Fortunate Young Gentleman

Palace entrance.

King Duan, who had just been urgently summoned to the palace, stopped, thought for a moment, looked at a eunuch and asked: "Do you know why your Majesty summoned me to the palace?"

The eunuch shook his head and said, "Back to Your Highness, Your Majesty didn't say anything."

King Duan stopped in place for a moment, and finally took steps again.

He had just heard the news that Han Ming, the Minister of Household Affairs, had been arrested. He was in a panic, scratching his heart with a hundred claws, and thinking about how to rescue him with the counselors in the palace, when he was summoned to the palace.

Han Ming is the most important secret chess piece in his hand and his source of wealth. If something happens to Han Ming, it will be a huge blow to him.

He still didn't know the reason why Han Ming was arrested, but until the last moment, he was unwilling to give up a money-spinner that could influence the situation in the Ministry of Finance.

Fortunately, few people in the capital knew about his relationship with Han Ming. At this moment, he wanted to find out the news from his father before making any plans.

The eunuch led him to a certain place and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is at Chongming Hall. You can go in."

King Duan was a little surprised that the place where his father summoned him was not in the Imperial Study Room. Chongming Hall was the place where his father usually meditated, and officials were rarely summoned here.

He pushed the door open and entered. Chen Huang stood in the hall, with his back to him, and said slowly: "Close the door."

Prince Duan closed the door with some anxiety, took two steps forward, and asked, "I wonder what my father has ordered when he summons his ministers?"

Chen Huang looked at him and said expressionlessly: "Kneel down."

Prince Duan was startled and opened his mouth: "Father..."

Chen Huang said coldly: "Kneel down!"

King Duan did not dare to ask any more questions and knelt down.

Emperor Chen pointed to a piece of white cloth in the palace and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

Prince Duan looked over and said blankly, "I don't know."

Emperor Chen said coldly: "This is Han Ming, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue."

King Duan was startled for a moment, then his face turned pale, his body trembled slightly, and he forced himself to regain his composure.

Emperor Chen looked at him and asked: "As the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Han Ming has embezzled millions of taels of tax money from the country in the past few years. What do you think of this matter?"

"My son, my son..." Prince Duan had a trickle of sweat on his forehead and whispered: "My son, I think that Han Ming deserves it for committing such a heinous crime and deserves his death..."

boom!

Chen Huang kicked Duan Wang on the street with such force that he moved several feet horizontally on the ground.

"Is he worthy of death?" Bloodshot eyes appeared in Chen Huang's eyes, and he lowered his voice: "You think I don't know that you have already won over Han Ming; you think I don't know that all the money he embezzled ended up in your pocket; do you think I don't know? I don’t know who is the culprit in this case!”

Chen Huang gasped and said a few words, which caused King Duan's complexion to change drastically. He knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Father, the emperor clearly knows that this case has nothing to do with my son. This case has nothing to do with my son!"

Emperor Chen took a deep breath and said: "What a good minister Han Ming is. Where is the treasury? You turned a good minister into a traitor. How dare you reach out to the treasury... You are so brave!"

Prince Duan's face suddenly turned pale and bloodless, and he panicked: "Father, father, I am not a son, this is not a son..."

Emperor Chen turned to look at Wei Jian and said, "Bring the torture stick."

…

Han Ming, the Minister of Household Affairs, embezzled a huge amount of silver from the national treasury and committed suicide out of fear of crime. As soon as the news about this case came out, it was like a huge stone, causing the already uneasy lake in the capital to once again set off huge waves.

This was the largest corruption case in the country in recent years, shocking both the government and the public. In just one day, word spread throughout the capital.

Han Ming committed suicide out of fear of crime, but the case was not over.

After a thorough investigation by the court, all the accomplices involved in the case were traced. A head of the household department, two doctors, and local officials from three prefectures in Bozhou were all arrested.

Dare to reach out to the treasury, their results are not much better than Han Ming, but what surprised countless people is that after Han Ming committed suicide in fear of crime, King Duan was inexplicably banned by His Majesty for three months. According to rumors, King Duan was detained by His Majesty He was beaten until he was unconscious in the Chongming Palace and was carried out by the eunuchs that day.

The grapevine also said that the reason why Han Ming, the Minister of Accounts, was found guilty of corruption was precisely because Tang Ning, who was the head of the Accounts Department at the time, came up with an accounting method when checking the accounts of the Accounts Department, which could easily identify whether the accounts were corrupt or not. Fang Zhe, the left minister of the household department, used this method to find out the fact that Han Ming, the right minister, had embezzled taxes and money. This was the reason for this major case that shocked the capital.

Tang Ning had only been in the Ministry of Household Affairs for a month, but he personally brought down the Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, which made all the officials in the capital panic. This was another highlight on his resume.

Although everyone in the capital applauded Han Ming's arrest, Tang Ning, who edited the Hanlin Academy and was also the head of the Household Department, also gained the title of a broom star.

The officialdom is complex. Among the many officials in the DPRK, who dares to say that his buttocks are clean, and who can withstand strict investigation?

Tang Ning, who is now the head of the Household Department, will become the head of the Punishment Department and the Personnel Department in a few months. By then, it will be unclear whether the unlucky one will be the Minister of Punishment or the Minister of Personnel.

"trouble marker?"

Tangning sat comfortably in the yard while Xiaoxiao brought grapes transported by water from the south to his mouth. Hearing the news, he opened his eyes and looked dissatisfied.

Han Ming deserved what happened to the Minister of Household Affairs. Why did he say that he was the broom star? Even without him, Fang Zhe would not have kept Han Ming in the Ministry of Finance. He had only done a small job in it. .

Xiao Jue came in from outside and ate a grape. Tang Ning saw him in armor and asked, "Why are you dressed like this?"

Xiao Jue swallowed the grape with the skin and said, "Your Majesty's order to send Han Ming's wife, daughter and family out of the capital."

The punishment result of this case was actually somewhat beyond Tang Ning's expectations.

The crime committed by Han Ming was a serious crime of the Yi tribe, but after he committed suicide out of fear of crime, Emperor Chen pardoned his family, which was already considered a mercy outside the law.

"I never thought that Han Ming would embezzle tax silver." Xiao Jue said with a look of regret: "When I was a child, my father often told me about Han Ming's deeds. He was impartial, fearless of power, fearless of life and death, and was the first censor of the dynasty. He defeated the treacherous prime minister group with his own strength. He was the backbone of the court... But who could have thought that the backbone of the court would also bend."

People will change, and various reasons will lead to such changes. The sea will turn into mulberry fields. Even Xiao Jue can become a real man, and a good minister may naturally become a treacherous minister.

Thinking of the Minister Han who ate steamed buns and pickles, Tang Ning still lamented in his heart. When Han Ming was confiscated, only more than 60 taels of silver were found in his house. It was sad and lamentable that a clean official fell to this point for Prince Duan...

Tang family.

Tang Qi and Tang Jing were still talking about the suicide of Han Ming, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, for fear of crime. Even Tang Jing was shocked enough by this matter.

However, in a study room in the Tang Mansion, the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

"Your Majesty is really angry this time. Prince Duan needs to rest for at least several months before he can fully recover." Tang Qi said in a low voice: "I'm afraid that this matter has not been concealed from Your Majesty. It doesn't matter if you lose Han Ming. I'm afraid that after this incident, Your Majesty will be completely disappointed with Prince Duan..."

Tang Huai was silent for a long time before he said: "If this continues, Prince Kang will completely suppress Prince Duan."

Tang Qi raised his eyebrows and asked: "In this way, won't all our years of planning be in vain?"

"Your Majesty is in his prime, and we still have a long time." Tang Huai sat on the chair and said slowly: "Prince Duan will make mistakes, and Prince Kang will also make mistakes. Prince Kang can suppress Prince Duan now, but it doesn't mean that he can suppress Prince Duan forever..."

Tang Qi thought for a while and asked: "Brother, what do you mean, what should we do?"

"The more you do, the more mistakes you make, and the less you do, the better." Tang Huai narrowed his eyes and said: "We do nothing and wait for them to make mistakes."

"What if they don't make mistakes?"

"Then create opportunities for them to make mistakes..."