Xia Lishuang smiled, with a rare hint of cunning in her brows.
"Let's not mention this for now. Have you found the files on the Lintai Poetry Case?"
Yuan Zurong nodded and immediately handed over a bunch of files.
Xia Lishuang smiled and smiled mysteriously at Wen Ranran, "If you can't start with these small things, then investigate the big ones! Those who had dirty butts back then would always be found out!"
Wen Ranran blinked.
Outside the imperial study room, Jiang Tang's round face, still wearing the clothes of a young guard, came in to report.
"Your Highness! The fourth prince is here!"
Xia Lishuang's eyes brightened slightly, "Please come in quickly!"
Yuan Surong on the side smiled, knowing that he had nothing to do here, and quietly retreated.
Xia Liqing was dressed in Tsing Yi, and his gentle face carried the chivalrous spirit of a great Confucian. If he walked on the street, no one would recognize him as the fourth prince of the current dynasty, and he would only be regarded as a noble son of another family.
"Fourth brother is here! Sit down! Ran Ran is watching tea!" Xia Lishuang raised her head from the file and stood up quickly.
Xia Liqing smiled, her eyebrows softened a lot, and she looked a little excited if she looked closely.
Wen Ranran obediently went down to prepare tea, and not long after, two cups of fragrant tea were served.
Xia Liqing was shocked, "Seventh brother is now a prince, how can I trouble my younger brothers and sisters to serve tea in person!"
Wen Ranran raised her eyebrows and smiled lightly, "My husband has already called me fourth brother, so it is natural for me to serve tea to him!"
Xia Liqing laughed and took a sip of tea. Although he tried his best to hide it, there was still a trace of urgency in his expression.
"Seventh brother, do you really want to re-investigate the case from back then?!"
Xia Lishuang nodded, "I promised you before... I won't break my promise!"
Xia Liqing hesitated for a moment, but chose to think about the problem from Xia Lishuang's perspective.
"Seventh brother... Now that my father is no longer in the court, if you act rashly like this, I'm afraid it will damage your prince's reputation!"
There are too many things involved in re-investigating old cases, and there are too few clues. If there is an overturn, Xia Lishuang will be caught in the pigtails and criticized.
The Lintai poem case has always been a thorn in Xia Liqing's heart, but Xia Lishuang treats him sincerely, and he also does not want this matter to affect Xia Lishuang.
Unexpectedly, Xia Lishuang just smiled slightly.
"Fourth brother is joking...Father will at most give you a few verbal punishments, but will not blame you!"
Wen Ranran looked at Xia Liqing curiously and smiled without saying a word.
She also understood the meaning of Xia Lishuang's words.
The Lintai Poetry Case was indeed unjust. As a new gentry, the Xie family was so popular that they carried out drastic reforms, which made them a thorn in the side of the conservative faction.
Even some of the policies proposed by Xie Yilin at that time were approved by Emperor Rongcheng. However, due to the oppression of the nobles, he had no choice but to deal with the Xie family.
After so many years, the emperor himself certainly had no intention of bringing up the old matter again, because once it was brought up, it would be a slap in the face.
But it would be different if it was left to others to handle. Now Emperor Rongcheng happens to be no longer in the palace. If it can be done, then Emperor Rongcheng can only be said to have been deceived by a traitor back then and had no knowledge of it.
Some of the stakes will be much smaller.
Xia Liqing let out a deep breath, looked at Xia Lishuang's encouraging eyes, and opened the yellowed file.
Following his movements, Xia Lishuang and Wen Ranran also approached each other.
The file is very simple, but the charge is inexplicable.
The reason is a poem written by Xie Yilin.
"The wind hides the sky, the clouds cover the sun, and the mountains and the ground cover the yin and yang. Please go up to the Jinlin Terrace for a while, and the sound of strings is playing another year."
In a very simple poem, this poem, the Xie family was slandered as treason. In the end, none of the eighty-one members of the Xie family survived.
Wen Ranran looked at the heavy files in front of her and sighed deeply.
Throughout the ages, many literati with lofty ideals have had their heads and wrists cut off because of literary inquisition, and Xie Yilin is no exception.
There was the First Emperor who burned books and harassed Confucian scholars, and later the Han Emperor deposed hundreds of schools of thought...isn't this the case all the time?
This case could be overturned if it was easy to overturn it, but Wen Ranran knew that Xia Lishuang's ambitions did not end there. He wanted to implement Xie Yilin's policies of the year one by one while overturning the case.