Traveling through the emperor, overthrowing the empress dowager at the beginning

In Taiqian Palace.

Ye Chen tilted his head and stared at the young man with a mocking expression.

The young man glanced at Yang Dechang, a hint of hatred appeared on his face, and then he stared at Ye Chen in horror.

He really didn't expect that the commander of the imperial guards who interrogated him yesterday would be the emperor of the current dynasty.

He immediately thought of the scene where Ye Chen killed the grandson of Duke Cao with one knife, and felt the hairs on his back stand up.

"You are Zhou Yu, the illegitimate son of Duke Chen, right?"

Ye Chen's voice suddenly rang out.

"Correct."

Zhou Yu bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I am guilty, but I, I was ordered to do this!"

"Zhou Yu, killing other military heroes without authorization is a heinous crime. Don't make random accusations!"

Hearing this, Yang Dechang frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "Otherwise, your family will also be implicated by you!"

Hearing this, Zhou Yu seemed to be frightened, and his face turned pale.

"Prime Minister Yang, am I asking the question or are you?"

Ye Chen suddenly asked.

Hearing this, Yang Dechang bowed to Ye Chen with a gloomy expression.

"Of course it's His Majesty who's asking the questions."

"Then shut up!"

Upon hearing this, Yang Dechang's eyes instantly became much gloomier.

Ye Chen was so rude to him, not giving him any face at all. As the prime minister, he felt a little embarrassed.

This also made him hate Ye Chen even more.

However, Ye Chen ignored Yang Dechang and looked at Zhou Yu with cold eyes.

"Zhou Yu, you just heard it. There is someone in the court who wants to kill you. If he wants your life, will he let your family go?"

"You should also know what your family is like, right?"

"For some people, it wouldn't take much effort to destroy your family."

Ye Chen had a sneer on his face. The information he read yesterday had already stated that the Duke of Chen's mansion had long been dilapidated.

Although Duke Chen was a duke, he, like Marquis Fenxin, had produced several generations of prodigal sons.

It was also because the Duke's Mansion had fallen into decline that Zhou Yu took the risk of beating the examinee.

"Your Majesty, I understand."

Zhou Yu raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his head and said.

"Then you should understand that in this court, the only one who can protect your family and your loved ones and won't kill to silence them is me!"

Ye Chen slammed the dragon table.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yu trembled all over.

Ye Chen then asked word by word: "Zhou Yu, tell me now, who instructed you to do this?"

"Yes, it's the Censor, it's Censor Liu!"

Zhou Yu said in panic.

"You, you fart!"

One of the officials immediately lost his composure and jumped out, shouting, "How dare you slander me!"

Hearing this, Zhou Yu shouted, "I'm not talking nonsense. That day, Censor Liu came to my house and specifically asked me to do this!"

"I, I didn't want to do it at first, but he, Censor Liu, said that if I did this, all my family's past debts would be written off, and he would also give me 10,000 taels of silver!"

"By the way, I kept the banknotes that Censor Liu gave me at home. I haven't touched them yet. Your Majesty, it's not just the banknotes. My servants also saw him coming!"

Upon hearing this, Censor Liu's face immediately turned pale.

Ye Chen then looked at Censor Liu with a sharp gaze.

"What do you have to say?"

"Pfft!"

Censor Liu knelt directly on the ground.

"Slander! This is slander, this is slander against me."

"Your Majesty is clear!"

Censor Liu defended himself loudly.

"We'll know if it's slander or not once we investigate."

"Queen Mother."

Ye Chen suddenly turned around and said to the person behind him.

"Ok?"

Su Mengjiao's voice came from behind the bead curtain

"I want to investigate the censor."

".I agree!"

Ye Chen returned his gaze to Censor Liu.

"Did you hear that, Censor Liu? If I were to thoroughly investigate the bank accounts in the capital, I'd surely be able to uncover the origins of that note. So I advise you to tell the truth. Otherwise, once I find out, I'll have to torture you."

The Censor had the power to advise the emperor, unlike ordinary officials.

Without concrete evidence and the real imperial edict, it is difficult to investigate.

But the Queen Mother is the guarantor.

Ye Chen could easily issue an imperial decree to punish the censor.

This is the real reason why Ye Chen wanted to discuss with the Queen Mother yesterday

After hearing what Ye Chen said, Censor Zhang shuddered all over and was completely panicked.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please spare my life. I am guilty and I know I was wrong, Your Majesty! Prime Minister!"

Censor Liu kowtowed repeatedly.

After hearing what Censor Liu said, Yang Dechang frowned and immediately stood up.

"Your Majesty, Censor Liu may have acted this way out of indignation at Your Majesty's change of the ancestral system, which goes against the will of the people."

Yang Dechang hadn't finished speaking yet

With a "bang", Ye Chen threw the teacup to the ground.

The sound of the teacup breaking startled all the officials present.

Yang Dechang took a step back and shook off the porcelain slag on his sleeves. His eyes were gloomy and his old face turned blue.

The emperor actually took action. He was furious and was about to explode.

But Ye Chen had already stood up.

"Out of righteous indignation, you can attack other candidates. Out of righteous indignation, you can bribe candidates to attack other candidates?"

"Is this really just righteous indignation?"

"Is this because the people are not in favor of my new policy?"

"Why don't I believe it?"

Ye Chen said in a low voice: "Come here, bring the others up to me!"

"Yes!"

Hearing this, Yang Dechang's face changed slightly. He turned around suddenly and saw several young men in brocade clothes being brought into the hall.