At the beginning, his wife came to him, and he became rich by selling kidney treasures.

"Ren Sikong, oh that's not right."

"Yes, Lower Prime Minister Ren. You are not on duty in the Censorate right now. Why did you come to the palace to find me?" Censor Chen immediately changed his words.

"I heard from your son that Lord He has been detained. What crime has he committed?" Ren Hao went straight to the point and was too lazy to beat around the bush with this old fox.

See the fish take the bait.

Censor Chen said frankly, "He has committed no crime. I had to detain him just to protect him."

"Why?" Ren Hao asked.

But Censor Chen kept the secret and asked, "Do you want to overthrow Prime Minister Zhao?"

Move down?

Ren Hao suddenly laughed.

Can't this old fox see that His Majesty sent him to the Censorate just to bring down Zhao Ping'an in one fell swoop?

"Sir Ren, I will not keep you in suspense. I have in my hands the irrefutable evidence that Zhao Ping'an is a traitor. Can his life and my life be exchanged for the lives of my family?" Censor Chen asked seriously.

"If what you said is true, I will ask His Majesty to show mercy and spare your entire family." Ren Hao nodded.

"Okay, I feel relieved after hearing your words." Censor Chen nodded contentedly, and the huge stone pressing on his heart finally relaxed.

He led Ren Hao directly to the Imperial Prison.

The Imperial Prison is a large prison directly under the management of the Censorate, and the prisoners held there should have been criminals whose entire families were to be executed or whose nine clans were to be exterminated, but now it has become a prison controlled by Censor Chen, and all the prisoners are wrongful convictions.

Those imprisoned there are either truly loyal and good people or virtuous people.

The arrival of Ren Hao and Censor Chen also made these people cry out that they were injustice, or directly curse Censor Chen, calling him an unforgivable treacherous minister who colluded with Zhao Ping'an to control the government.

Facing these people's cries of injustice and loud curses, the imperial eunuch who led the way waved his whip and cursed: "Shut up, all of you! You have committed serious crimes, but I haven't beheaded you yet. This is already a favor from the censor."

"Stop, let them all out." Ren Hao stopped the imperial supervisor.

"Your Excellency the Censor, this..." The Imperial Supervisor did not know Ren Hao's rank, so he had to look at Censor Chen.

"Release them all." Censor Chen waved his hand. He and Zhao Ping'an were going to be finished soon anyway, so it didn't matter if a few more charges were added.

After everyone was released, they knelt down and cried to Ren Hao about their grievances.

"Sir, I...I have a grievance. I want to report the Imperial Censor Chen Hui. He colluded with the current Prime Minister Zhao Ping'an and framed loyal officials!!!"

"I want to report the current Prime Minister Zhao Ping'an. He colluded with local nobles and merchants to oppress the people, causing my family to be destroyed and I have no place to seek justice!!!"

"I want to report to the current Minister of Personnel..."

Everyone was talking at once, and some even took out the blood letters hidden in their arms and asked Ren Hao to take a look.

"I didn't expect that the world would be so dark." Ren Hao sighed and looked at Censor Chen.

Censor Chen not only did not feel guilty, but sighed and said: "The emperor is young and his foundation is unstable. I, an old minister, have no choice but to do this. This is also for the stability of the court. I have no choice but to detain them all."

"If I, an old minister, had tried and held all of them accountable at that time, even if a large number of corrupt officials were dealt with, more corrupt officials would surely appear, and their harm might be even worse than theirs." Censor Chen gave a compelling reason, not to excuse himself from guilt.

Ren Hao nodded without saying anything more and went to the deepest part of the Imperial Prison.

The person imprisoned here was He Chao, along with a maid from the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Different from those people, He Chao and the maid did not suffer any hardship in prison. Except for not being able to move, they were provided with delicious food and drink every day and were kept plump and white.

"Your humble servant greets the censor and the minister of celestial affairs."

When He Chao saw that Ren Hao and the censor had arrived, he hurriedly prepared to meet them.

"You two can come out now and report all of Zhao Ping'an's crimes to Lord Ren." Censor Chen personally opened the prison door and let the two out.

"I greet the Lord Censor and Lord Prime Minister." The maid came out and bowed to the two of them, then tearfully recounted all of Zhao Ping'an's crimes.

She was originally the daughter of the Lin family in Mincheng, but Zhu Shihao, a businessman in Mincheng, took advantage of her father's illness and death to forcibly seize the Lin family's property and land at a low price.

Her brother went to the capital to appeal for justice but to no avail and was beaten to death by Zhu Shihao's followers when he returned to Mincheng. Not only was she insulted by those followers, she was also sent to the Prime Minister's Mansion by Zhu Shihao and became a plaything of Zhao father and son.

She thought she would live under the shadow of her enemies all her life, but a few months ago she accidentally overheard the conspiracy between Zhu Shihao and Zhao Ping'an.

Zhu Shihao turned out to be a traitor planted in Gu Han by King Liu Hao of Linnan.

What Zhu Shihao wanted to discuss with Zhao Ping'an this time was to help King Linnan Liu Hao get rid of Ren Hao.

For this purpose, Zhu Shihao not only gave Zhao Ping'an a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry.

"Get rid of me?" Ren Hao was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, King Linnan believes that you are the biggest obstacle to his unification of the world." Lin nodded, and told Ren Hao that the matter was put on hold because his life or death was unknown.

"Then I went against the emperor's will and luckily escaped." Ren Hao nodded, feeling fortunate that he had drifted to the Western Regions at that time.

"But since they saw that your life or death was unknown, and the succession of Emperor Wei was unstable, Zhu Shihao found Zhao Ping'an and planned a bigger conspiracy."

"They asked Zhao Ping'an to take advantage of the absence of Lord Sikong to persuade His Majesty to gather the entire army to attack the ancient Wei in the north."

"When both sides are defeated, King Linnan will take the opportunity to send troops to seize the world in one fell swoop."

"When the time comes, after King Linnan Liu Hao conquers the world, he will make Zhao Ping'an a king of a different surname." Lin told him everything she had overheard.

The reason why He Chao was implicated was that he was the only one on duty at the Censorate late at night.

After learning about this, He Chao reported it to Censor Chen.

Although Censor Chen is not a good person, at least he will not collaborate with the enemy and sell out his country.

At that time, Ren Hao and Xu Qing were both away from the court, and the garrison of Hanjing was insufficient. Censor Chen was afraid that if he rashly informed His Majesty, Zhao Ping'an would become desperate and ask Zhu Shihao to send a large number of assassins to assassinate His Majesty, so he had no choice but to temporarily detain the two in the imperial prison and deal with Zhao Ping'an.

"No wonder he ignored the people's complaints and urged Your Majesty to launch a northern expedition. It turns out he wanted to become king." Ren Hao smiled.

Now that we have solid evidence that Zhao Ping'an is guilty of treason, even if he had nine heads they would not be enough to chop off.

Ren Hao secretly reported the matter to the emperor overnight.

Wen Yan was furious. She didn't expect that it was so dark under the emperor's feet.

Not only do the officials protect each other and control the government, they do all kinds of evil things in private and bully the people, but now they even dare to collaborate with the enemy and sell out their country, and even want to become a king of a different surname.

Wen Yan directly handed the Emperor's Sword to Ren Hao, and asked him to capture Zhao Ping'an's family and all his former officials and disciples overnight.

Anyone who had anything to do with Zhao Ping'an would be demoted to a lower class and exiled outside the Great Wall at the very least, or be executed or have his entire clan executed after trial at the most serious level.

Facing the furious emperor, Censor Chen was trembling all over and dared not raise his head.

Wen Yan was ready to sentence Chen Yushi and his family to death, but Ren Hao spoke up and said, "Your Majesty, although Chen Yushi is guilty, at least he did not collaborate with the enemy and betray the country. He has made meritorious contributions while serving his sentence."

"I think that for the sake of the late emperor, his entire family can be forgiven." Ren Hao continued to defend.

After all, he had promised Censor Chen that he would protect his entire family, and he could not go back on his word.

In the end, Wen Yan, who had gradually calmed down, pulled down the curtain next to her, threw it at the feet of Censor Chen and said, "You know what to do, right?"

"I'm guilty...I know it." Censor Chen picked up the yellow curtain thrown on the ground with tears in his eyes, and looked at Ren Hao with gratitude.

Then he picked up the yellow curtain and walked out of the pavilion, and ended his life under a peach tree with the yellow curtain given by His Majesty.

……

After Ren Hao came out of the palace carrying the Emperor's Sword, he went straight to Xu Mansion and found Xu Qing who was drinking.

He asked Xu Qing to lead a thousand Hanjing light cavalry to Mincheng overnight to capture Zhu Shihao.

All of Zhu Shihao's followers will be killed on the spot without mercy.

When Xu Qing led thousands of light cavalry to surround Zhu's mansion, Zhu Shihao also expected the matter to be exposed. In order to avoid being forced to answer more questions while alive, he directly committed suicide by taking poison to thank Liu Hao.

As for the other side, when Ren Hao, carrying the Emperor's Sword, led five hundred Hanjing cavalry to surround the Prime Minister's Mansion, Zhao Ping'an also realized that he had been deceived by Censor Chen.

In order to buy a chance to survive for his whole family, he wanted to expose the crimes committed by Censor Chen while redeeming himself for meritorious service.

But Ren Hao smiled, approached Zhao Ping'an and said, "Censor Chen is already waiting for you downstairs, don't worry."

Zhao Ping'an looked as pale as death and slumped to the ground.

Ren Hao not only arrested Zhao Ping'an's entire family, he also had the Prime Minister's Mansion and all the properties under his name turned upside down.

The amount of gold, silver, jewelry and jewels looted from there is innumerable.

It really is true that when the prime minister falls, the emperor is full.

The case involving Zhao Ping'an and Censor Chen had wide-ranging implications, causing changes in the entire Hanjing capital.

The Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Justice, and the Shangshu were all dismissed from their posts, and the officials of the three ministries who had any relationship with them were either executed or demoted to a lowly position and exiled.

The sudden change and bloodshed in Hanjing also made Xu Tianyin, who was far away at Zhanshen Pass, uneasy.

Although the Xu family was loyal to the royal family, they were also afraid that the Emperor's Sword would one day fall on the heads of their entire family.

Xu Tianyin returned the military power to His Majesty on the grounds of old age and frailty, and passed the title of marquis to Xu Qing.

Wen Yan took this opportunity to abolish the Three Dukes, set up a new post of Grand Marshal, and changed the six ministers to Sakong.

The first post of Grand Marshal was held by Ren Hao.

At this time, there were no obstacles in the court. Ren Hao carried out drastic and comprehensive reforms to allow the people to recuperate, which was later called the Wenhao Restoration by historians.