Chapter 274 275: I feel stuffy when I drink saliva
Yongjiahou impeached Cao Dingwen, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and his assistant Wang Xuanfan secretly colluded with profiteers, set up private gambling houses, and secretly amassed money!
Song Yunzhao was shocked, because she really couldn't remember what the crime of Wang Xuanfan's downfall was in the book. When she read the book, she mainly focused on the harem incident, and didn't remember much about the previous court incident.
Most of the things I can remember are related to the heroine. People like Wang Xuanfan who don’t have a close relationship with the heroine are just passing by in the book, so it’s really hard to think of all the things related to him.
However, she can confirm one thing, in the book, Wang Xuanfan was not impeached and convicted together with Cao Dingwen.
The most important thing is that Yongjia Hou impeached the two for only one crime, setting up a private gambling house and amassing money wantonly.
Other things related to the treasury case were not mentioned at all. Song Yunzhao thought about it and felt that Yongjiahou was really a smart man.
There are many people involved in the treasury case, if he starts to impeach, he will offend many people.
Hou Jian of Yongjia refers to Wang Xuanfan, seeing that Cao Jitong's position as Minister of the Household Department is about to fall, so he only dragged him into the water.
From the surface to the point, this move is well done. It can avenge her daughter without offending many people.
Privately set up gambling workshops and amassed money wantonly.
The national treasury is empty, but the minister of the household department who is in charge of the court's money bag does this kind of thing. How can the emperor not be angry?
Moreover, the evidence provided by Marquis Yongjia is very sufficient, especially the merchants who colluded with the two were thoroughly investigated. Starting from the gambling house, the owner behind it was arrested for a trial, and they were all recruited without severe punishment.
This owner is a smart man, and handed over all the letters and account books between him and Wang Xuanfan and Cao Dingwen. The gambling shop had been established as early as the time of the first emperor, and it has been more than ten years since then, and he has made hundreds of thousands of taels of profit from it.
This is just a profit from the gambling house, not to mention that the national treasury has been stripped layer by layer, Feng Yi was furious and ordered a thorough investigation.
Before, Cao Dingwen was still a Shangfeng who was concealed by the subordinate officials, but now it is hard to say, this layer of fox skin was peeled off, and his true colors were revealed.
Don't say that the emperor was furious, everyone in the court was shocked. After all, Cao Dingwen's disguise was really good. Who would have thought of it?
This layer by layer, the entire household department was almost taken over by a nest, and only one Song Nanzhen, who had just joined the job not long ago, was left alone.
What is even more unexpected is that Song Nanzhen handed over the most important secret account of the household department.
Don't say that the whole court was shocked, even Song Yunzhao was shocked.
She read it right, her father was a big deal, and a thunderbolt broke out without making a sound.
How long has it been since her father joined the household department? How could he find such an important thing?
She doesn't know anything else, she knows that when her father first joined the Ministry of Household Affairs as a doctor, he was always guarded by others. At first, she thought that her father was rejected by the Ministry of Household Affairs because of her favorite concubine.
Now that I think about it, I know what the real reason is.
Under such circumstances, her father could still get a secret account, which was beyond her imagination.
Thinking back to the fact that the emperor sent him to the household department, it makes people think deeply. Could it be that the emperor has already seen that Song Nanzhen is unusual?
Evidence is sufficient, and the emperor's decree was quick. Wang Xuanfan and Cao Dingwen were imprisoned.
Originally, the emperor had no intention of demoting Concubine Zhuang, but Concubine Zhuang pleaded for her father to kneel down and angered the emperor, so she lost her concubine position.
In just a few days, the entire palace was filled with solemnity.
Under the emperor's thunder, Song Yunzhao hid in the palace and ate melons secretly, refusing to go out even a single step, and even asked someone to send a message to Han Jinyi and the three not to come to visit. At this time, keep a low profile if you can.
After all, her father is one of the main forces in relaying Yongjiahou Gan to Wang Xuanfan and Cao Dingwen, plus she has such a daughter, the father and daughter have almost drawn all the hatred points now.
Obviously the matter was provoked by Yongjiahou, why did their father and daughter hang on the wall in the end?
Song Yunzhao couldn't figure it out, and in the end he could only blame her for being a vicious female partner.
After Concubine Zhuang was demoted, the sky of the Wang family completely collapsed. Wang Yunhua didn't really understand until now that her sister hadn't lied to her. She always thought that her sister had become a concubine, so how could she not be able to help the family? She just refused and didn't want to.
Now I know that she really can't help, the emperor will not forgive the Wang family for the sake of his sister!
Only then did Wang Yunhua realize what she had missed. She immediately dressed up and went to see Mrs. Ji. The marriage of the Ji family is now a life-saving straw!
The current atmosphere in Ji’s family is not very good. Originally, Xie’s couple wanted to come to express their thanks, but because of the sudden impeachment by Marquis Yongjia and Song Nanzhen’s relay attack, Zuo Xiang was busy cleaning himself up because of Wang Xuanfan’s downfall.
No matter what, the left minister was responsible for negligence, and he didn't go home for several days because of this matter.
Master Zuo was busy, and Song Nanzhen was also busy, so he couldn't find time to bring Xie's couple to the door to thank them, so the two families agreed to postpone the matter.
This delay waited until Wang Xuanfan fell, Cao Dingwen's house was ransacked, and nearly half of the officials from the household department were involved, especially the upper-level officials from the household department were almost emptied. When the emperor appointed Song Nanzhen as the new household secretary, the court was rarely silent.
The Prime Minister on the right did not object, his daughter asked his wife to show Song Zhaoyi the evidence, and now he can clean himself up, all thanks to his daughter's cleverness.
This time, Song Zhaoyi had a little trick in his hands. Her father's promotion was difficult for him to thwart him. Although he felt that Song Nanzhen would not be able to shoulder the big responsibility, but the future would be bright. If Song Nanzhen made any mistakes in the future, he would be rolled down from the position of Minister of the Household Department without his hands.
So, there's no need to offend anyone, is there?
The one on the right has no objection, and the one on the left has rarely objected.
Regarding the matter of Wang Xuanfan, Prime Minister Zuo knew that he had been disliked by the emperor and suspected him. Although he proved himself innocent, it was different from before.
Song Nanzhen did make a great contribution this time, but he never expected that he could join hands with Yongjiahou. At this time, the emperor was still angry, so there was no need for Prime Minister Zuo to antagonize Song Nanzhen to anger the emperor.
At this time, the thoughts of the left and right sides are amazingly consistent, and the future is long.
Shangshu Hubu, not so easy to do.
Then, Mrs. Ji is a little embarrassed at this moment. She had dismissed the Song family before, but she turned around and Song Nanzhen became the Minister of the Household Department. The six ministers are second only to the left and right ministers.
This is so bad, she felt her teeth were stuck when she drank saliva.
(end of this chapter)