Zhu Yuanzhang sensed that something was wrong and immediately sent a message to Chongzhen.
Emperor Taizu Gao:
"Kid, did you say that you want to raise the business tax and someone objected?”
Emperor Si Zonglie:
"Yes."
"Great-grandfather, please explain."
Emperor Taizu Gao:
"You can raid the house of whoever shouts the loudest!”
In the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Zhu Yuanzhang's face could not help but reveal a hint of killing intent!
To be able to casually take out 200,000 taels of silver to bribe.
The merchants of the Ming Dynasty were far richer than Zhu Yuanzhang had imagined!
Let alone merchants.
Even if it was the Great Ming's Ministry of Revenue, they might not even be able to fork out two hundred thousand taels of silver right now!
These merchants were only doing this because Su Qiao had said something in the court to ban the sea.
Two hundred thousand taels of silver?!
If these merchants were to get 200 years of windfall without doing anything, they would be able to earn a lot of money.
How could that be?
Jiang Kui, who was standing in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, couldn't see Old Zhu's chat group.
He just stood there in a daze.
After seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's expression gradually ease up.
Jiang Meng slowly opened his mouth and asked,
"Your Majesty, what about Su Qiao?"
Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath and whispered,
"Just pretend that you don't know anything."
Jiang Meng cupped his hands and left the hall, disappearing into the night.
In a house in Jinling City.
Huang Zicheng was writing a memorial at full speed in front of his desk.
His mouth couldn't help but mutter,
"Brat, let's see if you'll die this time!”
The butler beside him looked at Huang Zicheng with concern and said,
"Master, it's late at night. Shouldn't you be resting?”
Huang Zicheng didn't even look up as he shouted,
"Even if I don't sleep tonight, I will definitely write this ten thousand words letter!”
"If I can make Su Qiao skin me alive, so what if I sleep one night less?!”
……
……
The next day at court.
In the mountain's cry of long live.
Zhu Yuanzhang's Dragon Carriage slowly ascended the steps.
Just as Su Qiao was fretting over how to let Zhu Yuanzhang discover that he had taken bribes…
Suddenly, she saw Corey staring at her with two huge dark circles under his eyes. She immediately took a step forward and shouted,
"Your Majesty, I, Huang Zicheng, have something to report!”
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Huang Zicheng in confusion and whispered,
"Speak!"
Huang Zicheng took a step forward and pointed at Su Qiao, who was among the ministers, and said loudly,
"Your Majesty, I impeach Su Qiao, the scholar of the East Pavilion, for accepting a bribe of 200,000 taels from Jinling Hengtong Ship Company!”
Su Qiao, who was standing among the officials, was stunned.
Then, his eyes suddenly emitted a bright light.
The way she looked at Corey couldn't help but become friendly.
What was a benefactor!
This was what it meant to meet a noble person when going out!
Wasn't this giving him a pillow after dozing off?!
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly looked at Su Qiao and asked,
"Su Qiao, is what Huang Zicheng said true?”
Su Qiao took a step forward without hesitation.
Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang, he shouted,
"Your Majesty, it's true!"
"The 200,000 taels of silver from Hengtong Boat Company are in this minister's house!”
Huang Zicheng glanced at Su Qiao triumphantly.
"I know you don't want to admit it, but I've already prepared iron for you…Hmm? You admit it?"
That was two hundred thousand taels of silver!
Sixty taels of silver and he wanted to skin her and turn her into grass!
200,000 taels of silver is enough to skin you, Su Qiao, more than 3,000 times!
I'll skin you three thousand times and cook you in a hotpot!
You brat, you just admit it?
The key is that you admit it directly.
I would have wasted my ten thousand words last night!
However, Huang Zicheng couldn't care less about the Ten Thousand Words Book now.
He gave Qi Tai a look, and Qi Tai immediately reacted.
"Your Majesty, according to the Law of Ming Dynasty, anyone who embezzles more than 60 taels of silver will be skinned alive. Your Majesty, please execute Su Qiao immediately as a warning to others!”
The civil and military officials, who had been scolded by Su Qiao for the past few days, would not let go of this opportunity.
Immediately, everyone agreed.
"I agree to execute Su Qiao immediately!"
"I also agree!"
“……”
Even Zhu Yunwen looked at Zhu Yuanzhang angrily and shouted,
"Imperial Grandfather, Su Qiao dared to take two hundred thousand taels of silver when he just entered the court. If we don't kill him, it won't be enough to calm the hearts of the people in the world!”
However, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Huang Zicheng and asked with a smile,
"Mr. Huang, don't be anxious."
He looked at Zhu Yuanzhang angrily and shouted,
"Your Majesty, how can I not be anxious? If I condone this child's lawlessness, the country will be ruined.”
"This subject is anxious!"
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head slightly and said,
"That's not what I meant. What I meant was that Hengtong Boat Company just gave Su Qiao two hundred thousand taels of silver yesterday.”
"How did you know?"
"Could it be that Lord Huang's spies are already not inferior to our Ming Dynasty's Embroidered Uniform Guards?”
As soon as he said this.
The entire court fell into a deathly silence.
This was a good question.
Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath and said sternly,
"I hate corrupt officials!"
"But I've never seen a corrupt official who took silver just to save it for a night at home!”
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and glanced at Su Qiao who was at the bottom of the stone steps before shouting,
"I can't be careless, but I won't wrongly blame a loyal minister!”
"What if Su Qiao accepted the silver and came to the court today to explain to us clearly that he would hand over the silver to the national treasury?!”
"If you, Mr. Huang, were to stir things up in such a hurry, wouldn't Su Qiao be in trouble?”
Zhu Yuanzhang said.
Su Qiao and Huang Zicheng fell silent…
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