HCB Chapter 163: Caning the Censor, Unlocking the Tyrant Title
Chapter 163: Caning the Censor, Unlocking the Tyrant Title
After the imperial edict was sent to the cabinet, Tang Xiaoren and Jia Renyi both gasped.
Your Majesty supports Huang Xiao so much!
I'm afraid this time the turmoil in the court will not be settled so easily.
Sure enough, as soon as the edict was issued, it caused dissatisfaction among civil and military officials.
Who do you think you are, Huang Xiao?
A mere donor of official position, relying on the favor of His Majesty, is riding on the neck of a Jinshi?
The Censorate, which had been calm for a long time, was once again in turmoil.
"Let us rise together and perform the music!"
"Right! We can't let down the hearts of all the scholars!"
"We must persuade His Majesty!"
At the call of the scholars, more than a dozen imperial censors, together with several of Wu Rui's colleagues in Beijing, came to the front of the palace.
They want to bow down and make a report!
The guards guarding the palace gate did not dare to delay and immediately notified the palace.
Li Tian stayed in the queen's bedroom today.
Tang Hanxue was about to give birth, and Li Tian stayed in the Queen's palace to comfort the slightly anxious Queen.
Another move?
Li Tianqi stood up happily.
Tang Hanxue hugged Li Tian's arm and said, "Your Majesty, this time they are not standing up for Wu Rui, but for Jinshi."
Li Tian asked in confusion: "Why is this?"
Tang Hanxue said: "When the imperial court recruits people, the main thing is the ranking in the imperial examination."
"Wu Rui is a Jinshi, and Huang Xiao is an official who donated money to become an official."
"So in the eyes of these scholars, Wu Rui must be right and Huang Xiao must be wrong."
Li Tian said angrily: "These guys!"
Li Tian thought to himself, it seems that Huang Xiao was right!
This Huang Xiao is indeed a guy that is hated by everyone!
I want to favor this kind of treacherous minister!
Li Tian immediately said, "Just say that I have rested and let the guys outside the palace gate submit their reports."
Xiao Weizi quickly passed on Li Tian's order to the imperial censors who were reporting outside the palace.
This time, their anger was even more boiling.
"We want to see His Majesty!"
"We want to make a suggestion!"
"Your Majesty, you cannot trust that treacherous minister Huang Xiao!"
"Your Majesty, how can you allow a donated official to harm an official appointed by the imperial court?"
The censors became even more excited as they spoke!
Now Xiao Weizi was also panicked and immediately returned to report to Li Tian.
Li Tianqi sat up in anger.
"Come here, take those guys away and give them a beating!"
Now Tang Hanxue and Xiao Weizi both advised:
"Your Majesty, please don't do that! This will hurt the scholars' feelings!"
Oh?
Is there such a good thing?
Li Tian immediately said: "Just give him ten slaps, no need to kill him!"
[Reprimanding a minister with a stick: Imperial prestige -20! Great Zhou national fortune: -3000 points! ]
[Host obtains the title of "Tyrant", do you want to unlock it? ]
[After unlocking the tyrant title, brutal behavior will double the reduction of national fortune! ]
Well done!
Li Tian was so excited that he almost clapped!
I have worked so hard and finally found a way to ruin the country's destiny!
That is to spank the ministers!
Why didn’t I think of such a simple and crude method before?
[Bidely listening to one side and trusting the lucky ministers, the Great Zhou’s national fortune: -2000 points! ]
[Host unlocks the title of Benevolent King, national fortune doubles! Great Zhou national fortune -4000 points! ]
Unlocked a new title!
Not bad!
A tyrant can double the national fortune lost by his brutal behavior!
If I had been given the title of tyrant just now, I would have lost 6000 points of national fortune!
The title of benevolent monarch is also good. This reduces the national fortune by 7000 points!
Li Tian was very satisfied with the instant gain of 7000 points of national fortune!
Huang Xiao is indeed my lucky star!
Xiao Weizi took Li Tian's order and led the eunuchs to arrest the officials and censors who had submitted memorials to the emperor.
Then they started hitting them with the boards.
This group of spoiled scholars had never experienced such a thing before, and they all began to beg for mercy.
However, the eunuch who was torturing him did not use too much force and just hit him lightly.
But three censors still fainted.
However, they did not faint from pain, but from humiliation.
When Tang Xiaoren received the news and hurried to the palace gate, the eunuch who was torturing him had already left.
Tang Xiaoren hurriedly sent the injured censors back home, then stamped his feet in anger.
Your Majesty actually did such a thing!
This time, the storm will be even harder to calm down!
Sure enough, the next day, the news that the censors who submitted reports to the emperor were beaten with sticks soon caused an uproar in the court.
Your Majesty favors your ministers so much, yet treats scholars so harshly!
But this time, no one went to the palace to make a report.
After all, those censors had all suffered setbacks, and no one wanted to follow in their footsteps.
They could only play more and more frantically.
Even the chief minister of the cabinet, Tang Xiaoren, and the second minister, Jia Renyi, reported to Li Tian.
I hope the emperor can respect scholars!
However, this disturbance completely died down after Huang Xiao's memorial was delivered to Kyoto.
Along with Huang Xiao's memorial, there were also confessions from the prefects and county magistrates he had arrested.
Although Huang Xiao is not good at studying, he is very good at interrogation.
He used threats, inducements, and various other means to obtain key testimony.
How all the officials in Zhejiang colluded with each other to encroach on the salt business.
The salt fields of salt merchants, officials, and the imperial court are closely linked.
Even the experienced officials from the Ministry of Justice couldn't help but admire how beautifully the evidence was presented.
More importantly, Huang Xiao also found key evidence that Wu Rui was involved in the salt administration scandal!
In addition to the confession, Huang Xiao also used all kinds of methods to find out the 20 taels of silver embezzled by Wu Rui in the Zhejiang government bank.
This time, everyone in the government and the country was speechless!
This time, it was the court officials who lost!
Wu Rui is really a big borer!
This is a slap in the face of all the scholars in the world!
The imperial censors who had submitted memorials to the emperor and insisted that Wu Rui was innocent fainted again.
Tang Xiaoren didn't expect that Wu Rui would dare to be so greedy and so blatant!
In Zhejiang Prefecture, Huang Xiao dealt with one provincial governor, three prefects, and fifteen county magistrates.
No one is wronged!
The government and the public were speechless!
happy!
So happy!
Li Tian was very pleased when he saw the disheartened looks of these ministers!
He also recalled the time when he had just ascended the throne and these ministers had been admonishing him about trivial matters all day long.
Humph! If I am unhappy in the future, I will punish you with a stick!
At the same time, another memorial from Huang Xiao was sent to Kyoto.
cabinet.
Tang Xiaoren looked at Huang Xiao's memorial.
Huang Xiao wrote the memorial in plain language, and the content is simple and clear.
"I have pondered over this issue and wondered why the people in Zhejiang Province welcomed the rampant private salt trade."
"It's because the official salt is too expensive, so the people prefer to buy private salt."
"The people of Zhejiang Prefecture actually think that Wu Rui is a really good official."
"This also shows that official salt is indeed too expensive."
"So I, the Minister, implore you to lower the price of official salt so that the people can buy cheap official salt and stop buying private salt."
After reading it, Tang Xiaoren said, "Nonsense! How can a fifth-rank official like him discuss the revenue and expenditure of the imperial court?"