"You, you, you...... What did you say? Liu Quan didn't come back to his senses for a while, and thought that something was wrong with his ears.

"I said, Luo Shuangxi, I killed it." As she spoke, Ming Ruonan stroked her cuffs and raised her eyes, with a smile in her eyes, "I admit it." ”

Everyone didn't expect that Ming Ruonan would admit it, and he recognized it frankly.

"The crown princess has recognized it?" Mrs. Li obviously didn't expect Ming Ruonan's move.

"Isn't Taifu's ears not good? There are a lot of famous doctors in the Jishi Pavilion of our Ice Sect, do you need to come and see you? ”

Mrs. Li was so angry that she just wanted to blow her beard, but suddenly remembered that the scene at this moment was when she was chasing after the victory, and hurriedly said: "Does the crown princess admit ......it?"

"Recognize, this palace recognizes it all." Ming Ruonan had a smile on her face, and her hand gently pinched Liu Quan's shoulder, the old man screamed, but others looked at her without any strength at all.

"Mrs. Li wants to ask, whether Liu Chang, the grain and grass superintendent, Chu An, Zhonglang Yi, and Situ Li Lu, the granary of Zhongzhou, were killed by this palace?"

"You've admitted it all?"

Ming Ruonan sneered: "Not only them, but also Huang Nian, Liang Yu, Qian Maodian, and Zong Hu Yue...... The officials and profiteers who died at the hands of the palace, no more, no less, twenty-three people. ”

The ministers in the Yuqiong Hall were all in a trance at this time, and they looked at Ming Ruonan as if they were looking at a devil.

"O Crown Princess! Why is it so brutal? ”

"Yes! That's twenty-three lives! ”

"Why? Hahaha, you talk to me about human life? Ming Ruonan laughed out loud, on top of this hall, she glared angrily or stood, or sat on, or looked at her eyes full of condemnation, or looked at the people with fear on her face, "What qualifications do you have to talk about the word 'human life' with this palace?" Isn't the life of 500,000 troops in the southwest border? Aren't they what you call 'people'? Or are you the only powerful and powerful people worthy of being called human beings? ”

None of the hundreds of officials in the palace could answer, and their conscience was still clear, so they silently lowered their heads, and sighed one after another in the golden mean: "But even if the crown princess has doubts about the southwest, she should ask Your Majesty to make a judgment." ”

"Yes! Let's declare that there is a law, if there is really someone who obstructs it in the battle with Nanyuan, then the law will not be tolerated! ”

"The law?" When Ming Ruonan heard these two words, he felt that it was really sad and ridiculous, "Do you know how many people were sent to ask for help from the Southwest Border Army?" How many folds of ginseng grain transportation and salt and iron division have been handed out? ”

The crowd was silent.

Ming Ruonan said sharply: "For more than three months, three hundred and twenty people were dispatched!" Send out more than 170 copies of requests for help, food, and armor! She glanced at everyone present and said coldly, "Dare to ask you, have anyone ever seen these folds?" These people! Have you seen it again? ”

"I don't have any other witnesses, so you can say whatever you want?"

Ming Ruonan looked at the person who spoke, shook his head, and said helplessly: "So, haven't you all seen those guilty books?" ”

"Who knows if you got it by torture?" Liu Quan's shoulder was still so painful that he fell to the ground, and the person had already begun to die.

Ming Ruonan glanced at Liu Quan.

"Lord Liu just said that extorting confessions by torture is due diligence, why do you question me now?"

Liu Quan wanted to argue again, but was frightened by Ming Ruonan's fierce eyes and didn't dare to say more.

"Everyone, if you think that this palace is talking nonsense, then this palace is willing to share the results of the past month with you." Ming Ruonan clapped her hands as she spoke, only to see several palace people carrying four large boxes up.

She slowly walked over to the box, and everyone's eyes were focused on it, wondering what was inside the four boxes of different sizes.

At this time, Yuan Jing's eyes were tightly closed, and he had already expected the direction of this matter from the moment Ming Ruonan admitted that he had killed someone. He knew what was in the box, and because he knew, he was even more worried and distressed.

"Squeak", the sound of the lid of the box being slowly opened, touched everyone's hearts.

"In this first box, it is loaded with military salaries that were sent to Geshan Pass in the southwest and given to the soldiers on the front line."

The lid of the box had only been opened for a short time before a rancid smell emanated from the box.

"Is there any adult who would like to come up and see this grain?"

As soon as Ming Ruonan's words fell, he saw Hubu Luan Shangshu stand up directly.

As he walked forward, he whispered: "It took ten days and nights for everyone in the household department to prepare this food, how could there be a problem......

He approached the box and covered his mouth and nose in disgust. Luan Shangshu hurriedly picked up the grain rice from the box and rubbed it, and said in shock: "This ...... All we have in stock is new grain from the treasury this year! How much rain does it have to take to do this? It's all moldy, how can it be eaten by the soldiers? ”

Ming Ruonan knew that this old man was very afraid of death, and he had also investigated that he was really dedicated to this matter.

"This palace knows that the lords of the household department have worked hard, but this grain is not improperly transported, nor is it a loss of storage......

"Please also ask the crown princess to make it clear."

"It was Liu Chang, the grain and grass supervisor, who jointly transported the grain and grass and the officials who transported the grain and grass, and replaced all these new grains and rice with old grain and rotten rice!"

Everyone was shocked, but those who had read Liu Chang's book knew that what Ming Ruonan said was true.

This Liu Chang's son is a gambler, so he owes a lot of money. There are often debt collectors who chase Liu Chang, he can bluff, he can be scared, and if he can't be scared, he will simply kill him. It's just that this time his son really got into trouble with a terrible person, this debt collector is a thief who makes the court a headache. Although he supervises the transportation of food and wages on weekdays, he is greedy for a lot of ink, but this time his son owes a large amount of money, which is profitable, and he can't afford to pay it even if he goes bankrupt.

At this time, the holy decree of transporting military salaries to the southwest arrived, and Liu Chang decided to take a risk, after all, the southwest mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and there is really something wrong with the grain and grass at that time, so it is said that there is a loss in transportation, and he pushes it clean.

He didn't do anything, but he united with the black-hearted rice merchants, and replaced all the general's salaries with old grain, and wrapped the inside and outside three layers with cloth, for fear that the people being transported would smell rotten. Even if he really smells it, he will be vaguely passed by the officials he bought in advance.

"This is life-saving food!" Some officials said angrily.

Ming Ruonan smiled bitterly: "My lord is surprised by this, this is not life-saving food, this is food to save the country!" Do you think that in this war, only 300,000 soldiers from the southwest and a little marquis and a major general died? ”

The crowd was ashamed, but they didn't know how to answer.

"This hurts the country! It hurts the hearts of all the soldiers! Let's ask who else is willing to fight for Daxuan in the future! Die for Daxuan? ”

In the main hall, there were bursts of sighs. The generals present felt even more empathetic, and clenched their fists in anger.

"Of the 300,000 soldiers who died this time, more than 800 of them starved to death! There were also 200,000 people, so hungry that they only had skin and bones left, they peeled the bark of trees, ate grass roots, and had no choice but to kill their beloved war horses. Dare to ask you, how can these soldiers who can't even eat fight against the million-dollar army of the Nanyuan Kingdom that is full of food and strong soldiers? ”

Everyone was in an uproar, and someone whispered: "So Liu Chang was starved to death......"

"Not bad! I want him to know what it's like to not be able to eat! ”

Ming Ruonan fed Liu Chang to eat tree bark and grass roots two days ago, and then completely cut off his food, so that he could fully understand the pain of the soldiers in the southwest.

Everyone was still in extreme surprise, and they saw that Ming Ruonan directly opened the second box.

It was all bloody armor.

"It's ...... What was used by the Southwest Frontier Army? ”

"Yes, please come and see what blades the Southwest Army is using to fight against the soldiers of Nanyuan."

Jiang Ning stepped forward: "The Ministry of War wrote according to the military book, and the minister remembered that at that time, His Majesty ordered the Salt and Iron Division to urgently prepare three times the armament and send it to the southwest. ”

He took out a piece of armor from the box and instantly frowned: "This...... Not right......"