PFC Chapter 443 It's time for someone else to sit on that dragon throne.
Chapter 443 It's time for someone else to sit on that dragon throne.
The first to arrive at the paper craft shop was the third senior sister, Xia Liqian.
Upon meeting her, Qin Miaoxi couldn't wait to share her major discovery: "Senior Sister, do you know that Princess Xinglan was poisoned and that person wants to seize military power?"
Xia Liqian looked at her with a complicated expression, remaining silent.
Qin Miaoxi grew anxious under his gaze. "Senior sister, say something! What is that person trying to seize power for? He's definitely not doing anything good. We must investigate this thoroughly to prevent the people from suffering."
Are you genuinely unaware or feigning ignorance?
What do I need to know?
"He's targeting us!" Xia Liqian couldn't help but tap her forehead, saying irritably, "Weren't you the one who found out about those reports first?"
"What?"
Qin Miaoxi was completely bewildered. After spinning around, she realized that the clown was actually herself.
But her doubts still made her blurt out, "Why is he targeting us?"
“Naturally, he will have sole control of the government.” Xia Liqian rolled her eyes, looking hopeless. Her silly junior sister had absolutely no political sense.
Qin Miaoxi was so engrossed in watching that even when the beauty rolled her eyes, she was still elegant and charming. No wonder she was her senior sister.
Looking at her silly and silly appearance, Xia Liqian was completely at a loss for words. What should she do? She was her junior sister, so she had to spoil her!
"Come back to your senses!"
"Ahem! Senior sister, I still don't understand. Isn't he in complete control of the government now? There's no regent, so the court is basically his personal fiefdom. What business is it of ours?"
"Are you sure? Don't forget that we have the power to depose the emperor and install a new one. It's like a sword hanging over his neck. Which emperor could accept that? Besides... that one isn't very magnanimous."
Qin Miaoxi couldn't help but chirp, "But he accepted it quite well for the first few decades!"
He completely ignored the fact that he had recently threatened this petty emperor with the throne.
Xia Liqian glared at her fiercely, and that finally shut her up.
As they were talking, the eldest senior brother Fu Yifan and the second senior brother Xie Baiyan also arrived.
"Junior Sister, what important matter brings you here today?"
Qin Miaoxi looked at them with delight and said, "Senior brothers, it's great that you've come. We should have prepared ourselves if that person was going to attack us."
"Don't worry, we have made full preparations."
! !
Such a pleasant surprise?
She exclaimed in disbelief, "So you all knew, but I was kept in the dark?"
"You do not know?"
Qin Miaoxi was speechless. Should she even know that?
"What else do you know? Tell me now."
The three exchanged a glance and then shared the clues they had uncovered over the past few days.
The more Qin Miaoxi listened, the less she could keep her lips from clenching. They had been investigating Sheng Mingyuan, a third-rank censor, and recently, the village chief had robbed government silver twenty years ago. Unbeknownst to her, he was involved in several cases she had come across.
Fu Yifan sat up straight and said, "The official silver you found was not sent to the Cold Palace. That was just a cover. The real money all ended up in that person's hands."
They had executed several corrupt officials south of the Yangtze River who had plundered the people's wealth, and found letters in their residences indicating that they were acting under his orders, with large amounts of gold and silver being secretly sent to his private treasury every year.
Meanwhile, 50,000 elite troops are hidden in the Gobi Desert in the northwest. With a single order, they can be surrounded and attacked by the Imperial Guards of the capital, and wiped out in one fell swoop.
Goodness, after doing so much behind the scenes, are they planning something big all at once?
"Senior brother, now that you've found out, why don't you expose him and confront him face to face?"
The three shook their heads helplessly. "Is that the kind of person who can be persuaded to put aside his prejudices with just a few words of advice? If we make things clear, he'll only act recklessly. Who will suffer then?"
“But if you eliminate one corrupt official, he will just support another, and the people will only be exploited even more.”
"So we're going to switch seats to someone else."
Qin Miaoxi's eyes lit up; this was indeed a big event.
She had long since reached her limit with that person. Instead of governing the country well, he was quite adept at instigating internal strife. He was truly a bully at home!
"Is there anyone suitable?"
The three men remained silent, their expressions melancholy revealing their disdain for any of the royal family members. The eldest prince was fickle and easily swayed; while they were present, he could guide the prince, but if treacherous officials surrounded him, he would likely become subservient and manipulated. The second prince was frail and sickly; even reviewing memorials exhausted him, let alone handling state affairs. Even if he ascended to the throne, he wouldn't live long. The fourth prince was even worse than their brother-in-law; it was feared that once he held power, he would become even more indulgent in pleasure and neglect state affairs.
Choosing anyone is a challenge, and after their term, the Four Guards will retire and no longer need to participate in state affairs, which is why it is necessary to choose a suitable successor.
Xia Liqian instructed everyone, "Now is a critical moment. Everyone should be careful in their actions and not give that person any leverage."
As she was speaking, she suddenly changed the subject and stared at Qin Miaoxi, "Especially your junior sister, your dealings with the Dali Temple make you the easiest target for suspicion."
Qin Miaoxi awkwardly looked away, "I don't need it."
Three pairs of eyes stared intently at her. "You've come clean?"
"Of course not, he exposed me, I didn't say anything."
Xie Baiyan muttered to himself, "So he knows you are Xuanwu, does that mean he also knows our true identities?"
"It's pretty much a done deal. The fact that he was able to confront his junior sister means he already has enough leverage to fight against us."
Worry flashed across the faces of the three men simultaneously. It was easy to bring Emperor Meiji down, but difficult to do it without causing him any harm. The worst thing was that he would resort to desperate measures.
"Would this help?" Qin Miaoxi placed an object on the table.
The three were shocked. "How did you get this?"
Qin Miaoxi smiled shyly, "Because I'm kind!"
Three people: "..."
"Make sure everything is settled at home recently, and whatever you do, make sure nothing goes wrong at this time."
As soon as he finished speaking, an unnatural look flashed across the faces of both junior sisters.
Fu Yifan gazed at the two of them, fully aware of his third junior sister's difficult situation. Her mother-in-law, from the Jiang family, had always treated her with disdain, and even though she had given birth to the Jiang family's eldest grandson, the mother-in-law still made things difficult for her in every way. Recently, he had even heard that her mother-in-law had specially brought her niece from Jiangnan, intending to give her to Young Master Jiang as a concubine, all to embarrass his third junior sister.
But what about Junior Sister? The young marquis's affection for her was obvious, and he doted on her in every way. Although Junior Sister seemed to be the same as usual, she wasn't in high spirits.
He asked cautiously, "Junior Sister, where's your husband?"
Qin Miaoxi was taken aback, then lowered her eyes and remained silent.
The three exchanged a glance, their expressions revealing an expression of "I knew it."
"It's just an argument! Come on, your senior brother will stand up for you."
Qin Miaoxi shrank her neck, "I...I got divorced."
In an instant, the air became eerily quiet.