An Ran saw that Qin Honghou was moving. Prince Li Guo began to frequently invite people to meetings in the name of poetry gatherings to meet secretly and discuss some matters. He couldn't help but secretly thought that this was because the emperor wanted to go along with the flow and support the third prince to ascend to the throne.

Otherwise, the prince's actions would easily be discovered by the emperor and become fearful. After all, no emperor likes cliques, cliques, or cliques.

In the original world, it was normal for the prince not to react to Prince Li's actions, because at that time, he had always thought that his position was very secure, and he only thought that Prince Li was really holding a poetry meeting.

I thought they were targeting him.

This is the advantage of doing mental arithmetic without thinking.

But now, they have the advantage of mental arithmetic and unintentional calculations, and they have turned to the prince's side. Because Qin Honghou and the others have no idea that the prince and others have been targeting them for a long time, so they are not cautious at all. Every move they make is under the control of the prince and others.

In the eyes, it is much easier to deal with them. After all, there must be things they cannot do when they perform these actions. As long as the things they cannot do are exposed, it will be enough for them to drink.

The prince had been staring at Qin Honghou's movements for a long time. At this time, when Qin Honghou's ambiguous partner, the Crown Prince Li Guo, started to make moves, making small moves secretly every day, he knew that they were taking action.

So I asked Mr. Zhang to look for opportunities and deal with them.

Mr. Zhang had been looking for an opportunity for a long time. At this time, he received the news from the prince and was ready to take action.

You don’t even need to take any big action, just find a little reason, which is enough to make the Duke of Liguo drink a pot.

No, on this day the censor impeached the Liguo government for forming cliques for personal gain.

This censor was naturally arranged by Mr. Zhang. After all, he could not appear on his own because he was too close to the prince. If he appeared, others would easily think of the prince, and it would be revealed that the prince already knew about Qin Huanghou and others' troubles.

The time is not conducive for them to act secretly, so they naturally have to introduce their own agents.

It is absolutely not a lie to run the government by forming cliques for personal gain. Recently, the government has indeed been forming cliques, and as for pursuing private interests, it is even better.

Why do ministers stick together? Isn’t it because they can gain benefits by sticking together?

Now that Prince Li Guo has made friends with various families and stayed together, he will naturally use this relationship to benefit himself. Running for an official position is one of them. Anyone with a low official position will find Duke Li or someone from this relationship.

Those with high official positions or backgrounds should support themselves.

Mr. Zhang was waiting for the Duke Li Guo's office to help several people lose their official positions and help them get promoted to official positions, and then he asked the censor to impeach him.

Therefore, the contents of the impeachment by the censor are all true. The government of the country is both clique and selfish.

Because the content of the impeachment was true, the Liguo Government Office was taken into custody.

In fact, the emperor knew that the manpower of Duke Liguo's Mansion belonged to Lao San, because after talking to Wang Shufei, Wang Shufei reported back to the emperor that she asked her son to cooperate with his actions. Among them, Duke Liguo's Mansion was on her side.

Son's.

The emperor thought that the Li family was eyeing the third child, and if he did not allow his son to associate with Duke Li and others, it would not be easy for him to help his favorite person and his son to rise to power. So after hearing what Wang Shufei said, he also

I'm not angry that they formed a clique and just let them have their way.

As a result, the censor discovered it at this moment, and then impeached him...

The emperor looked at this situation and wondered what he could do. He couldn't insist on defending the other party when his pigtails were caught, right? Wouldn't that leave a reputation as a foolish emperor in history?

The emperor also cherishes his reputation, so he can only act according to the rules at the moment, and then within the framework of acting according to the rules, try to punish the other party as lightly as possible.

He said that the other party was a meritorious family and that he had contributed to the court. He also said that the other party was a first-time offender and was punished with a salary of three months.

Although the punishment was light, the emperor thought in his heart that the Liguo Palace was really useless. Why did he do things so carelessly and was discovered so quickly?

I was thinking about going back and asking Concubine Wang Shu to tell the third child not to have any contact with Duke Li Guo's Mansion. Otherwise, he would not be able to get their help and would be implicated by them. After all, if it was found out that the relationship between the Duke Li Guo's Mansion and the third child was

The relationship is going to be in trouble again.

But he said that the emperor's punishment was too light. After all, Duke Li Guo's government did not live on that salary. In the end, the ministers argued with the emperor and added another one, asking Duke Li to reflect at home for three months. This was just like the palace.

It's almost like asking the empress to be put into confinement.

Li Guogong was actually very confused.

Prince Li Guogong wanted to side with the third prince, but he didn't tell Duke Li Guo, because Prince Li Guo was afraid that his father would not agree with him lining up with the third prince. After all, the prince's status was quite stable now, and Duke Li Guo definitely didn't want to take that risk.

After all, if you fail to help the third prince to ascend the throne, you will be in doom. How can it be like now, waiting for the prince to ascend to the throne, and they can just follow and reap the benefits.

To be honest, if Qin Honghou hadn't been bullied by the prince, Prince Li would not have supported the third prince to ascend to the throne. After all, he was not stupid, so why would he take this difficult road?

But in order to get revenge on the prince, he had no choice but to do this. After all, he had to let the prince ascend the throne. He would be the emperor in the future, so he couldn't take revenge.

Although Prince Li Guo did not tell his father about the third prince who was siding with him, his son asked him to help guide someone. He loved his son and saw that there was no big problem with those people, so he naturally agreed.

But he didn't know that he would be accused of forming a party for personal gain, and he would have to reflect at home for three months. How could he not be confused?

In fact, the things he did were both big and small.

If the emperor wants to make use of the topic, he can definitely do it, but if he wants simplicity in the emperor's heart, the emperor will not have an attack.

Of course, the key is that no one impeaches him. If someone impeaches him like this, and many ministers second his opinion, the emperor must take action. Otherwise, others will follow the same example in the future, and that will be terrible.

Although he was a little confused about someone impeaching him and then being punished at home for three months to reflect, Duke Li was not stupid and could see that this was not because the emperor wanted to cause trouble for him and deliberately let someone impeach him, because the emperor initially

After hearing about the impeachment, he said that he would only be punished with three months' salary. It was not until many people protested that the emperor had no choice but to increase his punishment, and even this punishment was not serious.

So it is obviously not that the emperor wanted to cause trouble for himself, because if he wanted to find trouble and sent the censor to impeach him, he would have followed suit, got angry, and then punished himself heavily after the censor impeached him.

The gentle handling now is enough to prove that this matter has nothing to do with the emperor.

Since it has nothing to do with the emperor, someone is targeting him. After all, if someone hadn't targeted him, most people would not impeach him for such a trivial matter.
Chapter completed!