Chapter 87 This is my private money

"Is this the token of the alliance between Lord Xiao and Khan Dahua?" Xia Zhengqi picked up the box and showed it to Wang Deguang and the deputy commander.

"This..." The deputy commander took a look at the contents of the wooden box and his face turned pale instantly.

Wang Deguang lowered his head uneasily.

Xia Zhengqi slowly took out the things in the wooden box one by one and placed them on the table.

Xia Miaoyuan turned over and sat up, looking hard at the table.

He saw a stack of small-denomination banknotes and a few small coins.

[These are what are in the box? ! ]

Xia Miaoyuan was surprised.

[Is it worth using such a high-end padlock to lock up this little money? 】

"Your Majesty, this is actually me..." Xiao Licheng looked up at Xia Zhengqi with embarrassment on his face.

Xia Zhengqi raised his eyes: "Master Xiao, please speak frankly. When did you become so fussy?"

"This is actually the private money I saved." Xiao Licheng said with his head down.

"What? Private money?! Hahahaha!" Xia Zhengqi couldn't help laughing.

[No way, uncle, when did you develop the habit of hiding private money? ! ]

Xia Miaoyuan's brain was spinning rapidly, but she really couldn't think of any plot in the book about Xiao Licheng being controlled by his wife and hiding private money.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. But there is nothing we can do about it. My wife is very strict about the expenses in the house, and she is even more strict about my pocket money."

"I was forced to do this..." Xiao Licheng stammered.

"Lord Wang, what do you say?" Xia Zhengqi put away his smile and asked Wang Deguang in a stern voice.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. Your Majesty, please forgive me. I may have made a mistake." Wang Deguang knelt in front of Xia Zhengqi with a thud, his voice trembling.

"What?! Treason is a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of your clan, and you want to get away with it just by saying you made a mistake?" Xia Zhengqi's tone was filled with the oppression of the emperor's majesty.

"Your Majesty, spare my life, Your Majesty, spare my life!" Wang Deguang kowtowed like crazy.

Xiao Licheng straightened his back and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Lord Wang has nothing to say now, but I have something to report now."

Xia Zhengqi stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation: "Lord Xiao was almost wrongly accused, please say whatever you want."

"I want to impeach Wang Deguang, the Minister of the Dali Temple, for corruption and abuse of power. He also had evil intentions and planted spies in my house and poisoned my wife." Xiao Licheng stared at Wang Deguang with his eyes full of hatred.

[Wow! Uncle finally figured it out! He finally impeached his lousy boss. 】

"I didn't do that. I am innocent. These are all fabricated by Lord Xiao in revenge." Wang Deguang was busy explaining to himself when he heard Xiao Licheng impeaching him.

After Xiao Licheng finished speaking in a sonorous and powerful voice, he took out a memorial from his arms, held it with both hands, and showed it to Xia Zhengqi.

Xia Zhengqi's eyes lit up when he heard it. He took the memorial on the spot and read it twice in a row.

"Someone come here!" Xia Zhengqi shouted.

"Kidnap Lord Wang and take him to the Dali Temple jail. Then arrest Zhang Xiaoya and Zhang Dashan from the Xiao Mansion and throw them into the jail for strict interrogation!"

"Your Majesty... don't arrest me! I am really innocent!" Wang Deguang kept shouting, and two tall and strong guards lifted him up on the left and right and dragged him away.

At this time, the deputy commander of the imperial guards, who was originally sitting on the side, was so scared that he knelt on the ground and trembled.

"Your Majesty, I listened to Lord Wang's instructions. He said that the evidence was in a gilded box. I mistakenly thought it was the evidence." The deputy commander cried.

"Your Majesty, please judge!"

[Hahaha! It's still the deputy commander of the imperial guards. It's funny that he is so stupid. ]

[As for you, a idiot deputy commander, you rose up little by little by giving gifts to your superiors, and after a long time, you were promoted to the position of deputy commander. ]

[Alas, Daxia has a deputy commander like you, which is really a mistake for the country. ]

[I remember in the book, when the Liang army attacked the capital, you commanded the battle, which was simply stupid. They easily broke through the capital. ]

[When you saw the city was broken, you were so scared that you abandoned thousands of brothers in the imperial guards and ran away. In the end, in order to save your life, you took the initiative to surrender. ]

[Tsk tsk tsk tsk, you really disgraced Daxia! ]

What? This deputy commander of the imperial guards, Liu Baoquan, turned out to be such a scum!

Xia Zhengqi listened to his daughter's voice, looked at the deputy commander kneeling in front of him, and was so angry that his teeth itched.

He originally planned to deduct half a year's salary from him, but he couldn't let him off easily this time.

"Liu Baoquan, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards!" Xia Zhengqi said sternly.

"You colluded with Wang Deguang and helped him to bear false witness, which is a crime of deceiving the emperor. Imprison him in the Dali Temple and be executed in the autumn!"

[Wow, Daddy is mighty! Daddy is domineering! Daddy is wise! Such greedy and cowardly villains in the Imperial Guards should be eliminated as soon as possible, so as to improve the military strength of our Great Xia.]

Xia Miaoyuan clapped his hands excitedly.

The deputy commander immediately collapsed to the ground, as if he had lost his soul, and a foul-smelling liquid overflowed from under him.

[Oh my god, the deputy commander peed his pants! He is really a coward. 】

Two guards dragged him out.

Then, Xia Zhengqi looked at Xiao Licheng again: "My dear, I appoint you as the Minister of Dali Temple. You will search Wang Deguang's house and count his property! You will be fully responsible for investigating his case."

"I obey your order!" Xiao Licheng responded loudly.

Half a month passed in a flash.

Because Xiao Licheng had been paying attention to investigating the evidence of Wang Deguang's crimes during the years he served in Dali Temple, and because a huge amount of property was seized from Wang Deguang's mansion, Wang Deguang's crime of embezzlement and abuse of power was soon confirmed.

The difficulty was to find evidence that he was a spy for the Liang State.

Wang Deguang was very stubborn. No matter how he was interrogated, he would never admit that he worked for the Liang State.

Later, it was Xiao Licheng who made a breakthrough from Zhang Xiaoya and Zhang Dashan and found out that they were spies.

Following the clues provided by the Zhang brothers and sisters, Xiao Licheng also destroyed two contact points of the Liang State spies and arrested several minor characters.

As for the important spies planted in Daxia, the Zhang brothers and sisters were too low-ranking to know about it, and Wang Deguang kept silent.

Xia Zhengqi had no choice but to order the extermination of Wang Deguang's nine clans and the killing of the Zhang brothers and sisters.

However, through the exposure of Wang Deguang, the spy, Xia Zhengqi suddenly realized that the remnant forces of the Liang State, which he had always ignored, had developed so terrifyingly without realizing it.

It was late autumn, and the weather in the capital was getting cooler, and the leaves on the trees began to fall.

Outside the Taihe Gate, a thin figure got out of the carriage, looking up at the high palace wall helplessly.

His face was dark, thin, and rough, covered with the frost of the years.

"Three years! I never thought I could come back!" He muttered to himself in the bleak autumn wind, two lines of tears sliding down his dry cheeks.

"Master Zhou, don't worry about being sentimental. Please come with the family. The emperor is still waiting for you." Eunuch Debao held a dust whisk in his hand and made a gesture to ask him to leave.