Then, without letting Xiao Ling ask any more questions, Chu Yi still said this.

In fact, he also wanted to find someone to talk to about the changes in the Chu family. Although the person in front of him was not worthy of his complete trust, he still wanted to speak out.

"Royal family? Why is that?" Xiao Ling was not expecting Chu Yi to say that.

After thinking for a moment, she tentatively asked, "Could it be that it's because the Emperor... the Emperor Yin believed the slander and tried his best to suppress your Chu family?"

Chu Yi nodded slightly, then frowned and added, "And the late emperor, that bastard Xiao Yu!"

After hearing these words, Xiao Ling almost jumped up and down.

How dare this traitor curse his own father in front of me!

But in the end, for her own purpose, she still held back.

"But... I remember that the late emperor promoted your... uncle, didn't he? This should be considered as compensation for the ridiculous things that the Yin Emperor did? How..."

As Xiao Yu's princess, it was not that she was circling for her father at this time, but in Xiao Ling's heart, her father was a wise ruler.

If it weren't for her father's six years of hard work, the situation in Da'an that she took over would probably be even worse than it is now.

There was no way, Xiao Ling himself wanted to curse his own royal grandfather.

It's really stupid and incompetent.

Not only did he wrongly accuse the Chu family, but he also trusted a large number of incompetent and treacherous ministers, making the court a chaotic mess.

At that time, Da'an State was weak externally, and internally there was widespread public resentment and corruption in the government.

Father has indeed done many good things since ascending the throne, but...

My father passed away when he was in his prime and had no children. His death was extremely strange.

Even Xiao Ling has always suspected that this matter is related to the Chu family.

Chu Yi couldn't help laughing when he heard Xiao Ling's question.

But that smile was so terrifying, it was unprecedented and very frightening.

"promoted?"

"You also know that it was my uncle who was promoted? Then the question is, why did they promote my useless uncle instead of my father who was the Minister of Personnel? Hmm?"

Chu Yi stared at Xiao Ling, obviously asking for her opinion.

"This..." Xiao Ling suddenly realized that something seemed wrong.

Given my father's temperament, there seems to be no reason to do so.

Before becoming a cabinet scholar during the reign of Emperor Zhang, Lord Chu was only an associate governor, and his political achievements were nothing outstanding.

After carefully recalling those things for a long time, she whispered, "I heard that your father seemed to be in poor health at that time? He passed away a few years later..."

"Not feeling well?"

Chu Yi wanted to laugh even more after hearing this, but since Chen Tang didn't know the whole story, he didn't bother to care.

"My father was only in his forties at the time, but he suddenly became ill and passed away within just six months. Can you guess why?"

Xiao Ling: “…”

This time she was speechless and could not answer the question.

She muttered to herself, he is your father, not my father, how would I know.

Besides, she still hasn't found out about my father's death, so how could she have the time to care about other things?

Seeing that she didn't answer, Chu Yi naturally didn't wait, but continued to explain:

"You probably don't know, but my uncle, who doesn't know his own worth, has always felt that it was my father who blocked his career. Especially after the Hidden Emperor suppressed our Chu family, he was even more resentful of my father during those years of hardship."

After hearing this, Xiao Ling seemed to have a vague understanding, but still didn't know the details.

"After Xiao Yu promoted him to cabinet minister, my father passed away within six months. After that, my second and third brothers and I were imprisoned for two years. My second brother even starved to death during that time."

After Chu Yi said this, his face remained expressionless, but Xiao Ling could see the deep hatred in his eyes.

This time, Xiao Ling finally understood.

No wonder the Chu family was in such chaos after Chu Yi came to power.

Elder Chu, Chu Yi's uncle, was later convicted by his father and executed by slow slicing. His death was extremely miserable.

In fact, she had heard about Chu Yi's family, but after all, she was in the deep palace and didn't know much.

She didn't know that Chu Yi's uncle was so heartless and treated her eldest brother's family in such a way that even Chu Yi had been imprisoned.

For two whole years, my second brother starved to death.

Xiao Ling couldn't imagine how Chu Yi had survived those two years.

She also wanted to ask, all of this is your Chu family’s internal affairs, what does it have to do with the emperor?

When the emperor intended to promote Lord Chu, wasn't his purpose to restore the prestige of the imperial family among his ministers?

How could the emperor know that the uncle he promoted Chu Yi would be such a person and cause such a situation?

To be honest, there is only one thing that my father did that I find objectionable.

That is, during the seven years of my father's reign, he did not redress the grievances of the loyal ministers who had been wronged during my grandfather's reign.

Because... during the years that my father was in power, he adhered to one word to govern the country.

That is "filial piety".

Just ask yourself, would a monarch who treated well even the family of his cousin who had competed with him for the throne, slap his father in the face as soon as he came to power and redress the ministers who were wronged during his father's reign?

Even if the emperor’s grandfather is recognized as a tyrant?

If my father really has the courage, why doesn't he directly deny the so-called false charges that my grandfather has brought against the Chu family?

Why wasn’t the Shen family vindicated? Why weren’t the other wrongly accused officials vindicated?

After all, my father had no intention of redressing the grievances of those wrongly accused ministers.

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