Jiang Xiancao ignored Manager Miao's flattering words and the first thing he said was to tell him to get out.
Manager Miao's eyes widened. "Your Highness, even for my sister's sake, you can't..."
Jiang Xiancao directly called in the palace guards and asked them to drag away the steward Miao who refused to leave, and said in a cold voice:
"I know exactly how much money you've embezzled from the palace over the years. I won't pursue the past. I'll give you two weeks to return all the money you've embezzled from the accounts over the past two years.
Otherwise, I will personally send you to the Ministry of Justice prison!"
After Manager Miao was dragged away crying, Jiang Xiancao turned around and said to Chaoyue and Huayi, who were both in shock:
"Go tell the servants in the Man Mansion that from today on, anyone who dares to slack off and enrich themselves will be beaten with a stick if caught. Those who are greedy will be dealt with according to the laws of Dasheng and beheaded!"
"Yes, I obey your command!"
After walking out of the house, Hua Yi whispered:
"Sister Chaoyue, why do I feel that the master is very different from before?"
Chaoyue seemed to be lost in thought.
The prince gave her the feeling that he was suddenly possessed by an evil spirit.
But to be honest, the prince who was possessed by the evil spirit was much more reliable than his previous carefree appearance. She actually hoped that the prince's possession would last longer, and it would be best if he would never change back.
So she said to Huayi:
"We servants are not allowed to criticize our masters. We just need to follow their orders."
Huayi nodded seriously.
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However, it only took Jiang Xiancao three days to clean up the entire palace.
The people below were used to a comfortable life and were complaining at first, so she simply caught a few of the ringleaders and punished them in public with a stick.
Those people were being beaten and screaming, but she ordered the servants to bring chairs and drank tea beside them, smiling and saying to the other servants who were forced to watch:
“You have all heard of my reputation in the capital.
When people outside the palace see me, it's like they see their own ancestor. They don't even dare to fart in front of me.
"But you, my servants, are taking advantage of my previous indifference and acting so recklessly right under my nose. Do you really think I can't handle you?"
As she spoke, she drew out the long sword that the servant beside her had handed to her with both hands, and the cold light flashed towards everyone.
"I'm making this clear today. If anyone displeases me again, I'll chop off their head and feed it to the dogs."
After this example of killing the chicken to scare the monkey, the servants were frightened and started to do their jobs honestly. No one dared to have any thoughts of restlessness anymore.
The entire palace looks brand new.
When Jiang Jinyan and Jiang Jinyi arrived in the afternoon, they wanted to give the servants some money to get some information as usual, but they were sternly rejected by the servant of the palace who led the way.
Jiang Jinyan didn't know that it was Jiang Xiancao who had reorganized the palace, and he thought that this servant was shameless and was deliberately making trouble.
He frowned and said, "Where is your Manager Miao? Ask him to come see me."
This Manager Miao is the younger brother of Shen Tingsi's wet nurse. Previously, in order for Zhu'er to marry the Ninth Prince as a princess, the brothers secretly gave Manager Miao a lot of good things, asking Manager Miao to say a few good words for Zhu'er in front of Shen Tingsi.
Manager Miao was quite a good person. He gave them a lot of convenience when they came to the palace.
So now Jiang Jinyan feels that he is being treated coldly by the servants in the palace, so he wants to find Manager Miao to help out.
But I heard the servant say:
"Manager Miao has been expelled from the palace by the prince."
What? !
Jiang Jinyan looked at his third brother in astonishment, then frowned and asked the servant, "Why did the prince drive him away?"
The servant whispered, "It's because Manager Miao embezzled money from the palace's official account and secretly accepted bribes from outsiders. The prince said that from now on, no such traitors will be allowed to stay in the palace."
Jiang Jinyan's heart sank.
Last time, Zhu'er was seriously injured by the Ninth Prince. She had to stay with no one by her side for the past three days. He and his four younger brothers stayed with her all night long. After her condition finally stabilized, he quickly brought Jiang Jinyi to the palace to solve the case of falling into the water.
At this time, he had a silver note worth five thousand taels in his sleeve.
He had originally planned to use this banknote to bribe Manager Miao, and let this greedy and lustful fat man find a way to quietly kill the two maids held in the palace.
As a result, before he even met Manager Miao, the latter was no longer the manager of the palace.
The servant led the two to a quiet courtyard and bowed slightly, saying:
"The two witnesses are inside. Please make yourselves at ease, my lord. I will go and fetch the prince."
When the Jiang brothers walked in, they saw two maids with their hands and feet tied up and tied to a tree in the yard like dogs.
As soon as they saw him, they let out whimpering sounds from their mouths blocked by dirty cloths, and tears covered their dirty faces.
But the Jiang brothers were in no mood to pay attention to them.
Jiang Jinyi glanced at the torture rack beside them. The various torture instruments on it were still stained with the dark red blood of the last prisoner on trial, which was a shocking sight.
He lowered his voice and asked his brother, "Brother, Manager Miao can no longer be relied upon. What should we do now?"
As an official of the Ministry of Justice, he knew very well that the two maids had not confessed yet only because the Ninth Prince had not yet ordered them to be tortured.
Once the torture methods used in those big prisons were applied, even the toughest men would beg for mercy, as they simply couldn't bear it.
Jiang Jinyan's face was gloomy.
After a long silence, he said softly, "Even if they testify against Zhu'er, it doesn't mean that Zhu'er really did something she shouldn't have done."
Jiang Jinyi was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood what his brother meant.
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