If some of the charges were fabricated to frame the Xingyuan Marquisate, then she would have no way to verify them, otherwise it would just be a waste of time.
Just when she was in distress, a shocking case that once shocked the entire Great Zhou Dynasty suddenly emerged from the depths of Hong Yingrong's memory, like the dawn illuminating the darkness.
"The Longxi million-dollar military pay robbed!"
At that time, the imperial court decided to rebuild the two key border defense walls of Jiayu and Shanhai. This important task fell on the shoulders of the two counties of Jiangnan and Shaanxi-Gansu.
The two counties jointly raised one million taels of silver, which was transported to the border by the official silver office in the capital to build the city wall.
However, when passing through Longxi County, the one million silver coins were hijacked.
This incident shocked the court and the public. His Majesty Li Longze was furious. From the official silver office in the capital to the county government offices in various prefectures and counties where the silver was escorted, accountability swept in like a storm. In this turmoil, more than 70 officials above the fifth rank were executed.
Among them, all twenty officials of the Official Silver Office were sentenced to death for their poor performance, and no one was spared.
Although this case had nothing to do with the Xingyuan Marquis Mansion, Jiang Shuxiu's family could not escape this disaster.
Her third uncle Jiang Wenbai, as the head of the official silver office, naturally could not escape blame.
What is even more regrettable is that Jiang Wenbai's son Jiang Lun, Jiang Shuxiu's cousin, had originally ranked second in the imperial examination and had a bright future, but because of this incident, he was stripped of his title and exiled to the distant Lingnan.
Hong Yingrong felt deeply sorry about this at the time.
Originally, the Xue and Jiang families had agreed that as soon as Jiang Lun graduated from high school, he would marry his eldest daughter Xue Huichun and live happily ever after.
However, this sudden change made the marriage come to nothing.
If the robbery had not happened at that time, Xue Huichun would have married into the Jiang family long ago, and she would not have been ordered to marry into a foreign country in the West, with her life and death in danger.
Thinking of this, Hong Yingrong clenched her fists tightly, feeling extremely angry.
Who on earth dared to commit such a heinous crime as robbing government silver?
As a woman, she naturally could not guess the power behind this, nor could she interfere or obstruct it.
But Hong Yingrong has decided to do her best to remind His Majesty to be more vigilant before the official silver is shipped out of the capital this autumn, and to find a way to ensure that Jiang Wenbai can escape from this turmoil safely and avoid unnecessary disaster.
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