Lu Wen's voice in the room had stopped, but no one spoke, and silence filled the air.
After a long moment, Li Chengfeng threw the teacup beside him and said, "This is simply lawless!"
"These rats, how dare they!"
Zhao Sheng stepped forward and begged His Majesty to pay attention to the dragon's health.
After taking several deep breaths, Li Chengfeng barely suppressed the anger in his heart. As he walked along, and as the investigation deepened, he believed that he had a good grasp of the affairs of Jiangnan Prefecture.
He had already prepared a plan for how each official should be sentenced and punished.
Lu Wen's words today made him overturn his previous ideas. He had originally wanted to use a conciliatory policy to slowly untie the knots in the Jiangnan officialdom and straighten out those complicated relationships.
Now it seems that he was too kind.
Thinking of this, Li Chengfeng asked Lu Wen if he wanted to make amends and rescue his mother.
Lu Wen knelt down and kowtowed without thinking to express his sincerity.
Suddenly, Zhao Sheng's carrier pigeon arrived.
He took off the note tied to the pigeon's leg and handed it to Li Chengfeng to read.
It turned out to be a secret letter sent by Ji Ye, saying that the boss had gone to see his immediate superior, and that superior had gone to the Tongpan Mansion.
They discussed putting the details of the business of buying and selling official positions on hold, saying they would resume it after returning and taking control of the emperor.
Li Chengfeng was so angry that he laughed: "You still want to control me, you are so bold!"
He ordered Zhao Sheng to recall Ji Ye and not to keep an eye on the Tongpan for the time being.
With this interruption, the atmosphere in the room was no longer as heavy as before, and the king and his two ministers discussed in the room for a long time before leaving.
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