After returning to the hospital, before Sheng Changbai could talk to Hai Chaoyun about the rent, Hai Chaoyun spoke first:

"Mr. Lang, my aunt from the Kang family came to our house again today to find my mother-in-law."

Aunt Kang is the key subject of supervision that Sheng Changbai gave Hai Chaoyun. Whenever this person enters Sheng's house, someone must keep an eye on her.

When the servants can't stand it, Hai Chaoyun needs to personally take action.

Don't give Wang Ruoyu and Wang Ruofu a chance to be alone.

"What's the reason for her coming here today? Is she here to borrow money from her mother again?"

With the support of Mrs. Wang after he came to Beijing, Wang Ruo and his previously aborted desire to take advantage of the Sheng family quickly revived.

With the support of Mrs. Wang, Sheng Hong and Wang Ruofu cannot be as ruthless as before.

Despite his love, he couldn't help but Mrs. Wang's nagging, talking about the Wang family's old favors, and trying to repay the favor would still give Wang Ruo and Chenggong some advantages.

What Sheng Changbai can prevent is that he won't help politically, and he can give up some of his wealth.

Temporarily buying peace and thinking about dealing with this family, we still have to wait for the opportunity. When Wang Ruoyu causes a big trouble and exposes his circumstances, he will directly impeach the family, exile him, and send him to Bianliang.

"Exactly, Aunt Kang said that Zhuangzi was hit by floods this year, and the family had no income. Two more common children were going to get married soon. The family could not even prepare basic financial gifts and dowry." Hai Chaoyun was hard-pressed. replied confidently.

Half of them questioned how the Kang family, which was considered a well-known family twenty or thirty years ago, had no money.

The other half probably questioned why the Kang family dared to have so many children since they had no money.

"Sigh... There are indeed more children in this generation of the Kang family. With so many children, not to mention their family, which has already declined, even our family cannot resist such continuous marriages. Did mother pay Aunt Kang again? "

Sheng Hong also married two concubines, gave birth to two concubines, and married a total of four daughters, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Sheng family.

Uncle Kang had dozens of concubines and gave birth to twenty or thirty concubine children. Not only according to the marriage standards of official families, but also according to the marriage standards of civilian families, it was a huge expense.

Originally, Aunt Kang sent her daughter to be a concubine and to fill a widower's house. Although it was shameless and had no bottom line, it was actually a worry-free operation that made money without spending any money.

Sheng Changbai was impulsive and exposed Aunt Kang to Mrs. Wang.

After Wang Ruoyu's evil operation was stopped by Mrs. Wang.

The money from the wedding was used by the Sheng and Wang families to fill the hole, and Sheng Changbai had cheated his own family.

"My mother said that we probably won't be able to collect the rent for our farm this year, so she didn't agree to it. During this time, my aunt has come to our house to borrow money three or four times for various reasons."

"This is because I have tasted the sweetness, and I am ready to rely on our family again, and I am ready to come to our house to enjoy the autumn breeze! After waiting for a while, I will think of a way to solve this problem."

Hearing Hei's words, Sheng Changbai felt that waiting for the Kang family to take the initiative to make mistakes would be too passive.

We should wait until this disaster is over and then take the initiative to deal with the Kang family.

There is no need to wait any longer, we must find the Kang family's faults and exile them.

Since both the Sheng and Wang families are in the capital, we will arrange for the Kang family to leave the capital.

It just so happened that the Kang family and his wife never stopped, and they had to be dispatched for official duties.

Sheng Changbai could just go with the flow and find a temporary job in another place to help the Kang family.

"Your Majesty is in a bad mood today and has no intention of courting you."

"Your Majesty is tired today and has no court."

"Your Majesty is in poor health and there will be no court today."

After arranging disaster relief, Zhao Zongquan hid in the harem because he was afraid of being criticized and asked by the ministers to issue an edict for committing crimes.

Maybe he is pretending to be sick. Of course, if he is not in a good mood, it is normal even if he is really angry and sick.

The emperor's physical condition has always been true and false, and the courtiers are not really informed about it.

And after there was no emperor, the court was actually running quite smoothly.

But on this day, when Sheng Changbai was reading files at Yushitai Yamen, he suddenly stopped and heard a sudden sound of drums outside.

"What's that noise outside?"

Sheng Changbai asked an old official next to him.

"Censor, listen to this sound, someone is beating the Dengwen drum." the old official replied.

The Denwen Drum was set up outside Xuande Gate in the imperial city, and inside were the various administrative departments of the imperial court.

After ringing the bell, most of the people in the court could actually hear it.

"This is the first time I heard the sound of drums. Let's go and see what's going on."

Beating the drum is actually a complaint against the emperor. It is not necessarily the case that the emperor consciously presides over the trial, but at least the emperor will definitely ask about the matter.

Sheng Changbai has been in the capital for so many years. This is the first time he heard it, and he is still somewhat curious.

Although he knew that Dazhou's appeal system was quite open and that Dengwen's drum could really be beaten, Sheng Changbai had never seen it.

"Censor Sheng, since the Dengwen drum has been beaten, the people from the drum courtyard will definitely take the person away. If we go there now, I'm afraid we won't see anyone."

"Then send someone out to find out what's going on. What's going on must be reported to heaven."

After Sheng Changbai gave the order, the old official sent a junior official to go out and inquire about the situation. Since the Dengwen drum was really sounded, Sheng Changbai still felt that there was more injustice.

Although the scope of cases accepted by Deng Wengu in Dazhou is very wide, including discussing the gains and losses of the government, public and private interests, military secrets, begging for favors, rectifying grievances, and using strange methods, changing the capital, correcting the name, etc., the matter of complaining of grievances is just

A small part of it.

However, during the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Dengwen Drum Court was set up to manage the Dengwen Drum, make suggestions, suggestions, and recipes. In fact, when you arrived in front of the Dengwen Drum, you would be received by the officials of the Drum Court.

After being screened by the officials of the Drum Academy, they decided whether to present the policy to the emperor and not really beat the Dengwen drum.

When the drums sound, most of them are people who complain to the officials and want to appeal their grievances.

"Something big has happened. Someone is suing Marquis Ningyuan!" After a cup of tea, the clerk came back and replied.

"Gu Tingye, what can he accuse?"

Although Gu Tingye had many black spots, most of them were related to etiquette and style issues, and he didn't say that if something happened, he would alert others to complain.

"People outside want to sue Gu Tingye for occupying the family property, and a woman is suing Gu Tingye for killing her son."

After hearing what the clerk said, Sheng Changbai realized that Gu Tingye's enemies, the Bai family and Zhu Manniang, formed a group to seek revenge against Gu Tingye.

Zhao Zongquan's Yuzhou gang has been dealt a blow.

The only one left, Gu Tingye, has not been fucked yet, and of course he will not be spared.

Gu Tingye was left at the end because these people wanted to join forces to create a big one for Gu Tingye.

It was Gu Tingye who these people wanted to sue, and that was why they violated the procedures.

Although the emperor of the old Zhao family valued scholar-bureaucrats, he was also very wary of scholar-bureaucrats.

In order to prevent civil servants from having too much power without any restrictions, a complete appeals process has been developed.

Prefecture - Supervisor - Shangshu Bencao - Yushitai - Shangshu Dusheng - Dengwenguyuan - Dengwenjianyuan - Lijianyuan - Invite to drive.

The Bai family and Zhu Manniang directly skipped many procedures and directly beat the Dengwen drum.

One is to make the noise bigger, and the other is really afraid that the Kaifeng Mansion will not be able to control Gu Tingye.

According to the process, Denwen Drum Court may not accept such an appeal.

But since someone wants to mess with Gu Tingye, most officials regard Zhao Zongquan as their number one loser. This is what most people want to see.

No one will pursue any minor procedural flaws.

Although Sheng Changbai is not sure yet and cannot figure out how many promoters there are, the Queen Mother and previous salt tax interests must play a leading role.

…

Someone beat the Denwen drum, and the person who sued was his strongest thug.

Zhao Zongquan was worried about leaving the case to others for trial, and he could not hide in the harem.

Half a month later, the court meeting resumed for the first time.

Zhao Zongquan did participate because of his illness.

From the perspective of Sheng Changbai, an old Chinese medicine doctor, Zhao Zongquan was not faking it. During this period, he was really depressed, angry, and sick.

"I'm tired. The case of Gu Hou will be tried by Princess Han Xiang."

After the routine reporting on court matters, the emperor gave Han Zhang the task of reviewing the case.

Han Zhang is now the emperor's yes man. Let Han Zhang take charge. It is obvious that the emperor favors Gu Tingye.

"Bring everyone here." Han Zhang greeted.

Then I saw Bai Dalang and Zhu Manniang being brought to Funing Hall. Sheng Changbai had seen these two people before.

The former was when Sheng Hong was an official in Yangzhou. At the funeral of Gu Tingye's grandfather, Sheng Changbai met Bai Dalang, who was dressed in mourning clothes. He was Gu Tingye's cheap uncle.

The latter, Zhu Manniang, was the person Sheng Changbai met when Gu Tingye and Zhu Manniang had just returned to Beijing from the academy and were in their honeymoon period.

"You are such a ruthless, ruthless thing. You killed your own son, how can you still have the dignity to live in this world..."

In front of Zhao Zongquan, the Queen Mother, and all the civil and military officials, Zhu Manniang grabbed Gu Tingye and screamed with a sharp voice and a ferocious expression.

Gu Tingye is now one of the most powerful people in the world and has millions of assets. These are things that Zhu Manniang can easily get.
To be continued...