Li Yuanji shuddered and turned his head to look at the na?ve Li Tai with a pale face. In his eyes, the more na?ve Li Tai was, the more terrifying he felt.
"Your Majesty," Li Yuanji said in a trembling voice,"I know I was wrong."”
This was too f * cking annoying!
Chop minced meat?
How did he think of such a sinister method!
Look at how tired Big Brother is!
Now, he was asked to eat melon seeds. Who knew how he was going to eat melon seeds? If he ate a hundred or eighty pounds and had to peel the melon seeds inside, wouldn't he die in Prince Qin's residence?!
Li Tai sized him up and asked curiously,""You mean, my words are working again?”
"It's good, it's good!" Li Yuanji hurriedly said. Whatever Your Majesty asks me to do, I will do without complaint!”
"This is more like a human sentence!"
Li Tai nodded in satisfaction and ignored Li Yuanji, who looked like he had just survived a disaster. There were plenty of ways to deal with these two disobedient brothers. He tilted his head to look at the stunned Li Er and said in a childish voice,"Qin Wang, bring the horse out. It's time for court!”
Li Er was feeling very complicated. He knew Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's personalities very well. How could they be convinced by the eight-year-old Li Tai? Not to mention them, even he was not convinced.
Now, one of them was lying on the ground and fainted.
There was also one who was not convinced, but was frightened into submission.
Sigh, who did this kid learn such a sinister trick from? Li Er was a little depressed. Fortunately, it was on Li Jiancheng. If he tried it on himself, he wouldn't be able to stand it either!
At this moment, Li Tai's voice sounded in his ears.
Li Er's expression changed drastically." Not good! The morning court session is over!”
She had been so engrossed in watching Li Jiancheng chop the meat stuffing that she had completely forgotten that there was an early court session today.
Li Er broke out in a cold sweat. The entire court was probably waiting in the hall to curse.
"I am the emperor. Without me, how can they attend the morning court?”
"It's not too late to go now!" Li Tai's tender voice sounded.”
Li Er didn't hesitate. He quickly ordered someone to prepare a carriage and brought Li Tai into it. He personally drove the carriage toward the Imperial Palace.
……
Imperial Palace, Taiji Palace.
All the officials in the court were divided into two groups and stood there blankly.
What was going on with the current emperor? If the emperor didn't come yesterday, why didn't the emperor come today?
Four hours had passed since he entered the palace.
The sun was already shining on his butt!
Why hasn't His Majesty gone to court yet?
If he didn't attend court today, he should at least say so!
Since the little Emperor did not say anything, they did not dare to leave and could only wait in the hall.
Da da--
At this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded.
An eight-year-old child with his hands behind his back, dressed in a pale golden robe, strode into Taiji Palace. Under the gaze of all the civil and military officials, he walked up to the throne and sat cross-legged. He said in a childish voice,
"Today, Prince Qin's Mansion has something to do and made everyone wait for a long time. It's getting late, so let's cut to the chase.”
"I'm fine!"
"I'm fine!"
Hearing this, the officials hurriedly said, wishing they could go to court now.
Li Tai looked at Pei Ji. Pei Ji must have told Li Yuan about what happened yesterday. Li Yuan must have something for Pei Ji to tell him. He blinked and said,"Prime Minister Pei, what's the matter? If there's nothing else, we'll retreat!"
The corner of Pei Ji's mouth twitched a few times as he tightly gripped the imperial edict given by the Supreme Emperor in his sleeve.
If it was four hours ago, he would definitely take out the imperial edict. But now, he couldn't. He couldn't take it out now!
This imperial edict was for the civil and military officials to give Li Tai a lecture during the morning court session and let him learn the way of governing the country.
As for the way of governing a country, it would take at least two hours!
Right now, all the civil and military officials wished they could retreat and rest. If he took out the imperial edict and read it out, he would probably be skinned alive by the gazes of all the civil and military officials.
Moreover, there were so many civil and military officials in the court, and he was the oldest. His legs were trembling!
Another two hours.
He was really going to die in court!
Pei Ji forced a smile and said in an old voice,"Your Majesty, I'm fine."
"Then retreat!"
Li Tai waved his small hand and shouted.
All the officials in the court were delighted. Just as they were about to heave a sigh of relief and return to rest, they saw a middle-aged official walk out.
The round-faced middle-aged man wearing a black veil and a red official robe suddenly stood in the middle of the hall. He held a bamboo board and bowed to Li Tai. He lowered his head and said in a loud voice,
"Your Majesty, I, Sun Fujia, a member of the Ministry of Revenue, have a report!”
The smiles on the faces of all the officials froze as they stared at him, their hearts filled with anger.
This damned person was causing trouble at this time. Didn't he see that everyone was extremely tired and was rushing back to rest!
Li Tai looked at him and was surprised. Wasn't Sun Fujia the first top scholar in history? His young voice was filled with curiosity."What do you want?"
Sun Fujia raised his head and said with a solemn expression,"
"Your Majesty, this subject has just been transferred to the Ministry of Revenue this month. In this month, this subject has discovered that the Ministry of Revenue has a huge deficit. The deficit is so huge that it is shocking. This subject will give an example.”
The tired and sleepy officials were no longer sleepy when they heard this. They stared at him in disbelief.
"The imperial court is out of money?"
"You can't even pay the salaries of the officials?”
"Sun Fujia, don't joke around. This month, my entire family will be waiting for the court to give us a salary!”
The low-ranking officials in the capital were all anxious. What a joke. Did they think that they were like those rich dukes? Without the salary from the imperial court, they would starve to death!
Pei Ji was also shocked and said in disbelief,"Sun Fujia, this official just looked at the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue a few days ago. It's not as serious as you said!”
Sun Fujia raised his head and said,
"This subject also obtained evidence yesterday. The Ministry of Revenue's accounts that Prime Minister Pei saw a few days ago were all fabricated by the former Minister of Revenue, Wang Yuan. He colluded with the Minister of Works, Liu Yu, to fabricate false accounts to deceive the entire Ministry of Revenue and the entire Imperial Court!”
"If I hadn't tidied up Wang Yuan's office today, I'm afraid I wouldn't have discovered it! Right now, the money that the Ministry of Revenue was managing was less than 10% compared to the account books!”
"Bastard!"
"Less than one out of ten?" Pei Ji couldn't help but say angrily. How dare the two of them! Aren't they afraid of being beheaded?"
The civil and military officials were also shocked and furious. Less than 10% of them survived. How much did these two people take?!
"Behead? They were naturally afraid, but they only had to bear the risk of being beheaded. As long as they were not found out, wouldn't everything be fine? One was the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the other was the minister of the Ministry of Works. Wouldn't it be easy to cheat and not be discovered?”
Sun Fujia said indifferently. Then, with a solemn expression, he bowed to Li Tai and said,
"Fortunately, His Majesty was able to see through everything yesterday and imprisoned Wang Yuan and Liu Yu. Only then was I able to obtain evidence and publicize their crimes! Your Majesty is wise!"
Li Tai blinked his eyes. Was there something about me?
The three fence-sitters from yesterday were actually corrupt officials?!
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