Chapter 355 Take Down
The old man was panicked and angry: "You are just speaking for her because you have received benefits from the palace! Didn't you see how cruel she was in punishing her servants? She is just a jealous and vicious woman!"
The woman also screamed: "Get out of the way, we are going to report to the police and seek justice for my son."
But several people were held down by Mu's army and could not move.
Gu Huan smiled and said, "Stop making a fuss. Someone will be coming to the government office soon. If you want to report to the official, do it in person. Otherwise, you might get hoarse from shouting and be speechless when you see the official."
The old man looked flustered. "You officials protect each other, and of course the Juzhou government will listen to the Yongwang Mansion. Who will redress the grievances for my poor daughter? We are going to file a complaint with the emperor in the capital."
"I have never colluded with anyone, and Prince Yong's Mansion has always been fair and impartial."
With a loud shout, Wu Qiming rushed over with a group of yamen runners.
Wu Qiming led the crowd to salute Gu Huan first, then turned around and looked at the group of troublemakers.
"Are you Yin Tao's family?"
The old man stammered and the others shrank like quails.
The bailiff shouted, "Tell me! Is it or is it not?"
Seeing that the situation was not good, the old man knelt down on the ground and said, "My Lord, I was deceived. I don't know Yin Tao. Someone said that my daughter was sold to the palace and became a concubine, so I came to look for her."
Zhou Zhilan snorted coldly: "Nonsense. Just now you said that your daughter is Yin Tao, and because she mentioned the title of aunt, I wanted to take a look. There is a signature as proof."
Gu Huan ordered: "Show it to the adults."
Wu Qiming finished reading it and his face darkened. "You are such a scoundrel! What nonsense! I have seen the slave registration of Yin Tao when she entered the government. Both her parents are dead and she has no relatives at home. Besides, you are only thirty years old and Yin Tao is nineteen. Did you give birth to her when you were eleven? What about the household registration book after you gave birth to the baby girl? Can you produce it?"
He glanced at the other men and women coldly and said, "Whether you are a family or not, we can tell by checking the household registration. Come on, take all of you back to the government office for a thorough investigation."
The old man was so frightened that his face turned pale. He kowtowed vigorously and said, "Sir, someone gave me money to defraud the palace. I beg you to have mercy on me."
Wu Qiming waved his hand: "If you dare to cheat the palace, you should be executed immediately according to the law!"
The old man and a group of people were so scared that they collapsed on the ground, howling like ghosts.
Wu Qiming was too lazy to talk nonsense: "Take him away immediately."
The onlookers were in an uproar.
At this time, the nanny who had just carried out the execution and a maid came out.
Someone pointedly shouted, "Hey, that maid wasn't beaten."
"I told you, how could Princess Yong do such a thing?"
"Ah, so it was to trick these bad guys."
"The princess is wise."
"That's right. Princess Yong is both virtuous and talented. How can she allow anyone to slander her?"
Gu Huan called Wu Qiming and said, "Sir Wu, we just found out that Yin Tao was poisoned to death. Please send someone to the mansion to take a look."
Wu Qiming nodded: "I brought the coroner here just to take a look."
Gu Huan personally led Wu Qiming into the main gate of the mansion, but Wu Qiming hurriedly stopped her and said, "Princess, go and have a rest. Leave the rest to me."
Gu Huan nodded and whispered, "Leave the bookstore owner and the waiter behind. The others can be arrested first and wait for the prince to make the decision."
Wu Qiming responded: "Okay, I understand."
After Yin Tao's body was examined by the coroner, it was quickly carried away.
Gu Huan thought for a while, took out a letter from Bian Jing and handed it to Zhou Zhilan.
"Take a look at this letter and see what you think."
Zhou Zhilan opened it and was shocked: "A letter from Zhao Chufei to you? She doesn't want to be the Crown Princess?"
"Well, I have always been skeptical. But I have met Zhao Chufei, this girl is a talented and thoughtful person. Ziyuan and Mr. Min have analyzed that with the dethronement of the eldest prince, Zhao Cuizhu shaved her head and became a nun. But Jingwen Hou was not affected at all and is still the most stable one among the royal relatives.
Moreover, as the prime minister, he was mainly in charge of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue, and the two major powers were firmly in his hands. As long as he doesn't favor anyone, it doesn't matter even if the emperor is critically ill. This is also one of the reasons why the court could still function normally even though it was messed up by Empress Sun. ”
Gu Huan: "She wrote me this letter because she wanted me to help her. But I have been hesitant. After all, the imperial power is unpredictable. If you make a wrong choice, you may be doomed."
Zhou Zhilan nodded: "Be careful, what if she is testing you?"
Gu Huan thought for a moment and said, "I still need to try to get a handle on the capital. I'll write another letter to Zhao Chufei to find out her background."
After discussing with Zhou Zhilan, she decided on the content and personally wrote a letter of confession to the Queen.
She said that she had not taken good care of the beauty sent by the Queen, allowing criminals to sneak into the mansion and poison Yin Tao to death, and asked the Queen to punish her.
He wrote another letter to Zhao Chufei, firstly to persuade her that it would be a great thing to become a queen in the future, and secondly to ask her the reason in a friend's tone.
Putting down the pen, Gu Huan breathed a sigh of relief.
I can finally have a good sleep.
The next day, Wu Qiming personally found out the truth about Yin Tao's death, wrote a memorial, and sent it to the capital together with Gu Huan's letter of apology.
The memorial said that Yin Tao had become a concubine in the royal palace and behaved domineeringly. She had an argument with a female flower grower over the issue of hairpins and insulted the female flower grower and threatened to beat her to death. The female flower grower held a grudge, so she bought arsenic and smeared it on her own wooden hairpin. She deliberately let Yin Tao touch it while she was working in the palace, causing her to be poisoned and die.
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When the Queen saw Gu Huan's letter of apology and then looked at Wu Qiming's memorial, she was so angry that she tore up the letter of apology and the memorial.
"Bullshit! Do you think I'm easy to fool?"
Crown Prince Zhao Yuxuan just walked in and was startled when he saw this.
"Mother, what's wrong?"
The queen didn't want him to know these things, so she tried to calm down and asked, "What's the matter?"
Zhao Yuxuan said, "Mother, a memorial was submitted to the south that Yongzhou, Gongzhou, and Xiangzhou were all hit by severe rain and floods. In order to rescue Yongzhou, Prince Yong brought the Mu family army to help, but inadvertently saved a group of officials who were wrongly accused by the Jiang family. One of them was the governor of Gongzhou. He was an expert in flood control, so Prince Yong took him to Gongzhou to help with the disaster relief."
“Nonsense!”
The queen was furious.
"The imperial court has its own disaster relief department. Why should Prince Yong go? He is not doing disaster relief, he is just trying to win people's hearts!"
Zhao Yuxuan was nervous: "Ah? Mother, what should we do? They are recruiting soldiers and winning over people's hearts at the same time. What if, what if he has the intention of rebellion?"
Seeing his useless appearance, Empress Sun could not help but angrily said, "Why are you panicking? As the crown prince, the future emperor, you should be calm! Solve problems when they arise. How will the ministers look at you if they see you being so cowardly? Don't forget that you haven't ascended the throne yet!"
Zhao Yuxuan didn't dare to speak.
Empress Sun took a few deep breaths to calm herself down, and then ordered the female officials around her, "Please invite Prince Cheng to the palace as soon as possible."
Prince Cheng is now the Prime Minister, so he is naturally the first to see the memorials from all sides. He also knows what has happened and is discussing countermeasures with his trusted aides in the palace.
Upon hearing that the Queen had summoned him, he immediately entered the palace with two aides.
"We have discussed it. Now the only way is to let the prince win the hearts of the people first. Even if Mu Junyan wants to win the hearts of the people, it is not legitimate. If he dares to rebel, the world will spurn him, and the ministers in the court will not support him. Even if he leads the Mu family army to attack Bianjing, he will not be able to withstand such a long front. At that time, we will immediately gather troops from all over the country to suppress the rebellious bandits and encircle and suppress them."
The Queen frowned: "Father wants the Crown Prince to go to provide disaster relief? But he is getting married soon."
"The wedding can be postponed, but disaster relief is urgent. Besides, we can spread the word that the prince would rather not get married and go to provide disaster relief for the sake of the people of the world. Isn't that the best reason?"
The queen looked relaxed after hearing this.
"Well, that's a very good reason."
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