"Your Majesty, you are wronged, there are indeed some antiques, calligraphy and paintings in the minister's house, but there are definitely no millions of money, thousands of gold and thousands of jewels and jade hidden in the cellar as Your Majesty said!"

"Really?" Zhao Junsheng said and looked at Shi Yuantang, the imperial historian who impeached Gao Yun, "Lord Shi, you also heard, Gao Yun said that he didn't have the money, gold, jewelry and jade written on your chapter at home, what did you say?" ”

Shi Yuantang looked at Gao Yun and asked, "Gao Shangshu, there is a mansion on Nanshan that is your property, right?" Why don't we go and see if there are any of these things in the house? ”

Gao Yun's face turned pale, and his eyes were slumped on the ground blankly, as if all his strength had been drained.

"Someone!" Zhao Junsheng's voice was full of coldness.

A military general outside the hall walked in with a sword, it was Li Bao, followed by four armor soldiers, he bowed down and hugged his fists and said, "Your Majesty!" ”

"Take Gao Yun to his house in Nanshan, see how many treasures are hidden in his house, and bring them all for me and Zhuqing to see! Shi Yuantang, you go and lead the way! ”

"Obey the order!"

Gao Yun was dragged away, the hall was quiet, and the ministers did not dare to come out.

Zhao Junsheng leaned on the throne and closed his eyes to recuperate, and no one else dared to speak, even if he couldn't stand the urgency of urine, he didn't dare to go to the toilet.

After a full hour, Li Bao and Shi Yuantang led the armor soldiers to drive hundreds of carts to stop outside the main hall, and under Li Bao's order, the armor soldiers carried the ten wooden boxes on the carriage into the main hall and lined them up one by one.

Li Bao clenched his fists and reported: "Your Majesty, the minister and Lord Shi took Gao Yun to search for 5,218 catties of gold, 2,265,500 copper coins, 1,326 pieces of jewelry, jade, and antique calligraphy and paintings, with a total price of more than 3 million guan!" ”

Zhao Junsheng didn't make a sound.

The courtiers all lowered their heads, feeling that this matter was only afraid of making a big fuss, and Gao Yun, who has always been loyal to his ministers, dared to speak out, and was selfless with an iron face, had hidden so much money in his family, and his personality had completely collapsed!

Zhao Junsheng got up and walked out from behind the imperial case, stepped on the stairs step by step to this row of boxes and opened them one by one, the first few boxes were stacked with strings of copper coins, and the back boxes were stacked with gold, jewelry and jade.

He walked to the door of the main hall again, and saw that the hundreds of carts outside the hall were all wooden boxes.

"Gao Yun, you are much richer than me, and I am afraid that I don't even have 500,000 yuan in my inner curry! By the way, Lord Wang, how much did I pay in taxes last year? ”

Hubu Shangshu Wang Yan stood up tremblingly and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, last year's tax payment for the year of our dynasty was 27,325,647 guan!" ”

Zhao Junsheng walked up to Gao Yun and squatted down: "Lord Gao, your property is more than 10% of my taxes in a year!" I remember that over the years, you were the first to shout for me to open the inner treasury and allocate internal funds to the imperial court for emergency, and I want to ask you, why don't you open your private small treasury to the imperial court for emergency? ”

Gao Yun knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing: "The minister is guilty, the minister is guilty······"

Zhao Junsheng got up and waved his hand: "Take it down and put it in the prison, and the Criminal Department, Yushitai, and Dali Temple will conduct a triage by the three divisions to find out the source of this money, how much of it is his greed for ink, and how much is the bribe of others to him!" Count these things and put them in the treasury! ”

Li Bao clasped his fists and saluted, turned around and gestured to the soldiers, who dragged Gao Yun, who was as limp as mud, out.

Zhao Junsheng glanced at the ministers, and said slowly: "I am here to give some people a chance, but also to ring the alarm bell, if there is someone like Gao Yun, I welcome you to take the initiative to surrender to me, hand over the money obtained from greedy ink and bribery, and secretly give some businessmen as backers to occupy dry shares and get dividends, I can not blame the past, and I will keep it secret for you, if you are found out by the Yamen and reported to me here, I will not tolerate it!" That's all for today's pilgrimage! ”

The eunuch immediately shouted: "Retreat!" ”

Zhao Junsheng was in a very bad mood, he originally thought that even if someone was greedy and took bribes, the amount would not be too large, but he didn't expect that Gao Yun's family had so much money, and people's greed really subverted his cognition and imagination.

Hua Mulan watched Zhao Junsheng walk in with a displeased expression, and greeted him and asked, "Look at your face, what's going on?" Such a face? ”

Zhao Junsheng sat down on the soft couch and didn't make a sound, Hua Mulan poured a cup of tea and handed it over, he took it and drank the tea before saying: "Someone impeached Gao Yun for embezzling ink and accepting huge bribes, I sent Li Bao to take someone to investigate, and found out that gold, copper coins, jewelry and jade antiques are worth more than three million yuan!" ”

Hua Mulan instinctively said: "Impossible, how can this be such an upright person?" ”

Zhao Junsheng asked rhetorically: "Could it be that I or others secretly sent someone to his house to frame him?" It's impossible for such a large amount not to alarm him, who would be idle and have nothing to do with so much money to frame a person? Even if there were, I would have to be able to get out so much money! Who has the financial resources? ”

Mulan was stunned and didn't make a sound.

Zhao Junsheng finished drinking tea, rubbed his face and asked, "Is dinner ready?" I am hungry! ”

"We're hungry too!" A few children came running in from outside and shouted, all sweating profusely.

Mulan came back to her senses, "Okay, let's eat!" ”

During the meal, Mulan sandwiched the dishes for the children one by one, and couldn't help asking, "What are you going to do with this?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said while eating: "The number is too big, shocking!" Don't you see that the hundreds of wagons are all loaded with property taken from his house, and this matter must be dealt with severely, otherwise it will not be enough to deter others."

Hua Mulan sighed: "I haven't come to my senses until now, how can Gao Yun be such a person, this is completely different from his usual life, it always feels a little unreal!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "It's not uncommon to have a face in front of people and a face behind people!" Many people are confused by the superficial appearance of such people! To be honest, I knew something about Gao Yun before, and there was a news mentioned by chance in the report of the black guard, saying that Gao Yun's second son had purchased a large number of leather and wool, and the amount was very huge, which caused the price of leather and wool in the entire northern market to triple, do you think Gao Yun would not know about it? If Gao Yun's money and my usual rewards were enough for their family to live a life of a superior person, if he had not been greedy for ink and accepted bribes, or if the Gao family had not engaged in commercial activities, the Gao family would never have so much money to control the price fluctuations of the leather and wool markets in the entire north! ”

Hua Mulan asked, "Do you think this is the income of Gao Yun's greed for ink and bribery, or the income of their Gao family's business activities?" ”

Zhao Junsheng shook his head: "How do I know this?" can only let the Criminal Department, Yushitai and Dali Temple try this case! ”

"I think this matter, it's definitely not Gao Yun's greed for ink or bribery, if he loves money, he won't use this method!"

Zhao Junsheng paused his chopsticks after listening to Mulan's words, "We'll know when this case is clear, it's useless for us to guess here!" ”

Two days later, Gao Yun's son Gao Jie went to Jingzhao Mansion to surrender, claiming that the Gao family's money was earned by him in business, and in the early years, he borrowed money from some wealthy families under the banner of his father, and concealed his father and used power for personal gain in the name of his father to open the way for his business, and this is how the family earned this money!

Zhao Junsheng listened to the eunuch say this matter as a new thing outside the palace, and asked, "The interrogation of Gao Yun by the Three Law Divisions has begun, right?" Did Gao Yun explain where the money came from? ”

"He confessed, saying that he didn't discipline his son well, and he knew about his son doing business outside to make money in his name, but he didn't stop it, it's his sin!"

A few days later, Liu Yuan, the secretary of Dali Temple, met with him to report on the progress of Gao Yun's trial.

Zhao Junsheng looked at the trial file handed over by Liu Yuan, raised his head and asked, "So you can't find evidence of Gao Yun's greed and bribery?" Evidence is one thing, whether he is greedy and accepting bribes is another, you have been trying these days, do you think he is greedy and bribery? ”

Liu Yuan replied: "Judging from the interrogation process, the minister can't see that he has a look of concealment and sophistry, and it is unlikely that he is greedy for ink and accepting bribes, but he ignored the ban of the imperial court prohibiting officials and their children's families from engaging in commercial and trade activities, and did not stop his son from engaging in commercial and trade activities even though he knew that his son was engaged in commercial and commercial activities. ”

Zhao Junsheng asked: "Do you think this case can be closed?" ”

"The minister thinks that this case can be concluded after the trial has reached this point, I don't know what Your Majesty means?" Liu Yuan thought that Zhao Junsheng wanted to dig deep or be implicated.

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, and felt that this matter should be stopped in moderation, if there was a big deal, the courtiers and officials would be panicked, and no one would have the heart to deal with official business, and if it caused the various yamen institutions of the imperial court to stop operating, this matter would be troublesome.

"Okay, you close the case as soon as possible! Someone, bring Gao Yun to see me! ”

Soon, several armor soldiers brought Gao Yun out of the prison, along with his second son Gao Jie.

"Sinners meet Your Majesty!" Gao Yun seems to have aged a lot, as if he was ten years old in just a few days, and the whole person looks very haggard and faltering.

Zhao Junsheng asked, "Gao Yun, are you guilty?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, but the minister is not greedy and bribed!"

Zhao Junsheng looked at the file on the table, looked up at Gao Yun and said: "The chief judge of the third division said that he could not find evidence of your greed for ink and bribery, and I also believe that you will not do this kind of thing if you have been deeply educated by Confucius and Mencius for many years, but you violated the ban and connived at your son to engage in business and trade activities, and also shielded and used your power to seek huge profits and disrupt the market under your banner, all of which have caused an extremely bad impact. ”

Gao Yun's father and son thought they were dead, but they didn't expect Zhao Junsheng not to kill them, but only let them squat in prison for a few years, and the father and son immediately kowtowed again and again: "The guilty minister Xie Your Majesty for not killing, thank Your Majesty for not killing······"