Chapter 56: The Fall of the Officials
The rest will be handed over to those literati, Li Ruyan has never understood the turn, and he is not afraid of offending people.
"What did Master Shangshu say, how do you know so clearly about other people's houses?"
"Master housekeeper, you are only forty this year, you only have twenty taels a month, and you have to have an old mother and a wife and children, how did you buy this suite in a short period of time if you didn't take bribes?"
"Besides, the housekeeper has a good relationship with his wife, why do you want to raise these girls in the suburbs?"
"There are only six people in your family, why do you have to live in such a big house, and you don't see your wife and children?"
A series of questions were asked, and people couldn't resist it.
The housekeeper was hesitant, and he couldn't say why for a long time, looking at this posture, what else didn't he understand, and he was an innocent person.
But what about knowing? What about the evidence?
Xu Zirong listened on the sidelines and let out a snort, "What does Shizi mean by this?" Don't you still want to be an official? ”
This is really wronging him, so many people are watching, it is obviously Li Ruyan who is asking, and he is also the head of a folk picket workshop.
"Lord Xu, don't worry, there is something Yu'an wants you to confirm."
"What?"
After that, Xiao Yu'an raised his chin and motioned him to look back, Xu Zirong turned back, and saw a group of women being escorted up, their faces pale, weren't these people already executed when the Golden Bird Hall was exposed?
Of course he didn't know that this was fake news from Qi Luo, and the person hadn't sent it to the Golden Bird Hall at all.
"Lord Xu, look at these people, do you know?"
So far, there is no other way but to die and not admit it, "I don't know." ”
"Your Excellency has to talk about some evidence, and I can record the evidence of Xu Gongzi's corruption here."
Shan Ce came from the shadows, he just went back to the account book and turned over all the people who were related to the Xu family, so that he could turn over the clues.
The dirty water on Xu Zirong's body was splashed clean, but his son didn't have it, but few people would care about the front account of a dead person, so he never found it.
This time, he found that several unknown bribes of officials coincided with the time when Xu Guangyao went out to spend time drinking, he followed this line, sorted out a bunch of confused accounts, and found that the people took the silver tickets of the Xu Mansion to exchange them, and the silver tickets were not recorded in the account books of the Xu Mansion.
Xu Zirong knew what kind of virtue his son was, and he was anxious and angry, but Xiao Yu'an didn't give him a chance.
"When my guards went out to play a few days ago, they inadvertently broke into this house, and accidentally heard that the master's family was going to dismiss the yard and sell the people to remote areas, and my guards couldn't bear it, so they bought the people back on their own initiative, my lord, you said that this girl has a grudge, what will she say?"
The more he listened, the more frightened Xu Zirong became.
A woman walked out of the crowd and knelt in front of Xiao Yu'an, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am the girl who was bought, thanks to the rescue of my son, I escaped the fate of being sold, but I pity my girl." ”
"Tell me everything you know."
"Yes."
"I am a girl from a serious family, because my family was poor and was sold into Xu's house, signed a contract, and had no free body, they sent me to the suburbs of Beijing to serve the girl, the girl is the person who Xu Gongzi fancies, some were robbed by force, some were coaxed over, on the household register, they are all dead people, Xu Gongzi will give the girl's family a large sum of money to settle the matter, and if someone doesn't do it, he will drive them out of Kyoto."
"Later, Xu Gongzi was assassinated, and in order to avoid arousing suspicion, the house had to dismiss the courtyard, and the girl's hair was sold to remote areas, and the girl's family had no identity, so she had to be sent to the Golden Bird Palace as someone else's plaything."
She said calmly because she had been rescued for a long time and had not suffered misfortune, but the girl behind her was crying silently, and a girl knelt down and slammed on the ground, "Ask the adults to decide." ”
knelt down one after another, their lives had been ruined, it was better to beg her for justice.
Xu Zirong was already dead, he said that how could the prince talk to the housekeeper about those irrelevant things, it was basically the later things to foreshadow, those words were just to convict him of finding a scapegoat, and now that the human and material evidence is there, he can't argue.
When he was escorted away, he didn't even react, and the matter was over, he thought he had made all the preparations, but he didn't expect to be clever but mistaken by cleverness, if he hadn't found a scapegoat, the rest of the matter would not have become ironclad evidence at all.
This case of prisoners in the suburbs of Beijing became the last straw that crushed the ministry, and the ministry collapsed.
Gao Qing sat on the upper seat, he had already lost his original look, his eyes were empty, how did things develop to this point? Everything was out of his control, and even the news was the last to reach his ears.
He is the head of the civil officials, and now the Ministry of Household Officials has collapsed, what does it mean for him to be the head of the civil officials, although there is still the Ministry of Rites, but the Ministry of Rites is more in charge of the palace, how can it be compared to the Ministry of Complementarity and the Ministry of Officials? And after the princess was asked to leave, the Ministry of Rites was no longer the Ministry of Rites at the beginning.
Is it really that he is old? A few yellow-haired boys told him to admit defeat, and he didn't know the reason.
Early the next morning, news circulated in the city, Xie Chen sat down in the study room, and found a storyteller's board out of nowhere, and knocked it on the table, which had a little taste.
"Say it!"
"Don't talk about it, hurry up, what's wrong?"
"Cough" Xie Chen's mood that had just been brewed was interrupted, and he didn't hang people's appetites, "said that in the court, the emperor deposed a number of civil officials, was exiled and imprisoned for life, and the holy grace saved his family from involvement, and only punished him for three generations as slaves and maids, for generations as farmers, not allowed to do business, and not allowed to take imperial examinations." ”
This punishment is not heavy, it is not light, since Emperor Xuanwen implemented benevolent government, the officials of the two dynasties have never been punished so severely, such a punishment and shows the benevolence of the Son of Heaven, and does not fall into the tongue.
Yiren sat in the attic, looking at the happy appearance below, and a trace of warmth in his heart.
"Brother, what do you say, how should you be a courtier?"
Xiao Yuanjun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said: "Be worthy of your heart, don't be a presumptuous minister." ”
"But in this way, you will be vain, and you may not be very happy when you come to this world."
To be a minister is to be loyal to the king, some things are not in their own power, they are vain, of course Xiao Yuanjun knows that they just happened to be born in this place, and they have no choice, in order to let more people have a choice, they have to take on this mission.
"You've been with Seventeen for a long time, and you've learned his chic."
Iren listened, his eyebrows twitched slightly, and his fingers unconsciously wrapped his hair in braids.
"Xiaojun, you have an idea, there are some things in your heart, my brother is not good to just say, just know that this road has to go, it is more difficult!"
She knew, she knew better than anyone else, but every step she had taken in her life was so difficult, but it was just harder, and she could bear it.
The matter has come to an end, and for a while, the princess's reputation has risen among the people, and they all say that she is a living bodhisattva in the sky, and she has come down to collect demons and monsters.
Also famous with her is the prince of Xiaohou Mansion, and now he has made a contribution to the king and is already the king of Jing, saying that King Jing has a lively mind and means, and he is still a humble gentleman.
There is a folk script that writes the two of them as a pair, which makes people laugh.
But no matter what, the matter finally came to an end, and after tossing for more than half a month, the big stone in everyone's hearts was finally put down.
Xiao Piao was called by her to buy sesame cakes for her mother-in-law, and now she is walking on the street alone, listening to the familiar cries of selling, and she only feels satisfied.
Seeing the man in green shirt holding an umbrella and looking at her with a light smile, she walked up quickly and was given half a big salute.
Yiren laughed, "You really know me." ”
Changning raised his eyes, didn't say a word, and walked forward side by side with her.
"It's not raining today, the sun isn't big, why do you have an umbrella?"
He lowered his umbrella slightly, looked out, squinted for a while, and was not very accustomed to the light outside, "I haven't seen the sun for a long time, and I can't adapt to it for a while." ”
Yiren looked up and down, and the man's complexion was very pale, with a shallow halo in the sun.
"Have you figured out where you're going next?"
The court compensated the victims of the Golden Bird Hall and the victim girls of the Xu Mansion on the outskirts of Beijing, and also arranged work, so that the men could enter the house to seek a living in the land under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and the women could enjoy their old age in the embroidery house, which was barely a happy ending, but his name was not on this list.
Changning people look gentle and harmless, and their voices are also very gentle, "Go to the wind and see the sea, go to see the mountains and rivers, listen to the wind and taste the rain, there are many things I can try." ”
It's a beautiful plan.
"And when are you coming back?"
The question is inexplicable, "until the old man needs it." ”
But it happened that the deceased didn't know who he was.
There is the city gate in front of him, he is relaxed, the only thing is the umbrella in his hand, if he doesn't say it, he thinks it is a wandering immortal.
"Gone." Childe wore a green shirt, didn't look back, and left in a chic manner, without much nostalgia.
"Goodbye."
The deceased, Changning.
The old people didn't know, but she remembered it, and she was at peace.