Black Moonlight, after her robbery

Chapter 86

Three days later, at Fang Qiling's Tail Burning Banquet, the ministers of the court and the central government sent congratulatory gifts. It was rare that Zhou Yishui, who never liked to socialize, would be present to celebrate except for acquaintances.

Guo Zikun couldn't stand the provocation, "In the past, you were always so polite that no one could be seen, but now it's rare to have all of them. How precious is it for you to send them yourself?"

Zhou Yishui hurriedly brought a gift to accompany his smile, "Knowing that Fang Shangshu was promoted, he specially carved a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva with Hetian red jade, isn't it precious?"

Fang Qiling said politely: "Things are precious, Master Zhou's kindness is even more precious."

Guo Zikun grabbed his arm, "Since it's so good, you can open it for everyone to see, and let us open our eyes."

Someone stoked the fire, and naturally someone added firewood. Seeing that he couldn't get away with it, Zhou Yishui finally opened the box.Who would have thought that at that moment, the right hand of the Ruby Bodhisattva statue was pulled away by Gai Yaner, and it fell to the ground with a bang.

The people who joined the fire were half wilted, and they looked at each other and smashed their mouths.

Zhou Yishui quickly opened and closed his mouth with a smile, "Sui Sui's safety is a good omen, and the Bodhisattva has saved you from disaster."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Guo Zikun also quickly added a word, "Don't let him be slippery, and drink him, what will happen to Fang Shangshu's new official, hurry up and drink!"

So laughing and joking, hanging shoulders and drinking, after a few rounds, everyone was drunk at the banquet, and when the show ended, everyone was helped and sent out.

After all the fuss, the end of the banquet was very careful. After all, in view of Chao Chengyou, Fang Qiling had to remind himself that today's congratulatory gifts had to be registered one by one. I don't know if I don't check it. The big one is a post box without a signature.

The housekeeper raised his beak to the master, Fang Qiling was also confused on the other end, opened it with his own hands, and saw that there was a plate of accounting slips, with characters written one yard at a time, which surprised everyone.

Fang Qiling's fingers trembled, and after hurriedly driving the servants out, he lit the lamp and looked at the paper slips in the box one by one. They were really the receipts for land tax collection in Qinzhou!The words on it are [-]% more than the Qinzhou land tax I received!
But why did this list appear at his Burning Tail Banquet?
Feeling palpitations, I didn't realize that I thought about it carefully. Today, only Tian Cao Shangshu Ji Huaichun is in charge of reporting the land tax. At that time, it was Ji Huaichun's son Ji Minshan who went to Qinzhou to collect the land tax. Case, even if it is involved, it will not be underestimated.

What's more, the Nanyang King and the Shenjun King are now fighting endlessly, and Tian Cao Shangshu Ji Huaichun is also a member of the Nanyang King's henchmen. If it is true that the party and the government have framed him, it would be reckless to go out and act as a knife.

So how to do it is a difficult problem.

However, when he was struggling to think, the wind had already blown into Cao Tian Shangshu Ji Huaichun's ears. Just as he was panicking and was about to confess to King Nanyang for help, a piece of news almost exploded.

An official from Yushitai advised and reported Fang Qiling's embezzlement of Chao Chengyou's private treasury, a crime that cannot be punished, and he was immediately detained and tortured.

The reason for this was that Chao Chengyou once repaired a private treasury for rare treasures collected, but this private treasury was not disclosed until Chao Chengyou's death. It's just that it's about treasury funds, and the court will inevitably be unable to withstand some discussions, and even the emperor privately instructed Fang Qiling to pay more attention to this matter.

For a while, apart from Ji Huaichun staring at Qi Ling because of guilty conscience, the eyes of King Nanyang and King Shenjun also rushed to him. Now that this kind of thing happened, some people are happy and some are worried.

The emperor also became more suspicious, and ordered the court officer to search the mansion, and found more than a dozen rare treasures with the characters "Chao" printed on the base.

However, Fang Qiling claimed that he had never had these treasures in his family, and expressed ignorance of their appearance. He bluntly said that someone had framed them, and knowing that the situation in front of him was indisputable, he had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and asked to be imprisoned. , cooperated with the interrogation to show innocence, and personally handed over the receipt of land tax collection in Qinzhou to Guo Xuan, the official history of Ting Weisi, admonishing Tian Cao Shangshu, Ji Huaichun and his sons for suspected embezzlement of land tax, and hoped to put them in prison for review.

So far, the two officials and the two corruption cases were brought to the table at the same time. For a while, the king of Nanyang was extremely happy and sad, and the king of Shenjun was overjoyed.

The two kings are fighting, and if they want to suppress the two kings, they must be a person of the same noble status, so Liu Wenyu, as an outsider, naturally received the emperor's attention again.

King Shenjun's response to this decision was mediocre. After all, as long as it didn't fall into the hands of King Nanyang, he would be happy with himself. On the contrary, King Nanyang learned of the emperor's decision early in the morning. Ji Minyan, the second son of Tian Cao Shangshu Ji Huaichun, asked to see him.

Before it could be communicated in the future, people had already crouched in the outer room crying, "His Royal Highness, please save my father and brother, please help!"

The king of Nanyang was so angry that he immediately put on his clothes and went out. He was very heart-warming towards people, "It's very good, why did you buy the officials to frame Fang Qiling for embezzling private property, otherwise he will jump over the wall and bite your family?" huh?"

Ji Minyan rushed to the ground and shouted, "Your Highness, you are wronged. My father and brother have never asked anyone to report on Fang Qiling. This has never happened before. My father knew that Fang Qiling was secretly investigating the land tax of Qinzhou. Sending people to intercept and kill his subordinates never thought of tearing up the obvious, you all know the consequences of jumping over the wall in a hurry, how could father not know, how could he be so stupid as to shoot himself in the foot with a rock!"

He shook his voice: "There must be tricks in this!"

Nanyang Wang stared blankly at him, "You mean...someone deliberately reported on Fang Qiling just to drag Ji Huaichun into the water..."

As he said that, his eyes rolled, "It's... King Shenjun, he wants to take revenge on me for punishing him severely."

Ji Minyan insisted, "That's right, otherwise my father has already settled the matter of Qinzhou, how could it be leaked for no reason, it must be the intention of King Shenjun."

The King of Nanyang glanced at him coldly, feeling very annoyed in his heart, "In the final analysis, it is because Ji Huaichun's methods are not clean, and now he is being draped by others, and it is useless for this sake!"

Ji Minyan banged her head on the ground, "But the matter has come to this point, and there is no way to fix it. I hope His Highness will save the lives of my family because of my father's hard work."

King Nanyang immediately waved his hand and sat down on the chair with his waist pinched, "Now the presiding judge is King Jiyin. I have nothing to do with him. I don't even say hello on weekdays. How can I intercede for you?"

Ji Minyan scratched her heart, "But after all, it's not in the hands of Prince Shen, so it may not be impossible to return to heaven."

The King of Nanyang immediately crushed a teacup, his veins popped out of anger, "It's easy for you to say, you can do it!"

After losing her temper, Ji Minyan was so frightened that she didn't dare to breathe, but in the end Nanyang King had nothing to do, they were all bargaining chips, and throwing one was giving others a chance.

He supported his head, "Forget it... go back and wait for the news first, let me think about it... think about it."

Ji Minyan was overjoyed to see King Nanyang's soft tone, and hurriedly kowtowed and went back to wait for the news.This was perfunctory, but I still couldn't think of a way. After about a cup of tea, I didn't let out a long breath.

"Now that Ji Huaichun and his son are in prison awaiting trial, if it is true what Fang Qiling said, he has secretly found out the key evidence and will return to Beijing to hand it in soon, then the Tian Cao Department will be finished." He reached out and poured a cup of tea for his master again. , "So... if there is no physical evidence, then this case will not stand."

King Nanyang's eyes lit up immediately, and he slowly stroked the tassels on the bead string, "I can only cover this matter first, and then send an imperial envoy to Qinzhou to make a show, and gradually make big things small and small."

He patted his thigh, "Isn't Fang Qiling also burdened with a series of crimes, let's find a way to make him commit suicide in fear of crime."

(End of this chapter)