The beautiful and powerful minister hooked up with the crazy emperor and couldn't escape

The table was filled with memorials, so piled up that there was almost no room for them.

Many of them came to plead for the officials of Jiangning Prefecture. After all, most of the officials did not know that the emperor was in Jiangning. They were hoping for the best and thought that the affairs of Jiangning Prefecture were discovered by Bai Yunjin, especially since the incident at Xitai Tower also involved a prince.

Bai Yunjin's position as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice was not enough to preside over the trial of the prince. Even with the title of Junior Minister of the Dali Temple, he was still not qualified. As a result, many ministers accused Bai Yunjin of exceeding his authority in the trial.

Mo Ling pinched his brows, separated the people who came to beg for mercy and those who came to complain to Bai Yunjin into two groups, and asked Jiazi to send people to each of them to investigate the account books of Xitai Tower.

There were also some officials who never mentioned the Xitai Tower case. Compared with the first two, Mo Ling was more suspicious of these people. After all, the people behind Xitai Tower knew that he was in Jiangning, and that the Xitai Tower incident was related to him.

Now that they knew, they would understand that Mo Ling would never let this matter go lightly. Pleading for the officials of Jiangning Prefecture would likely implicate themselves, so the best way was to not get involved.

Mo Ling directly asked Yichou to send people to secretly monitor these people. Mo Ling did not believe that these people with guilty consciences would not take any action.

Mo Ling lowered his eyes. Xitai Tower was related to most of the court, and it was far from being a case that could be closed with just the Jiangning Prefecture.

This matter started three months ago, when the wife of a seventh-rank official in the capital died unexpectedly. It was not a big deal. The wife's mother's family was just a merchant with a few shops, which was not enough to cause such a big event.

But the official's wife did not die accidentally, but was killed by someone. The official had a beautiful mistress. He and his mistress were spotted by his first wife, who was not willing to suffer any loss. She stepped forward and slapped the mistress several times. The official just wanted to pull her away from the mistress, but she ended up falling down the stairs and died.

The original wife's family only had this one daughter, and when the bad news came, the old couple fainted. The official was afraid that the matter would be leaked, so he buried the original wife hastily and took the concubine back to be his principal wife.

The old couple didn't even see their daughter for the last time, so they went to the official's house to make trouble, but ended up having their legs broken and being driven out. Coincidentally, the old woman accidentally learned the truth about her daughter's death, and went to Jingzhao Yin to complain about the seventh-rank official and his mistress.

Who knows. The officials protected each other, and they had no place to appeal. Not only that, the shop that the old couple used to make a living was taken away. The old man had no money for medical treatment and soon died, and the old woman became crazy.

It was not until the birthday of Duke Weiguo that Mo Ling went out of the palace to celebrate his birthday as a sign of favor. The old woman suddenly ran into Mo Ling's carriage and cried out for injustice before she died.

This incident alarmed the emperor, so it could not be easily erased. Mo Ling's people quickly found out the truth and cleared the original wife's family. But his secret guards found more than that, and also found out that the identity of the concubine was fake, and that the concubine was just an actor.

Identity fraud is not a big deal. After all, there are always one or two secrets in official families that cannot be told. But there is not just one person who has faked his identity, but a group of people. Moreover, this group of people have all entered the back houses of officials in the capital, either as mistresses or concubines.

After much investigation, it was discovered that this group of people all came from Xitai Tower. Sometimes, when there are too many coincidences, they are no longer coincidences. Those people sent by Xitai Tower were not only beautiful but also good at singing and dancing. Some of them had both unique talents and skills, which made the officials so fascinated that they could hardly tell east from west.

If these people want to persuade these officials to do something, the consequences will be disastrous. Using beauty to corrupt the core of the court bit by bit is really a vicious scheme.

The list Mo Ling found was not complete, so in order not to alert the enemy, he personally came to Jiangning Prefecture to investigate the matter. The only official notified was Bai Yujin, who had an affair with the prime minister. After all, he was a homosexual, and the backyard was vacant, so it was barely available.

Now most officials still thought that Mo Ling was spending the summer in the palace.

Although his whereabouts were concealed enough, he still failed to catch the person behind the scenes. Lou Xinyu took away half of the account book. He only had half of the account book, which was given to him by the Imperial Master. His people worked hard for a while, but got nothing. They just figured out the internal structure of Xitai Tower.

But just this half of the account book is shocking enough. There are many of his trusted ministers in it, but very few military generals, especially those under the command of the Grand Tutor. None of them are on it.

This was originally the account book sent by the Grand Tutor. One possibility is that the Grand Tutor read it and deliberately deleted those military generals. Another possibility is that the Grand Tutor was the person behind the scenes and did it to dispel his doubts.

What is even more difficult is how to deal with it. If these people are demoted and imprisoned, the prison in the capital may not be able to accommodate them all. Moreover, if all the people are locked up, who will deal with the backlog of affairs?

But if it is not dealt with, it will only embolden the people behind the scenes.

It was not right to deal with it, nor was it right not to deal with it. Mo Ling had a headache for a moment.

Moreover, the leader of Xitai Tower was Iris, who had been deliberately teasing him, and it was obvious that she had set her sights on him. And Iris was the Grand Tutor's man, so it was hard for him not to suspect the relationship between the man behind the scenes and the Grand Tutor.

Ming Qing's appearance and personality are exactly what he likes, as if she was tailor-made for him. So he can't help being attracted to Ming Qing, but at the same time he can't completely let down his guard against Ming Qing.

The day had dawned before he knew it, and it was another sleepless night. Mo Ling's eyes were slightly bruised, and he looked a little haggard, but he didn't care, because he was going to meet his uncle, the scapegoat, today.

Many of the account books that the Grand Tutor had sent were forged, but it was hard to say who forged them. However, there was only one purpose for forging them, which was to put all the blame on King Zhao.

"Long time no see, how is your uncle doing these days?"

Mo Ling was dressed in a dark robe and a golden crown on his head, looking very majestic.

The King of Zhao looked much more haggard than the last time they met. After seeing Mo Ling, he seemed to come alive all of a sudden: "A Ling, can you please withdraw those people outside the palace? Uncle San is begging you. Those people are like demons. They are training outside every day and make so much noise that I can't sleep well."

"They won't let me go out. I am a prince, but I am under house arrest here. That big general even contradicted me and said that I can only go in but not out. Without his permission, not even a mosquito can fly out of the Prince Zhao's mansion."

Mo Ling's face showed no expression: "Really? Is there such a thing? Jiazi, go check what the emperor's uncle said."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The smile on Prince Zhao's face looked more genuine: "I knew that A Ling believed in Third Uncle."

Mo Ling passed King Zhao and sat on the main seat. He asked casually, "Uncle, do you know what the crime of assassinating the emperor is?"

"Assassinating the emperor?"