The Office of the Minister of Justice.
After the Minister of Justice Wan Xueyi returned home, he quickly called the prime minister's disciples and officials who were waiting in the mansion into the study.
"I'm afraid the Second Prince will never be able to take the throne."
In the study, all the students were shocked. If they looked carefully, they found that there were quite a few officials from the Ministry of Personnel inside.
"Master Wan, what exactly did His Majesty say today?"
Wan Xueyi had a distorted face and sat on the chair sighing. He looked up and saw everyone looking at him. He took a deep breath before speaking.
"Everyone, I think His Majesty has already found out about my relationship with the Prime Minister. We only have two days now."
"If we can satisfy His Majesty in the next two days, perhaps we still have a chance."
The disciples and officials were completely confused.
"Didn't the Ministry of Justice submit the final verdict on the previous assassination case and remove the Prime Minister?"
"Yes! Your Majesty, why is it so difficult for the Prime Minister? He has cultivated so many talents for the Qin Dynasty throughout his life. Your Majesty is chilling the students' hearts by doing this!"
"I wrote to the Prime Minister a few days ago, informing him that His Majesty wanted to reform the imperial examination system. He was so anxious that he almost broke into the palace."
"Your Majesty, will you not stop until you close down the academy as well?"
"Your Majesty changed the imperial examination system before. Could it be that he discovered something about the imperial examination system?"
"What exactly does your Majesty think?"
Minister Wan shook his head and frowned. He really couldn't say it, but seeing that others were making more and more excessive guesses, he still spoke.
"Don't guess, His Majesty asked us to help the people raise livestock."
"ah???"
"ah!!!"
"What the hell?"
"We have two days left before the next holiday. Investigate why the people of the capital are having trouble raising livestock and come up with a solution."
????
Why should they try to figure this out.
"But, Lord Wan, we are from the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Justice. We know nothing about these things!"
Minister Wan's face was filled with dejection. "That's why I said that Your Majesty must have known about the relationship with the Prime Minister. Otherwise, why would he make such a fuss about it?"
"Please keep your best efforts, if we can handle this well, there might be a chance to turn things around."
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Can we go now? Just pretend we were never here.
On the roof, a man in black was standing with his hands folded, listening to the discussion in the study.
He didn't fly away until the crowd dispersed.
*
Prime Minister Jin, who is being discussed by everyone.
At this moment, he was lying on a chair, having his legs massaged by several maids.
"Tell me! What has the emperor been doing lately?"
"Your Majesty stated at court that he wanted to reform the imperial examination system and revise the laws of the Qin Dynasty. Today, Minister Wan went to the Yangxin Palace to plead for mercy, but Your Majesty assigned him new tasks."
"Tell him to help the people solve their livestock problem, and submit a memorial within two days. If raising livestock were so easy, why would so many people still be starving?"
"Your Majesty, this is simply nonsense."
The subordinates spoke with righteous indignation, but there was a gleam of brilliance in the prime minister's eyes.
The more Your Majesty acts recklessly, the more advantageous it will be for Sang State to swallow up Daqin. Even if Your Majesty knows that it was me who assassinated him, given his prestige in Daqin, Your Majesty cannot do anything to him without solid evidence.
If we are not careful, we will cause dissatisfaction among scholars all over the world, and then the world will be in real chaos.
"Master Jin, you don't know what His Majesty said about allowing women to take the imperial examinations, and that the six ministries should have their own relevant examinations in order to find suitable talents."
The Prime Minister was dismissive. Everyone knew that among the six ministries, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel were the most lucrative, so naturally everyone would be scrambling to choose them. If no one signed up for the other four ministries, it would be a laughing stock.
"Our Majesty is still young. Once the little princess's full-month banquet is over, let the ministers take care of it!"
By then, without the soldiers under General Yang's command, Your Majesty will have to worry about the affairs of his ministers again.
Laba Festival seems to be a good choice, and the imperial concubine in the palace can be released on that day as she wishes.
The imperial concubine that the prime minister is thinking about.
She had just finished practicing the dance assigned by her instructor and was about to take a break when she received the imperial edict from the Queen.
The general meaning is that the imperial concubine is an excellent embroidery worker, and he is requested to make winter clothes for the refugees outside the capital, and His Majesty will surely reward her handsomely.
The imperial concubine sent the eunuch out with a cold face, then turned around and threw all the teacups on the table to the ground.
"Why? Why is everyone bullying me when I haven't done anything?"
"The emperor clearly loves me, so why does he treat me like this? All these scars on my body are from dancing, and now he even wants me to make clothes, which is the job of a palace maid."
"Damn it, it's really damned bad. All the people in Daqin deserve to die."
When the imperial concubine said this, the maid beside her immediately changed her expression, "Your Majesty, be careful with your words."
"This is the Qin harem, stop talking nonsense."
The look of despair in the imperial concubine's eyes only grew worse. She tightly grasped the maid's hand and pleaded, "Jin'er, I've treated you well. Can you please take me home?"
Seeing that the imperial concubine looked unhappy, Jin'er quickly leaned over and coaxed her softly, "Your Highness, Master Yuan will come on Laba Festival."
"Really?" A glimmer of light seemed to flash in the imperial concubine's eyes, but it quickly extinguished. "He definitely won't like me the way I look now. I'm too ugly. I don't want to see him."
"My Lady, your performance of the opera that day must have distressed Master Yuan immensely. You should then find an opportunity to leave the palace."
The imperial concubine nodded quickly, muttering to herself, "That's right, I'll practice hard and I'll be able to go out when the time comes."
Jin'er breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the imperial concubine had calmed down.
What she said just now was just casual talk. Now that the imperial concubine's palace was guarded by the emperor, she couldn't get any news out.
But after all, the imperial concubine gave birth to a son for that man, and she couldn't let anything happen to the imperial concubine.
It all depends on that person.
As for the Second Prince, His Majesty had already ordered that he was not allowed to visit the Imperial Concubine.
Moreover, the second prince at this time did not dare to come to see the imperial concubine at all.
There was a secret envoy beside him who claimed to be from the Sang Kingdom. He said that he was not the descendant of the Emperor of Qin at all, but the son of the Emperor of Sang Kingdom. He was asked to be here because he wanted him to sit on the throne of Qin.
In fact, his heart was already shaken. His eldest brother's nose was like his father's, his third brother's thin lips were like his father's, and even his fourth brother had the shadow of his father. Only he was not like his father in any way.
This made him collapse. He had not gone out for several days. He was even more afraid that he would rush to find his mother and ask her for the truth.
"Your Highness, tomorrow is the little princess's full moon banquet. His Majesty has ordered all the princes to be present and has specifically reminded you to prepare gifts."
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