Chapter 139: Powerful Minister 【08】
After Yuan Jia read the secret letter, he was slightly shocked, and the letter paper in his hand turned into dust and fell to the ground from between his fingers, blending with the dust.
He walked to the desk and sat down, ground the ink and spread the paper, picked up a brush from the pen holder and dipped it in the thick black ink, and then picked up the pen to write a letter.
After writing it, I specially used a capsule seal, and sealed it with three layers of mud.
Yuan Jia called his confidant, gave him the secret letter, and let him send it out.
Not long after, the old lady sent someone to send a message and asked him to go to dinner, Yuan Jia put down the official document in his hand, got up and walked out of the study.
That night, the emperor received the news that the confidant eunuchs he had sent out died on the roadside outside the city, and his face turned blue with anger: "Too arrogant!"
In the past, the people he sent out were not alive or dead, but this time, the bodies he sent out were thrown on the conspicuous roadside, and the edicts and identity proofs hidden on them were all searched. gone, obviously to warn him.
His dignified emperor was actually warned!
The furious emperor was furious, but it was of no use. His incompetence and rage did not allow him to contact the armies everywhere, nor could he escape Meng Yuanjia's restraint.
The emperor tried hard to calm himself down, thinking desperately about how to break the situation next.
Now Meng Yuanjia has no intention of trying to see the poor, he still has room for relaxation, there is still a chance, he can't be in a hurry, he can't be scared...
The emperor calmed down and thought about the current situation of the Zhenbei Gongfu, and then suddenly a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he turned to ask his confidant, the **** chief: "Little Li, Meng Yuanjia's younger brother, Meng Xi, should go back to Beijing, right? ?"
"Report to Your Majesty, calculate the distance, Meng Xi should have returned to Beijing, but because Meng Xi was driven out of Zhenbei Gongfu by Meng Yuanjia, it didn't help much, so the slaves didn't waste manpower staring at him..."
The emperor waved his hand and instructed: "Send someone to check, and be sure to find out where Meng Qi is now!"
Meng Qi still lived in the small house he bought earlier, and the people sent by the emperor could easily find out his whereabouts.
After Meng Qi returned to Beijing, he kept a low profile. The things he brought out from the Zhenbei Gongfu were pawned off by him on the way back to Beijing, and they were replaced by silver notes and hid on him. He wondered how to rely on this start-up capital. Make a big cause and make Meng Yuanjia regret driving him out.
Originally, Meng Xian wanted to take the imperial examinations and become an official. He climbed up to the position of a top official and told Meng Yuanjia that he did not need to be exposed to the light of Zhenbei Gongfu to reach the pinnacle of life!
But he gave up this idea after he participated in the county test in his hometown. Studying for the imperial examination was too time-consuming and too expensive. Now he can't have any book he wants to read like he did in Zhenbei Gongfu. You can ask any kind of gentleman to teach you what kind of teacher you want.
Just relying on himself, buying books alone can make him bankrupt, so he didn't take the imperial examinations to save money, not to fail the exam.
He is such a smart person, as long as he studies hard, he will definitely be able to make six yuan all the way and the first place in the world.
It's just that he had to give up the imperial examination in order to save money.
Being an official is not only a path to the imperial examination, but for ordinary people, there is only the imperial examination path, and the other paths of becoming an official cannot be done without family background.
Meng Qi used to have this background relationship, but now he doesn't, and he didn't plan to take the imperial examinations, so the road to becoming an official was blocked.
After thinking about it, he wanted to do business like his grandfather. Although the businessman's status is not high, there is a saying that money can make a ghost run the mill. When he is rich enough to be rich enough to rival the country, he is no longer an ordinary businessman. .
So Meng Qi was thinking about how to make money in business every day at home.
He grew up in the Jinbei Gongfu, and never worried about money, let alone what he would do if he had no money in the future.
Because the Zhenbei Gongfu was rich, especially rich, in the past, the first Zhenbei Gong went to war with the founding emperor in the world. How could he not make a fortune in wars? The gold and silver treasures collected are all privately owned by the generals by default.
Then, the ladies of Zhenbei in all dynasties came from famous families, and the dowry was quite large. In addition, the Meng family was not prosperous, and there were very few cases of separation. The wealth accumulated from generation to generation was definitely not trivial.
If Meng Qi was still the third young master of Zhenbei Gongfu, he would be able to share a large amount of property in the future.
Now that this property is gone, when he is thinking about how to make money, he can't help but mutter: "Meng Yuanjia must have driven me out because he was worried that I would divide his property!" Much more comfortable.
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Meng Qi was writing the time to make a fortune in his room, when he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, knocking on the door loudly. As soon as he heard the rhythm, he knew that the knocker had been knocking for a long time, and he was so irritable that he wanted to kick the door in. .
When Meng Xian left Beijing and returned to his hometown, he was in a hurry, so he sold all the maids and cooks who served him, and now he is reluctant to pay for someone to serve him, so he lives alone.
Therefore, someone outside the door just started knocking on the door, and Meng Qi, who was immersed in his own world, really didn't notice it, and now he was disturbed by the violent knock on the door.
Meng Qi hurried to the gate and asked loudly, "Who is outside?"
The knocking on the door stopped abruptly, and a slightly shrill voice came from outside the door: "Is it Mr. Meng Qi? My master sent the young master to invite the young master to come over."
Meng Qi frowned and cautiously did not open the door. He just said to the people outside through the door: "Please tell your master, just say that I am sick and it is not appropriate to go out."
He didn't know who the servant outside the door belonged to, or who the "master" in that mouth was, but Meng Qi guessed that it might be someone he knew before, and now he wanted to call him over to humiliate him.
After all, when he used to be the third young master of Zhenbei Gongfu, he was not a good person, and there were not many **** disciples who had grudges. Now that he is in trouble, it is inevitable that some people will take the opportunity to humiliate him.
He wouldn't be foolish enough to agree to go when someone asks him. Now he's just an ordinary commoner, and no one can appeal for justice if he was killed by a son of a powerful man.
The people outside the door seemed to be startled by Meng Xi's answer. After a long while, they knocked on the door again and said, "Meng Xi, please let us in. You have to clarify this matter with you in person."
Meng Qi pretended to be dead and didn't reply.
He now regrets answering the knocker at the door before, knowing that he should just pretend that there is no one in the writer.
The people outside the door said a few more words. Seeing that Meng Qi still refused to open the door, the sound of knocking on the door hurried again.
In the end, the shrill voice was full of impatience: "Break away!"
Meng Qi was startled, and hurriedly ran into the house, looking for a place to hide.
However, before he could run into the house, the door had already been kicked open, and a tall, thin, white-faced, beardless man walked in with two sturdy men. Ji caught it.
The white-faced and beardless man walked in front of Meng Xi, stared at him displeased, and said in his thin voice, "Meng Xi, didn't our family say it would not treat you? You go with our family obediently. It's good to see that the master is not good, why bother to ask for it?"
Meng Xian had also seen the world. Hearing the person in front of him calling himself 'our family', his voice was different from that of a normal man, he was not young but had no beard at all, a flash of light flashed in his mind and asked, "I don't know where you are. Eunuch?"
Eunuch Li looked at him with a half-smile, but did not answer, but asked, "Meng Xi is willing to go with our family to see the master now?"
Meng Qi's heart was suddenly overjoyed. Eunuch Li didn't answer, but he didn't refute either, so it proved that Eunuch Li was indeed someone who came out of the palace.
Then Eunuch Li's master must be someone from the palace. Thinking about the masters in the palace, the princes are still young, and it is impossible for the empress dowager and concubines to send someone to find him as a foreigner, so the identity of the person who wants to see him is about to be revealed.
An enemy of an enemy is a friend.
Meng Qi said happily, "I am willing!"
Then Meng Qi followed Li Gonggong to a village on the outskirts of the capital. He met the emperor in this seemingly ordinary village.
Meng Qi had never met the emperor himself, but on the day of the ceremony of recognizing his ancestors and returning to his ancestors, he went to Zhenbei Gongfu to meet the eldest prince. The appearance of the eldest prince was very similar to the emperor. There are some guesses, and after seeing the emperor himself, he naturally guessed it immediately.
"The grass people meet His Majesty!"
The emperor looked at Meng Xi, who was kneeling and kowtowing, and his heart was relieved. These days, facing the courtiers and Meng Yuanjia, he was trembling in his heart. Qi, thinking about Meng Qi's discord with Meng Yuanjia, the emperor found Meng Qi very pleasing to the eye.
"Hurry up and level yourself." The emperor showed a gentle and amiable smile on his face, and reached out to help Meng Qi in person.
Meng Xi stood up flattered: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
The emperor first asked about Meng Xi's current situation with gentle concern, and after hearing that Meng Xi's life was not easy, he followed Meng Xi's words and condemned Yuan Jia: "This Meng Yuanjia is too cruel, you have done more than ten times. Nian's brother, he turned his face when he turned his face, and even his father's filial piety couldn't wait to pass, so he kicked you out of Zhenbei Gongfu, it's outrageous!"
These words really touched Meng Qi's heart. He was so moved that he looked at the emperor with tears in his eyes. If he hadn't been afraid of losing his image in front of the emperor, he really wanted to scold along with the emperor.
Meng Xian said with emotion: "Your Majesty's eyes can see through Meng Yuanjia's true face at a glance. However, people in the world are so ignorant, they only look at the surface, and they all think that Meng Yuanjia is well-intentioned to let me recognize my ancestor and return to the ancestry, but in fact it is not afraid of it. I divide his family property? If the Zhenbei Gongfu really wants to let me recognize my ancestors and return to the clan, they will not hide my background strictly all these years."
In fact, the Duke of Zhenbei did not deliberately conceal Meng Xian's life experience, but only few people knew about it at the beginning. Later, when Meng Xian grew up and got close to him and the Yan family as their biological parents, it was difficult for them to bluntly say that they were not him. Parents, make children sad.
After a long time, no matter in the house or outside, others thought that Meng Qi was the third young master of Zhenbei Gong's house.
In fact, Duke Zhenbei never gave Meng Xi a genealogy at all, and never thought of letting Meng Xi recognize his ancestors and return to the clan.
But these truths are not important to the emperor and Meng Qi, they just need a vent, find a reason to condemn Zhenbei Gongfu, and scold Yuan Jia to vent their anger.
The two blamed Yuan Jia for all kinds of crimes together, and in the end, the two sympathized with each other, and they were both fallen from the end of the world!