On the morning of the second day, the crown prince was confident, and his heart was even happier in the face of King Ye's gloomy and indignant face. But in the early dynasty, something unexpected happened: there were officials who impeached the household department for enriching their pockets and emptying the treasury, from the household servant Kong Fu to the chief secretary and the small officials, and the officials who were named and impeached were both princelings, Yewang party, and faction officials who had not expressed their position, but only Shen Di, the household servant.

Despite this, Shen Di, who was in the hall, did not feel at ease at all, but was dripping in cold sweat and pale.

Fortunately, he had already reminded the household in advance, so that everyone was prepared.

However, the impeached person had sinister intentions, but he was taken out, and such an alternative impeachment would undoubtedly cook him with fire! It's really vicious! If someone is unclear at this time, he will bite him back, and the consequences will be even more unimaginable!

Not only was Shen Di terrified, but the prince was also terrified! Who didn't have a long eye, and leaked all the news so quickly? Could it really be someone from King Ye's side?

However, fortunately, the speaker does not seem to know about the dark account, and does not mention the key word "dark account" from beginning to end.

Fortunately, Kong Fu, the household servant, is a clever person, and he knows that this matter must not be done by Shen Di, otherwise it will be a stone-shifting! He understands even more that if Shen Di is dragged into the water at this time, there will be no one to catch them at that time! Therefore, he set the tone at the beginning, kneeling in front of the emperor to cry out for grievances and reprimand the slander of the officials.

As a result, the household officials who came out one after another also followed this tone, and for a while, there were officials kneeling on the ground who were crying out for grievances and even refuting the slander of the officials. Even though the speaker is good at tongue debate, he is also invincible with two fists and four hands. He was unable to produce tangible evidence, and the two sides were at a stalemate.

Emperor Mingzong had a calm face and shouted angrily: "Shen Di! ”

Shen Di hurriedly came out of the queue and knelt down tremblingly: "Minister, minister." ”

"You're the head of the household, what do you say?"

Shen Di was about to speak, but the impeached official sneered and said, "Shen Shangshu, the current situation of the treasury will be known by checking. There is definite information about the impeachment of the household servants by the lower officials. As for Shangshu, you are a speech official, and you will not chase after the wind, and you will not dare to impeach rashly without getting real evidence. But the emperor is shengming, if Lord Shangshu fools the emperor, as long as he sends someone to verify, he will definitely be able to find out! ”

The words of the speech officials are bright and bright, and there is one thing to say, which makes Emperor Mingzong, who is tired of many speech officials saying nothing every day, impeaching trivial things, or chasing after the wind and shadows, fabricating facts and giving direct advice, in his heart quite a good impression of this person. Even though he knew that when the water was clear, there were no fish, and there was some corruption in the household, and Shen Di could not be completely innocent from being found out from under the household servant, but the speech official was also impeached under reasonable and well-founded circumstances, which made him realize that there were still so many people in the Yushitai who understood and knew what the position of the "speech official" was!

However, all the good feelings of this official are based on dissatisfaction with Shen Di, the head of the household department, and the other household officials. It's also to blame Shen Di's bad luck, but at this moment, Emperor Mingzong suddenly had a good memory, and he remembered that Lin Ruo had come to sue the "Imperial Petition" a few months ago, saying that the household department was beating the Lin family's idea.

"Shen Di! Tell me and all of you what is the state of the treasury now? ”

"Emperor Mingjian!" Shen Di was on the ground, "The matter of the emptiness of the treasury, the minister has been on the table many times. Last year, Shangyu disaster relief, and troops sent to the north, the treasury increased a lot! ”

Kong Fu and a group of household officials immediately agreed, saying that even if the treasury bottomed out, it was understandable.

Without waiting for Emperor Mingzong to speak, the official who was kneeling on the other side immediately retorted: "Shen Shangshu's words are too biased!" In the sixteenth year of Tongli, there was a great drought, and the southwest and northwest disaster relief grain was exported from the national treasury, which was several times the amount of Shangyu disaster relief grain; At that time, due to the severe drought and lack of food in southern Xinjiang, the consumption of food and salary for the 400,000 southern border troops was by no means less than last year. Isn't it strange that the treasury was in danger of bottoming out at that time, but now it is empty? ”

"Li is wrong to say! Li is still shallow when he became an official, how do you know that the treasury was not empty back then? ”

Shen Di's subconscious rebuttal was right in the heart of the official Li You: "What Shen Shangshu said is true, the treasury was indeed emptied back then, but there are indeed people who are derelict in their duties and corrupt and empty the treasury. Lord Shen shouldn't have forgotten to copy out nearly a million taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of stones of grain, as well as countless treasures and antiques, from the homes of that Li Shangshu and the two waiters, right? Although the qualifications of the lower officials are not as good as those of Lord Shen, they also know that Lord Shen was transferred to the left servant of the household department after that, and then the official worshiped the secretary of the ministry. Now that the treasury is empty again, how similar is it to what happened back then? ”

Speaking of the events of that year, Emperor Mingzong sank his face.

It is precisely because of the disadvantages of corruption that the supply of grain and grass is not enough, and General Yunlu Qu Changci and Zhongwu General Qu Changbo - that is, his two cousins, will not die on the battlefield; There is also Mrs. Xuanlu, who lost her husband and the child in her womb.

That year, the Empress Dowager was furious and issued an edict demanding a thorough investigation. He, the emperor, also severely punished all the officials involved, sounding the alarm for the government and the opposition.

Could it be that the same thing will happen again?

Emperor Mingzong's eyes sank, and murderous intent surged in his eyes.

Before the decree of the Seedlings Law was issued, such a scandal broke out in the household department!

"Emperor Mingjian!" After receiving Kong Fu's hint from Kong Fu's eyes, Cai Qi, the head of the Duzhi who was kneeling on the ground, immediately appealed, "Your Majesty, please be clear, over the years, the income and expenditure of the treasury have been recorded in detail in the accounts, and the likes of Weichen will never dare to have the courage to be greedy for ink!" What Li said about things, he really wants to add to the crime! ”

Without giving Li You a chance to refute, Cai Yu said loudly: "Emperor Mingjian, in the past six or seven years, with the blessing of the emperor, most of the winds and rains in the four seas have been smooth, but the small-scale drought and flood disasters have never been stopped, and the silver grain allocated by the treasury every year is no longer a few. Although there were few wars in the four borders, the loss of food, military funds, and weapons for millions of soldiers was not a small amount. The emperor loves the people, and he can't bear to give more to the people, and the treasury has been unable to make ends meet over the years. Today, the treasury is at the bottom, the flood in Shangyu last year is one of them, the dispatch of troops in the north is the second, and the other is that the emperor exempted the Lin family's business tax! ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was in an uproar.

If these words were spoken by Shen Di or Kong Fu, it would be a statement to exonerate himself, and it would definitely cause Emperor Mingzong to be furious - of course, from Cai Qi's mouth, the emperor would also be angry, but it could not compare to the former. Why? Cai Quan is one of the directors in charge of the accounts of the state treasury, and the accounts of the state treasury need to go through the hands of him and the other three directors. And these four degrees of branch chiefs are not the same. Unless all four of them share the same hatred, sooner or later, they will be exposed.

However, Emperor Mingzong was still a little too confident, people are sometimes so strange, when common interests are facing a crisis, even if they have different positions, they can temporarily join forces and tide over the difficulties together.