My country is dying

Chapter 136 The Man Behind the Scenes

The officials below knelt in a ball, only daring to shout "forgive me".

Mi Le was so angry that he couldn't breathe, he quickly took a few sips of tea but still felt that it was not enough, and was about to ask Pandan to add more, when a hand suddenly covered the cup.

Hou Junli's indifferent eyes were close at hand: "The emperor is not angry, the matter has come to this point, what should be done is how to recover the loss and save the people."

Mi Le breathed a sigh of relief, and his expression softened a lot.

She turned over the ledger again.

Every entry in the account book is clear, but when it comes to the account, only numbers are written and no use items are written.

After flipping through a few books, Mi Le looked at the eunuch at the bottom: "Why are all the accounts blank?"

The eunuch trembled all over: "This... criminal minister..."

"It's come to this point, do you think you can still hide it?" Mi Le slapped the account book on the table, the official was startled, and immediately bent down even lower.

"It's not that I don't want to say anything, it's because I dare not say it!" The prefect cried, "This matter concerns the face of the royal family. The guilty minister...the guilty minister really can't speak!"

Mi Le frowned, and looked at Hou Junli who was on the side. The latter looked cold, and directly ordered Yun Gui who was on the side: "Prefect Zhu stay, and the rest will be temporarily detained in the cell and under strict supervision."

Yun Gui immediately took orders and suppressed all the officials.

"Now, you can talk." Hou Junli looked at the person kneeling on the ground indifferently.

"Your majesty, forgive me, I will die for all criminals!" The eunuch pressed his forehead to the ground, his voice mournful, "It is true that I am guilty of corruption and accepting bribes, but what I do is definitely not for my own sake, please learn from the emperor!"

"Wow, corruption and bribery can be done for others. Corrupt officials all over the world say the same thing!" Mi Le exaggeratedly opened his mouth and waved at the prefect Zhu, "Come on, come here, I'll see what you say."

As expected, the eunuch walked forward on his knees, Hou Junli glanced at him indifferently, his expression remained unchanged, but there was a flash of light on the fingertips in his sleeves.

Taishou Zhu came to Mi Le and tremblingly said: "Your Majesty, the guilty minister is just a local prefect, even if he gave the guilty minister ten courages, he would not dare to do such a rebellious thing!"

"What do you mean by that? Is there someone else telling you not to do it?"

Zhu Taishou suddenly glanced cautiously at Hou Junli beside him, and said in a low voice, "I dare not say anything."

Hou Junli met his gaze, paused slightly, then smiled suddenly, and the thing on his fingertips had disappeared.

He picked up the tea in his hand, took a sip casually, and even his eyes were lost three points: "Zhu Taishou had better think clearly before speaking, although the emperor is small, he is not unable to judge right from wrong, you have to think about the consequences of what you say. "

Mi Le looked at Hou Junli suspiciously, not knowing why he said such words for a while.

"The guilty minister knows that he has committed a heinous crime, and the death penalty is unavoidable, but the criminal's family members are innocent. They don't know what the minister has done, so I ask the emperor to show mercy and let them go!"

Mi Le's expression froze: "I won't let the heinous people go, and I won't kill innocent people indiscriminately either. As long as you recruit them truthfully, I will deal with them fairly."

"The emperor's benevolence will last forever!"

Taishou Zhu suddenly bent down and didn't get up for a long time.At the moment Mi Le approached in doubt, he suddenly got up quickly, grabbed Mi Le's arm, pulled her down, and then leaned close to her ear and whispered: "The Regent..."

However, he only had time to say these three words before he froze.

Mi Le looked down, and saw his body falling straight down, and the strength on his arm also left.

(End of this chapter)