Chapter 019 Chapter 19
This was the only girl who came in the whole afternoon. As the sun was about to set, Cheng Yishu leisurely took Bai Xiao and the others back and bought some roasted chicken on the way back.
The roast chicken here is really good. Although the taste is a bit bland, it does have seasonings.
After returning home with the roasted chicken, Cheng Yishu decided to go to court and check in the next day.
By the way, I would like to share his salt-drying recipe and glass recipe.
Then meet Xia Zhang...
As for why he met Xia Zhang? Maybe it was because Xiao Guoyun said that Xia Zhang was given to him. Although he did not accept it, he always had an inexplicable sense of responsibility.
It's that feeling that Xia Zhang is his, that sense of responsibility. After not seeing him for the past two days, he really missed him a little.
It must be said that Xia Zhang’s face was really good-looking, and he was the most handsome person he had ever seen.
As the sky was about to brighten, Cheng Yishu was lifted up by Sishu, and after washing, he was sent to the carriage. Bai Xiao was already prepared and would be waiting outside at that time.
After eating and drinking, Cheng Yishu was completely sober. When the carriage arrived at the palace gate, Cheng Yishu got off the carriage and walked towards the main hall.
The moment they saw Cheng Yishu, all the ministers in the court were grateful, because they knew that with the arrival of the Imperial Master, their Majesty would be in a better mood. If the Majesty was in a better mood, no one would die. What a perfect thing!
With this mentality, the ministers who came and went looked less worried.
Cheng Yishu sat down at his seat and yawned, feeling like he was punching in for work.
The ministers below stood according to their positions, and Xia Zhang walked up. The moment he saw Cheng Yishu, Xia Zhang was happy.
He tilted his head and looked at Cheng Yishu who was yawning, with a smile on his face. How cute.
As the eunuch's voice sounded, all the civil and military officials knelt down. Xia Zhang waved his hand and asked everyone to stand up. He looked at the memorial and said, "Is the Ministry of Revenue short of money again?"
The Minister of Revenue and the Vice Minister of Revenue came out with grim expressions, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the treasury is empty, and there is nothing we can do."
Xia Zhang's voice was indistinguishable from his emotions. He said, "The treasury is empty? Wouldn't it be enough if we kill a few corrupt officials and confiscate their properties?"
He looked at the people below, smiled and said, "Leader of Xuan Feiyu Guard."
After a while, a man in a black flying fish suit came in. He knelt in front of the table and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty."
Xia Zhang raised his chin and said, "Read the list."
The leader of Feiyu Guard understood, took out a stack of names from his chest, and began to read out the names one by one. Every person whose name was read turned pale, and they quickly knelt down and cried out for justice.
Cheng Yishu suddenly opened his eyes, and after listening to the names one by one, he shook his head and became clear for a moment.
[Oh my goodness, what's the difference between this and the Death Note? Let me see.]
Cheng Yishu accepted this well. He said, "You have the ability to be greedy, but you also have the ability to not be discovered. Now that you have been discovered, congratulations, you will be sentenced to death and confiscation of your property."
Curious Cheng Yishu clicked on the names of these people.
It doesn't matter if he just opened it, he fell silent after reading it.
[Zhao Yu, who embezzled and accepted bribes of 10,000 taels of silver, said he didn’t dare touch a cent of it, and buried it all under his toilet... I have to go check it every night, he really doesn’t mind the stink, he didn’t dare tell anyone about the embezzlement, only his concubine’s younger brother knew about it, he didn’t spend it, but his concubine’s younger brother did, digging a little bit every day... It’s so funny.]
Zhao Yu, who was named, sat down on the ground with weak legs. What the hell? He really didn't dare to touch the money at all. He thought that after he retired, he would buy a big house and enjoy life. Now he was told that his brother-in-law spent it for him?
The expression of Yang Xuanjun, the leader of Feiyu Guard, changed. It was their Feiyu Guard who would conduct the house search. He would not go to Zhao Yu's house!
Cheng Yishu continued to watch the second person who shouted out his wish...
[Cheng Xiaogan, the name sounds quite filial...hiss...this man killed his mother? ? There is no filial son for a long-term sick bed, so cruel, he embezzled in order to be filial to his mother-in-law? It's really a joke from hell...the money is all in his mother-in-law's house. ]
Yang Xuanjun took note of it silently. Then the second person fell. Cheng Xiaogan opened his mouth to plead for mercy for his Yue family, but was kicked down by a civil servant next to him.
Cheng Yishu didn't pay attention to this, but the eyes of the Dali Temple Chief below narrowed. He was suddenly excited. Wow, let alone anything else, he suddenly discovered another use of the Imperial Master. If this was used in their Dali Temple, then those old cases of theirs would be solved.
Cheng Yishu didn't know that the Dali Temple officials below him had already begun to covet him. He only knew that these corrupt officials were stupid, and he had never seen anyone as stupid as this.
A bunch of stupid bastards.
This made him think.
[Hiss, if it were me, I would be much more corrupt than them. Corruption means taking the money of bad people. These idiots, do you know anything about money laundering? ]
The officials below were only thankful that the imperial teacher was relatively wealthy and did not intend to embezzle. Otherwise, their Xia Dynasty would have had another corrupt official who would have been famous for generations.
Xia Zhang didn't want to listen to the people below shouting anymore. He waved his hand, and the people below were dragged away with their mouths covered. They didn't even need to be interrogated, because Cheng Yishu had just revealed their secrets.
Yang Xuanjun only needs to arrest people and ask those related to them, and he can arrest everyone.
The Spring Examination is coming soon, so there is no need to worry about no one filling the vacancy.
Thinking of this, Xia Zhang smiled beautifully. It turned out that Cheng Yishu was his great treasure.
As for how those corrupt officials died? Take a look at the torture methods used at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. After the execution, they were dragged to Caishikou and chopped.
Perfect~
The following matters were resolved, Cheng Yishu stood up, and the others followed his movements with their eyes.
Cheng Yishu blinked, took out two prescriptions and said, "Your Majesty, I heard that the treasury is empty. I have two things I want to present to Your Majesty to help Your Majesty solve your problems."
Xia Zhang reached out and took it. He read it carefully. After reading it, he smiled and said, "Show it to the Minister of Revenue and the Minister of Works."
The Minister of Works came forward, followed closely by the Minister of Revenue.
The Minister of Works took the prescription, and the Minister of Revenue took the instructions on how to use something.
After reading it, the two of them laughed like dahlias. Is this a recipe? It's not! !
This is money, lots of money!
Not to mention anything else, the glass recipe alone could fill one-third of the national treasury, not to mention the salt recipe.
Their national master is indeed the most powerful!!!
Cheng Yishu retired after completing his mission, so Xia Zhang certainly had to reward him. Xia Zhang looked at Cheng Yishu, thought for a while and said, "Alas, the national treasury is empty, and my private treasury doesn't have much money either. How about this, I will reward Cheng Qing by letting him sleep on the same bed with me."
Cheng Yishu had a face full of question marks and he looked at Xia Zhang with dead eyes.
[You better think it through before you speak. Sleeping on the same bed? Who are you rewarding? With my looks and my figure, even if you go to a brothel, you'll have to pay a thousand taels of silver to see me!]
The ministers below nodded subconsciously. What the national teacher said made sense. If nothing else, they agreed with it!
To be honest, for a beauty like the Imperial Master, a thousand taels of silver is really just for a single meeting.
Xia Zhang saw the murderous intent in Cheng Yishu's eyes. For some reason, his sixth sense made him change his words instantly: "I was just joking."
As he spoke, he waved his hand. The eunuch next to him understood, lowered his head and retreated. After a while, he took out a sword and handed it over respectfully.
Xia Zhang said: "Seeing the sword is like seeing me. This sword is given to the Imperial Master."
The rest of the words were not said explicitly, but the meaning was very clear: kill first and report later, you can do whatever you want.
Cheng Yishu said that it was great and very tyrannical, but he was very happy as long as he had this privilege and the tyrant was not against him.
He took the sword from the eunuch and pulled it out directly. The sword was shining with silver light and the blade was sharp. The words "Xia Zhang" were engraved on the sword.
Cheng Yishu looked at Xia Zhang, and Xia Zhang raised his eyebrows at him.
He said, "Would you like to test the sharpness of the sword?"
Cheng Yishu shook his head and said, "Not for now."
[I don’t have anyone I want to kill yet. ]
The people below were trembling with fear. My goodness, does this mean that if there is a way, we should just try it?
After the morning court was over, the Dali Temple Chief Justice gritted his teeth and went straight forward. There was no other way, he really wanted to settle all their old cases.
Cheng Yishu was happily going home with his spoils when he saw a fair-faced, righteous man walking towards him.
Cheng Yishu looked at him in a daze for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he finally found out the man's name.
Xia Mingtang...
He looked at Xia Mingtang curiously and asked, "Master Xia, what's the matter?"
Xia Mingtang gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and said, "Master Imperial Master, I have something to ask you..."
Cheng Yishu looked at him and said, "You go ahead."
Xia Mingtang looked a little embarrassed. He looked at Cheng Yishu and said, "It's like this. As you know, our Dali Temple is responsible for law enforcement and handling cases... But sometimes, there are cases where there is no evidence for various reasons, allowing suspects to escape punishment... So I thought that since you are the national teacher and a Taoist practitioner, you may have some Taoist tricks, so I wanted to come and ask you for help."
Cheng Yishu was completely silent. This... He was a Taoist priest, for sure, but he really didn't know how to tell fortunes or look at Feng Shui. Even here, he was cultivating his Taoism with his heart.
Moreover, he himself knew very well how his national teacher came about.
[No... I am good at cheating, but I am not so good at handling cases...]
Xia Mingtang listened to Cheng Yishu's thoughts and immediately said, "Actually, you just need to come and help. What if you can figure it out? If not, it's okay. Just treat it as a visit to our Dali Temple."
Cheng Yishu thought about it. He would not be setting up the stall until the afternoon, and he, as the imperial teacher, did not have to go to work. The Imperial Observatory could take care of other things.
He was also curious about what the judicial institution of the Dali Temple was like in this era. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go over and take a look. You can't blame me if I can't help."
Xia Mingtang said quickly, "No, it is a great honor for us to have you here."
He grabbed his people and turned around and ran. Don't think he didn't know that the Minister of Works and the Minister of Revenue were both eyeing them covetously. One wanted to ask the Imperial Master about glass issues, and the other wanted to ask him about making money.
Only him! He just wanted the Imperial Master to simply point them in a direction to solve the case!
Cheng Yishu was pulled out with a confused look on his face. How should I put it? Lord Xia was quite outgoing. But it didn't matter. Cheng Yishu smiled and said that he could help. In this case... if he pointed out that his subordinate was cuckolded, he should help to block it, right?
Should I?
That’s right, Cheng Yishu’s ultimate goal is to break up the couple. The scumbag fiancé of the two girls and the lover of their brother-in-law were the wife of the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.
He had actually been thinking about what to say. This time, the Dali Temple Minister came to ask for his help. He originally wanted to refuse, but then he changed his mind and thought of the incident with the Dali Temple Shaoqing...
[Hey~ I am such a little genius. Today is another day for doing good deeds~]
Xia Mingtang, the Minister of Dali Temple, smiled slightly. Their Imperial Master was indeed a good man. Although he was a little eccentric and gossipy, he was still a good man.
Look how eager he is to help.
Cheng Yishu got on the carriage, the Dali Temple Chief led the way in front, and Bai Xiao stared at the sword in Cheng Yishu's hand.
Cheng Yishu looked at him helplessly and handed him the sword, saying, "It was given by the emperor. Seeing the sword is like seeing him. It's probably okay to kill people, so you can kill as you like."
Bai Xiao's eyes widened. He looked at the sword's eyes glowing. He said, "So strong?"
Cheng Yishu curled his lips and said, "It doesn't matter whether he is strong or not. What matters is... there are people that he, as the emperor, cannot touch, and he wants me to touch them."
Bai Xiao didn't quite understand. Cheng Yishu smiled, patted his head and said, "It's okay. You don't need to understand."
Although Xia Zhang is a tyrant, it is obviously not the time for him to want the Great Xia to perish, so there are some things he cannot do for the time being...
So he gave the sword to Cheng Yishu, and said that seeing the sword was like seeing him, which was obviously a foreshadowing for what was to come. Cheng Yishu understood the hint.
By taking the sword, he was agreeing to Xia Zhang's intention.
As for whether to chop it off or not? Isn't it up to him?
When they arrived at the Dali Temple, Cheng Yishu got off the carriage. Xia Mingtang hurried over and took Cheng Yishu into the Dali Temple.
Although I have seen Dali Temple countless times on TV before, the real Dali Temple still gives me a different feeling.
As a Taoist who practices Taoism and is favored by the country's destiny, Cheng Yishu has something special about him. You can see his aura.
As soon as you enter the Dali Temple, you will feel a righteous aura hovering over the temple, which represents that the officials of the Dali Temple are of the righteous side.
I can’t say this is true for all of them, but at least it’s true for the upper levels.
Xia Mingtang introduced in front, Cheng Yishu and Bai Xiao nodded, and the two went directly to Xia Mingtang's office.
He was very direct and took out several leather bags from the drawer. The bags contained case records and case details. As for the evidence? Of course, the evidence was in the evidence room.
Cheng Yishu took over. This was a case of arson and wounding. In this case, except for the daughter-in-law, all the others died at home. It was winter. It was said that the daughter-in-law escaped because she went to the river to wash clothes.
Because the burn was so severe, there was no evidence, but because it was too strange and the source of the fire was unknown, it remained an unsolved case.
I also visited other people in the village, and they all waved their hands to indicate that they didn't know. Some also said that the family was too bad, so they were punished by God.
Cheng Yishu looked at the name on it, Li Xiuniang...
He blinked, and a broken red rope appeared in front of him. Cheng Yishu handed the case to Xia Mingtang and said, "Let's close the case. The murderer is the surviving Li Xiuniang, but the murderer is also dead."
Xia Mingtang had a puzzled look on his face, but he didn't say much. He just put the case book aside and waited to stamp the case closed.
[Poor guy... What a pity...]
Cheng Yishu sighed. Xia Mingtang wanted to ask what was going on, but Cheng Yishu was obviously not going to tell him.
[Soon after Li Xiuniang married the deceased Zhou Shuanzhu, she was kidnapped by her father-in-law. When Zhou Shuanzhu found out, he not only did not blame his father, but also thought that Li Xiuniang seduced his father, and beat her up. Li Xiuniang's mother-in-law was not a good person either. After learning about this, she threatened Li Xiuniang to give birth to a son for her younger brother who had no money to marry into the family, otherwise she would be thrown into a pig cage...]
[Li Xiuniang endured it, she just wanted to survive, but... not long after, she became pregnant. The whole family was surprised at the time. They thought it was their own child, so they found a fortune teller to determine the gender. The fortune teller was a liar and said it was a girl right away...]
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