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Chapter 203: Rectifying the Imperial Palace (11)

When Gu Chang was having breakfast, Nie Qingxue stood aside with the other palace maids. However, the other palace maids kept their heads down, so only Nie Qingxue would secretly glance at Gu Chang who was eating from time to time.

Gu Chang could only pretend not to see it. He had to eat a full meal so that he would have the strength to do what he was going to do next.

Since he didn't have to attend the morning court today, Gu Chang went to the Imperial Office to manage the imperial guards.

Before leaving the bedroom, Gu Chang asked Tan Lang of the Night Shadow Guard to send someone to keep an eye on Nie Qingxue.

After Gu Chang dealt with a group of managers in the Imperial Guard who only received salaries but did not do any work, he went to another place.

Even Gu Chang from the surveillance department was not spared.

In the end it is the Night Shadow Guard.

Gu Chang spent the day reading through several files and records, and proposed a new plan to address the lax management system. He then asked the people in charge of each department to strictly implement his plan.

He is the emperor and no one dares to disobey his orders.

Gu Chang did this to protect himself. If another assassination attempt happened later, it would be very troublesome. It would be better to clean up the palace first to avoid such a thing from happening to the greatest extent possible.

But the regulations issued by Gu Chang will definitely affect the interests of some people.

In the end, Gu Chang will send people from the surveillance department to secretly inspect whether these regulations are implemented.

And almost everyone in Shengjing City knew what happened last night.

Outside the palace, the news of the emperor's assassination was heard everywhere in the streets and alleys.

Gu Chang didn't care about this kind of thing. No matter how it was spread, he was still alive anyway.

Linghu Weixin entered the palace at the hour of You.

In the Qianqing Palace.

Gu Chang was still writing something at his desk.

Cheng De was waiting outside the palace. Seeing Linghu Weixin hurried over, he reached out to stop him, "Prime Minister, His Majesty has said he won't see anyone right now."

Linghu Weixin had no choice but to wait outside the palace. He received a secret letter from Nie Qingxue, who told her that Murong Heng had locked her up in a side hall and would not allow her to leave.

If the palace maid who brought food to Nie Qingxue was not from the Prime Minister's side, Nie Qingxue's secret letter would not have been delivered to Linghu Weixin.

Gu Chang knew that Linghu Weixin had arrived after being reminded by the system.

I thought Linghu Weixin was loyal to Murong Heng, but now it seems that he is also a slave to Nie Qingxue.

Now Gu Chang was telling Murong Heng how to write a plan while chatting with the system.

Murong Heng has been much more obedient since he woke up, and he no longer mocks Gu Chang. I don’t know if it’s because his self-confidence has been frustrated or something else.

In short, Murong Heng is now silent and taciturn, not like his former self.

An hour later, Linghu Weixin finally couldn't bear it anymore. He had been standing outside the hall for so long, and every minute and every second was torture for him.

"General Manager Chengde, please go in and inform His Majesty that I have something urgent to tell him." Linghu Weixin took out a bulging purse from his sleeve.

How could Cheng De dare to accept it? The emperor was currently catching corrupt officials. If he accepted Linghu Weixin's money in front of so many people, he would probably lose his head the next second.

"My Lord Prime Minister, you can't do this. I would never dare to do such a thing. His Majesty said he won't see anyone, and that means no one." Cheng De quickly took a step back, clenched his hands, and didn't even dare to look at the purse in Linghu Weixin's hand.

Linghu Weixin was slightly stunned. He was thinking: Isn't Chengde the one who loves money the most? Why is he pretending not to love it now?

Linghu Weixin's hand froze in mid-air, neither extending nor retracting.

At this moment, Gu Chang's voice suddenly rang out, "Linghu? What brings you to see me?"

Linghu Weixin looked at it with delight, then he bowed respectfully, "Your Majesty, your Majesty, is well."

The Qianqing Hall was brightly lit, and a faint elegant fragrance was burning in the incense burner. Wisps of white mist rose from the incense burner and then dissipated into the sky.

The door of the main hall was closed. Only Gu Chang and Linghu Weixin were inside the hall. Cheng De was still waiting outside.

Linghu Weixin was standing in the center of the hall. He looked up slightly at Gu Chang who was sitting in the high seat.

For some reason, he always felt that the emperor in front of him was a little different.

"Your Majesty, I came here this time because of Nie Qingxue. She is the palace maid I chose for Your Majesty. I should have told Your Majesty in advance, but General Mo dragged me out for a drink last night, causing me to forget about this. But Nie Qingxue has been arranged to enter the palace, but..." Linghu Weixin said, and paused when his eyes met Gu Chang's cold eyes.

Gu Chang sneered, "Prime Minister, what are you doing? Execute first and ask for permission later. Don't you take me, the emperor, seriously?"

This rhetorical question sent a chill down Linghu Weixin's spine. He sank to his knees with a thud, "Your Majesty, I have absolutely no such intention!"

In fact, Linghu Weixin was quite capable as a prime minister. He gave good answers to all the questions in the memorials.

But this person happened to be on Nie Qingxue's side, which meant Linghu Weixin was now a ticking time bomb. Who knew if he would betray the emperor at any time.

No wonder Murong Heng doesn't trust anyone and even lets the surveillance department monitor these officials.

But there must be something wrong with the surveillance department, at least the Prime Minister's people are in there.

Because today Tanlang sent two different pieces of information.

One said that the Prime Minister did not drink last night, and the other said that the Prime Minister drank with Mo Yinqing last night.

It was Tan Lang who wrote that the Prime Minister did not drink. Gu Chang was still hesitating whether to believe Tan Lang, but he did not expect Murong Heng to directly tell Gu Chang that he could trust Tan Lang.

So the other Night Shadow Guard who wrote that the Prime Minister did not drink last night was directly caught and interrogated.

But the Night Shadow Guard kept silent and only said that he had betrayed his master.

Nothing can be learned from the interrogation, and the rule of the Night Shadow Guard is to be loyal to Murong Heng alone.

Since he chose to betray, the Night Shadow Guard was also prepared to be discovered, and he hid poison in his mouth. If he was not executed but interrogated, he would commit suicide by taking poison.

Tan Lang also reported this situation to Gu Chang.

Gu Chang also asked Murong Heng why he could trust Tan Lang, and learned that everyone in the Night Shadow Guard had taken a kind of poisonous insect. If they did not take the elixir to relieve the poisonous insect every month, they would be eaten by the poisonous insect and die.

The Night Shadow Guard who betrayed Murong Heng was new. In order to test whether the new batch of Night Shadow Guards would have ulterior motives, Murong Heng did not give the new batch of Night Shadow Guards the poisonous insects.

There are seven new Night Shadow Guards in total. What they do will not involve the internal affairs of the Night Shadow Guards, they only monitor people.

Linghu Weixin and Mo Yinqing both knew that Murong Heng had the Night Shadow Guards in his hands, but Linghu Weixin didn't know that Murong Heng would send the Night Shadow Guards to monitor them.

But now, Linghu Weixin should know that he is being monitored.

The palace maid who delivered the letter to Linghu Weixin was deliberately released by Gu Chang just to see Linghu Weixin's attitude.

It now seems that Nie Qingxue holds a very important place in Linghu Weixin's heart.

It was so serious that even Linghu Weixin would make such a low-level mistake, and the excuse he made was not very good.

Gu Chang snorted coldly, slowly walked to a position not far from Linghu Weixin San, and said in a deep voice: "Po Jun."

Pojun, the Night Shadow Guard who was responsible for protecting Gu Chang in the dark, walked out from the corner.

Linghu Weixin slowly turned his head to look at Pojun who was approaching.

Linghu Weixin knew Pojun. When Murong Heng first ascended the throne, Pojun came forward to assassinate those who betrayed him on behalf of Gu Chang. He was responsible for investigating who was secretly doing things that were detrimental to Murong Heng. On several occasions, when Linghu Weixin went to deliver the assassination list, he saw Pojun standing beside Murong Heng.

Although Pojun and other Night Shadow Guards are all dressed in black, the masks on their faces are slightly different.

There was a broken word carved in red on his mask.

In fact, Gu Chang also complained to the system about this setting. He originally thought that the secret guards all wore the same mask, but when he saw Po Jun, he realized that this was not the case.

Murong Heng's explanation for this was that he could allow the secret guards to have some ideas of their own.

Pojun is thin, and the tight black clothes make him look taller and longer. His hands are also long and thin.

"Your Majesty...what are you doing?" Linghu Weixin frowned and watched Pojun walking towards him step by step.

Linghu Weixin's hand, hidden in his sleeve, had already touched the cold handle of the dagger.

Gu Chang's eyes were sinister. He stared at Linghu Weixin coldly without saying a word.

Just when Pojun was one step away from Linghu Weixin, Linghu Weixin saw Pojun raise his hand, and he subconsciously took out the dagger in his sleeve to defend himself.

Suddenly a big net fell from the sky and trapped Linghu Weixin inside the net.

"Your Majesty! Why is this happening?!" Linghu Weixin was shocked.

Gu Chang said in a cold voice: "As the Prime Minister, you are so bold as to appear before me wearing weapons, Linghu Weixin!"

Linghu Weixin was stunned for a moment. Just as he was about to open his mouth to defend himself, he was knocked unconscious by Pojun.

"After putting him in jail, Pojun, take a few Night Shadow Guards to search the Prime Minister's Mansion." After Gu Chang gave the order, he watched Pojun dragging Linghu Weixin.

He noticed the golden jade fan on the ground. Gu Chang walked over, picked it up, unfolded the fan and looked at it for a moment.

"I never thought that Linghu would forget the rules because of a woman." Murong Heng's voice suddenly sounded.

"There's no other way. Do you want to kill him?" Gu Chang could only say this. He couldn't tell Murong Heng that this was because Nie Qingxue had the aura of the heroine.

"No, don't kill him yet. Lock him up for a few days. I want to find out what Nie Qingxue is trying to do." Murong Heng's tone turned into the villain tone that Gu Chang was familiar with.

Gu Chang put away the golden jade fan and said to Murong Heng, "You and I are thinking the same thing."

Nie Qingxue, who was still in the side hall of the bedroom, suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart. She looked at the thin window paper and knew that it was dark now.

She sat at the table, where there was tea that had long since gone cold.

Nie Qingxue originally planned to seduce Murong Heng as a dancer, but Murong Heng just watched her dance from a distance. When they were at the pavilion in the middle of the lake, Nie Qingxue wanted to get close to Murong Heng, but was stopped by Murong Heng.

She learned from Linghu Weixin that Murong Heng was not a simple man. Although he loved beautiful women, he had never had sex with any woman.

Because Murong Heng has mysophobia.

When Nie Qingxue first learned about her mysophobia, she didn't believe it. It wasn't until she actually met Murong Heng that she realized Linghu Weixin hadn't lied to her.

Since she couldn't get close to Murong Heng as a dancer, Nie Qingxue had to think of other ways.

Fortunately, Linghu Weixin killed Chuying, so she had the opportunity to enter the palace as a personal maid.

But Murong Heng's reaction to her this morning was also very cold. Nie Qingxue originally wanted to find an opportunity to approach him after Murong Heng had breakfast.

But Murong Heng suddenly had her taken to a side hall, locked her up inside, and not allowed her to go out.

At first, Nie Qingxue thought that Murong Heng was really attracted to her, but as time went on, she felt something was wrong.

She was still waiting for Linghu Weixin to take her away from here, and she was still wondering whether the palace maid had brought the letter she wrote to Linghu Weixin.

If Murong Heng kept her locked up here, what she was going to do would definitely fail, and she couldn't stay in Tianyao Kingdom for too long, otherwise if something happened in Zhou Kingdom, she would not have time to deal with it.