Traveling through books to ancient times, I provoke the love of villains and powerful ministers

It was night, the sky was cold and the ground was freezing, and everything was silent.

In the imperial palace of the capital of the Dayu Dynasty.

An eunuch held a dim palace lantern that would be able to illuminate the road clearly, and hurried through the palace roads to the front of Ciqing Palace and knocked on the palace gate.

Emperor Qitai, who was sitting in the side hall of the Ciqing Palace and having dinner with the Empress Dowager, suddenly twitched his eyebrows, and dropped a spoon in his hand into the bowl full of soup, and the soup splashed all over the place.

The palace people who were waiting on the side were so frightened that they immediately stepped forward to tidy up and made a fuss.

In the midst of this panic, the previous eunuch carrying the palace lantern had already entered the Ciqing Palace, and was talking in the ear of Li Dequan, the chief eunuch.

After hearing this, Li Dequan hurried to the hall and whispered in Emperor Qitai's ear.

Emperor Qitai frowned, put down the cups and saucers in his hand to bid farewell to the queen mother, and hurried back to the imperial study.

In front of the Royal Study Hall.

Emperor Qitai saw Li Wenkang in court uniform from a long distance. He knew Li Wenkang's temperament. Normally, as long as he didn't go to court in the early morning and it was not an important occasion, his military uniform seemed to be welded to his body.

What is the important thing to come to see him so late and dressed so solemnly.

Emperor Qitai asked Li Dequan beside him: "Who is that person standing beside Li Wenkang?"

Li Dequan bent slightly and replied: "Back to the emperor, I have never seen that person before."

Emperor Qitai looked at the person in front of the imperial study with his hands behind his back. Could it be that the important thing Li Wenkang said was related to this person?

At this time, Emperor Qitai was still very calm in his heart. He even felt that after being an emperor for so many years, he had seen all kinds of turmoil, and any important matter was not a big deal for him.

However, less than half an hour after Emperor Qitai entered the imperial study, Li Dequan, who was standing guard in front of the door, heard the crackling sound of falling things inside, mixed with Emperor Qitai's furious roar.

"If you act so boldly, do you think I'm dead?"

Li Wenkang: "Your Majesty calm down."

Wang Lang also followed Li Wenkang's example and threw himself on the ground and kowtowed.

Emperor Qitai snorted coldly, and angrily pointed at the booklet in his hand with his fingers: "Have you already read it? Can you calm down after reading it?"

Hearing this, Li Wenkang stopped talking, not only could not appease his anger, he even wanted to immediately dig Wang Minzhong out of the grave with his long knife and kill him again.

What's more, there are so many courtiers involved in it, even the prince has accepted Wang Minzhong's favor and shielded him from doing evil.

It is conceivable that the emperor's heart is now full of anger.

"Li Dequan, Li Dequan." Emperor Qitai shouted.

Li Dequan trotted in immediately.

"Go and call the people from the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to me."

"The slave obeys."

Li Dequan hurried out, just as he stepped over the threshold, Emperor Qitai called him to stop.

"Hold on."

Li Dequan withdrew his stepped foot, walked up to Emperor Qitai and waited for orders.

Emperor Qitai was silent for a moment.

With so many courtiers involved, if it is really investigated, it may cause turmoil in the court.

Anger to anger, but he is the emperor after all, he has to proceed from the overall situation, and the most important thing is to stabilize the court situation.

Emperor Qitai thought for a moment, then looked at Li Wenkang and Wang Lang who were kneeling on the ground: "Apart from you two, is there anyone else who knows about this?"

Li Wenkang knelt on the ground and said solemnly: "Don't dare to lie to the emperor. My niece Qingxi knows about this matter. She brought Wang Lang home to meet me, but my niece only knows that Wang Minzhong is corrupt and perverts the law. Know what's on this booklet."

Emperor Qitai nodded slightly, and said with a stern expression: "You take this Wang Lang back to your house and tell your niece to keep her quiet. If there is any leak, I will never forgive you. Do you understand?"

Li Wenkang looked up at Emperor Qitai in a little surprise. Why did Emperor Qitai, who was furious just now and wanted to call the people of the third department to investigate the matter, suddenly changed his mind, and it seemed that he did not plan to deal with this matter?

He didn't know what Emperor Qitai was thinking, and he didn't dare to speculate, but there was one thing he still had to do.

Li Wenkang knelt and moved a few steps forward with his knees, and made a big salute to Emperor Qitai: "Your Majesty, I have committed a crime, and I hereby plead guilty to the Emperor."

Emperor Qitai looked at the book in his hand, without raising his head, he said: "What's the crime, let's talk about it."

Li Wenkang took a deep breath and said, "In the booklet in the hands of the emperor, there is the name of the minister."

Emperor Qitai looked up and glared at Li Wenkang.

Li Wenkang continued to speak despite this gaze: "On the fifth line on the ninth page of the brochure, in the 11th year of Qianning, when I was appointed as a thousand households in Fengxiang Mansion, I once received a chime bell from Wang Minzhong."

Emperor Qitai immediately turned to the page that Li Wenkang said, and indeed Li Wenkang's name was listed there, and Emperor Qitai threw the booklet on the desk with a "slap".

"I'll give you a chance to explain."

Although Emperor Qitai was angry, he still believed in Li Wenkang, and the brochure said that the chime bell was 900 taels.

Although Li Wenkang was only a thousand households at that time, with his support, Li Wenkang had already taken back his family property from his enemies.

Emperor Qitai couldn't be more clear about how much that family property was. Li Wenkang didn't even bother to be greedy for a mere 900 taels of silver.

What's more, one of the most important reasons why he trusted Li Wenkang was that he could take all the family property in the hands of the enemy for himself, but he only took what he deserved, and the rest filled the treasury.

As for Li Wenkang, Emperor Qitai gave him a chance to explain, but he was a little ashamed to explain.

Li Wenkang told Emperor Qitai the whole story of his inexplicable embezzlement of 900 taels of silver from Wang Minzhong.

On the contrary, Emperor Qitai, who was still full of anger, burst out laughing "haha".

It also made Emperor Qitai feel a little comforted. Maybe there are many people in that list who are "greedy" like Li Wenkang without knowing it?

Emperor Qitai had a calculation in his heart.

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From the moment Li Wenkang brought Wang Lang into the palace, Qi Qingxi has been looking sleepy.

The evidence in Wang Lang's hand was probably quite powerful, which made Li Wenkang, who had thought to wait a few more days, change his mind immediately after reading it, and took Wang Lang into the palace to face the saint without hesitation.

But in this way, she disrupted her original plan to make the matter of Marquis Shen a big deal.

Seeing Li Wenkang's hurried posture, I'm afraid that Wang Minzhong's case will shock the government and the public, and no one will care whether Shen Hou was wronged or not.

It's a pity that she didn't have the opportunity to take a look at what was in that book, and she could make other plans.

It's just that such a big case was not even mentioned in the original book.

It seems that Wang Lang in that world in the book failed to avenge Yuniang, and he might end up with hatred in the end.

Unexpectedly, this time because of her wearing a book, Wang Lang could see the emperor directly this time, and with the emperor making the decision, he could always pull Wang Minzhong and his ilk out to settle the case, which could be regarded as avenging those wronged people.

Qi Qingxi felt happy, so she did a good deed.