Isn’t it?
Isn't it the winners who show off in front of the losers?
The corners of Emperor Mingguang's lips curled up in a hint of sarcasm. "My treasury is out of money."
So, what does it have to do with him?
Prince Rong filled his glass with wine and drank it all in one gulp.
"The wealth left to you by the late emperor can save my people for three years. Compared to the whole world, which is more important, you or me?"
Prince Rong looked up suddenly, a look of surprise in his eyes.
His death was not because he sheltered his son from treason, but because he was guilty of possessing a treasure?
How ridiculous...
Prince Rong laughed out loud, tears streaming down his face, laughing out the pain and sadness of the past six months.
"Just because I'm rich enough to rival a nation, you used Jiang Xuqing as a pretext to take my life, confiscate my property, seize my power, and then take my son's life?"
What's the difference between this and eating up the entire family?
Moreover, he still had sons. Even without Ye Changge, he still had many sons. With them around, he wouldn't starve to death. There was no need to eat the whole family.
Ye Weikan, you are so cruel.
Prince Rong gave a wry smile, not caring at all that the swaying wine in the cup flowed out of his hand and soaked his prisoner uniform.
"Brother, why did I have to be born into a royal family?"
If he was just a marquis, no, even if he was a scholar, it would be better than having his power and property seized by the emperor, right?
Emperor Mingguang sneered, "How good do you think it will be to be a peasant whom you despise, with your back to the earth and your face to the sky every day?"
Yes. Anyway, in the end, it comes down to one sentence: Born in hardship, die in comfort.
I have enjoyed my life so much and have no regrets.
Prince Rong smiled and poured himself another glass of wine, then said calmly, "Where are they?"
His ending won't be any better than his.
Emperor Mingguang said, "Don't worry, they are all behind you. Walk slowly, they will come to find you."
"That's fine, that's fine."
He finished the wine in his hand with a smile, and felt a cramp in his abdomen.
While he was still conscious, Prince Rong said, "Brother, I want to see the Queen Mother."
Emperor Mingguang responded and left the cell.
Fu Yao followed and asked, "Your Majesty, what should be done with the other people in Prince Rong's Mansion?"
Emperor Mingguang frowned and said slowly, "Pass on my oral order. Princess Rong is sentenced to death with a white silk scarf for failing to raise her son properly. The rest of the people in the Rong Palace shall be beaten to death."
With just one sentence, he deprived the lives of 562 people in Prince Rong's Mansion. The emperor was truly ruthless.
As for the suspects Ye Changge, Yang Zhiming and others, it was easier to deal with them. The final result of the discussion between the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice was that the main culprit Ye Changge was subjected to lingchi, and Yang Zhiming, as his follower, was also subjected to lingchi, and all the people in the Yang family were executed along with their entire clan.
The Prince of Nanping's Mansion also suffered the same fate as the Prince of Rong's Mansion and was beaten to death.
All property was confiscated, and just counting the money took the Ministry of Revenue five days of work. The Minister of Revenue's hands cramped from counting the money, and he happily slept with the money in his arms, truly overjoyed.
The silver that the Guangrong Palace had earned was worth hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, not including income from land, shops, and other real estate.
The property of Prince Rong’s Mansion is enough for the people of Dayan to live for three years.
The Ministry of Revenue then diligently counted the property of the Nanping County Prince's Mansion and found that it was even more than that. The total amount exceeded 500,000 taels of silver, enough for the people of Dayan to live for two years.
After receiving the money, Emperor Mingguang first asked the Ministry of Revenue to pay off the arrears of military pay, and allocated money to the Ministry of War to research weapons such as muskets.
Just make up for any other shortfalls. This money is enough to deal with the urgent needs.
When counting the number of people in the prison, Fu Yao discovered an unimportant person - Tian Wan'er.
She was not Ye Changge's person so she could not convict him, but she could not let him go because she had accepted his benefits.
Fu Yao threw the problem to Emperor Mingguang.
Emperor Mingguang was quite interested in the winner of the fight between two men for one woman. After summoning her, he didn't know how Tian Wan'er managed to stay in the palace and become a beauty in the harem.
Tian Wan'er was heartbroken when she heard Ye Changge was sentenced to death by slicing, but in an era where the emperor's orders were more important than heaven, she could do nothing. She could only wait until she gave birth to the emperor's son before avenging Ye Changge.
Unexpectedly, after serving the emperor for one night, she was given sterilization drugs and could no longer have children.
Although the emperor doted on her, he was just trying to get her to speak to him in a coherent way. Not only did he try to get everything she had learned from her, he was also very stingy with his rewards.
She worked hard for five years but only managed to reach the position of Chongrong.
On the other hand, Jiang Xuqing, the corrupt official who had punished him before, has now become the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
That’s right, Xu Jing was promoted again less than five years after he was transferred to the post of Gusu prefect.
During his five years in Suzhou, Xu Jing had completely eradicated the corruption problem in Jiangnan, eliminating all corrupt officials. His outstanding performance left no room for error.
Xu Jing also discovered several hidden Confucian scholars in Jiangnan, and persuaded two of them to go to Jianzhou to support Jin Zhubu and others.
Subsequently, within three years of handling government affairs, Jianzhou produced five Juren.
The newly arrived prefect of Jianzhou got a great bargain. Not only was he promoted, but the county magistrate Lin, who had been idle for a long time, was also promoted to the magistrate of Changkang County.
County Magistrate Lin rushed from the north to the south to pay a visit to the Suzhou prefect Jiang Xuqing.
It had been three years since the two met again. Seeing him again, County Magistrate Lin was filled with mixed emotions.
Tears started flowing before he could say anything. Xu Jing couldn't bear it anymore and asked Bai Shinian to comfort the people for a while, and then brainwashed County Magistrate Lin to start the corruption.
Xu Jing had an unexpected gain when he came to Suzhou, which was that he met his elder brother, County Magistrate Jiang of Kunshan.
Brother Jiang felt mixed emotions when he saw his fourth brother, whom he used to look down upon, become the prefect of Suzhou.
Mom is really holding him back.
She probably didn't expect that her fourth brother, whom she had made so miserable, would become the most promising son in the Jiang family.
Even if my mother is angry, she should be angry.
However, this is not the most amazing thing.
When Jiang Wangshi learned from Mr. Jiang Sanye that the Jingzhou prefect intended to marry his daughter to Jiang Xuqing, she immediately became unhappy.
Influenced by the scandal that year, the second son married a shrewish woman who made the family restless all day long.
After finally getting the girl divorced and bringing her home, before she could even catch her breath, the son raised by that bitch actually got a huge advantage. How could she bear this?
So she pretended to agree to the marriage, and then exchanged her second son's birth date and time with Jiang Xuqing's name.
Prefect Chen didn't even look at it carefully and agreed happily.
It wasn't until the bride married into the capital that her family felt something was wrong.
Jiang Xuqing was clearly in Gusu, so why did his bride go to the capital?
Only when the matter was already done did they learn from people in the capital that it was Chen Jiaojiao who married Jiang Xuchi, not Jiang Xuqing.
This made Prefect Chen extremely angry, and he immediately wrote a memorial to impeach the Jiang family for marriage fraud.
After investigation, the emperor's men found out that it was Jiang Wangshi who interfered and disrupted the marriage.
The emperor valued talents and could not bear to blame the victim Jiang Xuqing, so he could only vent his anger on Mr. Jiang Sanye.
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