The emperor stood behind the table with a blushing face.

A pair of old eyes glowed with anger.

"Framed you? Who will frame you! What is framing you? Someone entered your Shangshu Mansion at night, knocked your son unconscious and sent him to the courtyard where the second prince was recuperating, and then broke his leg?

Xiao Yan saw your son enter the courtyard with his own eyes and personally wanted to arrest him, he jumped over the wall to escape in a panic, and broke his leg, do you mean that Xiao Yan lied and deceived me? ”

Tobe Shangshu only felt unbelievable, as if he had been struck by lightning.

He could be sure that his son wouldn't lie, at least not in this matter.

Because there is no need to lie, and besides, he has never had any contact with the second prince, and his son will not go to see the second prince in the middle of the night.

But why did Xiao Yan say this?

How much the emperor loves Xiao Yan, everyone knows it from top to bottom.

His throat and eyes were dry and tight, and he couldn't stop swallowing, he didn't dare to refute Xiao Yan, so he could only say: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the minister is really wronged, and the minister has a suspicious target." ”

The emperor raised his eyebrows.

Hubu Shangshu said: "The minister suspects that Gao Zhun, the right servant of the household, just a few days ago, Gao Zhun once asked the minister to say that the tax he collected from the Linxiang silk shop could not be collected this year, and he hoped that the minister would help."

The household department has long had a provision for tax division, and according to the regulations, they are not allowed to interfere with each other, so the minister did not agree.

At that time, Gao Zhun was obviously anxious, but in a blink of an eye, he collected all the taxes.

On the second day after Gao Zhun collected all the taxes, there were rumors in the streets and alleys that the minister's concubine wanted to accept the daughter of the owner of the silk shop as a concubine.

Just when the minister was about to let people check where the rumors came from, the minister's concubine had an accident and broke his leg outside the courtyard wall where His Royal Highness was recuperating.

His Majesty said that it was Lord Xiao Yanxiao who saw him in person, but why did Lord Xiao not capture the minister's son at that time, but let him go home? ”

"Your son just went to visit the second prince late at night, which in itself is not illegal, of course Xiao Yan will not arrest him." The emperor didn't have a good airway.

"But in that case, then who released the news that everyone knew that the minister's son went to visit His Royal Highness late at night? If you didn't arrest it at the time, but afterwards you spread the news and went out to Your Majesty, this is tantamount to murder!

The ministers never formed gangs in the court, let alone participated in the affairs of the princes, and the ministers were only loyal to His Majesty.

Someone wants to harm the minister.

It must be Gao Zhun, who colluded with the owner of the silk shop to slander the son of the minister, and spread rumors that the minister and the second highness had a private relationship, and His Majesty made the decision for the minister! ”

The head of the household department directly identified Gao Zhun.

The emperor can only summon Gao Zhun again.

Hubu Shangshu was invited by the head of the chamberlain to drink tea in the side hall, and in the imperial study, the emperor and other high standards went straight to the point as soon as he arrived, "I ask you, the news that the Hubu Shangshu family is going to take a concubine, but you spread it?" ”

Gao Zhun knelt on the ground with a panicked face, "Your Majesty is aware of it, what are you doing spreading this for no reason!" The minister is wronged. ”

The emperor has two big heads.

This one and two, they all shouted injustice! Can't you just be obedient and recruit yourself!

"The concubine of the Hubu Shangshu family visits the second prince at night, and it has nothing to do with you?" The emperor asked again.

Gao Zhun was full of confusion, "How can this have anything to do with the minister?" The head of the household and the second highness have always had a very good personal relationship, and this is not something that the minister can decide. ”

The emperor was stunned.

Then he was stunned.

Hubu Shangshu and the second prince have a good personal relationship?

"What did you say?" The emperor even suspected that he had misheard.

Gao Zhun said: "Lord Hubu Shangshu has always had a very close relationship with His Second Highness, and His Second Highness is in a coma, and he sent the heirs of the house to visit him several times, if the relationship is shallow, he can't go."

Moreover, in previous years, when the Pingwei Army fought, although the household department could not settle the military expenses, Lord Shangshu would always use his own savings to subsidize it privately. ”

And what's going on?

The emperor was simply dumbfounded.

I never expected to hear such an answer.

"How did you find out?"

Since Gao Zhun wanted to climb Lu Qingshan's line, he naturally wouldn't confess Lu Jia, but said: "I also work for the household department, and the minister also had an occasional accident, and I heard the conversation between Lord Shangshu and His Royal Highness the Second Prince.

The Second Highness came to ask for military expenses for the Pingwei Army, and Lord Shangshu said that the household department really couldn't get the money, but let the Second Highness not worry, he had a way to make up for the military expenses.

This time the Pingwei army was destroyed, and there was no need to make up for the military expenses, but if Your Majesty didn't believe it, you could search Lord Shangshu's mansion, and his mansion had at least 600,000 taels of reserves.

That money was originally intended to subsidize the Pingwei army. ”

The emperor made the eyelids of this amount of stimulation jump.

600,000 taels!

600,000 taels!

"How do you know?"

"When the minister was sorting out the account books of the household department, he found that the number of several account books did not match, so he recalculated it, and finally found that there were 600,000 taels of accounts that were confused and did not go to the treasury of the household department.

So the minister had this guess. ”

Anger made the emperor's temples jump suddenly.

slapped the table, "Come on, bring me the book of the household!" ”

Tobe Shangshu, who was drinking tea in the side hall, entered the imperial study in a blink of an eye.

The emperor asked angrily, "How do you explain your private dealings with the second prince!" ”

Hubu Shangshu didn't know what Gao Zhun said, so he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty is clear, the minister and His Royal Highness have never had any private dealings, never!" ”

After speaking, he turned his head and rushed to Gao Zhun, "You slandered me, right!" ”

Gao Zhun said: "The lower official doesn't dare, the lower official just told the truth, if Lord Shangshu didn't have private dealings with His Royal Highness, why should he use his savings to supplement the military expenses of the Pingwei army?" ”

Tobe Shangshu's eyes widened when he heard this, "I'm crazy, I use my savings to supplement them?" ”

The imperial court doesn't give him military expenses, I'm sick, I'll pay it myself?

I couldn't say this in front of the emperor, so I could only say firmly: "Your Majesty, the minister has never done this." ”

Gao Zhun said: "That is, Lord Shangshu himself is greedy for 600,000 taels and is ready to spend it himself?" ”

Tobe Shangshu's face was confused, but his heart jumped suddenly.

600,000 taels!

600,000 taels!

That was the money Lu Jia gave him to buy the official!

Behind Lu Jia is Lu Qingshan.

How would he explain it?

Not beat around the bush?

But to tell the truth, it is a charge of collusion between a Beijing official and a foreign general.

"Tall, sir!" The head of the household department snorted, "Master Gao said carefully, this official is an honest official, how can he come to 600,000 taels!" ”

Gao Zhun clenched his fists and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the minister has nothing to say, Your Majesty can send someone to the Shangshu Mansion to search, and you will know that this 600,000 taels of huge money should not exist in the ticket bank, and the deposit in the ticket bank is to go to the account, and it must be hidden in his mansion." ”

The emperor watched as a cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Check!"