After stealing the divorce book, Princess Salted Fish fell off her horse

Chapter 820
Wei Qingce was stunned.

When he expressed his dissatisfaction, he actually knew it in his heart. He knew that with the current power and status of the Wei family, no matter what, the emperor would give him three points, so even if he was dissatisfied and complained a few times, it was fine.

But now something happened.Not only is there an accident, but it is also a major event of ransacking the house!
He looked at Jiang Yi with condensed eyes: "Commander Jiang, did you take the wrong edict?"

Jiang Yi said with a half-smile, "Grandpa, I can't bear what you said. Taking the imperial decree by mistake, what kind of a serious crime is that? Lend me a little courage, I dare not!"

Wei Qingce said: "The Duke of this country is going to face the saint!"

Jiang Yi said: "Your sister-in-law also said the same thing, but if the emperor has something to say, just take it down. If you disagree, you have time to defend yourself!"

As he spoke, he waved his hand: "Action!"

The guards are well-trained and all follow orders.

Wei Qingce's face turned black with anger, but his heart was filled with panic.

As the commander of the imperial army, Jiang Yi only obeyed the emperor's order, and what he took was indeed an imperial edict.Therefore, all of this is a holy decree, and Jiang Yi is just a knife.

Will the emperor move a prince for no reason?Obviously not, and it would be impossible to do so without prima facie evidence.

He thought carefully about the fact that he might have been ransacked by the emperor, but he didn't, and his face was gloomy.

Could it be that the Fourth Prince made a mistake?

No, what Jiang Yi said just now was that he went to the Zhenyuan General's Mansion first.

The Duke's wife and his sons and daughters were all driven out, crying aloud.

Wei Qingce frowned, and said in a deep voice, "What's the point of crying? Don't forget your identities!"

At this time, what identity can you care about?They are all going to be prisoners!
Although Wei Qingce's face was ugly, and although he was a little uncertain in his heart, he was not too worried.Because just now, he has gone through everything, as long as the fourth prince does not rebel, they are all safe.

The emperor can't directly convict them without guilt. Although the house raid was weird, it doesn't matter if it survives.What kind of storm has he never seen?
With this in mind, the family raids of Duke Zhuang's mansion proceeded very quickly.

Although Jiang Yi was ordered to ransack the house, his main task was to search.

This time the imperial guards searched more thoroughly, almost every room was checked to see if there was a partition and a dark room, but there was none.

On the way to the palace, Chu Yuncheng finally heard about the Duke Zhuang's mansion and General Zhenyuan's mansion. He was extremely surprised. What's going on?

He was about to turn the car around and let the coachman go to Zhuang Guogong's mansion first, but the eunuch sent an order: "My lord, the emperor is waiting for you!"

Chu Yuncheng had no choice but to go straight into the palace.

In the Dragon Control Hall, Chu Yuncheng saw the emperor.

The emperor was surrounded by Chu Juan, Chu Yuntai and Chu Chaoyang, who stood on both sides. After Chu Yuncheng knelt down to pay respects, the emperor did not let him get up.

Chu Yuncheng was anxious, thinking of the family members of General Zhenyuan and Duke Zhuang who had been escorted away, after the emperor made him kneel for a quarter of an hour before he could speak, he finally couldn't help but ask: "Father, my son is unclear about something, I would like to ask you Godfather Emperor!"

"speak!"

"When my son entered the palace, I heard that the imperial army imprisoned the family members of General Zhenyuan's mansion and ransacked Zhuang Guogong's mansion. I don't know if this news is true!"

"That's right!"

"Father, what crime did they commit?"

"Are you questioning me?"

"I don't dare!" Chu Yuncheng said: "Father, Duke Zhuang's honorable family, General Zhenyuan has been defending the country's borders, no credit but hard work, now General Zhenyuan died in the army, and the bones returned to Beijing not long ago. Then he imprisoned his family members, lest the generals will be suspicious!"

He glanced at Chu Yuntai, hoping to get any information from him.

But today's Chu Yuntai is not as flattering and flattering to him as before, he didn't even give him a look.

Chu Yuncheng secretly hated him, but at this moment he couldn't.

He looked at Chu Juan again, he was not familiar with the third brother, because the third brother had been disabled long ago, and he was not qualified to fight for the position, so he had neither fear nor affection for him.

He is not familiar with each other at ordinary times, but the way he looked at him at this time showed that the other party did not have a tacit understanding.

He saw Xiang Chu Chaoyang again.

This younger brother of the Nine Emperors was very popular this time, and he was entrusted by his father shortly after he was in charge of the court.Get rid of Mu Mingyuan, and even supervise the beheading himself!

However, Grandpa Zhuang Guogong said that when Lao Jiu first entered the court, it is normal for the emperor to send errands, but if he really cared about Lao Jiu, why would he let him do such a thankless job as trial?

Mu Mingyuan was interrogated, but it was all the forces behind Mu Mingyuan who offended him.

Think about it, how many years has Mu Mingyuanguang been in the position of revealing the book in the Ministry of Officials?With deep roots and lush leaves, how come there are not many close friends?On the surface, these people have never been friends with Mu Mingyuan, but secretly won't they give Lao Jiu, a fledgling yellow-haired boy, some embarrassment and lessons?
What's more, he was even supervised and beheaded, so tell him to relax!
He also thinks it makes sense, when he entered the court to listen to the government, his father also sent him an errand, the fifth, sixth, and eighth were all the same.The only difference is that Lao Qi refused to listen to the government, but later obediently accepted the mission.

Since it was the same process, he didn't have any scruples about Chu Chaoyang, so he looked at it with his eyes at this time, hoping to get some hints.

Chu Chaoyang smiled slightly, and his whole person looked radiant, but that smile seemed to contain a lot, and it seemed that there was nothing.

He still doesn't know what his father thinks.

The emperor sneered: "The general has doubts? Don't you want to say that Zhuang Guogong is one of the princes of the state, and he is a noble family, and he holds an important position in the court. Is the Chinese minister suspicious?"

When Chu Yuncheng heard that this was not a topic, although he really thought so in his heart, he lowered his head and said: "I don't have such intentions, I just don't understand!"

"You don't understand!" The emperor snorted coldly: "Then look at this!"

Two letters were dropped from the dragon case.

Chu Yuncheng picked it up, opened it, and his expression changed drastically.

This is a letter from five years ago.

Wei Qiangheng has guarded the eastern border for more than ten years. Since eight years ago, he originally sent three batches of food, grass and military supplies to the eastern border a year, totaling 450 million shi, but changed it to four batches, totaling 580 million shi. It was changed to five batches, with a total of 700 million stones.This is the benefit Zhuang Guogong and his party fought for their own people after countless times of verbal confrontation in the court.

Not all of these grains were transported from the capital by the household department, and half of them were collected from the local area.

There is a ration of 350 shi in the capital, half of refined grains and half of coarse grains.Locally, [-]% of refined grains and [-]% of coarse grains are required.

This food is enough to feed one hundred thousand troops every day, and there is still a surplus.

But it is impossible for the Wei family to let these soldiers eat like this. What they worked so hard to win, is not for the soldiers to eat.Therefore, the ration of food for the army was [-] shi, and the remaining [-] shi became Wei's private property, which was sold for silver.

Not only that, the Wei family replaced more than [-]% of the original fine grains with coarse grains, and the difference in the price was another sum of money.This sum of money naturally went into the pockets of Zhuang Guogong and the Fourth Prince.

However, the person who did this was Wei's confidant.

This has been done for the past five years, and it has gone too far in the past two years. Originally, only half of the refined grains were used, but since two years ago, all of them have been replaced with coarse grains. Only some high-level generals can eat refined grains.

For many people who can't afford enough food to join the conscription, they have no complaints because they can eat coarse grains.

But now these are all presented to the imperial court?
It is impossible for this matter to be leaked, because it is the Wei family who are in charge of this matter, why did the emperor know about it?No, this letter is a report letter from the Wei family when they were working. Why is it in the hands of the emperor?
The content of the second letter was even more shocking. At this time, it not only revealed some military rations, but also revealed that some of the refined grains were sold to Nan Qi.

Although there was no war between Nanqi and Dongxia when they were doing business, the crime of reselling military rations was not light at all, not to mention that Nanqi was also a foreign country.

Especially nowadays, the Southern Qi sieges cities and lands. This behavior, in the past, had room for maneuver, but in the present, it is a heinous crime!
The fourth prince's face turned pale.

He took the money, but he didn't know who the grain was sold to.

The emperor looked at his changed face and sneered: "Would you like to see more? There are more here!"

There are several letters on the table.

There might be even more shocking content in those letters, but Chu Yuncheng didn't dare to read them.He knelt down on the ground and said anxiously: "Father, my son doesn't know anything about it!"

The emperor sneered and said, "You don't know?"

Chu Yuncheng hurriedly said: "Father, my son and I don't know anything about it. It's even more impossible for me to know about the frontier affairs and the military camp!"

Seeing that he had pushed everything away, the emperor sneered, this time he picked out the pile of letters, and threw down two more.

After Chu Yuncheng opened it and read it, he couldn't say a word anymore, because one of the letters was written by him, and he wrote it to Wei Qiangheng.

He cursed in his heart, is Wei Qiangheng a fake?He didn't destroy the letter when he received it, so why keep it?Keep it as a handle?No wonder he died, he just died stupidly!
At this time, he was terrified in his heart, and he knelt on the ground and did not dare to move.

The emperor sneered and said: "The military general is suspicious? What a general is suspicious, do you still think that the general is suspicious? In vain, I thought Wei Qiangheng died at the hands of a traitor in the army, but it turned out that he was the The biggest traitor! The Wei clan, you are so courageous, Chu Yuncheng, you are so courageous!"

Chu Yuncheng almost pissed in fright. He had seen his father's anger before, but at that time, that anger was aimed at others. Now, when the anger came towards him, he realized how terrifying it was. He couldn't say a word, but felt as if there was a big mountain pressing heavily on his back. Not only could he not raise his head, but he didn't dare to raise his head. He knelt down on the ground, trembling.

The emperor smiled coldly. It seems that it's not that Chu Yuncheng doesn't know how serious this matter is, but that he feels that the world in Dongxia will belong to him in the future, so it doesn't matter that he gets some benefits in advance.

But where did he get the confidence to think that this Dong Xia belonged to him?Just because he was born of a queen?
He said in a deep voice: "Come here! Take King Ding to the prison for trial!"

When being dragged away, Chu Yuncheng shouted loudly: "Father, my son was wrong, and my son was delusional for a while, father, forgive me once! Father..."

But the guards of the imperial guards are stern and selfless, and they don't listen to anyone except the emperor's orders.

The emperor turned his head, his gaze swiveled around Chu Yuntai and Chu Chaoyang.

Chu Yuntai subconsciously puffed up his chest. The matter of the fourth brother is much more serious. In any case, it was because of his report that the father discovered the problem of the fourth child. If you don’t hand it over to him, you can still hand it over to him. For whom?

Chu Chaoyang also smiled.

If this matter is handed over to him, can he personally supervise the execution?

If he supervised the beheading himself, would he be able to see the same scene as Mu Mingyuan again?It feels so good to feel that other people's life and death are in their own hands!
The emperor's eyes stayed on Chu Chaoyang's face, and said: "You are new to court affairs, you should practice more, I will entrust you to handle this matter, maybe it can be done well?"

Chu Chaoyang was extremely excited, his wish finally came true.

However, it is not in vain to read books on the art of kings for so long. Although the emperor has few teachings, it is not in vain. Confused, Zhuang Guogong acted so wrongly, why did the Four Emperor Brothers join forces with them? We are all surnamed Chu, and we are the children of the royal family. We have more responsibilities and responsibilities, how can we destroy the Great Wall by ourselves?"

Chu Yuntai was disappointed and sad at the same time, and his heart was full of jealousy towards Chu Chaoyang. At this moment, he had to force a smile and said, "What Brother Nine said is true!"

The emperor was very satisfied with Chu Chaoyang's performance, nodded and said, "Let's do it!"

Chu Chaoyang saluted and withdrew, Chu Yuntai was extremely disappointed, and when he wanted to salute and withdraw, the emperor said: "Old Ba, I didn't entrust this matter to you, are you not convinced?"

Chu Yuntai hurriedly said: "I dare not!"

The emperor laughed and said: "This matter involves a lot, not only the Duke's mansion, your fourth brother, but also the harem. And your mother and concubine have been attached to the empress all these years, and now there is no conclusive evidence, if this matter Leave it to you, what will the queen do to your mother and concubine? Have you thought about it?"

Chu Yuntai was stunned, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, Father, for being considerate of my son and minister!"

The emperor said again with a earnest look, "Old Ba, you have made a great contribution to this matter, and I know that it is your reward, and I will not lose you. But the protection that should be given to you, I will not miss you. Don't worry, Lao Jiu is just involved in the court affairs, and the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. Let him take the lead in the front. If he can't bear it, then you can clean up the situation. The best way !"

Chu Yuntai suddenly raised his head, his eyes were filled with joy.

Just now the father didn't hand over the matter to him, he thought it was the father who wanted to praise Lao Jiu, but it turned out that the father thought so much about him.

All along, he was not outstanding, and he didn't have any outstanding skills. He didn't show his face in front of his father. After all, he and his mother and concubine had to rely on the queen and the fourth prince to survive in this harem.

Unexpectedly, the father did not ignore him. The father talked to him in such a pleasant manner, which made him flattered and moved his heart. His eyes couldn't help being a little moist, and he knelt heavily on the ground, gratefully said: "Father, thank you very much." You are considerate of your son!"

(End of this chapter)