Chapter 1680 Take Down Kong Wu!

Chapter 1680

"Your Highness, I have been wronged! I have been in the Ministry of War for dozens of years. I have been conscientious and devoted to my duties. How could I do such a thing? My lord, Kong Wu knows that his prestige is not as good as yours, and his position is not as good as yours. This time, Master Zhang is recuperating at home , the imperial court wants to select a acting Minister of the Ministry of War, and I didn’t know that you intended to do this. But my lord, even if you feel displeased, you don’t need to spout blood and pour a pot of dirty water on Kong, so slander him!”

His Majesty, Kong Wu's face was pale, and he said excitedly.

"Foreign Land King, this is too much!"

The main hall was buzzing, and people from the Confucianism sect and the First Prince's lineage also took the opportunity to attack at this time. Although they were caught off guard, how could they let Wang Chong pull Kong Wu down.

In the main hall, the eldest prince didn't speak, but looked at Wang Chong with a gloomy expression, and his eyes became more and more cold.

"snort!"

Wang Chong stood in the middle of the train, watching all this with cold eyes, just smiled coldly, unmoved in the slightest.

"Wang Chong, I don't care how much you have prejudices against Kong Wu, but this is the court. Although Kong Wu is not the minister of the Ministry of War, he is also a minister of the humerus of the court. If you speak freely without real evidence, then don't blame me. You are a felony for making noise in the imperial court and despising the imperial court!"

At this moment, in the hall, the First Prince finally spoke.

"Your Highness, I certainly have evidence."

Wang Chong said indifferently, without any concession on his face:

"Kong Wu has been a servant in the Ministry of War for more than ten years. He abolished his public service for personal reasons and brought his wife and younger brother into the Ministry of War to be the general manager. Even if it was a general judgment on the allocation of military supplies and finances in the Ministry of War, but not long ago, The imperial court negotiated peace with all parties, and under the circumstances of massive disarmament from the capital to the border areas, Kong Wu's wife and brother dared to intercept the pensions distributed to the fallen soldiers and the money of the retired soldiers without authorization."

"Someone in the Ministry of War found this out through an audit and wanted to report the matter to the imperial court. As a result, Kong Wu took the initiative and moved him to the charge of colluding with cronies and disrespecting the chief. He was arrested and sent to prison, and finally in the prison of the Ministry of War. He was tortured to death. Kong Wu, is this king wrong about these things?"

Wang Chong said coldly, with the last sentence, he turned his head to look at Kong Wu in the hall, and the latter's face suddenly became extremely pale.

"Alien King, don't talk nonsense,

Master Kong's reputation in the court is well known, how could he do such a thing! "

Before Kong Wu could speak, an old official in the crowd couldn't help but stepped out of the train and yelled at him sharply.

"Not bad! Even if you don't like Kong Wu, you don't need to use this method!"

Others also joined in.

The Confucian sect already had irreconcilable contradictions and conflicts with Wang Chong, not to mention that quite a few people here belong to the lineage of the First Prince, how could they listen to Wang Chong.

"Hmph, without any real evidence, what would this king say?"

Wang Chong smiled coldly and took out two things from his sleeve.

"This is the account book of the Ministry of War. Five days ago, I asked the people in the Ministry of War to check all the accounts of the Ministry of War for this year. The total amount of money allocated by the imperial court to those dismissed soldiers was 13 million taels of gold. Among them, 8 million taels were distributed, but 5 million taels were missing, which did not correspond to the account at all.”

"If my investigation is correct, of the five million taels of gold, two million taels were lost by your brother-in-law's gambling in the gold workshop in the capital, and one and a half million taels were sent to your mansion. One hundred thousand taels will be given to your former gang of old brothers, and the remaining one million taels of gold will be kept in the mansion by your wife and brother for their own use."

"Before entering the court, I ordered people to search your brother-in-law. The gold was found from your brother-in-law's mansion, and the official seal on it has not been melted yet."

As Wang Chong said, he flipped his palm and took out a gold ingot from the Tang Dynasty. The official seal of the Tang Dynasty on the bottom of the ingot was still clearly visible.

The official silver of the Tang Dynasty was uniformly manufactured by the imperial court, and at the same time, the official seal was stamped on the bottom as a sign. When these official silvers were distributed, an official quotation was usually distributed to prove the origin of these official silvers. Only by getting this official quotation and getting it printed in the official place can it be truly circulated in the market.

Although there is still a way to remelt all these official silver, but the amount of this batch of official silver is huge, and there is not enough time, obviously not enough to eliminate the seals one by one.

If these official banknotes were really found in the mansion of Kong Wu's wife and brother, it would be hard evidence that would not be washed away.

In the main hall, the crowd was excited just now, and they all pointed at Wang Chong's officials. Faced with the evidence in Wang Chong's hands, everyone's faces turned green and then pale. They had just cried out for Kong Wu, and they thought it was absolutely impossible to catch Kong Wu, but now, they were all slapped in the face, and they couldn't even say a word.

"Foreign King, you!"

At this time, the most panicked one was Kong Wu. Wang Chong was the last one to enter the court, and he almost waited until the sound of the second whip to enter the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Kong Wu originally thought that Wang Chong was arrogant and did this on purpose, but he unexpectedly sent someone to search own brother-in-law.

"Kong Wu!"

In the main hall, there was a roar, and the eldest prince suddenly turned his head, looking at Kong Wu in the main hall. His whole face was so ugly that even a blind man could feel the anger in his heart.

Wang Chong told Kong Wu that no matter what crimes he listed, they were all groundless and unreliable. However, Wang Chong not only had the accounts of the Ministry of War in his hands, but also seized a large amount of official money from his wife's brother's residence.

Each batch of official bank and official seals in the imperial court is different, especially when hundreds of thousands of troops were abolished. In order to appease them, this batch of funds was allocated by the imperial court itself, and the official seals on it were completely different from other official seals. Even Kong Wu's eloquent tongue could not refute this point.

"Hall, hall, Your Highness!"

With a plop, Kong Wu suddenly fell to his knees, his whole face ashen, sweating like rain.

"I don't know, I really don't know! It must be my brother-in-law and his elder sister colluding secretly without telling me! The guilty minister has been busy with military affairs, and rarely even goes back home. He doesn't know anything about the affairs of the mansion. ah!"

Kong Wu said loudly.

"Bastard, it's this time, you still dare to quibble!"

The First Prince was furious. Although he didn't like Wang Chong very much, in front of so many civil and military ministers, it was obvious that Wang Chong came prepared. In the face of these irrefutable evidences, even if the eldest prince wanted to help, he could not help at all.

Withholding the money of retired soldiers is nothing more than that, but Kong Wu dared to covet even the pensions of fallen soldiers. Based on this alone, Kong Wu would never want to sit in the position of minister of the Ministry of War.

Fortunately, he tried his best to promote Kong Wu before, wanting him to take the position of Zhangchou Jianqiong!

What's more terrible is that this kind of thing, if it is there, it is there, if it is not, it is not. It is easy to find out after the fact. Even if Kong Wu wants to quibble, it is useless, which is why he is so angry.

"Your Highness! I, I..."

Kong Wu prostrated himself on the ground, his whole body was terrified, and even his clothes were soaked.

The Ministry of War does not care about money and food, everything is allocated from the treasury, but after the money is allocated, how to distribute it, how to circulate it from the capital to the hands of soldiers in various places, is allocated and carried out by the Ministry of War.

This involves hundreds of thousands of soldiers and various complicated expenses and expenses. Under normal circumstances, even within the Ministry of War, I can't record clearly. If I can accurately record more than 70% to 80%, it is already considered good. If you want to write it off Account books, counting millions of expenses one by one, this is almost an impossible task.

Kong Wu never expected that Wang Chong could write off such complicated accounts one by one in such a short period of time, and even came up with accurate figures.

It's incredible!

"snort!"

Wang Chong stood in front of the train, looked at Kong Wu who was trembling all over in fear, and just smiled coldly. For Kong Wu, he has no sympathy at all.

Wang Chong wanted to deal with Kong Wu, not simply to deal with the First Prince.

"Loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" and "fulfillment of duties" are probably the impressions most people have of Kong Wu, but no one understands Kong Wu's background better than Wang Chong, and understands that once he is appointed to the Ministry of War The position of Shangshu, no, as long as he is allowed to join the First Prince, what will happen next.

Kong Wu was born in the army, and he got to this position step by step by virtue of his military merits. But few people know that Kong Wu was originally a bandit and bandit in the Qinling area before that, and he was also a ruthless thief.

Looting houses, blocking roads and cutting paths are just their daily livelihood. In the Qinling Mountains, businessmen and passers-by who didn't know the past were killed by them, and they were very famous in the Qinling Mountains.

Later, as a last resort, the government army mobilized a large army to encircle and suppress them directly with the army, and then cut them off.

After all, Kong Wu was more thoughtful, knowing that bandits and robbers would not be possible for a lifetime, and he would not be able to continue. The current Holy Emperor is becoming more and more intolerable for this kind of behavior. Kuanwen, if this continues, it will be a dead end.

After thinking about it, Kong Wu finally brought a group of brothers, changed his name, thought of doing meritorious service in the frontier, and started again. Unexpectedly, relying on his excellent martial arts, he was actually allowed to rise to the top position step by step, and his official position in the army became bigger and bigger, and finally he went to the capital, the Ministry of War.

After hiding for more than ten years all the way, he was successfully exonerated and concealed from all the courtiers.

When Kong Wu was a bandit in the Qinling Mountains, he was a cruel man. When he was in the army, he also liked to physically punish soldiers and brand them with a branding iron. There was quite a lot of complaints in the army.

But Jingzhong is different from grassroots bandits after all. After more than ten years, if Kong Wu cultivated his character and changed his temper, it would be fine. As the saying goes, if a bad person pretends to be a good person, if he pretends to be a good person for a lifetime, until he dies, he is the real one. nice guy.

It's a pity that the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.

After Kong Wu took refuge in the First Prince, his old heart was revealed again. In his previous life, in order to express his loyalty and to fight for the merit of being a dragon, he slaughtered wantonly in the chaos of war.

During the Rebellion of the Three Kings, this person first massacred a large number of veterans and ministers who had previously opposed the First Prince, and then massacred the Imperial Guards and city guards of the Sacred Emperor who resisted in the capital, even though they had already surrendered.

He caused more killings during the Three Kings Rebellion than the First Prince, and even caused a large number of civilian casualties.

This is something he cannot tolerate no matter what!

This is also the reason why he took Kong Wu to the knife today!