The wronged female supporting role made a comeback with a divine reply

In the original novel, this was just a small episode when Cheng Jiayu went to provide disaster relief. It tells the story of a fake monk who captured a girl. In order to save her, Cheng Jiayu followed the clues to find the temple, discovered the underground palace, seized weapons, and captured the heart of the beauty, and had a shy and fleeting love affair!

Of course, he eventually found out that the monk was backed by an organization called the Holy Light Religion, whose purpose was naturally to recruit believers for rebellion, and he made a not insignificant contribution by doing so.

Now Bai Zhaozhao has taken advantage of this opportunity. By asking Prince An to come here to make a wish, he can expose that group of monks and destroy the Holy Light Church in advance to avoid harming the people.

But she didn't expect that Prince An even skipped the scene of making a wish, otherwise she would have sighed at the Buddha's efficacy.

After returning to Beijing, Prince An went to the palace overnight.

In the imperial study room.

Emperor Yongkang listened to Prince An's story with amazement, and felt that he had been very lucky in the past few days!

Then he said seriously, "I know about the Holy Light Cult. It has been developing rapidly in various places in recent years. They spread some heresy and attracted many people to join them. They wanted to take the opportunity to rebel. Moreover, they were clearly wiped out last year. Xiao Ce said that only some remnants were left dormant. I didn't expect that they would become powerful again so soon."

Prince An said in a deep voice: "Brother, it is not a one-day achievement for them to hoard so much food. They must be coming back. We should wipe them out completely."

"Yes." Emperor Yongkang shouted to the outside of the door, "Come here, ask Jinyiwei Commander Xiao Ce to come see me."

"Yes."

Then Emperor Yongkang asked Prince An: "Fifth brother, since you discovered the grain, who do you think should be sent to provide disaster relief?"

Prince An said bluntly: "I think Lord Ji, the Minister of Revenue, is the most suitable."

"Oh?" Emperor Yongkang was slightly stunned. This Lord Ji was the number one scholar three years ago. He has not joined any party so far and is considered neutral. In fact, he has just taken office as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and had no real power before, so naturally no one wanted to win him over.

Prince An did not choose his own person naturally in order to avoid suspicion, and this candidate is indeed very suitable. He can not only train Lord Ji's abilities, but also give him a chance to come to the fore. After all, he was once the top scholar in the imperial examination. He has no lack of talent, only hard work. He will definitely do his best.

"Okay!" Emperor Yongkang then waved his pen and asked someone to draft an edict.

In the morning court, when Ji Yuanda received the imperial edict, most officials in the court were surprised and whispered to each other, "Disaster relief? What disaster relief? Where is the disaster?"

Emperor Yongkang then had someone read out a secret report containing the message from Wang Jinnian:

The garrison commander of Yuzhou, Yang Yue, was lawless and had sidelined the prefect Hu. He concealed the drought and did not report it. The Imperial Guard Liu Zhan colluded with him and deceived the emperor. Their crimes are extremely heinous. The two have been captured by He Anyu of the Imperial Guard's Pacification Division and will be sent back to the capital for trial soon.

In addition, the prefect Hu has opened the government warehouse to provide relief to the people, but it is difficult to maintain, and the population of Yuzhou is still declining. The price of grain seeds sown this year is high, and I hope the court can raise food to help the people.

As soon as this secret report was read out, the expressions of the civil and military officials varied. Some were shocked, some were angry, and some looked at Prince An in deep thought.

Elder Qin had a blank expression on his face, and no one knew what he was thinking.

At this moment, a young official could not help but feel cold all over. It was clear that Yan Xuezi was driven out of the palace before. How come Prince An broke the situation in just half a month? He hadn't even had time to throw dirty water!

It's over, his career is over! The scapegoat for this matter must be him, and only him, because everything happened through his hands!

Thinking of this, his eyes were filled with despair!

Sure enough, he was captured by the Embroidered Uniform Guards that night. Before he could be interrogated, he committed suicide by taking poison and died in prison.

The emperor knew that this was a scapegoat and was also suspicious of Lord Qin, so he ordered the Jinyiwei to investigate who intercepted the news from Yuzhou.

In just three days, Jinyiwei commander Xiao Ce arrested more than a dozen officials of all ranks. Some were killed and some were injured. Even the innocent people who were released were badly beaten.

For a time, everyone in the court was in danger.

Just when the censors began to impeach Xiao Ce, Xiao Ce accepted the punishment promptly and immediately investigated the entire Jinyiwei from top to bottom.

We actually found a few clowns who were pretending to obey but actually disobeyed, and we put them to death in public!

This made all the Jinyiwei in the capital terrified, especially those who held official positions, who wished they could be sent away as soon as possible.

Such drastic measures also frightened officials of all ranks.

But Xiao Ce had no choice, he didn't even notice that the damn Liu Zhan did such a thing!

He was not afraid of so many big cases in the past, but this time, a fire broke out in the backyard, and he almost lost the emperor's trust! So he had to submit an answer that would satisfy the emperor.

In the end, in addition to the young scapegoat, he found several ministers. Although not all of them were members of the Qin Party, they undoubtedly had a grudge against Prince An and wanted to take the opportunity to tear apart the emperor's trust in Prince An!

When Emperor Yongkang received the result, he was furious and without hesitation confiscated the property of these ministers and exiled them.

During those few days, the people of the capital were shocked to see several high-ranking officials who usually had good reputations being paraded through the streets. It was not until the imperial edict was posted that they realized that they had concealed the drought! The whole capital was in an uproar, and people were talking about it everywhere.

At the same time, the emperor sent many rewards to Prince An's Mansion as a sign of consolation, and Prince An sent all the rewards to Bai Zhaozhao's courtyard.

In Prince An's view, although this result did not hurt Lord Qin himself, it had caused him to lose several wings. Relatively speaking, his own reputation had improved a lot, and many officials had shown goodwill to him.

After seeing the mountains of food, Ji Yuanda's sadness turned into joy!

Originally, he was ready to go to his superior, the Minister of Revenue, thinking that he had to scrape out some money even if he had to beg for mercy, otherwise how could he complete this difficult task?

Only now do we realize that this is not a big deal. It’s just a process to get credit!

Look at people's faces? Not happening!

So, when his colleagues came to see him off, he noticed that a few of them were gloating, so he proudly summoned Commander Lin from the palace, followed by a large number of guards and empty carriages.

"Master Ji, what do you mean? Are you going on the road with an empty carriage?" said an official who usually disliked Ji Yuanda.

"Oh, Master Ji, could it be that he cannot get the money and plans to gather merchants along the way to donate food?"

"That's wrong. The emperor didn't say that he would allocate money to Lord Ji, so Lord Ji was ready to go without even asking for approval. He wanted to embarrass Lord Shangshu and make the people think that our Ministry of Revenue is full of good-for-nothings, right?"

"That's the case, Master Ji. You are so bold. Do you think that if you do this, the Shangshu will have to give you money?"

"Swish!" Lin Yi drew out his sword and said seriously, "We are doing business in Prince An's Mansion, please get out of the way."