On the tenth day of the 10th day of the 71st year of the Kangyuan period of Dagan, at noon, the city of Suzhou, the imperial imperial envoy of King Li Zhen of Wei was sent to the headquarters.

King Li Zhen of Wei was rescued from Taihu Lake. After two days and two nights of rest, his condition had improved a lot. At this time, he took the medicine and drank another bowl of red dates and lotus seed porridge, and his face gradually became rosy. He was walking slowly in the house, and occasionally he talked about a few gossips with Xue Tao and Xu Ke next to him. At this time, a personal soldier hurried in and handed a letter to Xue Tao. According to the personal soldier's report, the letter was sent by Qiu Mingli, the Minister of Revenue, who sent a person of 600 miles to quickly. Xue Tao hurriedly presented Mr. Qiu's letter to Li Zhen.

Li Zhen took the letter, opened it and watched it. After reading a few lines of words, his face changed drastically and he said in a lost voice:

"The prince was deposed!"

The other two people standing in the room, Xue Tao and Xu Ke couldn't help but look surprised when they heard this, and they all thought to themselves: "This New Year, in January, every household was celebrating the New Year, and the emperor actually deposed the prince?"

Li Zhen read the letter and pondered for a moment, then said, "The father issued an edict on the third day of the lunar month to depose the crown prince as a commoner. He immediately took it to Luzhou Prefecture to ban it and would not leave the mansion forever. Mr. Qiu said in the letter that his father was heartbroken because of this, and now he was suffering from a serious illness and could not afford to suffer... His life... His life is worrying, and he may be about to be banned..." Speaking of this, Li Zhen was full of sadness, and tears were already hidden in his eyes...

"Your Highness! This is not the time to be sad! The prince has been deposed and the emperor is seriously ill. The court situation is in turmoil and there will be changes at any time! But now, we are far away in Suzhou, and your highness must make a quick decision and make an idea quickly!" Xue Tao said hurriedly.

Li Zhen raised his hand to wipe away the tears in his eyes, then changed into a cold and calm face, and said in a deep voice:

"No need to delay, set off quickly and return to Beijing!"

Xue Tao said, "But your highness has only been resting for two days. The doctor has repeatedly told you to avoid the wind within three days!"

"I can't care about this much anymore. Go and explain to Li Chengfeng. After half an hour, set off immediately!" Li Zhen said sternly. However, he still couldn't hide his eyes, and there was a little sadness...

Xue Tao knew the nature of this master, and once the decision was decided, there would be no change. He thought that the situation in front of him could not be delayed for a moment, so he hurriedly and Xu Ke and the other two, as the orders of the King of Wei, ordered people to pack their luggage and handled the matter carefully with the Suzhou prefect Li Chengfeng.

According to Li Zhen's wishes, the imperial guards, who had originally only one hundred people left, left another sixty, and were under the command of Li Chengfeng. He ordered the prefect Li to buy all the nearly 500,000 taels of silver he had collected on the spot, and led the imperial guards to personally escort to Shannan Road to help the victims there.

Li Zhen personally wrote a letter, stamped with the seal of the imperial envoy, and ordered Li Chengfeng to send personnel to Hangzhou Prefecture to urge Hangzhou Prefecture to raise funds, and sent the obtained grain to Shandong and Shannan.

After all the matter was explained, the King of Wei's imperial envoy's guards set out north and returned to Beijing before the time was not yet available. The prefect of Suzhou Li Chengfeng led officials from all over the Hefu to see him off to the north gate of Suzhou City. At this time, the King of Wei's guards had only 40 personal soldiers left. The entire imperial envoy's guards had "shrinked" by more than half compared to when he left Chang'an. The King of Wei was sitting in the carriage, not only worried about his father's condition, but also anxious about the variables of the court. He kept urging the carriage to walk, but he had no intention of watching the scenery outside the car window...

The north wind was bleak and the grass and trees were frosty. The imperial envoy came out of Suzhou City and rushed back to Chang'an. Not to mention this, the situation in Chang'an, the capital was already in chaos at this time...

At the beginning of the New Year, after the New Year, the New Year is approaching, and the whole world is celebrated together. Why did Emperor Li Chongsheng kill the prince at this festive moment?

Everything was asked by Prince Li Ren himself, as the saying goes, "it is unsuccessful to commit sins."

The story starts on December 26, 1970, Kangyuan.

On this day, Bi Songyun, the Minister of Personnel, rushed to the outside of Zichen Hall of the Daming Palace, waiting to meet the emperor.

Bi Songyun waited for half an hour in the bitter cold wind, but saw the chief general of the inner court, Gao Liangshi, coming. Gao Liangshi said, "Long live the emperor, who was tired and lying down, and these external officials disappeared...

According to convention, if the emperor has no time to meet, the Minister of Personnel will lead these officials who are about to be released to meet with the King of Wei who is in charge of the Ministry of Personnel. After seeing him, if the King of Wei has no objection, he will sign the letter on the spot, and the Ministry of Personnel will create an official certificate and stamp it with a seal. These foreign officials can take the official certificate with the official certificate and take the office immediately.

However, at this time, the King of Wei had already been ordered to go south to raise grain. According to Eunuch Gao's wishes, the prince on duty had to nod and sign the letter, and the matter was settled. Today, the one on duty in the Prince's Court was Li Zhi. There was no way, so Bi Songyun had to bite the bullet and go to the King of Chu...

Today, King Li Zhi of Chu was on duty in the Daming Palace. In the court, the King of Chu has always been known for his easy-going treatment, and is completely different from the King of Wei who is as cold as ice. At this time, the King of Chu was sitting in front of the desk in the outer hall, looking at the confession documents of these people, while smiling at the five drooping prefects who were about to be released.

"Your name is Ye Longhao, are you going to be the governor of Huizhou?" Li Zhi asked a middle-aged man with a thin body and a pair of small eyes.

"Report to Your Highness, Ye Ronghao, the lower-ranking official, is about to go to Huizhou to take office..." The thin-eyed man who was called Ye Ronghao bowed and replied.

Li Zhi asked, "Which list are you from Jinshi?"

Ye Longhao said: "Go back to Your Highness, the lower rank is not from a Jinshi."

"Then are you from the God King Pavilion?" Li Zhi asked with a smile again.

"Your Highness is joking. With his ability, how can you enter the God King Pavilion?" Ye Longhao also responded with a smile.

"Then you..." Li Zhi couldn't help but wonder.

"Oh... the lower official is the fame of a juren. He has been a Zhanggu in the lawsuits of the Ministry of Justice before." Ye Longhao replied.

"A Zhang Gu who is in the lawsuit in the Ministry of Justice? How did a mere seventh-grade Zhang Gu send him a fifth-grade prefect!... Master Bi, what's going on?!" Li Zhi asked Bi Songyun standing next to him.

"This...this..." Bi Songyun thought to himself: "This was appointed by the prince himself." But in front of Li Zhi, he naturally did not dare to say it openly...

"Ye Longhao! I ask you, how many years have you been a seventh-grade palm? Have you ever been a local official before? Do you know how to be a good prefect?" Li Zhi's face changed and he suddenly asked loudly at Ye Longhao.

"Qi... Qi Biography Your Highness... The villain has been a scholar of the Ministry of Justice before. He has just been the chief of the Gu for a year... This... Is this local official? I have never done it... As for how to be a good prefect, the villain thought that as long as he always remembers the emperor's teachings in his heart, works hard and loves the people, naturally... he can naturally be a good prefect..." Ye Longhao was frightened by Li Zhi's words, and couldn't help but feel trembling in his heart, but he forced himself to breathe a sigh of relief and answered the questions of the King of Chu one by one. At this time, Ye Longhao was also extremely distressed. He thought to himself, "I gave 50,000 taels of silver to the prince before I could release this! But can I tell this matter?"

At this time, Bi Songyun, the Minister of Personnel, seemed to have some conspiracy in his heart, and he bowed and said:

"Your Highness of the King of Chu, these five people were carefully selected by the Ministry of Personnel, and were briefly selected from the officials of my major officials. Although they were promoted in an extraordinary way, they were just in line with the intention of selecting officials and recruiting talents without any restrictions. What's more, we also followed the orders of the prince's order. The prince often admonished us. Now that the court is employed by people, we must not stick to the perspective of the people, only know how to stick to the rut, so that the pearl is missing and the handsome boy is buried..."

Li Zhi snorted coldly and said, "What a 'Pearl is missing, Junyan buried'... Whether it is a pearl or a broken stone, it is not up to you, Bi Songyun!"

Bi Songyun hurriedly said, "Your Highness, the Ministry of Revenue has experienced Xu Ke before... Isn't he a seventh-rank official? I heard that this person is a white-haired person who has not even passed the fame of a scholar. Didn't the emperor also upgraded him to the fifth-rank Qingyiwei 100 households?..."

"Stop talking! You dare to judge the way your father uses people!" Li Zhi said angrily.

Bi Songyun hurriedly bowed and said in panic: "I dare not be humble! I am humble and speak in ruthless words. I hope your highness will forgive me!"

"Let's do this, I can't decide the foreign responsibilities of these five prefects. You can stay here first. After your father wakes up, I will take you there and let your father decide in person..." After Li Zhi said that, without waiting for everyone to reply, he went back to the inner room to rest...

One hour later, King Li Zhi of Chu brought five quasi-prefects to take office to meet Emperor Li Chongsheng in Zichen Hall. In front of the emperor, under the "straightforward and temptation" questioning by Li Zhi, the five people were in a panic and made random statements in front of the imperial court...

Facing these five ignorant people kneeling in the hall, Li Chongsheng looked at Bi Songyun, who was terrified and uneasy next to him, and knew about it. He felt sad again, and then asked the Minister of Personnel helplessly: "Are these five prefects appointed by the crown prince?"

"Report to Your Majesty, these five prefectures are all selected by the Wealth Ministers and others, and then report to the Crown Prince for permission..." Although Bi Songyun insisted on himself, he knew that this matter could not be hidden from the old emperor.

"You all retreat, King Chu stay..." Li Chongsheng waved his hand, feeling quite irritable, thinking that New Year's Eve is approaching, why are there still so many messy things that have disturbed me from the New Year!

After the six people left, Li Chongsheng asked Li Zhi:

"Who are these five...the princes?"

"Your father, according to your son's investigation, these five people have nothing to do with the prince. They have never seen the prince before." Li Zhi replied.

"Nothing to do with it!...You mean, the prince took their money?" Li Chongsheng asked in surprise.

"That's right!" Li Zhi replied.

Li Chongsheng asked again: "How much did you collect?"

Li Zhi said: "When he returned to his father, the prince openly sold his official positions, and the price was fair, each person was not much or less, and it was 50,000 taels of silver."

Li Chongsheng was angry and said angrily:

"The prince sold five prefects in this breath! Did he earn 250,000 taels of silver?"

Li Zhi added lightly: "Father, the prince not only sold five prefects this time..."

"And?" Li Chongsheng asked, feeling a little disbelief.

"Qi Bian... the prince sold a total of twenty-two prefects this time." Li Zhi replied.

Hearing this number, Li Chongsheng couldn't help but feel trembling in his heart, and almost fell from the dragon throne...

Even if he had been the emperor for seventy years, he had heard of such a sensational act.

The entire Dagan Kingdom had only a total of more than 100 prefects, and the prince actually sold twenty-two in one go!

No wonder the people say: "Three years of being a prefect, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver!"

These people spent 50,000 taels of silver to buy a prefect. Once they took office, would they not be able to plunder them?

Every prefect is a local parent official. If the prefects who teach the hard work are all people who are shave three feet of the ground and eat fish and meat, how can the people in the world survive? How can the country that makes the hard work continue?

...

Li Chongsheng could no longer imagine, so he had to slowly close his eyes.
Chapter completed!