I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 207 Zhuge Zheng

"The list I asked you to draw up again has been drawn up."

Huang Yan hurriedly took out a piece of paper still stained with sweat from his sleeve.

Li Tian didn't dislike the smell on it, so he picked up the list and compared it with those who impeached Guo Wenyu just now.

Twenty people are actually on the list.

Originally, Li Tian had no plan to do anything to these people.

But they actually licked their faces to impeach a dog in the water, which made Li Tian couldn't stand it anymore.

with a snap.

Throw the memorial and the list in front of Huang Yan.

"Go and arrest these people for me, and interrogate them in detail!"

Huang Yan's face was full of distress, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

He had collected money from these people before, and most of it was handed over to Li Tian. He thought that Li Tian would let them go lightly for the sake of the money.

But I didn't expect Li Tian to turn his back on his words at this time. Doesn't this mean that he turned his face immediately after taking the benefits?

In this way, Huang Yan's reputation will be ruined, and no one will trust him anymore.

Seeing that he was still a little hesitant, Li Tian asked coldly, "Why don't you go, don't my orders work now?"

Huang Yan faltered and said, "Old slave obeys! Keke Your Majesty"

"If you have anything to say, why hesitate, just say it!"

Huang Yan secretly cheered himself up, and it took him a long time before he said, "Didn't Your Majesty have already said in the morning that you want to let these people who are not guilty of serious crimes go, why do you..."

"Is it back and forth?" Li Tian said with a half-smile.

Huang Yan lowered his head even lower, "I don't dare, but I don't quite understand, please let your Majesty express it!"

"Okay, I'll talk about it."

He walked gently in front of Huang Yan, and asked in a deep voice,

"Do you know how many people have been implicated in Guo Wenyu's corruption case?"

Huang Yan was taken aback for a moment, this matter was investigated by him alone, so it is naturally clear,

"About seven to eighty people!"

"Hmph, seven to eighty people! Let me ask you, is that too much or too little?"

He carefully pondered what Li Tian meant, and stammered,
"It should be not too small!"

Li Tian looked up at the gradually darkening sky, and said calmly,

"You also know that it is not rare. In the past, whether it was the late emperor or I, it was not easy for these people to deal with such cases. It was not easy for these people to survive for ten years. They only investigated some of them."

"But blindly being kind does not mean that I am a weak person who can be fooled by others."

As he spoke, he casually opened a memorial and threw it in front of Huang Yan,
"I also want to be lenient to them, but look at what they are doing. While giving you money to change your life, they also wrote a letter to impeach and report Guo Wenyu, asking for credit!"

"Tell me what they mean by doing this. Do they think I'm a fool, or a fool who recognizes money but doesn't recognize people."

"So fooling me, you say they should die or not!"

Hearing this, Huang Yan couldn't stop sweating.

He thought to himself, "These bastards, after you spent money to buy peace, you just waited obediently, so you can die, and you actually participated in this matter with a memorial. Now, your majesty is angry, you It doesn't matter if the head falls to the ground, but it doesn't matter that our family is blamed, it really doesn't matter!"

Immediately, he slammed his head heavily on the ground, and said sadly, "Your Majesty, this old slave is greedy for a while, so I shouldn't take their money. This old slave will go and arrest them all."

Seeing that he was about to get up and leave, Li Tian stopped him after thinking about it.

"There's no rush for this matter, [-]% of you remember it in your heart, and I'm going to meet someone later, so just follow along and listen!"

At this moment, Huang Yan's heart was flustered, and he was already in a mess. When he heard that there was no need to do it right away, he was greatly relieved.

I thought to myself, "As long as you are not in a hurry, there is still time, and maybe there is still room for relaxation."

In fact, Li Tian was not so angry about this matter, but these people were obviously corrupt and accepted bribes, but they still had to pretend to be virtuous and good-looking, which made him feel sick.

After looking through the memorial for a while, Zhuge Zheng was brought over by a young eunuch.

Zhuge Zheng is only in his thirties this year, and he has only been an official for five or six years.

To be able to become a supervisory censor at this age, and to be a minister with the second and third ranks of the imperial court, this shows that he still has some talents.

Zhuge Zheng had a handsome appearance and a tall and straight figure, and he was really a bit of a chic and unrestrained taste of Yushu facing the wind towards that stop.

"The supervisor and censor Zhuge is seeing His Majesty."

Looking at his handsome face, Li Tian felt a little sour in his heart, and said lightly, "Get up and talk!"

Although it was the first time to face the emperor alone, he seemed to know that such an encounter might happen today, and he didn't seem too flustered.

He shook his robe slightly, stood up, and stood quietly under the hall, waiting for Li Tian's question.

"Emissary Zhuge knows why I called you here today!"

Raising his eyebrows, Zhuge Zheng said in a slightly too loud voice, "Of course it's for Wei Chen's memorial."

Neither humble nor overbearing, full of mid-term, those who don't know think he is the master here.

Li Tian said playfully,

"Hehe, you are quite confident! It seems that you have been prepared for a long time, how do you know that I will definitely summon you?"

Zhuge Zheng's face remained unchanged, and he said in a cadence, "Because what I have played is the truth!"

Looking at Zhuge Zheng's memorial again, Li Tian smiled lightly and said,
"Greedy flattery, forming cliques for private interests, nepotism, Zhuge Yushi really thinks that these innocuous crimes are worthy of me summoning you alone!"

Zhuge Zheng said very calmly, "I don't understand. Are these few crimes not enough to explain that Lu Zhen, the censor of Zuodu, has committed a heinous crime!"

Seeing that he still refused to tell the truth at this time, Li Tian was a little impatient.

He waved his hand slightly, "Since that's the case, the Imperial Envoy Zhuge should step down. I will discuss this matter with all the elders before making a decision."

Zhuge Zheng wanted to make a fool of himself, and he had to say important things at critical moments in order to reflect his due value.

Unexpectedly, Li Tian simply asked him a few words and told him to leave. This made him prepare for a long time, and he was ready to fight to the death, how could he stand it.

Immediately, his expression changed, and he knelt down on the ground with a plop.
"Your Majesty forgive me, I do have other important things to say."

Li Tian patted the table lightly, and shouted, "Emissary Zhuge, do you really have enough time for me to waste at will? If you have something important, why don't you just say it!"

Zhuge Zheng didn't expect Li Tian to get angry when he said he was angry, and he forgot most of the set of words he had prepared.

Stuttering, "I am guilty of my crime, I am guilty of my crime"

(End of this chapter)