In my dream of returning to the Tang Dynasty, I snatched Wu Zetian from my lap.

Intercepting the carriage?

Li Yuanchang frowned, then lifted the curtain and stepped out of the carriage.

The street ahead was congested, and someone had placed a government official's effigy on it with the word "injustice" written on it in blood-red cinnabar.

A large crowd of onlookers gathered, pointing and whispering.

A large number of officials are organizing order and clearing the scene.

"The King of Han has emerged!"

"It's the King of Han!"

Just as the crowd gasped in surprise, a woman suddenly rushed out from the crowd, took off her outer garment, revealing the mourning clothes underneath.

She held up a blood-written letter and rushed toward the Han King's carriage, crying out.

"Innocent!"

"I'm innocent!"

"I beg the King of Han to grant me justice!"

"What a tragic injustice!"

The desperate, wailing voice instantly gave Li Yuanchang goosebumps.

Not only him, but the entire three-mile-long street was frozen in place for three seconds!

Li Yuanchang stared in shock as the woman dressed in mourning clothes rushed towards him, her weeping face seemingly bearing the weight of a terrible injustice!

In his previous life, he had only ever seen people stop cars to plead their cases in TV dramas; he never imagined it would happen to him now.

He frowned, preparing to dismount from the carriage, when he noticed that a soldier from Liangzhou Prefecture had already drawn his sword in the crowd.

His expression changed drastically.

"stop!!"

The sound reverberated, penetrating the entire long street.

But the knife was still raised, cutting through the air with a sonic boom, and slashed fiercely at the woman who was crying out for justice.

"I told you to stop!!" Li Yuanchang's eyes widened in anger. The distance was too great and there were too many people, so he and the guards of the Han Prince's mansion had no way to stop them immediately.

puff! !

A head the size of a watermelon flew into the sky, and the headless corpse crashed to the ground, staining the long street with blood.

Li Yuanchang stared blankly at all of this.

"ah!!"

A burst of screams erupted in the street, causing the crowd to riot and retreat.

It was only then that Li Yuanchang came to his senses, flew into a rage, and rushed toward the scene of the incident.

Guo Chao and a large number of guards followed, pushing through the crowd.

"Who gave you permission to use the knives?"

"Who gave you permission to use the knives?"

"Whose soldiers are you?" Li Yuanchang shouted angrily.

All the officers and soldiers present knelt down upon hearing this.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

"It was my order. I was worried that they were assassins who might threaten the safety of the king, so I ordered them to be killed."

"We are officers from the Ministry of Justice."

"My name is Xue Zhong, and I am a legal officer."

A thin, middle-aged man with a pointed face spoke up. The Ministry of Justice was one of the six ministries, specifically responsible for maintaining order, conducting trials, imprisoning, and seizing assets.

Li Yuanchang was furious.

"Now you've learned to act on your own!"

Snapped!

He slapped her hard across the face, and the crowd gasped in surprise.

Xue Zhong screamed in agony as blood was spurted from the corner of his mouth, then crawled back to kneel.

"Your Highness, I am truly worried that something like what happened at the Lu Family Stone Manor will happen again. There have been cases before where people pretended to file a complaint but actually carried out assassinations..."

"Shut up!"

"Didn't you hear me tell you to stop? Didn't you hear me?"

"If you have nothing to hide, why kill her?"

"What are you trying to cover up?" Li Yuanchang demanded repeatedly, clearly not believing such nonsense.

All the officers in the legal department lowered their heads, not daring to speak, trembling with fear.

"Your Highness, I have failed in my duty. Please forgive me." Xue Zhong said, as if he had only done this for the safety of His Highness.

"roll!!"

boom!

Li Yuanchang kicked the man away, then went to the corpse. The body was dismembered, and the man didn't even have a chance to say his last words.

He crouched down and searched the body, trying to find any items that could prove the body's identity.

But the woman had nothing on her; the only things that could be found were half a steamed bun and three coins.

"Your Highness, the complaint seems to be missing!"

Suddenly, Guo Chao offered a reminder.

Li Yuanchang suddenly realized that when the woman stopped the car earlier to protest her innocence, she had indeed been holding up a letter written in blood.

In such a short time, the blood letter has disappeared?

"Where's the complaint?" He looked at it with a predatory gaze.

Xue Zhong's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he stammered, "Your Highness, I didn't know."

"Wh-what kind of complaint?"

This completely ignited Li Yuanchang's anger. They were treating him like he was blind and just trying to fob him off!

Even a fool knows there's something wrong with this. Throughout history, how many people who dare to block the road and cry out for justice haven't suffered earth-shattering injustices?

boom!

He pulled a Tang-style horizontal sword from Guo Chao's waist.

"I'll ask you one last time, where's the petition?!" He gritted his teeth, approaching step by step, his eyes as cold as the Grim Reaper.

At the same time, the guards of the Prince of Han's mansion sealed off the scene, prohibiting people from entering or leaving, and sent away the petition.

All the officials shuddered, the hairs on the back of their heads stood on end, and they all retreated.

Xue Zhong's voice trembled: "Your Highness, please don't... This humble servant really doesn't know anything about a petition."

"I didn't see it either!"

He started to cry, as if he really didn't know.

"Search!" Li Yuanchang hissed.

"yes!"

Guo Chao and his men quickly stepped forward and searched all the officers, checking every possible hiding place.

After all, in such a short time, in the blink of an eye, the petition cannot be destroyed.

In ancient times, when filing a lawsuit, the petition would record almost all the grievances and the people involved. Only by obtaining the petition could the truth be revealed.

But after searching, they found nothing.

Guo Chaochong and Li Yuanchang shook their heads.

Li Yuanchang's face darkened, and he subconsciously looked around, his eyes full of doubt.

If the petition isn't on these officials, where is it?

It was gone in the blink of an eye.

"Who sent you?" he asked calmly.

Anyone who is afraid of women filing complaints is a devil.

Li Yuanchang felt that these officials in front of him did not have that much courage.

Xue Zhong and the others exchanged glances, trembling with fear, and refused to speak.

Li Yuanchang immediately raised his knife.

"No, no!" Xue Zhong and the others were terrified and shouted almost reflexively, "It's the Military Advisor! It's the Military Advisor!"

"Lü Ping, the Legal Advisor?"

"Yes……"

Li Yuanchang's fists clenched so tightly they cracked. As an official in charge of criminal matters, his order to obstruct the killing of a woman who was crying out for justice was something worth pondering.

The matter with Cang Cao had just been settled, and he hadn't figured out where to start, when this bastard Lü Ping walked right into his trap.

"Men, take the body back first!"

"Throw those bastards into prison, and have the guards from the Imperial Household Department personally oversee them!"

"Also, summon that bastard Lü Ping here!"

Li Yuanchang's successive orders had cultivated an aura of authority and ruthlessness befitting a superior.

He no longer trusts any judicial system in Liangzhou Prefecture, especially after what happened today.

"yes!!"

After giving his instructions, Li Yuanchang returned to the carriage.

Situ Lan only knew that someone had died, but she didn't know what had happened. She noticed that Li Yuanchang's expression was also not good.

"Your Highness, what's wrong?"

"It's alright, let's go back to the manor first."

"..."

The Prince of Han's Palace.

Night quietly descended, the front yard was brightly lit, and people were constantly coming and going.

Inside a bright and imposing hall.

With a thud, an official dressed in a gray robe, exuding an air of wealth, knelt heavily a few meters away from Li Yuanchang.

"Your humble servant Lü Ping greets Your Highness."

"Having heard of what happened earlier, this humble servant has come to apologize!"