Chapter 278 Talent of a Wise
Prime Minister "I didn't get any information from her."
Yan'er shook her head, "My fellow countryman refused to tell me, saying that the emperor was very angry and wanted to kill Ye Changzai, but it was the Imperial Concubine who dissuaded him."
As soon as Lady Liu received the news, Concubine Cheng also immediately understood the whole story.
She knew much more than Lady Liu.
While applying medicine to Concubine Cheng's hand, Cunxin said, "My master, this Concubine Ye is so bold that she dared to... How many lives does she have?"
"How could she have such ability?"
The wound on her palm was very scary. When the herbs were applied, she gasped in pain: "If she could successfully give the emperor medicine, she would not have been in Chuxiu Palace long ago." She
should have flown out of Chuxiu Palace and become her queen.
"Then why..."
"It's just that someone used her as a brick to attract jade, and they plotted against her."
As for who plotted against her, Concubine Cheng couldn't guess. It was definitely someone who wanted to gain the emperor's favor but was afraid of being noticed by the imperial concubine.
Cunxin couldn't help but shudder, and was really worried for her master.
Fortunately, they were absent from today's dinner because of their injured hands, otherwise they would have been plotted against.
"Has the emperor not come yet?"
Concubine Cheng didn't care about Ye Changzai's life or death. Her servants had already reported to the emperor that her hand was seriously injured.
Noble Lady Liu would definitely send someone to invite the emperor, so where would the emperor come from?
This was a game between her and Noble Lady Ye, and the bet was the emperor.
Emperor Xuanwu, who was being targeted by several parties, showed Jiang Xinyue a letter he had just received from an unknown place, and said in a joyful tone: "Yuer, your cousin wrote to you. With the help of Cheng Yuan, he has obtained evidence of corruption and abuse of power by the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi. However, he is now the target of public criticism and should not appear in public, so he asked Cheng Yuan to send it to Chenzhou."
"Who is Cheng Yuan? Does the emperor think he is reliable?"
After the concubines entered the palace, Jiang Xinyue had already investigated their family backgrounds and identities. How could she not know the identity of this person?
She was just pretending in front of the emperor.
Cheng Yuan was originally a minor official working under Governor Yu, but he was upright and impartial, so he offended many people and was very disliked by Governor Yu. He was assigned to Yizhuang to guard the bodies of victims who died abnormally.
To put it nicely, he was a minor official in the government office, and to put it bluntly, he was a dead body guard. It can be seen that the living people under Governor Yu were unwilling to deal with him.
The night Jiang Yanxi learned that he was going to Guangdong and Guangxi to be the minister, he ran to Jiang Xinyue's adoptive father and asked him where to start?
Jiang Yankun had been an official for so many more years than him, and he knew more about the power in the court and officials from all over the country than him.
He would not think that he had grown wings and could cope with various challenges just because the emperor valued him at this time.
You still have to listen to your cousin. The queen said that as long as the Jiang family is obedient, they can be guaranteed prosperity and wealth for generations!
After Jiang Xinyue gained favor, Jiang Yankun also gathered a group of officials who wanted to support the Sixth Prince as the Crown Prince.
After all, if you wait until the Royal Concubine becomes the Queen before taking sides, it will be far less meritorious than supporting now.
It is easy to add flowers to icing on the brocade, but difficult to send charcoal in the snow. If you buy them away early, good fortune and misfortune will depend on each other. In the future, if the Sixth Prince really becomes the crown prince, they will have made
great contributions. Among these people, there are also people from Guangdong and Guangxi who have pledged their allegiance.
After asking, Jiang Yankun gave the name Cheng Yuan and asked him to find a breakthrough from this person.
After entering Guangdong and Guangxi, Jiang Yanxi acted secretly and went to Yizhuang to be a guard. It took a lot of effort to gain Cheng Yuan
's trust. After that, he let the guards parade through the city as a royal envoy to attract the attention of Governor Yu.
Soon, the guards were treated as royal envoys and were taken into the Governor's Mansion with good food and wine.
The real Jiang Yanxi lived in Cheng Yuan's house. The two of them joined forces with the guards in the Governor's Mansion, and cooperated from inside and outside. Then they let the guards pretend to be paralyzed by them, making them think that the royal envoy had been bribed by them and was one of their own, so as to relax their vigilance.
It took a full two months, and Jiang Yanxi finally got the evidence that Governor Yu embezzled the court's funds.
But if Governor Yu still can't react at this point, he would be a pig.
Unfortunately, he is not a pig, so Jiang Yanxi is once again hunted by evil forces.
But the first time is familiar, and this time he has experience and will not be as vicious as last time.
He handed the real evidence to Cheng Yuan and asked him to resign and go to the capital on the grounds of missing his daughter. The Cheng family has sons and daughters. The eldest daughter married a wealthy businessman in the capital, and the second daughter entered the palace as a concubine. There is no hope of seeing each other.
It happened that Mrs. Cheng fell ill because of missing her daughter. Cheng Yuan took the excuse of taking his wife to the capital for treatment and successfully brought the evidence to Chenzhou.
Jiang Yanxi and the guards hid, fighting wits and courage with Governor Yu's men every day.
He knew very well that the most dangerous place was the safest, so he directly took over the position of guard of Cheng Yuan's charity manor, right under the nose of Governor Yu.
No one expected that he would not escape, but stayed in the place closest to danger.
Governor Yu was not sure whether the imperial envoy had escaped or stayed in Guangdong, and he did not dare to search for him on a large scale, so as not to cause unrest and panic among the people.
He could only secretly investigate in a small area, and it would take about half a year to find the charity manor where Jiang Yankun was.
Emperor Xuanwu laughed a few times: "Your cousin is a completely different person from your father. If you cultivate him well in the future, he will have the talent of a wise minister."
What does it mean?
The cousin is a wise minister, and her stepfather is completely different. Does that mean that her stepfather is a treacherous minister?
Is it an insult or an exaggeration?
“That’s because the emperor knows how to use people, so my uncle’s talents have the place to display!”
Jiang Xinyue praised two people with one sentence: “The emperor is like a Bole and a thousand-mile horse to my uncle. Without a Bole, the thousand-mile horse would have become mediocre. Because of the emperor, my uncle’s thousand-mile horse will not be buried.”
The emperor pinched her nose: “Yuer’s clever mouth is trying to make me happy again.”
Jiang Xinyue smiled and hid back.
"Your Majesty..."
In the tender moment, the eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, Liu Guiren and Cheng Jieyu have sent people to the Yueyue Pavilion. This..."
Jiang Xinyue's smile disappeared, and she pouted and said unhappily: "It's not just me who wants to make Your Majesty happy. I see that there is a long line of people who want to make Your Majesty happy. Your Majesty should hurry up to comfort your Liu Guiren and Cheng Jieyu! Don't let me be accused of being jealous and doting. I can't bear it."
The emperor touched his nose, put his fist against his lips and coughed twice: "Then I... I will go and see."