some officials who participated in the impeachment. It was not a big deal, just deal with it. These people were already worried about being severely punished, but suddenly they got this painful thing.

Everyone who wanted to be punished knew to cherish this opportunity. So they all went to court to receive their punishments and never mentioned the impeachment of Qin Hui again.
Chapter completed!