"The evidence is conclusive," Mu Xiaofeng smiled faintly, on her white face, the smile was bright and soft, Leng Yue was stunned for a moment, and then heard her say softly, "Isn't this obvious." ”

"What does Miss think will do with the Li family in the end?"

Mu Xiaofeng blinked, his eyes slanted slightly upwards towards her, and a pair of beautiful eyes flashed brighter in the bright sun, "Wait and see, it will not be light." ”

She didn't do so much work in the early stage, how could she make this punishment lighter.

Leng Yue looked at her soft and harmless smile, and listened to this plain and normal sentence, but her heart was slightly cold.

The young lady smiled beautifully, and if the cool touch of the corner of the eye could be completely removed, it would be even more beautiful.

"Why did the young lady let the right minister deliberately drag on and not present the evidence to the imperial front?" Xu is Leng Yue secretly thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a reason, and now he saw that Emperor Chu was holding back and didn't deal with it, so he couldn't help but ask questions again and again.

Mu Xiaofeng squinted at her, and couldn't help but smile and teased, "Leng Yue also has times when she is anxious, which is really curious." ”

What a joke!

Leng Yueqiao's face couldn't help but heat up, and she hurriedly put away her curiosity, lowered her head slightly and said with shame, "It's the slave who has exceeded the rules, please punish the young lady." ”

"That's a good question, why should I punish you?" Mu Xiaofeng shook his head and said disapprerovingly, "You might as well guess, in addition to letting the Li family take the initiative to send evidence to the door, what are the benefits of doing this?" ”

Leng Yue was stunned, hesitated for a while, but was still at a loss, "Is there any other benefit?" ”

Although she has been with Miss for a long time, she still can't guess Miss's thoughts.

Mu Xiaofeng was not reluctant, smiled and waved his hand, "It's okay if you can't guess, you will know the result in a few days." ”

Two days later, in the early dynasty, Emperor Chu very clearly punished Li Huaitian very severely.

"Miss, there's news coming out." Leng Yue's steps were twice as fast as usual, and her face, which had always had no expression, was slightly flushed with irrepressible excitement at this moment.

Mu Xiaofeng was sitting on a rattan chair in the courtyard, half-squinting his eyes and taking a nap, hearing the words, his heart moved. But he was also interested, and looked at her with sparkling eyes, "What good news?" ”

"Your Majesty asked the Li family to take out two million taels of silver and fill it into the treasury."

Mu Xiaofeng raised his eyebrows, the corners of his lips smiled slightly, but his expression was disapproving, "Two million taels of silver? ”

Leng Yue saw her faint and suspicious appearance, and couldn't help blurting out, "Miss thinks it's less?" ”

Mu Xiaofeng held his chin to look at her, and said softly, "It won't be long before Your Majesty will feel that letting the Li family take out this amount is too little." ”

After the excitement, Leng Yue was a little confused, "The matter of embezzlement of the Mo army's salary is so serious, I can't imagine that the one just asked the Li family to take out the silver to compensate for the matter." "On the surface, this punishment seems to be extremely severe, but in fact it is just a gesture of lifting it high and gently lowering it.

Hongying happened to bring tea over, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but add, "There is also a private salt introduction, which affects the treasury tax revenue." ”

Mu Xiaofeng looked at the two girls in front of him with a little smile, and he didn't expect that this incident would make Leng Yue and Hongying, the two calm and introverted girls, feel resentful.

It seems that the people around her have a hot-blooded and upright heart.

"Don't worry, the confiscation is just a pre-dinner hors d'oeuvres, how can I make it so easy for your young lady."

Leng Yue and Hongying glanced at each other, and they were inexplicably relieved, but they didn't continue to pester Mu Xiaofeng to ask questions. They just kept their eyes open and waited for the severe punishment that was not far from the young lady's mouth.

The Mu Mansion was smiling, but the General's Mansion was depressed.

"Father, are we really going to take out two million taels of silver and put them in the treasury?"

Li Huaitian looked at his eldest son with a gloomy expression on a heavy face, sighed helplessly, and said in a deep voice, "This is a holy decree, and if you don't do it, you will resist the decree." ”

Li Donghai frowned, "But two million taels of silver, that's not a small amount, half of our Li family's property will be hollowed out." ”

Li Donghai waved his hand in frustration, "Niangniang also reprimanded us for this, and now it's useless to say more." ”

"By the way, what about Nansheng?" Li Huaitian glanced around the conference hall with a little dissatisfaction, in this empty room, now that they were father and son, their brows couldn't help but wrinkle more and more, "Why haven't you seen him all day lately?" ”

Li Donghai knew that he was in a bad mood, so he had to slow down his voice and said softly, "The second brother is probably going to deal with business matters." ”

Li Huaitian glanced at him, "That's it, you can look at the matter of raising silver." ”

Three days later, it was the first time limit for Emperor Chu to give Li Huaitian 500,000 taels of silver.

Several conclusive charges were pressed on Li Huaitian's head like a mountain, and when the first deadline came, he had to quickly take out the 500,000 taels of silver to fill the treasury.

Emperor Chu saw that he had silver to pay, but he didn't show any additional dissatisfaction, and Li Huaitian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, on the night when the Li family returned 500,000 taels of silver to the state treasury, Dali Siqing, who had been running around in a low-key manner for several days to investigate the Lingshui Village case, suddenly sent important case files to the palace overnight and presented them to the imperial case of Emperor Chu.

A thick stack of case files detailed the real reason why more than 200 people died overnight in Lingshui Village; At the same time, there is also a large amount of evidence that after Li Nansheng faked the "plague" to exterminate the village, he also secretly enclosed the area around Lingshui Village.

After the enclosure, the secret work was to dig mountains and mines to make illicit salt.

Privately mining salt mines, privately forging salt quotations, and privately falsely proclaiming holy decrees to exterminate villages and slaughter people...... No matter which one is, it is enough to make Li Nansheng die hundreds of times.

"What a good courtier of mine." Although Emperor Chu was so angry that even the blue tendons on his forehead came out, this time he was surprisingly able to suppress his anger, and he sat behind the imperial case from beginning to end, and carefully read the thick stack of case files intently.

"Within a hundred miles, under my nose, they dare to do such a thing." Emperor Chu closed the case file, and couldn't help but sneer at the corners of his mouth, "In a place where I can't see farther away, do they dare to set themselves up as kings and emperors!" ”

The attendant who stood quietly like a pillar next to him was so shocked that he trembled when he heard him talk to himself like this.

It seems that General Li has pulled out the teeth in the tiger's mouth this time.

Emperor Chu, who was extremely angry, didn't even summon Dali Siqing to ask him face-to-face, and after reading the case file, he was silent for a moment, and then picked up the imperial pen and made a comment on the secret fold sent by Yao Qingtian: Go to Li Mansion immediately to arrest Li Nansheng, and kill him at noon in the vegetable market tomorrow.

An hour later, the secret decree was sent to Dali Siqing.

Yao Qingtian looked at the big red vermilion on the white paper, and immediately widened his eyes in shock, "Your Majesty is really angry this time." "The severe torture of Bian Lizhu has come out, and you can imagine how angry Emperor Chu was when he read these case files.

"Falsely preaching the holy decree, disregarding human life, and privately mining salt mines, which of these crimes is not enough for Li Nansheng to die?"

In the official office of Dali Temple, Imperial Doctor Chi Wuxing shook his head, with a look of deep hatred, "If Your Majesty doesn't have Zhu Approval to behead Li Nansheng, we should be surprised." ”

These two people, both ministers of Southern Chu Zhengzheng, naturally hated Li Nansheng's murder of a village villager for privately occupying a salt mine.

It was precisely because the two of them bumped into Wang Juzhi beating Feng Dazhu on the lively street that day, so Wei Chi Wuxing knew that when Yao Qingtian was secretly investigating Lingshui Village, he also took the initiative to help.

It can be said that the stack of thick case files presented to Emperor Chu is equivalent to the conclusive evidence obtained after the joint strict investigation of Dali Temple and Yushitai.

Yao Qingtian held the secret decree and hesitated slightly, "Then according to Brother Wei Chi's opinion, what should I do about this now?" ”

Wei Chi Wuxing glanced at him coldly, couldn't help but snort coldly, and sneered, "Your Majesty's holy decree has come down, isn't your words nonsense." ”

Yao Qingtian looked at him with a little headache, "That's right, but don't forget, Li Nansheng is not a little person who can be pulled out and beheaded casually." ”

Wei Chi Wuxing immediately raised his eyebrows and stared at him suspiciously, "What do you mean?" Are you still thinking about favoritism at this time? Are you worthy of the name of the blue sky that the people gave you? ”

Yao Qingtian looked at him with a smile and a smile, "Brother Wei Chi, don't you see the wind or the rain." ”

He didn't want to show favoritism, let alone disobey the order.

He was just worried, worried that the Li family would not let him take people obediently, and even more worried that if His Majesty regretted ...... later, he would not be able to eat and walk around.

A secret decree, if His Majesty repents, no one will stand up to protect him.

Thinking of the means in Fengqi Palace, a character like Yao Qingtian couldn't help but feel numb.

"Isn't it tomorrow at noon?" Although Wei Chi Wuxing is honest and loyal, he is not a rookie in officialdom who doesn't understand anything, looking at Yao Qingtian's embarrassed bitter gourd face, he knows where his concerns are.

After pondering for a while, he reassured, "There are still a few hours, enough for them to figure out a way." ”

If Li Huaitian or the Empress really had a way to make His Majesty change his holy will before noon tomorrow, then they had no choice but to sigh that Li Nansheng's life should not be extinguished, and then sigh helplessly for the villagers of Lingshui Village who died in vain.

Yao Qingtian thought about it, but he was no longer entangled, "You have a point." ”

"Didn't Your Majesty give you another holy decree? Don't open it and take a look? ”

Yao Qingtian patted his head, "Hey, look at my brain, fortunately you reminded me." ”

When he opened the clear decree and looked at it, his eyes immediately lit up, "This will is good, with this holy purpose, there is no need to worry about Li Nansheng not obediently returning to Dali Temple." ”

Wei Chi Wudang also put his head to the Ming Silk Holy Decree in his hand, and after looking at it, he couldn't help but show joy on his face, nodded and agreed, "Your Majesty has thought it through." ”

Yao Qingtian raised the Ming Silk Holy Decree in his hand, put his mind at ease, and said with a smile, "With this thing, I can now order all the people to go to the General's Mansion to get people." ”