The Treacherous Minister Who Sold His Teacher for Fame (21) (The Treacherous Minister or the One Who Endured Humiliation? (Two Parts...)

If he didn't pass on the throne, he would die. Even if the emperor was so angry that he vomited blood, he still had to write the edict of succession by hand.

First, he announced to the world that Lord Li was innocent, and then he said that as an emperor, he felt ashamed to face all the officials and passed the throne to his eldest son.

Ji Changze looked like he wanted to poke the emperor's heart to death, and he never stopped talking: "Your Highness is different from Your Majesty. You will definitely create a peaceful and prosperous era. It's a pity that you have a tyrant like Your Majesty. I'm afraid you will have to clean up Your Majesty's mess in the next ten years."

Before, he pretended to be a minister, but now that he had achieved his goal, he didn't even pretend anymore.

The emperor was so angry that his heart and lungs ached. After writing, he stamped the jade seal and looked at Ji Changze fiercely: "Rebellious minister, are you satisfied now?!"

He looked at his eldest son standing below.

After being imprisoned for sixteen years, the eldest prince's elegance and grace were not taken away at all. He just stood there, which was enough to arouse the emperor's jealousy.

This eldest son is not only better than him in every aspect, but also has better luck than him.

He was imprisoned, but he was forced out by Ji Changze and sat on the throne smoothly.

What a low probability event.

Who would lead troops to force the emperor to abdicate, and the situation was in his hands, but he didn't rebel and become the emperor, but pushed out someone who had no friendship with him.

He did this just to ensure that the injustice and innocence of his master would be known to the world and not doubted.

Is there really such a person in the world?

He didn't want the throne, he didn't want power, he endured humiliation for 16 years, he was in power and could sit on the dragon throne at any minute, but in the end he just wanted justice.

Who can believe it?

If it was another prince who ascended the throne, it would be fine for the emperor.

But if it was the eldest prince, he didn't want his son to have an easy life.

He looked at his son who was still an eyesore after 16 years and sneered:

"Do you think you'll be fine after getting the throne? Today, this traitor can force me to abdicate. Tomorrow, when you ascend the throne, he can also force you to abdicate!"

"Before you came, he acted like a minister who had no choice but to abdicate. Now that he succeeded, he is a minister's duty, and he is obedient and respectful. You can see half of it on his face!!!"

The eldest prince was indifferent.

He was a trustworthy man. He knew who was black and who was white, who was loyal and who was treacherous.

Since Ji Changze could give up the throne to him, he would not doubt this Lord Ji today.

Ji Changze himself laughed.

He laughed so easily, and his laughter became louder and louder until the emperor was uneasy, and then he said:

"Your Majesty, I'm here to clear the emperor's side."

"Now that the tyrant has been removed, how can the treacherous ministers sit in this official position?"

Combined with what the emperor said, this sentence contains too much information.

Everyone present was not a fool, and they all looked at Ji Changze in shock.

No way.

Ji Changze wouldn't really want to do that.

But... how is this possible.

How could anyone bear to do this.

But Ji Changze still did it.

Lord Ji stood in front of the dragon throne, his hand fell to the top of his head, took off his official hat suddenly, and threw it on the ground.

-- Bang!

The sound of the official hat falling to the ground was not loud, but it was like thunder, falling into the hearts of everyone present.

Ji Changze was still in red, but he didn't have the official hat on his head.

"I, a treacherous minister, have been with the tyrant for sixteen years. Today, I will clear the emperor's side, and I will clear the tyrant and the treacherous ministers."

"Today, Ji, the treacherous minister, resigns from office to clear the emperor's side!"

The emperor collapsed all over and looked at the person in front of him in disbelief: "You, you are like this!"

Ji Changze used himself to prove the emperor's stupidity.

No matter how hard he tried to defend himself in the edict of guilt and the edict of succession, Ji Changze's behavior was equivalent to tying the two of them together.

He said that he was a traitor, so the emperor was naturally a tyrant.

Not to mention now, the emperor's bad reputation will be engraved in the history books in the future and cannot be erased.

But... he can bear to do it? !

Now that Ji Changze has done this, his reputation is clear. He supports the new emperor and pushes the new emperor to the throne. He has the merit of following the dragon and the reputation of avenging his teacher. He has military power on the left and the business street on the right. He is in power and rich!

How can he give up everything just to nail the emperor to this pillar of shame?

This is not only the emperor's idea, but also the idea of ​​many court officials.

In their place, they must be reluctant to do it.

Anyway, the master's grievances have been vindicated, right?

But no matter what they think, Ji Changze still did it.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Ji Changze threw away his official hat, walked down the stairs step by step, and walked out of the court.

When he passed by the eldest prince, he saluted the eldest prince as a civilian, and presented the tiger talisman representing military power with both hands.

The eldest prince hurriedly stepped back, took the tiger talisman, watched Ji Changze leave from his side, and walked towards the door without looking back.

He suddenly shouted: "Master Ji."

Ji Changze paused, but did not look back.

The eldest prince solemnly saluted his back, which could only be performed to the most respected person.

"Master, you are talented and should be the emperor's teacher. Please stay and assist me. I will definitely know how to appoint people and rectify the rules and regulations. With your help, I will be a wise and benevolent monarch."

The emperor widened his eyes.

"Are you crazy?! How dare you let such a traitor serve as an official?!!"

The eldest prince had a resolute face: "As a monarch, if you don't disappoint your loyal ministers, they don't want to be evil."

This means that Ji Changze forced the emperor to abdicate because he was too outrageous.

If it was a reliable king, Ji Changze would definitely not do this.

This is simply saying to the emperor nakedly, "Yes, that's right, it's because you are too rubbish that Ji Changze forced the emperor to abdicate. If it was someone else, he would definitely not do it."

The emperor: "..."

He was so angry that his eyes went black.

However, the eldest prince's retention was still useless.

He didn't even turn around, but said loudly: "Thank you, Your Highness, but I have no intention of being an official. I entered the court to serve as an official just for today. My childhood wish was just to be a teacher."

"Master has been very kind to me, like a father. In the past sixteen years, I have been disrespectful in my words in order to gain the trust of Your Majesty. Now, it's time to return to my hometown to be a teacher and observe mourning, and then open a school and live in seclusion."

The eldest prince was shocked.

Although he was trapped in that small house for sixteen years in his life, he had met many people.

Some were good, and some were bad.

Some were scheming, and some were not.

But he had never seen Lord Ji like this.

After Ji Changze said this, he continued to walk forward, with brisk steps, as if giving up his status as a powerful official could even be considered a good thing for him.

The eldest prince saluted again with admiration in his heart, and this time, he bent his waist for a long time.

And behind him, more and more courtiers also saluted.

Until the end, everyone saluted Ji Changze's back, expressing their respect for this 16-year-old man who endured humiliation.

This Ji who led his troops into the court today, made a big fuss, and uncovered many old stories, left in such a chic manner.

***

The new emperor ascended the throne smoothly, and the military power came to him. Ji Changze revealed all the things the old emperor did. He lost the support of the people and the power. He vomited blood one after another because of the stimulation, and he had no power to fight.

At that time, the old emperor fainted directly from anger. It was not known whether it was too much stimulation from Ji Changze or the most despised son ascending the throne that stimulated him.

In short, he was stimulated like this, and he had a stroke.

He was already old, and once he had a stroke, his teeth were crooked, he couldn't speak, and his body couldn't move. Only his eyeballs could move.

The former noble emperor has now become a useless person who can't express his emotions. No one knows how disappointed he must be in his heart.

The eldest prince could not kill his father, but everyone in the palace knew exactly how the emperor framed and treated the new emperor. They knew that the new emperor had no feelings for the old emperor, and the old emperor was speechless, so it was normal for him to live a life of wanting to die but not being able to.

He had framed loyal officials, leaving those ministers who had suffered injustice speechless to defend themselves.

Now he was lying on the dragon bed, listening to the contemptuous comments of the servants around him, but he could only listen because he could not speak.

He had imprisoned his own son, and specifically ordered that this eldest son be short of food and clothing, hoping that he would fend for himself.

Now he had to rely on others to take care of everything, and the servants were not careful, so he was hungry and full, and at night, the windows were not closed and the cold wind blew, but no one came to cover him with bedding.

The most terrifying thing was not this life of wanting to live but not being able to die.

But he was the father of the new emperor after all. If he was sick, the imperial physician would still come to treat him, so he could not even die to be relieved.

He could only let the ginseng keep him alive, lying on the cold dragon bed, staring upward, feeling the contempt and disdain of the people around him.

He had to endure this, even if he wanted to die, he could not interfere with his life.

Lying there day after day, his back had acne due to long-term inactivity, his whole body exuded a foul smell, and he was waiting like a walking corpse for the day when the imperial physician could not save him and he died without medicine.

Ji Changze did not care much about the fate of the old emperor.

Even the court officials did not care.

Everyone's eyes were on the Lord Ji who resigned and left.

After leaving the court, Ji Changze did not return home, but went straight to arrange the manpower and secret stakes he had planted for the past 16 years, and then called the managers of the commercial street to tell them that they would be directly governed by the court in the future.

The money earned by the commercial street will all be used in the military, and Ji Changze did not know what the next generation would be like, but he knew that the new monarch today must be a good monarch.

After arranging everything, he returned to the Ji Mansion.

There was a person standing at the door. She was holding an umbrella and looking over from afar. When she saw Ji Changze coming back, she looked at him with red eyes.

Ji Changze knew what she had guessed, and he nodded: "Master's good reputation is back."

The tears in Li Ziqian's eyes fell instantly, hitting the ground, and it seemed to hit her heart.

She threw away the umbrella and ran into her husband's arms, crying and choking.

"Why... why didn't you tell me, I resented you for sixteen years... You actually endured it alone for sixteen years!!"

Ji Changze patted her back soothingly, and said with a smile: "This may not succeed. If it fails, you will be sad again. Besides, His Majesty is not so easy to deceive. If I make a mistake, I will lose everything."

"You know, you knew from the beginning that Leping was sent to the Liu family."

Ji Changze smiled and comforted; "How could I not know? I sent that midwife."

"You did the right thing about Leping. If you hadn't sent our daughter to a safe place, I would have had to worry about the consequences and the child."

"Don't cry. Shengyan and the others treat her very well, no worse than her biological parents."

Li Ziqian was still crying.

She was not crying for herself, but for her husband.

For the past 16 years, he was not understood by anyone. He came to her again and again, but was rejected by her again and again. How sad he must have felt.

Ji Changze endured all the pain and blocked all these things from the outside. He protected himself from the wind and rain and also protected his family who hated him.

How...how could he be so good.

So gentle.

Li Ziqian hugged Ji Changze's neck. The grief, despair, and numbness in her heart over the years seemed to dissipate with her crying.

"My husband, thank you, thank you..."

The couple hugged each other, and Liu Leping stood carefully at the door and watched the whole process.

There was still confusion in her eyes.

During this day, she first followed her mother to escape, then met the people who were ordered by His Majesty to kill them, and then learned that she was the daughter of Lord Ji and Madam Ji.

Then, she soon learned that Lord Ji was not a "traitor" and that everything he did had its reasons.

And her biological parents sent her to the Liu family because they loved her and wanted to protect her.

Liu Leping has always been smart, but today, she was a little overwhelmed.

Ji Changze saw her.

"Leping."

"Your father has never taught you a thing in the past sixteen years. All I can give you is respect."

He did not ask his daughter to come and recognize her father and mother right away.

Just saying this, Madam Liu came to her daughter, looked at Ji Changze with a complicated expression, and sighed.

The hatred and contempt of the past sixteen years also passed away with the wind.

The matter was finally spread.

The traitor Ji Changze endured humiliation for sixteen years, just to expose the emperor's actions and show the innocence of his master to the world.

After the revelation, he dismissed his official position on the grounds of clearing the emperor's side. It is said that everyone in the court was moved by his integrity, and all the civil and military officials, including the new emperor, saluted his departing back to show respect.

He was like a cloud, floating in and out, leaving nothing behind for others, but leaving a great shock in everyone's heart.

Ji Changze left, but all kinds of news about him were dug out bit by bit.

How smart he was when he was young, how Lord Li valued him, brought him to teach him, and boasted to the master about how talented his disciple was.

Sixteen years ago, before Lord Li was wronged, Ji Changze was just a young man who had just got married. He had a very good relationship with Miss Li. He was also a wanton man who called friends and attended banquets and flower-viewing banquets from time to time.

At that time, he was so flamboyant and unrestrained, and the scenery was unlimited.

He had a famous teacher to protect him, friends by his side, a pregnant wife, and was highly praised.

It should have been a smooth life, entering the court as an official step by step, showing his talents little by little, and finally being buried in the tomb of officials with a good reputation.

When his master was wronged, even if he did not belittle his master, he would not have climbed to a high position so quickly, and he could still live a peaceful life.

But Ji Changze did it anyway.

Such a sunny and unrestrained young man who was once praised by many people was forced to bear the infamy and was rejected by his family and his master's wife.

How did he get through these sixteen years?

In the midnight dream, did he feel wronged, and did he bear the grief again?

Everything in the world is the most sighing and heartbreaking.

Especially when the things that Ji Changze had done secretly were told by the parties involved.

On the surface, he was framing Zhongliang, but in fact he sent people to protect the other party secretly, because the emperor had already had the intention to kill him at that time, so he had to act in advance, so that the other party was only demoted but not his life was in danger.

It seems that he established the commercial street for money, but the money he earned was used to support his soldiers, buy food to send to the front line, and take in orphans to give them a place to live.

At the beginning, he pretended to harm Liu Shengyan and sent him to Gezhou. At that time, many people thought that he wanted to make Liu Shengyan suffer.

Now the truth is out.

He must know Liu Shengyan's character, so he sent Liu Shengyan to Gezhou so that he could help the refugees.

The fact that Liu Shengyan and Ji Changze were classmates when they were young was also dug out.

This matter has brought some tragic colors.

Former friends have to confront each other in the court. When Ji Changze watched him scolding himself, what kind of feeling must he have in his heart.

When Liu Shengyan went to Gezhou, he sent a farewell gift. At that time, many people speculated that he wanted to kill people to vent his anger, so he sent gifts first to whitewash himself.

But now it seems that there is a lot of pain hidden in it.

Farewell gifts can only be given to close friends and good friends.

Lord Ji, he is still thinking about his good friend Liu Shengyan.

Knowing that the daughter of Liu Shengyan is actually the daughter of Ji Changze and Madam Ji, when the Li family was in trouble, Madam Ji was worried that her young daughter would be implicated and entrusted her to Madam Liu. After the child was adopted by the Liu family, Ji Changze's behavior of sending a large farewell gift had another explanation.

In his heart, he must also miss his daughter.

No wonder Liu Shengyan, who was so stubborn, could spend many years in the court smoothly, and no matter big or small things happened around him, he could not be implicated.

How many smart officials have suffered, but Liu Shengyan, who is not very outstanding in his work and can't understand the subtext of the court, has come all the way smoothly.

For him to be safe until now, Ji Changze must have made a lot of efforts behind the scenes.

This time, Ji Changze directly led his troops to force the palace, isn't it because the emperor wants to punish the Liu family?

Although it can be seen from the sufficient preparations that this matter is just a □□, if it weren't for his love for his daughter or his urgency to protect his friends, Ji Changze would not rush to force the palace.

It can be seen that Lord Ji is indifferent on the outside, but in his heart he silently protects the people he cares about.

But unfortunately, these people he protects don't know the inside story. Those who have scolded him for 16 years have scolded him, and those who have stayed away from him have stayed away from him. The only blood of him doesn't know who his biological parents are.

Is it cruel?

Too cruel.

After putting these years together and sorting them out, many literati and talented people shed tears for the pain and injustice suffered by Ji Changze.

How did Lord Ji get through these years?

He is unparalleled in the world and has great talent.

He should have been guided by his teacher and slowly stepped into the court to become a good official who is useful to the country and the people.

But in the end, by mistake, in order to restore his teacher's reputation, such an elegant person who does not seek fame and fortune, gradually became a traitor.

He was looked down upon and cursed, and was not understood by the world. His mother broke off relations with him, his wife imprisoned herself in the backyard, and his only child was sent away.

No one understood his heart, and they all scolded him for being a wolf-hearted and a white-eyed wolf who stepped on his teacher to get to the top.

But it was this "white-eyed wolf" who endured for sixteen years, forced the court to abdicate, and disclosed the injustice of his teacher sixteen years ago in front of all the civil and military officials.

This should be a fairy character that cannot be written in novels and stories!

At this moment, people still don't know what beauty, strength and misery are, but the feelings are the same.

Those who once insulted Ji Changze were ashamed and wrote poems to apologize.

Led by Hu Zifang's father, they came to apologize in person.

But when he got there, he found that the Ji family had already been empty.

He asked a gatekeeper, and that person said that their master took the old lady and the wife of the Li family back to guard the tomb of the old master Li.

At the beginning, the old master Li died with a crime, and his body could not be buried in the Baiguan Mausoleum, so the old lady Li had his body taken back to his hometown for burial.

Ji Changze, who forced the old emperor to abdicate and pushed the new emperor to the throne, left just like that.

Before leaving, he gave the entire commercial street to the new emperor to supplement the national treasury that was now wasted by the old emperor, so as to avoid the tragic situation of soldiers not having enough food.

When he gave away the entire commercial street, people found that this place that looked like only two streets was actually worth every inch of land.

With such a great achievement, Ji Changze had only one request.

Give his biological daughter, Liu Leping, the adopted daughter of the Liu family, a position of respect.

The new emperor immediately issued an order to recognize Liu Leping as his sister, and conferred her the title of princess, and enjoy the treatment of the eldest princess.

After the decree was issued, Ji Changze returned home quietly with his family.

Before leaving, he did not forget to teach the boy who wanted to marry his daughter but betrayed her a lesson, and presented the crime committed by the other party's father.

It is conceivable that when he lost his father's protection and became a commoner, and then looked at Princess Leping who was almost married, what kind of taste must he have in his heart.

After the matter was done, he left, hiding his merits and fame.

No one knew when Ji Changze and his family left, nor did they know which road he took.

But after the news spread, on the way from the capital to his hometown, some families would spontaneously set up tables with food on them, hoping that if this Lord Ji could eat a few bites when he was hungry on the road, it would also be good for their admiration in their hearts.

Hearing that the emperor wanted to kill him, Liu Shengyan finally escaped from Gezhou with the help of the prefect. He was covered in dust and sneaked all the way, not daring to show his true face or take gold and silver to buy food: "..."

What's the situation, there is food on the roadside when you are hungry?

Sure enough, he has good luck.