In the Golden Palace, court officials were discussing the affairs of the Tu and Bu families.
Feiyuwei and Sansi acted quickly and found more and more evidence of crimes.
Emperor Yongxi's expression became increasingly ugly.
I didn’t expect that what Lian’s mother revealed was just the tip of the iceberg.
The Bu family is relatively clean, but Mrs. Bu and Bu Wendao can't escape.
The Tu family had a serious problem. They did not intend to rebel, but they embezzled several gold, silver, iron and salt mines and concealed them without reporting them.
There are thousands of acres of fertile land and countless manors and shops.
He embezzled and accepted bribes, maintained a private army of 50,000, manufactured weapons privately, had 5,000 government soldiers, trafficked in human beings, built a secret guard base, and a death squad camp.
The ministers gasped. The Tu family was too bold. Although they didn't rebel, they embezzled, built, and concealed so much. They couldn't escape the charge of rebellion.
Not to mention anything else, the fact that he secretly hoarded so many minerals is enough to convict him.
Not to mention that the Tu family was also involved in human trafficking. Many of the people in the private army, secret guards, and death squad bases were bought and trained.
There are also charges of murder and arson.
The number of guards for nobles is fixed and cannot be exceeded. There are also secret guards. It is not surprising that large families train secret guards privately.
But the Tu family had already greatly exceeded the quota and had serious problems.
Everyone knows that the Tu family is finished.
It is true that it is better to marry a virtuous wife, as can be seen from Mrs. Bu and the modern Mrs. Tu Hou.
The Tu family was considered normal before the old marquis, but after the old marquis passed away and the current Marquis Tu inherited the family property, he conspired with his wife's family to swallow up countless mineral wealth.
They did this to prevent their family from being controlled by the royal family in the future, and even if the royal family were to fall into chaos, they would be able to remain safe and sound, thus ensuring the family's prosperity for generations.
Therefore, the trafficking of human beings, the increased training of death squads, secret guards, private armies, etc. all became a natural thing.
The big family is so prosperous and intertwined that you can find many branches and leaves just by following the clues.
Even Emperor Yongxi gasped after reading the information he had found.
If it weren't for Mrs. Bei suing Mrs. Bu and implicating the Tu family, no one would have thought that the honest and peaceful Tu family had done so much in private.
Everyone thought that the Tu family had learned their lesson by standing on the wrong side during the time of Emperor Taizong and the previous emperor.
When the previous emperor came to power, he did not settle accounts with the Tu family, but only gave them a warning.
The Tu family learned their lesson, but they also did more.
If this continues for a long time, the Tu family will inevitably become a disaster for the royal family.
The angry Emperor Yongxi ordered the confiscation of property.
In addition to the Tu family and the Bu family, there are several other families in the capital.
Even imperial edicts were sent from the capital to all parts of the country, and all those related to the Tu family and Madam Bu were immediately taken under control and thoroughly investigated.
The private mines of the Tu family were also taken over and managed by people sent by Emperor Yongxi.
Overnight, the sky changed!
A large amount of gold, silver, yellow and white items were seized from the Tu family mansion, various villas and farms, and even the ancestral land.
The Tu family also owned countless money houses, pawnshops, gold shops, silver shops, iron shops, etc.
The people in the capital were in an uproar.
They even thought that if so much money could be confiscated from the Tu Hou Mansion, which had kept a low profile over the years, then wouldn't other aristocratic families have even more.
Although Emperor Yongxi enriched the national treasury and his own private coffers, he was in a very bad mood.
There are so many problems in the Tuhou Mansion. The capital is full of filth and there must be a lot of things that have not been discovered.
Even the local tyrants outside the capital are ignorant of me.
"Mrs. Bei is my lucky star."
Emperor Yongxi suddenly sighed and said that if it were not for this discovery, he would still be deceived by the false illusion of prosperity and peace created by the officials.
"The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, summons: Mrs. Tu, the wife of Grand Tutor Bu, has committed arson and murder... and has been sentenced to death!"
"Bu Wentao has committed misconduct, plotting murder..., and murdering women... The evidence is irrefutable. His status as a newly minted Jinshi will be revoked, and he will be beheaded at the Meridian Gate!"
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"The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, summons Madam Bei: For her meritorious service in the investigation, she is granted the title of Princess of Jinghua County..."
"Bu Pingping and Bu An'an were restored to their status as direct descendants of the Lin family, and were given the names Lin Chengping and Lin Cheng'an, respectively. They were both granted the title of third-class viscount..."
The titles of nobility of different surnames in Cangyue Kingdom are divided into duke, marquis, earl, viscount and baron, and some are hereditary and some are non-hereditary.
Duke, Marquis and Earl are divided into three grades each, which are super-grade titles.
[The following ranks of Viscount and Baron are made up by Tangtang, they are fictitious and not the same as history]
First rank, first-class viscount
Second rank, second-class viscount
Third rank, third-class viscount
Fourth rank, first-class baron
Fifth rank, second-class baron
Sixth rank, third-class baron
Three titles in one family.
Bei Lingyao became the Princess of Jinghua County, a super-class lady.
The two sons were given names and both received the title of third-rank third-class viscount.
After Emperor Yongxi confiscated the Tu family's property, he also returned all the land and property that had been occupied by the Lin family.
He even gave the Tuhou Mansion to the two brothers.
It can be said that the twins became rich overnight.
Bei Lingyao received a lot of rewards. Perhaps because Emperor Yongxi was rich now, the rewards were particularly generous. He also gave Bei Lingyao more than 20 palace maids and nannies, and 500 guards.
Although the mother and her two children survived the disaster and successfully sued Mrs. Bu, they even brought down the Bu and Tu families and implicated a number of big and small fish.
However, Emperor Yongxi's generous rewards also made many people envious and jealous, and they became jealous.
After the Empress Dowager learned about this, she rushed to the Taiji Palace and questioned the Yongxi Emperor who was reviewing the memorials: "Emperor, do you know what you are doing?"
"Of course I know, what's the matter, Mother?"
Emperor Yongxi has been busy these days and has not paid his respects to the Empress Dowager, but if he does not go to the Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager will come to the Taiji Palace.
No matter if he is busy or not.
Emperor Yongxi once again missed his father who passed away early. When his father was alive, although his mother loved him, she paid more attention to his father.
After his father passed away, his mother's attention shifted entirely to him. Being closely watched every day annoyed Emperor Yongxi even though he loved his biological mother.
"I still want to say something to you. Why did you grant titles to both the mother and son of the Bei family? Have you forgotten that they are Bu Puyu's wife and children? Bu Puyu is ungrateful and is colluding with the Bei family..."
"That's enough, mother. You've been saying this for years. They were drugged, and Pu Yu has been dead for years. There's no need to talk about the past."
"Why can't I bring it up again? Can being drugged erase Bu Puyuchen's act of stealing your wife and committing treason? I'm saying Bu Puyuchen is ungrateful and disloyal, so what's wrong with that?"
"And what about Mrs. Bei? How can a woman who is so fickle and unvirtuous as to be a woman be qualified to be the Princess of Jinghua County?"
"They and their spouses have made you, the emperor, a laughing stock, and yet you conferred titles upon them. How can I not be angry?"
The Queen Mother spoke a great deal, and was filled with rage and resentment.
"I do!"
Those three simple words froze the Queen Mother's slightly distorted expression on her face.
"Emperor, you are going to piss me off to death."
"I had already forgotten her. It was my mother who pushed her in front of me."
As soon as Emperor Yongxi finished speaking, the Empress Dowager's face changed drastically.
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