After my mother read my mind, my whole family rebelled

Chapter 184 A shocking case

Shen Yuyao's sudden series of questions made Xia Yu feel a chill down his spine.

For the first time, he vaguely felt that there was an invisible hand behind this case, quietly pushing it towards a shocking case.

As the commander of the Black Dragon Guard, it was impossible for him not to submit the investigation results of this case to the emperor, and it was even more impossible for him to commit any fraud.

But Xia Yu also knew that the doubts that Shen Yuyao had just raised were real.

Xia Yu thought that it was very likely that Guo Heng had indeed engaged in corruption, but it was impossible that he would produce such a shocking number as the result of the Black Dragon Guard's investigation!

Twenty-four million stones!

The autumn grain of the entire Xia Dynasty!

The Guo Heng case was originally a report by a minor official, and was then handed over by the emperor himself to the Black Dragon Guards for investigation.

As the commander of the Black Dragon Guard, Xia Yu is very clear about the true source of these so-called investigation results of the Black Dragon Guard.

The Black Dragon Guards were based on the clues provided by the two minor officials who reported Guo Heng, and they merely did the verification.

Every piece of evidence verified by the Black Dragon Guard was carefully prepared by the two officials from beginning to end, from the people to the numbers, in such detail that it seemed as if they had been prepared long ago.

Xia Yu also suspected that the case was progressing so quickly, as if there was divine help.

It just so happened that after the two officials reported Guo Heng's corruption, their families all mysteriously disappeared.

When Xia Yu heard the report from his subordinates, he naturally felt that something was amiss. However, at that time, the entire Black Dragon Guard was only concerned with verifying evidence of Guo Heng's embezzlement, and did not investigate the collective disappearance of the two officials and their families in detail.

Now, after Shen Yuyao's reminder, Xia Yu finally understood how this so-called Guo Heng's embezzlement case came out of nowhere.

Xia Yu frowned.

In the case of Guo Heng's corruption, there are more than 20,000 officials and wealthy businessmen involved. Once the investigation results are presented to the emperor tomorrow, the impact on the officialdom of the entire Great Xia Dynasty will be extremely huge.

When the Emperor of Daxia was young, he was bullied by corrupt officials and wealthy landlords. Even the emperor's parents starved to death on the streets because of the corruption of officials and had nowhere to be buried.

Deep down in the emperor's heart, he had some hatred for the big landowners and big merchants, and he hated the corrupt officials even more.

Besides, the emperor has been promoting the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce.

Then, it is very likely that the emperor wanted to use the Guo Heng case to kill all officials who had been corrupt, and those wealthy and unkind landlords and merchants.

Even after killing them, they can use their wealth to enrich the national treasury.

The Great Xia Dynasty's several northern expeditions had cost an astronomical amount in military expenditures, which often put the national treasury in a state of emergency.

Simply by killing corrupt officials, you can win the hearts of the people, gain gold and silver, and gather imperial power!

Why wouldn't the emperor want to do something that kills three birds with one stone?

Shen Yuyao saw Xia Yu frowning even more tightly, and she couldn't bear it. She walked forward and said softly: "Since it is bound to happen, Your Majesty should make plans early."

Xia Yu nodded gently, "If the king wants his subject to die, the subject must die."

Turning back to Shen Yuyao, he said, "It's a pity that the royal family must have the monarch and his subjects first, and then the father and his son."

He seemed to have seen his fate as the commander of the Black Dragon Guard after the Guo Heng case.

Shen Yuyao pulled Xia Yu's sleeve and shook it, comforting him: "Don't think about it. Since the result is already determined, we can only go with the flow now."

Xia Yu's eyes lit up, then dimmed again.

"Yuyao, I'm just worried that it will be hard on you and the kids."

Shen Yuyao smiled sweetly, "I and the children will definitely not suffer. Do you know why?"

"Why?" Xia Yu lowered his head and asked softly.

"Xu Yunxuan is in Kyoto!"

When Xia Yu heard this, his expression changed slightly.

He walked to the desk, where there was a thick stack of files. Xia Yu took out the bottom one, looked at the name on the file and asked, "Dongchang, do you know?"

"Of course I know. Has Your Majesty discovered anything?"

Xia Yu took out another file, "Where is the Western Factory?"

Shen Yuyao was surprised, "Is there really such a thing as a Western Factory?"

Xia Yu waved for her to come over, and he handed the two files to Shen Yuyao.

"Then tell me, which of the two factories was founded by Xu Yunxuan?"

The activities of the East Factory and West Factory in the files were revealed to Shen Yuyao one by one. She froze and stared at the files, flipping through them page by page.

Xia Yu walked behind her and asked in an extremely gentle tone: "Or, is one of them yours, Princess?"

Shen Yuyao replied in a deep voice: "It seems that both the East and West factories have grown stronger."

"We must not let them fall into the hands of the Lu family!"

"Lu? Princess, are you talking about the Crown Princess?" Xia Yu was a little confused. How could these special organizations be related to the Crown Princess in the deep palace?

Shen Yuyao: "That's right."

A month ago, Shen Yuyao asked Xu Yunxuan to arrange the scene in which Mrs. Shen fell seriously ill and died.

She thought she could avoid Lu's hidden arrows, but she actually persuaded the Crown Prince who was already the regent, and took advantage of Shen Yuyao's return to Kyoto to attend the funeral to order her to stay in Kyoto permanently.

The so-called sympathy for loyal ministers and good generals is actually to keep Shen Yuyao under his nose and to restrain Xia Yu.

What a good plan!

At this moment, Shen Yuyao looked at Xia Yu's files about the Western Factory, and every single one of them made her smell the scent of the Lu family hidden behind them.

"Princess, what you mean is that the East Factory was established by Xu Yunxuan, and the West Factory is indeed Lu's pawn?"

Xia Yu continued to ask.

Shen Yuyao explained: "The East Factory was indeed built by Xu Yunxuan. Her original intention of building the East Factory was to protect everyone in Prince Ning's Mansion at a critical moment."

"Oh?" Xia Yu had never expected that Xu Yunxuan was still silently guarding Prince Ning's Mansion after faking her death, and his heart was quite touched.

"Your Highness doesn't believe it?" Shen Yuyao's eyes flashed with cunning, "Then why not invite the owner of Luyuan back to Prince Ning's Mansion? Maybe the fire of love can be rekindled?"

"Princess..." Xia Yu didn't expect Shen Yuyao to tease him with Xu Yunxuan. He blushed and said, "My concubine died a long time ago. Princess, I'm afraid you have forgotten."

"The old concubine has passed away, so the prince can marry a new one!" Shen Yuyao rolled her eyes at Xia Yu.

"..."

Xia Yu was in a state of panic. He clearly didn't say anything and it was Shen Yuyao who mentioned Xu Yunxuan herself.

"Look at your blushing face," Shen Yuyao covered her mouth, put down her hands, her expression changed, and said in a deep voice: "I suspect that the person behind the West Factory is the Crown Princess, Lu!"