Stop acting, Your Majesty, the queen knows you're faking it

Chapter 32
"My concubine and your majesty are married together. It's only natural to come to see your majesty. You don't have to feel relieved. But..." Chi Xinian smiled at Yan Chujing, then turned his eyes to look at the food box on the table next to him, " Your Majesty doesn't seem to need a concubine to bring you snacks?"

"How could it be?" With a casual glance at the side, Yan Chujing knew that Chi Xinian had misunderstood something, and he hurriedly explained, "I prepared this myself. I originally wanted to send it to the Queen after I finished my business, but unexpectedly, The queen came first by herself."

As he spoke, he hurriedly got up and took a stool, motioning for Chi Xinian to sit down beside him: "Since the queen and I have the same thoughts, why don't we sit down and eat together?

"It just so happens that after I've been busy, I can use it with the queen, and I can also chat with the queen."

"Alright." Chi Xinian also wanted to talk to Yan Chujing about his recent thoughts.

Since he invited, she naturally would not refuse.

Both of them had the same thing in their hearts, and they soon talked about Xue Chuo.

The topic was brought up by Yan Chujing, who pretended to inadvertently mentioned to Chi Xinian about his confinement of Concubine Xue Shu, and then complained: "This Xue family is really a big family, so it doesn't make people feel at ease. This sister is in the palace. Nonsense, and my brother was out embezzling for personal gain.

"But there is also a father in his family who protects the weak. He has clearly proved the evidence, but he still argues with me, saying that the punishment is too severe!"

In order to win over Chi Xinian, Yan Chujing secretly glanced at her and said, "Dajing fought for six years, and when the national treasury was empty, even those who served the country had no more money to subsidize, but here he is." It's really shameful when there is corruption at this time!
"If you don't punish me severely, how can I explain to the people of the world?!"

"So Your Majesty has made up his mind to punish Xue Chuo severely?" Chi Xinian nodded slightly, expressing that he understood what he meant.

But she frowned, and took the initiative to point out Yan Chujing's heart disease: "But the Xue family has been a minister for generations, and the ancestors helped the Taizu found the country. Under Xue Shangshu's desperate protection, your majesty wants to take advantage of a corruption case. I'm afraid it's not easy to punish his son-in-law severely, right?"

"It's not easy." Yan Chujing lowered his eyes, sighed and pinched the center of his brows, "So I'm thinking about how to suppress Xue Shangshu's arrogance first.

"Xue Chuo himself is not difficult to deal with, as long as his father doesn't get entangled with a group of courtiers to confront me, it's only three levels, and he will be demoted if he talks about it."

"Your Majesty can't hold you back alone, so why don't you ask someone to help you?" Chi Xinian used to be a general in the court, so he didn't have much taboo about talking about important affairs in the court with Yan Chujing at this moment.

After casually twisting a piece of pastry, she said freely, "In the past six years, His Majesty has been able to provide military salaries and rations to the soldiers fighting on the frontier steadily, presumably there are people on hand.

"Although Xue Shangshu holds a lot of power in his palm and has disciples all over the court and the public, but it is really more important than building momentum. He may not be as powerful as you, is he?"

"And..." Sensing that Yan Chujing was still in a dilemma, she changed her mind and said, "Building momentum won't work, we can go to other ways. For example... Xue Chuo didn't just take advantage of a small sum of money, but Is there a bigger crime added?"

"A bigger crime?" Yan Chujing frowned, "What does the empress mean, let me find Xue Chuo's fault now?
"Let's not talk about how much evidence can be obtained by cramming. What if he really didn't do anything worse? So what should I do?"

(End of this chapter)