[They didn't do anything wrong! Even the stone lions at the entrance of their house are completely innocent!]
Chuanwen quickly flipped through the document and found that not only did he not find any wrongdoing by the Vice Minister of Revenue, but he also did not dig up any dark history of him. It can be said that the Vice Minister of Revenue is a truly self-disciplined and courteous person!
That can't be!
The emperor was a little skeptical. He used to think that his ministers were all talented and useful people. Even if they weren't talented, they were at least upright gentlemen who kept to their duties. But after Chuanwen's revelation, his idealized image of his ministers was shattered. Where were any of these ministers normal?
Therefore, he did not believe that the Vice Minister of Revenue must have hidden scandals that Chuanwen had not uncovered. How could there be any normal people among his officials?
【Wait a minute! Something's not right!】
The emperor was somewhat disappointed upon hearing the report that the emperor had discovered something. "Just as I thought," he thought, "none of my ministers are normal!" But why was he also somewhat relieved at the same time? It seemed that it was actually normal for his ministers to be abnormal!
The emperor, realizing this, was devastated!
Upon hearing Chuanwen's thoughts, the Vice Minister of Revenue, who had been relieved, tensed up. He shouldn't have any scandals!
The others were secretly relieved, thinking, "Oh my god! There was almost a normal person among us!"
They almost all have some kind of scandal, how could the Vice Minister of Revenue not have one! Hehe! Sure enough, he does have one, now the Emperor will treat them all equally, otherwise he would favor the Vice Minister of Revenue!
The Vice Minister of Revenue got ripped off! The stone lions in front of his house are hollow, not the kind that the seller claimed weighed a certain amount of weight! And they're just ordinary stone, not the special kind that won't crack even after being exposed to wind and sun!
......
What else? What else?
The emperor and other officials, who were still waiting for the next article, were all stunned for a moment, but the article did not contain any more information about the Vice Minister of Revenue's thoughts, because there was really no more gossip.
I was expecting to hear that the Vice Minister of Revenue's concubine had an affair, or that his son or daughter had made a secret engagement, or that the Vice Minister himself had some kind of hidden illness!
But none of them were true!
However, the stone lions at the entrance of his house are made of ordinary stone and are hollow!
What kind of dirt is this?! It's not even enough to mock the Vice Minister of Revenue!
A scene flashed through the mind of the Vice Minister of Personnel: the Vice Minister of Revenue pointing his finger at him and mocking him for being envied because his family kept a dancer. Then, that person seized on his dark skin to spread rumors that he wasn't his father's biological son, but rather the offspring of a butcher at the city gate and his mother. And all he could do was point his finger at the other man and mock him for having hollow stone lions at his gate!
Waaaaah! Just thinking about it makes me realize I can't out-mock them!
The Vice Minister of Revenue belatedly realized that this explained why the stone lions in front of his house had been blown down by the wind once; they weren't that heavy at all, they were hollow!
Emperor: Cough! Although he was tricked into buying a fake stone lion, the Vice Minister of Revenue is still one of the more normal ones among the abnormal officials!
The Emperor's favoritism towards the Vice Minister of Revenue has returned. My dear minister! I will make good use of you!
[By the way, the merchant who swindled the Vice Minister of Revenue was actually the son of the godfather of the concubine of the Vice Minister of Personnel's maternal uncle! That son had even given the Vice Minister of Personnel gifts before!]
Since Chuanwen couldn't find any gossip with the Vice Minister of Revenue, he turned his attention to the swindler.
The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue were riding in the same carriage. They were startled and looked at the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, where they saw him grinding his teeth.
The other people in the car quietly stepped back, making way for the two of them.
[Hahaha! That son not only tricked the Vice Minister of Revenue with a hollow lion, but also the Vice Minister of Works with a hollow artificial mountain, the Minister of Justice with a hollow stone slab, and Xu Yunfei with a hollow stone beam, and so on...]
There's a long list of others who were also harmed by that son!
emperor:......
Are his officials stupid? Why are they all buying from the son of the Vice Minister of Personnel? Wait, no, no, not the Vice Minister of Personnel's son, but some distant, haphazard adopted son of the Vice Minister of Personnel, huh? Not the Vice Minister of Personnel's adopted son, but his godfather's son? Oh well, whatever!
Cracks soon appeared in the hollow artificial hill, and the cracks grew larger and larger until they were wide enough for a person to pass through. The Vice Minister of Works and his concubine would crawl and play inside, and once the Vice Minister of Works' big buttocks even got stuck...
The silence of the Vice Minister of Works was deafening. He recalled the time when his buttocks got stuck and he couldn't get out, which alarmed many people. In the end, he was kicked out by his wife. He blushed to the point of bleeding!
The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel's hatred value increased by 1!
The emperor frowned and sighed deeply. "How could my upright and dutiful ministers have all become such despicable people?"
The Minister of Justice wanted to build a small bridge over his pond, but he used hollow stone slabs. After walking on them for a while, one night, inspired by poetry, he decided to go to the pond to look at the moon. He slipped and fell, the stone slab broke, and he got stuck on the bridge. Everyone else went to sleep, and the Minister of Justice got to enjoy the moon all night long!
The story is hilarious! [The next day, after the Minister of Justice was rescued, he caught a cold, and because he'd been choked all night, his little brother was almost ruined! Hahaha!]
emperor:......
The way they looked at Chuanwen was as if she were a weirdo. Watch your step, you're an unmarried woman!
Marquis Changxing and Chuanrui Xu Yan in the carriage behind had already covered their faces. What kind of freak had they raised?!
Wei Xiang, who was driving with Wen Xue, glanced at her. Everyone basically knew that the Minister of Justice was Wen Xue's uncle after the Lei Wang Temple incident, so Wen Xue wanted to disappear into the ground at this moment.
The Vice Minister of Personnel's hatred level has increased by another 1!
Hollow stone beam...
Xu Wuyou, who was riding his horse outside, shuddered. It was his turn!
[Xu Yunfei built a pavilion, but one time when he invited Grandpa Zhang to the pavilion, the stone beam collapsed. Luckily, Xu Yunfei was very agile, so neither of them was injured! However, Xu Yunfei thought there was an earthquake, so he carried Grandpa Zhang for two miles before realizing that his wife and son were still at home! Hahahaha!]
Xu Yunfei endured the scrutiny of his subordinates, trying his best to maintain a normal expression.
However, Marquis Changxing had a question: did this incident occur before or after General Xu read the Chuanwu illustrated book? But it seems it doesn't matter anymore. General Xu, so you and Grandpa Zhang, oh no! Prime Minister Zhang, were the true lovers! It turns out everything was traceable! No wonder General Xu loved reading Chuanwu's illustrated books about the domineering love of powerful ministers based on Prime Minister Zhang!
The officials were all stunned. Good heavens! Could the pairing of the general and the powerful minister that Chuanwen was shipping be real?!
If Chuanwen were to look up at this moment, he would see the emperor's twitching lips. The emperor was about to kill someone. A black-hearted merchant had exposed so many of his ministers' dirty secrets and scandals!
Come, come! The emperor sits on a magnificent horse, I am already fearless, is there anything more explosive, I can handle it!
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