The queen wants to run away every day

Chapter 368 The biggest corruption case since ascension to the throne

Yingyun took the knife that Wushun handed over, and scraped along the edge of the wine jar bit by bit, the paint on the outside was wiped off, revealing specks of gold.

Anais and the others exclaimed in surprise, "Ah, it's not made of gold, is it?"

Wu Shun suddenly said, "No wonder it's so heavy."

"Hush!" Ying Yun raised her eyes to look at them, and said, "Don't say anything about this, wait until I return to the emperor."

"Whoo."

After nightfall, Yingyun waited until the first hour of Haishi, when she lay down on the table and dozed off for several times, then she waited for the sound of the emperor pushing the door open.

Seeing her neatly dressed and holding a wine jar, the emperor smiled and said, "The empress stays up so late, is she waiting for me to have a drink together?"

Yingyun suddenly woke up, and said: "Your Majesty, this jar was brought by the concubine from the county magistrate's house. Look, what is it made of?"

The emperor took a closer look by the candlelight, picked it up with his hands, weighed it, and asked suspiciously, "A wine jar made of gold? Is this really from Wang Haide's family?"

"Yeah." Yingyun nodded and said, "His family's wine jars are piled up, and they can reach a wall. If they are all converted into gold, the ministers will calculate, how much silver is it worth?"

The emperor said angrily: "I don't hesitate to spend a lot of money to repair the river embankment. As a parent official, Wang Haide dares to fill his own pocket and hide it so deeply. Isn't he fooling me in the palm of his hand?"

"Come here!" the emperor scolded, and seeing Li Yu bowed in, he said, "Decree, order Ah Gui to immediately copy the house of Wang Haide, the magistrate of Haining County, and inspect every brick and tile carefully. Let's see, how much ink can he be greedy for?"

"Hey." Li Yu took the order, and then the uniform footsteps of the guards could be heard, gradually drifting away.

Yingyun sighed: "Three years since Qing Zhifu, one hundred thousand snowflake silver, I never thought that a small county magistrate could be greedy for so much."

The emperor sat silently with a livid face, watching the candle flame on the desk gradually fade away.

After the ugly time, Agui went to the garden to report that Wang Haide had been imprisoned in the county government prison. After a rough estimate of the confiscated property, he handed over the booklet to the emperor.

At the same time, Agui interrogated Wang Haide overnight, and presented his confession at dawn.

The next day's sun was twilight, Yingyun couldn't resist the drowsiness of last night, she lay in bed and slept all night, when she woke up, she saw that the emperor was still at his desk reviewing the memorial, so she put on some clothes and walked gently to his side .

"Your majesty, you haven't slept all night, have you?" Yingyun saw his deeply sunken eye sockets, thick dark circles, and even stubble growing out.

"Are you awake?" The emperor pointed at the confession angrily, and said, "I never dreamed that Wang Haide was actually the moth of the country. I wish I could cut him into pieces. How can I sleep peacefully? Empress, you know, ah When Gui Chao disappeared from his house, he found out that he used gold bricks to build the walls. No wonder he didn’t want to be a Beijing official, it turned out that he fell into a bag of rice and was greedy like a mouse!”

Yingyun said: "However, my concubine sees that although Wang Haide is greedy for money, he is not like a common corrupt official who spends money wantonly and enjoys life. On the contrary, he lives frugally. Is there any other secret hidden in this?"

The emperor pondered and said: "If this case is exposed, it will be the biggest corruption case since I came to the throne. Today, I want to meet Wang Haide in person, but no matter what hidden secrets he has, this trend must not rise, otherwise the country will be destroyed. The foundation of the ancestors will be hollowed out."

(End of this chapter)