The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 192 Zhen Jia Baoyu
While Baochai was coping with her aunt's sudden enthusiasm, she took the time to stare fiercely at Wang Xifeng. Wang Xifeng understood what she meant and showed her a helpless look.

Luckily Baochai didn't let Baochai lie on the sidelines for too long, and there was a loud sound of firecrackers from the direction of the gate, but it was Xue Pan who brought the bride back, and Baochai got rid of Prince Teng and Mrs. Congratulations ladies.

After working like this for a few hours, it was not until Yueshang Zhongtian Baochai hurriedly said goodbye to her mother, hurriedly came to the lobby of the front yard, and found Mu Xu who was chatting with Xue Biao.After the two got into the carriage, Baochai immediately apologized to Mu Xu, "I kept you waiting for a long time, and I got so busy that I forgot the time."

"It's okay, anyway, I can't help you much, I just sit around for a while, but you are exhausted today, aren't you?"

Baochai slapped his back, "It's okay if you don't say it. I really feel back pain after saying this. You can go and torment Sister Lin tonight. Anyway, I can't bear it anymore. I must take a good rest."

Mu Xu replied with a smile, "Look at what you said, it seems that we have nothing else to do when we are together?"

Baochai gave him a supercilious look, letting him experience it for himself. Mu Xu said helplessly, "Come on, let's listen to your conclusion. Don't talk about this now, just get down on the ground and I'll beat your back." Baochai wanted to He said that Yu Li was not suitable, but then he remembered what he said last time, hesitated a little, and obediently lay down on the mat.

Feeling the knocks on her back, Baochai snorted comfortably. After a while, she suddenly remembered about Baoqin, and asked, "How are you going to deal with Mei Hanlin's family?"

Mu Xu said casually, "How can you deal with such a small person in their family? I have already greeted Feng Ziying today, and I will send that Mei Han to prison in a few days. As for Mr. Mei, without him The father who is an official has plenty of good fruits for him to eat."

"I'm afraid there's something wrong with it. If Yushi finds out, I'm afraid he will take revenge against you." Baochai worried.

"How could I be so stupid as to do it myself, and besides, there are a few clean asses under any official, and I will definitely check it out, so I'm afraid I won't find his handle?" Mu Xu said indifferently, there is still the second half He didn't say a word, even if he couldn't find a reason, he had to create it for him, and the embroidery guard was just familiar with doing this.

Since Mu Xu said so, Baochai didn't say much anymore, after all, she also hated such an ungrateful family as the Mei family.

In the early morning of the next day, Mu Xu handed the sign to the palace. At [-] o'clock in the morning, it was estimated that the grand court meeting had already ended, so Mu Xu went to the palace with Daiyu.At the gate of the palace, Zhao Le and Xia Shouzhong were already waiting there. After watching Daiyu and Xia Shouzhong take a bunch of little eunuchs with presents towards the harem, Mu Xu came down to Qinzheng Palace under Zhao Le's guidance. , I didn't want Zhang Cheng to be in the hall.

Since Zhang Cheng took over the position of the commander of the Embroidery Guards, he has always lived in seclusion to avoid suspicion, and Mu Xu may not have seen him for a long time.Mu Xu saluted Tu Zhen first, and then asked Zhang Chengdao, "I haven't seen Mr. Zhang for a long time, how have you been?"

Zhang Cheng returned a salute respectfully, "Your Majesty is very polite, everything is alright as an official."

Before Mu Xu could say anything more, Tu Zhen said, "It just so happens that the son of the Eastern King is also here, so Zhang Aiqing repeats the matter and listens to his opinion."

Zhang Cheng responded, and told Mu Xu the whole story. It turned out that after the Zhen family was raided, they were also convicted by the three divisions.Everything was going well at first, but who would have thought that there would be a problem when counting the property of the Zhen family, because after comparing it with the account books copied from the Zhen family, there was a shortfall of more than five million taels of silver.This was no small matter, the household department responsible for counting the wealth of the offenders would not take the blame, and immediately brought the matter to the imperial court, insisting that the matter must have been done by the officers and soldiers in charge of ransacking the house or the people who escorted them to Beijing.

Tu Zhen was furious when he heard the news, and also thought that there was something wrong with the Jinling Garrison or the Embroidered Guards, so he immediately issued a decree to severely reprimand Feng Han, the commander of the Jinling Garrison, and Zhang Cheng, the commander of the Embroidered Guards, if it wasn't for the people who recommended them If it was Mu Xu, the two of them would be dismissed immediately.

When the two received the imperial decree, they were filled with sincerity and trepidation, and immediately searched from top to bottom, but they found that the two parties had indeed embezzled money from it, but the sum was only one hundred thousand taels. Unspoken rules of plagiarism.The two dared not neglect, and quickly reported the news to the court.

After hearing this, Mu Xu remembered that in the original book, the Zhen family entrusted their wealth to the Jia family and other old friends, so he asked, "Have you ever checked whether the Zhen family got the news in advance and deposited the money in the homes of old relatives and friends?"

Zhang Cheng directly denied, "According to His Majesty's instructions, the Embroidered Clothes Guards have already checked. What can be confirmed is that because of the sudden incident, the Zhen family had no time to transfer the family property. Afterwards, I ordered people to interrogate the accountants of the Zhen family. And they learned from them that since eighteen years ago, a sum of money has flowed to unknown places every year since the Zhen family, with a total of [-] million taels, which is more than the [-] million taels that are short in the account. It's all up to Zhen Yingjia to handle it all, there is no room for others to intervene."

"Then what did Zhen Yingjia say?"

Tu Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "Since Zhen Yingjia entered the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, he has been silent all the time. He neither admits nor denies the serious crime he committed. I was a little annoyed, so I ordered the Ministry of Criminal Justice to serve me. On the [-]nd, there was news that he committed suicide by taking poison in prison."

"This... is really absurd. It would be fine if Zhen Yingjia hanged himself. Maybe it can be believed, but he was imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Where did the poison come from?" Mu Xu couldn't believe it.

"I also think it's ridiculous, and after Zhen Yingjia was taken into custody, he was kept in solitary confinement, during which no one visited him. After this happened, I ordered people to interrogate and guard Zhen Yingjia's cell. As a result, two people committed suicide in fear of crime in advance. Even their families are missing."

"Then, does His Majesty have any suspicious targets?"

"I suspect that it was written by that traitor Tu Yu. Judging from all the previous clues, the two of them are in collusion."

Mu Xu disagreed with this point of view, "There is no doubt that the Zhen family and Tu Yu are connected. But don't forget about the eight million taels of silver. Eighteen years ago, Tu Yu was only old, and at that time..."

Although Mu Xu didn't finish his sentence, Tu Zhen understood what he was going to say next.After thinking about it carefully, he also found it very reasonable.Eighteen years ago, the second uncle was a holy family, and the position of the crown prince was as stable as Mount Tai, so there was absolutely no need to secretly collude with the Zhen family.After thinking about this clearly, he couldn't help frowning, "Then where did Zhen Yingjia get the money?"

Speaking of eighteen years ago, Mu Xu suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Isn't Zhen Baoyu eighteen years old this year? He hurriedly asked Zhang Cheng, "I asked Feng Ziying to find out whether the Zhen family had any contact with the Maitreya Sect. result?"

Zhang Cheng was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Before we had time to investigate this matter, His Majesty ordered to raid Zhen's house, so nothing happened."

Tu Zhen was a little puzzled, "Why does my cousin associate the Zhen family with the Maitreya demon?"

"It's a long story, Your Majesty should still remember the monk I mentioned, right?"

Seeing that Tuzhen said he remembered, Mu Xu continued to explain, "I'm ashamed to say that, when I first knew about that monk, I thought they were real masters, so I kept paying attention to their tracks. But I accidentally discovered that they seem to be paying special attention to Jia Baoyu in Rongguo Mansion, so I ordered people to wait for rabbits near Rongguo Mansion."

"Your Majesty knew what happened later. I didn't want these two people to be demons of the Maitreya Sect. There are two most important reasons why I suspected the Zhen family. First, my little girl who was kidnapped when I was young Concubine Zhenshi, her father was once deceived by that monk to become a monk. According to what he said later, people who were deceived like him were locked in a temple outside Jinling City. How long can the temple exist in Jinling City? It’s been a long time, but no one noticed the abnormality, it’s obviously protected by someone, and which family in Jinling is as powerful as the Zhen family?”

(End of this chapter)