Chapter 1168 The goal is to seize the throne!

As Qiqige finished speaking, An Miaoyi's beautiful eyes couldn't help but flash with a piercing cold light...
A few days ago, Gu Sansi, who was known as Ye Mingsheng's most trusted and important minister, was not only dismissed from his post as the Minister of Personnel because of the "file case", but was also demoted three levels from the second rank to the third rank!
This incident caused a huge uproar in the Yijing court. Although Ye Mingsheng had dealt with Lin Huaiwu, Liu Zhengyue, Gu Shouting, Gu Zhongshi, Sun Jingan and other high-ranking officials of the Fengwu Army with an iron fist before, these people were still dwarfed by Gu Sansi's status and position in the court!

In addition, compared to these people, Gu Sansi was not the main culprit in the incident, he seemed more like someone who was implicated!
Therefore, before Ye Mingsheng made the punishment decision, many people in the court believed that, considering many factors, the Marshal would most likely use a light punishment and a severe warning, raising the stick high and then putting it down lightly, and the final result would most likely be a salary deduction!

However, no one expected that the Marshal would be so heartless. Not only did he directly dismiss Gu Sansi from his position as Minister of Personnel, he also demoted him three levels. Although in the end Gu Sansi was still allowed to temporarily take charge of the Ministry of Personnel to see the results, the severity of such punishment was far beyond everyone's expectations!
The punishment of Gu Sansi had a profound impact on the Yijing court. It also made some people give up some unrealistic ideas and understand Ye Mingsheng's determination and will to govern strictly!

After all, with Gu Sansi’s status and position in the court, even though he made a mistake, the Marshal did not show any leniency and issued such a severe punishment. So once they make a mistake, the consequences can be imagined...

Therefore, this is also to warn some people in the Yijing court who think that they have made contributions to the court and shed blood, and regard themselves as meritorious officials to seek special benefits and special treatments, and disregard the laws of the court, so that they dare not act rashly!

Because of this incident, it was inevitable that news spread in the court that Gu Sansi had fallen out of favor. This also caused some people who had previously tried to please Gu Sansi and get close to him to stop their actions. What's worse, some people have already started to prepare for the future and started to keep their distance from Gu Sansi or even cut ties with him!

Some people hold different views on this. They believe that life has ups and downs. Although Gu Sansi suffered a big setback in this matter, the emperor still favors him and his current predicament is only temporary. Adding icing on the cake is far inferior to providing timely assistance. So these people want to take advantage of Gu Sansi's predicament now. They want to "buy at the bottom" and show their goodwill to Gu Sansi!
However, Gu Sansi, who was at the center of the storm, ignored both those who wanted to break off ties with him and those who wanted to show goodwill to him. He simply chose to close the door and refuse to see anyone!
Gu Sansi can refuse visitors behind closed doors, but some people cannot do that!

This case not only led to Gu Sansi being punished, but also all the people involved in it were punished. First of all, the mastermind Wang Qi, Gu Tao, Chen Hui and others. Ye Mingsheng ordered all of them to be handed over to the Ministry of Justice for trial, and they would be punished severely and with no leniency!

In addition to these people, Wang Chunlai, the former Liaoyang Anchashi and now newly promoted Liaoyang Governor, was also implicated and was dismissed by Ye Mingsheng and demoted to a commoner and returned home to reflect on his actions...
In fact, at the beginning Ye Mingsheng not only planned to dismiss Wang Chunlai from his post and demote him to a commoner, but also planned to put Wang Chunlai in prison for a joint trial by the three courts!
After all, both cases occurred in Liaoyang, so Wang Chunlai, who previously served as the Liaoyang Censor, must take responsibility for this!

But later, Ye Mingsheng took into consideration that although Wang Chunlai had made mistakes, he had worked diligently in Liaoyang over the years, and overall his merits outweighed his faults, so Ye Mingsheng showed mercy and gave him a break, only demoting him to a commoner.

After Wang Chunlai was dismissed, the position of Liaoyang governor became vacant. The most popular candidate at that time was the current Liaoyang deputy governor, old Jin Zaicheng, who had a lot of experience in the Fengwu Army!
However, Ye Mingsheng felt that although Jin Zaicheng was loyal, his ability was so mediocre that he was not qualified for the position of governor. He promoted him to deputy governor because he was loyal and qualified, so he promoted him reluctantly to allow him to retire.

Therefore, Lao Jin was directly ignored by Ye Mingsheng, and he began to study possible candidates for Liaoyang Governor other than him. It happened that Zhao Wanxian recommended Wang Qinghe, the former Liaoyang Governor's Councillor, to Ye Mingsheng.
Because Wang Qinghe had performed very well in all the previous assessments by the Ministry of Personnel and had a very good reputation among the officials and the people in Liaoyang, and with Zhao Wanxian’s strong recommendation this time, Ye Mingsheng originally planned to promote him to the position of deputy governor...
But now that the file case broke out, Wang Chunlai was dismissed, and Ye Mingsheng was unwilling to promote Lao Jin to the position of governor. Taking all these factors into consideration, Ye Mingsheng thought about it and boldly promoted Wang Qinghe to the position of governor of Liaoyang to see how capable this man of great talent that Zhao Wanxian mentioned is!
Because the case file had little to do with herself, An Miaoyi's attitude towards it was basically indifferent. She did not make any small moves in Ye Mingsheng's series of personnel appointments and dismissals, nor did she try to exert any political influence!
But an accidental discovery gave An Miaoyi an opportunity to control Gu Sansi!

Although Gu Sansi did not deliberately take care of the Jiubao Business owned by Chen Wanting's brother Chen Hui, Chen Hui and Jiubao Business still established business connections with many businesses in recent years relying on Gu Sansi's influence. This kind of business connection allowed Chen Hui and Jiubao Business to earn a lot of money!

But this time, after Chen Hui and Jiubao Company had severely cheated Gu Sansi, they were also investigated for their past illegal activities. Many people, including the owner Chen Hui and the shopkeeper Li He, were sent to jail, and the company was completely shut down.

After Jiubao Company came to a standstill, the previous business contacts with other companies could no longer be carried out normally, so these people found the Chen family and asked for the return of the money. Because the other parties were all powerful figures, the Chen family did not dare to offend them, and had no choice but to return the money to them...
However, the Chen family did not have much cash, and after a few repayments, the cash was basically gone. Therefore, they were overwhelmed when facing the creditors' demands. At this time, some people set their eyes on the Chen family's property and wanted to buy the Chen family's shares in other businesses, as well as some properties such as shops, at a low price!
Naturally, the Chen family did not want their property to be purchased at a low price, but faced with the creditors' collection, they were caught in a dilemma!
The Chen family had no choice but to find Chen Wanting, hoping that Gu Sansi could come forward to solve the problem. If it were any other time, it would only take a few words from Gu Sansi!
But now Gu Sansi had just been exiled, and it was time for him to behave himself, so he was unwilling to come forward. He just mortgaged the silver and some property in his hands to the pawnshop, and collected about 30,000 taels of silver and gave it to the Chen family, hoping to help the Chen family solve their urgent needs!
Although Gu Sansi has done his best, the more than 30,000 taels of silver cannot completely solve the Chen family's debt problem. Therefore, the Chen family still places their hopes on Gu Sansi, hoping that their daughter Chen Wanting will have a good talk with Gu Sansi. They firmly believe that as long as Gu Sansi is willing to speak, the problem will be solved immediately and they will be able to survive!

Because Chen Wanting and Gu Sansi have a very good relationship, and Chen Wanting is pregnant recently, so this matter makes Gu Sansi a little unsure about what to do·················

Gu Sansi, who was very careful about his reputation, was really unwilling to speak up for the Chen family, but because of Chen Wanting, he had to help the Chen family!
But he didn't have that much silver, so he could only continue to pawn the property awarded to him by Ye Mingsheng to the bank in exchange for cash. However, Gu Sansi was also a bit proud and didn't want others to know about his predicament, so he asked his servants to secretly take the property to several pawnshops to pawn it!
Even though the gold, silver, jewelry, collectibles, calligraphy and paintings that Ye Mingsheng rewarded him with were all valuable, the pawnshops were more unscrupulous than each other, so not much silver was pledged, which made Gu Sansi very helpless!

After An Miaoyi noticed this situation, she immediately prepared 80,000 taels of silver through some channels to help Gu Sansi solve this trouble!
Although An Miaoyi was prepared to help Gu Sansi solve this problem, she did not want to simply help Gu Sansi. She planned to use this incident to control Gu Sansi!
An Miaoyi has always had complicated thoughts about Gu Sansi. On the one hand, she knows that Gu Sansi is Ye Mingsheng's trusted minister and the pillar of the Yijing court, and he is also the teacher of her son Jingren. With this teacher-student relationship, Gu Sansi's identity as "Crown Prince D" in the future is almost confirmed!

But on the other hand, although he is Jingren's teacher, for various reasons, Gu Sansi has always turned a blind eye to An Miaoyi's attempts to win him over, and deliberately keeps a distance from An Miaoyi and others·························
This made An Miaoyi very unhappy, and she even thought of replacing Teacher Jingren with the Minister of Justice Li Jian!
Although An Miaoyi later recognized the reality and gave up some unrealistic ideas, the idea of ​​​​pressing and controlling Gu Sansi has always existed in An Miaoyi's mind. However, Gu Sansi has never had any handle, so An Miaoyi has never put the idea of ​​​​pressing and pressing Gu Sansi into practice! Therefore, now that she finally has this opportunity, An Miaoyi also intends to make good use of it. On the one hand, she also uses some relationships to let the creditors of the Chen family put more pressure on the Chen family. At the same time, when Gu Sansi was teaching Jingren yesterday, she also hinted to Gu Sansi indirectly!
An Miaoyi was originally waiting for Gu Sansi to ask her for this, and then she would lend him the money and take the opportunity to blackmail Gu Sansi!
But she never expected that the Bai family would intercept her at this juncture!

An Miaoyi was also very angry when she thought of this, but to be cautious, she still asked Qiqige in a deep voice:
"Are you sure it's the Bai family?"

Qiqige nodded with certainty and said:
“Although Bai Wanhao acted cautiously and did not lend the money directly to the Chen family, but used Shiwu’s Q Village to lend the money to the Chen family, this situation was still noticed by our people. It was confirmed that it was undoubtedly the Bai family’s money…”

After hearing this, An Miaoyi laughed in anger:
"I've heard that the Bai family is a wealthy family. Today, I see that they are truly extraordinary. This old man Bai is really bold. He lent me 50,000 taels of silver without hesitation. He is really amazing!"

Feeling the anger in An Miaoyi's words, Qi Qige asked in a low voice:
"Ma'am, do you think we should continue?"

An Miaoyi said coldly:

"With these fifty thousand taels plus the silver obtained from Gu Sansi's mortgage, the Chen family's debt is basically settled. There is no need to continue!"

"Yes!"

After listening to Qiqige's reply, An Miaoyi hesitated for a moment and ordered:

"How is the preparation of the materials for the Bai family going?"

Qiqige said without hesitation:
"We are ready. Our people have also infiltrated the Bai family's business. We are just waiting for your order, Madam, to start the operation!"

An Miaoyi heard this and ordered in a deep voice:
“Since the Bai family has crossed the line, they must accept the punishment. They must understand that some things cannot be settled with money…”

"Madam, I will take care of everything! Just wait and see!"

An Miaoyi nodded slightly, then leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes to rest. Even though Bai Yuanyuan kept getting closer to her, trying to show that she was harmless by following her lead, her little thoughts could not be hidden from An Miaoyi's eyes!
An Miaoyi had long known that Bai Yuanyuan and the Bai family had evil intentions, but for some political reasons An Miaoyi always pretended not to know, ignoring some of Bai Yuanyuan's little actions and maintaining a superficial sisterly relationship with Bai Yuanyuan!
But this time, the Bai family's actions really angered An Miaoyi. As for the situation of the Chen family, everyone knows that the money borrowed is basically wasted, and it is very difficult to get it back. If that's the case, why is the Bai family still willing to lend?

Is it that Bai Wanhao, the head of the Bai family, has a big head and is worried about the excessive amount of money at home?

The answer is of course not. Bai Wanhao can be said to have made an indispensable contribution to the development of the Bai family to its current prosperous state. Although the Bai family has many industries, most of them are fixed assets, and they do not have much cash on hand!
But even so, Bai Wanhao was still willing to take out 50,000 taels of silver to destroy the Chen family. There was only one reason for this!
That is, the real purpose is not to drink, but to win over Gu Sansi!
And what is the purpose of winning over Gu Sansi?
There is no doubt that it is all for the purpose of seizing the throne!

(End of this chapter)