This made Li Shimin anxious, and he wanted to trade one for one with me.

Logically speaking, criminal trials are just a formality.

How could something so simple go wrong like this when it came to him?

Wen Yanbo snapped out of his daze, put down his brush, and asked in confusion, "Why? I remember Wang Liang, the Assistant Minister of Justice, was always cautious in his actions. How could he have ended up like this?"

Cheng Jun explained, "We investigated a case in the Ministry of Justice prison. I said there was a miscarriage of justice, but he insisted there wasn't. We couldn't reach an agreement, so he took me to see His Majesty. Later, it turned out that, as I said, there was indeed a miscarriage of justice in this case..."

"Wait a minute!" Wen Yanbo interrupted him, "Something's not right. You're arguing, you should go find your superiors, why are you going to His Majesty?"

Cheng Jun pondered for a moment and said, "It might be related to what I said about him making him vomit blood."

"..."

Wen Yanbo stared at him blankly, and after regaining his senses, he said in confusion, "That's because he's narrow-minded. He shouldn't have gone to His Majesty."

"That's because I knocked his official hat off."

"..."

This kid is really bold, daring to disobey his superiors. No wonder he was dragged to see His Majesty... Wen Yanbo realized something was wrong, "Surely this kind of thing shouldn't warrant him being banished from the capital?"

Cheng Jun solemnly said, "I am an imperial censor, and he dares to ask me to meet the emperor. How can I not impeach him?"

"..."

Wen Yanbo was stunned. After a long while, he came to his senses and exclaimed, "I asked you to investigate criminal cases, and you investigated and found that the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Justice was gone. You're really something."

Cheng Jun asked, "Now that the Ministry of Justice is short one person, should we continue handling criminal cases?"

"Of course we must. Since His Majesty hasn't said to stop, this matter must continue until it is over."

Wen Yanbo picked up a brand new official document, picked up his pen and wrote as he said, "I will write an official document for you to take to the Ministry of Justice. Someone there will take care of this matter."

I won't go this time.

Cheng Jun explained, "I have something to take care of."

"Then let Xiao Yi go."

Wen Yanbo waved his hand and said, "Go ahead and do what you need to do."

"Uncle Wen, I'll take my leave now."

"go Go!"

After leaving the Imperial Academy, Cheng Jun did not leave, but instead turned around and went to the Censorate.

At this moment, in the main hall of the Censorate, Ma Zhou and Xiao Yi sat across a table. On the table was a chessboard with thirty-two chess pieces, and each of them held sixteen pieces.

Chess... Cheng Jun walked up to watch curiously.

At this moment, the two were locked in a fierce battle and neither noticed Cheng Jun approaching.

"Brother Xiao Yi, you're going to die!"

At that moment, a voice suddenly rang out.

Xiao Yi was completely focused on the chessboard when he heard the voice and was startled. He looked up and saw that it was Cheng Jun. He immediately focused his attention back on the chessboard and found that, as expected, the opponent's rook, horse, and cannon had crossed the river, forming a pincer attack. He said in frustration, "I've lost again..."

Cheng Jun asked curiously, "How many games have you lost?"

"Not many, thirty-two plates."

"..."

"Isn't that a lot...?" Cheng Jun asked in astonishment. "How many rounds have you two played?"

"Just thirty-two plates."

That means you didn't win a single game... Cheng Jun looked at the terrible player in front of him and comforted him, "Victory and defeat are common in war, don't be discouraged."

Xiao Yi sighed, "Brother Binwang's chess skills are so strong, I can't help but feel discouraged."

Ma Zhou smiled and said, "You flatter me."

Xiao Yi turned to Cheng Jun and asked, "Brother Chuxia, do you know how to play chess?"

"Understood."

Cheng Jun nodded.

Xiao Yi's eyes lit up and he said, "Then you play a game with Brother Binwang!"

Ma Zhou also looked very interested, and spread out his palms, saying, "Brother Chuxia, please sit down!"

Cheng Jun pondered for a moment and said, "I have something to do right now... but I don't want to spoil the fun, how about a quick game of chess?"

Ma Zhou asked curiously, "How fast?"

"No thinking, just go."

"it is good!"

Ma Zhou found it amusing and quickly set up the chess pieces with him, then said with a smile, "Brother Chuxia, you take the red pieces, please go first."

"Then I won't be polite."

Cheng Jun nodded and picked up the cannon.

Thirty seconds later, Ma Zhou looked at himself, now only a veteran left, and fell into deep thought: Had I been tricked...?

Xiao Yi was also dumbfounded. Although it was a fast game, wasn't it a bit too fast? So his statement that he knew a little about it was just modesty.

Little did the two know that Cheng Jun had a past life. In his past life, every time the company held a chess tournament, he memorized countless chess scores in order to win the championship.

Although Ma Zhou's chess skills were good, he had never played blitz chess before, and he suffered from the inability to think things through...

Cheng Jun smiled gently and kindly, cupping his hands in a gesture of respect, and said, "Thank you for your kind offer."

Ma Zhou looked at him with complicated emotions and said, "If I had known that Brother Chuxia's chess skills were amazing, I definitely would not have played fast chess with you."

Cheng Jun said, "This is what military strategy refers to as the importance of knowing yourself and your enemy."

Xiao Yi exclaimed in amazement, "Brother Chuxia is indeed worthy of being the son of a military officer; he can even apply military strategy to playing chess."

Ma Zhou said somewhat unconvinced, "Let's play another round when you're not busy!"

"no problem!"

Seeing Cheng Jun readily agree, Ma Zhou felt much better and asked curiously, "Brother Chuxia, I remember you went to handle criminal cases. Are you done?"

Xiao Yi asked doubtfully, "That can't be right. To handle criminal cases, you have to go to the Dali Temple Prison, the Ministry of Justice Prison, and the three prisons of Jingzhao, Wannian, and Chang'an. It would take at least a day. How long has it been?"

Cheng Jun said, "Something happened to the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Justice, so things have stopped."

He then explained the whole story, leaving Xiao Yi and Ma Zhou stunned.

"If I remember correctly, you've only been in office for two days..."

Xiao Yi clicked his tongue and said, "You're too amazing, you've already sent several people away."

Ma Zhou was also amazed. Zhang Xingcheng, the Palace Attendant Censor with a very strong temper, was still holding a grudge against someone for taking a bath to cleanse himself of bad luck after someone asked him where he was working. He would follow the person to wherever he was assigned.

Cheng Jun was even more ruthless; anyone who crossed him would be in trouble that very day.

In comparison, Zhang Xingcheng is far inferior to him.

"Brother Xiao Yi, I'd like to ask you to take over the upcoming criminal trials. Doctor Wen will draft an official document, which you can take to the Ministry of Justice later!"

"it is good!"

Cheng Jun glanced at the sky and said to Ma Zhou, "Brother Binwang, I'd like to trouble you to come with me to a place."

Ma Zhou could tell that he was in a real hurry, so he immediately stood up and said, "Let's go now."

Soon, the two left the Censorate and rode their horses along Zhuque Avenue.

"Brother Chuxia, where are we going?"

Ma Zhou asked, holding the reins.

Cheng Jun said, "Da'anfang, Du Jingjian's house!"

Du Jingjian... Ma Zhou nodded slightly, having some impression of this person, and asked no more questions, and rode with him to Da'anfang.

When Ma Zhou arrived at Da'anfang and approached Du Jingjian's house, his eyes narrowed. He saw more than 600 people gathered in front of the Du family's house!

As expected... Cheng Jun understood immediately upon seeing this scene; the official from the Ministry of Justice was stalling for his time because of this matter.

Fortunately, before he went to handle the criminal case, he asked Yuchi Baolin to call his eldest and second brothers and have them guard the Du family's gate together.

At this moment, at the entrance of the Du family's residence, Yuchi Baolin and his six retainers were on high alert, ready for battle.

Besides them, there were also Cheng Chumo and Cheng Chuliang.

The two brothers, dressed in purple robes and wearing rhinoceros belts, whispered among themselves and occasionally burst into loud laughter as they faced more than six hundred officials standing close at hand, as if the tense atmosphere around them had nothing to do with them.

"Why are there so many people? Are all these people money-collecting clerks? Have all the money-collecting clerks from the more than seventy departments in the capital come?"

Ma Zhou looked at the official robes of the more than six hundred people and recognized their identities at a glance. The more he looked, the more something seemed wrong. He turned to Cheng Jun in surprise and asked, "Brother Chuxia, what exactly is going on?"