"eat?"

Young Master Zhao couldn't help but his throat rolled when he heard these words, but before his will wavered, he thought of his sister in time. This time, quantity wins!

"You are not allowed to think nonsense now."

Empress Dowager Zhao smiled and raised her hand to pinch his nose.

"Follow me to the morning court."

After saying that, she led Zhao Cuo out of the East Palace, and together they got on the phoenix chariot and headed towards the Chaotian Palace. It was already close to midnight.

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'What a lazy woman.'

Zhao Guanren was full of slander. He had long heard that during the late emperor's time, the court was held at Mao hour, but after the female devil came to power, it was postponed for two hours.

"You sit here for a while first."

Above the Chaotian Palace, the Queen Mother sat down on the dragon chair behind the curtain, then pointed to the soft cushions on the side and said to Zhao Cuo.

"Um."

Zhao Cuo, who came here for the second time, has lost all the novelty.

"Your Majesty is here!"

At this moment, the eunuch's shrill singing voice suddenly came from the entrance to the side hall.

"My sons and ministers see their mother and queen."

Young Master Zhao vaguely saw a young man in a yellow robe saluting him through the bead curtain.

"Give me a seat."

The Queen Mother sitting on the dragon throne said lightly.

"Thank you, Queen Mother."

Zhao Cuo watched with sympathetic eyes as the young monarch below was taken to the auditorium and sat down.

"Xuan Baiguan comes to court."

The Queen Mother continued to speak in a condescending tone. Zhao mistakenly admitted that after this woman sat on the throne, her awe-inspiring and dignified temperament attracted his attention. This was the majesty of the supreme ruler. However, she had just been talking to a certain person.

Two noble sons are in the same bed.

"I will meet you, the Queen Mother!"

The dark figures walked into the hall in an orderly manner, and they bowed respectfully to the woman sitting in front of them, seemingly not seeing the emperor sitting beside them.

"okay."

Empress Dowager Zhao didn't talk nonsense, went straight to the topic with an expressionless face, and said slowly:

"In the past few days, the Imperial Palace has ordered officials in Beijing who borrowed money from the imperial court to pay back their debts. There are more than 400 officials, big and small, who have been registered as having their hands on the treasury. I have ransacked the homes of more than a dozen officials, and the people behind them finally took the money.

The money was paid back."

As soon as she spoke out, the officials in the palace fell into silence.

"But even if these moths are paid for, there are still mountains of bad debts at the Ministry of Accounts! There are only more than 4,000 officials in the capital, and a cursory check reveals that most of them are involved. It seems that they are already terminally ill."

The Chaotian Palace was so quiet for a while that only the nervous and heavy breathing of the officials could be heard.

"Taizu made a rule back then to conduct a capital inspection every four years. I don't have to wait until next year to see it."

The Queen Mother continued with a sneer.

"Zhao Cuo, please stand below."

She lowered her head and looked at the little man sitting at the bottom. Her tone was a little softer unconsciously, but there was still no doubt in her words.

"yes."

Zhao Cuo stood up and opened the curtain and walked into the majestic hall. Hundreds of eyes instantly focused on him, looking either shocked or confused.

"Third-class executioner Zhao mistakenly listened to the order!"

The Queen Mother Zhao's voice sounded again, and Young Master Zhao quickened his pace and walked to the middle of the civil and military officials on both sides, raised his hands and bowed upward.

"I order you to be the supervisor of this case! I will give Shang Fang a sword and allow you to dispatch all officials to thoroughly investigate corruption!"

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a sound of air-conditioning in the hall, and the expressions of many officials changed, looking at the handsome young man in front of them in fear.

The public interrogation of Duke You by Duke Zhao has already spread throughout the capital! With the identity of the heir to Duke Zheng's palace and the order of the empress, he really has no scruples in handling this case!

For a while, many people turned pale.

"I accept the decree!"

Immediately, a palace maid came to Zhao Cuo with a red-gold sword and lowered her head to hand it over. He raised his hands to take it, and then saluted to the Queen Mother Zhao above.

Young Master Zhao knew that at this moment he had temporarily gained power over one person and over ten thousand people.

However, a second ago he was still a little executioner with no class.

"I would like to ask several adults to cooperate in handling the case."

He knew it was time to bring out the person he had already determined to handle the case.

"Just adjust your order directly."

The Queen Mother behind the curtain spoke calmly. After hearing this, Zhao Cuo turned around and faced the many courtiers, meeting all kinds of eyes.

"Can I recommend myself..."

An old man with white hair and a kind face came out.

"I dare not ask the boss to be my deputy."

Zhao Cuo politely refused to the minister in red robes, and then without giving him a chance to speak, he directly said loudly in front of everyone:

"Please also ask Mr. Ji Mingji, the doctor of the Ministry of Punishment, to come out!"

Dayu's morning court requires officials of fifth rank or above to participate. Master Ji just met the standard, so he decided to call people out here.

"What?"

A man who looked to be in his thirties at the end of the queue of civil servants raised his head in a daze.

There was deep doubt in his eyes.

The young dignitary in front is calling him? He must have heard it wrong, right? Master Ji, who has had nothing to do since he offended the Minister of Punishment in the first year of Yongzhao, thought of this mockingly.

'Dayu is rotten to the core.'

Ji Ming repeated this sentence in his heart.

Two years ago, he worked very hard to thoroughly investigate the case of King Beijing. It was ridiculous to find that the biggest resistance to the investigation came from his colleagues. Even so, he still investigated the case with enthusiasm.

He hadn't slept a few times for two months and was now looking haggard. The emperor paid off and he finally solved the case and didn't let an innocent person die in vain on the guillotine.

'I thought that at least His Majesty the Queen was upholding justice...'

Ji Ming clenched his fists unconsciously. At that time, he thought that the Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, who was eager to close the case after the case was found out, would be questioned, but it turned out that this ridiculous Shangguan pretended to take all the credit for him!

"Lord Ji!"

A gentle voice came from the front again, which woke up Ji Ming who was immersed in the past. Only then did he realize in shock that the officials around him were looking at him. When he realized what he was doing, he was pushed out of the team by the joy in his heart.

"May I ask, Lord Ji, if you would be willing to investigate the case thoroughly with the adjutant who was born that night?"

'Chance!'

Ji Ming, who had been living in the Penal Department Yamen for two years and waiting to die, thought of these two words. He looked at the noble man in front of him with grateful eyes, and his depressed face once again had a look of excitement. After he tidied his clothes seriously

As he walked forward, the astonished look in Shangshu's eyes made him feel happy.

"Inspector Zhao will not give up. I am willing to work hard and die! To repay the trust of you and your Majesty today!"

He bowed deeply to Zhao Cuo. This time he was not dragged to be an errand boy, but an adjutant to investigate a major corruption case of Beijing officials!

If the case can be successfully solved, even the Minister of Punishment will not be able to hide him anymore.
Chapter completed!