"You keep emphasizing your age; even young girls aren't as delicate as you."
Mo Chenyuan carefully applied the medicine to her.
Seeing her biting her lip in restraint, her face as beautiful as a flower, her hair damp with sweat, Mo Chenyuan couldn't resist again and stole a kiss from her.
From that day on, Mo Chenyuan would call Jiang Tian in from time to time.
Overhearing a report from the secret guards, Jiang Tian was whispering with the other palace maids that the Emperor was always lecturing her, and Mo Chenyuan was determined to teach them a lesson.
While others were discussing how unlucky Sister Jiang was, always being summoned by the Emperor to stand guard at night, Jiang Tian was lying on the dragon bed listening to Mo Chenyuan's interrogation.
"Do they know how I disciplined you? Do they know where I disciplined you?" He pinched her slender waist and kissed the corner of her reddened eyes. "Do they know that you were always scolded until you cried?"
Jiang Tian refused to speak again; this was the retribution for gossiping behind people's backs...
The days passed peacefully one by one, but in reality, the undercurrents in the court never ceased.
On this day, the Prime Minister brought up the old matter again, leading all the civil and military officials to kowtow to Mo Chenyuan, forcing him to choose an empress.
Mo Chenyuan deftly deflected his words.
The next day, the old prime minister led a group of people to kneel down again.
Mo Chenyuan ignored them. That same day, an imperial edict arrived at the Prime Minister's residence.
The emperor bestowed a marriage upon the daughter of the prime minister, who married the son of the minister.
When this news came out, everyone was stunned.
The old prime minister fell ill on the spot from anger.
His beautiful daughter is destined to enjoy immense wealth and honor; the position of Empress is barely worthy of her. Who would marry a carefree playboy?
He had already planned it all out. As long as the emperor agreed to choose an empress, no matter how much the emperor disliked his daughter, he would have a way to force him to marry her!
Everything was exactly as he expected, but who knew that Mo Chenyuan would interfere and directly bestow a marriage upon him!
To refuse a marriage bestowed by the emperor is tantamount to courting death.
Even if the son of the Minister died immediately, the stigma of being a second-time husband would be suppressed, and his daughter would not be able to marry into the palace.
After Mo Chenyuan ascended the throne, he never bestowed marriages upon the children of any official family, causing the officials to overlook that he could also do such a thing.
Mo Chenyuan didn't bestow that marriage upon the two of them on a whim.
His bodyguards had already told him that the young lady from the An family had been getting very close to the son of the Minister recently.
The son of the Minister planned to propose marriage, and the Miss An never uttered a word of refusal.
He would just go along with it and do her a favor.
If An Ruoyao knew what Mo Chenyuan was thinking, she would be so angry she would vomit blood.
She was just pretending to string that man along; he was all show and no substance, but his father was somewhat capable and needed to be used by the old prime minister.
Who knew that his clever plan backfired and he ended up getting himself involved as well.
Mo Chenyuan arranged the marriage between the two, which angered the Prime Minister so much that he fell ill, and the other officials fell silent.
They increasingly felt that the young emperor was no longer the same as before.
He is growing, and growing rapidly.
Since the matter of the arranged marriage had already begun, Mo Chenyuan decided to see it through to the end.
The old prime minister believed that his actions were well-hidden and would not be discovered, but there are no secrets in the world. Once something is done, it is impossible to leave no trace.
A few days later, a beggar from out of town came knocking on the door, accusing the prime minister of embezzling disaster relief funds, buying and selling official positions, and indiscriminately killing civilians to cover up his crimes.
The emperor was furious and immediately sent people to investigate.
Unexpectedly, the old prime minister actually thought he was a second emperor, treating the world as his own. Apart from the beggar's crimes mentioned above, his other sins were even more shocking.
His son forcibly abducted women and seized land; his daughter murdered a maid and disregarded human life; his brothers killed and robbed, forcing women into prostitution.
Further investigation revealed that the assassination attempt on the emperor that day was also related to him.
When all the crimes were exposed, the emperor was furious, and the whole world was shocked.
The Prime Minister's residence has collapsed.
The enormous, tangled creature was uprooted.
A huge underground vault was built beneath the Prime Minister's residence, containing gold and silver treasures that took a full month to transport and still hadn't been finished.
The countless crimes he committed condemned the old prime minister to infamy.
Since Mo Chenyuan is going to make a move, he must strike with absolute certainty.
He will not give the enemy any breathing room.
The old prime minister has lived too long and has served two dynasties. He seems to have forgotten that officials are merely knives in the emperor's hand. If they try to turn the tables, they will only cut off their own heads.
Before the old prime minister died, Mo Chenyuan went to see him one last time.
The old man who was once so imposing and whose eyes were set on the throne is now just a frail old man, barely clinging to life.
In the prison, straw remained on his white hair, rats scurried around him, and the damp environment made him close his eyes slightly, as if unwilling to believe that he had collapsed like this.
"You have taught me for so many years, Prime Minister. I have come here to see you off."
The old man suddenly coughed up blood. He had thought the child was easy to bully and that power was in his hands.
Now it seems that he was just biding his time, waiting for him to slip up so he could pierce his chest with a sword.
That night, the old prime minister died.
This major case was handled with great fanfare and lasted for two or three months before it was finally brought to a complete end.
Taking this opportunity, Mo Chenyuan carried out a major reshuffle of the court officials.
Those officials who colluded with the prime minister were all either killed, imprisoned, or exiled.
No one dared to utter a single word of dissent.
The emperor's thunderous wrath, the endless beheadings in the marketplace, the blood river that flowed for days, terrified countless people.
Mo Chenyuan replaced the person he had already chosen with the new person.
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