The daily routine of the mistress of the Hou family training her husband

Chapter 143

The next day, he went to work at the Dali Temple, and just as Chen Zhi had expected, he was very busy everywhere.

After all, it was the prince who was assassinated, which was a big deal.

The Dali Temple has already sent people to arrest all the relevant personnel overnight, and they are now being interrogated one by one.

This will be very busy. I have to take statements from everyone, at least several hundred people. I will probably be so busy writing these days that my pen will break.

But I don’t think it will take too long, and the results will probably come out soon.

With this mentality, Chen Zhi continued to work steadily and reliably, without any complaints.

In contrast, many other officials couldn't help but complain.

It's no wonder they are irritable. They get the least monthly salary, do the most boring and strenuous work, and have to work overtime. When their superiors are angry, they take it out on them. It's impossible for them to be in a good mood.

But the superiors don’t care so much. They will only be satisfied with whoever works hard and honestly.

Therefore, Chen Zhi caught the eye of Wang Runsong, the deputy minister of Dali Temple, who thought that this young man was good and could keep his composure, which was what one needed to be like in officialdom, especially when climbing up from the bottom.

Wang Runsong was a neutral person and had never participated in the fight for the throne between the Crown Prince and the Sixth Prince. Because of this, although he had strong case-handling abilities and never violated discipline or engaged in corruption, he was still only a temple secretary at the age of over fifty.

Moreover, many people knew that Chen Zhi was recommended by the Fifth Prince to work as an official in the Dali Temple because he provided some clues and did a favor to the Fifth Prince when the Fifth Prince was investigating a case in Qizhou.

As for the Fifth Prince, he has always been low-key and neutral, and Chen Zhi has never made random friends since he entered the Dali Temple. He just does his duty well.

As a result, Wang Runsong regarded Chen Zhi as a person like himself, and brought Chen Zhi with him on the pretext of needing to handle the case.

This is the intention of cultivation.

Although the position of the Temple Secretary is not high, he has a lot of say in the promotion of clerks to formal officials. After all, the Supreme Court Minister and the two Vice Ministers of the Supreme Court will not have contact with the low-level clerks below them. Whenever there is an opportunity for such clerks to take up positions, most of them are nominated by the Temple Secretary, and they just need to be approved by the superiors.

For a time, many people envied Chen Zhi, hoping that someone would take him under their wing. But some people also ridiculed him, saying that Wang Sicheng was old-fashioned and stubborn, and had offended many people. Chen Zhi had no future if he followed him.

But no matter what others said, Chen Zhi ignored them. He admired Wang Runsong.

In the Dali Temple, there are probably only a handful of people with clean hands like Wang Runsong, and Chen Zhi became an official because he wanted the officialdom to be as clean as this.

It was precisely because of his acquaintance with Wang Sicheng that Chen Zhisheng avoided some trouble in his later promotion, but that is a story for later.

Right now, the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice are extremely busy with the case of the Crown Prince's assassination, and the Fifth Prince is also busy running around every day.

Fortunately, the case made progress soon, and it was discovered that the Sixth Prince might have been the mastermind behind this incident.

Although the whole court was in an uproar, everyone actually knew in their hearts that the Crown Prince was assassinated, and it was most likely done by the Sixth Prince, and the uproar was just an act.

Regarding this incident, the court officials wanted to see how the emperor would judge and whether the Sixth Prince would be convicted.

East Palace.

The Crown Prince was seriously injured and could not leave his bed for some time. But today, when he heard the Fifth Prince come to tell him that the case had been traced to the Sixth Prince and that the witnesses and evidence had been presented before the Emperor, the Crown Prince sat up excitedly.

"Zhao Yucheng, this bastard, still wants to fight with me. This time he almost killed me. No matter what, I must defeat him this time and make sure he has no power to fight back!"

"Don't worry, my royal brother. I will do my best to investigate this case and will not let him escape." The fifth prince said solemnly.

The prince nodded, "Old Five, if you do this for me, I will never treat you unfairly in the future. I don't want brothers to kill each other, but Old Six always offends his superiors and covets my position. I really can't let him go. If he can be like you, I can naturally be friendly and respectful to him and live in harmony with him."

"I know that my brother is the legitimate son of the Empress and the eldest of all the princes. It is natural for him to be in the East Palace. My sixth brother should not have any rebellious thoughts. If everyone is like him, not understanding the rules and not following the etiquette, wouldn't it be a mess?" The fifth prince bowed.

These words touched the heart of the prince, and he immediately followed his words and scolded the Sixth Prince. Little did he know that after coming out of the East Palace, the Fifth Prince's eyes were full of ice.

No matter whether he is the crown prince or the sixth prince, no one can stand in his way.

The next day, there was a heated argument in the court over the Sixth Prince's plot to murder the Crown Prince, and the two factions of ministers wanted to fight on the spot.

The emperor looked at this chaos and felt annoyed and angry.

But in his heart, he still preferred the Sixth Prince more. Even though he knew the situation, he was unwilling to make a decision just like that, always hoping there would be room for maneuver.

For example, find a scapegoat to take the blame for the Sixth Prince.

There is no doubt that the fifth prince is the best scapegoat.

After all, the emperor knew very well how the fifth prince's biological mother, Concubine Gao Shu, died.

Revenge for the mother is a good excuse.

But the manipulator behind the scenes this time was none other than the fifth prince, which meant that the emperor's move was doomed to fail.

When the Fifth Prince realized his father's intention, he felt even more terrified and immediately made the last two moves.

He wanted to see how deep the father-son relationship between him and the Sixth Prince was in the eyes of the Emperor.

The first place to cause trouble was the harem. Concubine Qian secretly bribed the minister in charge of the case and was caught red-handed by the Queen.

Then, outside the palace, the guest official of the Sixth Prince confessed that someone had given the Sixth Prince the idea to attack the Crown Prince during the autumn hunt, and the people responsible for finding the wild beasts were the Sixth Prince's trusted guards.

Let’s not talk about the latter, and just talk about the former. If the Sixth Prince had not murdered the Crown Prince, why would Concubine Qian need to bribe the chief official?

This time the emperor really had no choice but to avoid the important issue.

The Jiang family and the Queen worked together to spread the news that the Sixth Prince was plotting to murder the Crown Prince without waiting for the Emperor's reaction. For a time, the people were constantly denouncing the Sixth Prince.

In the court, led by the Jiang family, all the court officials began to put pressure on the emperor, demanding that he severely punish the sixth prince.

The emperor finally had no choice but to order the Sixth Prince to be stripped of his title of Prince and confined to his palace. Concubine Qian was demoted to the lowest rank of court lady and was also confined to her house.

The prince was naturally dissatisfied with this result; he wanted the Sixth Prince to die.

The Queen and the Jiang family were able to keep their composure and only advised the Prince not to push too hard and to always leave some room and slowly think of a solution in the future. This time the Emperor had already been pushed hard enough, and if they forced him to sentence the Sixth Prince to death again, it would probably backfire.

It would be better to show more understanding to the emperor, which would actually help him win back some favor.

After all, we still have to get along in the future.

But the Crown Prince would not listen to any of this and only wanted to take this opportunity to deal with the Sixth Prince as soon as possible. The Fifth Prince knew what he was thinking and secretly pushed him from behind.

So on the fifth day when the Sixth Prince was imprisoned, everyone thought that the crisis had subsided and the matter would be put behind them for the time being, but then news came from outside the palace that the Sixth Prince had died suddenly.

The saying goes that he committed suicide out of fear of punishment.

This method was indeed a bit clumsy. After all, the emperor only sentenced the Sixth Prince to confinement and stripping his title without any other punishment. It was obvious that he would have a chance to make a comeback after lying dormant and forbearing after the storm had passed. How could he commit suicide?

The Queen and the Jiang family had not expected that the Prince would do it behind their backs, and they were anxious and angry for a moment.

Sure enough, the emperor was furious. He did not believe that the Sixth Prince would commit suicide out of fear of crime, so he sent his trusted subordinates to order a thorough investigation into the cause of the Sixth Prince's death.