Chapter Ninety-Six

Empress Dowager Lou's eyes were gloomy and uncertain, she looked at her head angrily, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that this Pan family was tired. The Lin family can't be saved, the emperor is confident, and he doesn't want to watch her, the titular mother, divide power and be constrained. This Jiangnan Lin family was brought here with great effort back then, connecting the Lin family's power in Jiangnan. Now that the building is about to collapse, years of hard work have been ruined, and it is all false to say that you don't care. The queen wanted to be angry with her this time, the Lin family's affairs were put on hold for the time being, since the news of Ruiyang's serious illness came, her heart was not comfortable for a day.

The more the old queen mother thought about it, the more dissatisfied she felt, and she felt a little sad and self-pitying. She is old, and now she is Ruiyang's biological daughter. Emperor...... The emperor can't help his mother when he is older, not to mention that she is not a mother-in-law. In this palace court, she is an old woman, does she really have to be lonely all her life like this? The emperor is not with her, the queen is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and she really wants to accompany the green lantern ancient Buddha now, but it seems that it will not be possible.

Thinking about it like this, the more angry the Empress Dowager Lou was, the more unhappy she was with the Pan family below, and finally she simply turned cold on her face, and she didn't have a good face for this Queen Dacheng, and drove people out directly.

Queen Pan knelt for a while, and was counted down from beginning to end, her legs were cold and numb, her steps were unsteady, and she was helped out step by step by Mama Shi. She didn't pull the queen mother, and the news of her family was not discovered, and she was ridiculed openly and secretly, and she took a step forward with a stomach. Mama Shi is still a caring person, the old queen mother doesn't like the queen anymore, and she doesn't put on a face like tonight, even if she came to invite her late at night just now, the old queen mother also opened the palace door and let her in, how could she suddenly change her face-

She was a handful of years old, and greeted the old eunuch at the gate of the palace, and probed with a wrinkled face with a smile, "Heavy father-in-law, what does the queen mother mean, how can I invite my mother to come out, this is ......"

Father-in-law looked at her funny, so decent? He weighed the silver taels with his hands in his sleeves, and the whole person was short, and his face seemed to be smiling. He looked at the queen's gradual departure, and then looked at the old palace people who were flattering in every way under the palace lamp, and seemed to suddenly remind him kindly, "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is seriously ill, and the queen mother's hair is gray, so the mother has to hit this muzzle." He shook his head, didn't look at the old woman who was suddenly sad on her face, took the money and trembled back to the palace, and the palace door closed again with a "snap" behind him.

Back to Kunhe Palace, Queen Pan was uncomfortable, the whole palace was quiet, the palace people looked at their noses and noses, stood like rows of wood carvings, and no one dared to touch the moldy head. Mama Shi then came back and told her the news of the eldest princess.

When the queen heard this, she laughed, "This eldest princess was the one she was going to marry, and she was determined to use the last bit of value of this daughter." Now that this daughter is seriously ill and useless, what is the point of her belated kindness and mercy? Why did you go earlier? ”

Mama Shi looked left and right and persuaded her, "Niangniang, no matter how annoyed you are, you must be careful that the wall has ears." ”

Pan raised his hand and sent all the palace people back. She sat on the high phoenix seat, the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and even felt a little wronged, "Over the years, this palace has suffered a lot of dumb losses in her hands, she has always looked down on this palace, and it is not right to look at this palace everywhere, and it is uncomfortable to look at this palace." She thought she was still the same Lou family back then? Since ascending the throne on the saint, once a son of heaven and a courtier, how can there be the scenery of her Lou family. Since she is hard-hearted, why did she have to bow her head to support my Pan family in the first place? ”

"Heh, it's just to increase the chips for yourself and hold the power in the palm of your hand."

Mama Shi lowered her head and persuaded her repeatedly, "Niangniang, just get through it, everything will be fine." ”

Queen Pan pinched her nails, her eyes flashed, and finally swallowed this breath.

On the side of the Yangxin Palace, Emperor Mingde sent someone to the Pingning Marquis Mansion overnight and collected the account book in the report. As soon as this thing was handed over to the emperor, Emperor Mingde almost fainted in anger. Shen Su and Song Zhi, the prefect of Yangzhou, also attached a list of some corrupt officials and silverfish that Song Zhi had secretly investigated in Yangzhou for many years, and the year of his term of office and the people involved were recorded. This list is compared with the account book checked by the Shen family, ho, three or five out of ten are the same, which means that these names on this account book cannot be faked.

And the most infuriating thing is that most of the officials on this list are involved, that is to say, these people are all coiled together, in this huge network of interests formed by a small grain of salt, all provinces, provincial governments, merchants, want to be greedy for everyone together, it is beneficial for everyone to make money together, and if there is a black pot, it will be borne by others. All aspects of the salt industry, such as control and inspection, salt introduction, salt transportation and radiation places, etc., are drilled everywhere and greedy everywhere. Emperor Mingde knew that the salt administration in the south of the Yangtze River was not easy to manage, and he couldn't manage it, but he didn't expect that the officials who were dispatched had a great appetite and a heavy ambition, which was the foundation for hollowing out Dacheng.

Angry and hateful, Emperor Mingde's holy edicts were issued frequently, and several confidants and important ministers were summoned overnight to discuss the affairs of the Qing Palace. After this night, there was a lot of noise in the court, and everyone was in danger, lest they have anything to do with the muddy waters in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the 16 prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, in addition to the officials related to the salt administration, countless other official households were imprisoned. Under the momentum of thunder, the house was raided, and the exiled was the Lin Mansion, the governor of Liangjiang, who was once prosperous, and the whole family was confiscated.

Fu Fang entered Beijing at this time, and brought another news to Emperor Mingde, and there was an uproar in the government and the opposition for a while.

The Lin family is not only greedy, but also kills, kills people like hemp, and hides countless corpses underwater.

The Fu family went south to investigate, and they took a different path. They started from Jiangnan businessmen and found out all the way to Jiangling Xiaowanglong Garden.

Emperor Mingde wondered if the Jiangnan Lin family was thinking about being angry with him. After these few times, the anger continued, and Li Lu was terrified when he watched it, and he said "take care of the dragon body" more than ten times.

The wall of the Lin family was pushed by everyone, and after the small Wanglong Garden was copied, the gold, silver and jewelry copied out from the bottom of the lake of his house, just the rusty and mottled iron boxes were cleared out from under the silt More than 20 boxes, not to mention the older broken wooden boxes, although the outside was rotten, the gold and silver inside were really blinding. The Qin sent almost counted, and it could reach a million taels in silver, and the collection in the treasure house of the house was counted separately. Along with this small gold mountain, there are dozens of hidden corpses, some of which are fresh, and some of which are already full of white bones and only skeletons remain.

The Lin family's tenure as the governor of Liangjiang is the longest in history, and Emperor Mingde has taken care of him because of the eldest princess, but under the emperor's grace, he has not let the Lin family become the emperor of Jiangnan. How much the saint cared for him at the beginning, how angry he is now. Greed is a saying, you still give me to kill, aren't you slapping me in the face.

Emperor Mingde's face hurt, and his heart was on fire, so he couldn't help but be angry, this fire burned all the way from Beijing Gate to the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and a large number of relevant officials were imprisoned and exiled, such a posture had never been seen before.

When Song Yansheng got the news, she was looking at the embroidered peony by her mother, she was at home for a few days, embroidering and embroidering dizzy, I don't know how big the storm was outside, this news was brought by her uncle Wei in Pingning Houfu. Wei talked to her mother often, and by the way, she talked about Shen Fangzhi, and Shen looked at her.

No wonder this girl ran up and down a while ago, and it turned out that she was going to give advice to her cousin.

Song Yan slashed the thread, fiddling with a small needle, while listening to them talking outside. The thunder in Jiangnan really fell, and it was expected that the saint would be like this. There is such a big loophole in Jiangnan Yanzheng, so much snowflakes and silver are fed to officials all over Jiangnan, is there still him the emperor in his eyes. This filth that pierces the sky, the saint still has to worry about whether the annals of history will record his faint account in the future, can he not be angry.

Jiangnan pulled out so many forces at once, one radish and one pit, and accordingly had to make up for so many vacancies. At present, there is still a headless public case at the bottom of the Lin family lake to be investigated, and it is estimated that the saint will not be able to pass this year.

I don't know how long her grandfather will have to stay there.

Song Yansheng put down the needle and thread, held his chin and turned out the window. Today, the snow has stopped, and it is white and clean.

The Lin family's golden salon gall quickly fell into her hands in the relevant cao work. Chu Min took a look at it, and his eyebrows showed, this gentian grass is quite well preserved, and it is really fortunate to have such a quality in such a year.

Now that everything is ready, the two went to the Shen family again. Shen Fangzhi has been in good spirits recently due to Chu Minfangzi's recuperation, and the cold has also been slightly relieved. Chu Min has become more and more cautious at this step, not attacking the poison immediately, but adjusting the dose of the fire lotus seed over and over again to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

She was happy here, but Xiao Changying had a heavy face for many days. Judging from the news transmitted by the third prince, he has folded too many people on the Jiangnan side. The forces that were so easy to cultivate are now gone. Earlier, for fear of implicating themselves, Pan Zongjiang withdrew another batch, and now that the Sixteen Mansions in Jiangnan are empty, they can't intervene when they see it, and they have cheapened the Shen family and the Song family in vain. Now that the storm has not passed, no one dares to say that they have escaped this catastrophe, so it is difficult to solve it. It is estimated that only they know the taste in their hearts. Duan Hong's involvement in the Jiangnan Salt Administration was simply a loss of Dafa, and he was angry and angry, so he simply threw everything to Pan Zongjiang, and went to Fujiang to move stones and repair the embankment wholeheartedly.

Xiao Changyuan, who had just returned from Beijing to assist, was robbed of his position: ...... mm batch, why did you go earlier.