One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

Now Pei Yao has an extremely good reputation among the people in the capital because of the control of the plague, and the same is true for the DPRK and China.

But now it was suddenly revealed that he had abused his power for personal gain and embezzled disaster relief funds, which immediately surprised everyone.

Of course, there were people who immediately stood up to question it.

Because over the years, although Emperor Chengjing has been deliberately suppressing, and the great prince's faction has been fighting all the time, Pei Yao has always been clean and clean, and he has never been exposed to this kind of scandal, so in the hearts of the ministers, the prince's virtue is still very positive.

Therefore, when some people said that he was corrupt, not only the princelings headed by Prime Minister Lu Cheng vehemently refuted it, but even some neutral ministers and people with upright temperaments also expressed doubts.

For a while, everyone in the court quarreled.

Pei Yao frowned, stepped out of the queue and bowed his hand to Emperor Chengjing, and said loudly.

"Uncle Huang, Erchen has never done anything to embezzle money and food for disaster relief, this lord is convincing, there must be some evidence, please bring it up, we will confront it face to face!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Emperor Chengjing to answer, he first turned his head to look at Li Mu opposite, with a cold killing intent in his eyes.

And at this moment, Li Mu did not shy away from his eyes, snorted lightly, and also opened his mouth to Emperor Chengjing.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that this matter is very important, so it is better to follow what the prince said, and ask Lord Qin to come up with the account book evidence and verify it in court, so as not to tarnish the reputation of His Royal Highness the Prince."

These words seem to be speaking for Pei Yao, but in fact, they want to make Pei Yao's corruption an ironclad thing on the spot.

After all, it will take time to send someone to the household department to verify after the next dynasty.

If Pei Yao has the means, he will have a chance to save himself again if he fights for this time.

Moreover, Li Mu opened his mouth and called the official who jumped out as Lord Qin, indicating that the two were familiar with each other.

Looking at that person's official uniform, it is just a six-rank official who is just qualified for the court, Li Mugui is the prime minister of the left of the dynasty, the head of a hundred officials, can he be familiar with such a person?

Obviously, this surnamed Qin is a pawn arranged by Li Mu.

So at that time, Lu Chuan glared at him and shouted angrily, "This is not the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department, what is the investigation in court, what you said is good, this is clearly in front of the civil and military officials, interrogating His Royal Highness the Prince, Li Mu Lao'er, what kind of heart do you have!" ”

"Land Phase!" Li Mu turned his head and raised his voice, with a bit of arrogance in his iron face, "With the emperor testifying here, isn't it better to prove the innocence of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince than the Criminal Department?" Or, according to your intentions, you want to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to go to the Criminal Department? ”

After speaking, Li Mu raised his hand and stroked his beard, and sneered coldly in a low voice.

In his opinion, Lu Chuan's excitement is even more evidence that Pei Yao has a problem.

What's more, he already has an account book in his hand, and he has compared it with the money and grain actually obtained by the eldest prince, and this account book is problematic.

Thirty percent of the money and food have gone.

And these accounts were all approved by Pei Yao's subordinates.

Just as Lu Chuan was about to refute again, he heard Emperor Chengjing shouting in a low voice.

"Enough, they are all officials of the imperial court, what does the noise look like, since the prince said that he is willing to confront him, then there is no need to delay this matter, the matter of corruption is very important, and there is no room for child's play, if there is evidence, it will be submitted immediately, otherwise I will punish you for the crime of slandering the prince!"

Pei Yao stood down, and he was about to laugh out loud when he heard this.

Emperor Chengjing is acting under the banner of 'good for him'.

If there is evidence, take it quickly, if not, it is a crime of slandering the prince, what kind of crime is that? There is no such sin in the laws of Daqi.

It shows that when the time comes, it is not Emperor Chengjing who can punish him as much as he wants, whether light or heavy, he will be in his hands, this is the bottom of Ming Huanghuang.

Just tell the man, you say, say quickly, and in the end I will definitely protect your life.

Pei Yao felt a chill in his heart, knowing that now Emperor Chengjing was becoming more and more impatient and wanted to abolish his position as the crown prince.

It seems that the news of Rui Concubine's departure from the palace is not false at all.

No matter how bad the eldest prince is, it is also his own son, the eldest son, this dragon chair fell into his hands, and as time goes by, he naturally won't want to return it, how good it is to give his son.

When Emperor Chengjing's words fell, the household official who jumped out to accuse Pei Yao of corruption, Qin Mingzhao hurriedly took out two account books from his arms and respectfully handed them forward.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has two account books here, and the emperor will know it at a glance!"

As the official's voice sounded, Chen Sui, the head of the household department who was standing in front, frowned for the untraceable, but didn't say anything.

After all, this prince really made a yin and yang account, and embezzled money from the household department, and he also wanted to eat melons and falls.

All the accounts that were approved, in addition to the final signature and approval of the prince in charge of disaster relief, when he went out of the household department, there was also his Chen Sui's signature and approval.

At this moment, the chief eunuch standing next to Emperor Chengjing immediately stepped forward, took away the two account books, and handed them to Emperor Chengjing.

After a while, Emperor Chengjing finished reading the account book, and his face gradually darkened.

Seeing the end, his whole face turned blue, and when he closed the ledger, his eyes were full of anger when he looked at Pei Yao.

"Prince, how do you explain these two account books!"

Hearing Emperor Chengjing's angry shout, everyone present suddenly had different faces.

Obviously, there is a real problem with the ledger to do this.

Lu Chuan frowned tightly and cast his gaze at Pei Yao, who seemed to be very nervous, and at this moment Pei Yao was also ugly, but he still stepped forward.

"Uncle Huang, can you let Erchen take a look at these two account books."

"Take it down."

Emperor Chengjing shook his sleeves angrily.

The eunuch on the side didn't dare to come out, so he hurriedly held two account books and quickly handed them to Pei Yao.

These two accounts are indeed problematic.

One is the account book of the amount of money and grain that the household department took out according to his request, and the other is the account book of the actual amount of money and grain that the military department counted when it transported grain to the north.

Compared with each other, the amount of money and grain is less than the actual allocation of the household department.

Where did these three percent go?

A process went down, that is, the household department allocated funds according to Pei Yao's requirements, Pei Yao dispatched money and grain to the military department, and the military department sent people to transport the grain to the north and handed it over to the prince.

During this period, the household department went to the military department to pass Pei Yao's hand, and this time it was less than thirty percent.

When Pei Yao was looking at the account books, the official surnamed Qin was beside him and told him indignantly about the origin and authenticity of the two account books.

Originally, Li Mu's expression was relaxed and proud, but when he saw Pei Yao quietly comparing the account book without saying a word, and the nervousness on his face subsided little by little, a not very good feeling secretly rose in his heart.

Just as he was about to speak to Emperor Chengjing again, so that he could quickly confirm Pei Yao's crime, before he could speak, he heard Pei Yao's voice sound first.

"Uncle Huang, Erchen thinks that the person who gets these two account books, I'm afraid he only knows one or two, but I don't know the third, Erchen still has an account book here, which can prove Erchen's innocence!"