Cypress Boat Floating

"Your Majesty, it's time to take your medicine." Su Zixing walked carefully to the emperor's side with a bowl of medicine and placed it where it would not be knocked over.

"Zixing, tell me, am I too lenient towards them?" The emperor did not drink the medicine but played with a brush in his hand.

Hearing the emperor's question, Su Zixing didn't dare to speak. Recently, there have been people coming in and out of Chengming Palace, and the news sent to the emperor is countless. As for whether these news are good or bad, it is not clear. And the emperor is asking him this question now, it is not easy to answer. Whether it is yes or no, a rash answer will make the emperor unhappy.

But he couldn't not answer, so Su Zixing licked his lips, thought for a while, and then said, "Everything the emperor does has its own reasons."

A vague answer is the right way to go. In front of the emperor, you must never say that he did something wrong. Even if he was really wrong, it was not his fault, but someone else's fault.

"Many people rely on their status to oppress the people. If the Li family incident had not come out, I would not have known that so many people would use the name of the royal family to do evil among the people." The emperor's voice was not loud, but his words were enough to scare people.

Su Zixing knelt down hurriedly. Having followed the emperor for many years, he knew very well that the calmer the emperor appeared on the surface, the angrier he was inside. This was the temper he had cultivated over the years. If he were a prince back then, he would have taken a sword and killed those people by now.

The late emperor had few princes, and the current emperor was the most outstanding and intelligent among them. His temperament was also most similar to that of the late emperor. When he was young, he was impulsive and reckless and not calm enough.

Later, the late emperor was afraid that he would still have the same temper after becoming emperor, and would be easily tricked by others, so he sent him to the mountains to practice with his master for a few years, to strengthen his physique and martial arts, as well as his character, so that he would learn to think twice before considering.

After the emperor emerged from his training in the mountains, he did not disappoint the previous emperor, which is why he was able to become the emperor smoothly after the previous emperor's death.

The emperor was also capable and managed Da'an in an orderly manner. When Da'an was not yet stable, he advocated recuperation, encouraged people to produce, reduced taxes, and so on. He did a good job in these measures, and also handled diplomacy with other countries very well. This ensured that Da'an had good weather and peaceful development over the past few decades.

Today, under the governance of the emperor, Da'an is also a powerful country on this continent.

But over time, some people began to feel that the emperor was easy to bully, that anything could be hidden from him, and that he had a soft temper and was easy to persuade.

Therefore, without the emperor's knowledge, those people were always doing shameful things.

The emperor just doesn't investigate, but when he does, he finds the truth. He didn't pursue the matter before, but now it seems that he is planning to discipline these people.

The emperor frowned as he looked at the piles of news in his hands that had been sent back from all over Da'an, and his anger was burning.

Although Lu Zhixing did not tell him explicitly that Li Boming was relying on his status as the boss to bully men and women, he could hear it from the tone of his voice.

If he had not relied on the title of the crown prince, how could Li Boming have been able to bully women outside for so long without being discovered? Was it just because of Li Zhizhong's power? You have to know that before the crown prince's concubine married the crown prince, Li Zhizhong was originally a small sixth-rank minister. If it weren't for the crown prince, Li Zhizhong would not have been able to be promoted to the Minister of Rites so quickly.

It was because of this incident that he thought he should investigate. Under the imperial city, right under his nose, someone was doing some unscrupulous things in the name of the crown prince. In places where he couldn't see, were there also people doing evil things in the name of the royal family?

As a result, it would be fine if you didn't check it, but it would be fatal if you did.

This kind of thing happened to all the princes who were assigned to various places.

The power of those princes was already great enough, and had already involved the court. Now, they even dared to plunder the people.

The emperor had always wanted to clean up those princes, but he just couldn't find a good opportunity. Now that they have brought evidence to him, he can't be blamed.