250. Chapter 250 Tree Falling and Hozen Scattering
Including the water ghosts who caused mischief underwater, the people who changed the packaging in the middle, the people who were responsible for escorting the goods, the people who sold the goods, and the people who were responsible for laundering the money, I have all been arrested and brought to justice."
"Your Majesty, what the Crown Prince said is true! Your Majesty, please listen to what I have to say..."
The queen crawled to Beiming Shenguang in tears and said with tears in her eyes: "The prince really has never received a tael of silver. This salt case was not instigated by the prince at all. Think about it, the prince has been living in the house all year round.
Lu, where did you come up with such a bad idea?
This... this was all Ling Zhongqing's idea to curry favor with the prince. But after he gave the first sum of money to Cao Guard, Guard Cao disappeared and has not been found so far.
It is unknown whether he fled with the money or was intercepted and killed his concubine. Ling Zhongqing failed to curry favor with the prince for the first time, so after King Xuan left Jizhou, he did another thing.
Your Majesty, you can resolve the case fairly every time. This case really has nothing to do with the prince, and the prince really has never received any money from Ling Zhongqing! If you don’t believe it... If you don’t believe it, you can search the prince’s palace and the concubine’s palace."
"Mother, if you say this now, how will your father answer you? Who would put such a large sum of money in the prince's palace or the queen's palace?
Since you dare to say this, it means that this money has been hidden by you a long time ago. How can we find it? But this case has already been stolen and the truth has been revealed. It cannot be solved by just shifting it to others.
Everything has to be left to the father’s decision.”
"Depose Prince Beimingqi from his position and temporarily imprison him in the Prince's Mansion. The case will be heard by the Ministry of Punishments... Just do whatever you want!"
After saying that, Beiming Shenguang stood up dejectedly and left the Yizheng Hall alone. The rest of the people in the Yizheng Hall were left in silence for a long time without saying anything more.
Ten days later, the case was concluded and the imperial edict was issued.
Prince Bei Mingqi instigated his subordinates to misappropriate disaster relief funds from the Jizhou Grand Canal. In order to make up for the shortfall, he also allowed his subordinates to create salt scandals, which made the people in the upper reaches of the canal miserable. His behavior is not worthy of being a prince. He is hereby deposed as Prince Bei Mingqi and sent to the northern grasslands.
, he will never be able to return to Beijing.
Ling Zhongqing, the magistrate of Jizhou, misappropriated disaster relief funds from the Jizhou Grand Canal before planning and initiating the Salt Case. His behavior was so criminal that he was immediately paraded through the Meridian Gate and beheaded in public.
All of Ling Zhongqing's property was confiscated. His family members, the men, were sent to the army as slaves, and the women were made into military prostitutes.
In addition, Ling Zhongqing's eldest son Ling Xiye and second daughter Ling Qingyue were not included in the category of Ling Zhongqing's children because they had previously agreed with the Holy Father to completely sever ties with the Ling family and change their surname to Jiang.
Once the imperial edict is issued, it will be implemented immediately.
On this day, the people in the upper reaches of Jizhou were excited. It turned out that they had not been able to eat salt for so many months. It was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.
When Ling Zhongqing paraded through the Meridian Gate, the angry people almost blocked the street. Even people from nearby cities came here.
With so many people cheering for us, not to mention parading through the streets, the prison car was blocked as soon as it left the Meridian Gate and could not move at all.
The Ministry of Justice originally sent 400 guards to maintain order at the scene, but how could these 400 guards stop the angry crowd?
At first, the people very politely threw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs into the cars, spitted at them, and threw pots of feces into the cars.
Later, the people became more and more excited and angry.