The matter of adopting a daughter cannot be proposed by the Liu family, whether it is Concubine Xian or General Liu.
This matter could only be brought up by Wushuang, who was pregnant with the emperor's child, so as to avoid the emperor's anger being directed at the Liu family.
But Wushuang was under house arrest, so it was quite difficult for Liu Xue to find her.
She wanted to gamble, gamble that Wushuang didn't want her in-laws to hold her back, and gamble that she also wanted a distinguished background.
When Wushuang was more than five months pregnant, Concubine Xian had not yet found an opportunity to talk to Wushuang about the matter of recognizing three adoptive fathers, but a big event happened in the previous dynasty.
The Grand Tutor was thrown into jail, and all the members of the Li family were arrested.
"What's going on?" Wushuang has been staying in Fengyi Palace obediently since she was confined to her room. Since she can't go out to the Imperial Garden for exercise, she practices prenatal yoga in her bedroom.
Of course, she spends most of her time practicing calligraphy or reading.
She could be said to be oblivious to what was happening outside and had no idea what was going on in the Li family.
"I heard that the Grand Tutor was corrupt, accepted bribes, and formed a clique for personal gain." Cuizhu cleverly explained the Grand Tutor's crimes.
"It's said that the Grand Tutor embezzled and accepted bribes, and the amount confiscated was as high as 12 million taels." Cui Zhu couldn't help but gasp as she spoke, "That's 12 million."
Their queen's monthly salary is only one thousand taels of silver. So based on her queen's current monthly salary, it would take a thousand years to get twelve million taels.
Wushuang: "Twelve million taels... is that so much?"
Wushuang also calculated her monthly salary. As a second-rank cultivator, it was already very good for her to have a monthly salary of one thousand taels.
The monthly allowance for a first-rank concubine was three thousand taels, while the monthly allowance for the queen was six thousand taels.
In fact, the concubines in the harem may want to climb up the ladder and get a higher salary, but she really didn't expect that Tutor Li could be so greedy.
"Your Majesty's treasury may not have so much money, right?" Wushuang asked with a smile.
Cuizhu nodded.
Although she was not very clear about how much money was in the national treasury, twelve million taels was really too much.
Just based on the amount of corruption, Li Taifu must be sentenced to death immediately.
As for the other members of the Li family, it depends on whether they have done anything more outrageous. In any case, they will definitely be exiled.
Wushuang smiled and said, "Didn't Concubine Li mock me before, saying that it was shameful for me to have exiled parents?"
"Now it's Concubine Li's turn to be ridiculed... Oh, maybe there will no longer be a Concubine Li." Wushuang said with a smile.
Li Xia's father was found to have embezzled such a large amount of money and formed a clique for personal gain, trying to undermine the emperor. How could Li Xia continue to be a concubine?
"Yes, Concubine Li went to His Majesty to plead for mercy after she learned that Li Taifu was imprisoned, but she was demoted to a commoner."
Cuizhu had also been bullied by the maids and nannies around Concubine Li. Now that she saw Concubine Li being demoted to a commoner, she was particularly happy.
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The downfall of Li Taifu was not just his own business; he implicated the entire Li family, and the emperor confiscated the Li family.
The embezzled 12 million taels were not only spent by Li Taifu, but also by other members of the Li family and Concubine Li in the palace.
Although the imperial concubine's monthly allowance was three thousand taels, how could Li Guifei, who came from a wealthy family, be so frugal as to spend only three thousand taels every month?
She must have gotten the money from her parents' side and continued to squander it.
Although the emperor did not favor anyone, Concubine Li had spent a lot of money over the years.
Now that Master Li is in trouble, those who squandered the money he embezzled will of course have to pay the price.
Apart from the Li family, of course, there are those who bribed Master Li.
Of course, there were many people who could give so much money to Li Taifu. After their homes were raided, the national treasury was filled a lot more.
Qin Mu looked at the confiscated property with great satisfaction, "We have the money to build the Great Qin."
He was not very poor before, but he didn't have much money in the later period of the previous emperor's reign.
After Qin Mu became emperor, he worked diligently for five years, and the treasury finally had a little money, but it had never been as rich as it is now.
Qin Mu was very happy. With the fall of Li Taifu and the fullness of the national treasury, he could be considered to have done a good thing for the Qin Dynasty with his own life.
Of course, the evil things he did after accepting bribes could not offset the "good things" he did by filling the national treasury.
"Your Majesty, what should be done with the imperial concubine... no, the commoner Li?" Su Bai asked cautiously.
"...Will she be sent to the cold palace?"
Qin Mu said, "Send him into exile with the rest of the Li family."
He had never touched Li Xia, and he had no intention of keeping his woman in the palace even if she was demoted.
If he kept Li Xia in the cold palace, he would have to pay for her support and someone to look after her, which was also an expense.
Moreover, Li Xia had squandered the money her father had embezzled. Now she was exiled like her family, which could be considered as atonement.
Su Bai was somewhat surprised that his Majesty would make such a decision.
Oh my God, the concubine’s family was exiled after their property was confiscated. It’s so tragic.
Who will dare to become your majesty's concubine in the future?
Qin Mu didn't care about that.
He didn't care whether or not someone would harm other concubines in the future because he had set a precedent by having concubines be exiled along with their families.
Anyway, it is impossible for him to support Li Xia, so he should let her "reunite" with her family.
So Li Xia was demoted to a commoner and deprived of all the treatment of a palace concubine. When she thought she would live in the cold palace for a long time and would die there, she was sent out into exile with her family.
Tutor Li and those who gave him large sums of money were sentenced to immediate execution, and the rest of the Li family were exiled.
Qin Mu even asked the other members of the Li family to watch the execution of Li Taifu before allowing them to leave the capital and go to the place of exile.
Qin Mu understood what it meant to kill someone and destroy their heart.
harem.
"Li was sent out of the palace and exiled with her family?" Concubine Xian was also shocked after hearing the news.
Their Majesty was so cruel that he could even exile the woman who had been his woman for several years without mercy.
So what about her?
Your Majesty has never touched her. If something happens to her or her family, will she be exiled like Li Xia?
The virtuous concubine was extremely frightened, and she quickly wrote a letter back to her parents' home, asking her father to be careful and not to be arrogant and provoke the emperor by thinking that he was a good fighter.
Don't be too arrogant, don't have any other thoughts, and most importantly, don't get her exiled.
Except for the virtuous concubine Liu Xue, the other seven concubines including Wang Zhaoyi, Xu Zhaorong, Gao Zhaoyuan... were all frightened and hurriedly told their families not to cause trouble.
But they forgot that Li Taifu did not embezzle 12 million taels overnight. It was accumulated over a long period of time.
So when they warned their natal families, their natal families had actually already done something that would have resulted in them being punished if they were caught.
So, during the time when Wushuang was nominally under house arrest but actually was pregnant, all the concubines got into trouble.
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