Xu Jie's hatred was boiling. He no longer cared about too much. The insult sounds mixed with Songjiang dialect gushed out, without the demeanor and honor of the prime minister of the dynasty.

But after Xu Jie closed his mouth with dry tongue, he was surprised to see that Zhang Juzheng knelt on both knees and kowtowed three times.

"Since the 34th year of Jiajing, I was promoted by my father-in-law, and my son-in-law was promoted to the Zhan Shi Mansion, the Prince Yu Mansion, and was promoted to the Imperial College..."

"The son-in-law is not an ungrateful person, and he is even more unwilling to lose his reputation because of it..."

"But the situation is like this, the second son was convicted and the embezzled land was cleared and the father-in-law and the Xu family in Huating could be preserved."

Although he was kneeling on the ground and talking, every word Zhang Juzheng was touching.

Xu Jie knew that there was no doubt that this was the condition that Qian Yuan and Gao Gong had discussed.

Qian Yuan didn't care. The bones of Xu Jie, the poisonous snake, had been shaken, and he was about to be the governor of Yingtian. Huating Xu's life and death were all in his own hands.

But Gao Gong clearly pointed out that it should not be regarded as a national law because of personal grudges.

After a long period of silence, Xu Jie spoke dryly, "How to convict?"

"Corruption, beating and injuring the people, robbing houses, and exiling to the frontier."

Xu Jie's face became paler, which was a condition he could not accept. He got out of shame. Although he must have retired because of his old age, there were many locals in Songjiang in Suiyuan, and the gentry in the hometown could easily find out the inside story. After all, it was public that he had fought with Suiyuan for several years.

In this way, he lost all his power and lost face. In addition, his eldest son and second son were all exiled. Xu Jie's house only had his youngest son who was less than eight years old and his twelve-year-old grandson... Not to mention anything else, even within the Xu family, Xu Jie was afraid that he could not speak.

Just think about it and you will know that if you clear out so many embezzled land, you have to hand over so many slaves or even in-laws to punish you. Where can you not complain about the other four families of the Xu family? How can you not hate Xu Jie?

After decades of ups and downs in the officialdom, he finally ended up in such a situation... How could Xu Jie be willing? He spoke in a trembling voice, "What if he refuses?"

Zhang Juzheng was silent for a while, took out a letter from his sleeve, stepped forward a few steps on the table, took a few steps back, and stood silent.

Xu Jie squinted his eyes and looked at Zhang Juzheng before he opened the envelope. His face changed drastically because this letter was written by Xu Jie, a secret letter he wrote to Lan Daoxing back then.

No need to think about it, Xu Jie knew that this must be Qian Yuan's method.

Last year, Xu Jiemi sent someone to hang Lan Daoxing and his two apprentices, but when he left Xiyuan the next day, he sent someone to search Lan Daoxing's house in Beijing, and he gained nothing.

That night, Qian Yuan killed Feng Bao. When Xu Jie blamed him for this, Qian Yuan used a laughing tone to say that the three Taoist priests hanged their beams and forced them to retreat... Needless to say, it was only Qian Yuan. Moreover, when Qian Yuan controlled Xiyuan that night, he could not get in and out of his personal order.

Xu Jie gritted his teeth and saw the end. When he saw the four words "Shuanglin Available", the last glimmer of hope in his heart disappeared.

This letter is a secret letter. People who don’t know the inside story cannot understand it. It contains Chinese characters and numbers on it. It must be translated according to certain rules and books... This is a change caused by Qian Yuan’s time-traveling butterfly. He first entered Beijing and lived at Zhang Juzheng’s house, so he talked about it with him.

There are great restrictions on the translation of such secret letters. After all, in this era, there were not many publicly published books with a large number of words. Qian Yuan was unable to move the books in Xu Jie's study room to check, but ordered people to record all the books in Lan Daoxing's study room... After more than a year, he slowly tried one by one, and Qian Yuan had already found them before going south.

In fact, Qian Yuan only had three letters in his hand, two of which were not very meaningful, only this one was interesting... "Shuanglin can be used", Shuanglin was the title of Feng Bao, the eunuch of the former Silijian, and was also a key figure who was attracted by Xu Jie during the Xiyuan Incident.

I threw a letter, this is Qian Yuan’s invisible threat. If you are not honest and obedient, do I believe it or not, I will get out the Xiyuan Incident last year?!

Last year in Xiyuan, Emperor Longqing barely left Xu Jie, the chief minister of the cabinet. Even though Xu Jie planned a will... this kind of thing should be the responsibility of the chief minister of the cabinet, and people never thought of letting King Jing take the throne.

But if Qian Yuan asked someone to reveal it, that night, the Taoist priest Lan Daoxing, who was most trusted, had a secret understanding of Feng Bao. Then Emperor Jiajing died, and then... Feng Bao and Lan Daoxing both died mysteriously in the West Garden.

There are not many people who know that Lan Daoxing was recommended by Xu Jie to Emperor Jiajing, but there are not none.

Do Xu Jie dare to bet on these?

Of course I don't dare.

Although Xu Jie knew that he did not have any words that went beyond his reach in several secret letters to Lan Daoxing, he had to spy on the lifespan of the monarch and even encouraged Lan Daoxing to refine alchemy... Such things were revealed, let alone Xu Fan and Xu Ying, Xu Jie would have to be unable to protect himself.

Zhang Juzheng looked up at Xu Jie's unpredictable expression, thinking in his heart what handle Qian Yuan had held Xu Jie... Uh, did he have a handle falling into this guy's hands?

"It is said that Qian Zhan is good at ambushing, and uncle still has to learn from him." Xu Jie sighed softly, no longer had the hatred he had before, "The city of Southeast Jing is full of ambush, which makes people unable to defend themselves. I really don't know who I learned from..."

Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but nodded in agreement. He thought about the things before, and felt a little cold. Not to mention Wang Bengu, Wang Yizhi's affairs, Zeng Xian's family had three hundred giant trees before, and the one who made Zhang Juzheng feel the most cold was Hu Yingjia.

With Hu Yingjia, wouldn’t there be Zhao Yingjia and Zhang Yingjia?

Zhang Juzheng guessed in his heart what else was there, and who were the foreshadowings laid by Qian Yuan... What else was there under the water?

"Xu Fan and Xu Ying were convicted and exiled, and all the land was given to the public will be cleared. The lawsuit for life will be judged by Songjiang Prefecture, but the Xu clan members must not be involved." Xu Jie said slowly one by one: "I just want to go back to my hometown to enjoy my old age..."

Zhang Juzheng made a direct promise or semi-compulsory change of words, and it lasted for more than half an hour before he came to an end.

During this period, Zhang Juzheng was very tactful and resolutely refused to take over Xu Jie's power... Well, on the one hand, he was afraid of arousing Gao Gong's rejection and vigilance. On the other hand, Xu Jie didn't know, but Zhang Juzheng knew that Xu Jie's reputation was already bad now.

At the end, Xu Jie sighed and said, "Forget it, forgot, uncle, now there is only one last thing left."

"Please give instructions from my father-in-law."
Chapter completed!