Princess Promotion

It was impossible to ask Li Yinhan to leave at the moment, so Yu Zhijian could only return to his seat. Unexpectedly, before he could even sit down, someone came in to deliver a message.

"Report! Just now, Censor Wang of the Censorate, along with several other ministers, came to court to accuse the Princess of arrogance and disregard for the law. The Princess has asked you to wait for the censors at the palace gate."

As soon as Yu Zhijian finished speaking, he saw Li Yinhan walk out without saying a word.

Although Yu Zhijian had never met Li Yinhan before, he respected General Li for his many years of guarding the border. This case had indeed chilled the hearts of the border generals, otherwise he would not have risked his future and life to give justice to the princess.

It was obvious that someone was deliberately stirring up trouble. If it happened to someone else, Yu Zhijian would not stop it and would just curse a few times to vent his anger.

But this ancestor was a man who dared to hit even the princes. I believe he could definitely chop those censors Yu Zhijian with a knife.

No matter what, once the censor is hurt, even if it is reasonable, it will become unreasonable.

Yu Zhijian hurried forward and blurted out, "General Li, please stay!"

Li Yinhan paused, and just when Yu Zhijian thought there was hope, Li Yinhan turned around, grabbed Yu Zhijian's arm and said, "I almost forgot about you. Let's go and find those grandsons together."

Yu Zhijian was shocked. Li Yinhan was going to kill people to silence them and even dragged himself, an official from the Ministry of Justice, to be a witness.

Li Yinhan was the typical man who would rather take action than talk. He quickly pulled Yu Zhijian out of the prison, put him on the horse, whipped it, and the horse leaped up in pain and galloped forward.

Yu Zhijian was a typical civil servant. Although he was not so unable to lift or carry anything, and he could ride a horse, he had definitely never run so fast.

He rode the horse all the way to the palace gate. After getting off the horse, Yu Zhijian was confused about where he was. Shouldn't he be interrogating prisoners in the prison?

Why did he inexplicably run to the palace gate without even seeing the prisoner?

Yu Zhijian had just caught his breath when he saw officials coming out of the court in twos and threes. Li Yinhan mounted his horse and strode straight towards the direction of the censor, followed by several palace soldiers holding hemp ropes in their hands.

Yu Zhijian ran to the front of Li Yinhan Road at a speed he had never reached in his life. Censor Wang was a rigid and harsh man, and he had reported every official in the court, big or small, to him.

He would report the emperor whenever he got the chance. Although Censor Wang had no real power, he was well-known for his integrity among the officials in the court. He was so reluctant to change his official uniform even when it was washed white and frayed.

Yu Zhijian couldn't bear to watch such a person become a dead soul at the hands of the sword.

Yu Zhijian held down Li Yinhan's hand as he was about to draw his sword and said, "General Li, simply killing Censor Wang won't solve any problems. It will only make things get out of control, and then even the right thing will become wrong."

Li Yinhan looked at Yu Zhijian with a strange expression and said, "Who told you that I wanted to kill Wang Yushi? Besides, I'm not stupid. If I really wanted to kill someone, how could I kill him in broad daylight? I must have sneaked in at night."

Yu Zhijian didn't know what to say for a moment. He wanted to say that he couldn't kill at night, or that anyone who saw your posture would misunderstand you.

Li Yinhan signaled to the guards behind him, and without saying a word, he stepped forward and tied up and gagged Censor Wang and the other censors who were in the court.

After completing all this, he said to the indignant officials who had gathered around him, "This general has received a tip-off that these imperial censors have accepted bribes and are collaborating with the enemy and treasonous, hoping to force this general to withdraw his troops so that he can send assassins into the prison to silence them."

As soon as these words were spoken, except for the tied censor who cried out to express his grievance, the other officials fell silent for a moment, just as Li Yinhan was about to drag those censors away.

Someone still spoke up: "There is no evidence of this, there is no imperial edict and no criminal document. Could it be that General Li was deceived by a traitor and arrested the wrong person?"

Li Yinhan: "I have evidence. This general has received information before. The person who submitted the memorial today is involved in the case of the Princess. I also know the specific hiding place of the bribe money."

"For this reason, I have specially invited Lord Yu from the Ministry of Justice, who is presiding over this case, to accompany me. If you do not believe that seeing is believing, you can come with me to search the residences of these lords."

It was Yu Zhijian who was kidnapped...

After saying this, Li Yinhan specifically pointed at Yu Zhijian who was standing beside him, and made a gesture to invite everyone in.

Although the officials were hesitant, those in charge of export maintenance had no choice but to follow Li Yinhan.

The first place Li Yinhan went to was the home of Censor Wang in the suburbs. You should know that Censor Wang was famous for his integrity in the court. Although the door was spacious, it was still a bit old.

It was cheap in the suburbs, so the mansion was quite large and had a pond, but the water was turbid because no one had taken care of it for years.

Seeing this, everyone who followed couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Censor Wang is indeed a role model for our generation. He is so honest that he doesn't even have extra money to manage and maintain his mansion.

Living in such a shabby mansion, and getting up two hours early every day to attend the morning court...

Just when everyone was thinking about how to criticize Li Yinhan verbally and in writing, he actually slandered the imperial official in the street, which was an even more serious crime.

The guards around Li Yinhan jumped directly into the pond, and under the puzzled gaze of everyone, they soon threw a moss-covered stone out from the muddy pond.

Li Yinhan took out a handkerchief, picked up the stone on the ground, and wiped off the moss on the surface to reveal the color inside.

When everyone got closer, they saw that it was not stone but silver. At this time, several guards who were good at swimming went down to the pond to fish it out.

Soon the shore was covered with moss-covered stones. Some officials couldn't believe it, so they picked up a few stones and wiped off the moss on the surface, and found that they were all filled with silver and gold.

Some people wanted to refute but didn't know where to start. They said Li Yinhan deliberately threw silver into the pond to frame Wang Yushi, but Wang Yushi and Li Yinhan had no connection before, and it was impossible for the silver to be attached to the moss in half a day.

Li Yinhan glanced at the sky and said, "It's going to take a while to get all the silver out of this pond. It's getting late now. Let's surround Censor Wang's mansion and then slowly fish it out later. Let's go to the other gentlemen's homes first."

Now those officials who came to speak with confidence suddenly became like chickens with their necks strangled, and one after another said they had other things to do and would not follow.

The joke is that the silver on the shore is enough to prove that Wang Yushi is corrupt and has accepted bribes. Regardless of whether he colluded with foreign countries, the only difference is that he will be executed or his entire clan will be exterminated.

No matter what the crime was, it was ridiculous for a corrupt censor to accuse the current princess of breaking the law.

In the end, only Yu Zhijian, who had come with Li Yinhan at the beginning but couldn't leave, was left. He followed Li Yinhan to search the houses one by one.

Yu Zhijian knew that it was a common practice for officials to give gifts during festivals and holidays, and for businessmen to get things done whenever they encountered any problem.

Yu Zhijian has always known about these things, but he has no way to deal with them. These officials do not deal with major cases but make small mistakes all the time. From high-ranking officials such as the prime minister to runners and yamen runners, they all take money to do their jobs.

Everything is connected to each other and we are all on this same boat. To be disrespectful, there is not a single civil or military official in the whole court who has not accepted two bribes.

But today, Li Yinhan searched the houses of all the officials, regardless of their rank, and as expected, he found a lot of silver and money of unknown origin.

Yu Zhijian knew that these officials had little to do with the eldest princess's case, and if the silver was kept in normal times.

As long as he is willing to spend money to bribe people and doesn't make it public, he might be able to keep his official position.

All officials in the court are connected to the situation. If you pull out a radish, you will bring out the mud.

Li Yinhan was cruel in that he opened the door in broad daylight and allowed the people to watch the house-raiding process in an orderly manner.

He even placed the confiscated silver at the door, so that passers-by could not move it, saying that they had never seen so much silver in their lives.

This action instantly aroused public indignation. One was a princess who stood firm in the face of barbarian invasion for the sake of her country and her people, and the other was a corrupt official. Anyone with a common sense would know who to choose.

For a while, wherever Li Yinhan went to look for silver, the people following him would go over and throw stones and feces at the door of that official's house.

Yu Zhijian dragged his tired body back to the mansion and collapsed on the bed. Although he was physically exhausted, he was in good spirits.

Among all the cases he handled in the past few days, the ones he handled were the most satisfying. In the past, whenever an official was involved in an investigation, he would encounter various obstacles. There were even a few times when his immediate superior personally stepped in to transfer him away.

After this incident, all the officials in the court are like frightened birds towards the eldest princess, and they are terrified when talking about her because no one dares to guarantee their innocence 100%.

Everyone has a dirty background. They can say whatever they want in secret, but once it is brought to the surface, even the smallest matter will cost them their official position.

When Yu Zhijian saw the silver in Wang Yushi's pond, he figured out that the princess was preparing for a rainy day.

She knew that letting General Li surround the Ministry of Justice would surely displease the court officials, but if no one was sent to keep an eye on the prisoner, the people in the dark would have hundreds of ways to make people shut up.

Although the princess didn't know who would be the first to jump out and oppose, she knew that these days, how many officials had clean backgrounds? Those with truly clean backgrounds would not get involved in such matters.

It's always a good idea to cast a wide net. If you're lucky, you can catch a few big fish. Corrupt officials make an example of others and as long as there's an excuse to search the house, you can probably find some money or account books of unknown origin.

Those people probably didn't expect that the princess would be so bold as to come directly to the door and catch everyone.

Thinking of this, Yu Zhijian began to worry again. Although the princess had temporarily suppressed these court officials, this was not a long-term solution after all. Now every move in this case was attracting much attention.

The only breakthrough is Kunshan, the former captain of the guards in the prison. Apart from that, there is no other clue.