Compared to the father and son of the Ye Family who were happily having a reunion dinner, Mo Rongzhan's New Year's Eve was a little less enjoyable. New Dagger Strange Chinese Version Launch
"Mother, why did you suddenly think of arranging for people from your paternal family to come to Jingdou?" Mo Rongzhan didn't spend New Year's Eve with the other concubines in the palace. Instead, he and Mo Rongyi accompanied the Empress Dowager in Palace of Compassionate and Peaceful.
During the banquet, the Empress Dowager suddenly mentioned that she wanted to arrange for her maternal family who were far away in the City of Wei to come to the capital. She had not seen her brothers and sisters for many years and suddenly missed them.
This request surprised Mo Rongzhan. He remembered that the Empress Dowager was not close to her paternal family. If the Cen family had not sold their daughter into the palace to support their son, the Empress Dowager probably would not have had such a difficult time and would have married the person she loved.
The Empress Dowager said, "Although I'm not close to them, they are blood relatives after all. I can't let them suffer in the City of Wei."
Mo Rongzhan didn't really want the Cen family to come to the capital. As the maiden family of the Empress Dowager, they naturally had to be conferred the title of Marquis. Being a Marquis in the City of Wei was very different from being a Marquis in the capital. He didn't know how the Cen family's upbringing was, but he was worried that someone would make use of them in the future.
"Your Majesty, do you not wish for the Cen family to come to the capital?" the Empress Dowager asked Mo Rongzhan with a frown.
"Mother, that's not what I meant." Mo Rongzhan said, "If you want to see your maiden family, why don't you let them enter the palace to pay their respects to you? At that time, they can stay in the capital for a few days."
The Empress Dowager sighed, "When people get old, they will miss home and their families. Your Majesty, you don't understand."
"Brother, isn't it just letting uncle go to the capital? In any case, they don't know anything. When the time comes, just let them enter the palace more often to accompany mother," Mo Rongyi said from the side.
Mo Rongzhan said, "It will take some time for my uncle and the others to return to the City of Wei. I will send someone to pick them up."
A smile appeared on the Empress Dowager's face. "Good."
Returning from the Palace of Compassionate and Peaceful to the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Mo Rongzhan still didn't understand why the Empress Dowager wanted to bring the Cen family to the capital. In the past, she didn't even want to mention the Cen family.
Something must have happened.
"Your Majesty, Daren Tang is outside the palace and wishes to see you," Eunuch Fu said to Mo Rongzhan in a low voice.
Mo Rongzhan's eyes sank slightly. Tang Zhen came back so soon.
"Let him in." Mo Rongzhan said solemnly.
After a while, Tang Zhen walked in from the outside with a dignified face and knelt in front of Mo Rongzhan. "Your Majesty, I got the book."
"Does that booklet really exist?" Mo Rongzhan's voice suddenly turned cold, and his gaze became increasingly sharp and threatening.
"I also found out that Lin Zhanhong, a businessman who colluded with officials and threatened Lin Maoping, did not die in the fire that year, but changed his name and left Jiangnan." Tang Zhen said.
Mo Rongzhan's expression darkened. "Do you know where Lin Zhanhong is now?"
Lin Maoping told Mo Rongzhan before he died that Lin Zhanhong had threatened Lin Maoping. This time, he asked Tang Zhen to go to Jiangnan, in addition to finding the booklet left by Ye Rongquan, to find out the truth of the Lin family's fire that year.
"I only know that Lin Zhanhong fled to Dongqing. I haven't found out what he changed his name to," Tang Zhen said.
Mo Rongzhan looked down at the contents of the booklet and found that there was no other evidence that could be used except for Ye Rongquan's crying about his injustice. If it was only a letter to seek justice, Ye Rongquan would not be so careful to let Ye Yaoyao protect him.
"Have you checked this booklet?" Mo Rongzhan asked in a deep voice.
Tang Zhen had actually found something wrong with this booklet, but before the emperor agreed, he would not tear it open to check. "I think this booklet is a bit strange. The paper on each page is much thicker than usual."
Mo Rongzhan held the booklet in his hand and turned around to pick up a sharp dagger from the desk. He then gently cut open a piece of paper.
One page became two, and there was a thin piece of oiled paper in the middle, on which were densely written words with charcoal ash. Mo Rongzhan calmly cut the pages of the entire booklet. There were a total of five pieces of oiled paper.
The above content was the truth of that year.
"Your Majesty!" Tang Zhen saw the above content, and his calm face had completely changed.
"Ye Yisong! Collusion between officials and thieves!" Mo Rongzhan was so angry that he laughed. This was the evidence that Ye Rongquan wanted to keep for himself. This was the reason why he was inexplicably accused of corruption and was finally assassinated before the trial.
Tang Zhen looked at the contents of the five pieces of oiled paper and looked at Mo Rongzhan in surprise. "Your Majesty, there has always been a problem with the salt tax in Jiangnan, but where would such a large sum of silver be hidden?"
"Cao Lei." Mo Rongzhan's fingers looked at the fourth piece of oiled paper. "Ye Yisong and Cao Lei have long colluded. The silver that should have been handed over to the state treasury must have been hidden somewhere."
"Your Majesty, isn't Cao Lei dead?" Tang Zhen frowned. "How should we find out where this batch of silver is?"
"Cao Jiazhai is dead, but he still has a son." Mo Rongzhan whispered. "Ye Rongquan knows too much, so he can't live in Jiangnan."
Tang Zhen said, "Is the silver still there today?"
Mo Rongzhan remembered the news from Xue Lin. Bai Ziqi and Shen Yuexuan were going to find Cao Lei's treasure house. It must be the place where the tax money was hidden.
"I will go to Dongqing in person." Mo Rongzhan said in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty!" Tang Zhen looked at him in shock.
Mo Rongzhan said, "Cao Lei's son must be in Dongqing. Bai Ziqi and Shen Yuexuan are looking for Cao Lei's treasure house. They may know something."
Now, the only clue was the treasure trove left behind by Cao Lei, and the reason why Bai Ziqi wanted to kill Cao Lei at all costs. He was also one of the people who had been framed by Ye Yisong back then. Perhaps, he also knew some truth.
Tang Zhen said, "Your Majesty, that is Dongqing after all."
"I will go to Dongqing in disguise. Who will know that I am the emperor of the Jin Kingdom?" Mo Rongzhan said lightly. "The tax money is too important to the Jin Kingdom. It cannot fall into the hands of others."
"I will go to Dongqing with Your Majesty." Tang Zhen said immediately.
"No, I still need you to go to Jiangnan again. Ye Yisong can embezzle such a large amount of tax money. He must have a lot of minions in Jiangnan. In the past two years, I have only eradicated his forces in the capital. Jiangnan has not been free. Now is the opportunity." Mo Rongzhan said in a deep voice.
Tang Zhen nodded. "I understand what to do."
Mo Rongzhan pondered for a moment. "Let Qi Quan come back!"
Qi Quan was also Mo Rongzhan's trusted general. Now he was guarding the territory of the Jin Kingdom in the border town. Letting him come back to the capital was to suppress some people who had floating ideas and prevent those people from playing tricks behind Mo Rongzhan's back when he was not in the capital.
(Nine-headed Bird Academy)
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