Chapter 953: A minister's loyalty

A few days after Chen Guanlou returned to the capital, the news of Marquis Pingjiang's assassination finally spread back to the capital and spread through the streets and alleys.

The court officials were suspicious, and when they looked at someone on the dragon chair, the Hou Fu suddenly made a big news.

The funeral had just been handled, and the second branch of the Hou Fu was making trouble to divide the family.

Absurd!

Unreasonable!

The hot mourning hadn't passed, and they wanted to divide the family; is there any filial piety?

The imperial censors had work to do again, rolling up their sleeves and impeaching, scolding the second branch of the Hou Fu bloody.

For a time, everyone only paid attention to the Hou Fu's division of the family, and no one paid attention to Marquis Pingjiang's assassination.

Xie Changling was a bit difficult to describe.

The situation that was originally clear turned into chaos in the blink of an eye.

He met Emperor Jian Shi.

The monarch and minister rarely said a few words from the heart.

"My lord, does the person who disturbed the Imperial Mausoleum have anything to do with Marquis Pingjiang? What exactly does he want to do? This is rebellion! I can completely use this reason to copy the Hou Fu. Instead of watching them handle the funeral grandly. It is said that it cost hundreds of thousands of taels. When the late emperor passed away, the national treasury was empty, and the late emperor's funeral expenses were only three or four hundred thousand taels. How dare the Hou Fu, spending twenty thousand taels to handle the funeral in one breath. It's unreasonable!"

Emperor Jian Shi was furious, as if the money the Hou Fu spent was not their own money, but his money.

"Your Majesty, there is currently no evidence to prove that the disturbance of the Imperial Mausoleum has anything to do with Marquis Pingjiang. Your Majesty must not punish Marquis Pingjiang with groundless charges; this will chill the hearts of the people of the world and let Prince Chu take the opportunity to come back to life."

"Can a sentence of no evidence clear his suspicion?" Emperor Jian Shi was extremely irritable, directly kicking over the chair on the side. "My lord, could it be that you have received benefits from the Chen family."

"Your Majesty, please see clearly, if I have any misconduct, Your Majesty can let the Embroidered Uniform Guard investigate. I am not afraid of investigation, I only worry that Prince Chu will not die old. Your Majesty, the most important thing now is the south, if you want to solve Prince Chu thoroughly in one go, you cannot branch out. On the Northwest side, I still say the same thing, temporarily shelved."

Xie Changling bowed, his attitude clear.

Emperor Jian Shi was obviously dissatisfied.

He secretly made so many small moves, nothing more than to force Marquis Pingjiang to return to the capital.

Now he has to shelve it, how can he be willing.

As a son, when one's mother dies, returning to the capital to observe the mourning period is unavoidable. Unless His Majesty issues an imperial decree to 'retain the official in office' (waiving the mourning period). But clearly, His Majesty will absolutely not issue such a decree.

Emperor Jian Shi pursed his lips, his face stiff, and after a long while he said: "Okay! I will give you time, don't let me down."

"I dare not let Your Majesty down!"

Emperor Jian Shi forced himself to wait patiently, waiting for the opportunity.

Xie Changling personally summoned the three law divisions and the Embroidered Uniform Guard to hold a meeting and assign tasks.

The meeting ended, and the major government offices went out to arrest people.

Arresting officials, arresting students, arresting merchants, and imprisoning them in major prisons in the capital.

The Heavenly Prison also ushered in a peak.

The most noble official imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison was the Ministry of Rites' Vice Minister, Lord Wang Huaimin.

Secondly, it was Zhang Yulang of the Nancheng Zhang family.

Zhang Yulang's official position was very small, only holding a Seventh Rank idle position in the government office, and he did not manage things at all. His main work on weekdays was eating, drinking, and playing.

The reason he was involved was that it was said that the examination questions were leaked from his hands. And the Zhang family was in-laws with the Minister of Rites. This explained why Zhang Yulang could get the examination questions and leak them.

Of course, all this is currently in the investigation stage and has not yet been finalized.

Such a big case, and some prisoners were imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison, so Chen Guanlou had to patrol the Jia-block prison a few more times.

He first went to visit Vice Minister Wang Huaimin.

"Is Lord Wang accustomed to living here?"

Wang Huaimin sat on the bed board of the cell, with an attitude of being at ease. "Thank you for your concern, Prison Warden Chen, I am all well. I don't know if those students are imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison?"

"I didn't expect that even though you are in prison, you are still concerned about the safety of the students in this imperial examination. It is a pity that they were not imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison. I heard they were imprisoned at the Dali Temple."

Xie Changling wanted to persuade him, but looking at Emperor Emperor Jian Shi's bloodshot eyes, he knew clearly that the other party wouldn't listen to anything right now.

"Lord's words are reasonable. If those students entered the Imperial Prison, even if they could safely leave the prison, they would be cut off from the imperial examination and official career for the rest of their lives."

People who enter the Imperial Prison, even if they can survive, will either be disfigured or left disabled. Both of these cannot participate in the imperial examination, and they are cut off from the imperial examination and official career.

The Imperial Prison is always ruining people!

Like the Heavenly Prison, which follows the rules and gives enough money to give the prisoners enough decency, the whole world is estimated to be only the Heavenly Prison.

"Lord, aren't you worried about your own situation? This cheating case, the emperor is furious, and the Left Prime Minister personally supervises it, saying that he wants to punish severely. After the case is investigated clearly, if there are no accidents, at least dozens of heads will fall. Among them, there might be you! It's not enough for heads to fall, it will also implicate family members, and even nine clans."

Wang Huaimin hummed coldly: "I am upright and honest, not afraid of investigation."

"Your Ministry of Rites has been raided, just relying on your own innocent speech, it won't work."

"Are you laughing at me?" Wang Huaimin questioned sternly.

As expected of the Ministry of Rites' Vice Minister, the official prestige is sufficient.

Chen Guanlou shook his head: "Lord misunderstood. I am reminding you to make long-term considerations. If you have any needs, such as running errands and passing messages, you can entrust them to me, and the price is easy to talk about."

Wang Huaimin narrowed his eyes slightly, evaluating the other party and saying: "I have long heard that the Heavenly Prison's Prison Warden is very good at making money, does things very well, and seems to have no path he cannot pass. In the past, I only thought it was hearsay and not credible. Now it seems that the rumors have not been exaggerated. You seem to have great confidence in running errands for me, and even have confidence in helping me clear my name."

"Lord misunderstood, what kind of character am I, what ability do I have to dare to clear your name. Besides, your case is still under investigation, and the division of responsibility has not yet been concluded. What I can do at most is run errands and pass messages. The premise is that you need it."

Chen Guanlou smiled, his attitude was very good.

He wanted to make this deal.

Even if it didn't work, selling the other party a favor would be fine.

Dignified Ministry of Rites' Vice Minister, there is a great possibility of being able to get out of this case.

The Great Gan Dynasty kills officials very fiercely! Raising the butcher knife and cutting, never stingy with the lives of officials.

But for the high-level bureaucratic class, for the top big-shot officials, under normal circumstances, it is still very tolerant, and will not cut off heads at every turn.

Wu Xiang's case was purely implicated, implicated by Prince Jin.