I clearly wanted to be a tyrant, but how did I become the greatest emperor of all time?

Tang Xiaoren also sighed. He hadn't even gotten comfortable in the position of Prime Minister of the Cabinet yet, and of course he didn't want to give it up.

But if His Majesty does not support me, this group of civil servants alone will be able to criticize him.

At this moment, the officials outside the house started to make a noise.

I saw several eunuchs carrying a basket of memorials into the cabinet.

"Master Prime Minister, this is the memorial approved by His Majesty yesterday."

Xiao Weizi smiled and handed the memorial to Tang Xiaoren.

Collecting and distributing memorials is also one of the main functions of the cabinet.

Tang Xiaoren took the memorial, and Xiao Weizi led the young eunuchs away.

"Master, see how His Majesty approves it!" Tang Ze reminded in a low voice.

The chief minister of the cabinet has the right to read memorials.

When the previous emperor was seriously ill, there was even an example where the chief minister would first read the memorials, attach the contents of his reply, and then submit them to the emperor for approval.

However, after Li Tian succeeded to the throne, he took away the right to review memorials.

These memorials were all impeaching Tang Xiaoren, and he should not have translated them to avoid suspicion.

But curiosity overcame reason.

Tang Xiaoren opened one of the memorials and went straight to the end.

Written in red ink was a cinnabar pen: "For attacking the Prime Minister without reason, you will be fined one year's salary!"

Tang Xiaoren blinked.

Your Majesty actually punished the censor!

Tang Xiaoren continued to look through other memorials, all of which contained the same reply.

Now Tang Xiaoren was completely stunned.

"Master, how did His Majesty approve it?"

It took Tang Xiaoren a long time to come back to his senses, and he sighed: "Your Majesty, your grace is great!"

Yushitai.

The Censorate is the building closest to the Imperial Palace, except for the Hanlin Academy.

It is even closer than the six ministries.

This is enough to illustrate the status of the Censor!

The censors all came from high-ranking families.

If one ranks in the top two in the imperial examination and passes the re-examination of the Hanlin Academy, one can enter the Hanlin Academy.

Only those at the bottom of the second class and the top few in the third class are eligible to enter the Censorate.

In other words, all the censors are true academic masters!

The top 100 people in the national imperial examination.

Officials of the Censorate and the Hanlin Academy were also collectively referred to as Qingliu.

Historically, cabinet ministers have all come from the clean stream.

The Censorate is very lively today.

Yesterday's joint memorial was the biggest move by the Censorate in recent years.

The young censors all looked expectant.

According to past practice, Your Majesty will certainly be careful about what is said when public opinion is so intense.

If Tang Xiaoren couldn't hold on and had to step down, then these censors who submitted memorials would have more capital to be proud of!

Impeach the Prime Minister and remove him from office!

How majestic it would be!

I can brag about it for the rest of my life!

Not to mention, many censors took advantage of the Six Wise Kings.

The Sixth Wise King not only had great reputation among the people, he also often sponsored children from poor families and organized activities for young students.

Many imperial censors were sponsored by the Six Wise Kings.

This time, Lian Shu was submitted to Tang Xiaoren, of course, with the instigation of the Six Wise Kings!

Fan Jian was an imperial censor.

He did not join other colleagues in writing the letter.

He has been keeping a very low profile lately.

But because of his eccentricity, he was excluded by many of his colleagues.

But Fan Jian didn't care!

Your Majesty promoted Tang Xiaoren to be the Chief Minister and also made him the sole prime minister!

What does this mean?

This shows that Your Majesty thinks highly of Tang Xiaoren!

Not to mention that Tang Xiaoren is the biological father of the current queen!

Fan Jian has no intention of getting involved in this mess.

But people don't look for trouble, trouble looks for people.

Just as Fan Jian was about to retreat, several colleagues surrounded him.

"Censor Fan, why didn't you submit the memorial yesterday?"

"Censor Fan, you are not afraid, are you?"

"Fan Jian, do you still have the backbone of the Qingliu School?"

"You don't even impeach a treacherous villain like Tang Xiaoren. Are you qualified to be an imperial censor?"

Soon, more and more people surrounded Fan Jian.

Fan Jian felt something was wrong, but he couldn't run away.

At this time, Tang Ze, the head of the Zhongshufang, came to the Censorate to distribute memorials.

The highest leader of the Censorate, the Chief Censor, led all the officials and stood in the Censorate.

Coming with Tang Ze was Xiao Weizi, who was holding the imperial edict.

As soon as they saw the eunuch delivering the imperial edict, they immediately knelt on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Weizi began to read the imperial edict.

When they heard that "all the censors attacked the Prime Minister without reason and will be collectively fined one year's salary", everyone was stunned.

what?

One year’s salary deduction!

What a joke!

Tang Ze distributed their memorials with a smile.

Looking at the gloomy faces of these imperial censors, Tang Ze felt so happy!

These censors usually look down on others, but now they have sad faces and look distraught.

It’s really refreshing!

Fan Jian lowered his head silently. He did not submit a petition.

He was also the only person in the Censorate who had not been punished.

And all of this was remembered by Tang Xiaoren.

In the newly established West Factory prison cell.

He Chong gradually woke up and realized that this was a prison cell.

Soon, He Chong saw two eunuchs.

This is Xiao Weizi who was transferred from the Ministry of Punishment.

These two eunuchs had "greeted" Xiao Weizi in the Ministry of Punishment.

Xiao Weizi was very satisfied with their "craftsmanship".

The two eunuchs originally thought that Xiao Weizi was deliberately seeking revenge.

I didn't expect Xiao Weizi to treat me with courtesy!

Let them be the eunuchs in charge of punishment in the Western Factory.

The two were naturally very grateful.

And the first task they performed was to deal with He Chong.

Naturally, they used all their special skills, such as sitting on an ice bench, whipping and pepper spray, and used them all on He Chong.

Although He Chong has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, he has never been subjected to such torture!

In less than half a day, He Chong confessed everything.

Including the Six Wise Kings bribing him and other imperial guards.

And the reason why he sneaked into the palace at night was all revealed.

After He Chong confessed, the two eunuchs were dumbfounded.

Regarding the royal family, the two immediately reported it to the factory manager, Xiao Weizi.

Xiao Weizi was also frightened after hearing He Chong's confession.

He quickly asked He Chong to sign and then went to see Li Tian with the confession.

At this time, Li Tian was drinking in Lan Fei Palace.

Today, Concubine Lan changed into a chivalrous lady's outfit.

She was still wearing red clothes, but had changed from an elegant long palace dress to a slim-fitting training suit.

It further highlights the proud figure of this red rose.

Concubine Lan was holding a sword and performing a sword dance for Li Tian.

Li Tian had long noticed that Concubine Lan was good at martial arts.

It is said that what Wenxinhou's family learned was the sword dance of Gongsun Da Niang.

At this time, Concubine Lan was performing the sword dance.

Compared with ordinary dances, sword dance is more rigid and flexible.

While highlighting Concubine Lan's heroic spirit, it also incorporates the beauty of dance, showing her charming femininity.

Li Tian drank while admiring Lan Fei's sword dance.

No wonder those emperors were obsessed with beauty. I can’t control myself either!

It’s so good to be a tyrant!

Li Tian watched as his whole body gradually became hot.

Just as he was about to enter the back hall to have a good "communication" with Concubine Lan, Xiao Weizi came in a hurry.

Seeing Xiao Weizi's look, Li Tian also knew that it was an important matter.

He asked Concubine Lan to stop first and took Xiao Weizi to the back garden.

"Why are you so panicked?"

"Your Majesty, that He Chong confessed."

"Oh? He couldn't handle it so quickly. I thought he was very difficult to deal with."