Chapter 54 Booklet

During the court discussion, Xue Chongxun spent a lot of effort to lobby, but the court did not agree immediately. One important reason was that Prince Li Chenghong explained the relationship too clearly. Although the prince did not win in the end and was slapped in the face, the ministers and ministers had to deal with it slowly after all.

After Xue Chongxun returned home, he remembered that he was very dissatisfied with the prince and felt that this guy was not a suitable candidate for the crown prince.

If the powerful Princess Taiping is still there, she will be the lord who can depose the emperor and will probably have to depose Li Chenghong.

Xue Chongxun's power is a little further away than Princess Taiping. It is not easy for him to do things that are abolished and established, but this does not affect his hostility to Li Chenghong.

As soon as he sat in the living room to rest, Yu Wenxiao came in to talk about the situation, talked about the formation of the prince's kingdom, and the progress of the arrangement of the eyeliner.

Xue Chongxun was not interested in listening to those trivial matters, and just said: There is no need to monitor Prince Li Chenghong for a long time. He should be taken down as soon as possible to avoid raising a tiger.

Yuwen Xiao hurriedly asked about the reason, and Xue Chongxun told him about the fact that he was openly confronted by the prince in the temple today.

Unexpectedly, Yuwen Xiao laughed after hearing this: The second son is overestimated and cannot hide his strength and maintain a low profile. He is not a great talent, so Xue Lang doesn't have to look down on him too much.

Xue Chongxun said angrily: Even though he said that, the world is very strange. If you are not afraid of wise people, you are afraid of stupid people!Wu Sansi did not die at the hands of the powerful Empress Wei and her mother, but died at the hands of a fool Li Chongjun. It has to be said to be a satirical one.It is better to start first. Li Chenghong has not had the chance to develop it yet, and it is easier to kill it in his infancy.

After hearing this, Yuwen Xiao said: Then I will give Xue Lang an idea... The prince lives with his eldest princess with his father and mother?Let's ask someone to print a booklet in private and spread it, saying that he had committed adultery with his sister.

Xue Chongxun said in surprise: How did Duke Yuwen come up with such an idea?It’s okay to be a decent work, but I don’t care about the methods, but what’s the use?

Yuwen Xiao showed a treacherous smile on his old face, and Xue Chongxun suddenly said: Is there any other trick?

Yu Wenxiao nodded and approached and whispered. Xue Chongxun thought about it and suddenly laughed: The method is a bit insulting, but it's enough for him to drink a pot.With this, wouldn’t it be reasonable if he dies in the future?

Xue Chongxun is stress-free when he does bad things. In fact, he has never done a few good things in his daily life.So he simply asked the inner factory to print that kind of booklet.

The goods in the internal factory are also damaged enough. After making up a story, it can be described as real. Even the causes and consequences of adultery and the specific details can be clearly written, just as if they saw it with their own eyes under someone else's bed...

What's even more awesome is that there are illustrations!

So after those booklets were distributed, in addition to being a scandal, they could also be viewed as Xiao Huang's books, with pictures and texts. Even many illiterate people can read pictures and read words.

The court officials didn't know if the matter was true. Some people suspected that Xue Chongxun did it, while others felt that Xue Chongxun didn't need to use such despicable means to slander others.

However, this matter itself is not a big deal. What is so strange about the incest in the palace? Many things are just difficult for historians to write, and only unofficial history is dared to write.

During the Han Dynasty, there were vassal kings who liked to ask their biological daughter to serve in bed, and the royal family was stressed out.

Therefore, the ministers only regard it as a joke and do not want to get involved. It is even more impossible to depose the prince because of such a thing, let alone there is no real evidence.

But the Concubine Wang was furious. She was so angry that she was a little bitchy. Her own daughter and son were gossiped about that. You can imagine how angry she was as a mother.

Concubine Wang called Li Chenghong and his brother to Penglai Palace to question him. The eldest girl had recruited a princess, and Li Shouli's daughters' lives were already debauchery, so the princess didn't take it seriously at all.

Li Chenghong was very angry and said to his mother: Do you still believe in such a thing now?Even the blind man could tell that it was the King of Jin who was doing it. He could really do such dirty things, and he looked down on him!

Concubine Wang scolded him and said, "Am I blinder than a blind man?"

She didn't think it was Xue Chongxun. In her eyes, the men were all upright and open, and only women could do the tricks.

Concubine Wang said: Why did Xue Chongxun do such a thing?I think Queen Gao is the most suspicious... Well, right!It must be her.Last time I hinted at Your Majesty’s love affair with the King of Jin, is she going to treat the other person’s body with the same way?It must be the dirty thing she instructed the eunuch to leave the palace to do!

Li Chenghong is very angry: I didn’t tell my mother not to have trouble with the queen, why are you keeping it?

Concubine Wang said angrily: This woman is not aware of her wife's words, and she meets the King of Jin in a private relationship. She always loses our faces. I am so angry.Why did you offend the King of Jin again?

Li Chenghong said: I am a serious matter, how can I compare with the intrigue among women?Xue Chongxun was determined to control the government. If he sat alone, he would be the second Wang Mang and Sima family!I, Li Tang, have no regrets to defend my ancestors!

Why do you live every day? I feel so nervous when I hear it.

Concubine Wang said anxiously, she almost burst into tears to persuade her. You should be your prince, so that the ministers would think that you are good at being the prince. If you have a stable position, why are you afraid of Queen Gao doing?

Li Chenghong was annoyed and said that he would say goodbye if he had something to do, and said that he didn't have to worry about the booklet, which was not very important.

After saying that, he left the palace with the eldest princess, but his sister could not have laughed and said that she was so embarrassed after reading the booklet. We siblings have become bad guys even if we didn't do bad things. We were really unfair and might as well do that kind of thing.

Li Chenghong angrily scolded him and parted ways.

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Unexpectedly, the matter was not over yet. Xue Chongxun instructed a censor to write a letter to investigate the matter and severely punish the initiator.

Although the ministers all think that the matter is not big, it can be big or small, after all, it is related to the royal reputation.

The crown prince of the Li Tang Dynasty was laughed at by the peddlers and barbarians in the city...

There are actually pictures, and the princess’s indecent aspects have been drawn. Wouldn’t the royal majesty be ruined?

Therefore, the imperial court ordered the Censorate to supervise the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture and Wannian County to investigate the case, which turned into an imperial case, and most of them wanted to get a few heads to serve as scapegoats.

It would be fine if it was just like this, but the person in charge of the case in Jingzhao Mansion was a friend of Zhou Bin... Zhou Bin defected to Yuwen Xiao.Things were in chaos now.

Zhou Bin is a reputation as a cruel official. He was sent by Princess Taiping to handle Liu Youqiu's case before. Liu Youqiu himself did not arrest him, so he asked Liu Youqiu's family about the case. He used all kinds of tortures, and even the female family was tortured to the point of being completely tortured. There are rumors that Liu Youqiu's daughter had everything cut off.

Zhou Bin, a friend who was an official in Jingzhao Prefecture, didn't say much, and arrested people everywhere to force confessions, causing resentment from Chang'an.

The cow of cruel officials is that they are brave enough. They followed the clues after torture and confession. Even the court officials were involved, and then ran to the Beijing officials' house to search...

People cannot hate a cruel official, just like a normal person who is calculating with a madman?

His resentment naturally came to Prince Li Chenghong.

It would be fine if you are a prince who is a sister. What's wrong with us? It's just that we are involved in the scandals of the royal family. It's strange if you don't resent.

An accident happened during this period. A printer was raided by the government. In the chaos, a slave's wife was dragged to the woodshed and raped by the servant.

Afterwards, the master just wanted to calm down the situation, and no slave could reason. He regarded it as a great humiliation. He kept doing it and hid on the road and wanted to chop off the prince who went to court...

Of course it was impossible to succeed. The incident suddenly cut off one of the guard's ears, and then it was chopped into pieces by a random knife.

Li Chenghong was covered in dirty water due to the slightest conscience, and the support rate of the people dropped sharply.

This method is indeed despicable, but it can undoubtedly be effective. What modern power fields are playing with (some countries have various despicable means to crack down on political enemies during general elections), so naturally it would not be too bad in the Tang Dynasty.

The prince was exhausted physically and mentally and did nothing.

At this time, Xue Chongxun's second wave of movement began again. He first used an active method of pestering and beating; then immediately applied a slow method, and cooperated with Zhang Chi in moderation: raising funds to transform the abandoned public house behind the Chenghuang Temple into a charity hall, saying that it was to help those helpless poor people.

He sent people to ask the gentry and wealthy families to donate money everywhere, but in fact, everyone didn't donate much. For example, like Baiwen and Qianwen, they had to erect a stone tablet outside the City God Temple and carve the good name of the investor on the monument.

Everyone is satisfied now, and spend some money to get a good reputation. What a joyful thing!

On the day when the ground was invaded, Xue Chongxun and the gentry visited the City God Temple in person, and there were so many people watching the fun.

He was wearing a purple official robe, with a kind smile on his face, and he also held a dirty child in his arms.

The child's mother saw Xue Chongxun having a black face and was actually a high-ranking official. In the eyes of the woman, Xue Chongxun had no kind smile, she was simply a sinister smile. The woman was afraid that he would hurt her child, and she seemed to be anxious. She was caught by the officials and couldn't get over it, and tears came out...

It's simply a satirical Ah.

When Li Chenghong and others heard about this, they naturally secretly scolded Xue Chongxun for being disgusting.

But Xue Chongxun himself is stress-free, and ordinary gentry and people do not know much about the affairs within the regime. Since they are doing good deeds, they are mostly good people.

The aides of the King of Jin's mansion also went back to flatter, saying that they would let Xue Chongxun participate in such good deeds to demonstrate their image of integrity, loyalty and kindness.

He himself understood that as a person in power, he would only build a charity hall for fame, otherwise it would be a waste of time.

Although everyone said that he was a loyal person, he didn't make him faint.

I originally wanted to ask Wang Changling to write an article that has been passed down through the ages, but Wang Changling couldn't write it...

For real literati, his articles come from the heart, and he may not be able to write down what is obviously fraudulent.

Xue Chongxun had to find other staff to write, but his influence was not that good.