Regent, the princess you found is a treasure

In fact, Lingxuan Pavilion controlled by Xuan Moyin had already found solid evidence of corruption and bribery by Mr. Zhang in Shangshu Mansion. However, despite this, Xuan Moyin never took any action against him. But this time was different. Someone dared to offend Su Luoxue, which made him determined to teach the other party a lesson.

The two of them found the warehouse easily as if they were in an empty space. Then, they cleverly knocked out all the guards guarding the door and the lurking secret guards.

Su Luoxue gently pushed open the door of the storeroom and stepped inside. At first glance, the first thing that caught her eye was the rows of huge boxes placed all over the floor. She opened these boxes one by one, and saw that they were filled with boxes of shining silver and dazzling gold. Not only that, rows of shelves were also filled with a large amount of silver and silver bills of high denominations.

"There may be tens of millions of taels of silver here!" Su Luoxue thought to herself. Just as she was about to put the silver into her own space, Xuan Moyin quickly stopped her.

Su Luoxue looked at Xuan Moyin in confusion, and Xuan Moyin told Su Luoxue the evidence he had of Shangshu Zhang's corruption and bribery, and his decision to report him to the emperor.

"These are all evidence of Minister Zhang's corruption and bribery. If you take them all away, we won't be able to find anything during the house search. I'm afraid that Lord Zhang will deny it until his death." Xuan Moyin said to Su Luoxue.

Who can understand this kind of pain if you can't see it or get it? Su Luoxue stared at the boxes of silver reluctantly.

Xuan Moyin saw through her thoughts and thought: This little money-grubber. But he said gently: "I said, everything in the Regent Palace's storehouse is yours."

Can it be the same? Su Luoxue glanced at him, turned around and left the warehouse, and Xuan Moyin hurriedly followed.

The next morning, the dawn was just breaking, and the palace was solemn and dignified. At the morning court, all the ministers arrived, and Xuan Moyin walked firmly to the front of the emperor with a thick stack of evidence in his hand and presented it to the emperor.

These evidences listed in detail the crimes of Zhang Shangshu, including corruption, bribery, disregard for human life, and buying and selling official positions. Each of them was a fatal crime and was enough to sentence Zhang Shangshu to death.

Seeing this, a group of officials in the same camp as Xuan Moyin spoke up and pleaded with the emperor to punish severely and uphold the law. However, the rest of the ministers chose to remain silent and protect themselves. After all, how many of them could stay out of trouble? No one wanted to be targeted by the regent, the "king of hell", so as not to bring disaster upon themselves.

At this moment, the court was completely silent, and no one dared to plead for Minister Zhang. Minister Zhang knew that he could not escape the blame, and his legs softened, and he fell to his knees with a plop. Facing Xuan Moyin's irrefutable evidence, he knew that any rebuttal would be futile and would only make himself more embarrassed. So, he could only kneel there silently, his body trembling with fear.

The prince wanted to say a few good words for Zhang Shangshu, but he hesitated when he saw the current situation. After all, he was about to marry Su Qingrou, and Shangshu Mansion, as Su Qingrou's maternal home, should have been his right-hand man. Now that the emperor's uncle wanted to overthrow Shangshu Mansion, the reason might not be simple. Thinking of this, the prince finally shut up and stopped talking.

The prince thought to himself, but on the surface he could only keep his head down and remain silent. After all, with his current strength, he was still far from being able to face the emperor's uncle head-on.

But in fact, the prince was completely overthinking, because Xuan Moyin had already thought about overthrowing Minister Zhang, but the incident with Su Luoxue prompted him to implement this plan ahead of time.

As for the two princes, the second and third princes, they secretly gloated over the misfortune. Originally, the crown prince was going to marry the second daughter of the prime minister's mansion, so that Shangshu Zhang would definitely stand firmly on the crown prince's side and support him. Now, the Shangshu mansion has been directly brought down. Isn't this equivalent to cutting off one of the crown prince's arms? How can they not be ecstatic about this?

Especially the second prince, Ning Wang Xuan Haochen, since Su Luoxue successfully performed surgery on his mother and cured her illness, his inner vigilance towards his uncle gradually dissipated. Even the secret guards who were ordered to lurk around the Regent's Palace and monitor secretly were quietly withdrawn by him.

Although Xuan Haochen was also eager for the supreme throne, at this moment, all he wanted was to compete with the crown prince and his third brother. If the person who finally ascended the throne was his uncle, he might also express his support without hesitation.

However, Xuan Moyin was unaware of all this and had no time to care about it.

Since the evidence presented by Xuan Moyin was irrefutable and many officials expressed their support, no one dared to stand up to defend Zhang Shangshu. Even Zhang Shangshu himself was speechless and unable to justify himself in the face of such irrefutable evidence. Under such circumstances, even if Emperor Yuanwu wanted to save Zhang Shangshu, he was powerless at this moment.

In desperation, Emperor Yuanwu had to issue an edict: remove Shangshu Zhang from his current official position, temporarily detain him in Shuntian Prefecture Prison, and execute him three days later; at the same time, confiscate the Shangshu Mansion’s property, and exile all the people in the Shangshu Mansion thousands of miles away.

Being able to save the lives of the whole family, this is really a special favor from the emperor! Minister Zhang was so excited that tears flowed down his face. He kept kowtowed to express his gratitude, and his forehead was bleeding. The imperial guards came forward, took off his official hat and stripped off his official uniform. In a blink of an eye, the originally majestic Lord Zhang was dressed in plain clothes and was escorted to the prison, quietly waiting for his execution three days later.

At this moment, all the officials in the hall watched silently as Zhang Shangshu was taken away, and many of them couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from their foreheads due to fear.

Especially Prime Minister Su, as Shangshu Zhang was his father-in-law, he was on pins and needles at the moment, and he didn't dare to plead for Shangshu Zhang at this moment. After all, he didn't want the Prime Minister's Mansion to be implicated by the Shangshu Mansion at this critical juncture.

So, he carefully stole a glance at the prince, only to find that the prince was keeping his head down and not saying a word. Seeing this, Prime Minister Su also quickly lowered his head and chose to remain silent.

When Xuan Moyin saw Shangshu Zhang being taken away, he immediately recommended a capable official on his side to Emperor Yuanwu to serve as Shangshu. Now, even though Xuan Jingyu knew that this was the Regent's man, he had no choice but to agree.

Other officials also expressed their congratulations. Seeing that no one had anything to report, Xuan Jingyu asked Eunuch Jiang to announce the adjournment of the court.

Back in the imperial study, Xuan Jingyu lost his temper and smashed several things before he sat down.