The Reborn Wife is Farming

First, Mu Bowen's letters and articles insinuated that Lan Shilang was not capable enough to be an official, and Qi Haoran was to be blamed for his own poor ability to commit suicide, successfully shifting the topic away from Qi Haoran.

As soon as the courtiers were about to respond, Qi Xiuyuan quickly removed Lan Shilang from his position and asked the Ministry of Officials to re-evaluate him. Although he didn't say it clearly, he agreed with Mu Bowen's point of view.

So the next day, an old man went to Dali Temple to beat drums to protest his grievances. He said that Qi Haoran, Prince Rong, had been emptied of his salary during the war against gold last year. There is evidence of Qi Haoran eating empty pay and embezzling soldiers' pay.

The courtiers immediately asked the emperor to let Prince Rong return to Beijing for confrontation and separation.

Qi Xiuyuan flipped through the evidence submitted by Dali Temple, and said with a sneer, "It's just two letters, not even an account book, so what kind of evidence is it? The Dali Temple will conduct a thorough investigation, and Prince Rong will defend himself."

In other words, Prince Rong does not need to return to Beijing.

The few ministers below looked at each other, and their hearts sank slightly.

Although Qi Haoran will block their way in Beijing, they are still under their noses, and they can quickly respond to what the other party does, but at this time when the person runs out of the capital, they are not very good at monitoring him or dealing with him. It's convenient, it's like fighting a cow across the mountain, no matter how hard they try, they can't reach each other.

It seems that the "evidence" needs to be more specific.

So Dali Temple quickly found out an account book...

Fan Zijin was furious when he saw this, and said furiously: "The food and grass for the war against Jin are all prepared by this king to be escorted. You are not so much corrupted by Prince Rong as corrupted by this king. Why bother to make a copy?" Here comes the ledger!"

Fan Zijin sneered while holding the account book, "Twenty thousand gold, but two hundred thousand taels, do you think that Prince Rong is so poor that he can afford such a thing? You go outside to inquire, and the annual income of the glass workshop and watch workshop is not enough. It's less than a million taels, so he needs to go to great lengths to get the two thousand taels!"

The courtiers sneered and said, "Who would think that money is too little? Two hundred thousand taels is indeed not much for the prince's family property, but it is life-saving food for soldiers at the border."

"That's why the prince's move is even more sinister." A minister continued.

"That's right, why should he embezzle the hard-earned money of the soldiers when he is not short of money?"

It was Qi Haoran who did it.

Qi Xiuyuan sneered and said: "It's normal for you to have doubts in your heart. Since this is the case, it's better to investigate thoroughly with the whole army to see if there are other incidents of empty pay and embezzlement of food and grass."

The courtiers were taken aback, wouldn't this make things worse?

They just wanted to drag Qi Haoran into the water, and they didn't want to set fire to the entire Daqi army, so they hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it will take too much manpower and material resources to thoroughly investigate the entire army. Now that there is evidence of Prince Rong's corruption, why don't we just investigate thoroughly?" This matter?"

Qi Xiuyuan smiled meaningfully, "That's fine, let's use this as a breakthrough point to investigate."

Although the emperor let go, the civil servants were still a little uneasy, feeling that the emperor agreed too easily.

The civil officials were puzzled, but the generals almost stared at them with a hole.

So it is possible to investigate only Prince Rong?

Since it is necessary to investigate the corruption and bribery case of Prince Rong, it is natural to investigate from the people around him, as well as the supervisor who was in charge of dispatching grain and grass at that time, the soldiers who escorted grain and grass, and the logistics officer who recorded the entry and exit of the warehouse, etc., and then let them investigate. When they went to the post station where the grain and grass stopped, the army waited, and almost the whole army was involved bit by bit.

It's not yet known how many people will be involved.

The soldiers with clean hands and feet were at most worried that they would be implicated, while those with dirty hands and feet were frightened, and hurriedly tried to find a way to get the matter over.

It is impossible for Prince Rong to be involved in the corruption case, let alone the emperor doesn't believe it, even they don't believe it either.

The soldiers of the three armies don't know that Prince Rong loves soldiers like sons, and what he hates the most are people who eat empty pay and embezzle food and grass. Even if they were once his capable subordinates, once they are found, they will be dealt with by military law.

Therefore, the generals all guessed that the criminal evidence books and letters were all forged. If they are forged, they will be found out one day. In order to end this matter as soon as possible, they can only clear up the grievances of Prince Rong and prevent Dali Temple from going deep. Check it out.

Therefore, before Qi Xiuyuan and Fan Zijin could make a move, chaos broke out among the courtiers. The civil servants wanted to investigate the matter in depth, so as to create evidence in order to let Qi Haoran be convicted of corruption, but the generals tried their best. To stop it, the courtiers who were originally united to fight against the reform were divided.

Qi Xiuyuan saw him and Fan Zijin sneered and said, "Your idea is not bad, it's better to make them mess up first, and take this opportunity to wipe out some moths in the army."

Fan Zijin said: "It's not chaotic enough. Now that the army is losing to the civil servants, I want to throw the evidence of corrupt officials in my hands to the generals, and let them use this to coerce the civil servants to make concessions."

Qi Xiuyuan raised his eyebrows, "Then?"

Fan Zijin raised the corners of his mouth, "Then it's natural to do what we can. Although we can't wipe out all the moths on both sides this time, we can still get rid of a lot of people. If the emperor is worried about the shortage of people, he can take advantage of Enke."

"What's the reason?"

"The world is unified, and now all the lost lands in the north and west have been recovered. Such a great opportunity happens to be kind to the people."

Qi Xiuyuan smiled in satisfaction.

The two were still thinking about how to give the evidence to the generals. The news that Qi Haoran had uncovered a corrupt official in Ye County spread to the capital.

The corrupt official whose surname was Cui was not of the Qinghe Cui clan, but they had the same surname, and the corrupt official Cui and the Cui clan had been linked before, and the most important thing was that he and Lan Shilang were from the same hometown.

Through Lan Shilang, he did not dare to say that he was very close to several ministers in the court, but he still gave gifts a lot.

Corrupt official Cui was on the list of corrupt officials mentioned by Fan Zijin who accepted bribes.

So, Fan Zijin went along with the flow and brought the matter to the generals, and with their help, the corrupt officials Cui found out several second and third-rank ministers in the court.

The reform of the official system has not yet been carried out, and the courtiers are in a mess. Every day, courtiers in the court criticize each other, but Qi Haoran, who should be dealt with the most, is left behind.

Although the court was full of chaos, Qi Xiuyuan was not angry at all, and handed over the investigation of corrupt officials to Dali Temple and Yushitai for joint trial, while he led the courtiers who were still busy with business to reform the official system.

Those in the opposition wanted to oppose, but they were in chaos internally, and it was impossible to unite and fight like they did at the beginning. In addition, Qi Haoran seemed to be addicted to being a patrolling prince, and even started a private visit in a micro-service. If any officials were found If you are greedy and cruel, you must be caught, and he does not try. He just collects evidence and sends it to the higher-level officials for trial or escort back to Beijing and hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment.

There were also courtiers who were dissatisfied with his meddling in local affairs, but Qi Xiuyuan said, "Da Qi was brought down by my fourth brother together with me, and he has a part in this world. Now that his old injury has relapsed, he can't share my worries. If he can visit famous doctors I am very relieved to inspect the place from time to time and check whether the officials are performing their duties faithfully."

Then you are not worried that he will form a party for personal gain and collude with local officials to replace you?