Chapter 950 Omission
Coming out of the living room, Sun Shaozong walked towards Jia Yingchun in the backyard, while thinking about the conversation he had just had with Yu Qian and Li Xian in the reception room.
Although the two men came together, their purposes were different.
Li Xian missed his hometown more and more as his father Li Sheng's condition got worse. In recent days, he kept repeating that he would rather be a ghost in his hometown than be separated from his family.
Although his condition made it unsuitable for long-distance travel, Li Xian had no choice but to agree because he was pressed to do so - after all, Li Sheng's illness was beyond cure, and even if he continued to stay in the capital, he would only be able to survive for a few more days.
So the main reason Li Xian came here today was to say goodbye to Sun Shaozong.
After Sun Shaozong learned the truth, he gave him some earnest advice and told him to return to his hometown and not to be proud and complacent and neglect his studies.
Then he ordered Zhao Zhongji to prepare medicinal herbs to keep Li Xian alive, as well as three thousand taels of silver for Li Xian to spend on the road and during the period of mourning.
Li Xian did not say thank you, but just kowtowed three times respectfully before leaving.
After Li Xian left, Yu Qian revealed his purpose - it turned out that he was in a hurry to visit Sun Shaozong this time to warn him not to have anything to do with Wang Ziteng in the near future.
It can be said that fortune and misfortune go hand in hand.
The Southeast Fleet built by Wang Ziteng with the help of half of the southeastern country was originally criticized by the southerners, and was attacked by censors from time to time.
It was not until recently when the Southeast Fleet conquered the North Sea, swept through Kyushu, and terrorized Korea that all the voices of criticism died down.
But who would have thought that the good times would not last long.
At the beginning of the month, the Japanese Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi sent envoys to negotiate regarding the Southeast Fleet's unauthorized landing in Kyushu to suppress bandits.
This was not a big deal. Considering the various evil deeds of the Japanese pirates in the southeast, even if the Southeast Fleet burned, killed and looted in Kyushu, it was just a tit-for-tat.
However, traveling with the Japanese envoys was the illegitimate the officers and soldiers of the Southeast Fleet saw that Ryukyu was rich and allowed their soldiers to plunder and massacre the Manchus of the Shang clan.
In fact, this did not involve Wang Ziteng. After all, the Southeast Fleet was isolated overseas at that time, and Wang Ziteng himself was out of reach.
But what a coincidence, at this moment, Wang Ziteng suddenly reported that the Ryukyu ruler Shang had volunteered to be the king's vanguard, but he never expected that he would be envied by the remnants of the Japanese pirates because of this, and a month ago they took the opportunity to capture Ryukyu and massacred the entire Shang family.
This changes the crux of the problem.
Whether the Shang family was massacred by the remnants of the Japanese pirates or by the government troops is no longer important. What is important is whether Wang Ziteng, a senior official, deliberately deceived the court or was deceived by his subordinates.
Needless to say, the former is undoubtedly a serious crime.
The latter represents a serious dereliction of duty and means that there are serious problems with Wang Ziteng's control over the Southeast Fleet.
Based on Wang Ziteng's consistent performance, the former is undoubtedly more likely.
Therefore, in recent days, there have been some radical remarks among the censors. Even the Minister of War Lu Yanbin believed that Wang Ziteng should be summoned back to Beijing to defend himself.
Because of this, Wang Ren was anxious to curry favor with people everywhere. Anyone who had some connection with the Wang family and could have a say in the court was mostly invited to his house.
However, according to Yu Qian's analysis, the imperial court should not investigate the matter on a large scale . After all, nearly half of the Southeast Fleet's troops are still stationed in Korea.
Once the matter is thoroughly investigated, it would be fine if the military morale is unstable, but if some people, out of fear of crime, make peace with the Jurchens, the advantage that the court has worked so hard to gain will be lost.
But this does not mean that Wang Ziteng can sit back and relax.
"Yesterday, news came out from the palace that Concubine De successfully gave birth to a prince. Others said that the Wang family was lucky, but my nephew felt the exact opposite."
Yu Qian did not explain this in detail, but Sun Shaozong already understood it.
Xu Fu-ren felt that deposing the eldest son and enthroning the youngest son would cause suspicion among the ruler and his ministers, so he would rather support the crown prince who had been cut off from the throne.
Similarly, didn't Emperor Guangde worry at all that his young son would be held hostage by powerful officials?
The person who is most likely to become a powerful official at the moment is none other than Wang Ziteng, who controls half of the southeastern country, has been in the limelight recently, and is also the uncle of Concubine De.
Now there is another person who has a history of deceiving the emperor...
If Sun Shaozong were the emperor, I'm afraid he would not be able to tolerate him!
Let’s not talk about that.
However, when Sun Shaozong arrived at Jia Yingchun's place, he greeted her respectfully on the surface, but secretly set a date and prepared to visit the master and servant three days later.
After the "polite talks" were over, Jia Yingchun started talking about business.
It turned out that she was in a hurry to find Sun Shaozong because Jia She had specially called her over yesterday at Rongguo Mansion, saying that he wanted to perform a grand ritual to pray for the second prince's good fortune and longevity, but he was short of money at the moment, so he hoped to borrow five or six thousand taels from the Sun family.
If it were five or six hundred taels of silver, Jia Yingchun might have accepted it for the sake of peace and quiet.
But the price she asked for was five or six thousand taels. How could she make up her mind?
At the moment, I had no choice but to make all kinds of excuses.
Unexpectedly, early this morning, Mrs. Xing sent someone to demand the money back like a debt collector.
"I didn't want to alarm Erlang, but they kept using the Second Prince to pressure me, and it was hard to shirk responsibility, so I had to ask Erlang to come over and help me make a decision."
As he spoke, he sighed again.
It is obvious that Jia She wants to take advantage of the Second Prince's momentum to extort money from his son-in-law and daughter - having a father who is so unreasonable is indeed a headache.
The worst part is, the reason this guy found...
Not to mention that there are so many Taoist priests in the palace. With Jia Zheng, a serious grandfather, here, is it necessary for him to show up to pray for the second prince's blessing and longevity?
"Don't worry, sister-in-law. Just deal with the old woman for half a day." Sun Shaozong immediately said, "I will send someone to tell Uncle Zheng that it will be the most appropriate thing to let him handle this matter."
Jia Yingchun nodded, but then hesitated again, and said hesitantly: "If my second uncle shows up and makes father angry..."
"Let your anger be vented on me. Recently, our family should distance itself from the Rongguo Mansion."
In front of so many people, Sun Shaozong didn't say too much. Anyway, they would have to discuss it privately in a few days, so he would explain it in detail then.
But when Sun Shaozong came out of Jia Yingchun's room and was about to change into his official robe and go to the Ministry of Rites to hand over his duties, word came in from outside that the prince had sent the chancellor, Wang Dexiu, to come to the house in person and invite him to come over for a talk.
What was supposed to come finally came!
Sun Shaozong quickly perked up his spirits and went over the solutions he had thought of yesterday in his mind again, in order to avoid any omissions in his response.
However, he had no idea that the prince invited him over just to clear up the leak.
