The first poisonous scholar in Daxia, starting from the abdication of the prime minister

give it a try?

As soon as Yin Hong said this, the other families knew what he meant and no one bothered to respond.

Just kidding!

Given the current relationship between the Crown Prince and the Second Prince, if the Crown Prince ascends to the throne... these aristocratic families may not have any problems, but the Yin family is different.

The Yin family and the second prince share the same fate. When the second prince ascends to the throne, the Yin family will have unlimited glory.

With the fall of the Second Prince, the Yin family will most likely decline.

But what about them?

Now that the prince's position is stable, will they follow the Yin family to rebel?

Isn't that fucking stupid behavior?

The entire palace is under the control of Emperor Xia. Anyone who wants to rebel is seeking death.

Even though the aristocratic families are very powerful, once they rebel, the emperor will not tolerate anyone who dares to rebel, let alone an aristocratic family, no matter how worried he is about the power of the aristocratic families.

Yin Hong's words made all the aristocratic families give up.

Chen Ru thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go with the second one!"

"the second?"

The other noble families were somewhat unhappy. Although this incident was enough to make Gu Jingzhi's reputation ruined, their own reputations would not be affected either, right?

Seeing that no one was happy about it, Chen Ru couldn't help but ask, "Do you have any better ideas at this moment?"

"Uh……"

The other families all fell silent.

After a while, Li Chun said in a deep voice, "Who will take care of this?"

"Come to my Chen family!"

Chen Ru said silently.

There is currently no one in their Chen family who is on the hall committee, and the local area is particularly important to them. If this case is investigated further, the loss of their Chen family will be the greatest among all the aristocratic families.

Now that the emperor has just dismissed Tang Qian and Li Chun, he will certainly not touch anyone else in the court, otherwise all the aristocratic families in the world will join forces to resist.

Hearing that the Chen family was willing to take on this matter, the other families were also happy to do so, and they all stood up and bowed to Chen Ru.

"Brother Chen is so righteous! We bow down to him!"

"..."

Chen Ru's face darkened, and he said indifferently, "I hope we can overcome this difficulty together!"

Having said that, he left with a dark face.

When the people from other families saw that the matter was resolved, they bowed to each other and said goodbye one by one. Only Yin Hong looked at these people in a daze. Didn’t we agree to deal with the old emperor? Why are you leaving?

He looked at the backs of those people leaving, his eyes turned, and other thoughts came to his mind.

……

Capital city, royal villa.

Jin Lehuang was reading silently when the candle on the desk suddenly flickered.

Jin Lehuang closed the book, looked at a certain spot, and said lightly: "Is there any new movement among the aristocratic families in the capital?"

"Princess, the noble families of the capital are gathering tonight to deal with Gu Jingzhi. They are preparing to..."

Qu Feiyan leaned against Jin Lehuang and spoke softly. After hearing this, Jin Lehuang frowned slightly. She pondered for a moment and said, "Does anyone else in the Inner Guard know about this?"

"No one else knows except the spies we planted in the family."

"Alright! Please inform everyone about this matter, but don't tell anyone else. Also, the Inner Guard House doesn't need to keep any records on it."

"Princess, aren't you going to tell Lord Gu about this?" Qu Feiyan seemed a little hesitant.

She was one of the people who knew about the cooperation between Jin Lehuang and Gu Jingzhi. Later, when Gu Jingzhi returned the token without revealing his identity, she unconsciously developed a better impression of Gu Jingzhi.

Jin Lehuang just glanced at her when he heard that.

Upon seeing this, Qu Feiyan immediately bowed his hands and lowered his head.

Jin Lehuang said softly: "From now on, just do your own thing, everything else..."

"My Lady, I was the one who spoke too much!"

Qu Feiyan said quickly.

Jin Lehuang nodded slightly and waved his hand. Seeing this, Qu Feiyan took a few steps back and then hid in the darkness again.

Jin Lehuang was fiddling with the candle wick with a stick, a smile on her face.

"Gu Jingzhi, Master Gu...this time it depends on how you handle it!"

Jin Lehuang's eyes flashed.

She has been hiding behind the scenes all along, and relying on her former identity as the princess of the Yun Kingdom, she has always been successful.

But after meeting Gu Jingzhi, she found that things had been going badly recently, and several of her plans were ruined by Gu Jingzhi.

Now that she saw the methods that the aristocratic families used to deal with Gu Jingzhi, she was actually very happy about it. She wanted to see how Gu Jingzhi could break the deadlock under such circumstances.

……

Gu Jingzhi spent several days sorting out all the files of the case with his men. After everything was sorted out, he was about to go to the south of the Yangtze River when he suddenly received an invitation to a banquet from a noble family.

He held the invitation in his hand, with a hint of mockery in his eyes.

"Sir, you have been ordered to investigate the case of aristocratic families encroaching on land. Why don't you go?"

Liu Sandao's eyes were filled with worry as he said, "Even the case of the Minister of Revenue and the Vice Minister two years ago was probably related to them. You are in a critical situation right now. If you go to the banquet now, something unexpected will inevitably happen!"

Gu Jingzhi just smiled slightly.

This time I went to the Chen family for a banquet, but naturally it was not a good banquet.

He was ordered to thoroughly investigate the aristocratic families. If he went there at this time, these people would definitely try to pull him to the same side as the aristocratic families, or try to get rid of him, just like they did to Guo Huai and Jiang Ming.

Tao'er, who was listening from the side, also showed a worried look on her face and said, "Master, this family's methods are extremely dirty. If you go there now, they will definitely use some conspiracy and trickery."

"Haha! What are you afraid of?"

Gu Jingzhi smiled and said, "It's true that they want to harm me, but I also have something I want to test their opinions on."

To be honest, he really wanted to see where the bottom line of the aristocratic family was.

Emperor Xia was very clear about asking the aristocratic families to hand over the land, but he was not prepared to touch the aristocratic families' power in the officialdom. The purpose of the investigation was only to get to the bottom of the case and then force the aristocratic families to exchange land for official positions.

As for official positions, there will be plenty of ways to solve them in the future, but land is the most important thing right now.

The reason why Gu Jingzhi wanted to test the opinions of the aristocratic families was simply to see how the aristocratic families would deal with the situation if the plan between him and Emperor Xia came true.

"Sir, I don't think this is necessary. No matter what they think, as long as the case is handled thoroughly, they won't be able to do anything!"

"Yes, yes! My lord, what Lord Liu said makes sense!" Tao'er also nodded obediently.

Gu Jingzhi sighed softly: "But Lin Feng is still in Jiangnan!"

"This……"

Liu Sandao hesitated.

He knew the purpose of Lin Feng's trip to Jiangnan. Gu Jingzhi's presence in the capital would indeed help attract their attention, making it easier for Lin Feng to thoroughly investigate the Jiangnan case.

Lin Feng did not hold an official position and rarely appeared in front of outsiders, so his trip to Jiangnan was extremely secretive.

"Sir, you must be careful, especially with the food you eat at the banquet!"

Liu Sandao had no doubt that with Gu Jingzhi's cautiousness, he would make plans for other things, but it was not certain what would be eaten at the banquet!