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Chapter 943 The Best Family 70
She couldn't let Empress Dowager Wu stay sick, and she had to find something for her to do. The Wu family had already been arrested by the Dali Temple, and it wouldn't have much effect to use this matter to scare Empress Dowager Wu, so she had to find something else for her to do.

After looking around, Linlang found that Empress Dowager Wu's daughter could also be used to write an article.

She had never paid much attention to Princess Huakang, the daughter of Empress Dowager Wu. After all, she didn't have much interaction with Empress Dowager Wu, and even less with Empress Dowager Wu's daughter. There was no need to waste time paying attention to her. Now, in order to find something for Empress Dowager Wu to do, she investigated all the people around her whom she cared about, and found that there was also something on Princess Huakang's side that could make Empress Dowager Wu worry.

Princess Huakang's mother was the empress dowager and her brother was the emperor. So after she got married, she was very arrogant. She beat many servants in the mansion to death. That was a trivial matter. Even if it was exposed, the emperor would not do anything to his only sister. He would only blame her and let her pay attention to the impact.

But what she did was far more than just beating a few servants to death.

I don’t know if the nephew resembles his uncle, but in short, Princess Huakang is just like Duke Cheng’en, ​​and has a character that bullies men and women.

Like her uncle, she would rush into the house of any good-looking man she saw while walking on the street, regardless of whether he had a wife and children or not.

At this point, I can still say that this is a trivial matter for these royal nobles.

However, there are naturally some stubborn men who don't like her and are unwilling to obey her. After all, it is impossible for any man who is favored by the princess to be willing.

What if someone is unwilling? Then force it on him - Princess Huakang gave him a strong drug, hoping to use the drug to help him get hard even if he doesn't want to. However, aphrodisiacs, not to mention ancient times, even in modern times, some drugs are not very safe. Some people have had accidents after using them, not to mention that there was no safety inspection of drugs in ancient times, so the man was forced to death after being drugged.

This man's family, like those who had been bullied by Duke Cheng'en's Mansion before, knew Princess Huakang's identity, but they did not dare to sue her and could only blame themselves for their bad luck.

So Linlang told the family about how the Dali Temple Chief Justice was upright and even dealt with the Empress Dowager's brother. The family then became interested and also ran to the Dali Temple to sue Princess Huakang.

Princess Huakang is different from Duke Cheng'en.

Princess Huakang was the emperor's biological sister. Linlang was afraid that if only this family filed a complaint, the emperor would suppress it and the Dali Temple Minister would not be able to handle it. So she made up a short story and scattered small pieces of paper all over the capital. Soon, the news that Princess Huakang was lustful and debauched, poisoned men to death, and beat many servants to death spread throughout the capital. The people were outraged, and many people demanded that the royal family severely punish Princess Huakang. The censor even began to impeach Princess Huakang.

Sure enough, after the incident became a big deal, the emperor couldn't suppress it even if he wanted to.

When Empress Dowager Wu heard that her daughter had also been sued, she no longer had time to take care of Linlang's affairs and had to busy herself running errands for her daughter.

He immediately found the emperor and said to him, "That is your only sister. You cannot punish her."

According to what she had heard from the Dali Temple, if a prince breaks the law, he would be punished the same as a commoner. The Dali Temple planned to have the emperor demote Princess Huakang to a commoner and imprison her in the royal prison, Huai'en Palace.

How could this be possible? So Empress Dowager Wu naturally went to the Emperor to plead for mercy.

The emperor frowned and said, "Of course I don't want to punish her, but the public is furious right now. Also, the Dali Temple and the Censorate say she has committed too many crimes. The public is furious and they all insist on punishing her. Otherwise, it will be difficult to explain to those angry people. If I don't punish her at all, I'm afraid I won't be able to explain myself." At this point, the emperor couldn't help but complain to Empress Dowager Wu, saying, "Why don't you take good care of your sister and let her do these things. I think you should stop meddling in those messy things in the future and take good care of your uncle's family and your sister. I'll be thankful."

The emperor couldn't help but say this when he thought of how Empress Dowager Wu had meddled in deciding who he should appoint as concubines.

When Empress Dowager Wu heard what the emperor said, her face turned red. There was nothing she could do. Everyone around her was of this character. She was really ashamed and couldn't continue to plead for her daughter. She just thought, just pretend that she had never given birth to this daughter and let the emperor deal with it.

She didn't care about her daughter, but she would definitely find a way to rescue her brother from her natal side. After all, if something happened to her brother from her natal side, how would he face the ancestors of the Wu family in his afterlife?

There was no other way. The Dali Temple also investigated all the crimes committed by Duke Cheng'en and submitted a memorial to the emperor, saying that even if Duke Cheng'en was the emperor's uncle, he had committed too many crimes and suggested that his title be stripped and he be imprisoned. Not beheading him was a sign of leniency because he was the emperor's uncle.

When the emperor saw the memorial, he kept it under wraps and did not deal with it for the time being. He did so for the sake of his uncle.

But Empress Dowager Wu heard what the emperor had told her and knew that the emperor would eventually deal with it.

Even if he wasn't beheaded, her brother would definitely be thrown into jail.

The reason why the case has not been dealt with yet is that we have to wait for her family to compensate the victims and obtain their forgiveness and not sue them. Only then will the emperor give her a lighter sentence. Otherwise, she will probably have to sit in jail for the rest of her life.

But Duke Cheng'en's mansion was emptied by Duke Cheng'en, so there is no money to compensate people, so Empress Dowager Wu is trying to find a way to raise money for her natal family.

But what else could she think of? At this critical juncture, she didn't dare ask the concubines in the palace to give her money so that she could help her parents' family.

After all, it had only been a short time since Concubine Liu blackmailed the concubines in the harem. If she, as the empress dowager, did the same thing and was reported to the emperor, she would be so embarrassed that the whole world would be ashamed.

So the only thing she could do was to ask her trusted female officials to go to the lower-ranking concubines and sell them the idea of ​​paying for promotion.

Regarding the matter of paying for promotion previously, the Queen Mother did not ask people to proactively approach the lower-ranking concubines to do it, so those people had to wait for a while after entering the palace to find out. Some stupid ones took a long time to find out.

Now, she asked the female officials around her to promote this matter to the lower-ranking concubines.

Taking into account that some of those people had less money, in order to encourage more people to pay for advancement, Queen Mother Wu asked the female officials around her to tell those people that there was a big promotion for concubines' advancement now, and as long as they paid 20% off, they could be promoted. This opportunity should not be missed, and those who wanted to be promoted should pay quickly.

Needless to say, there are some people who see this kind of thing with a 20% discount and actually pay to upgrade, thinking that this kind of opportunity is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and when the discount is no longer available in the future, they will have to pay more if they want to upgrade.