After sleeping for almost two hours, when I opened my eyes again, the sky had already ended.
Hearing the movement in the hall, Liu Zhong, who had been waiting outside, quickly opened the door and walked in, standing respectfully in front of Chen Jue.
"What time is it?" he asked.
"Back to Your Majesty, it's already three o'clock in the morning."
Liu Zhong handed the water to Chen Jue, thinking of the news from the Yeting Bureau.
He said: "Your Majesty, there is news from the Imperial Guard that the dancer committed suicide by taking poison out of fear of crime."
As he spoke, Liu Zhong took out a blood-stained handkerchief from his sleeve and placed it in front of Chen Jue, "This is the dancer's confession."
Chen Jue didn't answer, only glanced lightly, "It's burned."
Even without reading it, he knew what the confession was about.
Even if the original person was here, he wouldn't be able to see it, let alone him. Then I won’t even watch it.
But what he didn't expect was that the other party would actually take action without him conducting a strict investigation.
Chen Jue thought carefully for a while and felt that this matter was not done by those people in the court. They could not have committed such an obvious thing and alerted the snake.
A discerning person would know it was homicide at a glance. Who would be so stupid as to believe such a "confession"!
He's not that stupid anyway!
After a good sleep, my spirits were almost restored, but I was a little hungry.
Chen Jue touched his hungry stomach and looked at the sunset outside.
Well, it’s already this time, it’s time to eat.
This movement of his happened to be captured by Liu Zhong. As a chamberlain, one must know how to act based on what he sees.
So Liu Zhong immediately asked: "Your Majesty, do you want to pass on the meal?"
Chen Jue glanced at him and said, "Pass."
How about being an emperor? Everyone wants to be an emperor!
With just one word from him, the palace servants quickly laid out the meals in an orderly manner.
But just halfway through the meal, a favored concubine in the harem, Jiang Guifei, came.
Concubine Jiang?
"What is she here for?" Chen Jue glanced at Liu Zhong.
Liu Zhong immediately understood and said: "When the empress learned that you were injured, she probably came to visit you."
"An hour ago, the imperial concubine learned that you were injured and came to see you. However, when I saw that you were resting, I made my own arrangements and did not let the imperial concubine come in."
After saying that, Liu Zhong also knew that what he had done was wrong, and immediately knelt on the ground to apologize.
Chen Jue waved his hand and did not punish him. Liu Zhong did what he wanted, "Well done."
However, he thought that he could not let the chamberlain make the decision for him without authorization, so he added: "Next time, if you make the decision without authorization, you will receive the punishment yourself."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your forgiveness." Seeing that His Majesty did not punish him, Liu Zhong suddenly showed a flattering smile.
"Your Majesty, do you want to bring the empress in?"
"No, please take all these away."
Hearing the words "Jiang Guifei", Chen Jue couldn't help but think that he only had two years to live, which immediately made him no longer want to eat.
In the novel, the most important reason why the original person has the reputation of being a coward is because of the original "Concubine Jiang".
Concubine Jiang can be said to have three thousand beauties in the harem, and she is loved by three thousand people.
For her sake, she kills virtuous ministers and gets close to villains; she indulges in drinking and sex all day long, ignores government affairs, and allows Liu Zhong, the chamberlain, to kill courtiers.
Even more so for Concubine Jiang, he did not hesitate to waste time and money by expropriating civilian husbands to build the Star Building, just to make her smile.
However, after he received the memory of the original person, he felt more and more that the original person was not a stupid king at all.
There is no such thing as doting on Concubine Jiang alone.
The original person was in poor health, let alone not good at women, he simply hated women.
Originally, I was just idle and bored, sitting and watching the girls from aristocratic families competing for the glory and power of the powerful family.
Occasionally, when the women in the harem stopped fighting, he would get in and get involved.
Killing virtuous ministers and approaching villains, Chen Jue couldn't help but wonder whether those virtuous ministers in the novel were really virtuous ministers?
Just like Liu Zhong, who is loyal to his original self, is he really the traitor in the novel?
As for policy, Chen Jue felt that the original person was even less like a foolish king.
In the three years since he took the throne, every decision he made was beneficial to the people.
It's a pity that there is no buffering time for these decisions. If there is a buffering time for implementation slowly, maybe the original person will not leave a reputation as a "faint king".
The original person will not be a subjugated king.
However, Chen Jue, who has fully accepted the memory of his original body, now understands a little bit.
The original body did it on purpose.
Because he never thought that he would live long, after he succeeded to the throne, he never thought about letting Chen Guo's empire continue forever.
This is why the original person has been suffering from angina pectoris but does not take life-saving quick-acting drugs.
"Alas!" He couldn't help sighing again that he was really a miserable young man!
However, he seems to have forgotten that he is now the "tragic young man" and he only has two years to live.
The emperor was assassinated and injured in the palace. The palace did not conceal the matter. Therefore, Chen Jue did not show up at the court meeting on the second day, and no one was surprised.
After all, in their view, His Majesty has not been in court for a long time, so there is no difference.
After three days of rest, Chen Jue appeared at Chen Guo's court meeting for the first time.
Halfway through the court meeting, Chen Jue leaned on the dragon chair with his chin half held up, and yawned twice.
This meeting was really boring. He listened for a long time and felt like nothing was said.
After sitting for a long time, his butt hurt. Chen Jue stretched and moved to a comfortable angle and leaned on the dragon chair behind him.
He raised his eyes and looked down, his beautiful peach blossom eyes widening with a smile, "Do you guys still have anything to say?"
"Your Majesty, it has been raining continuously for half a month in the south. Floods have occurred and people have been displaced—"
A minister took a step forward and said, "This is a natural disaster and is regarded as a punishment from heaven. I sincerely request your majesty to issue an edict to punish myself."
"Edict to sin?" Upon hearing this, Chen Jue's eyes fell on Xia Sili.
After a long time, Chen Jue looked back.
He took the memorial from Liu Zhong, glanced at it, then closed it and played with it.
"Why, do you also think that I should issue an edict of sin?" Chen Jue still looked careless.
"This -" Minister below, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know how to answer for a moment.
After Xia Si shouted the edict to sin against oneself again, after a while, several more people came out and followed Xia Si's words and asked him to issue the edict to sin against oneself.
"Sin," Chen Jue smiled calmly without showing any displeasure, and asked Xia Si with interest, "Xia Qing, can you read the stars?"
Xia Si was stunned and looked up at the emperor, wondering why the emperor suddenly asked this question.
He shook his head and said, "Return to your Majesty, I won't."
"Oh," Chen Jue smiled and asked, "If he can't, then how did Xia Qing know that this was punishment from heaven?"
"Since it is a punishment from heaven, Xia Qing will bear this punishment. Come, take off Xia Si's official uniform and send him on his way."
Before Xia Shi could react, the others had already been pulled down by the imperial guards, and they didn't even have time to make a sound.
Those people in the court who had been friends with Xia Shi in the past were afraid to speak for a moment when they saw this.
However, two upright censors stood up to speak for Xia Si, and even claimed that they wanted him to issue an edict for committing crimes.
Chen Jue looked at the two upright censors and chuckled casually.
