Chapter 440: Pleading
"Sun Xiang, don't be talking, I don't know anyone in Zhizhou in Hexi, right?" Jiang Wendong looked at Sun Xiang, sneered in a calm voice, and said: "He was one of Sun Xiang's proud protégés back then. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
When Sun Xiang heard this, he didn't turn his head to look at Jiang Wendong, but just looked at Emperor Ming Xian and put his body closer to the ground, and said uneventfully: "Although Song Fei is a protégé of Lao Chen's disciple many years ago, only since he joined the office, he has not been in contact with the Sun family for many years. Your Majesty's Mingjian. ”
Emperor Ming Xian looked at Sun Xiang, with a calm face and did not speak. After a while, he turned his head to look at Jiang Wendong: "What does Master Jiang think?"
This sentence, neither light nor heavy, fell on the lake of hearts of the kneeling people in the temple. Round after round of strange ripples.
Emperor Ming Xian didn't pay attention to Sun Xiang at all. What does this indicate?
Everyone in the hall had different thoughts, and Sun Xiang was still kneeling in place, hanging his head, so that people could not see the expression on his face at the moment.
Jiang Wendong leaned down at Emperor Ming Xian: "Back to Your Majesty's words, the minister is just talking about things, and the rest is not clear, and it is not easy to make conclusions." With that, Yu Guang glanced at Sun Xiang who was kneeling next to him. I breathed a sigh of relief. Emperor Ming Xian's attitude made him sure that his choice was not wrong.
He has always thought that he and Sun Xiang are political partners who are complicit in the DPRK and China, and since they are partners, they naturally seek common benefits. Naturally, there will be some of them. But it will never involve the loss of official dismissal, or even the life of the family. It wasn't until a few days ago that he heard some rumors. Some rumors about Sun Xiang. Secretly greedy for ink, colluding with the rumors of the party. But he never knew about it.
And those rumors were enough to make anyone in the cabinet think that the minister was pulled down. The stakes were so high that he sent someone to investigate. It's really not groundless. Although he didn't show it on his face, he had long been thinking about starting a relationship with Sun Xiang. Today, I took advantage of the situation and left it directly. There was some hesitation before, after all, Sun Xiang is the prime minister of a country.
And Emperor Ming Xian's current attitude directly made him let go of the things he was worried about.
Emperor Ming Xian looked at Sun Xiang and then at Jiang Wendong. Then he swept his gaze from Su Xinyuan, and swept towards everyone in the hall, his gloomy eyes were full of perverseness: "The affairs of Hexi, the household department is not responsible, the Ministry of Rites and Rites is not responsible, and the cabinet and cabinet can't tell, so much national tax, which people's pockets have gone into, and how much is it greedy, what should the ministers do about this?"
Such a big thing was said in such an indifferent and leisurely tone. But it didn't make everyone in the hall breathe a sigh of relief, but even more heart-lifting. Who doesn't know that the appearance of Emperor Ming Xian is a sign of anger.
When the hall was silent, Jiang Wendong, who was kneeling at the front, opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, the head of the household department in Hexi did overstep the level and converged this matter on the old minister, so that the household department did not verify it in Hexi, which is the fault of the old minister who did not investigate." However, the household department collects taxes, one is to collect taxes, the second is to reconcile, and the third is to verify. Although it is presented to the minister, the tax is collected by the household department. The duties of the old ministers who collect the taxes collected by the household department will also be checked with the head of the household department before entering the treasury. Therefore, the first tax collector department collected it, and the second reconciliation minister was right, but he missed the verification step. This is all caused by the old minister's failure to investigate, the old minister is guilty, please punish Your Majesty!"
Normally, these three departments are reviewed and completed by the household department, but because Jiang Wendong intervened in the matter of Hexi, it was not easy for the household department to come to the superior to ask for account books to verify, so it was natural to miss this checkpoint. This is the reason why Hexi Zhizhou has been so arrogant but no one has punished him for many years.