After returning to the courtyard, Shi Ji's confidants came over and bowed respectfully to him.
Due to the integration of ethnic groups, most of the etiquette has been Chineseized.
"My lord, the general has asked you to send out troops with him to attack the Jin Dynasty." A confidant said in a low voice.
Shi Ji's eyes moved.
Fight... Dajin?
He hesitated for a moment and nodded slowly: "I understand."
…
Jiankang.
Wang Dazai threw a pile of memorials on the ground, and the bamboo slips were scattered everywhere, but he could not hide his anger.
When Lu Zhong came in, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he saw Wang Dazai's angry and domineering look: "What happened to make Dazai so angry?"
"This Huan Feng! This Qiao Guo Huan clan! This is simply too much!" Wang Dazai was so angry that he scolded his mother.
After Huan Feng came back, he could not take back the north due to the establishment of the Wei Dynasty, so he vented his anger on the court.
All the military officers in the imperial court, regardless of their official position, were all replaced by him as descendants of the Huan family, children of poor families and nobles with the surname Wu.
Even the children of the Huo family were assigned many positions, while the Qiao family had no positions at all.
After Lu Zhong heard this, he comforted Wang Dazai on the surface but laughed on the inside.
The Qiao surname family has always targeted the poor families and the Wu surnamed gentry. Now the Qiaoguo Huan family is rising. Because they can't stand the dominance of the Wang family, they strongly support the children of the poor families and the Wu family. Isn't this normal?
You deserve to be angry.
Dazai Wang was furious, but when he heard Lu Zhong's consolation, he not only didn't get angry, but instead scolded Lu Zhong for being cowardly and weak.
Lu Zhong received the scolding without saying a word, which made Wang Dazai feel like he had been punched in cotton.
"How could my son fall in love with a rat like you?" He looked at the young man who was bowing his head and being respectful, with a look of confusion and helplessness on his face.
After a while, he waved his hand and said, "Let's go, don't get in my eyes."
"Here."
Lu Zhong left the palace, and his confidant handed him a thin cloak and said in a low voice: "My lord, the governor of Yangzhou seems to have made some moves. We need to continue sending people..."
"No need." Lu Zhong gathered his thin cloak and said calmly while walking towards Changle Palace, "He is smarter than me. The things exposed to him are enough for him to follow the clues and find out the evidence of the crime."
"My lord and Governor Xie have known each other since they were young. It is indeed as rumored. They are not like brothers, but more like brothers." A confidant sighed.
Lu Zhong lowered his eyes.
Brothers and sisters…
His father killed Xie Yuan's maternal uncle. Xie Yuan and Qi Yan teamed up with Huo Qubing to expose the evidence of Fan Yang's Lu family, making him homeless overnight——
They are really brothers who sacrifice their relatives for the sake of justice.
He once helped Xie Yuan because he was Xie Yuan;
Helping Xie Yuan now is just because of himself.
Those who owe him, those who look down on him, those debts, he will pay them back one by one with his own hands.
The young man slowly raised his head and straightened his chest, raised the corner of his mouth with a curve, and his gloomy eyes were covered by a smile: "The queen is waiting for me, don't make her impatient."
"Here."
After a long delay, Xie Yuan finally found out the source of all the counterfeit coins.
These guys were all the work of my maternal relative Wang.
Xie Yuan and Cui Heng unanimously decided to start closing the net.
In order not to alert others, they arranged everything secretly and then started to take action.
On November 4, Xie Yuan made the case of forging counterfeit coins public and reported it to the court.
Taiwei Huanfeng was furious and ordered Xie Yuan to investigate the matter thoroughly.
Xie Yuan then uprooted all the descendants of the Taiyuan Wang family who were hiding in Yangzhou and forging counterfeit coins, and did not let any of them escape.
When these people confessed their crimes and explained that Wang Dazai asked for this to frame Xie Yuan, all the poor people who supported Xie Yuan became angry.
Not only the children from poor families, but also the gentry named Wu who were allied with Xie Yuan were angry, and even the common people who went to school to study and become literate thanks to Xie Yuan were also angry.
People who were about to starve to death survived because they got free food from Xie Yuan; homeless refugees lost their household registration because of Xie Yuan; people who had no income to pay taxes had fields to farm because of Xie Yuan; people who couldn't study were
Because of Xie Yuan, people can enter the academy; because of Xie Yuan, common people who are oppressed by nobles can report them and receive relatively equal treatment——
All these things, so many things, those people with the overseas surname can't do it, just forget it if they can't do it, and they even framed Governor Xie and such a good parent official.
Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?
The more these people thought about it, the angrier they became, and they all asked Wang Dazai to step down.
And those aristocratic families with overseas surnames couldn't stand the fact that Wang Dazai and his relatives, the Wang family, were the dominant family, so they also operated in secret and made all kinds of troubles against the Wang family in Taiyuan.
Among them, especially the Wang family from Langya and the Xie family from Chenjun who had migrated over. Since these two were close friends for hundreds of years, they worked together to find evidence of Wang Dazai's corruption and bribery, and also found evidence of Wang Dazai's secret use of minerals.
evidence.
Forging counterfeit coins privately was regarded as treason. Due to these crimes, Huan Feng immediately sentenced Wang Dazai to show his head to the public. The Wang family in Taiyuan was deprived of any property, the men were sent to the border areas, and the women were turned into slaves one after another and became official prostitutes.
At this point, the Wang family of Taiyuan, which was so powerful for a while, withdrew from the political stage of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
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On November 30th, Dazai Wang was executed.
When he was pushed to the execution ground, all the people watching the theater threw rotten cabbage leaves and rotten eggs at him.
Wang Dazai lowered his head so that others could not see his expression clearly.
After a while, he felt someone standing next to him. Wang Dazai slowly raised his eyes, and when he saw the person, his eyes couldn't help but move.
"What are you doing here?" He stared at the person in front of him and smiled.
"I'm here, naturally, to see Wang Dazai off." Lu Zhong bowed his head and smiled slightly.
"Thank you for the dog meal that Dazai rewarded you last year. Lu still remembers it fresh. The evidence that exposed you was all provided to Xie Yuan secretly by me."
"You... you are a bastard of revenge!" Wang Dazai was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood and sprayed it directly on Lu Zhong's face.
Lu Zhong wiped off the blood on his face slowly, covered Wang Dazai's ear, and spoke in a low voice——
"The prince is of the Wang family's blood, and so is the queen. Do you think Taiwei Huan will spare the lives of their mother and son after Prince Jin deposes himself?"
Wang Dazai's pupils trembled, and suddenly his eyesight turned black.
It turns out...it turns out that he actually has a white-eyed wolf by his side.
It turned out that Lu Zhong was more tolerant than Xie Yuan.
It was him who was wrong, it was him from the beginning...
I just underestimated Lu Zhong.
After the fall of the Wang family in Taiyuan, the deposed Queen Wang and the prince were soon sentenced to death because they were also of Wang family blood.
Subsequently, the Xie family of Chenjun and the Wang family of Langya, who had done meritorious deeds, entered the political stage of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty began an era in which the three families divided power.
Considering that Emperor Yongkang had no one in his harem, various aristocratic families jointly held a draft to select a queen.
It turned out that the final queen was from the Long Kanghuan family, which surprised everyone.
But considering that it is Huan Feng who holds the power now, it is not surprising.