After the death of the previous emperor, the Empress Dowager became arrogant

The cell fell into silence.

The iron chains of the cell on the left rattled a few times, and a burst of rapid squeaking of rats broke the silence.

Both of them looked at Wuming.

Wuming showed the little thing he had just caught, "Little brother, do you want to come over and take a look? It looks like this guy has a cub."

Yuan Qing: "..."

I don't know a better reason.

"Really? How many did you find?" Yuan Qing continued with his words.

Wuming actually touched the rat's belly a few times.

The fat rat stopped kicking its limbs and lay blankly in Wuming's palm, its dark eyes staring at this strange human motionlessly.

There was suddenly a stranger in the prison. Even though Wuming spoke wildly, he still felt a little wary of people from the imperial court.

He has lived for so many years, he can't die in obscurity.

When Yuan Qing came over, Wuming took advantage of her figure to glance at the silent man and whispered, "Do you know him?"

This is a strange question. They started fighting the first time they met. How can you tell they knew each other?

She shook her head. "I don't know him."

Seeing her sit down, Wuming put the mouse in his arms and said, "Maybe I was wrong."

Yuan Qing stared at the small bag that was constantly bulging under his clothes and thought, this guy enjoys playing with mice all day long, isn't he afraid of catching the plague?

Wuming seemed to have thought of this as well, and he pinched the mouse through its coat. The mouse knew it couldn't escape, so it simply softened its body and let him play with it.

"Who is that person?" Wuming asked.

"From what the jailer said just now, he must be an important official of the court, and his position is not small." Yuan Qing put away his loose belt, "It seems that he is related to me."

"Examination fraud?"

"Ah."

Wuming then remembered that he had asked the little brother at that time, and he replied that it was cheating.

At first he didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just a trick used by those in power, another person being pushed out to take the blame.

But this time it seems to be quite a big fuss. I guess the outside world is no longer the same as before.

He asked, "Who is in the chair now?"

He just said the word "chair" casually. How could ordinary people dare to discuss the imperial power in public, so they found a more common and understandable object to refer to it.

Yuan Qing was naturally happy that Wuming's interest in the court affairs was aroused, and he immediately replied: "It is the second son of Emperor Heng who is in power now."

Emperor Yuanheng was the dog emperor who had passed away long ago.

Wuming hesitated for a while before saying, "I can vaguely guess that Emperor Heng is the second..."

Suddenly he slapped his thigh and asked, "Could it be that the relative is from the Yuan family?"

In a moment of excitement, his voice was slightly higher.

The man on the other side heard the sound, glanced at them, then turned away and ignored them.

When Yuan Qing mentioned his favorite, his eyebrows raised and he said excitedly, "It's him."

"It turns out that things are really different now." Wuming sighed sadly, "Since ancient times, when a wise ruler meets a virtuous minister, the country prospers; when a virtuous minister meets a wise ruler, his reputation becomes famous; and when a ruler and his ministers meet, it is always at the right time."

He walked around the iron railings and slapped Yuan Qing's shoulder with his palm, which became heavier and heavier. "Little brother, you are luckier than me. You were born in a better period."

He left his hometown out of his ambition, had many dreams and suffered a lot.

He went through a lot of hardships to get before the emperor, was personally chosen by the emperor, put on a red robe, and rode a horse through the streets. It was truly a great honor.

He thought that he would finally get his reward after all the hardship, but he did not expect that an imperial edict that deceived the emperor would bend his spine and crush his patriotic heart.

Although he was lucky enough to have saved his life, he could only stay in this world for the rest of his life and live with rats.

Didn’t His Majesty know that he was wronged at that time?

he knows!

He knows everything!

Yet he still allowed that group of villains to stir up trouble right under his nose, preferring to listen to those untrue flattery rather than spend more time to verify the facts, and thus convicted him of the crime.

Chilled...

With such a tyrant ruler, I'd rather not hold this position!

"Why do you say lucky?" Yuan Qing asked.

"The imperial power has changed. In order to secure the throne, the new emperor must do something big."

At this point, Wuming paused, looked into the boy's eyes, seeing something that once existed in him, and smiled, "I guess you admire him very much."

Yuan Qing nodded, "Not only Mu, but also Zhong."

Wuming laughed softly, "Very good, very good..."

Qinghe Hall.

Late at night, Eunuch Shun moved the wick of the lamp that was about to go out on the table, and the flame rose rapidly.

"Your Majesty, take a break. If you keep going like this, your body won't be able to bear it."

"Cough, cough, cough..." Wen Chengyu took the handkerchief at hand and coughed violently, "I don't have much time left, I have to arrange all these things before I can..."

Eunuch Shun's eyes immediately turned red, and he hurriedly stroked his thin back to help him calm down, "Don't say these things, you will definitely get better, it's just that you caught a cold, and if the imperial doctors in the palace can't help, there are still doctors outside the palace.

I have already sent someone to look for her. No matter what, you must take care of yourself first."

After Wen Chengyu finished drinking the medicine prepared on the table, he raised his hand and wiped it, and some light brown medicine juice was stained on his fingertips.

Not black.

He rubbed his fingers slowly until the moisture on his fingertips was wiped clean, then he said, "Zhongshun, even you don't want to hear the truth?"

Eunuch Shun just knelt silently beside the desk and collected and processed the memorials for him.

He flipped through the petitions one after another, all of which were requests for lenient punishment. Wen Chengyu didn't want to be bothered by them anymore, so he ordered Zhongshun to filter out all the requests for leniency.

"What's going on in prison?" Wen Chengyu asked.

"Your Majesty, Lord Gong and Lord Lu only fought a few times, and no one spoke." Eunuch Shun considered his tone and said, "However, Lord Gong was having a very pleasant conversation with another person."

Wen Chengyu's gloomy mood was instantly swept away.

Qing'er was locked up next to that man. Although it was his intentional arrangement, he did not expect to resolve his knot in a short time.

If you want to re-employ him, you must overturn the verdict.

At that time, he was locked up in the house all day to recuperate and did not pay attention to the affairs of the court. He only remembered that a top scholar from a poor family was born in the imperial examination, and even his uncle praised him highly.

But his glory did not last long. Overnight, the number one scholar was regarded as a disgrace to the literati and was condemned by everyone. The inn where he stayed was also besieged and cursed by students.

Later, someone from the Cheng family came forward to take responsibility, taking all the crimes on himself. He committed suicide at home that night to apologize for his crimes. The rest of the people were exiled to the border of Ningzhou according to the law.

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[Since ancient times, when a wise ruler meets a virtuous minister, the country prospers; when a virtuous minister meets a wise ruler, his reputation becomes prominent; and the ruler and his ministers always meet at the right time.] — Li Kang, On Destiny.