Chapter 1137 Return
"It is the Second Prince who has come to the morning court on behalf of the Emperor." Eunuch Li pinched the orchid finger, twisted a handkerchief, and wiped the corners of his lips, "Jiang Shangshu, the memorials to impeach you today are piled as high as two mountains. This matter is quite big. "How can the Second Prince make this matter clear if he doesn't go to court early and in front of all the civil and military officials?"
Jiang Daoren's face turned pale.
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The next day, during the morning court, the second prince threw the evidence collected by Chu Xuanyu to the civil and military officials with an angry look on his face, and asked everyone to pass it around for them to read.
“Where is Jiang Shangshu?”
The Second Prince glanced down with stern eyes. He didn't even see Jiang Daoren, and his expression darkened gloomily.
The left minister of the Criminal Department shook his hands and silently passed the evidence in his hands to the officials behind him. Hearing the angry voice of the second prince, he stepped forward tremblingly and reported, "To the second prince, Jiang Shangshu came this morning, but he is leaving. Halfway through, the carriage suddenly stopped again. Then we turned back, and by chance, Jiang Shangshu's attendant saw my carriage, and asked me to bring a message to the second prince, saying that Jiang Shangshu was not feeling well in his stomach. He had eaten bad food last night, and he wanted to ask the second prince for a few days off. Recuperate.”
"Asking for leave?" A puff of smoke came out from the head of the second prince, and he snorted coldly, "If you think you can escape by asking for leave, what are the laws of the Dasheng court in Jiang Daorendang?"
Two-thirds of the civil and military officials below are members of the Second Prince and Chu Jingqi's party, that is, the emperor's people. They saw that the Second Prince produced a bunch of evidence against Jiang Daoren, and let's look at his The posture also wanted to deal with Jiang Daoren, so everyone guessed some inside stories.
All civil and military officials have gotten wind of the recent actions of the Xiao family, and many people have been approached by the Xiao family. However, some people have been seduced by the Xiao family, while others remain motionless and single-minded. I hope the emperor will get well soon.
Now, when those people who had been tempted by the Xiao family saw that the second prince was going to abandon Jiang Daoren, use Jiang Daoren to make a fool of himself, and kill chickens to scare monkeys, their hearts began to tremble.
In order to prove their innocence, some people immediately petitioned the Second Prince to punish Jiang Daoren.
Those who had never betrayed the emperor hated Jiang Daoren even more for what he had done, and all petitioned to severely punish Jiang Daoren.
Only the officials from the Xiao family strongly recommended that Jiang Daoren should be re-investigated. However, they were single and weak and could not argue with the emperor's faction. In the end, the second prince lived up to expectations and easily defeated Jiang Daoren.
Jiang Daoren had already sent someone to guard the palace gate to inquire about him, and he was waiting anxiously at home. He waited and waited, but instead of waiting for the people he sent out, people from the Yinlin Guard came.
The people of Yinlin Guard captured him in one fell swoop and wanted to take him back to the dungeon.
Jiang Daoren was shocked and shouted that he was wronged.
The second young master of the Li family who led the Yinlin Guards sneered, "Mr. Jiang, since you joined the Criminal Department, you have embezzled more than one hundred thousand taels of military pay. You also took advantage of your position to collect bribes, beat the aggrieved people into submission, and were wrongfully executed. These are all The evidence has been posted at the gate of the government office, announcing to the world, what else can you be wronged about? ”
When Jiang Daoren heard this, all the blood on his face suddenly disappeared, and he suddenly seemed to have aged more than ten years.
His face was full of decadence, regret, and anger.
He begged Li Er tremblingly, "Can you let go of my unfulfilled eldest grandson..."
"Master Jiang, I am just a follower of orders. I have no right to decide whether the eldest young master of the Jiang family should stay or go." Li Er interrupted Jiang Daoren before he could finish his words.
Li Er waved his hand at the Yinlin guards, "Arrest all the rest of the Jiang family, don't let anyone go."
Hundreds of members of the Jiang family, including the master and his servants, were all arrested.
The Jiang family was also ransacked. Yinlinwei moved out 100,000 taels of silver, more than 10,000 taels of gold, hundreds of boxes of gold and silver jewelry, antique jades, silks and satins, dozens of farm shops, real estate title deeds, etc. from the three warehouses of the Jiang family. The items were laid out across half the street.
The onlookers lined up from the street to the end of the street, all staring at the boxes of jewelry, their eyes jumping out of their sockets in shock.
Eyeballs and chin dropped all over the place.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I really didn't expect that Jiang Daoren, who appears to be upright and moral, is actually a corrupt official secretly."
"Jiang Daoren is a warrior who has become an official with no foundation or family support. I heard that Mrs. Jiang is also from the countryside and has no dowry. These things are probably obtained by Mr. Jiang's greed, right?"
"It must be true. You only get a little salary for one year as an official, which is not enough to support your family. How can you still have money to buy so many Zhuangzi shops? Look at those dozen boxes of jewelry, tsk tsk tsk... If this were exchanged for silver, Not more than a hundred thousand taels?”
"Jiang Daoren was born in a martial arts school. I heard that it was because he learned martial arts that he could step by step from a little soldier to where he is today."
"Tch, no matter how good your martial arts skills are, you still have to be promoted by the Second Prince. If he did such a thing, he would obviously slap the Second Prince in the face. No wonder the Second Prince would be angry and ransack his house."
"Hush... you dare to say this, the second prince is not a person who avenges private revenge."
"I'm telling the truth. I didn't say that the second prince was avenging himself. Jiang Daoren is a corrupt official. He deserves to be caught and have his house ransacked."
While the people on the street were talking a lot, several carriages drove in from the other end of the street.
The carriage was blocked by the crowd and could not move forward, so it stopped.
"What's wrong? What happened in front? Why is it so noisy? Gan Song, go down and have a look."
At noon, Xia Zihan and his party hurried and finally arrived in the capital.
Not long after entering the city, their carriage was blocked in the street and could not move.
Gan Song got off the carriage, looked for a middle-aged man, inquired about it, and returned to the carriage with a changed expression, "Your Majesty, the family of Jiang Daoren, the Minister of Punishment, has been raided."
"Hey, Jiang Daoren, isn't that the second prince's person?" Before Chu Jingqi could speak, Xia Zihan exclaimed, "How could the second prince's people be confiscated and dismissed? Gan Song, are you sure you heard it right?"
"Princess, how could my subordinates mishear such a big thing? Jiang Daoren's family is a good one."
Gan Song didn't believe it when he heard it at first, so he asked a few more people, and only came to report it after confirming that it was really Jiang Daoren's family.
Chu Jingqi opened the curtain and saw the crowds in front and behind the carriage were so crowded that he couldn't move at all. He ordered Gan Song, "Go and find out why the Jiang family was raided." He glanced helplessly at the completely closed door. car curtain.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Gan Song responded and flew off the carriage again. When he saw someone from the Yinlin Guards, Gan Song walked over and took out a jade plaque to reveal his identity.
(End of chapter)