northernbook Chapter 206 Huge Amount of Food
Chapter 206 Huge Amount of Food
At this moment, Tang Li stood up and said that the Prince of Rui had been raising private soldiers in his own fiefdom without telling him, and had close ties with the Xu family, and was suspected of treason!
This shocked everyone, including Wang Jinnian. He only knew that Bai Zhaozhao had a backup plan, but he didn't know it was so powerful!
Treason? If the Xu family was treasonous, wouldn't it be aimed directly at the Third Prince?
Emperor Yongkang stood up in astonishment and asked: "Is there any evidence for what the prince said?"
Tang Li said bluntly: "Yes, as long as the emperor sends someone to Dahuan Mountain in Jinzhou to check it out!"
The ministers had different expressions. What was the difference between this and having no evidence? If the prince was smart, he should have told the emperor about his suspicions in private. Now that he spoke out in the court, it was obvious that he was leaving no way out for himself. This... didn't it give Prince Rui time to hide the evidence?
Looking at Wang Jinnian again, could it be that he already knew the prince's plan, so he just sprayed him out of respect?
Master!
What’s even more coincidental is that no one from the Xu family came to court today, so there is no way to refute it.
For a moment, there were whispers in the court, with different expressions.
Then, amid the ministers' incredulous gazes, Lord Qin actually stood up, expressed his support for the Crown Prince and Wang Jinnian, and requested the Emperor to thoroughly investigate the matter.
So the court fell silent.
Finally, Emperor Yongkang issued an order to temporarily confine Prince Rui's Palace and the Xu family's direct lineage's palace, and no one was allowed to go out. He also sent the Embroidered Uniform Guard to Jinzhou to investigate.
After the court session, Wang Jinnian quietly followed Tang Li and asked, "Prince, have you joined forces with Qin Gelao?"
Tang Li was stunned for a moment: "Didn't you, Lord Wang, team up with Elder Qin?"
Wang Jinnian was silent for a moment: "It seems that Qin the fox has a keen sense of smell! Your Highness, you are also very secretive. I admire you!"
Tang Li was also silent: "Sir Wang is indeed very perceptive. I admire him very much!"
The two of them tacitly agreed not to speak anymore, but they had already agreed to a cooperative relationship.
Prince Rui's Mansion.
Prince Rui looked in shock at the pigeons on the ground and the imperial guards standing beside them, led by Li Rongyue.
"Commander Li, the facts haven't been clarified yet. Isn't it inappropriate for you to be so unkind?"
Li Rongyue had a blank expression on her face: "It is my duty as an official. Not even a bird can fly out!"
"you!"
Prince Rui had no choice but to place his hopes on the Xu family. At the same time, he was very confused as to how the prince had discovered this. He had always been loyal to the prince over the years!
The Xu family did not disappoint his expectations and successfully passed the news on. They were preparing to transfer all of Jinzhou's private soldiers and weapons. That was the backing they prepared for the third prince. How could they be discovered in advance?
However, they never expected that Jinzhou's private soldiers had already been followed by Bai Zhaozhao, and Bai Zhaozhao had marked them before the Jinyiwei came to investigate.
Therefore, the Jinyiwei found the new location very smoothly and reported it to Emperor Yongkang quickly and calmly. The whole process took only ten days.
Emperor Yongkang was shocked and angry, and directly mobilized the patrol camp to go to Jinzhou to eliminate those private soldiers.
Within a month, Marquis Guangping completed the mission and brought back tens of thousands of captured weapons and countless grains!
Emperor Yongkang was shocked when he learned about the huge amount of grain. This was definitely not the amount that could be stored in one year. Think about the drought in Yuzhou last year when the people were starving, but the Xu family joined forces with the Prince of Rui to stockpile such a large amount of grain. It was obvious that they had a big plan.
What is even more terrifying is where did so much food come from?
Buy it with money? Where does the money come from?
Exploiting the people? How many people will suffer?
Rob a caravan? How much tax would be lost?
Emperor Yongkang looked at the Third Prince kneeling on the ground, and was so angry that he kicked him down: "Asshole! How dare you say you didn't know?"
The Third Prince quickly stood up and hugged his thighs, saying with tears in his eyes, "Father, I really didn't know!"
Emperor Yongkang closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and pulled his legs out: "Go back to the palace and be confined!"
In fact, Emperor Yongkang knew that even if the third prince was really unaware of the situation, the Xu family did this for him. If they really needed private soldiers one day, he would never refuse!
The third prince did not understand what this meant and returned home anxiously.
Soon after, the imperial edict came down, accusing the Xu family of colluding with the prince of Rui to raise private soldiers and stockpile a large amount of weapons and food with the intention of treason. The evidence was conclusive and the execution was immediate!
Xiao Ce acted quickly and immediately arranged for the house to be searched and the prince to be imprisoned. However, when Prince Rui was finally executed, he still cried out for injustice, saying that he had not hoarded food!
But no one believed him. Everyone in the capital saw Marquis Guangping bringing cartloads of grain into the capital, and it took from morning till late at night to transport all the grain!
This shock made all the people curse Prince Rui and the Xu family, and also made all the officials shut up, with no one speaking for the Xu family.
Even during a grand court meeting, officials would subconsciously look to see if Wang Jinnian was going to criticize anyone, for fear that this detective would find out about them. Just look at him and he would criticize anyone!
Look at the prince again, he is not naive, he is confident of victory!
No one expected that it would only take more than a month from Wang Jinnian's rebellion to the demise of the Xu family!
Princess House.
Princess Changxing sat on the ground with lifeless eyes. She didn't understand why her maternal family was destroyed just because she was confined by the Queen Mother for a few days!
The secret guard continued, "The third prince was adopted by a royal family member."
Princess Changxing asked slowly: "What about me?"
Secret Guard: "Princess, don't worry. The Emperor has no orders for you at the moment."
Princess Changxing laughed at herself and said, "No decree? Haha! I'm really thankful that I'm a woman. If I were a prince, I wouldn't have had a good ending! Go and invite Cheng Jiayu to come for me!"
"Yes!"
However, after the secret guard went around Cheng Mansion, he found that the mansion was empty!
After some investigation, it was discovered that Cheng Jiayu's mother had passed away last year because she particularly liked eating greasy food after coming to the capital. However, Cheng Jiayu concealed the news and avoided resigning from office to observe mourning.
This matter was also discovered by Wang Jinnian. When Emperor Yongkang found out, he was furious and directly exiled him. Of course, his marriage with Princess Changxing was also cancelled.
What they didn't expect was that Cheng Jiayu ran away! Even the Jinyiwei couldn't find out where he was.
Bai Zhaozhao was also very depressed about this. How many props did he have left?
But when you think about it, it makes sense. When he was with Princess Changxing, he must have obtained a lot of spiritual objects, and he must have some points left.
Bai Zhaozhao felt that, judging from the result, she was quite satisfied. The destruction of the Xu family and the Rui Palace was fair to the people who had been massacred.
As for the huge amount of food, it was naturally contributed by Bai Zhaozhao from the space. She almost emptied the warehouse of the space. It was not known whether the emperor was happy or not to receive such a large amount of food.