Several people went to the Dali Temple and were received by Lord Wang, the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple.

"Master Yang, the Emperor ordered that Master Qi be detained here. Please find another time to interrogate him."

"Bring...bring for trial?" Minister Qi almost thought he had misheard. When he was in the imperial study, he was only thinking about dispelling the emperor's suspicion and did not notice the word "bring for trial".

"Since the emperor has instructed me, I will do it myself."

As Lord Yang spoke, he stretched out his hand and gestured for Minister Qi to come in.

"Master Qi, please come in!"

Arriving at the Sky Prison where the wanted criminals were being held, Yang Wen stopped and pointed to the room next to Qi's mother and Qi Xuan, "Master Qi will be held here for the time being."

Minister Qi walked in slowly. When his mother heard the noise, she quickly stood up and burst into laughter when she saw Minister Qi.

"You bastard, do you think you can live well if something happens to us? We are a family, if we don't live well, you won't live well either."

This person actually didn't care about the life and death of him and his son, but now he had to come in and accompany them.

"You're the damned one," Minister Qi said as he walked to the junction of the two cells, his tone unusually excited. "You vicious woman, you shrew, so what if I come in? Just wait for your turn!"

"You..." Mother Qi was furious and pointed at Minister Qi.

Minister Qi snorted coldly, "What about me? Do you want to hit me again? Can you hit me, you vicious woman?"

"Dad," Qi Xuan stood up with a frown, "Can you guys stop arguing?"

The two of them were still arguing when their lives were almost gone, and they didn't care about the life or death of their only son at all.

"Shut up," Minister Qi yelled at Qi Xuan, "You little bastard, don't call me dad. I don't have a son as unfilial as you."

Qi Xuan recalled what happened in previous years and shut his mouth in disappointment.

When he was a child, Qi's mother spoiled him more, while Qi Shilang was more strict with him. He didn't want to study every day, so when he heard that his father wanted to divorce his mother, he went to make up a story.

It was said that the father not only beat his mother, but also wanted to divorce her.

Because he was a child, the adults didn't think he would lie and believed him.

After this incident, my father naturally failed to divorce my mother and was even scolded by her family.

Before, his mother would carry him on her back when she beat his father. After this incident, his mother no longer carried him on her back, and his father had no time to discipline him. Their relationship became increasingly distant, and over time it became what it is now.

"Stop arguing," Yang Wen said, having seen enough of the show, and interrupted the quarrel. "What's the point of all this noise?"

Qi's mother was worried that she would be tortured if she continued to quarrel, so she shut up and walked back to the haystack in the corner and sat down.

Upon hearing this, Minister Qi remembered that there were outsiders present and felt a little annoyed.

I was so angry just now that I didn't pay attention. Now I know that there is another person who was beaten by a woman. It's so embarrassing.

Thinking that he would be dismissed from his official position, Minister Qi felt relieved.

Anyway, I will never have any contact with Lord Yang again.

…

Outside the palace, Prince Yueqing just held a cup of hot tea to his mouth, and his spy in the capital hurried over to report.

"Your Highness, Minister Qi went to the palace to request an audience with the Emperor, and has now been detained in the Dali Temple."

Upon hearing this, Prince Yueqing's face turned grim. The cup in his hand was crushed into several pieces, and his hand was cut and blood was flowing down.

Minister Qi looked timid, but he didn't expect that he would play tricks on him.

"Your Highness, your hand." The subordinate handed him a handkerchief to remind him of the injury on his hand.

Prince Yueqing took the handkerchief, wiped the blood off his hands without a care, and threw the handkerchief on the table.

He waved his hand to dismiss the spy and looked at his subordinates, "Is the Minister of Revenue here?"

As he was speaking, the Minister of Revenue walked in.

"Your Majesty."

Chen Huai bowed and saw that Prince Yueqing looked unhappy. He wondered who had offended him again.

"Lord Shen is truly difficult to invite. If I hadn't sent someone to invite you, would you not have come to see me?"

"Your Highness, what are you talking about?" Chen Huai sneered. "Your Highness has helped me a lot to get to where I am today. I didn't come to see Your Highness because I was worried about arousing suspicion."

Prince Yueqing sneered, "That's better, otherwise I have plenty of ways to make you lose everything."

He originally wanted to use Chen Huai to make the Ministry of Revenue his own, but after so many years, there was still no progress on Chen Huai's side.

"Yes, yes," Chen Huai agreed in a low voice, and asked cautiously, "I wonder what instructions the prince has for me?"

Prince Yueqing remembered the important matter and stopped beating Shen Huai. Instead, he put on a gentle mask and asked Shen Huai to sit down.

"The reason I asked you to come here is to ask Minister Qi of your Ministry of Revenue."

Minister Qi?

Chen Huai was stunned. So this person made the prince angry?

This person is really irritating.

"Your Highness," Shen Huai came back to his senses, "Minister Qi came to the palace today to ask the Emperor to dismiss her from office. She is now detained in the Dali Temple awaiting trial."

He was so happy when he heard the news. He would never have to see this inflexible minister again. His life would be so wonderful.

He actually asked to be dismissed from his official position?

What a coward, so afraid of being implicated.

Prince Yueqing tapped his fingers on the table and said something startling after a while: "Since Minister Qi is from your Ministry of Revenue, you should find a way to protect him."

Shen Huai was so excited that he almost couldn't stand up. The matter of Minister Qi's son involved the reputation of the royal family. It was a great blessing from heaven that the emperor spared his life, not to mention keeping his position as Minister.

Prince Yueqing really thinks highly of him. He is just a minister, not the emperor. How can he protect whoever he wants?

Of course, Chen Huai only dared to think in his heart that working with the King of Yueqing was undoubtedly courting disaster, and he also understood how cruel the King of Yueqing's methods were.

"Your Majesty, I don't have such ability."

Shen Huai said with a bitter face, "The reason why I was unable to serve you was because of the stumbling block of Minister Qi."

Minister Qi is a notorious loser in their Ministry of Revenue. He always keeps to himself and is extremely conscientious in his work, making it impossible to find fault with him.

It is said that it is easy to make money in the Ministry of Revenue, but because Minister Qi is there, not only can the people below not make any money, but even he has no way to make money.

I remember one time, he wanted to make some money from taxes, so after making the accounts, he distributed the money back home.

As a result, when he came to report for duty the next day, this man brought all the account books he had processed.

"Sir, your account was wrong. I came early to report and found it, so I recalculated it for you. It is correct."

He was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

The most infuriating thing is that this guy doesn't seem to understand the ways of the world, and he doesn't care even if the people in the Ministry of Revenue ostracize him.

He also likes to report for work early, and will stay even when others have left during the shift.

Prince Yueqing exuded a cold aura. "If that's the case, then there's no need to worry about it. If this person can get out of the Dali Temple safely, just deal with him directly, and then find a way to place someone useful in his place."

He originally wanted to use him as a chess piece that could be sacrificed at any time, but it turned out that this person blocked his way to wealth, so he couldn't keep this person.