Emperor Jiang Yuping had just finished reading the book on the table when he heard the eunuch come in to report that General Wen had something urgent to see him.
Jiang Yuping was stunned for a moment, and he specifically glanced at the hourglass next to him.
A quarter of the hour.
At this time, Wen Yuzhu has something urgent to ask for?
Thinking of Wen Yuzhu's steady temperament, the emperor didn't even think about it: "Xuan."
After a while, Wen Yuzhu appeared in the imperial study room under the leadership of the eunuch.
Jiang Yuping noticed that Wen Yuzhu was not wearing official clothes but ordinary clothes.
The ministers had to change into official uniforms when they came to the palace for an audience, but Wen Yuzhu didn't even change his clothes and was covered in wind and rain, which showed that something was really urgent.
During dinner in the evening, the queen said that Wen Yuzhu went to see Xiaoliu and Wen Shu today.
Jiang Yuping's hand holding the Zhubi shook slightly.
Did something happen to his little sixteen?
Even though he was extremely anxious, Jiang Yuping still suppressed his uneasiness, and his majestic face remained impeccable.
Wen Yuzhu lifted up his robe and saluted: "Wen Yuzhu, a humble minister, is here to see Your Majesty. Please forgive me for disturbing you late at night."
The emperor looked at Wen Yuzhu, who was kneeling on the ground but his back was as straight as a pillar: "Get up quickly and sit down."
"People who don't know that your clothes are so wet would think you have been standing outside for half an hour.
Go back and change your clothes first, and then let’s talk.”
Wen Yuzhu looked at the emperor sitting on the dragon throne: "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty, but the matter is urgent, so I'd better finish the matter first."
After speaking, he took out the evidence wrapped in tung oil paper from his chest.
The tung oil paper is rainproof. Even though Wen Yuzhu was soaked by the rain, the evidence that he was wrapped in the tung oil paper was that not a drop of rainwater got on him.
He handed the evidence to the young eunuch beside him, who in turn presented it to the emperor.
The emperor looked at the paper in front of him and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
Although I don’t know what’s inside, it probably has nothing to do with his Little Sixteen.
When the tung oil paper was opened, the last thing the emperor saw was a piece of paper.
The people to be sued on the petition turned out to be Miss Su Baicha and the Yancheng County Magistrate.
After a brief moment of surprise, the emperor quickly began to read.
What surprised him was that the pleadings in his hand were clearly organized. Compared with those pleadings that took a long time to understand what was going on, the pleadings in front of him could be used as a template for reference by people across the country, and would save the investigators time.
A lot of trouble.
However, the initial surprise passed and Jiang Yuping soon fell into silence.
Every word on the petition deeply expresses a woman's helplessness and helplessness in the face of power.
It also tells the story of a county magistrate who used his power for personal gain in order to enrich himself.
The petition is rigorous and the wording is sharp.
It took a long time for the emperor to put down the paper in his hand.
He simply couldn't believe that such a piece of paper was written by a woman.
Looking at Wen Yuzhu sitting there with complicated eyes, Jiang Yuping opened other evidence.
He occasionally went to Prime Minister Su's residence and saw Su Baicha's calligraphy once, and was deeply impressed by Su Baicha's calligraphy.
With just one glance, he could tell that the letter in front of him, threatening the county magistrate to use his power for private purposes, was written by the Miss Su family.
Putting down the letter is a testimony signed and stamped one by one.
The more he looked at Jiang Yuping, the more profound his eyes became.
After reading all the papers, he raised his head and looked at Wen Yuzhu with complicated eyes.
When Wen Yuzhu saw the emperor raising his head, he spoke: "Your Majesty, Gao Chunlin, as the magistrate of Yancheng County, knew the law and broke the law. If everyone in our Jiang country were like him.
I am afraid that the centuries-old foundation of Jiang Country will be completely destroyed."
Naturally, the emperor was also angry about this matter. A county magistrate dared to ask for 200 million silver.
His treasury’s annual income is only tens of millions of taels of silver!
The emperor took a deep breath and said coldly: "If you don't kill such a stupid and incompetent county magistrate, the people will not be angry!"
"The Ye family is not guilty, so they will naturally be acquitted. We cannot chill the hearts of our people."
"Don't worry about this. I will arrange for a new official to go to Yancheng to replace Gao Chunlin tomorrow."
After talking about the Yancheng County magistrate, the emperor fell silent again.
Gao Chunlin is not the only one involved in this matter.
Su family.
Subai tea, this Subai tea again...
Su Zhizhang is so transparent and a man of etiquette, how come he has such a daughter who is not called "easy to worry about"!
The matter of this woman cuckolding Yuzhu was solved just a few days ago, and in the blink of an eye, she was trying to take human life lightly again.
Killing such a person a hundred times will not be enough to satisfy his hatred!
But she is the daughter that Su Zhizhang holds in the palm of his hand!
Wen Yuzhu looked at the emperor who fell silent after speaking to Magistrate Gao, and instantly understood that the emperor was worried about Prime Minister Su.
He spoke bluntly: "Since Magistrate Gao has already punished him, should Su Baicha, who is the mastermind behind it, also..."
The emperor raised his hand, interrupted Wen Yuzhu, and signaled him to stop talking.
Those steady eyes looked at Wen Yuzhu.
Wen Yuzhu has always been his most promising junior, and he is also the sharp edge he has trained for Yu Heng.
Wen Yuzhu also lived up to his hopes. He was very good, knew how to advance and retreat, and never put himself in trouble.
But what happened to him recently?
"Yuzhu, Su Baicha did something wrong in this matter. Let's do this. I will talk to Zhizhang alone tomorrow and ask him to discipline him well. What do you think?"
If it were other matters, Wen Yuzhu would give in for the sake of the entire Jiang Kingdom and Jiang Yuheng.
But now it is his wife who is being bullied!
He fought on the frontline battlefields, quelled the war and expanded the territory for Jiang State, and almost died several times.
What is he doing?
For the sake of his family's well-being, they will no longer be bullied, and they don't want anyone to look down on them.
But now someone else's knife has been placed on the neck of his beloved.
In the end, the emperor's simple words of restraint and discipline meant that he was going to excuse the murderer. What the hell!
The hands hanging under his sleeves were clasped tightly. Wen Yuzhu took a few deep breaths before suppressing the bloodthirsty violence in his eyes and calmly said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to do this."
The emperor did not expect that Wen Yuzhu would refute him.
Completely stunned for a moment.
He didn't know that this matter was inappropriate, but she was Su Zhizhang's only daughter after all. It would be a small thing to kill Su Zhizhang's crazy wife, and he was afraid of chilling Su Zhizhang's heart...
“Prime Minister Su’s lifelong service to the country and the people is indeed admirable.
But Prime Minister Su is Prime Minister Su, and Su Baicha is Su Baicha.
Su Baicha has never contributed to the construction of our Jiang Kingdom. Just because she has a good father, she can just be an official of the imperial court and disregard human lives?!
Your Majesty, have you ever thought about what if Your Majesty forgives the Su family today?
The majesty of the Heavenly Family will become a complete joke.
What would the civil and military officials of the day be thinking?"
When Wen Yuzhu saw the emperor pursed his lips and said nothing, he continued: "If your Majesty wants to set a precedent, you can.
At the age of fourteen, I went to war on the battlefield to win back the lost territory for Jiang State. For Jiang State, I can be regarded as having some merit.
Then if the Japanese minister's wife kills people in the street, can His Majesty, like today, let the minister go home to restrain and discipline him, and then end it hastily?
If your Majesty thinks it is okay, I will treat the matter of Su Baicha today as if it has never been mentioned before."