Li Si and Zhao Gao lined up in front, accompanied by hundreds of civil and military officials, to salute Hu Hai and shout long live.
In the normal process, the officials would take out some unresolved political issues and put them in the court to discuss them together.
The officials will express their opinions, and then the prime minister will finalize several different solutions, and finally it will be handed over to Hu Hai to finalize the decree.
In less than half an hour, those so-called problems were easily solved.
During the whole process, Hu Hai seemed a little drowsy because it was too boring for him.
All the problems were transformed into Li Si's hands, and it became clear how to deal with them. As the monarch, Hu Hai only had to choose one at will.
To put it mildly, the entire court meeting was Li Si's personal show.
Hu Hai didn't care, but some people might not be able to stand it.
Huang Banban represents Hu Hai's will, and will read out a sentence every day: "If you have something to report, you will leave the court if there is nothing."
At this moment, Zhongcheng, a censor at the censorship station, took a step forward and said: "Your Majesty, I have this memorial."
Hu Hai suddenly refreshed his mind, looked at the censor Zhongcheng with excitement and said: "If you have something to say, please speak directly. I am listening."
The censor Zhongcheng bowed to Hu Hai and said: "I impeach Wang Xing and Lu Long of Zhongshu Province for accepting bribes and serious dereliction of duty during the evaluation of officials. Please order the Tingwei Mansion to thoroughly investigate the matter and eliminate this black sheep."
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As soon as he said this, Li Si, who was standing at the front, immediately turned around and looked at the censor Zhongcheng with a gentle smile.
The censor Zhongcheng couldn't help but shrink his head when he saw this, but he quickly reacted and straightened his body, looking fearless.
Zhongshu Province is a subordinate agency of the Prime Minister's Office, and the officials in it are naturally subordinate to the Prime Minister.
The censor Zhongcheng revealed this matter directly at the court meeting, and the underlying meaning is self-evident.
Hu Hai's face immediately became serious. If the corruption assessment is true, it is not a small problem.
"What do the Prime Minister and Tingwei think?" Hu Hai couldn't make up his mind and asked.
Li Si was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, this matter should be thoroughly investigated. The purpose of assessing officials is to meritocracy. If anyone is corrupt and derelict in their duties, it is tantamount to digging into the foundation of our great Qin and should be killed."
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Zhao Gao continued: "I agree with the Prime Minister's opinion, but Wei Chen believes that since the problem arises from Zhongshu Province officials, it should be investigated by the Prime Minister, and the Tingwei Mansion will not get involved. I believe that the Prime Minister will be able to give His Majesty an explanation.
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Li Si looked sternly and shook his head: "What Mr. Tingwei said is wrong. Since ancient times, how can anyone correct his own mistakes? I am afraid I still need to trouble Mr. Tingwei to get to the bottom of this matter and give it to those who are unfortunate enough to be evaluated by these two people."
Officials, an explanation will do. What do you think, Your Majesty?"
Hu Hai said without much thought: "The Prime Minister is right, the guards in black are better at investigating cases. Let's leave this matter to the Tingwei Mansion."
Li Si and Zhao Gao said in unison: "I obey the decree."
On the same day, a group of black-clad guards rushed into the home of two Zhongshu Provincial Officials, preparing to arrest them.
However, when they rushed in, they discovered that the two officials had already committed suicide by taking poison, without even leaving a suicide note.
The next day, the Chang'an Mansion received a complaint that a thousand black-clad guards were blackmailing merchants. After being rejected, they became angry and led people to arrest the merchant's entire family. Within three days, all the family members died in prison.
, the family property was confiscated.
The person who reported the crime was the cousin of the mistress. It is said that he told Chang'an Ling the whole story with tears in his eyes and asked Chang'an Ling to make the decision for his cousin.
This case involved thousands of black-clad guards. The Chang'an Order did not dare to make the decision privately. While sending people to protect the complainants, it also sent a letter to Li Si and Hu Hai asking for instructions on how to handle it.
Soon the whole story of this incident reached the ears of Hu Hai, who ordered the Chang'an Prefecture to arrest thousands of culprits and investigate the matter thoroughly.
Coincidentally, when the officials of Chang'an Prefecture arrested this Qianhu, they also found him bleeding at home.
I don't know when it started, but there was suddenly a tense atmosphere in Chang'an City.
However, the atmosphere did not last long and soon subsided.
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In Lishan, Wu Fan told Lin Ze about the big and small things that happened in Chang'an in the recent period as usual.
The first thing to talk about is these two things.
After listening to this, Lin Ze couldn't help but sigh: "There really is no room for two tigers in one mountain!"
Are Li Si and Zhao Gao finally going to fight?
When Li Si and Zhao Gao joined forces to suppress Lin Ze and "exiled" him to Lishan, he had guessed that this scene would happen, but it was just a little later than he expected. This actually showed that the two masters were still able to keep their composure.
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But no matter how calm they are, as long as they don't become one and respect one person as the leader, sooner or later there will be conflict between them.
The conflict may not be caused by them, but it will eventually converge on them, just because they are the leaders of all officials.
If there is a strong monarch suppressing them, although they will fight, they will not break up in the end.
For example, when Emperor Qin was here, even though there was some friction among the thirteen grandmasters of Qin, would they fight to the death? No.
But now that Hu Hai is the emperor, Hu Hai is weak and cannot deter the two of them.
There is no external threat between the two, and internal fighting is inevitable, because the one who wins will become the real talker in Da Qin.
Of course, it's far from the stage of completely breaking up, it's just preliminary friction.
This friction will continue for a long time for three reasons:
First, both sides need to win the support of Hu Hai. Although Hu Hai is weak and unable to suppress them, once Hu Hai clearly supports one side, the other side will quickly lose. Even if he is a master, he can only escape to the ends of the earth to save his life.
After all, the Grandmaster is not invincible.
Second, the current conflict is still within a certain range and has not yet reached a certain level of killing the other party.
However, as time goes by, the conflict between the two will only become more and more intense until a winner is decided.
After drawing the conclusion, Lin Ze put it aside without any intention of getting involved.
The snipe and the clam fight, and the fishermen gain.
From Lin Ze's point of view, the more intense the fight between Li Si and Zhao Gao, the better. It would be in his interest to get off the field in person and blow his brains out.
He himself only needs to rest assured and build the imperial mausoleum in Lishan Mountain and wait for the development of the situation.
As for sending people to sow discord and add fuel to the fire, Lin Ze thought about it and gave up.
Li Si and Zhao Gao are not fools. If Lin Ze really gets involved, they will be alert immediately, and then they will join forces to kill Lin Ze first.
Therefore, Lin Ze's best response would be to do nothing.
It would be even better if we could take the opportunity to break through the Grandmaster.