Chapter 166 Can you prepare the flowers?

Author: Xixi Dongdong

The General of the Cavalry returned to Beijing and brought several important witnesses in the southern expedition army.

The vision in Beijing instantly shifted from the Ruiwang party to the previously discussed case of "defrauding military rations".

The people quarrels about it because of fake military orders, forged military seals, and deceived military rations.

When it comes to the epidemic situation being urgent and special circumstances dealt with, Pei Shizi is so arrogant that the world is just for the people. If there is no such batch of military rations, wouldn’t the people wait to starve to death? It’s not all because of the people’s panic and fleeing. Losses caused by epidemic spillover.

It is said that the law is like a mountain, falsely spreading military orders, forging military seals, and fraudulent transportation of military rations. No matter which piece is taken out, it is a death-lost crime. If this is "special situation and special handling", will someone be able to "specially" be the next time? Situation "Blatantly challenging the law?

There are also many people who make unremarkable remarks and mock Pei Shizi for fame and reputation. If there is no profit, how could he commit such a serious crime for the people alone?

While quarreling, everyone stared at Dali Temple.

General Chen Jin, the commander of the grain transport at that time, Wu Gang, and the grain escort officer of the Southern Expedition Army, entered Dali Temple early in the morning and went to Pei Shizi to interrogate the four of them separately.

At noon, news came out.

The grain escort officer surnamed Yan insisted that he had released grain with documents, but later found that the document was incorrect. After careful verification, he found that the military seal on the document was fake, and then submitted a document to transfer grain.

Commander Wu, who was responsible for transporting grain, said that he would pick up the grain according to the documents and also deliver the grain according to the documents. The documents were handed over to the grain escort officer that night. When an emergency occurred, he could not determine whether the documents at that time were true or false.

Pei Shizi was so indifferent to this that he seemed to have nothing to do with him, and he only said one sentence: He had no objection to how the court judged.

"So, the key to this problem fell on General Chen's head!" In the teahouse, people who got the news were surrounded by people, "The military seal on the document is indeed fake, as long as it is He said he had no idea about this matter, and Pei Shizi's crime was for sure and he could not refuse it!"

"Guess, what did General Chen say?" The man, like a storyteller, actually kept him in hiding.

Boos sounded around him, asking him to say the following quickly, and there were also people muttering: "General Chen and Prince Pei are a bit quarrels? Didn't the prince's wife of the Duke's Mansion have had an engagement with General Chen before?"

The people around were even more talking, and the person who knew the inside story took a sip of tea and then said: "The Dali Temple Minister personally tried this case, and Your Majesty came to listen in person. General Chen was full of righteousness and immediately knelt down to Your Majesty and bowed to him, saying The grain transport document was issued by him personally. He also knew that Pei Shizi had no instructions from His Majesty, nor his Majesty's oral instructions, "The fraud of military rations" was untrue, and "misappropriation of military rations" was true. He was willing to take the punishment with Pei Shizi!"

"Food fraud" is actually fake!

But "missing military rations" is also a serious crime according to the law!

In the Shen Mansion, Liang was cursing.

"Didn't you say that this matter will not involve Jin'er? Why did he take the crime in front of His Majesty?" Hearing this, Liang could not even wait for the deposit, so he immediately called the housekeeper to go to the yamen to urge Chen Gaolan. Come back, "Embeding military rations! At worst, the death penalty will be exiled. Jin'er is also a general of the Southern Expedition Army. He knows that the law is illegal and theft will be punished, and the crime will be even higher! You don't want my son to live, and the Shen family will live!"

He was not a famous lady at first, but Liang started crying as he tore Chen Gaolan's clothes.

Chen Gaolan did not expect things to develop like this.

Indeed, he had surrendered to Pei Shizi before. The incident of King Rui's introduction of epidemics from northern Xinjiang was that he cooperated with Pei Shizi and led Wen Lan to find evidence step by step.

King Rui tried to use military rations to lead him into the game, and he also informed him early.

At that time, the prince only asked him to do what King Yirui said, and said that he would not implicate Chen Jin or implicate the Shen family.

When Chen Jin returned last night, he was the first to ask about this matter. Chen Jin also said at that time that when the prince asked him to transfer food, he asked him to just release the food and then blame him for the crime.

After all, Pei Shizi is the only legitimate son of the Duke's Mansion, the eldest princess's son, and the nephew of His Majesty. He takes this matter with all his strength, and there is always room for improvement, but their Shen family...

"Dad, even if you didn't tell me in advance, I will release food."

"The war in the south has just been extinguished, and the southern barbarians have not yet recovered. It is impossible to invade again in the near future. However, the people ahead are in dire straits, and the food is one day late. The thirteen cities in Lingnan are short of food for one day. Why do we stick to the old rules and let the military food lie down? Sleeping heavily in the granary, and letting the people suffering from the epidemic starve to death?!"

Thinking of Chen Jin's words last night, Chen Gaolan held his forehead heavily.

What he should have thought of, what he should have thought of long ago!

His son is the most upright and selfless, and upright. How could he slander others in order to avoid guilt and push everything to others?

Even if this person married the girl he longed for.

Wen Ning was also surprised when he heard this news.

But what surprised her was not that Chen Jin would stand up and share the blame, but... Pei You actually went to find Chen Jin and cooperated with Chen Jin.

Didn’t he dislike Chen Jin and didn’t want to say a few words to him?

She thought him narrowly.

That night, Wen Ning went to find Wen Lan again, and Wen Qi was there too this time.

"How? What are your solutions?"

In fact, after returning from Lingnan, Wen Ning realized that from the moment she decided to marry Pei You, the Wen family and her two brothers had joined Pei You's camp.

After the epidemic, Wen Lan became the backbone of it. He probably knew more about Pei You than her.

"A Ning, you are here so diligently. Why not clean up some of the fine and live in my yard?" Compared to yesterday, Wen Lan's expression was obviously much more relaxed today.

Wen Ning had no intention of joking with him and kicked him: "Speak quickly!"

But Wen Qi spoke first: "Don't worry, sister, although Chen Jin's move made him unavoidable, it also made the situation much less."

There are fewer false military orders and two major crimes, such as forging military seals, and only one military ration is misappropriated. Although it is a serious crime in daily life, there is more room for operation than the three crimes to punish them together.

"What is your Majesty's attitude?" Wen Qi asked Wen Lan.

"The prince complained to Your Majesty on the first night of returning to Beijing. Your Majesty naturally understood the whole story and was unwilling to pursue it. In addition, Chen Jin was involved, both of them were great heroes in Lingnan. How could it be possible And punish the crime?" Wen Lan said slowly, "But the iron law is ahead, and we cannot make exceptions, so that people will look down on the law."

"That's it... it's just a step missing." Wen Qi took a sip of tea and put down the teacup. "Isn't that easy?"

Wen Ning blinked, wow, her second brother's very useful brain is finally going to be used in the right place?

Wen Ning held her face and listened to Wen Qi's suggestion. It was actually an old routine used by King Rui and the Fourth Prince.

Water can carry a boat and can also overturn it. "Water" means public opinion.

Who is the one who benefits the most when embezzling military rations? Naturally, the people of the thirteen cities in Lingnan. The epidemic situation has been controlled and even disappeared completely. Who is the one who benefits the most? It is still the people of Lingnan and even the entire Dayin.

According to Wen Qi's intention, the people guided the people to go to the epidemic area alone, and to General Chen, who distributes military rations to the people despite the law and justice. The public opinion has reached a certain level. When the court saw it, Emperor Jiahe naturally had a step forward. Down.

The reason why old routines are old routines is because they are really easy to use.

After listening, Wen Lan immediately started writing a letter.

During the days he was in Lingnan, he had traveled all over the thirteen cities and knew a lot of people. To let the people build momentum, he naturally had to have a leader.

Wen Ning also hurried back to Xiangtiyuan. If you say "public opinion" and cause trouble, can there be someone better than the scholars?

The Jiangnan party met many of Pei You's loyal loyalists, and they exchanged addresses before they parted. Although in order not to reveal their identity, she stayed in Wen's Mansion, she also specially wrote "Wen's Mansion" as "Wen's Mansion", but other She has the address of the person.

Those people who could follow Pei You around were rich and leisurely, and their family was quite famous in the local area. If they could encourage them to lead the students of Jiangnan to build momentum for Pei You, wouldn’t the progress of things be faster?

That's the letter...

It took Wen Ning two days to almost scratch his head before finally writing a letter that seemed to be less ignorant.

But things are often not as expected. Her letter has not been sent out yet, and even Wen Lan’s news should have not arrived in Lingnan yet, and the situation has changed new.

It was the fourth day after Chen Jin arrived in Beijing. At noon, thirteen scholars from Lingnan beat the Dengwen drum outside the palace.

When the drum sounded, the people had great grievances. Whenever the emperor would return to court, the officials of various departments did not have time to eat lunch and rushed to the Golden Palace.

Thirteen scholars submitted a petition from Thirteen cities in Lingnan.

Petition for Pei Shizi.

What's wrong with Pei Shizi saving Lingnan from water and fire?

The military rations that Pei Shizi "scammered" saved the lives of nearly 10,000 people in Thirteen cities. What is the crime?

It was probably when writing the petition, the latest news had not yet reached Lingnan, so they thought Pei Shizi's military rations were "scam".

Thirteen scholars also brought public opinion in the capital to the peak, and there were voices discussing this matter everywhere, whether in teahouses, restaurants, or restaurants.

It is neither involved in "fraud", but it is just misappropriation. Is it really impossible under extraordinary circumstances?

If the food from the court can be transported in time, why should the prince take advantage of the world's ruthlessness to misappropriate military rations?

If such an "extraordinary situation" is considered a crime, who else dares to come forward to do practical things for the people in the future and take on great responsibility?

On the afternoon of the same day, Wen Ning received a letter from Jiangnan with the words "Mr. Wen of Wen's family" and said that they had led a group of Jiangnan students to go north to petition for Pei Shizi and were about to arrive in Beijing soon. They asked her if she had contacted her with the government. Everyone gathered.

Now in this situation, Wen Ning will certainly not openly go out to "make friends". But on the day when a large number of Jiangnan students arrived in Beijing, she was still wearing inconspicuous clothes and nestled in an inconspicuous teahouse, secretly taking a few glances. .

Seeing that both students and the people were talking generously for him and speaking out in anger, my eyes couldn't help but feel a little hot.

I really want to ask Pei You to come and have a look.

There is no need for human incitement, and the students and the people spontaneously petition him.

All his efforts and what he did silently were seen.

He would never say anything like no one planned for him.

On the day when the students from Jiangnan arrived in Beijing, Chu Heng also watched the excitement in Jufeng Pavilion: "Fan Liu, what do you think about the current situation?"

Fan Liu beside him smiled and whispered: "The King of Rui is no longer. The position of the crown prince is His Highness, but Pei Shizi should be a friend, not an enemy."

"If you can't help me in time, your highness might as well be the icing on the cake."

On the second day, the fourth prince Chu Heng took the lead and spoke for Mr. Pei and General Chen, saying that the two of them worked hard to be the people. If General Chen had not been the first to fight against the outside world in Lingnan, Mr. Pei would have been in trouble after Mr. Pei was already suffering from his inner life. It cannot be changed, but the law should be polite, so I beg Emperor Jiahe to punish the two of them lightly.

A group of ministers in the court knelt down with him and asked Emperor Jiahe to punish the two of them lightly.

The people's hearts and people's expectations came to their destination. Emperor Jiahe ordered that the Minister Pei and General Chen each had their salary for half a year, and a small punishment was given to Dali Temple to release people.
To be continued...