Song Wei, the Minister of Justice, was not actually from the fourth prince Zhou Kang's faction. On the contrary, he supported the second prince.
However, the Fourth Prince sent someone to invite him, and Song Wei did not dare to refute the Fourth Prince's favor. After all, even the people from the Second Prince's faction would not be able to quarrel with the Fourth Prince. What if the Fourth Prince really succeeded the throne in the end? If we were to reunify, what should we do if we turn around and liquidate them?
So Song Wei quickly changed into casual clothes and hurried to the mansion of the fourth prince Zhou Kang. However, when he arrived, he found that several officials had arrived earlier than him. They were all sitting in the garden in confusion. On both sides, they looked at each other.
After Song Wei saw these officials, he suddenly became confused. These people were not only from the second prince's faction, but also from the fourth prince's faction and the eldest prince's faction.
Song Wei couldn't think of the connection between these officials at all, which is not his fault. The main reason is that the connection between these officials is too inconspicuous.
The Liu family was just a small family. In the entire Zhou Dynasty, it was not just the Liu family and the Li family that produced salt, there were many other families.
Therefore, although the Liu family gave gifts to these officials and made these officials secretly protect the Liu family, they did not know about each other.
Soon, the fourth prince Zhou Kang came here with a small cloth bag in his hand.
These officials stood up quickly and greeted the fourth prince Zhou Kang respectfully. Zhou Kang smiled and waved his hand and said to them.
"You are all ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Some are ministers and some are ministers. You can also be regarded as the mainstay!"
Upon hearing this, the officials quickly responded respectfully and humbly.
"His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince is ridiculous, we are just fulfilling our duties for His Majesty!"
Zhou Kang smiled and waved his hand, put the bag in his hand directly on the table, and said to these people.
"Why don't you please take a look at what's in this bag?"
Song Wei and the others had already been a little confused. When they heard this, they all opened the bag in confusion.
They saw a pile of snow-white granular objects inside without any odor, which made Song Wei and the others turn their heads to look at Zhou Kang.
Zhou Kang motioned for them to have a taste. Song Wei and the others picked up a few pills and tasted them, and then couldn't help but widen their eyes.
"Your Highness, this thing is so salty, is it salt?"
"It shouldn't be. How can there be such snow-white salt? And it doesn't have any bitter taste at all?"
Zhou Kang smiled slightly and said to them.
"This is indeed salt, and it is snowflake salt just made by a family in Huaigu Fucheng."
"Speaking of Nostalgic Fucheng, I believe everyone understands it, right?"
The officials couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then each one took a deep breath.
If they just talk about nostalgic Fucheng, or just take out these salts, they may not understand what Zhou Kang is talking about, but when these two things are connected, they can think of the Liu family.
This made them look at each other in confusion. Could it be that the Liu family had already sent the gift to Zhou Kang?
Just when they were confused, Zhou Kang suddenly took out something and threw it directly on the table.
"Everyone, you are indeed the mainstay of our Zhou Dynasty, and you have accepted so many bribes through your position!"
"Now that everyone has put all this evidence in front of me, do you want me to hand over all this evidence to my father?"
Zhou Kang suddenly said this very sternly, changing his usual gentle and unhurried demeanor, which immediately shocked all those people.
They looked at the things on the table in disbelief. These were actually their evidence. Although they could not directly convict them, they could allow the court to interrogate them because of these things.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, even if there were truly honest officials, there were definitely not too many. Everyone had a lot of things that were not checked.
Even Yu Ruhai, who has always been known as a good official, is guilty of helping his boss cover up the facts of corruption, let alone people like them.
So they knelt down quickly, kowtowed and begged for mercy, hoping that Zhou Kang would show them a way to survive.
If Zhou Kang really wants them to die, he only needs to hand over these things. But since Zhou Kang chose to talk to them about this matter in private, it means that Zhou Kang must want them to do something. .
Zhou Kang chuckled and said to them.
"I heard that the Liu family is very active in Huaigu Fucheng. It's all because you adults are supporting them!"
"I now feel that the Liu family is just a family that makes salt, and the quality of their salt is not the best. I think you should understand what I mean."
The officials nodded quickly, looked at each other with pale faces, and quickly made a common decision.
To them, the Liu family was just a small family. Even if it could send them several thousand taels of silver every year, it would still be no more than what they received elsewhere.
It's impossible to let yourself lose everything just because of the Liu family!
So they all decided to sell the Liu family directly!
Seeing their performance, Zhou Kang couldn't help but sneered, waved his hand and said.
"Go ahead, I don't want to see the Liu family's salt appear in the capital again."
The officials nodded and bowed in agreement one by one, and then left tremblingly. They never expected that the fourth prince would call them here because of such a thing.
After they left, Zhou Kang looked at the salt on the table and couldn't help but smile.
"I didn't expect that Mr. Zhao really couldn't take any time off, and now he's involved in the salt business again!"
Saying this, the eldest prince Zhou Rui walked over from the side and said to Zhou Kang with a smile.
"I see, this Mr. Zhao is definitely not a creature in the pond. It won't be long before he will definitely come to the capital."
"And fourth brother, the way you dealt with these people just now does seem more mature."
Zhou Kang shook his head, raised his hands to Zhou Rui and said.
"It's all thanks to my elder brother's teachings. Brother, you have such a high talent, why don't you let the world know about it, but let others think you are a useless prince?"
"If the eldest brother shows it, this position of prince is definitely not the eldest brother's!"
Zhou Rui shook his head, smiled, and said to Zhou Kang.
"It's not that I don't show it, but it's not that time yet."
"But I feel like it might be faster now."
Zhou Rui said this and turned his head to look in the direction of Huaigu Fucheng.
Zhou Kang blinked, wondering what his eldest brother Zhou Rui had been hiding for so long.
Soon, Zhao Feng received a reply from Zhou Kang, saying that everything had been settled.
