Daming: After self-explosive time travel, Lao Zhu's mentality collapsed

Chu Ze watched with cold eyes, secretly happy in his heart: Now the source of Li Mansion's conspiracy was finally uncovered, and he could justifiably arrest them!
"Remember everything clearly and write it down verbatim!" Chu Ze told the government officials.

"Yes!" the officials responded and wrote down these confessions in detail.

The next day, Li Yue, the old man of the Li Mansion, stayed up all night, thinking that the housekeeper and servants sent out yesterday had not yet reported the news.

The old man felt vaguely uneasy.

Not long after, a clan elder ran back in a panic and said incoherently: "Clan leader, it's not good! The housekeeper and the others were all arrested by the government!"

"What?!" Mr. Li said with his eyes widened: "Caught? How could this happen!"

The old man bowed his head deeply and replied tremblingly: "It is said that they were caught by the government officials when they set fire in the woods... Now they are all imprisoned in the government prison on charges of arson and damaging the railway tracks!"

"Oops!" Mr. Li's face instantly turned pale, he stood up and said, "Has our plan been seen through?!"

"Yes, sir!" The clan elder broke out in a cold sweat and said, "For some reason, the fire we set in the woods couldn't be lit. At this moment, the government officials suddenly came out and caught everyone!"

Mr. Li's legs softened and he sat back on the chair.

He thought about everything he arranged last night, but it failed like this. What a big joke!

"Chu Ze! It must be him!" Mr. Li gritted his teeth and said with hatred: "He must have set a trap to make us so embarrassed!"

The clan elder was also confused and said: "I don't know how Chu Ze noticed our plan. This is really unexpected!"

After the Li family learned that their conspiracy was exposed, the top management of the Li family suddenly panicked.

Li Yue, the head of the Li family, immediately gathered all the senior leaders of the Li family to hold an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures.

"Chu Ze, a villain who talks about benevolence, justice and morality, actually used such despicable means to plot against my Li family!" Li Yue burst into flames, furious.

A clan elder also wailed: "Chu Ze has simply wronged our Li family!"

"Exactly! We must fight back and make Chu Ze pay the price!" All the ministers were also excited and responded positively.

"But Chu Ze already has evidence of our crimes." Another clan elder reminded: "He can expose the crimes committed by our Li family at any time, which is extremely detrimental to us."

"What you said makes sense." Li Yue pondered for a moment and had to admit that the current situation was unfavorable and said: "Chu Ze has got the handle on us. We must keep a low profile to avoid causing trouble again."

"Forget it, we can only swallow our anger for the time being and let Chu Ze think that we have given in. When he slacks off, it will not be too late for us to take revenge." Li Yue secretly clenched his fists.

Chu Ze and others discussed how to deal with the Li Mansion, because only a housekeeper and some servants of the Li Mansion were caught, and it was difficult to bring down the entire Li Mansion with their confessions alone.

Chu Ze pondered: "The Li family is hugely powerful. It is really difficult to attack the foundation of the Li family with just the confessions of these few small characters. We still need more evidence to expose the Li family's crimes head-on." Li Xing also frowned. He said: "Yes, just based on the confessions of the housekeeper and the servants, the Li family can still argue that they acted privately. We must conduct further investigations and uncover more shady stories about the senior officials of the Li family."

Zhao Si clenched his fist and said, "That's right! A powerful force like the Li Mansion must be hiding many shady criminal activities. We must uproot all their evil deeds!"

At this time, the Li Mansion sent Li Fu, a direct clan member, to the Yamen, and said to Chu Ze with a smile: "This incident was purely done by the remnants of Jin Xuehai to deceive the housekeeper and servants of our house, and has nothing to do with my Li Mansion. I hope the prince will understand clearly and don't do anything. You misunderstood me, Li Mansion.”

Chu Ze sneered and said: "Do you think I will believe these words? With the power of the Li family, how can you know nothing about the servants' actions? How long do you want to quibble?"

Li Fu's heart trembled, and he knew that if he continued to quibble, he would only bring trouble to himself. At that moment, he could only say in a low voice: "What the prince said is that our Li family did have some negligence, but it was not with evil intentions. I hope the prince will be merciful. Don’t blame me too much, Li Mansion.”

Chu Ze looked at his dog-legged behavior and snorted with disdain: "So, does your Li family really know nothing about what the housekeeper and others are doing?"

"That's right!" Li Fu responded repeatedly: "I, the Li Mansion, have no idea about this. This is what Jin Xuehai's remnants did by taking advantage of the spies in our house. It has nothing to do with the Li Mansion!"

"You fox, you still want to continue to quibble!" Zhao Si slapped the table and said angrily: "How can a senior official in the Li family like you know nothing about the behavior of the servant? You are obviously an accomplice!"

Li Xing also sneered: "Typical case of killing the donkey after it has done its work, pushing all the responsibility onto your subordinates. Do you think we will be fooled?"

Li Fu was panicked, and he could only say more flatteringly: "Your Majesty is wise, but my family, Li Mansion, has indeed been negligent. I hope that my lord will forgive us once and give my family, Li Mansion, a chance to repent."

Chu Ze snorted coldly and said: "The occurrence of such chaos in your Li Mansion shows that your family is in chaos. I originally wanted to punish others severely for such things that endanger the country!"

Li Fu was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. He kowtowed and apologized: "Your Majesty, you are serious! I, the Li family, admit that I made a mistake, but we had no intention of harming the country. Please be kind to your Majesty and give us a chance to repent!"

Chu Ze pondered for a moment, and finally said: "In this case, your Li family must publicly admit your mistakes in front of the people and compensate the losses to my Yamen. I will tolerate this once. If it happens again, you and I will have to fall out and have a conflict. !”

Li Fu kowtowed quickly and said, "Thank you for your mercy, Your Majesty! I, the Li Mansion, will abide by the order and publicly admit my mistakes and try my best to compensate for all losses. I also promise Your Majesty that this kind of thing will not happen again in the future!"

Chu Ze nodded and then asked Li Fu and others to leave.

Seeing that Chu Ze let the Li family go, Li Xing couldn't help but ask: "My lord, with the power of the Li family, they will definitely make a comeback. Can they be suppressed by just publicly admitting their mistakes?"

Chu Ze pondered and said: "What you said is not unreasonable. The power of the Li family cannot be underestimated. It is difficult to fundamentally attack it just by admitting its mistake once."

"That's right!" Li Xing agreed: "I think the Li Mansion will never give up. We must be more vigilant!"

"What you said makes sense." Chu Ze nodded and said, "Although we let the Li Mansion go this time, we cannot take it lightly. You continue to secretly monitor the Li Mansion's movements and report immediately if there is anything unusual."

"Yes!" Li Xing and Zhao Si accepted the order and went down to arrange personnel to carry out Chu Ze's order. (End of chapter)