Mu Bai and his team acted quickly. They had already obtained a lot of evidence during their secret investigation. This time, under the guise of an open investigation, they laid all the evidence out in the open.
Mu Bai led his personal guards and the people assigned to him by Bai Zhuo, and directly arrested all the members of the Hou family and put them in prison, and personally interrogated them one by one.
At the beginning, the head of the Hou family insisted that he was wronged and refused to admit that he had sent people to murder Lan Ling and Yin Yi.
But when Mu Bai spread out the collected evidence in front of him one by one, the head of the Hou family collapsed with a pale face.
"How did you get this evidence? I've already dealt with it very cleanly."
The head of the Hou family looked at Mu Bai, wanting to know how he had failed.
They handled the former queen's affairs very cleanly and no one noticed. After his sister became queen, she found excuses to secretly kill all the servants who had served in the former queen's palace.
However, despite all their calculations, there was still one person who slipped through the net. By the time they noticed, that person had already come into contact with Lan Ling. Fortunately, that person didn't know who the real murderer was.
They also acted quickly, and although they didn't kill Lan Ling, they did cause him to lose his memory.
Over the years, they have been sending people to secretly watch Lan Ling. As soon as he shows any signs of recovering his memory, they will immediately arrange an accident to make him disappear.
In order to avoid attracting attention, the Hou family even asked the young members of the family to restrain themselves and act incompetent in public.
Unexpectedly, even though they were so careful, they were still caught.
Mu Bai looked at the confused expression on the Hou family head's face and sneered, "Haven't you heard the old saying? Wherever you go, you leave traces. No matter how careful you are, as long as you do it, there will definitely be clues left.
You are indeed smart. When we first investigated, we did not suspect you. We just thought you were being used as scapegoats and wanted to investigate the real culprit behind the scenes.
Although you are very smart, it doesn't mean that everyone else is stupid. Although the process was a bit troublesome, we finally found out and confirmed that your Hou family is the real culprit behind the incident."
Having said that, Mu Bai paused, and continued with some confusion, "To be honest, your abilities are actually not bad, including those young people in your family.
In fact, as long as you behave yourself, with your abilities and your sister's status as the queen, you can make your Hou family a first-class noble family.
I don't understand what you were thinking. You put so much effort into doing so many things, but in the end you are just a middle-class noble, and the people in your family can only do some insignificant things. Can you tell me why you did this?"
"His Royal Highness the First Prince is so clever, couldn't he have guessed it?"
Since he had already failed, the head of the Hou family no longer continued to act. He calmly closed his eyes and waited for the next trial.
"I do have some guesses, but I still want to hear you say it yourself."
Mu Bai glanced at the recorder on the interrogation table and spoke lightly.
"Oh, what are you talking about? You're saying that our Hou family isn't content to be just a noble family, so we're plotting to overthrow the royal family and the House of Representatives, becoming the new royal family and ruling the empire like the Mifa Empire, where the royal family has absolute power."
The head of the Hou family opened his eyes and looked at Mu Bai with contempt, "Or is it that our Hou family intends to support that idiot Seventh Prince to take the throne and make him a puppet emperor?
Your Highness, since you already know everything, why are you still asking so clearly? "
Mu Bai was not too surprised by what the head of the Hou family said. They had already understood the Hou family's ambitions during the investigation.
“It seems that you are not satisfied with the existing system of the Mingxi Empire, so you want to overthrow the current system and make it like the Mifa Empire, where one family holds absolute power.
I'm very curious, when did you come up with this idea, and when did you hook up with the royal family of the Mifa Empire?
Also, what methods did you use to get those people to do things for you?"
With the Hou family's status in the Mingxi Empire, many things cannot be done at all. For example, they cannot even get involved in the border army.
"Your Highness, sometimes, if you want someone to do something for you, it's not enough to just ask for help. You also need to have something on someone to blackmail them into doing it for you.
When you ask someone for help, that person may not be dedicated enough because of selfish motives, but as long as you can find something that he can use to help you, he will definitely help you do what you want to do perfectly.
I admit that the current system of the Mingxi Empire is relatively humane and can do more practical things for the citizens.
But don’t you think the current system is useless and a huge waste of time?
It's just a small matter, but once you encounter a big matter, it requires a vote by all the senior management to make a decision. However, those big matters are often changing rapidly, and by the time you have discussed the result, the best opportunity has been missed.
You think that the monarchical system of the Mifa Empire is not humane enough, but I think such a system is very good. In such a system, the imperial power is above everything else, and all matters can be decided by the emperor alone.
Isn't it good that everything, whether good or bad, can be decided by just one person's preference?"
Patriarch Hou became increasingly excited as he spoke, "I remember that our Mingxi Empire used to have a similar system. At that time, a very wise emperor emerged and led our Mingxi Empire to become the most powerful empire in the entire galaxy. When other empires saw us, they would give us some distance.
But now, look at what has become of our Mingxi Empire? Our national strength is gradually weakening, and those empires that we used to ignore are now on equal footing with us.
They used to be just a small country that didn't even have half the strength of our Mingxi Empire. What qualifications do they have to be compared with our Mingxi Empire?
If we could dominate other empires in the past, why not now?
Is all this because our current system is broken? What are those old, naive people in the House of Representatives capable of, that they could become one of the highest decision-makers in the Empire?
They only know how to point fingers by relying on their status all day long. They are a bunch of frogs in the well who have never even left the Imperial Star, and yet they still want to control the lifeblood of the empire. They are totally clueless!
Look at what has become of our Mingxi Empire since the establishment of the House of Representatives? Don't you want our country to become the strongest in the entire galaxy?"
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