Chapter 135: Seven consecutive deaths! Lai Mingcheng loves to visit brothels! (23)

"Someone, take Li Chengze down!"

At Emperor Qing's command, four imperial guards immediately rushed in from the door.

Li Chengze was about to kick Li Chengqian twice when Li Chengru hugged his thigh again.

"Second brother, calm down!"

Li Chengze pointed at Emperor Qing who was sitting on the throne, then turned to look at Lai Mingcheng who had a confused look on his face.

"Laolai, my father on the throne can not only decide life and death, but also kill living people!"

At this time, four imperial guards had rushed forward and tried to hold down Li Chengze's arm.

Li Chengze shook off the imperial guard's arm and continued shouting loudly!

"I, Li Chengze, will never commit suicide. If I die before I am a hundred years old, it must be Li Chengqian who did it!"

Looking at Li Chengze's ferocious smile, Li Chengqian was so scared that he kept backing away.

He touched his swollen left cheek, feeling angry and hateful. Now both sides of his face were swollen!

Most of the losers in the battle for succession will hardly have a good ending, so Li Chengze said so.

Several imperial guards rushed forward again, but Li Chengze was still struggling to resist.

"Stab!"

Li Chengze's sleeves were torn, and Emperor Qing suddenly shouted.

"Don't hurt my son!"

The four imperial guards immediately became cautious, but fortunately Li Chengze did not rush forward to the throne.

He pointed at Li Changan again, "Li Changan, you said you would protect me from death!"

Li Changan walked over and patted Li Chengze on the shoulder, "Don't worry, uncle promises you."

"If Li Chengqian dares to attack you, I will kill him!"

Li Chengze looked at the prince lying on the ground and chuckled.

"You are a prince who was beaten twice in the last court session. Why do you think you can rule the world?"

"Hahaha! Li Chengqian, I don't think you can be the crown prince for much longer!"

Li Chengze laughed and turned to leave, pausing for a moment when he reached the entrance of the hall.

"Unbridled madness is so damn cool!"

"Finally I don't have to be a grindstone anymore!"

"I am completely relieved, hahaha!"

With Li Chengze's departure, the hall fell into an eerie silence again.

Emperor Qing looked gloomy behind the curtain, "Alright, alright, alright."

"Today, everything has come to an end. Let's go!"

With Li Chengze's downfall and his followers almost uprooted, the highlight of the court meeting should be over.

But at this time, Lai Mingcheng bowed his hands again and said, "Your Majesty, I haven't finished my report yet!"

Emperor Qing had to put his raised butt back down, anger gradually forming between his brows.

"Li Chengze has been imprisoned for life and his title of king has been abolished. Are you still not satisfied?"

"Who else do you want to join?"

Lai Mingcheng pointed at Chen Pingping who was smiling, "The sixth person I want to report is the Inspection Institute!"

Chen Pingping had just watched a great show of the prince going crazy and was smiling from the bottom of his heart, but he never expected that Lai Mingcheng would come towards him.

"I am not reporting the corruption of the Inspection Office, but the fact that the Inspection Office is unclear about the law, arrogant and perverts the law, and has too much power!"

As soon as Lai Mingcheng said this, the whole hall instantly boiled over.

Everyone knows that the Inspection Institute is directly under the Emperor Qing and is the most powerful institution in Daqing, independent of other government offices.

The Inspection Institute is extremely powerful, but all the power was given by Emperor Qing!
What's more, the Inspection Bureau also has made great achievements in war and played an important intelligence role in all wars.

"What is Lai Mingcheng trying to do?"

"Yeah, he actually dared to participate in the Inspection Office, what on earth was he thinking!"

"Lai Mingcheng has gone crazy! This is outrageous!"

……

Amidst the discussions, Lai Mingcheng continued his impassioned speech.

"Your Majesty, since the establishment of the Inspection Bureau, the quality of the people employed by you has been mixed!"

"The Inspection Bureau has acted recklessly and even above the laws of Daqing!"

"All kinds of affairs, both within and outside the country, are involved!"

"Is there any precedent for such an institution that is so powerful and not subject to the law throughout the dynasties?"

As soon as Lai Mingcheng finished speaking, several military officers angrily refuted him.

"Lai Mingcheng, do you know how much military merit the Inspection Bureau has made for Daqing?"

"Without the Inspection Bureau, there would be no Daqing today!"

“Even if it’s an ancient system, it’s not necessarily correct!”

……

Faced with the ministers' fierce discussions, Lai Mingcheng remained very calm.

"All affairs of the world are shared by all departments. This is both an ancient system and common sense!"

The Censorate was an imperial secret agency whose power was above the law and was very efficient in the early days of the dynasty.

However, once the dynasty stabilizes, such institutions are generally abolished or have their power reduced.

Because institutions that are above national laws are not conducive to national stability and stable governance.

But the problem now is that the Northern Qi Kingdom and Dongyi City are still there, and Emperor Qing’s ambition to unify the world has not been realized.

The current Inspection Institute is Emperor Qing's most powerful and efficient arm. How could he agree to cut off his own arm?

Emperor Qing pointed at the ministers in the palace and said, "Lai Mingcheng, everyone thinks that the Inspection Institute has more advantages than disadvantages!"

Lai Mingcheng also pointed at Chen Pingping, "But Your Majesty, is Chen Pingping still within the jurisdiction of the national law?"

"Inspector Fan Xian is also a clear example. He used his position to conduct a sting operation, acted recklessly, was arrogant and perverted the law, and was a gross violation of justice!"

"But Chen Pingping's words can suppress all criminal laws!"

Emperor Qing waved his hand and said, "Hasn't Fan Xian's matter been dealt with as well?"

"The matter of the Inspection Office cannot be decided in a day or two. You keep saying that the Inspection Office is above the law, but that's just your own idea."

Hearing this, Lai Mingcheng took out a memorial from his sleeve.

“Your Majesty, the Inspection Office is arrogant and unjust, not only is it above the national law.

One day, I might even surpass Your Majesty!"

When Emperor Qing heard this, he took the memorial from Eunuch Hou and said, "As expected of an imperial censor, you are really good at making alarmist statements!"

Chen Pingping looked at the memorial from afar and suddenly felt uneasy.

The Inspection Office has connections everywhere, and there are few affairs in the court that he is not aware of.

However, he did not know what was written in Lai Mingcheng's memorial.

This was the first time in all these years that Chen Pingping felt nervous in the court.

Emperor Qing sneered, "Lai Mingcheng, you are just making up stories. You didn't just hear these rumors from the street, did you?"

"What about the Sixth Department using assassination missions to settle personal grudges, the Third Department reselling poison to a noble lady to kill her concubine, and 80% of the cases in the Seventh Department were obtained through torture?"

"That's all. There's not a single piece of evidence!"

After hearing what Emperor Qing said, Chen Pingping's hands on the wheelchair gradually relaxed.

Lai Mingcheng stiffened his neck and said, "The Inspectorate has the power to report on rumors. There is no such thing as a rumor without a basis in reality!"

"The Inspection Bureau will eventually become too powerful to be eliminated. Your Majesty, please think twice!"

Fan Xian looked at Lai Mingcheng from a distance, feeling puzzled. He originally thought that Lai Mingcheng was targeting him, but now it seems that this man is really serving the country in his own way.

“Has this man always been so brave?”

Xin Qiwu whispered, "Imperial Censor Lai has always been like this, he will report anyone he catches!"

“Your Majesty is magnanimous and doesn’t bother with him.

Six years ago, he said that Prince Yong had raped the courtesan, and that Your Majesty was the culprit. "

Fan Xian felt something was wrong. At least Emperor Qing's attitude was not right. He seemed strangely calm.

Lai Mingcheng was the first to speak out today, implicated the Second Prince, and also wanted to implicate Li Yunrui and the Inspection Office.

He dared to go after Emperor Qing's relatives and right-hand man! Could it be that Emperor Qing really had no resentment at all?

Emperor Qing ignored Lai Mingcheng and began to talk to himself, "Today's court meeting lasted too long. I am a little tired. Let's stop here."

However, even at this point, Lai Mingcheng still refused to give in.

"Your Majesty, I have a seventh person to report!"

When Emperor Qing heard this, his face turned very ugly.

"Good, good, good..."

He was just about to start speaking when suddenly someone stepped out of the class and knelt down.

"Your Majesty, I think that Lai Mingcheng has no basis for his complaints against the Princess and the Inspection Office. He is just deceiving the world and seeking fame!"

"Your Majesty, there is no need to listen to him anymore. His next words are definitely meant to attract attention and gain fame!"

Then, another official said, "The censors should know when to report things they have heard!

It is better to avoid making groundless accusations without any basis!"

"Your Majesty, Lai Ming has established his reputation as the number one imperial censor in Daqing, and what he says next will only become more outrageous.

But this is even more nonsense. The Daqing court cannot be led by such a villain! "

Then, several officials came out one after another and began to impeach Lai Ming for using any means necessary to gain fame.

Emperor Qing didn't know whether Lai Mingcheng would make other complaints later, so he allowed these officials to target Lai Mingcheng.

These officials also saw that Emperor Qing wanted to end the court meeting and found reasons to make Lai Mingcheng shut up.

However, when it came to the seventh official, the content of what was said suddenly changed.

"Your Majesty, Lai Mingcheng is not worthy of being an imperial censor!"

"Among the corrupt officials under the Second Prince, the Ministry of Justice found two who were recommended by Lai Mingcheng. I have checked the recommendation letters."

"Lai Mingcheng praised those two as if they were geniuses, but they started to amass wealth right after they took office!"

"How can a person who recommends others for personal gain be a censor?"

Lai Mingben had originally been holding a grudge and wanted to report to Emperor Qing, and today was the day for his seventh consecutive report to be completed.

But when he heard someone ruining his reputation in this way, he immediately changed the direction of his attack.

"Recommended by colleagues, Lai has always been pragmatic. It is true that those two people are talented, but it is also true that they are greedy for money."

"When I wrote the recommendation letter, I didn't know how greedy they were!"

The official from the Ministry of Justice immediately responded, "You can't even tell if the other party is greedy for money. How can you be sure of your accuracy when you make random reports without any evidence?"

Lai Mingcheng was so angry that another official from the Ministry of Justice jumped out.

"Censor Lai, during this anti-corruption campaign, an inspector from the Inspectorate said he bribed you. I wonder if that's true!"

Lai Mingcheng said angrily, "Bullshit! Lai is an honest official! How could he accept bribes!"

Then, another official said, "There is also a corrupt official under the Second Prince who confessed that he had secretly visited a brothel with Censor Lai."

"He also said that although Censor Lai appears to be a decent person on the surface, he secretly loves to visit brothels and he always sneaks in through the back door of Zuixianju."

Lai Mingcheng jumped up on the spot before he finished listening, "Slander! Defamation! Frame-up!
Don't talk nonsense about things you haven't verified!"

At this time, Emperor Qing also stood up and said, "Lai Mingcheng, clean up your own ass before you criticize others."

After Emperor Qing finished speaking, he stepped down from the throne, and the court meeting was about to end.

Lai Mingcheng was anxious, but the officials who slandered him became more and more unpleasant, so he had to defend himself and argue with them.

There's nothing we can do about it. Who wants him to have a good reputation?

The last few officials were of course arranged by Lin Ruofu according to Li Changan’s orders.

Slandering Lai Mingcheng's reputation will definitely cause Lai Mingcheng's fierce resistance, thus diverting his attention.

Besides, Emperor Qing was indeed fed up with him, so the court meeting naturally ended.

Lai Mingcheng was the pioneer in overthrowing Li Chengze, and Emperor Qing will definitely bear a grudge against him.

But if you find fault afterwards, you may not necessarily kill Lai Mingcheng.

The long court meeting finally ended, Li Chengze officially fell, and Li Changan officially came to the forefront.

When Li Changan passed by Lai Mingcheng, he smiled strangely.

"Imperial Censor Lai, I really can't tell..."

Lai Mingcheng stamped his feet in anger, "I can't tell what you mean, Prince Yong, be careful with your words!

They are slandering Lai's reputation in order to curry favor with their superiors!"

Li Changan sighed, "You can't judge a person by his appearance. When the three judicial officials held a joint trial, Censor Lai pretended to be unfamiliar with brothels."

After Li Changan left, Li Chengqian said to Lai Mingcheng with a swollen face, "Imperial Censor Lai really acts like a gentleman. His acting skills are much better than Gu Qiang's!"

When Lin Ruofu passed by Lai Mingcheng, he deliberately took a detour and said, "Don't associate with hypocrites!"

Qin Ye came over and gave Lai Mingcheng a thumbs up, "You are so old and still use the back door. You really make the censor proud!"

Chen Pingping was pushed over by Fan Xian. Both of them had admiration on their faces. Chen Pingping sighed.

"I am powerless. In the future, please accompany Censor Lai to visit Zuixianju more often.

Let him order whatever he wants, and I'll pay for it so he doesn't have to complain about us all the time."

Fan Xian nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. Use the back door!"

Lai Mingcheng was so angry that his lungs were about to explode. He couldn't understand why everyone believed those nonsense.

"You! Why did you believe such a crude lie!"

"How dark the court is!"

In fact, the truth is that no one believed it. The old foxes just pretended to believe it to give this one of the few honest people in the court a chance to survive.

The worse the reputation of this kind of person is, the less Your Majesty will want to kill him.

Ever since Fan Xian investigated and punished the corrupt officials under the Second Prince at one time, this anti-corruption campaign can be considered a complete success.

As for Lai Mingcheng's impeachment of the Inspection Institute, Chen Pingping and Fan Xian, it basically had no effect.

Therefore, Fan Xian was directly appointed by Chen Pingping as the official host.

As the Director of the Inspection Institute and concurrently the Chief of the First Division, Fan Xian became the number one person in the Inspection Institute after Chen Pingping.

A few days after the court meeting, Fan Xian was surprised to find that Wu Zhu had returned.

Fan Xian told Wu Zhu all of Sean's secrets, hoping that Wu Zhu could remember something.

But after Wuzhu thought for a long time, no new memories were recovered.

"Uncle, are you healed?"

Wu Zhu said confidently, "Do I still have a hint of fragrance?"

Fan Xian leaned over to smell it, and said with certainty, "It's neither fragrant nor smelly!"

Wu Zhu nodded with satisfaction, "The maintenance effect this time is excellent, I am also very satisfied."

Just when Fan Xian was thinking about why it was a maintenance effect, Wu Zhu suggested exploring the palace at night.

"You are in a high position now, and your identity is public. You must have many enemies in secret."

"The matter of the box cannot be delayed any longer, we will explore the palace tonight!"

(End of this chapter)