Prince of Chaos

Chapter 736
Liu Shiyan, who had taken the entire Qian family into custody, was not only interrogating the important suspects who slandered Emperor Chengzu, but was also racing against time to search for evidence in the Qian family.

Only with evidence can this matter be completely confirmed, otherwise, Liu Shiyan's counterattack would be quite terrifying.

Although, in the special political structure of Nanjing, scholars and nobles are stakeholders in some respects, there is still a difference between the two in essence.

When the scholars merged the land monopoly industry with the nobles, the two parties were both collaborators and competitors. When they wanted to maximize their benefits, they could also abandon their prejudices and join forces.

However, even so, sometimes, for the sake of their own reputation, scholars will take the initiative to draw a line with Wu Xun, and report all kinds of illegal behaviors of Wu Xun to the court in exchange for fame.

Therefore, even Liu Shiyan, who is an earl, is nothing more than an upstart with a good ancestor in the eyes of scholars.It's incomparable with their scholarly families.

Moreover, Liu Shiyan is greedy. Since he was restored to the title during the Jiajing period, he must not be particular about things, eats extremely ugly, wants to annex any land, and wants to intervene in any industry.

In the eyes of those scholarly families who have completed primitive accumulation, Liu Shiyan is almost no doubt like a barbarian for this kind of careless behavior.

Although the current scholarly family has never stopped merging, but in the process of merging, they have already figured out a relatively perfect routine.

That is: to complete the merger through the form of sale.

This form of merger is much more elegant than Liu Shiyan's brutal and brutal act of robbery.

The scholarly family wants to annex the surrounding land, the most basic method is through lending, and when the self-cultivating farmers who still have land with heavy interest pressure can't bear the imperial court's taxes and the pressure of borrowing, they will pretend to be good people. Compliant means to merge the land in the hands of the farmers.

Another way is to use natural disasters. Once there is a major famine in a certain year, in order to respond to the government's call for disaster relief, the big households will set up so-called porridge sheds to help the poor. Of course, this kind of relief is not in vain.

While bailing out, they will use the influence of the government to shamelessly lower the prices of some fields that should have been sold at high prices, and then complete the merger at a very low price.

It can be said that on the territory of millions of square kilometers up and down the Ming Dynasty, almost all the so-called scholarly families with a little bit of inheritance can't escape the merger of the above two forms.

The first type is the daily basis for them, and the second type is a weapon they use to gain fame.

In the end, they not only got the land, but also won the honorary title of great benevolent people.

It is precisely because of these two basic operations that the scholars and gentry of the Ming Dynasty have an absolute right to speak at the grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty. No power can shake them a bit!
And this is one of the ills that Zhu Changluo must get rid of, otherwise the policies of the imperial court will never reach the grassroots, and the people at the grassroots will always have a heart-to-heart relationship with the imperial court.

If things go on like this, when these ordinary people are oppressed and cannot survive, they will be led to the court by other people with ulterior motives, except that they will kill those gentry who committed evil in the open in a fit of anger. superior.

Let them think that their misfortune is not caused by this corrupt and dissolute imperial court!
In the end, the people who bear all these evil consequences can only be the court itself and the emperor himself!

Therefore, Zhu Changluo must try his best to get rid of this stubborn disease, otherwise all his efforts in the capital will be nothing but nothing to make wedding dresses for others.

Liu Shiyan was anxiously waiting for the results of the search of Qian's mansion. At this time, he also heard the news that the sergeant from Jinling City had come to the Meridian Gate to force the palace.

After hearing the news, Liu Shiyan also broke out in a cold sweat, which made him have no way of turning back.

From this moment on, he and the Jiangnan scholars are completely torn apart, and it has reached the point where either you die or I die.

Therefore, Liu Shiyan was also heartbroken, and continued to order to his subordinates, "Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must find the evidence for Benbo!"

Liu Shiyan can only put all his eggs in one basket. If he can't find any evidence of crime, he will really be finished.

Looking at the Qian family members with different expressions, Liu Shiyan glanced fiercely at them, and he also wanted to find a breakthrough from this group of Qian family members!

It's a pity that this gang of Qian's family members are hard-headed, and they all look at him rebelliously, as if they have integrity!

Liu Shiyan was irritated by their gazes, and then Liu Shiyan directly ordered people according to the secret report he received.

"Bring Qian Qianyi out to Ben Bo!"

Qian Qianyi, who was still angry at first, suddenly panicked.

He never expected that Liu Shiyan, an ignorant old man, would be so ignorant of martial arts that he wanted to mention him directly.

Qian Qianyi immediately stood up and shouted: "I am a disciple of a sage, and I have made a name for myself, how dare you take me?"

Such a scolding really frightened the guards who wanted to take him, but Liu Shiyan definitely wouldn't be afraid of this.

Liu Shiyan narrowed his eyes and looked at Qian Qianyi, with a Chinese character face without anger and prestige, and a proud scholarly temperament, he was indeed a talent.

However, Liu Shiyan, who has experienced ups and downs in life, and has lived for dozens of years, how could he be bluffed by Qian Qianyi, a yellow-mouthed kid?

Liu Shiyan stared at Qian Qianyi coldly, "So what if Benbo takes you?"

Facing Liu Shiyan's arrogant arrogance, Qian Qianyi's heart trembled, but he still insisted, "I am a saint's disciple!"

Liu Shiyan glanced at Qian Qianyi in disgust, obviously he hated the words "sage disciple"!
Liu Shiyan said: "Benbo is the Earl of the Ming Dynasty, and he is appointed by the emperor. You are just a small person, do you really think that you can run amok in the world?"

Qian Qianyi never expected that Liu Shiyan would dare to do this. He suddenly lost his previous unruly air in a panic, and put on his hat, "Do you want to despise saints? Blasphemy?"

Liu Shiyan was impatient, "Noisy!"

As soon as Liu Shiyan waved his hand, he let the wolf-like men around him drag Qian Qianyi out of the Qian family crowd.

Liu Shiyan looked at Qian Qianyi who was dragged out of the crowd like a dead fish, and said contemptuously, "Is this the integrity of your scholar?"

Then Liu Shiyan gave another order: "Come here, take down all the Qian family members and interrogate them separately. If there is a problem, I will take care of it!"

This time, Liu Shiyan wanted to make trouble with the Qian family out of his heart. After all, things have developed to this point, and Liu Shiyan can only bite the bullet and go all the way to the dark, otherwise, the consequences are not something he can bear.

Therefore, for the current plan, regardless of whether the information he received is true or not, at this moment Liu Shiyan must find a way to make it true!
Only in this way can Liu Shiyan fight back and remain invincible!

After Qian Qianyi was dragged into a dark interrogation room by his subordinates, Qian Qianyi's eyes no longer had the pride and composure of the past, and now they were full of panic.

Liu Shiyan looked into Qian Qianyi's eyes and said: "Say it or not, if you admit it voluntarily, maybe Benbo will plead for you in terms of past friendship, but if you don't say a word, wait until Benbo searches Once there is evidence, life and death are unpredictable.”

Liu Shiyan frightened Qian Qianyi first. As a pampered son, Qian Qianyi had read many poems and books that praised integrity, but he really wanted to learn from the sages after he was imprisoned. Clank and iron, why does it feel so unreal?

Liu Shiyan, who waited quietly for a while, found that Qian Qianyi hadn't spoken. He immediately looked at Qian Qianyi impatiently, "Do you really want to die? You should know what you are doing. Now take the initiative Admit it, this is your own business, but if you insist on not saying it, then the entire Qian family will be implicated!"

Liu Shiyan continued to intimidate and lure, Qian Qianyi panicked, he knew that Liu Shiyan was recently ordered to investigate the case of defaming the imperial statue of Taizu.

When he got the news, he asked his family to burn all the portraits of Taizu in his home collection and private paintings.

Now Liu Shiyan came to the door like a mad dog again, he really couldn't figure out what went wrong.

Qian Qianyi tried his best to maintain the demeanor of a scholar, and said nervously: "I have never collected or slandered the imperial portrait of Emperor Taizu. The Qian family is a scholarly family with a lot of food, how could it be possible to make such a royal portrait without a king and a father?" act of rebellion?"

Hearing Qian Qianyi's sophistry, Liu Shiyan was extremely disappointed, "Did Benbo say that you slandered and vilified the royal statue of Taizu? You'd better think about it carefully, and then answer after thinking clearly, otherwise don't blame Benbo for not saying the same thing." For the love of the Jiangnan Township Party."

Qian Qianyi was confused by Liu Shiyan's words. Wasn't it a case of defaming the imperial statue of Emperor Taizu?Is there something else?

At this time, Qian Qianyi's mind was spinning a thousand times. He was trying to recall what went wrong with him, and why he was targeted by Liu Shiyan.

Liu Shiyan looked at Qian Qianyi's nervous look, and felt disdainful in his heart, so he is still called Jiangnan genius?
Just when Qian Qianyi didn't know how to respond, Liu Shiyan was also anxious. Liu Shiyan knocked on the table and reminded: "Shen Ruolin, do you still have any impression?"

After hearing the name Shen Ruolin, Qian Qianyi immediately panicked.

What he remembers about this person is a good friend he made during the Nanjing provincial examination. This person is from Jiaxing and has a very deep family history. His family has been passed down in the south of the Yangtze River for hundreds of years.

The collection of books at home is as numerous as stars, vast as a misty sea, and what he likes most is to tell the so-called untold secrets.

And Shen Ruolin's so-called untold secrets often still like to use the secrets of the Nanjing Palace Ban as the topic. No matter whether it is ancient or modern, whether it is true or false, such topics are very gimmicky topics, and many people like them.

This kind of topic is like some so-called historical self-media articles in later generations. It is usually written as if they have seen it with their own eyes, and the readers feel that they have discovered some great secret.

For example, Lai Ai and Queen Mother Zhao had to tell secrets, or what happened to the ancient emperor after eating something, etc. Although these small compositions are very low-level, they are indeed very attractive.

After all, the "little secret" of such a person who is usually high and high is suddenly exposed. As a melon eater, I don't care if the melon is real or not, as long as it is enjoyable to eat.

"I don't know you."

Qian Qianyi directly denied it, saying that he did not know Shen Ruolin.

However, Liu Shiyan laughed.

"really?"

Apparently Liu Shiyan at this moment has seen through Qian Qianyi's strong outside but incapable, and knows that what he said is a lie.

Qian Qianyi was extremely flustered, and in Liu Shiyan's piercing smile, he gradually couldn't hold on anymore.

Qian Qianyi said: "Shen Ruolin and I are just acquaintances, we only met once at the party after the provincial examination."

Liu Shiyan was secretly delighted when he heard this, the little guy Qian Qianyi finally couldn't help it, and wanted to reveal some secrets.

Liu Shiyan said lightly: "Continue."

Qian Qianyi was extremely tangled, and finally said: "Shen Ruolin boasts that he has a profound family education and knows a lot of secrets and past events. During my communication with him, he did say a lot of rebellious words. However, I did not participate in them."

After Qian Qianyi finished speaking, he hurriedly dismissed it, fearing that Liu Shiyan would associate something bad with him.

Liu Shiyan continued to ask: "What rebellious words did he say?"

Qian Qianyi was silent, and did not answer Liu Shiyan's words for a while.

Liu Shiyan's attitude towards Qian Qianyi made him angry. He had never seen such a conflicted person. He wanted to keep the so-called morals while trying to protect himself. How can there be such a good thing?
Liu Shiyan said: "Since you don't say anything, then Uncle Ben will order someone to go to Jiaxing to interrogate Shen Ruolin. Then he will say everything, and you will have no chance."

After Qian Qianyi heard this, he panicked again.

If Liu Shiyan really went to get Shen Ruolin, with Shen Ruolin's slanderous mouth, I don't know what amazing words he would say!
Therefore, at this moment, Qian Qianyi no longer cared about the loyalty of friends, and directly said what he knew.

Qian Qianyi said: "Shen Ruolin said that Emperor Chengzu was not the descendant of Empress Xiaoci Gao, but the son of Concubine Yu."

After hearing these words, Liu Shiyan couldn't bear the smile on his face anymore, and his beard was raised up. This is what he wanted.

Originally, Liu Shiyan only had one speculative statement without any real evidence. If it wasn't for the purpose of showing his worth in front of the crown prince, Liu Shiyan would never have dared to go straight to the Qian family compound.

Now that Qian Qianyi has confessed, the rest will be much easier.

Liu Shiyan said: "Very well, Qian Sheng is so knowledgeable about current affairs, this uncle will definitely speak out in front of the crown prince and explain Qian Sheng's loyalty."

Qian Qianyi was relieved by Liu Shiyan's words, and bowed to Liu Shiyan: "Student, thank you uncle."

Liu Shiyan immediately sorted out Qian Qianyi's confession, according to Qian Qianyi's testimony, then Liu Shiyan headed towards the Forbidden City non-stop. At the same time, Liu Shiyan also ordered people to go to Jiaxing to arrest Shen Ruolin and another important criminal involved in the case—so Li Qing, the grandson of Li Chunfang, the chief minister of the cabinet!
This person was also involved in the case of slandering Emperor Chengzu's birth mother, and it was precisely because he and Qian Qianyi did not avoid others when arguing about this matter that the rumor leaked out and Liu Shiyan took advantage of the loophole.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Liu Shiyan to hear the rumors that slander Cheng Zu and Fei Di!

Now that Liu Shiyan has been appointed as the imperial envoy to investigate the case of defaming the royal statue of Taizu, in order to show his ability and loyalty, Liu Shiyan will definitely not let go of this opportunity to expand the scope of the investigation and increase Zhu Changluo's trust.

Therefore, Liu Shiyan not only reported the matter to Zhu Changluo, but also got Zhu Changluo's Jinkou permission. The feeling of being trusted by the crown prince, holding great power, and sweeping Jinling is really wonderful.

(End of this chapter)