After the fiancé was cut off by the county owner

Chapter 32
Gui Zhiyao is the younger brother of the Marquis of Wu'an and the uncle of the Qian Wang.

A year ago, Gong Zhun, the magistrate of Rongyang County under Cangzhou rule, impeached Gui Zhiyao for privately setting up coal mines in Rongyang County and corrupting taxes and grains, which caused the people in Cangzhou to live in distress and complain.

However, Gong Zhun's impeachment of Gui Zhiyao did not reach the imperial court. Later, Gong Zhun died of illness, and the court sent another official to Rongyang County to take up the post.

Not long after Gong Zhun's death, the prince received an anonymous letter, which listed Gui Zhiyao's top ten crimes in Cangzhou, and also mentioned that someone in Kyoto intercepted the impeachment memorial of Gong Zhun, the former Rongyang county magistrate.

After the prince received the anonymous letter, he immediately sent someone to investigate and found out that the anonymous letter was written by Gong Zhun's daughter Gong Yunniang.According to Gong Yunniang's confession, Gong Zhun did not die of illness, but was killed by Gui Zhiyao.

Two-thirds of the officials in Cangzhou took refuge in Gui Zhiyao, and the other third, except for Gong Zhun, shrank their heads like quails.He covered the sky with one hand in Cangzhou, and officials in Kyoto colluded with him, so his crimes have not been heard by the sky.

What Gong Yunniang said was of great importance, the prince dared not conceal it, and immediately reported it to Emperor Yuanhe.

Emperor Yuanhe told the prince not to care about this matter, the prince had a dispute with Emperor Yuanhe, and the words offended Tianwei, Emperor Yuanhe was so angry that he asked the prince to shut up and think about his mistakes, and he was not allowed to interfere in the government affairs for half a year.

The crown prince was punished, but Gui Zhiyao still stayed in the position of governor of Cangzhou. In the past six months, he did not know how many crimes he committed.

Now that the crown prince Yuanhe Emperor Enzhun re-entered the court, he even agreed to investigate Gui Zhiyao's crimes.

It is more about the extraction of criminal evidence than an investigation. Emperor Yuanhe handed over the corruption case of Gui Zhiyao to the crown prince, and selected three officials from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment to assist in sneaking into Cangzhou for a thorough investigation.

When Wu Han received this errand, he was arraigning Zhang Guangping, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry.

It was Qi Heming who handed over the ledger and drawings to Zhang Guangping.However, Zhang Guangping did not conceal it and did not report it. Later, the Jiaozhi Hall collapsed, and Zhang Guangping was also implicated. It took ten years to be promoted to the position of Zuo Shilang.

Zhang Guangping explained in his confession that someone threatened him with the life of his family members to destroy the physical evidence, and if he refused, he would send his wife and children to the King of Hades.

Asked who that person was, Zhang Guangping said that it was Gui Zhiyao, uncle of Qian Wang.

It was Gui Zhiyao again.

Wu Han had read the dossier ten years ago. Gui Zhiyao was still the servant of the household department at that time, and the wood purchase officer of the Tangshan Palace was Yuanwailang under him, so he was reprimanded by Emperor Yuanhe.

Later, he was sent to Cangzhou. Like Zhang Guangping, it took ten years before he was promoted to the position of Cangzhou magistrate.

In addition, Zhang Guangping also explained that Qi Heming's death was not an accident, but was poisoned, but it happened that the Jiaozhi Temple collapsed, so no one knew that he died of poisoning.

Zhang Guangping also learned this secret by accident, and he never told anyone.

But this is just Zhang Guangping's one-sided statement. Wu Han presented the physical evidence and Zhang Guangping's confession to Yuan Hedi, and Yuan Hedi was furious after reading it.

When he saw the palace marked with a red circle on the blueprint, his heart beat up fiercely.As if entering the previous nightmare again, despair, panic and anger are intertwined.

"Check, you must check it out for me."

Emperor Yuanhe would never allow the scene in his dream to become reality. He wanted to see who was so bold that he dared to stretch his hand on the wood of the Tangshan Palace.

Wu Han hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, I need to open the coffin for an autopsy to verify what Zhang Guangping said is true."

"I'm ready."

"Master Qi was an official of the imperial court before his death"

Emperor Yuanhe knew what he was worried about, "I will give you a handbook for the widow of the Qi family to cooperate."

After thanking Wu Han, he took the order and left.
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Anpingfang, Qi's house
Mrs. Jiang brought her two daughters to visit her younger sister and niece. The four of them were talking when Wu Han came to the door with Yuan Hedi's handwriting.

Hearing the word "open coffin for autopsy", Mrs. Qi almost fainted.

Qi Tanying was much calmer than her mother. After reading Yuan Hedi's letter, she understood that the coffin had to be opened.

She made a request to Wu Han that she must be present when the coffin was opened for autopsy, which meant that she would go to Wuzhou with the people from Dali Temple.

Wu Han agreed.

At the end of July, Qi Tanying went south to Wuzhou with people from Dali Temple. After arriving in Jiangyu, Dali Temple was divided into two groups. One group led by Yan Li went west to Wuzhou on the official road, and the other group followed Wu Han to the east. Go to Cangzhou by boat.

Going to Wuzhou to open the coffin for the autopsy was done in secret, Wu Han agreed to let Qi Tanying go with her, and she also used her identity as Yan Li's fiancée to deceive others.

Just before the investigation team left Beijing for less than half a day, it is unknown who leaked the news.King Qian fidgeted anxiously after hearing the news, and immediately called Marquis Wu'an to discuss countermeasures.

Even though the fire was imminent, Marquis Wu'an was still very calm. King Qian kept pacing in the study, but he was slowly savoring the excellent Biluochun in Prince Qian's mansion.

The king was so angry that he walked up to him, "Uncle, what time is it, you are still in the mood to drink tea."

The old God Wu'an raised his eyes, "Did His Highness and Concubine Shu be abolished? Or is it because my Wu'anhou's mansion collapsed?" He frowned, "Your Highness needs to calm down for his anxious temper."

These words almost made Qian Wang vomit blood with anger.

He glanced at Marquis Wu'an who was still sipping tea, and the king felt relieved.

At the same time, King Yu, who lived next to King Qian, was also discussing matters with his staff.

King Yu was a thin young man, about 27 or [-] years old, with a pale complexion and a blue circle around his eyes.It was hot in summer, but he wrapped himself up tightly.

The staff member raised his hand and wiped his sweat with his sleeve, "His Highness's cold poison has flared up again?"

King Yu hummed, and then closed the cloak on his body again. The staff only felt that the clothes on their bodies were soaked in sweat, and they were a little envious of King Yu's sick and weak body at this moment.

King Yu glanced at him, and said: "Cangzhou is rich and rich, the prince can't just take advantage of it, we should get a share too."

The staff persuaded: "The case of the collapse of Jiaozhi Hall has not yet been closed, and the people of Dali Temple have already found Zhang Guangping. Your Highness, I think we should not get involved at this time."

"What are you afraid of? I gave up Zhang Guangping, Liu Guangping, and Li Guangping." King Yu chuckled, "Zhang Guangping is a smart man, he knows how to choose."

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help sighing: "After all, this hall is too poor, otherwise we wouldn't tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall."

This sentence is true.Although Queen Yu's mother and concubine Yun Guifei came from a noble family, her family was really poor.When Concubine Yun entered the palace to run for election, Concubine Shu ridiculed her for being a poor girl.

Concubine Yun Gui is poor, but King Yu is the son of the phoenix and the grandson of the dragon, and Emperor Yuanhe has subsidized her for his son's sake.But later, King Yu suffered from cold and poison, and needed to take a Tuhuo pill every ten days. That Tuhuo pill was worth a hundred gold, and he needed 36 pills in a year.

Tu Huodan is a very large expense for King Yu. If he does other things, he will need more money, so he can only find ways to get money.

Sometimes King Yu would think that it would be great if he was the son of the Queen or Concubine Shu, so that he would not have to worry about money.

(End of this chapter)