Father can be an enemy to the country

Chapter 249 The clown is actually me

Some people may ask why Hu Weiyong waded into this muddy water.

The reason is very simple. First of all, he is the only prime minister and the master of all officials. Now that so many officials are in trouble, how can he be a coward? Do you still want the reputation? How can you be the prime minister when the streets stink?

Secondly, he still hopes to inherit the mantle of the Korean father. If he doesn't keep up at this time, no matter how he performs afterwards, it will be useless.

Whether you can avoid offending both ends depends on my acting skills. Hu Weiyong secretly encouraged himself.

He followed Li Shanchang to the door of the mansion, and when he was waiting to get in the car, he saw the eldest son Li Qi returning in a hurry.

"Father, I heard about it." Li Qi panted, but stopped abruptly when he saw that Hu Weiyong was also there.

"But it doesn't matter, Prime Minister Hu is not an outsider." Li Shanchang said in a deep voice.

Li Qi reported the situation to his father, which was very different from what Hu Weiyong said, but he also learned a little more.

"I heard that what they are looking for is blank account paper, which is an account paper with an official seal but no content. If there is such a thing in the official's belongings, they will be tied up directly..."

"Empty printed account paper?" Li Shanchang was Zhu Yuanzhang's logistics team leader, how could he not know the existence of this thing. He was stunned for a moment: "Isn't this a common thing? What's the fuss about?"

Immediately, his expression changed, and he realized the brilliance of this move.

Originally, Li Shanchang thought that the emperor was arresting people for making excuses, and this was something he could fight for. Because no one will leave any evidence when talking about facts and talking about facts, so there is room for him to make excuses.

But no matter what, it is sinful to carry around a blank account paper with a seal. And with the physical evidence, no one can deny it.

Even if Li Shanchang wants to defend them, he must do so on the premise of admitting that they have committed a crime.

Since a crime has been committed, it is only natural that he should be imprisoned and tried for a period of time.

Now Boss Zhu hasn't said how to convict them, so he jumps out hurriedly. In addition to confirming their charges first, he can only involve himself...

Because ministers are naturally at a disadvantage when arguing with the emperor, they must first gain ground. If you can't hold on to reason, then only Mang Cao and his like can win.

He asked himself that apart from his hobbies, he had nothing in common with Cao Cao. Boss Zhu is not Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, but Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty...

Li Shanchang would not do something like this, knowing that he would lose. Otherwise, wouldn’t he be seen wearing his underwear?

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When the carriage was about to reach the left gate of Chang'an, Mr. Han Guo, who had been silently meditating, suddenly said: "Turn around."

"Ah?" Hu Weiyong and Li Qi were stunned.

"Go back!" Li Shanchang said through gritted teeth.

"Yes, dad." Li Qi naturally said what he said and quickly told the driver to turn around and go home.

"Enxiang, are you leaving them alone?" Hu Weiyong couldn't ignore them.

"Of course I have to take care of it, but I can't take care of it now." Li Shanchang glanced at him and asked quietly: "Prime Minister Hu, why didn't you tell me that the superiors wanted to investigate the empty seal case?"

"My subordinates don't know." Hu Weiyong hurriedly explained: "As soon as I heard the news, I came to report it. At that time, I didn't know that the emperor wanted to investigate the empty seal case."

"Oh, that's it." Li Shanchang nodded and changed the subject: "You should return to Zhongshu immediately and let the people from the Ministry of Revenue wipe your behind."

"Are you afraid it's too late?" Hu Weiyong said.

"Wipe as much as you can." Li Shanchang said in a deep voice.

"Understood." Hu Weiyong nodded and got out of the car.

"Li Qi, quickly spread the news that the emperor wants to investigate the empty seal case," Li Shanchang ordered his eldest son again: "The less you pay, the more you pay."

"Yes, father." Li Qi responded and quickly got out of the car.

After there were no other people in the car, Li Shanchang took off all his disguises, closed his eyes in pain, and hit the wall of the car with the back of his head.

He once thought that he had already killed the emperor.

Only now do I know that it was Boss Zhu who had him tricked...

What scares Mr. Han the most is that none of those nobles who have vowed to advance and retreat with him have come so far.

He didn't believe that those guys who were fearless would be timid. This only showed that Boss Zhu had made preparations in advance and had firmly controlled the army. Don't give him any chance at all.

Li Shanchang has no doubt that if he does anything drastic tonight, Boss Zhu can kill him with a backhand.

Faced with such a founding emperor who was a brother-in-law one moment and dared to overturn the table the next, I actually wanted to force him to give in. It's so ridiculous...

It turns out the clown is actually me.

Li Shanchang covered his burning cheeks with both hands, wishing he could disappear from this world.

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The sky is brightening, and the sound of New Year's firecrackers is heard all over Nanjing.

Amidst the crackling of firecrackers, the government officers and soldiers gathered in one after another.

Taking the physical evidence they collected, they tied the offending officials into strings with ropes and escorted them back to the pro-military captain's mansion from all directions.

Thanks to Li Qi's timely dissemination of the news, many local officials burned all the blank account papers before the arrival of the officers and soldiers, and managed to escape. At this moment, he was mixed in with the crowd of onlookers, watching with lingering fear that his downcast and disheveled colleagues were tied up and paraded through the streets, losing face.

But everything has advantages and disadvantages, because the people who spread the news were so effective that the people also knew that these officials were arrested for carrying blank account papers.

When the people heard this, their first reaction was, "Officials from government offices at all levels across the country are holding a pile of blank accounting papers and discussing how to fill in this year's national taxes"?

They all lived through the dark period at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and they immediately thought of free money, exorbitant taxes, corruption and bribery... this string of words that most people hate.

It was the Chinese New Year, and every household was awash with domestic garbage, so they greeted these damn corrupt officials with rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and swill.

If it were not for the protection of the officers and soldiers of the pro-military Duwei Mansion, these prisoners would have been beaten to death by the angry people...

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After untold hardships, the officers and soldiers of the government finally escorted all the prisoners back to the Yamen.

While Liu Ying asked people to take the prisoners into custody, he also summarized the harvest of various people and reported it to the emperor as soon as possible.

In Wuying Palace.

Boss Zhu asked Liu Ying and Eunuch Wu to spread all the empty account papers on the ground, and then he would count them himself.

"Three hundred and thirty-five, three hundred and thirty-six, three hundred and thirty-seven..." Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the golden platform, looking at the empty account papers covering the hall, and slowly said to the prince:

"Three hundred and thirty-seven copies in total."

"Yes." The prince nodded.

"There are twelve provinces, 130 prefectures, and 1,300 counties in the country." Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and said: "There is only one in four. Is it okay for those three?"

"There are too many officials and they live in scattered places. It's impossible to catch them all at once. There must be many fish that slipped through the net." Liu Ying hurriedly knelt down and explained: "The news got out in the middle of the night, and more people got through by chance. "

"A quarter is already a lot." The prince whispered, "Do you really want to serve it all in one pot?"

"Hmph..." Zhu Yuanzhang snorted and said no more.