Chapter 136: The Evidence Is Conclusive
"Bi Aiqing, do you know why I summoned you today?"
The emperor stared coldly at Bi Guangxiao below. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Back to the emperor, I think there may be a villain trying to frame me"
Saying this, Bi Guangxiao also deliberately glanced at Xu Qing next to him.
"Whether it was framed or not, I can't be determined, I only believe in the evidence" Then the emperor moved his gaze to Xu Qing next to him.
"Xu Aiqing, now that Bi Aiqing is already in this hall, you should also show some evidence for the crimes I have shown."
"That's right, if you Xu Qing can't come up with any strong evidence, Bi and I won't give up easily," Bi Guangxiao also turned around and looked at him at this time, and said to Xu Qing with the smell of gunpowder.
Xu Qing smiled calmly, he took two steps forward, came to Bi Guangxiao and said to him: "Don't worry, I, Xu, never do things that I am not sure of"
Then, Xu Qing clapped his hands at the door of the hall, as if shouting something. After a while, two palace guards entered the main hall with an official in official uniform.
The official looked very flustered, trembling all over, and after entering the main hall, the two guards behind him pushed at him, and directly pushed him to his knees.
And when Bi Guangxiao saw this person, he was secretly shocked in his heart, and a drop of cold sweat slipped down his forehead.
"Who is this?"
The emperor pointed to the official kneeling on the top of the hall and asked Xu Qingdao.
"Back to the emperor, this person is Zhang Tianxing, the prefect of GS, and I brought him to this hall today to expose Bi Guangxiao's crimes."
"Say!" The emperor asked him to continue.
"It's the emperor, just in March of this year, there was an unprecedented drought in the GS area, and the affected people were as many as 300,000, your emperor, in order to provide disaster relief, allocated 10,000 taels of gold from the treasury and sent it to GS, but most of these disaster relief silver taels were corrupted by this person and Bi Guangxiao, in order not to let the news leak, Bi Guangxiao colluded with all the officials of GS to suppress the victims, and deliberately created the illusion that the disaster had been solved to deceive the emperor." This crime is extremely serious, if it is confirmed, it is estimated that the black gauze hat on Bi Guangxiao's head will not be guaranteed, and he will even have to go to the cell for a few days.
"Nonsense, the matter of the disaster relief funds is not personally supervised by me at all, and I have no idea where the disaster relief funds are going, these are the affairs of the local officials of GS themselves, how can they be framed against me?" Seeing that such a large number of charges were deducted on his head, Bi Guangxiao naturally couldn't calm down anymore, and immediately began to defend himself.
Xu Qing was naturally expected to oppose Bi Guangxiao's strong opposition, otherwise how could he have found the GS prefect.
"Zhang Tianxing! You tell me all about your embezzlement of disaster relief funds! ”
Zhang Tianxing knelt on the ground, he secretly raised his head, glanced at Bi Guangxiao, and saw that Bi Guangxiao had been squeezing his eyes, signaling him to know how to shut up, and staring at him with a very stern expression, as if to say that if you say all these things, you will be finished.
"Don't think about shielding Bi Guangxiao, I know everything about you, as long as you explain honestly, maybe you can still live, otherwise your fate will be the same as Bi Guangxiao" Xu Qing noticed that Zhang Tianxing and he exchanged glances with each other, as if they were plotting something, but it was not a conspiracy, Xu Qing, who was also an old fritter in officialdom, naturally knew the content. Of course, it is impossible for him to let Zhang Tianxing cover Bi Guangxiao.
"Speak quickly!"
After Xu Qing's roar, Zhang Tianxing was instantly stunned, and immediately honestly explained everything in it, how they embezzled disaster relief funds together, how they bullied the victims, how they hid from the world, Zhang Tianxing explained it clearly.
After listening to his words, Bi Guangxiao's expression became more panicked, and his body continued to tremble, in fact, since Zhang Tianxing was pressed to the top of the main hall, Bi Guangxiao knew what was going to happen, but he didn't expect that he could be caught by Xu Qing if he was so cautious at the beginning, which really made Bi Guangxiao unexpected.
Obviously, he has been sending people to monitor Xu Qing's movements, and found that he has been staying at home drinking tea and enjoying flowers, how could he suddenly bring the GS prefect over, but compared to these, how did Xu Qing find out about this.
"Hmph, just listening to him means that I did it? I also doubt that Xu Qing bribed Zhang Tianxing and asked him to say this deliberately" Bi Guangxiao still did not admit these crimes, but still insisted on refuting them.
"I knew you wouldn't admit it"
So Xu Qing clapped his hands again and called a soldier to come to the top of the main hall, still holding a thick book in his hand.
Xu Qing picked up the book-like thing from his hand, held it up and said to Bi Guangxiao: "This is the account book you forged back then, and I have marked out the obvious traces of forgery, and there are also a few letters between you and Zhang Tianxing in this account book, which clearly write the process of your corruption, these are all real and powerful evidence."
The emperor pointed to the eunuch beside him and motioned for him to go down and bring the ledger. The eunuch immediately understood, walked down respectfully, came to Xu Qing, took the ledger in his hand, turned around and returned to the emperor's side, and handed it over to the emperor.
The emperor took the account book and opened it to look at it, and on the account book, those places where the traces of forgery were obvious or far from the facts were clearly marked, which was very clear. And the letters sandwiched in them he also took out and looked at them carefully, and they were indeed exactly the same as Bi Guangxiao's usual handwriting.
After the emperor finished reading it, he threw all of these at Bi Guangxiao's feet.
"Look at it, is there anything else you want to say?"
Bi Guangxiao did not pick up the ledgers and letters on the ground, which also means that these evidences are also true, and he also admitted all this.
Seeing him standing there without saying a word, and without picking up the ledger on the ground to read, the emperor also had an answer in his heart.
"I didn't expect that you are one of my most trusted ministers, but you have done such a hurtful thing, do you think that you can do anything wrong because you are close to me?"
"Then let me continue to ask you, before this, Xu Qing told me that it is true that you deliberately expelled those officials who opposed you in the government and the opposition, appointed your own cronies, and formed a faction in the court in an attempt to peep into the imperial power?"