Perhaps knowing that he was destined to die, Tao Rui simply let go.
He turned his head and glanced at the vast majority of the officials in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and sneered: "You are all sanctimonious, that's because it hasn't been blamed on you yet. I'm just taking a step first. Ask yourselves, lower your head and dig out some
Look in your trouser pockets, whose crotch is clean?"
"How much money and food has been given to you by the imperial court for disaster relief? It has always been the officials in the capital who take the big part, and the local governments who take the small part. They are distributed to the people. If you can have three melons and two dates, it means that the local ruler has a good conscience.
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"Presumptuous! Simply presumptuous!"
The right deputy captain Tan Bingzhi, who had been criticized before, was so angry that his beard was shaking, and he said to Li Chen: "Your Highness, this lunatic has completely lost his mind. Please kill him immediately to set a warning to others!"
"What are you guilty of?" Li Chen asked indifferently.
Tan Bingzhi's claws suddenly became numb.
"Your Highness, I, I have no guilty conscience. Your Highness must not listen to this lunatic's one-sided words!" Tan Bingzhi defended loudly.
"I will naturally not listen to such one-sided remarks."
Li Chen said coldly: "But I want to ask you, such a person can reach the third rank and govern a province. What does your Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is responsible for impeachment and assessment of hundreds of officials, do for a living? I want to ask you for dereliction of duty.
, too much but not too much!?”
Li Chen's words left Tan Bingzhi speechless.
He stood there, sweat dripping down his face.
"Go away, I will take care of you later." Li Chen said coldly.
Tan Bingzhi looked horrified and immediately retreated into the train, regretting in his heart why he jumped out just now...
His eyes fell on Tao Rui, and Li Chen said calmly: "Tao Rui, you have said so plausibly, I will ask you a question."
Tao Rui sneered, showing disdain.
"You said that the people in Xishan Province are in misery, that the court has failed to provide disaster relief, and that officials in the capital are corrupt, but what about you? How much corruption have you committed?"
"Since the beginning of the natural disaster, the Ministry of Household Affairs has allocated 9.2 million taels of grain to Xishan Province alone, as approved by the imperial court. In addition, a total of 2 million 450,000 taels have been directly allocated, which is the annual tax revenue of the Qin Empire.
How much did it give you Xishan? And how much profit did you get from it!?"
Li Chen's question caused Tao Rui's sneer to freeze on his face, his eyes began to flicker, and he was speechless.
Seeing Tao Rui's behavior, Li Chen sneered: "There is a saying that is right, if the jar is broken, it is you."
"You are so plausible. If you had not corrupted the situation at all, the current state of Xishan Province was all caused by natural disasters and court corruption, then today I would immediately absolve you of all your crimes and promote you to the cabinet!"
"You Tao Rui, do you dare to say that you are not corrupt? Among the millions of souls of the people in Xishan Province, are there any who died because of you Tao Rui!?"
Li Chen's voice was like the clash of gold and stone in the majestic Hall of Supreme Harmony, and like the questioning of the Emperor of Heaven, it made Tao Rui's head buzz.
He was originally kneeling and sat down on his lap. His breathing was rapid, his eyes were blurred, and he opened his mouth but could not say a word.
"Since you don't dare to say that you are the most innocent one, why do you have to be so convincing here? Because everyone is dyed black, is it right for you to jump into the gutter!?"
The pressure reached its limit, and Tao Rui seemed to be venting his anger and roared: "That's not right!"
"I'm greedy, but so what? I'm not the only greedy person in the world!"
"As for the rebellion, I sent the report to the cabinet a month ago, but no one responded to me! If I don't run away, will I wait to die!?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhao Xuanji's eyes suddenly widened.
What was reflected in his pupils was Li Chen's cold eyes!
The prince kidnapped Tao Rui to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, not to interrogate Tao Rui, but to use Tao Rui's knife to pierce the heart of the cabinet!
Zhao Xuanji was in chaos for the first time in decades.
