Chapter 212 I Don’t Want to Be a Loyal Servant!
Lin Shu knew Cao Jiarong's true identity, which was equivalent to holding a handle on him.
After all, as long as the news that Cao Jiarong is the remnant of the Wen family is revealed to the emperor, Cao Jiarong will definitely be disliked by the emperor and abandoned by his adoptive father Cao Jing.
There was a feud between Cao Jiarong and the emperor over the confiscation of property and the extermination of the clan. Lin Shu could easily use the other party's identity as a handle to threaten Cao Jiarong to do things for him. Cao Jiarong, with his hatred for the emperor, would not resist betraying the emperor.
With Cao Jiarong, the adopted son of Cao Jing, the emperor's most trusted confidant, as his insider, Lin Shu can do a lot.
The Beichang can be said to be the eyes and ears of the emperor. Whatever the emperor sees and hears depends entirely on the Beichang to collect information for him.
The information collected below will first be reported to Cao Jiarong, then Cao Jiarong will report it to Cao Jing, and then Cao Jing will report it to the emperor.
Lin Shu bribed Cao Jiarong, which was equivalent to cutting off the emperor's source of information. He could make the emperor hear or see whatever he wanted.
Lin Shu did what he thought of, and he quickly found evidence that Cao Jiarong was Wen Jiarong.
Cao Jiarong did conceal his background in the beginning, but at that time he was just a small eunuch in the palace. How much power did he have to do this? Once he becomes Cao Jing's adopted son, it would actually attract a lot of attention if he sent people to do this kind of thing again.
After all, as Cao Jing's most valued adopted son, Cao Jiarong had too many people eyeing him. Not to mention others, all the other adopted sons of Cao Jing were eyeing Cao Jiarong and wanted to replace him.
Moreover, Cao Jiarong was only six years old when he entered the palace. There were many young eunuchs who were criminal slaves and entered the palace at the same time. After all, the emperor had just ascended the throne at that time and he confiscated many families to purge his political enemies. Many young masters of similar status and age were also sent to the palace to become criminal eunuchs.
Cao Jiarong, who was mixed in with them, was inconspicuous. If Lin Shu had not guessed from the beginning that Cao Jiarong was Wen Jiarong, and had not reasoned and looked for evidence based on the results, it would have been difficult to find out what happened to Cao Jiarong before he was six years old.
This is also the reason why Cao Jiarong did not bother to cover up his experiences before the age of six after he came to power. In addition to knowing that he was being watched by many people and did not want to make things worse, he also felt that there was no need to cover it up.
When he was adopted by Cao Jing, Cao Jing did not find out his true identity. Although there was a reason why Cao Jing did not investigate seriously and in depth, Cao Jing was already the head of Beichang at that time. As a secret agency in the hands of the emperor, wasn't it easy for Beichang to investigate a person's identity? Since the Beichang Factory couldn't find out the problem, Cao Jiarong was naturally relieved. There was no need to go to such trouble.
Now, when Cao Jiarong was secretly rejoicing that the Yu family, who betrayed him, had been imprisoned, he received a letter of unknown origin. The letter revealed his true identity and asked, seemingly curious but actually threateningly, "Does Your Majesty and the Ninth Prince know the true background of Eunuch Rong?"
Cao Jiarong stared at the words on the letter, his face as gloomy as ice.
Damn the mastermind!
His background is so secretive, how could anyone know his true background? If he were reported to the emperor and his adoptive father... Cao Jiarong didn't even dare to think about the consequences.
I am afraid that the prisoners in the imperial prison he inspected will serve as a warning to him.
When Cao Jiarong was anxiously guessing who was behind the letter, a subordinate came to report: "Eunuch Rong, it's bad. Someone broke into the prison and rescued the Patriarch and the eldest son of the Yu family!"
Cao Jiarong's face suddenly changed: "What do you do for a living? People who have been put in the imperial prison can be rescued!"
The current head of the Yu family is Wen Jiarong's uncle, the eldest son of the Yu family, and the legitimate heir of the Yu family. He is the eldest son of Wen Jiarong's uncle and also Wen Jiarong's eldest cousin.
When he was six years old, Wen Jiarong was sent to the Yu family. At that time, the head of the Yu family was Wen Jiarong's grandfather, Mrs. Wen's biological father. Grandfather Yu still had some affection for his grandson Wen Jiarong and wanted to send him away secretly to protect him.
But Uncle Yu was afraid that his family would be implicated, so he insisted on handing over his nephew Wen Jiarong to show loyalty to the newly enthroned emperor.
After all, the Wen family, the Yu family's relatives, stood on the wrong side in the fight for the throne, and the Yu family is likely to be implicated as well. Now, by throwing the Wen family's orphan nephew out as a token of their allegiance, they may even be able to gain the new emperor's attention.
No matter how much affection Grandpa Yu had for his grandson Wen Jiarong, it was not as important as the safety and future of the entire Yu family, so he was persuaded by Uncle Yu.
Wen Jiarong was handed over to the officers and soldiers who were searching him at the time, and was sent to the palace to become a criminal eunuch, which started his painful life.
So Cao Jiarong, who changed his name, still remembers his uncle's face as he was eager to get rid of this hot potato.
Grandfather Yu had passed away, and Uncle Yu inherited the position of head of the family. Cao Jiarong hated his uncle to the core, so he did not hesitate to take revenge on his family.
The Yu family had long since fallen into being an ordinary family in the capital. Although the Yu family had not been implicated by their in-laws, the Wen family, and had not been liquidated by the new emperor, the family was also going from bad to worse, and was struggling to survive.
Logically speaking, such a small family is not worthy of being noticed by Beichang. Cao Jing is too lazy to even frame such a small family because they are too small to even serve the purpose of killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.
But Cao Jiarong added Yu's family to the list, so Cao Jing just glanced at it and approved it. Beichang also dealt with Yu's family.
After the Yu family was imprisoned, Cao Jiarong went out of his way to watch his good uncle wailing under torture in the prison. He never thought that the Yu family could come out of the prison alive.
After all, under his instruction, the jailer of the imperial prison blocked the mouths of Yu's family members and forced them to confess, "Do you want to confess?" ', even if they wanted to fabricate a confession, they would not have the chance to speak. In this case, they would only die in the imperial prison because of 'being too stubborn to confess'.
Unexpectedly, he received the news today that someone had kidnapped his uncle and cousin from the imperial prison.
This is so bad!
Almost immediately, Cao Jiarong thought of the mastermind who wrote the letter to him that revealed his true background.
If the person who kidnapped Yu's father and son is the mastermind behind the incident, Yu's father and son will become evidence of his background in the hands of the other party.
Cao Jiarong's face looks very similar to his mother Yu. Mrs. Wen Yu was a woman in the inner house, and not many people had seen her. After the Wen family was ruined, Yu committed suicide. After so many years, few people still remember what Mrs. Wen looked like.
But as Mrs. Wen's family, the Yu family must still remember what Mrs. Wen looked like. Apart from anything else, the eldest cousin of the Yu family who was also kidnapped looked somewhat similar to Cao Jiarong.
When Yu's uncle was young, his face looked somewhat similar to Cao Jiarong's, but now he is older and fatter, and his appearance has changed a lot, so the similarity is no longer visible.
But the two are related by blood after all. Cao Jiarong was unable to sleep or eat because the father and son of the Yu family fell into the hands of the mastermind who knew his true life experience.
Cao Jiarong was so furious that he personally led people to the imperial prison to investigate the jailbreak, wanting to know how the other party had managed to break into the prison.
However, the truth did not require him to investigate in depth. The way the other party kidnapped the Yu family's father and son was very simple: they colluded with both inside and outside. With the help of an insider, and because no one thought anyone had the guts to rob the imperial prison, and because of management loopholes and lax guarding, this shocking prison break happened.
This incident soon alarmed Cao Jing. After all, the imperial prison was managed by the Beichang, and the head of the Beichang was Cao Jing. If the emperor blamed Cao Jing, the first person to suffer would be Cao Jing. How could he not take it seriously?
When Cao Jing brought people to the imperial prison, his face was terribly gloomy, almost so cold that it seemed like ice chips were falling off.
The first thing Cao Jing did after arriving was to interrogate the Yu family: "Tell me! Who rescued those two guys?!"
The rest of the Yu family members were very confused. They didn't know anything. They didn't know why they were arrested and imprisoned, nor did they know why the head of the family and the eldest son were rescued from prison.
The Yu family members knew nothing about anything, and in Cao Jing's opinion, they were all stubborn. In order to protect the head of the family and the young master, the whole family was stubborn and refused to say a word.
Cao Jing was furious: "You won't tell me, right? Fine, fine, this eunuch likes hard bones the most. This eunuch wants to see, your bones are harder, or my blade is harder!"
The second master of the Yu family is the younger brother of the head of the Yu family. He is the most important male in the Yu family besides the head of the Yu family and the eldest master. Cao Jing felt that he must know about it, and he was the first one to be interrogated.
He had been tortured by Cao Jing, and his consciousness was almost blurred. Hearing Cao Jing's angry words, the second master of the Yu family was startled and regained consciousness. His eyes were blurred by his own blood. Looking at the figure of Cao Jing sitting in the red not far away, he couldn't help crying, crying loudly and sadly: "I'm not being stubborn, I really don't know anything, my damn eldest brother didn't tell me anything, he ran away with his nephew, and didn't even think about whether we lived or died. Who would protect those two bastards? If I really didn't know who rescued them, I would have told you voluntarily if I didn't want you to interrogate me..."
Back then, the Yu family was able to sell out their grandson Wen Jiarong for their own benefit. Now, the Yu family can also sell out the owner and heir for their own benefit.
After all, we only have one life, and staying alive is the most important thing. What's more, you have more than just your own life. You also have your parents, wife, children, brothers, sisters and other important relatives. Who would be willing to risk the lives of their entire family just for the father and son who abandoned them and escaped from prison?
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