When Sheng Yuan wanted to leave Beijing, the first thing he had to do was to ask for leave from his official.
However, since the Dali Temple was now guarded by her and Zuo Si Cheng, the person she requested leave from became Mr. Chen.
After all, the left and right temple ministers respect the left!
"No! No! Lord Shanda, at this time when the imperial court is in crisis, how can you abandon the capital and still ask for leave?"
Sheng Yuan didn't expect that she just said she wanted to take a vacation, as if she had poked a nerve in this colleague's hand.
It's just that Chen Sicheng is so opposed to it, so it's not easy for her to take a vacation!
Seeing that it was easier to submit a resignation than to ask for leave, Sheng Yuan scratched her head.
Although it was not easy to ask for leave, she never thought of handing in her resignation.
Although she has a low official position now, she is still at the level of a scholar-bureaucrat. Even if her opinion is not important, at least it is better than an ordinary girl who has no say.
Sheng Yuan thought about all this, but it only took a blink of an eye.
And just when she was thinking about it, Chen Sicheng spoke again: "What's more, Dali Temple must have a Shangguan who can make the final decisions!"
"???" Sheng Yuan felt that there was something wrong with this.
Chen Sicheng stared at Sheng Yuan's big dark eyes and was almost stunned. After coughing twice, he said truthfully: "I have been appointed by the cabinet to join the team welcoming the Holy Emperor, and I will leave the capital soon."
"!!!" Sheng Yuan's eyes, which were originally round, became even wider now.
Why didn't she know this was happening!
"...So we still need people from Shanda to guard Dali Temple and ensure the rear."
Sheng Yuan nodded helplessly.
At this point, at this moment where there was no room for bargaining, after the other party handed over the list of people who wanted to leave the capital to welcome the Holy Driver, Sheng Yuan could only recognize the fact: she could not leave the capital!
Sheng Yuan sighed, but also wanted to be polite to Na Na according to etiquette: "Thank you for your hard work, Chen Sicheng."
"It's not hard! It's not hard! It's my responsibility!" Chen Si Cheng said politely, but he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes.
There is no way, who said that Kyoto at this time is not suitable for officials to stay for a long time!
Especially for a low-level official like him, without anyone to protect him, he could easily be coerced into a certain camp.
Instead of staying in Kyoto and getting involved in discussions about the succession of the throne, it would be better to go out and earn some qualifications.
By the time I met with the Minister of Dali Temple and the two Young Ministers, apart from introducing the situation in Kyoto, there were basically no other matters that needed to be handled personally.
Thinking of this, Chen Sicheng's movements became lighter.
Sheng Yuan looked at it enviously for a moment, then walked back helplessly.
It was at this moment that the temple deputy hurried over and heard that the drum was being beaten!
"Mr. Shanda, Yousi is responsible for the Kyoto files. It seems that I have to help you this time!" Chen Sicheng clearly assigned the case to Youji in one sentence.
His impatient look made Sheng Yuan even more dazzled.
Do you need to be so obvious? ! Didn't all the temple assistants who didn't see her come running? They, Udera, didn't intend to pass the responsibility to Zuodera!
Sheng Yuan, who kept an official smile on his face but was already roaring with impolite words in his heart, walked quickly towards the lobby.
As she walked, she asked: "Isn't it the fault of some ignorant noble family this time?"
To be honest, since she took office at Dali Temple, the lobby of Dali Temple has rarely been empty.
It is clearly the duty of the Dali Temple to review case files from various places and confirm whether local case judgments are inappropriate, but people often beat drums outside the Dali Temple to complain about grievances.
However, from Yan to Chu, there was an unwritten rule. Whenever people ring the bell outside Dali Temple, regardless of whether it is compliant or not, Dali Temple must inherit it.
Ever since, her experience points, as a newcomer who had just arrived, skyrocketed.
"It would be better if those noble disciples caused trouble again." The temple deputy smiled wryly and shook his head, saying, "Sir, the person beating the drum outside is a woman with two young men. She said she wanted to sue The King of Peace has deceived the king and abandoned his wife and son! At this moment, the outside is already surrounded by people watching the excitement."
King Jing? !
Hearing this, Sheng Yuan intuitively felt that the other party was nominally here for King Jing, but in reality...he was here to pick peaches!
"Prince Jing has passed away. It is difficult to tell what this woman said." Sheng Yuan thought for a while and told Xiaoyao, "You go to the palace and tell the Queen Mother about this, and then go to Prince Jing's Mansion to find Concubine Cen and confirm the truth with her. .”
Saying this, the lobby is already in front of you.
Sheng Yuan sat on the main seat and signaled the temple deputy to call someone to bring the woman over.
Not long after, a woman with a haggard face and a dark scarf on her head walked in, accompanied by two gentlemen.
This woman's ordinary clothes cannot hide her outstanding temperament.
When she came closer, Sheng Yuan found that her slightly weathered face could still be described as beautiful.
Sheng Yuan couldn't easily judge her age, so her eyes turned to the two men beside her.
One of the two men was fifteen or sixteen years old at most, and the other was about twelve or thirteen years old.
"Madam, you said you are the former Princess Jing?" Sheng Yuan took the lawsuit from the deputy of the temple and read it carefully before raising her head to confirm with the other party.
"Master Si Cheng, I am the legitimate daughter of the Lang family in Guyuan." The woman straightened her body and said loudly, "King Jing was a vassal in Guyuan back then, and he was ambitious and wanted to develop his ambitions. However, there were many families with the surname Guyuan. Several surnames are closely related, and they are all old relatives.
If he hadn't asked for marriage with the courtesy of a princess, I, the Lang family, would not have devoted all our efforts to help him sort out Guyuan and control the fiefdom..."
While listening to Mrs. Lang's explanation, Sheng Yuan worked hard to dig out useful information from her memory bank.
Guyuan, Guyuan... If she remembered correctly, the Guyuan family was wiped out before King Jing returned to the capital. Even the Lang clan of King Jing's Yue family only existed in local historical records.
Over the years, Sheng Yuan has also heard some rumors that King Jing had married a wife and had children in the vassal territory.
However, from Emperor Chengyuan to King Jing himself, they never admitted it.
It is said that the royal family register only records that King Jing once had a concubine named Lang, but there is no record of heirs in it.
"...No one would have thought that King Jing was ruthless and ruthless. In order to ensure that Guyuan was under the control of the court, he swung his sword at dozens of surnames. We, the Lang family, never imagined that the first person he would destroy was the Lang family!"
When Mrs. Lang said this, she became emotional: "He used the Lang family! He used our Lang family! Those famous families were guided by him and united to encircle and suppress the Lang family. When our Lang family was destroyed, it just gave him the opportunity to conquer all the people. Excuse from the aristocratic family!
Linked together! Contact us step by step! The people of the Guyuan family are all his pawns! Even though I gave birth to two sons for him, he still never hesitated!
If there hadn't been a loyal servant who reported the news, my mother and son would have sent him away with a pot of poisonous wine! "
At the end of the speech, Mrs. Long burst into tears.
She looked particularly pitiful as she cried.
But it is a pity that Sheng Yuan is a hard-hearted person. She could only sigh at what happened to Mrs. Lang, and then devoted herself to the case.
"Mrs. Lang, I will have someone investigate what you said... However, you said that these two gentlemen are the sons of Prince Jing..."
Sheng Yuan looked at the two faces that seemed to be carved out of the same mold as Prince Jing, paused, and said without conscience, "Do you have any evidence to prove that they are Prince Jing's heirs?"
With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Lang looked at Sheng Yuan in disbelief: "Sir! Look at their faces! Look at their faces! Do you need any other proof?"
"People are similar, and appearance alone means nothing..."
Before Sheng Yuan finished speaking, the angry Mrs. Lang took over the words: "It's a coincidence that one of them looks similar, but what about two similar looks? Can it be a coincidence?!"
"What you say makes sense." Sheng Yuan looked at her calmly, "If it were applied to ordinary people, your evidence would be enough, but... you are related to the royal family's money, and the royal family attaches great importance to blood. No confusion allowed.”
"Then you send someone to Prince Jing's Mansion to invite Mrs. Cen. She knows about the existence of my two sons! She even gave gifts to the children before!"
Sheng Yuan also had this intention, but Concubine Cen couldn't ask for it immediately: "Since Mrs. Lang is here, let's rest in the guest house of Dali Temple for a while. We can talk about other things after Concubine Cen can prove it."
Mrs. Long seemed to be so, and not long after, she took her two children and left with the attendant.
Sheng Yuan watched their backs walking away, silent, drinking cup after cup of tea until she was full, and then she freed herself from her thoughts and sobered up.
"Sir, the cabinet sent Sheren to ask for the files on this case!" The temple deputy came in a hurry again.
"Give it to them!" Sheng Yuan didn't expect the cabinet to be so fast!
"But..." Deputy Si wanted to remind Sheng Yuan that this case is not over yet!
"Don't worry, the cabinet ministers will help improve it." Otherwise, people wouldn't be sent here in a hurry.
I just don’t know how accurate the results they give are.
…
"What? Prince Jing still has an heir?" As the queen of Emperor Chengyuan, the Queen Mother Qin knew more than what was recorded in the royal family records.
She had also heard about the fact that the Lang family had given birth to two sons, but before leaving the feudal clan and returning to the capital, King Jing reported to the court that she had no sons.
She even told A Qi at that time that there must be something inside here!
She even once reminded Huang Er to be wary of Prince Jing.
After all, tiger poison does not eat its own children. A person who can even abandon his only child has no bottom line.
I just didn't expect that these two children would appear at this time!
If the origins of these two children are true and they are both the grandsons of the late emperor, the selection of the crown prince will probably have twists and turns!
The Queen Mother of Qin knew very well that the reason why the cabinet ministers did not oppose Yuanning's ascension was because there was no close relative of the Chu royal family to inherit the throne; and she, the Queen Mother, still had the Tiger Talisman token given to her by the late Emperor.
As long as the army is in hand, the civil servants in the cabinet, after adapting to the fact that women can study and become officials, can actually accept the upcoming queen.
Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, there is indeed no husband among the close relatives of the royal family!
"Queen Mother!" Aunt Qi looked at Queen Mother Qin with some worry.
"We must start from the law! It is necessary to make the clause 'the emperor's heirs are more qualified to succeed than collaterals' clearly listed in the laws of Chu!"
Even if she had a good relationship with Concubine Cen, it was impossible for the Empress Dowager Qin to give up the throne to someone else when she had a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter.
"Don't worry, Queen Mother. It's hard to say whether those two gentlemen are really the royal heirs!"
In response to Aunt Qi's persuasion, the Empress Dowager Qin shook her head and waved her hands and said: "Not recognizing them is just a means of gaming! For those courtiers, Lang Jun's accession to the throne is above all else."
"How dare they?!" Aunt Qi was shocked and angry.
Queen Mother Qin looked out the window calmly: "Why don't they dare?"
What's more, they are probably the sons of Prince Jing.
"If it is true, it would be too coincidental for them to appear."
After hearing Aunt Qi's words, Queen Mother Qin, who wanted to go with her, her dark eyes suddenly sharpened: "We need to find out whether they have any connection with the Lu family!"
…
Concubine Cen exchanged greetings with Xiaoyao with a sick look on her face. When she mentioned her children, she couldn't help but shake her head mockingly: "My son did have two sons, and they must be that old, but..."
As if remembering something, Concubine Cen took a sip of tea and continued: "The Lang family married according to the specifications of the princess at that time, but later it was revealed that the Lang family had been secretly casting ironware, selling salt and iron to A Rong, and even used their in-laws to They took advantage of my son's trust in them and sold information to the tribes on the grassland.
Because of this incident, the young couple who had a good relationship completely broke up. However, my son did not have the heart to divorce his wife, so he just wrote a letter asking the late emperor to demote Lang as a concubine.
Lang was furious when he heard about it, wrote a letter of peace, and left the domain with his two sons.
My son sent people to look for him, but when he finally found her, he heard that the mother and son were following the Lang clan to the border town.
When the government sent more people to search, the news they got was that they encountered a group of robbers before approaching the border town, but when they escaped, they accidentally caused the carriage to fall off the cliff!
We sent people to look for her, but there was no trace. As time went by, we could only report to the late emperor and tell the truth about the situation of Lang and her two sons. "
Concubine Cen paused and showed an apologetic smile towards Xiaoyao: "Ordinarily, I should go over and confirm it in person, but... please also ask Sister Yuan to be considerate of me, a white-haired person who sent away a black-haired person!
My son abandoned me and went away. I really couldn't see two faces that looked like my son right away.
However, I remember that Mr. Lang once sent a letter saying that both of my grandsons have birthmarks. If possible, you can use this as a reference. "
…
Xiaoyao came with the harvest, but as soon as he walked in, he found his young lady lying on the rocking chair and drinking tea happily.
"Very good! Very good! However, I may have to trouble Xiaoyao. You pack up, go to the Classics Hall, and give your harvest to the North Hall."
In fact, Xiaoyao is not afraid of running around, but he didn't expect that the cabinet would actually get involved.
After muttering something under his breath, Xiaoyao skipped towards the classics hall.
When she first arrived, the first assistant Yanyuan, the second assistant Gu Yuncheng and the third assistant Cen Minzhou happened to talk about the two husbands who suddenly appeared.
"The royal bloodline cannot be confused, so we should find a way to confirm it." Although Cen Minzhou did not agree with Princess Yuanning's succession, he was also extremely resistant to the choice of confusing the royal bloodline.
"Prince Jing used to play in Qingyuan Hall when he was young, and I was lucky enough to meet him once." Yan Yuan stroked his beard with a calm gaze, "These two gentlemen do have the same faces as the people I remember!"
