When Wen Tingzhan entered the palace, Emperor Xinghua happened to have lunch, and was reviewing the recital in the Qinzheng Palace, Xiao Shirui was also there, and put a small case on the other side, and there were a lot of recitals in front of him, seeing Wen Tingzhan come in, he just raised his head, and then lowered his head to look at the recital seriously.

"Wechen see Your Majesty." Wen Tingzhan saluted uprightly.

"Get up." Emperor Xinghua said without raising his head.

Wen Tingzhan stood up and bowed to Xiao Shirui: "His Royal Highness King Chun." ”

"Lord Wen doesn't need to be polite." Xiao Shirui also replied.

Wen Tingzhan stood silently on one side, and for a while, there was only the crisp sound of the wind blowing through the bead curtain outside the window and the pearl and jade hitting each other.

After a while, Emperor Xinghua spoke: "In the case of tax and silver, I have already seen your performance, you have done a good job in this matter, Hu Ting is a pillar of talent." ”

Hu Ting knew about this and acquiesced, Wen Tingzhan did not hide Emperor Xinghua, and he couldn't hide it, if he concealed Emperor Xinghua today, then in the future, Shan Jiuci would have the evidence, then he would be blamed. Emperor Xinghua is a wise monarch who has the people of the world in his heart, and sometimes he has to open his eyes and close his eyes when he is a king.

Just like Hu Ting's matter, Wen Tingzhan naturally blamed most of the blame on Cao Gong, in fact, everything was indeed handled by Cao Gong, and Hu Ting was just passive.

"It's Your Majesty's imperial grace, and Weichen doesn't dare to take credit." Wen Tingzhan said humbly.

"This Cao Gong is dead, and the tax silver Hu Ting is missing? This case is not closed, have you found out the whereabouts of the tax money? Emperor Xinghua put down the cinnabar pen and raised his eyes to look at Wen Tingzhan.

"Back to Your Majesty, the tax money is in the Liu family of Yuzhang County." Wen Tingzhan bowed.

"The Liu family?" Emperor Xinghua raised his eyebrows, "Why is it in the Liu family?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, this matter is Hu Ting's work." Wen Tingzhan said to Emperor Xinghua, "Cao Gong was coerced to steal tax silver, Hu Ting only learned afterwards, before he knew that he immediately ordered to block all the gates of Huguang in and out of the city, so a large amount of tax silver could not be transported out, just when the former Huguang political secretary Liu Jumin Liu returned to Yuzhang County Ding worry, Cao Gong sent Liu a car of things on the grounds of sending Liu to the local products, and the silver was in the compartment of the box. ”

Cao Gong did give Liu Juyan a cart of things before Liu Jumin left, but this is a routine human exchange, and it is indeed some local products, which are given to Liu Jumin on behalf of Hu Ting and the entire Huguang who have worked with Liu Jumin for several years, which is well documented, as for the original box containing local products, it has already been manipulated by Wen Tingzhan.

"Liu Jumin hasn't found the tax silver until now?" Emperor Xinghua came to be interested.

"Lord Liu has already found out, but Lord Liu doesn't dare to hand it in." Wen Tingzhan replied calmly.

"Why?"

"I can't argue."

"He's unlucky, I'm going to give him justice?" Emperor Xinghua said in a deep voice.

"No, Lord Liu doesn't believe in Your Majesty, but you don't believe in Weichen, if Your Majesty hadn't sent Weichen to check the tax silver, presumably Lord Liu would have handed over the tax silver." Wen Tingzhan replied.

"Why doesn't he believe you?" Emperor Xinghua thought for a while and said, "Aren't you wearing it outside, you are the son of the Liu family, but the Liu family, he still doesn't believe you?" ”

It can be seen that the rumors are not credible. If Weichen is really as Mrs. Liu said, it is the Liu family, presumably Mrs. Liu should tell Lord Liu and Weichen to help each other. Wen Tingzhan said.

"People are about to die, and their words are good, and it may not be that Liu Jumin is narrow-minded, I am afraid that you will return to the Liu family and divide his power." Emperor Xinghua suddenly smiled and said, "Since you have found out that the tax silver is in the Liu family, then you will go and get the tax silver back to me." ”

"Weichen is asking Your Majesty to allow Weichen to open the coffin of the old lady Liu." Wen Tingzhan said.

"Kailiu City's coffin?" Emperor Xinghua was really stunned, but it was only a moment to return to normal, "You don't have to tell me that the tax silver was hidden in Liu Shiying's coffin by Liu Jumin!" ”

"Exactly."

Emperor Xinghua was silent for a moment, and even Xiao Shirui raised his head in surprise. Where has a monarch ever ordered the opening of a coffin of a deceased courtier while his bones were still cold? This is enough for the historian to criticize and write, what Emperor Xinghua wanted most was to open the coffin of the Kou family, but just moved to the Kou family, Huguang was a big flood, and Emperor Xinghua was so depressed at that time that he couldn't do it, but he had to be cautious in every move.

After two or three years of the flood retreated, there was no reason for Emperor Xinghua to come back to rehash the old accounts, so that Emperor Xinghua had not taken a breath in the Kou family until now. Not even the Kou family, let alone Liu Shiying, who has not had many major crimes until now, the biggest sin is only to destroy Wen Tingzhan, the crime of bullying the monarch before his death, but Emperor Xinghua will not pull the dead out of the coffin for this reason.

"How sure are you that the tax money is in the coffin of Liu Shiying?" Emperor Xinghua stared at Wen Tingzhan and asked.

Wen Tingzhan lowered his eyebrows and pleasing his eyes: "The minister is ten percent sure that the tax money is in the coffin of Old Lady Liu." ”

"Do you know what's at stake behind this?" Emperor Xinghua's voice grew colder.

"Wechen understands."

"If you open the coffin, but you can't get out the tax money......"

"Wechen is willing to pay death for his sins." Wen Tingzhan's tone was flat, as if he was not talking about life and death.

Emperor Xinghua took a deep breath and looked at Wen Tingzhan who was silent for a long time before he said, "You retreat first, go back and think about it, I will give you another night's time, and we will discuss it after tomorrow morning." ”

"Wechen retired."

Wen Tingzhan bowed and withdrew from the Qinzheng Palace. As soon as he walked down the white jade stairs, Xiao Shirui chased after him: "Yunhe, you wait for me." ”

Wen Tingzhan stopped and looked at Xiao Shirui, who was chasing closer.

"Is that silver really hidden in the coffin of Liu Shiying?" Xiao Shirui asked in a low voice.

"Nature." Wen Tingzhan smiled lightly.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Xiao Shirui already knew from Emperor Xinghua's mouth that this was done by Shan Jiuci, and it was instructed by Emperor Xinghua, and he intuitively felt that Shan Jiuci would not be so easy to deal with.

"Naturally, it's not simple, the silver at the bottom of the coffin is sandwiched up and down with dragon oil." Wen Tingzhan did not hide Xiao Shirui either.

Xiao Shirui's eyes widened: "How do you take out the silver?" ”

In the past, princes and nobles liked to cover the top of the tomb with dragon oil to prevent the tomb from being robbed by the most vicious people who coveted the burial goods. If the bottom of the coffin is paved, then once the bottom layer is pried open, so much dragon oil is not to mention silver, but I am afraid that the person who opens the coffin will not want to live.

At that time, the silver will be burned to the ground, and Wen Tingzhan will not be able to take his life.

"You dare to stand up for life and death!" Xiao Shirui was in a hurry.

"Naturally, I have a plan to open the coffin." Wen Tingzhan smiled lightly at him, then turned around and walked towards the palace gate, "Shake is still waiting for me at the palace gate." ”