Red House Shoufu

Chapter 161 Impeachment and the Beginning

After Wu Zhengya brought Huo Qiu back to the Wanping County Government Office, he did not proceed with the trial immediately. Instead, he was temporarily detained in a guest room of the County Government Office.

After discussing with the county magistrate Gui Wenxiang for a long time in the house, they decided to use the dragging formula.

After all, the Huo family is the county prince's mansion that is second only to the prince. Even if the rank of Jing county is higher than that of ordinary counties, the county magistrate of the sixth rank would not dare to offend the super rank county king.

If it is delayed until tomorrow, with Xie Mingde's explosive temper, he will definitely be impeached, and the emperor will deal with it at that time.

Although Wang Qi has not been in Beijing for a long time, he did an impeachment case that shocked the government and the public some time ago.A piece of impeachment sent Qian Xingde, the son of Dongping County Prince, to the guillotine, and now he is waiting to be beheaded at Caishikou after autumn.

Following Wang Qi's invitation to the residence of colleagues from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in less than an hour, there were no more than 20 censors sitting in the teahouse.

At this time, Lin Shu and Wang Huan became outsiders, hiding aside and quietly watching a group of officials discussing the content of the impeachment memorial excitedly. In just half an hour, they listed more than a dozen charges.

"Jinyu, Yushi is really scary!"

Wang Huan listened to a censor reading aloud the just-drafted impeachment memorial to everyone, such as filial piety proclaiming ying (harmony), prostitution of women, abuse of common people, and robbery of common women...

As long as one-fifth of these true and false charges are true, Huo Qiu can be sent to Mobei to play in the sand.

Lin Shu looked at the excited blushing censors, and couldn't help shaking his hand holding the teacup.No wonder people in the world say that it is better to offend the emperor than to offend the officials.

It is estimated that after the Great Dynasty tomorrow, the reputation of Nan'an County Palace will be infamous!
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On the ninth day of the lunar new year, the clouds were overcast, and the gloomy weather made the people in the northern part of the capital feel more stuffy.

At the first moment of the hour, Lin Shu stood in the queue of the Hanlin Academy and waited for the dynasty to begin.He glanced at the queue at the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the crowd with excited expressions grew bigger again.

He silently lit a candle for the Huo family in his heart, so many censors could jointly impeach him, how many crimes the Nan'an County Palace has committed!
After the whip, long live the sound.Following Xia Shouzhong's voice of "playing if there is something to do, and leaving the court if there is nothing to do", a doctor in the Ministry of Rites was about to report on the follow-up of the Longevity Festival, but was preempted by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Wang Qi (Huang Zhiyan, Xie Mingde, Zuo Yun, Fan Yuhui, Liu Yao...) jointly impeached Huo An, the king of Nan'an County, for not being strict with his son, interfering in and threatening the justice of Wanping County, and impeaching Huo Qiu Xiaoqi, the prince of Nan'an County. Xuanying, gang rape, abuse of common people..."

Crash, as Wang Qi and more than 30 censors came out for impeachment, Fengtian Hall was in an uproar.

Everyone had heard more or less about what happened at the gate of the Prince's Mansion in Nan'an County yesterday. At first they thought it was just a trivial matter, but Wanping County would respectfully send Huo Qiu back in two days.

However, the excited and solemn sound of impeachment by this vast area of ​​censors made everyone in the hall open their mouths in surprise.

The emperor sat on the dragon chair in an inscrutable way, his eyes hidden behind the crown had a cold light flashing.

"Huo Qing, do you have any words to defend yourself?"

The fluorene board in the hands of Huo An, who was at the forefront of martial arts, was about to be crushed. He really didn't expect that this group of sour scholars would join hands to impeach with such great fanfare.

In the past, there were also many memorials to impeach him, but they were all submitted step by step through the Secretary of General Administration. Under normal circumstances, the cabinet and the palace would suppress these impeachments, and at most the emperor ordered a few words.

But today is different, being impeached by so many people face to face, he just felt his face being slapped with slaps.

Hearing the emperor's cold questioning, no matter how angry Huo An was, he could only suppress the fire in his heart.

"Your Majesty, my subject Huo Qiu, indeed did some bad things..."

"Is that a bad thing? King Huojun, do you think you can escape the punishment of the law by avoiding the most serious?"

Huo An also wanted to lighten his family's guilt by avoiding the most serious and taking the lightest according to his past experience.But the censors who came out to impeach did not do it, and directly turned back.

I saw a young censor took out a pamphlet from his sleeve and held it up high: "Chen Cao Wenying impeached Huo An, the king of Nan'an County, for embezzling the army's salary, ill-treating soldiers, falsely reporting military exploits, robbing caravans...etc. Eleven serious crimes. How can such an unfaithful, unfilial, benevolent and unrighteous person set up a halberd in front of the door and sit in the hall? I ask the holy judge to put the country in peace!"

The main hall became noisy again, even though the censor in the hall shouted for silence several times, he still couldn't suppress the heated discussions among the officials.

The emperor took the booklet from Xia Shouzhong, and slowly flipped through the contents.The handwriting is extremely familiar, and the corners of the emperor's mouth are slightly raised.

Snapped!
The emperor threw the booklet in his hand at Huo An, His Majesty Dan, and it just fell at Huo An's feet.

"Huo An, read it yourself!"

Killing and killing hearts, nothing more than this!

Huo An didn't go to pick up the booklet at his feet, and knelt on the ground directly: "I am wronged... This is a false accusation. I am loyal to Your Majesty, loyal!"

"Framed? King Huo, the military salary of the Zhennan Army is increasing year by year, but are there really so many soldiers in the Zhennan Army? Do you want to let the officials do the math for you, how much vacant military salary have you received?"

Cao Wenying chuckled, took out a booklet from his sleeve again, opened it and read: "In September of the first year of Zhide, the Ministry of Households allocated 800,000 taels of silver to the Zhennan Army, and 600,000 taels of silver to the Guangzhou Navy. There is no calculation for food, grass and military equipment! One million liang of silver was transported to Lingnan, food and grass disappeared, and armaments left the Western Regions through Dasan Pass, heading for Dashi..."

"In May of the second year of Zhide, the Zhennan Army reported to the palace and the governor's office of the five armies, and asked for military exploits. After review by the Ministry of War, the Zhennan Army was actually defeated, lost troops and lost generals, killed border people, and pretended to lead the army... Nan'an County King Huo An, bribed The late Liu Junhao, the left servant of the Ministry of War, press the truth..."

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There are more than 20 eloquent articles, and there are witnesses and physical evidence behind each article.Huo An, who was kneeling on the ground, was pale and sweating like rain. Standing next to him, King Shui Rong of Beijing County bowed his head in silence, holding the fluorene board firmly with both hands, not daring to move.

"You elders, what do you think?"

Furious, the emperor slapped the armrest.In fact, he knows all these things clearly, the Embroidered Yiwei has already investigated the Huo family to the bottom.

Among the four kings, except for the Shui family, the other three are armed with heavy troops.Before he takes control of the capital, he must not act rashly.

Seeing the handwriting on that pamphlet today, the emperor knew that the opportunity had come.He suppressed the excitement in his heart, and asked the four cabinet scholars for their opinions.

Sure enough, the Chief Assistant Wei Qinghe Youyou said: "Since someone is impeaching, King Huo Jun should suspend his post pending investigation, and wait for the five armies' governor's mansion and the three divisions, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of household to conduct a detailed investigation. If you are not guilty, that's fine. For the truth, it is not an exaggeration to dismiss the noble and exile!"

(End of this chapter)