The entrance to the palace.

King Duan, who had just been urgently summoned to the palace, stopped, thought for a while, looked at a eunuch and asked, "Do you know what His Majesty summoned this king to the palace?" ”

The eunuch shook his head and said, "Back to Your Highness, Your Majesty didn't say anything. ”

Duan Wang stopped in place for a moment, and finally took another step.

He had just learned the news that Han Ming, the household servant, had been arrested, and he was in a hurry, scratching his heart with a hundred claws, and when he was thinking about how to rescue him with the strategists in the palace, he was summoned to enter the palace.

Han Ming is the most important dark chess in his hand, it is where his wealth lies, if something happens to Han Ming, it will be a great blow to him.

He didn't know the reason why Han Ming was arrested for the time being, but until the last moment, he was unwilling to give up a cash cow that could call for wind and rain in the household department.

Fortunately, few people in Beijing knew about his relationship with Han Ming, so at this moment, he would first probe the news from his father and then make plans.

The eunuch led him to a certain place and said, "Your Highness, Your Majesty is in the Chongming Palace, you can go in." ”

King Duan was a little surprised, the place where his father summoned him was not in the imperial study, and the Chongming Hall was a place where his father meditated on weekdays, and he rarely summoned officials here.

He pushed the door in, and Emperor Chen stood in the hall, with his back to him, and said slowly, "Close the door." ”

King Duan closed the door a little nervously, took two steps forward, and asked, "I don't know what my father and emperor have to call his sons and ministers to come?" ”

Chen Huang looked at him and said expressionlessly, "Kneel." ”

King Duan was stunned and opened his mouth: "Father, ......"

Chen Huang said coldly: "Kneel!" ”

King Duan didn't dare to ask again, and knelt on his knees.

Emperor Chen pointed to a piece of white cloth in the hall and asked, "Do you know what this is?" ”

King Duan looked over and said blankly: "Erchen doesn't know." ”

Chen Huang said coldly: "This is Han Ming, the right attendant of the household department. ”

Duan Wang was stunned at first, then his face turned pale, his body trembled slightly, and he forced himself to regain his composure.

Emperor Chen looked at him and asked, "Han Ming, as the right attendant of the household department, has embezzled millions of taels of tax silver from the state in the past few years, what do you think of this matter?" ”

"Erchen, Erchen......" Fine sweat oozed from Duanwang's forehead, and he whispered: "Erchen thinks that Han Ming deserves to commit this great crime, and he is innocent of death......"

Bang!

Emperor Chen kicked on the street of Duanwang, and the force was so heavy that he moved directly to the ground.

"Is it innocent to die?" Blood appeared in Emperor Chen's eyes, and he lowered his voice and said, "You think I don't know, you have already enveloped Han Ming; You think I don't know that all the money he embezzled ends up in your pocket; Do you think I don't know who is the culprit in this case? ”

Emperor Chen gasped and said a few words, which made King Duan's face change greatly, knelt on the ground, and said in a loud voice: "Father Emperor Mingjian, this case has nothing to do with the son, this case has nothing to do with the son!" ”

Emperor Chen took a deep breath and said, "What a good minister Han Ming is, what kind of place is the treasury, you let the good minister become a traitor, you dare to reach out to the treasury ......, you are so bold!" ”

King Duan's face turned pale and bloodless in an instant, and he said in a panic: "Father, father, it's not a son, this is not a son......"

Emperor Chen turned his head to look at Wei Jian and said, "Bring the torture staff." ”

……

Han Ming, the head of the household department, embezzled a huge amount of silver from the treasury and committed suicide in fear of crime, as soon as the news about this case came out, it was like a boulder, which made the already not very calm Jingshi Lake once again set off monstrous waves.

This was the biggest corruption case in the DPRK and the Central Committee in recent years, which shocked the people of the government and the opposition and spread throughout the capital in just one day.

Han Ming committed suicide in fear of crime, but the case was not over.

Under the thorough investigation of the imperial court, the same party involved in this case was also nowhere to hide, and one of the heads of the household department and two langzhong, including local officials in the three prefectures of Bozhou, were all arrested.

Dare to stretch out their hands to the treasury, their results are not much better than Han Ming, but to the surprise of countless people, after Han Ming committed suicide in fear of sin, King Duan was inexplicably grounded by His Majesty for three months, according to the grapevine, King Duan was beaten to a coma by His Majesty in the Chongming Palace, and was carried out by the eunuchs that day.

The grapevine also said that the reason why Han Ming, the head of the household department, was found to be corrupt was precisely because Tang Ning, who was the head of the household department at the time, proposed a method of checking the accounts when checking the accounts of the household department, which could easily distinguish whether the accounts were fraudulent, and Fang Zhe, the left attendant of the household department, used this method to find out the fact that the right attendant Han Ming embezzled taxes and silver, and there was this big case that caused a sensation in Beijing.

Tang Ning entered the household department for only one month, and he personally pulled down a right attendant of the household department, which made the major officials of the Beijing Division panic, and added a strong stroke to his resume.

Han Ming's arrest, although everyone in Beijing applauded, but Tang Ning, who was revised by the Hanlin Academy and concurrently served as the head of the household department, also had the title of a broom star.

The officialdom is complicated, and among the many officials in the DPRK and China, who dares to say that they are clean under their buttocks, and who can withstand strict scrutiny?

Tang Ning, who is now the head of the household department, will become the head of the criminal department and the head of the official department in a few months, and at that time, I don't know if it is the unlucky servant of the criminal department or the secretary of the ministry.

"Broom Star?"

Downing sat comfortably in the courtyard, and Xiaoxiao brought the grapes that had been transported by water from the south to his mouth. Hearing this, he opened his eyes with a disgruntled expression.

The matter of the household servant is that Han Shilang deserves it, why do you say that he is a broom star, even if there is no him, Fang Zhe will not leave Han Ming to continue in the household department, he is just doing a little bit of work in it.

Xiao Jue walked in from outside and ate a grape, Tang Ning saw him dressed in armor and asked, "Why are you dressed like this?" ”

Xiao Jue swallowed the grapes and said, "On the orders of Your Majesty, send Han Ming's wife and daughter out of Beijing." ”

The punishment result of this case was actually somewhat unexpected by Tang Ning.

The crime committed by Han Ming was a great crime of the Yi people, but after he committed suicide in fear of the crime, Emperor Chen pardoned his family, which was already considered an extrajudicial favor.

"I really can't imagine that Han Ming would actually embezzle taxes and silver." Xiao Jue looked sorry and said: "When I was a child, my father often told me about Han Ming's deeds, he was iron-faced and selfless, not afraid of power, not afraid ......of life and death, he was the first official of the dynasty, and with his own strength, he defeated the traitorous group, and he was the backbone of the imperial court, but who would have thought that the backbone of the imperial court also bent down. ”

People will change, all kinds of reasons will lead to this change, the sea will become mulberry, even Xiao Jue can become a real man, and a good minister may naturally become a traitor.

Thinking of the Han Shilang with steamed buns and pickles, Tang Ning still had some lamentation in his heart, when Han Ming was raided, he only found more than sixty taels of silver in his home......

Tang family.

Tang Qi and Tang Jing were still talking about the suicide of Han Ming, the household servant, and even Tang Jing expressed enough shock about this matter.

In a study room in the Tang Mansion, the atmosphere was extremely dull.

"Your Majesty is really angry this time, and King Duan will have to recuperate for at least a few months before he can fully recover." Tang Qi's voice was low, and he said: "This matter, I'm afraid that I didn't hide it from Your Majesty, it doesn't matter if you lose Han Ming, I'm afraid that after this incident, Your Majesty will be completely disappointed in King Duan......

Tang Huai was silent for a long time before he spoke: "If this continues, King Kang will completely overwhelm King Duan." ”

Tang Qi raised his eyebrows and asked, "In this way, won't all our years of planning be in vain?" ”

"Your Majesty is in the prime of life, and we still have a long time." Tang Huai sat on the chair and said slowly: "King Duan will make mistakes, King Kang will also make mistakes, King Kang can press King Duan at this moment, it doesn't mean that he will always be able to press King Duan......"

Tang Qi thought for a moment and asked, "What does Big Brother mean, what should we do?" ”

"It's better to do more wrong, not to do well." Tang Huai's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "We don't do anything, just wait for them to make mistakes." ”

"What if they don't make mistakes?"

"Then give them the opportunity to make mistakes......"