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Chapter 2 The Little Emperor Moves the Knife

Open your eyes, the black hanging tent is embroidered with a huge five-clawed golden dragon, the dragon's head is on the top, and the dragon body is coiled around the hanging tent. The dragon's eyes and scales are inlaid with luminous pearls and jade pieces. When the dragon tent moves lightly, The golden dragon is like a living body.Li Zheng got up and twisted his neck, and glanced at the jade pillow he was sleeping on just now. The soft pillow bought by Xu Xue from her family is more comfortable. Let the weaving bureau make some softer pillows in the morning.

"Your Majesty, it's early but we have to get up!"

"Get up, go to Yunchi for a meeting."

"Yes!" Wang Fu hurriedly walked out of the Huangji Hall and gave orders, then returned to lift up the dragon tent and hang it on the gold hook, and put a black-collared fur coat on for the Emperor Ming.

Soaking in the slightly scalding pool water, Li Zheng stretched his body. There was a bowl of clear porridge on the floating table on the surface of the pool, and he pulled it over for a sip from time to time.This is a habit that is easy to catch. On the way here, Wangfu has already prepared for her.Although she has been Li Zheng for 16 years, Li Zheng is still not used to this man's body. After all, she has been a pure woman for 30 years in modern times, and she still likes women.When she thought of the fact that there would always be ministers in the memorials handed in after she came down to the imperial court to persuade her to favor the harem more and spread the heirs of the royal family, she had a headache.It has been more than two years since she was the emperor, she has only been to the Queen's Palace less than ten times, and the other three concubines and nine concubines are just standing sideways to win over powerful officials, a group of poor and sad widowed women.

"Your Majesty, it's time to go up!"

"Understood, change clothes." Walking out of Yunchi, the bare feet on the ground did not feel cold at all.Li Zheng sighs every time, in the evil feudal society, millions of people don't have enough clothes or food to eat, yet the floor of a hot spring in the palace is actually paved with warm jade that is hard to find.Standing naked in front of a bronze mirror that can illuminate the whole body, looking at his own body in the mirror, he is about 1.7 meters tall, with long black hair reaching his waist, sharp edges and corners, like the color of Mid-Autumn Festival, and fairer skin than women , with temples cut like knives, a pair of sword-like eyebrows like ink paintings, eyes as deep as stars that seem to see through everything, a high nose bridge, and slightly raised mouth corners that seem to be smiling but not smiling.The limbs are slender and the figure is tall and straight.In Li Zheng's words, with this appearance, figure, and temperament, there are not many celebrities in the 21st century who can match it in a few years.Opening her arms, she let the servant girl put on court clothes for her.I have to say that it is terrible to get used to it. When she was a young child, Yi Ran never let anyone dress her for her, but after becoming an emperor, each dress is more complicated, so she can only ask others to help her. She wore it, but she wore it naked. Fortunately, she knew that even if she was naked as an emperor, no one would dare to look directly at certain parts of her. Otherwise, no matter how complicated it was, she would not dare to let it go It would be embarrassing for someone else to wear clothes.

"If you have something to play, you will retreat."

There was silence in the hall, and there was not much breathing, except for the sound of Li Zheng playing with the jade fan in his hand.These old slickers, small things are discussed in their own mansion, and big things don’t happen every day. Fortunately, Emperor Shuwen has laid a good foundation. There have been no natural or man-made disasters in the past two years of Emperor Ming’s succession. Otherwise, it will be Li’s turn to take the throne Politics for two years?For three days in a row, no one had a memorial at the court, and the memorials presented at the next court were nothing more than trivial matters such as some foreign officials asking for peace, repairing the palace, and persuading him to favor the harem.Even if you bully him when he is young, he is still the emperor after all. The smile on the corner of his mouth is slowly fading, the fingertips holding the jade fan are turning white, his eyes are cold, it is time.Li Zheng glanced coldly at all the ministers below, and moved his index finger slightly.

"Qi Zou Your Majesty, Shi Liang Youdao, the left deputy governor of the Weichen Inspectorate, has the original performance."

"Ready to play." Seemingly impatient

"Qi Zuo Your Majesty, a fire broke out in Yanliu Lane in the west of the city five days ago, burning down two houses, killing and injuring 16 people. Without in-depth investigation, the Jingzhao Mansion settled the matter hastily on the grounds that the sky was dry and the water was not enough. The fire three days ago The surviving people in Zhongyi found a minister, and according to what he said, the fire did not happen unintentionally, it was actually the Minister of the Ministry of Officials who murdered people to cover up the crime of buying and selling official positions..."

"Your minister is wronged!" Before Liang Youdao finished his memorial, Wang Si, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, staggered to his knees, sweating profusely.

Seeing the chief culprit crying for grievances, Liang Youdao stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the surviving commoner was originally the son of the steward of Wang Shangshu's mansion. His father was kicked out of Shangshu's mansion because his hands and feet were unclean. Stealing an account book and several letters between Wang Shangshu and various officials, the housekeeper wanted to use these criminal evidences to threaten Wang Shangshu and extort some money so that he could return to his hometown, but he never thought that he would be burned alive before he got the money Only one son escaped from the scene of the fire with the evidence.”

"Wang Shangshu, can this happen?" Li Zheng still lowered his head and played with the jade fan in his hand, and never raised his eyelids from the beginning.

"Your Majesty, I have been wronged. There was a butler in the minister's mansion who was kicked out of the mansion because his hands and feet were not clean, but he did not steal anything. I'm afraid that person forged some names out of revenge to put blame on this humble minister!"

"Liang Du Yushi, did you hand over the account letter brought out by the housekeeper's son from the fire?"

"Your Majesty, it is indeed in the hands of the minister, and the minister brought it today." Liang Youdao took out an account book and a few letters from his arms, and Wang Shangshu knelt on the ground and looked back at him, his eyes full of tears. murderous look.

Wang Fu handed the ledger and letter to Li Zheng, Li Zheng flipped through it briefly, then threw the ledger on the ground.

"Your Majesty, Wang Shangshu has always..."

"Liang Youdao, the left deputy governor of the Inspectorate, listened to the order." A civil servant in a second-rank official uniform wanted to step forward to plead for Wang Shangshu but was interrupted by the emperor, so he had to return to the column.

"Wei Chen is here."

"I ordered you to be the presiding judge, and you will select six assistants from the three divisions to thoroughly investigate the case."

"The minister obeys the order."

"Where is the commander of the imperial army?"

"The minister is here."

"Immediately send someone to the Minister's Mansion to check if there are other books and letters."

"The minister obeys the order."

"Put Wang Si, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, in the prison for a while until the matter is found out, and then we will deal with it, and leave the court!" After Li Zheng finished speaking, he went straight to the outside of the palace, not giving anyone else a chance to intercede.

"Retire!" Wang Fu swept the whisk and shouted

Li Zheng walked out of the Temple of Choice, took a step forward and drove away Xu Yuan, before all the officials dared to withdraw from the Hall of Choice.

"Prime Minister, do you think this Wang Shangshu can still be saved?"

"Zhao Shangshu, don't you understand today's play? Our little emperor is going to use a knife!"

"The prime minister means that there is no hope."

"People are hopeless, but if you can uproot less, do as little as possible."

"But……"

"It's nothing but, you go back and tell your criminal department to be more vigilant and don't hit the gun. After the death of the regent, the little emperor will hold his breath. Will we have a good life?"

"understood."

Prime Minister Li Jin wiped the sweat off his brow, in fact, he was also in a cold sweat from fright just now.In the past two years, the government has been basically controlled by the gentry family headed by him, and the three officials, six ministries, five temples and other officials have been divided up by each gentry.Any matter big or small in the court was resolved through private discussions, and they would never make a fuss in front of the little emperor.Prime Minister Li Jinyuan thought that no matter what he did, the little emperor would have to wait for a few years before he became full-fledged, but he didn't expect that his father, the regent, died only a year before he couldn't bear it anymore.

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