Ling Yan nodded, and felt a headache when she thought of her son who was nominally a failure.

Ling Yan still remembered clearly the Third Prince's aggressive questioning yesterday. If she really asked the Third Prince to stop, she was afraid that this silly kid would get to the bottom of it. It would be a tricky matter.

"Come here, the emperor has just recovered from a serious illness. The third prince is willing to copy scriptures to pray for the emperor to show his filial piety. I have sent someone to tell the third prince not to come out until he has finished copying the scriptures..."

After much thought, Ling Yan could only take the simplest and most brutal approach, which was to put the third prince under house arrest.

This will also prevent the Third Prince from causing trouble. The Third Prince has strong limbs but a simple mind and always acts recklessly.

Ling Yan knew without her father telling her that this silly son was definitely no match for Zhao Ji.

On the other side of the palace, the third prince looked bewildered when he received the order from his mother.

He even grabbed the neck of the eunuch who came to deliver the message and shouted loudly repeatedly to confirm.

When he learned that it was indeed the Queen's order, he took the scripture on the wooden table with a grim expression.

"Father has indeed just gotten better. If I don't copy some scriptures to pray for him, I would be unfilial!"

There are few princes who grew up in this palace and are incapable of speaking official rhetoric.

The eunuch in charge sent by the Queen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Third Prince finally accept the order safely.

You know, if this gentleman insists on making a fuss, I'm afraid only the Queen Mother can come and teach him a lesson in person, and then he will listen obediently.

After solving the hidden danger of the third prince, the queen stayed at home every day in order to reduce her presence in the harem.

On the one hand, the prime minister's political enemies could not find any points to attack the queen in the harem.

On the other hand, Ling Yan was actually avoiding Zhao Ji.

The intense ordeal that day made Lingyan feel unwell for several days. If she were caught by Zhao Ji again in the harem, Lingyan felt that her body would fall apart.

Perhaps because the warning worked, Zhao Ji felt that the harem had been much more stable during this period, and even the prime minister of the previous dynasty had not taken any action.

However, Zhao Ji always felt that this was just like the calm before the storm, and it was all superficial.

After all, Zhao Ji had passed the prime minister several times, and he could sense the scrutiny in the prime minister's eyes.

On this day, Zhao Ji returned to his Silijian as usual to deal with memorials submitted by various important agencies.

Although the emperor's health has improved recently, he still needs rest, so Zhao Ji and others are needed to filter out some useless memorials and only report some important events.

This can be regarded as the emperor delegating some power to his subordinates while he is ill.

In fact, just reading these memorials gave Zhao Ji a headache, as there were always some memorials sent back by officials sent abroad that were very boring.

Either report on the local weather or report on the local specialties.

Others sent back news as fast as they could, which was just news that the court had already received.

What's worse, some of the memorials submitted were just greetings to the emperor.

Zhao Ji would simply withhold such useless memorials that did not contain any information and would not show them to the emperor.

Just after Zhao Ji finished reading another letter of greeting out of boredom, he saw the memorial presented by Yi from Jingzhao Prefecture.

The memorials written by this person contained a lot of nonsense. They were nothing more than about how a few people came to complain today and how a few people were punished tomorrow. Perhaps it was because he was under the emperor's feet, so he had to write down every detail.

This way, when something happens, he will have already reported it, and at most he will be dealt with unfavorably rather than being punished for not reporting it.

Zhao Ji had already understood the mentality of this kind of people.

However, Zhao Ji noticed a detail in the memorial today.

"Some refugees have poured into the capital recently. I have already resettled them in shanties outside the city..."

When Zhao Ji looked at the word "refugee", he felt that it seemed a little familiar.

The memorial that Zhao Ji is reading now was actually submitted by this government official three days ago.

Suddenly, Zhao Ji had an idea in his mind, and he found the memorial that Fu Yi had submitted from the pile of memorials that were classified as not necessary to be reported yesterday.

Almost the same sentence is written above.

Zhao Ji's brows knitted slightly. He flipped through the memorials that this person had submitted in the past two days.

Almost every day it was reported in the memorials that new refugees were pouring into the capital.

"How is it possible that there are so many refugees now... Could it be that something big happened outside the capital?"

Zhao Ji has always been very clear that water can carry a boat, but can also capsize it.

If there are too many outsiders, especially those who have fled here, once their number is too large, it will affect the public security of the capital and riots may easily occur.

Another possibility is that something difficult to resolve must have happened in these people's hometowns, which forced these people who were unwilling to wander around to come to the dynasty's capital penniless.

Zhao Ji walked out of the Imperial Household Department, pondered for a moment, and walked towards his own bedroom.

Walking to his bedroom, Zhao Ji patted the table and shouted into the air, "Yueying, are you there?"

When he shouted the second time, Yueying had already appeared in front of Zhao Ji.

"Chief Yue, although it is true that the emperor sent you to protect my safety, I have something I want to ask you for help with..."

During this period, Yueying followed Zhao Ji diligently and responsibly, saying that she was protecting him, but in fact she was monitoring him.

Even though Yueying was injured, she did not relax at all.

Zhao Ji didn't care and let Yueying monitor him.

However, Yueying did not notice anything unusual about Zhao Ji during this period.

It can even be said that Zhao Ji was extremely conscientious and really wanted to take charge of the Imperial Household Department for the emperor and achieve some results.

So unknowingly, Yueying's impression of Zhao Ji gradually improved.

Now after hearing what Zhao Ji said, he did not refuse immediately, but asked back: "What's the matter?"

Zhao Ji looked directly at Yueying and said word by word, "Chief Yue, I would like to borrow a few people from you to help me investigate something."

Yueying was slightly stunned, and subconsciously said: "As the seal of the Imperial Household Department, why don't you use your own people?"

Zhao Ji laughed out loud: "If I, a member of the Imperial Household Department, was reliable, why would the emperor send you, the leader, to protect me?"

"Besides, I just recently reorganized the staff of the Imperial Household Department. I don't dare to use the newcomers, and I don't trust the old ones. Now I have no one to use, so I want to borrow someone from you!"

"Besides, the matter I want to investigate is closely related to the emperor..."

Originally, Yueying's expression didn't change, but when she heard the last sentence, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and look at Zhao Ji.

Since it is a matter related to the Emperor... Yueying naturally cannot refuse!