Bao Lian received instructions from Concubine Shu and waited outside the Golden Palace before dawn.

But who knew that Prime Minister Wan was in a hurry to go to the main hall to report Qin Yanning, and didn't notice Bao Lian waiting outside the hall at all.

The security outside the Golden Palace was tight. Bao Lian did not dare to shout loudly and could only watch Prime Minister Wan enter the hall.

On Helian Jue's side, seeing that Qin Yanning had finally fallen asleep, he tiptoed out of the inner hall of Ganning Palace.

Eunuch Wang knew that Helian Jue had been busy all day and had not slept all night, so he had prepared hot soup long ago.

After bathing, Helian Jue changed into court clothes and went to court feeling refreshed.

As soon as he entered the Golden Palace, Helian Jue felt that the atmosphere was not right.

Prime Minister Wan was kneeling in the middle of the hall waiting for him.

Prime Minister Wan found out last night that His Majesty left Wangshan in a hurry before the blessing ceremony was over because there was a fire in the residence of Lady Ning, whom he brought back from the Wan family farm.

It would have been fine if Lady Ning had died in the fire, but his spies in the palace told him that the beauty was not hurt at all, and His Majesty had already sent secret guards to protect that little bitch.

Prime Minister Wan originally resented Qin Yanning for harming Wan Bao.

He originally wanted to seek revenge on the Qin family, but found that the Qin family had already moved into the house given by His Majesty.

Perhaps it was because His Majesty had already given orders that the Qin family stayed at home all day long, making it impossible for him to find an opportunity to take action.

One day, he sent his men to investigate the Qin family, but when they came back, they were covered in stench.

After asking carefully, he found out that the Qin family had actually demolished half of the back garden of the house that His Majesty had given them and started growing vegetables in it.

His men accidentally fell into the Qin family's compost pool, which caused them to stink.

The smell didn't go away even after washing for several days.

After learning about this, Prime Minister Wan was furious. Do these mud-digging peasants know what they are doing? That is the house given by His Majesty himself!

It's such a waste of resources!

Now with last night's incident as a pretext, and old and new grudges at play, how could Prime Minister Wan not report Qin Yanning for seducing the emperor and destabilizing the country's foundation?

Seeing Prime Minister Wan kneeling, Helian Jue knew what he was going to do. He lifted his robe and sat on the dragon throne, looking at Prime Minister Wan with narrowed eyes.

When the eunuch Wang saw Helian Jue squinting his eyes, he knew that this was the calm before the storm. Every time his majesty squinted his eyes, several officials in the court would be in trouble.

Helian Jue casually picked up a memorial and knocked on the table. The knocking sound was not loud, but it could be heard by the ministers in the front row.

Helian Jue slowly said, "Lord Wan, you have been kneeling for so long, do you have something to report?"

When Prime Minister Wan heard Helian Jue call his name, he moved forward a little and said, "I have a memorial. The ritual of praying for blessings at the mountain is the foundation of a country. Your Majesty's sudden departure last night was not in accordance with etiquette and was a dereliction of duty to the people."

"I understand that Your Majesty is concerned for Lady Ning's safety, but how can a monarch be so preoccupied with beauty? Advising Your Majesty is a subject's duty. To prevent future resentment among the people, I earnestly implore Your Majesty to depose Lady Ning."

As soon as Prime Minister Wan finished speaking, many ministers came out of the queue and knelt on the ground.

For a moment, voices pleading with His Majesty to depose Lady Ning rang out one after another in the hall.

Of course, more than half of the ministers did not choose to kneel down and ask for permission. Most of these ministers who did not kneel down were sons of poor families who were selected by Helian Jue through imperial examinations in recent years.

Compared with the old ministers left by the late emperor, they are more loyal to Helian Jue.

Helian Jue did not respond to the almost threatening requests for orders from Prime Minister Wan and the other kneeling ministers.

After a while, Helian Jue finally smiled and said, "I didn't know that Lord Wan was so sharp-eyed and perceptive that he even knew everything about my harem."

"It's just that Lord Wan seems to be paying less attention to the affairs of his own harem. If you have time to take care of my concubines, Lord Wan would be better off taking care of the aftermath of your disappointing son!"

Wan Bao had not yet married a wife. After he was exiled to Mobei, all the women in the Wan family who had been forcibly abducted or tricked into the mansion by him were driven out by Madam Wan.

Some of those women were not married yet, and their parents were still waiting for them at home after they were snatched away by Wanbao. Some of them were already married, and after leaving the Wan family, they were despised by their in-laws and made things difficult for their parents, and ended up with nowhere to go.

Qin Yanning learned from the original owner's memory that Wan Bao had many concubines. She had long guessed that those women would have nowhere to go after being driven out of the Wan Mansion.

She asked Helian Jue to have the secret guards investigate and compile the information of all the women who had been harmed by Wan Bao. If there were any women who had died in the Wan family, their families would be given some money as compensation.

If there were women who had nowhere to go, Qin Yanning would ask Eunuch Wang to arrange for them to work on the hundred acres of fertile land that Helian Jue had given to the Qin family.

Eunuch Wang also sent people to question the women who returned to their parents. As long as their parents and family members had no problems with their character, the whole family could go to work.

Helian Jue was worried that Prime Minister Wan would take action against the Qin family, so although he gave them a hundred acres of fertile land, he also ordered them to stay at home as much as possible.

Qin Yanning's arrangement just prevented these fertile fields from being abandoned.

Most of the women that Wan Bao dared to rob had humble backgrounds and were peasant girls like Qin Yanning. Therefore, they were adept at doing farm work.

For them, getting paid by Qin Yanning for their work is much happier than being locked in the Wan family's backyard and serving Wan Bao, a scumbag.

It is worth mentioning that there was a woman named Qingqing in Wanbao's backyard. She had a husband before she was abducted by Wanbao. After being driven out of the house, Qingqing's husband did not despise her. Instead, he took her home and took good care of her.

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