Chapter 111 Another Old Case



Su Juan looked at the system panel and saw several people's names on the panel list.

Duke Ping, Minister Mo, Marquis Ping, Minister of the Central Secretariat and others all appeared on it, with progress bars of different lengths.

The progress bar of Duke Ping was full, that of Minister Mo and Marquis Ping was half full each, and that of Liu Xuan, Song Qianhang, and Xie Xun was only a small part. Even Shen Ruhui, who he had only met once, had a blank progress bar.

There are also some people on the list whose names have been hidden.

Su Juan immediately had a guess, "I understand, the system wants me to help these people serve in the court and support the new emperor to ascend the throne."

She tried to ask the system who the new emperor was, but the system was still out of touch.

Fortunately, she already had a direction, which was to approach these talents and let them serve the court.

Xie Xun on the side seemed to understand as well. The divine weapon wanted Su Juan to collect talented people from all over the world to support the new emperor to ascend the throne.

But she seemed to have never guessed that the new emperor was referring to herself, and thought that he was going to support someone else.

Xie Xun moved his lips, but didn't remind her in the end.

Forget it. If I tell it now, and if other people hear what I really think, it will be a big trouble.

In the carriage, Su Juan looked through the list carefully. Some of the people who appeared now were actually quite troublesome.

She sighed, "Song Qianhang can hardly survive, let alone enter the government. In less than a year, he will be poisoned to death by Song Qianfan."

Xie Xun was shocked. Song Qianfan could actually harm his own brother?

[I don’t know where Shen Ruhui is, and I don’t even know his identity...]

Xie Xun frowned. There was actually Shen Ruhui.

He had asked someone to investigate Shen Ruhui not long ago. His background was not simple. It would be very difficult for him to enter the officialdom.

[Liu Xuan, as long as you can successfully determine your rank, it won't be difficult to enter the government. ]

Xie Xun sneered, he didn't realize that Su Juan thought so highly of Liu Xuan, but this idiot did have the ability.

[Song Qianhang and Shen Ruhui can actually think of a solution, but Xie Xun is really hard to deal with! ]

Su Juan sighed heavily.

Xie Xun was furious. What's so difficult?!

Why am I so difficult to deal with? You have so much confidence in Liu Xuan, but when it comes to me, you just say I'm difficult to deal with?

What do you mean?

[Unlearned and unskilled, he spends the whole day visiting brothels...]

I was just hiding my edge!

[A playboy who only knows how to drink and have fun...]

I did that to conceal my tracks and protect the Xie family!

[Wearing red clothes every day, she looks very ostentatious. 】

Everyone loves beauty, what do you know?

[Forget it, forget it, don't think about it for now, just take it one step at a time and see. At the moment, finding Shen Ruhui and saving Song Qianhang are the most important things, so Xie Xun can put it aside for now.]

Su Juan got off the carriage, walked towards Baihua Tower, and was taken to a private room by the waiter.

Xie Xun is behind us, his back teeth are almost broken by biting. Why should they be the most important and I should put them aside first?

At this moment, he felt extremely unbalanced and felt that Su Juan was biased.

...

All the people I know are in the private room.

Su Juan hadn't seen Song Qianhang for several days. She found that he seemed calmer and there was more sadness between his brows. It might be that he had an argument with Song Qianfan in the palace.

[I heard that Song Qianfan has been in frequent contact with ministers in the court recently. Now there are rumors that Prince Jing's mansion is plotting rebellion.]

Song Qianhang's eyes darkened slightly. It was indeed like that. It was more or less influenced by Shen Ruhui's script. King Han's methods became more and more sinister.

"If the people who saw it that day were not mistaken, Shen Ruhui was indeed taken into the palace through the back door of Prince Han's mansion."

Liu Xuan stroked the teacup repeatedly with his fingertips, "It seems that I have to go to Prince Han's Mansion."

"But why didn't King Han kill Shen Ruhui directly?" Su Juan asked.

[If I were the King of Han, I would have killed Shen Ruhui directly. Why did I bring Shen Ruhui to my own residence? Isn't this just waiting for others to come to me? ]

Several people looked at Su Juan, and Liu Miaoqing nodded, "There must be something wrong."

Su Juan was right. If he were the King of Han, it would have been best to kill Shen Ruhui just to use the storybook to spread words that were unfavorable to King Jing in the capital. However, he brought him into the mansion, leaving such a huge hidden danger.

[He took Shen Ruhui away. Was he just waiting for someone to come? ]

Song Qianhang frowned slightly, "What's the problem?"

Xie Xun looked at Liu Xuan, "Then I have to ask this idiot, who is Shen Ruhui that is worth the King of Han's efforts."

Everyone's eyes immediately turned to Liu Xuan.

Liu Xuan was silent for a moment, then met their gazes, "Shen Ruhui's grandfather was Shen Hezhang, the Right Censor of the Censorate during the Chongwu period."

As soon as Shen Hezhang's name came out, Liu Miaoqing and Song Qianhang's faces changed.

Xie Xun obviously knew Shen Ruhui's identity a long time ago and was not surprised.

During the Chongwu years, when the Empress was on the throne, Su Juan was not very clear about those things. "Since my grandfather was once a first-rank minister in the court, why did Shen Ruhui fall into his current situation?"

[To make a living by writing storybooks, life is too miserable. ]

Among those present, only Su Juan was unaware of the situation.

Liu Xuan said slowly, "This brings us to another old case."

When the Queen Mother was in power, she had several favorites in the harem and gave birth to six princes. The eldest prince died young, and the most outstanding among them were the second and third princes.

The fight for the throne was mainly between these two princes.

The Second Prince's wife was the eldest daughter of the Pei family, who was at the peak of their career at the time. Pei Qian, the eldest son of the Pei family, was the commander-in-chief of the Dingbei Army, who was extremely trusted by the Empress Dowager.

The Second Prince and the Third Prince had been fighting for years, and the Queen Mother's heart gradually leaned towards the Third Prince, the current Emperor.

At that time, the candidate for the crown prince was about to be decided, but the second prince rebelled. The Queen Mother was always ruthless and decisive in her actions. All the family members of the second prince were executed, and the Pei family was also implicated. All the male and female family members were sentenced to death, and the three clans were implicated.

At that time, many people in the court pleaded for the Pei family, but they were either dismissed from office or demoted and fined. Shen Hezhang was one of them.

The entire Pei family was executed, and even the little Master Pei, who was just one month old at the time, was not spared.

At that time, Shen Hezhang reported to the emperor in front of all the civil and military officials, enumerating all the achievements of the Dingbei Army and accusing the Queen Mother of being a bad ruler, being deceived by treacherous people, and being unworthy of her position.

The Queen Mother was furious and had Shen Hezhang thrown into the Ministry of Justice prison. Anyone who tried to intercede for the Second Prince's accomplices would be considered an accomplice and their entire family would be executed.

While in prison, Shen Hezhang learned that the entire Pei family had been executed. He wrote a long letter in blood, still condemning the Queen Mother, and then committed suicide in prison.

All descendants of Shen Hezhang are not allowed to hold official positions, as a warning to people all over the world.

From then on, no one dared to mention the Second Prince and the Pei family.

Shen Ruhui's father was depressed and frustrated and died at the age of forty.

Su Juan really didn't expect that Shen Ruhui had such a past. [No wonder he was so talented but could only make a living by writing storybooks...]

Su Juan looked at the others and suddenly asked, "Did the Pei family really join the Second Prince's rebellion?"


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