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But what the female officer didn't expect was that Xiao Youqing didn't get angry because of her arrogance after she slapped her again, instead she calmly walked to the head of the punishment hall.

The crown prince who was standing bowed quickly stepped aside, Xiao Youqing sat down with his hands up, and looked at the woman coldly without further anger, "I know you, Sizheng Zhonglu..." Xiao Youqing raised his piercing eyes , "Xun, oh no, it should be Yue Shi, the oiran lady who succeeded Liu Shi in the original Lanyue Tower, and was later redeemed by Lu Shicheng, the son-in-law of the former princess of Wu, and became her outer room raised in another courtyard."

Xue Jin entered in a hurry, "Report to Her Majesty the Empress, all the officials from the Household Department's Zuo Cao household registration case will be brought here."

In the reform of Qianyuan, the three divisions belonged to the household department, and they were divided into left and right Cao. Zuo Cao of the household department was one of the five divisions of the household department, with five cases under it. In addition to the officials appointed by the court, there were forty officials.

The Zuo Cao case of the household department is in charge of the national household registration, state and county household registration promotion, untouchables Congliang, etc. A group of officials in green robes and officials with no rank and no rank are unknown, so they are taken to the private punishment hall set up by the Imperial City Division. When they saw defecation, they were all frightened, and they all bowed their heads to the ground after entering.

The crown prince frowned at this scene, and murmured to himself: "The law of cruel officials will make the courtiers panic..."

Hubu Division Langzhong and Hubu Division member Uiro looked at each other on their knees, then raised their heads cautiously, "Your Highness, what did Hubu Division commit? Criminal Hall..."

"What happened to her household registration?"

Everyone looked at the nearly crazy woman, two of them were already scared out of their wits, Xiao Youqing raised his finger and pointed at the two flustered officials, the two officials were immediately picked up from the crowd by the forbidden army.

The officials kowtowed in panic. As officials below the officials, they have never even entered the imperial city a few times, so how could they have such close contact with Tianyan, "His Royal Highness, please forgive me, Your Highness, please forgive me..."

"Let me say it," the female officer pushed aside a few guards and walked slowly to the officials, "These two men took the slave's money and..." and then bent down, "Body."

Han Bang on the side was dumbfounded, and couldn't believe what he saw and heard. The female officer raised her head and glanced at Han Bang, "Everyone has several faces, so is Mr. Han, and so are they. After all, Mr. Han is a man." , don’t understand women at all.”

Then the ministers standing on the jury began to discuss in private, "I said that female officials are not feasible, look at what is going on."

The female officer held her head high and said, "They changed my household registration. The eldest sister who came out at the same time as me switched identities. In fact, I have nothing to do with her. It's just that she treats me well, and her name was changed after she became a good person. So none of you will think of the former Yue family." The female officer stepped forward again, and was immediately stopped by the guards, and she trembled and laughed, "I dragged everything out today, because I thought about it long before I entered the official position. Yes, I want to let you taste the helplessness and powerlessness of meager people, and let you know that the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in an ant's nest."

"Your Majesty, the minister waited for a while to fall in love with this bitch..." The official's kneeling body trembled because of panic.

"Drag on!" Xiao Youqing snorted, "Association with Dali Temple will be punished as an accomplice."

"His Royal Highness, spare your life, Your Royal Highness, spare your life!"

"Yes." The imperial guards stepped forward and dragged away the two officials who were kneeling and begging for mercy, and then Xiao Youqing sent back the rest of the officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the punishment hall became much quieter.

The female officer continued to sneer: "You think that you are a master and can dominate everything. You only see what you see, and you don't care about the life and death of ants. In the end, you have to act as a good person to prove to the world that you are a good person." Right, but everything that you obliterated and ignored is wrong, you..."

"You are wrong," Xiao Youqing stood up from his seat and stared at the female officer coldly, "I have always been the only one who pushed myself into the abyss, and I was the only one who pushed myself into a desperate situation. It was you, and it was your greed. Your desires, your dissatisfaction, push yourself step by step into the abyss, you desperately want to change your identity and situation, and want to squeeze into the upper class, but you think that with the things you bought in exchange for a body, you can Do you want to change yourself? Dignity has always been earned by yourself. You have been an official for many years. Don’t you know what the officials are doing?" Xiao Youqing left his seat and walked towards the female officer step by step, "If you throw away Regardless of your past, you are just Lu Jian, you went from a lowly family to a good man and then you wear this official robe, ask yourself, which dynasty and generation of emperors can let you do this?"

"I don't deny what you said, but what about yourself, with hatred, you can even betray your own country. Because of hatred, you don't even remember who you are, and you scold others, but you don't know yourself. Doing a disgusting deed that no one in the world should be ashamed of..."

The female officer wanted to refute, but was immediately stopped by Xiao Youqing, "Don't tell me that you were forced to do nothing, because you have a choice, but you made the wrong choice at the beginning."

The female officer was frightened by Xiao Youqing's eyes, and immediately took a few steps back, Xiao Youqing pressed forward, "You use your short-sighted eyes to hate the person you hate, so in your eyes, everything about her has become shameless." , when you see what you think is filthy and filthy, you don’t know that your eyes are full of them!”

Xiao Youqing's repeated words made the female officer speechless, and the domineering aura she exuded as a queen filled the entire execution hall, causing the current crown prince to stand aside and be overshadowed.

The female officer immediately stood still, and looked at Xiao Youqing pretending to be calm, "So what, he won't make me feel better, and I won't make him happy either. Speaking of which, you are really pitiful..."

"Presumptuous!" The crown prince stepped forward and reprimanded.

The female officer didn't even glance at her, she just kept staring at the glamorous queen, "You care about him so much and guard him, but the people you care about only see the country and the country, all of you are just in his hands Playthings and chess pieces, including Lu Shicheng back then, and the poor eldest princess, who didn’t even know she was sold.”

"If you think that if you have a husband who doesn't love you and let your children follow you and follow your surname, your younger brother will let your children be included in the ancestral record despite the objections of the courtiers. If this is called selling, I also think that you don't Need to be rescued," Xiao Youqing passed her side, "The poor thing is not that you were born as a woman, but you look down on yourself as a woman. You want to change yourself through others, but you never think about how to change yourself through yourself." Change, don't you know that people in this world," Xiao Youqing stopped, then turned his head and said coldly, "Aren't you the most reliable than yourself?"

Xiao Youqing was turning back and stepping up to leave behind the words: "Take her to Dali Temple," and immediately stepped out of the punishment hall, "deal with the law of the country." Only the female official stood in the punishment hall speechless, All the officials also breathed a false alarm, the crown prince looked at the teacher and the woman and followed them out.

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In mid-October of the 15th year of Qianyuan, Political Department of the Ministry of War was dismissed and imprisoned for the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason. The secret letter between Tubo merchants, Dali Temple convicted him and submitted it to the prison country, and after getting the approval, the criminal was taken to the prison of the Ministry of punishment.

Liu Miaoyi presented the prepared amnesty order to Xiao Youqing, "Your Highness, I don't know whether this edict is to be issued in the name of the official family, the name of the crown prince, or... your name."

"Use the official one." Xiao Youqing took the imperial edict presented by Liu Miaoyi.

"But the minister is using the name of His Royal Highness the Queen." Liu Miaoyi bowed and raised her head.

"The official family is still..."

"However, the official family gave Her Royal Highness full power to handle military and state affairs, not the prince."

Xiao Youqing's hand froze on the imperial edict, and frowned when he saw the word "Yu" on the person's title, "Isn't that Liu Sheren what you mean?"

Liu Miaoyi straightened up, "The officials have considered a lot for you."

"But she didn't think about what I really want. You know, what she did would only increase my fear. She clearly knew what I was most concerned about."

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In mid-October, the criminal was sentenced to beheaded, and the execution ground was set up at the Wuchao Gate of Kaifeng Mansion. In the same month, Xiao Youqing announced by the queen's order that Fang Zhiyan, who knew the Privy Council, was acquitted, the official was reinstated, and he was awarded the title of "Shouzheng" hero.

The day before the beheading, a scarlet gown with a whitebait bag on the back of his waist walked into the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, which made all the jailers suspicious.

"Didn't that woman cause Mr. Han to be demoted from his post? She even took off her purple robe, she was demoted several levels, and she caused the military department to be like this. Shouldn't it be hatred? Why did you bring wine to see her? "

"Who knows what he thought, but it's just a robe. He is the crown prince's teacher, and it will be a matter of time before he wears it again. What are you worrying about, a low-level jailer?"

Han Bang took the food box from the attendant and immediately waved at him, turned around, walked to the prison pillar and squatted down slowly, opened the food box and took out the wine glass and jug inside, "If you don't plead guilty, maybe others won't find it... .It is the entire Ministry of War that suffers..."

The woman stripped off her official uniform and leaned on the pillar, "I just want to let him know that all the humble and insignificant things he ignores may destroy everything he, the ruler, has built. The attitude overlooks everyone, they are born with things that others can't reach, and they accuse others of interfering in other people's lives with a superior attitude, it really is selfish for everyone in the world."

Han Bo filled a glass of wine and handed it over, "I don't sympathize with you, because any dissatisfaction and resentment cannot be used as a reason for treason. You can be disloyal to the king or the dynasty, but the country is different. You know that if the Central Plains The consequences of the fall?"

"I don't know, and I don't want to know."

Han Bang put down the wine, stood up, frowned, glanced at her, then shook his head and turned around.

"Han Jingming." The woman called out suddenly, and immediately leaned on the prison pillar and turned her head to look at the back of Fei Pao, "Don't trust women so much, especially the one above you in the punishment hall the day before yesterday. Once a woman becomes cruel, you are really just playthings." That's all."

Han Si stood still with his scarlet sleeves folded, "It's not me, Han Jingming, who gave the girl the chance to believe in the girl." He stepped forward immediately, "It's the official."

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Before the beheading, the imperial court suddenly ordered the principal criminal to be escorted out of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment in an exposed cart, and the execution ground was changed to a place in the southwestern Sichuan that had suffered from wars. , and the people who lost their homes and relatives due to the war stared at them with angry red eyes and insulted them. The tabloids spread the matter all over the city of Tokyo for a while, making it discussed for a whole half a month, and also made the courtiers have to question the system of female officials. Feasibility, the emperor's health improved, and rumors spread to the inner palace, and then the minister Fu Que Shangshu demanded that the female officials be dismissed.