Will this end here? The answer is obviously no, that Qi Nuo made a fortune selling grain from the household department's granary, and now that the matter is exposed, the money will naturally be subsidized.
However, there is a saying that when the wall falls, everyone pushes it. Qi Yuanhang used to be the prime minister, and many of his subordinates were on his side. Everyone ran away cleanly, and his political enemies would naturally attack him even more at this time.
No one knew exactly how much Qi Nuo had sold at the beginning, but the person who recovered the money was the Minister of the Household Department. He took it personally and brought people to the original prime minister's mansion to start ransacking the house.
Poor Qi Yuanhang is quite old, because he was dismissed from office, and his beloved son went to prison again. Yuan has already been hit hard, but now he is being led to ransack his home, how can Qi Yuanhang bear it
He has lost all his face in his life. Facing the officers and soldiers rampaging at home like bandits, Qi Yuanhang tried to stop them, but now he is just a white body. In the past, everyone would give him A bit of face, but how can he have any face now
In the end, all of Qi Yuanhang's family property was confiscated, and even the huge Prime Minister's Mansion was taken over by the country. The original servants of the Prime Minister's Mansion had already stolen the contract of sale and left when the Prime Minister's Mansion was in decline. Except for a few servants who were loyal to Qi Yuanhang, now there are only two or three kittens left in the once prosperous Prime Minister's Mansion.
As for Qi Yuanhang's two grandsons and granddaughter, Xu Chengjun couldn't bear to see his children living on the streets, so he secretly sent someone to take them away, but in order to distance themselves from the prime minister's residence, the three children finally changed The surname follows Xu Chengjun's surname.
Obviously not long ago he was still in power and high-spirited, and even thought about remarrying a new wife to cheer up the prime minister's mansion, but Qi Yuanhang never thought that because his son was confused for a while, the whole Qi family would be defeated like this.
He is naturally unwilling, but at this moment, Qi Yuanhang has no power or power, so even if he is unwilling, so what? Surprised and angry, Qi Yuanhang passed out directly.
The few remaining loyal servants would never leave, but they were all servants of the prime minister's mansion, how could they have the money to treat Qi Yuanhang? After much deliberation, they finally transported Qi Yuanhang outside the Duke's Mansion, but they were afraid that the people in the Duke's Mansion would not treat Qi Yuanhang, so those loyal servants took advantage of the darkness to throw Qi Yuanhang outside the Duke's Mansion. run away.
Poor Qi Yuanhang, a dignified prime minister, has never suffered much since he was a child. He is approaching old age, but now he is thrown outside the Duke's mansion like a piece of junk. If it is not because the weather is not too cold, he is afraid that he will freeze alive. Died outside the Duke's mansion.
It was the next day when the servants of the Duke's Mansion got up and were about to go out to buy vegetables, they found Qi Yuanhang lying on the ground outside. At this time, Qi Yuanhang was already on fire. Or die.
The servants naturally knew this former son-in-law. After knowing this, they immediately ran in and reported to the master. According to the intention of the Duke and his wife, Qi Yuanhang should not be cared about. After all, he made such a big mistake. , now is a big trouble, whoever gets involved will be unlucky.
However, the two of them still didn't hide it. Lin Qinshuang finally found out that Qi Yuanhang was lying outside the Duke's mansion. Treat him, I'm afraid this life will be gone.
After all, it was her husband who had been inseparable for more than 20 years, and they had three children together. Not to mention anything else, even for the sake of the three children, Lin Qinshuang couldn't just watch Qi Yuanhang died just like that.
After much deliberation, Lin Qinshuang finally intervened in this matter.
But Lin Qinshuang still didn't bring Qi Yuanhang into the Duke's Mansion, after all, what Qi Nuo did was outrageous, and it was impossible for her to involve the Duke's Mansion in it.
Lin Qinshuang sent someone to take Qi Yuanhang away. She asked someone to rent a small yard in the west of the city, sent two people to take care of Qi Yuanhang, and hired a doctor for him. He was rescued.
But from the beginning to the end, Lin Qinshuang had no way out, no matter what, the two had already separated, Lin Qinshuang was now the daughter of the Lin family, not the wife of the Qi family, and there was no need to see him due to emotion or reason.
Lin Qinshuang was always open and generous when she did this, and she didn't hide it from others. Anyone who knew about it didn't give Lin Qinshuang a thumbs up? Who doesn't say she is affectionate and righteous
However, facing these remarks, Lin Qinshuang didn't care. You must know that when she and Qi Yuanhang separated before, although the people in the whole capital didn't give her a bad face, who didn't say that she was confused behind her back? It is said that she has a well-behaved wife of the prime minister, and she is ordered not to be a first-ranker, and she has to leave home. At that time, she was synonymous with being confused, but now that Qi Yuanhang has fallen into the altar, everyone praises him for his knowledge. She escaped from the quagmire of the Prime Minister's Mansion, otherwise, now that the Prime Minister's Mansion has been ransacked, her life may be difficult.
This is the case now, but because Qi Yuanhang is down and out, they will think that her choice is right. If Qi Yuanhang has always been on top, few people will say that she is right.
However, because of Qi Nuo's reselling of grain, the emperor found that these officials in the court were not single-minded in doing things for the court. People began to investigate strictly, especially when it came to the fundamentals of the court, they focused on the investigation.
I don’t know if I don’t check, after such a check, the emperor found that the world has been peaceful and prosperous for a long time, and moths like Qi Nuo have appeared in various positions. Someone from the military department replaced the thick cotton in the cotton coats of the border soldiers with reed flowers. Look at the cotton coats. It was still thick and fluffy, but the reed flowers inside had no effect of keeping warm at all. It was freezing cold at the border, and the upper body of these reed flower padded clothes might freeze to death.
In addition to the problem of cotton clothes, there are huge problems with weapons, military pay, and military rations. The current emperor is a wise emperor. He knows the importance of soldiers, so the military supplies approved by the border are all for use. the best.
However, those moths are shoddy, they sell the materials specially for the army at high prices, but buy some crude and shoddy things to fill them. The emperor can fully imagine that if a war breaks out suddenly, With these rough and crude weapons, eating moldy military rations, how could the soldiers who couldn't get paid on weekdays be willing to work for him
In addition, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has also found out a lot of problems with the items specially purchased for the palace. Eggs are only sold for one penny outside, but the accounts are one tael of silver. , Chicken, fish, meat and eggs, all kinds of things that are sold very cheap outside, but when the Ministry of Internal Affairs buys them, they are dozens or even hundreds of times more expensive.
That's not to mention, the gold and silver jewelry, rouge and gouache used by the empresses in the palaces should have been the best, but apart from those favored empresses, other less favored concubines used All of them are shoddy goods, and many of the items in the empress's private treasury have been swapped and filled with fakes, but the genuine ones have disappeared.
The emperor originally thought that this was a peaceful and prosperous age, and everything in the Great Zhou Dynasty was thriving and developing in the best direction under his rule. The palace, which was supposed to be the safest, was filled with so many moths. They played him like a fool, sold his good things, and bought some terrible things to make up for.
Where is he the Son of Heaven? I am afraid that in the eyes of those people, he is just a joke.
As the moths were uncovered one after another, the absurd but true things they did one after another were before their eyes. The emperor was already extremely angry, and the moths that were caught one after another were pushed to the Meridian Gate and beheaded. , The bluestone slabs in front of the Meridian Gate were all stained red by blood.
What made the emperor feel even more furious was that the family properties found from the homes of these moths were even more abundant than the national treasury.
If it wasn't because what Qi Nuo did was exposed, if it wasn't because the emperor wanted to thoroughly investigate the government, I'm afraid he would never have imagined that so many people would be able to greedy so much money.
In less than two months, the officialdom in the capital city has been vigorously purged by the emperor, and it has become unprecedentedly clear. However, even though the treasury has become much richer because of these silver taels, the emperor's mood has not improved.
Even if he wanted to be in a good mood, when he thought that he had been deceived for so many years, so many people looked at him as if they were watching a joke. On the surface, they might be shouting loudly, but in private they were mocking him for being stupid and stupid. The emperor couldn't bear it.
Once a person gets into the horns, it is not so easy to get out. The emperor shouldn't care about these things. After all, he arrested the corrupt officials and rectified the government. It stands to reason that he should be happy.
However, when he thought of what these corrupt officials did in private, the emperor could not sleep and eat. What was worse was that the emperor found that he could no longer trust these courtiers—those courtiers who dared to lie to him were not loyal on the surface. In the end, when they turned around, when they betrayed him, they became more ruthless one by one.
In less than a month, the emperor lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye. He was depressed, and he didn't want the imperial physicians to know about his condition, so he refused to announce the imperial physician to see a doctor.
However, although the emperor's body has lost a lot of weight, his spirit seems to be pretty good, and because he has just rectified the court and killed many corrupt officials, the officials below have been frightened. Dare to do something else? For a while, government affairs became much easier than before.
The incident in the capital was a turmoil, but it did not affect Qi Wang who was far away in Ruijiang.
There is indeed a problem with the dam here. The prefect of Ruijiang is greedy. When building the dam, he shoddy everything. The dam should have been built with bricks and stones, but he filled it with a lot of straw. When I looked around, I found that the dams in many places had cracks, and now it has not entered the flood season. If there is a flood, the dams here will not be able to support the peak of the flood. Once the dams collapse, more than half of the Ruijiang River will be destroyed. was flooded.
However, the prefect of Ruijiang is not easy to get along with. He looks easy to talk to, but he is sweet-hearted and bitter, and he has endless tricks.
Qi Wang pointed out the problems with these dams, and asked the prefect of Ruijiang to immediately send someone to rebuild the dams, but the other party didn't take him seriously at all. No matter what Qi Wang said, the prefect of Ruijiang was always ambiguous and didn't give him an accurate answer. The answer is completely playing with Qi Huang.
"Lord Liu, the matter is of great importance. If the dam is not built as soon as possible, the common people may suffer catastrophe in the event of a flood, and your prefect position may not be secure."
However, Mr. Liu waved his hand indifferently, and said with a smile: "Mr. Qi's words are wrong. The dams here were built just the year before last, and they also withstood the floods during the flood last year. Obviously, these dams are not damaged. Question, you are from the capital city. As a nobleman, you don’t know how difficult it is to build a dam. You are just talking about building a dam, but where do you get the money for the labor? , it is not appropriate to go down to repair it.”
Not to mention that the prefect of Ruijiang didn't plan to build the dam, even if he planned to build the dam, he couldn't get the money out. The money given by the court was not in place, and it was impossible for him to intervene in this matter before the dam collapsed.
What if the dam fails? What about the displaced people? In short, his background is very strong. At worst, he will be transferred from Ruijiang at that time, and it will be the same to be a magistrate in other places. Anyway, it will not have any influence on him.
How did Qi Wang, the inspector, get here? Don't you know after looking at him? It's just a little boy that Princess Qinghe has taken a liking to. He took advantage of Princess Qinghe's influence to get the position of inspector. A little boy who relies on women for food, holding a chicken feather as an arrow, trying to figure out if he can bluff him
This person is simply recalcitrant. He always listens to what Qi Wang says, but when he turns his head, he does what he should do. He doesn't take Qi Wang's words seriously at all. He even took out A silver note of one thousand taels was stuffed into the money, and he was asked to turn a blind eye and forget it.
"Master Qi, are you confused? You didn't come here this time to do good things for the people, but for gold-plating. Now you have the money, people are playing, and you can spend this time happily. Have you had a bad day?"
Qi Wang didn't say much, he took the money from Mr. Liu, and after seeing him accept the money, Mr. Liu seemed to think that what he thought before was not wrong. The man in front of him looked righteous and awe-inspiring, But in fact, it's just pretending.
But it's just a thousand taels, won't this subdue people
After confirming that Qi Wang had been successfully corrupted, Master Liu became more and more presumptuous in front of Qi Wang. He began to blatantly win over Qi Wang, showing his strength to him, and even implicitly hinting at Qi Wang that he wanted to pass He has a relationship with Princess Qinghe.
In the past, Princess Qinghe was just a favored princess. No one took him seriously, but no one thought that Princess Qinghe, who was not taken seriously by everyone, could be an imperial envoy. This shows how favored she was in the emperor's heart, and she was able to make an exception to make her the first female imperial envoy of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
And just when Mr. Liu was jumping up and down trying to establish a relationship with Princess Qinghe through Qi Wang, Qi Wang finally saw how deep the family background of the magistrate of Ruijiang, Mr. Liu, was.
Not to mention the rare delicacies he invited Qi Wang to eat every day, and the fact that he spent a lot of money when he went out of the brothel, just to make those courtiers and upright officials sing and dance for him. Master Liu even took Qi Wang to his warehouse to give Qi Wang looked at his treasures.
Gold, jade, antiques, everything in the warehouse is priceless, and Mr. Liu seems to be very proud of his collection, he almost blatantly told Qi Wang that he was greedy for these things.
"My lord Qi, these things are the most indispensable thing for an official. I have always admired Princess Qinghe's demeanor. If Lord Qi is willing to introduce you for this official, I will definitely benefit from you. As long as you like these things here Yes, just take whatever you want, the officials will never blink."
At first, Qi Wang thought that he would need to spend some effort to reveal the true face of the person in front of him, but he didn't expect that he didn't even do anything more, and this person couldn't wait to show his true face in front of him up.
Maybe it was because he looked down on Qi Wang, or because he felt that Qi Wang was the same kind of person as himself, or maybe it was because of Princess Qinghe standing behind Qi Wang, so he showed his trump card in front of Qi Wang, I want to enter a higher circle.
How much annual salary can a magistrate have? How could Master Liu save such a large family fortune if his family affairs were not obvious? Apart from embezzlement, Qi Wang couldn't think of any other way.
Not all corrupt officials have brains. Some people may have protection on their heads. Covered by an umbrella, he thinks that his backstage is absolutely strong, so he becomes more and more unscrupulous. As the saying goes, those who don't know are fearless, and sometimes they are people like them.
Qi Wang believed that Lord Liu still had more hidden cards that had not been revealed, but those were not important, and the things in front of him were enough now.
He directly ordered Master Liu to be tied up, his mouth was gagged, and he was pushed out to have his head beheaded—as the inspector appointed by the emperor himself, he had the right to beheaded first and acted later.
Water conservancy dams are the places where moths are most likely to appear. The emperor told Qi Wang when he left Beijing that under special circumstances, he can kill corrupt officials first, as long as the evidence is added later.
Qi Wang is exercising such power now.
After beheading Lord Liu neatly, Qi Huang hung his head on the gate of the magistrate's yamen. His resolute and iron-blooded methods deterred many people with evil intentions, which will be of great help to him in his future work.
At least no one dares to make trouble anymore.