Twenty years ago, Xiao Yan and his family were in-laws.
However, as the child who was less than seven years old died in the battle of King Pingnan's siege, the fragile relationship connected by in-laws was easily broken.
Xiao Yuan has been sitting in the position of Duke Ding for more than twenty years.
Back then, old Duke Dingguo had three legitimate sons, and it was not his turn to inherit the position of Duke Dingguo. But everyone in the capital knew that he was lucky. The eldest brother who was supposed to be the eldest son fell seriously ill and turned into a fool. When the Duke's Mansion was hesitating about who to establish, he "did not know each other" with Yan Mu, the new successor to the Marquis of Yongyi, at the school grounds, and then married Yan Min, Yan Mu's sister-in-law. The disadvantage is that she not only has a dignified and capable wife, but also has the support of her mother's family. Soon, the old Dingguo asked him to seal him and made him his son. After the old Duke Ding passed away, Xiao Yuan became the Duke of the State rightfully.
Xiao Dingfei is his and Yan Min's only legitimate son.
This child is smart and has the blood of both Xiao and Yan clans. It can be said that he has received the attention of the entire capital since he was born.
But Xiao Yuan didn't like this child.
Especially after the battle of King Pingnan, anyone who heard this name mentioned again would not be able to help but sulk and even turn against others.
Because Yan Min reconciled with him after this incident!
The Yongyihou's Mansion is the last few generations, relying on meritorious service on the battlefield, they have gradually accumulated enough meritorious service to achieve their current status; but the Dingguo Mansion is a real aristocratic family that has been passed down for hundreds of years.
Before Xiao Yuan, there had never been any Duke of the State who had reconciled with his wife!
For men, the only thing that should be divorced is divorce, but reconciliation is a great shame!
A woman with long hair and short knowledge, how can she know the importance of the court?
Xiao Yuan was determined not to let his wife go, but Yan Min was backed by the Marquis Mansion, and the royal family was ashamed of the Yan family. After being persuaded by the Empress Dowager Xiao, he finally wrote a letter to let his wife go, and reconciled with Yan Min.
But from then on, the Xiaoyan family cut off contact.
Twenty years have passed, and Xiao Yan has never set foot in Yongyihou's Mansion again.
Today is the first time in twenty years!
Soldiers in heavy armor and with swords in hand all followed behind him, holding the imperial decree from the nine palaces and written by the Holy Majesty himself in his hands, all the anger and resentment he had suffered in the past were relieved at this moment vented out!
Xiao Yuan went up the steps. With gray hair, he was wearing dark clothes, high shoes, and a high hat on top of his head. After entering the hall, he stopped in his footsteps, and looked at everyone present with a somewhat dangerous look. Scanning across his face, he saw Xie Wei, who was still crowning Yan Lin, frowned, and finally looked at Yan Mu, who had stood up beside him.
Yan Mu's face was already low and frozen: "I, the Marquis of Yongyi, have fulfilled my duty for generations, loyal to the emperor and loved the people, what did Duke Ding mean by what he just said?"
Xiao Yuan sneered: "Of course it's the meaning of the Holy Majesty! An hour ago, there was a message from Tongzhou that someone secretly instigated a mutiny among the 50,000 troops stationed in the camp, claiming to seek justice for your Yongyi Houfu! Yan Mu, Yan Yan Mu, you and my family suffered a lot from the battle of King Pingnan back then, but I didn’t expect you to secretly contact the rebellious party. The Holy One had the heart to spare your family the death penalty. Who would have thought that you would dare to plot rebellion! The date of your death It's here!"
Tongzhou camp, mutiny in the army!
Which of the people present is not a member of the court?
Just now when Xiao Yuan heard the word "mutiny" from afar, he had guessed, but now that he heard him speak in detail, he felt the hairs on his back stand on end, and they couldn't help turning their heads to look at Yan Mu.
Yan Mu was also taken aback when he heard about the mutiny in the Tongzhou camp, but when he heard the words "You and my family have suffered a lot from it", the sadness in his heart suddenly turned into boundless anger!
He slapped the table next to him violently!
All the teacups on the table fell to the ground and were smashed to pieces!
Yan Mu stared at Xiao Yuan with rounded eyes, his eyes were almost bloodshot, and he only asked in a voice of hatred: "Do you dare to say that your Xiao family was deeply harmed by the battle of King Pingnan?!"
In the huge front hall, not even the sound of breathing could be heard.
On the one hand, the imperial decree is coming, and the death of the Yongyi Hou Mansion is imminent;
Some of the accompanying readers who are a little less courageous, such as today, have already turned pale with fright.
Even Jiang Xuening felt that someone's palm was firmly stuck on her neck—
Knowing is one thing, experiencing it is another.
After all, the youth's crowning ceremony could not avoid being stained with blood, and it was shrouded in a cloud of family destruction.
For a moment, Yan Lin was about to stand up, stand beside his father, and face the cruel and unknown fate that was overturned today with him.
However, Xie Wei in front of him just stretched out his hand to the side again.
Where have the fans seen such a scene today?
Holding the lacquer tray beside him, his legs were so frightened that he almost knelt down.
After Xie Wei stretched out his hand, no one handed him anything, he raised his eyelids and said softly, "The hairpin."
It was a quiet moment in the hall, no one dared to speak, a string in his head was tense, fearing that something might happen. When Xie Wei's seemingly innocuous sound sounded, no one in the crowd expected it. Some people's eyebrows trembled, and the soldiers who were pressing on the hilt of their knives almost drew their knives and were about to strike. When they turned their heads, they were Xie Wei.
Fans didn't respond.
Until Xie Wei frowned slightly, and repeated again: "hairpin."
The jade crown that binds the hair is matched with a pair of wooden hairpins. Only the left side was inserted just now, but there is still one side left.
Who would have thought that the knife was hanging to the back of his neck, and he was still thinking about the crowning?
The praiser took the wooden hairpin belatedly, and handed it to Xie Wei almost sluggishly.
Xie Wei didn't even look at the others, he held the wooden hairpin and inserted it towards the jade crown that tied his hair.
Dingguo Gong Xiao Yuan's eyes also fell on him at this time, and the brows that were already frowning unconsciously frowned even more. A capable person, but this calm appearance doesn't catch everyone's eyes.
He didn't even bother to talk nonsense with these people anymore.
In Xiao Yuan's view, the people in the Yongyihou's Mansion are no different from the dead, so he waved his hand directly and said coldly: "Stop talking nonsense, all the adults who are going to the banquet today, please don't move around. Catch it for me!"
"yes!"
However, I didn't expect a voice to come out of the slanting thorn and asked: "Dagan's law, the imperial decree should be read out to the person who receives the imperial decree. Since the Duke of the country came with the imperial decree, why didn't he read the imperial decree and start arresting people? "
Xiao Yuan was stunned for a moment.
According to the law, there is such a thing, but the imperial decree from the palace, does he dare to falsely preach the imperial decree?
There was a bit of chill in his eyes.
Following his reputation, he saw a tall and thin young man standing at the end of the crowd, wearing a dark blue robe, not fully dressed, so he didn't know what official status he was, he only guessed that his position was not high, and his face was cold and indifferent, Feeling unfamiliar, he said coldly, "Who are you?"
The man put his hands in the wide sleeves, folded down, his whole body was plain, not nervous, he just said: "The next official is the head of the Department of Cleaning Officials of the Ministry of Punishment, Zhang Zhe."
Zhang Zhe.
As soon as the name was mentioned, Xiao Yuan had an impression, and remembered that it was the former criminal department who was quite controversial in the previous court, a difficult speaker! Eyelids jumped immediately.
The imperial decree was held in Xiao Yuan's hands.
Now that everyone is watching, even if he feels embarrassed, he dare not openly refuse to read the imperial decree!
Left and right is the effort to read an imperial decree.
At this time, Xiao Yuan didn't think much about it, he sneered, and "thank you" Zhang Zhe for reminding him, unfolding the imperial decree, "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor's Edict" and recited it, the main idea was exactly the same as what he said when he just entered the mansion Two, one is that there is a big mutiny in the army, and the other is that he colluded with King Pingnan to rebel against the party and ordered Dingguo Gong Xiao Yuan to lead the forbidden army to confiscate the Yongyihou Mansion, and all the people in the mansion were arrested and imprisoned.
After saying "respect", Xiao Yuan suddenly closed the imperial decree, and said in a gloomy tone: "Now that the imperial decree has been read, you should believe it? How dare you forge the imperial decree even if you have the courage to do so? Come on—"
"My lord, the Marquis of Yongyi hasn't accepted the order yet."
Zhang Zhe was watching from the side, seeing that he was going to order someone to be arrested, he raised his eyelids, and added another sentence in a flattering way.
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This time, not to mention Duke Ding Xiao Yuan, who was in charge of delivering the decree, even Hou Yanmu, the courageous Hou Yanmu who had accepted the fate of the imminent disaster, couldn't help being a little dumbfounded, not knowing what the lord Zhang was trying to do.
Xie Wei raised his eyebrows when he heard the word "Zhang Zhe".
After finishing crowning, Yan Lin stood up and bowed to Xie Wei, then turned his head to look.
Xie Wei's gaze quietly fell on Zhang Zhe's face, without saying a word.
Xiao Yuan was almost choked to death by this sentence, his face turned blue and red, he gritted his teeth, and said: "I don't know, I need you to remind me?"
Then he handed the imperial decree forward, saying: "Young and Yihou, come up to receive the decree!"
Yan Mu came forward to receive the order, but looking at Zhang Zhe, he felt strange, thinking that the Hou Mansion does not have such a friend, and he doesn't know what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd.
Xiao Yuan guessed that the matter should be settled at this point, and this person surnamed Zhang should have nothing to criticize, so he waved again and wanted to replace him to arrest him.
But this time, before he could even open his mouth, his eyelids twitched!
Because he saw this man surnamed Zhang walking towards Yan Mu, and stretched out his hand that was in his sleeve, as if he wanted to ask Yan Mu to see the imperial decree, but turned his face to him and asked a question "Dare to ask the Duke, just now that the news of the mutiny in the Tongzhou Daying Army came an hour ago, did the Holy Majesty issue an imperial decree to raid the Marquis' Mansion?"
What the **** is this guy trying to do!
With the sword on Xiao Yuan's waist, he could not hold back the hilt of the sword at this time, and replied coldly: "Exactly."
Zhang Zhe said to Yan Mu, "Please use the imperial decree to have a look."
Xiao Yuan was a little out of breath: "What is the intention of a lowly official to play with an axe!"
Yan Mu rolled his eyes, but he handed over the imperial decree directly.
Zhang Zhe took it, and gently spread it out with his long fingers with well-defined bones, and said: "Please calm down, the Duke of the country, it is a serious crime to steal a family and exterminate the clan, according to the law, it is the meaning of the sage, and the government orders at all levels should also be reviewed by Zhongshu. It can only be issued after the seal is stamped. Yesterday, the official heard that Mr. Chu Xiyi of Zhongshu Province was ill, and the news of Tongzhou's mutiny came only an hour ago. It would take some time to invite Mr. Chu to enter the palace. Delay, one hour may not be enough. So..."
At this moment, his gaze had already fallen on the imperial decree.
The secrets I heard from Gu Chunfang in the previous life are indeed true—
The imperial decree to seize Yongyihou's mansion was indeed written by Shen Lang himself, but when the decree was announced, it was actually only stamped with the emperor's seal, not the seal of Zhongshu province! Later, the imperial decree that appeared in the case file of the Yongyihou Mansion case was complete with two seals. It was rumored that after the Hou Mansion was confiscated and half of the people in the Hou Mansion were slaughtered, the new Zhongshu Provincial Governor Pingzhang stamped the Zhongshu Shengyin.
However, Mr. Chu Xiyi, the former governor of Pingzhang, was dismissed from his post and returned home due to old illness. Within half a year, he died at home due to poverty and illness.
Gu Chunfang was the only colleague who went to offer condolences.
From this, I know this matter, and I roughly infer that when Chu Xiyi became the governor of Pingzhang of Zhongshu Province, it was no different from the prime minister of one dynasty, so how did he end up like this.
Zhang Zhe's gaze moved away from the blank space that should have been covered with the great seal of Zhongshu Sheng, and then fell on Xiao Yuan's face, and said: "I'm afraid the imperial decree of the Duke of the country will not be announced, so it will not be counted."
Xiao Yuan couldn't bear it anymore, he drew his sword and pointed it at his throat!
The words were already full of anger: "How dare you talk nonsense, Li Zi! You are the one to comment on the decree written by the Holy One?! I will cut off your head today and punish you as a chaotic party!"
Jiang Xuening never expected that Zhang Zhe would stand up, and he also said such words one after another, that the laws and regulations of the Great Qian Dynasty were completely memorized, and they were not fake, but he didn't know what the situation is like today in the last life. Her heart was beating in her chest, almost jumping out of her throat!
Chen Ying quietly walked away from Zhang Zhe just when he spoke.
However, Zhang Zhe himself was extremely calm.
He stretched out his hand and handed the imperial decree back. The cold light of the sword reflected his dull and cold face. He was neither sad nor happy, so he could only persuade him, saying: "It doesn't matter if the Duke of the country kills the subordinate in anger. The imperial decree is still the same." If you want to send it back to the palace, please ask the Secretary of the Central Committee to stamp it with a great seal before it can be issued."
The imperial decree has already been delivered, and the soldiers have already surrounded the mansion. This man actually said that what the emperor said was not counted, and he had to send it back to get a seal and then come back to search the house!
There is no such reason, no such reason!
Xiao Yuan has never encountered such a bizarre thing in the past fifty years. He was almost so angry that one Buddha came out of his body and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. Smoke came out of his five holes and seven orifices. "you you you-"