At the beginning of March, the sun is at its warmest.

Tian Ergeng stood in the sun, but he didn't feel the slightest warmth, but his body was covered with cold to the bone.

"Your Majesty, the minion ......"

"If you really want to be a minion, go to the cleansing room first!"

As soon as Tian Ergeng's words were spoken, he was directly interrupted by Li Mao.

"I don't want to go to the clean room." Tian Ergeng said hurriedly.

"Huh!"

Li Mao sneered, the expression on his face could not show joy and anger, and strode towards the palace.

Tian Ergeng was so nervous that his back was soaked, and he hurriedly took small steps to follow.

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, the minister is wrong, the minister should not be greedy!"

Tian Ergeng looked distressed and sobbing.

The speed under Li Mao's feet did not change in the slightest, as if he had not heard him speak.

Seeing this, Tian Ergeng became more and more panicked, and he didn't notice that there was a pebble in front of him, and he slipped and fell to the ground.

"Oops......"

"Your Majesty, wait for me!"

Seeing that the emperor did not pause at all, Tian Ergeng hurriedly got up from the ground, covered his knees, and limped to keep up.

Li Mao looked at the majestic palace wall in front of him and thought for a moment, but instead of walking towards the palace gate, he turned around and walked towards the location of the Dongchang Yamen.

Seeing this, Tian Ergeng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

If the emperor walked directly into the palace just now, then there would be no reason for him to continue to follow.

As long as the emperor can listen to his own explanations, then there is still a chance to live.

"Your Majesty, the minister is wrong, the minister will never dare anymore!"

Even if he didn't hear any reply, Tian Ergeng didn't miss the slightest opportunity to beg for mercy.

The middle-aged men in the city were all taken to Tuntian, and they didn't meet a few pedestrians along the way.

It only took a quarter of an hour for Li Mao to come outside the yamen of the East Factory.

It's been more than three months since I last came here.

The current East Factory is almost completely different from when it was just established

A solemn gate, standing at the end of the street, the original architectural style has been greatly changed, and the partition walls between more than a dozen royal palaces have been demolished.

The palatial gates were gone, replaced by a huge square.

Dongchang Fanzi, who was guarding the gate, saw that the emperor was coming, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted: "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" ”

Li Mao nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "Get up, I can take a look, you are all busy with your own affairs!" ”

The doorman hurriedly got up, and after hearing it, the Dongchang fanzi, who came from afar to ask for peace, also continued to be busy with the matter at hand.

Walking into the door, I saw that the Dongchang Fanzi on the square was flowing endlessly, and from time to time there were prisoners who were escorted to various rooms, followed by the screams of crying fathers and mothers.

Li Mao looked up, and in the distance, there were many scarred prisoners being carried into the carriage.

There was no place on those people's bodies, and their eyes were dull, and they didn't look much different from dead people.

At this time, a smell of barbecue wafted in the wind.

Li Mao sniffed hard, and there was the smell of urine mixed with the smell of feces.

Obviously, there is a Dongchang fan in the room who is performing the punishment of cannon branding.

"Tian Ergeng, I plan to use all the corrupt officials to punish Dongchang, what do you think?"

Li Mao looked back with a smile on her face.

Tian Ergeng was suddenly struck by lightning.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... The sinner begs for ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he fell limply to the ground.

The corners of Li Mao's mouth twitched, and she said disdainfully: "What? Know scared? If you know today, why bother in the first place! ”

"The criminal knew that he was wrong, the criminal originally thought that he had done it seamlessly, but he didn't expect it to be easily seen by His Majesty."

"The corruption of the criminal minister is all because he can't control his greed, he doesn't blame anyone, he has nothing to do with Father-in-law Wei, and he doesn't have any subordinates involved."

Tian Ergeng thought that he was dead, so he no longer explained and begged for mercy.

Li Mao knew that his psychological defense line had been broken, and asked directly, "How much money have you embezzled in total?" When did corruption begin? ”

Tian Ergeng hung his head and said: "Your Majesty, the criminal minister embezzled a total of ten taels of gold, and he scraped gold dust from the Buddha statue when he raided the Great Ci'en Temple......

Speaking of this, Li Mao immediately understood his corruption methods.

Every time the East Factory went to inspect it, it was accompanied by an official from the household department to take inventory.

As long as Wei Zhongxian, the governor of Dongchang, strictly investigates corruption, it is difficult for ordinary people to get their hands on it.

But scraping gold dust from the Buddha statue in the Great Ci'en Temple is different, after all, there is no specific amount.

The person in charge of this can easily reap the oil and water from it.

Li Mao believes that in the process of scraping gold dust, Tian Ergeng is definitely not the only person who has embezzled.

However, he is not going to pursue it either.

This kind of thing, unless all the parties involved are arrested and tortured, it is difficult to find out.

"Get up! I hope you don't do anything like that again. ”

After finishing speaking, Li Mao strode forward and walked towards the main hall.

Sun Yunhe, the criminal officer of the East Factory, was already waiting at the door.

As soon as the emperor entered the gate, he was the first to know the news, so he bowed down early and stood outside the door.

At first, he was very happy to see Tian Ergeng slumped to the ground.

After all, Tian Ergeng is the governor of Dongchang, if he is unlucky, he should be the third-in-command.

Alas!

The opportunity for promotion and salary increase is gone.

Sun Yunhe saw Tian Ergeng who was patting the dust on his clothes, and sighed secretly in his heart.

"You're Sun Yunhe, right?"

Li Mao began to ask loudly from afar.

The second-in-command of Dongchang can still follow Wei Zhongxian into the palace to meet him, but the third-in-command has no chance.

Today is the first time Li Mao has seen Sun Yunhe.

"Exactly the minion!"

Sun Yunhe immediately knelt down and hurriedly said, "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!" ”

He originally thought that the emperor was an extremely cold-blooded person who did not recognize his six relatives, but he didn't expect the person in front of him to be so amiable that his voice was a little excited.

Li Mao nodded slightly and smiled: "Get up!" ”

Then he strode into the main hall of the East Factory Yamen.

"Slave, thank you for your grace!"

Sun Yunhe hurriedly followed.

Immediately afterwards, Tian Ergeng followed in small steps.

After Li Mao sat on the main seat, he began to close his eyes and recuperate.

Seeing this, Sun Yunhe also stood aside with peace of mind.

He realized that he had not made any mistakes, so he did not have the slightest worry.

But Tian Ergeng is different.

At this time, his heart was up and down.

After all, the emperor has not yet announced the disposal measures.

No one knows if the emperor will change his mind and let Sun Yunhe arrest him and torture him.

Tian Ergeng couldn't help but shudder in his heart when he thought of those punishments.

At this time.

Li Mao was also thinking about how to deal with Tian Ergeng in his heart, and originally called him together today, just to add a burden to him.

I didn't expect this person to be so uncompetitive and dare to be corrupt.