"What discovery?"

Shangguan Yinling put the box aside and raised his head to look at Xu Yun.

"The investigation just found that in addition to salt production, the Queen Mother also intervened in the cloth and silk production in the south, and there were other industries, and she sent Li Minghai to participate in those that were profitable."

They heard Zhang Youfu talk about the eunuch before, although it has not yet been finally determined who the eunuch is, but the adults already suspect that it is the queen mother, after all, doing whatever they want in the harem will not be detected, and only the queen mother who has lived in the quiet Cining Palace for a long time can do it.

After their visits and investigations, it was finally determined that it was indeed the Queen Mother who was handling these things.

And long before the current saint ascended the throne, the queen mother had begun to use the profits squeezed out of these industries to buy off the ministers in the court in order to support the power of the current saint.

Originally, if she only squeezed some money, it would not be easy to be discovered, but once she started to use this money to do bad things, she was destined to not be able to hide it for too long.

The queen mother of that year was not the queen mother, and it was not until the death of the first emperor that she was enthroned as the queen mother.

In short, when the Empress Dowager was a concubine, she was not favored, and if it weren't for the young genius of the saint, the first emperor would not have decided to inherit the throne to the saint.

I have always heard that the first emperor had a very favored concubine back then, although there was no family power behind him, but he rose all the way, and finally rose to the same rank as the queen mother back then, and they were all concubines.

Hearing that this concubine was pregnant later, the first emperor secretly found a miracle doctor from the people to check the pulse, and determined that it was a little prince, so he promised the concubine that if this prince had both ability and political integrity in the future, he would train him to replace the saint and become the future emperor.

Li Minghai was in the harem at that time, quite a connection, from the concubine's personal eunuch to get the news, the queen mother couldn't sit still, tried her best to let the concubine give birth prematurely, gave birth to a dead baby, so there were rumors in the palace that the concubine had a strange disease, was possessed by a ghost, the concubine was also in a trance, once crazy a vase smashed on the head of the emperor, after sobering up, he was ashamed and angry, and was found hanging on the second day.

After the first emperor also collapsed, sad for the concubine, the queen mother took advantage of the situation to let the emperor gradually prime minister the affairs of the court, plus she bought off several major officials in the court, the saint did have the talent of the son of heaven, the saint became the best candidate for the saint in the minds of hundreds of officials and the people, and the first emperor handed over the throne to the saint.

This queen mother was originally a gentle and virtuous woman, and she did not pray for any status rank, she was the only concubine in the harem back then, and she was the closest person to the queen's position, but she did not compete for the queen's position, which means that she has no desire for the queen's position.

It's a pity that he was forced to kill the concubine's child later, just for his own son.

Since ancient times, the battle for the throne is a battle of life and death without blood, and the matter of brothers' walls has often happened since ancient times, and the blood in the harem is no less than the rivers and lakes.

It's a pity that the queen mother has pushed her son to the position of the emperor, but she is greedy and refuses to give up.

If she is allowed to go on like this, the girder will be like a solid piece of wood, and the good wood will be slowly eaten away by such moths step by step.

He couldn't see anything like that happen.

Even if he gives up his life, he must let the Queen Mother be responsible for what she has done.

"My lord, since you are determined to investigate the salt production, why did you tell Lu Li that you gave up the investigation?"

With the help of a few of their good friends, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort?

"If it were an ordinary case, I wouldn't say that." Shangguan Yuling took a deep breath, "This time we are facing the current Queen Mother, so let's not involve them." ”

They are like fish in water in Taixue, and they must be the pillars of the imperial court in the future, if they are affected now because of the case of the Queen Mother, so that the saint is suspicious or directly condemned, it will be too unfair to them.

Originally, he brought them to the capital, and he said that if he would protect them, he would definitely protect them.

Even if the future can't be protected, it can't drag them down at this moment.

It was the last thing he did for them before he solved the money case.

After this case passed, he was afraid that there would be no way to continue to defend them.

Xu Yun didn't just sigh.

The adult thought so thoughtfully, he was even more worried that the adult would go into danger alone.

"My lord, my subordinates don't care so much, and they don't ask for high-ranking officials, as long as they can follow you, they are willing to die, don't leave me alone in this matter."

"Good brother." Shangguan Yuling got up and patted Xu Yun on the shoulder.

The brothers of the Special Case Division are all his good brothers, how can he implicate them.

"Compile the evidence we have collected into a book, and tomorrow morning, I will speak frankly with the Holy One."

If he didn't cut off all retreats in front of the civil and military officials, he would have no way to let the Queen Mother get the punishment she deserved.

In front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, the saint could not show favoritism, and he had no way out.

In the afternoon, Lu Li and his entourage arrived at Taixue, and after dinner, Lu Li lay on the bed in the dormitory, crossed Erlang's legs and pillowed his arms, always felt that his eyelids were beating faintly, and his heart was flustered, feeling as if something bad was about to happen.

This feeling was something she had never felt before, and it suddenly sprouted, making her feel inexplicably headache and panic.

"Matama, what's wrong with me being a little flustered?"

"Are you caught the cold?" Seeing that it is winter, the weather is getting cold day by day, and the stove in this dormitory is not very warm, and Lu Li has been going home for a trip, so he can't say anything if he gets cold, "Ah Li, you lie down, I'll make a kettle of hot water for you to drink." ”

Ematamata sat in front of the stove and boiled a pot of hot water in a porcelain kettle, and soon the heat was curling in the dormitory, and Emata poured the hot water into the teapot, and was just about to call Lu Li up to drink water, but when she turned around, she found that she had fallen asleep.

Emamata shook her head helplessly, carefully took off Lu Li's boots, covered her with a quilt, and took a small hand warmer and put it in her quilt.

The night passed quickly, and it was dawning, and it was snowing heavily outside the window.

It has only been more than half a month since the beginning of winter, and there are still more than ten days before the winter solstice, and it suddenly snowed so much.

When Shangguan Yuling got up and entered the palace, the sky was still dark, and the snow was blowing one after another, covering the ground, only the sound of carriages rolling to the ground, and the whole world was cold and quiet.

He dusted the snow off his cloak and held in his hand the ironclad evidence he was about to present to the Holy One.

The carriage walked for a while, and soon reached the palace gate.