After traveling through time, the adults were completely in my hands

After watching the Taoist priest being taken away by the Jinyiwei, Jindou looked around the yard, took a few steps, and came to a rockery. She walked around the rockery and a secret door appeared in front of her.

"Sir, here!" Jindou shouted.

Wei Qing brought the Jinyiwei to the secret door. Xie Xiaohu walked over and kicked the secret door open. More than ten large black wooden boxes suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

A Jinyiwei walked over and opened one of the boxes. The white silver immediately dazzled his eyes.

After taking all the people from Prince Fu's Mansion into the prison of Yanzhou government office, Wei Qing ordered the Jinyiwei to torture the prisoners day and night. Soon, the housekeeper of Prince Fu's Mansion was the first to be unable to withstand the torture and confessed everything Prince Fu had done.

It turned out that a few years ago, Prince Fu met a Taoist priest by chance. The Taoist priest claimed that he had superb Taoist skills and could develop an elixir of immortality for Prince Fu.

Upon hearing this, Prince Fu was overjoyed and personally welcomed the Taoist priest into his mansion. At the Taoist priest's request, Prince Fu ordered people to buy all kinds of rare herbs.

The Taoist priest made pills with these herbs and asked Prince Fu to take them one by one. After a few months, Prince Fu saw that his gray hair had grown black hair again, and the wrinkles on his face gradually disappeared. He looked a lot younger, and Prince Fu couldn't help but be overjoyed.

At this time, the Taoist priest advised King Fu that pills made from herbs can only delay aging. If one really wants to make an elixir of immortality, one must also add one more thing, that is, the heart of a young man in his teens or twenties as a medicine.

Prince Fu, who was dreaming of immortality, believed the Taoist's words without a doubt. Upon hearing the Taoist's words, he immediately ordered his men to go out and secretly capture the young man who was walking alone, and bring him back to let the Taoist deal with him.

As time went by, the monthly expenses of purchasing rare herbs began to make the palace unable to make ends meet. In order to get money to support the Taoist priests in developing the elixir of life, Prince Fu began to set his sights on the disaster relief funds in the Yanzhou silver vault.

In order to facilitate the theft of disaster relief funds, Prince Fu first began to win over Cui Botong, the prefect of Yanzhou.

Cui Botong, the prefect of Yanzhou, had many wives and concubines and was known for his extravagant lifestyle. Because he and Prince Fu had similar interests, they had been in frequent contact for several years. When Prince Fu approached him, he immediately fell in love.

Stealing disaster relief funds is a capital crime. After conspiring, the two decided to let the treasury supervisor Li Zheng be the scapegoat.

On the day the relief funds were stolen, Cui Botong lured Li Zheng out of the warehouse under the pretext of a meal and drinks and then killed him. Prince Fu then sent someone to use a drug to knock out the warehouse guards that day, and then secretly took away the 100,000 taels of relief funds.

Afterwards, the two men sent someone to spread the word that the treasury supervisor Li Zheng had colluded with foreign thieves, embezzled the disaster relief funds and escaped.

The two of them thought they had done it perfectly, but they didn't know that the warehouse supervisor Li Zheng went to Honglefang every night to look for his lover Qi Yu.

On the night when Cui Botong called her away, because he was afraid that Miss Qi Yu would be waiting, he asked someone to inform her that the prefect wanted to invite her tonight and she would have to go later.

Miss Qiyu waited all night but saw no one. The next day, she heard the news that Li Zheng had stolen disaster relief funds. Miss Qiyu refused to believe it, knowing that someone must have framed Li Zheng. Since she had a close relationship with Li Zheng, she was afraid that he would be killed to silence her.

At night, Miss Qiyu, who had been afraid to fall asleep, heard footsteps outside. She knew something was wrong and wanted to write the word "Cui" to tell others that she and Li Zheng were killed by Cui Botong. But the man had already arrived at the door. In a panic, Miss Qiyu only had time to write the word "Shan" and stuffed it under the quilt. The criminal had already pushed the door open.

Prince Fu and Cui Botong thought they could rest easy from now on, after all, the dead cannot speak.

Little did they know that someone saw the clue from this one word "mountain" and gradually exposed the crimes of the two to the world.

Cui Botong, who had been denying everything, finally confessed his crime and was executed after seeing his nephew Cui Biao in prison.

At this point, the case of the theft of disaster relief funds in Yanzhou was finally solved. The two main culprits, Cui Botong, were escorted back to the capital, while Prince Fu was executed on the spot because the emperor had issued an oral order that he could not enter the capital unless he was dead. His head was brought to the capital for inspection by the emperor.

The rest of the accomplices were also investigated and punished one by one according to Daqing laws.

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After returning from Yanzhou, Wei Qing first entered the palace and reported to Emperor Qingyuan the details of the missing disaster relief funds. After finishing the report, Wei Qing walked forward slowly. The news he had just heard in Yanghe Palace made him feel extremely heavy at the moment.

"Lord Wei," a sweet voice woke Wei Qing from his previous thoughts. He then realized that Princess Fengyang was surrounded by many palace maids and was standing in front of him without him noticing.

"Lord Wei, are you leaving?" Yingying's soft voice came out from her delicate lips again, and Princess Fengyang looked at Wei Qing with loving eyes and asked.

Wei Qing bowed and said, "Yes, Your Highness." As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Qing stepped aside to make way for Princess Fengyang.

In public, Princess Fengyang couldn't say much, but she was in the palace and had very few chances to meet this person.

Princess Fengyang really didn't want to miss this opportunity, so she threw aside her reserve and spoke again, "Sir Wei, the Empress Dowager has been saying that she misses you these past few days. Sir Wei has already entered the palace today, so why not go and see the Empress Dowager?"

Hearing Princess Fengyang's words, Wei Qing bowed and replied calmly: "Your Highness, I have something to do today, so I won't disturb the Empress Dowager. I will take my leave first." As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Qing strode away.

Looking at Wei Qing's departing back, Princess Fengyang changed her gentle expression, bit her lips tightly, and her face was full of gloom.

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Outside the Duke Dingguo's mansion, Wei Qing dismounted, handed the reins to a servant beside him, and strode in.

In the main hall of Duke Dingguo's mansion, Duke Dingguo and his wife, Wei Qing's elder brother and sister-in-law, and Wei Qing's two nephews were all inside.

Wei Qing's two nephews, the elder one was Wei Yizhao, who was five years old, and the younger one was Wei Yizhong, who was three years old. On weekdays, the two children were very close to their uncle. When they saw Wei Qing coming in from a distance, the two children immediately shouted, "Uncle, uncle!" and ran towards him.

When Wei Qing saw the two children coming over, he quickly squatted down and picked up one child on each side. He said, "How are you? Uncle hasn't been home these past two days. Have you been obedient?"

The two children nodded together in Wei Qing's arms. Although the younger brother, Wei Yizhong, was only three years old, he spoke very clearly and said in a baby voice, "Uncle, my brother and I are very well behaved at home."

Lady Xu, the wife of Duke Dingguo, felt a pang of distress when she saw Wei Qing holding the two children. When her eldest son was Wei Qing's age, he was already a father of two children, but her youngest son was still alone, and it was unknown how long he could live.

When she thought of this, Lady Dingguo felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife, and she tried hard not to let her tears fall.