Lord Shoufu, your wife has escaped!

In the evening of winter, the lanterns of the Xiangfu lit up one after another. People can only see it when they look inside. The lanterns are all made of glazed, carved with exquisite fish, birds, flowers and insects, which are even more beautiful than There is even more luxury in the palace.

However, this is the case, and others would like to praise him for being thrifty and self-restraining, because he only ordered 81 lamps, and he didn't even build a tall building this year, but only built a garden.

Zhang Li sat cross-legged in the living room, the porch was wide open, just enough to take in the scenery, more than ten stoves were burned in the room, it was as warm as a spring day.

Xiao Yu sat on the side, lowered his head, and said respectfully: "If Hui Ge is old, Yu Taiqing has already sent people to Xianzhou to arrest the county magistrate and magistrate who majored in rivers."

"Letting them build dams is a matter of benefiting the common people. They are so perfunctory, and causing such disasters, beheading, or sending them to the frontier is their due punishment." Zhang Li said lightly.

The implication is that it is all the fault of his subordinates and has nothing to do with him.

Xiao Yu looked at Zhang Li, and found that he was very old, with age spots on his face and snow-white hair.

When the late emperor was still there, Zhang Li was not what he is now.He devoted himself to state affairs, dedicated himself to death, otherwise the late emperor would not have given him the military power for safekeeping.

However, people's hearts will change. After realizing that he can easily handle the new emperor, but the new emperor dared not do anything to him, Zhang Li's behavior became more and more arrogant. He has nothing to do.

He just hosted a birthday party, whether it was building a garden or giving generous gifts, it was all voluntary by others, so what did he have to do with it?

Unloading mills and killing donkeys, crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, couldn't be easier.

Even in the case of Yang Yixiu before, Zhang Li never ran too much, because he knew that the best culprit in this matter was Yang Yixiu, and if he said more, the fire might burn himself.

Zhang Li's prudent self-protection made Xiao Yu secretly shudder, and couldn't help but wonder if one day, he would become that donkey that was killed.

"Xiao Yu?" The other staff at the side called him softly, "What are you thinking?"

Xiao Yu came back to his senses, and hurriedly said: "The lower official is thinking, that Gu Mingzhou swears to raise the Xianzhou flood case, will there be other bargaining chips that we don't know about?"

"What bargaining chip do you have?" One of the aides sneered, "In my opinion, it's just to see us impeach Yu Taiqing and retaliate indiscriminately."

"No, the magistrate of Xianzhou is not a fool. If you don't plead guilty, you will be fine. If you plead guilty, you will be decapitated and sent to the army... Three years ago, Gu Mingzhou was still in the scientific examination. What can he know?"

According to common sense, it is true.However, Gu Mingzhou gave him too much strange feeling, especially when Sun Sibo's case was used to threaten him, Xiao Yu felt a sense of crisis towards Gu Mingzhou.

Seeing Xiao Yu's brows were tightly locked, Zhang Li also nodded slowly: "Xiao Yu is right, you should be more cautious. There are not many people in the world who would reject the old man's advances. He is very courageous and dangerous. .I have sent someone to keep an eye on him, and they will report to me if there is any new movement."

"Master Shoufu has the foresight, and the lower officials are ashamed."

At this moment, a petty official rushed in hurriedly, dusty and dignified, glanced at the crowd, hesitant to speak.

Zhang Li waved his hand: "These are all the old man's confidantes, it doesn't matter."

"Returning to my lord, Gu Mingzhou has already escorted the prefect of Xianzhou and the prefect of Xianzhou back to Beijing, and I even found out that Gu Mingzhou has already pried open the mouth of the prefect of Xianzhou and wrote a pleading paper first!"

Zhang Li was reaching for the teacup, when he heard this, his hand trembled and there was an unsteady crisp sound.

The staff turned pale with shock: "How is it possible, is the magistrate dying?"

"The villain didn't know about it, but when the two adults in Xianzhou argued for reason, the man surnamed Gu didn't panic at all. He seemed to be very confident..."

The crowd fell silent.

Gu Mingzhou's unreasonable playing of cards has caused them a lot of suffering, and now they don't know what cards he is holding, which is really worrying.

"It doesn't matter," Zhang Li said, "As long as the evidence disappears, then Gu Mingzhou is a god, and there is no way to convict him."

"You mean..."

Zhang Li narrowed his eyes slowly.

A few days later, the magistrate of Xianzhou and the magistrate of Xianzhou entered Beijing, and all kinds of files and documents in Xianzhou in the past three years were also sorted out overnight and sent to the emperor's palace overnight.

Li Hongyuan flipped through these old documents, and his brows became tighter the more he looked at them.

At the same time, the confession form from Yangzhou also arrived in Beijing, sent to the Forbidden City together, and passed back and forth between a pair of hands.

Suddenly, one of the hands stopped and tore the confession to pieces!

Li Hongyuan walked back and forth in the room: "Gu Mingzhou went to arrest some officials in Xianzhou, and he hasn't come back yet?"

"If you go back to the emperor, you will arrive in two days."

"There are no paperwork or letters sent up?"

The eunuch whispered: "If you go back to the emperor, no."

Li Hongyuan was impatient and threw the paperweight in his hand: "What is he doing to eat? He has not achieved any results so far. How dare he boast to me!"

The eunuchs all knelt down on the ground and said repeatedly: "The emperor calm down!"

Li Hongyuan took a deep breath, feeling extremely anxious.

Ordering the investigation of this case was already a signal to attack Zhang Li. A careless move may cause the loss of a minister in the court and intensify the conflict between him and Zhang Li. If the situation becomes sensitive, it may be out of control.

Fortunately, Gu Mingzhou's escort was not slow. In two days, the guilty minister arrived in the capital, and Li Hongyuan immediately ordered Yu Taiqing to go to the imperial study for trial.

It was almost noon, and the most important people in the Daxing Dynasty gathered in the imperial study.

Yu Taiqing was the first to speak, and reported the recent achievements to the emperor, and also to the ministers.

"When the dams were built in Xianzhou that day, there was already a phenomenon of cutting corners. Three years ago, most of them were already on the verge of collapse. I dared to guess that some people were so bold that they did not stop doing one thing, and simply flooded the fields. Give a natural disaster!"

Zhang Li raised his voice: "It's more than half, it's a guess. Dare I ask Mr. Yu, did the investigations all rely on guesswork?"

"Master Shoufu wants evidence, alright, then the old minister will show the evidence to all your lords!" Yu Taiqing turned his head and signaled his subordinates, "Go and bring the two guilty ministers here!"

The subordinate led the order, and ran in in a panic after a while.

"My lord, no, it's not good..."

Yu Taiqing frowned and reprimanded: "Are you the one who can be presumptuous in front of the emperor? Tell me clearly, what's the matter!"

"The magistrate of Xianzhou and the magistrate of Xianzhou... committed suicide in fear of crime!"

Yu Taiqing's eyes widened in disbelief, and he turned his head to look at Zhang Li.

The latter's face was calm, with only an undetectable faint smile on the corner of his lips.