Chapter 275 The Magical Use of the Recorder
Soon, the soldiers and yamen runners who were good at swimming went into the water. After a while, someone dragged something up and threw it to the shore with all his might.
Immediately someone screamed, "Bones!"
"What bones?"
This is a thigh bone, very long and large, and it is difficult to tell what kind of bone it is.
But everyone began to feel a chill in their hearts: What could be thrown into a pond in a remote yard?
As if to confirm everyone's speculation, another person came up and a skull was deliberately thrown at the students' feet by the officer in the water.
The students who were just full of enthusiasm jumped up in surprise: "Ah!"
"Heads!"
"God..."
"Dead..."
"It's human bones..."
Some people began to feel weak in the legs, some began to vomit, and some began to tremble and scream.
Before everyone could finish exclaiming, corpses were fished out one after another.
The coroner who had been waiting on the side began to get busy.
Fight bones.
The length of time the corpses were submerged in the water varied.
Some have become just bones, while others have only been dead for a few days. In such cold weather, there are still flesh and clothes on the skeletons...
The people and students fell silent, and fear and anger began to spread in everyone's hearts.
This is the residence of the Right Prime Minister!
There are so many human corpses in the lotus pond in his backyard?
If you say it was done by a thief and the Right Prime Minister's family knew nothing about it, who would believe it?
At this time, the Minister of Justice came out with a stern face and announced loudly.
"Your Majesty has ordered that Lin Haotian, the son of Right Prime Minister Lin Hongchang, kidnapped and tortured a married woman, tortured her to death and threw her into a lotus pond. When Lin Hongchang learned of this, he not only did not stop it, but also raised catfish to destroy the body..."
"Right Prime Minister Lin Hongchang used his family's Jinghong Bookstore to solicit bribes and sell pens, inkstones and inkstones at high prices, indirectly selling official positions and writing inscriptions..."
"After investigation, it was found that the student Yan Jianming bought a wolf-hair brush at a high price of 1,000 taels in exchange for the examination questions for next spring..."
The people were in an uproar, but the students looked at the leading student Yan Jianming in disbelief.
They were instigated by Yan Jianming to come here this time, and originally thought they were pleading for the students and the people of the world.
Who knew that I was actually being used by someone with ulterior motives and became a knife in someone else's hand?
"Yan Jianming! I trust you so much!" A thin student suddenly struggled to stand up and was about to hit Yan Jianming.
The yamen runner's hand slipped, allowing him to break free, so he immediately pounced on him, grabbed Yan Jianming and started beating him with a hammer.
Yan Jianming collapsed on the ground as if dead, neither resisting nor making a sound.
Ever since the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Justice told him that he had bought a wolf-hair brush from Jinghong Bookstore at a high price of 1,000 taels, he had already given up.
Just die.
Anyway, his future, his prospects, and the hope of getting his mother to move out of Li Xiangyuan are all gone.
Yan Jianming was originally a bastard's son. He was ambitious and used all means to get close to the right prime minister, thinking that victory was in sight.
That’s the right prime minister!
Under one person, above ten thousand people!
The left prime minister is old and weak and rarely argues with others, while the right prime minister is the most powerful official of the dynasty!
Who would have thought that the Right Prime Minister would be so vulnerable and be caught by His Majesty the Emperor so quickly?
Moreover, it was such a disgusting and chilling evidence.
On the surface, the Right Prime Minister, who seemed to be a gentleman and elegant, actually allowed his legitimate son to rob and kill married women...
He also helped to destroy the body.
Emperor Tianwu exposed this scandal without saying a word.
No scruples!
Isn’t it said that the Fu family father and son seized the throne by force, and are wary of the civil and military officials in the court and will not easily touch the powerful officials?
The Right Prime Minister fell, and on the same day, huge amounts of property were seized from the homes of the Right Prime Minister, his personal steward, and his brother!
Among them, there are hundreds of thousands of taels of gold alone!
Not to mention more than one million taels of silver, various antique paintings and calligraphy, jewels and curios, countless house deeds and land deeds...The three-foot-tall blood-red coral tree was something that even the aristocratic families had never seen, but the Right Prime Minister's warehouse actually copied out a pair of them at once!
When Emperor Tianwu ordered people to search and confiscate the property of the common people, he did not avoid them.
The common people who followed the students into the Lin Mansion and the common people who were watching outside saw boxes of precious jewels, gold and silver being carried out of the Lin Mansion like flowing water...
At the beginning, some people spoke out for innocuous reasons to defend Lin Xiang.
Wait for the boxes of things to be carried out, and someone will count them and seal the boxes on the spot.
The boxes were placed on the bluestone street in front of Prime Minister Lin's mansion, and everyone was dumbfounded.
With so many things going on, who would believe Lin Xiang if he said he was innocent? !
Even if I had known that Lin Xiang was not innocent, I would still be dumbfounded.
I knew that Mr. Lin was not innocent, but I didn't expect him to be so innocent.
This is almost as much as the annual tax revenue of the Daliang Dynasty!
The emperor has to support so many troops and ministers, but the right prime minister only has to support his own family.
With this calculation, the seemingly low-key right prime minister is actually richer than the emperor?
In the teahouse, a tea drinker whispered to his tablemate: "Do you think the Right Prime Minister is the richest official in the court?"
The tea drinker who was asked curled his lips and said, "Who knows? We only searched two houses."
Everyone was silent.
In less than a day, the truth that "the right prime minister was rich enough to rival a country" exploded in the capital, and spread to major provinces and neighboring countries at an alarming speed.
Fu Zhonghai used such a high-profile method to successfully silence all the civil and military officials in the court.
Jinghong Bookstore was sealed up, and a thick stack of account books was placed on the emperor's dragon desk.
In the Golden Throne Hall, he patted the thick account book, his eyes gleaming with lightning.
"Inside this is the account of Jinghong Bookstore."
"I don't care what you have done in the past. From the moment I ascend the throne, if you can change your ways and behave properly, I can pretend to be blind and deaf as much as possible."
"Unless I can't help it."
"If anyone dares to take advantage of the people, take advantage of the imperial court's money, or does not do their best, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
These words made everyone feel awe-inspiring, and they knelt down one after another to express that they would do the job well and not cause trouble to His Majesty.
As for how many of them were sincere and how many were forced, Emperor Tianwu didn't care.
All he wants is results.
Killing a chicken to scare the monkey may work for a while.
After the court was dismissed, Emperor Tianwu and Fu Chenan sat down in the imperial study, and the father and son drank tea and talked.
Did the Right Prime Minister really let the students cause trouble just to disgust the Emperor?
impossible.
He was able to become the Right Prime Minister, which shows that he is capable.
After reading the information his father gave him, Fu Chenan's face turned cold: "He has already reached the highest position in the government, why does he still want to cling to the traitor?"
Fu Zhonghai sneered: "He looks down on us father and son and thinks we won't last long."
"In order to be rich and prosperous in the future, he must first choose a master, and then help the master conquer the world and achieve unprecedented achievements."
He chose the King of Southern Ming.
But obviously, he did not expect that the emperor would suddenly take action on the day when the students made trouble.
The house was searched and the charges were announced, with complete evidence and it was done in full view of the public, leaving no room for anyone to argue.
When they thought of this, Fu Zhonghai and Fu Chenan couldn't help but think of Xiao Yingchun.
The recorder provided by Xiao Yingchun was a great help.
Some time ago, secret guards carried recorders and shuttled around the study rooms of various court officials every midnight.
Put it down today and change it tomorrow.
The replaced recorder is charged and exported...
Then, based on the information revealed by the court officials, we will verify and find evidence...
The secret guards are busy like dogs, and there are results every day.
(End of this chapter)