Being an emperor is not about having a meal, especially if you want to be a good emperor.

The emperor has been in power for ten years, and he is not as angry as he is today: the city wall that was just repaired last year collapsed! The emperor personally took people to the survey site by the city wall.

Jingwei sealed off the entire street. The emperor sitting in the carriage sighed, he was getting farther and farther away from the busy street.

When he arrived at the collapsed city wall, the emperor saw it, and suddenly there was a nameless fire! If the enemy army comes at this time, even the siege will be saved. Lu Bin, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, took the waiter of the Ministry of Works, and more than a dozen people knelt in two rows with sweaty heads.

"Lu Shangshu, what is the reason?" The emperor stepped on the pile of bricks with one foot, kicked hard, and the top brick rolled forward, hitting the pile of bricks in front of him, making a crisp sound - "pop"! The kneeling people all heard their own heartbeats.

Lu Bin replied tremblingly: "Yes...... The craftsmen in charge of building the walls cut corners, resulting in ...... As a result, the city wall is not strong, coupled with heavy rain for several days, the rammed earth of the wall foundation is not firm...... I've already asked the Criminal Department to get people......"

"Lord Shen, go pick up that brick just now and see whose name is engraved?"

Shen Congxi went over to pick up the brick, the brick was complete, but the name of the brick maker could not be found on it. Shen Congxi hesitated for a moment, then went to another pile of bricks and picked up two pieces, but the name of the brick-maker was not seen. He threw the bricks on the ground, and saw that two of the three bricks were broken.

"Your Majesty, there is no inscription on the brick."

"Go over and look at the fracture, what color is it?"

After a while, Shen Congxi came back with two guards with shovels, and Shen Congxi said: "The fracture is gray, digging down, and the rammed earth connection of the wall foundation is also gray-black because of the lack of bonded glutinous rice." In addition, the number of wooden stakes is also insufficient, basically only one in twenty steps. Such a wall, fortunately, fell. ”

The city wall of the capital is rammed earth in the middle, the structure of two bread bricks, and the lower width and upper narrow are trapezoidal, and every ten steps are reinforced with wooden stakes, such a wall is extremely strong, even if it is an artillery attack, it is difficult to break. But such a city wall actually soaked down after a few days of rain.

The glutinous rice used as a binder cut corners, and even the wall tiles were not engraved with the name of the person responsible according to the regulations.

The emperor sneered: "Who is this who wants to destroy my Celestial Empire?" Check it out to me! If the culprit is found, no matter who it is, he will be punished for treason, and his body will be beheaded and hung on the city gate for three days! ”

As soon as the emperor's words fell, Lu Bin, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who was kneeling there, fainted and fell to the ground with a "bang".

With Lu Bin's fall, this city wall case basically has a direction, and Zhao Muzhe, the left waiter of the Criminal Department, is responsible for a comprehensive investigation of this case. Zhao Muzhe liked to be competitive in his early years, except for the emperor, he didn't pay attention to anyone, went out to treat the water for three years, cured his temper, and developed the habit of careful observation in case of trouble.

Zhao Muzhe spent three days visiting the brick kiln where the bricks of the city wall were burned, interrogating the thousands of households, foremen, sappers and craftsmen who supervised the city wall project, and finally handed over a list to the emperor: Lu Bin, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and a total of eight officials of the Ministry of Industry, took the opportunity of repairing the city wall to collect money.

The brick kiln sent silver to the Ministry of Works, and the silver was to be saved from the bricks. Originally, the clay used to burn the bricks of the city wall was harder, so in order to save money, it was mixed with more sand. After burning these bricks, the potter dared to carve his name on them? It's a head-off thing. There was no way, the kiln owner went to the Ministry of Industry to give gifts, and finally promised that there was no need to engrave words on the bricks.

This is true of bricks, and the materials used to build walls are also as good as they are. Glutinous rice for bonding is the most expensive, and more than half of it is put in. The wall was built, and the Ministry of Engineering went to accept it. Originally, there was a method of acceptance, which was to stuff the copper coins that were prepared to be paid into the cracks of the wall, and the rest was the wages, so that the craftsmen would try to fill in the cracks in the wall as much as possible and stuff less copper coins into it.

Now that the Ministry of Industry has received the gift, the acceptance is a formality. Whether it is a crack in the wall, a wooden stake, or a brick kiln, everyone thinks that they can't do anything big without their own point, and as a result, the wall collapses.

"Your Majesty, the seven people who solicited and accepted bribes have all been sent to prison in the Criminal Department, and according to the crime of treason, they should all be beheaded at home. It's just that Lu Shangshu's son ......, "Zhao Muzhe's branch of me, the emperor also remembered it, Zhao Muzhe's sister-in-law Zhao Jiamin, isn't she married Lu Ziran, the eldest son of Lu Shangshu?" At that time, the queen also added two dowries to Zhao Jiamin.

The emperor snorted twice, and Zhao Muzhe hurriedly said: "Everything is carried out according to the laws of the Heavenly Empire, and the minister has no objection." It's just that in order to avoid relatives, the minister asked to resign as the presiding judge, and the emperor asked someone else to take over. ”

Zhao Muzhe is right, the emperor himself forgot that Zhao Muzhe and Lu Bin still have this layer of kinship.

So the emperor simply let the criminal department Shangshu take over the case.

The Kelu family knew that it was the young lady's brother Zhao Muzhe who took the case first, and sent his father-in-law to prison, and they all grabbed Zhao Jiamin and asked her to intercede.

Zhao Jiamin is not having a good time in the Lu family, she has been married for four or five years, and her stomach has not moved. The first article of the seven is that there is no queen, although the Lu family did not dare to divorce her because she was a girl from the Hou Mansion, but the concubines given to Lu Ziran were not one or two. What can Zhao Jiamin do? I can only endure it for many years.

Zhao Jiamin said to her mother-in-law and husband: "Even if it is my brother's father-in-law, he only handles the case in accordance with the law." The emperor of the city wall case has opened the golden mouth and convicted it of treason, and now it is already a blessing that there is no Zhulian Nine Clans, how can he intercede? ”

"There are so many people in the Ministry of Industry, how many are killed below, won't your father-in-law get out of business? The solutions are all thought up by people, you go back to discuss with Hou Ye and Zhao Shilang, whether it works or not is not up to you as a woman's family. "The mother-in-law didn't follow, she felt that it was unlucky to marry this daughter-in-law, after entering the door, the child could not be born, and now there is a big event in the family.

Lu Ziran also persuaded his daughter-in-law: "You just go back and try it, my mother is reasonable, as long as someone is guilty, my father may have a chance to get rid of it." You are a member of the Lu family, we have not found fault with you for many years, don't come to this time, and still hold the shelf of the eldest girl of the Hou Mansion. You are the emperor's cousin, it is said that even the emperor should kneel and beg! ”

Zhao Jiamin was stunned all of a sudden, her mother-in-law said that she could bear it, but her husband only said what he thought in his heart today, but he was heartbroken! Zhao Jiamin had never been so wronged, pushed everyone away, and ran out crying.

"Ran'er, your daughter-in-law refuses to care, you go to the Hou Mansion to try it yourself!" Mrs. Lu urged her son, and Lu Ziran had no choice but to come to the door to intercede for his father.

There was a commotion in the Lu Mansion, and the sister-in-law also rushed back, and when she heard her mother say that her sister-in-law refused to intercede for her father, she couldn't help but run outside Zhao Jiamin's house, crossed her waist and scolded: "Don't think that you are great if you have a princess?" Who doesn't know that the princess was killed by you? Now not only do you have no son-in-law for my brother, but even my father will be killed by you......"

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