Chapter 973 Rotten Eggs
A new round of eye fighting began between Emperor Jing and Qin Tianye.
Just when Ye Qingfeng was so angry that he wanted to rush up to kill Qin Tianye, Emperor Jing He spoke, "You said it was the Empress Dowager who asked you to station troops in Sigu Niangshan? When did this happen? Why did I never hear the Empress Dowager mention it?"
From "Mother Queen" to "Empress Dowager", from "Duke, you" to "Qing", the change in the name mentioned by Emperor Jinghe made Qin Tianye froze, and suddenly remembered the scene of the previous emperor's life. He calmed down and replied, "Long live to hold his back."
Emperor Jinghe said calmly, "No need, you just want to talk."
Qin Tianye's eyes swept over Yang Feng and Ye Qingfeng who were hanging their heads, and then fell back to Jinghedi, "Long live back. In the autumn of the 23rd year of Hezheng, Dong Jin went to Beijing to meet with the secret meeting of King An, leaving behind three hundred Liangzhou warriors for King An, and these people were hidden in Jingyu Temple. How long live to know?"
Jing Hedi shook his head, "I don't know."
"The old minister reported this matter to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother was very worried and suggested that the soldiers come to block the water and soil and secretly garrison troops outside the city to prepare for emergencies."
Qin Tianye talked about the "past events" without any guilt. "I followed the imperial edict of the Empress Dowager and ordered people to find a place to hide soldiers outside Kang'an City. Finally, I chose Siguniang Mountain. Raising soldiers requires food and money. I was forced to deduct a part of the food and money transported to Suzhou and sent it to Siguniang Mountain. Long live the matter behind me."
Afterwards, most of the 800,000 grain and salary transported to Suzhou were corrupted by local officials, and the 25,000 soldiers of Zuowuwei were given less than 300,000 taels of food and salary, asking them to rely on this food and salary for half a year. Because there was no food in the army and no grass in the war horses, the turmoil broke out in the spring of the following year, shocking the government and the public. The late emperor was furious and ordered the Ministry of Justice to thoroughly investigate the case. Because Du Hai'an was so worried, Jiang Mian and Meng Huizhou were the first to try the case.
Then, Jiang Mian discovered something strange in the case, and was silenced before the memorial was finished. A group of criminals and the evidence was burned out in the fire. The late emperor's condition worsened and he died in the autumn of the 25th year of Hezheng.
Later, Chai Dai, the fifth monarch of the Great Zhou Dynasty, ascended the throne, and the emperor was named Jinghe, and the year was Jinglong. The first year of Jinglong was the 25th year of Hezheng.
Qin Tianye looked at Emperor Jinghe quietly, as if he had a great pain, and it was hard to describe the hidden secret.
Emperor Jinghe understood the meaning of his expression: Your mother and I were stationing troops and stealing grain to help you seize the throne. If the Qin family had not done their best for you, would Chai Dai be able to ascend to the great treasure and live in the country?
If you want to investigate the private soldiers in Sigu Niang Mountain, the result will be to let the world know that the late emperor was angry to death by his mother and uncle who seized the throne for you. Before his death, the late emperor did not pass the throne to you. The throne was taken by my Qin family for you.
If you want to destroy the Qin family, you can’t even save your throne!
Oh……
Emperor Jing He sneered in his heart. If Zhang Qing had not risked his life to advise, he might have been fooled by Qin Tianye again today and fell into self-blame and guilt again, and the case would have been left unresolved.
But now, Emperor Jinghe only had a blazing anger in his heart. His father knew that Qin Tianye embezzled food and wages and burned the Ministry of Justice, and passed the throne to him Chai Dai, because he believed that he could clear the court. What if the empress dowager ruined the will? What if Qin Tianye pushed all the blame to the late empress dowager?
Chai Dai is the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. This is the world of the Chai family. How can Qin Tianye be allowed to turn the world upside down?
Emperor Jinghe is no longer the same as before. He asked calmly, "Do you have the imperial edict to ask the Queen Mother to raise private soldiers?"
Qin Tianye lowered his eyes, "These are all spoken by the Empress Dowager in front of the minister, and there is no imperial decree."
"If there is no imperial edict, you will commit the following crime of slandering Empress Gong Xiaocheng of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I can now punish you for deceiving the emperor!" The three words Gong Xiaocheng are the posthumous title of Empress Kang. Now that I read these three words, Emperor Jinghe only felt that every word was heart-wrenching, and his voice could not help but tremble.
Qin Tianye knelt down on his knees with his purple robe, touched the ground with a black gauze, and said sadly, "Long live the punishment of his ministers."
Emperor Jinghe's breathing involuntarily increased. After a while, he calmed down his voice and said majesticly, "Qin Tianye, you have four crimes: First, you found out that there were soldiers hidden in Jingyu Temple, but you did not report this to my father; second, you slander Empress Gong Xiaocheng without any evidence; third, you privately detained the food and wages transported to the Zuowuwei of Suzhou; fourth..."
Emperor Jing He stood up and walked to Qin Tianye, lowered his eyes and looked at the black veil on his head, and continued, "Fourth, I have been ascending the throne for ten years, and you are still hiding thousands of private soldiers in Sigu Niang Mountain, this is this..."
"Long live the face..."
"I don't want to listen to your quibbling again!" Emperor Jing He threw his dragon robe and sat back on the dragon throne. "I will order people to verify what you said today. If you have half a lie, it will be that the four crimes will be one by one, and you will be punished strictly without lending! Retreat!!!"
"...I, I will receive the order and thank you." Qin Tianye kowtowed respectfully, but did not retreat directly. Instead, he continued to carry out the duties of entrusting the important officials and advised him, "The Khitan is eyeing him, so I ask long live to send great generals with great military achievements to guard the border before they can retreat."
What he meant was that Jiang Feng had no military achievements and could not command the imperial guards? Yang Feng lowered his head and sneered at the corner of his mouth.
Ye Qingfeng clenched his fists and secretly scolded him for seeing shameless people, but he really didn't see such shameless people!
Emperor Jing He suppressed his anger and said calmly, "I know."
"The old minister said he would leave." Qin Tianye stood up, retreated respectfully to the outside of the hall before turning around and leaving.
After his back disappeared step by step under the steps, the gate of Yang Fengguan Palace returned to Emperor Jinghe. Before he could speak, Emperor Jinghe said, "Give me the secret message today."
"Yes." Yang Feng took out the secret memorial sent by Jiang Feng today from the secret compartment of the bedroom.
When he expanded the memorial, he felt much more relieved when he saw Jiang Feng's words. He picked up the tea and drank it before reading the memorial carefully.
As usual, the memorial was about military affairs first: the day before yesterday, the border city garrison Guan Yue and the general led 500 officers and soldiers of the border city to retreat to the 300 cavalry led by Khitan general Mo Kunge for fifty miles. The adopted son of the minister, Ren Lingsheng, also followed General Guan out of the city to meet the enemy. He sent a letter and said that he was not injured.
When Emperor Jing He looked here, his face calmed down slightly.
Then came the Civil Affairs of Suzhou, and finally Jiang Feng wrote a daily thing:
"I used the good medicine given by Long Live, and the wound on my leg has been healed. Today, I went out to inspect the yamen. An old man in a shabby clothes gave me a basket of eggs. I thanked me for sending someone to help him get back half acre of fertile land occupied by the village.
The case was supervised by Lord Zeng. The old man put down his back basket and ran away. Without time to explain, he had to take the eggs back to the back yamen and hand them over to Lord Zeng. After opening the back basket, he found that although the thirteen eggs in the basket were separated by straw, three were still broken.
If I receive thirteen eggs in Kang'an, I will think that the old man is not sincere. But in Suzhou, I know that this is the most valuable thing in his family. I and Lord Zeng couldn't bear to let down the old man's good intentions and ordered people to go to the kitchen to fry them. Unexpectedly, the chef came over and reported that three of the ten intact eggs had turned yellow and black and turned stinky."
Jing Hedi raised his lips and continued to read.
"I have never seen rotten eggs. When I brought them to see them, they were really smelly. The yamen said that if the eggs are left for a long time or frozen, they will be damaged. I thought that the old man would find that the eggs were smelly, so he would not be willing to throw them away, but cooked them and ate them.
I couldn't bear it and ordered the yamen to pack a basket of hungry food to send it to the old man, hoping that he could survive the time when the wild vegetables on the roadside grew up, and he could dig up the wild vegetables. If there was rain and snow again in the past half month, I would like to open the warehouse to release grain to help the people of Suzhou overcome this difficulty. I hereby guarantee that after this difficulty, after three years of governance, water conservancy and land reclamation, there will be no hunger in Suzhou. I will kneel down."
Emperor Jing He took a deep breath and closed the memorial, "I, I will eat fried eggs tonight."
Chapter completed!