When Grand Secretary Gu arrived in Baiyang County, the price of grain rose to 300 wen per dou within three days, and to 400 or 500 wen within eight days!
He also posted notices and signed contracts everywhere, promising to kill anyone who paid less than three hundred coins!
A barrage of condemnations ensued, with verbal attacks filling the entire court!
Even though Grand Secretary Liu and Xie Anfeng wanted to speak up for Gu Shaoyu, they couldn't get a word in edgewise.
The impeachment memorial was not submitted by Wei Jingzhong's faction, nor by the Crown Prince's faction, but by the infamous Qin Erlengzi.
Magistrate Qin was originally ranked first in the second class of the imperial examination, but due to his upright character, he was transferred to Baiyang County in Zizhou, where he served for ten years.
The report he submitted was absolutely credible.
Both the Wei faction and the Crown Prince's faction desperately tried to impeach Gu Shaoyu.
Immediately afterwards, another memorial came in: Gu Shaoyu was unable to obtain disaster relief grain or lower grain prices, and had inexplicably confiscated the property and exterminated the entire clan of a wealthy man, directly seizing the grain from his rich household.
They not only robbed the grain, but also murdered the entire family to cover it up.
This is simply the greatest villain in history.
The impeachment memorials were falling like snowflakes, almost burying Emperor Hui.
Emperor Hui had many lice but didn't mind the itch; the beggar Sheng piled up his memorials one by one.
When people impeached him, he simply said, "Stop talking, where's the memorial?"
As people presented their reports, he continued to stack them high.
Even the beggar Sheng took a ruler to measure how tall he was.
"People say that his writings are as tall as a person. If the memorials impeaching Grand Secretary Gu could also be as tall as a person, it would be unprecedented and unparalleled. It would be a great achievement."
However, I remember he was over six feet tall, but the impeachment memorial he submitted is less than three feet tall. It's far from that. Keep writing, and make sure to wait until he returns so we can compare the height of the memorial to his own.”
The ministers were dumbfounded: ......
Your Majesty, are you being kind?
Those impeachment memorials were written by us, racking our brains and working late into the night, stroke by stroke.
Isn't that enough?
Your Majesty: That's not enough! Keep writing for me! Write as much as you can, as much as you can, until you die!
The Wei faction and the Crown Prince's faction were both furious: Why should we be asked to write impeachment memorials?
We've spent ten years studying hard and another ten years scheming and plotting, only to write an impeachment memorial for Gu Shaoyu and set a record.
He's worked himself bald from exhaustion, and the memorials he writes are only good enough to measure his height?
You still want us to write? Don't you know that the more you talk, the more mistakes you make, and the more loopholes you create?
I'm not writing anymore, I absolutely won't write anymore, unless you issue an imperial decree to dismiss Grand Secretary Gu from his post, flog him, imprison him, and confiscate his property and destroy his family!
Otherwise, we will resolutely refuse to do unpaid labor that is thankless and laborious!
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