How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

The officials of the Cao family also jumped out at this time, impeaching Xie Chengze for his meritorious service in Liaozhou, but for inducing the emperor to leave the capital, which not only caused the palace to be without a master, but also caused a lot of money to be spent on clearing the snow roads in various places. Such a waste of money and manpower is clearly using the suffering of various places to support Liaozhou. Not only is it useless, but it also shows that the second prince is eager for quick success and lacks foresight, which is really not what a prince should do.

In an instant, all that Xie Chengze had done in the past became nothing, and he was left with a dirty reputation.

Not only that, someone also produced evidence of the crimes of a few of Xie Chengze's private ministers, which were already few in number, and cleared out his last bit of power in the court, leaving Xie Chengze completely alone.

Such deliberate targeting obviously shows that someone is jealous of the Second Prince's recent achievements and wants to drag him into the quagmire.

"Your Majesty! Even if the Second Prince did have some merits, he ultimately used some risky strategies that would fail if he was not careful. If he could be rewarded for doing so, and everyone followed suit in the future, who would then make up for the losses caused by the mistakes?"

"Even if the Second Prince Liaozhou has made contributions, he was able to achieve this by relying on the reputation of the royal family! It's nothing but opportunism! Officials should be down-to-earth. The Second Prince is so different, which is not necessarily a good thing!"

"The Second Prince's past misdeeds should not be erased! Otherwise, where is the dignity of our dynasty's laws! I believe that the Second Prince is not worthy of being canonized as a prince. He should return all the things he has coveted in the past, disband the Chenghuan Palace, fill the national treasury, demote the Second Prince to a commoner, and never enter the capital again!"

Xie Chengze listened with a sullen face the whole time, until the ministers who impeached him finally finished speaking, he turned around and glanced at Xie Jinyu.

That glance was as indifferent as the boiling water left in a teacup. It seemed calm and cool, but in fact it was so scorching that it hurt the person who touched it as if a layer of skin was being peeled off.

"Second brother..." Xie Jinyu's heart tightened, and he whispered, "It's not me..."

Among the impeached ministers, there were indeed his people, and many of them were indeed from the Cao family, but he had never let these people do such a thing!

She must have acted on her own again!

"Does it matter whether it's you or not?" Xie Chengze sneered, "See, my prince brother, no matter whether I am mediocre or smart, some people are unwilling to let me go."

When he was nine, they feared him and took advantage of him.

When he was twenty, they were still afraid of him and used him.

Even though he had no royal blood, the Empress and the Cao family still regarded him as a thorn in their eyes; even though he was the son of the woman that Emperor Jian loved, it did not prevent Emperor Jian from personally shaping him into a control group for the prince; even though he could obviously lead Jian'an to prosperity, those termites hiding in the hall would bar their fangs and bite off his flesh and blood.

They stripped him of his soul and drove away his spirit, and when he returned, they could not wait to demote him to a commoner so that he would never again shake the crown prince's position.

However, they didn't know that the child who was forced into their body just wanted to "stay alive" in the beginning. It was their fear and instigation that made him embark on the road to seize power step by step, and regard the prince as a thorn in his eyes and a thorn in his flesh.

When Emperor Jian saw that Jian'an was instigated to seize power, he took advantage of the situation to use him to polish the crown prince and let the crown prince step on his reputation to ascend to the throne, but he never dissuaded or guided him to the right path; he doted on him and bought him all the delicacies and treasures in the world, but his purpose was to accumulate the power for Jian'an to revive, rather than really wanting to give him the greatest treasure in the world.

Of course he didn't know that the child, who was so terrified that he would be liquidated, never used a single treasure in Chenghuan Palace until his death in the original novel. The reason why he was so greedy and took away the "gifts" sent by the ministers was precisely because the wealth of Chenghuan Palace was not his "wealth" at all.

And those ministers, each of them with shrewd eyes, dragged the second prince into the water, intending to support the second prince to be emperor. Isn't it for the purpose of using the merit of supporting him to seize power and make money more wantonly in the future?

What Sheng Shihuai asked his wet nurse to tell him was very true.

"Second Prince, if a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. Moreover, they owe you this!"

Since you are unkind and unjust.

Don't blame me for being cruel.

Xie Chengze suddenly sneered.

next moment.

"What nonsense!"

An old but powerful voice resounded at this moment. Censor Chen of the Supervisory Yuan took a big step forward, opened his legs to the left and right, pointed at the ministers who had spoken and yelled, "Are you still talking like human beings?"

"A country has its own laws, and a family has its own rules! Even if the Second Prince has made mistakes, he should not be demoted to a commoner! What's the point of never entering the capital again? If the wealth that the Second Prince has coveted requires such a severe punishment, then everyone present here will probably be beheaded in public!"

With an angry look on his face, Censor Chen took out a dozen memorials from his sleeve and held them up for the ministers to see. "Many of these memorials in my hand contain evidence of the crimes of the people who just spoke. Although only a small part, it is enough for Your Majesty to ask the Supervisory Council to conduct a thorough investigation!"

All the ministers were in an uproar. Censor Chen had always been upright and honest. If he took the initiative to produce a small part of the evidence, it would mean that he had already found a lot of evidence, and these were just appetizers!

"Imperial Censor Chen! Are you trying to protect the Second Prince?!" a minister couldn't help but said angrily.

"Your Majesty!" Censor Chen ignored the minister and looked at Emperor Jian on the dragon throne. He said in a sonorous and powerful voice, "Of course the Second Prince has done something wrong, but he should be dealt with according to the laws of our dynasty. As for the Second Prince's tricks, although I don't understand how to govern a country, I know that capable people have their own tricks."

"The Second Prince is very smart, and it is understandable that he did not use the usual methods to save the country. If future generations learn from him but fail to understand his ideas, it means that they are not capable enough. How can there be such a saying in this world that one does not blame oneself for being incompetent, but instead blames the capable people for being too capable! How ridiculous!"

After saying this, Censor Chen knelt on the ground and said loudly, "This old minister only begs that the people mentioned in this memorial be thoroughly investigated, and the Jian'an court be restored to its integrity!"

"Your Majesty, please allow the Overwatch Council to conduct a thorough investigation!"

Behind Censor Chen, several ministers from the Supervisory Council also came out and knelt on the ground, shouting to Emperor Jian.

"This..." Emperor Jian hesitated slightly and glanced at **.

Li Ren stroked his beard and asked, "Censor Chen, it looks like you have more than a dozen memorials! If they are all found guilty, some will be demoted, some will be dismissed... I'm afraid there will be no one left in the court to use, right?"

"Then promote those who deserve to be promoted! Promote those who deserve to be promoted! If there are still vacancies, the spring examination is coming soon, so we can open up more admission quotas and let newcomers fill the vacancies. It's better than letting these old parasites occupy the positions and eat away at my vitality!"

Censor Chen also started to speak impolitely at this time, "Also, this is something that the Prime Minister should be concerned about and consider, and it has nothing to do with my Supervisory Council! **Don't ask me again, otherwise I will suspect that ** is also an incompetent person!"

Li Ren: …

You stinky old man!

"Well, the spring examination is coming soon, and it's time to pick some good candidates." Upon hearing this, Emperor Jian couldn't help but nod in agreement, "Zhao Quan, present the memorial. I want to take a look."

"Yes." Eunuch Zhao quickly handed over the memorial in Censor Chen's hand.

After Emperor Jian finished reading it, he sneered, looked at the ministers who had just been slandering Xie Chengze, and threw the memorial under the hall!

"Okay! No wonder you all want to impeach my Ze'er. You are afraid that Ze'er will confiscate your property in the future, so you want to drive him out of the capital, right?"

“Come here! Take away all the people mentioned in this memorial! Let the Overwatch Council conduct a thorough investigation. Once there is no mistake, those who should be demoted will be demoted, those who should be beheaded will be beheaded, and those who should be implicated will have their entire clans implicated—cough cough cough—!”

Emperor Jian coughed violently. He raised his hand to cover his abdomen. After a while, he recovered his breath and continued, "As for the second prince, he will be handed over to the Supervisory Council for disposal. All the things he has coveted will be used to fill the national treasury. He will be confined to Chenghuan Palace until the day of the Spring Examination!"

After saying that, Emperor Jian couldn't help but glance at Xie Chengze and secretly complained in his heart.

He knew very well that letting Xie Chengze go to court was the real punishment, and house arrest was a reward for him!

No wonder he suddenly came to court today, it turned out he came here for the house arrest holiday!

Under the hall, the ministers who had just been clamoring for the Second Prince to get out of the capital were all dragged away by the imperial guards, crying. Xie Chengze knelt on his knees, bowed to the emperor on the dragon throne, and said in a deep voice, "Your son accepts the guilt!"

A sly smile of success slowly appeared on that beautiful face.

The house that should be raided will soon be raided, and the head that should be punished will soon fall to the ground.

By the way, the second prince confessed his past mistakes. This wonderful long vacation is finally here!