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Chapter 465

Chapter 465

Empress Changsun got up and knelt in front of Li Shimin, and said with some shame: "Your Majesty, if such a problem occurs, the concubine should be very responsible. Please punish me!"

Li Shimin quickly helped Empress Changsun up, and said, "How can you be blamed for this matter? Isn't it normal that there are so many accounts this year that there are some problems? You were pregnant before, and then the old disease relapsed later. It is inevitable that some omissions will be made."

"Your Majesty, the concubine is the master of the harem. It is the concubine's responsibility to lead the harem and manage the House of Internal Affairs. If you fail to do a good job, you will not do it well. Those are not reasons. If your concubine makes mistakes, if your majesty does not punish him, what will happen to the concubine in the future?" Manage the harem?" Empress Changsun said stubbornly.

"Now we're not talking about punishment. The most important thing is to find out how much those evil slaves have been greedy for ink and how many people participated in it." Li Shimin said.

"Your Majesty, the managers who are registered in these accounts, as long as you take down these people and ask them, it will be clear." Empress Changsun said.

"You first count down who handles those problematic accounts." Li Shimin said.

Just as Empress Changsun said, it is not difficult to find out if the handlers are taken down.

"The concubine is going now." Empress Changsun said.

"What's the hurry, don't even look at what time it is, let's do it tomorrow." Li Shimin said.

Although Empress Changsun is eager to find out the problem of ink corruption, but it is already dark now, so I can only wait until tomorrow to talk about it.

Early the next morning, when Li Shimin went to court, Empress Changsun couldn't wait to count.

After reading a few ledgers, Empress Changsun's face was ashen. There is no need for statistics. Basically, all the people in charge of purchasing participated.

After Li Shimin left the court, he was concerned about Empress Changsun and went directly to the Lizheng Hall.

"How is it? Are you done counting?" Li Shimin asked.

Empress Changsun's face was very ugly, she forced a smile, and said, "Your Majesty, except for a few people, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is in charge of purchasing. This is the list."

If there are few people involved, it can be said that she was negligent. With so many people, it is no longer a matter of negligence.

Li Shimin took the list, glanced at it, handed it to Li Mu, and said flatly: "Let Li Junxian arrest people according to the list, interrogate them clearly, and see how much they have been greedy."

"Yes." Li Mu took the list and hurried out.

He knew that this time the matter might not be small.

There are so many people involved, but there is no news about it. I don't know how many people are involved.

He has served Li Shimin for many years, so he knows Li Shimin very well.

Li Shimin is not the scariest when he is angry, but the most terrifying is when he seems to be very calm.

Li Junxian took the order to arrest and interrogate people. Within an hour, the confession and the list of other participants were sent to Li Shimin.

"boom!"

Li Shimin jumped up angrily after watching it, his face was livid.

"Your Majesty calm down." Empress Changsun comforted.

"Calm down? Look at what these people have done, how can I calm down?" Li Shimin directly handed the confession to Empress Changsun.

Empress Changsun took the confession and looked at it, the more she looked at it, the more ugly her face became.

Those purchasing eunuchs falsely reported the price, which is considered a trivial matter in this confession.

In addition, they also united with eunuchs in various palaces to falsely report consumption.

Obviously it didn't use that much, so it was doubled and reported.

They have been doing this for several years, and more and more people are involved, forming a chain of interests.

These people even secretly took out some precious items from the palace and sold them off.

"Your Majesty, these people have been lying to others for so many years, but my concubine failed to notice it. Please punish me, Your Majesty." Empress Changsun knelt on the ground and said.

"Oh, why are you pleading guilty again? Let's talk about it after this matter is dealt with." Li Shimin said as he helped Empress Changsun.

"Let Li Junxian arrest people according to the list, and if someone stops them, they will be arrested together." Li Shimin said.

Following Li Shimin's order, the whole palace was in a panic, and there were guards in every palace arresting people.

Concubine Yang was talking to Li Ke in the hall when a maid ran in anxiously and said, "My lady, a group of imperial guards suddenly broke in and wanted to arrest Eunuch Zhang."

"What's going on?" Concubine Yang asked with a frown.

"The servant doesn't know." The palace maid shook her head and said.

"Let's go and have a look." Concubine Yang said.

Although Eunuch Zhang is not her confidant eunuch, he has served her for several years.

She couldn't let him be taken away without knowing why.

At the same time, she also wanted to find out what happened and whether she was involved.

Seeing this, Li Ke hurriedly followed.

When he came outside the hall, two guards were supporting Eunuch Zhang and were about to go out.

"What's going on?" Concubine Yang asked aloud.

"Your Majesty, help, help." Seeing Concubine Yang coming out, Eunuch Zhang hurriedly yelled loudly.

Although he didn't know why he was arrested, it was obviously not a good thing, and he already had ghosts in his heart, so he was naturally afraid.

The captain of the imperial guards who led the team bowed and saluted, and said: "See the imperial concubine, the younger one came to take someone in the name of His Majesty."

When Concubine Yang heard that it was Li Shimin's order, she could only watch as Eunuch Zhang was taken away.

"Mother, my son, go and ask Father Emperor to see what's going on." Li Ke said.

"Don't go." Concubine Yang pulled Li Ke back and said, "No matter what it is, asking now will only show that we have ghosts in our hearts. After a while, we will naturally know the reason."

Concubines in the harem and the palace of the princess were arrested, even in the palace of Ganlu.

Among these people, apart from the eunuchs, there were even some court ladies.

Scattered and scattered, more than 100 people were arrested.

Lizheng Palace

"Empress, please spare me. For the reason that I have served you for so many years, please spare my life." A eunuch knelt on the ground, kowtowed, his forehead was bleeding, and he still ignored it.

Li Shimin sat there without speaking, letting Empress Changsun handle it herself.

Empress Changsun said lightly: "Chen Shun, how many years have you been with me?"

"It's been eight years since I returned to Empress Empress. I beg Empress Empress to spare me." Chen Shun kept kowtowing, with snot and tears streaming down his face.

"Yeah, it's been almost eight years. When you were still in Prince Qin's mansion, you served me beside me. I asked myself how well I treated you. I promoted you to be the head of the House of Internal Affairs. Every month's regular money plus rewards Add it all together, there are eight guans without ten guans, right? Isn’t that enough for you?”

"Those maids and eunuchs gave you gifts, do you think I don't know? I think you have served me for many years, and you didn't do too much. You kept turning a blind eye. Who knows that you not only don't know Restraint, but intensified, stretched the confinement into the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and I lost all my face."

Empress Changsun said these words very calmly, but the more she said this, the more disturbed Chen Shun was.

"Empress Empress, this old slave knows that he is wrong, and begs Empress Empress to spare his life." Chen Shun knew that it was useless to say anything now, so he could only keep begging for mercy, hoping that Empress Changsun would spare his life for the sake of past affection.

"Tell me, how much have you embezzled in all these years?" Queen Changsun asked.

"Go back to your mother, this old slave has embezzled a total of [-] guan, and all the money was given to my brothers outside to buy property." Chen Shun cried bitterly.

"I will leave dozens of acres of land for your brothers. As for you..." Empress Changsun paused and said, "I can only make you suffer less."

(End of this chapter)