The affairs of the eldest princess's mansion in Changying have been lively for a while, people are always dead, speaking of which, it is Li Shao himself who is unruly and wants to run back to the capital, so he will be unlucky, but he can't blame anyone.

The streets and alleys were spread for a while, and at first they still pointed and couldn't stop talking, and when the Changying Princess's Mansion changed the courtyard, even the plaque and the stone lion at the door were all changed, and the courtyard was cold, and there was nothing to say.

What's more, there is no shortage of lively ideas in the capital.

Soon everyone's eyes were drawn to another big event.

After the happy event of the birth of the little prince has passed, another big event will be ushered in.

Emperor Longqing made a decree to officially select concubines for the princes of the vassal kings, and also allowed the vassal kings to stay in Beijing and wait for the princes to hold a wedding ceremony before letting them return to the fiefdom.

If it sounds good, it's grace, and if it doesn't sound good, it's looking for a reason to continue to deduct people.

After all, I tried my best to detain them and prevent them from returning to the fiefdom.

Of the several vassal kings, only King Zheng can still calm down, after all, he is a bare-bones commander, and he has no son, so he doesn't have to worry about choosing a daughter-in-law.

But the rest didn't sit still.

Princess Duan still went to ask for an interview in her fifties, and she didn't look worried at all when she talked and laughed, but the futon at home was about to rot.

Something happened to Duanwangfu.

After a while, he launched a royal history to test the water, and King Duan knew the meaning of the top, and he didn't dare to mess around, and even the imperial history was pushed away, wanting to let the royal history bite out of the king of Linjiang, so as to shirk the responsibility.

It's easy to put this matter down.

But it was only two or three months later, and when it was nearly the end of the year, a major incident occurred.

It is said that it was the fourth day of the lunar month, but in fact, this incident happened in October------ and the new Lianghuai Salt Administration made an excerpt, praising the previous salt governor Huang Bingqing for distributing a huge amount of salt during his tenure, and contributed a lot to the two Huai and six provinces to pay the treasury tax, and also counted the number, saying that in the previous year, Huang Bingqing collected an additional three taels in addition to each salt introduction three taels of silver and three taels of tax silver, and filled it into the treasury of the salt administration yamen for public use.

Among them, in addition to Huang Bingqing's borrowing of 140,000 taels to buy jade antiques, giving birth to a son and marrying a wife and other ceremonies, there are still 310,000 taels, and now please hand them over to the household department for collection.

However, in one year, the salt distributed in advance led to an additional three taels of silver, which added up to 420,000 taels!

Emperor Longqing asked the household department to have a pair, only to find out that the previous salt ministers had never reported this income, and asked the household department to transfer the files, and there was no official document and account book for this entry, so he already knew that it was wrong.

Zheng Zhe, the governor of Jiangsu, was secretly ordered to conduct a detailed inventory with Zeng Yao, the new governor of Lianghuai.

After February, on the fourth day of the lunar month, Zheng Zhe made a mistake, saying that all the successive salt governors had engaged in favoritism, deceived the superiors and subordinates, and blackmailed salt merchants privately to accept benefits.

Over the years, more than 14 million taels of interest were paid in advance for the additional salt introduction interest, and Huang Bingqing, the former salt governor, extorted 500 taels per month from each household in the name of buying food during his term of office.

A rough calculation shows that his term of office is only three years, and after counting all the titles, the total amount of corruption is more than one million taels.

Emperor Longqing was furious, scolded Huang Bingqing in the court, and issued three decrees in one day, and asked the Ministry of Rites to be the chief judge.

The will to ask for guilt was issued, but Shang Shuzhanghe of the Criminal Department fell ill.

Emperor Longqing sneered, and immediately appointed a new official to take office, and Sun Zhiyuan, the waiter of the Criminal Department, who had not yet sat down in his position, presided over the trial.

The will was sent one by one, and everyone was shocked.

We all know that Yanzheng is a fat poor, but I really don't know how to fat.

It wasn't until I heard that the three-year salt administration had been in full swing, and the amount of corruption that could be detected on the surface alone was more than one million taels.

I wonder why I have been covering this matter for so many years, and I would make a fuss at this time.

There's a reason for that, of course.

Zeng Yao is not a fool, he can get this fat difference, speaking of which, it is thanks to the blessing of the Fang family, his son hired the niece of Queen Fang, and this fat difference will fall into his hands.

But I didn't expect that after spending so much money on the stove, I finally took advantage of the hot stove, thinking that I could make a lot of money, but those salt merchants didn't take him seriously one by one.

It's just that he is easy to bully, and he doesn't even have the usual reception banquet.

Forget it, his seventh aunt gave birth to a son, and he held a banquet, and none of these sons were honored with filial piety.

Only then did he become angry, and his heart was ruthless, and he poked the puss open.

As soon as this pustule was poked, he simply became a clean official, anyway, his name has already been established, and he is now relying on the Fang family, who are he afraid of?

It should be a good year, after all, Emperor Longqing has a new little prince, and it was lively a while ago, so he encountered something big, as long as he didn't make a lot of trouble, Emperor Longqing also let it go with a slight raise of his hand.

But I didn't expect that no one could have a good year this year.

Emperor Longqing except for the sacrifice to the Taimiao, the rest of the time has been in the imperial study for many years, and several scholars in the cabinet have hardly left the palace gate, and even the clothes have been wrapped by their families and brought into the palace.

After checking and reconciling the accounts day and night, the total amount was finally reconciled.

Over the years, the imperial court has issued more than 4.6 million taels of salt in Huainan, Huaibei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and other six places, and more than 14 million taels of silver should be paid to the treasury, but except for the 310,000 taels of silver that Zeng Yao reported and was still in the Yanzheng Yamen, all the others were embezzled.

Emperor Longqing was angry, and when the seal was opened on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the court changed another chief judge, this time it was to let the criminal department Shangshu, Qian Shiyun, who had just entered the cabinet, personally preside over the trial.

The will is to investigate thoroughly.

Duanwang's Mansion is simply worried about this year, Duanwang is even more unstable in sleeping, grinding his teeth in his dreams, and he is afraid of grinding his teeth in the dream, and he is in the cold winter, but when he gets up early the next morning, the place where Duanwang sleeps, it is clear that a large area is wet.

The more the case was investigated, the more anxious he couldn't sit still, and kept urging his wife to enter the palace to find out the news with Queen Fang.

Even if Princess Duan didn't know before, where is there anything that is not clear now?

Her own family must be inseparable from this case, her heart sank straight down, and there were charcoal pots everywhere in the house, but she still only felt cold teeth, hugged Duanwang's legs, and asked him tremblingly: "The prince told me the truth, how did he fall in?" How deep did you get in? ”

Both of her eyes were straight, her pupils dilated, and her gaze was empty, like an overly frightened owl, and she couldn't support the appearance of falling down immediately.