Your Majesty, she doesn't want to flip the brand

The Shaoqing of Dali Temple was very efficient in handling the case. Before the Great Court Meeting, he interrogated the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, pulled out a lot of evidence, and then threw it all out at the Great Court Meeting.

"Wei Zhong, read out all the crimes confessed by Li Shilang above, and let them listen carefully." Zhou Xingzhi's face was not very good, and he looked coldly at Li Shilang who was kneeling on the hall with shackles.

"Of order." Wei Zhong took the confession and read it aloud.

After hearing the crimes of corruption, bribery, and buying and selling officials, the ministers subconsciously held their breath, for fear that they would be confessed or dragged by Li Shilang.

Li Shilang has been an official for more than ten years, and in the first few years he could still keep his nature, but after five years, he couldn't help but become greedy.The Ministry of Officials is responsible for the transfer assessment of officials, even a small official of the sixth or seventh rank has a lot of power, and there are many places that can be operated in the dark.

Some things will get out of hand once they have started. After tasting the benefits brought by power, Li Shilang's so-called original heart has been corroded little by little, leaving only hypocrisy and greed.

After about a quarter of an hour, Wei Zhong finished reading Li Shilang's crimes. There was no sound in the hall, and even the quiet one could hear the sound of breathing.

After a long time, none of the civil and military men in the Manchu Dynasty dared to say anything, and they were all waiting for Zhou Xingzhi to speak.

"My dear friends, how do you think we should deal with Li Shilang?" Zhou Xingzhi said, looking down at the silent officials.Among these people standing in the audience, how many can stand the investigation?You should be able to count on one hand.

"Your Majesty, according to the law, the three clans should be punished." After a moment of silence, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment stood up.

"Zhu San Clan..." Zhou Xingzhi's mouth curled up into a very faint smile, "Do you have any thoughts, Aiqing? Is this how we should deal with Li Shilang?"

Down there was silence again.Zhou Xingzhi was not in a hurry, and she didn't say anything when the officials didn't say anything, just wasting with them like this.

I don't know how long later, a censor stood up, lifted his robe and knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty, it is true that Li Shilang committed a crime, but he has not only committed bad things after serving as an official for more than ten years, so I beg you Your Majesty is extrajudicially merciful to forgive Li Shilang's wife, children and family."

"Your Majesty, punishing the three clans is an extrajudicial favor. Otherwise, if Li Shilang's father and daughter are prosecuted for the crime of assassinating the father and daughter, I am afraid that the nine clans will be punished." The Shaoqing of Dali Temple stood up and said, "My lord Yushi, although the merits can not be equaled." , but Li Shilang has committed so many crimes, it cannot be offset by just being an official for more than ten years."

"Shaoqing is serious. I just think that Li Shilang's family members are innocent." Yu Shi said, Li Shilang has been recognized by the minister as Prince Jia's man since he was arrested. If no one finds him at this time, it may be It will chill the hearts of those ministers who follow Prince Jia.Even if they knew that their intercession would not succeed, they still had to do what should be done.

"In his position to seek his own government, Li Shilang takes the salary given by His Majesty and enjoys the rights given by His Majesty. It is nothing more than his job to be a servant." Not much credit."

The censor was at a loss for words, and couldn't think of what to refute for a while.After all, there are really not many achievements that Li Shilang can show. Most of them are good performances, and then he fills up the vacancies of senior officials to become a servant.

Zhou Xingzhi didn't interrupt, just sat on the dragon chair, watching Yu Shi and Dali Temple Shaoqing argue with reason, and only spoke slowly when the quarrel was almost over.

"I understand what the two lovers mean. I want to ask Li Shilang, do you regret doing these things?" Zhou Xingzhi's eyes fell on Li Shilang. His complexion was very bad, and his body also carried a lingering smell of blood.

"Sinner, I regret it!" Li Shilang knocked his head heavily on the ground, "If there is a chance to do it all over again, I must keep my heart and never do such a wrong thing again!"

"It's good that you are willing to repent, servant." Zhou Xingzhi smiled, "I'll ask you one last question. Apart from what you just read, is there anything you want to explain to me?"

Li Shilang still buried his head, he was tangled in hesitation and thinking, if she pulled out Prince Jia at this time, would there be a chance to reduce his guilt.

No, although I took refuge in Prince Jia, I couldn't produce any evidence at all. If he was asked to confront him, wouldn't he be charged with another crime?If he offended Prince Jia, let alone punishing the three clans, he would definitely attack his clansmen secretly.

What should I do, what should I do?Does he still have a chance of surviving?Do you want to confess someone?

"Li Shilang, if Concubine Li is being used by someone, I might save her life and avoid her punishment. Otherwise, Concubine Li might follow you." Seeing Li Shilang not saying a word, Zhou Xingzhi He loosened his mouth a little more.People in this era are most afraid of losing their blood, right?I don't know if Li Zhaoyun's life can make Li Shilang tempted.

After hearing Zhou Xingzhi's words, the meaning of struggle in Li Shilang's eyes became stronger. If, if Zhaoyun can survive, maybe, maybe the Li family still has a chance?

"Your Majesty, the guilty minister has something to say, all of this is Jia..." After speaking halfway, Li Shilang's expression suddenly turned ferocious, his hands grabbed his neck violently, and after a few twitches, he began to vomit blood , and then fell to the ground without moving.

"Escort!" As soon as Li Shilang appeared abnormal, Wei Zhong stood in front of Zhou Xingzhi very nervously, and the imperial guards who were originally at the entrance of the main hall rushed in.

The Shaoqing of Dali Temple frowned, reached out and touched Li Shilang's neck, then cupped his hands and replied, "Your Majesty, Li Shilang is no longer breathing."

"It seems that Li Shilang was also instigated by others." Zhou Xingzhi's face was a little dark, and it seemed that the prison was not clean, "Shaoqing, I will give you a gold medal to thoroughly investigate the cause of Li Shilang's death. Officials, you have the right to kill first and play later."

"Your servant obeys the order!" The Shaoqing of Dali Temple knelt down to accept the order. Li Shilang was entrusted to him to guard and interrogate him. Now that something happened, he also had a responsibility.

"In addition, Li Shilang's charges are pending before the matter is clarified. Let his family take his body back for burial." Everyone is dead, and Zhou Xingzhi doesn't mind showing kindness and portraying a good emperor's image.

After the main hall was cleaned up, the heavy atmosphere relaxed a little, and under the lead of Prime Minister Liu, they began to discuss recent political affairs.

However, compared with the previous Great Court Meetings, this time all the officials were very careful when discussing political affairs, for fear that if something was wrong, Zhou Xingzhi would be in trouble.

After the Great Court Meeting ended, the whole morning was gone.Zhou Xingzhi took a sip of strong tea to refresh himself, then sat down on the chair in a relaxed manner, and went to find Ye Ningxuan for lunch.

At the same time, Zhong Qingyi took Qin Ran out of the palace and arrived at the Huangzhuang she had just acquired.

"This is given to me by Your Majesty. I plan to build a workshop here, a kind of workshop specially used for research." This is the first time Zhong Qingyi introduced to Qin Ran the things he tinkered with, and couldn't help sighing. He said, "A few days ago, I told His Majesty that I found iron ore. I didn't expect the pig iron I wanted to arrive today. The action was really fast."

Qin Ran was still nodding while listening to the front, but when he heard about iron ore and pig iron, his face changed suddenly, "Are you mining iron ore?"

"No, I told His Majesty the location of the iron mine, and then I asked for some iron." Zhong Qingyi said.

"How much iron?" Qin Ran asked seriously, forging iron is a big taboo.

"One hundred catties." Zhong Qingyi blinked, not quite understanding why Qin Ran was so nervous, "When I was talking to His Majesty, His Majesty also said that it was used up but you can continue to ask him for more."

Qin Ran took a deep breath, one hundred catties may not seem like much, but if it is really used, it can also make some weapons, "Does your majesty know that the government of Anguo is cooperating with you?"

"I know, I told Your Majesty that many of the people I employ were introduced to me by the Duke." Zhong Qingyi said, and asked tentatively, "Sister Qin, what are you worried about?"

After hearing Zhong Qingyi's words, Qin Ran breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't care about the address, "It's okay, if your majesty knows that our two companies are willing to send pig iron, then it doesn't matter."

"Sister Qin, don't worry, Your Majesty is not the kind of narrow-minded person, don't scare yourself." Zhong Qingyi comforted.His Majesty even agreed to his own weird request, and he will definitely not be punished for a hundred catties of iron.

Qin Ran sighed in her heart, if it was before when she was not in charge, she might not have so many worries.But Qin Ran has clearly felt that Zhou Xingzhi is getting stronger and stronger now, more and more like an emperor.

At that time, Qin Ran was married by the first emperor as his successor.The first emperor can be regarded as the most gentle emperor, but he also uprooted several families during his reign.Once something endangers the rights in his hands, it is common to ransack the family and exterminate the family.

The current Duke's Mansion is too popular, not to mention the emergence of a queen mother, Duke An, who has resigned, has also been entrusted by His Majesty with the important task of being the chief examiner in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions.After all, Zhou Xingzhi didn't come out of her own stomach. If she was firmly seated on the throne, would she feel that An Guogong's mansion was too ostentatious, and then start to suppress it?

Speaking of which, she is the one who knows Zhou Xingzhi's true identity, so she shouldn't do anything to herself afterwards, right?

"Sister Qin, sister Qin?" Zhong Qingyi yelled twice before finally regaining Qin Ran's thoughts.

"What's the matter?" Qin Ran rubbed his head, Zhou Xingzhi acted too neatly at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, it was inexplicably frightening, what if she turned the blade on her...

"I'm going to add other metals to the iron to see if I can make an alloy with higher ductility and hardness." Zhong Qingyi said, "Such things are very useful whether they are used in weapons or other things. .”

"Well, just remember to report the situation to His Majesty when the time comes." Qin Ran shook his head and threw out all the complicated thoughts.Now that things are up to now, it's just a matter of taking one step at a time. At worst, she can feign death and run away with her family.

To his enemies, Zhou Xingzhi is ruthless like an autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves, but to his own family, Zhou Xingzhi is naturally as gentle as a spring breeze.

Zhou Xingzhi didn't know that what he did at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet left a psychological shadow on Qin Ran. In all fairness, Zhou Xingzhi didn't feel that he had done anything too much. He just dragged Li Shangshu down with a single sentence, and continued the banquet as if nothing happened. .

Is that scary?Of course not!She didn't even kill those "assassins", she just locked them up and handed them over to the invited Gu Master for research!

Of course, all of the above are just Zhou Xingzhi's thoughts.Except for herself, no one felt that her methods were gentle.

Mingming had already known that there would be an assassin at the palace banquet but he didn't say anything. He just arranged everything secretly and dealt with the assassin with lightning speed.Then he confronted Prince Jia with a smile on his face, taunted him a bit and then dropped an explosive news without any warning, a third-rank official servant was dragged down and thrown into prison.

After such a thing happened, Zhou Xingzhi was still able to drink and continue the banquet with a smile on his face, which was enough to show how deep her heart and the city were.

At the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, His Majesty was killing chickens and monkeys, beating them!Civil and military officials basically think so.

This kind of thing has one thing and two things, maybe His Majesty is also holding his own handle, as long as His Majesty is not going well, they may step into the footsteps of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials at any time.

"Ah, Ning Xuan, there are so many memorials, why don't you help me share... half of them?" Zhou Xingzhi lay on the desk, pretending to be pitiful to Ye Ningxuan, "I'm already very tired in the morning, I need to rest."

Ye Ningxuan kept her eyes on the memorial, and looked at the contents of the memorial word by word, "This is not the first time His Majesty has reviewed a memorial, Your Majesty should be used to dealing with these things after the court, right?"

"No, I don't like it at all." Zhou Xingzhi continued to pretend to be stupid, "The memorials of these ministers are stinky and long, and I have a headache when I read them carefully."

"Then how did Your Majesty review the memorial before?" Ye Ningxuan asked, and after reading the memorial in her hand, she shifted her gaze to Zhou Xingzhi.

"Probably because I can see you." Zhou Xingzhi said with a serious face, "Now that you are sitting beside me, Ning Xuan, I don't have such a strong motivation."

Ye Ningxuan raised her eyebrows, "Your Majesty means that as long as I leave, Your Majesty will be motivated?"

"I'm not, I don't, don't talk nonsense!" Zhou Xingzhi immediately denied Sanlian, "The past is the past, and the present is the present. They should not be confused."

"Okay, I'll help you deal with one-third at most, and you can decide the rest." Ye Ningxuan still knew how much she weighed, and her understanding of the previous dynasty was not as deep as Zhou Xingzhi's. Look but dare not make decisions casually.

"Okay then, I'll leave all the memorials here to you." Seeing that there was no way to continue bargaining, Zhou Xingzhi picked the highest stack of memorials and pushed them to Ye Ningxuan, "These are all memorials from local officials, miscellaneous and so on. I have it all, I will leave it to Ning Xuan."

Ning Xuan is good at everything, but she is too cautious.So what if the Queen interferes in politics? After Prince Jia is dealt with, she will do more unruly things.

However, if you want to do those things, it is not enough to rely on Zhong Qingyi, Yang Bai'an and others. You have to find a way to find useful ones. Where do you find them?

Talent, I still lack talent.Founding a women's school requires talents, building roads requires talents, going to sea requires talents, and upgrading and manufacturing weapons also requires talents.

After the Shaoqing of Dali Temple got the privilege, he plunged into the prison.He knew very well that it was difficult to find the person who poisoned Li Shilang. All he could do was to use his privilege to get rid of some moths in the dungeon, and then replace them with reliable guards selected by Zhou Xingzhi.

Touching the gold medal in his arms, Shaoqing of Dali Temple sighed in his heart.

Sure enough, rather than being a shield in the hands of Prince Jia to protect those corrupt officials, I prefer to be the knife in the hands of His Majesty, digging out the rotten parts of the dynasty, and then quietly waiting for the new life.

Both are tools anyway, why not choose a tool that you like.

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