Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 1874

"Song Yuanjiu, the Minister of Zongzheng Temple..." The head of the Ministry of Justice unfolded the yellow silk edict, and his voice penetrated the snowy courtyard, "He accepted bribes totaling 377,600 taels from the awaiting garrison commander Jiang Zhongxin. Search and seize immediately!"

Mrs. Song cried heartbreakingly and ran for several blocks with her two sons after her husband's prison van. Her shoes even fell off.

The two sons' eyes turned green and their heads were buzzing. They asked the same question, "Mother, father must have been wrongly accused, right?"

Madam Song cried bitterly, shook her head, and said with sorrow, "Your father told you not to bear grudge against the court. His crime is unforgivable."

The two sons' eyes were red. The sky has fallen! Their father is in prison, where will they go?

Where would they go from here? They were no longer eligible for the imperial examinations. The Yunqi Academy, the place they had longed to visit and were so proud of...was also out of their reach.

Why? What crime did my father commit?

The mother and her children hugged each other and cried bitterly.

Song's mother fell to the ground, her hair disheveled. "No, my son was wrongly accused. He has always been frugal, how could he accept bribes! You are wrong, wrong."

However, the officials from the Ministry of Justice pried open the bed inside and revealed real gold and silver neatly stacked under the bricks.

Song's mother also saw it and almost went crazy!

The thought of her son having so much money but not giving it to her and letting it gather dust under the bed made her eyes blaze with anger.

Song's mother fainted on the ground crying.

At this time, at Enyi Inn in Gongcheng, Lingzhou.

Shi Anxia had read Jiang Zhongxin's confession and the account books found in his mansion countless times.

The account book had written in black and white: Song Yuanjiu, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand six hundred taels.

She remembered Song Yuanjiu, who was the Minister of Zongzheng Temple at that time.

In the Northern Wing, this official position is of the third rank, the same rank as the six ministers and the Northern Propaganda Minister, and is considered to be a high and powerful position.

Not only could he have direct access to the emperor's ears and use the power of secret memorials, he could also participate in the selection of the crown prince and had the right to review the imperial archives.

In the previous life, when the imperial court was short of silver, Song Yuanjiu donated over one million taels of silver in one go.

Everyone was shocked at the time.

Everyone knows that Lord Song comes from a poor family and is frugal in his daily life. Where did he get so much money?

He explained that his ancestors had some valuable things, which he sold.

At that time, the country was in crisis, and no one would doubt the truth of this statement. Even Shi Anxia believed it, who would have thought that it was a bribe?

Song Yuanjiu died of illness soon after donating the silver. Although he was not a brilliant official in his daily life and did not do anything earth-shaking during the war, his name was still recorded in "Records of Mountains and Rivers of Beiyi".

Later, the imperial court returned part of the silver to the Song family, but Song Yuanjiu's eldest son Song Shenzhi refused.

He said that his father's will said that it was his lifelong blessing to be able to donate the Song family's money to the court.

It was also because of this that when Anxia saw that the people who were investigating the Li family were officials headed by Song Yuanjiu, he did not conduct further inspections, which led to such a mistake.

It turned out that what Song Yuanjiu donated to the Northern Wing court was actually bribe silver. This realization made Shi Anxia feel extremely uncomfortable.

He was a loyal minister who was featured in "Records of Mountains and Rivers of the Northern Wing"!

It was at this time that Shi Anxia suddenly understood the true meaning of the sentence "It is his lifelong blessing to be able to donate the Song family's money to the court."