novelraw Chapter 299 Unexpectedly
Chapter 299 Unexpectedly
Although the emperor could not guess that Concubine Hui was going to fish in troubled waters to harm the emperor's eldest grandson, but he has rich experience, whenever something big happened in the court, someone would take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
Therefore, while ordering the secret guards to thoroughly investigate the matter, the emperor also increased the surveillance of the court and harem.
In addition to the voodoo objects, a ledger was also dug out from Longkodo's study, and the emperor flipped through it after the dark guard left.
The content recorded in it was not beyond the emperor's expectation-the account book of Longkodo's corruption and bribery!
Maybe some people will find it strange, why does this kind of dead thing exist?Isn't this digging a hole for yourself and burying yourself?
In fact, this kind of account book has existed since ancient times. The reason is very simple. As the saying goes, "a good memory is not as good as a bad pen." How can you remember these important information clearly by memorizing?
Especially for a person with an identity like Longkodo, if there is no accident, the matter of corruption and bribery may be something that will be carried out for decades in his life. For decades, who can have such a good memory.
Whether it is to hold other people's handles, or to count who did not accept bribes, or who did not confess to themselves, or for fear of being cheated and being empty-handed, an account book is very necessary. .
Looking at the account book in front of him, although the emperor was in a very bad mood, he was already mentally prepared, unlike those straw people who caught the emperor by surprise.
When the water is clear, there are no fish.
The emperor is clear about this matter.
It is normal for the courtiers to accept bribes. As long as the bottom line in the emperor's heart is not exceeded and no major incidents are caused, the emperor will not care about it and completely ignore it.
Whoever makes the emperor is full of people must protect the interests of the Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners have worked hard to fight for the Aixinjueluo family for decades, and now their children are going to be officials in places thousands of miles away. You can only open one eye and close one eye.
And from another perspective, as long as the emperor's bottom line is not exceeded, it is actually a good thing for the emperor to accept bribes by courtiers, because the other party has sent a ready-made handle to the emperor. A very good reason to let courtiers die and demote officials.
Therefore, in the Kangxi Dynasty, a very miraculous scene was often seen. A certain minister was corrupted and accepted bribes by ginseng every year, but nothing happened, and he was still promoted and made a fortune.
But after he started to favor a certain elder brother, it would not be long before he would be demoted by the emperor for the crime of "corruption, accepting bribes, and forming a party for personal gain".
There are many such things, especially those who have been demoted. Most of them pretend to be grandsons for a few years, and then they can recover and still serve as officials.
You said, how can this trend of corruption and bribery be stopped!
As long as you don't hang out with the prince, the exposure of corruption and bribery will only be low-key for a few years. How can this make the officials of the Qing Dynasty, especially the officials of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, less corrupt.
After all, life is safe.
Just like this time, the emperor just looked through it, and then put it aside directly, and didn't even mention investigating and verifying the matter.
For the emperor, it is more important to find out the source of the witchcraft.
The emperor was in a hurry, and everyone in the know knew about it, so it was a very important matter, so the action was very fast, but it would take time to find out this kind of thing quickly, and it couldn't compare to the speed of rumors.
Originally, the original rumors were just that Shun Anyan and Longkodo beasts were not as good as their first wife.
But one or two days later, the Tong family was still surrounded by the army, and they were not allowed to enter or leave. Everyone knew that something serious might happen to the Tong family.
Then all kinds of rumors spread.
But none of the rumors hit the mark.
That's right, it's impossible for ordinary people to think of "Witch Gu".
But as time passed, many things could not be hidden.
For example, Liang Jiugong invited certain masters to go to Tong's house, and for example, these masters even entered the palace in person to report to the emperor in Qianqing Palace.
As soon as these news came out, some smart people thought of many things, many of them thought about "Witch Gu", but no one dared to speak out!
Except for the crown prince and the Hesheli family who received the news from Xi Concubine and asked people to play Longkodo in the court hall, other people did not make any moves on the surface, but secretly there was an undercurrent.
The action of the hidden guard was actually very fast, and it didn't take long to find out a lot of things, because the things they found were a bit shocking. This time, the dark guard wrote the results of the investigation into a memorial and presented it to the emperor.
The emperor just glanced at it before frowning, but he continued to watch it patiently.
To sum up, there are five points:
First, the matter of Shun Anyan raising the outer room, it is true, the time to raise the outer room was before he married Princess Chunxi, there is no one who is jealous of him and deliberately uses beauty tricks.
Second, there have been frequent personnel transfers in the Princess Mansion in recent months, and most of them were issued by Erfu Shun Anyan, and most of the people who were replaced were also related to the Tong family.
Third, Li Si'er was indeed Longkodo's father-in-law's concubine at first, and Longkodo's acquisition of Li Si'er was indeed disgraceful. Although there is no conclusive evidence that Longkodo killed his father-in-law, but in the ear of his mother-in-law The person who asked him to sell Li Si'er took the benefits of Longkoduo, so that Longkoduo succeeded in buying Li Si'er later.
Fourth, the tragic situation of Longkodo's wife Hesheli was done by Li Si'er himself.
Not only did Longkodo not stop it, but he sent all the dowry around Hesheli's family out of the house, completely allowing Li Si'er to murder his first wife.
Fifth, some time before Ye Keshu died of illness, Longkodo and some Han people were godlike, but those Han people are nowhere to be found now, and disappeared more than ten years ago.
Although there is no hard evidence to prove that Shun Anyan wanted to murder Princess Chunxi for the sake of the outside room, there is also no hard evidence to prove that Long Kedo used witchcraft.
But these four points are enough to make smart people have the truth in their hearts.
Obviously, the emperor is a smart man.
But it was because he felt that the truth of the matter was like this, the emperor's brows were tightly furrowed.
He couldn't believe that such a person would come out of the Tong family!
It's not as good as a beast!
The emperor can understand being cruel to the enemy, but the emperor really can't accept being so cruel to his relatives.
After thinking about it for a while, the emperor said, "Go and check Tong Guowei's study bedroom! Find anything and present it."
Although the dark guard was a little puzzled, he still responded, "Hey!"
The emperor is not planning to cleanse the Tong family, but suddenly thought of something - the empress dowager said before her death that the Tong family was not ignorant of her murder of the forehead, and even secretly brought a medical girl Entering the palace, but in the end he died of illness!
The emperor had never dared to think about this before, and never dared to touch it.
But now after encountering such a thing, the emperor had to think more.
If the Tong family knew that the azaleas in the house were poisonous, was it because they were too weak and worried that he would be hurt by offending the empress dowager, or because they were reluctant to part with their own glory and wealth, so they deliberately did not let the azaleas die?
Regardless of whether the emperor has an answer in his mind, since the emperor has thought of this, it means that he has an idea, an idea that is not good for the Tong family.
It didn't take long for Zha Tong Guowei's study and bedroom. Half a day later, the hidden guard returned to the palace with a box in his hand.
It is the same box as the box found in Longkodo's study, also found under the floor of the study.It's just that there are no witchcraft items in it, just a few account books.
The emperor opened it and looked. His face was gloomy. He clenched his fists and closed his eyes. He didn't want to see something in the box.
It was a confession with fingerprints, and the owner of the fingerprints was the big palace lady who used to be beside him, who committed suicide and was buried after his death from illness.
As for the content of the confession, there is no accident at all, it is the matter that the empress dowager murdered him with poisonous azaleas.
Ha ha!
The emperor doesn't know now, what should he do?
Although he was mentally prepared and had some guesses about this matter, but seeing this thing, the emperor was in a bad mood, and at the same time he felt dissatisfied with the Tong family.
Dissatisfied that the Tong family kept this matter from themselves.
Of course how to do it, the Tong family must have their own set of rhetoric, for example: the emperor was still young at the time, they were afraid that the emperor would act impulsively when he knew about this, and would offend the empress dowager, who would seize power and abolish the emperor.
But even if the Tong family had great reasons, from the perspective of the emperor, they could not accept those reasons.
In particular, the emperor is a filial son, and the biggest regret in life is that the son wants to support him but does not wait for his relatives. This regret has become more and more serious as the empress dowager has been accepting daily greetings from concubines in the harem for decades.
Taking a few deep breaths, the emperor quickly adjusted his mentality. After all, this was not the first time he had heard about it. After he was prepared again, the impact he received was big but limited.
Opening his eyes, his eyes returned to their former wisdom. The emperor decided to cut through the mess quickly. It was impossible for him to let the second wife of the Tong family be imprisoned in the clan mansion like this.And as far as the emperor is concerned, compared to the Tong family, those people in the imperial family bother him more.
"Go and bring Tong Guowei!" The emperor ordered.
Soon someone went to the clan mansion to spread the word.
Then the emperor asked someone to bring a brazier and burn the confession.
This matter is related to my reputation, and the emperor dare not investigate thoroughly.
It didn't take long for Tong Guowei to appear in front of the emperor.
The emperor didn't talk nonsense to Tong Guowei, and directly showed him the results of the dark guard's investigation.
At first, Tong Guowei didn't react much. Although there was no solid evidence, as early as that day, Tong Guowei almost believed that those things were done by Long Keduo and Shun Anyan. Of course, it would not be surprising.
But seeing the last item, while Tong Guowei was puzzled, his heart beat violently subconsciously.