At this flower party, Yuzhu met everyone she wanted to see.
However, just after the flower party ended, within two days, the Yan family was surrounded by Eight Banners soldiers sent by Jiangning General Oxon.
The head of the Yan family, Yan Shihe, was caught off guard. None of his immediate family members, young and old, escaped, and all of them were made dumplings.
Oxon was not polite at all, and just arrested all the Yan family members and put them in jails all over the city.
By the time Yuzhu came for interrogation, the Yan family members, who had been starved for three days, were all extremely haggard.
In particular, Yan Shihe's only son, young Yan Bohu, was so hungry that he cried.
"The imperial envoy has arrived!" Accompanied by Wu Jiang's scolding, Yuzhu, wearing a yellow mandarin jacket, walked into the lobby with square steps, accompanied by Niu Tai.
"Bring the imperial convict!" Yuzhu threw a fire sign into the hall.
"Mighty..." Amidst the sound of the officers beating their sticks, the Yan family were all brought to the lobby.
"Where is the plaintiff Gao Xiangcheng?" Yuzhu did not look at the Yan family, but asked Gao Xiangcheng first.
Gao Xiangcheng hurriedly knelt down and said respectfully: "My high minister, Gao Xiangcheng, respectfully greet you."
According to the rules, anyone with meritorious status can call himself a minister. Those without meritorious status must call themselves ordinary people.
Yuzhu stood up, raised his fists to the sky, and said loudly: "Honor, Holy Gong."
Under normal circumstances, Gao Xiangcheng, who has already achieved great success in promoting people, is qualified to meet officials without kneeling.
However, Yuzhu was an imperial envoy with an imperial order and represented the supreme imperial power, so Gao Xiangcheng had no choice but to kneel down.
After Yuzhu sat down, Gao Xiangcheng, as the accuser, made a public report in front of the Yan family about the Yan family's secret possession of forbidden books and their evil intentions.
"Spouting blood..."
"Purely slander..."
"Gao Xiangcheng, you little guy..."
Zhou Quan, who was acting as the secretary, couldn't help but smile when he looked at the Yan family members who were yelling at each other in the hall.
Yuzhu is a big noble under his banner, and he came from the capital. He had nothing to do with the Yan family before.
The Yan family probably never expected in their wildest dreams that Zhou Quan was the instigator of Gao Xiangcheng's report, right?
Gao Xiangcheng knew the situation of the Yan family very well. Under his identification in court, there were as many as a dozen kinds of forbidden books in the Yan family's collection.
To be honest, Gao Xiangcheng really did not frame the Yan family.
Which of the homes of Jiangnan celebrities these days doesn’t have a few banned books from the Ming Dynasty hidden in them?
He talks about his motherland and always has a few ostentatiously banned books at home to look presentable.
However, how could Yan Shihe dare to admit that he had hidden forbidden books in private?
At this time, Gao Xiangcheng took the initiative to suggest that Tong'er speaks the most truthfully and begs for punishment for Yan Shihe's only son, Yan Bohu, who is seven years old.
Good guy, as soon as Gao Xiangcheng said these words, his evil heart to destroy the heirs of the Yan family was completely exposed.
Poor Yan Bohu had been starved for several days and cried so hard that his voice became hoarse.
If he were tortured again, he would probably lose his life!
Yuzhu pretended to ponder, pretending to be slightly hesitant.
Yan Shihe's face was so frightened that he couldn't defend himself, so he had to kowtow and beg for mercy.
"Here comes..." Yuzhu pretended to have made up his mind and wanted to take action against Yan Bohu.
Liu Taiqing loved his son so much that he ignored the imperial envoy's basic principle of not asking her to speak.
"Your Majesty, the Imperial Envoy, the daughter of the people said that Gao Xiangcheng is a treacherous villain, and he deliberately framed my son..."
Yuzhu was waiting for Liu Taiqing to show up. When she had scolded her enough, he asked her kindly: "Why do you see her?"
The only son was about to face disaster, and Liu Taiqing didn't care so much, so he exposed all the connections between Gao Xiangcheng and her in front of Yan Shihe.
Yan Shihe never expected that the fairy wife who had been married to the Yan family for more than ten years would have such a tortuous love history.
Zhou Quan nodded secretly while taking notes. This was the effect he wanted.
From ancient times to the present, as long as it is a man, who would like his wife to have a rich love history?
Especially in the Qing Dynasty, where ethics were extremely strict, Liu Taiqing actually had so many connections with Gao Xiangcheng before their marriage.
It was difficult for Yan Shihe to accept this reality, and he couldn't help but feel so angry that his whole body became cold.
Yuzhu thought to himself that Zhou Quan's arrangement had indeed saved him a lot of trouble.
In front of her husband, Liu Taiqing revealed his "adultery" with Gao Xiangcheng, which played into Yu Zhu's hands.
Don't get me wrong, adultery at this time is not the sexual intercourse that ordinary people think of.
For a lady from a well-known family, in this era of strict etiquette, even meeting her husband in private before marriage is considered adultery.
To be honest, Liu Taiqing was very scheming. She actually used words to trick Gao Xiangcheng into selling his ancestral home and raising money to pay off the Liu family's debts.
However, afterwards, Liu Taiqing married Yan Shihe, whom she was happy with.
After the bad things of that year were revealed, Yan Shihe was completely shocked!
Yan Shihe actually loved such a woman who was unruly for women for more than ten years.
"Bitch!" Yan Shihe was so angry that his nose became crooked.
The purpose of today's court inquiry is to expose Liu Taiqing's old background in front of Yan Shihe.
Now that Yan Shihe cursed in public, Zhou Quan's goal was achieved.
There was a plaintiff, physical evidence, and witness in this case. In terms of the Qing Dynasty, the evidence was considered conclusive.
In particular, the banned books collected by the Yan family are indeed real and were not deliberately framed.
It can be said to be a solid case!
Yuzhu was not in a hurry at all. He wrote a letter to Jiangnan to study politics and ordered his subordinate Zhazi to remove Yan Shihe from his reputation.
On the other side, Zhou Quan ordered someone to warn Liu Taiqing that their whole family would not survive.
The result was exactly as Zhou Quan expected. Liu Taiqing was unwilling to lose his only son and took the initiative to seek an audience with the imperial envoy, Mr. Yu.
Yuzhu deliberately delayed seeing Liu Taiqing, which greatly increased the psychological pressure.
Finally, after Liu Taiqing's repeated begging, Yuzhu reluctantly agreed to meet her.
"Master Jade, as long as I can save my child's life, I am willing to do anything."
Who dares not to bow his head under the eaves?
The life of the only son was in the palm of Yuzhu's hand, so there was no need to worry about Liu Taiqing's disobedience.
In fact, if Yuzhu had not intervened and followed the normal process, the Yan family would only be in worse shape.
Yuzhu seemed very hesitant, and Liu Taiqing was so confused that he started to take off his clothes when he was desperate.
"What are you doing?" Yuzhu asked Liu Taiqing in surprise.
Liu Taiqing said bitterly: "I just ask you to spare the dog's life. I am willing to serve on the pillow."
Yuzhu did not nod, but asked Liu Taiqing: "You will only save your son, but not your daughter? According to the court's regulations, if the case is reversed, all the women will be sold into that filthy place."
This is a fact!
In the Qing Dynasty, in order to frighten people who conspired to rebel, the women in the traitor's family would be stepped into hell and stepped on several times. Even if they died, their bodies would be dirty.
However, Liu Taiqing also knew in her heart that being able to save her only son was already a blessing. How dare she ask for too much?
"Oh, my little girl's fate is not good. Who told her to be born into the Yan family?" After Liu Taiqing said these words, he had clearly given up on his daughter and only wanted to save his son.
"Take her down first to bathe and change clothes. This imperial envoy is not so hungry that he even touches smelly women." Yuzhu waved his hand, and several rough women came in and took Liu Taiqing's half-undressed skirt.
Taken to bathe.
After Liu Taiqing was taken away, Yuzhu went to the inner room, only to see Liu Taiqing's daughter, Yan Xiaoqing, the most beautiful woman in the new generation of Jiangnan, slumped on the ground with tears streaming down her face, she was so sad that she couldn't control herself.
It must be admitted that Zhou Quan's strategy is too vicious, and it involves one link after another.
Yuzhu sighed secretly, Liu Taiqing's attitude of only protecting his son but abandoning his daughter had obviously broken Yan Xiaoqing's defenses.
On weekdays, the more favor Yan Xiaoqing received, the greater the trauma in his heart at this time.
Yuzhu raised his legs and went to the back hall. Zhou Quan knelt down, looked at Yan Xiaoqing, and said with pity: "With your beauty, in the blink of an eye, you will be a famous oiran. Alas, in this land of Jiangnan,
, How many good young men want to kiss your beauty? I’m afraid they are countless, right?"
After Zhou Quan's reminder, Yan Xiaoqing was stunned for a long time, and then his expression changed drastically.
The Yan family is finished, Liu Taiqing has given up on her, and what awaits her is actually the well-known bad luck.
In the flower streets and willow alleys, a jade arm can be used as a pillow for thousands of people, and a little red lip can be tasted by thousands of people. The days of showing off one's laughter are really terrible.
"Mr. Zhu, save me, save me, please, please spare me." Yan Xiaoqing cried and fell to the ground.
Zhou Quan saw that the heat had arrived, so he leaned close to Yan Xiaoqing's ear and whispered some instructions.
Yan Xiaoqing was hesitant at first, but he couldn't bear the huge fear of being locked in a birdcage and receiving students like Zhang Shuwei every day, so he had to tearfully comply with Zhou Quan's arrangement and was forced to become a maid in the Fuguo Palace.
Over there, Mrs. Liu was washed and peeled, and she got into the quilt with a sweet smell all over her body, and took the initiative to serve Yuzhu.
In the following days, under the auspices of Yuzhu, the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River encountered unprecedented rectification.
Nearly a thousand people were arrested and nearly a hundred homes were ransacked. For a time, all the scholars in Jiangnan were trembling in fear.
After the secret document of Yuzhu was handed over, Kangxi approved it on the same day. The urgent edict, which was six hundred miles away, arrived in Jiangning soon.
According to the edict, the entire Yan family was demoted to be the slaves of Duke Fu, and all their property was awarded to Yuzhu by Kangxi.
The rest of the Jiangnan celebrities were killed, imprisoned, and sold, but Yuzhu showed no mercy at all.
After Liu Taiqing regained her composure, she suddenly discovered that her fate was, relatively speaking, the best.
Because the ladies and noble ladies whom Liu Taiqing was once very familiar with have become cash cows in the land of fireworks.
When Yuzhu returned to Beijing according to the order, he took all the Yan family members with him.
However, Liu Taiqing's ex-husband, after writing a letter of divorce, was handed over to the armored man of Ninggu Pagoda as a slave.
When he returned to the palace to see His Majesty, Kangxi was in a very good mood and asked, "You little bastard, are you satisfied?"
Yuzhu also knew what Kangxi wanted to ask, so he said with saliva on his face: "How happy!"
Kangxi couldn't help stroking his beard and chuckled, waved his hand and said: "You are so shameless, get out of here."