novelhk Chapter 550 Photo Controversy
Chapter 550 Photo Controversy
"Now she has jumped into the river and died. Her younger brother and sister's tuition has been cut off. The whole family has been ruined because of Yuan Zeming. Her greatest wish before she died was to seek justice for herself. Shouldn't I help her?"
After hearing this, everyone was deeply saddened.
No one would have thought that Yuan Zeming, who was always known for his gentlemanly demeanor, was actually a lecher who raped women.
Both Empress Dowager Yuan and General Yuan's faces turned dark.
Before they could say anything, Yuan Jiuan continued, "If General Yuan thinks that one life is nothing, I have other petitions here."
Yuan Jiuan picked up the complaint and read out two of them at random in front of everyone.
One of the young men sued Yuan Zeming for secretly beating his 65-year-old father to death. After the death, he threatened people who witnessed the scene, telling them not to tell anyone about the incident, or he would kill anyone's entire family.
Another incident was that he induced the son of a wealthy businessman in Jizhou to gamble in a casino, but deliberately had someone tamper with the dice, causing the wealthy businessman's family to incur huge debts and then the family was ruined.
All the money went into Yuan Zeming's pocket.
Yuan Jiuan finished speaking and said: "Officials in Jizhou are not allowed to open casinos, let alone gamble, but when Yuan Zeming came, he set a precedent."
"It's not that I didn't send people to remind him, but he said that he was from the capital, not from Jizhou. His status is higher than mine, and I have no right to discipline him."
"Because of him, several lives were lost and several families were destroyed. Just because he was a high-ranking official from the capital and the nephew of the Empress Dowager, can he destroy a family and ruin these innocent women at will?"
"I have no right to interfere with his misdeeds elsewhere, but if he behaves wildly in my territory, I will definitely support the people of Jizhou!"
The complaint in his hand was thrown into the air, and the complaint and case closing documents were blown by the wind and fell at the feet of the crowd.
A minister picked it up and looked at it, then said nothing.
All of Yuan Zeming's crimes were written in black and white on the paper, and the case closing documents were stamped with the county magistrate's seal.
This shows that these things are true and cannot be faked.
In that case, Yuan Zeming really deserves to die.
Yuan Jiuan sent someone to kill him and sent back a severed hand, as if there was nothing wrong with it.
Queen Dowager Yuan was extremely angry. She didn't expect that when she wanted to look for Yuan Jiuan, he would produce evidence and outwit her.
A terrible thought suddenly came into her mind.
Before in Jizhou, the emperor was far away and she couldn’t touch Yuan Jiuan.
Now that she was in the capital, on her territory, she began to have some thoughts of killing the other person.
According to her people's investigation, Yuan Jiuan only brought a coachman and four guards with him when he came to the capital this time, and there was almost no one else around him.
Killing him is easy.
Perhaps she could also use this opportunity to withdraw the fiefdom, take back Jizhou from the hands of the Yuan family, and completely destroy him.
Once this idea came into her mind, it couldn't be shaken off.
But now is obviously not the time to send someone to assassinate him. Thinking of what the other party had just said, she decided to take a step back and stabilize Yuan Jiuan.
Wait until night when there is no one around, and then send someone to assassinate him.
Retracting her thoughts, Empress Dowager Yuan softened her tone and said, "Your Highness, please calm down. This matter was not investigated thoroughly by my father and I. We did not intend to blame you. This is just a misunderstanding."
"Since Yuan Zeming was at fault first, I will not be partial to him and cover up for him. This matter will be written off."
"After the succession ceremony is over, I will send someone to present the prince with ten thousand taels of gold and a hundred dan of corn as compensation to the prince and the people of Jizhou."
Yuan Jiuan sneered in his heart. Queen Mother Yuan and her father were really stubborn. Both father and daughter had exactly the same temperament.
If he had not guessed before he left that Empress Dowager Yuan would definitely use this matter against him, he would have thought about it for a moment and then asked someone to go to the yamen to get all the indictments against the other party's nephew and take them along.
This way he averted a disaster and cleared himself of the injustice.
Just as Yuan Jiuan was about to say something, he caught a glimpse of Ji Yuntang making the scissors hand signal out of the corner of his eye.
He immediately understood that she and Chu Yi had sneaked into the basement and rescued Emperor Chu.
He no longer had to continue dealing with Queen Dowager Yuan and delay time.
Thinking of this, Yuan Jiuan stopped talking nonsense and responded.
"Then I, on behalf of the people of Jizhou, would like to thank the Queen Mother for her gift!"
He knew very well that Queen Dowager Yuan would not have the chance to give him the reward, and he did not hold out any expectations.
When Empress Dowager Yuan saw that Yuan Jiuan stopped talking and no longer mentioned wanting to see Emperor Chu, but instead walked over and sat down, she felt a little relieved.
Thank God, this plague god finally shut up!
If the other party continues to make trouble like this, the ceremony of establishing the crown prince will probably be ruined in his hands.
After watching this scene, Yuan Chao stood there with a complicated expression, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Empress Dowager Yuan smiled and said to the official in charge: "Since the misunderstanding between me and Prince Chengxuan has been resolved, let's continue with the ceremony of establishing the crown prince."
The official received the order and was about to read out the document regarding the ceremony of establishing the crown prince when something unexpected happened again.
"Have a minute, Your Majesty the Queen Mother. We have something to report!" The four officials who were sitting down looked at each other and stood up at the same time.
Everyone turned around and saw that the person who spoke was the patriarch of the four great families.
The representative figure among them is Qi Huaichuan, the head of the Qi family, who is also the Minister of the Chancellery.
When Empress Dowager Yuan saw the four of them stand up, her first reaction was that the other party had gone back on their word!
Back then, the first candidate they put forward for the crown prince was Qi Huaichuan's son, who was later replaced by the Yuan Dynasty.
In order to appease the heads of the four major families, Empress Dowager Yuan gave them many benefits. She gave them no less than 100,000 taels of gold alone, not to mention some properties.
Only then did he barely convince a few people to agree to support Yuan Chao's ascension to the throne and to assist him just as they had assisted themselves.
But now, the four of them stood up at the same time, and Empress Dowager Yuan suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart.
She narrowed her eyes and asked in a bad tone: "What do the four adults mean?"
Qi Huaichuan took out a photo and said bluntly to Empress Dowager Yuan: "I received several portraits this morning. If we are not mistaken, the people in the portraits should be the Empress Dowager and the Imperial Master, and the background of the portraits is also in the Imperial Master's Baohua Hall."
"The misunderstanding between the Queen Mother and Prince Cheng Xuan has been resolved, but what about this misunderstanding? How should the Queen Mother explain it?"