The king is not the king, the minister is not the minister

At the end of Yinshi, the sky is not yet clear, and the road is blocked by ice and snow.

Before many ministers could understand, they were woken up by the stern-faced Yu Xingwei outside. "Pass down the emperor's oral order, and go to court today."

I'm used to being lazy, and it's freezing cold, no one is willing to obediently go up to court, in short, most people look for opportunities to prevaricate.However, Yu Xingwei didn't care about this, he asked someone to put on his official uniform, and dragged the disheveled veteran to the court.

Stimulated by the cold along the way, how could these monkey-like ministers not know what happened.

Eunuch Zhao took the article in Yu Zhuo's hand and read: "The Prime Minister of the Left, Yu Hengqing, impeached the Prime Minister of the Right, Zhou Bohao, and his son Zhou Yaozong, for ten crimes of disrespect."

"Firstly, to deceive the emperor and ignore the king's law. Zhou Xi monopolized the government, formed a party for personal gain, and misreported the snowstorm situation in various places since the new emperor ascended the throne, causing the treasury to spend far more than the needs of the people... Fifth, accepting bribes, There are countless greeds. According to the investigation of the Imperial Office, the salt lords in the Jianghuai area, [-]% of the salt tax paid each year goes to the Zhou Mansion, so it is unacceptable for them to fill their pockets! Sixth..."

After reading this line, no one refuted it.

There are so many imperial guards that almost every minister can be watched by one or two people.

After Zhao Gonggong finished reading, Xia Houzhan announced the verdict: "Zhou Bohao will be dismissed from all positions and will never be hired. All family property will be confiscated, and all servants and concubines in the family will be confiscated. I and my descendants will never enter Beijing."

"Yu Hengqing accepts the order."

"The minister is here."

Xia Houzhan walked down the steps himself, put the written edict into Yu Zhuo's hands, and said, "Go to the Zhou Mansion to search the house. All property will be recorded in the book and will be returned to the internal treasury in the future."

Collecting the internal treasury instead of the national treasury is probably not trusting the officials in charge of the national treasury.

It took Xia Houzhan less than a year to collect Zhou Xi's criminal evidence one by one. It can be seen that the Yuxingsi has finally become a climate under his hands.

Yu Zhuo immediately felt very relieved.

What he thinks in his heart is: After accumulating power for so long, once it explodes, everyone will have to look at this young emperor with admiration.

Several ministers who recovered their senses finally realized that something was wrong, and a minister surnamed Zhang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the right minister hasn't come yet, why suddenly..."

Xia Houzhan interrupted him: "Zhou Bohao is no longer the right minister, does Aiqing want to resist the edict?"

Seeing this, Su Qing took out the memorial from her sleeve, which was to impeach several courtiers who were close to Zhou Bohao and walked closer.Although his writing was innocuous and ambiguous, under the watchful eye of Yu Xingwei, these people broke out in cold sweat, knelt down and complained.

The goal has been achieved. At this time, there is a shortage of manpower in the court. Naturally, it is impossible to convict all of them. Xia Houzhan only said: "The Northern Yuxingsi, follow the left minister to Zhou Mansion, and the rest, I will decide according to their choice."

The implication is to be obedient and let you go.

The Imperial Guards had already surrounded the Zhou Mansion, Su Shixue saw Yu Zhuo coming, and hurried to see him, Yu Zhuo pretended to read the imperial decree in the Zhou Mansion, and then started to do it.

For an entire hour, the people in the Zhou Mansion did not get in touch with the outside world.

"father!"

"Go, find two sons-in-law to stand on top of, Zhou Yufeng, a white-eyed wolf, I want him to look good." Zhou Xi ordered the old housekeeper, and after hearing the shouts of officers and soldiers outside, he hurried to the firewood room with his wife and son-in-law.

"Father, this is..."

"Move away quickly." Zhou Xi didn't trust anyone, so he and his son-in-law moved the empty water tank away.

"This is a cellar, they won't be able to find it for a while." Zhou Xi did not lose his composure, and went into the cellar, followed by a narrow road.

This is a mechanism that Zhou Xi asked a carpenter to design ten years ago. As long as the rope inside is pulled, the water tank will be restored. He also tried this to avoid the pursuit of the former emperor.

Zhou Zhang only had time to bring a few pieces of dowry, but when he entered the cellar, he was surprised by the things inside.

Passing through the corridor, there was no flame at all, but the spacious cellar was radiant. Unknown treasures shone in the cellar, and countless pearls were embedded on the top, which looked like a starry sky.

"This is……"

"The Polaris is the night pearl, and the rest are all fish-eye stones." Zhou Xi said, looking at his masterpiece triumphantly.

People from the imperial guards and Bei Yu Xingsi turned Zhou's mansion upside down, but they still couldn't find Zhou Xi. Yu Zhuo gathered all the people together and asked Su Shixue, "Have you got the statistics?"

There were many casualties in the hospital, probably Zhou Xi's nurses and disciples.

"All brought out, 36 concubines, 230 six maids, 72 long-term workers and domestic servants, [-] disciples and staff." Su Shixue looked at the reported numbers, pointed and shrank in the corner , the scantily clad women asked, "Are these considered?"

"Concubine."

"There are 65 concubines in total." Su Shixue dipped in the ink, handed the pen to Yu Zhuo, and said, "There are also 17 concubines and 21 concubines."

"Still haven't found Zhou Xi, Zhou Yu and Zhou Zhang?"

"The subordinates are incompetent and have not been found."

After Yu Zhuo counted the number of people, looking at the bright sky, he stepped forward to check whether these people have changed their faces. On the way, there was an unwilling domestic servant who wanted to hold Yu Zhuo hostage because of his own skills, and was directly arrested. Yu Zhuo broke his neck.

"There are too many people, so take all these people to the prison first, and watch closely." Yu Zhuo threw the corpse in front of everyone, "Even if it is a corpse, take it to the prison first, and wait for His Majesty to decide."

"Yes." Su Shixue responded immediately, dispatching half of the imperial guards to send him to Dali Temple.

The Zhou family was surrounded like an iron cylinder, and even the fence was guarded by hidden stakes, so Zhou Xi was naturally unable to escape.However, the Zhou family's mansion is astonishingly large, and it may take a long time to find it.

After Yu Zhuo walked to a place where no one was around, Qi Ruo quickly jumped out and said, "Many of the disciples Zhou Xi was looking for were skilled in kung fu, and they were entangled by one person earlier, so they didn't keep an eye on Zhou Xi."

"The old fox is really good at hiding. If he doesn't come out again, I will wait for ten days and ten nights to see if the old fox will starve to death first, or His Majesty will be impatient first." A chilling aura.

"I'm afraid that he left a secret path."

"I've read too many story books, how can it be so easy to build a secret road!" Yu Zhuo knocked on his head, "If there is a way to build a secret road, can it be possible to go outside the capital together?"

The Zhou family is in the center of the capital. If this secret road goes out of the city, it would be a huge project. It may not be possible to build it every ten or eight years.

"Ten years..." Yu Zhuo suddenly remembered something.

This was what the late emperor told him, earlier than the rebel army led by the late emperor.

Zhou Xi was a scheming man, seeing that the former dynasty's building was about to collapse, and after sending away his wife and children, he surrendered to the rebel army early, but the rebel army failed.However, the pursued soldiers lost track of him in the Zhou Mansion, until he was rescued by his subordinates a few days later.

It can be seen from this that Zhou Xi can indeed find a hiding place.

He hadn't left Lingyun Terrace ten years ago, so he didn't know much about the structure of the Zhou Mansion.

"Find someone who is a little older and a little familiar with the Zhou Mansion." Yu Zhuo said, "There should be quite a few people who leave the Zhou Mansion every year."

After a while, an imperial guard of the Nan Yu Xingsi found a woman in her thirties and forty years old. She was a well-known matchmaker in the capital. Many big families picked maids and servants from her.

Yu Zhuo had no choice but to admire the efficiency of the Imperial Office in his heart.The prostitute they brought was a woman who had gone through a lot of wind and waves, and she looked unambiguous at all.

"How was the Zhou Mansion ten years ago, do you still remember?" Yu Zhuo asked the matchmaker.

"I remember." The matchmaker scratched her hair, "It's just that it's been a long time, and I still need to think about it. Sir, please give me some time."

Yu Zhuo winked at Qi Ruo.

Qi Ruo snorted coldly, took out a silver ingot, and said, "Think about it quickly."

"I remember, the Zhou Mansion used to be small, only... the master bedroom, the study..." The prostitute walked to the center of the Zhou Mansion and pointed out several former buildings.

"Are you sure?" Yu Zhuo was afraid of missing something. After all, it is difficult to remember ten years.

"My lord, don't you know what kind of business I am in? Buying and selling servants, houses! I can't remember these things clearly. How can I live in a job?"

Hearing the promise from the prostitute, Qi Ruo became even more angry, and said to Yu Zhuo with a suppressed voice: "You are so restless, and I wasted five liang of silver for nothing."

"Invite someone to solve the case, but don't give me any money. Master, don't be too overbearing." Yu Zhuo pushed Qi Ruo away, turned and said to the matchmaker, "Auntie, please take a look, these houses are not in line with the rules, my magistrate Will be grateful.”

After hearing this, the prostitute stuffed the money into her sleeves, laughed and said, "My lord, he has a good-looking life, and he also speaks in a way. Come, come, I will take a look."

Qi Ruo was so angry that he couldn't speak, it was clearly his money!

After walking around a few times, the prostitute came to a plainly decorated house: "I just remembered that ten years ago this was a firewood house, and the kitchen was next door, but now the kitchen has been moved outside, but the firewood house has not been moved. I don’t know if it’s used to pile up sundries or what to do with it.”

Yu Zhuo pushed open the door, and the things inside were neatly arranged, and there was little dust.In addition to the woodpile, there are several large water tanks that are particularly eye-catching.

"Go, move the water tank away." Yu Zhuo ordered.

There are quite a few people in Nanyu Xingsi with astonishing strength. This is not a thin and short man who moved all the water tanks outside without panting.

Purely relying on strength, but letting Yu Zhuo do it, you have to add the inside to be comparable.

After removing the water tank, Qi Ruo quickly lifted a board, smiled "haha" and said, "Okay, let's all go down."

It took Yu Zhuo three days and three nights to finish copying the Zhou Mansion, and the calculated property could be compiled into a book. There are some things that most people have never seen before.

For example, Zhou Xi imitated a powerful official of a certain dynasty and made a red coral tree more than two meters high, loosely tied golden bells on it, and asked the maids to smash it with three-inch soft silk shoes every day after dinner. There are many golden bells that have been smashed down, so whoever will serve the bed today.

They also specially built a Qingliang Pavilion. All the tents and bedding in the pavilion are made of crocodile silk, and even the bed is carved from a whole piece of cold jade.All this is the tip of the iceberg.

Life is more chic than the emperor.

Whether it is an official or a poor man, no one dares to give Zhou Xi a little charity.

Cloaks and furs were considered stolen goods, so after Zhou Xi was driven out of the capital, he took nothing but his life.Zhou Xi's old wife fell ill immediately, and Zhou Yu carried her on his back, walking in the cold wind, his legs trembling.

After all, he had never done any heavy work since he was a child.

"Father, those ministers are really supercilious. The gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin that they usually give us, but the Zhou family is in decline, but they refuse to give us even a tael of silver."

The thin cotton coat could not block the cold wind at all, Zhou Xi had a gloomy face, as if he had aged 20 years.

It is easy to add flowers to the cake, but difficult to send charcoal in the snow.

"Father, there's a shed over there, let's go there first." Zhou Yu shouted harder.This shed was originally built by a family who sells herbal tea in summer, and it was blocked by heavy snow, so naturally no one was running it.

It is not easy for a small shed to stand in the cold wind.

Zhou Yu cursed in his heart. They had disheveled hair, not even a headgear, and they were all confiscated into the hands of the emperor.In fact, Xia Houzhan also wanted to keep some, but even if it was a hairpin, it was made of top-quality Hetian white jade, and it was worth hundreds of taels, so it couldn't be ignored.

Zhou Xi still remembers that his old wife was stripped naked in public and only threw away a set of ragged cotton clothes. The reason is that underwear and accessories, as long as they are worth more than 50 taels, are considered stolen goods.

"Father! It's too cold, Mother's whole body is on fire." Zhou Yu said anxiously, but Zhou Xi didn't say a word, and stared at the person who came out from behind the shed with a gloomy expression.

"Don't come here without any problems." Yu Zhuo smiled lightly. He was wearing a white fox fur, which was really for pretending. "It's such a cold day, a few of you must have froze."

"It's time to add insult to injury!" Zhou Yu didn't know who wrote the impeachment.

Putting the quilt on the wooden table, Yu Zhuo dusted off the snowflakes on his body, and said, "Brother Bo Hao would be ridiculous if he froze to death on the road, it's rare to give him a gift from the truth, brother Bo Hao, don't refuse. "

In the current situation, Zhou Xi would rather freeze to death.

"Get out!" Zhou Xi yelled, and as expected, Yu Zhuo left immediately, as elusive as when he came.

"Father, this quilt."

"Cover your mother." Zhou Xi said angrily.

As expected, Xia Houzhan agreed that Yu Zhuo would always live in the palace as soon as the Zhou family's affairs were settled.The thunderous tactics shown by the emperor earlier made the ministers terrified, so no one was the first to question it.

A few days later, Xia Houzhan accidentally mentioned: "Zhou Bohao is dead."

"How did you die?"

"Meet a group of thieves in the suburbs of Beijing."

"That's good." Yu Zhuo didn't intend to entangle the truth, but just persuaded her to let Concubine Yun go, after all, she is a weak woman who doesn't understand anything. "

Xia Houzhan frowned, why did Yu Zhuo care so much about his concubine?

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