She heard from Qiu Yue about the recent corruption case in Xuancheng. Among the corrupt people, there was one person who was supported by His Highness. The corruption also had the tacit approval of His Highness, collecting money for His Highness.
Now that someone has gone to the capital to complain, the corruption can no longer be hidden.
His Majesty did not expect that Xuancheng, which is less than a hundred miles away from the capital, would dare to hide under his nose. From small to large, officials in Xuancheng have been protecting each other, and all of them have been corrupt for three years! !
His Majesty was furious and handed the matter over to the regent. He also gave the regent great power. As long as it was confirmed that more than ten thousand taels of money had been embezzled, he would be executed on the spot and a memorial could be written afterwards.
His Highness the Third wants to try to protect the other party and cannot let the people who follow him feel cold.
It's a pity that I don't know the extent of the regent's investigation. His Highness doesn't dare to take action easily, lest the regent will follow the clues and get involved himself.
When Chunmei heard that she wanted to inquire about the regent, her expression suddenly changed, she suddenly looked up at Su Ruowei, knelt down with a plop, and spoke in a miserable voice.
"Second Miss, it's not difficult for you to ask your slave to keep an eye on the princess. But if you want your slave to inquire about the regent, this slave can't do it."
"The rules of the Prince Regent's Palace are very strict. The servants in different courtyards are not allowed to tell others what happened in their own courtyard at will. Otherwise, important information will be leaked. In the light case, they will be betrayed, and in the worst case, they will be beaten to death."
When Chunmei said the word "kill with a stick," her face turned pale and her body couldn't stop shaking.
A servant in the Prince Regent's Palace met a fellow countryman some time ago. Naturally, he had endless things to say when he met a fellow countryman. Under the flattery of the other party, he accidentally talked about things in the palace.
I thought that the problem would not be big if the fellow came from the countryside, but unexpectedly, the fellow was indeed a fellow, but he was a servant of a high-ranking official in the capital, and he came here deliberately to get information.
Selling out the news about his master was something that the Prince Regent's Palace would never tolerate, so the other party was directly executed with a stick.
The housekeeper also called all the servants in the palace to watch, to scare the monkeys.
She was with everyone at that time, watching a person being beaten to death with her own eyes, her eyes widened. Every time she thought of that scene in the past few days, she had nightmares, how could she dare to set her sights on the regent.
Su Ruowei frowned when she heard this. She knew that the rules of the Prince Regent's Palace were strict, but she didn't expect that the rules of the Prince Regent's Palace were so strict.
No wonder the Third Highness said that there was no way to place people in the Regent's Mansion. Even if they were lucky enough to be placed, they would be dealt with within a few days.
She originally thought that the Third Highness had tried to trick Su Qianxi into being their spy but failed, so she could help him from other places. It seemed that her idea was doomed to fail.
"That's all, you can take care of this matter. If you can find out any useful information, I will reward you heavily. If you can't find out anything, forget it."
Su Ruowei didn't embarrass Chunmei. After all, Chunmei was the only one she placed beside Su Qianxi. No one could replace her yet, so naturally she couldn't be easily replaced.
In the private room next door, Qingzhu listened to what was going on next door and relayed it word for word.
"Princess, Su Ruowei wants Chunmei to spy on you, and also wants Chunmei to spy on the prince. He wants to know about the Xuancheng corruption case."
Although Su Ruowei cautiously asked Dongyu to check if anyone passed by the door or if anyone was eavesdropping, she ignored the open window in the house.
That was Qingzhu's special expense. Before Su Ruowei arrived, he asked the waiter to go in and take a look. If it was not open, he would open it when tea was served. With Chunmei's mind, he would definitely not suspect that there was anything wrong with this move.
After all, the private room where Su Ruowei and the others were located was close to the street, and some people just liked to sit there with the windows open and look at the scenery outside.
Su Qianxi and the others were right next door, and Qingzhu could clearly hear the normal voices of Su Ruowei and the others talking while standing by the window.
"Xuancheng corruption case?"
Su Qianxi was not surprised that Su Ruowei asked Chunmei to monitor her. At this moment, her attention was attracted by the Xuancheng corruption case.
She had a vague impression of this matter.
The Xuancheng corruption case does not seem to be as simple as official corruption.
She vaguely remembered that Mo Zechen was ordered to investigate, but she didn't know what happened. When he came back, several people died. Mo Zechen also suffered a lot of injuries and was in a coma for half a month before he woke up.
During that time, the atmosphere at the Regent's Palace was very heavy.
It's a pity that in her previous life, she was full of fear of Mo Zechen. Not to mention taking the initiative to ask what happened, she couldn't hide from him, so she didn't know what happened.
She only knew that after the Xuancheng case, all the officials in Xuancheng were beheaded in public, all their property was confiscated, and all the adult men in the family were executed. The old, young, women, and children were exiled to the border and were never allowed to leave the border.
This result is obviously wrong.
As long as the corruption case does not result in casualties, the person will only be dismissed from his official position if he is found out. He will not be able to take the scientific examination for three generations, and he will need to double the amount of money he embezzled to pay back, otherwise he will be punished or exiled.
Corrupt officials who need to be beheaded have caused the death of people in the process of corruption.
But there are so many officials in Xuancheng, big and small, so they can't all kill people, right?
Judging from the clues she knew, the Xuancheng corruption case was definitely not simple.
Thinking of this, Su Qianxi raised her head and said, "Qingzhu, do you know when the prince will leave for Xuancheng?"
She only had a vague impression of many memories from her past life, and could hardly remember the specific time. She could only ask Qingzhu if he knew about it.
"ah?"
Qingzhu was a little confused when Su Qianxi asked this question. It took him a while to come to his senses and shook his head.
"I don't know. The prince transferred me to serve the princess. I know limited information about the prince."
After all, her main responsibility now is to take good care of the princess. The prince's affairs have little to do with what she has to do now, so naturally no one will inform her specifically.
"Come on, let's go back and ask the prince when he will go to Xuancheng. I will go too."
Su Qianxi looked downstairs and saw Su Ruowei and Chunmei leaving before speaking.
"Princess, the prince has to do business, not play."
Upon hearing this, Qingzhu frowned and reminded.
"I know, I don't want to play, I want to help."
Su Qianxi said in a serious tone.
Qingzhu had a look of disbelief, but seeing Su Qianxi insisting, he didn't say much. The prince would definitely refuse anyway.
At that time, the princess was rejected by the prince and gave up.
Su Qianxi pulled Qingzhu and hurried home, but was told by the housekeeper that Mo Zechen had not returned since he had gone out today, so he could only wait in Mo Zechen's yard.
She must get this done today.
