Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 79 The Jedi Counterattack

Sure enough, Zhao Dezhao's provocative gesture, like adding fuel to the fire, immediately aroused fierce attacks from many ministers.

Some simply criticized Zhao Dezhao for his disrespect in front of the palace.

There are also some people who criticize both the lack of etiquette in front of the palace and the "real money and false accounts".

There are also some people who want to expose Zhao Dezhao's evil deeds ten years ago and denounce them.
Zhao Dezhao smiled and didn't refute a word. He just remembered the faces and names of these people, especially the third type of people.

In Zhao Dezhao’s view, the first type of people is neutral because they discuss things as they stand; the second type of people should have a bad opinion of themselves, but they have no malicious intentions, so they may not be able to win over them in the future; but the third type of people definitely want to engage in Zhao Guangyi's henchmen who have ruined him are dead.

No one has a label on their foreheads. It has never been an easy task to find out the political orientation of the ministers in the DPRK and China. Tendency, and now is an excellent opportunity.

After silently enduring the furious spray for a quarter of an hour, Zhao Dezhao saw clearly what he wanted to see clearly, and then turned to face the throne and spoke:

"Father, the State Administration of Taxation under the supervision of my son-in-law only received 12 guan in one month, instead of the promised 30 guan, because some people cheated!"

"My son did not hesitate to spend 20 yuan of personal wealth to make up the amount. It was not for exaggerating his merits, but for temporarily concealing it and procrastinating for a while, in order to allow the emperor to have a comfortable birthday!"

"Because the fraud of the State Administration of Taxation is extremely serious and involves too much, the father must be furious and in a bad mood when he finds out. The son would rather suffer criticism and wronged himself than let the father have a bad birthday!"

Zhao Kuangyin's face sank like water, and he said slowly: "How serious is the fraud situation? Since you are supervising the national taxation, if there is a fraud situation, it is you who are on guard against it, so you can't blame others!"

"Father is right." Zhao Dezhao spread his hands and sighed: "But there are always some people who are too capable and no one can prevent them. For example, all 64 tax collectors in the two branches of the State Administration of Taxation were instigated by others. They colluded together to cheat and cheat; for another example, even the tax stamps were replaced by fake ones, and the fake tax stamps were even more beautifully printed than the real tax stamps!"

Zhao Kuangyin's expression changed, and Huo Di stood up.

Above the main hall, the gazes of many ministers flicked to the ground, and they focused on Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi in an instant. What Wang Zixing and Wang Xiuzhi brothers and sisters could understand, they, the court elites, would only realize faster: Except Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi , there will be no second person with such ability.

Zhao Guangyi lowered his head slightly to try to stay calm, and he couldn't help clenching his fists with his hands in his sleeves. His fingernails dug into the flesh of his palms, but he didn't feel any pain.

"Your Highness, you are ineffective in handling taxes, and you can't collect tax money. You blame the tax collectors for conspiring to cheat, and blame the tax receipts for being fake. Isn't it ridiculous?!"

"Isn't it absurd for you to blame others like this and talk about it indiscriminately?!"

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There were a few noises coming from behind, Zhao Dezhao could hear the voices of some people, but he didn't bother to pay attention to it, anyway, this group of people could only jump around for a while.

He only bowed slightly to the emperor's father who was sitting on the throne, and said with a smile: "Father, please rest assured, what my son said is all based on real evidence, and it should be delivered soon."

Zhao Kuangyin sat back with a "hmm", his face was uncertain.

After a while, only hurried footsteps were heard, and a servant trotted up to the hall, holding a small stack of papers full of handwriting in his hand.

Seeing this situation, all the ministers in the palace thumped in their hearts: "It's really here!"

This small stack of papers was exactly the few confessions that Wang Zixing wanted to pass on to Zhao Dezhao as soon as possible.

The palace is strictly restricted, and the inside and outside are isolated. It has never been easy to get a message. Even Zhao Dezhao never imagined that these few flimsy pieces of paper can be delivered to the palace, and what a circle they have bypassed!
The head of the guards of the county prince's mansion who was ordered by Wang Zixing couldn't enter the palace gate. Although the gate guard recognized him as Zhao Dezhao's guard, he refused to let him in. According to the rules of the palace, the ministers are relatives Whether it's the prince or the county king, everyone's guards are not allowed to enter the palace.

In the end, he begged an acquaintance on duty in the imperial court, and asked the other party to help find Qian Niu'er who escorted the tax money into the palace first, and then handed over the confession to Qian Niu'er at the palace gate, and he was responsible for passing it on. upper hall.

However, although Qian Niu'er could walk in the palace, he couldn't enter the solemn and solemn place where the ministers and courts met, and he couldn't pass things to the palace.After running around in a hurry, he finally remembered that his lord and the empress could get along, and immediately asked to see Empress Song urgently. After briefly explaining the reason, Empress Song sent a personal servant who could go to the palace to help.

But when the servant came to the palace, he did not directly transfer the confessions to the rightful master, Zhao Dezhao, but submitted them to Zhao Kuangyin's court case first.

Zhao Kuangyin only saw half a page, and his eyes were already darkened, his head was dizzy, and his upper body couldn't help shaking a little.

Zhao Dezhao saw that his father's "three highs" had committed a problem, so he rushed up the imperial steps with a stride, grabbed his father, and scolded the servants standing on both sides: "Hurry up and help the saint to rest in the back hall. Invite the imperial physician to come!"

Zhao Kuangyin slightly closed his eyes and shook his head, and said in a weak voice: "It's okay, just take a rest, I really can't stand those confessions, you should come."

Zhao Dezhao possessed himself and picked up the few confessions scattered on the ground, unfolding them to browse quickly, while scanning the officials from time to time, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The air in the hall seemed to be much colder suddenly, and the ministers could almost foresee that there would be a huge wave in the court later. They exchanged glances with each other. Frankly, some people lowered their voices and whispered.

Zhao Dezhao walked down the imperial steps slowly, and raised his voice: "You don't need to speculate, I will tell you what's going on now: I arranged for the manpower before I went to the court, and first went to search the Ministry of Industry. We have a printing house under our jurisdiction that specializes in printing salt banknotes. We started from the printing house and traced it to the root cause, arresting them one by one."

"Taking advantage of the time when you were discussing matters in the court, the king's men successively arrested a steward of the Yinfang of the Ministry of Industry, a Langzhong and the principal of the Ministry of Industry, a doctor of the Tea and Salt Promotion Division, and a Tuiguan of the Kaifeng Mansion... Hehe, this is called a blind man picking gourds in the dark, and you can get a bunch of gourds if you just hold them!"

As he spoke, Zhao Dezhao raised the small stack of paper with wet ink in Yang's hand: "These criminals have all pleaded guilty, and their confessions are all there!"

(End of this chapter)