333, repeated retaliation

333, repeated retaliation

Before the emperor's edict came down, Lu Mingfei was still a little worried that things would change.

He didn't feel relieved until the emperor's edict came down and all the rebels in prison were sentenced to exile.

For the prisoners in jail, this was the best punishment among the worst possible ones. As long as they were still alive, they would have a chance to make a comeback.

As for Lu Mingfei, he not only fulfilled his promise to Fu Lianxin, but also saved many lives.

However, at this time, he had been forced to resign from his post as the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice and returned to the Hanlin Academy, where he was left out and ostracized.

This time when he returned to the Hanlin Academy, the treatment he received was very different from before. Those colleagues who had a good relationship with him before, now after he returned to the Hanlin Academy, they all mocked him.

Even his former master stopped associating with him after he returned.

The head of the Hanlin Academy assigned him the dirtiest and most tiring work, which meant that after returning to the Hanlin Academy, his treatment was even worse than before.

He didn't need to guess, he knew that this was definitely the work of Prime Minister Wan. This also made him understand that many of the people in the Hanlin Academy were probably Prime Minister Wan's people.

I wonder what the emperor sitting on the dragon throne would feel if he knew that Prime Minister Wan and the Hanlin Academy’s Hanlin Academy had been won over.

Prime Minister Wan's revenge on him was not only to make him lose his job in the Ministry of Justice, but also to close down all the shops opened by his family in Kyoto Prefecture by people sent by Prime Minister Wan.

Even the fact that his family had taken in refugees in recent years was dug up by people on Prime Minister Wan's side. They said that he had ulterior motives and accused him of intending to rebel.

If the emperor had not believed him, this one incident alone would have been enough to make him lose his official uniform and end up in jail.

Lu Mingfei wasn't too surprised by Prime Minister Wan's counterattack. He knew that someone as high and mighty as Prime Minister Wan would definitely retaliate if he was slapped in the face by someone else.

If the one sitting on the dragon throne had not protected him, he would have been crushed to death by Prime Minister Wan's successive tactics.

However, he wasn't worried about going to jail. After all, it wouldn't be difficult for him to escape from prison now, and he still had some self-protection skills.

However, he was worried that Prime Minister Wan would take action against his family.

Therefore, a few days ago, he secretly arranged for his mother and stepmother to take his two younger brothers and Zhang Xiaobao and the three children to leave Kyoto Prefecture and head to Tong County.

As for the people from Shihua Village, most of them are now in the mountains. Only a few men who are responsible for the village's business will come down the mountain regularly and go to the city to deliver goods.

If Prime Minister Wan sent people to their village to arrest people, they might not be able to catch them. By then, everyone would hide in the mountains, and it would not be easy to catch them.

However, Prime Minister Wan's action against him at this time gave him an opportunity to move his family and clansmen away under the emperor's nose without arousing any suspicion from the emperor.

It seems that what Prime Minister Wan did was not entirely bad. At least this helped him.

On the night their family's shops were all closed, Lu Mingfei and his father were having dinner at his adoptive father's house. He said to his two fathers, "Dad, adoptive father, now that we can't open any shops in Kyoto, you should open a shop somewhere else."

"I've already made all the arrangements outside, you can just leave tomorrow morning."

"What about you? We are all leaving. Are you going to stay here alone?" Lu Youtian was worried about his eldest son staying here alone, so he was reluctant to leave.

"Yes, Mingfei, why don't you quit your job and come with us." Lu Qingfeng advised.

"I will make arrangements on my side, don't worry about me." Lu Mingfei gave the two fathers a look that said "don't worry". The main reason was that if he wanted to resign now, the emperor might not let him go.

"It's just right that you guys are going to Tong County, so you can reopen our workshop."

Their workshop was shut down by Prime Minister Wan.

However, since the workshop here was closed, they just happened to move all the staff to Tong County. As long as they had the technology, they could open a workshop anywhere they wanted.

If the workshop can be relocated ahead of time, it would be better than leaving it and its staff here. If it can be moved out now, it should be done sooner rather than later, to avoid any problems here and making it difficult for them to move the staff away.

But now that Prime Minister Wan has done this, their family has suffered considerable losses.

As for the fixed fields and properties left here, he can sell them off and exchange them for cash, which can be used for other investments.

Fortunately, he is not short of money now, so he will not be forced into a desperate situation by Prime Minister Wan's series of tactics.

This was also thanks to him and Zhao Lang, who had early on transferred all of Ding Wangfu's open industries in Jingdu Prefecture to hidden industries. Now these hidden industries were all profitable, and the money they earned could be provided elsewhere, mainly to Tong County.

They wanted to build a military base and a military town in Tong County, which would require a large amount of funds and armed forces to support. The annual expenditure for maintaining the troops alone would be a considerable amount.

So Lu Mingfei’s current idea is to make Tong County self-sufficient so that the pressure on him will not be so great.

That night, he chatted with his father and adoptive father for a long time. His father stayed in the pancake shop with his adoptive father, while Lu Mingfei went out by himself and got on the carriage back home.

***

However, one day when his carriage was halfway back, it was blocked by another carriage.

The guard driving the carriage grabbed the reins and asked the people in the opposite carriage, "Who are you?"

Lu Mingfei sat in the carriage without saying a word. His first reaction was that Prime Minister Wan had sent someone to cause trouble with him.

Could it be that Prime Minister Wan was so bold as to hire assassins to attack an imperial official on the main street of Kyoto?

"Our master would like to invite your Lord Lu to meet him." said the coachman on the opposite carriage.

"Our master is busy, so you'd better be smart and leave now!" Guard Ma wouldn't let his master just leave with the people who blocked his way.

At this moment, the person sitting in the carriage opposite spoke through the curtain, "Lord Lu, you are so arrogant. Is it so difficult for me to invite you for a cup of tea?"

This voice? A face flashed through Lu Mingfei's mind. Was it the deposed emperor's?

No wonder the emperor sent out so many troops but still failed to capture the deposed emperor. It turns out that the deposed emperor has been hiding in Kyoto Prefecture!

Sure enough, the most dangerous place is the safest place!

I'm afraid that the master in the palace didn't expect that his good brother would hide under his nose.

However, why did the deposed emperor come to see him?

However, no matter what the purpose of the deposed emperor coming to see him now was, Lu Mingfei knew that it was not appropriate for him to meet with the deposed emperor at this time.

If Prime Minister Wan knew about this, he would definitely report it to the emperor and accuse him of being a "traitor," a "remnant of the deposed emperor," or a "rebel against the deposed emperor." By then, if he could arouse the emperor's suspicion and make him lose his trust, it would be much easier for Prime Minister Wan to kill him.

So after thinking about it, he rejected the deposed emperor's invitation, "Sorry, it's late today and I'm in a hurry to go home. Let's do it next time." This was to avoid suspicion, for no other reason.

"I didn't expect that our Lord Lu is so timid." This was followed by a sneer, full of mockery.

However, Lu Mingfei didn't care about it. He just said to the guard outside: "Let's go back to the mansion."

"master?"

"Let him go."

After hearing what their master said, the driver of the opposite carriage turned his horse's head slightly to let the carriage they were blocking leave.

The deposed emperor, who was sitting in the carriage, heard the sound of the carriage leaving, lifted the curtain and took a look outside.

After they left, the horse guard who drove the carriage asked their master, "Sir, do you know who was in that carriage just now? Why did he want to see you?"

"...I don't know, maybe he has something and wants to ask me for help." Lu Mingfei tapped his fingers on the tea table, picked up the tea beside him and took a sip.

As soon as Guard Ma heard this, he knew his master was definitely lying. However, since his master said he didn't know, then he didn't know.

That night, Lu Mingfei returned to his residence and met the young waiter he had bought. He was standing in the yard at the door waiting for him to come back.

As soon as the other party saw him, he came forward and saluted him, "Slave, I greet you, sir."

"It's so late, why are you standing here?" Lu Mingfei forgot about the person after he brought him back. He had been locking the person in the yard and didn't know how the person escaped.

A few days ago, he promised the emperor to send the person away, but he forgot about it these days because he was busy.

He wasn't worried that the emperor would think he was truly lusting after men if he found out he hadn't sent the man away. He was just worried that the prince in the faraway Northern Commandery would be furious if he knew he had bought a man.

It seems that we have to send someone to send this guy away early tomorrow morning.

He bought him back in the beginning just to give Prime Minister Wan and his team a handle to deal with him. If he knew that Prime Minister Wan's people could dig up so much handle on him, he would not give Prime Minister Wan a handle.

"My lord, I'm afraid that you'll be busy outside and hungry, so I went to the kitchen myself and prepared some snacks for you. Would you like to eat them?" The young waiter looked at the lord who redeemed him with a pair of affectionate eyes.

"..." Lu Mingfei looked at the thinly dressed handsome man. If he still didn't know what he was thinking, then his two lives would be in vain. "No need. It's getting late. You should go back and rest early."

"I'll have someone deliver your indenture contract to you later. You can leave on your own without informing me." After saying this, he wanted to leave.

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