I was given the contraceptive soup and became the emperor's white moonlight

Xiao Heng's anger because of those lazy students disappeared the moment Li Zhao arrived. The person opposite him was holding pieces of evidence and reporting the possible people and investigation results to him like a treasure.

Today is the last day of the ten-day period, and Li Zhao brought what he wanted as promised, including the roster that he had been unable to find.

Xiao Heng took the list and flipped through it. There were so many people involved that it was meaningless to look through them one by one. He casually put the list on the imperial desk and asked, "So, are there people around me with ulterior motives?"

Upon hearing this, Li Zhao pulled out a document from a pile and presented it to the emperor. "This is about a palace maid. Her ancestor was once a slave in the Prince Heng's mansion. She later redeemed herself and regained her freedom."

"However, since you ascended the throne, Prince Heng has been stationed in his fiefdom and has not entered the capital for many years. This maid is deep in the palace and it is difficult for her to communicate with the outside world." Li Zhao paused and continued, "And I have not found any evidence that this woman has committed treason."

"Prince Heng?" Li Zhao searched his mind for memories about him. In his impression, his uncle had always been restrained and polite and had never done anything inappropriate. However, there was one thing that always bothered Xiao Heng, and that was why Prince Heng had been traveling to his fiefdom for many years and had refused to come to Beijing.

The late emperor had a harem full of concubines throughout his life, but he had no offspring. Before he ascended the throne, there had been a dispute over the throne, in which countless brothers were killed and injured. Only Prince Heng, who did not participate in the dispute, was able to escape unscathed.

As the late emperor had been childless for many years and his health was failing, the court officials requested an imperial decree to make Prince Heng the crown prince. Fortunately, Xiao Heng was born not long after. However, this incident has always been a thorn in Xiao Heng's side.

Xiao Heng was as suspicious as his father, but fortunately his father did not leave him any brothers and sisters. Only an elder sister had been accompanying the Queen Mother in the temple. Prince Heng had seldom returned to Beijing since the day he was born, so he did not experience any battle for the throne. It was easy for him to get the throne.

However, the easier it is to obtain the throne, the more wary one will be of facing someone who may threaten his throne, just like he is facing King Heng now.

Even he himself knew that Prince Heng would not have much interest in the throne.

"I haven't seen my uncle for a long time. How about calling him back to the capital during the New Year's Day this year?"

"Your Majesty, considering the blood relationship, I will naturally obey." Li Zhao stood with his hands clasped, his eyes gleaming with a gleam, "It's just that Prince Heng has a special status, I don't know the previous dynasty..."

"I will bring it up at court tomorrow morning. We still have to discuss this matter from the beginning." Xiao Heng nodded, once again feeling angry that he could not express his opinion.

"Okay, Li Qing has worked hard these past few days." Xiao Heng waved his hand and called over Xiao Xizi: "Come here, give me a reward!"

Rewards poured in like water, but Li Zhao didn't even raise his head. Xiao Heng laughed secretly at his expression and personally opened a box filled with clay jars, all sealed with red seals.

"Look back and see what this is?" Xiao Heng said with a smile, "How could I not know what you like?"

Li Zhao turned around and looked at the clay jar. A smile suddenly broke out on his face when he saw it. "I thank you for your grace!"

The jar contained nothing but aged fine wine, at least twenty to thirty years old. Li Zhao had no other hobbies and did not value gold or silver much. He was obsessed with wine.

Xiao Heng knew this very well, so whenever he rewarded him, he would always give him several jars of fine wine.

Li Zhao hurriedly knelt down and shouted long live the emperor in joy. Xiao Heng waved his hand to exempt him from the formalities and spoke with a smile: "My dear minister, this is your only little hobby. I will naturally satisfy it."

"When the New Year comes, my dear minister, you can come to the palace. I will serve the best wine, and we can drink to our heart's content!"

"I thank my lord for his grace!" Li Zhao shouted, but his eyes seemed to be glued to the wine jar.

Xiao Heng couldn't help laughing when he saw him like this, and waved his hand to let him leave.

"Li Qing is really obsessed with wine! Hahahaha!"

Xiao Xizi smiled flatteringly and handed him the list that had just been handed to him: "Your Majesty, this is the list of students you will receive today."

"Those students who are writing furiously are on this piece of paper." Xiao Xizi handed over another piece of paper, "The number one scholar you value is also on it."

"Your Majesty should feel more relieved now, right?"

Xiao Heng casually took the two pieces of paper and looked at them one by one. He couldn't help but sneer. He placed the two pieces of paper horizontally on the imperial desk and pointed at the names on them and asked, "Have you seen them?"

"I just took a quick glance and didn't look closely." Xiao Xizi looked at Xiao Heng's expression. Although he had a smile on his face, anger was rising in his eyes.

"Then you should look at it carefully!" Xiao Heng pushed the two pieces of paper towards Xiao Xizi, turned around and sat down. Xiao Xizi looked carefully at them through the imperial desk and found that the arrangement of the people on the two pieces of paper was really interesting.

On the lazy list, most of the people headed by the Sun family were children of noble families in Beijing, and there were almost no children of common people. On the other hand, although there were people like Zhou Linsu who were from wealthy families, most of them were new nobles who came this year and had shallow foundations. There were more children of common people who were born in common people.

These people have not actually entered the court yet, but they seem to have formed their own factions and are opposed to each other. No wonder Xiao Heng is angry.

Xiao Xizi held the two pieces of paper and pondered over how to start the conversation. Xiao Heng spoke first, "Did you see it?"

"The guys I raised with my salary are all lazy and incompetent, but those raised by hard-working families are the ones who can sincerely work for me."

"They are just relying on my unstable foundation in the court. I cannot touch them for the moment, so they are going to ride on my head one by one?" Xiao Heng said still not satisfied. He pointed his hand fiercely at a name on the list. It was Sun Boxian.

"Look at this guy from the Sun family. What a filial son and virtuous grandson. He dares to speak wildly in the Hanlin Academy before he even enters the palace. He even wants to write a letter to ask me to revoke my order? He is truly a good son raised by the Sun family!"

"Your Majesty, calm down!" Xiao Xizi saw Xiao Heng getting angry, and hurriedly stepped forward to pat his chest. "Your Majesty, why should you be angry with them? Since they are doing things for your Majesty, there will naturally be rewards and punishments. If they don't do a good job, your Majesty will punish them. I don't think they dare to interfere."

"Of course I will reward them!" Xiao Heng slammed the table hard, causing two pages of paper to fly up. Xiao Xizi finally managed to grab the two lists and heard Xiao Heng say, "I really have to give them a good lesson, especially that Zhou Linsu."

"I want to let them know that those poor students who come from common people backgrounds are not without support. I am their biggest support!"