There is a black lotus in the deep palace

Chapter 215
Xia Houjue from the Imperial Study Room sneezed violently, wondering: Who is scolding him behind his back?

……

Tang Wanning's guess was right, that bastard Xia Houjue really had this plan.

In late July, there was a flood in the south of the Yangtze River, flooding more than 300 villages and hundreds of hectares of land. Those victims could not get relief food from the court, so they begged all the way to the capital along the river.

One day Tang Wanning sneaked out of the palace and saw a group of people fighting. After asking Biyue Biluo to inquire carefully, she learned that it was the members of the Meng family who had embezzled and accepted bribes in Jiangnan, stealing more than half of the relief food shipped to Jiangnan.

The victims died of starvation, some died of illness, and only a hundred or so people went to Beijing to file a complaint.

"Tsk tsk tsk!"

In a teahouse by the street, Tang Wanning sighed in admiration.

"Really, isn't the Meng family a scholarly family? Can a scholarly family do such a nasty thing?"

Biluo reported the news to her in a serious manner.

"Your Majesty doesn't know that the Meng family's ancestral home is from Jiangnan. One of them is an official in the capital, and the other stays in Jiangnan. Now they are distant relatives!"

"Ever since the emperor ascended the throne and Meng Niangniang was in charge of the harem, they really thought that the Meng family could become a serious master of the country. This family has achieved enlightenment alone, and its network of connections in the south of the Yangtze River is intricate. If you fly over, you have to pull off a layer of skin!"

"Tsk tsk tsk!"

Tang Wanning curled her lips: "Usually, I always hear that those scholar-bureaucrats look down on us martial arts practitioners, but look, these scholar-bureaucrats are not all good!"

"Whoever says that scholars put the common people first is really absurd!"

Tang Wanning, who was dressed in plain clothes, wanted to go out and have a good pot of tea, but now she is not in the mood anymore.

On the way back to the palace, she was very unwilling.

"It's so hard to go out of the palace, and it's really annoying to encounter such a thing!" She curled her lips arrogantly, and turned her head back to the palace.

After entering the palace, she went straight to the imperial study.

Several ministers were discussing matters in the Imperial Study Room, and Tang Wanning was sitting in the small hall next to her and waited until Xia Houjue came to see her with swollen black eyelids until she finished eating a plate of crab cakes and drinking a pot of Biluochun.

"Wanwan, didn't you go out of the palace?"

He was afraid that she would be bored, so he sent his secret guards to her and let her go out of the palace to play, but now he saw the face of the person on the top of his heart who was angry, and his heart followed suit.

"Who made my queen angry? Tell me!"

"What else?" Tang Waning rolled his eyes: "Didn't you say that after I cleaned up the harem, you also cleaned up the court hall? This is the court hall you cleaned up?"

Xia Houjue didn't understand, so he nodded: "Yes?"

"Then you are really amazing. The Meng family is doing evil in the south of the Yangtze River, and His Majesty the great emperor can't see it!" She turned her head, with contempt in her phoenix eyes.

"Where did you start talking about this?" Xia Houjue was confused.

Tang Wanning glared at him, recounted what she had seen and heard on the street, and looked at him angrily.

"Such corrupt officials should have been allowed to meet the King of Hades a long time ago. How could they have a chance to be an official in the court? They are not fish and meat people who are helping the tyrants to abuse!" She looked at him angrily.

Xia Houjue was stunned for a while, then suddenly he laughed.

"My queen, do you think I should say you are smart, or that you are stupid? The Meng family is full of branches and leaves, with intertwined roots, and one hair can move the whole body. If the root is uprooted, who will work for me!"

He has to cultivate a group of his own disciples in order to clean up people.

"The Meng family is nothing to be afraid of, Wan Wan, you don't have to worry, everything is up to me!"

Seeing that Xia Houjue was confident and didn't seem to be lying, Tang Wanning finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Anyway, I don't understand, and I don't want to care about it, you can figure it out yourself!"

After the topic was revealed, Tang Wanning patted her buttocks and got up to leave. Unexpectedly, Xia Houjue hugged her from behind: "Wanwan!"

"What's wrong with you?" What kind of insane are you committing again?She frowned.

"Wanwan, tonight I have someone prepare your favorite Northwest dish, can you come and try it?"

Tang Wanning's face immediately turned red with such a red-hot courtship signal.

"That..." She felt a little guilty, and was about to rack her brains to find a reason, when Xia Houjue said another sentence.

"Wanwan, you are not allowed to eat any more smoothies, it's not hot anymore, you should eat well!"

"..." This is not to leave her a little way out, but.

"Your Majesty, the hundred victims outside the city seem to be pitiful. What I saw with my own eyes today is really not in the mood. I decided to go to the Buddhist hall to worship for one night and pray for them!"

Before the words fell, even Tang Wanning herself was stunned.

God, what kind of bullshit is she talking about? What did she say in order to escape the seduction of the beautiful man.

This handsome boy is actually so handsome, it shouldn't be a bad thing to prostitute, if she is in that restaurant, she will definitely not be polite.

But this person is her husband now, which is strange.

Alas, my heart is in a mess anyway, how does she deal with these strange emotions.

"Wanwan, I've broken my heart for this world, won't Wanwan reward me well?" These words are true.

If it was the time of Emperor Jingyuan, these continuous heavy rains in the south of the Yangtze River would have flooded more than [-] villages, and more than [-] victims had appeared.

Then it is estimated that the victims of the disaster will become riots, and maybe a rebellion will be raised.

Looking at his haggard eyes, which were covered with bloodshot eyes, Tang Wanning couldn't bear it.

"But...but...the concubine also wants to do her part for Jiangshan!"

I'm sorry, but I also need to be mentally prepared for running appointments. She was a good girl in her previous life.

……

When the victims entered Beijing, the original Jing Zhaoyin wanted to send troops to drive them away. Xia Houjue issued an imperial decree to open the gates of the city wide, and asked the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War to set up marching tents for the victims in the northern boundary of the city, equipped with living supplies and medical doctors.

After settling the victims, Xia Houjue was not in a hurry.

He followed the clues and acted secretly, starting with the Meng family in the south of the Yangtze River, and listed the crimes of the Meng family one by one.

Even the big butler in the Meng family's mansion forced the women to marry the ten-room wife.

He acted vigorously and decisively, starting in June, and the dust had settled by September.

At the end of September, the sentence of the Ministry of Criminal Justice came down.

There are a total of 310 and two public cases in the Meng family. The big ones are corruption and malpractice for personal gain, and the small ones are stealing and stealing.

According to the laws of the Great Xia Dynasty, the Meng clan was connected to the three clans, and all the adult males in the three clans were killed after autumn, and the minor males and female relatives were exiled for three thousand miles outside the Great Wall.

It was a real joy.

Inside and outside the palace, the government and the public, even the ordinary people in the capital are talking about it, and even the storyteller in the teahouse has a new topic.

But one thing is puzzling.

(End of this chapter)