Daqing: Reborn Prince, intercepting Si Lili at the beginning

Lin Ruofu immediately understood the hidden meaning behind Li Chengyuan's words. His eyes flickered and he asked with a smile, "Your Highness and Wan'er have a good relationship?"

Li Chengyuan smacked his lips and said, "Okay, Minister Lin, to be honest with you, Wan'er and I are in love, so please help me!"

"Are you in love?" Lin Ruofu's eyes narrowed, obviously a little surprised.

But after a moment, Lin Ruofu regained his composure and said calmly, "But Your Highness, you are Wan'er's cousin!"

"Minister Lin, you should be very clear that the eldest princess and His Majesty are not related by blood!"

"But she is the eldest princess after all, Your Highness, people's words are scary!"

"She may not be!"

Lin Ruofu suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Chengyuan, saying meaningfully, "Your Highness, are you referring to now or in the future?"

"Even now, it will be in the future!" Li Chengyuan said straight to the point: "To be honest with Minister Lin, I came here this time to invite Minister Lin to join me in revenge against the Princess!"

"Invite me?" Lin Ruofu frowned frivolously, and said with a half-smile, "Your Highness is very brave. Aren't you afraid that I will betray you? After all, no matter what, the eldest princess is Wan'er's biological mother!"

"I'm not afraid!" Li Chengyuan said calmly, "Because I know one thing!"

"What?"

"The hatred of killing a son is irreconcilable!"

When Lin Ruofu heard this, his eyes narrowed instantly, and his hand holding the teacup tightened and tightened, and it was obvious that he was very uneasy.

After a long while, Lin Ruofu slowly said, "Your Highness, the court has already made a final decision on my son's death. This matter has nothing to do with Li Yunrui!"

Li Chengyuan shook his head and said, "Minister Lin, honest people don't speak in secret. I'm being honest with you, so I hope you can be honest with me too!"

"Be frank with me?" Lin Ruofu's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked softly, "Then I want to ask, does Wan'er know that His Highness wants to take revenge on Li Yunrui?"

"I know!" Li Chengyuan nodded and said, "That night in the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, I told Wan'er everything, including Li Yunrui's treason!"

"What? Li Yunrui is a traitor?" Lin Ruofu's face darkened as he asked, "Your Highness, where do you get this from?"

Li Chengyuan reached into his arms, took out Li Yunrui's crime leaflet and handed it to Lin Ruofu.

After Lin Ruofu took it and looked at it for a few seconds, he was horrified and asked in a deep voice, "Your Highness, these things are not to be joked about. Do you have any evidence?"

Li Chengyuan reached into his arms again and handed the confession letter written by Zhuang Mohan to Lin Ruofu.

"Prime Minister Lin, please take a look. This was written by Zhuang Mohan himself!"

Lin Ruofu took it again and looked at it carefully.

After a long moment, Lin Ruofu suddenly slammed the table and angrily said, "This crazy woman is simply lawless and unforgivable!"

Although Lin Ruofu is a politician, he still has some bottom line in his heart.

At least Li Yunrui's treason had indeed touched his bottom line, so he was so angry.

However, although he was angry, Lin Ruofu still remained rational.

"Your Highness, if you treat me with sincerity, then I will also tell you the truth. Although I am also angry about what Li Yunrui did, in my opinion, these alone will not bring him down!"

"Of course!" Li Chengyuan said, "Li Yunrui is a member of the royal family after all. Your Majesty will not punish her lightly. I understand this.

The reason I came to see Lin Xiang must be that I have more useful evidence than these.

The question now is whether Minister Lin is willing to intervene in this matter."

Lin Ruofu replied without hesitation, "Your Highness, although I am old, I am not stupid. Li Yunrui is guilty of treason, a heinous crime that cannot be forgiven. Therefore, as long as Your Highness has sufficient evidence, I will certainly help you!"

"Okay!" Li Chengyuan reached into his pocket again, pulled out a piece of paper, and handed it to Lin Ruofu, saying, "Minister Lin, take a look. Is this, combined with the previous ones, enough to punish Li Yunrui?"

Lin Xiang took it, looked at it for a moment, and then took a breath.

She knew Li Yunrui was crazy.

I also know that Li Yunrui is extremely bold.

(bfbd) But he didn't expect that Li Yunrui would be so bold.

How dare they collude with these people?

Lin Ruofu took a deep breath, then looked at Li Chengyuan with a serious face and asked, "Your Highness, where is this person now?"

Li Chengyuan replied, "I've already taken them under control! If Minister Lin agrees, I'll have them and the evidence sent to the Ministry of Justice the day after tomorrow morning!"

Lin Ruofu asked in confusion: "Why the day after tomorrow?"

"I'm not in Kyoto anymore, it'll take a day to get there!"

Lin Ruofu nodded and responded, "In that case, leave the Ministry of Justice to me. As soon as the person arrives at the Ministry of Justice, I will have them interrogated immediately, close the case as soon as possible, and report to His Majesty!"

Li Chengyuan also said, "Then I will spread the news of Li Yunrui's treason throughout the capital tomorrow. Then, the day after tomorrow morning, I will have someone take Zhuang Mohan's confession to the Ministry of Justice to surrender!"

Lin Ruofu nodded and said, "In this way, Li Yunrui will be held guilty and blameless. Even if she is not killed, she will be driven out of Kyoto to appease the public anger!"

"That's enough!" Li Chengyuan said, "For Li Yunrui, losing power is more painful than killing her!"

Lin Ruofu nodded in agreement.

But soon, Lin Ruofu asked curiously, "Your Highness, I am curious. Your Highness seems to have a deep hatred for Li Yunrui?"

Li Chengyuan replied, "Prime Minister Lin, have you forgotten that Li Yunrui and I had a life-and-death feud at the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests?

What's more, Li Yunrui is a member of the prince's party, and I even suspect that she is in collusion with the second prince.

So she and I are in a life-and-death struggle!"

After hearing this, Lin Ruofu fell silent.

After a moment, he suddenly stood up, took out a list from the desk and handed it to Li Chengyuan.

Li Chengyuan took it and looked at it, his mouth opened slightly in surprise.

This turned out to be a summary report on the appointment of officials in the court.

Li Chengyuan was watching when Lin Ruofu's voice came faintly.

“Your Majesty has been rectifying the court recently, and there have been frequent changes in officials.

Now it's finally coming to an end.

So His Majesty ordered me to compile a summary of the latest official appointments, and I was busy until late at night!"

Li Chengyuan's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't rush to reply, but watched carefully.

There are 64 people on this list, all of whom are officials in Beijing who are qualified to attend court.

Among them, he had thirteen followers, distributed in various government offices.

The highest-ranking official among them was a Minister of Rites.

There are five other followers secretly, namely, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites Yan Que, the Doctor of the Ministry of Revenue Shen Zhui, the Doctor of the Ministry of Punishment Cai Quan, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel Zhao Wencheng and the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of War Zhou Shuhan!

Among them, the ones who surprised Li Chengyuan the most were Zhao Wencheng and Zhou Shuhan.

I didn't expect that the plan I set up would yield such a huge reward.

Zhao Wencheng used to be the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Because his son was paralyzed and was cured by Li Chengyuan with Huiyuan Dan, he swore allegiance to Li Chengyuan.

But although he swore allegiance, on the surface he has always been Emperor Qing's confidant.

Moreover, Zhao Wencheng was a righteous man and never formed cliques for personal gain.

So in this rectification, he actually got the advantage and was promoted by Emperor Qing to the Minister of Personnel, becoming one of the most honorable people.

The same is true for Zhou Shuhan.

Zhou Shuhan was originally the Minister of Works. Because the system rewarded Zhou Shuhan's evidence of guilt, he was used by Li Chengyuan and forced to defect to Li Chengyuan.

Later, because Mei Zhili resigned from his post, Zhou Shuhan was transferred by Emperor Qing to fill the vacancy.

Because he was obedient, courageous, and did not belong to any party, he turned a disaster into a blessing during the court reorganization and became the Minister of War.

Compared with the idle Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War has much greater power.

It can be said that the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel are the Emperor Qing’s trusted departments, and they will never allow the three princes to interfere.

Even if the prince occasionally intervened, he would be severely warned.

And now Li Chengyuan actually holds the positions of Minister of Personnel and Vice Minister of War at the same time. If Emperor Qing knew about this, he would probably massacre the court again even at the risk of destabilizing the court!

Fortunately, Li Chengyuan was very secretive and had never contacted the two of them for such a long time, so their relationship has not been exposed until now.

Looking at the list, Li Chengyuan calculated and found that he now had trusted followers in the Six Ministries, the Honglu Temple, the Censorate and the Dali Temple.

This means that he now has the ability to influence government affairs.

Of course, since he is about to go north, he no longer has the energy to take care of the court in the short term.

Then in an instant, Li Chengyuan suddenly understood what Lin Ruofu meant.

Li Chengyuan immediately stood up, went to the desk and took out a pen.

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He wrote down the names of all his followers except Yan Que and the other five.

These people are all his nominal forces, and it is actually no secret.

At least Emperor Qing must know it clearly.

Li Chengyuan wrote down the names of these people and handed the list to Lin Ruofu.

Lin Ruofu took it, took a look at it, and a hint of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

What satisfied him was not Li Chengyuan's honesty, but Li Chengyuan's understanding.