"What Yuan Fu saw is in line with my wishes, and it will be discussed with the cabinet."
This was how the highly pragmatic draft "The Statement of the King" was written, and less than an hour later, it was also written in the same way when the emperor's approval was issued.
This means that the "national war" that has lasted for nearly twenty years in the Wanli Dynasty has finally entered the final stage of decisive battle at this moment.
There are three contestants participating in the finals, namely the emperor's legitimate son Zhu Changhao, the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo, and the emperor's third son Zhu Changxun.
Naturally, the above ranking is not simply based on age, but based on the tradition of Confucian ethics and the "orthodoxy" of each of the three players.
Because of this, Zhu Changhao, the youngest son of the emperor who was still in his infancy and had just completed his full-moon ceremony, was ranked first; Zhu Changluo, the oldest, followed closely behind him because of his age; The third son, Zhu Changxun, mainly relied on the sacred scrolls of his mother-in-law, Concubine Zheng, and ranked last.
In this final, the third son of the emperor Zhu Changxun was not supposed to have a place, but because of the sacred scroll of his mother's concubine, Concubine Zheng, he could also become one of the finalists.
There is an implicit factor here, which is different from the traditional idea that the mother is more valuable than the son. Zhu Changxun is the son because of the mother. As mentioned in the previous chapter, the official "imperial concubine" of the Ming Dynasty was different from ordinary concubines. For those who have "registers and treasures", their status can be said to have been clearly defined as "deputy queen".
In this case, theoretically, her son should be more noble than any other concubine's son except the queen's legitimate son. If you look at it from this point of view, in fact, the emperor's legitimate son also belongs to the "son is more valuable than the mother".
In fact, in the palace and in the heavenly family, the two situations of "the mother is more valuable than the son" and "the son is more valuable than the mother" often go hand in hand.
A queen who has no children is still a queen, but she may be deposed at some point; however, once she has a son, her or her son's status will be greatly consolidated, at least in the Ming Dynasty, there were no exceptions.
When a prince is born, even if his mother was just an ordinary palace maid, she will almost certainly be promoted to the "concubine" generation, and her status will be greatly improved; but if her original status is too low, it will hinder her son's status and it will be difficult to improve, unless... Like Zhu Changluo, he caught up with the status of the eldest son of a concubine.
A very important reason why Zhu Changluo and Zhu Changxun had their own support before the birth of the emperor's legitimate son was that Concubine Zheng had "registers and treasures." Putting aside the Holy Scroll, a factor that could not be recognized by courtiers on the issue of establishing a crown prince, Concubine Zheng herself surpassed Concubine Wang Gong, the mother of Zhu Changluo, in terms of status.
Yes, at this time, Zhu Changluo's biological mother was still only "Wang Gongfei", not the "Noble Concubine" and "Emperor Noble Concubine" who were named by the Jin Dynasty after thirty-four years of Wanli in the original history.
It may be difficult to understand this sentence, but the whole process is like this: In the thirty-fourth year of Wanli in original history, Wang Gongfei was first promoted to a noble concubine, and in the same year she was promoted again and became an imperial concubine.
In that time and space, the fact that Wang Gongfei was promoted to the imperial concubine actually meant that Zhu Changluo's status was finally stable - even before that, he had been canonized as the prince in the 29th year of Wanli.
In other words, five years after Zhu Changluo became the crown prince, his mother Wang Gongfei was promoted to the title of noble concubine and imperial concubine. The status of mother and son has reached full status (after all, the queen has no fault and cannot depose the queen at will, and Zhu Yijun has no such intention).
These five years were obviously not an easy time to spend. There were many overt and covert battles, but this has nothing to do with this book, so I won’t mention it here.
Let’s talk about the current situation: Empress Wang and Zhu Changhao’s mother and son are orthodox and have high pragmatic support behind them. Whether it is from an ethical point of view or from the strength of the DPRK, they can be said to be the finals of the country’s struggle. The one with the greatest chance of winning.
The mother and son of Concubine Wang Gong and Zhu Changluo are typical examples of how the mother is more valuable than the son. Concubine Wang Gong herself has almost no status in Zhu Yijun's mind. Zhu Changluo cannot get any meaningful support from her mother and concubine, but is burdened with a lot of "negative assets" .
Fortunately, Zhu Changluo occupies the status of the eldest son of a concubine after all, and Zhu Changhao was born too late, so the Xin School has already placed heavy bets on Zhu Changluo. If they give up now, the "sunk cost" will be too high, so they have to Gritting his teeth and continuing to support, Zhu Changluo still has a chance to make a comeback.
Of course, in addition to this, Zhu Changluo also has an advantage, that is, in very unexpected situations - such as the sudden death of the emperor. Then according to the traditional view of "Kuni Lai Changjun", Zhu Changluo's inheritance legitimacy will be temporarily improved to a certain extent. However, it is difficult to say how early it is, because there are some explanations.
There is a reason why the saying "Kuni Lai Changjun" appeared, and it is also of great practical significance.
China's feudal society is a "family world", and the succession to the throne is only divided by blood relationship. However, for the sake of the survival of the country, most of the emperors who ascend the throne are relatively older princes. It is not impossible for young princes to succeed to the throne, but it is best. Don't happen in turbulent times, or when powerful officials are in power.
However, is "Kuniyori Chojun" really just for the survival of the dynasty?
The ancient marriage system is very similar to modern times. There are certain regulations on the age at which men and women can marry. However, modern society does not stipulate an upper limit for the time for marriage, but in ancient times, there was an upper limit for women's marriage age, that is, most of the time, women were ten years old. You must get married at the age of eight.
This is even written into the law. Many dynasties stipulated that if men and women could not marry within the age limit, they would be punished, and they were severely punished. The Ming Dynasty was no exception.
At the same time, ancient China often had a magical official position or institution called the official matchmaker, in other words, the official matchmaker. If a man and a woman do not get married when they reach an age, the government may send an official matchmaker to secure a match for the man and woman.
At this time, marriage is mandatory. Otherwise, the family or family will face large fines or other penalties. Of course, this system, which usually uses money as punishment, is probably affordable by a wealthy family, but definitely not affordable by an ordinary citizen.
What's more, even if the family would rather lose the money, it was very difficult for an older woman to get married in the society at that time. If she never got married, she might suffer social discrimination.
Well, Liu Xin has a say on this point. It's just that she has been in the Gao pragmatic mansion for a long time, and social discrimination is difficult to appear in front of her, and she is also rich enough - from a personal point of view, even if she does not count the salary of Jinghua Secretary-General, she still has Jinghua Medicine The original shares, the mere fine is not worth mentioning.
Back to the topic, in ancient times, women got married relatively early, so the children between men and women were born relatively early. Because the parents who give birth to children are still young, the children's health is destined not to be particularly good, so most children will have congenital deficiencies.
Specific to the Tian family, in order to stabilize the political power of the ancient royal family, most of them would enter into marriages. Most emperors or princes would marry the children of their uncle's family (note: this was not the case in the Ming Dynasty).
In this way, generation after generation, the blood relationship between the two families is naturally close, but it is also easy to have extremely serious consequences, that is, giving birth to deformed children or children with poor congenital physiological conditions. This is also a huge challenge to the medical skills of the royal doctors.
In the capital city, there are naturally a large number of famous doctors, who are experts in both pediatric diseases and gynecological injuries, but they still cannot resist some inexplicable injuries of the royal princes.
Once young children contract some strange diseases, the doctors are often helpless. For example, if a child is infected with tuberculosis or chickenpox, it is not a big problem in modern society. It can be solved by spending money, or even in advance (vaccination).
However, it was different in ancient times. Even if they were born in the Tian family, they could only rely on the children's own physical constitution to survive. If they could not survive, then they could only watch them die of illness.
The reason why Taqing Kang Mazi is Kang Mazi is because he had suffered from smallpox when he was a child, and the treatment provided by Tai Hospital was only to go out to avoid acne and avoid infecting other people, and at the same time, he tried to make some nourishing decoctions. It’s just to ensure Xuan Ye’s physical strength.
Therefore, under the conditions of ancient medical standards, the mortality rate of young children was extremely high. This was not only the case among the people, but also when the royal family faced some serious diseases, it was not much better.
Since the royal family wanted to have progeny, the emperor usually got married relatively early, not to mention that some trial marriage maids were arranged to serve before the wedding, so the age of childbirth was relatively early.
Most of the children born during this time period have a hard time surviving. Only after the emperor reaches adulthood, the children born have a greater chance of surviving - just count how many children Zhu Yijun died in infancy and you will know that here I can’t even bear to give examples.
If the emperor and empress are old enough, then the prince will be relatively old. Therefore, excluding those children who died in infancy, the only remaining children will be the older ones, who will be relatively more mature mentally. .
On the contrary, if the succeeding emperor is relatively young and unable to handle military and state affairs independently, power will often fall into the hands of the queen mother, powerful ministers or eunuchs around him.
For example, in the early Han Dynasty, just after the unification of the country was completed, the phenomenon of Empress Lu intervening in politics appeared due to the death of Liu Bang. At the end of the Han Dynasty and the end of the Tang Dynasty, the power of eunuchs soared to the point where they could even lead the emperor's dethronement.
As for the Ming Dynasty, due to the unique cabinet system, it was not common for powerful ministers to have exclusive power. However, the story that the power of the court was originally in the hands of the chief minister of the cabinet Zhang Juzheng during the Wanli period cannot be ignored.
Just imagine, if the emperor is relatively old when he succeeds to the throne, for example, he is at least in his twenties, then the emperor is ambitious and heroic, and has basically the ability to govern the country. Naturally, he will not There are so many incidents of interference in politics.
But if the emperor is younger, then the above three situations of interference in politics may appear at any time, either one or both.
At the same time, the ascension of the young emperor to the throne means that the father has died. This is also a big psychological impact on the young emperor who is still young, and may even affect the development of his character. That means no one knows what the prince will be like after he succeeds to the throne and becomes an emperor, whether he will be taught bad things by those around him while growing up, etc.
On the contrary, if the emperor is an adult, then his ruling ideology and personal character are basically fixed. In the words of later generations, it is "highly certain." This is a good start for the country, ministers, and people.
The "modern countries" that emerged a few years later often had a lower age limit when electing heads of state, and this is why.
Of course, as I just said, the Ming Dynasty had certain particularities on this issue due to its unique system.
First, after Yongle, the Ming Dynasty basically no longer had certain prerequisites for princes to seize the throne, namely the power of princes (princes to be crowned princes) to command armies and the power to associate with ministers at will.
These two changes made it impossible for the princes to effectively cultivate their personal power before ascending the throne, and they could only rely on their own legitimacy to determine whether they could succeed to the throne according to the system. If not, then you can only wait to be granted the title of king and become a wealthy and idle person.
Secondly, the unique cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty meant that even the chief minister only had "limited power" and did not even have the real title of prime minister. This made it difficult to form a truly powerful minister in the Ming Dynasty. Unless it was a special period caused by special circumstances - such as Zhang Juzheng in history, then the threat from powerful ministers could basically be ignored.
Having said that, Zhang Juzheng, the "powerful official", was actually very capable. In fact, if he could not obtain the acquiescence of Empress Dowager Li and form an internal and external offensive and defensive alliance with Feng Bao, his power would still be extremely limited in nature.
To put it bluntly, as long as Empress Dowager Li persuaded the emperor to issue a decree, Zhang Juzheng would have to pack up and leave on the spot like his predecessor Gao Gong. The timeliness was so strong that it could be described as "a political death sentence, executed immediately."
Let alone Empress Dowager Li, Zhang Juzheng wouldn't be able to do anything even if Feng Bao rebelled. Because of this, Zhang Juzheng had to protect Feng Bao many times.
It's not that Zhang Juzheng didn't know the danger, but he knew that without Feng Bao, his so-called "I am not a prime minister, but a photographer" would be nothing more than a joke.
Thirdly, now that the threats from royal brothers and powerful ministers have been removed, according to the tradition of Chinese dynasties, there is only one last thing left: foreign relatives intervening in politics.
However... Anyone who has read five minutes of Ming history will know that it is purely funny to say that relatives were involved in politics during the Ming Dynasty.
Regarding this point, we must first know how the involvement of foreign relatives in politics came into being in history.
Let’s take the Han and Tang Dynasties, which are recognized as the most powerful, as an example: What kind of relatives were the relatives of the Han Dynasty? In the early stage, they were all from the families of famous ministers, or from aristocratic families, such as the Huo family and the Dou family;
Although they began to choose ordinary families in the later period, once they became relatives, they would immediately gain huge real power. For example, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, He Jin rose from being the owner of a meat factory to becoming a general with military power in the world.
The situation in the Tang Dynasty was similar. For example, which family contributed the most queens to the Tang royal family? It is the famous Taiyuan Wang family.
What are the characteristics of such a maternal family? The characteristic is that he is very powerful. Once he is in a high position, there are a large number of talents in the family who can be placed in the court team, and he can take over the power of the court in one fell swoop, directly ousting the emperor.
The exception here may be He Jin. The He family was originally promoted by the eunuch group. What the eunuchs valued was that the He family had a weak foundation and could only form an alliance with them.
However, what the eunuchs never expected was that He Jin, who was ambitious but incompetent, would be easily deceived by Yuan Shao, a representative of the noble clan, and actually wanted to backstab the eunuch group. As a result, the eunuch group and the He family obviously had good cards, but they ended up playing gg hand in hand.
In short, if the relatives want to oust the emperor, the premise is that the family tree has deep roots and there are a lot of talents available in the family or related forces, otherwise it will not be possible.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty, having learned its lesson, first directly changed the tradition of royal marriage. Since Yongle, it did not choose daughters from big families as concubines, but exclusively selected people from the families of small officials near the capital.
There are two major advantages to such a small official family: firstly, they have little background and power, and cannot recruit a large group of family members to control the government after a queen or concubine is born in the family; secondly, they are officials after all, so what is the role of their daughter? Those who have basic etiquette and education don't have to worry too much about picking out some stupid women, evil women, and vicious women who will cause great harm to the government.
Of course, the above were also implemented together with the harem system designated by Zhu Yuanzhang, which made it impossible for the concubines in the harem to have any say in the affairs of the foreign court except becoming the queen mother.
In addition to the replacement of the marriage tradition, another way for relatives to participate in politics has also been blocked, which is the habit of "re-employing relatives". The Ming Dynasty also "employed relatives" - the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army! There are five governor's offices in the front, right, left and right. You can choose the left and right governors in each government. If you can pick one with real power, I will lose.
With such a combination of punches, all avenues for foreign relatives to interfere in politics were blocked. Therefore, in the last two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, not even a single foreign relative could pose any threat to the imperial power.
In this way, the transition of imperial power has completely become a situation where the Tian family determines who will inherit the throne according to the rules. If we must say that this system still has some power of external interference, then only the civil servant group - not a certain powerful minister. , but the entire group’s constraints on this system.
The so-called constraints can be viewed from two aspects.
On the one hand, the civil service group can be regarded as the natural support force of this system. One of the characteristics of the civilian group is to seek stability and resolutely oppose national turmoil - because national turmoil will strengthen the power of the general group and harm the interests of the civilian group.
In this way, the civil service group will continue to strengthen and elevate the importance of "legitimacy", insisting that the appointment of the crown prince must be done in accordance with the rules, and will even go as far as to go against the emperor himself.
In the final analysis, what the civil servant group does is never driven by a sense of justice, but driven by group interests. Still the same truth, touching the soul is not as serious as touching the interests.
This forms another aspect of the constraint, that is, the civil servant group is not only an advocate, it is also a supervisor. Anyone who dares to undermine this system will be opposed by the civil service clique - whether actively or passively. At the same time, this hostility does not distinguish between targets, even if the saboteur is the current emperor himself.
Originally, during the dispute over the country, Concubine Zheng had been targeted by the civil service group, but because Concubine Zheng was not a person who did not understand the rules, she did not directly jump out to do anything that openly undermined the system. , but hid behind the emperor and encouraged the emperor to fight with the civil servant group. Therefore, the civil servant group has not been able to directly attack her herself - although this attempt has never stopped.
But what happened yesterday created favorable conditions for doing so - now that your concubine, Emperor Zheng, is involved, and she is involved in regicide, then our civil service group must investigate thoroughly.
The fact that a traditional official like Wang Jiaping could make the decision to resign before leaving office is enough to explain everything.
However, Wang Jiaping's position is relatively simple and direct. What is interesting is his highly pragmatic and consistent attitude.
Shen has always supported thorough investigations because he knew that the situation was sensitive and that he might be exposed, so he hoped to use Concubine Zheng as a shield, or in other words, as a target, to attract all the firepower to be vented towards her, thus making himself Survive the danger.
Gao Pragmatic supported a thorough investigation because he knew that the emperor was unwilling to go to war - especially Concubine Zheng. He used the excuse of a thorough investigation of Yikun Palace to find out Shen Yiguan, the mastermind behind the scenes.
In his opinion, if things can develop in this direction, firstly, Shen Yiguan, Zhu Changluo's biggest supporter, will basically declare political death; secondly, he can warn Concubine Zheng and let her know that nothing can be done and she should not do anything again in the future. Unreasonable thinking.
Of course, there is a third point: although Concubine Zheng does not have to bear the main responsibility for this matter, major crimes can be avoided, but small crimes cannot be escaped. She will probably still have to receive some punishment afterwards - such as cutting off the title of "Emperor Concubine" The word "emperor" was withdrawn and the seal was no longer regarded as a "vice queen". At the same time, Zhu Changxun no longer had any legitimacy in front of the emperor's legitimate son Zhu Changhao.
After receiving the official approval from the emperor, Gao Pragmatic thought carefully about it again and again, and finally got up and went to Wang Jiaping's duty room, asking Wang Jiaping to convene a meeting with all cabinet officials as the chief minister.
Since Gao Jingshi was on duty today and the document he drafted was Wang Jiaping's own memorial, it was only then that Wang Jiaping learned that the emperor had written it word for word according to Gao Jingshi's "On behalf of the King". He couldn't help but He was so happy that he repeatedly said, "My Emperor is a wise man," and then praised his pragmatism for a job well done.
In fact, he wanted to boast that being pragmatic still had a huge influence in the emperor's mind. However... these words are actually quite sensitive for the courtiers, especially the assistant ministers. This situation can be "well known", but it is generally difficult to express it openly, so Wang Jiaping only praised the pragmatic and well-done work.
The convening of cabinet ministers went very smoothly. After all, everyone knew that today was a critical window of time. Everyone was waiting in their own room, and no one went to inspect the department in charge of them, so they all arrived quickly.
Wang Jiaping couldn't wait to declare "victory" - yes, for him, the emperor's promise to thoroughly investigate Yikun Palace already meant victory.
However, he found that after he declared victory, no one seemed very excited, at least not as excited as him.
This made Wang Jiaping, who had a simple purpose, a little stunned. After looking left and right, he still couldn't figure it out. He had to frown and asked: "Why are all the gentlemen so unhappy?"
As soon as this question came out, Liang Menglong was silent, Zhao Zhigao was wandering in the world, Zhou Yong...ah, he has always been regarded as "the old man who raises his hands", so it is normal to look at the nose and the heart at this time.
Well, Wang Jiaping has figured it out. These few people are either packing their things and preparing to return to their hometowns for retirement, or they have been pretending to be stupid on the grounds of poor health for a long time, or they are just doing the job of making money and being content. In short, they are counting on them. To be honest, that's totally useless.
In the current cabinet, except for Wang Yuanfu, who considers himself to be a man with the world in mind, the only two people who are really useful are Gao Pragmatic and Shen Yiguan. Let's see what insights Gao and Shen have.
"Rixin, Jiaomen, I wonder what the second prince has to say about the emperor's comment?" Since you are unwilling to take the initiative, as the chief assistant, I have no choice but to ask questions by name.
Gao Jingshi didn't really want to speak before Shen Yiguan, but he had no choice. Who said he was a bachelor of Wenhua Palace while Shen Yiguan was just a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion? Since he was ranked before Shen Yiguan, Wang Jiaping would naturally put him in front when asking questions.
Gao pragmatic cleared his throat gently and said: "The emperor agreed to thoroughly investigate Yikun Palace. This is naturally a great and happy event to be celebrated. It means that yesterday's incident finally has a chance to come to light, and those with evil intentions will not be allowed to go unpunished. However, …”
As the saying goes, be afraid of "but" in everything, and this time is no exception. Gao pragmatic sighed and asked a question that made Wang Jiaping's eyes widen and he didn't know how to answer.
Gao Jingshi spread his right hand and asked: "Yikun Palace is the harem, and the outer court office...such as the Sanfa Department, how can we send people to investigate?"
Just such a simple question made Wang Jiaping, the master of science and technology, dumbfounded on the spot.
That's right, the three judges in the outer court are all grown men. How can they go to the inner palace of Yikun Palace to investigate?
At this time, Shen Yiguan first glanced at Wang Jiaping, who was stunned, and then glanced at Gao Pragmatic, who looked innocent. While he was overjoyed, he couldn't help but grumbled: Gao Rixin was what I planned to say, but why did he But he took the initiative to mention it?
There is naturally a reason why Shen Yiguan can't figure it out. Of course he knew that Wang An, who seemed to be a "Chen Party", actually had his own interests. Therefore, at least on the matter of national origin, Wang An formed an alliance with the Xin School because he tied up Zhu Changluo.
Therefore, Shen Yiguan had already thought about it last night. If Gao Jingshi could convince the emperor today and really obtained the power to thoroughly investigate Yikun Palace, then he should recommend the Dongchang faction on the pretext that the Sanfa Division was unable to conduct an in-depth investigation into the harem. people investigate. As for the Three Law Division, it is obvious that it can only assist, and its responsibility is to analyze, make inferences and convict based on the evidence or clues obtained by Dongchang.
In a word, Shen Yiguan will adhere to the principle that Wang An can only send people from Dongchang to collect evidence, and the three law departments of the outer court must not enter the harem. The excuse... Oh no, the reason is very fair: the prohibition on the harem is the order of Taizu, and we, the ministers, must not change it.
According to Shen's consistent thinking, the thorough investigation Gao Pragmatic insists on must be a "real thorough investigation". After Wang An's talk back to Chen Ju yesterday, Gao Pragmatic's cautiousness will definitely doubt Wang An's position. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic should be very reluctant to mention the rule that "the outer court cannot enter the harem", which tilts the direction of the discussion towards "East Factory evidence collection".
But now an accident happened. Not only did Gao Pragmatic not object to mentioning that "Three Law Divisions cannot enter the harem", but there was a feeling in and out of his words that he was deliberately handing this matter over to Dongchang.
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster!
Shen Yiguan suddenly felt a little creepy, and a chill ran down his spine as he thought: Oops, is there something wrong with Wang An?
Thinking that something might go wrong with Wang An, even if he is as sinister as Shen Guanglian, he has to tremble in fear.
If nothing else, he had previously expected that Wang An would never reach an agreement with Gao Pragmatic on the matter of the country's foundation, so he even pulled Wang An along to do such a fatal thing as assassinating Gao Cai and his wife.
So the question is, if Wang An unexpectedly jumps back at such a critical moment, what should Shen Yiguan do?
This was an assassination of the parents of a minister of the imperial court. It was a fatal move that seriously violated the unwritten rules of Ming Dynasty officialdom! If this matter were to be exposed, let alone how angry the emperor would be, I can't even imagine that not even the civil and military officials of the dynasty would agree!
Officialdom has its own official rules. Although many of these rules are unwritten, since a consensus can be formed, there must be reasons and a realistic basis.
What is reality? The reality is that if an official's parents die, the official himself must immediately resign even if he holds a senior position and return to his hometown to honor his parents. The delay is twenty-seven months - of course, it is usually said to be three years, but that is not Actually, it is actually twenty-seven months.
Of course, if you insist on saying that including the time spent on the road, it will basically be three years, this is a bit exaggerated and not consistent with the facts.
Therefore, deliberately killing the parents of a political opponent was completely intolerable for a court like the Ming Dynasty that emphasized filial piety in governing the world, not to mention that it also involved damaging the opponent's career. You can do this to person A today, you can do it to person B tomorrow, and you can do it to person C the day after tomorrow... Is that okay?
However, when Shen Yiguan was in panic, Wang Jiaping, who couldn't think of a solution, had already turned his attention. Wang Jiaping saw that Shen Yiguan, who had always shown no emotion or anger, looked dull, and couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Mr. Jiaomen? Mr. Jiaomen?"
"Ah? Oh... Yuan Fu, you are always out of your mind. Do you dare to ask what Yuan Fu said just now?"
Wang Jiaping was even more surprised to see Shen Yiguan lose his composure like this. He really couldn't think of any need for Shen Yiguan to lose his composure... Could it be that because Shen Yiguan was in charge of the Criminal Department, he was worried that the Criminal Department would not be able to lead this investigation and lose the opportunity to show his face?
But this shouldn’t be the case! If this matter really ends with Concubine Zheng being convicted, the person leading the investigation will be very visible, but considering the emperor's feelings for Concubine Zheng, there is a high probability that the minister leading the investigation will be hated by the emperor... Shen Yiguan This man doesn't look like a critic who is willing to lose the Holy Scroll for the sake of justice, so why is he so nervous?
Wang Jiaping really couldn't understand, and unconsciously glanced at Gao Pragmatically.
Gao Pragmatic smiled and seemed to take everything in front of him for granted.
Wang Jiaping suddenly felt a splitting headache - What on earth are you two fighting about? Why are you so confused by me, Wang, and can't see anything?
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