The king behind the empress

Chapter 47

"Are you upright?"

Mo Zizai sneered and ignored him, but from this incident, he could also see how far the Jiangnan family's hand stretched.

In the court, there are still people who dare to speak up and defend, knowing that they will die if they speak out. It really deserves to be a thousand-year-old family.

"Lord Hu, go ahead and tell me the reason why you doubt the Jiangnan family. I would like to see if anyone else dares to jump out to stop you."

Seeing that man was killed by Mo Zizai just after saying a word, and destroyed his whole family, Hu Xiaosheng couldn't help feeling a little fear in his heart. If Mo Zizai's murderous nature was so great, if he was really sure that it was done by the Jiangnan family , then when he has enough strength in his hands in the future, maybe he will really wipe out the Jiangnan family.

But then Hu Xiaosheng put this idea behind him. What does the Jiangnan family have to do with him? The most important thing for him now is to keep his family, so he expressed his conjecture without hesitation. .

"Because the land in the south of the Yangtze River has the strongest aristocratic family and the deepest conflict with the late emperor. The most important thing is that the land in the south of the Yangtze River was the first place the late emperor was going to make a move."

"And based on my understanding of the Jiangnan family, they will definitely not sit still and wait for the late emperor to get rid of them, so it is very likely that they will be the first to be strong."

"Well, although it's just your speculation, it barely makes sense."

Mo Zizai nodded slightly, and said to Hu Xiaosheng: "After you die, your family will be preserved by this king. If someone dares to touch your family and they kill your family, this king will destroy their family. They will kill you." If there are two people in the family, this king will punish his nine families."

He knew that with the strength of the Jiangnan family, after Hu Xiaosheng said this, even if he offended the Jiangnan family to death, even if he died, those families would not let Hu Xiaosheng's family go.

So saying this sentence is a promise to Hu Xiaosheng, and it is also a warning to those family members. He does not believe that anyone dares to risk being punished by the nine clans to target Hu Xiaosheng's family.

After hearing Mo Zizai's words, Hu Xiaosheng was slightly taken aback, not entirely because of Mo Zizai's promise, after all he said to let his family members go, if something happened to his family members, then Mo Zizai's face would also be dull.

To his surprise, Mo Zizai's words meant that he was going to kill him right here, instead of interrogating other people for evidence of corruption.

"It seems that I have always underestimated the prince."

Hu Xiaosheng's thoughts turned sharply, and he quickly figured out Mo Zizai's intentions, sighed faintly, and closed his eyes.

And Mo Zizai was not polite to him, he slapped Hu Xiaosheng in the heart, directly breaking his pulse.

After seeing Hu Xiaosheng's body fell to the ground, a large part of the court hall breathed a sigh of relief, especially Qian Min, Minister of the Household Department, looked at him as if he had lifted a heavy burden.

While heaving a sigh of relief, Qian Min thought about the Jiangnan aristocratic family that Hu Xiaosheng said, and said to Mo Zizai cautiously: "My lord, General Zhu Guo was set up as a trap by the three countries, so he was killed. , this matter has been recognized.”

"Like what Hu Xiaosheng said just now, it's just a speculation in his own heart. If there is no evidence, it can't be true at all. I hope the prince will not take it to heart."

"Evidence, what evidence do you want?"

Mo Zizai glanced at Qian Min, and said calmly: "This king never needs evidence to do things. Since this king suspects them, then they should prove their innocence. If they can't prove their innocence, then it means they did it."

"..."

Hearing Mo Zizai's unreasonable words, Qian Min was stunned. He looked at Mo Zizai's expression of course, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Seeing that Qian Min stopped talking, Mo Zizai ignored him. Anyway, he was released. If the Jiangnan family could not give him a satisfactory answer, when Yu Zhisi had accumulated enough strength, he would personally lead people to flatten Jiangnan family.

Hmph, for a thousand-year-old family, he really wants to know how much money this thousand-year-old family has accumulated.

Mo Zizai took out the booklet of civil and military officials from his bosom again, and tore it to pieces in front of everyone.

"Seeing that Mr. Hu was directly shot to death by this king, are you all relieved?"

"And the reason why this king didn't take him to prison for interrogation is because this king didn't want to kill all of you. After all, the court still needs people to work."

"But that doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with you."

Mo Zizai threw the torn gift book on the ground, and said flatly, "I don't think I've seen this gift book before. Please prepare another gift money after you return home from the party."

"As for the standard, Mr. Hu has generously donated all his wealth. I don't think you should be too stingy. It shouldn't be a problem to give half of your wealth, right?"

"Give more to those who are greedy, and give less to those who are less greedy. As for those who are greedy and don't want to give more, that's fine."

"As long as you feel that Yu Zhisi can't find out your family background, it doesn't matter if you pay less."

"But if it is found out by Yuzhisi, then don't blame me for sending someone to help you count your property. By then, it will not be [-] percent."

Regarding Mo Zizai Chi Guoguo's blackmail, all the officials dared not speak out, and only one person stood up after hesitating for a moment, "Dare to ask the prince, if you can't get a penny, what should you do?" ?”

"Can't get the money out?"

Mo Zizai frowned slightly, thinking that another stubborn person would jump out to seek death, "Who are you?"

"I'm the censor of the Youqian (qian) capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Shi Zhipei, and I have met the prince."

Shi Zhipei was also a little helpless, and he was also a little worried that Mo Zizai would cut himself with a sword, but he had to stand up. After all, his family really had no money. Mo Zizai tore up the gift list, saying it didn't count.

Now he wants to collect it for the second time, where can I get him money with the gift.

"Oh, Shi Zhipei."

After hearing this name, Mo Zizai immediately knew that this person was not out to find fault. Shi Zhipei, the imperial censor of Youqian Capital, was mainly responsible for the review of death penalty cases. There are few unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, so it has a very good reputation among the people.

People like him usually seldom get involved in party disputes, let alone speak out for corrupt officials, so he stood up only because he really couldn't afford the money.

In fact, in order to prevent officials from being corrupted, Dazhou paid extremely high salaries to officials. Officials like Shi Zhipei, a fourth-rank official, would never be so poor that they would not be able to spend a penny.

But it really can't stand the treasury without money. The entire court, from the censor to the small official, has not paid a salary for half a year.

And if the salary is not paid for half a year, corrupt officials don’t care, and they don’t rely on it to make a living, but it’s not good for honest officials like Shi Zhipei. Their main income is the salary of the court. Without the salary, the source of income will be cut off directly.

In terms of his current assets, let alone another gift, it is hard to say whether he will have food when he goes back tonight.

(End of this chapter)