The dark clouds drooped, the sky was vast, the north wind suddenly rose, making the people on the streets of the Qinglong Imperial Capital fall from place to place
A few hours later, the Qinglong Emperor ushered in a heavy snow that was rare in a century.
Heavy snow covered the entire imperial capital, the palace, the official residence, and the houses, all covered with a white gauze skirt. Under the sunlight, it was very enchanting.
In the house of the Grand Secretary of the Three Pavilions, the servants were busy dressing up lights and preparing to celebrate their master's fiftieth birthday tomorrow.
Suddenly, an old man dressed in a palace eunuch came from the end of the alley, with his pace fast and his face sad.
Before entering the door, the old eunuch went to the Du family servant at the door and said, "Hurry up, notify the Grand Secretary, something big happened!"
That winter, it snowed heavily in the Qinglong Emperor Capital.
That winter, the emperor received a secret letter impeaching an ordinary editor of the Hanlin Academy.
The secret letter said: This editor of Hanlin Academy has been a long-term editor, who has been corrupt and abused the law and used his power for personal gain. He has lost a total of 100 million taels of silver in the state's public funds.
Originally, this was a small matter, but the huge amount of 100 million taels of silver at the end was shocked by the emperor!
How could a small editor of the Hanlin Academy have the ability to swallow a huge sum of 100 million taels of silver?
But the truth is not the emperor's turn to suspect it
The secret letter clearly lists what year and month, what amount of money is this editor withdrawn from what public funds
The evidence was conclusive and the number was huge. The emperor was furious in the court the next day and said that he would let the Dali Temple and the Censorate, together with the Ministry of Justice, thoroughly investigate the case. No matter how high the official position of the person involved was, he would be imprisoned and pending trial!
Everyone in the court turned their attention to the Grand Secretary of the Three Pavilions, Du Lefeng, because he was the director of the Hanlin Academy.
If this case was not involved very widely, how did a minor official who edited books in the Hanlin Academy get 100 million taels of silver from the Ministry of Works?
If the case involves a lot, how could he not know that Du Lefeng, the Grand Secretary of the Three Pavilions, as the head of the Hanlin Academy and the head of the Cultural Party?
Du Lefeng, an important official of the two dynasties, had already sweated profusely. The enemy was so big when he took action, but he didn't know who the enemy was!
Is it the emperor who wanted to uproot their Cultural Party?
Is it a confidant of the imperial concubine who designed a counterattack for the Huguo Temple case?