Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Hearing that someone finally stood up and "speak up for justice", Lu Chen was immediately elated.

That's right.

How can there be only one voice in such a huge imperial court?

If you don't stand up and oppose, treat Lao Tzu as a stepping stone, and show it fiercely, how can you mediocre court officials attract the emperor's attention? How to rise to the top? How to get promoted and get rich?

But when Lu Chen was overjoyed, the empress who had been calm before just frowned slightly.

She looked at the front row of officials, an orange-robed court official who had already stood up and bowed.

Hu Yan, the newly appointed doctor of Jingxiang Qingli Division of the Ministry of Punishment.

"Hu Langzhong, what objection do you have to Cai Lu Aiqing's words?"

Hearing this, especially when the Empress called her official position directly, instead of calling Aiqing like Lu Chen, Hu Yan couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Gan, didn't it mean that His Majesty has already begun to dislike Lu Chen?

What's up with such obvious favoritism?

She didn't even want to call me "Hu Aiqing"!

Hu Yan had a feeling of being tricked, and couldn't help turning his head to look at the boss in front of the left, who was also the thigh he had just hugged - Zheng Zhong, the left servant of the Ministry of punishment, and the top boss in charge of the Ministry of punishment, Shangshu of the Ministry of punishment Qian Yiqian.

As if he noticed his gaze, Zheng Zhong nodded silently, giving him a reassuring look.

Qian Yiqian, who was further ahead, also made a veiled gesture, signaling him to be calm and not to be impatient, and just do his job with peace of mind.

Seeing this, Hu Yan felt at ease.

And this is the end of the matter, even if you have to bite the bullet, you still have to go.

So he organized his language a little bit, and then raised his voice and said:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Yongchuan County is under the jurisdiction of Jingxiang. As the official of the Ministry of Punishment, I know the case of Xia Yan, the county magistrate of Yongchuan County, in detail!"

"The evidence in this case is convincing. The witnesses' testimonies have been verified repeatedly. The accounts of the stolen money are also very clear. The criminal officer Xia Yan confessed to the crime. There is no doubt at all. This is an iron case, even if it is tried a thousand times. Same result!"

"That's why Weichen believes that retrial of this case is just a waste of time, manpower and material resources, and it is completely meaningless."

Hu Yan stated impassionedly, with a selfless and dedicated look on his face.

"Besides, the demon queen has been in chaos for six years, and the world has been poisoned by her party members for a long time, causing the country to be in turmoil, and the people are in dire straits. Now, His Majesty has managed to exterminate the demon queen and wipe out all the villains. On the occasion of the renewal of all phenomena, It is the time when our generation of monks and His Majesty are working together to create a prosperous world, how can we waste the precious energy of Your Majesty and the princes for such trivial matters?"

Having said that, he bowed again.

"That's right, I believe that what Lu said is absurd! This case cannot be retried! There is no need to retrial!!"

After the words fell, Lu Chen was stunned for a moment, then gradually came back to his senses, and then thought with emotion:

This is called professional!

This Hu Yan is obviously an old fritter who has been in the officialdom for many years.

Even though it was just an objection, he was able to say it so well, and even raised the banner of "creating a prosperous world together" to add points to his words, as if he was completely thinking of the court and the Empress.

Not a word about their criminal department.

With his political wisdom, if he really wants to fight these old foxes, he probably doesn't know how he was betrayed.

Maybe he was cheated to death by someone, and he still took it for granted that the other party was a good person who thought of himself?

Fortunately, he has a system.

The stronger these "good teammates", the better for him.

Isn't it just deceiving people? He wished that the official skin on his body would be defrauded, so naturally he would not be afraid of it.

It would be even better if the opponent was a little stronger.

The empress naturally didn't know about the system, and it was impossible to guess Lu Chen's true thoughts.

Hearing what Hu Yan said, she frowned again.

After a while, she opened her mouth slowly and said expressionlessly, "Lu Aiqing, what do you say?"

Lu Chen cupped his hands and said, "I still stick to my original idea and hope to retry the case of Xia Yan."

The empress nodded, but still didn't ask why.

Obviously, the Xia Yan case is not important to her.

Whether Xia Yan was corrupt and accepting bribes, whether she bribed the Demon Queen's followers, whether she was a remnant of the Demon Queen's party, whether she was killed or released, she didn't care.

Now she doesn't have the energy to think about such insignificant things.

It's just that Lu Chen cares about the seventh-rank magistrate named Xia Yan, and she cares about Lu Chen.

So even if Xia Yan is let go for the time being and let him live a little longer, it's actually nothing to her.

There's no need to make Lu Chen feel uncomfortable about this matter.

After all, unless Xia Yan is a really good official, all problems will naturally be solved after Xuanwu Wei personally collects convincing evidence for Lu Chen.

In her opinion, Lu Chen was just too kind and upright, so he was deceived and used by his former parents and officials.

A gentleman can be deceived by others.

At this time, Hu Yan suddenly snorted coldly.

"Dare to ask Lu Jishi, why do you think there is something wrong with the case I'm verifying? What's wrong with this case? Why do you insist on reopening the case, Lu Jishi?"

While asking three times in a row, Hu Yan stared at Lu Chen closely, and then said: "I'm not an unreasonable person, as long as Lu can give me a reason, even if it's just a reasonable reason, I will stop talking about it." be opposed to."

Hearing this, Lu Chen's eyes lit up.

The foreplay is here!

This guy named Hu Yan is really a good guy!

Look at the triangular eyes, look at the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks, so kind-hearted, no wonder I look so pleasing to the eye!

Lu Chen gave Hu Yan 10,000 likes in his heart.

Then, while calmly giving Hu Yan a thumbs up from the bottom of his heart, he displayed Oscar-level acting skills.

"Is there a reason?"

Lu Chen met Hu Yan's eyes without fear, and then replied firmly:

"I am from Yongchuan, and during Xia Yan's tenure as the magistrate of Yongchuan County, he continued to organize manpower to reclaim fertile land, encourage production, and crack down on lawlessness. The people of Yongchuan County have always lived and worked in peace and contentment. A good official with justice in his heart and dedicated to serving the people!"

Pausing for a moment, he went on to add:

"That's why, I absolutely don't believe that Master Xia will collude with the Demon Queen's followers, and I don't even believe that he will take advantage of the common people and use the people's fat and anointing he collected to curry favor with the shameless traitors who follow the Demon Queen!"

Hearing this, Hu Yan suddenly laughed.

Then he sarcastically said: "Lu Geshi, you mean that you don't have any evidence to prove Xia Yan's innocence, but you just think that he is a good official, so you suspect that there is something wrong with the case and need to be retried? "

The yin and yang strangeness in the words can be heard by anyone.

Lu Chen's mind is normal, and he naturally heard that Hu Yan's words were mocking himself.

But he didn't care at all.

After all, that was his purpose.

"Yes, Hu Langzhong."

He nodded his head as a matter of course, and then said: "Although I have no proof, I can assure you that Master Xia Yanxia is definitely a rare and good official, and he will definitely not do such harmful things!"

As he spoke, he turned around abruptly, and raised his voice to the empress sitting high on the dragon chair:

"I hope that His Majesty will see clearly, order the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to reopen the case, investigate the case to the bottom, and return Xia Yan's innocence!"

"snort!"

Before the empress said anything, Hu Yan suddenly snorted coldly.

"It's a matter of Lu, isn't it too childish for you to act?"

Lu Chen frowned, glared at him, and said with an "unhappy face":

"What does Master Hu mean by this?"

"Everything must be based on evidence!"

Hu Yan sneered and said, "Lu Geshi, you keep saying that Xia Yan is innocent, so why is there a record of that guy's bribery in the ledger found from the demon queen's palace? Could it be that the demon queen has counted in advance the day when her majesty will take over the world again?" , so deliberately falsified the accounts to frame him as a small Qipin county magistrate?”

"This kind of nonsense, whether you believe it or not, would you believe it yourself?"