Wake up refreshed.

Zhao Yu looked at Bai Qing'er, who was still asleep with tears in the corners of her eyes, pulled up the corner of the brocade quilt, and gently covered her delicate body that seemed to be white and flawless, and then turned over and got out of bed, letting the palace maid wait for her to dress.

At this time, Gao Lishi quietly came to Zhao Yu and said in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, the Lord of the Heba Mansion has returned, and now he is waiting in the Purple Huan Palace."

"Yesterday's incident, he found out the results?"

Zhao Yu asked without replying.

Colliers nodded imperceptibly.

Zhao Yu, who changed into a crown dress, raised his chin.

"Let's go, let's go to the Zihuan Hall first and listen to what He Ba Aiqing has to say, and by the way, send someone to tell the hundred officials that today's court meeting will be postponed by an hour."

After that, he walked out of the Qingqiu Hall first and rushed towards the Zihuan Palace, and Gao Lishi followed step by step.

Tranquility was restored in the Qingqiu Hall again.

After a while, a figure floated into the Qingqiu Palace.

Looking at Bai Qing'er sleeping soundly on the embroidery couch, Zhu Yuyan was both angry and funny, and couldn't help but raise her hand and pat it on the white and fat place, and said angrily:

"You damn girl, the sky is bright, and you can't get up yet!"

Bai Qing'er only felt that her hind buttocks were attacked in her sleep, and she couldn't help but let out an "oops", woke up from the dream, and subconsciously touched the side, but she didn't touch what she wanted, and opened her eyes suspiciously, and a charming face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling came into her eyes.

"Master, why are you here?"

Seeing Shizun Zhu Yuyan, Bai Qing'er was both surprised and delighted, and while asking, she hurriedly pulled the brocade quilt to herself, covering up the infinite beauty of the undulating mountains.

"You girl......"

Zhu Yuyan glanced at Bai Qing'er up and down, and she didn't have a good airway;

"What's the use of covering it up? As a teacher, I raised you from childhood to adulthood, as if I hadn't seen anywhere. As for the little emperor, he just went to the early dynasty. ”

Bai Qing'er pursed her lips, her eyes flowed, and she said quietly for a long time:

"Little Emperor...... It's not too small......"

At Zhu Yuyan's age, how could she not hear the meaning of her apprentice's words, a pair of beautiful eyes glanced at her obliquely, and said softly:

"Dead girl, why didn't you find out that you are so shameless!"

Reprimanded by the master, Bai Qing'er grinned, and was not annoyed, stretched out a pair of white and tender arms like lotus roots, pulled Zhu Yuyan's arms, and the delicate nightmare that had not yet faded blush came under Zhu Yuyan's jade-like earlobes, and said a few words in a low voice.

When Zhu Yuyan heard this, her eyebrows raised upward, her peach cheeks were dizzy, and she seemed to be angry and said:

"What a shameless little hoof, why, hugging the little emperor's thigh, he even dared to tease as a teacher?"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and was ready to fight.

Bai Qing'er giggled, raised her hands and begged for mercy;

"Good master, the apprentice is wrong, it's just a joke."

Zhu Yuyan sighed lightly, her raised right hand fell gently, rubbed Bai Qing'er's head dotingly, and said softly:

"Now in the harem of the little emperor, only you, the girl, are the most favored. If you have the opportunity, Qing'er, you'd better remind the little emperor that you promised us the things in Tianyin Pavilion at the beginning, but don't forget. ”

When Bai Qing'er heard this, her starry eyes blinked, and she nodded;

"Master rest assured, Your Majesty is the Ninety-Five, Jinkou Yuyan, and he will definitely not regret it."

In the Purple Circle Palace.

Zhao Yu looked at the nearly three-foot-tall file beside He Bayun, frowned, and asked:

"He Baqing, have you already found out?"

He Bayun shook his head and said with a straight look:

"Back to Your Majesty, the power to try the case is not in the hands of the Editorial Office, Your Majesty wants to ask, and you should also ask the third division. However, according to the property confiscated from these people's homes, if the three divisions ruled that they were not corrupt and bribed, then Weichen would be strange. ”

Zhao Yu nodded and didn't say much. Just looking at so many files, he was also a little surprised in his heart.

He knew that nine times out of ten, these people were corrupt and perverted the law, but he didn't expect that the crimes of several people could be found out so much on the side of the Jishi Mansion in charge of He Bayun alone, so what about the third division?

How many evil things have these senior members of the DPRK and Central Committee done in the more than six years that Huang Jingming has been in charge of the government?

I took a copy casually, opened it, it was the crime of Zhang Liuqi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, just opened and roughly read a few pages, Zhao Yu's face instantly became ugly, and then turned a few more pages, Zhao Yu's breathing became a little short, and even a wisp of golden martial arts arrogance loomed around him.

Zhao Yu picked up the teacup on the table and was about to take a sip to extinguish the anger, but when he saw the number recorded on the file, he was instantly angry, and threw his hand and slammed the teacup on the ground.

"Click!"

The sound of porcelain shattering was particularly harsh in the silent Purple Circle Hall.

"Your Majesty is angry!"

Seeing the emperor's thunderous anger, He Bayun, Gao Lishi, and a group of maids and eunuchs hurriedly knelt on the ground.

"Get up, it's not your fault, what are you kneeling for?"

Zhao Yu waved his hand a little irritably, and sneered:

"Hehe, it's really my loyal minister of Dachu, he is a second-grade minister, he has been an official for decades, and there is an eighty or ninety thousand taels of silver in the house, which barely makes sense, and I can accept it!

But yesterday, the gold and silver copied from this old merchant's house alone were nearly 500,000 taels!

This is not counting real estate stores, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and other things that cannot be estimated in a short period of time!

I'm not a fool, these all add up, if there is no million taels of silver, then it is called a ridiculous world!

It's really bold, if it is according to the temperament of the founding ancestor Taizong, a thousand cuts are light! ”

In the end, Zhao Yu was already gritting his teeth.

Zhang Liuqi, the secretary of the military department alone, was greedy for at least nearly one million taels of silver.

You must know that when he Zhao Yu ascended the throne, there were only more than 12 million taels of silver in the treasury.

One person is greedy for one-tenth of the treasury, just thinking about it, Zhao Yu is so angry that his head is buzzing.

took another copy casually, Zhao Yu just swept it roughly, and then held back his anger and threw this file to the ground again.

This one is the crime of Meng Chong, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and the degree of corruption is even more shocking than that of Zhang Liuqi, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

The official department is in charge of the assessment and promotion of officials in a country, and he has always been known as a "heavenly official", and Meng Chong believes that he is Huang Jingming's confidant, so he is more unscrupulous in accumulating wealth.

Selling officials in private, and even forcing the other party to pay bribes by manipulating official evaluations and promotions, Meng Chong has been very familiar with it in the past 20 years.

And Meng Chong's silver taels obtained by embezzlement and bribery are even more shocking than Zhang Liuqi!

"Rat, rat!"

Zhao Yu said hatefully.

"I just raided their homes, and it was light. If I didn't want to make the government unstable, I would have to punish the nine clans! ”

After that, he looked at He Bayun and asked in a cold voice:

"Huang Jingming's mansion, what is the situation?"

He Bayun pondered the language for a moment and said:

"Your Majesty, in the Taihe Palace, only 100,000 taels of gold and silver have been found, and the rest of the items will not add up to more than 50,000 taels."

Zhao Yu was stunned when he heard this, and said hatefully;

"I didn't expect this Huang Jingming to be a lot cleaner, but unfortunately, this is rotten from the roots, rotten! What's the use of him alone? ”

After that, he looked at Colliers and said:

"With these files, today I will kill a few monkeys and make an example of a group of chickens at the court meeting!"

…………

The palace guards in armor and holding Ge guarded outside the Taiji Palace, although they did not squint.

But if you look closely, you can find that these guards, who are not low in cultivation, have their ears trembling slightly from time to time.

At this time, Zhao Yu's suppressed angry roar faintly came from outside the Taiji Hall.

"Zhang Liuqi alone found things worth at least one million taels from his home. I would like to ask everyone in the palace, how much silver is there in the treasury of this Great Chu? Zhang Liuqi alone is greedy for nearly one-tenth! ”

"This is more than a million taels of silver, Zhang Liuqi really dares to stretch out his hand!"

In the Taiji Palace, Zhao Yu stood on the top of the imperial steps, pacing back and forth, and said hatefully:

"If it was just one, then I wouldn't be so angry. He Baqing, tell me the data you counted overnight yesterday, so that everyone in the hall can open their eyes! ”

When He Bayun heard this, he said aloud:

"Your Majesty, colleagues, according to yesterday's overnight inventory by the Praetorian Guards, a total of 3.7 million taels of gold and silver were found from the mansions of Zhang Liuqi, Meng Chong and other ten people. In addition to gold and silver, there are 400 pieces of jewelry, more than 1,300 pieces of antique calligraphy and paintings, 2,300 pieces of precious silk, and about 800 real estate shops, all of which add up to a value of no less than 1.5 million taels of silver. The minister estimated that the total amount of property confiscated by several of them was at least 5.2 million! ”

When the courtiers heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.

5.2 million taels of silver, such a figure is probably the largest corruption case involving the past 50 years.

"Hmph, even if it's five million taels, it's worth half of the treasury!"

Zhao Yu gritted his teeth, looked at the courtiers, and said with pity:

"This is still soft-hearted, and only a few of them are investigated. What I'm curious about now is, if I continue to pursue it, this stolen silver alone can double the amount of money in the treasury? This year, the salaries of the more than 500,000 soldiers do not need to use the national treasury for a penny, and even after the salaries are paid, can they still give me a lot of money? ”

Listening to Zhao Yu's implicit murderous words, those officials who originally belonged to the Taihe Wang Party couldn't help but tremble with their legs.

An emperor who holds military power in his hands and the handle of his courtiers is originally anxious about the lack of money in the treasury, but now after seeing the benefits of the raid, will he not be moved?

At least, if you change it to them, you can't help it!

They can't gamble, let alone dare to bet.

Thinking of this, these officials only felt a chill on their necks.

Is it to put some blood yourself, so that this person on the dragon chair can temporarily calm the wrath of thunder?

Just when they were thinking about it, Chu Ziwen, the imperial historian, came out and said:

"According to Weichen's opinion, His Majesty has promised yesterday not to expand the scope of liquidation, and if the scope of implication is too wide, it will be difficult for the central court to operate for a while, and the losses suffered by that time may be greater than the liquidation of Taihe Wang's party. Weichen, I beg your majesty to think twice. ”

Hearing Chu Ziwen intercede for them, Yuan Tai and Wang Yidang seemed to grasp the straw that saved their lives, and they came out one after another, saying:

"Your Majesty, what Doctor Chu said is very true, it is not appropriate to start killing again, otherwise there will be no one available in this court!"

"Your Majesty, Doctor Chu's words, the ministers seconded it."

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

Zhao Yu snorted coldly, and the Taiji Hall was suddenly silent.

"You don't joke, what I said yesterday naturally counts. However, just put it down so gently, how can I breathe this breath in my heart?

He Ba Aiqing pulled out a few big rats for me, but there are countless small rats and cockroaches lying in the shadows, sucking the blood of the people and digging the roots of Da Chu! ”

As he spoke, Zhao Yu's gaze swept over the ministers intentionally or unintentionally.

Hearing Zhao Yu's words full of anger, the courtiers in the Taiji Hall couldn't help but shrink their necks.

"Your Majesty, Buddhism has a saying, put down the butcher's knife, become a Buddha on the ground, the sea of suffering is endless, turn back to the shore, and ask Your Majesty to give those courtiers who have made mistakes a chance to correct."

Chu Ziwen said again.

"Chu Qing, if they want to repent, they can, it depends on whether their behavior can satisfy me and the people!"

Zhao Yu snorted coldly and said:

"I will set up a confessional platform outside the Xuanwu Gate of the Imperial Palace, if you have the heart to repent, you don't need to teach me, some people will naturally know what to do and what to do."

Chu Ziwen was slightly stunned, and then arched his hand and said:

"Your Majesty, Weichen is too worried."

Then he retreated into the midst of the ministers and kept silent.

Zhao Yu continued:

"Gao Lishi, plan to recruit."

"First, make the accusations of Zhang Liuqi and others public, tell the world, and behead them all over the house!"

"Second, from these stolen silver, 200,000 taels of silver will be withdrawn, and a batch of grain, wine and meat will be transferred from the treasury to reward the troops in Beijing."

"Whether it is the guards guarding the palace, the palace guards who swear to fight to the death, or the soldiers of the Beijing camp who are ordered by me to close the camp and cannot come out, they are all worthy of my commendation!"

In Zhao Yu's view, the soldiers' minds are very simple, whoever receives the money will work for whomever they want.

If you send the real money and food yourself, the soldiers will get benefits, and they will naturally favor themselves as the emperor.

"Slave obeys!"

Colliers hurriedly responded.

At this time, Zhang Xiu, the commander of the palace, Fan Zhen, the commander of the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses, and Huang Zhong, the governor of the Beijing army camp, came out one after another, bowed to the ground, and said:

"Minister, acting as a lieutenant general of the army, thank you for your reward! Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live! ”

"Get up, the soldiers in Beijing are loyal to the country and loyal to me, and I will naturally not be stingy with rewards."

Zhao Yu raised his right hand slightly, signaled the two of them to get up, glanced at the sunlight shining into the hall from the outside, and said:

"Today's court meeting is almost here, and finally, the ministers will discuss Huang Jingming, the Taihe King of Great Chu, how to deal with this person."

As soon as Zhao Yu spoke, Yuan Tai and Wang Yidang, you look at me, I look at you, for a while, no one dared to be the first.

His Majesty has said that he will not pursue himself again, but if he opens his mouth at this time to ask His Majesty to forgive some of the guilt of Taihe Wang Huang Jingming, wouldn't he be unable to get along with His Majesty, and he would have to let His Majesty be satisfied with his own investigation?

"Your Majesty, Huang Jingming invited his henchmen to form a party, manipulate the government, and even get involved in military power, and rebel and rebel, which is a great unforgivable crime. Please give your majesty a heavy punishment to warn the world! ”

Dali Temple Qing Zhang Chao came out of the line to play.

He, the former queen mother, is a party, and if he doesn't express his position at this time, it will be too late!

"What Zhang Qing said is that there is some truth."

Zhao Yu bowed slightly, as if thinking about something.

"Your Majesty, Huang Jingming, the old minister has something to say, otherwise he won't vomit and be unhappy."

Suddenly, an old voice sounded in the court.

Everyone sees it, but it is the veteran of the Three Dynasties, the old Situ Zhang Kangnian who is already going through the Zhishi process.

"Old Situ, please speak."

Facing this loyal and brave old Situ, Zhao Yu showed a rare smile on his face, and said softly.

"Your Majesty, although Huang Jingming has committed the crime of rebellion, in the past six years, he has governed the country and the army, making the national strength of Great Chu a little stronger than in the past.

The old minister did not ask His Majesty to forgive this person, but only asked that Huang Jingming's mistakes be recorded in the history books in the future, but he would not forget his achievements. ”

Zhao Yu pondered for a moment, nodded and said:

"I have written down what the captain said. Huang Jingming's life's merits and demerits, I will let the historians record them in detail, and strive not to powder his merits or decorate his faults. ”

"Your Majesty is really a benevolent and virtuous king, and the old minister has nothing else to say."

After getting the answer he wanted, Zhang Kangnian bowed deeply and retreated into the queue of hundreds of officials.

(End of chapter)