156 An Impartial Arbiter 6yr

Translator: TheRealSeal, whatsyourissueEditor: TheRealSeal, ICheah

A handful of officials chuckled aloud, thinking that the fool had just embarrassed the emperor.
Did he just utter out loud a sum of a hundred taels? This was humiliating indeed!
However, those who had laughed immediately felt daggers in the glares of over several hundred pairs of eyes.
One of those pairs included those of His Majesty.
The President of the Board of Punishments, Wu Lie, was a rare, steel-headed gem in the Empire of Yutang’s imperial court – he was an unusually scrupulous and upright official.
Since he had become an official, from being a seventh rank county magistrate in the beginning to second rank president now, he had never accepted any sponsors nor leveraged on any connections.
He would never agree to even a bought meal or a cup of tea!
The tight constraints he placed on himself and his family were strict to the point of being unreasonable as well.
"Your Majesty has appointed me to the position of an official and bestowed upon me a salary; that’s the reward