The emperor was furious. Lin Hao no longer wanted to admit his small actions, nor did he dare to deceive the emperor.

He knelt down numbly and tried his best to argue for himself: "Your Majesty, I don't know about this. Someone must have wronged me. Please tell me clearly."

After he finished speaking, he knocked his head loudly, then raised his head and said, "Chen Changli and I already have a grudge. Maybe he did it on purpose this time."

"I'm so busy working on refugee matters that I don't have time to wrongly accuse you like this." Chen Changli's face turned green when he heard him slandering her.

Lin Hao refused to give up: "My aunt died outside the general's mansion. You are thinking about this matter in your heart, so you naturally want to smooth everything over. As for how to smooth over this grudge, you must think about it. It’s going to hurt me.”

He was completely unreasonable, but some civil servants who looked down upon Chen Changli felt that what he said was reasonable, and immediately stared at Chen Changli with a scrutinizing gaze.

Their gazes were so explicit that Chen Changli was angry and helpless.

He looked calm and said: "I am not that small-minded. What's more, if I really had such thoughts, how could I attack the refugees?"

When he said this, his tone was full of questions: "If something happens to the refugees, I will definitely be held accountable by His Majesty. My whole family is still waiting for me at home. How could I ignore their safety and do something that is harmful to others and not self-interested?" thing."

Lin Hao listened to his question and said with red eyes: "You are clearly aware of the danger this matter brings to you, and that's why you are so dark under the light."

"Master Lin, it is impossible for General Chen to do such a thing, because he is not stupid." The prince directly stood up to speak for Chen Changli.

As soon as he stepped forward to help Chen Changli, King Duan couldn't wait to ridicule him: "Brother Qi, what are you doing so eagerly to help Chen Changli? Could it be that you were the one instigating Chen Changli to do such a thing behind his back?"

Hearing what he meant, the prince said expressionlessly: "Third brother, if you don't know what the refugee crisis means, I wouldn't mind finding a time to have a good talk with you."

King Duan's expression changed when he heard this. Apparently he thought the prince was threatening him.

The prince dropped those words and stopped looking at him. He slightly lowered his eyelids to cover the complicated emotions in his eyes, and said respectfully to the emperor: "Father, General Chen has collected all the evidence, so no matter what the purpose of Mr. Lin's actions For things like this, we have to punish him severely for the sake of the people, otherwise if the people know that he harmed them for his own selfish purposes, wouldn't they start rioting over this matter?"

After the prince said this, he quickly raised his eyes and glanced at the emperor, and saw that his expression was quite complicated and unclear, as if he was weighing the harm Lin Hao's matter would bring to the dynasty.

"Father, this matter is not trivial. Please make a decision as soon as possible."

Suppressing the inexplicable emotions in his heart, the prince directly asked the emperor to decide the matter.

Lin Hao knew that the prince was determined to stand by Chen Changli's side, so he couldn't help but feel anxious and a little worried on his face.

He quickly said to the emperor: "Your Majesty..."

The emperor interrupted him coldly: "The evidence collected by Chen Aiqing is very conclusive, and you cannot allow you to quibble here."

More and more refugees are gathering, bad news has repeatedly come from the fourth prince, and the emptiness of the treasury is piling up in front of him. The emperor is now very worried.

Lin Hao is now targeting the refugees. As the prince said, if the refugees knew everything, wouldn't he be blamed for the emperor's indulging in the treacherous ministers.

It was related to his throne. How could the emperor allow Lin Hao to quibble again? He immediately ransacked his house and exterminated his family, and then gave everyone a warning.

"The drought in Yangzhou, the locust plague in the southwest, and the recent floods and earthquakes in the southeast. The four major natural disasters have killed many people this year, and there are more and more refugees outside the capital."

"You are all my humerus ministers. When faced with the refugee issue, you should try your best to solve it instead of leaving it all to him, Chen Changli, just because of your inner jealousy."

He said this in a cold tone. The emperor's eyes were full of coldness, and his words were also filled with anger.

"I left the refugee matter to Chen Changli because he once escaped famine with the refugees and found a way to solve the plague in the southwest."

"He has arranged things well now, and the refugees' lives are getting better and better, but this does not mean that you can cause trouble here and harm those innocent refugees."

As soon as the emperor said these words, everyone knew that he was really angry, and everyone was so frightened that they quickly knelt down and begged the emperor to calm down.

The emperor had been holding back his anger for a long time and finally let it out. How could he take it back so easily?

Not only did he ask again about the refugees, but he also specifically asked about the empty treasury, and forcefully asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to find a way to solve the problem.

Liu Feng, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, originally had nothing to do with the matter and kept it high-profile, but he never expected that the emperor would take out his anger on the Ministry of Revenue when he broke out.

In a panic, he involved Chen Changli and concluded the matter without allowing Chen Changli to react.

"Your Majesty, the national treasury has been empty for many years, not only because of the inability to collect taxes, but also because some people have enriched their own pockets!"

"Chen Changli is the most typical example. He only fought for ten years and had millions of taels of loot. Then wouldn't the others hide even more money?"

"Your Majesty, I have a way to replenish the national treasury, and that is to find a way to raid the homes of those corrupt officials."

Liu Feng's words clearly meant to drag many people into trouble.

When Chen Changli appeared in his mouth, he was completely used as a shield.

"Master Liu, please be careful what you say." Chen Changli quickly realized Liu Feng's intentions and couldn't help but feel wary.

Liu Feng glanced at him, looked away casually, and continued to say to the emperor: "I heard that Master Chen and the Anyang Houfu are not on good terms, and the Anyang Houfu family has been using the reputation of the General's Palace for power and good fortune. Your Majesty, I think this is the case. If something is wrong, we should investigate it carefully."

Listening to him insisting on his insistence, Chen Changli sneered: "What's there to investigate? Anyang Hou kicked his eldest son out of the house for a woman, and also crossed out his name on the genealogy. The eldest son's name was Naturally, my son has nothing to do with Anyang Houfu."

"The Anyang Marquis Mansion dares to use the reputation of the General Mansion to intimidate others, and that is because I am not here. Now that I have come to the capital, I will naturally not allow them to continue to use me."

"Everyone in the Anyang Marquis Mansion maintains their status and looks down on me, and I don't do anything to them. Why is Mr. Liu so anxious to speak for them? Is it possible that he has received some benefits secretly?"

Chen Changli suppressed his anger, but his questioning tone made Liu Feng's face darken instantly.

Liu Feng pointed at Sang and scolded Huai: "As a descendant, we should be filial to our elders. If we are not filial, what is the difference between us and animals?"

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