Just as Xuan Yaoqing was entertaining lewd thoughts, a disturbance outside the door made him instinctively sweep the area with his divine sense. Only then did he discover that his thousand-man commanders had returned.
Seeing the group arrive together, Xuan Yaoqing instinctively assumed they had finally yielded.
After all, once the deadline arrived, they would not be able to keep their thousand-man commander posts.
"Come in."
With a thought from him, the study doors opened on their own.
After the thousand-man commanders entered from outside, they perfunctorily greeted him as "sir," then began reporting their work one by one. They took the case files from their storage rings and placed them on Xuan Yaoqing's desk.
At first, Xuan Yaoqing remained fairly composed.
But as he listened to these fellows report on numerous details, as well as criminals they had apprehended on short notice that very day, he began to sense that something was wrong.
These bastards had arrested quite a few fourth- and fifth-rank officials!
Dragging so many people into this at once was no small matter!
And how had quite a few of these cases ended up implicating people connected to the Crown Prince???
After listening to everyone's reports with a blank expression, Xuan Yaoqing said coldly, "I gave you a month, and you just happened to solve all these cases together at the very last moment. There must be something fishy here. You are not to do anything reckless with the prisoners. I will investigate this personally. If I find that you arrested innocent people to make up the numbers, do not blame me for showing no mercy."
"The witnesses and physical evidence are all present. Please take your time verifying them, sir."
One thousand-man commander smiled calmly, and the others followed suit.
In any case, these deliberately