After I traveled through the book, my sister kidnapped my mother

Master Guanchao wanted to leave, but Su Qingluo said coldly: "Master, you don't have to say it. Wanyue's trip was not easy. I know it all."

"What about the rest?"

"Are the young people in your family safe? Are they safe studying in the Imperial College?"

The Minister of the Central Secretariat stepped out and replied tremblingly, "Your Majesty, everything is fine."

"Everything is fine." How dare I not answer the emperor's question?

Both answering and not answering are wrong.

Sure enough, the next moment the emperor stood up and whispered, "But my Yuan Zhao is uneasy."

"Who can tell me why a princess was assassinated in Nanshao City in Tianqi territory?" Su Qingluo asked in a deep voice.

Qi Guyu stepped out at this time and said, "I have something to report."

She knelt in the center of the Tai Chi Hall, next to Master Guanchao.

Shi Guanchao glanced at her sideways. She looked much more haggard after not seeing her for two months.

"Your Highness was assassinated this time because the ministers of the court colluded with the rebels of the previous dynasty." Qi Guyu took out a scroll from his arms and said, "The Supervisory Office has fully investigated the whole story. Please review it, Your Majesty."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the civil and military officials in the court were in an uproar.

Su Qingluo took the scroll and smiled after reading it: "Good, very good."

"The reason the national treasury supports you is to allow you to collect salaries and accept bribes, right?"

"Your Majesty, please forgive me." Shi Guanchao stepped out of the line and looked at Qi Guyu with a serious face: "Master Qi, you can't say such things carelessly."

Su Qingluo threw the scroll down and said, "If that's the case, Master, why don't you take a look? Is Dean Qi talking nonsense? Everything is clearly written down."

Shi Guanchao picked up the scroll, read it, and then glanced at the ministers in silence.

Then he sighed and said, "I am ashamed to be the head of all officials. I have failed to control all officials, and I have failed to share the worries of the people of the world on behalf of Your Majesty. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

Shi Guanchao knelt on the ground and kowtowed deeply to the emperor.

The others all looked confused.

Qi Guyu stood up and said, "When Your Highness investigated and punished the officials, he called out their names one by one in the Taiji Hall, without any particular order. Today, I will follow Your Highness's example, but don't worry, there are only six people today."

“The same ranking is in no particular order.”

She stood in the Tai Chi Hall and unfolded another piece of paper.

"Kuai Zhi, Lord Kuai accepted 5,000 taels of silver. The Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice have verified that the 5,000 taels of silver came from the local gentry in the Jianghuai area..."

She read out the names of six officials above the sixth rank one by one, first stating the fact that these people had accepted bribes, and then explaining where the bribes came from.

As Qi Guyu spoke the names of these people and the forces they protected, a complex web of interests seemed to emerge before everyone.

The emperor's face was gloomy, and everyone in the hall seemed to be afraid to even breathe.

The last time the atmosphere in the Taiji Hall was so tense was the day Su Qingluo ascended the throne.

That day was just like today, the Imperial Guards sealed off the entire Taiji Hall inside and out.

But today there is less smell of blood.

"I didn't know that the ministers earned more than I did."

"Your Majesty, please spare my life! Please spare my life. I was confused for a moment. I was confused for a moment. Considering that three generations of my family have devoted themselves to our dynasty, please spare my life."

Su Qingluo sneered when he heard this: "My dear, are you confused? I have only been in power for a dozen years. Why do you need three generations of your family to devote themselves to the country?"

She sat lazily on the dragon throne, with a playful look in her eyes.

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts and lowered their heads even lower.

"I was wondering why you are so opposed to the land reform proposed by Censor Yun. It turns out it's all about interests." She always spoke bluntly, just like Wen Zhimiao. Those court officials wanted to refute her but didn't know how.

The emperor never gave them face when he was angry. They had gotten used to it over the years, but they still couldn't help sweating at this moment.

"How is the investigation into the assassination of Censor Yun going?" Su Qingluo asked again.

"Your Majesty, we have found a result. This matter is also related to the case of corruption in the grain transport industry."

Qi Guyu told everything, and finally everyone realized that all these cases were linked together and ultimately attributed to the assassination of Censor Yun.

It was a joint encirclement and suppression. People who were unwilling to lose their interests formed an alliance and launched a encirclement and suppression against Yunzhou.

They tried to use Yun Zhou's death to warn the emperor that even the emperor should not ignore them like this.

Su Qingluo couldn't help laughing after hearing this. Who did these people think of her?

Do you think she is an incompetent member of the Wen family? She suppressed the military commanders and relied on the civil officials? But in the end, she was controlled by the civil officials and literati?

Su Qingluo raised her lips slightly: "One last thing, Dean Qi just said that someone in the court was colluding with the remnants of the Duan family of the previous dynasty. Who is this person?"

After Su Qingluo finished asking, Wen Jiuzhao entered from outside the Taiji Hall: "The head of the Wen family, Wen Yan, is dead. The traitor Wen Mingzhe's sister colluded with Princess Heyue and the Duan family to murder Prince Shun and hunt down His Highness Yuanzhao."

Wen Jiuzhao's appearance shocked some people again, and some people who had already felt at ease were worried again.

"The Wen Clan wants to support Wen Ke and let him compete for the credit for disaster relief for His Majesty, so they teamed up with the Duan Clan and Lu Jinguo to put on a good show for Your Majesty."

Wen Jiuzhao told everything, starting from the assassination of Wen Zhimiao in Yunjing City, to how he later lured Wen Zhimiao into the Nanshao brothel, to how Su Jincheng deliberately damaged the dam in an attempt to spread the plague, and how he colluded with bandits to rob relief grain and replace it with grain mixed with mud and sand.

"Here is your Highness's personal letter, as well as the results of Master Shaoji's secret investigation."

Wen Jiuzhao presented the two letters, Jiang Shuyu took the letters and handed them to Su Qingluo.

After reading the letter, Su Qingluo became furious again.

"This is what you keep saying, that Yuan Zhao is incompetent?"

"Is it that Yuan Zhao is not capable of taking important positions, or are you just too eager to kill him to silence him?" The emperor smashed the table in front of him with the sword in his hand.

"Does Jiu Zhao still need to call out your names this time?"

As she finished speaking, several people stepped forward and confessed their guilt: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I was bewitched and confused!"

Wen Jiuzhao looked at them coldly, without a trace of pity in his eyes.

"Will His Highness be allowed to return if you admit your mistakes?" Wen Jiuzhao sneered.

"If Your Highness had not anticipated this and told me everything, I'm afraid that I would never be able to wash away the stigma you imposed on Your Highness until my death, right?"

The morning court session that day was just like the one more than ten years ago. Over a dozen ministers were thrown into jail in one day, and then the entire Wen family was raided.

When the dynasty changed ten years ago, the Wen family did not implicate the entire clan.

It was a bit sad for a moment.

However, Shi Guanchao, as the prime minister, failed to perform his duties and failed to supervise the government, and was stripped of one year's salary.

Everyone knows that this punishment is just a symbolic fine.

However, this also made many people breathe a sigh of relief. If Shi Guanchao was stabilized, there would no longer be much turmoil in the court.

The evidence of the Su family's collusion with Beirong is still being collected, so this time the Su family was not hurt at all, but only abandoned Su Jincheng again.