After checking, she discovered that the governor, the left councilor Gao Wensheng, the vice commissioner Gao Zehong, the right councilor Cai Rongchun, Tan Ruixian, and some underlings were all part of the same faction.
She first distributed the large amount of evidence against these people to their political enemies in batches, giving it to the Right Vice Minister, the governor's sworn enemy. There was a reason why the Right Vice Minister was the governor's sworn enemy.
The governor has a son who is not very good at studying. He has taken a fancy to the only daughter of the right vice minister. If you take a fancy to her, the right vice minister can understand it if you marry her properly, since the governor is his superior. However, the governor's son does not follow the usual path. He wants to seize her by force to show off his status.
Sure enough, the Right Councilor's daughter was kidnapped on her way to offer incense and her whereabouts are unknown. She was his only daughter.
When the governor found out what his son had done, he was also angry. But since his son was his own flesh and blood, he could only clean up the mess. He thought he had done a clean job, but the Right Vice Minister still found out, and this secret feud was thus formed.
Youqing overheard this story while eavesdropping at the wife of the Right Councilor.
Therefore, she directly handed over the evidence concerning the governor to the Right Councilor, perhaps because she was afraid that someone might try to profit from it.
The Right Councilor truly hated the governor to the bone. Although the evidence came from dubious sources, it did not prevent it from being useful. The "war" of infighting in Yunnan began with the Right Councilor's "fight" against the governor, and the conflict was fully launched.
The first to be suspended was the governor, followed by the left vice-minister, then the right vice-minister, then the left and right councilors, the assistant commissioner, the deputy envoy...
Halfway through the process, some people realized that if things continued this way, both sides would suffer losses and no one would benefit. The news reached the capital, and all sorts of evidence were presented to Emperor Kangxi.
In fact, as things developed to this point, some people with ulterior motives had already noticed the clues and planned to reconcile and stop. However, Emperor Kangxi was not one to be trifled with; he had spies in Yunnan.
It's too late to back down and reconcile.
"I didn't expect them to be so capable."
Good heavens, from the governor-general and governor down to the several prefects under his jurisdiction, not a single one of them was truly clean.
The matter has not yet come to light; for the time being, only Emperor Kangxi and a few close confidants know about it.
Yunnan is a large province, and Emperor Kangxi was well aware of this. With the emperor far away, many officials in local positions couldn't possibly be without ambition. He understood the principle that "too much purity leaves no fish," but the corruption was simply too rampant.
One prefect alone embezzled nearly five or six million taels of silver. The total amount recorded in the Yunnan province alone was tens of millions of taels of silver. Good heavens, that's almost as much as the national treasury.
This matter cannot be left unresolved, but we shouldn't be too petty about it either.
Finally, Emperor Kangxi issued an order: focus on the major offenses and let the minor ones go; if the offenses are not serious, demote the offender; if the offenses are serious, dismiss the offender, investigate, and confiscate their property.
The imperial edict was sent from the capital to Yunnan by fast horse. By the time the matter was settled, it was already winter, and it snowed in the Forbidden City again.
Kangxi asked his secret guards, "How is the investigation into the matter in Yunnan that I asked you to do?"
The Yunnan incident broke out too suddenly. He didn't even send anyone to investigate. It just exploded out of nowhere. It was like dogs fighting each other. Kangxi didn't believe that such a coincidence could really happen.
Furthermore, in these theft cases, after interrogation, the suddenly appearing ledger evidence was all suspicious.
He needs to find out exactly who the "good Samaritan" behind this is.
"Your Majesty, I have searched everything I can, but I cannot find anything about the strange occurrences in the account books. I am incompetent and beg Your Majesty's forgiveness."
"Continue the investigation."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
In Yunnan, the "good-hearted" Youqing stirred up a storm before returning to Anning Prefecture. When she arrived, the Tan family's property had already been confiscated. Of course, what Youqing didn't expect was that a batch of illicit funds had also been discovered in the Tan family's possessions.
However, it wasn't at the Tan residence, but rather at Tan Ruixian's villa.
It seems she was "negligent" last time.
Seeing the Tan family's fate, Youqing was satisfied.
Then we set off for Sanpo County.
When she arrived, Sanbo County had not yet received news of Tan Ruixian's dismissal and confiscation of his property. After all, the speed of news travel in ancient times was still quite worrying.
As soon as she got back, she went straight to the Shen residence.
When Shen Jia'an saw Youqing return, a bitter smile appeared on his face.
Youqing sensed something was wrong and quickly asked, "Lord Shen, what's going on?"
"You don't understand, if you don't come back soon, I won't be able to hold on here."
Who would have thought that he, a dignified county magistrate, would be unable to withstand the pressure from a merchant within his jurisdiction?
For the past few months, he has been dealing with the Yun family, but they are getting impatient.
Youqing hadn't expected the trip to take so long. She said, "It was my fault. This trip took a while, but fortunately the result was very gratifying."
Shen Jia'an was stunned when she heard this. She really did it?
"Tell me quickly, what exactly happened?"
Youqing quickly said, "Actually, even if I didn't say anything, you would have known in a few days. Prefect Tan has been dismissed and is under investigation. The Tan family has already had their property confiscated. As for the Yun family, you should know what to do, right?"
Shen Jia'an asked in disbelief and confusion, "Is this true?"
"Would I lie to an adult? What I mean is that it would be best to investigate the Yun family in the next couple of days, so they don't get desperate and cause trouble."
Shen Jia'an smiled and said, "Of course, don't worry, leave the rest to me."
This is really great news for Shen Jia'an!
After explaining everything, Youqing didn't linger. She declined Shen Jia'an's invitation to dinner and left the Shen residence. Although the Yun family hadn't been dealt with yet, she could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
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