If there is no birthday gift, then such a will must be a promotion!

Su Qing played the drum excitedly in his heart, and it was difficult to show it on his face, so he only knelt down honestly to accept the order.

But he heard Xiao Yizi say: "Su Qing took advantage of his birthday to openly embezzle and accept bribes, and privately arrested Maiguan Maiguan, and immediately arrested him in the palace for questioning." Officials who should be bribed and gifted will be brought back for interrogation by Dali Temple! ”

As soon as the words fell, Su Qing suddenly raised his head, and his old face turned pale with fright.

At the same time, the officers and soldiers of Dali Temple rushed in from outside the door, frightening the officials who came to congratulate the birthday in all directions, and the female dependents let out screams.

Xiao Yizi was not in a hurry, and shouted sharply: "Come on, check the ceremonies in the hall one by one, and seize all the ones worth more than a thousand taels of silver!" ”

Zhang Zhidong was quite calm, he just sent two squares of gold and graphite as if it were the occasion, but he was afraid that it would be so shabby that Su Qing would laugh.

He glanced at Su Zhiming quickly, "This is what Brother Su said, the reason why the second set of seats can't be placed?" ”

Su Zhiming didn't care about talking to him at the moment, so he hurriedly waved his hand and brought his little servant, and said to Xiao Yizi: "Father-in-law, there are many people in Su Mansion who celebrate his birthday today, and there are also official daughters present, in order to avoid collision, can you let me say a few words?" ”

As he spoke, he asked his servant to bring the gift list, "This is my gift today, my father-in-law will take a look." ”

Xiao Yizi only glanced at it, and saw that it was a simple set of four treasures of Huizhou Xiangzhu Study, and said with a busy smile: "Naturally, Su Ge has something to say." ”

Su Zhiming turned around and said loudly: "Everyone, please calm down, and ask the subordinate officials of Dali Temple to restrain their subordinates, and don't take people at will!" Su Mansion is surrounded, these people can't run away, why should the Sven people who are all officials hurt their faces? ”

As soon as he said this, the officers and soldiers of Dali Temple also stopped, and the officials and female dependents who fled in all directions did not run away.

yes, what's the use of running?

Even if the official doesn't do it, he won't be able to run out of the impregnable Su Mansion.

Even if they run out of the Su Mansion, the whole world is not the king's land, rather than being a fugitive, it is better to hope that the queen mother and the emperor will be kind to them to spare their lives.

Su Qing knelt on the ground, and at this moment he raised his head to look at Su Zhiming incredulously.

Looking at his calm appearance, he must have known it beforehand.

Su Qing trembled and grabbed the corner of his clothes, "You, you already knew...... Are you hurting me? ”

"No one wants to harm Uncle Su."

Su Zhiming lowered his head and couldn't bear to say: "The queen mother and the emperor haven't convicted the uncle yet, but they just let you enter the palace for questioning." As long as you haven't done those things, you're not in danger, are you? ”

Su Qing stared at him for a while before letting go.

He was right.

It was precisely because Su Qing knew that he had done it that he had nothing to say......

……

Su Qing was taken away by Xiao Yizi, and the birthday gifts in the hall were all checked, and the gift giver was also arrested by Dali Temple for too valuable gifts.

In fact, not many people were arrested.

Because most of the people who really asked Su Qing for help had already been sorted out early, and they would not wait until their birthday to give gifts.

At the same time, it is not only the Su family in the capital who is arresting people.

Several officials' residences entered the officers and soldiers to arrest them, including the Ministry of Labor Wailang, who was just about to take up the post.

Su Qing wanted him to avoid suspicion, he didn't have to go to Sufu to celebrate his birthday today, he was happily waiting at home for himself to officially become a waiter of the Ministry of Works, and he didn't want a will, he was arrested in Dali Temple.

The capital is in chaos, and the court is in chaos.

Before the people who wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob came out, they saw that there were many more soldiers patrolling the streets of the capital, and it turned out that Bai Yan was leading the Jiangcheng army and was ordered to assist the patrol battalion of the capital to guard.

Among them, the focus of the guards is naturally the several mansions that have been arrested today, the lord has been arrested, and the people in the palace are bound to be chaotic, and there will also be thieves and thieves who intend to make trouble.

As soon as they saw that the soldiers were patrolling so closely, the hearts of these gangsters also stopped.

The capital is still as peaceful as ever, and after only one night, people can hardly feel the chaos.

Su Qing was arrested and put into the palace, and was not directly brought to Su Youyi and Yuan Zhi for interrogation, but was locked up in a dark room all night.

It was a night for him.

He hardly slept all night, thinking about what he had done, borrowing his life to accumulate wealth, embezzlement and bribery......

and thought about what rhetoric to use to defend herself, and also thought about how to impress Su Youyi to let her let her go, maybe she should use the early death of Concubine Wan to speak......

Thinking about it, the night passed quietly.

Early the next morning, Su Qing was taken out, but it was not Kunning Palace, but Qianqing Palace.

As soon as I entered the study room of the Qianqing Palace, I saw Yuan Zhigao sitting on the head, and the Taishi chairs on both sides sat Prince Yong, Xue Ge Lao and Su Zhiming and other important ministers of the court.

Even Sima Hu is there.

Before he had time to take a second look at Sima Hu, he saw that among the large group of officials kneeling below, they were all in high positions and had a close relationship with him.

Most of the bribes he gave him on his birthday this time are here.

A drum beat in his heart.

At the top, Yuan Zhi's face was solemn, and when he saw Su Qingxing bowing, he didn't tell him to get up.

After a while, he said sharply: "Su Qing, you have wasted the trust of the Queen Mother and me, and for many years you have formed a party in the DPRK and China for personal gain, and accepted bribes of more than one million taels, do you admit it!" ”

Su Qing's knees weakened and he knelt down.

"The old minister didn't dare, the old minister received a lot of birthday gifts on his birthday. But what exactly those gifts are, the old minister hasn't had time to see them, how to know whether they are expensive or cheap? The emperor detained the old minister on the day of the old minister's birthday, and didn't even give the old minister a chance to take a look at those birthday gifts and then return them, what if this is a deliberate framed by someone with a heart? ”

Yuan Zhi also expected that Su Qing must have thought of a statement this night, so he threw down the stack of documents in his hand, "These birthday gifts were not received on your birthday, do you still have to defend yourself like this?" ”

Su Qing sighed in his heart, and hurriedly picked up those documents to take a look, it turned out to be a gift list.

It was a birthday gift list sent by the person who asked him to do things earlier, but how could these get into the hands of the emperor?

In addition to the gift list, there is also a document that writes what official positions those who gave gifts by using his power, and the handwriting on it is very familiar, Su Qing squinted his eyes and carefully identified it.

Immediately, he raised his head in disbelief and looked at Sima Hu.

That's Sima Hu's handwriting!

Sima Hu was born in a rough man, he didn't read many books, and his handwriting was not good-looking, unlike other civil officials in the court, all of whom wrote well.

Therefore, he knew at a glance that it was Sima Hu's handwriting.

Sima Hu was glared at by him, and his face did not change, "As the supervisor of the imperial history, I have the right and responsibility to share the worries of the queen mother and the emperor." None of these incriminating evidence is false, Brother Su, I advise you to admit it as soon as possible! ”

He persuaded Su Qing to confess, hoping that Yuanzhi would be able to forgive one or two because of this.

Unexpectedly, Su Qing thought that he was deliberately framing himself, and he became even more angry when he heard it.