The Minister of Revenue Guo Yunhou did find the left censor Shang Zhou Zuo and the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice Zhang Junning. Both of them agreed to go to negotiate with the East Factory and transfer the Shuntian Prefecture Order Qiu Maohua to the prison of the Ministry of Justice.

But it was obvious that the East Factory was moving faster. Before the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice could take action, the prefect of Shuntian Qiu Maohua confessed to him, the Minister of Revenue and a businessman named Lan Duo.

In addition, Wu Youke directly mentioned the whereabouts of a batch of medicinal materials from the Imperial Pharmacy in front of Zhu Youxiao that Zou Yingquan, the Imperial Pharmacy Supervisor, was arrested and imprisoned by the Dongchang in advance. Li Mingyun had no time to inform the Imperial Pharmacy Supervisor Qiu Maohua, who was dismissed from office and imprisoned, to Zou Yingquan, the Imperial Pharmacy Supervisor.

This made the reaction of these reformist officials who tried to make money by taking advantage of the outbreak of cholera, which was obviously slower than that of Emperor Zhu Youxiao's minions. Even if Li Mingrui did not directly participate in this matter, he was not even very informed. However, after learning that the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Guo Yunhou was summoned to the palace, he already felt like a storm was about to come and the wind was everywhere.

Even the Minister of Revenue Guo Yunhou was implicated, and he, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, could not escape. For a moment, Li Mingrui couldn't help but sweat.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the Minister of Revenue Guo Yunhou, who was crawling on the ground under the Dan Wall, and asked coldly: "Tell me, what's going on, who is the businessman named Lan Duo, and how did you hook up with the Shuntian Prefecture Qiu Maohua and the Imperial Pharmacy Supervisor Zou Yingquan. I don't want to use the soldering iron of the East Factory to force you, an old minister of the three dynasties to tell the truth!"

Guo Yunhou was very calm at this time. The old minister who could have come from the era of Wei Zongxian had long been perfect. Without Zhu Youxiaoming's words, he had already guessed that it was Qiu Maohua or Eunuch Zou of the Imperial Pharmacy who had betrayed him. His Majesty had already made it clear. If he had made any more quibbling, it would be futile, but he could also be sure that His Majesty should not know that this matter has something to do with the Prime Minister Li Mingrui, and even he did not know that this businessman named Lan Duo was the brother of the Prime Minister Li Mingrui.

Thinking about the situation in the court again, Guo Yunhou quickly decided to sacrifice himself to protect Li Mingrui in order to achieve the point where the strength of the reformists will not be greatly damaged. Therefore, he heard Guo Yunhou say: "Your Majesty is kind and the criminal is extremely guilty. This is indeed caused by the stupidity and greed of the criminal. Seeing that the epidemic broke out, the prices of various medicinal materials soared, he wanted to join hands with the Imperial Pharmacy Scholar's Young Superintendent, Zou Yingquan, to let the Shuntian Prefecture Prefecture Chief Qiu Maohua first transfer this batch of medicinal materials to a businessman named Lan Duo, and then use the criminal's minister to buy back the medicinal materials at a high price to achieve the greedy silver!"

As soon as Guo Yunhou finished speaking, Zhu Youxiao threw Yu Ruyi next to him out and smashed him heavily on Guo Yunhou: "You are so brave! I have given you a lot of benefits to the Guo family, why are you so greedy! You are not only old and stupid, but you are simply blind and despised! "

Guo Yunhou naturally did not dare to say a big word at this time, and he was not sure what kind of punishment measures would be taken against him when the emperor Zhu Youxiao was furious. He could only kneel on the ground as humbly as possible and kowtowed: "Yes, the guilty minister is guilty. Please give me the death penalty!"

"Hmph, I can't help you, how I want to punish you. I'll ask you, but there are other people involved in it. You'd better call it truthfully. What's the origin of that person named Lan Duo?" Zhu Youxiao did not think that this matter was only implicated by the Minister of Revenue Guo Yunhou, because Zhu Youxiao knew that Guo Yunhou and Li Mingrui had a close relationship, so it was hard for Zhu Youxiao not to think that Li Mingrui would have nothing to do with this matter.

"The criminal minister dare not hide it from Your Majesty. This matter is done by the criminal minister, Eunuch Zou of the Imperial Pharmacy and Qiu Maohua, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture. The merchant named Landuo was a medicinal material merchant known to the criminal minister. He is from Mount Wutai, Shanxi." Before Guo Yunhou finished speaking, Zhu Youxiao stood up first and scolded Guo Yunhou: "You are already deceiving me! Do you really think I am blind and don't know what you guys do with me on their backs? Since you don't say it, then, I'll tell you that the merchant named Landuo is Li Mingyun, the third brother of Li Mingruizhi, the Grand Secretary of the Zhongji Palace. You said it was not right!"

When Guo Yunhou heard Zhu Youxiao say this, he suddenly looked up at Zhu Youxiao. He didn't expect that His Majesty already knew this, and for a moment he knew what to say.

"I'll ask you if this matter has anything to do with Li Mingrui?" Zhu Youxiao also knew that Guo Yunhou could not say anything at this time or did not dare to say anything else, so he took the initiative to ask him. He hoped that Guo Yunhou could understand that what he cared about now was just whether Li Mingrui was involved in this.

Guo Yunhou also knew that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao asked him what he wanted. He didn't dare or wanted to pull Li Mingrui into the water, so he immediately shook his head like a rattle: "No, absolutely not. Master Li has no knowledge of this. These are all things done by the criminals. It really has nothing to do with Master Li, Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but snorted angrily and sneered: "Okay, Guo Yunhou, you are really a dead pig, you are not afraid of boiling water. You are about to die and you still have to take the blame for Li Mingrui. Are you really not afraid of me torture you?"

Guo Yunhou couldn't help but tremble. He just shook his head and was about to say he was not afraid, but when he saw the creepy look of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, he immediately nodded again: "The criminal is afraid, but the criminal is even more afraid of deceiving Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youxiao laughed when he obeyed. Although he was deliberately angry, he was still willing to see Guo Yunhou's behavior of defending Li Mingrui to death, because this could indeed prevent the reformists from being greatly damaged. After all, once Guo Yunhou admitted that Li Mingrui was involved in this greedy case, he would have to take off Li Mingrui's position.

But the superficial effort that should be done is still necessary. At least the conservative officials cannot see that they are partial, nor can they let other officials mistakenly think that they are the emperor, so Zhu Youxiao still ordered: "Come on, take Guo Yunhou into the imperial prison and beat the forty boards again!"

Guo Yunhou obviously guessed what his Majesty wanted, so in order to cooperate with Zhu Youxiao, he deliberately made a very painful look and cried: "Your Majesty is wronged. Mr. Li really has no such case. It is all the fault of the criminal!"

Although in fact, Li Mingrui did not participate in this matter.

On the second day, when Li Mingrui and others came to the western warm room of Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao informed the cabinet members present of the corruption case of Guo Yunhou, Zou Yingquan, Qiu Maohua, Li Mingyun and other officials. He also said that Guo Yunhou, the Minister of Revenue, had committed suicide in the imperial prison for fear of crimes, and Qiu Maohua also committed suicide for fear of crimes, while Zou Yingquan was beheaded and was sentenced to beheading and sentenced to Li Mingyun. Li Mingrui was charged with the crime of lax supervision of his brother, fined him for one year, removed his title of Prince Taibao, and Wang Chengen was demoted to eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison.
Chapter completed!