Since Ji Ling entered Beijing, the officials of the Zhaowen Academy in the court have been very radical, and they have been fighting with the Yingguo Mansion, the Yingguo Mansion has suffered heavy losses, and Wu Weiliang's dismissal has been regarded as the biggest official impeachment in recent years, who knows that this is just the beginning. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 In the next two months, those officials who were attached to Ying Guogong were massively purged from the court, or promoted or demoted, or were directly dismissed from office, and after Wu Weiliang, his younger brother Wu Huaiyun, who was in charge of the Shaofu Supervisor, was also impeached.

The young government supervisor can be said to be the most oily official position in the Tang Dynasty, although the civil and military officials in the court are very expensive, but this is not enough for them to reward their subordinates, and the young government supervisor is a department for the civil and military officials to make profits. The literati disdained business, but the Shaojian Mansion was in charge of the affairs of the hundred crafts, the most important of which was to be in charge of the circulation and manufacture of Datang coins, and even allowed the operators of the firm to share the profits with the emperor and officials every year.

Shangguan Yi and the courtiers impeached Wu Huaiyun for enriching his own pockets and greedy for domestic production, Li Zhi had the intention to protect him, Wu Weiliang had been dismissed, and if Wu Huaiyun was also brought down, the emperor himself would feel shameless to see the queen again. Shangguan Yi and hundreds of officials resolutely demanded a strict investigation, but helplessly, Li Zhi just wanted to go through the motions, so he sent Shou Yan to check, Shou Yan was his most trusted eunuch, no matter what he found out, he could cover up the past for Wu Huaiyun. However, the confiscated property made the emperor angry, and it was comparable to a small half of the treasury, and one-tenth of the coins made by the young government supervisor every year actually flowed into Wu Huaiyun's pocket.

The number of coins produced by the Shaofu Supervisor every year is strictly examined, and the household department orders the production of three million guan, and finally three million guan will be confiscated, but Wu Huaiyun is bold, and he can't start with the quantity, so he starts with the weight. The money was originally 1,000 wen and 8 catties, but Wu Huaiyun privately ordered that there would be some subtle weight missing in each article, and one or two pennies could not be seen, but 1,000 wen was enough to lose one catty, and all the money deducted was divided between Wu Huaiyun and his comrades.

"How can this be reasonable, how can this be reasonable, I trust him so much, but he betrays my trust so much" Li Zhi is very angry now, originally he wanted to bear it for him, but now after listening to Shouyan's report, he decided to punish him severely. Wu Huaiyun has served as the Shaofu Supervisor and Shaofu Shaofu Shaojian for nearly ten years, and the property of the greedy ink does not even have to be the Shaofu of the Internal Affairs Department.

Wu Huaiyun naturally knew that if the emperor really wanted to punish him, he would definitely die, so he ran to the Yingguo Mansion in a panic. Wu Yuanqing has not taken any money from the Shaofu Supervisor over the years, and the importance of the Shaofu Supervisor to them is self-evident. Wu Yuanqing sighed helplessly, for today's plan, he can only turn to the queen for help, as long as the queen speaks, everything is willing.

Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang both entered the palace to visit Empress Wu, although the relationship between brother and sister is not very good, but the two can only go hard, I just hope that Empress Wu will put things right in front of the emperor for the sake of the same Wu family, and if it is stabbed to the court, there will really be no room for maneuver. Emperor Taizong attached great importance to the virtue of hundreds of officials, and accepting bribes and bribes and embezzlement were regarded as the biggest sins in addition to the ten unforgivable sins, even if the emperor granted amnesty to the world, these sins were not forgiven.

"Big brother, why don't you go to Mrs. Han?" Wu Yuanshuang was a little uncomfortable seeing the queen

"Although Mrs. Han is favored, she is at best a favored concubine, and the queen has participated in politics for many years and is deeply trusted by His Majesty, plus Xu Jingzong is also promoted by the queen, this matter really has to beg him" Wu Yuanqing is also desperate, if you don't want to give up the young eunuch, you can only ask the queen.

"What we did in those years, I hope she can let go"

"I've seen the queen!" Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang are the two princes of the dynasty, and the other is the history of Haozhou, an important town in the Tang Dynasty, and their identities are very prominent.

"You're polite Ying Guogong" Empress Wu just nodded lightly, without any expression on her face, "The two of you are busy with affairs, I don't know what to do to visit my sister in the palace"

As soon as the two heard the queen's tone, they felt that there was a joke, and Wu Yuanqing smiled and said, "Over the years, our brothers and sisters have neglected to get along, and the relationship has been loosened."

"Yes, yes, no matter what happened before, after all, we are all Wu family, if the queen feels annoyed by the palace in the future, come to live in the mansion for a few days" Wu Yuanshuang sent out an invitation.

"Then there will be two elder brothers Lao" Empress Wu had a smile on her face, but her psychology was very cold, brother, if there were no these brothers, I am afraid she would not have not stepped into the Guogong Mansion for many years.

Several people chatted for a long time, but they never explained their intentions, and the Empress Wu knew it but was also waiting for the two to break it leisurely. Wu Yuanqing finally couldn't hold it back and gave Wu Yuanshuang a look.

"Empress, you have not participated in court politics recently, and there is some unrest in the court" Wu Yuanshuang said, since Li Zhi favored Mrs. Han, Empress Wu no longer took the initiative to participate in politics, and only the emperor came to the harem to see her when he could not decide.

"I don't know what happened in the court, which makes a prince and a thorn a little tricky" Although Empress Wu rarely participates in politics, she knows everything about the affairs in the court, and now she is just pretending to be confused.

"Queen, don't hide it, recently Shangguan Yi and the officials of Zhaowen Academy have really deceived people too much, first impeached Weiliang, and now he framed Huaiyun, he is trying to force our Yingguo Mansion to death" Wu Yuanqing said.

"Is the eldest brother and the second brother here for this? I did hear some words from His Majesty."

"What is Your Majesty going to do with Huaiyun?"

Seeing that the two of them looked anxious, Empress Wu sneered in her heart, now do you have a request for yourself?

"Your Majesty is very angry"

"Queen, you have to say a few good words for Huaiyun, after all, he is also a member of the Yingguo Mansion and your cousin, these are all framed by officials of the Zhaowen family," Wu Yuanshuang said.

"My cousin? I remember when I was six years old, this cousin of mine pushed me into a well and almost drowned me. ”

The two of them were cold in their hearts, but the queen still refused to forget those previous grievances.

"Then what is the queen going to do," Wu Yuanqing asked in a deep voice.

"Wu Huaiyun is bold, the circulation and manufacturing of coins is a major event that affects the fortunes of the country, and he even dares to do it. To tell you the truth, after Shou Yan investigated clearly, His Majesty gave me a list and asked me how to deal with it, this elder brother of mine really has a big appetite! No less than 2 million guan was confiscated from his house, and last year's tax payment in Datang was only 5.31 million guan, which is equivalent to half of the national treasury."

"Two million?" Even Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang were a little surprised and angry, it turned out that the money that Wu Huai transported to the Guogong Mansion every year for filial piety was only a drop in the bucket.

"Your Majesty asked my opinion, the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, how can the dignity of my law in the Tang Dynasty open a hole because of him, and you, as the elder brother of the queen, the emperor's relatives and relatives, don't know that it is just a matter of sharing worries for the queen, and you even committed such a crime. Even if His Majesty goes around him, I will not spare him. ”

The queen taught her that "the two brothers now regret coming to her."

"Also, Wu Huaiyun is just a young eunuch of the Shaofu, where did he come from to be so bold and greedy for so much ink" Empress Wu seemed to mean something else.

"What do you mean by these four," Wu Yuanqing asked.

"It's not interesting, I just want to tell you that you are important ministers of the court, and my brother, you must be honest and honest and dedicated to the country, this time the incident will not implicate you, but if you continue to do this, you will be the first to be spared by the law."

"Follow the teachings of Niangniang, my two brothers will leave!" Wu Yuanqing snorted coldly, waved his sleeves and left with Wu Yuanshuang.

"Big brother, she still seems to have hatred for our brother," Wu Yuanshuang said

"I'm also confused, according to her temper, I want our brothers to fall, and I still come to beg her?"

"So Huaiyun is dead?"

"If you don't die, you have to be exiled" Wu Yuanqing had a gloomy face, "He is too bold to deduct so much"

"The Queen's ......"

Wu Yuanqing sighed, "According to the persecution of Zhaowen Academy, Yingguo Mansion will still need to rely on the queen's energy in the future." Others don't know, but I know that the queen has a great desire for power, and these days to avoid the court is to retreat as advance, so that Her Majesty, who favors Mrs. Korea, realizes that she is irreplaceable. If the queen wants to control the government, she needs to cultivate cronies, as a queen, she can't have too much contact with civil and military officials, and if she wants to find cronies, she can only find them from my country's government. Although she has a good relationship with us, she is very good to Sansi and Chenghei, so let these two children get closer to the queen. The relationship between the Ying Guo Mansion and her needs to be eased."

Wu Huaiyun's fate was much worse than Wu Weiliang's, not to mention the confiscation of his family property, he was exiled for 3,000 miles and was pardoned, and in the south of Wuling, most of the exiled people had only one end there, that is, they died in a foreign land.

The officials of the vassal Yingguo Mansion were pulled out step by step by Shangguanyi, and in order to stabilize the situation, Wu Yuanqing, the Duke of Yingguo, who had not been in the court for a long time, had to sit in the court.

After the boycott, Shangguan Yi came to Ji Ling's residence, he was a frequent visitor to Ji Fu, and was directly taken to the courtyard by Ji Fu. Ji Ling's health is getting worse and worse, and now she can only lie on the hospital bed, everyone can see that this old Wenzong really can't last long this time.

"Sir, as you expected, Wu Huaiyun was exiled for three thousand miles" Shangguan Yi had to admire the wisdom and vicious eyes of the old man who looked like he was about to die, and shot three times, all three times of which hit the point, the first time he let Wu Weiliang withdraw from the court, and the second time the Beijing official was transferred abroad to defeat the henchmen of the Ying Guo Mansion, this time it turned out to be lighter from the coins found by chance, and it was expected that Wu Huaiyun was greedy for a large number of coins from the Shaofu Prison Such a secret thing, so that Wu Huaiyun had no power to fight back.

"Hmm," Ji Ling nodded with difficulty.

"But sir, Wu Yuanqing is a cautious person, and it may be a little difficult to involve a prince through the affairs of the young eunuch, and we still need to find another way."

"You come here with your ears" Ji Ling's voice was hoarse and weak, and it was very difficult to say a few words.

Shangguan Yi leaned over and listened to Ji Ling's whispers, with a smile on his face.

"Sir, no wonder you are respected by all the Wenzong, your blow is enough to make it difficult for the entire Yingguo Mansion to turn over" Shangguan Yi himself has been in the officialdom for many years, but now he still has to admire the viciousness of Ji Ling's eyes. (To be continued.) )