"Father, good news. The entire Liu family has been captured by the imperial guards and taken to the county jail. Our people saw with our own eyes that Liu Hongjie was put in heavy shackles!"
Changshan Lu Mansion.
Lu Zesi ran up to Lu Xuanyuan panting and started talking.
After hearing this, Lu Xuanyuan was quite happy: "Very good! Killing and calling out the wronged people in front of the Holy Master is no different from treason. Liu Hongjie really dared to do it in order to prevent the people from suing the Liu family! And as expected, His Majesty did not let anyone Disappointed, I still didn’t handle this matter lightly for the sake of my most trusted minister!”
"My father is still clever. He first bribed the subordinates and took advantage of the fact that the county magistrate was a weak official. He let people sneak in with the people who complained about them. He also sent people in advance to let the Liu family know about it, and let the people we bribed in the Liu family instigate it. The Liu family committed a crime, and in the end, the Liu family actually did something that despised the imperial authority! If this is not a serious crime, I don’t know what is."
Lu Zesi said.
"My father started to arrange this chess game a few years ago. If my father hadn't asked his friends in the capital to choose Tang Changbin to this position, he, Tang Changbin, would still be just a scholar studying in the capital."
Lu Xuanyuan replied.
"My father is in charge of the history of Shandong Province. Naturally, there are many scholars who follow my father's lead. It is a pity that the imperial court no longer has the designation of No. 1 Scholar and Jie Yuan. Otherwise, my son would also like to be Shandong Jie Yuan so that he can inherit his father's legacy. "
Lu Zesi replied.
"It's okay! Being a father will create momentum for you, and you won't have to take the imperial examination again. Nowadays, there is no number one scholar in the imperial examination. Can it be called the imperial examination?"
As he spoke, Lu Xuanyuan said: "My father has found a few friends in the publishing house to compile the articles and poems you have written into a collection and publish them all over the world, and let everyone with literary names in Shandong scholars praise you. When the time comes, , you will be like your father, a well-educated person, and when the time comes, a newspaper will hire you with a lot of money, and you can criticize the current ills through the newspaper, and you will control the world's public opinion! Who dares not to give you a little favor? ?”
After hearing this, Lu Zesi became a little yearning and replied, "Thank you so much, father!"
Then, Lu Zesi asked: "Father, do you think your Majesty will kill Liu Hongxun because of Liu Hongjie?"
"Is there any reason not to kill people of the same clan?"
Lu Xuanyuan replied, and then said: "In this way, you can mobilize the Shandong scholars to spread the evil done by Liu Hongjie everywhere, but you can't just mention Liu Hongjie. If you say that Yuan Fu and his younger brother committed evil together at that time, then, People in the world will blame Liu Hongjie's evil on Liu Hongxun. Who makes them brothers? And when everyone shouts about beating Liu Hongxun, it is impossible for His Majesty not to kill him for the sake of the people in the world. Even if he doesn't kill him, he will become more and more disgusted. ! Also, inform His Highness the Seventh Prince about Liu Hongjie’s arrest!”
"Okay! Let's do it now, son!"
…
"pain!"
"It hurts!"
"I'll recruit, I'll recruit, I'll recruit!"
Tang Changbin really couldn't stand the torture in Dongchang, so he quickly confessed: "I didn't want to say it at first, after all, they couldn't offend them. They are a family of great talents in this province, and they are quite famous in the Shilin. He is Lu Xuanyuan , the person who is in charge of the cultural heritage of this province!"
"Lu Xuanyuan, the second-place finisher in the ninth year of Tianqi?"
Han Zanzhou asked.
"Yes, it was his son Lu Zesi, Mr. Lu, who helped me find the Liu family. He also said that as long as I tell the truth to His Majesty, nothing will happen to me."
Tang Changbin cried as he spoke: "But how could I have known that His Majesty would still punish me for my crime? Wuwu!"
…
"Lu Xuanyuan?"
Zhu Youxiao asked after hearing what Han Zanzhou said.
"Yes!"
Han Zanzhou replied.
"This is learning to be a master!"
Zhu Youxiao glanced at Wen Tiren because of this: "You are more resourceful than me, and you actually guessed that Tang Changbin might be taken advantage of."
"I was inspired by His Majesty to think of it."
Wen Tiren replied humbly.
Zhu Youxiao ordered: "Dongchang will strictly investigate the Lu family and his son!"
"yes!"
Then, Zhu Youxiao asked Lu Xiangsheng: "Has the telegram to the capital been sent?"
Lu Xiangsheng replied: "It has been sent."
Zhu Youxiao nodded and thought to himself: "I don't know how Liu Hongxun will respond?"
…
"Is this happening?!"
After Liu Hongxun received another telegram from Zhu Youxiao's order back to the capital, he collapsed directly on his chair.
He has been focusing on government affairs in recent years, and the affairs of the clan have been handed over to his third brother Liu Hongjie.
But Liu Hongxun didn't expect that his third brother would go behind his back and do so many heinous things in his name.
"You don't know about this, right?"
The emperor's eldest son Zhu Ciwei said this after knowing this.
"It is hard to escape the blame for my incompetent stewardship."
Liu Hongxun replied.
Zhu Ciwei looked at Liu Hongxun and said, "You should know what the consequences of this matter may be."
Liu Hongxun nodded and replied: "I understand."
Then, Liu Hongxun also said excitedly: "I didn't expect them to be so rampant, and they didn't even take the emperor's power seriously! If your majesty wants to punish the ministers' clan, I will have no complaints, but I am sad that my family, the Liu family, can't. It’s unfortunate for such a family to come to this point!”
"It's good that Yuan Fu understands. Why don't Yuan Fu send a notice to the world, denounce this clan as a disaster, and take the initiative to sever ties with this clan. In this life, he will only be allowed to the country, and no longer be allowed to the family."
Zhu Ciwei replied.
Liu Hongxun looked up at Zhu Ciwei in shock: "This, this, this..."
"What is this? Do you really want His Majesty to implicate you because your Liu family secretly hides firearms, kills civilians, and ignores the imperial authority?"
Zhu Ciwei spoke loudly and shouted: "You can die! But what about the various government decrees that have just been implemented to restrict the powerful? What should I do? I am the one overseeing the country. If you die, who will protect me? Zhu Xieyuan , Sun Chuanting, they are all good at martial arts, not good at civil governance, and they can't be too biased towards me! You can't understand, this is Xiang Zhuang's sword dance, his intention is for Pei Gong, kill you, so that I can lose my wings! Also, my father will not be able to do anything. Come on!"
"How can there be an auxiliary minister who betrays the clan? Is this the virtue of a scholar-bureaucrat?"
Liu Hongxun cried out in pain and burst into tears.
"What's more important than the clan or the people of the world? Does Yuan Fu think that if he wants to do good governance for the people of the world, it's enough to just rely on his own integrity and not be afraid of the powerful?"
Zhu Ciwei asked, and then said: "Father said that if you want to achieve great things, you must have the consciousness of betraying your relatives and leaving your relatives. You are not afraid of being shattered to pieces, and you are not afraid of being famous in the world. Yuan Fu can die for the clan, but as for the world, if you want to make the world unified, And what about the ideal of making the poor get richer and the rich not being poor, and the slightest obsession in your heart to establish a direct descendant? Have you ever ignored the sage? Did the sage say that the clan cannot be rebelled? The problem is the clan You betrayed your purpose first!"
Liu Hongxun remained silent.
This is indeed difficult for him, a traditional scholar-official.
It's already difficult to betray your own class, but now you have to betray your own family!
What's more, Confucianism attaches great importance to ethics.
"Yuanfu, think about it for yourself. If you don't kill relatives for justice and set an example for the country and dare to kill your family, then in the future, if there are auxiliary ministers in the family, won't you dare to continue to act recklessly? What you rely on is that the court needs him, and the king Need him."
Zhu Ciwei continued.
After hearing this, Liu Hongxun made up his mind and gritted his teeth and said: "Thank you for your advice, Your Majesty. I will write it down. I will write an article to reprimand the people of my clan, sever ties with the clan, and ask the court to severely punish my clan!"
"Yuan Fu is indeed sensible and a loyal minister of the country!"
Zhu Ciwei cupped his hands and said.
Liu Hongxun suddenly seemed to have aged a lot. He staggered back to his chair and began to write.
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