The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1185 Argument

Sheng Yuan originally thought that Mr. An was causing trouble, but unexpectedly, the other party lived up to his reputation of being slippery. He sighed and groaned at her the moment before, turned around and went to the lobby, and directly broke free from the shackles and got out of the predicament!

Sheng Yuan, who was standing outside the side door of the lobby and saw An Suiyun's performance clearly, was stunned when he saw that the other party denied that the Ministry of Revenue had given extra subsidies to Princess Hong'an under other names, and even righteously asked people to bring the relevant account books to prove himself.

To be honest, I'm not bragging, the more she rises and falls in officialdom, the more she realizes that she is an honest child and a sincere person.

  If she and An Suiyun were in each other's shoes, she really wouldn't have thought of such a way to escape!

Sheng Yuan leaned against the wall and pondered silently. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that An Suiyun's idea was very good.

After all, the Ministry of Revenue has always adhered to its promise to Emperor Xiancheng Yuan, and has carefully placed all the subsidies for Princess Hong'an under different names, and the accounts can be checked. As long as he does not admit it, the Dali Temple will have no choice but to acknowledge it.

Although this move is not very fair to Princess Hong'an, the problem is that the areas where the accounts don't match are very controversial.

Concubine Cen accused Princess Yongping of secretly developing silver and iron mines to support her private army; Princess Hong'an denied this, saying that she and her daughter used their salaries and private property to help disaster victims and orphans, which was a good deed to help the people.

Concubine Cen calculated the income and expenditure of the two princess mansions and insisted that with the money on the books of Princess Hong'an and her daughter, it was impossible to support Princess Yongping to live a luxurious life while also allowing hundreds of children to study literature and martial arts without worries about food and clothing.

It was at this time that Princess Hong'an revealed that since the reign of Emperor Xiancheng Yuan, the Ministry of Revenue would allocate a large sum of extra money to them every quarter for their living.

This is why An Laokou was invited by the Dali Temple for questioning.

If An Suiyun was as honest as Sheng Yuan and admitted what Princess Hong'an said, he would need to produce actual evidence to prove the truthfulness of what he said; but the problem is that An Suiyun can't produce it.

For the Dali Temple's judge to adjudicate a case, there must be a logically closed loop of witnesses and physical evidence. Even if you are certified as the Minister of Revenue, if you cannot provide evidence for your testimony, it will not be accepted.

Since telling the truth would not help Anzi at all, but would instead drag him and the Ministry of Revenue into a vortex, he might as well just go with the accounts and let the numbers speak for themselves.

So from a certain perspective, he was only telling half the truth, so it wasn't really a lie.

"Hong'an, the Minister of Revenue brought the account book with him. Look through it yourself and see if there is anything wrong with what he said!"

Concubine Cen didn't expect An Suiyun to cooperate like this. After being slightly surprised, she immediately turned her head away and made trouble.

  Although she was unaware of this extra subsidy, she knew Emperor Chengyuan!

Given his care and preference for his niece, Princess Hong'an, he could really do such an absurd thing.

Of course, even if she believes, believing does not mean admitting it.

"An Suiyun, how many heads do you think you have? How dare you slander me!" Grand Princess Hong'an originally thought that the Ministry of Revenue would step in and she could clear herself of the accusations. However, she didn't expect that Old An would be even more proactive than her in clearing herself of the accusations!

An Suiyun stared at Grand Princess Hong'an with a look that seemed to want to chew him out, and held the account book innocently to complain to the Dali Temple: "I have never had any grudge against the Grand Princess, why do I have to trick her here? Nan Si Qing, these are the old accounts of the Ministry of Revenue. You can ask the Grand Princess to check them one by one to see if there is any additional funding from the Ministry of Revenue!"

"You! You! You!" Princess Hong'an pointed at An Suiyun tremblingly, unable to utter a complete sentence for a long time. It's not that she was speechless, but facing An Suiyun's denial, she clearly realized that even if she could point out all the accounts, it would be useless, because there was no item in the account books that clearly stated that it was a grant for her.

With An Suiyun's testimony and the actual account books on file, even if what she said was true and even if someone really believed it, the Dali Temple officials would not accept it; and all her insistence would make the existing evidence a joke.

"Even if I can't prove that the Ministry of Revenue has indeed allocated additional funds to me on a quarterly basis, my private property alone is enough to support all expenses. Not to mention raising a few hundred children, even if it's to support the people of a city, I can last for two or three hundred years."

After all, after Emperor Xianchengyuan changed the dynasty to Chu, he simply turned over the treasury of the Former Chen to the court. As for the treasury of Emperor Chen Mo and the empress's dowry, he left them all to his niece.

If we take into account the annual rewards given by him, the previous Emperor Jinghe, and the current Emperor Yanping, the number would probably be even more exaggerated.

"Okay, okay, Princess Hong'an is indeed wealthy. No wonder she was able to recruit members of the former Qi royal family and support her former Qi relatives!"

After Concubine Cen won the battle, she immediately threw out the previous accusations and charged Princess Hong'an with a new crime.

The veins on Princess Hong'an's forehead suddenly jumped.

But before she could refute, Concubine Cen had already submitted a new confession to the Supreme Court.

"Lord Nansi Qing may still remember that the old woman's son, Prince Jing, had once married the local powerful Lang family when he was enfeoffed. Later, he accidentally discovered that the Lang family had been married to the He family of the former Qi Dynasty for generations and was almost imprisoned. When the matter was exposed, Lang took his eldest son and second son who were still in swaddling clothes and set fire to the house and fled. Later, he took refuge with his uncle's cousin Wen family. And Wen's son Wen Shiyan was the second consort of Princess Yongping.

What’s even more interesting is that Wen Shiyan’s original surname was He, and he was a member of the royal family of the former Qi Dynasty.

As far as the old woman knows, after Lang went to Wen Shiyan, she was received by Princess Yongping and she has been receiving a lot of help from Princess Yongping since then."

At this point, Concubine Cen's eyes turned red, she glanced at Princess Hong'an and sneered, "What's more interesting is that after the appearance of Lady Lang, the two young sons born to Wen Shiyan disappeared from the family tree. What makes people think more is that after the family incident that year, Lady Lang brought her two sons to Beijing to recognize their relatives, and they became the successor to the emperor involuntarily... Although everything ended in vain because the current emperor returned to the throne, the details here cannot withstand scrutiny!

The old woman had already suspected that they were related to the treasonous Lu family. Later, it was revealed that Princess Yongping had a son and a daughter, named Yingzhang Pingzhang, and their biological father was the grandson of the Lu family!

Although the present man believed Yongping's excuses and thought she was innocent and being taken advantage of, the old woman felt that there was something else going on.

Fortunately, all the efforts over the years were not in vain. The old woman used her true love and sincerity to influence Mrs. Lang and her two sons, and finally they got the truth from Mrs. Lang.

Nan Siqing, this is Lang's confession after he went undercover in Qizhou. It details how Yongping colluded with former Qi's old subordinates to stop the robbery of Yang Wennong, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the grain transport of the imperial court, as well as all the layout and arrangements of Yongping's sending people to manage several islands in the south and compete with the land government over the past few decades. "

When Concubine Cen said this, she looked at the shaky Grand Princess Hong'an and asked coldly, "Hong'an, why don't you refute it now?"