The secrets of the government behind the scenes are revealed, and all the villains are on their knee

Shen Yu frowned, slowly turned around, and looked in the direction of the drum outside the hall.

You only entered the city yesterday, but you are here to beat the drum to report your crimes today?

Didn't Minister Zhu say that the man was seriously injured and wouldn't be able to get out of bed for a few days?

Shen Yu slowly shifted his cold gaze to the shivering Minister Zhu.

When Minister Zhu met his gaze, his pupils trembled violently, and then he quickly lowered his head.

Those bastards clearly told him last night that the peasant was seriously injured and would be unable to get out of bed for at least ten days or half a month. Why would they come to complain?

It's over, it's over now.

But with Prince Yu here, he should be able to protect himself, right?

When Lin You arrived, he saw the ministers all with different expressions.

Of course, the most exciting ones are Prince Yu and Minister Zhu.

[Haha, you stinky bastard, you pig minister, you never thought that I saved Qian Zhu and asked him to come and beat the drum early in the morning, catching you off guard.]

The devilish laughter suddenly sounded in his mind, scaring the confused ministers.

Turning around, he saw that their queen had already entered the hall.

In order to cover up their queen's overly devilish laughter, Eunuch Hong hurriedly announced in a shrill voice: "The queen has arrived."

After he shouted like this, the ministers who were unable to hear his true feelings turned around.

Shen Yu and Minister Zhu also shifted their gaze behind the pearl curtain.

The graceful figure in bright yellow has already taken a seat.

Cold sweat began to appear on Minister Zhu's forehead.

After Huang Yuan and Lu Bin knelt down and apologized yesterday, he knew that this queen was not simple.

"Who is beating the drum?"

After all the ministers had performed their greetings, the woman behind the pearl curtain finally spoke.

Some ministers who could hear one's thoughts twitched their lips when they heard this.

Their queen is really good at pretending.

She is probably the one who knows this matter best.

However, what kind of serious injustice did that person have that made the Empress go to rescue him personally?

But if it is related to Prince Yu and Minister Zhu, then it must be very serious, otherwise the Emperor would not allow the Queen to rescue people in the middle of the night.

Judging from the two key words "rescue", the person who came to file a complaint to the emperor should have been ambushed and assassinated by Prince Yu and Minister Zhu.

When the ministers thought of this, they looked at Shen Yu and Minister Zhu with strange eyes.

The sweat on Minister Zhu's forehead was getting more and more.

It seemed as if he was already feeling so guilty that he couldn't feel any more guilty.

Shen Yu was calm, but there was a heavy gloomy aura around him.

I don’t know since when, his gentle image disappeared, replaced by a look that kept strangers away and was full of hostility.

At this time, a eunuch came into the hall to deliver a message.

"Your Majesty, Minister Jiang has brought a complaint to the Emperor and requests an audience."

After the voice fell, the ministers looked at each other, and finally understood why Minister Jiang did not come to court today.

Lin You raised his eyes slightly when he heard this. Eunuch Hong immediately understood and said in a shrill voice: "Xuan..."

After a while, Minister Jiang brought a young man into the hall. The young man was dressed very simply, his clothes were patched, and there were bruises on his face and hands.

In short, any skin that is exposed is included.

It was still a little difficult for him to walk, and he was stroking his abdomen with one hand, probably because he was injured there.

He walked to the center of the hall, knelt down, and kowtowed to the woman in the high seat, "I greet you, Your Majesty. May you live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years."

"Be flat."

The young man paused when he heard the calm female voice.

Why is this voice exactly the same as that of the female doctor last night?

But this voice was calm and elegant, and intimidating without being angry. Last night's voice was a bit different.

[Well, he looks fine. It seems that my rescue last night was not in vain.]

Qianzhu's eyelids twitched.

It turned out to be the female doctor from last night!

But didn't they call her Madam last night? Why is she Madam?

How could he deserve the help of the imperial concubine who was in charge of government affairs?

"You were the one who played the Dengwen drum?"

Lin You opened his lips.

Qian Zhu came back to his senses, "It is me."

"Since Minister Jiang brought you here, you must have been wronged. Tell me what it is."

Lin You went straight to the point.

"I am from Zizu Village, Shannan County, Lizhou. My name is Qianzhu and I am twenty years old."

"I am representing all the people of Lizhou. With the money collected by the whole village and the last ray of hope, I am going to the capital to report the Lizhou prefect and the Minister of Revenue for privately increasing taxes, withholding food and fodder, and taking human lives."

"Also, on my way to the capital, I discovered that the places where taxes were increased were not just Lizhou."

Qian Zhu spoke word by word.

Every word contains great injustice and resentment.

Lin You raised his eyes and looked at Minister Zhu who was wiping his sweat. "Minister Zhu, is this true?"

Her voice was so faint that Minister Zhu shuddered suddenly.

He knelt down and said, "I am innocent. Lizhou is so far away from Shengjing. How could I possibly reach there?"

"This is clearly a frame-up!"

Looking at Minister Zhu kneeling beside him, Qian Zhu sneered coldly, and then looked at Lin You again, "I have letters between Minister Zhu and the prefect of Lizhou, which can be used as evidence."

Qian Zhu took out a letter from his arms, and Eunuch Hong presented it to Lin You for inspection.

Looking at this envelope, it should have been sent this month.

Lin You opened it and glanced at it. He saw a few very brief words: "Within half a month, receive 30,000 taels of tax silver."

The signature was the seal of Zhu Shangshu's mansion, and the recipient was Li Hao, the prefect of Lizhou.

The other letter was from the Lizhou governor to Minister Zhu, "I'm afraid we won't be able to collect this much tax silver in half a month. Can we increase the tax silver?"

Lin You was puzzled. [How did Qian Zhu get these two letters? Normally, shouldn't he have burned them on the spot after reading them?]

Some people who heard the inner voice were also confused.

How could a secret letter like this be obtained so easily?

System [Because a girl married Lihao as a concubine in order to get this evidence, she hid for half a year and took the opportunity to get this letter. The letter that was burned was a fake, and then she replaced Lihao's letter, so there are these two letters as evidence. ]

[And that concubine was Qian Zhu's cousin, and the brother and sister had made this plan from the beginning. ]

Lin You, [Has Qian Zhu's cousin been discovered? Otherwise, Li Hao wouldn't have known that Qian Zhu went to the capital to file a complaint alone.]

[Yes, host. Li Hao's people encountered an accident while delivering the letter. They found out that the letter was fake, so they immediately returned to tell Li Hao. However, at this time, Qian Zhu had been on the road for ten days, so they were unable to catch up with him. In addition, Qian Zhu was in disguise, which made it even more difficult for them to catch him.]

[After the woman was discovered, she was locked up in the basement and tortured. They didn't kill her, but just wanted to use her to threaten Qian Zhu.]

Hearing this, Qian Zhu's heart tightened and bloodshot eyes appeared.

During the days of being hunted, he escaped death countless times, and he also heard countless times from those beasts how they tortured his cousin.

His heart felt like it was being cut by a knife, but he couldn't do that. If he was caught and taken back, it would be a waste of his cousin's sacrifice.