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

After the carriage left the palace.

Ye Chen ordered the imperial guards pulling the carriage to move it near the examination hall.

At this time, affected by the chaos in the examination room last time, the candidates who did not continue the exam were already queuing outside the examination room.

Some candidates had sackcloth wrapped around their heads, and some even had to use crutches and be supported by others to walk.

Ye Chen stood outside the examination room, looking at the candidates who insisted on taking the exam even though they were injured, and couldn't help feeling emotional.

There are still many people who are motivated.

Even the children of noble families who have no worries about food and clothing are like this, let alone those from poor families.

"Su Fu greets His Excellency."

Su Fu, who was still the chief examiner, hurried forward to pay her respects as soon as she saw Ye Chen. Since there were other people around, she did not directly call Ye Chen "Your Majesty".

"Well, Su Fu, when these candidates are taking the exam, someone should be assigned to carefully monitor their surroundings. If there is any disturbance, report it to me immediately."

Ye Chen looked at Su Fu and said in a gentle tone.

This Su Fu is indeed a capable official. Although he is Su Mengjiao's man, Ye Chen still admires him very much.

If he had such a capable official, one of the six ministerial posts in the court would have to be reserved for him.

"obey"

Su Fu looked at Ye Chen with a complicated look.

Before she came to the capital, everyone in the Northern Territory Palace said that Ye Chen was a fool. Even when she later received Su Mengjiao's letter and learned that the emperor had recovered, she was still skeptical.

But when she came to the capital and came into contact with Ye Chen in person, she found that the emperor was not only better, he had clearly awakened.

The fool in the past is now the wise emperor.

This gap is really too big.

"Qiu'er, follow me around the examination room."

After Ye Chen gave Su Fu his instructions, he turned to Shen Qiu.

"Yes."

Shen Qiu nodded, then followed Ye Chen and walked around the examination room.

During this period.

Lu Niu Dan also came to Ye Chen and kept passing small notes to Ye Chen.

Seeing this, Shen Qiu frowned slightly.

But it’s hard to say much.

Ye Chen has already established his own information channels in the capital, which Shen Qiu knows.

"The soldiers who entered the city had contact with those people from the underworld. Some people saw carrier pigeons flying over their residences."

"It seems these guys have made contact."

Ye Chen snorted lightly and looked around. There were fires everywhere near the examination hall last night. Many ruins could be seen at a glance, but most of the shops were still preserved.

The streets are bustling with people coming and going, and the atmosphere has become somewhat lively again.

However, many of the shops that had been robbed were closed at this time, and white silk was hung on the doors of many shops.

It was obvious that a funeral was being held, and faint sounds of crying could be heard from within.

Ye Chen was not surprised by this.

The power struggles between high-ranking officials in the court seem to be far away from the lives of ordinary people, but in fact they will always stir up a bloody storm among the ordinary people.

Ye Chen has tried his best to minimize this damage.

However, when Ye Chen suddenly saw a familiar shop and discovered that the shop sign was also hung with white silk.

He hesitated for a moment and then walked over.

I don’t know what happened to that girl next door with a jade-like temperament whom I saw last time.

However, just as he reached the door of the shop, he suddenly heard bursts of sobbing.

At the same time, there was also a burst of arrogant curses.

"You stinky girl, you're lucky that my young master likes you. Besides, it's written in black and white. Do you think you can go back on your word? Humph! I, Master Hei Ba, will not agree to that."

Hearing this, Ye Chen raised his eyebrows, and seeing that the door of the fish shop was ajar, he pushed the door open and walked in.

Then, Ye Chen saw several servants in green clothes holding sticks and surrounding two women who were hugging and crying in front of a thin-skinned coffin.

Not far from the two women, a man dressed in black, obviously the master of the blue-robed servant, was sitting on a bench.

The man in black was holding a bamboo slip in his hand.

On the other side, the relatives of the two women who had originally come to burn incense and paper were now watching from the side, each of them showing anger and fear on their faces, but obviously they dared not speak out.

"What are you all so fussy about? Take him away quickly. I, Eighth Master, have to report to the Young Master later!"

The man in black snorted coldly and urged.

Then, Ye Chen saw that the blue-clothed servants really started to pull the two women who were hugging each other.

Both women were wearing mourning clothes and looked very weak. They were no match for the middle-aged men, not to mention the several blue-clothed servants.

"Let go, stop it!"

Among the two women, Tong Le struggled hard and cried helplessly, but she was about to be taken away.

"Snapped!"

There was a crisp sound.

Echoing in the small shop.

Immediately afterwards, a servant in green clothes flew more than three meters away and knocked over a table.

Everyone present was horrified and looked at Ye Chen in horror.

Ye Chen's face was gloomy.

Ye Chen had heard of such things as kidnapping women in broad daylight, but this was the first time he had seen it.

What a bastard!

"You, who are you? How dare you hit me?"

The man in black's face changed drastically, but he was the first to come to his senses and immediately jumped up and down.

The other blue-clothed servants also came to their senses, let go of the two women one by one, grasped their weapons, and looked at Ye Chen with eyes full of anger and ferocity.