She took out a letter wrapped in cowhide from her arms and handed it to Jiang Chengjia.

"There is a letter from Mr. Lu who asked someone to send out in prison. Then I realized what the good son of Mr. Huang had done with Ning Zheng."

When Dou Taijun was talking, he was so angry that he could not suppress his anger, his eyes were red, and the grief on his face was beyond words.

In the 10th year of Yuan Dynasty, Dou Xunen returned from the northern border. As soon as he entered the capital, he learned that Emperor Ming had given Cao Xiu and Ning Zheng a marriage, and married her into the Huai Palace. He was furious and did not care about taking off his hairpin and armor, and rushed into the Nangong in heavy military uniforms. The imperial guards and the Huangmen Minister could not stop him.

Emperor Ming knew that as long as Dou Xunen could come back alive, this day would never be avoided between them.

He could not say that this matter was deliberately set up a situation for Ning Zheng, which caused a rift between the father and son; he could not say that Cao Xiu was not aware of the matter and had sex with Ning Zheng, and the whole city was full of controversy, and he was forced to marry the two of them.

I'm afraid Dou Xunen doesn't believe in both.

The Dou family members were educated and studied in the same academy as the prince since childhood. Dou Xunen and Ning Zheng had the best relationship. How could he believe that his best friend actually admired his wife and forcibly married her back to his palace?

Emperor Ming had no explanation, just said that if you still want to retake the Cao family, you should take advantage of the military merits you regained in the northern border to publicize your identity to the world, claim to be the king's throne, and receive tens of thousands of families.

Dou Xunen refused. Even though he decided that Cao was his wife, she now married into the Huai Palace. If he took her back one day, it would definitely damage her reputation and be criticized by the world.

Moreover, the reason why he returned to Luoyang, recognized Emperor Ming, and volunteered to get the position of the commander general in the battle of the Northern Territory was to make the prince know that he was not a person who was easy to mess with. This move did mean to compete for power and power. But he did not intend to pave the way for himself.

Dou Xunen was unwilling to be greedy for power, and he was even more unwilling to meet the request of Emperor Ming to become the future monarch of the Great Wei Dynasty. He just wanted to protect the Dou clan and the Cao clan who followed him.

He believed that the prince was virtuous and cruel, and was not the candidate for the monarch of the Great Wei Dynasty, so he returned to the court with all his heart to assist Ning Zheng in getting the position of crown prince. In this way, he, the Cao family and the Dou family could be at ease.

He knew that Emperor Ming wanted to push him to the throne, but if it was true, he would still have the chance to bring Cao Xiu back to the mountains and forests again, and wouldn't he ask about the world?

However, things happened in the capital one after another, attracting him to the extreme.

When he returned in triumph, he found that his best friend had taken away his favorite girl. How could he follow the saying of Emperor Ming, be named the king and return to the palace?

In his heart, he only thought of Cao Xiu.

He knew that Cao Xiu must have married into the Huai Prince's Mansion without his wish, and there must be something strange about this.

Emperor Ming was unwilling to tell the truth, so he went to investigate privately and finally found that all this was done by Ning Zheng's secret plan.

Dou Xunen was extremely angry and responded to Emperor Ming's request and promised him that he would return to the ancestral temple one day and disclose his life experience to the people of the world.

Emperor Ming was very happy.

But Dou Xunen also said that this matter can only be announced to the world after everything is settled.

He had a decisive mind, knowing that if he responded to Emperor Ming's request and returned to the palace, he would have forced Ning Zheng and the prince to join forces, and he would have even become more aggressive in dealing with him and Dou, and might even use Cao as a threat to him to withdraw from the royal ancestral hall and never enter Luoyang again.

Then, even if he wants to take Cao Xiu back, it will be impossible for him to stay away from such a place of right and wrong.

Emperor Ming agreed to his request and promised that if he was willing to inherit the throne, he would reorganize the marriage with Cao.

However, things went against my expectations.

In the second year of Yongning, Dou Xunen's power in the court became more and more stable. With Emperor Ming in front of him, he was naturally as if he was in the water.

When Dou Xunen served as the Censor of the Eastern Prefecture Department, he found that there were too many injustices in the dynasty. It was common for the gentry to be greedy for money and land, and to frame and frame the poor people.

Dou Xunen was a man of ambition, but when he saw this tragic situation in the country, he was unable to calm down his anger. So he decided to change the corruption and vulgarity of the gentry in the world and oppressing the people. The new policy proposed touched the core interests of most gentry and made them hate them.

The new policy that was presented to Emperor Ming was the first to be changed, just as Jiang Chengyi hoped for the change. He put a strong dose of medicine against the aura of the gentry in the world, and the punishment was too severe. It was originally a strategy of lei, but Emperor Ming admired it quite well. He had long wanted to curb the aura of the gentry in the world, but he could not find a suitable opportunity.

So, while ensuring Dou Xunen's safety, Emperor Ming ordered him to start doing this.

In the third year of Yongning, Cao Xiu married into the Huai Palace for the seventh year.

In the past seven years, Ning Zheng has never set foot in her courtyard.

She often traveled around on the grounds of returning to Xijiang to visit her relatives and met Dou Xunen in private.

She was waiting for one day Dou Xunen could rescue her from the tiger and wolf cave of the Huai Palace.

August is early autumn.

Dou Jue took the Dongfu Chief Secretary to seal the seal to investigate the murders of a serial person in Youzhou for two months.

The murder gradually came to light, and Dou Jue also returned to Beijing with his servants. He was assassinated many times on the way. He followed the traces of the assassin and finally found that the person who sent the assassin to put him to death was Emperor Ming.

He was frightened and panicked. He really couldn't figure out why Emperor Ming wanted to attack him. At this moment, he got a letter from Chang'an.

As stated in the letter, Emperor Ming ordered people to move Dou Yue's tomb into the capital, as if they were preparing to be buried in the concubine's tomb. But strangely, when he invited the ancestral temple, he did not use the name of Dou, but asked Dou Yue to replace the name of Ming Concubine who followed the Ming Emperor who was still the crown prince twenty years ago and put it into the royal ancestral hall. The palace was already preparing to welcome Dou Xunen to return to the palace, but Emperor Ming used the name of Guan Zhi, the son of Ming Concubine, and seemed to want to cover up Dou Xunen's true life experience.

This made Dou Jue feel chilled.

He knew that in order not to let Dou Yue get stigmatized, Emperor Ming refused to admit that Dou Xunen was the son of Emperor Ming and his.

This decisive, cruel and ruthless emperor wanted to kill all those who knew about it, give Dou Xunen a more noble identity, and welcome him back to the palace.

Inheriting the Grand Principle, it is most likely to be improper and powerful relatives of the outside world to be dictated.

Emperor Ming suffered this year, so naturally he would not let Dou Xunen continue to suffer this difficulty, so he made up his mind to get rid of the Dou family.

Dou Jue guessed how he could be at peace in his heart? He was even more worried that Dou Taijun and his family members who were staying in the capital were ill.

He rushed back to the capital with a quick horse, but was stopped by Ning Zheng's men.

Since Cao married into the Huai Palace, Dou has never had any contact with the people from the Huai Palace.

Dou Jue hated Ning Zheng deeply and wanted to take a detour and return to the city to report to Emperor Ming. Unexpectedly, this man abandoned the power of the nine oxes and two tigers and tried his best to stop him. He knelt in front of him regardless of the prince's majesty, and cried, asking Dou Jue for forgiveness, and sincerely said to Dou Jue that the prince's momentum is becoming more and more powerful. Dou Xunen greatly reduced the power of the gentry with the new policy and harmed their interests. The prince, who is supported by the gentry, is already anxious. If he keeps stopping, he will inevitably force him to have no way out and fight to the death.

If Dou Jue could make Dou Xunen resign from his position in the court and stay away from the capital at this time, then he would be willing to divorce Cao and let Cao leave the capital, so that Dou Xunen and Cao and his wife would go higher.

Although Dou Jue did not believe in Ning Zheng, over the years, Ning Zheng had not been in private against Dou Xunen. Instead, he was in a sharp face against the Dou family because of the prince, and the struggle between the various gentry and poor families became increasingly fierce.

Therefore, Ning Zheng's words are three-point credible.

He really wanted to keep Dou Xunen away from this place of trouble in the capital. But what made him helpless was that Dou Xunen was just as singular as his mother, with a stubborn personality and would never give up until she achieved her goal.

If Dou Xunen was originally in the capital, he wanted to find an opportunity to take Cao away, then his ideas are completely different now.

Over the past seven years, he served as the governor of many provinces, and saw the heavy tax burdens of the Great Wei, the gentry was everywhere, and the sufferings of the people. These scenes, whether Ning Xiu, as the crown prince, or the most favored King Huai, turned a deaf ear to him, and never ruled him. This was the case with all civil and military officials in the court. Even though Emperor Ming wanted to reform, he had little effect.

Only the five kings of the dynasty, Ning Mi, were willing to listen to him, understand the people's sentiments, and asked Emperor Ming for the imperial edict, and dared to carry out the new policy reform with Dou Xunen.

Dou Xunen intended to support Ning Mi to seize power for seven years, so that he could inherit the country in a favorable way.

He is deeply involved in a power struggle.

Dou Jue was also anxious to see it on the side. In addition, when he learned that Emperor Ming wanted to remove Dou and used the son of Ming Concubine to be promoted to the throne, he was panicked and had no time to think about it, so he agreed to Ning Zheng's request.

At that time, Dou Taijun found a reason and handed a letter to Dou Xunen, who went to Chang'an to investigate the local wealthy gentry's confiscation of farmland stations for personal gain and oppressing tenants, farmers and workers to farm for free, hoping to create an opportunity for Dou Xunen and Cao's family to meet.

Shortly after Dou Xunen's reply, when he returned from Chang'an to the capital, Dou Jue took Dou clan members to the eastern suburbs to stop Dou Xunen and wanted to tie him up and send him out of the capital.

Unexpectedly, although Ning Zheng's heart as a jackal has not forced Cao Xiu to do anything over the years, he is clear about her private meeting with Dou Xunen, and he is increasingly dissatisfied with her. He is even more taboo to Ning Mi, the five kings who had no power and had no chance to return to the capital for a long time because of Dou Xunen, and he has the intention to seize power.

He wanted to attack Dou Xunen, so he had already made a plan and made all preparations to take revenge on Dou Xunen and Cao.

He privately joined forces with Deng Guozhong, Fu Bo and others to gather troops outside the eastern suburbs. When Dou Jue believed his persuasion, he intercepted Dou Xunen outside the suburbs of Beijing. When he was about to persuade him, he sent someone to attack him, and at the same time trapped Dou Jue and Dou Xunen, wanting to kill them together.
Chapter completed!