As soon as Xie Suxian's confession came out, the whole court was shocked. Countless corrupt officials were implicated. The emperor was furious and severely punished all the officials involved. But even so, Xie Suxian could not end up under house arrest for life.
Xu Qingmo didn't find this judgment surprising at all, and just smiled: "Putting your precious son, whom you have loved for decades, under house arrest for a lifetime is the biggest concession your Majesty can make!"
Although it was expected, Meng Hetong was still dissatisfied.
"Your Majesty's handling of this case was still not fair enough!" He Wenlin looked at the tea cup in front of him, "Brothers and gambling houses, and I don't know how many lives were lost. He also had his hand in the Northern Xinjiang incident. Your Majesty still held it high. , put it down gently, you really shouldn’t!”
Xie Suyu sat aside and drank tea without saying a word.
Xu Yanquan was more open-minded: "We ministers don't need to press every step of the way. This matter can be regarded as a state matter as well as a family matter. After all, the prince is your majesty's son. We can't really expect your majesty to kill his relatives in a just and righteous way." His biological son!"
"If you don't punish him severely and everyone of your Majesty's many sons makes such a fuss, then how can there be any justice in this world?" Meng Hetong frowned and tapped the table with his fingertips one after another.
"Although my father has many sons, he is the only one who dares to be so confident. There is no need to worry that the other princes will be so arrogant!" Xie Suyu put down the tea cup in his hand and said softly, "After all, he can be so confident He is the only one who is so partial!"
The prince was deposed, and the princes were inevitably ready to take action. Meng Hetong alone had received olive branches from many princes these days. In addition to being helpless, he actually felt more ridiculous: "When something goes wrong on weekdays, one of your brothers Everyone is hiding, now nothing happens, everyone is showing off!"
Xie Suyu naturally understood what Meng Hetong was talking about. He had no desire for that position. After all, he had been taught since childhood to assist the prince. Now that the prince was deposed, he felt a little more uncomfortable.
"By the way, isn't the Crown Princess pregnant?" He Wenlin suddenly remembered, "Then wouldn't her child be His Majesty's only legitimate grandson? Then, when he gets older, wouldn't there be another bloody incident? It’s windy!”
"The child is still in the belly, and you are already worried?" Xu Yanquan raised his eyebrows slightly, "There is no need to worry so much about a child who has nothing to rely on!"
What a few people said was just going back and forth around the cases during this period.
Yan Junuo has now returned to the Yan family for a short stay. The queen's intention is to wait for all matters to be settled before arranging her affairs, so the Yan family will take her back to live first. However, Mrs. Yan will bear all the responsibility for the cancellation of her daughter's marriage. If it was Yan Junuo's fault, she didn't feel comfortable living there.
Fortunately, Yan Junuo's shop and courtyard as her dowry were not confiscated, so she went to live in her own courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing. Although it was not so comprehensive, fortunately, her life was comfortable and comfortable.
These days, perhaps because the prince was deposed, Princess Zhengyang has an inexplicable feeling of sadness. She is miserable every day. She often sits there, but her mind does not know where it is, and she does not move. He would sigh and look at the maid next to him who was really worried.
When Princess Zhengyang sighed for the fourth time, Xu Qingmo got a little annoyed and put down the book in his hand: "What's wrong with you? You keep sighing every day! For those who don't know, I thought you weren't willing to let me get married!" "
Princess Zhengyang was stunned for a moment, then looked up at Xu Qingmo: "I am indeed a little reluctant to let you get married! But, these days, I am always thinking about one thing!"
"Huh?" Xu Qingmo sat upright and looked at Princess Zhengyang, "Come and listen, let me, the number one female general of the Great Zhou Dynasty, analyze it for you!"
Princess Zhengyang was instantly amused when she saw Xu Qingmo looking like an old god, and her frown gradually relaxed: "Actually, it's nothing. I just feel that there is a feeling of sadness when a rabbit dies and a fox dies. You know, The deposed prince used to be my father's favorite prince, but now he has been put under house arrest for the rest of his life. People always say that accompanying a prince is like accompanying a tiger. I used to think that he was not so talkative, but now he is. I feel the same way!”
After hearing what Princess Zhengyang said, Xu Qingmo was silent for a long time, and then said with a smile: "It is true that accompanying a prince is like accompanying a tiger, but the deposed prince's current ending is also his own fault. If he does not do these things, your majesty will wait until a hundred years later , that position is his, he doesn’t need to fight or grab it at all, but unfortunately, he is narrow-minded and cannot tolerate brothers and ministers who are better than him!"
Princess Zhengyang raised her eyes to look at Xu Qingmo and listened to her carefully.
"Because he couldn't tolerate loyalty and couldn't listen to honest words, he ended up being betrayed by others. And because he didn't treat his wife well, he was stabbed in the back by Yan Junuo. He was responsible for everything!" Xu Qingmo raised his hand and picked up the knife. of tea, "You don't have to feel this way. The seventh prince will be a wise king in the future. A wise king will devote his life to the world. No matter what, he will have a loyal minister, just like your majesty today!"
Princess Zhengyang looked at Xu Qingmo for a long time, and finally she seemed to have figured it out, and then she smiled: "You are really different from us. What you see is always much more profound than us!"
"Is it far-reaching?" Xu Qingmo raised his eyebrows, "Probably because he has read too many history books. Isn't this the case with all major events in the world? If they are separated for a long time, they will be united, and if they are united for a long time, they will be divided. As the saying goes, if you use copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; if you use history as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes and hats. You can know the ups and downs; you can use people as a mirror to know the gains and losses."
Princess Zhengyang looked at Xu Qingmo for a long time, and finally breathed a long sigh of relief. She walked forward and pinched Xu Qingmo's little face: "Tell me, you are a little girl, why are you always so old-fashioned? What you say , It’s not like what a little girl would say! It’s really weird!”
Xu Qingmo dodged Princess Zhengyang's hand: "This is what is said in the book. People, only by reading can you understand reason, and only by understanding can you cultivate yourself. Cultivating yourself is to be a human being! Tell me, among all the families in the capital with certain conditions, which daughter's family is the best? Those who don’t study, if I can have a daughter in the future, I will also let her study more, and look at those female precepts and training less often!"
Princess Zhengyang looked at Xu Qingmo blankly: "Did your teacher teach you these?"
