After the Gu of the Red Chamber

Emperor Pingkang looked at the list of the Zhen family's property that Lin Ruhai had sorted out personally, and his hands couldn't help shaking slightly. He knew that the Zhen family had really lost a lot of money by relying on his power over the years, but he absolutely Unexpectedly, there is so much money. The property of the Zhen family alone is worth the tax revenue of the national treasury for a whole year!

Thinking about the fact that he stayed at Zhen's house on several southern tours, and Zhen Yingjia said that Zhen's family really owed a lot of money in order to pick him up. He hoped that he could hand over the salt tax to him. The number one fool in Tianzi!

Emperor Pingkang's face was gloomy, "Is this information correct?"

Lin Ruhai nodded, "I personally took the big shopkeepers of several big banks in Yangzhou to count for ten days!"

The money shop is in the money business, and the amount of money it handles every day is unknown. Those who can be big shopkeepers, aside from other things, at least settle accounts first and second. Not to mention that the amount is so large, even if one or two points are wrong, it is still a huge amount.

Emperor Pingkang also knew this, so he became more and more annoyed, "What a Zhen family! They didn't hesitate to destroy the foundation of the Jin Dynasty, what are they thinking!"

Lin Ruhai gave Ping Kangdi a strange look, but hesitated to speak.

Emperor Pingkang said unhappily: "Speak quickly if you have something to say!"

Anyway, he has heard enough words these days, not bad.

Of course, the most ugly thing is the words from his own brother. After the safety incident happened earlier, his younger brother became a little crazy. In front of Shouan Palace, he was refused to visit Concubine Yu.

Inside and outside the words, he also suspected that there was some secret affair between him and the old lady Zhen. He was so angry that he almost wanted to punish Prince Yu for a disgrace in front of the imperial court, but for the sake of Concubine Yu's face, he held it back for the time being.

He could bear even Prince Yu's naughty nagging, and Emperor Pingkang thought that his endurance skills were unmatched, so he didn't take Lin Ruhai's embarrassment seriously.

"Yes!" Lin Ruhai respectfully sent the Zhen family's secret document, and said in a low voice, "This is the secret document that I found in the Zhen family."

Emperor Pingkang slightly raised his eyebrows.

Lin Ruhai continued: "It contains the true identities of all the adopted daughters of the Zhen family."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Pingkang's eyes lit up and he said quickly: "Bring it quickly!"

If there is anything that bothers him, it is nothing more than the matter of the Zhen family's adopted daughter. Although there is no need to worry about food and clothing, there are hundreds of girls who don't know their parents and relatives, and cannot go home. Even he can't bear it...

"Yes." Lin Ruhai quickly sent the secret document.

Emperor Pingkang flipped through it casually, and seeing the densely packed names inside, Emperor Pingkang couldn't help gasping, "Since there were so many adopted daughters of the Zhen family!?"

"Exactly." Lin Ruhai sighed: "It's a pity that most of those children died, and not many survived. I searched carefully for Zhen Er and Zhen San, and the dead children were abandoned by them in mass graves. I let people After searching carefully, the corpses in the mass graves are piled on top of each other, making it difficult to identify, and it is my dereliction of duty to not let those children return to their parents and relatives."

So many children were directly abandoned in the wilderness, and the bones were not complete. It was impossible to distinguish the bones of those children. Burial place.

"I don't blame you!" Emperor Pingkang just flipped through it a little bit, but couldn't bear to look any further, "This matter...is my fault!"

Although he guessed a thing or two, he never expected that the Zhen family's cruelty was beyond his imagination, and he wanted to protect the Zhen family like crazy, so he couldn't blame Concubine Yu for not avoiding him.

He was indeed ashamed to see Concubine Yu and Prince Yu again.

Lin Ruhai noticed that Emperor Pingkang only turned a few pages, and didn't read any further. He felt a little pity, and he didn't know when the emperor would find out that the Zhen family had framed the deposed prince.

The evidence was conclusive and indisputable, perhaps because of An Chongxiang, without the Gu insects causing trouble, Emperor Pingkang became much clearer.

He sighed slightly, "Decree! Let the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple, and Metropolitan Procuratorate jointly try the case of the Zhen family."

Emperor Pingkang paused and added, "Let the crown prince oversee the trial, and Prince Yu listen in. This matter must be given justice to the subjects of the world."

Because of the abolition of the crown prince, he was more or less wary of the new crown prince. After all these years, he had clearly established the crown prince, but he still refused to let the fourth son get involved in the court. Both of them are incompetent, the third child has no intention of doing this, and the fifth child comes from the belly of the daughter of the Zhen family, so there is no possibility of succession.

If he doesn't let the fourth child take over, who else can he choose?In addition, his body was getting weaker and weaker, so Emperor Pingkang finally resigned to his fate and decided to let go.

Lin Ruhai secretly regretted hearing that the Holy Spirit wanted to cultivate a new crown prince.

If the truth about the abolition of the deposed prince was discovered earlier, maybe the Holy One would release the deposed prince for the sake of balance, and let the old and new princes compete, and reap the benefits of the murloc.

Even so, the court is bound to fall into internal strife, but this is also an opportunity to abolish the crown prince; and now the sage seeks stability and wants to train a new crown prince, plus the case has a new crown prince jury, I am afraid that the crown prince will not be abolished. The case has been overturned, even if the case will have a chance to come to the Holy Majesty, I'm afraid it's still unknown.

Although Lin Ruhai felt a little pity, but he was smart enough not to get involved in the royal affairs, but silently decided to go back and ask Jia Min to force Yu'er to learn embroidery. No matter how much Yu'er wailed, she would be held Learning embroidery at home will save her from having tea with Grandma Rong in Ningguo Mansion all day long.

He didn't deny that Grandma Rong was indeed someone whom she could be close to, but her status was too embarrassing, so it was better to avoid her.

Emperor Pingkang finally made up his mind to manage the Zhen family, and all the officials were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

One, the matter of the Zhen family is too big, and it can be regarded as causing public anger; two, Emperor Pingkang is too biased towards the Zhen family, everyone has held back their breath for a long time, and finally had the opportunity to burst out.

Even the new prince was a little excited because he was able to supervise such a major case for the first time.

Originally, according to the wishes of the adults, they wanted to bypass the old lady Zhen and directly try Zhen Er and Zhen San in the first instance. After all, the Zhen family case is not difficult to try. That's all.

Although Zhen Er and Zhen San are not direct descendants of the Zhen family, they have done a lot of things with Zhen Yingjia over the years, especially the adopted daughters of the Zhen family were trained and managed by Zhen San. If you think about it, you must know a lot. His testimony was enough for them to convict Zhen's family of ransacking and exile.

Old lady Zhen is not judged, because she is a female family member, so it is not convenient for her to go to court; secondly, old lady Zhen is too old, if there is any accident in the hall, they really can't afford it.

After all, Mrs. Zhen is the cusp of His Majesty's heart. If Mrs. Zhen is gone, and His Majesty blames them, wouldn't their future be ruined?So several people discussed it again and again, thinking about the Holy One, they planned to raise it high and put it down gently.

Cough cough, although Emperor Pingkang chased away those scholars who talked nonsense that day, but those scholars did not talk small things in private, and Emperor Pingkang really seemed to be blind and favored Mrs. Zhen. The must-tell stories between Emperor Kang and Mrs. Zhen also began to spread.

As a minister in the middle of the court, when facing Emperor Pingkang, who was clearly eccentric, many people really believed it, so everyone wanted to let the old lady Zhen go, so as not to really offend Emperor Pingkang to death .

But the new crown prince resisted all opinions and insisted on interrogating Mrs. Zhen. The reason was very simple. After all, Zhen Er and Zhen San were both concubines, and usually only knew to act according to Zhen Yingjia's orders. Many people, if anyone really knows the inside story of the Zhen family, the first one is Mrs. Zhen.

In addition to the adopted daughter of the Zhen family, the new crown prince is more concerned about the large amount of money accumulated by the Zhen family. Naturally, the Zhen family has accumulated a lot of money, but what Lin Ruhai sorted out is just the account books of recent years, most of which have disappeared. According to his guess, he might have entered the fifth younger brother's prince's residence.

Thinking of the fifth brother holding such a large sum of money, the new prince felt really uneasy, and had to go to trial for the old lady Zhen to completely destroy the fifth brother's purse.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. They were unwilling to offend Emperor Pingkang, and they were not willing to go against the new prince's wishes. Coupled with the support of Prince Yu, everyone could only reluctantly agree. If Zhen Er and Zhen San can't explain clearly, please ask Zhen Er The old lady went to court.

However, Dali Siqing also made it clear that it is okay to invite Mrs. Zhen to interrogate, but this instrument of torture must not be used on Mrs. Zhen's body. After all, at Mrs. Zhen's age, if she is tortured, she may not be able to bear it.

Prince Yu gave Dali Siqing a white look, "All I want is Zhen San's life, what does Mrs. Zhen's life have to do with me!"

Since the emperor's brother loves old lady Zhen so much, as the emperor's younger brother, he is very attractive, as long as Zhen San's mouth is reduced, that's enough. After all, the Zhen family is over, and he can secretly settle accounts afterwards. There's no point in stepping on it in front of the emperor's brother.

He had wanted to silence him a long time ago, but at that time the Zhen family was placed in Huangzhuang by the emperor's brother, so he couldn't do anything, which made Zhen Sangou live until now.

You know, Zhen San has really bullied many girls, except for Zhen Li, even Tu Li has been touched by him in the past.If Zhen San said something that shouldn't be said again, or even revealed some secret birthmark on Li'er's body, it would be even more difficult for Li'er to be a human being.

Therefore, Prince Yu made up his mind early on, even if he was going all out to be punished by his brother, he must kill Zhen San.

The smile on Dali Siqing's face froze, to be honest, can you explain things like killing people so clearly?

Not to mention Prince Yu's petty thinking, when the Holy Majesty mentioned the case of the Zhen family, everyone immediately brought up the Zhen family.

Zhen Er and Zhen San were dragged to the court with pale faces, and before they came to complain, they were ordered by Prince Yu to be beaten thirty times, until only one life was left, and then they were dragged back to continue the interrogation.

Zhen Er and Zhen San have lived a wealthy life since they were young, so if they have suffered this kind of crime, let alone the two of them were seriously injured, if they can withstand it, they will recruit everything at the moment, but they really don't know much about Zhen Yingjia's matter , In the end, there is no way to recruit.

After confirming that the two really didn't know much, Prince Yu made another mistake and continued to drag them down and beat them hard.

Prince Yu's eyes had been reddened for a long time, and he didn't even hide the bright killing intent, and everyone could see some of Prince Yu's thoughts, but everyone turned a blind eye and let Prince Yu vent.

Either way, Zhen San is dead, and it makes no difference whether he dies early or late.

Because Zhen Er and Zhen San really didn't know much, everyone had no choice but to invite Mrs. Zhen to the hall again.

When Mrs. Zhen came to the court, she saw Zhen San and Zhen Er who were beaten into blood. Even if she and these two bastards were just trying to save face, seeing that the two bastards were almost beaten to death, The old lady Zhen couldn't help but turn red with anger.

Goodbye to the new crown prince with a smug look on his face, implying that she dragged the fifth prince into the water, the old lady Zhen became more and more annoyed.

She scolded angrily: "If our Zhen family hadn't become a pawn and pulled down the deposed prince, how could the prince be established as a prince! Now that the prince has won the throne, we will throw our Zhen family aside."

That person only forced her to expose the truth about the deposed prince, but he didn't care what she did. Even if she died, she would drag the new prince into the water.

If you want to be dirty, then everyone should be dirty together. In this royal family, no one is cleaner than the other.

The new prince's face was pale, and he said angrily: "You are talking nonsense!"