The inner voice was overheard, and the whole court was eating melons together

Song Yaoyao: [This man has made all the necessary preparations. He has long wanted to kill Mu Qingyang.

These two people have similar body shapes, but no one noticed, right?

Mu Qingyang is missing, alive or dead, so have his family members not looked for him?】

Gua Gua: [After Wang Zhifang replaced Mu Qingyang, he sent people to keep an eye on Mu Qingyang's family.

Mu Qingyang had been gone for two years without any news. His family borrowed money from all their relatives and scraped together enough money for the trip to Beijing to look for him.

The ones who came out to look for their relatives that time were Mu Qingyang's eldest brother and second brother. Unexpectedly, as soon as they left the town, they were killed by the people sent by Wang Zhifang.

After that, the Mu family never sent anyone out to look for them again. One reason was that their three sons were missing, and they couldn’t bear to lose any more children.

Secondly, they were already heavily in debt because of supporting Mu Qingyang's studies, and later they borrowed money to support their two sons in finding their relatives. They could not pay off the money they owed in this lifetime, so they dared not borrow money anymore.

After Wang Zhifang replaced Mu Qingyang, the Wang family announced that Wang Zhifang had contracted a serious illness in the capital and died.

Over the years, the Wang family has relied on Wang Zhifang to bully men and women, seize land, and do all kinds of evil!

The Wang family has become the local bully! 】

Song Yaoyao: [It seems that the Wang family knows everything Wang Zhifang has done.]

Guagua: [Yeah.

After Wang Zhifang killed Mu Qingyang, he returned to the Wang family. When Wang's father found out, he panicked at first, but then he thought that things had come to this point and he could only do as Wang Zhifang wanted.

Maybe, with Wang Zhifang's help, the Wang family will be able to move to a higher level.

Therefore, Wang's father announced the news of Wang Zhifang's death to the public. 】

The video shows Wang Zhifang and his father plotting in the study. Their conversation is about how to use Wang Zhifang's current official position to help the Wang family move to a higher level.

The emperor's expression became extremely ugly, and the ministers below were all trembling with fear when they saw his dark face.

They also had to carefully discuss state affairs while continuing to watch the video secretly.

Song Yaoyao: [This king's father is indeed a businessman. Whenever he encounters a problem, he always thinks about how to maximize profits.

This family is not a good thing! 】

Guagua continued:

After Wang Zhifang took office, he was corrupt and committed abuse of power, and accepted bribes.

The people and officials were miserable. Some officials wrote memorials to report Wang Zhifang's behavior to the emperor.

As soon as the memorials were sent out, they were intercepted by Wang Zhifang's men. Afterwards, the officials who wrote the memorials would die in accidents.

Everyone knows who did this, but there is no evidence.

Since then, no official dared to take the risk of submitting a memorial.

The videos show scenes of Wang Zhifang having his subordinates keep an eye on various officials, and taking action against those officials at the slightest sign of trouble.

The prefect had long been bribed by Wang Zhifang.

Song Yaoyao: [A fifth-rank prefect is really courageous.

From the video, it seems that Wang Zhifang has trained a group of people to do murder, arson, and other shady things for him? 】

Guagua: [Yeah.

These people were all well-known for being extremely vicious and cruel, and several of them were wanted criminals by the imperial court and the underworld.

When these people were desperate, Wang Zhifang took them in.

They made a deal. They handled some shady things for Wang Zhifang, and Wang Zhifang protected them from being caught by the underworld and the court. For every person they killed, Wang Zhifang would give them a certain amount of money.

When all the officials saw this scene, they moved a little further away from Wang Zhifang.

Song Yaoyao was so angry that she couldn't speak clearly:

【Wang Zhifang is simply, simply a scum. 】

After a pause, Song Yaoyao continued to ask:

[The emperor is really old and confused. Didn't he send anyone to investigate? He just brought such a person to the court?

If one day he doesn't like someone, he will just kill them all, wouldn't the officials in the court be in trouble? 】

Song Yaoyao said that the emperor was getting senile and confused, and everyone looked up at the emperor cautiously.

This is the first time someone has scolded the emperor like this since he ascended the throne!

The ministers were really afraid that the emperor would have an attack!

The emperor looked calm, but the officials were even more frightened.

This is clearly a sign of the coming storm!

The emperor must be planning something big!

Minister Song even had beads of cold sweat on his forehead: This damn girl is really throwing her life away. She even scolded the Emperor today.

Song Yaoyao was completely unaware of the strangeness of the officials and was still complaining to Guagua:

[It is said that three years as an honest magistrate can earn you 100,000 silver coins.]

This Wang Zhifang must have been very greedy, right?

Not to mention the Wang family. 】

Guagua: [During the years that Wang Zhifang served as prefect, he did embezzle a lot of silver, probably about five or six hundred thousand taels.

The Wang family has plundered the village over the years, and with the gifts from the local gentry, they have accumulated over a million taels.

Song Yaoyao exclaimed:

[Wow, so much silver!]

The national treasury only had 30 taels of silver before, this amount of money is more than the national treasury.

The emperor must confiscate their homes and fill the state treasury with their ill-gotten gains. 】

Guagua continued:

[You just said that the emperor is getting senile?

I don't think he has reached the point where he cannot tell right from wrong and would believe in slander.

At least in the matter of General Pei, the emperor did not listen to one side and was still looking for evidence. 】

Song Yaoyao became confused when she heard this:

[There is no general named Pei in the court. Could he be the general guarding the border?

Guagua, what is going on? Why haven't I heard anything about General Pei? Tell me quickly. 】

Guagua: [Do you know why Wang Zhifang was promoted? ]

Song Yaoyao: [I only heard that he was appointed as a fourth-rank official by the emperor because he made great contributions by reporting someone's conspiracy.

The emperor never said anything specific in the court, so I don’t know.

Could it be that Wang Zhifang's promotion is related to the General Pei you just mentioned? 】

As Gua Gua and Song Yaoyao chatted, the image of General Pei appeared above Song Yaoyao's head.

Guagua: [That’s right, Wang Zhifang was promoted because of his meritorious service in exposing General Pei.

Then let me talk about this in detail, starting with General Pei.

General Pei is 45 years old this year. His name is Pei Jingtian and his family has been in the military for generations.

After General Pei retired, Pei Jingtian took over his father's position and became the new General Pei, guarding the border.

The place where General Pei was stationed was not far from the place under the jurisdiction of Wang Zhifang. Logically speaking, one was a third-rank military officer who took orders directly from the emperor, and the other was a fifth-rank civil official who was under the jurisdiction of the prefect. The two had no intersection at all.

But the fact is, these two people happened to have an intersection. 】

Hearing this, everyone held their breath, wanting to know what had happened between the two.