Three days later, Lu Changfeng walked into the prison with an angry face.

Li Yi looked at his expression and suddenly became nervous. He stepped forward and asked, "What happened?"

"What happened?" Lu Changfeng looked at Li Yi angrily and said sternly: "Chen Hongyan and others were rescued by a group of Taihang Mountain horse thieves. You planned this incident. Don't you still know?"

When Li Yi heard this sentence, he immediately understood.

It seemed that Chen Mingde had followed his orders and rescued Hongyan and others while they were escorting them to the capital.

After this matter was done, Li Yi no longer had any worries in his heart.

Lu Changfeng was still angry, and said coldly: "Zizheng, do you know that by doing this, the case of collusion and conspiracy will become an unresolved case, and it will become a sharp blade hanging over your head at all times. If the civil servants use this issue again in the future,

You will most likely die because of this."

Of course, Li Yi understood the negative impact of saving Hongyan on himself, but he had to do it anyway.

Now that he had decided, he had no regrets and said immediately: "This matter is what it is now. No matter what the decision is, I can face it."

Lu Changfeng sneered: "The situation has become what it is, of course you can only face it. Zizheng, I thought you were a man with great ambitions, but I didn't expect you to attach so much importance to the love between children. If this continues, the civil servants in the court, including

All your enemies know that the people around you are your biggest weakness, and if they still want to deal with you, they will all look for the people around you."

When Li Yi heard what Lu Changfeng said, his face suddenly showed an extremely cold iron color, and his voice was extremely cruel: "Whoever dares to do this, I will let him die without a burial place."

With Chen Hongyan and others kidnapped, Li Yi's collusion with the rebels no longer needs to be investigated.

Under the wave of impeachments by the ministers in the DPRK, Emperor Chongzhen's persistence was destroyed bit by bit.

He knew that it was Li Yi that these civil servants requested to be punished, but in fact they actually put pressure on him.

As Wang Yongguang said, the world is governed by scholar-bureaucrats. In their hearts, the emperor should sit high in the temple, accept the worship of officials, and then peacefully be the emperor in captivity.

But Emperor Chongzhen was not a weak person. He had the ideal of reviving the Ming Dynasty in his heart. This ideal gave him the supreme courage to confront the powerful civil servants.

The furious Emperor Chongzhen punished several officials who threatened death on the spot, and then brought up the old matter again and brought up the case that Zhang Fengxiang had originally reported, asking the Jin Yiwei to continue the investigation to put pressure on a group of ministers.

But the civil servants naturally had their own means of resistance. They spread rumors in the capital, criticized Emperor Chongzhen for favoring villains and harming loyal ministers. They also delayed and ignored many government orders, causing the local area to fall into chaos.

The lower limit of this group of civil servants obviously exceeded Emperor Chongzhen's imagination. In a short period of time, the court fell into a semi-paralysis situation. Local citizens evicted tax collectors. The situation suddenly began to deteriorate, both at the court and at the local level.

Only then did Emperor Chongzhen realize that for these civil servants, the world still belonged to the Zhu family, but the people who governed the world were already these civil servants.

No matter how miserable the family's failure was, the civil servants would not feel bad, or in other words, they all thought that Zhu Youjian, as the emperor, would feel more distressed than they did.

In the end, Zhu Youjian had no choice but to give in. He dismissed Li Yi and expelled him from Beijing.

The civil servants won the victory and celebrated with joy.

Emperor Chongzhen returned to the inner palace in despair. Although he failed, after this incident, he had accumulated a lot of anger in his heart. His patience towards the civil officials and the Donglin Party who restricted his imperial power had been worn away bit by bit.

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Li Yi was released from prison, and Zhu Qilong and Sun Ce were waiting early.

Looking at Sun Cerium, Li Yi cupped his hands and said: "Hongyan's ability to escape this time is all thanks to Qianhe."

Sun Zhen stepped aside and bowed to Li Yi, and said with complicated eyes: "Zizheng, there is no need to be so polite between you and me. Hongyan is your confidante, but she is also my friend, so how can I refuse to save you?

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Li Yi smiled slightly and said, "I went to find you in the first place. It seems I did nothing wrong."

Sun Ce smiled and said with some hesitation: "Zizheng, you have been dismissed from your post and have no official position. What are your plans next?"

Li Yi thought for a while and said: "It has been more than half a year since I went to Liaodong, Xuanda and other places. I want to return to Baoding Mansion first and meet everyone."

Hearing that Li Yi planned to return to Anxin, Sun Ce nodded and said: "The officialdom is dangerous. If you are thinking of setting foot in it, I'm afraid you won't agree. It is also a good thing to return to Anxin and become a rich man."

Li Yi laughed when he heard this and said: "Yes, returning to Anxin and the capital are all just a dream."

The next day Li Yi returned to Anxin, and both Sun Cerium and Lu Changfeng came to see him off.

Lu Changfeng always felt it was a pity that Li Yi was dismissed.

If Li Yi had not escaped from prison and asked his men to rescue Momen and others, then things would not have reached this point. Li Yi would probably have been saved by the emperor.

But it's too late to say anything now. Lu Changfeng can only wish Li Yi a safe journey.

Li Yi got on his horse and rushed south with Zhu Qilong.

At first, they went to Liaodong and got official positions, but in just over half a year, they changed from a fourth-grade official to a small citizen again; Sun Cerium became the head of the household department, Liu Zhi became the guard of Lushun, and Wang Wu also became Yuan Chonghuan's relative.

The barracks commander Qian.

They returned to .asxs., but they already had their own path.

The next day, Li Yi and Zhu Qilong finally returned to Anxin.

They arrived at Baoding Mansion first. As soon as Li Yi entered the city, he met an acquaintance.

Wang Jin was leading two police officers on official duties when he suddenly saw two men leading horses into the city. The leader looked very familiar.

Walking up, Wang Jin finally saw clearly and said in surprise: "Zizheng."

Li Yi heard someone calling him, turned his head and saw his cousin.

After leaving Baoding Prefecture for more than half a year, Li Yi didn't see Wang Jin for a long time.

At first, he took refuge with Li Wensheng and became an inspector of Anzhou. Later, he reported on the assassination of Zhang Heng by the He family and was promoted to Baoding Prefecture. Later, Li Yi was promoted to a fourth-rank official in Beijing. Li Wensheng could not help but value Wang Jin more. A month ago, he took advantage of the opportunity.

After his predecessor Liu was arrested for corruption, Wang Jin was recommended as the official of Baoding Prefecture.

The promotion officer is an official of the seventh grade, which can be regarded as reaching the threshold of a mid-level official.

But Wang Jin was not satisfied with this. He left Anxin on the one hand because of Li Yi and his plan, and on the other hand he also wanted to surpass Li Yi and earn a bright future on his own. Now he has been promoted to a promotion officer, but

However, Li Yi became the censor of the Qian capital and a high official in the imperial court because of his military merits, but he was still inferior to him.

Now seeing Li Yi suddenly returning to Baoding Mansion, Wang Jin was slightly shocked and said: "Zizheng, aren't you in Liaodong? Why did you come back suddenly?"

Wang Jin was just a small official and didn't know about the struggles in the court, so the news of Li Yi's dismissal had not yet reached Baoding.

Li Yi smiled and said: "Cousin, how are you doing recently?"

Wang Jin said with some pride: "I was lucky enough to be promoted to the promotion official of Baoding Prefecture. No, I am leading two subordinates on errands."

The two detectives following Wang Jin had heard of Li Yi's name a long time ago. When they saw the real person, they felt that he was unimaginably young. They couldn't help but bow down and prostrate themselves: "My lord, I am a humble citizen."

Li Yi nodded and said: "No need to be polite, I am no longer an adult."

Before the two detectives could react, Wang Jin heard something different and said, "Zizheng, what happened?"

Li Yi smiled and said: "The matter is complicated and cannot be explained in a short time."

Wang Jin didn't want to give up at all, and immediately said: "Then don't worry, a new restaurant has opened in Baoding Mansion, and I will share the profits. We haven't seen each other for a long time, and we just have a good chat. Let you talk slowly."

Li Yi was a little tired and wanted to return to Gaoyang, but Wang Jin was curious and could not tolerate Li Yi's refusal and helped him lead the horse to the restaurant.

After entering the restaurant, Wang Jin summoned the shopkeeper and gave detailed instructions.

After chatting for a while, someone suddenly opened the curtain and walked in.

Wang Jin was about to get angry when he saw that the person coming was the prefect Li Wensheng. He stood up and said, "Prefect, why are you here?"

Li Wensheng chuckled, put away his fan, and said, "I just happened to be here for a drink today. I heard you were here, so I came to take a look."

After speaking, he seemed very surprised to see Li Yi and said: "Isn't this Mr. Li, the censor of Qiandu? Oh, when you return to Baoding, you should send your subordinates to notify him early, so that we can go and greet you."

Li Wensheng's performance was very clumsy. Li Yi knew that he must have known that he was back, so he came here specially.

He raised his hands and said, "Master, are you still okay?"

Seeing Li Yi salute him, Li Wenlong quickly stepped forward to support him and said with a smile: "No, no. Master Li is a Beijing official. I am the prefect of this place, so I don't need to be like Master Li."

The magistrate of the Ming Dynasty is an official of the fourth rank, and Li Yi's original censor of Youqiandu was a fourth-rank official, which is logically one level lower. However, the censor of Youqiandu is a capital official, and it is an official position with real power, which is much more noble than the prefect.

, so Li Wensheng stopped it.

Wang Jin, who was standing next to him, smiled when he saw it and said, "Master Fu Zun, Zizheng has been dismissed from his post, and he has no official position now."

"Being dismissed? How is this possible?" Li Wensheng looked at Li Yi in disbelief.

As far as he knew, Li Yi was promoted to censor of Qiandu at the beginning of this year. How come he was dismissed just six months later?

Li Yi smiled and said: "Wang Jin is right, I have been dismissed by the emperor, and now I am just an ordinary citizen."

Hearing this, Li Wensheng hurriedly took back his hand and said: "Master Li, have you caused some big trouble?"

Li Yi shook his head and said: "The situation is complicated and it is difficult to explain clearly at the moment."

Wang Jin said from the side: "Then let's talk slowly. Master, please come to the table quickly?"

Li Wensheng came here this time just to meet Li Yi and hear more about the situation in the DPRK. Naturally, he did not delay and took his seat directly.

Seeing the two of them listening to a bedtime story, Li Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

He didn't hesitate and told what happened directly.

Hearing that Li Yi had made great achievements one after another and was appointed by the emperor as the censor of Qiandu and deputy envoy to the inspection, Li Wensheng suddenly felt yearned for it.

You must know that his wish is to enter the capital and become a capital official.

But when he heard that Li Yi was later impeached by Manchu officials and imprisoned, and that in the end even the emperor was unable to save Li Yi, Li Wensheng couldn't help but feel frightened.
To be continued...