Twin Brocade

Chapter 272
"You!" Emperor Qinglong waved his palm, pointed to the two rows of martial arts, and said, "Your ancestors were all loyal warriors, brave and skilled generals, and that's why you have the glory and wealth you have today."

"And you, now you are learning to be those sour literati and start a lawsuit. Don't you feel ashamed?"

Military general Xungui has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and most of those who can stand here hold military power in their hands and look high-spirited.After being reprimanded by Emperor Qinglong, everyone shrank their heads and shoulders, and they were half a point shorter for no reason.

Seeing them being scolded, the civil servants on the side raised their heads and chests with disdain in their eyes.

"And you!" Unexpectedly, Emperor Qinglong changed his tone, looked at Prime Minister Zhu Zihou standing in the front, and asked, "Master Zhu, I have received so many impeachment memorials, as a prime minister, what do you think?"

Zhu Zihou secretly screamed in his heart that something was wrong. According to his understanding of the emperor, each of them was going to play [-] big boards.He hurriedly went out to play and said: "Back to the emperor, the old minister thought that it was the right thing for all colleagues to hold the injustice for the Fang family. There is Yan Ruyu in the book. If an official can't even keep his wife and daughter, how can he talk about serving the country?"

"It's just that under the excitement of the crowd, I lost my sense of proportion, and it was wrong to let His Majesty worry about it."

In his remarks, he avoided the important and focused on his friendship. He is indeed an old fox who has been an official for many years.

After finishing speaking, he took off the black gauze from his head, slowly knelt on the ground and said: "The old minister is incompetent, please forgive me!" With him taking the lead, all the civil servants also fell to their knees, a black mass of heads.

Emperor Qinglong remained silent.Seeing this, Ding Guogong, who stood in front of Wu Xun, also knelt down to plead guilty, and the generals behind him, Xungui, knelt down one after another.

The air in the hall was almost stagnant.

The officials kneeling on the ground did not understand the emperor's intentions, and everyone was in danger.

After a while, I heard Emperor Qinglong say: "I don't want to see the verbal criticism again. All loves, be careful, and you must not lose your sense of propriety in doing things in the future."

All the ministers hurriedly shouted long live, saying that your majesty is wise.

"All the gentlemen are flat."

The ministers were shocked, and then Wu Guangqi read the imperial decree.

The punishment for Cui Sheng was to hit him thirty times hard and order him to work for the Jiaofang Division for one year.Cut the salaries of all the censors for three months to show the meaning of beating.For all the nobles, the government was ordered to suspend the music for half a year, and to pay varying amounts of atonement silver according to the title.

There are rewards for the royal family members who did not participate in this turmoil.

As for the injured Fang's family, Emperor Qinglong asked an old concubine in the palace to adopt Fang Mudi as a righteous daughter and make him a township monarch to show compensation.Immediately, in the name of Empress Cao, Fang Mudi was recruited into the palace and rewarded with clothes and hair as a dowry.

This biggest court dispute after Emperor Qinglong's ascension to the throne could have turned into a huge political disaster, but it was easily resolved by him like this.

To say that the biggest winner in this turmoil is Emperor Qinglong.

He burned the memorial in public, but it doesn't mean he didn't read it. Naturally, there were shadow guards to check the crimes in it one by one for him.Although he didn't dismiss one official or remove one person's title, he let the ruling and opposition parties understand his determination not to condone cronies.

For the emperor, the biggest risk came from courtiers forming a party for personal gain, truncating his rights, blinding his eyes, and making him unable to see the truth.

Compared with this, everything else becomes less important.For the rest, he will lower the punishment one by one after verifying the facts, and there will be no such big commotion.

Secondly, it is the Fang family.

Fang Shuyu successfully won the Qingming of scholars, became the most outstanding representative of the younger generation of officials, and gathered a group of people.Fang Mu also got a false title of third rank.Although it is only a false title, in terms of salary and status, he enjoys the treatment of the third rank.

And Fang Mudi, also from a little concubine, became a township lord.

Although the title of this township lord is not high, and he has no fiefdom under his name.It is impossible to have any substantive mother-daughter relationship with the concubine who adopted her, and they have never even met face to face.

But all of this does not hinder Fang Mudi's status.Her country lord was proclaimed by Emperor Qinglong, and she has been separated from the common people since then, and has become a powerful class who can see officials without kneeling.

As soon as this title was awarded, the rumors about her stopped abruptly, and no one dared to talk about her.

Following the canonization of the imperial decree, Zongzheng Temple sent all the crown robes, golden books, seals, and rewards from the palace to Fang's family representing the status of the township monarch.

The Fang family opened the middle door to welcome the officials from Zongzheng Temple who came to confer titles, and set up a banquet to entertain relatives, friends, and neighbors, which was very lively and festive.

Fang Jinshu arrived in Fang Mudi's room, and signaled Fang Fei to put the Fen Cai Xi He Da Mei vase on the table, smiled at Fang Mudi and said, "Congratulations, Aunt Tang."

Fang Mudi blushed and said, "Even you come to tease me."

"How is this a joke?" Fang Jinshu said seriously: "The title of Tang Aunt was bestowed by the Holy Spirit, and she came in a dignified way, so it's time to celebrate it."

But Fang Mudi felt that all this happened as if it happened in a dream, which was unreal.

She was obviously taken away by Cui Sheng, a humble woman who couldn't even keep her name, unexpectedly got a title for the first time?She had never thought about such a thing in her life.

Si Lansheng has been so busy these days that her feet never touch the ground.

First, he took people to Qiao's house to work on Mrs. Qiao's daily affairs.Mrs. Qiao had just been buried, and the Fang family had such a happy event right after.

Among the female relatives of the Fang family, only Mrs. Fang was granted the imperial order of the fourth rank, and the rest had no rank.Fang Mudi is the second woman in the Fang family to be enshrined, so of course this matter must be handled in a lively manner.

Firstly, to show the greatness of the emperor's kindness and the Fang family's gratitude to the emperor.Secondly, take advantage of this happy event to wash away the slump of Fang's family and cheer up the family.

As Emperor Qinglong bestowed favor on Fang's family, Fang Mu went to Xie En and was summoned by the emperor, and all the people from all walks of life stopped.Fang Jinpei and his daughter live in the Li family's Zhuangzi, and there is no other movement.

Fang Shuyu pretended not to know, and let Fang Jinpei fend for himself.

The matter of Cui Sheng and Fang Mudi has been cleared by Emperor Qinglong, so there is no need to procrastinate.When Cui Sheng sent someone to ask for marriage again, the Fang family agreed, but only proposed that Fang Mudi would live alone in the Xiangjun Mansion after marriage, and refused to enter the Chenghou Mansion.

In this dynasty, only princesses have princess mansions, and there is no such thing as Xiangjun mansions.However, given the previous events, Fang Mudi's request did not seem abrupt.

As soon as the news came out, those who watched the excitement praised the Fang family for being tough.Even if the daughter of their family married a dignitary and became a good concubine, she would not enter the Nahou's mansion. She was indeed a model among civil servants.

Invisibly, the reputation of the Fang family was second to none.

The matter of Fang Mudi living alone had already been discussed with Cui Sheng.When it was brought up at this time, Cui Sheng agreed without hesitation.Finally, when the dust settled, Cui Sheng was able to embrace the beauty as he wished.

After the turmoil passed, the Ministry of Rites began to get busy as the Spring Festival was approaching.

(End of this chapter)