Rule the Roost in the Tang Dynasty: Five Hundred and Eleven Chaotang (Part 2)
Li Hong is still learning Wu Mei and closing his eyes slightly, but Ouyang Tong's analysis just now has been heard in his ears without fail.
Ouyang Tong’s analysis, is it Jinghui’s experience or Ouyang Tong’s understanding? Don’t forget, I was nominated by Jinghui a few days ago. I hope Ouyang Tong will replace him as Jinghui as the Shangshu. I said at the beginning that this person is very proficient in arithmetic, but I never thought that this person’s ability to discriminate is also the same. Intrepid, Pei Yan can't fight back in a few words.
Although his argument still has a lot of loopholes, his confident tone and convincing appearance of integrity really give him a lot of points, making him feel that every word he said is correct , Are the same as truth.
"Nonsense, when did Zhongshushu receive such a memorial?" Pei Yan glared. This Ouyang Tong did not perform very well when he was a member of Zhongshushu at Zhongshushu. Why is he able to become capable today? She is eloquent and passionate.
"Is it a memorial of the Ministry of Books, I will find out after checking, what is the use of Master Pei’s explanation? Master Xue and Master Gao, the two adults privately investigated the dock built by the Prince, but did not report it to me, I don’t know. What did the Yushi doctor do to get the two to bypass me, Li Qiao and Master Qing Di of Dali Temple, and play to Zhongshu Province?" Li Qiao walked out Shiran, slowly moving away from his sleeves. A memorial was taken out of the bag.
"Your Majesty, Queen, just now Xue Yuanchao and Gao Zhizhou impeached the prince for embezzling the silver liang. The officials thought it was completely nonsense. His Royal Highness was in charge of six trophies. No matter which silver liang was embezzled, it is understandable and within the scope of rights. What's more, when His Royal Highness was ten years old, he was the Shangshu of the Hubu. If he was greedy for ink, how would he care about the ten million taels? I want to come to all the adults and colleagues to know that the Prince was already in the Hubu Shangshu when he was ten years old. Holding the huge cornucopia of Taiyi City in hand, how much wealth is in Taiyi City, how much silver did the Crown Prince dig out for the majestic palace we are now in? I want you to be clear in your heart, right? Suffering words, although the minister does not quite understand why Master Pei wanted to impeach His Royal Highness on the charge of corruption, but the minister has a memorial here. Coincidentally, it is also an account book, but this account book is from work. The ministry shed out, and it clearly recorded the whereabouts of the Ministry of Industry’s 30 million taels of silver, of which one million taels, Mr. Fang, should you give me an explanation?" Li Qiao respectfully held in his hand. The memorial to Lian Tie was handed to Li Zhi.
Although the accounts in this memorial are recorded in the traditional form of bookkeeping, there are still some very clear and very chongwenguan-style bookkeeping methods.
In the account book, it is clearly recorded how 30 million taels of silver changed from 30 million to 25 million. The 5 million taels embezzled by Li Hong was divided into two allocations, one time three A million taels, two million taels at a time.
But when the total sum is added up, the book is less than one million taels, and this one million taels is the current deficit of the Ministry of Engineering.
Li Zhi's face was green, and even he could understand the accounts. Naturally, he didn't need the queen to look at it. He threw it directly to Fang Xianzhong, who was standing in the hall: "See for yourself, what is going on? Why three? Ten thousand taels became 29 million taels, where did that one million go! Bring me in!"
At this moment, Li Hong and Wu Mei opened their eyes almost at the same time. Their eyes were not looking at Fang Xianzhong, but at the same time looking at the elegant and unrestrained Li Qiao.
Doctor Li Qiao!
Neither Li Hong nor Wu Mei expected that Li Qiao turned out to be a key point in the court today. Originally, Li Hong thought it would be a Yushi, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be a Yushi doctor. Li Qiao.
Wu Mei’s surprise was that Li Hong could not be very familiar with Li Qiao, although Li Hong liked Yushitai’s duties very much, and even after Li Qiao was appointed as Yushitai, the rumor that he has always supported Yushitai is , Supervise the responsibilities of a hundred officials and etiquette, but Wu Mei knows that Li Hong and Li Qiao are not the same, Li Qiao can't enter Li Hong's law, nor can he look down on Li Qiao, a man of high morale!
But this memorial seems to be pressing against Fang Xianzhong. Obviously, this is the Zhongshu Ling Peiyan who impeached His Royal Highness for greed of ink and silver!
The sweat on Fang Xianzhong's forehead ran down. From the eyes of the ministers, it was obvious that Fang Xianzhong did not expect that he was greedy for ink, so he was shocked and sweated.
But only Fang Xianzhong knows that this is a real fake account from the Ministry of Industry's account book!
I gave Peiwang more than one million taels? In recent years, the Ministry of Industry has repaired roads, palaces, imperial palaces, inner gardens, forest gardens, the mausoleum of the first emperor, and so on. Which one can't be greeted by ink at a casual price of 1.8 million taels?
How come Li Qiao Li only took out such an account book with a deficit of only one million now? What is the purpose of this move?
"Hurry up, where did this million taels go!" Li Zhi looked at Fang Xianzhong, who was sifting through his body, and asked like a roar.
"Father, I am afraid that Fang Xianzhong is not easy to identify, right? Is it Mr. Fang? This one million taels is not a big number if it is said to be now, but if it is placed ten years ago, fifteen years Earlier, this one million taels of silver is a lot of money. Let’s talk about it, where did this one million taels go? Your accounts are not correct, but you want to impeach me for greed of five million taels. Funny?" Li Hong finally stood up under the expectation of the court officials, walked to Fang Xianzhong, and patted Fang Xianzhong's shoulder again with one hand.
He could feel that, unlike the previous two times, Fang Xianzhong's body was very calm when he patted Fang Xianzhong's shoulder this time, not as trembling as before.
Fang Xianzhong is indeed not afraid, but excited. He did not expect that after this incident, his charge was only to leak a million taels of silver, not about Wang Pei, etc., which made Yuan originally hold it and die. The heart of him, suddenly his heart is full of hope.
The words Wang Pei told him last night clearly sounded in his ears at this moment: "It is impossible to keep the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry. The fifth child will not give you this opportunity, but the crime is not enough. There is still hope for distribution. The fifth child has already promised me. Besides, you still have to be infected with the officials of the royal family. If you want to come to your mother and father, you will not be too embarrassed, but... you have to testify against Pei Yan in the court. Greedy.
Although it was just these words, even though he didn’t know how His Highness the Prince would testify against him before he came to the court today, this also made him always fearful and wanted to see His Highness’s wink and action, but His Highness is facing today. In the hall, it was as if they were dumb, and the officials in the hall were allowed to argue, and he hadn't said much at all.
This made his heart sink, unable to find the hint of the prince, so his guilt would not be too light, so as this memorial fell into his hands, his heart was finally settled. To the ground.
Feeling the strength of Li Hong's slap on his shoulder, Fang Xianzhong knelt to the temple, and said with sincerity: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, the minister... These million taels are actually the minister who has time to make an account in the future. Go in..."
"As long as I get the result, where is this one million taels! Is it because you are greedy for ink, or you are..."
"Your Majesty, why don't you just listen to Fang Xianzhong and then ask questions?" Wu Mei suddenly interrupted Li Zhi's words.
His Royal Highness Li Hong also glanced with gratitude with lingering fears, and the queen who also had lingering fears with him, only to see that the queen sighed softly, with a trace of tension on her face.
Both mother and son know that up to now, among the three of them, he and the mother and the queen have long understood what happened in the court, but the father and the emperor have not fully understood the whole thing, and thought that Fang Xianzhong would be here. The court testified against Li Xian.
After all, now two unfilial sons are returning money to Chang'an, but they are making a big fuss in Changmingfang, and even shooting at Changmingfang, bleeding to death.
Today I know that Li Hong is coming to participate in the Korean meeting~IndoMTL.com~ must be to vent all the obstacles Li Xian has to him during this period. Therefore, using Fang Xianzhong to clean up Li Xian is naturally Li Hong’s method .
Seeing that his words were interrupted by Wu Mei, Li Zhi looked at Wu Mei blankly, only to see Wu Mei use his bright eyes to signal him to stay calm, and this allowed him to extinguish the emperor's anger.
"His Majesty, the minister is guilty, the minister deserves to die, the minister should not believe the words of Master Pei Yanpei so he secretly sent a million taels of silver to Master Pei Yanpei!"
"You nonsense, when did I collude with you? When did I ask you for a million taels of silver? What's the use if I want you to have a million taels of silver?" Pei Yan was startled, thinking that Fang first Zhonghui accused Li Xian, but he did not expect it to be directed at him.
"Master Pei, you can admit it." Fang Xianzhong said sincerely with a bitter face.
"I'm not greedy for ink, why should I admit it, and why should I be greedy for ink for a million taels of silver? Give me a reason!" Pei Yan's nose is almost crooked, when did he take him 100 Ten thousand dollars.
"This...Isn't it that you asked me to support you in front of your majesty to shoot for Shang Shusheng? Then you said, when you become a right shooter of Shang Shusheng, you immediately recommend me to be in front of your majesty. The book province is in the book order, but because there are some colleagues who also have the book order in the public relations, it takes a million taels of silver to mobilize other colleagues."
"Puff..." Pei Yan spouted a mouthful of blood when Fang Xianzhong was half-truth.
This is the framing that makes it difficult for him to get rid of his innocence. He covets the position of right-hand shooting. Not only him, not only other officials, but also your majesty, know that he intends to save the right-hand shooting position.
What's more, Fang Xian was loyal, and he also promised him the post of Shuling, which immediately obscured the matter and made it difficult to distinguish between true and false.