Gua Fei in the world

Chapter 1299

When Wen Tingzhan entered the palace, Emperor Xinghua happened to have lunch and was reviewing memorials in the Palace of Qinzheng. Xiao Shirui was also there, and he placed a small case on the other side. There were also many memorials in front of him. Seeing Wen Tingzhan When he came in, he just raised his head, and then lowered his head to read the memorial seriously.

"My minister sees Your Majesty." Wen Ting saluted respectfully.

"Get up." Emperor Xinghua said without raising his head.

Wen Tingzhan stood up and bowed to Xiao Shirui: "His Royal Highness Chun Wang."

"Lord Wen, you don't need to be too polite." Xiao Shirui also replied.

Wen Tingzhan stood on one side silently, watching his nose, nose, nose, nose and heart. For a while, the only sound in the hall was the wind blowing through the bead curtain outside the window, and the crisp sound of pearls and jade hitting each other.

It took a while for Emperor Xinghua to say: "I have read your memorial for the tax and bank case. You have done a good job in this matter. Hu Ting is a pillar of talent."

Hu Ting knew about this and acquiesced. Wen Tingzhan didn't hide the truth from Emperor Xinghua, and he couldn't hide it. If he concealed Emperor Xinghua today, then Shan Jiuci will have the evidence in the future, and he will be blamed.Emperor Xinghua was a wise king with the people in the world in his heart, sometimes a king had to turn his eyes and close his eyes.

Just like Hu Ting's case, Wen Tingzhan naturally put most of the fault on Cao Gong. In fact, everything was handled by Cao Gong, and Hu Ting was just passive.

"It's His Majesty's great grace, and humble ministers dare not take credit for it." Wen Tingzhan said modestly.

"This Cao Gong is dead, and the whereabouts of the tax banker Hu Ting? This case is closed, have you found out the whereabouts of the tax banker?" Emperor Xinghua put down the cinnabar pen and looked up at Wen Tingzhan.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the tax bank is at Liu's House in Yuzhang County." Wen Tingzhan said with a bow.

"The Liu family?" Emperor Xinghua raised his eyebrows, "Why are you in the Liu family?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this matter is the work of Hu Ting." Wen Tingzhan said to Emperor Xinghua, "Cao Gong was coerced to steal tax money. Hu Ting only found out about it after the fact. Before he knew it, he immediately ordered the blockade of all Huguang. Entering and exiting the gate of the prefecture city, a large amount of tax money could not be transported out. It happened that the former chief secretary of Huguang, Liu Jumin, and Mr. Liu returned to Dingyou of Yuzhang County with his family. The silver is in the compartment of the case."

It is true that Cao Gong gave Liu Juyan a cartful of things before Liu Jumin left, but it was a routine exchange of favors, and it was indeed some local products. It was a gift to Liu Jumin on behalf of Hu Ting and the entire Huguang who had worked with Liu Jumin for several years. This is well documented Check, as for the boxes containing local products, Wen Tingzhan has already tampered with them.

"Liu Jumin hasn't found tax money yet?" Emperor Xinghua was interested.

"Master Liu has already found out, but Master Liu dare not hand it in." Wen Tingzhan replied calmly.

"Why?"

"A hundred mouths cannot argue."

"Does he believe that I will give him justice?" Emperor Xinghua said in a deep voice.

"No, it's not that Mr. Liu doesn't trust His Majesty, but he doesn't trust his humble ministers. If His Majesty hadn't sent his humble ministers to check the tax money, Mr. Liu must have already handed over the tax money." Wen Tingzhan replied.

"Why doesn't he believe you?" Emperor Xinghua thought for a while and said, "Isn't it rumored outside that you are the son of the Liu family and belong to the Liu family, and he still doesn't believe you?"

"It can be seen from this that the rumors in the market are not credible. If the servants are really from the Liu family as the old lady Liu said, the old lady Liu must have told Lord Liu to watch and help the servants." Wen Tingzhan followed the trend.

"A man's words are good when he is about to die, and it may not be because Liu Jumin is narrow-minded, and he is afraid that you will go back to the Liu family and divide his power." Emperor Xinghua smiled suddenly, "Since it has been found out that the tax bank is in the Liu family, then you go and transfer it to the Liu family." Give me back the tax money."

"I would like to ask Your Majesty to allow me to open the coffin of Old Master Liu." Wen Tingzhan said casually.

"Open Liu Shiren's coffin?" Emperor Xinghua was really astonished, but he only recovered for a moment, "Don't tell me that the tax money was hidden in Liu Shiren's coffin by Liu Jumin!"

"Exactly."

Emperor Xinghua fell silent for a moment, and even Xiao Shirui raised his head in surprise.Where in the history has the monarch ordered the opening of the coffin of the deceased courtier when his bones were still cold?This is enough for historians to criticize. At that time, what Emperor Xinghua wanted most was to open the coffin of the Kou family, but just after the Kou family was brought down, Huguang was flooded. At that time, Emperor Xinghua was very depressed, but he had to be cautious in every move.

Two or three years after the flood receded, there was no reason for Emperor Xinghua to come back to settle the old score again, so that Emperor Xinghua has not given a sigh of relief at Kou's house until now.Not even the Kou family, let alone Liu Shiren, who hasn't had many serious crimes up to now. The biggest crime is just trying to destroy Wen Tingzhan, the crime of deceiving the emperor before his death, but Emperor Xinghua would not kill him for this. The dead are pulled from the coffin.

"How sure are you that the tax money is in Liu Shiren's coffin?" Emperor Xinghua asked, staring at Wen Tingzhan.

Wen Tingzhan lowered his eyebrows and looked pleasing to the eye: "I am [-]% sure that the tax money is in the coffin of Old Master Liu."

"Do you know how much is involved behind this move?" Emperor Xinghua's voice became colder.

"Wei Chen understands."

"If you open the coffin, but you can't come up with tax money..."

"My minister is willing to make amends with death." Wen Tingzhan's tone was flat, as if he was not talking about life and death.

Emperor Xinghua took a deep breath, looked at Wen Tingzhan in silence for a long time, and then said: "You step back first, go back and think about it, I will give you another night, and we can discuss it after tomorrow morning."

"Wei Chen retire."

Wen Tingzhan bowed and exited the Palace of Qinzheng.Just as he walked down the white jade stairs, Xiao Shirui chased after him: "Yunhe, wait for me."

Wen Tingzhan stopped and looked at Xiao Shirui who was chasing him.

"The silver was really hidden in Liu Shiren's coffin?" Xiao Shirui asked in a low voice.

"Naturally." Wen Tingzhan smiled lightly.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Xiao Shirui already knew from Emperor Xinghua that this was Shan Jiuci's work and was ordered by Emperor Xinghua. He had an intuition that Shan Jiuci would not be so easy to deal with.

"Of course it's not easy. The silver at the bottom of the coffin is sandwiched by dragon oil." Wen Tingzhan didn't hide anything from Xiao Shirui.

Xiao Shirui's eyes widened: "How do I take out the silver?"

Dragon oil, they all know what it is. Since the past, princes and nobles like to use dragon oil to cover the top of the tomb to prevent the tomb from being robbed by vicious people who are greedy for funerary objects.That thing burns as soon as it sees light, and the burn power is shocking. If there is a layer at the bottom of the coffin, once the bottom layer is pried off, so much dragon oil, not to mention silver, is afraid that the person who opens the coffin will not want to live.

At that time, the silver will be burnt to pieces, and Wen Tingzhan will not even be able to die.

"How dare you put up a life-and-death statement!" Xiao Shirui was anxious.

"Of course I have a plan to open the coffin." Wen Tingzhan smiled at him, then turned and walked towards the palace gate, "Yao Yao is still waiting for me at the palace gate."

(End of this chapter)