King Duan, who had just been urgently summoned to the palace, stopped, thought for a moment, looked at a eunuch and asked: "Do you know why your Majesty summoned me to the palace?"
The eunuch shook his head and said, "Go back to Your Majesty, Your Majesty didn't say anything."
King Duan stopped in place for a moment, and finally took steps again.
He had just learned the news that Han Ming, the Minister of Household Affairs, had been arrested. He was anxious and scratching his heart, thinking about how to rescue him with the counselors in the palace, when he was summoned to the palace.
Han Ming is the most important secret chess piece in his hand and his source of wealth. If something happens to Han Ming, it will be a huge blow to him.
He still didn't know the reason why Han Ming was arrested, but until the last moment, he was unwilling to give up a money-spinner that could influence the situation in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Fortunately, few people in the capital knew about his relationship with Han Ming. At this moment, he wanted to find out the news from his father before making any plans.
The eunuch led him to a certain place and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is at Chongming Hall, please go in."
King Duan was a little surprised that the place where his father summoned him was not in the Imperial Study Room. Chongming Hall was the place where his father usually meditated, and officials were rarely summoned here.
He pushed the door open and entered. Chen Huang stood in the hall, with his back to him, and said slowly: "Close the door."
Prince Duan closed the door with some anxiety, took two steps forward, and asked, "I wonder what my father has ordered when he summons his ministers?"
Emperor Chen looked at him and said expressionlessly: "Kneel down."
Prince Duan was startled and opened his mouth: "Father..."
Chen Huang said coldly: "Kneel down!"
King Duan did not dare to ask any more questions and knelt down.
Emperor Chen pointed to a piece of white cloth in the palace and asked, "Do you know what this is?"
King Duan looked over and said blankly: "I don't know."
Emperor Chen said coldly: "This is Han Ming, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue."
King Duan was startled for a moment, then his face turned pale, his body trembled slightly, and he forced himself to regain his composure.
Emperor Chen looked at him and asked: "As the right minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Han Ming has embezzled millions of taels of tax money from the country in the past few years. What do you think of this matter?"
"My lord, my lord..." Prince Duan had beads of sweat on his forehead and whispered, "My lord, I think that Han Ming deserved his punishment and deserved his death for committing such a heinous crime..."
boom!
Chen Huang kicked him on the street of Duanwang with such force that he moved several feet horizontally on the ground.
"Is he worthy of death?" Bloodshot eyes appeared in Chen Huang's eyes, and he lowered his voice: "You think I don't know that you have already won over Han Ming; you think I don't know that all the money he embezzled ended up in your pocket; do you think I don't know?
I don’t know who is the culprit in this case!”
Chen Huang gasped and said a few words, which caused King Duan's complexion to change drastically. He knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Father, the emperor clearly knows that this case has nothing to do with my son. This case has nothing to do with my son!"
Chen Huang took a deep breath and said: "What a good minister Han Ming is. Where is the treasury? You turned a good minister into a traitor. How dare you reach out to the treasury... You are so brave!"
Prince Duan's face suddenly turned pale and bloodless, and he said in panic: "Father, father, I am not a son, this is not a son..."
Emperor Chen turned to look at Wei Jian and said, "Bring the torture stick."
…
Han Ming, the Minister of Household Affairs, embezzled a huge amount of silver from the national treasury and committed suicide in fear of crime. Once the news about this case came out, it was like a huge stone, causing the already uneasy lake in the capital to once again stir up huge waves.
This was the largest corruption case in the country in recent years, shocking both the government and the public. In just one day, word spread throughout the capital.
Han Ming committed suicide out of fear of crime, but the case was not over yet.
After a thorough investigation by the court, all the accomplices involved in the case were traced. A head of the household department, two doctors, and local officials from three prefectures in Bozhou were all arrested.
Dare to reach out to the treasury, their results are not much better than Han Ming, but what surprised countless people is that after Han Ming committed suicide in fear of crime, King Duan was inexplicably banned by His Majesty for three months. According to rumors, King Duan was detained by His Majesty
He was beaten until he was unconscious in the Chongming Palace and was carried out by the eunuchs that day.
The grapevine also said that the reason why Han Ming, the Minister of Accounts, was found to be corrupt was precisely because Tang Ning, who was the head of the Accounts Department at the time, came up with an accounting method when checking the accounts of the Accounts Department, which could easily identify whether the accounts were corrupt or not.
Fang Zhe, the left minister of the household department, used this method to find out the fact that Han Ming, the right minister, had embezzled taxes and money. This was the reason for this major case that shocked the capital.
Tang Ning had only been in the Ministry of Household Affairs for a month, but he personally brought down the Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, which made all the officials in the capital panic. He added another highlight to his resume.
Although everyone in the capital applauded Han Ming's arrest, Tang Ning, who edited the Hanlin Academy and was also the head of the Household Department, also gained the title of a broom star.
The officialdom is complicated. Of the many officials in the DPRK, who dares to say that his buttocks are clean, and who can withstand strict investigation?
Tang Ning, who is now the head of the Household Department, will become the head of the Punishment Department and the Personnel Department in a few months. By then, it will be unclear whether the unlucky person will be the Vice Minister of the Punishment Department or the Minister of the Personnel Department.
"trouble marker?"
Tangning sat comfortably in the yard, and Xiaoxiao brought grapes transported by water from the south to his mouth. After hearing the news, he opened his eyes with a look of dissatisfaction.
Han Ming deserved what happened to the Minister of Household Affairs. Why did he say that he was the broom star? Even without him, Fang Zhe would not have kept Han Ming in the Ministry of Finance. He had only done a small job in it.
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Xiao Jue walked in from outside and ate a grape. Tang Ning saw him in armor and asked, "Why are you dressed like this?"
Xiao Jue swallowed the grapes with their skins and said: "By your Majesty's order, I am sending Han Ming's wife, daughter and family out of the capital."
The punishment result of this case was actually somewhat beyond Tang Ning's expectations.
The crime Han Ming committed was a major crime against the Yi people, but after he committed suicide in fear of his crime, Emperor Chen pardoned his family. This can be considered extrajudicial mercy.
"It's really unexpected that Han Ming would embezzle taxes and money." Xiao Jue said with a look of regret: "When I was a child, my father often told me about Han Ming's deeds. He was selfless, not afraid of power, and not afraid of life and death. He was
The first remonstrator of the dynasty, who single-handedly defeated the treacherous clique, was the backbone of the court... But who would have thought that the backbone of the court would sometimes bend."
People will change, and various reasons will lead to this change. The sea will turn into a mulberry field, even Xiao Jue can become a real man, and a good minister may naturally become a traitor.
Thinking of the Minister Han who made steamed buns and pickles, Tang Ning still lamented in her heart. When Han Ming's house was ransacked, only more than sixty taels of silver were found in his house. It's sad that a man of Qingliu ended up like this for the sake of Prince Duan...
Tang family.
Tang Qi and Tang Jing were still talking about the suicide of Han Ming, the Minister of Household Affairs, out of fear of guilt. Even Tang Jing expressed enough shock at this incident.
But in a certain study room in the Tang Mansion, the atmosphere was extremely dull.
"Your Majesty is really angry this time. King Duan will need to rest for at least several months before he can fully recover." Tang Qi said in a low voice, "I'm afraid this matter has not been hidden from Your Majesty. It doesn't matter if I lose Han Ming, I'm afraid it will
I'm afraid that after this incident, His Majesty will be completely disappointed with King Duan..."
Tang Huai was silent for a long time before he said: "If this continues, King Kang will completely overwhelm King Duan."
Tang Qi raised his eyebrows and asked, "In this case, won't all our years of planning be in vain?"
"Your Majesty is in the prime of life, and we still have a long time." Tang Huai sat on the chair and said slowly: "King Duan will make mistakes, and King Kang will make mistakes too. Just because King Kang can beat King Duan now, does not mean that he will always be able to beat him.
Wang Yitou..."
Tang Qi thought for a while and asked: "Brother, what do you mean, what should we do?"
"If you do more, you will make more mistakes. If you don't do more, it's better." Tang Huai narrowed his eyes and said, "We don't do anything, just wait for them to make mistakes."
"What if they don't make mistakes?"
"Then create opportunities for them to make mistakes..."
