This year, Li Ling was unable to be at ease after all.

The sudden change made him unable to celebrate the New Year at all. His consideration of the future situation in Jiangnan, his guess about the sudden change of the court, and his concerns about Wen Ming's situation... all kinds of complex and uneasy feelings lingered in Li Ling's mind at all times, but because of his slow communication now, he could not even implement a statement before the New Year. Even the day after he learned about this incident, he had sent someone to send letters everywhere to investigate the inside story.

But even Governor Wen from Jinling could not give him a clear answer in just a few days, let alone the reaction of the capital thousands of miles away. This time, he not only sent a letter to Xu Cang, who was in the court, but also did not miss Xiao Chengzhi and Sun Bi. Anyway, he planned to understand the truth of the matter from various angles and the deeper impact behind it.

Then it was not until the sixth day of the first lunar month that Wen Ming finally came back to the letter, but the content of the letter was very simple, divided into two meanings - the re-compilation of the civil book was suspended, and patiently waiting for the court's next plan. As for his own thoughts, he did not mention a word, and finally added a sentence "This letter will be burned after reading it."

Just this sentence made Li Ling feel that Wen Ming was in a very bad situation. He was worried that he would implicate him, so he thought of cutting off all private contact.

Li Ling felt even more heavy in this regard, but he was powerless. In this matter, he was really weak and had no choice but to help. He really had some changes, but he couldn't help anything. I just hope Wen Ming could survive this disaster. After all, such a good official who has ideals, ability, and willingness to do things for the country and the people is too rare in the Dayue court today.

When the first lunar month passed, the reply from the capital was finally delivered one after another. The first one was Sun Bi and Xiao Chengzhi's letter. The one on the other didn't write much about the re-editing of the folk book in Jiangnan. After all, one of them was still mourning, and the other didn't know much about the affairs in the court. It was thanks to the huge disturbance this time that they could hear about it.

As the letter said, after the mid-twelfth lunar month, many people in the government and the people in the capital criticized the governor of Jiangnan as a treacherous minister who harmed the country and the people. At the beginning, some people spoke for him, but not long after, as dozens of censors jointly impeached Wen Ming's various illegal acts, the voices of his speech completely disappeared.

It was the real wall that fell and everyone pushed it. Wen Ming's reputation plummeted. Even Xiao Chengzhi, who had entered the military camp, heard a lot of bad things about him from his colleagues, such as being very happy with merit, being stubborn, and excluding dissidents. Even the previous several chaos in Jiangnan was actually rooted in Governor Wen. There was a lot of uneasy intentions for Wen Ming to stop him, and Jiangnan was uneasy.

Even though the two of them simply mentioned a few words in their letter, Li Ling felt a sense of pressure. Hearing that the governor had become a slaughter in the court. In this way, let alone the major event of re-compiling the civil book, he might not even be able to maintain his official position.

More content in this letter is about stating the experiences and changes of the two over the past six months.

Sun Bi is actually just like that. According to the emperor's wishes, he will be mourning for three years in front of his mother's spirit, and it has only been a year. The only thing worthy of gratitude is that his mentality has become much calmer and no longer complains about others. Instead, he persuaded Li Ling not to do anything stupid because of setbacks. As the saying goes, if you keep the green mountains and don't worry about burning firewood.

Moreover, according to Xiao Chengzhi, he met the emperor before the New Year. Although the father and son did not let go of their past grudges because of this, they finally made some changes, which were much better than being stiff. Then when they were filial, Sun Bi practiced martial arts and read books, especially military books, and now he has new insights and improvements in leading troops to fight.

As for Xiao Chengzhi, he lived a very comfortable life in the capital.

At the beginning, he only studied with some noble children in the capital, and his generous and righteous personality was actually aligned with these playboys of similar backgrounds. However, the emperor really asked him to learn anything that was polite and righteous. He couldn't learn much.

So last autumn, after confirming that he was not a good student, the emperor simply threw him into the military camp for training. This time, Xiao Chengzhi was as good as a fish in water and was doing well in the military camp. He made many friends in a short time. Compared with other noble children, he, the prince of Dingxi Hou, was actually quite good.

It was also through these connections that Xiao Chengzhi had a grasp of the changes in the court and knew all the things about Wen Ming and Jiangnan. However, he was still a little confused about major events such as re-compiling the civil book, so the letter was more casually mentioned, just to relax Li Ling.

After reading the letters from the two, Li Ling could only smile bitterly, but she was still happy about the stable situation of the two brothers. Then she thought about when we could still work together and join forces like in the southwest, and she sighed again...

This emotion changed a few days later, after Xu Cang sent the reply letter, and it changed again. After reading his thick stack of letters, Li Ling's heart instantly sank. Things were irreversible and headed towards the worst result!

As an official in the court, even if he was just an inconspicuous little official in the Hanlin Academy, Xu Cang's understanding of what happened in the court and the meaning hidden behind it was much more detailed and thorough than those two.

"On the 11th day of the twelfth lunar month, some people in the capital spread the Jiangnan rebellion, which was actually a forced rebellion by officials. It was because Wen Ming treats the people too harshly on weekdays, which made the people's lives unsustainable, which gave Luo Tian Sect a chance to take advantage of, and there were consecutive rebellions."

"On the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month, several censors in the Censorate impeached Wen Ming's various illegal activities, which were rejected by His Majesty. However, the next day, more than a dozen censors submitted impeachment, saying that he intended to disrupt the situation in Jiangnan, so he proposed to recompile the civil book, and His Majesty still rejected it."

"Two days later, fifteen days later, thirty-seven people impeached Wenming, and not only censors, but also officials in Jiangnan. They said bluntly that their ambitions were to do evil things in Jiangnan. It was false to compile the civil book for the court, and it was true to invite fame for themselves. Your Majesty sent it back to the Political Affairs Hall, and the Prime Minister and others discussed their merits and demerits."

"On the 18th, more than 30 officials submitted an impeachment, saying that Qing's father was not dead and Lu was not over. Wenming is the Qing's father in Jiangnan... The next day, the relevant bulletin chapters were released again, and the number of officials in joint letters to dismiss Wenming has reached nearly a hundred, and the general trend has been achieved..."

Just looking at these series of statements, Li Ling felt his scalp numb and his back became cold. Only then did he realize that the situation Governor Wen was facing was more dangerous and more difficult than he thought.

Perhaps at the beginning, the emperor planned to protect him and wanted to promote the re-compilation of civil books in Jiangnan. But as hundreds of officials in the court continued to oppose impeachment, their positions would inevitably be shaken and changed, whether they were the emperor or the prime ministers. Perhaps it was under such pressure that the news that the Lu and Xie families had known before were completely abandoned.

But this happened, Li Ling was a little confused. Why was it just a matter of Jiangnan, but it finally came to an attack from almost all the officials in the court?

This question was maintained for a moment, and Xu Cang's letter gave similar answers in his heart - because his approach not only offended all the officials in Jiangnan, but also pushed other officials to his opposite side.

Needless to say, the officials in Jiangnan are really at stake and a pain. Once this method is implemented, no one will suffer a lot of losses. And officials from other places are afraid that once the Jiangnan civil book is re-compiled, the tax will increase sharply, and the court will make the right idea to do it elsewhere. By then, their losses will be great.

Since everyone is involved in this matter, it would be better to destroy it in its infancy in advance. So this time, no matter whether it is civil servants, military officials, prince or kings, or the people of Yong, or the kings of the country, they all united together to slander and impeachment, and to do everything they could, to defeat Wen Ming and criticize him, so that he would no longer have the possibility of gaining a foothold in Jiangnan. In this way, the problem would naturally no longer exist if the person who raised the problem was solved.

As Xu Cang analyzed, perhaps at the beginning, they did not dare to impeach with great fanfare. After all, everyone knew that this matter was approved by the emperor, and there were also several big men in the Political Affairs Hall nodding, and even the imperial edict had been issued.

However, with the series of changes after the mid-twelfth lunar month, things underwent a fundamental change. The root cause lies in the spread of civil news and the sudden efforts of many censors from both Huaihe Rivers in those days! Although their impeachment was quickly returned, they were not discouraged at all. They impeached one after another, and then led to the actions of the officials of Jiangnan who had their own interests.

"So in my opinion, the key to this matter lies in why the officials of the two Huai Rivers suddenly took action. I'm afraid they had a grudge with Governor Wen and used this as an opportunity to kill him..."

After reading the final content, Li Ling finally understood the whole story. At the same time, his heart was even more upset, both anger and ashamed, and many emotions were intertwined, making him not know how to express it.

So that's it. It turns out that the root of all this lies in myself.

Needless to say, the sudden action of the officials of Lianghuai must be related to their helping the Cao Gang to escape, which was a fierce offense. Then, without knowing who was planning, they actually pointed their finger at Governor Wen. After all, the straw that finally overwhelmed Camel, and the memorial to impeach Governor Wen came from Wen Ming's work.
Chapter completed!