Chapter 351: Dereliction of duty

"Your Majesty, do you want this slave to send people?"

Li Dequan, wanting to make up for his mistakes, looked fierce and asked.

This kind of madman who dared to enter the Imperial Garden without a decree was no longer an ordinary madman and must be dealt a heavy blow!

"Forget it, it's just a weak woman, no need to make such a big fuss."

Zhang Jie, who analyzed from the sound that the person inside was a woman with no threat, said.

The Water Margin world is not a world where high-martial and super-martial experts who can destroy mountains and break mountains emerge one after another,

with demonesses and fairies specifically aimed at seducing and assassinating men.

With the level of martial arts here, a weak woman could not threaten him in any way.

With no threat, he could naturally appear very magnanimous.

After all, only with reliance can one be fearless.

Since coming out of the cave, he has been invincible, so he naturally doesn't mind being forgiving where he can.

"However."

Zhang Jie changed the subject, his tone becoming three parts heavier:

"Interrogate the guards watching the Imperial Garden well to see if anyone is colluding inside and outside!"

No threat is no threat, but these guards watching the Imperial Garden actually let outsiders in,

even if it's not collusion inside and outside, it's a serious dereliction of duty and must be rectified well.

"This slave understands!"

Li Dequan responded with murderous intent.

There was an undisguised anger on his face.

It was only because the current Majesty was a sage monarch who shone on the sun and moon and could see the details,

if it were the former Song Emperor, his Grand Superintendent of the Inner Court would have already reached the end.

Involving his own life and future,

even Li Dequan, who claimed to have a good temper, couldn't help but feel anger from his heart.

Now these guys in the palace, because of the Son of Heaven's generosity, are becoming more and more outrageous.

"Let's go, follow me in to see what kind of strange woman can enter the Imperial Garden at night."

Listening to the sobbing sound that was there and not there, appearing and disappearing, Zhang Jie also became interested.

He immediately took only Li Dequan and walked in the direction of the crying sound.

Passing through several walls and several winding waters, Zhang Jie and his master-servant duo came to a small garden.

In the center of the garden was a small pavilion specially provided for people to rest.

Because it was the Imperial Garden of the former Song, the small pavilion was carved with beams and painted buildings, and had many decorations, not to mention.

The most attractive thing to Zhang Jie's eyes was a figure buried on a stone table, sobbing in a low voice.

Although she was in plain clothes and hairpins, she couldn't hide her heavenly beauty, and there was an indescribable noble temperament hidden on her body.

Zhang Jie felt very familiar for a moment, but couldn't remember who this woman was.

"Who are you, how dare you enter the Imperial Garden at night, don't you know this is a crime punishable by death?"

Zhang Jie, who couldn't remember who this person was, chose to strike first and questioned her directly.

Li Dequan stared at the woman, his thighs tightened, and if this person made any move, he would,

he would immediately block in front of Zhang Jie to prevent any assassination of the king.

Zhang Jie didn't need such protection, but considering that Li Dequan's move was also loyal,

he didn't stop him, and silently recorded a note for him in his heart.

If Li Dequan didn't have this level of loyalty, he wouldn't have granted him the management of the Imperial Palace,

a position that could be compared to the several prime ministers and grand commanders of the outer court,

and even slightly higher, the Chief Superintendent of the Ceremonial Secretariat.

After all, loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal.

In his position, the demand for loyalty was once greater than the demand for ability.

"Your Majesty? Sinful woman Zhao Zhu-shi pays respects to Your Majesty!"

The woman was awakened by Zhang Jie's voice, and the moment she looked up and saw Zhang Jie,

her expression became flustered, and she performed a great ceremony of worship in fear and trepidation.

"Zhao Zhu-shi? You are Zhao Huan's empress, Zhu Lian?"

Zhang Jie remembered the identity of the woman in front of him. When he dealt with the father and son Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan before,

he let them take their respective empresses to live in the Ten Kings Mansion and didn't pay attention to them anymore.

At that time, Zhu Lian, who was Zhao Huan's empress, was on the list,

but they hadn't met, so even he couldn't recognize Zhu Lian's identity.

"It is this sinful woman."

Zhu Lian nodded slightly, acknowledging her identity.

"How did you enter the Imperial Garden?"

Zhang Jie was now concerned not with her identity,

but why she was in this Imperial Garden where outsiders were clearly forbidden to enter.

"Sinful woman, sinful woman, although I only served as empress for less than an hour,

when I was Zhao Huan's crown princess, I was also invited to visit the Imperial Garden many times.

Inadvertently, this sinful woman discovered a small path that could avoid the guards to enter and exit.

Today His Majesty held a banquet, and we were able to leave the Ten Kings Mansion.

Out of longing, this sinful woman, just, just secretly ran in through the small path."

Zhu Lian told the ins and outs of the matter while crying.

'My god, the truth of the matter is actually like this.'

Zhang Jie, who confirmed that Zhu Lian was not lying, looked up at the sky speechlessly.

Although knowing that there was an unknown secret passage in his private Imperial Garden was very speechless,

but thinking that this Imperial Garden was "inherited" from the Great Song,

the thing of that dynasty where four people dared to attack the imperial palace, Zhang Jie suddenly understood a little.

Theoretically, the place with the highest security level in this era was the Imperial Palace where the Son of Heaven lived,

which could be described as heavily guarded, and not even a fly could fly in.

However, during the Renzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, several uninvited guests entered the palace at night,

not only injuring several palace maids but also once breaking into Renzong's bedroom.

If it weren't for the help of Empress Cao, who was born in a general's family and was not inferior to men,

Song Renzong, this peaceful emperor who grew up in peaceful years, would have almost died like this.

When leaving, these few bold bandits also set a fire in the palace, which was simply outrageous.

"Your Majesty, what do you think?"

Li Dequan cast an inquiring look at Zhang Jie.

Since Zhu Lian came in secretly through an unknown small path,

then could it be that the guards watching the Imperial Garden were not derelict in their duty?

Since that's the case, should the punishment for them be canceled?

"Hmph!"

"There is actually a secret passage of the Great Song left in the Great Gan's Imperial Garden, they are simply a bunch of rice buckets!"

Zhang Jie snorted coldly and directly characterized those derelict guards.

When they took over the Imperial Garden, did they only look at the records left by their predecessors,

and never conduct a comprehensive investigation?

Simply put, it was still their dereliction of duty.

"This slave understands."

Li Dequan, who understood Zhang Jie's thoughts, lowered his head and responded.

He knew that those guards would inevitably suffer a round of melon-falling this time.

However, there was no need to sympathize; the Great Gan gave them such high status and salary,

but they didn't even do their basic job well, so they should be punished!

"Sinful woman dares to ignore the ban, willing to accept punishment.

I hope His Majesty will not punish my husband in light of his ignorance."

Zhu Lian, who thought that today couldn't end well, bowed gracefully to Zhang Jie and bitterly pleaded for Zhao Huan. ===== CHAPTER 352 =====