Chapter 1087: Checks and Balances

Early in the morning, the eunuchs used shovels and brooms to sweep the snow from all parts of the palace, and the sun was about to come out, making it easier to sweep before the snow began to melt.

Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan, and Wan Yutong got up after breakfast, walked out of the restaurant to change clothes, and prepared to go to the Qinzheng Hall to deal with the recital.

Kang Yide, who was waiting at the door of the restaurant, hurriedly followed up and reported: "Your Majesty, the new Acting Si Zheng Jia Yue said that he has something important to ask to see His Majesty, and he is already outside the Qinzheng Palace!" โ€

Zhao Junsheng stopped, thought for a while and ordered: "You send someone to lead him into the inner palace to report!" โ€

"No!"

Zhao Junsheng changed into a dragon robe, took the jade crown and walked out of the dormitory, and a little eunuch led Jia Yue to stand outside the dormitory.

"Chen Jia Yue knocks to see Your Majesty, Your Majesty Sheng'an!" Jia Yue saluted.

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand and said as he walked: "No courtesy!" Keep up and talk as you go! โ€

"No!"

Jia Yue agreed, and immediately followed up to report: "Your Majesty, someone killed the criminal department who was monitoring near Wang Tanzhi's mansion, robbed Wang Tanzhi's family and imprisoned them in the Jingwang Mansion Courtyard!" Wang Tanzhi heard the news from nowhere, and led people to break into the palace to save people that nightยทยทยทยทยทยท"

Zhao Junsheng asked, "Is it the person sent by King Jing to arrest and rob Wang Tan's family members quickly and rob them?" โ€

"Back to Your Majesty, I can't be sure, the minister didn't find out the identities of those people!"

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said, "Why are Wang Tanzhi's family members imprisoned in King Jing's Courtyard? He didn't send someone to do it, who else could it be? โ€

"Your Majesty, at the end of last year, before His Majesty's class returned to the court, King Jing had already gifted that annex to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Oh? So the prince sent someone to do it? โ€

Jia Yue arched his hand: "Your Majesty, although the other courtyard is in the name of the prince, the minister doesn't think that it must have been done by the prince, not to mention that the prince has no reason to do anything to Wang Tanzhi's family, even if there is, he won't imprison people in his own courtyard, isn't this a self-confession?" โ€

Zhao Junsheng pondered for a moment and nodded: "You go on!" โ€

"Yes!"

Jia Yue agreed, and continued: "The minister had previously sent someone to secretly conduct a secret investigation of the inside of the waiting lawsuit, and found several officials who reported to Wang Tanzhi, and now they have all been arrested, and they have all confessed that they did deliver news to Wang Tanzhi, and confessed to it, but they don't know where Wang Tanzhi is, but there is only one person, this person is named Cui Ren, he used to be a down-and-out person, and was recruited by Wang Tanzhi to wait for the lawsuit and is deeply used, so far he has served as the head of the state department, and this person's behavior is somewhat abnormal these days, The official in charge of the secret investigation found out that he was abnormal, and the minister immediately ordered him to be interrogated. โ€

"Yesterday evening, the minister scattered the bait, Wang Tanzhi arranged for the nearby subordinates to find the bait and quickly report, after dark, Wang Tanzhi sent a person named Fu Zhongyun to Cui Ren's house to connect with him, this Fu Zhongyun is one of Wang Tanzhi's henchmen, he was captured by the minister arranged in Cui Ren's house, the minister personally interrogated him, this person confessed that Wang Tanzhi had taken people to the Jingwang Mansion to rescue his family, and then the minister quickly took people to the Jingwang Mansion Courtyard!"

"When the minister arrived at the palace courtyard, the battle was over, there were corpses all over the ground, in addition to the people brought by Wang Tanzhi, there were also a group of corpses of people in black and a group of corpses caught by the criminal department, as well as a large number of blades and arrows, and the corpses of those men in black could not be identified!"

"In addition, Wang Tanzhi is dead, he should have been killed by the black-clothed man who kidnapped his family, after the minister arrived and entered the courtyard, Wang Tanzhi was seriously injured and did not lose his breath, but his throat was pierced, he lost too much blood, he couldn't be saved, and he couldn't speak, he died in less than a moment, and the minister took people out of the courtyard before Jin Wuwei and the government arrived quickly!"

"There is another thing that the minister thinks His Majesty should know, just last night when Wang Tanzhi led people to raid the other courtyard to save his family, he sent more than a dozen henchmen to raid the Jingwang Mansion, the Jingwang Mansion suffered heavy casualties, and the Jingwang and the Wangfu Zhan Shi Ma Dun still hid in the stone house to escape the catastrophe!"

Zhao Junsheng was very calm, he stopped and turned his head after listening to Jia Yue's words, and asked, "Is it the fact that Wang Tan's family was taken away and imprisoned in the palace and that Wang Tanzhi was killed?" If it was him, how could he let Wang Tanzhi send people into the palace? Do you think King Jing did this? โ€

This matter is very important, how dare Jia Yue talk nonsense without evidence? He hurriedly bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, whether this matter was done by King Jing or not, the key is to see if those who can find out the identities of those dead black-clothed people, but I am afraid that this matter is very difficult, these black-clothed people do not carry waist cards or passes!" Even if the minister assumes that King Jing did it, he can find out the identity of those people in black, but if those people in black are not from King Jing's mansion, he can't be sure that King Jing did it, because he can find someone else to do it, unless there is a living mouth to testify, but unfortunately, the people in black who stayed behind are all dead, and the man in black who killed Wang Tanzhi has slipped away when the minister and others arrived, and no one has seen it at all! โ€

Zhao Junsheng stood in place and was silent for a long time, and asked, "Wang Tanzhi's people are all dead?" โ€

"Back to Your Majesty, the people he brought out are all dead, and there is no one alive, and the people who stayed in the waiting court to report to him have already been arrested, and they have all confessed!"

Zhao Junsheng said: "Kang Yide, go and call Yuan Lian!" โ€

"No!"

Zhao Junsheng continued to walk in the direction of the Qinzheng Palace, and Jia Yue did not get Zhao Junsheng's instructions for the next step, so he had to follow behind.

When he was about to arrive at the Qinzheng Palace, the eunuch Yuan Jian walked over quickly and saluted Zhao Junsheng: "Slave and maid knock to see Your Majesty!" โ€

"Yuan Lian, I have an errand for you to do, you get up!"

"No!"

Zhao Junsheng said to Jia Yue and Yuan Lian: "The responsibility of waiting for the lawsuit is heavy, and it is a matter of safety in the world, and no mistakes can be made!" In the past, I have always ignored the possibility of internal problems in the lawsuit, and have always believed that you are all loyal and incomparable, but Wang Tanzhi's incident has made me understand that nothing in this world is absolute! Jia Yue, I asked Yuan Jian to cooperate with you to deal with the affairs of the waiting lawsuit, and set up a new room in the waiting office - the supervisor's room, with Yuan Jian as the deputy of the waiting lawsuit as the deputy of the director, and concurrently served as the host of the supervisor's room, and the supervisor's room is dedicated to reviewing the loyalty of internal personnel, the two of you discussed and drafted a charter, Yuan Lian's main responsibility is still in the supervisor's room, and you must not arbitrarily interfere in the relevant deployment of the waiting's lawsuit to secretly supervise hundreds of officials! โ€

Jia Yue understands that the establishment of the supervisor's office and the appointment of Yuan Jian are equivalent to the emperor arranging a supervisor around him, the Si Zheng, and it is also a role for him to restrain him, so as not to let the power of the lawsuit be in his hands, especially since he has risen from the position of Si Cheng to the acting Si Zheng, and when the position of Si Cheng is vacant, the power of the waiting court does need to be checked and balanced.

Both of them clasped their fists together and saluted: "Obey the order!" โ€

At this time, Mulan's voice came from behind him: "Your Majesty, you wait!" โ€

As soon as Zhao Junsheng heard Mulan's voice, he instructed Jia Yue and Yuan Lian: "You guys go first, Yuan Lian will take office today!" โ€

"The minister (slave and maid) withdraws," the two saluted and then retreated.

Zhao Junsheng's appointment of Yuan Lian, a eunuch, to enter the waiting lawsuit was also carefully considered, Yuan Lian's resume is very clear, this person was originally a soldier of the Dragon Guard, no family, and no marriage, he was seriously injured in the battle between Mobei and the Rouran people and lost his fertility, so Zhao Junsheng let him enter the palace to serve himself.

Long Weijun can be said to be the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and he has examined the issue of loyalty before being selected, and Zhao Junsheng has to take them with him wherever he goes, and he is still very relieved about their loyalty.

Now Yuan Lian is a eunuch in the palace, and the eunuchs themselves are the emperor's domestic slaves, and they can only rely on the emperor to obtain glory and wealth, Zhao Junsheng asked Yuan Lian to check and balance Jia Yue's power, and at the same time restricted Yuan Yue's power, that is, as long as Jia Yue's loyalty is not a problem, Yuan Lian cannot interfere with Jia Yue's command of the lawsuit.

Zhao Junsheng saw Mulan coming over and asked, "What are you doing here?" Why do you go so fast? โ€

Hua Mulan said with an ugly face: "Until now, you are still hiding from me, but I heard that the fourth child's house was raided by a wanted criminal named Wang Tanzhi last night, and the guards of the palace were killed and injured. โ€

Zhao Junsheng said: "I also just listened to the report of the people below, how can I hide it from you?" How do you know? โ€

"I can't know? Anyway, I am also the queen, and the palace maids in King Jing's Mansion were all sent by me, how can I hide anything from me if something really happens? โ€

Zhao Junsheng said: "Fortunately, the fourth child is fine, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune!" Okay, you go back, there are ministers who have come to see the minister, so you don't want to go! โ€

Hua Mulan immediately said: "That's not good, I just want to ask the ministers, why does the Jingwang Mansion find the raid of the gangsters, and why is the security of Chang'an City found to such a point?" The thieves even dared to sneak attack the Jingwang Mansion, so wouldn't the safety of the ordinary people's homes be even more insecure? After speaking, he walked briskly to the Qinzheng Palace.

Zhao Junsheng shook his head, followed quickly, and shouted as he walked: "You wait, this matter is under the control of Jin Wuwei and the Jingzhao and Chang'an governments, and now they are only afraid that they are still investigating, how can they enter the palace to report before they have eyebrows?" โ€

Mulan shook over and said, "Then can't I take the initiative to ask?" โ€

"It's okay if you want to ask, but you have to call the person in charge first!"

Half an hour later, the Tai Chi Hall.

Zhao Junsheng's daily handling of state affairs is generally in the Qinzheng Palace, and the large and small court meetings are only held in the Zichen Palace, and only when receiving foreign envoys and holding major celebrations are carried out in the Taiji Palace.

This time, there were thieves who openly entered the prince's mansion and almost slaughtered King Jing's full door, which challenged the dignity of the royal family of the Daqian Empire, and also challenged the dignity of the elite class of the entire Daqian Empire.

Therefore, this incident not only angered the royal family, but also angered the powerful elite.

When Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan arrived at the Qinzheng Palace, they received a report from the eunuch that many ministers and officials in the court had received the news that the Jingwang Mansion was attacked and secretly attacked by thieves last night, so they rushed to the palace early in the morning to ask for a meeting.

Zhao Junsheng had no choice but to order the palace door to be opened to let the ministers and officials in, and at the same time sent people to King Xuanjing to enter the palace to meet him.

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