As soon as the people of Wenfu received Wencheng's information, they immediately paid attention to it, especially Wendao, and specially sent their most powerful cronies to help Wencheng.

With the intervention of the power of the Wenfu, it will be much easier to investigate these matters, and the results will be available in a few days.

Wen Cheng took the investigation book handed to him by the housekeeper of the Wen Mansion, and his hands were shaking because of excitement.

Cao Xie originally colluded with officials in several counties under the pretense of repairing the embankment, and when repairing the embankment, he cut corners and lied about the cost.

Even in order to prevent being discovered by Wen Cheng, he was specially transferred away, and it was precisely because the construction of other embankments was not up to standard that the speed of construction would be so fast.

When a worker who had been in the master's office noticed this, he told his companions about it. They made an appointment to go to the superintendent's office to inform, but they didn't expect that the people of the superintendent's house were guarding and stealing, and when they learned that someone knew about the situation of the embankment, they immediately made a decision and sent killers to prepare to kill people.

"Hmph, it's a bastard, I didn't expect that this Cao Xie would be this kind of person. ”

Wen Cheng slapped the table with an angry face, in addition to this investigation book, in front of him, there was also a letter from Cao Xie and officials from all over the country.

He picked up the letter on the table with trembling hands.

"This, this, and these, most of the officials written on this have been seen by me, and I was talking and laughing with them at the wine table at the beginning, but I didn't expect that these one by one, they were too well disguised, these moths of the empire, their existence is simply a misfortune for the empire. ”

"Young master, do you look at this matter, do you notify the master first or play it directly?" asked an old housekeeper of the Wen Mansion indifferently.

"Arrest all the officials involved first, and then I will present the results of the incident to Your Majesty together with all the incriminating evidence, and let Your Majesty decide when the time comes. Wencheng said.

The old butler still said indifferently: "Young master, there are seventy-five officials from three counties and thirteen counties involved, if all of them are arrested, I am afraid that the matter is too big to clean up." It is better to detain Cao Xie and a few county guards first, and then wait for His Majesty to decide. ”

Wen Cheng, who was angry, heard this, and thought about it, the number of people involved this time was indeed too much, and it was not realistic to detain them all at once, so he agreed with the old housekeeper's words.

Just after Wen Cheng nodded, the armies went straight to the mansions of various high-ranking officials at the fastest speed and began to take people.

However, one day, all the county guards who were involved in the embezzlement, as well as Cao Xie and others, were immediately detained.

A few people may know that their affairs are exposed, and they are like frosted eggplants, but some people are still screaming and hard.

When Cao Xie was arrested, he searched in the palace during the day but did not find him. It wasn't until later, when he threatened his concubine that Cao Xie was found in the secret room where he was hiding, when he was lying on a bed full of gold and silver, sleeping soundly.

It didn't take long for Kuang Hua to receive Wencheng's recital and the incriminating evidence of the officials.

When he saw the contents of Wen Cheng's recital and the letters that filled the table, he immediately became angry, spat out a mouthful of old blood, and fainted.

It was precisely because of this incident that Han Ming ended his pleasant leisure time.

The first thing Kuang Hua did after waking up was to issue a holy decree for Wen Cheng to escort Cao Xie and all the main officials involved into Beijing, and Wen Cheng had full authority to try the case.

One can imagine what kind of storm they will be greeted by.

Just when everyone was shocked by this corruption incident, a shocking riot was quietly taking place.

At the same time that Cao Xie and a group of officials were escorted into Beijing, a series of popular uprisings broke out on the Henghe embankment.

In fact, when the embankment was built, many workers were forcibly recruited by the local government, and they preferred to stay at home and cultivate the land, but no one dared to disobey the government's orders, and the government promised to pay them after the embankment was built.

And now, because of the arrest of the officials, everyone in the small county officials below is in danger, and no one has the heart to care about this group of people. Moreover, most of the money for repairing the embankment was withheld by the people above.

As a result, this group of workers could only wait on the embankment every day, coupled with the bad weather, which made everyone's mood even worse, and when the negative emotions reached a critical point, finally some people couldn't help but explode.

The enraged workers first imprisoned the soldiers guarding the embankment, and then a group of people rushed straight to the official residence, where had the officials seen this meeting, and fearing that His Majesty the Emperor would settle the old and new accounts together, most of them rolled up their trousers and ran away in a hurry.

Officials in many places have ghosts in their hearts, and when they see that one or two have run away, they are naturally extremely frightened, and they follow suit one after another.

The enraged workers entered the city and found that they had not been suppressed, but that there was no one to administer justice for them, so their wages would not be settled, and in a fit of rage, the people began to smash and loot.

This group of people first robbed the government offices in various places, and then began to search the granary, but some time ago, there was a great drought in Chuxi, and the granary was already empty.

As a result, at the instigation of well-intentioned people, the scope of smashing and looting began to slowly expand, from the county governments in various places to the landlords.

Although the landlords had their own guards, these guards could not stop the surging tide of the people, and these rioting people tasted the sweetness from the rich landlords, so the riots became more and more intense, and the scope began to spread to the whole city, and even the entire Yokogawa area.

It turned out to be a small fight and public anger, but because officials in various places have neglected their duties and fled, things are out of control.

By the time the incident reached the capital, the riots in various places had already formed a scale, and they could no longer be dealt with simply by pacifying.

As soon as Kuang Hua heard the news, he immediately urgently dispatched the ministers of the court to appease.

Of course, Kuang Hua didn't know much about how serious the matter was, and when the information reached Kuang Hua, it was said that the workers were in trouble because of the wage problem and needed to be appeased urgently.

So, with an edict in hand, the minister began to drive to pacify what they thought was the angry people.

But when the minister didn't arrive, he found that there were displaced scattered people along the way. Seeing this, the minister's heart felt more and more that something was unusual.

When he arrived at the Yokogawa realm, he realized that he was still thinking too simply. To be precise, he didn't have time to think about anything else, so he was stabbed to death by a group of chaotic people with weapons, but he was still thinking that his majesty was enough to scare this group of people who had never seen the market, and he could calm the people with a wave of his hand, and when the time came, His Majesty would greatly praise him and promote him by the way.

It's a pity that he dies before he gets out of school, and these can only be thought about in the next life.

But when he died, the problem came. The murder of a minister appointed by the imperial court by a mob of rebellious people has never happened since ancient times.

It is no longer a simple riot, but a rebellion.

Just as the ministers of the court and China were discussing how to punish this gang of rebels, an even greater disaster had struck.