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

Under the thick night, the huge Luojing was silent.

In Ziji City.

All the public houses of the government office are already pitch black at this time, but the Zichen Palace is still brightly lit.

The empress in a dragon robe leaned against the back of the dragon chair, staring at the scene projected in the picture stone in front of her with piercing eyes.

In the video, two middle-aged men were talking happily over wine, it was Hu Yan and Wang Licheng who had just left.

After an unknown amount of time, as Wang Licheng bid farewell and left, the image in the photo stone stopped abruptly.

"A jug of several hundred taels of fine wine is like drinking water, and my servants are really proud and have an extraordinary bearing."

The moment the image disappeared, the empress's red lips parted slightly, but her voice was filled with chills.

"Ten thousand taels of silver, one season's tax for one county, you can give it if you say so. My people are so rich now. It really opened my eyes."

"Besides, the matter of grace, if I remember correctly, only the descendants of those who have made meritorious service in the country have always been entitled to receive grace. The Ministry of Rites is fully responsible for it. Why can Hu Yan, an officer of the Ministry of Punishment, intervene in it?"

A sentence of soul questions echoed in Zichen Palace.

However, no one could answer her question at this time.

The Holy King Cangming is not in Ziji City now. In the huge Zichen Palace, apart from the empress, there is only one masked man in black night clothes, who is the Xuanjiwei who has been monitoring Hu Yan just now.

From the uneven figure, it can be judged that she is a woman.

At this time, she was half-kneeling on the ground, motionless, not saying a word, her whole person exudes a capable temperament.

Her breathing is extremely stable, so stable that it will hardly cause fluctuations in the surrounding spiritual energy, making people completely unaware of her existence.

This is a special breathing method that can only be mastered by first-class fighters, and it is also the basic method for monitoring advanced monks.

Emperors generally would not do such things as spying on courtiers.

In Daxia, only those who become cultivators have the opportunity to become officials. Scholars among scholars, farmers, businessmen, and scholars refer to monks among cultivators.

Cultivators temper themselves by absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, so as to obtain the existence of extraordinary power, which is also the collective name of monks and warriors.

In addition to penance, if a practitioner wants to break through, he must realize the Tao.

The premise of enlightenment is to have one's own Tao, and then the "general trend" and "opportunity" are the keys to enlightenment.

There are thousands of roads.

Whether it is the mainstream way of sages, martial arts, or the way of poetry that has found a new way, or the way of calculation, medicine, knowledge of things, the way of stars, the way of cooking, the way of merchants, etc., you can build the next way. Ji, stepping into the long road of seeking Tao.

Every cultivator can choose his own path, and after the foundation is established, multiple paths can be paralleled.

However, although there are many avenues with different differences, cultivators can generally only be divided into monks and warriors according to the direction of using spiritual power.

The former emphasizes law, while the latter emphasizes merit.

The former cultivates the spirit, while the latter refines the body.

The reason why monks are highly respected is that they can harmonize Yin-Yang and the five elements with their own awe-inspiring aura, which can affect the aura of a place to a certain extent and reduce the risk of aura gathering to form a devastating spiritual disaster. Its existence is beneficial to all people in the world.

Moreover, although monks are proficient in spells, their physical strength is not strong. They are only a little stronger than ordinary people with physical bodies. Relatively speaking, they are much easier to control than warriors. Their existence is also relatively beneficial to those in power, not like warriors. With a physique that is difficult to control, he can use tyrannical martial arts to dominate the world.

It's just that most monks are more sensitive to spiritual fluctuations, and the higher the cultivation level, the more so, so it's not easy to monitor.

And the monks who can enter the court as officials are basically not too weak. If you want to monitor, you must at least send first-class warriors with extraordinary skills.

First-class warriors are not Chinese cabbages. Even the most elite Xuanwu Guards in the Cangming Army only have forty or fifty, and some of them were sent to protect Lu Chen.

If it weren't for Lu Chen's application for a retrial of Xia Yan's case, and Hu Yan happened to be the official of the Ministry of Punishment, Jingxiang, who was in charge of sorting out the various files of the case, the Empress would never have noticed this person, let alone use him. A precious top-notch warrior monitors a fifth-rank official.

But I didn't expect that this "good official" who has always been quite famous, before the Queen Mother came to power, could get a good evaluation every time in the Jingchao, and was promoted all the way from the chief to the current doctor of the Ministry of Punishment, was so unbearable inside.

Compared with Lu Chen, a pure minister who always looks the same no matter who he is, he is like a world away.

There is no comparison at all!

"check!"

The empress threw the information related to Hu Yan on the ground as if she was throwing garbage.

"Find out all the past of this man since he became an official, especially the evidence of corruption and perverting the law! And find out the relationship between this man and the Ministry of Rites or other ministries, and uproot all these moths involved in forming cliques for personal gain, leaving no one behind! "

As soon as the words fell, the Xuanji Wei who had been half kneeling on the ground finally had a flash of emotion in his eyes.

"promise!"

After a simple response, the air around her suddenly shook strangely, and the next second, her figure suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and there was no trace of her anymore.

Just like when she came, without a trace.

After Xuanjiwei left, the empress did not continue to read the memorial, but stood up, walked to the window with her hands behind her back, and looked at the bright moon hanging in the sky.

Not knowing what to think of, her bright eyes gradually lost focus and became more and more hazy.

After a while, the corners of her mouth raised inexplicably, outlining a touching smile.

Being controlled by the Queen Mother as a puppet for six full years allowed her to develop the ability to hide her emotions and understand people's hearts. After she was firmly seated on the throne, every time she came into contact with the courtiers below, she would always subconsciously compare him with Lu Chen.

And the more she compares, the more she can feel how precious Lu Chen is.

She even had the feeling that even if the whole world betrayed her, Lu Chen would stand unswervingly in front of her, protecting her from the wind and rain.

It was as if Lu Chen was a treasure given to her by the heavens.

The moon is like white frost, spreading on her little face that is becoming more and more beautiful. The skin that is already white as snow is shining under the moonlight. At this time, she seems to have gathered all the good things in the world, and she is so beautiful that it is suffocating .

"What is he doing now? Is he still tossing and turning over Xia Yan's case?"

There was a trace of concern in the murmur like a raving.

As the supreme king of the Great Xia Empire, on weekdays, especially in front of people, she must maintain the majesty of an emperor who controls the world, and must not show a trace of weakness.

Only in the dead of night, when no one is around, will she shed a little bit of her grandeur of grasping the universe and looking at the world with disdain, revealing the only softness left in her heart.

In fact, she had already guessed half right.

At this time, Lu Chen was tossing and turning on the bed, unable to sleep at night.

But he couldn't sleep because he was worried about how to reverse Xia Yan's case.

Just too excited to sleep.

Tomorrow, when the Xia Yan case is settled, he, the guarantor, will have to leave the officialdom immediately.

Then, soar up in place!

How could Lu Chen not be excited when he thought that he was about to ascend to the fairy world and become the fairy king?

Tossing and turning on the bed, Lu Chen still couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart.

It wasn't until late at night that he felt a burst of tiredness.

So when it was time to go to court, when he got up from the bed, the thick dark circles under his eyes and extremely haggard face almost scared Xiao Yu who came over to wash his face with a basin of warm water to death.

"Cousin, what's wrong with you? Why are you so haggard?"

Lu Chen waved his hand: "It's okay, I accidentally drank too much tea last night, I was a little excited."

After finishing speaking, he stood up, and then Xiaoyu put on the court clothes on her own with worried eyes.

"Cousin, why don't you take a day off today." Xiao Yu said with concern.

Lu Chen shook his head.

"No, Your Majesty is now in charge of the court, the court is short of manpower, and the affairs of the court are extremely heavy, so there is no room for slack, otherwise, if there is a slight delay, it may cause very serious consequences!"

Just kidding, he has been busy for so long just for today, how could he ask for leave on such an important day?

Even if it is climbing, he still has to climb to Xuanji Gate to participate in the joint trial of the three divisions.

And hearing what Lu Chen said, although Xiaoyu was anxious, she knew that she couldn't persuade this stubborn cousin, so she had to take the trouble to tell him to take care of his mind when he had free time, and not to be too forceful .

Lu Chen responded repeatedly, then left the house with a yawn, and walked slowly towards the Xuanji Gate.

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