Chapter 59: The Imperial Council

Some people couldn't sleep last night, but Bao Qing slept soundly. On the second day, Zhanfang helped Bao Qing put on his official uniform early. Bao Qing ate some indiscriminately, and after filling his stomach, he was in a hurry to participate in the morning dynasty.

"Today's court! The official bank was robbed! A celebrant shouted.

At this shout, the ministers in the palace all began to discuss. That Li Hai looked even more nervous, peeking at Lu Yijian from time to time.

"Your Majesty, the case of Chen Fan Zhongyan going to Changchang County to supervise the robbery of the official silver has been solved! Bao Qing, the county magistrate of Changchang County, is fully responsible for this case, and the minister wants to ask Lord Bao to report the results of the case! Fan Zhongyan said.

"Accurate!"

Seeing this, Bao Qing stepped forward and said, "Bao Qing, the county lieutenant of Changchang County, will now reveal the results of the investigation of the robbery of the official bank to Your Majesty." The first offender in this case, Li Jiujin, the head of the Li family in Changchang County, has committed suicide in fear of crime. The minister has already obtained the confession of the second child of the Li family. According to the confession of the second child of the Li family, the ministers found out the two million yuan that was robbed. At the same time, the ministers also found the three million military salaries that had been robbed many years ago. ”

Bao Qing glanced at Li Hai, paused and continued: "In addition to confessing these, the second eldest of the Li family also confessed some things, which are related to a certain important minister in our main hall. At the beginning, when Li Jiujin, the head of the Li family, had not committed suicide in fear of crime, he said in front of Lord Qincha that what he Li Jiujin had done, someone knew! ”

Ouyang Xiu below pursed his lips, and said secretly in his heart, Li Jiujin can say these words, isn't it your bag boy's trap?

"Lieutenant Bao, I will wait for the precious time, you can just say it, and also, I want to remind you that you can't frame the ministers of the DPRK without full evidence!" Lu Yi said lightly.

Bao Qing's heart was cold, this old fox still helped Lehi to speak, could it be that Lehi still had any secret to hold in his hand? It was impossible for Lu Yijian to help him for no reason. Could it be a stolen letterhead?

Bao Qing glanced at Lu Yijian, and said loudly: "Minister Bao Qing participated in the impeachment of Li Hai, the squire of the Ministry of Labor!" ”

Before Bao Qing finished speaking, he saw Lu Yijian shouting: "Bao Qing, you are a little county lieutenant, you were able to enter Beijing to meet you by the grace of Your Majesty, and this act of impeachment makes your official position seem to be smaller." ”

Bao Qing was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Then may I ask Xiangye, how many officials can participate in the impeachment of officials?" ”

Seeing this, Li Hai hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Bao Qing, it's good that the Li family in this long county is my clan, but who doesn't have a clan?" If the clan makes a mistake, let us pay for it as court ministers, and I think we will have to resign a large number of people here. ”

I saw that Wang Su, the official of the imperial history, stepped forward, pointed at Bao Qing, and shouted: "Bao Xiucai, you don't want to grandstand, relying on your own small achievements, you actually participated in the impeachment of important ministers in the court!" ”

Ouyang Xiu really couldn't stand it anymore, and secretly scolded Bao Qing, he really deserved it, who let you Bao Qing offend Qing Yi. Ouyang Xiu was really helpless at this time, Fan Zhongyan had already glanced at him.

Ouyang Xiu had no choice but to step forward and say to Wang Su: "Lord Wang, you let the family finish speaking!" ”

"A courtier, what is the truth in what he says! Hum! Wang Su said.

As soon as he said this, Bao Qing was anxious and scolded: "Ignorant old man, who are you scolding?" Lao Tzu just supported His Majesty to accept the beauties. You old man, let me ask you, do you have a concubine at home? You have a total of twelve concubines in your old family, I don't know, how do you arrange it at night? You are not ashamed of being old, you let these young women waste their years all day long, and you are widowed, but you are pretending to be amorous. Your Majesty has only taken in a few beauties, and you will chirp crookedly. Why don't you mind yourself first? ”

"You, you!" When Wang Su heard this, he almost vomited blood.

"You bastard, Hugh is rude!" A middle-aged official hurriedly helped Wang Su and scolded Bao Qing.

"Okay, yes, another one to be scolded. You're Zhang Xian, aren't you? Although your family does not raise a concubine, but your good son lingers in the Qinglou all day long, two years ago, he played with the Qinglou woman and tortured a Qinglou woman to death, I ask you if you have such a thing? Bao Qing asked sharply.

"You? You're spying on me? ”

Ouyang Xiu couldn't figure out how this Bao Qing knew, but when he saw that Zhang Xian had missed the horse's feet, he said in a subtle manner: "What Lord Zhang said just now is also a disguised admit!" ”

"Who else wants to reason with me? I'm with you, don't ask others to be gentlemen all day long, but you are a villain behind your back. You take concubines and rob women, why don't you say anything? Besides, today I just told Your Majesty about the robbery of the official bank, why did you come up against me? ”

Although no one stepped forward to question Bao Qing again, Bao Qing looked at it and saw many ministers with angry expressions on their faces, and Bao Qing was unconsciously a little depressed in his heart.

"Your Majesty!" Bao Qing looked at Renzong, who had not spoken, and said, "Do you know how the Li family handles this money?" ”

Many courtiers below were a little puzzled, what did it matter how the Li family handled the money.

The Li family did not touch any of the money, but stored it. We don't consciously think about this more, when will the Li family keep this money if they don't move? Secondly, since the Li family had committed a military salary robbery many years ago, why did they take the risk of doing another vote? Usually people think that after making a big deal, it is enough for their family to eat and drink for a few lifetimes, and they will definitely stop it. But the Li family didn't stop, why is this? Could it be that the money that his Li family has is not enough? What the hell do you want to do, three million yuan is not enough? ”

This is how Bao Qing led the thoughts of Renzong and the courtiers in this hall step by step in a certain direction. It was the two robberies before and after that that the connecting point was found.

"Is it a rebellion? With so much money, you can recruit troops! I don't know who said that, and sure enough, it attracted a lot of whispered discussions.

Renzong finally couldn't sit still because of the word rebellion, and asked solemnly: "Just such a long-term county Li family, just because they also want to rebel?" ”

What Bao Qing was waiting for was Renzong's words, of course an emperor could despise a small family in a county town. So he said: "Your Majesty asked well, at that time, I also wondered, just because of this little Li family, I want to rebel?" ”

Bao Qing suddenly slapped the table and said, "Of course not, because the Li family is also acting on orders, they thought about taking away so much money, but they didn't dare!" And whose orders are they? Everyone broke their hands and counted the index. ”

"You! You are making up nonsense! Do you dare to slander the ministers of the DPRK and China? Lehi was a little hysterical.

Bao Qing didn't give him a chance to breathe, and immediately shouted: "I made it up out of thin air? Then let me ask you, why did you instruct the Li family to secretly record the privacy of officials in the DPRK and China, and also made a bribery account book for hundreds of officials? Ladies and gentlemen, what Bao Qing said just now is recorded in this account book. Among some of the people here, many people's privacy has been recorded, and many people have accepted bribes from the Li family, and the Li family has also recorded them with a pen. ”

Renzong, who was sitting on the dragon chair, had a blue face, if it weren't for this Bao Qing's actions, he was afraid that he would really think that the courtiers in this hall were all loyal and patriotic, honest and honest.

When the ministers heard what Bao Qing said, many of them looked frightened and looked at Bao Qing and Renzong with some trepidation. Bao Qing didn't say much, and then took out a blue book from his arms, which Fan Zhongyan recognized at a glance, that is, the account book of hundreds of officials who were bribed by Bao Qing that day.

"Your Majesty, Chen Baoqing will hand over the account book of the bribery of the hundred officials to you, and let Your Majesty see how many duplicitous and cunning people are in this hall, and how many shameless and dirty officials are greedy for ink." After Bao Qing finished speaking, he sent the ledger forward.

"This!" Renzong looked at the ministers of His Highness, and there were many who bowed their heads and said nothing, and there were many who showed remorse. Renzong hesitated a little, but before the celebrant stepped forward to take the account book in Bao Qing's hand, Bao Qing slipped in his hand, as if he stumbled, and threw the account book directly into the oil lamp in the hall.

"Ahh It's burned! Bao Qing said, but in his hand, he slowly lit the blue ledger in the oil lamp, slowly burning, and it didn't take long for the ledger to burn to ashes.

The ministers above this hall were silent, and there was surprise, gratitude, or admiration in their eyes.

"Your Majesty! Chen thinks that this account book is made up by the surname Bao, otherwise why burn it? The surname is Bao, you can show me the evidence! When Lehi saw that the ledger had burned, he couldn't help but feel a little glad in his heart.

Lu Yijian couldn't help frowning, looked at Li Hai with contempt, and thought to himself, Bao Qing has won, even if this Li Hai is kept, the official position of the Ministry of Labor will be lost.

"Get out! Get lost! Renzong said two rolling words to Li Hailian.