Princess Promotion

Lord Wu decisively rejected the first one. This method was too risky and should not be used unless both sides were desperate.

Mr. Liu: "The second point is... Lord Wu's headache has come back, to the point where he can't see!"

Lord Wu reacted immediately, holding his forehead and crying out, "My head hurts so much! Go get a doctor!"

Mr. Liu immediately stepped forward to support Mr. Wu. One of them complained of a headache and the other called for a doctor.

After sending Lord Wu back to his mansion, Mr. Liu rushed back to the Ministry of Justice and walked to the duty room of the Ministry of Justice's doctor. Usually at this time, it would be crowded with people dealing with various scrolls, but now it was empty.

Mr. Liu also knew that Lord Wu pretended to be sick and went home to rest in the morning, but someone had to take over the case. How could those people not understand it? They ran faster than rabbits.

As expected, when Mr. Liu walked in, he saw Yu Zhijian bending over the desk writing a file.

Yu Zhijian is quite capable in investigating and trying cases. The cases he tries every year are always the top ones in the Ministry of Justice. If his achievements were judged based on his abilities, he would be more than qualified to be a minister.

Unfortunately, this person is unsophisticated and unwilling to curry favor with the powerful, and his family is in decline, so he has been sitting on the bench in the Ministry of Justice for many years. But now he is the best candidate.

He walked to Yu Zhijian's desk and coughed lightly.

Yu Zhijian said without even raising his head, "If you have something to say, just say it."

Mr. Liu couldn't help but twitch his lips. With that kind of temper, he didn't expect any good face from him, so he handed over the difficult file and said that Lord Wu was not feeling well, so the case would be handed over to him in full charge.

After saying that, he left without even looking back, without waiting for Yu Zhijian's reply, as if someone was chasing him.

Yu Zhijian looked at the file on the table, pondered for a moment, and then began to read it carefully.

Although Yu Zhijian has disdained the social etiquette in officialdom in recent years, he is not unaware that the biggest and most difficult case in the imperial capital recently is the case of the eldest princess in danger.

Although Yu Zhijian did not know the specific details of the case before, from the time the incident occurred to the time the news was reported back to the imperial capital, and the involvement involved, Yu Zhijian, who had been handling cases for so many years, could more or less guess that this was premeditated.

Regardless of whether this case was handled well or not, the best outcome would be to resign and return home. If something went wrong, losing one's head was also possible, so those colleagues who usually fought each other for performance points all hid away.

Yu Zhijian had never thought of pushing this case out, not because he was arrogant, but because he was the only one in the current Ministry of Justice who could take on this case and investigate it thoroughly.

If others took on this case, they would either follow Lord Wu's example and feign illness to shirk responsibility, or if they couldn't, they would obey General Li's orders, do whatever he said, and say that it was General Li's order if anything went wrong.

After reading the files, Yu Zhijian called the yamen runners and walked towards the prison. When he arrived at the door, even Yu Zhijian, who was usually steady, couldn't help but eyelid twitching.

Normally, there is a jailer every ten steps, but now there is a soldier standing between two jailers. It is not an exaggeration to describe the prison as an iron barrel.

The prison, which usually looks empty, now seems a bit crowded.

Although Yu Zhijian had a stern face, he didn't say anything and walked straight in.

As soon as they arrived at the interrogation room to summon the princess' former guard, Chief Kunshan, for questioning, they saw several palace soldiers bringing in a set of tables and chairs. After they set them up, Li Yinhan walked in with a middle-aged man.

Yu Zhijian had no choice but to stand up and go over, but Li Yinhan waved his hand and said, "No need for those empty formalities. You judge yours and I'll judge mine."

After saying that, the middle-aged man walked directly to the table, sat down and unfolded the paper. It was obvious that he was going to take notes.

Yu Zhijian looked at Li Yinhan and said, "General Li has surrounded the prison and has sent people to watch it, but the censors at the Imperial Censorate haven't reported this to His Majesty?"

Li Yinhan: "The Princess has issued a statement that if anyone in the court dares to guarantee with their entire clan that the Ministry of Justice will not allow traitors to infiltrate and kill people to silence them, this general will withdraw his troops immediately."

Yu Zhijian had to admit that the eldest princess made a good move. If someone else said this, the censor would not be afraid. At most, he would just push two chess pieces out and resign.

As long as the Emperor of Qi doesn't give the order, no one can really do it, but the eldest princess can really do it.

After all, this is a woman who dares to hit even the prince. What else can she not dare to do?

But after all, the means were a bit immature, and this move slapped the Ministry of Justice in the face. Those old-timers in the officialdom who had been waiting to find something to hold against the Li family had plenty of excuses to refute.

It is not possible to directly use the nine generations of the family as a guarantee to the Ministry of Justice, but can't we say that the eldest princess's actions are lawless and she is openly threatening all the civil and military officials in the court?

This is neither a direct guarantee nor a rejection, but as long as the matter gets out of hand, the princess will not be able to handle it.