"Report, Your Majesty, Princess Qingning is looking for a meeting outside the court!" A guard outside the court hall walked in and knelt down on one knee to report.

The civil and military officials in the court started to whisper again.

Whether in Shang and Zhou dynasties or the Qin dynasties, there has been no precedent for women to go to court to discuss politics since ancient times, so they all looked at the emperor together in confusion and doubt.

Qin Shihuang was also stunned for a long time and asked, "Why did Qingning meet me in the court?"

"Report to Your Majesty, Princess Qingning said that she had captured the eunuch who disappeared the day before yesterday. She needed to explain the hidden secrets in front of you all!"

"Wow~" The civil and military officials in the court instantly broke out even more violently, and everyone turned around and turned to look outside the store.

"Xuan!" Qin Shihuang spoke after he was silent again.

"Princess Xuan Qingning entered the hall~" With a long shout from an envoy, she soon saw Princess Qingning wearing a colorful skirt and graceful figure walking into the court in a stairs. There were several palace servants behind her escort an eunuch with a linen stuffed in her mouth.

"Qing Ning pays homage to my father!" Standing at the entrance of the court, Wang Qingxiu possessed her and bowed.

"Qing Ning, where did you catch this eunuch?" Qin Shihuang stared at Wang Qingxiu coldly.

"Report to Father, my daughter is this eunuch who was caught in the garden of Shufei's bedroom the night before yesterday!"

"You caught it the day before yesterday, why did you hide this eunuch until now?" Qin Shihuang's face became colder and colder.

"Because this eunuch said something that involved the Hou of Qinghe and Zhao's Mansion, and also involved hundreds of eunuchs and eunuchs in the palace, the daughter was a little worried. Once it was exposed, someone might kill him. Then no one could investigate these things clearly, and it would inevitably leave a huge hidden danger to the harem. Maybe... someone would be unfavorable to the father one day!"

"Bold~" Qin Shihuang stood up suddenly, his cold eyes swept across the hall, and the civil and military officials in the court instantly felt a coldness from the bottom of his heart.

"Qing Ning, you stand up and talk. Who dares to be unfavorable to me!"

Wang Qingxiu stood up, then looked up at Zhao Gao's direction, and everyone's eyes in the hall also moved, and finally fell on Zhao Gao.

"Your Majesty, Princess Qingning must have made a mistake. I have always been loyal to Your Majesty and will never be detrimental to the emperor!" Zhao Gao's face changed drastically in an instant, and he quickly stood up, his voice trembling slightly.

"Come here, go and take the official from the imperial kitchen to carefully identify whether this person is the missing eunuch the night before!" Qin Shihuang ignored Zhao Gao, but turned to order an eunuch standing at the entrance of the inner hall.

"Here~" the eunuch turned around and left, Qin Shihuang also sat down and started waiting. The civil and military ministers in the court also looked serious, and Zhao Gao was alone standing in the center of the hall.

Chen Xu sat on the chair and looked at Wang Qingxiu's face full of dullness, but his heart was like a tide. He could never imagine why Wang Qingxiu did this suddenly.

Not long after, several eunuchs came out with a private official with disheveled hair and covered in scars. After being identified by the private official, this eunuch was indeed one of the two eunuchs who sent Chen Xu away from the imperial kitchen the night before yesterday.

"Let him speak!" Qin Shihuang stared at the eunuch kneeling on the ground. A palace man reached out to pull off the linen from the eunuch's mouth.

"Your Majesty, I must have framed the Queen of Qinghe. Everything is... Zhao Zhe forced us to do!" The eunuch knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged for mercy at the top of his lungs.

"Say, if there is any hidden secret, I will fry you and cook it in a pot and then ignor the three tribes!" Qin Shihuang's cold voice echoed in the court hall.

"Your Majesty, this matter starts with Zhao Zhe entering the palace. Since he became an eunuch, he has used money and coercion to threaten us to help frame Qinghe Hou. The night before yesterday, the Marquis of Qinghe Hou entered the palace to accompany His Majesty for a banquet. I was drunk. Zhao Zhe had already been waiting for us in the corridor of the backyard of the imperial kitchen, and took Qinghe Hou to take Qinghe Hou with a sour plum soup. However, the sober soup had been mixed with drugs. Qinghe Hou was unconscious because of this. Then he asked me to carry Qinghe Hou to the garden of Shufei's bedroom and force me to send Qinghe Hou to the palace of Shufei's bedroom, intending to frame Qinghe Hou's lewd harem. But because we were afraid that we did not dare to act, Zhao Zhe took out a dagger and wanted to kill us. Princess Qingning appeared and killed Zhao Zhe and saved the villain's life. Then Princess Qingning asked me to carry Qinghe Hou out of the canal leading to the palace..."

The eunuch's words had already been instructed by Wang Qingxiu, so what they said was true and false, and outsiders could not distinguish between true and false. Among them, the situation where Chen Xu took the potion of love and lay naked on Concubine Shu was omitted. However, even so, this incident made the civil and military officials in the court stunned, and their eyes moved from the eunuch to Zhao Gao again.

All the civil and military officials in the court were old fried dough sticks who had been working hard for many years. How could they not know the links? Most people don’t know the reason why Zhao Zhe wanted to frame Qinghe Hou, but it must be related to Zhao Gao.

Jiang Heng's face was also a little pale, and he felt that there would inevitably be a major change in the court today. The things mentioned in the letter sent back by his fourth brother Jiang Beiting must be cut off today.

Meng Yi turned his head and looked at Chen Xu, then began to ponder while holding his beard.

Qin Shihuang's face was pitch black: "Do you know why Zhao Zhe framed the Marquis of Qinghe?"

"Your Majesty, I don't know... I don't know!" The eunuch lay nervously on the ground and trembled all over.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Zhe and Qinghe Hou had a grudge, which might have led to this incident!" Jiang Heng, who was standing beside Qin Shihuang, suddenly spoke.

"The two have a grudge? What kind of grudge is it? Why have I never heard of it?" Qin Shihuang turned to look at Jiang Heng.

"Your Majesty, the reason for this matter is quite complicated. It involves many officials in Wancheng, and also involves the fourth brother of the minister, Jiangbeiting, who is now the governor of Nanyang County..."

Jiang Heng originally said in detail what happened in Nanyang, and finally walked down nine steps and leaned on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, that day, Zhao Zhe communicated with bandits to rob Qinghe Town's tax grain. Qinghe Marquis' guards cut off Zhao Zhe's external kidneys. However, all the officials in Wancheng had all committed a false case because their children were involved. At that time, I was afraid that my fourth brother would be involved, so I made peace with Zhao Gao to conceal the matter. Now, Zhao Zhe colluded with a large number of eunuchs and eunuchs in the harem to secretly frame Qinghe Marquis. If this matter was not broken by Princess Qingning, Concubine Shu and Hou Qinghe Marquis would definitely be trapped in it and become a criminal. Zhao Zhe's wolfish ambition might really be unfavorable to Your Majesty in the future. I will be punished more. I know that I can't escape the crime of concealing this matter, so I ask Your Majesty to be punished. I am willing to be punished!"

The whole court was quiet without any sound.

No one expected that there was such a deep hatred between Zhao Zhe and Qinghe Hou. Because of this incident, more than a dozen officials from all over Wancheng were involved. What was even more unexpected was that this incident was concealed so closely after more than a year, and almost no civil and military officials in the court knew about it.

"Who else knows this except the Jiang Mansion Order?" Qin Shihuang's cold eyes swept across the court.

"Report~ Your Majesty, please see the general outside the hall!" A guard came in and knelt down on one knee to report.

Qin Shihuang was stunned for a moment and waved his sleeves and stood up and said loudly: "Xuan!"

"Please go to the hall~" Wang Jian, who was wearing a black brocade robe and neatly combed his hair, looked good in good spirits, strode in.

"I pay homage to Your Majesty! Cough cough~" Although Wang Jian looked good, he was coughing when he spoke.

"General, please don't give me a gift~" Qin Shihuang personally walked down the nine steps to greet him, and was about to step forward and hold Wang Jian's hand to show his respect, but Wang Jian suddenly knelt down and bowed to the ground and said, "Your Majesty, I am here to apologize today!"

"The general is so serious, why are you guilty?" Qin Shihuang said in a gentle voice.

"The old minister has something hidden from His Majesty for a long time. Today I will apologize!"

"Please ask for it. No matter what kind of crime, I will not punish it!" Qin Shihuang helped the old general who had built most of his country with both hands.

"The old minister is frightened. I heard that Zhao Zhe was stabbed to death in the harem by an eunuch in the young mansion. The hidden information in the inside may be related to this matter. Therefore, I dare not continue to hide it. I came to apologize for the crime. The incident happened two years ago. The old minister was ordered by His Majesty to inspect Nanyang..."

Wang Jian once again told Zhao Zhe about robbing summer grain. Many of the details were naturally much clearer than Jiang Heng.

"Your Majesty, the old minister did not intentionally conceal it at that time, but because there were too many officials involved. In addition to Zhao Gao, who was the CRRC Mansion, and Jiang Heng, the CRRC Mansion, today, dozens of officials of Wancheng were removed from office and investigated, it would probably cause turmoil and unrest in Nanyang County. Moreover, it also involved the marquis of Qinghe. The old minister could not confirm his identity at that time. If the report was reported at that time, perhaps Your Majesty was furious, the marquis of Qinghe would also be involved in it and implicated. If the marquis of Qinghe was beheaded for dereliction of duty, the old minister would have been too guilty!"

After hearing this, Qin Shihuang remained silent and felt very upset.

He had never expected that he valued and relied on several ministers to conceal this matter, and it took nearly two years. The strict laws he had always been proud of were completely like fig leaf for the officials below, and they had almost no effect. They had only a glamorous appearance. After they were torn off, they were all dirty inside stories.

What made him most depressed was this incident. Although Zhao Zhe communicated that robbing summer grain was a serious crime, compared with more than a dozen bureaucrats of all sizes in Wancheng colluded to conceal this matter, and for nearly two years, Zhao Zhe's affairs could be ignored lightly.

Qin Shihuang left Wang Jian and walked towards his dragon throne step by step, while also swept coldly over the civil and military ministers on both sides.

The civil and military officials in the court lowered their heads and remained silent in his cold eyes, and many people were still trembling slightly.

The emperor's expression was a kind of anger that was suppressed to the extreme, and there was a sense of oppression that was about to come. A thunder storm seemed to be brewing in the court and could burst out at any time.

As a result of the outbreak, someone will inevitably be dismissed from office or even the heads of the people will be put on the ground.
Chapter completed!