"Your Majesty, someone died in this palace!"

Zhao Xin is now immune to the issue of death. Besides, in today's world, it is normal for someone to die.

but--

"Where did he die, and why?"

Xiao Chenzi was very nervous, and his expression was uncertain. He was afraid that the angry emperor would break his nose with one punch.

Seeing that the eunuch didn't say anything, Zhao Xin was inexplicably furious, but since no one dared to stay by his side even if he killed this little Chenzi, he gave up.

"Your Majesty, this is the group that built the Linglong Tower. One of them slipped and fell to his death during the construction because they didn't measure the angle well enough."

?

This death is quite strange.

However... the construction of the Linglong Tower has probably reached the second stage and is controlled by Chen Mang. However, Chen Mang probably failed to control the distance, which led to its collapse.

When Zhao Xin arrived at the scene, he found Chen Mang with his head down and in silence, holding the toolbox tightly in his hands. The group of people surrounding him were most likely the hired construction team.

"Your Majesty...I am afraid I deserve the death penalty."

"What do you mean?"

As soon as Zhao Xin finished speaking, the foreman stood up in anger and almost threw a glazed tile at Chen Mang. Although Chen Mang was named Mang, his voice and face were both handsome and delicate, and he really didn't look like a "mang".

"Your Majesty, I was at fault. I didn't calculate the distance correctly, causing this innocent civilian to fall and die. I beg Your Majesty to punish me!"

Zhao Xin glanced at Su Xi at this time, and Su Xi also raised the data in his hand and shook it.

Although it was far away, he could still clearly see the various contents written on it with his clairvoyance. The denseness of the words made him feel confused.

really.

Su Xi had evil intentions from the very beginning, and the foundation of the building was crooked. If Chen Mang had continued to build, the Linglong Tower would have collapsed one day. The cruel price he paid would be much heavier than the lives lost today.

Zhao Xin also did the math, and found out that the daily expenses were about a thousand taels of silver. Although the money was not spent efficiently, it was all invested in the glazed bricks and tiles. Now that the building was crooked, it had to be demolished and rebuilt.

So Chen Mang scolded himself even louder and even burst into tears. Even Zhao Xin didn't know whether he was pretending or it was real. After all, he didn't dare to guess what he was thinking now.

"Your Majesty, don't panic. We only need to dig deeper into the foundation for a few hours, and it will soon be stable again."

Su Xi came over quietly and gave him a reassurance, which made him feel at ease for a while.

As long as this thing is not demolished, everything is fine. After all, it is a thing that must have been spent, so every penny that can be saved is better than losing it all.

"I won't bother with you now. Go and appease those people yourself."

Zhao Xin showed no mercy and left with the servants with a cold face. As soon as the emperor left, the group of construction workers walked out with ferocious looks on their faces and walked towards the man.

"Now that you've killed our brother, why don't you give us some compensation? At least you have to ask for ten taels of gold!"

“…”

Chen Mang smiled. They were just treating him as a mobile ATM. They treated him as the national treasury and kept talking about ten taels of gold. However, he was also a man of integrity and gave them a finger.

Then he stood up and dusted himself off.

The servants beside him also sided with Chen Mang. In principle, these people were Chen Mang's subordinates and were very loyal to him.

"What's the matter, Master Chen? What are your instructions?"

Chen Mang just waved his hand and was about to leave, but the construction team was too large and they surrounded him in a noisy manner.

"What? You still want to leave after someone's dead? Are you pretending we don't exist?"

Naturally, this group of contractors dared to say this because they had found out the inside story of this person and they knew that he had no inside story so they dared to shout so loudly.

This person is also fickle.

If they were to meet the prime minister, they wouldn't even dare to fart. Just now, when Zhao Xin was presiding over the work with such airs, the construction team members didn't say anything other than that sentence, and overall they looked timid.

"What a bunch of cowards! This Linglong Tower is primarily loyal to His Majesty. How dare you contradict His Majesty?"

The words were so fierce that the contractors who looked fierce shut their mouths and dared not say anything. The contractor was not afraid of being scared. He just glared at them with wide eyes and cursed.

"You're lying! You really thought His Majesty didn't tell us? This was divided into four stages, and you were responsible for the second one. Now that someone has died, you don't ask the person responsible and ask us to go to His Majesty. It seems like you deliberately don't want to intervene, right?"

Then Wang Mang was out of tricks.

Naturally, he would just be stubborn and refuse to admit it.

"Don't say that. I'm his majesty's right-hand man. You're not only slapping me in the face, but also—"

Before he could finish his words, the contractor spat at him fiercely.

"You really think I don't know that the top leader under His Majesty is Mr. Zhuge. He is now well-known in the capital area. Who the hell are you?"

“…”

It seems that Zhuge Liang is indeed very famous.

*

"A-choo! Your Majesty, the weather is bad now, you must pay more attention to keep warm."

Zhao Xin smiled, waved his finger in Zhuge's direction and laughed out loud.

"Of course, it's best to wipe it with a handkerchief. You're saying the weather is bad, but it's been cloudless for the past two days. Don't tell me someone is cursing you behind your back!"

Zhuge smiled, waved his hand, and said, "Your Majesty, please stop encouraging me. But what is it that Your Majesty has summoned me to come here for?"

"Why can't I call you over now if there's nothing going on?"

Zhao Xin asked back.

"Of course not. I still have a lot of work to do right now. If you're serious about this, you can tell me now if you have something to say. You don't have to beat around the bush, right?"

Zhao Xin smiled but didn't say anything. Seeing this, he just asked about the current situation in various regions but didn't say anything. After seeing Zhuge's fluent answers and his opinions on the various real situations, he felt even more impressed.

Finally, they dismissed him.

Before he could even get comfortable, Su Xi barged into his palace with the token in hand.

Zhao Xin suddenly regretted giving him the pass.

Poor Su Xi, who had rushed in and hadn't even had time to catch her breath, hadn't said anything yet when Zhao Xin said the next sentence.

"Give me the token. Next time, don't come around my palace with it. Now it depends on your contribution to me. Otherwise..."