On the main hall, Fan Chiwu, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Shangshu Haiqing of the Criminal Department jointly wrote a letter to impeach Yang Yuanhai and his son.

"Your Majesty, the minister wants to impeach his father and son for embezzling the silver taels of the disaster, so that the embankment in Yao County was built for less than half a year, but it rained for a few days and the embankment was washed away, causing countless houses to be washed away, and the number of casualties among the people is not yet known, Your Majesty, Yang Yuanhai is living up to the emperor's grace and should be severely punished!" Fan Chi came out of the list and said righteously.

"Your Majesty, the minister has also received the news, saying that the father and son of the Yang family have not fulfilled their duties in Yao County in the past few months, although they are ordered to go out of the city to rebuild the disaster area, but they rely on the sky high Emperor Yuan, every day only know to eat, drink and have fun in the disaster area, regardless of business, completely regardless of the life and death of the people in the disaster area, Your Majesty, such a person is not worthy of being an official at all, and I hope that Your Majesty will punish it severely!"

Shangshu Haiqing of the Criminal Department also followed, and in the end, he knelt down directly, slamming his head on the ground, and he had the posture of wanting to die.

As these two got up, the Song Xi party, which had already been discussed in private, also came out one after another, and one by one they began to shake out all kinds of black materials of the Yang family's father and son, and they all demanded that the emperor punish them severely.

Within a few breaths, almost half of the courtiers either followed the trend or deliberately stood up, demanding that the emperor severely punish the Yang family father and son, only a small number of upright courtiers retorted that there was no evidence, and they had to bring people back from the Yao County edict to interrogate them personally.

In short, the two sides quarreled over the main hall.

The emperor was so noisy that he had a headache, and finally simply threw himself off and left.

The emperor was so angry that he returned to the imperial study, Gu Chen followed all the way, and he didn't speak on the way, let alone open his mouth to help the Yang family speak, and in the end, the emperor himself couldn't hold back.

"Gu Qing, what do you think?" The emperor sat down behind the table and looked at Gu Chen with a majestic expression.

Gu Chen's face did not move, and he lowered his eyes and said: "The minister does not dare to say anything, after all, I have an in-law relationship with the Yang family, if I help the Yang family speak, it will inevitably be suspected of partiality, which will make Your Majesty unhappy, but if Your Majesty insists on letting the minister express his attitude, the minister can only suggest that His Majesty first send the edict back to Beijing and interrogate it in person. ”

These people dare to write a book for impeachment, presumably they already have a bunch of "evidence" in their hands, it is better to let them take it all out at once at this time, and he can take the opportunity to see who are the people who have taken refuge in Song Xi.

At this moment, the chamberlain came in and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, several cabinet ministers have asked to see you." ”

The emperor's face was slightly gloomy, and he looked out of the door with complicated eyes: "Let them in." ”

The Emperor also knew what they were doing here.

Suddenly, several cabinet ministers came in, Gu Chen raised his eyes and glanced at it, only to see that in addition to Fan Chiwu and Haiqing, there were also Household Yuan Wailang Yanjian, Ministry of Officials Shangshu Zhu Weifeng, Ministry of Workers Lang Chai Jing, in short, a total of more than ten people came, and half of the entire imperial study room was accounted for at once.

Gu Chen raised his eyebrows quietly, Yan Jian had repeatedly asked the emperor for the things that Yan Jing had done, so now he has been demoted to Yuan Wailang, according to the regulations, he doesn't even have the qualifications to go to the court, let alone enter the palace.

Therefore, when this person appeared here, he knew that they were going to hand over the "evidence" to the emperor.

Really.

The group came in and knelt down in unison and saluted: "Ministers see Your Majesty!" ”

"Let's get even." The emperor raised his hand and said lightly.

Yan Jian took the lead in presenting the fold in his hand, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, here is an account book of the amount of funds allocated by the household department to Yao County a year ago, and there is also an account book of the specific use of the silver after the silver was transferred to Yao County. ”

Gonggong Pei trotted over, took the two folds in Yan Jian's hand, and handed them to the emperor.

The emperor looked at the two folds, and his face became more and more ugly.

"Your Majesty, along with the father and son of the Yang family going to Yao County to do the post-disaster reconstruction work, there are also the minister's nephews, so the minister has a share of the twists and turns that came back from Yao County, and I hope Your Majesty will see it." Chai Jing was not to be outdone, and hurriedly took out his share of the fold from his sleeve pocket and presented it to the top.

Gonggong Pei took the fold again and handed it to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the Yang family is so disgraceful, it is really hateful, the minister is willing to ask him to return to prison for interrogation, and then send someone to raid the Yang Mansion, presumably, the Yang family must have embezzled a lot over the years, and now the border soldiers are continuous, and the treasury is still relatively tight, I hope Your Majesty will approve it." Hai Qing also arched her hand and said with a righteous face.

He figured out the emperor's temperament and brought the treasury out to talk about things, but the emperor just wanted to hesitate any longer.

After all, this emperor was the poorest emperor in history, and among those present, who didn't understand this? The emperor even reduced his own use, although he copied out so much silver from the Gao family and the Qian family before, but after all, fighting a war is a silver-consuming thing, not to mention, now Gu Chen has also developed a new type of weapon.

These weapons will be mass-produced and used on the battlefield in the future, so silver must not be missing.

Sure enough, as soon as the emperor heard that it could be used for the treasury, his eyes immediately moved, and Fan Chiwu immediately stepped up when he saw this: "Your Majesty, the ministers and others unanimously demanded that the Yang family's father and son be strictly interrogated, and in addition, the work of Yao County should be presided over by another person." ”

Gu Chen stood quietly beside the emperor, quietly looking at the dozen or so people who impeached Yang Yuanhai for many crimes, even Yang Hong, who had been an official for less than a year, was brought out and counted several major crimes, what nepotism, what knowledge of the law was illegal, what was the street arrogance, what abuse of power, etc., in short, any one can be sentenced to imprisonment or something.

After those people counted the crimes of the Yang family father and son, the emperor pressed the fold in his hand and said in a cold tone: "Xiaobei, pass on my will and edict the Yang family father and son back, if there is disobedience, the means will will not count." ”

Pei Gonggong's eyes paused, and he responded, "Yes." ”

The ministers in the row below breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, the emperor's meaning was already obvious, if the Yang family's father and son dared to resist, then they would have to use force, no matter what the consequences were, as long as they could come back with a breath.

On weekdays, the emperor is jealous of the Yang family, it seems that this time they made the right bet, and finally seized the opportunity to hand a knife to the emperor, so as to bring down the father and son of the Yang family.

The Yang family has fallen, so the marriage relationship between the Yang family and the Gu family is probably coming to an end.

There is a saying that husband and wife are originally birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes.

They don't believe it, there are really mandarin ducks in this world who share weal and woe.

"If you Aiqing are fine, please step down." The emperor was so troubled by these people that he had already decreed that he did not want to see them again at this time, so he waved them and signaled them to hurry away.

The purpose of the ministers was achieved, and they were no longer an eyesore in front of the emperor, and after arching their hands, they withdrew.

There was silence again in the study.

After a long while, the emperor asked, "Gu Qing, it's about your Yue family, don't you say something?" ”

The emperor looked at Gu Chen scrutinically, Gu Chen's face did not change, he still looked respectful and said: "Your Majesty, Shengming, the minister does not dare to put his beak." ”

The emperor knew that he couldn't ask anything here, so he didn't bother with it, but said lightly: "I just hope you can know your position, if the Yang family really lives up to the emperor's grace, then I will not be soft, and when the time comes, you must not do foolish things for a woman." ”

After saying that, the emperor raised his hand and motioned for him to go out as well, he just wanted to be quiet now, and he didn't want to see any of his courtiers dangling in front of his eyes.

Gu Chen replied and retreated.

"Commander Gu, please stay." As soon as Gu Chen stepped out of the jade steps of the imperial study, a voice chased after him from a distance.

Gu Chen turned around and looked at the smiling tiger walking towards him, and he saluted the other party in a proper manner: "I've seen the king of Changle County." ”

Song Xi said with a smile: "No need to be polite, you and I are the same age, and, in the end, you are still a third-grade guard commander, and I have no position except for a false title, you salute me so seriously, it makes me embarrassed." ”

Gu Chen didn't pay attention to his vain compliments, just looked at him and asked, "I don't know what the prince of the county called me?" ”

This palace was so big, he didn't believe that Song Xi bumped into him by chance.

"It's not a big deal, Commander Gu doesn't have to be nervous, it's just that I saw that Young Lady Gu was taken away by Jing Zhaoyin that day, I don't know how things were resolved later? Where did the firearm come from? He looked very concerned about this matter, and patted his chest righteously, "If there is a place for me, just look for me, I know that Mrs. Gu Shao is a woman, even if she really has a firearm on her body, she can't use it, after all, the recoil of firearms is very strong, how can a woman make it?" ”

Gu Chen glanced at Song Xi deeply, not knowing what the other party wanted to suddenly come up to show his affection.

"Thank you for your concern, this matter has been made clear, is the county king going to find Your Majesty? Then I won't bother the king of the county to talk to Your Majesty about business. Gu Chen said, arched his hand, and was about to leave.

Seeing this, Song Xi hurriedly called him: "I'm not here to find Your Majesty, I'm waiting for you here." ”

Gu Chen paused, turned his head and looked at him suspiciously.

Song Xi smiled, stepped forward and said: "I heard that Mrs. Gu is good at Danqing, and she used to be an accompanying painter in the palace for a period of time, you also know that my relationship with the Yan family is already an ironclad matter, and the imperial uncle has not said that the marriage contract is abandoned, therefore, the marriage date cannot be changed, seven days later, the Changle County Mansion and the Yan Mansion will jointly hold a hairpin banquet, and at that time, a painter will be needed to draw a panorama of the banquet for us, I wonder if Commander Gu can go back and ask Mrs. Ling?" ”

Gu Chen raised his eyebrows, Song Xi still wants to marry Yanjing?