Adoption brings disaster

Everyone in Qianqiu Pavilion knows that I have a habit of getting drunk, so they have never dared to let me drink.

It was really uncomfortable to be forced to drink so much wine by this group of generals. After drinking it all, I only knew that Chongguang had come and I didn’t know anything else. I passed out directly.

When I woke up the next day, I felt that my body was still there, but my soul had already reached the Naihe Bridge.

I looked at the Seventh Prince in front of me and was so angry, but my voice was hoarse, my hands had no strength at all, and even my brain was not working well.

Now I can only lose my temper foolishly, cursing over and over again in my mind, but because my brain is not very clear, it is always the same few words.

"Don't you know I can't drink? What did you say to me when I drank before? You actually asked me to drink with those military officers. With my alcohol tolerance, even if I could triple my alcohol, I still couldn't drink as much as those people."

It was Chongguang who didn't let me drink, and now it was also him who allowed the generals to force me to drink. How could he dare to say a word when I scolded him?

Besides, who would talk too much to a drunkard? Chongguang naturally didn't refute him, but just kept coaxing him, saying, "This is all my fault. I hope Qianqiu will forgive me. I originally wanted to return to the palace to report, which wouldn't take long, but after my father heard about the death detective, he kept holding me back and wouldn't let me leave, so I'm late."

"You mean this is my fault?" I was like a fighting cock now, and I couldn't stand hearing anything that made me unhappy.

"No, no, it's all my fault." The Seventh Prince coaxed patiently.

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I scolded him for a long time, and Chongguang coaxed me for a long time. He finally coaxed me to drink the hangover soup and eat something. Only then did I recover a little and my mood became much better.

Besides, there are important matters to be dealt with now. I also know that now is not the time for the Seventh Prince to continue making trouble, so I calmed down and dealt with the important matters.

I took the towel that Ah Da handed me, wiped my face again to clear my mind, and asked, "Any news?"

"The Death Detective's card really caught them off guard. His Majesty has already agreed to let the Death Detective investigate the Ministry of Justice. They can't use the Ministry of Justice card anymore, so they've decided to give up."

"You've given up, but you can still save them," I said. "Come over and surrender, and in exchange for some benefits, you can save so many officials in the Ministry of Justice. They didn't even take such a good deal. They're really stupid."

"These civil servants appear united on the surface, but they're actually fighting among themselves. They only unite when facing the outside world," said the Seventh Prince. "Seeing the Ministry of Justice in trouble, countless people within the civil service are delighted and eager to get a piece of the action. No one will come out to save them."

"So in order to get a share of the Ministry of Justice's pie, they are working overtime to find ways to deal with me." I said with a smile.

"Qianqiu, do you have a way to deal with this?"

"No," I said. "But thanks to these military officers, I'm afraid these civilian officials still don't think highly of me. Let me give them another slap in the face and teach them the simple truth that even if a lion fights a rabbit, it still has to do its best."

When Chongguang heard me say this, he also smiled and said, "Qianqiu is really a good teacher. Even when facing enemies, he always tries to teach them the truth. They will definitely benefit a lot from Qianqiu's teachings."

"A good teacher must be strict yet kind. If students don't study well, they will be criticized. Besides, this is not a classroom. If they don't study well, they will be punished." I said meaningfully.

The next half month was quite comfortable. The civil officials were all plotting to do something bad to me, and everything was calm for a while. In order to paralyze me, they even avoided opposing the military generals in the court.

The military generals were naturally happy to see that the civil officials were intimidated. For a while, they treated me like a god and showed me great respect. If it weren't for Chong Guangming's order prohibiting them from bothering me, the threshold of Qianqiu Pavilion would have been trampled down by those military generals long ago.

The court was peaceful and the escort agency was developing faster than I had imagined.

Because the dignitaries and wealthy families in Beishang Kingdom all knew that our Baofu Escort Agency had wiped out a group of bandits, our reputation spread quickly.

It just so happened that the Northern Border Army had laid off some soldiers, so with the support of King Zhenbei, I directly recruited them.

Now that we have enough manpower and business is booming, it is natural that we want to expand and strengthen the escort agency. I also plan to open seven or eight escort agencies in various major cities in Beishang Kingdom.

As long as these escort agencies are successfully opened, they can be connected together and help each other. In this way, Baofu Escort Agency will be able to better deter those bandits who value money over their lives.

In addition, supply points can be designed along the necessary routes to provide convenience for the escorts and increase the income model.

The plan is simple and feasible, but there is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, that is, the lack of a trustworthy shopkeeper.

These soldiers are really not good at dealing with people. Not to mention whether they would beat customers to death if they disagreed with them, just the customers' cunning minds are such that if these soldiers were to be the shopkeepers, I'm afraid I would lose everything.

The lack of management talent is indeed a big problem, but now that the reputation has risen, if we don’t take the opportunity to expand and become stronger, there is no guarantee that these civil servants will cause trouble. After all, these people have a lot of talented people under them.

We still need to cultivate management talents ourselves, but there are really no suitable ones now. We can only recruit a few people to use first, but we can't let them do whatever they want. We still have to restrict them.

Therefore, I selected a few educated ones from the escorts and asked them to be deputy managers to temporarily restrict these managers. Although this method is only a stopgap measure, it is more useful than I imagined.

As for the selection of the shopkeeper's confidants, we can wait until the children in the school are older and choose a few loyal ones to replace those who are disloyal or incompetent.

After arranging all this, I asked Li Er to take charge of it. I would check on the situation from time to time. In this way, another half month passed.

Another half month passed, and the county magistrate was almost recovered, and the civil servants sharpened their butcher knives and prepared to kill me and eat my meat.

When I heard Chongguang talk about how the civil officials in the imperial court wanted to re-examine the case and even accused me of being guilty of the same crime as the common people, I laughed and said, "These civil officials really look down on me."

"They don't look down on you, they look down on everyone except themselves," said the Seventh Prince. "After all, they've never lost a verbal battle before. Besides, this time we're just playing the Death Detective card. Since we've played it, they already have a countermeasure, so naturally they look down on us."

"I can't take back the cards I've played, so what can I do?" I said pitifully, "I can only throw out bigger cards."

After saying that, His Highness the Seventh Prince and I both smiled sinisterly, like two big villains.

This time they have a clear countermeasure for my last behavior. Didn’t you say that the Ministry of Justice does not follow the rules? Then this time we will follow the rules completely.

Before I arrived, officials were standing in the hall, waiting for me to come. After I bowed according to etiquette, they arranged a prince's chair for me to sit on during the trial.

Didn't you say that citizens should be punished for suing the government? That means putting people in shackles and beating them with the same beatings that were not completed last time before starting the trial?

Didn't you say that we all have relatives who were killed by bandits? The opening scene was a group of people crying and verbally condemning the bandits, and then pretending to say that it is difficult to be both loyal and filial, so they can only be loyal to His Majesty.

I watched them struggle so hard to finally break all my tricks, and I wanted to laugh. But I held it back, because later I could laugh triumphantly and unrestrainedly.

The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice was also a new official who was very active in his new position. He stood up as if facing a prisoner, bowed, and said to me, "Your Highness Qianqiu, this county magistrate is accusing you of allowing your slave to commit a crime and then beating him up. Is this true?"

"No." I said with an attitude of being a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water.

"This was a crime committed in the street, and many people saw it. Your Highness, are you sure it didn't happen?" asked the newly appointed Vice Minister of Justice.

I still insisted that there was no.

"Call the witness." The witness stepped forward, and the Minister of Justice asked, "Did you see anyone beating the county magistrate?"

"What I saw was truly terrifying. The three men lifted the table and smashed it at the county magistrate. After smashing it, they ran away. The county magistrate was pinned underneath for a long time and couldn't get up."

The witness spoke in an incomprehensible dialect, and the Assistant Minister of Justice had to repeat himself to him for a long time before he could make his words clear.

The Minister of Justice had another table brought up and said, "We have all the witnesses and evidence. Your Highness, do you have anything else to say?"

"I didn't deny that my escorts beat this man, but they were escorts, not my servants. When I said no, I only meant that no servants beat the county magistrate."

They were stunned at first, then all of them showed smug looks on their faces. They were not afraid of my unreasonable behavior. The more unreasonable I was, the more it showed that I had no other choice.

In their eyes, I am now like a sheep caught in a trap, which can be killed and eaten anytime and anywhere, so they are not in a hurry.

The Minister of Justice said slowly, "I am wrong. Let me ask again, your escort beat the county magistrate, right?"

"do not know."

"Your Highness, you just said that you didn't deny that your escort beat this man, but now you don't know about it."

They were enjoying the thrill of cornering their prey, but I was still waffling, saying, "I wasn't there, how could I possibly know? Besides, if I didn't deny it, doesn't that mean I'm admitting it?"

"Your Highness Qianqiu may not know that every trial must be recorded in writing. Look at these twenty or so documents. If there is even a single mistake in the records, it will not count."

I pretended to be a little flustered, but still stiffened my neck and said, "What do you want to say?"

The Minister picked up a record and read, "I didn't deny that my escorts assaulted someone, but they were escorts, not my servants. What I just said was that no servant assaulted the magistrate."

After the Minister finished reading, my panic turned into fear. Seeing this, the Minister's face showed a look of joy at the impending victory.

I also complained in my heart that His Highness Qianqiu was nothing special, just a fool who was lucky enough to act recklessly.

The reversal must be done when he is at his most proud, such as now.

I stopped pretending and my frightened expression immediately changed to one of confidence. I took out the folding fan I had prepared long ago, opened it with a swish, did a few flying moves that I thought were very cool, and then took out an account book from my arms.

"We still need to investigate the case more carefully. For example, what is the motive for the crime?" I waved the object in my hand and said, "Three escorts and a county magistrate, they are so different from each other. How did the conflict come about? Haven't you ever thought about it?"

I threw the account book lightly, and it flew in front of the minister. I said proudly, "This is a copy. Please take a look. I think His Majesty is also reading this now. I wonder if you will have the same opinion as His Majesty after reading it."

The adults on the stage were huddled together. They all turned pale after just flipping a few pages. The assistant minister put down the account book dejectedly. I thought to myself that this man was pitiful. He had only been in office for less than a month and had encountered such a thing. However, I would not sympathize with him. Instead, I would kick his ass.

"Why put it down? Look at the third name on page five, the eighth line on page seven, and the first line on page thirteen. Everyone, take a close look."

I smiled with some pride, looking at the trembling county magistrate on the ground and said, "You got such a good thing, why don't you try to make a career for yourself instead of putting it in the bandit's den? It can't have children."

I looked at the crowd, who seemed to have lost their souls. I had no interest in teasing them, so I said, "My Lords, I think there is nothing more to investigate. Your Majesty will no longer care about the outcome of this matter. Can you please close the case?"

After leaving the Ministry of Justice, I went straight to the Prince of Zhenbei's Palace. After receiving my order, Ah Da prepared good wine and meat early and called all the high-ranking military officers in the capital.

Everyone took their seats, and I took out the account book and said, "I have a good show here, everyone should come and see it."

"Your Highness Qianqiu is talking about a good show, so of course we have to watch it."

"Read one page and drink one pot." I said, "This is a good play that goes well with wine. You guys are not wasting your time."

After I finished reading the first page of the account book, everyone was indignant and cursed the civil servant. It was only after I reminded them that they happily drank a pot of wine and looked forward to me reading the second page.

This account book has more than 30 pages. Even a military officer with a good alcohol tolerance would be drunk unconscious after drinking 30 pots of wine. I looked at the people staggering and said proudly, "I told you to get me drunk last time."

I told the palace steward to let these military officers lie down here and not to bother with them. The steward was a little embarrassed and was not sure what to do when the Seventh Prince walked in from outside and said, "Just do as Qianqiu said."

I followed the Seventh Prince slowly as he said, "This matter is over. I'm afraid those civil servants don't have the energy to cause trouble for the escort agency anymore."

"Yeah, it's over. Let's go to bed early."

Predict what will happen in the future, and listen to the next decomposition.