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"Say, who do you want to protect?!" Emperor Jiajing asked coldly without any emotion, silence like a poisonous snake. As long as he was not satisfied, he would strangle him to death.

"The criminal minister is just a small inspector, with no qualities and no level, insignificant. He has no ability to protect anyone," the silent voice became more and more calm, and almost word afterwards: "I will never favor and protect anyone!"

Emperor Jiajing smiled and said, "That's not what Zhao Zhenji's memorial said. He said that from the beginning, you have been slanderous and interfered with local officials and secretly blocked the case several times. In the end, he took the risk and burned down physical evidence. He caught him. The facts are clear and the evidence is conclusive. What else can I make a case for quibbling?"

"I have nothing to quibble." Chen Si said unmoved: "I have a loyal heart that can be used to see the sun and the moon, and there is no need to quibble!"

"Haha... I'm so confident!" Emperor Jiajing laughed angry at him: "Is it a big man who taught you that as long as you don't admit it, you can get rid of danger?"

"No." Chen Si shook his head and said, "No one taught me to say this, I want to say it myself."

"It's better to argue." Emperor Jiajing said lightly: "It seems that the water here is very deep, so you won't tell the truth when you see me. I ask you for the last time, whose person are you?"

As soon as these words were said, he immediately said silently: "Go back to Your Majesty, all the kings and earths are kings and ministers. All the officials of the Ming Dynasty were from the court and from His Majesty."

"School." Jiajing's voice was a little relaxed: "The Ming Dynasty is so big and there are so many officials. I can't control it alone. I still have to share the pot and live a family... Let's talk about it, did you make a living in a pot with Yan's surname? Or did you, the surname Li, the surname Xu?"

Silence suddenly raised his head, his eyes were filled with tears, and his voice trembled: "Reply to Your Majesty's words - I am a common man, mediocre and naive, and I am not abandoned by Your Majesty. I am a provincial inspector and was ordered to investigate the case of Japanese/giants attacking Nanjing. Although the co-organizer should be the lord of the chief, I know that everything I have given to you by Your Majesty, so I only listen to the emperor and only think about the Ming Dynasty. I will never listen to others' instructions, and no one can control the minister's principles. I mean..." At the end of his speech, his face was filled with tears, and he only heard him say with great pain: "As for the failure to observe the Mingqin case this time, I disappoint Your Majesty. All responsibilities, the root cause, are all my faults, and have nothing to do with others... But I told Your Majesty that if I encounter such a thing again, my choice will not change..." It seemed that the child who had suffered all the grievances could finally speak out, and at the end, the silence was already in tears.

Emperor Jiajing said a little annoyed: "It's useless to cry. Burning the account book means confirming the crime of 'private destruction of evidence'. If others want to cure you, I can't save you!"

After hearing the emperor's words, he wiped away his tears in silence and said, "I... I beg your Majesty to give him knife and cut."

Emperor Jiajing said unhappily: "What problem can death indicate?"

Silence this sweat, quickly explained: "I dare not condemn the king and father to be unrighteous. I just have something to present to Your Majesty."

There was no sound inside. After a while, the curtain was raised. The fat eunuch came out with a tray and placed a small golden knife on it. He kindly reminded him: "You should be more at ease. If you use a knife in front of His Majesty, you will be killed by random knives."

Siren smiled at him gratefully, then picked up a knife and separated a large hole at the bottom of the jacket... Then he took out a well-sealed tart cloth bag from it, cut the other side of the jacket, and took out the same tart cloth bag. Looking deeply at the things in his hand, Siren exhaled a long breath of turbid air and said, "For this thing, how long will I die and live, and today I can finally report it to the emperor!"

The fat eunuch asked softly: "What is this?"

Silently opened the tarpaulin bag, and a blue booklet appeared in front of him. The fat eunuch couldn't help but shout, "Open book?" This very unexpected sentence even the emperor in the curtain was stunned.

I saw Chen Si put the two books in the two bags together and said with a long sigh: "I heard from Your Majesty, the criminal minister, who was originally a prisoner in Zhejiang, was silent and presented two books obtained from the Zhejiang Governor's villa. One of them was the account book and the other was the account book. Please read it."

The hall was filled with sandalwood, and the needles were falling. Everyone looked at the emperor behind the curtain. Emperor Jiajing did not ask the fat eunuch Huang Jin to take the resignation statement, but asked firmly: "Why did you lie to me before and say that the account book was burned?"

"Reply to Your Majesty, I have indeed concealed the truth." He said silently: "But I have a last resort... Because this account involves the situation in Zhejiang Province, and even several southeastern provinces. If it is not handled well, it may cause the newly-aggressive anti-Japanese situation to turn into a bubble in a blink of an eye. Therefore, I am foolish in my opinion, this thing must be the first to see Your Majesty. Thunder, rain, dew, and the king will come out so that the southeast will not be turbulent, so that the Ming Dynasty will not fall into internal struggles, and that the ministers will know that everything is simple in the emperor's heart, and that your Majesty will decide by his own world!"

The fanaticism on his face made the fat eunuch lit up. He thought he really didn't realize that this guy had a perfect skill in flattery! He actually took such a high-level flattery for the first time when he saw His Majesty... But he didn't know that it was thanks to Lu Bing and Tao Zhongwen's pre-exam tutoring, which made the silent and targeted.

‘Clang…’ A sound of the chime was crisp and pleasant, and the thick light yellow curtain rolled silently to both sides.

When I was silent, I saw a round seat table with bright yellow cushions. Next to the seat table was a jade chime mounted on a red sandalwood shelf. There was a chime of the same color stuck into the chime. The crisp sound of the chime must have been ringed from here.

But his vision only ended with this. He didn't dare to look up again. After all, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had no habit of looking at people.

But there was a person sitting on the cushion after all. After silentness, he heard a clearer voice saying: "Are you worried that someone would use this as a slogan and force me to submit?"

"I am stupid," Chen Si quickly lowered his head and said, "Maybe it's mediocre people disturb me, but if it's possible, I'll do this."

"Haha..." Emperor Jiajing actually laughed out loud: "It's good to be young. He has the energy and no worries, and there are not so many messy things in his head."

Chen Si was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but he heard the emperor continue, "But there are bad things in youth, and the problem is not comprehensive. Have you ever thought about such consequences? Let's not talk about Zhao Zhenji for now, just talk about his teacher Xu Jie and Yang Yi's fellow villager Li Mo. No matter what motive you have for hiding this account book, you have actually offended the two of them. Are you not afraid that they will wear it for you?"

"Of course I am afraid that the career of the government will be blocked and even sent to prison." I said silently: "But I am even more afraid that someone will use this to threaten the king and father and make your majesty make a last resort. In order to maintain the authority of the Lord, I am not afraid even if I am broken!"

"Hahaha..." Emperor Jiajing laughed loudly, and said with unconcealed pleasure in his laughter: "I did not see the wrong person." He said that, stretched out his thin and slender hand.

Huang Jin then submitted the account book.

Jiajing raised the account book far away and squinted his eyes to read it. At first his expression was calm, but slowly his eyes became cold... He lived in the deep palace for a long time and did not contact the ministers. His grasp of power was more important than the capitals of the previous emperors. His secret was nothing more than the control of human rights and financial power. Therefore, it was very easy for him to read the account book.

Emperor Jiajing sat there watching and pondering, kneeling silently on the ground, Huang Jin stood up in a wooden manner, and there was no other movement in the hall, but he could hear the rustling sound of paper turning, which made him look even more quiet.

Time flowed slowly until the shadows on the ground became shorter and shorter, and the emperor slowly closed the account book and his face calmed down completely.

Jiajing finally asked, "Have you read this account book?"

Silent gritted his teeth and said softly: "I dare not deceive Your Majesty. I only realized that I must not leak it out after reading it, but I can only leave it to the Holy Prison."

Emperor Jiajing nodded slowly, his face was very complicated, with a bit of praise and anger that was unconcealable, and turned his head and asked Huang Jin: "Do you know what is recorded in this account?"

Huang Jin slutted with a fat face and said silly: "I don't know."

Jiajing said coldly: "Tell you, it is the final flow of various taxes and taxes issued in Zhejiang throughout the 34th year of Jiajing!"

Huang Jin was stunned and looked at Jiajing blankly and said, "Where has it flowed?"

"Hmph..." Jiajing snorted angrily, "No matter how much we deducted the military expenses to the court and handed over to the vassal kings, the one million taels spent on the army was only 550,000 taels, and the remaining 450,000 taels," he slapped the table and said, "It all flowed into his pockets of Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian! How greedy, lawless!"

Huang Jin quickly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty calmed down..."
Chapter completed!