Chapter 348: Reward or punishment
He went home excitedly to hand in his homework, completely unaware that he was being used by Li Jing.
And his own father, Cheng Engong, did listen to what his son said.
When the empress dowager, who was listening behind the curtain, was furious and asked her brother to execute all the Bai family members Ling Chi, Cheng Engong persuaded his sister and offered her a countermeasure to understand the current predicament.
His so-called countermeasure is the combination of the second and third ways given by Li Jing.
Li Jing felt that recruiting security was unrealistic, but Cheng Engong had blind confidence in the method of recruiting security because of the successful precedent of Wang's.
As for Bai Qingzhi and the Dingbei Army, Cheng Engong felt that they had to squeeze out the final value of this person and this army, so as not to be in vain for the previous court to give the Bai family so much honor and support the Dingbei Army for so many years.
He informed the queen mother of his overall plan bit by bit. After listening to the queen mother, most of her anger subsided, but she still felt that she couldn't just let the Bai family go.
They can’t be killed, they can’t be arrested and sent to jail, so it’s always okay to show them some color, right?
She pondered for a moment with a sullen face, "I will issue an order to reprimand that dead old woman of the Bai family for being incompetent in teaching her children. Brother, you send a team of people to completely surround the Bai family into an iron bucket. I want to see what else they can do." !"
Cheng Enzheng has this intention. He wants to use the Bai family to coerce Bai Qingzhi, so naturally they cannot continue to come and go freely.
He nodded in response, comforting his younger sister, who was planning to leave, when his queen mother sister suddenly said, "Brother, help me find out if there are any good-for-nothing but senior elders in the royal family this month." If I don’t die past my birthday, when I make the decree, by the way, let the old woman take her family to celebrate the other party’s birthday.”
Not all the children of the royal family are superior. Those titles have been passed down for several generations, and now there is only one false title of Fuguo Lieutenant or Fengguo Lieutenant left, but the family has a large number of people and lives are struggling. Accounted for the vast majority of the royal children.
If it was in the past, this kind of people would not even let Mrs. Bai pay birthday wishes to them in person, they are not even qualified to send posts to the Bai family.
Now the actual person in power of the Great Zhou Dynasty, looking at the young and beautiful but ruthless empress dowager, actually planned to let the **** pass the order to give the old lady Bai an order to lead the whole family to pay birthday wishes to the children of the unworthy clan. It is a bright beating and humiliation.
What she doesn't know is that the person she wants to beat and humiliate is actually no longer in the capital, and the person who pretends to be Mrs. Bai and accepted her order obediently is actually a person who will bring her more... angry man.
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In the evening, the **** who passed the decree rushed to Weipinghou's mansion before the palace gate was closed.
Yizhi spoke harshly. Ye Anlan and the others knelt and listened for nearly a quarter of an hour. The old **** with a sharp voice finally stopped torturing their eardrums.
Ye Anlan breathed a sigh of relief and was about to receive the order, but the **** who delivered the order verbally passed on a "Empress Dowager's Oral Order".
The content of the "oral order" is very simple, it is to let their whole family go out on a certain day of the month to pay respects to General Ji Tong of Fuguo on his birthday.
As soon as the name Ji Tong came into my ears, the old **** looked like "Old Lady Bai" Ye Anlan, who looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of being scalded by boiling water, her eyes suddenly became extremely sharp.
Her expression changed, but the old **** was relieved.
Looking at her appearance just now, the old **** didn't feel at all that he was here to punish the Bai family on behalf of the queen mother.
It's still as good as it is now, and it makes people feel very happy just looking at it.
Because he was in a hurry, the old **** finally just satirized the Bai family a few words, and then left Yizhi, and hurried back to the palace in a carriage to return to his order.
As soon as he left, Ye Anlan and the others immediately stood up together.
The play is over, and then they should sit around and discuss business matters.
Noticing the difference in Ye Anlan's expression for the first time, and quickly thinking clearly why Ye Anlan was like this, Li Jing said softly, "How about letting someone else go instead of you?"
Ye Anlan was taken aback for a moment, she raised her head, and met Li Jing's clear eyes full of worry, and only then did she understand what the other party meant by saying such a sentence without beginning or end.
She smiled and waved her hands, "No, I'm fine."
After a pause, she continued: "I just didn't expect the opportunity to come to me by itself, so I was excited for a while, and accidentally missed some real emotions."
Yang Xiaotao and Wen Liuniang, who knew the inside story, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, while Zheng Fengshou, who looked confused, turned his big head from side to side, "What? What are you talking about?"
Wen Liuniang reminded him in a low voice, "Ji Tong, doesn't this name sound familiar to you?"
Zheng Fengshou blinked his big eyes and recalled for a moment, "It's him!"
He slapped his right hand vigorously with his left hand, "Sister, will we be able to leave the capital soon?"
Ye Anlan nodded, "It is indeed ready."
There are three purposes of their trip, first, to save people, second, to make money, and third, revenge.
The goal of saving people has been achieved, and now they only need to get money and help Ye Anlan avenge the previous generation's personal revenge.
The object of Ye Anlan's revenge and robbing the rich and helping the poor happened to be Ji Tong, the general of the Fuguo who was carefully selected by the empress dowager to humiliate the Bai family.
The empress dowager originally wanted to choose a child of the clan with a very low status, because the effect of humiliation would be the best. However, what made her depressed was that the only child of the clan who was going to die within this month was Fuguo General Ji. Tong alone.
But thinking about Ji Tong's life experience, the empress dowager immediately became happy again.
She felt that, compared to other unpromising sons of the dandy clan, Ji Tong, the Fuguo general who didn't seem to be very cheap on the surface, was more suitable to beat the Bai family.
why? Because Ji Tong relied on destroying the title of the old Ping Xihou who also held a heavy army!
This is a ruthless person. In order to climb up the ladder, he married Lao Ping Xihou's only daughter, Ye Anlan's nominal grandmother, with a low profile that was almost equivalent to marrying a wife.
In order to win the trust of Lao Ping Xihou, he has lived in the Northwest for more than 20 years.
He was considerate to his wife and loved his daughter very much. Even if his wife failed to give birth to a male heir after another miscarriage, he did not accept a concubine because of this.
No one knew that his wife's successive miscarriages were all thanks to him. People only saw his love and righteousness on display.
If it wasn't for later, his wife and daughter followed Lao Ping Xihou on the road to Huangquan, but he took the huge family property left by Lao Ping Xihou and directly got rid of poverty and became rich, and lived a luxurious life with his concubine and concubine daughter. Moreover, because of his contribution to assisting the royal family in consolidating military power in the Northwest, he has jumped from a mere lieutenant of Fengguo to a general of Fuguo, and people will not see through his superb acting skills.