Gui Zhiyao is the younger brother of Wu'an Hou and the younger uncle of King Qian.

A year ago, Gong Zhun of Rongyang County, under the rule of Cangzhou, impeached Gui Zhiyao for setting up a private coal mine in Rongyang County for corrupt taxes and grain, causing the people of Cangzhou to live in poverty and complain.

However, Gong Zhun's impeachment of Gui Zhiyao did not reach the imperial front, and later Gong Zhun died of illness, and the imperial court sent another official to Rongyang County to take up his post.

Shortly after Gong Zhun's death, the crown prince received an anonymous letter listing Gui Zhiyao's top 10 crimes in Cangzhou, and also mentioning that someone in Kyoto had intercepted Gong Zhun's impeachment petition by the former Rongyang County Commander.

After the prince received the anonymous letter, he immediately sent someone to investigate and found out that the anonymous letter was written by Gong Zhun's daughter Gong Yunniang. According to Gong Yunniang's confession, Gong Zhun did not die of illness, but was killed by Gui Zhiyao.

Two-thirds of Cangzhou's officials took refuge in Gui Zhiyao, and the other third, except for Gong Zhun, shrank their heads as quails. He covered the sky with one hand in Cangzhou, and the officials in Kyoto were in cahoots with him, so his crimes did not reach the heavens.

What Gong Yunniang said was very important, and the prince did not dare to hide it, so he immediately reported it to Emperor Yuanhe.

Emperor Yuanhe asked the prince to leave this matter alone, the prince and Emperor Yuanhe had a dispute, and the words angered Tianwei, and Emperor Yuanhe was angry and asked the prince to think about it behind closed doors, and he was not allowed to interfere in the government for half a year.

The prince was punished, Gui Zhiyao still stayed in the position of the governor of Cangzhou, and in the past six months, I don't know how many crimes he has committed.

Now that the quasi-crown prince of Yuanhe Dien has re-entered the court, he has agreed to investigate Gui Zhiyao's crimes.

Emperor Yuanhe handed over the corruption case of Gui Zhiyao to the crown prince, and selected three officials from Dali Temple and the Criminal Department to assist, and secretly infiltrated Cangzhou to investigate thoroughly.

When Wu Han received this errand, he was interrogating Zhang Guangping, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works.

Qi Heming handed over the account books and drawings to Zhang Guangping back then. Zhang Guangping did not conceal it, and later the Jiaozhi Hall collapsed, Zhang Guangping was also implicated, and it took ten years to be promoted to the position of Zuo Shilang.

Zhang Guangping confessed in his confession that someone used his family's life to blackmail him into destroying physical evidence, and if he did not comply, he would send his wife and children to see the king of Hades.

When asked who that person was, Zhang Guangping said that it was Gui Zhiyao, the uncle of King Qian.

It's Gui Zhiyao again.

Wu Han read the file ten years ago, Gui Zhiyao was still a household servant at that time, and the timber purchasing officer of Tangshan Xinggong was a member of his subordinates, so he was reprimanded by Emperor Yuanhe.

Later, he was sent to Cangzhou, and like Zhang Guangping, it took ten years to rise to the position of Cangzhou Zhizhou.

In addition, Zhang Guangping also confessed that Qi Heming's death was not an accident, but was poisoned, but it happened to encounter the collapse of the Jiaozhi Palace, so no one knew that he died of poisoning.

This secret was also learned by Zhang Guangping by chance, and he never told anyone.

But this was only Zhang Guangping's words, Wu Han presented the physical evidence and Zhang Guangping's confession to Emperor Yuan He, and Emperor Yuan He was furious after reading it.

When he saw the palace marked with a red circle on the drawing, his heart shook. It was as if we had entered a previous nightmare, a mixture of despair, panic, and rage.

"Check, you must check it out for me."

Emperor Yuanhe would never allow the scene in his dream to become real, he wanted to see who was so bold as to dare to put his hand on the wood of the Tangshan Palace.

Wu Han hesitated: "Holy Lord, the minister needs to open the coffin for an autopsy in order to verify the truth of what Zhang Guangping said. ”

"I'm right."

"But Lord Qi was a court official before his death..."

Emperor Yuanhe knew what he was worried about, "I will give you an edict for the widow of the Qi family to cooperate." ”

Wu Han thanked him and took the order.

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Anpingfang, Qi House

Mrs. Jiang brought her two daughters to visit her sister and niece, and while the four of them were talking, Wu Han came to the door with Emperor Yuanhe's edict.

Hearing the words of opening the coffin and conducting the autopsy, Mrs. Qi almost fainted.

Qi Tanying was much calmer than her mother, and after reading Emperor Yuanhe's edict, she understood that this coffin had to be opened.

She made a request to Wu Han that she must be present when the coffin was opened for an autopsy, which means that she would go to Wuzhou with the people of Dali Temple.

Wu Han agreed.

At the end of July, Qi Tanying followed the people of Dali Temple to Wuzhou in the south, and after arriving in Jiangyu, Dali Temple was divided into two groups of people, one group led by Yan Li to the west to take the official road to Wuzhou, and the other group went to Cangzhou by boat with Wu Han to the east.

The autopsy in Wuzhou was carried out in secret, and Wu Han promised to let Qi Tanying accompany her, but also to cover up her identity as Yan Li's fiancée.

When the investigation team left Beijing less than half a year ago, I don't know who leaked the news. After receiving the news, King Qianwang was anxious and restless, and immediately called Wu Anhou to discuss countermeasures.

Despite the burning eyebrows, Wu Anhou was still very calm, and King Qianwang kept pacing in the study, but he slowly tasted the good Biluochun in King Qian's mansion.

King Qianqi walked up to him angrily, "Uncle, when is it, you still have the heart to drink tea." ”

The old god of Wu'an Hou raised his eyes, "Is it His Royal Highness and Concubine Shuniang who have been abolished?" Or is it that my Wu'an Hou Mansion has fallen? He frowned, "Your Highness's anxious temperament still needs to be settled." ”

These words almost made King Qian's anger so much that he vomited blood.

He glanced at Wu Anhou, who was still sipping tea, and King Qian's heart was not in a hurry.

At the same time, King Yu, who lived next to King Qian, was also discussing with his staff.

King Yu was a thin young man, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a pale face and a distinct cyan ring under his eyes. It was a hot summer, but he wrapped himself tightly.

The staff raised his hand and wiped his sweat with his sleeve, "Your Highness's cold poison has flare up again?" ”

King Yu snorted, and then gathered the cloak on his body, the staff only felt that the clothes on their bodies had been soaked with sweat, and at this moment they were a little envious of King Yu's sick and weak body.

King Yu glanced at him and said, "Cangzhou is rich, we can't let the prince take advantage of it alone, let's also get a piece of the pie." ”

The staff persuaded: "The case of the collapse of the Jiaozhi Hall has not yet been closed, and the people of Dali Temple have already found Zhang Guangping." Your Highness, the minister thinks that we should not get involved at this time. ”

"What are you afraid of, give up a Zhang Guangping, as well as Liu Guangping and Li Guangping." King Yu chuckled, "Zhang Guangping is a smart man and knows how to make trade-offs. ”

After speaking, he couldn't help sighing: "Speaking of which, the main hall is too poor, otherwise it will not tear down the east wall and make up the west wall." ”

This is true. Although Yun Guifei, the mother of Queen Yu, was born in a noble family, her family was really poor. When Concubine Yun Guifei entered the palace to run for election, she was ridiculed by Concubine Shu for being a poor girl.

Concubine Yun is poor, but King Yu is the grandson of Fengzi Long, and Emperor Yuanhe has a lot of subsidies for her in front of his son. But later, King Yu was poisoned by the cold, and he needed to take a Tuhuo Pill every ten days, and one Tuhuo Pill was worth 100 gold, and he needed 36 pills in a year.

Tu Huodan is a very big expense for King Yu, and if he does something else, he will need more money, so he can only try to get money.

Sometimes King Yu would think that it would be nice if he were the son of the queen or the concubine, so that he would not have to worry about the money.