Selling wife for fame? Kick out the scumbag and marry the new emperor to enjoy the harem of favors

Chapter 11 A New Idea
Xie Jiu walked up to him and said, "It's not a big deal. I thought of asking someone to go to the Marquis' Mansion to get some calligraphy books."

"For the princess." Xie Jiu added.

"Just let Qingdong do it for you for this small matter." Zhao Xingjin said indifferently.

Xie Jiu shook her head. "How can I use the people around the emperor? I'll just ask my maid to go there."

Seeing this, Zhao Xingjin asked Qingdong to give Xie Jiu a badge for entering and leaving the palace.

"It will be more convenient for you to come and go in the future."

After all, Xie Jiu can't live in the palace all the time.

I'm afraid I'll have to go in and out frequently in the future.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xie Jiu smiled and bowed.

Then he raised his hand to call Chunrong and whispered a few words in her ear. Chunrong took the badge and left the palace.

After resting for a while, Zhao Xingjin felt refreshed, so he asked Xie Jiu to play chess with him.

Otherwise, just standing there talking would be quite boring.

Xie Jiu was good at chess and was not at all stage-frightened, so he sat down confidently.

"You just saw your father, right?" Zhao Xingjin suddenly said.

I thought he wouldn't bring this up. After all, we've been meeting for a while and all we talked about was gossip.

Now it seems that I can't avoid being interrogated.

"Yeah." Xie Jiu nodded. "It looks like several cabinet officials are here. No wonder the emperor is so tired."

Zhao Xingjin placed a chess piece. "The things you gave me did reveal quite a few corrupt officials. Following the clues, I also caught quite a few others, some of whom had already resigned. However, what they coveted belonged to the previous dynasty, so it's an old debt, and a bad one."

"After the emperor ascended the throne, some of them must have stopped their actions. Now, in front of the emperor, their hands are clean and they have no handle. However, these people don't have a very suitable reason to settle accounts." Xie Jiu pointed out his annoyance.

Some of them even became cautious and diligent after Zhao Xingjin ascended the throne, and even made contributions and achieved some political achievements.

It is even more difficult to start.

Even if you are the emperor, you have to have a legitimate reason to investigate and punish your subordinates.

Although Zhao Xingjin obtained the throne by rebelling as a vassal king of a different surname, the slogan he used when he started the rebellion was righteousness, to fight against injustice and save the people.

It has been like this since ancient times. Without a legitimate reason, you will always be criticized.

In addition, when he ascended the throne, Zhao Xingjin declared that he would put aside the past and start a new dynasty.

Now that we are making a fuss about it again, without a very legitimate reason, it is somewhat untenable. Although it can be done by forcing it, it will have an impact on the stability of the people in the court.

Killing corrupt officials and replenishing the national treasury are certainly important, but for a new regime, stability is also very important.

Zhao Xingjin couldn't help but look at her when Xie Jiu said it, and then chuckled.

"Being too smart is not a good thing."

"If the emperor likes me to play dumb, I don't think I would say these things to him." Xie Jiu blinked and acted playfully. "I think that ministers always follow the rules when doing things. I don't understand those twists and turns. I will just say a few words from the perspective of a woman in my inner court. Perhaps the emperor can find some new ideas after listening to them. In this way, I can be considered of some use."

These words made the atmosphere much more relaxed.

Originally, Zhao Xingjin also wanted to hear Xie Jiu's opinion. Indeed, looking at the problem from different angles may lead to new discoveries.

What he said just now was that he felt that Xie Jiu was too good at guessing his thoughts and he should give him a proper warning.

But now Zhao Xingjin is relieved. Xie Jiu is smart enough and should not do anything he shouldn't do.

So at this moment he raised his chin and said, "Tell me about it."

He nodded, and Xie Jiu continued. "There's been a saying since ancient times that officials protect each other. Those who are colluding are the ones who know each other's hands better than anyone else. They might have been united in the past, but now that the emperor has ascended the throne, they're probably scattered. They're probably willing to use others as shields to save their own skins."

"Let them fight each other, and they'll be very fierce. Why should the emperor take action and investigate them one by one? All we need to do is wait for them to submit memorials to the palace with their accusations against each other."

Having said that, Xie Jiu looked embarrassed.

"When I was the housekeeper, I had a dishonest servant under me, and I used this method. It's the methods of the women in the cabinet. Your Majesty, please forgive me for laughing at you."

"That's a good idea." Zhao Xingjin looked thoughtful.

Just now, the ministers in that room always wanted to let the Ministry of Justice investigate and prosecute each case according to the law, or directly accuse them of false charges. Although this is also a method, it is tiring. Investigating each case one by one is time-consuming and laborious.

Although Xie Jiu's method was a bit insidious and not in accordance with the rules, it did seem to work.

It's easy. Just throw out the news and wait for those people to blame each other.

It just so happens that the court has already begun investigating corruption cases. This is the time when those who feel guilty can no longer sit still. If we handle it well, we can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

After thinking about these things, Zhao Xingjin smiled slightly, called Xie Jiu and continued playing chess.

And outside the palace at that time.

Chunrong has already entered the gate of Weiyuan Marquis Mansion.

When Wu Que heard that Xie Jiu had sent someone back, he could no longer sit still and rushed to Xie Jiu's yard in anger.

Wu Que did not go to court for the past two days.

How shameless! The whole capital knows that he was cuckolded.

If he had gained any benefits, he would have tolerated it, but now he got nothing and had to put on a smile with a green head, thanking the emperor for valuing Xie Jiu and the Marquis' Mansion for being proud of it.

I was so angry that I couldn't eat or sleep.

The court is investigating corruption, and he has this knife hanging over his heart. He was also angered by Wu Qingchan yesterday, and he feels really bad all over.

Of course, there was another thing that made him uncomfortable.

Yesterday he was thinking about his current predicament and wondered if he could ask his father-in-law Xie Mingshen for some help.

After all, the two of them had held the same opinion on how to deal with Xie Jiu before, so Wu Que felt that he and Xie Mingshen were still in the same boat.

Unexpectedly, when I sent someone over, I was turned away.

Wu Que was so angry that his head was about to explode. He was jumping up and down at home and cursing that everyone in the Xie family was a bad person.

Chen Shun, the housekeeper who had always been trusted by him, had a miserable time these past two days and had been beaten every day.

His old bones were about to be broken, and he felt wronged and angry.

They hated Xie Jiu for plotting against them, causing the Marquis' Mansion to be in such a state now.

But they never imagined that being able to have enough food to eat was already a good life.

Of course, this is a story for later, but even so, Wu Que still acted like a marquis.

He rushed into Xie Jiu's yard and saw Chunrong with a dark face.

He wanted to attack directly, but he was afraid that Xie Jiu was in favor now and would flatter him in front of Zhao Xingjin, so he had to suppress his anger and question him with his neck stiff.

"She asked you to come back, what does she want to do?!"

Yesterday, Xie Jiu sent something back, causing chaos in the Marquis's Mansion. Wu Que still remembers it.

(End of this chapter)