Liu Shen turned his head and looked at the person who impeached him diagonally in front of him, the skinny old man, Censor Wang Jie.
Liu Shen, who still didn't understand why, frowned with thick eyebrows, and his triangular eyes revealed a bit of confusion: Is this Lao Deng such a thing? As soon as he returned to Beijing, he attacked me.
Wang Jie, who was full of anger, ignored the doubtful look Liu Shen cast. From the time he left the capital, passed through Qingzhou and Bingzhou, and finally came back from Jingzhou, it was a scene for each state. There was a severe drought in Bingzhou at the end of last summer. The whole country was shocked, and the imperial court ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate four million silver to provide disaster relief.
However, when Wang Jie went out to carry out the imperial edict of Qing Emperor Shen Yi and passed by Bingzhou, he did not see the officials responsible for disaster relief, the victims being rescued, the money appropriated by the court, or everything. After turning the corner, we only saw the devastated and dilapidated scene of the entire Bingzhou.
Even along the way, ragged refugees from Bingzhou could be seen everywhere.
The wealthy families in the city put up lanterns and colorful decorations during the New Year celebrations, while the refugees outside the city gathered together to keep warm in the cold wind.
The mountain treasures in the Zhumen are full of fragrance, but under the gray wall there are only dead trees with no bark left.
The faces of those who had wiped away all the money provided by the imperial court to help the people were glowing red. The victims who suffered such man-made disasters after natural disasters were sallow, skinny, and emaciated.
Desperate refugees left their homes in droves, leaving Bingzhou and their hometown. As a result, the cultivated land that was already barren due to severe drought became even worse.
He believed that he still had a conscience, so he went to Bingzhou alone with the aristocratic family headed by the Liu family.
What made him unbelievable was that after hearing that he had come to knock on the door, those wealthy country squires dared to shut him out, even though he was a third-rank imperial censor and had an imperial edict!
While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.
Qiang Longan dares to knock on the door. Who is in charge here?
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In the end, he visited several aristocratic families, but only the Zhou family in Qingzhou opened their doors to welcome him. Even the martial sage Zhou Ding personally received him. After hearing about this, he immediately sent his clan members to the border of Qingzhou to receive the refugees and help them. This is why when he met Zhou Yan in Jingzhou, he was very polite to him from the beginning.
In Bingzhou, the biggest family that excluded him was the Liu family in Bingzhou. The person who was an official in the court was the target of his impeachment, the Minister of Household Affairs, Liu Shen!
A blue memorial, mixed with a piece of yellow paper full of fingerprints, was taken out by Wang Jie's skinny hands.
Wang Jie, who was wearing a red and blue court uniform, could not help but tremble because of his anger. He played loudly:
"I report that Liu Shen, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, united with the tribes in the Bingzhou region to enrich his own pockets with the four million taels of silver allocated by the imperial court for disaster relief last year. This is a crime! His clan scolded the imperial officials a lot and regarded the imperial court as useless. This is a crime. two!……"
In the entire hall, except for Wang Jie's angry words, there was no other sound.
When he heard the contents of Wang Jie's impeachment, Liu Shen trembled all over, fell to his knees on the ground, and began to sweat on his forehead.
Every time Wang Jie mentioned a crime, Liu Shen's face turned pale.
He never expected that the pig and dog teammates on the family side would dare to be so stupid! So cruel! He swallowed all four million silver without even knowing it! !
Zuo Ning looked sideways, and saw that the old man who was trembling with fear after being robbed by a wanted criminal in the forest, and could only hide behind Zhou Yan in fear, now actually has such a tough side, he is really beyond appearances...
Aristocratic family, aristocratic family...
Although he is also a member of the aristocratic family group, he was born in the Zuo family of Yanzhou, a family that ranks among the best in the world in terms of overall level. However, as a single descendant of the Zuo family, the size of the Zuo family is not as large as those flourishing aristocratic families, and it has always been How could anyone in Yuanzhen Beijiang know that the "companions" in the hinterland of the world have such a virtue?
When he shook his head and temporarily put all these messy things behind him, Wang Jie's passionate words had come to an end.
"Form a party with the various tribes in Bingzhou for personal gain, despise the king's law, and despise the court! This is the ninth sin! In the hands of the minister,"
With that said, Wang Jie held up the yellow paper sandwiched by the blue memorial in both hands and presented it to Shen Yi.
"This is the book of all peoples collected by me in Bingzhou! Please, Your Majesty, take a clear look at it!"
Zhang Hao gently held back a glance at Liu Shen, whose face was gradually turning pale under Wang Jie's passionate words. He raised his head and came to Wang Jie. Then he took the book of all peoples and the memorial in his hand, turned around and bent his body to Shen Shen. In front of Yi: "Your Majesty, please."
Under such heavy news, Shen Yi's happy mood that he had just been satisfied with his son-in-law was not at all clear. The smile on his face disappeared without knowing when. A pair of deep eyes stared at Liu Shen for a moment and said something. Not sent. Then he took the things from Zhang Hao's hand.
He is a mess, he is so lazy that he turned Xiu Mu into morning morning, and early morning into Xiu Mu. He likes flowers and plants more than dealing with these twists and turns, but it does not mean that he has become a capable person. A useless monarch who was played by his subordinates like this.
Moreover, no matter how hard you say that your new good son-in-law is still here, you have to be tough.
"Liu Shen."
A cold voice came from the dragon chair. Shen looked coldly at Liu Shen who was kneeling down below, and said calmly,
"Do you have anything to say?"
Liu Shen's beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead to the floor of the hall. Upon hearing Shen Yi's accusation, he quickly said: "Your Majesty! You are unjust! I..."
"Come here, take me to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. If you have anything to say, talk to the Third Division and get out."
After saying that, under Liu Shen's unbelievable expression, a group of soldiers quickly poured out from outside the palace, caught Liu Shen who was hurriedly shouting injustice, and dragged him down under the gaze of the ministers... The soldiers who just poured in from From Zuo Ning's armor, he could tell that the imperial troops guarding the hall were his own Tiger Army.
"Retreat from the court." After dealing with this sudden event, Shen Yi stood up and left, leaving no time for the ministers to react. This made some ministers who put their hands into their sleeves and were about to take out the memorial and present it suddenly felt at ease. It feels as uncomfortable as eating ( ).
But there was nothing they could do. After Shen Yi left, everyone began to leave the hall one after another.
Zuo Ning, who had eaten such a big melon on his first day in court, looked at Wang Jie who had a relieved expression, sighed, then turned around and planned to leave.
Just when he turned around, an old but still energetic voice came from the front of the team: "Left Prince Consort, please stay."
