Ten Miles of Red Makeup: The Legend of Ming Yu

Chapter 512
As Ming concubine expected, the news she asked Zhao Cheng to inquire back was similar to what she guessed, there was a problem with the household department.

After Ding Beihou took office as Minister of the Household Department, he began to check the accounts, and Wei Mingcheng grew up in Shen's family, so it would not be difficult for him to check the accounts.

In order to find out the problems of the household department more quickly, Dingbeihou took Wei Mingcheng to the household department to look over the account books.

But in a few days, Wei Mingcheng found out the problem.

The Marquis of Dingbei prepared the memorial and was about to present it to the emperor, and then... the household department caught fire.

The ledgers were burned.

At this moment in the imperial study room, the emperor was furious with Long Yan, he knew that there was a problem with the household department, in all dynasties, no yamen was clean, let alone the household department.

The emperor suspected that there was something wrong with the household department, so the emperor took advantage of the time when Ding You, the secretary of the household department, arranged Dingbeihou in the position of the minister of the household department, and made a thorough investigation.

No matter who is involved in the account of the household department, the emperor intends to uproot and show no mercy.

I didn't expect him to give him such a big slap when he made up his mind.

Not to mention checking the accounts, the household office is gone.

It was also because the household department was burned that the emperor was more certain that there was something wrong with the former household department minister.

The emperor said, "Catch the former Minister of the Household Department for me!"

The father-in-law here has not gone to declare the decree, and the prince of Jin entered the palace and said, "Your Majesty, Ding You, the former Minister of the Household Department, is at home, and the work at hand is entrusted to the Marquis of Dingbei. If you want to arrest him, you should arrest the Marquis of Dingbei. "

The emperor's expression was worried, holding the impeachment and impeachment memorial written by Dingbeihou in his hand, he slapped the dragon case heavily, "This is the impeachment and impeachment memorial of Dingbeihou, don't I know who should be arrested?! "

The father-in-law went out to announce the decree.

Prince Jin persuaded the emperor to appease his anger and said, "As far as I know, the reason why the yamen of the household department was burned was because the Marquis of Dingbei asked people to check the account books. The officials of the household department left very late. If it blows over, burns the account books and catches fire, the household office is burned, and Dingbeihou cannot shirk his responsibility."

"Because he saved the emperor and is someone trusted by the emperor, he can't be so biased," Prince Jin said.

The emperor looked at Prince Jin and said, "The oil lamp is upside down and the account books are burning. Who saw it with their own eyes? They even let the yamen of the Ministry of Households be burned and killed in public!"

Prince Jin was speechless and didn't speak any more.

The emperor obviously didn't believe that the burning of the household department's yamen was accidental, and it seemed that he wanted to investigate to the end.

After a while, Prince Jin left.

He walked forward, and Concubine Sun Guifei came to the imperial study, but the emperor didn't see her.

The former Minister of the Household Department was sent to prison, and the emperor asked Prince Jing to interrogate him, but when Prince Jing rushed to the prison, the former Minister of the Household Department had already passed away, bleeding to death from his seven orifices, and his death was extremely tragic.

Prince Jing was furious, "How does the jailer guard the cell?!"

The jailer panicked and said, "I was fine just now, why did I suddenly die..."

As he said that, he looked at the gatekeeper and said, "Who came just now?!"

The jailer shrank his head and said, "Someone came to visit the prison just now, but it was not to visit Mr. Shang Shu. He died for some reason."

"Autopsy!"

Leaving this sentence behind, Prince Jing threw up his sleeves and left.

Master Wu has just entered prison, and the emperor sent him to prison, and the jailers dare not allow people to visit casually, but Wu Shangshu is not the only prisoner in the cell, and he is not allowed to visit Master Wu, but he is allowed to visit other people. Shangshu's life is easy.

Wu Shangshu's body was pulled out for an autopsy.

After more than half an hour, Wu Zuo gave a reply, "It was the short needle on half of the little finger that Wu Shangshu ordered to kill. It was poisonous and sealed the throat with blood."

Needless to say, it must have been killed by the prisoner who visited the prison before.

Prince Jing went to the palace to report to the emperor, and the emperor was furious. Before interrogation, he was eager to kill people to silence him. It seems that Wu Shangshu is just a pawn, and the person behind him is the mastermind.

"Search the Wu Mansion! The entire Wu family will be imprisoned!" the emperor said.

Unable to interrogate Wu Shangshu, Prince Jing personally took people to the Wu Mansion to search, and the property searched shocked Prince Jing.

A small Shangshu's mansion has more than twice as much property as his majestic Prince Jing's mansion, and the mansion of the emperor's younger brother, but after searching for a long time and digging three feet, no useful evidence was found.

Unable to interrogate Wu Shangshu, Prince Jing had no choice but to interrogate Wu Shangshu's family members. He learned from Mrs. Wu that Wu Shangshu had close contacts with the King of Jin.

Apart from this, there is no other useful news, and this news cannot be used as evidence to point the finger at King Jin.

But King Jin is the most suspicious. The emperor is afraid that the prince will investigate the salt tax case. Isn't he also suspecting that the mastermind behind this matter is King Jin?

Let other people investigate this case, the emperor can't believe it, and he is afraid that sending anyone there will push others into the fire pit. The emperor believes that only the prince can find out the truth of the matter.

Thinking of King Jin, the emperor thought of Ming concubine who made Jin Wang's mansion deflated. For so many years, Jin Wang seemed to have only stumbled at the hands of Zhennan Wang Shizi?

When the emperor thought of Ming concubine, Ming concubine was unhappy.

Having nothing to do, let the servant girl accompany her to wander in the garden, and was rumored behind her back.

She was blowing the wind by the lake, and the two servant girls walked over and said, "The concubine Shizi came in to celebrate, the son's legs are all healed, she neither consummates the house nor leaves, and I don't know what she wants to do?"

"It should be because I didn't give the money, and I was too embarrassed to ask for it, so I delayed," another maid replied.

"I heard that she and Shizi have been sharing the same bed," said the servant girl.

"Sleeping on the same bed every day, even if the house is not consummated, I'm afraid I won't be able to get married," another said.

"It's not that she has to get married, 20 taels is enough for her to live in a lifetime of luxury and food, and she can eat abalone every day," said the servant girl.

The two maids walked away talking and laughing.

Xi'er stomped her feet angrily, if Ming concubine didn't stop her, she would have gone up and quarreled with the two maids.

"What are you fussing about with them?" Ming concubine said.

Xi'er pursed her lips, "The Shizi Concubine doesn't care about her generosity, but their words are too harsh."

"I'm afraid the worst is yet to come," Ming Yan's eyes were cold.

Xi'er looked at her, "What else?"

"My son's absence just happened to force me to leave Zhennan Palace," Ming's voice seemed to float from a distant mountain.

The maids arranged her behind her back like this, if she didn't leave, it would be shameless of her.

Ming Concubine blew the cool breeze by the lake for a while, and then returned to Chen Xiangxuan. Along the way, all the maids she met whispered and pointed behind her back.

Those who are bold can still hear two voices, and those who are timid speak so softly that they cannot reach her ears.

But what they were muttering, Ming concubine can guess, Xi'er is so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, and when they returned to Chen Xiangxuan, Zhou's mother was even more angry, "I really won't force the concubine to leave, I will never give up .”

Ming concubine smiled lightly and said, "Why are you angry, I won't say leave, no one can tell me to leave, I think in the Zhennan Palace, no one can give me 20 taels except the prince, right?"

"What if someone really takes it?" Xueyan said.

"I'll talk about it after I get the bank note. What are you thinking about so much?"

(End of this chapter)