The affairs of Princess Changying's Mansion became lively for a while.
People are dead after all.
After all, it was Li Shao himself who thought of running back to the capital unruly, which was the reason for this bad luck.
He couldn't blame anyone.
Rumors circulated in the streets and alleys for a while, but at first they were still pointing and talking, but when Princess Changying's mansion changed its entrance hall, even the plaques and stone lions at the door were changed, and the entrance hall became cold and desolate, there was nothing more to say.
What's more, excitement is never lacking in the capital.
Soon everyone's attention was attracted by another major event.
Immediately after the happy event of the birth of the little prince passed, another big happy event was about to usher in.
Emperor Longqing issued a decree to formally select concubines for the princes of the feudal lords, and also allowed the princes to stay in the capital and wait for the princes to hold their wedding ceremonies before allowing them to return to their fiefdoms.
To put it nicely, this is permission, to put it badly, it is just looking for excuses to continue to deceive people.
In the end, they still tried their best to hold them captive and prevent them from returning to the fiefdom.
Among the vassal princes, only King Zheng could still remain calm and composed.
After all, he was a bare commander and had no sons, so he didn't have to worry about choosing a daughter-in-law.
But the rest were less able to sit still.
Princess Duan still looked like she was in her fifties when she went to pay her respects.
She was talking and laughing without any worry, but the futon at home was almost torn.
Something happened in Prince Duan's Mansion.
After a while, he pushed out a censor to test the water.
King Duan knew what the boss meant and didn't dare to mess around anymore.
Even the censor was pushed, hoping that the censor would bite out King Linjiang. , so as to shirk responsibility.
It was easy to suppress this matter.
But only two or three months had passed, and towards the end of the new year, a big incident occurred.
It is said that it started on the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month.
In fact, this matter broke out in October.
The new Lianghuai Salt Administration made a concession, praising the previous Salt Administration Huang Bingqing for distributing a huge amount of salt during his term and contributing to the national treasury for the six provinces of Lianghuai and Huaihe.
Tax Yin Gan Nao donated a lot and even calculated the amount.
For example, last year, Huang Bingqing levied an additional three taels of ministerial silver and thirty taels of tax silver for each salt quotation and deposited it into the Yanzheng Yamen warehouse.
Reserved for public use.
Among them, in addition to the 140,000 taels that Huang Bingqing borrowed to buy jade antiques, give birth to a child, marry a wife and other celebrations, there are still 310,000 taels left.
Now please hand it over to the Ministry of Household Collection.
But in one year, the salt distributed in advance and the additional three taels of silver collected totaled 420,000 taels.
Emperor Longqing asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to find out, only to find that none of the previous Salt Administration officials had reported this income.
He asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to adjust the files again, and there were no official documents or account books for this income.
He already knew something was wrong.
Jiangsu Governor Zheng Zhe was secretly ordered to conduct a detailed investigation together with Zeng Yao, the new Lianghuai Salt Administrator.
Two months later, on the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zheng Zhe submitted a memorial, saying that all previous salt administrations had engaged in malpractice for personal gain, deceived superiors and deceived subordinates, extorted salt merchants privately, and received benefits.
Over the years, the additional salt interest collected from the pre-distribution of salt money amounted to more than 14 million taels.
During his tenure, Huang Bingqing, the salt administrator, extorted 5 yuan from each household per month from salt merchants just in the name of purchasing food.
One hundred taels.
A rough calculation showed that his term was only three years.
Counting all the titles, the total amount of corruption amounted to more than one million taels.
Emperor Longqing was furious and cursed Huang Bingqing.
He issued three edicts in one day and asked Zhang He, the Minister of Rites, to be the chief judge.
The decree of questioning the crime was issued, but Zhang He, the Minister of Punishment, fell ill.
Emperor Longqing sneered, and immediately appointed a new official to take office.
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Sun Zhiyuan, the Minister of Punishment who had not yet settled down in his position, was in charge of the trial.
The decrees were issued one after another, and everyone in the court was shocked.
Everyone knows that the Salt Administration is a fat man, but they really don’t know how fat he is.
It was not until they heard that in the three years of the salt administration, the amount of corruption that could be found on the surface alone was more than one million taels, that everyone was stunned.
I was also curious as to why this matter, which had been covered up for so many years, would come out at this time.
Of course there is a reason for this.
Zeng Yao was not a fool.
He was able to get this fat job because of the Fang family's blessing.
His son hired Empress Fang's niece, so this fat job fell into his hands.
But I didn't expect that after many efforts and so much money spent, I finally took advantage of the hot spot and thought I could make a big fortune, but none of the salt merchants took him seriously.
He just thought he was easy to bully and didn't even give him the customary reception banquet.
Forget it, his seventh aunt gave birth to a son, and he held a banquet, but no one in the group showed filial piety.
Only then did he become angry, and with a cruel heart, he opened the pustule.
As soon as this pustule was poked, he simply took it seriously and became an upright official.
Anyway, his reputation was already established.
Now he was also relying on the Fang family.
Who was he afraid of?
I thought this year would go well.
After all, Emperor Longqing got a new little prince.
There was a lot of excitement a while ago.
Even if something big happened, as long as it didn't get serious, Emperor Longqing would let it go with a slight raise of his hand. .
But I didn’t expect that no one would have a good year this year.
Except for one visit to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Emperor Longqing spent the rest of his time in the imperial study.
Several bachelors in the cabinet almost never left the palace gate, and even asked their families to pack their clothes and bring them into the palace.
After checking the accounts day and night, we finally came up with the total.
The imperial court has distributed more than 4.6 million taels of salt in Huainan, Huaibei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other six places in advance over the years, and the tax payable to the treasury is more than 14 million taels.
However, except for the sum reported by Zeng Yao, Except for the 310,000 taels of silver from the Yanzheng Yamen, everything else was embezzled.
Emperor Longqing was furious.
When the seal was opened on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the court changed its chief judge again.
This time, Qian Shiyun, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, who had just joined the cabinet, personally presided over the case.
The purpose is to investigate thoroughly.
This new year in Prince Duan's Mansion was really on tenterhooks.
Prince Duan even slept uneasily at night.
He was grinding his teeth in fear in his sleep.
It was the coldest month of winter.
But when he got up early the next morning, the place where Prince Duan slept was clearly a large area.
It's all wet.
The further he investigated the case, the more anxious he became, unable to sit still and constantly urging his wife to go to the palace to inquire about the news from Queen Fang.
Even if Princess Duan didn’t know it before, there is still something unclear about her now.
She must have something to do with this case.
Her heart sank.
There were charcoal pots everywhere in the house, but she still felt cold.
She hugged Prince Duan's legs and asked him tremblingly. : "My lord, tell me the truth, how did you get into this trap and how deep did it get you?"
Both of her eyes were straight, with dilated pupils and empty vision, like an overly frightened owl that couldn't hold on and was about to fall down
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