Accompanied by Liu Yuan's screams, the courtiers waiting outside the Jinluan Hall subconsciously did not talk to each other, and the civil and military officials ascended the steps to enter the hall in turn according to the size of their ranks...

Xu Boqing and Song Mingde waited in front of the door, and only after the civil and military officials outside the Jinluan Hall had entered the palace, they shouted in unison, "Ministers welcome Your Majesty", and the two of them entered the palace...

At this time, Emperor Yonghe was wearing a golden dragon robe, sitting on the dragon chair, looking at the civil and military officials in the hall with no joy or sadness.

After seeing Xu Boqing enter the hall, he didn't know what he thought, his eyes moved slightly, but the strangeness in his eyes only flashed, and he regained his indifference again...

As soon as Xu Boqing walked into the hall, for some reason there was a feeling of palpitations that flashed, and he frowned slightly and glanced around, but he didn't notice anything unusual...

When I saw Emperor Yonghe sitting on the dragon chair, I couldn't help but have some doubts in my heart...

The last time we met was on the stage, and Emperor Yonghe at that time had some problems with his body because he had been taking the "elixir" all year round, and the weather he showed was also sluggish;

And now Emperor Yonghe's weather is still a little sluggish, but his face is ruddy, his eyes are bright, and his physical condition seems to be much better...

Could it be the effect of "retreat"!?

It seems reasonable, but he always has some strange feelings, but he can't see it, and he can't say what is strange...

Emperor Yonghe smiled slightly when he saw this, and he was relieved in his heart, and asked, "Why is Xu Qing stunned in front of the palace?"

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Song Mingde saw His Majesty asking, but Xu Boqing beside him felt absent-minded, and hurriedly explained to him: "Your Majesty, the first time Lord Xu went to the court to face the saint, it is inevitable that he is a little nervous..."

After Xu Boqing came back to his senses, he didn't explain much, and only echoed: "The first time I went to court, I was a little nervous."

"It's okay..."

Emperor Yonghe bowed slightly, and said with intimate relief: "I am not a man-eating beast, and the two factories and one guard are my right-hand men, Xu Qing does not need to be nervous..."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Song Mingde hurriedly thanked him, and Xu Boqing also pretended to echo, and then the two of them went to the east and west positions in front of the palace to stand...

The two brothers Zhu Wenjing and Zhu Wenjue are also not among the civil and military officials, and they stand together in the east and west positions in front of the palace...

Emperor Yonghe glanced around and asked meaningfully: "A few days ago, the flood season was prolonged, and the rain was quite abundant, causing the Fushan weir to burst the embankment, and the flood became a disaster, and the people downstream were killed and injured innumerable."

His voice paused, and then he said with a gloomy face: "On the occasion of this national crisis, why don't I come to the court with Shao Xingmin, the secretary of the Ministry of Works?"

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The courtiers didn't dare to speak out...

At the time, people respected the ghosts and gods, and the Fushan weir burst the embankment, causing floods to poison the land of Sanfu, killing and injuring countless people...

This kind of catastrophe that is rare for hundreds of years will definitely be recorded in the annals of history, if it is not handled well, don't say that Yonghe is a dynasty, and it is impossible to say that future generations are stains...

"No one is talking?"

Emperor Yonghe glanced around and said meaningfully, "Don't you want to say it? Still don't dare to say?"

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His eyes moved slightly, as if he had thought of something, and said with a gloomy face, "Or are you waiting for me to make an edict before you speak?"

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As soon as these words came out, the needle drop in the Jinluan Hall could be heard.

Because the courtiers are really planning to do this...

Xu Boqing glanced at Song Mingde on the other side with his spare eyes, and saw that his eyes looked at his nose, nose and mouth, and mouth and heart, looking detached from the world, and he immediately learned to look like him...

"Good! Good! Okay!!"

When Emperor Yonghe saw the state of the courtiers, how could he not know what they were thinking, and after saying "yes" three times in a row, he set his eyes on Zhu Wenjue's body and asked, "King Gong, I remember that Shao Xingmin was friendly with you, do you know why he didn't come to the court?"

"...... Father..."

Zhu Wenjue's expression couldn't hide his despair after being named, and he said sadly after coming out of the ranks: "Shao Shangshu knows that he is ashamed of cultivating the imperial court, and he has hung himself on the beam of his house at night

Hanging, when he was found in the morning, he had... Dead."

"Fear of sin, hanged himself, and died..."

Emperor Yonghe only sneered when he heard this, and he didn't seem surprised by this matter, and said to himself: "First there was the Jiangnan rebellion, and then the Fushan weir burst the embankment, all kinds of sins are in my body, all in my body..."

"Father, my son has something to report!!"

At this moment, Zhu Wenjing came out of the queue and said with a straight face: "My father inherited the mandate of heaven and obeyed the will of the people, and the rebellion in Jiangnan and the breaking of the embankment in Fushan Weir are definitely not the fault of my father!"

"Oh?"

Emperor Yonghe was shocked, and said meaningfully: "Natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people are wandering and lost, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are waiting for me to issue an edict against me.

"Father Mingjian..."

Zhu Wenjing bowed down and said, "The rebellion in Jiangnan is caused by the White Lotus Sect demons in secret, and now the White Lotus Sect demons have been conferred the head, and the rebellion has also been suppressed by General Xuanwu, and this matter can be made public when the general returns to Beijing to repeat it..."

His voice paused, glanced at Zhu Wenjue meaningfully, and then said, "And the matter of the Fushan Weir bursting the embankment, Erchen also felt a little strange, so he sent someone to investigate, and he really found out something!"

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As soon as these words came out, the whole court was in an uproar...

At this time, Zhu Wenjue's face was already faintly dark, and he clearly knew that his younger brother, who was competing for the position of prince, was going to be in trouble!

Among the six ministries of the imperial court, except for the Ministry of War, which has not yet expressed its position, the two real power departments of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs are all members of the "Three Masters Party", while the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry are people of the "Second Master Party".

Every year, the imperial court will allocate a huge amount of money to the Ministry of Industry for the maintenance and repair of the Fushan Weir, and now the Fushan Weir bursts, and the most affected is the Ministry of Industry!

And the Ministry of Industry Shangshu is Zhu Wenjue's person...

At this moment, just like the yellow mud falling into the crotch of his pants, Zhu Wenjing casually found something to wave the dirty water, and he couldn't wash it clean!!

Emperor Yonghe glanced at his two sons and said meaningfully, "Third brother, tell me what you found?"

"Yes!"

When Zhu Wenjing bowed down to receive his life, his eyes were full of joy...

Then he turned around and clapped his hands, and the eunuchs who had been waiting outside the hall for a long time heard the movement, and they also entered the hall with trays, and most of those trays were books...

"These are the various files of the Qin Tianjian in previous years that recorded the rain and flood seasons, and some are the records of the water volume of the Qianling River."

Pointing to the books, he explained: "This year's flood season is prolonged, and the rain is abundant, but Erchen checked all kinds of dossiers and found that this year is not a special case for hundreds of years...

Not to mention, in the past 100 years, there have been six times of abundant rain this year, and the amount of water in the river is more than this year...

Taizu mobilized 300,000 people to build the Fushan Weir, and once said that as long as it is carefully maintained, it can protect my beam from flooding for thousands of years!

But why did the Fushan weir burst this year!?"

Zhu Wenjing turned around as he spoke, knelt down in front of the emperor, and said with a sad expression: "Father, the embankment of thousands of miles collapsed in the anthill, it is clear that I have an ant thief in the middle of the court!!"

His voice paused, and he cried with his head on the ground: "It is clear that these ant thieves have embezzled all kinds of funds for the maintenance of Fushan Weir!!"

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When the courtiers heard this, their breath was stagnant, and they didn't dare to take any more breath...

"Ant thief... Hehehe..."

Emperor Yonghe didn't know what to think, he sneered thoughtfully, and then said, "Then in your opinion, besides Shao Xingmin, who else are the ant thieves who have embezzled the beam?"

Zhu Wenjing leaned over to the ground with tears in his eyes, and choked up, "Son... I don't dare to say it!"

"Don't dare to say it?"

Emperor Yonghe snorted coldly, glanced at Xu Boqing, who was wandering out of the world, and scolded sharply, "Could it be that I am an ant thief? Could it be that this floating mountain weir was collapsed by me!?"

"The son has no such intention..."

Zhu Wenjing hurriedly bowed his head when he heard this, and said tremblingly, "It's just that this matter is very involved, and it may even have an impact

My heavenly face, my sons really don't dare to speak..."

"Bastard thing!!"

When Emperor Yonghe heard this, he patted the handrail and scolded: "The Fushan weir bursts, the Daimyo Mansion suffers, and the people of Ying Tianfu are even more out of ten, I am going to make an edict against myself, and I still care about the face of the Heavenly Family!?"

"Son... The retainers commanded..."

Zhu Wenjing raised his head, wiped the tears on his cheeks, and said with a deep breath: "Erchen found out that Shao Shangshu has been extremely generous over the years, and likes to collect all kinds of antique treasures, famous calligraphy and paintings...

The value of these antique treasures, famous calligraphy and paintings is extremely high, and some of them are even objects that are not even available in the palace.

But the strange thing is that Shao Shangshu did not collect these things himself, but used them to give them away, and the one that was sent the most and most diligently was the second brother's Gong Wangfu!!"

"Zhu Wenjing, you are spewing blood!!"

Zhu Wenjue stepped forward with tears in his eyes and defended himself: "I have liked famous calligraphy and painting since I was a child, and I am just an ordinary friend with Shao Xingmin, and I have never had a deep friendship except for exchanging some calligraphy and paintings!"

After that, he knelt down in front of the emperor with a puff and said, "Father, the son swears to the heavens, and he doesn't know that Shao Xingmin will be greedy for money to maintain Fushan Weir!!

This move is tantamount to digging up the foundation of my beam, and as a prince, if he knew that he was such a thief, how could he still have fellowship with him?"

"Please also ask my father to take a look!"

Zhu Wenjing didn't hear it, and said to Emperor Yonghe: "Those antique treasures, famous calligraphy and paintings can only be found by the sons, and the sons and daughters in private do not know."

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