"The Emperor actually said that he couldn't be taken away. What's the specific reason?"

"Your Majesty, you can't just say whatever you say. If it were an ordinary person, it would be fine, but Your Majesty, you are the supreme ruler. The laws of the Celestial Empire are set by you. However, as the maker of the rules, if you don't follow them, then the people below will naturally not listen!"

Zhao Ji said this with a smile, without stopping his hands at all.

Seeing that Zhao Ji didn't listen to him, the little emperor became more and more anxious: "You can't take him away, you can't take him away!"

Zhao Ji said as if deliberately making trouble: "If Your Majesty cannot tell me the reason, then I must take this person away today, without even thinking about it!"

The young emperor was driven to desperation, and finally shouted loudly: "No, if you take him away, the people in the palace will start a massacre!"

Zhao Ji frowned slightly: "People in the palace? What people in the palace?"

Zhao Ji looked at the little emperor suspiciously. Originally, Zhao Ji thought that the little emperor wanted to taste the power and was bewitched by others and wanted to replace him as the regent.

But now it seems that there seems to be other reasons.

It seemed that the little emperor was just following what others were doing.

This is strange. Zhao Ji clearly remembered that before he left, he specifically instructed several trusted ministers to maintain the stability of the court.

But now that I've come back and it's turned out like this, there must be some problems.

Zhao Ji untied the Jingzhao prefect and turned around to look at the anxious little emperor. At this moment, Zhao Ji had already realized that the breakthrough point of everything was still with the little emperor.

"Your Majesty, before you boarded the plane, I told you about your responsibilities as an emperor. I also told you that you had no choice!"

"Ask yourself, if I really wanted your position, why would I condescend to be the regent? Do I have any selfish motives when doing anything?"

Zhao Ji asked the prefect of Jingzhao to sit on the ground, then turned around and looked at the little emperor.

The little emperor's gaze gradually became uncertain.

"I know……"

A small voice came from the little emperor's mouth, and Zhao Ji heard it.

"Since you know, you should also know the purpose of my doing this. It is nothing more than hoping to let the people live a good life. A few months ago, the battle in Southern Xinjiang, you knew the whole process, little emperor. At that time, so many people were displaced and so many people died on the battlefield. Do you think such a life is good?"

Zhao Ji's voice rose a lot at the end of his speech, and at this time the little emperor's eyes became more and more erratic. Zhao Ji noticed that the little emperor's hands at his side began to clench nervously.

"Then there are not many people you can trust in this court, little emperor. If you think you can trust me, I will stay here for half an incense stick of time. If you trust me, tell me what happened. If you don't trust me, then you can follow your plan, and I will naturally do my job with a clear conscience!"

Zhao Ji's words were equivalent to an ultimatum to the little emperor.

It can be seen that the little emperor looked very conflicted. It was estimated that someone else had said something else to him before Zhao Ji, and what the little emperor had to do now was to decide who he should trust.

Only the little emperor himself could make the decision on this matter, and Zhao Ji did not urge him at all.

Instead, he openly asked the prefect of Jingzhao in front of the little emperor: "What happened during this period of time? Why are you tied up here?"

Jingzhao prefect rubbed his wrist, the rope still hurt, and said with a wry smile: "What do you mean by tied here? It's like I'm a dog!"

Zhao Ji smiled slightly: "Do you need me to describe how embarrassed you were just now?"

Jingzhao Prefecture Yin immediately shut up: "Okay, okay, let's get down to business!"

"In fact, not long after you left, Your Majesty, another voice vaguely appeared in the court, which seemed to hope that the emperor could rule independently. So under the advocacy of these voices, some ministers began to deal with some small matters in the name of teaching the emperor!"

The Jingzhao prefect felt a little guilty about talking about this matter right in front of the little emperor, but when he saw Zhao Ji next to him with a frank look on his face, he gradually relaxed.

"It was just some small matters at first, so the cabinet members who were temporarily formed before you left didn't try to stop you. After all, they really hoped that the emperor could handle some things!"

"But gradually, these ministers began to interfere in some matters in the capital, including the army outside the capital and the business management in the capital. Anyway, it made a mess. Those things should have been my responsibility. What's wrong with the people setting up a stall to do business?"

"Why provoke them? They insist that people should do business in shops and should not show their faces on the streets, affecting the cleanliness of the entire street. It is precisely because of this set of ideas that they began to promote it. If you trade in such an open-air place, you need to collect huge taxes!"

Zhao Ji frowned slightly when he heard this: "This is really nonsense! Why not eat meat? These people have been the superiors for a long time. Which of the common people are doing business seriously? They are just looking for a way out because they can't make ends meet at home, or they are short of things at home, so they come out to barter. Do they really think that these common people are all rich and can open shops just like that?"

"After a while, I will definitely check how many shops these people have at home so that they can have such knowledge..."

Zhao Ji was very angry, and he did not hesitate to say this in front of the emperor.

The little emperor was originally thinking, but now he tilted his ear to listen to the conversation between Zhao Ji and the other two.

Jingzhao prefect sighed, "Who said it wasn't true? Anyway, after a while, they found a few merchants in the capital to make an example of them, and indeed no one came out to set up stalls to do business."

"The streets are clean and tidy, but what they don't see is how many frozen bodies there are in those narrow alleys. It's really true that there are frozen corpses on the road, but the rich are living in luxury!"

The prefect of Jingzhao became so angry when he mentioned this matter.

"Then I couldn't stand it any longer. If the situation continued like this, the people wouldn't be able to save even a little bit of money. How could they prepare charcoal for the winter?"

"So I started to open Jingzhao Prefecture, saying that Jingzhao Prefecture needed some people to build gardens and courtyards. In fact, I also hoped to attract some people and provide them with some income opportunities!"

When the little emperor heard this, a thoughtful look appeared on his face.

At the same time, the Jingzhao prefect had already talked about the most important things and didn't care about the little emperor's expression at all.

"But I never thought that as soon as I opened the door, some strangers would come up and cause trouble. Of course, I arrested them. As a result, someone impeached me in the court the next day for abusing my power!"

"Tell me if I am wronged!"