The First Tyrant of Daxia

Inner Temple.

"Your Majesty, please have some tea." Pei Yao handed over a cup of tea with a dignified manner.

Qin Yun drank casually, looked at her and asked, "I have been busy these days and forgot to come to your place. Are you angry?"

Pei Yao lowered her eyebrows and forced a smile: "Your Majesty is joking, I dare not be angry."

"Besides, there are so many sisters in the palace who can't see Your Majesty once a year or two. I will be very satisfied if Your Majesty can come to me from time to time."

Qin Yun raised his eyebrows and took this sentence as the truth.

"By the way, the last time you went to Yingcheng, was everything okay with your cousin? If the local governor pretends to obey my orders but actually disobeys them, you can tell me directly."

Hearing this, Pei Yao's eyes turned red.

Her fingernails dug into her flesh, but she managed a smile: "Your Majesty, my cousin is doing well. The local governor has arranged an easy official position for him, a seventh-rank official. He is considered quite prestigious in the local area."

Qin Yun looked at her twice, frowned and said, "Actually, the main reason I came to you this time is because of the evidence of Wang Wei's crime."

"If you can give it to me, I will be able to purge the powerful officials more quickly and realize my power."

"I want to ask you if you know anything about the evidence of the crime, even just a little information would be fine."

Pei Yao shook her head and said apologetically, "Your Majesty, I have forgotten what happened back then, and the evidence is even more illusory, it's just a rumor."

"If I really knew the evidence of my crime, do you think a powerful official like Wang Wei would let me go? I would have died in the cold palace two years ago, right?"

Hearing this, Qin Yun felt that it made sense and was slightly disappointed.

Without evidence, I cannot take the initiative.

He smiled, stood up, and pressed Pei Yao's soft shoulders: "It's okay, forget it, let the past go."

Pei Yao felt complicated. Could she really get over it?

late at night.

Outside the bed curtains, the scent of sandalwood filled the air. Inside the bed curtains, the two of them were falling asleep in each other's arms after making love.

Qin Yun closed his eyes and asked, "Why do you look so worried?"

Pei Yao turned sideways, revealing her beautiful back as smooth as silk: "No, Your Majesty, I am just a little tired."

Qin Yun opened his eyes and hugged her from behind, with no space between them and their skin pressed tightly against each other.

Pei Yao seemed to struggle and moved away slightly.

When she thought of seeing her cousin and former family members in Yingcheng suffering so miserably because of the man beside them, her twisted love disappeared into thin air.

Pei Yao didn't fall asleep until dawn.

She put on her bellyband gently, stepped on the ground with her bare feet, and carefully looked back at the sleeping Qin Yun, as if she were a thief.

She quietly walked behind the screen and took off an imperial badge from Qin Yun's dragon robe.

He clenched it tightly in his hand, was silent for a while, then hid the badge and tiptoed back to the bed.

Seeing that Qin Yun was fast asleep and hadn't noticed, she let out a long breath.

the next day.

After Pei Yao helped Qin Yun change his clothes, she escorted him out of Qiuye Palace.

Qin Yun walked a few steps away and suddenly turned back.

"I am in the imperial study most of the time. If you are bored, you can come to me."

Hearing this, Pei Yao's beautiful eyes flickered, and she bowed and said, "Yes, thank you, Your Majesty."

Qin Yun smiled slightly. He could be cruel and merciless to Wang Min, but he still had a caring heart towards people like Pei Yao, even if she could not bring anything to him.

Perhaps, this is because his soul is not like the soul of the ancients and is not so cold and indifferent.

After he left.

Pei Yao stared at the back for a long time without coming back to her senses. She suddenly clenched her fists and suddenly felt extremely disgusted with herself.

Is this cheap? His little tenderness made him lose his mind and forget the deep hatred and humiliation.

Royal study room.

Still as anxious as ever.

The suspension of the Ministry of Revenue had a huge impact on the entire Daxia.

The Shangshu was recuperating at home, the Shilang was arrested, and a large number of officials from the Ministry of Revenue were also dismissed one after another. The Ministry of Revenue was almost in name only.

At that time, the students and old friends of Wang Wei's camp began to incite nobles from all over the country to cause trouble.

Problems such as money, grain, taxes, etc. followed one after another!

"Your Majesty, hundreds of officials are kneeling outside the Xuanwu Gate..." Eunuch Xi said somewhat panickedly.

"Hundreds of officials kneeling on the ground? Why, do you want me to release Wang Min?" Qin Yun raised his eyebrows and sneered.

Eunuch Xi bowed and said, "No, they jointly requested that Lord Wang Wei come out and take charge of the situation."

boom!

Qin Yun punched the solid wood pear blossom table, and the emperor was furious: "He is in charge of the overall situation. This world belongs to me. Do I still need him, Wang Wei, to be in charge of the overall situation?"

"Go, beat these ministers away with sticks, and anyone who dares to cause trouble will be arrested and thrown into prison!"

The officials and eunuchs in the imperial study were so frightened that they dared not even breathe heavily.

Eunuch Xi was about to convey the imperial edict immediately, but was stopped by Old Feng.

"Your Majesty, please do not act on impulse. If you do, you will fall into Wang Wei's trap."

Hearing this, Qin Yun gradually calmed down.

Since ancient times, if you lose the support of the people, you will lose the world. Wang Wei kept silent, but he was actually playing this card.

It was reasonable to kill traitors and arrest officials from the Ministry of Revenue before.

But driving away these officials who spoke righteously and pleaded for the people might leave room for criticism. When the people were complaining, that was what Wang Wei wanted to see the most.

"Forget it, I'll go out myself!"

As he spoke, he stood up and walked towards Xuanwu Gate with the gait of a dragon and a tiger.

Mr. Feng and others followed immediately.

Xuanwu Gate.

Seeing Qin Yun coming, hundreds of ministers knelt down and shouted, "Your Majesty, please ask Lord Wang to come back immediately to preside over the Ministry of Revenue, otherwise the country will be ruined!"

Qin Yun suppressed his anger and said coldly: "Tell me, how can the country be destroyed? Is it that I am going to die?"

All the ministers were shocked.

The Grand Historian Wang Yang knelt down and said loudly: "Your Majesty, this is a petition signed by merchants, tenants, and porters in the imperial capital, totaling more than 10,000 people. Please take a look at it!"

"They are already starving because of the tax problem. In addition, the Ministry of Revenue is in chaos, and the income is unclear. The people are crying out in grief!"

"If this continues, I'm afraid the people will mutiniate!"

Qin Yun asked someone to take the petition, which was dozens of meters long and filled with names and handprints.

"The taxation problem, wasn't it solved a few days ago? Why are there so many problems today? Is it the court's problem or yours?"

A third-rank minister stood up and said with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty, the tax problem has always been the court's illness."

"It is only because of Lord Wang in charge of the Ministry of Revenue that everything is calm! Now Concubine Wang has been locked up in the cold palace, Lord Wang is sick at home, and the Ministry of Revenue has no capable people."

"As soon as the news got out, the people were terrified!"

Qin Yun sneered, looked at the ministers in front of him and said, "So what you mean is that if we invite Lord Wang back, these taxation and panic problems can be solved?"

The ministers looked at each other and said in unison: "Your Majesty, that is exactly what you meant."

Qin Yun put his hands behind his back and said calmly, "But Lord Wang is ill. How do you want me to go and invite him?"

Grand Historian Wang Yang bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Wang is worried. Concubine Wang has been wrongly accused and will be executed in the autumn. How can he not be heartbroken?"

He glanced at Qin Yun's face, and said meaningfully: "Heart disease needs to be cured with heart medicine!"