Chapter 179
Everyone looked at the woman with curious eyes, wondering what she had wronged, so they wanted to appeal to Lord Bao.
The woman's eyes contained tears, as if she had suffered countless grievances, she choked and said, "Mr. Bao Qingtian, I want to sue the Empress Dowager Liu E of the dynasty!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the scene was silent!
Deadly silence!
Everyone was shocked by the woman's words!
Who is the Empress Dowager?
That was the mother of Emperor Song Renzong of the dynasty, and his status was extremely respectable!
Now, this ragged woman is going to sue the Empress Dowager, which is really shocking!
Does Bao Qingtian dare to accept it?
Ye Huai looked at the woman in front of him, and thought of something in his mind, and a solemn expression appeared on his face.
He said, "Come, take this woman with me and go to the prefect's office together. Let's talk about the complaint slowly!"
"Yes!" said the following guards.
Ye Huai knew that he had sued the Empress Dowager. This matter was very serious and needed to be discussed for a long time.
The content of the case should not be known to others before solving a major case, so as not to be circulated.
When he arrived at the Chenzhou Prefectural Office, Ye Huai went straight to the court without rest.
All the yamen runners were replaced by royal guards who followed Ye Huai, as well as Zhan Zhao, Yan Nantian and others, all of which were for the sake of confidentiality.
Bang-
Ye Huai sat upright in the position of the prefect, knocking the auspicious tree, and the sound shook the whole field, saying, "Who in the hall, why should I sue the Empress Dowager? Let me quickly go to my detention. If there is any grievance, I will make the decision for you! The prince violates the law and the common people are the same!"
The woman kneeling on the ground said with tears in her eyes: "Mr. Bao, I am the concubine of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, Li, and from Lin'an..."
Ye Huai heard the woman's words and his face was filled with solemn expression!
Sure enough, the woman in front of her is Concubine Li, the protagonist of the Crown Cat, and the biological mother of Song Renzong Zhao Zhen!
This is a shocking case!
It is much bigger than the case of Chen Shimei and Qin Xianglian!
After the death of the former queen of Song Zhenzong, the emperor of the previous Song Dynasty, no descendants were left.
At this time, Concubine Liu (now Empress Dowager Liu E) and Concubine Li were both pregnant. If anyone gave birth to a son, he would be the main palace and become the new queen.
Concubine Liu had long been jealous of Concubine Li being favored by Emperor Zhenzong, and was afraid that Concubine Li would give birth to a son and be made the queen.
Concubine Liu and Guo Huai, the chief supervisor of the palace, designed the design. With the cooperation of midwife You, taking advantage of the opportunity of Concubine Li's delivery, she peeled off the fur of a raccoon cat, and turned away the newly born prince (Zhao Zhen) in vain.
Concubine Liu ordered the palace maid Kou Zhu to strangle the prince to death. Kou Zhu couldn't bear it and secretly handed the prince over to the eunuch Chen Lin.
Chen Lin put the prince in a carrying box and sent it to the Eight Virtues to raise him.
When Emperor Zhenzong of Song saw the skinned raccoon cat, he thought that Concubine Li had given birth to a monster, so he demoted him to the cold palace.
Soon, Liu Concubine Liu (Liu E) was about to give birth and gave birth to a son, and was made the crown prince. Concubine Liu was also named the new queen.
Unexpectedly, six years later, Empress Liu's son died of illness.
Zhenzong had no more children, so he adopted the son of the Eight Virtue Kings (actually the prince Zhao Zhen who was replaced that year) as his adopted son and made him the crown prince.
One day, the prince met his biological mother, Concubine Li in the cold palace. Perhaps because of blood connection, they both shed tears in just one glance.
When Empress Liu learned about it, she tortured Kou Zhu, who died after hitting the stairs.
Later, Empress Liu slandered in front of Zhenzong, and Zhenzong issued an order to kill Concubine Li.
The young eunuch Yu Zhong was willing to martyr Li for Concubine Li and released him.
Another eunuch, Qin Feng, took Concubine Li out and sent him to Chenzhou, and Qin Feng also burned himself to death.
Concubine Li had no way to make a living in Chenzhou, so she only relied on begging for food.
Bao Zheng's reputation has long been spread throughout Chenzhou City under the publicity of Mr. Storyteller.
Concubine Li also knew that Bao Zheng was a good official who was not afraid of power, so he was able to stop him halfway.
She knew that if Bao Zheng could not help her avenge, then no one in the world could help it.
Gongsun Ce, Zhan Zhao, Yan Nantian and others in the court were shocked after hearing Concubine Li’s narrative!
Unexpectedly, the royal family had such horrifying news.
Ye Huai knew that this matter was impossible, and that it was the raccoon who changed the prince, and the person in front of him was Concubine Li.
He walked down and personally helped the woman up and said, "Concubine Li, please follow us. When the matter of investigating disaster relief funds and food is completed, we will take you back to Kaifeng to meet Your Majesty. At that time, your Majesty will make a decision on how to deal with this matter."
"Thank you, Lord Bao!" Concubine Li said with gratitude.
Gurulu
As soon as his words fell, a strange sound came.
Ye Huai glanced at it and found that it was Li's stomach and screaming again.
Concubine Li showed a look of embarrassment on her face.
Ye Huai couldn't help but sigh: It's really pitiful that a concubine with rich clothes and food has fallen to this point!
He said: "Guard Zhan, take Concubine Li down to rest and let someone prepare food and new clothes!"
"Yes, sir!" Zhan Zhao received the order.
Ye Huai continued to remind: "Shan Guard, you will be responsible for protecting Concubine Li's safety in the next time!"
"Yes, sir!"
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After dealing with Concubine Li's affairs, Ye Huai asked everyone to go down and rest.
On the second day, Ye Huai asked Gongsun Ce to re-check Chenzhou's disaster relief money and grain accounts and interrogate the Chenzhou prefect.
He planned to use Chenzhou as a breakthrough point, follow the clues and catch all corrupt officials who embezzled disaster relief money and food in one go.
The prefect of Chenzhou was a corrupt man who was afraid of death. With Ye Huai's methods, he all brought it all.
Even the matter of giving 150,000 taels of silver to Taishi Pang and becoming the prefect of Chenzhou was explained.
The 300,000 taels of disaster relief funds and 500,000 shi of grain in Chenzhou were less than 1,000 taels of silver and 10,000 shi of grain in the hands of the people.
All other money and food were corrupted by corrupt officials.
The prefect of Chenzhou himself corrupted 80,000 taels of silver and 100,000 shi of grain, while the rest were filial to Shangguan, who included the Minister of Revenue, Pang Taishi, etc.
Ye Huai was also quite angry when he learned about this!
These corrupt officials are really greedy and so crazy!
He asked the Chenzhou Prefecture to sign and seal the seal, then put the royal guards in custody, so as to prevent anyone from robbing the prison or assassinating the Chenzhou Prefecture.
At noon that day, Ye Huai opened the Chenzhou grain warehouse to release grain to help the affected people.
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Grand Master's Mansion.
The old Pang Dao entered the hall and bowed to Grand Master Pang, saying, "Report to Grand Master, important news from Chenzhou is coming!"
After taking a sip of tea, Master Pang put down the tea bowl and said, "Say!"
"The prefect of Chenzhou was imprisoned by Bao Zheng..." Pang Dao reported respectfully.
When Grand Master Pang heard the sound, his brow frowned slightly, and said coldly: "The Prime Minister Chenzhou is a good at flattering and slapping horses. His bones are very soft. I guess he has already called it! Pang Dao, you arrange someone to deal with this person!"
"Yes, Grand Master!" Pang Dao continued: "A strange thing happened after Bao Zheng arrived in Chenzhou!"
"What's the matter? Say it!" said Master Pang.
Pang Dao said: "A woman wants to sue the Empress Dowager!"
Chapter completed!