The Long River 天下长河 Episode 39

Xu Qianxue was ordered to seize the family property of Jin Fu and Chen Huang. The two had been officials for decades, and the total amount of their property was less than five taels of silver, which is unbelievable. For these years, Chen Huang has been busy with river governance and has not married. He has always lived in Jin Fu's house. The whole family relies on Guarjia's textiles to subsidize the family. .

At first Xu Qianxue insisted that Jin Fu was corrupt and accepted bribes, but now he has realized his mistake and should not have listened to rumors and wronged Zhongliang. Kangxi looked at Xu Qianxue meaningfully, reassuring himself that he had done nothing wrong, and urged Xu Qianxue to be an official. Unlike Jin Fu and Chen Huang, this kind of concept of putting the people first is the wrong future.

Because Xu Qianxue's investigation of the Yutian case is gaining momentum, Yisang'a and others are afraid of harming themselves, but Suo'etu doesn't care at all, he knows that the prince is the lifeblood of the emperor. Hearing that Yu Zhenjia was going to take over as governor of the river, Suo'etu convened his confidants to discuss countermeasures. If he did well, he would be rich and prosperous, otherwise he would be ruined.

Kangxi reused the new ministers Tong Guowei and Zhang Tingyu, and before promoting them to the cabinet to learn to walk, he warned them not to follow the example of party struggle, and only the emperor is the biggest backer. Tong Guowei and Zhang Tingyu were taught to thank each other. Kangxi watched the two leave with a lot of emotion in his heart.

Originally, Xu Qianxue interrogated Chen Huang, hoping that he could personally identify Mingzhu's crime. However, Chen Huang refused to admit it, and mocked Xu Qianxue as a court official who was a slave, without any backbone, and bluntly said that he would cut off his robes. Xu Qianxue had no choice but to order someone to torture Chen Huang, but he couldn't bear it after all when he heard the sound of whipping.

Kangxi ordered the demolition of all dams, and the years of hard work of Jin Fu and Chen Huang were ruined. When Jin Fu learned about it, he forced his sick body to go out, and with the support of Uncle Guo He and the Guerjia family, he stopped Suo'etu in the heavy snow and begged him to come forward to stop this matter. Break through within the year.

Suo'etu didn't take Jin Fu's reminder to heart at all, and even felt that even if he broke up within two years, it could only prove that Jin Fu and Chen Huang were correct and wise, and that the emperor's wrong decision was all to blame for the casualties of the people. Because of this, Jin Fu could only watch Suo'etu leave in a sedan chair, and fell unconscious on the ground out of breath.

After returning to the Prison Temple, Chen Huang took the ashes from the burning pot and carefully scraped off the black powder for writing. After finishing these tasks, he fell asleep on the bed, and woke up again to find a strange jailer washing his feet. It turns out that the jailer is from Luoma Lake. He has already heard about Chen Huang's deeds of harnessing the river and protecting the homes of many people, and he firmly believes that he is innocent.

On the next day, Xu Qianxue found Chen Huang alone, saying that as long as Chen Huang obeyed Suo'etu's wishes, he could not only save his life, but also return to his post. Chen Huang is upright and upright, disdains such shameless acts, and resolutely refuses to frame Mingzhu, which makes Xu Qianxue helpless. Before leaving, he tells him that there are many unjust, false and wrong cases in the world, and it does not mean that all murderers can be punished.

It has been more than half a year since Chen Huang entered the Prison Temple. He knew that he would never get out alive, so he wrote a letter for the jailer to hand over to Jin Fu. At this time, Jin Fu was guarding the door of Suo Xiangfu with a cane until Suo Xiang returned from going out, threatening that he was Suo'etu's henchman and that he would hang himself on the spot.

Suo'etu really had no choice but to promise that from now on, he would never let Xu Qianxue trouble Chen Huang again. Although Jin Fu did not insist on seeing Chen Huang, he angrily reprimanded Suo'etu for wanting to engage in party struggles, and Chen Huang should not be involved. But it happened that the emperor insisted on intervening, Suo'etu warned Jin Fu that those who know current affairs are heroes, and those who don't know current affairs may become ghosts.

Gao Shiqi made a fuss against Xu Qianxue, forcing him to take him to visit Chen Huang. The two came to the Prison Temple with fine wine in their hands, and looked at the paintings of the Yellow River on the four walls, with text annotations. They were shocked and admired. Gao Shiqi repeatedly praised Chen Huang for his unastonishing appearance and great ambition, even Xu Qianxue was dumbfounded, looking at Chen Huang and the murals, full of envy, appreciation, and longing for dreams.

It's a pity that the imperial court reused idiots and traitors to let down geniuses like Chen Huang. Gao Shiqi fought for him, and even quarreled with Xu Qianxue endlessly until Chen Huang opened his mouth. The three sat cross-legged and drank wine, as if returning to the old days, Chen Huang lay down on the broken and cold bed while drunk, Gao Shiqi and Xu Qianxue felt extremely sad when they saw this. Just like what Xu Qianxue said, how could there be a way for Chen Huang to survive in the world if there were treacherous men like them?