Therefore, all of the officials in the capital had to act with their tails between their legs. However, with so many officials, even if they could endure it for a while, they couldn't endure it for a lifetime. They had to make arrangements for their daily expenses. Just based on their position, how could it be enough?
Therefore, even though there was a strict crackdown now, there were still people who fell into Gong Dai's hands one after another. Therefore, Gong Dai's existence was a thorn in everyone's heart, a blade above their heads!
However, he was deeply favored and had the Imperial Army in his hands. In the entire capital, no one had more military power than him! It could be imagined that he was an existence that made people both hate and fear him!
Now, Gong Dai still wanted to climb up. Therefore, he could only abolish the Disciplinary Department set up by the founding emperor of the dynasty and expand the functions of Zhao Prison. He would swallow up the Disciplinary Department and become a new judicial organization.
However, this Zhao Prison was different from the Disciplinary Department's three departments. He would make Zhao Prison only listen to the emperor and only listen to him.
As for the fourth prince, not only did he have the duty of investigating, two of the three departments were his people. Naturally, he became the next target that Gong Dai wanted to deal with.
Unfortunately, last time, the two wrongful cases came out at the same time and left the Disciplinary Department in a terrible fix. After the emperor heard about it, he became furious and almost punished them! Coincidentally, at this time, Gui Fei Long suddenly revealed that she was pregnant. The emperor was overjoyed and suppressed this matter.
What a pity, he almost succeeded.
Gong Dai looked at the person in front of him, the Right Chief Imperial Censor, Zhou Buping. A dark light flashed through his eyes.
This person was very capable, especially when his life was threatened. He was actually able to dig up two wrongful cases from over a decade ago. He was a talent.
Although the emperor had lightly let go of the last matter, there must have been a seed of dissatisfaction and suspicion left in his heart. Once again, he had to hit the nail on the head.
Therefore, he decided to give Zhou Buping another chance.
Gong Dai thought as he got off the bed and walked in front of Zhou Buping.
His approach made Zhou Buping's crouched body uneasy and shrink back. He was truly afraid of this youth, Gong Dai. He was like a ghost, always giving you a fatal blow when you least expected it. However, he was high up and didn't care about the life and death of others.
Zhou Buping had seen the scene of Gong Dai supervising the execution with his own eyes. There were so many people! A total of three to four hundred people! He did not even blink as he watched the executioner's knife fall.
Many commoners screamed and didn't dare to look anymore. The accompanying officials were pale. Only he had a smile on his face. He seemed to be very happy.
At that time, he understood that he could not afford to offend this young man.
However, as luck would have it, Gong Dai still managed to trace it back to him. Back then, in order to get promoted and earn more money, he had embezzled a large sum of money. That money was meant for disaster relief, but in the end, all the rice sent to the disaster area was rotten rice. Many of them could not be eaten anymore, and many people starved to death.
He thought that all these years had passed, but he did not expect that he would still be found out and fall into the hands of Gong Dai …
Thinking of this, he buried his head even lower, his heart pounding against the ground! The closer Gong Dai got, the faster it jumped!
He could clearly feel that the lives of those involved in the case were now firmly in Gong Dai's hands.
Life and death in a single thought. Every second was torture.
"You want me to give you another chance?"
He did not refer to himself as a prince or this King, but used the word "I" lightly. However, this did not make them feel close to the young man. Instead, they felt that he was even more unfathomable.
The young man's toes were less than an inch away from his forehead. Zhou Buping did not dare to raise his head and used an extremely cautious and careful tone to plead.
"We beg Your Highness to be magnanimous and … give us another chance!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the people kneeling behind him cried out in unison.
"We beg Your Highness to be magnanimous!"
Gong Dai smiled faintly, "Since that is the case, I can give you another chance."
When he said this, Zhou Buping could not hide his excitement. He hurriedly raised his head. When he raised his head, he met the other party's condescending gaze. Those eyes were faint and carried a trace of danger.
"Only, I have one more thing that I want you to do."
Zhou Buping's heart trembled. He bowed again and said, "Your Highness, please instruct us. We will do anything!"
Gong Dai smiled faintly. His slender figure slowly walked back to the bed and sat back down.
"Isn't Imperial Concubine Long pregnant with a dragon descendant? But at this juncture, isn't it too much of a coincidence? "
He saw that Zhou Buping's body had suddenly tensed up, and he smiled somewhat strangely. "Almost all of your families have daughters in the palace, and you also have spies in the palace. I hope that you can check the authenticity of this. This, this won't be difficult, right?"
Thinking of Imperial Concubine Long's iron bucket defense, Zhou Buping wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "It's not difficult, it's not difficult!"
Gong Dai nodded in satisfaction, "If that's the case, you may leave."
When they heard this, they felt as if they had been pardoned! But when they thought of the new task, they felt a little heavy. But on one side was their lives, and on the other side was an adventure. Their lives were more important.
Moreover, Gong Dai never mistreated those who worked for him. This was one of the comforts.
After everyone left, Gong Dai rubbed the space between his eyebrows and felt a little impatient.
At this moment, Lo Qi walked in quietly and brought a piece of news.
"Your Highness, according to the spies' report, the tributaries you mentioned are almost at the border with Yuheng!"
Gong Dai's black eyes lit up, and his spirit was lifted.
Back then, in order to persuade him to help build the canal after he returned from the West Continent, GongYimo had told him her plan. Therefore, even though GongYimo's whereabouts were unknown, he could still wait for her at the place where she would appear.
There was news that Yuheng was also building the canal, and it was in the direction of Dai Yu State. Then, in the territory of Dai Yu State, she would definitely not let go of the tributaries that were built according to the blueprint she had left behind!
Therefore, it didn't matter where she was in Yuheng, or whether she was working for the Second Prince of Yuheng. As long as she hadn't given up on her plan to smuggle herself into Yuheng, he would have a chance to meet her!
Thinking of this, he quickly got up and prepared to leave the residence.
Lo Qi asked, "Your Highness, what are you going to do?"
"Enter the palace."
"But you just asked for leave from His Majesty yesterday, saying that you were ill and needed rest. What reason do you want to use this time?"
Gong Dai was obviously in a very good mood, and he actually started to explain.
"The capital is becoming more and more clean under Imperial Father's rule. Then, I'll go out and see if there are any parasites that have not been removed."
Speaking of this, his eyes were smiling, as if he was just a youth who was about to go out and have fun. His eyes were full of longing.
He was not worried that this suggestion would be rejected. The people of the capital were eager for him to leave, so they would try their best to facilitate this so that he could leave quickly.
Unfortunately, if they thought that they could sit back and relax after he left the capital … they were too naive.
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