He remembered that in Lele's account, he had worked hard for the Dayong Dynasty and killed treacherous officials, but was portrayed as a tyrannical and incompetent ruler.

He was absolutely furious.

Don't they realize that if he were a tyrant or a foolish ruler, would they allow them to slander him like this?

"yes."

Eunuch Xu took the account book and handed it to the ministers to look at.

Apart from the few kneeling people in the middle, the ministers passed around the document, becoming increasingly alarmed as they read it.

"What? Lord Liu is actually secretly buying and selling officials?"

"This, isn't this Lord He? So he also bought his official position through Lord Liu."

This Lord He has been exiled for his involvement in the Prime Minister's plot to rebel.

"And there were also Lord Li and Lord Wu from before..."

The officials listed in the ledgers go back almost a decade.

Some were killed or exiled for alleged treason.

Some were assigned to work in other places.

Others were even in the imperial court.

"This is not Lord Qin, nor Lord Wu..."

Those officials whose names were called understood perfectly well that the Liu brothers had left evidence when they bought their positions, and this evidence was now the very evidence that would cost them their lives.

After realizing what had happened, his face turned deathly pale, and his legs went weak, causing him to collapse to the ground.

"Zhao Gan, check the list and arrest all officials suspected of buying and selling official positions, confiscate their property, and bring them to justice."

"Liu Hongyi and his brother will be executed in three days, the entire family will be exiled thousands of miles away, and their property will be confiscated."

"These merchants were confiscated, expelled from the city, and forbidden from ever entering the capital again, and their families were barred from holding official positions for three generations."

Emperor Jing made the final decision and announced the result directly.

"Your humble servant obeys the decree."

Zhao Gan led a group of men out of the palace.