Strangely enough, when Da Sixi exposed Lian Xing's family's fortune of nearly 10 million, the officials and ministers were shocked but not too afraid!
But when Eunuch Xiao Yuchun, a direct descendant of Lian Xing, was detained and confessed, all the officials shuddered!
Ten taels of silver and one egg, such a big deal, made all the officials' hearts beat wildly, and some of them almost fainted!
This is human nature, this is psychology. As expected, Zai Chun is so impressed by Xiao Letian that he knows how to play such an insinuating game!
If the crime is really based on the unknown property of 10 million, it is a crime of corruption. Even if Lian Xing is killed, it is just killing a chicken to show the monkey. Many officials are not afraid!
Because people will have all kinds of different thoughts. Some people will think that they have embezzled too much. I only embezzled one million, which is not even close. Long live my sins will not be cured!
Some people may think that what Lian Xing embezzled was the emperor's internal treasury money. To put it bluntly, it was His Majesty's private money. Of course, this would make him lose his head. But what I embezzled was the people's money. What I embezzled was land. Even I embezzled After collecting the money, I returned it to the emperor!
So I am safe and nothing can happen!
Some people will still think that Lian Xing's bad luck this time was because he was too close to Prince Gong and others. This is an incorrect stance!
Moreover, when the Lord Long Live summoned the ministers in Jingshan, you, Lian Xing, were not present at all. You were disloyal, so I did this to you. The money was just a gimmick!
Look, people are complicated and will have different opinions on the same thing. Corrupt officials will subconsciously try their best to get away with it!
To deal with such people and to keep them alert, you have to pay attention to methods!
Investigating the egg case is a good attempt. Zai Chun’s subtext to the ministers is, I won’t even tolerate the sins of a few eggs. Do you still dare to continue to be greedy?
This also reveals Zaichun’s political ambition, which is to become the second Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty, willing to be a cruel emperor and carry out drastic reforms!
Only in this way can there be a true resurgence of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty!
Xiao Yuchun has been beaten to despair. In front of all the ministers, he has completely wiped out all the old secrets of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Moreover, Da Sixi may have warned him before. Today, Xiao Yuchun's revelations are all very small. in detail!
"Your Majesty! Princes! You are so high up that you don't know how dirty the people below are... I suggest you go home and do a thorough investigation!"
"Every slave has his own way of bullying his master! Do you know why Master Long live can't eat the tender vegetables of the season? Aren't you afraid that Master Long Live will be naughty? When the time comes, you will have to eat tender eggplants in winter and new lotus roots in summer. Who can do it? ?”
"So an old dog like Lian Xing has given an order a long time ago. The emperor must be fed third-class vegetables on the market, and more of them are pickled vegetables and soaked dishes!"
"Back then, Emperor Daoguang wanted to have a hot bite of Qianmen Noodle Soup. He went out of the palace and bought it for four grand, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported a budget of 200,000 taels!"
"They said we have to make new ones from the stove, bowls, chopsticks, cooks, etc. We even have to burn a new set of porcelain for eating noodle soup!"
"The angry Emperor Daoguang scolded the Ministry of Internal Affairs and forced them to go to Qianmen to buy ready-made ones! But what happened in the end? Lian Xing and his gang teamed up and kicked out all the noodle soup sellers at Qianmen!"
"In the end, even with the dignity of the emperor, I didn't get to eat that mouthful of noodle soup! And I was reluctant to approve the two hundred thousand taels of silver, so the result was that it could only be settled!"
"Did you Lianxing ever brag about this when you were drinking before? Did you say that even the emperor has to listen to you to live his life?"
"You said, you can eat whatever you want the emperor to eat, even if it's smelly, do you dare to give it to Lord Long Live?"
"Don't deny it. Back then, Lord Daoguang had a hole in his dragon robe and was about to mend it. The Ministry of Internal Affairs asked for 80,000 taels. Isn't this a lie? Who else do you want to hide from the scheme of deceiving Lord Long Live?"
Even Xing's face turned blue and his lips turned purple. He wanted to refute but all the strength in his body was drained!
Xiao Yuchun raised her head and looked at the royal nobles, "Prince Li! Prince Zheng...I heard that all you eat in the mansion are cold sesame cakes?"
"Let me tell you the truth! Dashilan's sesame oil and salt sesame cakes are so hot! That's because the eunuchs are fooling you!"
"They deliberately tell you that these biscuits are best eaten cold. Even hot biscuits are sold cold. This is purely a lie!"
"When I use your money to buy sesame cakes, you first go to a teahouse and listen to a play. When you're done, I go back and get something cold to fool you! Haha... Your Highness! Even the emperor is the same, let alone you princes!"
People could hear the resentment of the dying man from Xiao Yuchun's mouth. He no longer wanted to live. At this moment, he was like a mad dog that could bite as many as he wanted!
This bit of filthiness in the Ministry of Internal Affairs caused him to stir up troubles. Eggs, vegetables, sesame seed cakes...even the fragrant wood ash in the cleaning buckets of the emperor's concubines and concubines were implicated in corruption cases!
When Zai Chun heard the last word, he jumped up angrily and kicked Lian Xing in the face, "Old pig dog! Why are there such shameless people as you in this world? How dare you get money out of Chu Gong's clean bucket?" Are you saying that you don’t deceive the emperor?”
"Here comes someone!" Zai Chun shouted, and Xie Ting rushed up with a group of soldiers. "You... you immediately bring a battalion of the Yulin New Army and twenty civilian officials from the New Army... to copy this old man. Clean the house of things for me!"
"Thank you! I don't trust anyone anymore. I can only trust you in this task of searching the house! Haha... I want to see how much money this old guy has stolen from me!"
Xie Ting saluted and accepted the order, and led his men to drag Lian Xing and Xiao Yuchun down like dogs. The whole battalion was full of cavalry and they wanted to clear out all the properties of Lian Xing and the others as soon as possible!
Originally, the scene of Lian Xing was a strategy arranged by Zai Chun in advance. It was a springboard or a charge to launch a general attack on Prince Gong!
But even though Zai Chun was mentally prepared, when the real situation in the Ministry of Internal Affairs was revealed in front of him, he was still furious!
How shameless, how greedy! If even one egg can yield so much knowledge, the foundation of the Qing Dynasty has been completely eaten away!
Zai Chun looked at the kneeling ministers and sneered for a long time, "Haha...have you seen them all? Loyal ministers, you still show your loyalty to me like this? Why don't you, dear friends, speak?"
Who dared to speak at this time? Everyone was in shock. Lian Xing had his house confiscated for such a trivial matter and his life was in jeopardy. Who among the officials present dared to say that he was absolutely clean?
The nobles of the palace who used to mix honey and oil with Lian Xinghao in the past have all become mute now!
Only Prince Chun Yizhen knew that he was going to die but looked indifferent, "Your Majesty! Lian Xing is guilty and will have his own fate! I have already confessed, and I ask your Majesty to issue an edict. It doesn't matter whether I should be given Bai Ling or poisonous wine!"
"If Your Majesty doesn't feel relieved, beheading at Caishikou will be the same thing!"
Zai Chun almost rolled his eyes at these words, "Okay, okay... Even if you want to die, you don't need this little time! I'm not a fool who just kills people without evidence!"
"We must give an explanation to the world..." Just as he was saying this, a figure hurriedly came to the Gate of Supreme Harmony!
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