Chapter 1075 The main culprit (1)
When the ministers thought that they would send someone from the palace to Xuan Li Ling to the court, they would probably take a while for a while. In this way, the officials in the court were waiting here, but it was really inappropriate to delay all the time.
But the emperor did not mention retreating to the court. Although everyone had any doubts in their hearts, they did not dare to mention it. They could only stand there silently. Then, a report rang out from the outside: "My three envoys Li Ling, who was the envoy of the three ministers, met His Majesty..."
"Huh?" Most of the ministers showed surprise after saying this. Is it so fast? Li Ling was waiting in front of the palace gate and was announced. What's going on?
Then, some meticulous people immediately thought of some unreasonable things just now - who is Li Ling? He was deeply trusted by the emperor, held important financial power, and had a lot of real important officials in the court. Such important officials were targeted and impeached in this way. Even if the emperor was not able to directly protect his ally because of some concerns, his allies in the court should stand up and argue for him.
But today, when facing the attacks and accusations of hundreds of people, no one came out inside and outside the hall! This is really inconsistent with Li Ling's current identity. When Li Ling suddenly arrived, he naturally made people feel that all this was arranged by him, at least as expected.
At the moment when many ministers were all concerned about this change, Li Ling had to enter the hall. He first bowed to the emperor according to the etiquette, and then stood up and waited for the emperor to speak. Sun Bi did not delay too much, and immediately told the matter of impeaching the ministers and the relevant reasons.
Finally, he looked at him and asked calmly: "Wen Zhong, do you have any questions to argue about the impeachment you have done by King Jing and the ministers of the Censorate?"
"Your Majesty, I really have something to say." Li Ling replied, his eyes raised quickly, first communicated with Sun Qi, and then swept to the ministers behind him. The officials who had been constantly jumping out and wanted to impeach him were all bowed their heads and lowered their eyes guiltily, and did not dare to have any contact with his eyes.
Li Ling just smiled and kept all the reactions of these people in his heart. Then he said to Sun Bi again: "Your Majesty, some ministers are indeed willing to admit that the accusations against these adults are at fault. When introducing money, they will eventually be negligent, which may be taken advantage of by some people with ulterior motives. But they said that they did all this to seek property for themselves, but it is difficult for me to accept it.
"Although I am not talented, I still understand one thing, that is, my ministers, since I have entered the court as an official, I only care about the king and the country, the people of the world, and as for my own interests, I can only take into account both the rules. I spent so much effort to promote money and the people were able to be stable."
"Mr. Li, although you said this beautifully, there were indeed great mistakes in the money ticket after it was implemented, which made the people in Jiangnan panic. You can't deny this, right?" Finally, when he saw him excuse himself and wanted to believe that he had made no mistakes, someone couldn't help but questioned loudly.
Then, Sun Qi followed closely: "Yes, the panic caused by the fake money tickets in Jiangnan has been reported to Beijing by local officials. This relationship cannot be dealt with by any statement. Also, it is still just Jiangnan. Are there other forged money tickets everywhere in the world? Once this matter spreads, it is still useless to make money tickets completely useless. More importantly, the reputation of the court is damaged. Can you, Lord Li, afford all this?
"Even if everything is for the country and the people as you said, it is still a huge mistake! What's more, I really don't believe that with your ability, Li Ling, you will not be able to see that the big crisis will be caused by the implementation of money tickets. I'm afraid there is another idea, right?"
This criticism was quite clear, it was completely obvious that Li Ling wanted to gain benefits by promoting money tickets. In many people's opinion, he pointed out in person that the forgery money tickets was the planning and arrangements made by Li Ling in secret.
Just as everyone was stunned, Sun Qi added: "There is another thing that I actually doubted. Your Majesty, I still remember that on the eve of the money ticket being implemented, Li Ling's family was kidnapped by the so-called thieves, and then the thieves threatened him to hand over the method of printing money tickets and many anti-counterfeiting details to them... At that time, many adults in the court opposed the introduction of money tickets at that time, but Li Ling, who was aware of his strong proposal to continue to implement them.
"Now that I think about it, this is clearly a play that Li Ling himself arranged, in order to give a legitimate reason to make money and money creation leaked. When the money and money are really forged this time, he can stay out of the matter!"
Not many people involved in this matter that day. At this time, Sun Qi pointed it out, which made countless officials discolor and exclaim. It turned out that before the money ticket was introduced, they had actually leaked the manufacturing methods. This is too scammed and too bold!
As a result, even the officials who had been neutral before were ready to refute and impeach Li Ling. His behavior was too bad. Isn't this a joke about the wealth of the world? Isn't it that he would soon turn into money tickets, which made them even more panic. Someone couldn't help but stand up and accuse Li Ling of being absurd or sinister.
At this moment, Li Ling really became a rat crossing the street, and all the ministers in the court regarded him as their enemy. If it weren't for the court, the emperor and the system, the ministers would have wished they could rush up and beat Li Ling and vented their anger.
Faced with such fierce public opinion, Li Ling was quite calm. He stood there calmly, looking at Sun Qi not far away with a smile, making the other party feel a little scared.
It was not until the emperor and several eunuchs in front of him spoke one after another and called everyone to calm down that he saluted Sun Bi and said, "Your Majesty, please tell me something."
Sun Bi's expression was a little solemn, and then slowly said, "It's correct."
After getting the emperor's approval, Li Ling looked at Sun Qi: "King Jing, your accusations are indeed reasonable from the current situation. But do you still remember the one who expressed your position to support me when I advocated the promotion of money tickets. Now you are fine, leave yourself clean..."
"I was also confused at the time. I thought that you, Li Ling, had good financial management and outstanding ability, so I supported you without thinking deeply. Now I think the decision was really hasty. If I really talk about it, I was wrong." Sun Qi was calm and did not mean to excuse him. He immediately turned around and said to Sun Bi, "Your Majesty, I have also made mistakes in this matter. If I really want to punish me, I dare not refuse."
Sun Bi did not react at the top, but Li Ling sneered at this moment: "King Jing is really responsible enough. I admit my own faults like this... But since that's the case, should you admit your true crimes together?"
"What do you mean?" Sun Qi's heart suddenly shook, but his face was still calm, looking at Li Ling and asked back.
"Why, do you really feel that the conspiracies you have done will not be seen through? I have long seen through your deliberate behavior of using someone to promote fake money tickets. And now, you are trying to push this mistake to me. King Jing, you are certainly a little stupid, but don't think of others too stupid!"
Li Ling's words were astonished as the sky, and all of the ministers were stunned. Everyone stared at him and Sun Qi with surprise. Many questions arose from their hearts and kept appearing on their faces.
What's going on? Is he referring to King Jing as the culprit behind the counterfeiting of money tickets this time?
Does he really have any evidence to prove it, or does he just want to protect himself, so he arranged it randomly to divert everyone's ideas?
Many people quickly turned countless thoughts in their minds, but they were worried that they would not say a word. However, Sun Qi, after being stunned, quickly calmed down and laughed: "Li Ling, you are really brave and dare to say it. You have forced this crime to be blamed on me. Do you think Your Majesty will believe it, will the people in the world believe it? Although I cannot compare with some people's property, with my identity, I am enough to be worry-free for my whole life. Moreover, Your Majesty takes good care of me and rewards. How could I do such a ruthless thing that will only bring disaster to myself?"
"Yes, I can't understand the whole story. I miss you, the prince of the court, your majesty's brother, who is extremely precious. But you have nothing to lack. You have to do anything you want. How could you do things that will cause such consequences and disrupt the world? What makes me even more unbelievable is that you are actually colluding with the remnants of the Luotian Sect. The matter that you did was to print a large number of private money tickets in Wuxian, Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangnan, with the intention of disrupting the entire market!"
If Li Ling's previous accusations could keep Sun Qi calm, then the specific position he pointed out finally made Sun Qi's mind shake, his face changed, and he subconsciously shouted: "Why are you..." Then he suddenly realized and quickly stopped.
Chapter completed!