Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 1741

The next day, the Censorate submitted three memorials in succession, criticizing Princess Haiyan, the Duke of Huguo's Mansion, and the Marquis of Jian'an's Mansion for abusing their power and bullying others.

Probably he was still not satisfied and felt that three books were not enough, so two days later he also reported to the Minister of War, accusing him of not rushing to ask for an imperial decree for Chi Shuang.

The Minister of War was also angry. What the hell does it have to do with me? I was just following the rules and doing my duty as the Minister of War.

On the fifth day, seeing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was indifferent and had suppressed the memorial without giving any explanation, the Censorate could no longer hold back, and drafted a memorial overnight, submitting it urgently to the Emperor with a red ink pen.

The memorial denounced the three crimes of Chi Shuang, wife of Zhongyi: the first was that she "betrayed her clan and failed the spirits of the Chi family's ancestors."

The second one accused him of "ignoring his brothers and being ashamed of his younger brother's bloody battle."

The third one was to accuse him of "relying on the emperor's favor to become arrogant and, with his insignificant achievements, daring to ask for two unreasonable requests from the court."

The Imperial Censor knelt in front of the imperial steps and cried, "If these disloyal and unfilial people are not severely punished, it will damage the foundation of our dynasty's education!"

The Censorate hadn't had work to do for a long time and was full of passion, eager to wait for Emperor Mingde to come back and report the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace as well.

The main reason was that the two things Chi Shuang asked for were both approved by the Crown Prince. It was these two requests that forced Old Madam Chi to death.

The prince finally understood what his sister Shi Anxia had said, what it felt like to be "roasted on the fire."

In fact, he had already sent his confidant to the Young Master's Mansion to inform him, and received the reply from the Imperial Sister: "Your Highness, there is no need to be partial. Just do what needs to be done. As the saying goes, if a member of the royal family breaks the law, they are guilty of the same crime as the common people. Everything should be based on the law, and all the people should have awe of the law."

The prince knew that the overwhelming public opinion must be the work of the imperial sister.

He put off the memorial until the sixth day.

The censor knelt on the bluestone slab outside the imperial study, crying at the top of his lungs: "Your Highness! If you don't believe me, you can send someone to the streets and alleys to check - now the people of the city are all pleading for the unjust death of Madam Chi, and demanding that the unfilial granddaughter Chi Shuang who forced her grandmother to death be severely punished!"

He kowtowed heavily, his forehead knocking loudly on the stone slab, "If the court does not deal with such a heinous act, I am afraid it will chill the hearts of filial sons and grandchildren all over the world!"

In the imperial study, Xiao Zhi was reviewing memorials.

The prince's personal eunuch, Eunuch An, walked in quietly and whispered, "Your Highness, Censor Zhang has been kneeling outside for two hours..."

Xiao Zhi didn't even raise his head. He drew a sharp red mark on the memorial with his red pen, but his tone was indifferent, "Let him kneel."

Crown Prince Xiao Zhi was thinking, should the Censorate be replaced? Why did they just believe everything they heard, without any judgment of their own? Why didn't they investigate the whole story?

The most ridiculous thing is that the censors felt that they were not satisfied enough and reported the suspect Ying Ruolan's husband, Prince Zhongzhao, as well.

The memorial was written in a high-sounding manner, "Prince Zhongzhao ignored his wife's involvement in the case and disregarded the relationship between husband and wife, which was unbecoming of the royal family."

When Prince Zhongzhao received the news in his mansion, he was sipping tea. Upon hearing the news, he smashed the teacup to pieces. "Bullshit! It's only natural that the vicious woman should pay for her murder. Now she wants me to consider the relationship between husband and wife?"

This idle prince, who had always only received his salary but never attended court, wrote a defense overnight for the first time. At five o'clock the next morning, he dressed neatly and rushed to the Golden Palace with murderous intent.

"Your Highness!" Prince Zhongzhao knelt in front of the palace and gnashed his teeth, "I beg you to make all the files of Ying's case public! Let the people of the world see how this vicious woman tortured the officials of the court and even tried to be unfaithful and cuckold me!"

He angrily retorted, "I want to accuse the Censorate for doing nothing all day long but throwing dirty water on irrelevant people! I also want to accuse them of impeaching without any investigation, which is clearly a celibacy! I want to accuse them of dereliction of duty! I want to accuse them of framing my relatives! I want to accuse them-"

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty looked at each other in shock.

I didn't expect Prince Zhongzhao to be so powerful in combat!

Crown Prince Xiao Zhi coughed lightly, "Prince Zhongzhao, please be patient." He interrupted at the right time, but a smile flashed in his eyes, "The memorial you wrote is three times thicker than the one from the Censorate."