Sure enough, Xianfeng simply told Li Yanchang the ins and outs of the matter, without mentioning that he learned it from the "Nanfang Daily", but only demanded that the Li case be interrogated by the three divisions, and that it must be thoroughly investigated, and no matter who was involved, it would be taken down and sent to Beijing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As soon as the four of them heard the emperor's words, they immediately felt that the incident was serious: the emperor obviously had many details of the case, and judging from the emperor's face and expression, he was obviously angry to the extreme, and he tried his best to suppress it.

The four of them, who have been up and down for many years in their official careers, glanced at each other and made a decision that they must handle the case in full accordance with the emperor's wishes, and first find out the origin of the original matter. But there is one thing that they all understand that for this case, each of them cannot be taken lightly, and if it is not good, even they will be involved.

Therefore, under the investigation and operation of the three highest-level judicial prisons and supervision yamen of the Qing Dynasty, he soon rushed to the Huangzhou Mansion in Mubei and secretly conducted an open coffin autopsy on Li Yanchang.

However, the three divisions of the yamen interrogated, the movement was very big, and some people in Kaifeng Mansion had already known about it, and they sent people to the scene to do it again, but the criminal department dispatched people from the department to block the Quartet, and the people from Kaifeng Mansion could not do anything, so they had to send people back.

After steaming, the bones were all black, and there was no doubt that Li Yanchang was poisoned before his death! At this point, the Sansi Yamen confirmed that Li Yanchang was killed and died.

After the autopsy of the steamed bones was reported to the imperial court, the case of Li Yanchang being poisoned has been established.

When Xianfeng heard this, he immediately ordered Qi Liaozao, the minister of military aircraft and a scholar of Tirenge University, to supervise the case, and the Criminal Department, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were responsible for investigating and handling the relevant matters involved in the case, strictly preventing fraud, and not delaying.

As a result, a large net shrouded Henan, especially Kaifeng Mansion.

During the investigation of this case, Xingyang County ordered Wang Kun and Kaifeng prefect Jia Zhenru to sit on pins and needles, and several high-ranking officials who received their money also had difficulty sleeping and eating.

With such a large formation, this case is bound to be investigated. First of all, Wang Kun's master was a thief and took the initiative to surrender to the Criminal Department.

Subsequently, the people involved in the case were arrested one after another, including Jia Zhen, the prefect of Kaifeng, Wang Kun, the commander of Xingyang County, several officials and cell bosses of Xingyang County, and several street gangsters, and two people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Within a few days, all the prisoners were escorted to Beijing and handed over to the Criminal Department, where they were sent to prison pending trial.

After interrogation and confronting in court, the criminals had no choice but to confide in the truth and bow their heads and confess their guilt.

Wang Kun, the culprit who murdered Li Yanchang, saw that the inside story was completely exposed and that no one could save him, so he confessed the entire case of embezzlement of disaster relief money and food, bribery, and murder.

At this point, Li Yanchang's murder was presented in front of Xianfeng as it was.

When this matter is investigated, it is not only as simple as murdering a Li Yanchang, his uncle, and his wife, but also involves a huge group of corrupt officials behind it, a huge corruption group.

In Kaifeng Prefecture alone, seven of the eight counties of Xingyang, Bishui, Yingze, Zhengzhou, Mixian, Xinzheng, Zhongmu, and Xiangfu have corruption in the eight counties of Xingyang, Bishui, Yingze, Zhengzhou, Mixian, Xinzheng, Zhongmu, and Xiangfu, and there is corruption in seven counties, from Zhengzhou County, which has the largest number of county orders to embezzle 15,000 taels of disaster relief silver, to 2,300 taels of disaster relief silver in Bishui County, and only Zhongmu County has only 3,000 taels of disaster relief silver, and the county is honest and has not embezzled relief silver.

In addition to Kaifeng Mansion, the rest of the Weihui Mansion, Zhangde Mansion, Henan Mansion, Ruzhou, Xuzhou, Nanyang Mansion, Shaanzhou and other state capitals in Henan are also greedy for ink everywhere, and the government embezzles silver, which is shocking!

In the province of Henan alone, 310,000 taels of the 350,000 taels of disaster relief silver were allocated, and only more than 30,000 taels were really used for disaster relief. Don't save one out of ten!

The entire Henan officialdom is completely rotten.

Xianfeng was completely enraged, the erosion of the Qing Dynasty officialdom, and the corruption of officials in Henan made him sleepless all night.

He immediately made several wills.

The first is to settle accounts, and all the officials related to this case, from top to bottom, will not let go of any of them.

For the governor of Zhili, Xianfeng was already a little dissatisfied with his encirclement of the long-haired thief Northern Expeditionary Army.

The newly appointed minister of the Qin mission and the commander of the capital, Shengbao, went to southern Henan to encircle and suppress the long-haired bandits, and had been suffering from the lack of supply of grain and grass.

Now, coupled with the ineffective disaster relief and locust eradication, there is now such a thing, and he was ruthless at the moment, dismissed him, and sent him back to Xinjiang to serve and atone for his crimes.

For Yinggui, the governor of Henan, Xianfeng had a good impression of him, so he was dismissed, demoted to the envoy of Henan, and compensated 20,000 taels of silver and fined him for three years.

And the rest of the political envoys and envoys of Henanbu were not so lucky because they were all Han Chinese. All of them were dismissed for ineffective disaster relief and dereliction of duty, and they were sent back to their hometowns, and all their family property was confiscated and returned to the treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

And for several major criminals, it is not just as easy as dismissal.

The first is Jia Zhen, the prefect of Kaifeng: he accepted a bribe of 3,000 taels of silver from Wang Kun, the main culprit of Xingyang County, knowing that Wang Kun was taking a bribe and did not ask, and teamed up with Wang Kun and other prefects to bend the law for bribes, and instigated his subordinates to commit murder and kill the superior officials who came to investigate and deal with it.

The second is Wang Kun, the commander of Xingyang County: he fraudulently received 13,000 taels of silver, and the amount of money he received amounted to 10,000 taels, which was already beyond the law, and therefore plotted to poison Li Yanchang and killed, which was really greedy and cruel.

In order to relieve his hatred, Wang Kun's head was pickled in lime and hung in front of the tomb of Li Yanchang in Huangzhou Mansion to repent of his sins. Wang Kun's eldest son, who was only 13 years old, was also imprisoned and exiled to Xinjiang when he reached the age of majority.

The third group of people were the Xingyang County officials and their masters and Li Yanchang's entourage who directly committed the murder, and Li Yanchang's entourage had been killed, but the Xingyang County officials and the master followed the lord to investigate and give relief, and dared to be greedy for profit and wanton to murder Shangguan, and even killed people and killed people, which was really a heinous crime.

In particular, Xianfeng sent an official of the Criminal Department to escort the two to Huangzhou Mansion in the north of the country, where they were executed in front of the tomb of Li Yanchang and his wife, and dug up their hearts and livers to pay tribute to the souls of the heroes.

Finally, other relevant implicated personnel, such as the prefects and county orders of Weihui Mansion, Zhangde Mansion, Henan Prefecture, Ruzhou, Xuzhou, Nanyang Prefecture, Shaanzhou and other prefectures in Henan, and the prefects of Bishui, Xingze, Zhengzhou, Mixian, Xinzheng, and Xiangfu in Kaifeng Prefecture, were all dismissed and investigated.

For a time, the entire officialdom of Henan was shaken, and almost most of the prefects and more than half of the county orders in the entire Henan were dismissed. If it weren't for Qi Liaozao, a scholar of Tirenge University, to dissuade Xianfeng, now that the long-haired thieves have invaded the territory, and the southern Guangdong thieves are attacking everywhere, the hinterland of the Central Plains needs to be stabilized.

However, Xianfeng, who was not angry, although he swallowed his anger because he did not let the provinces be in turmoil during the extraordinary period, he still ordered the affected provinces in the Central Plains, and all provincial, state and county officials to be fined for one year to show vigilance.

The second is to comfort Li Yanchang almost after his death.

Xianfeng personally wrote a poem to praise Li Yanchang for being an example of an honest official who "eliminated the evil spirit of the remnants of the police and showed permission to be a minister".

He also asked someone to engrave it on the stone tablet soil, stand in front of Li Yuchang's tomb, and donate 1,000 taels to repair a stele tower of "Compassion and Loyalty Poems" to praise the loyalty festival.

In addition, Li Yanchang's relatives should also be given preferential treatment.

Xianfeng ordered Li Yanchang to be posthumously rewarded with the title of waiter, and gave mercy according to the waiter's rules. In addition, Li Yanchang, who had already been buried, dug it out and re-buried, and the new funeral gave 300 taels of silver for the whole funeral according to the official regulations of the three grades, and 20 taels of silver for a sacrifice.

In the end, Li Yanchang's son was rewarded as a lifter.

However, the last item is difficult. Local officials from the Criminal Department and Huangzhou Prefecture reported that they had heard that Li Yanchang's two sons, his old mother and younger brother, had been taken to the south.

Xianfeng then remembered what the "Nanfang Daily" said that Li Yanchang's relatives had been taken to Xixi by the Cantonese thieves in the south to support him, and he couldn't help but hate it in his heart! At this time, even if the good is rewarded and the evil is punished, his face as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty is disgraced.

So, he made another decree and named Li Yanchang's son Li Xizuo as a reward.

The prefect of Huangzhou Mansion only understood the emperor's true intentions at this time. even scolded himself for being too stupid, so he hurriedly found a young nephew surnamed Li in Li Yanchang's hometown, and succeeded Li Yanchang as his son, named Li Xizuo, to welcome the emperor's reward!

But the people near Li Yanchang's hometown and even around Huangzhou Mansion soon knew the inside story, and then it spread more and more widely, and they all knew what was going on in the north and even in the area of Zhili in southern Henan. (To be continued.) )