Although one year later, I was still impressed by Li Ling and King Yong, because this was the first court official to be the one who had put himself in, and he was such an inconspicuous seventh-rank stern official.

Like Bian Xuedao, King Yong also wanted to eliminate this hateful guy. It was because of his identity that he did not personally think of taking revenge, but he still conveyed his meaning to Bian Xuedao, which is also one of the important reasons why the latter has been constantly targeting Li Ling.

But what was unexpected was that Li Ling actually left Luoyang on the excuse of doing business last year, thus avoiding all kinds of persecution. This year, King Yong almost threw this guy behind. Until today, at the interrogation site of the Imperial City Department, the name Li Ling appeared again, and he was surprised to find that he actually took the initiative to fight back.

Where did this young guy, who had no power and no background, dared to act like this? Also, how did he grasp the inside story of these cases? When he turned to these questions, King Yong felt inexplicably nervous and truly felt a little afraid of Li Ling.

But when he was in deep thought, the interrogation in the hall continued. Lu Zhen asked again: "Do you mean he is still in Luoyang City? Do you know where he lives?"

"I know, I know, the Li Dong family lives in Xiurenfang in the east of the city..." Manager Zhou was honest and quickly told Li Ling's address. Without any hesitation, Lu Zhen immediately ordered: "Come, come, you can hurry to his house and bring me questions."

Several lieutenants agreed in unison, and then quickly went out. After Xu Lin and King Yong who were on the trial gave a slight salute, they blew out like a gust of wind. This fierce and decisive look made King Yong's eyes lit up: "The troops of the Imperial City Department are indeed powerful, and they are not comparable to those of our subordinates in the Ministry of Justice."

"Your Highness is too proud, and you are so sorry for the emperor." Xu Lin smiled and said modestly, then looked at the silent people in the hall and asked, "Your Highness, I'm afraid this person will be brought after noon. I don't know you..."

"It's important, I'm waiting here. I want to see where Li Ling got the courage to slander his boss like this, or someone behind him instructed him!"

"Yes, then please ask Your Highness to go to the hall first to sit for a few days. It's not too late to wait for someone to bring him in the internal hearing." Xu Lin said with a smile and invited the person to have tea next to him.

King Yong was naturally quite satisfied with his arrangement, so he followed him to the other side with a smile, but he did not notice it. Xu Sicheng, who seemed respectful, had a hint of sarcasm and sarcasm in his eyes, because he would never dream of the initiator of this storm, not only Li Ling, but also Imperial City Si.

Especially Lu Zhen, who was sitting high in the trial of the case, was one of the planners of the whole matter. All the crimes mentioned in Li Ling's articles of Bian Xuedao were handed over by him. In other words, this is to judge himself by himself. To put it in a popular joke in later generations, it was Lu Zhen who asked loudly there: "What do you have to sue me?"

Because he didn't know the truth, King Yong waited calmly. He passed the afternoon and the subordinates sent out rushed back, but they were empty-handed and Li Ling was not brought.

When the result was reported to Xu Lin and the others, both of them changed their faces: "Have Li Ling really fled from Beijing for fear of crime?"

"Stop it, that's not the case. When my subordinates went to his house to get people, they realized that two days ago, Li Ling had been taken to the door by the Tiqi of the Censorate, and is still in the prison of the Censorate."

Both of them were stunned when they heard this answer. Of course, King Yong was really surprised, while Xu Lin pretended, because he had known that this was the case.

Yes, two days ago, Li Ling, who wanted to plot against Bian Xuedao, was targeted first, and then was arrested from his home by the Censor Taishiqi and came to the palace for a second time.

Li Ling, who was "entering the palace for the second time", was more calm than before, because compared to the previous time, he was prepared this time. When he knew that Bian Xuedao had already started to let his colleagues from the Ministry of Revenue jointly impeach him, he knew that he would have to go to the censorship again sooner or later.

Fortunately, the Censorate didn't take the people too quickly. They didn't come to catch them after he finished writing the article, handed it to the bookstore, and explained the follow-up matters. However, even so, the family still frightened, especially Yue'er, who was so scared that she was so scared that she was about to cry when she saw Tiqi entering the door.

"Li Ling, I asked you again, are you guilty?" A sudden shout made Li Ling quickly come back to his senses. He looked at the censor who sat upright and dark-faced censor interrogated his official, and then he still looked calm: "The lower official is not guilty, and those accusations are all crimes!"

"Hmph, you are really determined to admit your mistake. I asked you, if you really have never, why do many colleagues from the Ministry of Revenue jointly submit an impeachment? Also, according to what they said, you have neglected your duties in the past year and have never been to the yamen for trouble, so what explanation will you give?"

"Why did those people jointly issue a letter to impeach the officials? You should ask them, or the Bianshi. As far as I know, these people were signed in the chapter by the Bianshi. And not all my colleagues from the Qing Lishu Department signed the signatures. At least my direct superior Lu You, and another colleague Xiang Daxing, did not sign the signatures."

Li Ling responded indifferently: "So sir, don't you suspect that someone is excluding dissidents? If you have an understanding of me, I'm afraid the entire Ministry of Revenue Department is not as good as Doctor Lu, but why did he not impeach me and count my crimes? Instead, other colleagues who have no big relationship with me joined forces to impeach me?

"So the facts are already in front of you. It is clear that the Minister of the Bian Shin-government used his power to suppress others and forced my colleagues from the Ministry of Revenue to frame me. I hope the Lord will give me a clear understanding and give me justice!"

The officials who tried the case obviously did not expect Li Ling to respond like this. They were a little difficult to deal with for a while. After a while, they hummed: "Even so, the mistakes you made are well-documented. They had only been on leave for half a year, but they only came back a year later. In addition, they did not submit their duties after entering Beijing. Moreover, when the Ministry of Revenue was busy with many official duties, you only rest at home. Such a disciplinary attitude, how could you be an official of the court?"

Li Ling curled his lips, and was he not given a fresher charge to himself after all this argument? He was too lazy to refute.

But he didn't know that this was the most powerful thing about these self-righteous guys. He first framed you with all kinds of inconspicuous small crimes, and then went through trials and searched the property in his home to find a more serious crime until he was nailed to death by an official they were about to take down.

Because only in this way is it more difficult to overturn the case, just like boiling a frog in warm water. When you find that the situation is not good, it is too late and you can only wait for death. Over the years, I wonder how many imperial officials have been buried under their skills in questioning.

However, this time, Li Ling obviously did not want to give them the opportunity to continue to make trouble for him, so he repeated the rebuttal words he had said in front of Bian Xuedao that day, and finally emphasized: "As the official of the court, all we have to do is to do our own chores well without leaving any mistakes, rather than to fight for other chores in the yamen. If this is the case, where do you place other colleagues?

"Since I am the chief of the Qing official's office in southern Yunnan, I naturally only care about the major financial and tax affairs of this province. I went to the southwest before because of this. Since the money, grain and taxes have not been delivered yet, I naturally don't have to be busy with other people's official duties. Moreover, I just returned from the southwest and needed to rest, what's wrong with staying at home for a few days?

"If your Censorate insists on imposing the charges on me with these things, I, Li Ling, will definitely not be convinced. Even if I get to Your Majesty, I will shout for justice. Also, I am a former student, and I have just met Lu Xiang. If you really want to use extraordinary means, you will be responsible for the consequences!"

Knowing that the Censorate had some dirty means of torture and confession, Li Ling simply said ugly things in advance, and took out all his not-so-big backgrounds. Of course, he dared not say anything about some friendship with the emperor and the identity of the Imperial City Stissus, unless he was in a critical moment of real life worry.

His statement really made these censors feel difficult. It is rare to see criminals who are taken to the censorship and can talk freely. Moreover, according to his words, they have friendship with the prime minister, so they naturally dare not use force.

Just as the interrogation was about to come to an end, and when he planned to take the criminal back to prison for a while, a noise broke out outside, and then he saw some tycoons in the Censorate being forced to retreat to the hall by several people. Obviously, the people who broke in were overwhelmingly overwhelmed them.

"Bold, you can't break into the important place of my Censorate!" An official arrived outside and shouted loudly.

But the men in front of him who were wearing military officer robes and swords hanging on their waists were unmoved and still strode towards the lobby. The first person shouted loudly: "The Imperial City Department was ordered to take the criminal Li Ling back to trial, and the idle people are not allowed to stop him!"

As soon as this statement was made, the censors around him angrily scolded him, calling them bold and unrestrained. If they hadn't known that they were not opponents, these straight-tempered censors would have taken action directly.

The Censorate and the Imperial City Department were originally two yamen that were almost impossible to fight, and it was almost impossible to have grudges. However, since the incident of Jiang He that time last year, the Censorate has been weakened, and some of its responsibilities have been divided by the Imperial City Department.

So over the past year, the two sides have become rivals and there are still some quarrels on weekdays.
Chapter completed!