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

"Bang!" Gu Shangjie's legs went soft and he knelt straight on the ground. He seemed to have aged in an instant.

After Li Zhao finished speaking, he turned around and left, and before leaving he even asked someone to take the jars of wine away.

Seeing that they were like bandits entering the village without leaving a single blade of grass, the housekeeper intended to step forward to stop them, but he saw his own master slumped on the ground in a daze and was at a loss for what to do.

"Master, that Li Zhao is really going too far!" The butler cursed, pointing at the mess left behind by the few people who had swept away everything in a flash.

"Enough!" Gu Shangjie stood up from the ground, his raised hands were trembling, and his whole body looked like he had just been pulled out of the water, with his back wet with cold sweat.

"You, you go, get the Qingxi carved porcelain vase from my collection and bring it to Jingzhao Prefecture!"

"But..." The butler hesitated, "The master's bottle is..."

"Go quickly!" Gu Shangjie was in no mood to pay attention to anything else at the moment. The best thing would be to let his son suffer less in prison.

"Yes, yes!" The butler nodded hurriedly, turned around and walked towards the storage room.

Gu Shangjie managed to walk into the house with great difficulty. As soon as he sat down, he seemed to have lost all his strength. "How could this happen? How could this happen!"

"Someone come here!" He slammed the table hard. The servant who came in trembled and lowered his head quickly, fearing that he would get into trouble.

"Go, find someone to interrogate those women and ask them what happened!"

"Yes!"

"Your Majesty, I have sent those maids to Lord Gu's residence as you ordered." Li Zhao paused and continued, "By tomorrow, the news that Lord Gu and I are at odds will spread all over the court."

"If I am impeached, Your Majesty, please bear with me."

"As for Gu Lingtang, I had the prefect of Jingzhao take him to the street and beat him thirty times. He should be lying in jail wailing now."

"Gu Lingtang is Gu Shangjie's only son. Isn't he angry with you?" Xiao Heng calmed down at this moment. He casually threw a black piece at Li Zhao's vital point.

Li Zhao calmly picked up the white letter and responded, saying, "I listed his crimes over the years and wrote a petition and sent it to the governor of Jingzhao."

"The evidence written above is not serious, but he won't suffer a beating." Li Zhao smiled and took a few black pieces from the chessboard. "Your Majesty, rest assured. I will never leave any evidence behind."

"That's good!" Xiao Heng frowned as he looked at the chessboard, and suddenly threw the black piece in his hand away, "No more playing! No more playing!"

"I've never won a game of chess with you!" Xiao Heng pushed the chessboard aside and stood up. "I think only the Grand Tutor can play a few rounds with you."

Speaking of the Grand Tutor, Xiao Heng's expression was slightly touched. He shook his head and sat back on the dragon chair, "Li Zhao, you said that I was taught by the Grand Tutor, but why doesn't even he support me?"

"I know what your majesty is struggling with." Li Zhao put the chess pieces back together. "The Grand Tutor is old now, so naturally he doesn't like changes that much."

"Those old officials have always been like this, living a stable life. How can they be willing to endure the pain of change in their old age?"

Li Zhao pointed at the chessboard and said, "Your Majesty, the affairs of the court are just like this chessboard. The chessboard is only this big, and there are only a limited number of chess pieces that can be placed, just like the court."

"Civil and military officials each have their own positions. If you are reluctant to remove the old officials, there will be no place for the new ones. This has been the case throughout the dynasties. The replacement of the old with the new is destiny."

"The Grand Tutor is my teacher after all!" Xiao Heng sighed, "I banned him to break the shackles, and also because of the Sun family."

Xiao Heng handed two test papers to Li Zhao, "Take a look, one of them is his grandson's test paper. To be honest, it has some of the style of the Grand Tutor back then."

"Can this be used as an important position?" Li Zhao read the test paper carefully. "Is this the one?"

"No." Xiao Heng pointed to the test paper in his other hand and said, "That one is it."

"Look, even you think this one is better, right?"

"This is the paper of the new champion Zhou Linsu."

"I originally intended to keep these two people by my side to work, but Sun Boxian is arrogant and self-willed, and is really not worthy of being used." Xiao Heng said with some distress: "I am also doing this to teach the Sun family a lesson."

"If he is unfit to be retained, why not send him out to train for a while to temper his temper?" Li Zhao thought for a moment and said, "However, he is used to being arrogant and domineering in the capital because of his family connections. If he is sent to the countryside, I am afraid that he will bully others by taking advantage of his power."

"Yes!" Xiao Heng held his forehead helplessly, "Moreover, if I really send him away, I'm afraid it will chill the hearts of my subjects."

"How about this, Your Majesty?" Li Zhao asked, cupping his hands: "How about handing him over to the Dali Temple?"

"Let him take up a nominal position in the Dali Temple. Firstly, it is also an official position, so it won't cause any resentment to Lord Sun. Secondly, if he is under my watch, it will be easier for me to deal with him if he dares to cause trouble."

"Put it in the Dali Temple?" Xiao Heng pinched his forehead, "Please allow me to think about this matter."

"By the way, is the enclosure for the autumn hunt ready?"

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten? You gave the Imperial City Army the arrangements for the enclosure?" Li Zhao was stunned for a moment and replied, "At that time, I was ordered to thoroughly investigate the palace maid incident."

"Yes! You step back and go call the people from the Imperial City Bureau. I want to ask them." Xiao Heng frowned, twirled his forehead and said.

"Yes!" Li Zhao bowed and stepped back, closing the door.

Xiao Heng glanced at the tightly closed door and sighed. His head had been feeling groggy these past few days. He guessed it was because there had been too many things going on recently and he hadn't slept well.

"Xiao Xizi." Xiao Heng ordered, "How is Concubine Shu?"

"Your Majesty, the imperial physician has examined her and said that Concubine Shu was too frightened, which is why she has some symptoms of amnesia, but she is not seriously ill."

"Just try not to see outsiders these few days." Xiao Xizi paused, and suddenly said as if he had thought of something, "Oh, right! Your Majesty, the imperial physician said that Concubine Shu is very dependent on Your Majesty now, so if Your Majesty can spend more time with her, it may be of some benefit to her condition."

"Well, I understand." Xiao Heng breathed a sigh of relief, straightened his body and said, "It is true that I did not discover this matter in time."

"Okay, go tell my sister that I will stay at Concubine Shu's place for the next few days. I'm sure my sister will understand me."

"Yes."

"Oh, right!" Xiao Heng casually threw out a token and said, "Go to the store and pick out a nice headpiece for my sister. It will be my apology."

"Yes!"