The female general was reborn in the enemy's house? They all die!

"Please take a look, Lord Lu." Eunuch Gao said in a low voice.

"Thank you, Eunuch Gao."

Lu Anfei bowed and took the memorial, then spread it out impatiently.

His eyes wandered over every word on the memorial, and his expression became more and more solemn.

After reading the last word, Lu Anfei's face turned pale.

This memorial was actually written by Zhou Xu.

He raised his eyes and looked at Zhou Xu coldly, muttering in his heart.

The Zhou family has been bribed by the Queen, so they should be in the same camp as me.

Moreover, he had secretly embezzled money from the national treasury, and no one in the Ministry of Revenue knew about it.

Where did he hear that?

"Lü Anfei, I'll give you a chance to explain yourself."

The emperor frowned and spoke in a solemn voice.

The memorial Zhou Xu presented yesterday surprised him greatly.

The amount of silver written in this memorial is enough to make the Lu family die ten times.

Even Du Sheng, who had complained in the hall a few days ago, was involved.

If what Zhou Xu said was true, then are General Xia and others also involved?

Thinking of this, the emperor's breathing became unsteady, and it was obvious that he was trying his best to suppress his anger.

Suddenly, there was a "thump" sound from His Highness.

When the emperor heard the voice, he looked up and saw Lu Anfei hunched over, kneeling heavily on the ground, with tears in the corners of his eyes.

"Your Majesty, please look into this matter. I have really been wronged!"

Lu Anfei's sobbing voice echoed throughout the hall: "Then Zhou Xu must want to take the position of Minister of Revenue, so he framed me like this!"

"Your Majesty, I did not frame Lord Lu."

As soon as Zhou Xu heard Lu Anfei's words, he knew it was time to show up.

He took a step toward the center of the hall, holding the tablet in his hand, and said in a steady and powerful voice: "I have sufficient evidence to prove that Lord Lu embezzled money from the national treasury, and the amount is staggering."

"Zhou Xu, stop talking nonsense. What evidence do you have?" Lü Anfei concealed his guilty conscience and pointed at Zhou Xu's nose with a distorted face. "I, Lü Anfei, have been the Minister of Revenue for many years. I have a clear conscience and you want to replace me so badly that you made up such a ridiculous story to deceive His Majesty and the ministers!"

"Hmph, Lord Lu, please be careful with your words. I, Zhou Xu, know that I am not very talented and well-educated, and I do not covet the position of Minister of Revenue."

Compared to Lu Anfei's excited words, Zhou Xu seemed calmer: "Your Majesty, words are not enough. I have brought the evidence."

As he spoke, Zhou Xu took out a few silver coins from his sleeves with a serious expression and held them above his head: "Your Majesty, please look, this is the evidence!"

The emperor leaned his neck forward slightly, and frowned as he looked at what Zhou Xu held in his hand.

"Send it over quickly."

When Eunuch Gao heard the emperor's order, he immediately trotted over to Zhou Xu, placed the silver dollar in his hand on the tray, and then quickly held it in front of the emperor.

"This is......"

The emperor gently picked up a silver coin, carefully observed its silver body, thought for a moment, and then asked: "Mr. Zhou, is this the evidence you mentioned?"

"Your Majesty, that's right." Zhou Xu bowed and reported, "I accidentally found this official silver in the Lu family's shop. The money Your Majesty has is just a drop in the bucket. I also mentioned in the memorial that the silver hidden underground by Lu Anfei is as much as 100,000 taels."

Zhou Xu's words instantly shocked the whole audience, and the entire hall seemed to be in an uproar.

"One hundred thousand taels! How dare you do that?!"

"But seeing that Lu Anfei is a very honest person, he must know that this is a capital crime, right?"

"That may not be the case. The Ministry of Revenue is a lucrative post. It is not impossible to be greedy, but 100,000 taels is too much..."

"That's it."

"Silence—" Eunuch Gao flicked his whisk, signaling all the ministers to be silent.

The entire hall returned to calm in an instant.

"Mr. Zhou, please continue." the emperor reminded.

After receiving the order, Zhou Xu sorted out his thoughts and said, "As the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, I have always kept the accounts in my hands. Yesterday, I found this batch of silver, so I checked the accounts over the years. Although the accounts are consistent, this silver dollar is indeed an accidental loss of the court."

"Oh?" The emperor's eyes moved slightly, and he asked hurriedly, "What do you mean, Mr. Zhou?"

"Your Majesty, please look at the words printed on the silver coins. They clearly record the information of the silver coins being sent out from the warehouse," Zhou Xu said forcefully. "These silver coins are clearly the disaster relief silver coins that were lost during the relief efforts for Yuzhou County three years ago!"

"what?!"

After Zhou Xu said this, the emperor quickly looked at the mark on the silver dollar carefully.

After a moment, the emperor put down the silver dollar, his expression becoming more stern: "It turns out that the missing disaster silver three years ago was not an accident, but a long-planned one."

He pointed at Lu Anfei who was kneeling on the ground, his expression heavy and his tone icy cold: "Lu Anfei, what else do you want to say!"

In fact, from the moment Zhou Xu presented the silver dollar, Lu Anfei had been thinking about countermeasures. At this moment, he tried to calm himself down and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Your Majesty, I have served the court for many years, and I despise people like Zhou Xu who do whatever it takes to gain power."

He took a deep breath and tried to keep his voice steady. "These silver coins were said to be found in the Lu family's shop, but the deeds to those shops are not in the hands of my Lu family. I have never been there. It was Zhou Xu who deliberately said that the shop belonged to the Lu family in order to frame me, and he also hid these silver coins there in advance."

"Humph..." He sneered, "I think most of this money was embezzled by Zhou Xu himself. In order to get promoted and clear himself, he shamelessly pinned this crime on me!"

"You...you are simply unreasonable!"

Zhou Xu became furious after hearing Lu Anfei's unreasonable talk.

He never expected that Lu Anfei was so eloquent and his ability to confuse right and wrong had reached perfection.

His breathing gradually became rapid, his brain was spinning rapidly, and suddenly he thought of what Rong Sheng had said to him yesterday.

Yes, yes, yes, Lu Anfei has several private residences.

"Your Majesty, what Lord Lu said is indeed correct. These shops were indeed snatched from Princess Qingya by the Lu family. Even if he refuses to acknowledge me, there is nothing I can do."

Zhou Xu argued, "But I have also found out that Lord Lu has bought many private houses privately, and the amount of silver from the national treasury hidden in these houses is as much as 50,000 taels."

Lu Anfei thought he could get away with it after saying those words just now, but when he heard that Zhou Xu also knew that he had a private residence, he was shocked.

How could he know so much about his own private residence? !