Mortal Immortal Gourd

The Great Zhou Palace.

The Holy Emperor Longxing held a secret report sent by Sima Yi in his hand, his fingers trembling slightly.

"Is all this information true?"

"The contents of the memorial are all true, I have verified them all."

Sima Yi replied with a bow.

This secret report records the movement of grain and march pills in the national treasury in the past 100 years.

Ordinary grain is not very helpful to high-level cultivators, and its value is too low, but it is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and is the foundation of the country.

If grain is listed as march pills, it will have another meaning.

Small in size, easy to carry and easy to preserve.

The effect of eating 3,000 march pills after refining is equivalent to absorbing the spiritual power of a spiritual stone.

In today's era when many spiritual stone mines have been exhausted, spiritual stones are used one by one.

And grain and march pills grow from the ground, which are renewable resources.

March pills have long been listed as strategic resources.

Since the founding of the Great Zhou, several large warehouses have been built to store march pills.

At its peak, the treasury stored eight million shi.

This secret report records the data of grain officials reselling march pills over the years.

Evidence of the grain officials colluding with the warehouse managers and several court officials to resell march pills together.

Emperor Longxing knew that his officials would be greedy, but he still overestimated their bottom line.

In recent years, the Great Zhou has been unstable, with natural disasters and man-made disasters, unable to collect taxes, and the treasury has not been able to make ends meet.

According to the records in the account book, there are only 150,000 shi of march pills left in the treasury.

But Sima Yi said in his secret report that the total amount of march pills in the treasury was only 30 shi.

The officials who guarded the granaries had long since united to exchange and resell those march pills.

Now those warehouses still look full, but in fact they are full of stones and soil.

This means that the treasury that reserves march pills has been completely emptied.

What made the Holy Emperor Longxing even more angry was the destination of these marching pills.

Because among all races, the human race is the best at farming and has the most food.

In fact, those tenant farmers are working hard all year round and producing a lot of food, but they only eat bran and vegetables.

Logically speaking, there should be a lot of food and marching pills in the treasury.

Even if the marching pills in the treasury are resold, they will be circulated within the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the meat will rot in the pot.

For the Holy Emperor Longxing, as long as they are not lost outside the Great Zhou Dynasty, the loss is not too big, anyway, the whole Great Zhou belongs to him.

However, in order to sell at a better price, these officials resold the marching pills in the treasury to the enemy country.

They were sold to the Wan Yao Kingdom, Taoshan Kingdom, and the Giant Kingdom in the north.

Not only was it embezzlement and reselling, it was already aiding the enemy.

What's more hateful is that many marching pills allocated to the front-line soldiers were also withheld by them, and then resold to the enemy at a high price.

As a result, the frontline soldiers were still hungry, while the enemy's supplies were endless, and the war became stronger and stronger.

The memorials showed that there were at least 132 main officials involved in the reselling, and there were many subordinates who cooperated, and the number of those implicated was countless.

There were also a large number of officials who did not directly participate, but also benefited from it.

It was equivalent to forming a large network of reselling marching pills to the enemy country with these 132 people as the center throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Several of them were high-ranking officials in important positions in the court.

"Sima Yi, in your opinion, how should these people be dealt with?"

The Longxing Emperor looked at the long list and had a headache.

Just this case of reselling marching pills could involve half of the officials of the Great Zhou.

"I think that the 132 main culprits should be beheaded, and the rest, according to the severity of their crimes, can be imprisoned, dismissed, or fined!"

Sima Yi waited for so many years and finally got the opportunity to treat the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Such a good opportunity, he naturally couldn't let it go, he cupped his hands and continued.

"I think that only by clarifying the law can we rectify the rules and regulations and deter officials all over the world."

"Good!"

The Longxing Holy Emperor finally made up his mind. There were many officials involved this time, and the execution of 132 people at a time would definitely shock the court and the public.

But this would also show his determination.

The Great Zhou Dynasty seemed to continue to slide from a high point to the abyss. If it continued like this, it would definitely perish in the future.

In fact, all the kings and court officials of all dynasties could see this, but no one could reverse the inertia accumulated over tens of thousands of years.

It's like the marching pills in the treasury. Everyone is stealing. If you don't steal some, wouldn't it be suspicious?

And since everyone else is stealing, you don't steal, isn't it a big loss!

At this moment, the Longxing Holy Emperor wanted to turn the tide and change this situation.

He wanted to be a wise leader who would go down in history and extend the life of the Great Zhou Dynasty for another 10,000 years.

The emperor and his minister seemed to have found a confidant. They discussed in the study room for a whole night until the rooster crowed, and Sima Yi left.

In the next few nights, Emperor Longxing Sheng discussed matters with Sima Yi all night long.

Many concubines in the harem who were unaware of the situation even felt jealous of Sima Yi, thinking that the emperor had suddenly become obsessed with male beauty.

It was not until more than ten days later that Emperor Longxing Sheng suddenly issued an order to mobilize the Imperial Guards, and arrested 208 officials in one day.

The Holy Emperor Longxing did not discuss this action with the ministers in the court, and bypassed all the court offices in the capital.

Instead, he directly dispatched the imperial guards around the emperor.

The ministers in the court suddenly encountered an accident, and they had not yet reacted, and were still speculating with each other.

The Holy Emperor Longxing, however, announced the charges on the same day with swift and resolute means, executed 132 people, and dismissed the rest from their posts and imprisoned them.

At this point, the ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty finally understood that the reason for such a big commotion was just because more than 100,000 stones of marching pills were lost in the treasury.

The officials in the court were extremely dissatisfied with the Holy Emperor Longxing's behavior of avoiding the ministers to kill people.

Some people pointed out in the court that the emperor's actions were not in line with the rules and laws of the court.

They did not dare to blame the emperor too much, so they transferred all their anger to Sima Yi.

They submitted memorials one after another to impeach Sima Yi.

Sima Yi still had a lot of stains on him.

First of all, his Sima family was originally confiscated and exterminated by the county magistrate because of embezzlement of disaster relief grain.

Then Sima Yi also practiced evil skills and was bloodthirsty and cruel...

Under the arrangement of these ministers, thousands of crimes of Sima Yi were listed at once, and Sima Yi was beheaded in public.

Then these ministers went to court every day to impeach Sima Yi, and did nothing else.

Since you beheaded those 132 people for corruption and reselling, you should not protect Sima Yi who was also guilty.

Finally, Emperor Longxing Sheng could not bear the pressure from his ministers and could only temporarily dismiss Sima Yi.