The queen is crazy and spoiled, and the tyrant bows to her

Chapter 460 True and False Jiang Zhixu

Before Wang Fuhai finished his first sentence, he saw Ji Wuyuan frowning.

However, he could only bite the bullet and continue: "After those two left, the Queen went directly to the water dungeon and has not come out yet..."

Wang Fuhai saw Ji Wuyuan's face darkening little by little. As soon as he finished the last sentence, Ji Wuyuan stood up.

Upon seeing this, the ministers who were arguing in the hall were so frightened that they knelt down in a huge crowd.

The originally noisy hall suddenly became silent, and everyone was so scared that they dared not breathe.

However, Ji Wuyuan didn't even look at them, and walked straight out of the hall.

Wang Fuhai didn't dare delay and hurriedly followed. When he reached the center of the hall, he realized what was going on and shouted at the top of his voice, "Dismiss the court!"

As soon as Ji Wuyuan walked out of the Golden Dragon Palace, Xie Zhiyan followed him out: "Your Majesty!"

Ji Wuyuan paused, the hem of his ink-black robe embroidered with gold dragons fluttering in the cold wind.

Xie Zhiyan stepped forward, bowed, and said, "Your Majesty, I have something important to discuss..."

He paused and lowered his voice deliberately: "The Dali Temple just received a secret report today about Jiang Zhixu."

Ji Wuyuan turned around after hearing this and looking at Xie Zhiyan's cold expression, he knew that the matter was probably not simple.

But thinking of Jiang Wantang in the water dungeon, he hesitated for a moment, and at this time the leader of the secret guards Fei Yu suddenly appeared in a hurry.

He hurriedly walked to Ji Wuyuan, knelt on one knee, and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, I have something important to report. It concerns the Queen, and the situation is urgent."

Ji Wuyuan looked at the two of them, his dark eyes gradually turning red...

Afterwards, he said in a deep voice: "Go to the Imperial Study."

After saying that, Ji Wuyuan turned around and walked towards the imperial study.

Xie Zhiyan and Feiyu followed closely behind.

In the imperial study room.

Ji Wuyuan stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes deeply gazing at Xie Zhiyan and Feiyu in the hall. His narrow phoenix eyes narrowed slightly: "You mean... the current Jiang Zhixu might be fake?"

Xie Zhiyan looked solemn and nodded slightly.

Fei Yu presented a secret letter with both hands and continued, "Previously, according to His Majesty's instructions, we sent people to re-investigate Jiang Zhixu's past life experience."

"Although Jiang Zhixu came from a humble family, he possessed remarkable literary talent, courage, and strategy. He placed second in the imperial examination, but due to his handsome appearance, he was awarded the third place. In the Golden Dragon Hall, he engaged in a debate with civil and military officials. He was a son of an aristocratic family, acting neither servile nor overbearing, earning the emperor's admiration. Within a few short years, he rose to the highest position in the government, becoming the prime minister."

"Not only that, he also keeps himself clean and never steps into places of pleasure. He can be considered a truly upright and noble gentleman."

"He was completely different from the treacherous official who later enriched himself, made private transactions, formed cliques for personal gain, and was cunning and treacherous."

"However, Jiang Zhixu has already destroyed his past reputation bit by bit over the years, and his image as a shrewd, hypocritical and treacherous minister has gradually become ingrained in people's minds."

"also......"

Feiyu told Jiang Zhixu about his past that he had investigated.

No one knew what Ji Wuyuan was thinking. His eyes were floating and sinking, as if there was an undercurrent surging, but it returned to silence in an instant.

Seeing this, Fei Yu continued, "This person has been hiding very deeply for many years. In my opinion, he was able to succeed because he must be someone close to Jiang Zhixu and someone he trusts, so he can make him completely defenseless."

"However, Jiang Zhixu's parents died early, his family has dwindled, and he rarely interacts with his relatives..."

Ji Wuyuan looked at Xie Zhiyan, his eyes as deep as a cold pond, filled with a dark color that could not be dissolved: "Tell me what you think."

Xie Zhiyan's eyes were extremely deep and complicated at this moment.

Rather than the cruel truth, he would rather believe that he had misjudged it.

But it is not black and white, black is black.

After a brief silence, Xie Zhiyan said directly and concisely: "Commander Fei is right."

"Seventeen years ago, Jiang Zhixu went on a tour south and brought back a man. That man was his cousin, Wu Decai. He passed the imperial examination at the age of twenty. He was a relative and friend, and the young man the clan most favored and considered to have great potential."

"But this man is extremely conceited, and his family are all extremely vain and hypocritical. After he passed the imperial examination, they even announced to the entire county with gongs and drums that their family had produced its first juren. The entire family held a grand banquet for him, celebrating for three consecutive days, and everyone fawned over him."

"What they don't know is that in the same year's provincial examination, Wu Decai was the last to pass, while Jiang Zhixu, a poor scholar who was not favored by everyone, passed the exam first at the age of fifteen. However, his mother had passed away at that time, so no one knew about his success, and no one from his family or friends cared about him."

"Jiang Zhixu traveled alone to send his deceased mother back to her homeland and observed mourning for her for three years."

"After the three-year mourning period was over, Jiang Zhixu went to the capital to take the imperial examinations, and he rose from first place in the joint examination to the top three in the palace examination."

"Wu Decai has repeatedly failed the imperial examinations over the past three years and has remained stuck at the Juren level."

"Not only that, during those years, he relied on his status as a juren (a successful candidate in a juren exam) to consider himself a talented scholar, boasting everywhere that he would become a high-ranking official in the future. He even used this boasted reputation to marry the only daughter of a wealthy businessman in the local county."

"However, Wu Decai is a man of deep scheming and calculation. He pretends to be a gentle gentleman in front of others. Before marrying the wealthy businessman's daughter, I'm afraid he had already set his sights on the wealthy businessman's money and volunteered to marry into his family."

"Less than a year after their marriage, the wealthy merchant's family was tragically killed while transporting goods, leaving behind only their daughter and her husband. From then on, the family's vast fortune fell into Wu Decai's hands."

"Then his true nature gradually became apparent. He spent his days hanging out with a group of wealthy young men, living a life of debauchery, indulging in women, and squandering his money recklessly..."

"Wu Decai was a scheming and calculating man, but he lacked real talent. Within two years, he had squandered all the silk and satin shops, salt stores, and pawnshops left by his father-in-law, and began to spend more than he earned."

"But he is still conceited, vain, and concerned about appearances. He relies on his wife's needlework for a living, but he still wants to indulge in revelry and feasting every day and keep a concubine who is also a top courtesan."

"He ended up owing a lot of foreign debts and sold his wife to a brothel to pay off the debts. He was despised by everyone in the local area. When the creditors came to chase him, Wu Decai fled and hid away."

"When he was at his lowest point, he met the famous Jiang Zhixu who was on a tour of inspection in the south. The latter, out of kinship, took him back to the capital and found him a job to survive."

"However, Wu Decai is a lazy and greedy person with high expectations but poor skills. He is also extremely jealous. He has been using Jiang Zhixu's power to bully others and bully the weak for his own benefit."

"After being discovered by Jiang Zhixu, it was said that he was driven out of the capital, and no further trace of him has been found since then."

After hearing this, several people still had something to understand.

Wu Decai at the beginning and Jiang Zhixu later were exactly the same...