Obviously, Gonghuiwei didn't expect Liang Huanqing to admit that she did it, and she didn't know how to respond for a while.

Liang Huanqing put her hand on the dragon case, she didn't speak, but her eyes kept looking at Gong Huiwei.

Gong Huiwei only felt as if he was about to be seen through by Liang Huanqing, he lowered his head and knelt straight in the hall, sweat slid down from behind him, and kept wrapping his nerves.

At this moment, Gong Huiwei only felt that he had come to the palace to underestimate Liang Huanqing, and she was waiting for her here.

The current queen of the Celestial Empire is only in her teens and less than twenty years old, and a year ago she was still a pampered and raised lady in the general's mansion in the capital.

But since she married into the palace and became the princess of the second son of the first emperor, the entire court situation is slowly changing, the entire Celestial Empire is slowly changing, and Prime Minister Lu Cheng, who is in power, was also brought down by this queen mother, and she was just a young princess at that time.

Now she is in charge and saves the Heavenly Empire from dire straits, but there are still people who doubt her intentions, and only think that her good intentions are ulterior.

Many of them still thought that the queen didn't know anything they had done, but Gonghuiwei now knew.

Liang Huanqing sat on the upper seat, condescendingly looking at Gong Huiwei kneeling in the hall, as if she knew what he was thinking.

At present, Gonghui Wei is thinking about whether the queen mother knows whether he colluded with Xia Sicheng, the servant of the line, and embezzled the money allocated to Suizhou to repair the bridge in Suizhou, which was seriously flooded, and now that the bridge is completed, it is really unbelievable to hear that Liang Huanqing suddenly issued an order not to allow the people to go on the bridge, and the bridge was completed but not allowed to be used by the people.

As the official Huiwei of the Ministry of Industry, he wanted to ask the queen why the people were not allowed to go to the bridge, but he didn't dare to speak.

It was a meritorious thing for the Heavenly Family to allocate funds to build bridges and roads, and the emperor at that time also attached great importance to building bridges for Suizhou.

The building materials used to build the bridge were transported from all over the world, and the adult who was transported at that time was Xia Sicheng, the secretary of the Taifu Temple, and the person in charge of this project at that time was the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Gonghuiwei.

Xingtaifu Temple is responsible for transportation and procurement, and if Xia Sicheng wants to cut corners on materials, he must not be able to hide the eyes of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Gonghuiwei.

So in the face of the Wanguan project money allocated by the Heavenly Family, Xia Sicheng and Gonghuiwei had bad ideas, they cut corners on the project, deceived the subordinates and concealed it, and since that incident, the two of them have eaten the sweetness and are out of control.

However, the Gonghui Wei built the bridge, using extremely poor materials, as long as it was time for the flood, the bridge would almost collapse with one blow, and it would not be able to last forever.

Rao is the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Gonghui Wei is like this, and no one in the Ministry of Industry dares to report it to the emperor, so it has been delayed until the completion of the bridge.

After the completion of the bridge, Xia Sicheng took advantage of the position of the imperial servant Siqing, and also took advantage of a lot of loopholes in Beijing to buy officials and accept bribes for others.

In addition, the queen mother issued a decree not to allow the people of Suizhou to go to the bridge, and at that time he and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Gonghuiwei began to spin their legs.

Xia Sicheng also deliberately went to the Gonghui Wei Mansion to discuss matters in the name of visiting.

"Gongshangshu, now the queen has ordered that the people of Suizhou are not allowed to go to the bridge, this is ...... Does this mean that our affairs have been exposed? Will the queen already have her eyes on us? Xia Sicheng knew the news, but he didn't fall asleep for a few nights, so he had to come to the Gonghui Wei Mansion.

Gonghuiwei also knew that the queen mother had issued an order not to let the people of Suizhou go to the bridge, and the Suizhou prefect blocked the bridge, and the people didn't know what was going on, but the government didn't give an explanation, but where to explain? They had not heard of such a decree in the imperial court, and they did not know until it was promulgated.

Gonghui Wei wanted to ask the queen mother, but thinking that it was better to stay still in this matter, he only asked the Ministry of Works to ask, and the queen mother closed the door to the Ministry of Works, saying that she was unwell and inconvenient to see people.

This made Gonghuiwei frightened, and he had been worried in the mansion, and when Xia Sicheng came to the mansion to ask him, he was also bored.

"At the beginning, it was because of the war with Da Liang and the funeral of the first emperor that the treasury of the Celestial Empire was empty, and the imperial court halved the salary, so we had to do something with the project money...... I thought I had hidden it from the emperor, but who would know that it was discovered by the queen mother now? Gong Huiwei faced Xia Sicheng, who asked himself, and said at a loss.

"Gongsama!" Xia Sicheng was so frightened that he couldn't sit still, if this was discovered, it would be a matter of being copied all over the house!

Lu Gaohong's example was alive in front of them, but they did it anyway.

Xia Sicheng jumped up from his position and whispered to Gong Huiwei: "You mean, the queen has already discovered us?" ”

Gonghuiwei frowned, looked at the panicked Xia Sicheng, and said, "The construction of the bridge in Suizhou is the responsibility of this official. If you hadn't said that there would be nothing to do, and there would be thousands of dollars to make profits, the official had a clean sleeve for a lifetime, and he was about to resign and return home, how could he do such a thing! ”

"What you said is not authentic!" Xia Sicheng heard Gonghuiwei pick all the mistakes on himself, and he exploded all of a sudden, "When the lower official said that he was going to do this, the adult didn't have any objection, it was all for the money, why did the adult pretend to be high in front of the lower official?" ”

"You!" Gonghui Wei was stunned by Xia Sicheng's words, he blew his beard angrily, he pointed to Xia Sicheng's nose and said: "Then do you know that if the queen mother knows about this, the first person to be punished will be this official!" As long as you arrest the official, do you think you can escape? ”

Saying this, Xia Sicheng was silent, he was a young man in his thirties, and in the eyes of Gong Huiwei, he was a child-like person, and after he knew that he might be imprisoned, he couldn't help but be scared in his heart.

"That'...... What can I do now? Xia Sicheng was still scared, after all, he was still young, and there was still a lot of way to go in the future, and it was not easy to get to his current position in his thirties, and he had a bright future in the future, so he didn't want to be buried like this.

"Humph!" Gonghuiwei glared at him and said, "Now I can think of calling this official a princess." ”

Xia Sicheng was also frightened, and when he saw that Gonghui Wei seemed to have a way, he hurriedly accompanied the smile and softened: "My lord, you don't remember the villain, what kind of scene is it now, I hope you can give an idea!" ”

This is related to the careers of the two of them and the lives of the whole family, and Gonghui Wei no longer made things difficult for Xia Sicheng, and then said: "You send the gold and silver you obtained from bribery and corruption out of the palace, and when the queen finds out, you can't find the stolen goods, so you will give up." ”

"That's ...... Is it feasible? Xia Sicheng hesitated, "In case something really goes wrong with the Suizhou Bridge and is discovered by the queen, I will not be able to escape death!" ”

"What do you think of now? Why didn't you think of this in the first place? Gonghuiwei glanced at him, only felt that this person was useless, and dragged him into the water in vain, "As long as this official is still in the Ministry of Industry, it should not be a problem to re-strengthen it in the name of repair, but this matter is over...... Your treasures that have been shipped out of the city......"

Gonghuiwei was hinting at Xia Sicheng, and Xia Sicheng was also a person, so he immediately gave up his hand and said: "Filial piety to the princess to return to his hometown for the elderly." ”

Gong Huiwei nodded with satisfaction.

When Xia Sicheng returned to the Qingfu Mansion of Xingtaifu Temple, he began to prepare, wanting to take advantage of the night to send those boxes out of the city.

And all this is in the hands of Liang Huanqing, and after the arrival of the people came to report, also taking advantage of the night, Liang Lin led people to seal the Xia Sicheng Mansion of the Taifu Temple, which happened to be in the courtyard, and they seized the gold, silver and jewelry that Xia Sicheng was preparing to transport out of the city.

Xia Sicheng, who was in the prison, quickly confessed to several people who embezzled with him in the court, including the name of Gonghuiwei.

Liang Huanqing waited in the Qinzheng Hall early in the morning, Xia Sicheng was arrested, there must be someone who couldn't hold it, she didn't expect it to be Gonghuiwei, but it was also expected.

I don't know how long it took, Liang Huanqing knocked on the dragon case with his fingers, indicating that he was impatient to wait.

Gong Huiwei knelt down and didn't dare to look up at the queen mother, listening to the queen mother's fingers one by one, he only felt like a very urgent voice, he trembled all over, his back and forehead were sweating, he thought he could come and ask the queen if she could come up with any evidence.

But now it is conceivable that the queen mother has been eyeing them for a long time, if you want evidence, I am afraid that the queen mother dares to take it, and they dare not look at it.

"The Queen's Mother...... Wechen is guilty! Gong Huiwei finally lay on the ground and said with a crying voice in his voice.

"What is the sin?" Liang Huanqing sat on the dragon chair, his voice was clear, but solemn and majestic, echoing in the empty palace of diligence, straight and intimidating.

"Sinner...... The offender should not embezzle the money for the Suizhou Bridge project......" Gonghui Wei said crying.

At this time, he regretted it very much in his heart, but it was obvious that it was useless, what was the use of regret? Man has to pay the price for what he has done.

Seeing him say this, Liang Huanqing picked up the paperweight on the table and threw it over, the paperweight was a carved dragon made of white jade, and smashed straight in front of Gonghuiwei, and it was immediately broken into two sections, so frightened that Gonghuiwei trembled and knelt back half a step.

"The queen is angry!" Yuebai and the eunuchs and palace maids who were waiting in the palace knelt down one after another, persuading the queen not to be angry, so as not to hurt her body.

But how can Liang Huanqing not be angry now, she pointed at Gonghui Wei, then got off the dragon seat, walked towards him step by step, and said as she walked: "It turns out that you also know that the embezzlement is the bridge construction money of Suizhou City!"

At the beginning, the emperor ordered to pay money and silver to build a bridge in Suizhou to resist floods, which was a bridge and a life-saving embankment!

Suizhou Qinzhou had a big flood last year! Countless people died, and then the plague was triggered, and countless people were also killed! Shangjing also almost fell!

That money was the silver taels that the palace and the people had saved from between their teeth!

At the beginning of the year, the war and plague consumed most of the treasury of the Celestial Empire, the funeral of the first emperor and the emperor's accession to the throne, but also the treasury was empty, after the emperor ascended the throne, the treasury had already been left with little left, it was the palace that tightened up and down, and it was the people who handed over the surplus grain to donate, only the Suizhou Bridge!

The emperor and the people only hope that if there is still heavy rain and flooding this year, there will be fewer deaths, and with that bridge, no matter how big the flood is, they will not be afraid! Suizhou City and Qinzhou City are safe!

But what about you?! You're all doing something that no brute would do!

Now the palace has ordered that the people are not allowed to go to the bridge, which can prevent the people of Suizhou from not finding that the bridge is a defective project! But if there is a big flood! How do you make this palace worthy of the emperor! How to be worthy of the people! ”

Liang Huanqing was angry, so he kicked over, and the person who was kicked by Gonghuiwei turned over on his back, and shouted: "The queen mother spares her life, and the queen mother forgives her sins!" ”

Yue Bai and He Yu, who was on the side, glanced at each other, only shook their heads, and sighed that Gonghui Wei knew why he had to do it today.

Where was Liang Huanqing willing to listen to his nonsense, and immediately said: "He Yu! ”

"The minions are here!"

"Remove the official emblem from the official hat, remove the official uniform, and confiscate the official seal! Escorted to the prison waiting to be released! Liang Huanqing looked at Gonghuiwei lying on the ground, and said mercilessly.

"Yes!" He Yu instructed two people, one on the left and one on the right, to remove the official hat and official uniform of the Gonghui Guard, remove the official seal, and then personally escort them to the prison to seal the mansion.

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After everything was done today, Liang Huanqing only felt tired, but he still went to the Imperial Garden with Yuebai to enjoy the flowers.

Yuebai saw that the queen mother was still sad, so she asked carefully: "The queen mother, are you still worried?" This Gong Huiwei and Xia Sicheng have been imprisoned, what are the queen still worried about? ”

"There is not only one Gonghuiwei and Xia Sicheng in this court, and now the palace needs them to take care of the government, this move uses Gonghuiwei and Xia Sicheng to kill chickens and monkeys, I just hope they can understand.

There are too many things that the palace doesn't care about them now, but they can still be used, and if they get an inch, they have to give way to the palace test champion. Liang Huanqing said while playing with the chalcedony in his hand.

"The queen mother's intentions are good, adults will understand." Yuebai echoed on the side.

Liang Huanqing sighed, and suddenly smelled the smell of gardenia, it was not as elegant as other flowers, and there was a strong fragrance as soon as it got close.

"When did the Imperial Garden have this gardenia?" Liang Huanqing has some strangeness, but I remember that I have never seen gardenias in the Imperial Garden, why are there now?

Mr. Si remembered that the queen mother loved the gardenia when she saw it in the palace, and took some flower branches back to the general's mansion. Now that the gardenia is in bloom, Mr. Si asked people to transplant a few gardenias from the palace to the imperial garden.

Recently, the queen mother has been busy with court politics, has not been free to come to the imperial garden, that knows that it is so coincidental, gardenias are newly blooming, the fragrance is fresh and fresh, if the queen mother likes it, the slave maid picks a few plants back to Qianning Palace to smoke incense? Yuebai said respectfully.

When Liang Huanqing heard that it was transplanted by Si Nanping, he shook his head and said: "No need, Qianning Palace is lit with agarwood incense, and the gardenia is too strong to match." ”