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Daming Palace Hanyuan Palace

The chief and deputy ministers of the Political Affairs Hall and the three provinces and six ministries gathered here. In the endless repression, they circulated and browsed the memorials written by the young master Yan Qingchen of the Crown Prince. In this memorial, there were detailed lists of corruption and fraud in the workplaces inside and outside Chang'an, and privately entrusted military weapons and tributes. In the appendix to the memorial, each of which accurately listed the names of the participants, and the date of the case was reported. At this point, the accumulated cases of corruption on the workplace have become a mountain of iron, and no one can doubt it.

As this memorial was also circulated on the workplace cheating case that Cui Po, the head of the Ministry of Works, reported privately on the same day. Seeing this memorial that has been rumored countless times in recent days, every minister at the meeting read it carefully and then responded to the memorial that had just been just now. I really have a feeling.

"How is it! After reading it, let's talk about the regulations on the handling of this matter!" The expressionless emperor on the imperial throne saw that the memorial had been circulated, so he started to speak coldly. His cold face and cold mouth made the atmosphere in the entire hall three times tighter.

In the boundless silence, the officials looked as if they were vaguely looking at Chang Gun, who was standing on the right, waiting for him, the chief minister of the current dynasty to make a speech and set aside.

However, Chang Gun was like falling asleep. With the eyes of the ministers gathered together, he just narrowed his eyes slightly and said nothing. However, Cui Youfu did not speak a word to avoid suspicion because of his nephew involved in his clan. Liu Yan, another minister in the Political Affairs Hall, was in charge of financial affairs, and also knew that the background of the matter was deep, and he was unwilling to speak rashly and offend two colleagues in the Political Affairs Hall, so he kept silent like two of them.

Seeing that the three ministers were like this, the ministers of the three provinces and six ministries who knew the tricks were all silent as if they were silent.

After waiting for a long time, seeing that no one of the ministers below came out to make a comment, Li Shi, who was sitting coldly, slowly blushed on his face, gently rubbed the right hand of Yuji in front of him and clenched it tightly. Because the grave was already rising with great force, he bit the corner of his lips and pressed down the anger in his chest. His Majesty, who stretched out his fingers, pulled out a sarcastic smile and said, "All the emperors always boasted of the court's pillars. They could fight for the three-day or twenty-seventh day of mourning for the emperor. Why are they all mute today? Could it be that you are really as Cao Gui said, "The meat eater is despised"! If this is the case, the emperors will receive a large salary from the court every month, and the beautiful houses are used by the Huafu Xuan Cars and beautiful houses. Wouldn't you feel guilty..."

With Li Shi's sarcasm without any mercy, the ministers in the hall could no longer stand like thorns on their backs. Under the guidance of the three prime ministers, they bowed down and complained about their crimes.

"Oh? You guys will be guilty of your family? This is really a big joke! No, no, it's not that you are guilty of yours, Cui Po is guilty of yourselves, Guo Lao Linggong is guilty of me! Who made Cui Po take office as the Ministry of Works, and only ten months later discovered such a corruption in the middle of the Beijing stage? Who asked Guo Taiwei to marry his granddaughter to Cui Po, who was ignorant of "benevolent"? Who made me insist on investigating this matter to the end? If Cui Qing and I were both like the Qing family, and turned a blind eye, wouldn't it be that if Cui Qing and I were like the Qing family, they would turn a blind eye, wouldn't it be that

Is there nothing left?" When he said this, Li Shi smiled coldly and then said, "You are reciting every day. The memorial said that you want to 'To the Lord Yao and Shun', but you are using peace in the world to fool me every day. Do you want to help me to Yao and Shun, or to the former Emperor Yang of Sui? You are cultivating yourself every day, managing your family, governing the country, and pacifying the world. However, this time, such a large-scale corruption case occurred in the Beijing stage. You are a prominent official in the Beijing for many years. Do you really have nothing to realize? Jokes!..."

Seeing that His Majesty's words were getting heavier, some of the ministers who were worshiping in the hall could not bear it. They walked a few steps to their right knee and said, "Your Majesty is in his arms, please do not be angry, take care of the dragon body. Regarding fraud in the field in the capital, I think it should be punished severely to serve as a warning!" Hearing that the court officials made a memorial, the ministers who were lying on the ground breathed a sigh of relief, turned their heads slightly, and saw that the speaker was Yang Yan and Yang Gongnan, the new Minister of Rites.

"Oh! In Yang Qing's opinion, how should we punish the law strictly?"

"Abandoned the market" Yang Yan said without hesitation.

As soon as he said these two words, a fierce uproar sounded among the ministers who were speechless. Zhang Yi, the minister of the disciple, stepped out and shouted: "Yang Yan, it has not been long since my emperor ascended the throne. You dare to advise that you should execute more than 300 people at once. Do this, how should you think of Your Majesty in the world? His writing is like a knife, how should you carry it? Furthermore, the deacons in the Beijing Central Workshop this time are all involved in the matter. If all of them are abandoned, how should these seventy-seven working places fill the vacancy? It really delays the construction of armored wars. Can you Yang Yan bear this responsibility?" After a word was finished, without waiting for his refutation, the minister of Zhang immediately faced the imperial seat and said: "Your Majesty, Yang Yan is a man with a snake-scorpion heart. He made such a foolish advice. It is obvious that he wants to put my emperor in a state of unkindness and unrighteousness. I ask Your Majesty to punish him."

When Li Shi heard the two of them refute, he said coldly on the imperial throne. Seeing this, Yang Yan didn't look at Zhang Yi. He sneered and said, "No more. It is a crime of "big rebellion" just to sell military weapons privately. If you talk about those crimes, it is also light to abandon the market. Mr. Zhang is the third rank. Could it be that I don't even know my "Da Tang Law"? As for the management of the workplace, Your Majesty, I will report to you. If Your Majesty can use it, it can not only eliminate the shortcomings of the workplace, but also reform and improve the production and quality of the workplace armor and soldiers."

"Who is the Yang Qing family going to report?" Li Shi leaned forward slightly and asked when he heard this.

"Cui Po, the Ministry of Works Department Officer," said Yang Yan lightly, which immediately caused an uproar in the palace.

"Just, Cui Po has such a shallow and short qualification, not to mention whether he can bear this huge responsibility when he is guilty. The teacher and his disciple, based on your relationship with Yang Yan, this recommendation is undoubtedly a clique. Your Majesty, you must not report it!!!" After saying that, Zhang Yi kowtowed three times to show his determination. When he raised his head, his forehead was already red and swollen.

"Huo Xianming, I allow you to ride a horse in the imperial city and quickly summon Cui Po to Hanyuan Palace." Li Shi, who was not controversial to the two, turned his head slightly and ordered Huo Xianming who was standing on the front right to serve the marquis.

Huo Xianming followed the imperial edict and walked away quickly. On this side, Yang Yan had already refuted: "The wise men do not avoid relatives. Mr. Zhang doesn't even understand this, so why are you pretending to be here? On that day, Mr. Cui handed the letter to His Majesty in the afternoon. The next morning, the entire imperial yamen had already spread the story. As for the culprit, everyone said that it was first reported from the Menxia Province. In the following days, Mr. Zhang's mansion was crowded with people, and many censors were passing through them day and night. This was not counting. In just four days, Mr. Zhang even put nine in the Zuixian Tower.

At the banquet, the guests received were all officials of various yamen. The whole story was asked by Mr. Zhang to explain to His Majesty and his colleagues. "When Yang Yan said this, he glanced at Zhang Yi, who was looking like a pig's liver, and then added lightly: "Mr. Zhang is in charge of the provincial government and is responsible for reviewing the memorials of officials, but he didn't know where the memorials of the Censorate Luo Yi the day before yesterday went? For his own selfish interests, Mr. Zhang dared to suppress the memorials of the Censorate without authorization. Is this the name of "club"? It's better to keep it for your own use!"

Zhang Yi didn't expect that this old rival Yang Yan had even known his recent whereabouts and the memorials. He wanted to defend himself, but he was speechless to refute. As new and old hatreds burst out, he jumped up from the hall and rushed towards Yang Yan, and with just one hand he took off the Jinde Guan on the head of the Minister of Rites. Yang Yan was not willing to be so humiliated. He immediately stood up and refuted. For a moment, in the magnificent Hanyuan Hall, two third-rank officials of the Tang Dynasty actually staged a full martial arts campaign in front of the emperor and his ministers.

The two of them beat the ministers only dumbfounded. The imperial guards guarding the palace also looked at each other, wondering what to do with these two important officials in purple. After the two wrestled for a while, Chang Gun and others woke up from this strange thing that had not happened in a century, scolded and persuaded them. There were even more censors on duty on the side. They were eyeing each other. Once the two separated, they would come forward to impeach the two of them to despise the emperor and violate the minister's body.

Li Shi, who was sitting on the imperial throne, looked at the scene in front of him, his face turned from white to red, then blue, and finally turned from blue to white. Seeing that the two of them refused to separate under the persuasion of others, they could no longer bear it and slapped Yuchen and rose up, gritted their teeth and scolded: "Come on! Bring these two bastards out for me."

The imperial guards who received the imperial order immediately stepped forward and forced the two to separate, and then forced them out in groups of four. Seeing that the two were getting farther away, the Censor Zhongchen, who was not on duty, went out to impeach the two. He had seen the Secretary of the Secretariat Cui Youfu step forward and said, "The minister Zhang Yi despised the Holy Lord, and was insulted and beat the ministers in the palace, which was actually contrary to the minister's constitution. Your Majesty of the Qing Dynasty took his official title and took the court to investigate the reasons for his corruption and fraud."

In this memorial, he immediately led another prime minister to impeach the minister Yang Yan and slander the ministers. The ministers of the three provinces and six ministries who were standing in the squad below saw that the two ministers were already bare-handed and could no longer keep silent and went forward to help the fist. Although they did not fight like before, they were still blushing when they were fighting back and forth. After only a moment of silence, there was another war of smoke rising from Hanyuan Palace.

While the verbal disturbance in the hall was endless, Huo Xianming, who had just been ordered to summon Cui Po, ran into the hall with a heavy breath, squirting heavily. After kneeling down on the ground, he didn't even have time to salute, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, it's not good. Cui Yuanwailang met a gangster in Xuandu Temple in front of the three pillars of incense, and now he fainted due to excessive blood loss."

"What!" Li Shi was shocked when he heard this. Even the important officials in the palace were shocked when they heard the news. They had no intention of arguing anymore and returned to the train and looked at Huo Xianming with one's eyes tightly.

Huo Xianming finished his words, took the opportunity to take a few breaths before he said in detail: "I was ordered by His Majesty to go to Cui's house to pass the imperial edict. As soon as I arrived at the door of the house, I saw that Cui's house was already in a mess. After finally holding the housekeeper and asking, I realized that Cui Yuanwailang was assassinated in Xuandu Temple. Then the old slave looked in the inner house again and saw that Master Cui was stabbed on his arm and was bleeding profusely. The old slave called him three times but did not wake him up. The situation seemed to be very bad!"

"It is urgent to be reported that the Imperial Doctor is going to Cui's house to diagnose the injury." Li Shi gave a loud command and asked Huo Xianming again: "What's the situation at that time? Who was the assassin? Did he hold it?"

"According to the butler's words, early this morning, Cui Yuanwailang followed his mother's order and went to Xuanduguan to pray for blessings. Just as he was burning incense to Emperor Xuanyuan, the assassin hidden among the pilgrims took the opportunity to attack. Lord Cui was protected from disaster because he had a guard on his side. Seeing this, the assassin turned to Mrs. Cui on the other side. In a critical situation, Lord Guo blocked his knife to protect Mrs. Jingruo, and he was also hit twice and suffered a severe injury. According to the Chief Inspector of Chang'an County who was guarding the Cui Mansion,

One of the assassins has been confirmed to be Li Shan, a man from Yongpingfang, Chang'an County. His father was a court specializing in building large-scale city guard equipment. He is now detained in Dali Temple. Because there were many pilgrims at that time and someone in the assassin responded, it was not captured. Chang'an County is applying to close the city gates and search the whole city." Huo Xianming is worthy of being the eunuch who was most favored by Li Shi. He is really clever and clearly explained the plot of the matter in just a few words.

"Before Emperor Xuanyuan, in full view of everyone, this kid-in-law bandit dared to assassinate the imperial officials and escape safely. This is Chang'an, you should take this matter as solid as a sacred official in Chang'an County. You must hold this group of bandits together. If you get one less, you will take off your own black veil to report it. As for Yang, Zhang Zhi's dispute and the traitors on the scene, I have my own ideas. If you dare to punish those who are chasing for their colleagues for this matter, you will not be too lazy to punish them!" After saying these few words coldly, Li Shi, full of anger, got up and turned to the back hall. The eunuch Huo Xianming was so panicked that he quickly got up and shouted: "Your Majesty is back to the palace!"

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At this time, the Cui Mansion, which had been noisy for a long time, gradually returned to peace. In the inner house, the six guards with shame looked tightly guarded a airtight room.

In the room, Cui Po, who had just woken up, had a white face. After trying to squeeze out a smile to the three women who were wearing pear blossoms by the bed, he said weakly: "Isn't this good for your husband? No matter how hard you cry, don't cry, you will not be beautiful if you cry."

However, her smile did not resonate like before. Jingruo on the left couch even whimpered again, her eyes rolling with tears were staring at Cui Po, and she murmured: "Husband, why are you so stupid, so stupid!"

Before Cui Po answered, Naga Jinhua, who could clearly hear the side, was already speaking awkwardly, saying, "Sister, you are Shiyilang's woman. If he doesn't do this, he is not worthy of being a man. Sister, don't worry, our man is a hero favored by the heaven of immortality, and he will be fine." After storing these few short sentences, her pure and beautiful face held back tears and a bright smile appeared. This cute and extremely cute smile also diluted the depressed atmosphere in the room a lot.

She tried hard to keep a faint smile on her face, holding hands with Jingruo for a long time. After she completely calmed down, Cui Po said softly: "I would like to ask the three ladies to look at her mother in the backyard. She was frightened today. If she had any good or bad luck for her husband, this unfilial son would be really a death-free life."

Seeing such a hat, Jingruo and the other two could only get up and leave. After the three of them walked away and they never heard the footsteps again, Cui Po coughed gently, summoned the boss among the eight guards and ordered gently: "Go and call Captain Guo for me."

"Son-in-law, your body..." Guo Biao persuaded him in embarrassment. Seeing Cui Po's determination on his face, he could only turn around and leave the room.

After a while, Guo Xiaosi, dressed in casual clothes, flashed into the door, and his increasingly quiet face seemed to be tired.

"Have everyone withdrawn?" Cui Po said softly, quietly watching Guo Xiaosi, who was changing increasingly, for a long time.

"Don't worry, just after the matter in Xuandu Temple was finished, the four of them had already sneaked back to the West City Restaurant while the chaos was in chaos. The sky must have left the city with the convoy that transported wine. This time, the team was led by Yang Meng, the lone giant thief who had been in the south of Shannan for more than ten years. Their "travels" were all complete, and the government could not take them." Guo Xiaosi bowed behind and said in a low voice.

"Then Li Shan..." Cui Po had just started to ask, but when he saw Guo Xiaosi gesture, he sighed and kept silent.

After being silent for a long time, Guo Xiaosi started to speak again: "Sir, why are you doing this? Fortunately, Yang Meng put away his sword quickly today, otherwise..."

"It's okay, I'm wearing steel armor with heart protection today, and nothing can happen! This dynasty is coming, and I don't want to take advantage of the time. I'll be passive if I don't take a gamble now. This blood is for the emperor to see. How can I not spend some capital? Now every drop of it is my loyalty! If you do this well, Yang Meng and the other two will also reward you. You will do it together." Cui Powei, who was slightly in a bad mood, closed his eyes and murmured like a murmur.

Upon hearing this, Guo Xiaosi's body shook slightly and then said: "The Palace Censor Yu Zhun, who was originally impeached by this, is under surveillance. Do you want it..."

"No, just pay more attention to his interactions. Once there is a danger, you must protect his vigor no matter what the price you pay. The "Micro-Liang Fang" in Beijing is powerful, so you must be careful to do it."

"Is it because this person's order is also an adult?" Guo Xiaosi, who was so lucky, suddenly said in surprise, but Cui Po was like sleeping soundly at this time, without saying a word.
Chapter completed!