The next day, early morning, Palace of Heavenly Purity.
"Lu Ji, Sixth Grade Imperial Guard with a saber.”
"Guan Dahai, a junior official of the Chamberlain of Dependencies, a rank four official.”
Zhu Houzhao laughed in extreme anger. The imperial guard with a saber had intended to kill the emperor, and the one behind it was actually the official of Honglu Temple."Good, good, good. You're really my good subject!”
"Your Majesty, this lowly official has also found out that although these people are all related to the incident of Your Majesty falling into the water, the mastermind seems to be from different forces.”
Yu Huatian brought the intelligence from West Hall and everything he had found out that night to Zhu Houzhao.
"Lu Ji, a sixth-grade imperial guard with a saber. Three generations of direct descendants are present, and his family background is clean. However, after the Emperor fell into the water two days ago, all 76 people in Lu Ji's family were killed.”
"Last night, this lowly subject personally went to the Chamberlain of Dependencies to prepare to capture Guan Dahai.”
"However, I was still too late. When we arrived, Guan Dahai had already hanged himself. His entire family had also taken poison to 'suicide'.”
Yu Huatian's face was filled with malice. Both Lu Ji and Guan Dahai had been silenced. The clues that he had worked hard for the entire night were almost all lost here.
" However, after those people killed him to silence him, they did not expect that Guan Dahai would leave behind a secret chamber. He even left behind the secret account books of the mastermind behind his years of corruption, bribery, and the theft of official silver.”
"Oh?"
Zhu Houzhao looked interested. He flipped open the yellowed account book in front of him. It recorded all the expenses from Guan Dahai High School to his promotion, making friends, bribing his superiors, and keeping concubines.
In the original account book, Shangguan Dahai had been recommended as an official, and later on, he was recommended as a junior official of the Honglu Temple. The amount of money recorded in the account book was as high as 1.7 million taels of silver.
Bang!
Zhu Houzhao slammed the table and stood up. He roared angrily,"A mere fourth-rank official of the Chamberlain of Dependencies embezzled 1.7 million taels of silver in five years?”
As a person of later generations, he knew that the Ming Dynasty had nurtured scholars for 300 years. In the end, they had raised a group of people who were afraid of death because the water was too cold and their scalps were itchy. This caused Zhu Houzhao to have a bad impression of those civil officials and the so-called Qingliu.
Now, he was even more furious.
The Great Ming national treasury currently only had 45 million taels of silver.
A mere official of the Chamberlain of Dependencies, a mere fourth-rank official, was actually worth one-thirtieth of the national treasury. What about the other court officials?
Yu Huatian, Ma Jinliang, and the others from the West Branch didn't dare to speak.
There might be honest and loyal officials in the court, but most of them were corrupt and bribed, forming cliques for personal gain.
However, those people weren't as daring as Guan Dahai, who dared to kill the emperor. If they were to dig deeper, the number of officials in the court would be reduced by at least half when Zhu Houzhao started the court session.
"Yu Huatian, take this account book and check it for zhen.”
"Those who are involved in this case will be directly imprisoned. They will be skinned alive and filled with grass for corruption and bribery of more than a thousand taels.”
The later generations commented that the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were not innocent. Zhu Houzhao wanted to see if this was true.
"Yes, sir!"
Yu Huatian accepted the order and left. Now that he had the imperial edict and Shang Fangjian in his hands, he could decide anything with a single thought. The reason why he brought the account book into the palace to report was to give Zhu Houzhao an answer first, and at the same time prove that the trash from the West and East Chambers were definitely not the same.
Murder!
Seize the house!
The people of the West Military Hall were not inferior to the Embroidered Uniform Guards or the East Military Hall.
......
After transmigrating into Zhu Houzhao, many troublesome matters seemed to have piled up in front of him overnight.
It wasn't just the matter of his predecessor accidentally falling into the water.
Among the relatives of the royal family, Tiedan Divine Marquis, Prince Taiping, Prince Nan, Prince Ning, and many other nobles had been coveting the supreme throne. No one knew when they would suddenly erupt.
"King Nan, you've really given me a difficult problem.”
Zhu Houzhao looked at the intelligence report from the Hundred Birds Organization, and his eyes flashed with cold killing intent. It was the son of King Nan who looked 90% similar to him. King Nan had been hiding it and did not let him show his face, leaving the world with the impression that he was a puppet.
What was he trying to do?
On the night of the full moon, at the top of the Forbidden City.
A sword came from the west, and a fairy flew out of the sky.
That battle, which would be remembered for thousands of years, was indeed the most glorious moment for swordsmen in the world.
However, to place the sword competition in the palace was to trample on the face of the royal family.
Zhu Houzhao was still reading the information on the birds, as well as the information that he had specially ordered Su Huirong to go to the East and West Chambers, the Embroidered Uniform Guards, the Imperial Palace dossiers, and the Dragon Guarding Mountain Villa. He did not even raise his head.
"King Nan's estate, the son of King Nan."
Zhu Houzhao held a goat milk brush and drew a blood-like ink mark on King Nan's residence and the son of King Nan.
"Mo Ya, order Bai Niao to find out the situation of the guards in King Nan's mansion. If necessary, kill them.”
"Yes, sir!"
The black crow's figure was accompanied by a wave of crow feathers. The Hundred Birds Organization was best at assassination and spying. When night fell, it was the beginning of the nightmare.
"Prince Taiping's son, Gong Jiu!"
Zhu Houzhao continued to read the information about Prince Taiping's Mansion collected by the various forces. The more he read, the deeper his frown became."Strange personality, temperamental, doesn't know martial arts?”
Gong Jiu didn't know martial arts?
"East Hall, Jinyiwei, and Dragon Guarding Mountain Villa are all getting weaker and weaker.”
Zhu Houzhao threw Gong Jiu's information aside in dissatisfaction. Gong Jiu, the son of Prince Taiping, was not only an out-and-out genius, but also a top-notch swordsman.
He was called a genius because no matter how difficult the martial arts were to learn, he would be able to learn them all in one go. No matter how heavily guarded the place was, he could come and go as he pleased. He knew what was on your mind before you said it. If you wanted him to kill someone, no matter where that person was hiding or how many people were protecting him, he would never fail!
In the original novel, his strength was not inferior to any of the six great experts in the world.
"In the future, unless we confirm it again and again, the information of people like Bai Niao and West Hall who have never seen him in action will be marked as 'cultivation unknown, no one has ever seen him with martial power'.”
Zhu Houzhao said without raising his head.
Whether it was the ancient martial arts or the current comprehensive martial arts, there were too many people who liked to pretend to be pigs to eat tigers or hide their strength. For example, if it was other forces who rushed up to cause trouble for no reason, they would definitely not be able to return.
"Yes, sir!"
Bai Feng and Su Huirong's hearts trembled. Although they had not read the information about Gong Jiu, the son of Prince Taiping, in detail, they were sure that there must have been a major mistake that caused Zhu Houzhao to be so dissatisfied.
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