Here, Ye Gantang is like a fish in water in the palace.

Over there, the court is about to rain in the mountains.

June 10, the Great Pilgrimage.

Emperor Qitai threw the urgent report from Huai'an Mansion to the ground, looked at the courtiers who were kneeling on the ground, quiet as a chicken, and let out a cold snort in his throat, and his tone was solemn.

"Huai'an Mansion has been attacked by thieves several times in the past six months, and the loss of property is unknown, and the people of Shisong Prefecture have been displaced by heavy rains and complained, and it has been four months!"

"Shi Song Zhizhou sent dozens of urgent reports in a row, but I only found out yesterday."

There was already a murderous aura between his eyebrows and eyes, and the words that came out of his mouth were also murderous.

"Who is deceiving the superiors and subordinates, playing with me between applause, and ignoring the people of the world?"

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty quickly buried their heads between their hips.

Seeing that everyone didn't say anything, Emperor Qitai sneered, his eyes drooped, and he fixed on the person at the head.

"Prime Minister Zuo, do you have something to say?"

Ke Xingzhi was very old, but his kneeling movements were very neat, he fell to the ground and said loudly: "The minister is ashamed!" ”

"As the head of the civil official, the minister can't be the eyes and ears of His Majesty and solve problems for you, and he can't lead hundreds of officials to save the people from fire and water. actually let this traitor who deceived and deceived among the hundred officials! Shame on you! ”

The jade on the crown covered Emperor Qitai's face, and his tone could not distinguish emotions.

"What about the right prime minister?"

"The ministers are in charge of hundreds of officials, but they don't know people clearly, and they don't know how to use people, so that the people below cause great sins, causing the people to suffer, thieves are in charge, and ministers are guilty!"

The two prime ministers above, one is guilty and the other is ashamed.

How dare the ministers behind him be silent again, close their eyes and kowtow, and sing in unison: "The ministers are guilty." ”

Emperor Qitai sneered again, "Good, good, good!" Both of you are guilty, and I think all of you are guilty! ”

Emperor Qitai was so angry that he slapped the dragon chair suddenly, and he actually stood up and scolded.

"Presumptuous!"

"You all take me for a fool?!"

The ministers who fell to their knees prostrate again.

"Your Majesty forgives your sins!"

Emperor Qitai's eyes were like sharp blades stabbing at the front of the people, and there was uncontrollable anger in his voice.

"Check, give it all to me. I want to see who dares to know and not report it, who dares to fool me! ”

The central officials of the Qi Dynasty were divided into three categories, civil officials, military attachés and eunuchs, this time it was the civil officials who had a mess, and Emperor Qitai asked the criminal department Shangshu and the Supervision Yuan to jointly investigate, and let the head of the military attaché, Xuan Guogong, take full responsibility for the matter.

Emperor Qitai's gaze wandered among the ministers, and suddenly fixed on one point.

"King Jia will assist from the side, and within half a month, I will get results."

The people who were named knelt down in unison.

"The minister/son, obey the order."

Yao Quanjian in the Hubu Langzhong, and Tong Jiulin, the left deputy capital, did not show his face, but his heart sank.

Emperor Qitai asked King Jia to participate in the inspection, which seemed to be reused, but in fact, it was Qin Zhiyan who was roasted on the fire.

Generally, the memoranda of local officials is sent from the local area, and according to the importance of the six ministries, they will be sorted out and sent to the hands of the two prime ministers on the left and right, and then sent to the imperial case through the hands of the prime ministers.

Emperor Qitai named the names of the two prime ministers on the left and right today, and the two prime ministers also bluntly said that they didn't know, if the two of them didn't lie, it was something wrong with the six departments, and if one of the two of them even lied, this matter would be in big trouble.

The daughter of Prime Minister Zuo is the current queen, his granddaughter is the crown prince's concubine, and Prime Minister Zuo is a princeling with a clear banner.

The concubine of the right prime minister is the side concubine of King Ning, Concubine Ning is the niece and granddaughter of the current queen mother, and the sister of the queen mother is the first wife of the military department Shangshu Anqinghou, and the current Anqinghou is the first lady.

Among the six departments, in addition to this kind of roundabout kinship, there is also a not obvious performance of standing in line, but the one standing is either the eldest prince or the prince, and it has nothing to do with Qin Zhiyan, the newly crowned King of Jia.

This time, no matter who it is, Qin Zhiyan will offend one side, or even both sides.

And this is not what a few people are most worried about.

Huai'an Mansion Haikou attacked several times, the momentum is immense, His Majesty is bound to let people go to quell the rebellion, with the habit of the saint, it should be based on the local garrison, supplemented by the capital guards. Qin Zhiyan was the only one among the princes who had the power to serve the army, but he was not the only courtier in charge of the army in the capital.

When the emperor sent Qin Zhiyan to supervise Shi Songzhou, he should not send Qin Zhiyan to quell the rebellion.

Then who is Your Majesty going to send?

Is it some other courtier in charge of the army, or is it ......

What about letting another prince go?

There are not a few people who are as thoughtful as Tong Yao and the others, and they look at the three princes in front of them, and their eyes always show a little deep thought inadvertently.

After Emperor Qitai retired from the dynasty in anger, when the crown prince and the eldest prince looked at Qin Zhiyan behind them, their eyes were difficult to distinguish.

Qin Zhiyan's face was indifferent, he nodded at the two brothers, and went to Xuanguo Gong to discuss the matter of picketing.

King Ning (the eldest prince) looked at Qin Zhiyan's back, and said to the prince on the side with a smile: "Picketing such an important matter, how can my father pass our Royal Highness the Crown Prince and let the third child participate?" ”

The crown prince looked at King Ning with cold eyes, not distinguishing between joy and anger, "King Ning is old, and my father attaches great importance to it, so I didn't mention you today?" Oh, by the way, in recent days, my brother seems to have been summoned by his father less often, look at Gu, why did he mention this in front of his brother again. ”

King Ning's face was gloomy for a moment.

The prince has suffered a lot over the years because he is two years younger than King Ning, and today he has to see King Ning's face ugly, and the anxiety and resentment in his heart have gone a lot.

There are a lot of things in the court today, and the prince wants to discuss with others, so he blocked King Ning's breath and left with his feet up.

The eldest prince looked at the back of the crown prince's martial arts, his sleeves were clenched with his fists, he forcibly suppressed the anger and jealousy in his heart, this is still the Jinluan Palace, not a place where you can be wanton.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finished dealing with the government affairs assigned to him by Emperor Qitai, and finally stayed up until the evening, and after returning home, he didn't even have time to eat, so he hurriedly gathered his subordinates and began to discuss the matter of today's court meeting.

At this moment, those sitting in front of the prince are his absolute henchmen.

The prince looked at the people below with gloomy eyes, and said: "The head of Xuanguo Gong is in charge, and King Jia, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department and the Supervision Yuan are assisting, you can talk about it." ”

The people below glanced at each other, and it took a long time for one of them to say carefully: "Shi Songzhou's urgent report, can it be closely related to us?" ”

The prince rubbed the chair handle and lowered his eyelids, so that people couldn't see the look in his eyes clearly, and he only said, "There is something to do with it." ”

The people below understand that this is what the prince means when it has a lot to do with it, and even the one who does it is the prince.

Shisong Prefecture is under the jurisdiction of Huai'an Prefecture, located in the southeast coast, there is an ancient river across the north and south, and Shisong Prefecture is in the lower reaches of the ancient river.

The torrential rain caused the water level of the ancient river to rise sharply, and the river burst its embankment, overwhelmingly submerging Shisongzhou, which was a natural disaster.

But it's not just natural disasters.

In the past three or five years, the Fuyin and Zhizhou in the middle and lower reaches of the Gujiang River have successively sent several times to the central government to repair the embankment, and in July of the previous year, the middle reaches of the embankment burst, and more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded.

Along the banks of the ancient river, the heads of people were rolling to calm the thunderous anger of the emperor.

After that, the imperial court allocated 500,000 taels of snowflake silver to the southeast for disaster relief, not only that, Emperor Qitai knew that there would be a disaster after the natural disaster, and he also sent 10,000 hard labor.

However, the burst of the embankment in the middle reaches of the Gujiang River caused Shisongzhou to suffer from heavy rains and floods, and it was obvious that the 500,000 taels of disaster relief silver did not play its due role, and the urgent report of the governor of Shisongzhou could not be reported to the emperor's imperial case for this reason.

The person below asked what this disaster relief silver had to do with the prince.

Obviously, the prince meant, there is a relationship.

The stakes are great.

I can't say how much of the 500,000 taels of disaster relief money fell into the prince's private treasury.

At this moment, no one has mentioned why the disaster relief money should be moved.

Immediately someone followed, "Now that we've done it, let's clean up our tails." ”

The prince raised his eyes, "No one will know, it's already cleaned." ”

The other person nodded and said, "Your Highness, we have to prepare for the worst, and if necessary, we can abandon the car to protect the commander." ”

"King Jia has few supporters in the court, so he is not afraid, the emperor asked him to cooperate with the Criminal Department Shangshu and the Supervision Yuan to investigate the case, we should pay attention to the Criminal Department Shangshu and Xuan Guogong, Your Majesty may be a little suspicious of His Royal Highness. However, Xuan Guogong is stubborn, only looking at the evidence, not talking about human feelings, there are our people on the side of the Supervision Yuan, maybe we can still borrow a knife to kill people. ”

The prince looked up, his gaze sweeping over the staff below.

"How?"