"It's not an arrangement." Emperor Yan picked up the three folds on his left hand and handed them to Zuo Qingtang.

Zuo Qingtang took a look and found that they were all meant to impeach him.

He was silent for a moment, and then knelt on the ground. One of the notes contained nothing to say. It was about the censor's daily performance. Not to mention that he would be impeached by the censor, even if he was the emperor, the censor would scold him on a daily basis.

It's just that when he scolds the emperor, he can be tactful.

However, apart from the excerpt in which the censor impeached him for his negligence in work, the other two books are not like that.

One book said that his clan brothers colluded with local wealthy families and robbed the property of common people and apprentices.

One book said that he had beneficial dealings with some noble families. Although no conclusive evidence has been found yet, the other party seriously suspected that the prime minister had accepted huge bribes, so he begged the emperor to send someone to investigate.

But if the water is clear, there will be no fish. Zuo Qingtang was born in a poor family, and even now he is poor. Naturally, he is not very rich.

After becoming an official and becoming a prime minister, both he and his clansmen actually received a certain amount of money and benefits.

These monetary benefits were either given directly, or his family members were asked to become non-financed collaborators.

Or just give some holiday gifts in the name of relatives and friends during the holidays.

The former involves internal business cooperation. As long as it is not publicized to the outside world, how many people will know about it.

Even if the government goes to investigate, they may not be able to find evidence.

The latter is even harder to say. After all, exchanges of favors and giving gifts on holidays are all within the category of "gifts".

Is it possible that it is against the law for adults, as relatives and friends, to visit each other’s houses during the holidays to give gifts?

So even if Zuo Qingtang has these situations, as long as they don't involve important events, there will be no problem.

Above the imperial court, how many of the Gongun princes did not take advantage of such money?

If we were to investigate, the person who wrote the excerpt to impeach Zuo Qingtang would be able to find out a lot.

As for Zuo Qingtang's clan members grabbing people's land and money... this is actually not an uncommon thing.

Zuo Qingtang was from a poor family, so naturally his people were also from a poor family.

When he becomes prosperous, his people will naturally rise, and the place where they rise must be in his hometown.

Resources are limited. If a new family wants to rise, it will inevitably annex some old families.

If the old family doesn't want to be embezzled, it can only cooperate with this new family.

Then what?

Of course, it is to cut the leeks at the lower level... This way, as a wealthy family, everyone can achieve a win-win situation.

Only the people at the bottom can only face the pain of having their land seized and displaced.

"Zuo Qing, you understand." Emperor Yan looked at Zuo Qingtang, who was kneeling down. "The clan members are greedy, so we just need to be restrained." It's not a big deal. Most of the officials in the imperial court have no family members who have ever bullied the common people.

"But I have always loved the people as my own son, and I cannot sit back and watch such evidence-based impeachment without asking questions."

"I understand." Zuo Qingtang raised his head slightly and bowed respectfully: "I will resign tomorrow."

Emperor Yan was noncommittal and only talked about another matter, "King Qi is preparing to leave the capital."

Zuo Qingtang understood that Emperor Yan would not let him leave the position of prime minister. If he really wanted him to leave, he would not have shown him the impeachment papers in the imperial study room where only the two of them were today.

Emperor Yan told him today that he could not let him have an idea and deal with the mess of his own people first.

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