You want to teach me how to be Imperial Preceptor? How about I teach you how to be emperor first?

"Cheng Shifei, have you gone mad? You dare arrest us?"

"Cheng Shifei, let me go right now! I'm the Imperial Son-in-Law!"

"Cheng Shifei, my family holds a dukedom! Do you want your property confiscated and your entire clan exterminated?"

Inside the Jinyiwei prison, many people were hurling abuse.

They had never imagined that Cheng Shifei would be crazy enough to arrest them.

Had only one of them been arrested, he would have been cautious, wondering whether His Majesty wanted him dead. They had heard that the Inner Treasury was short of money again.

But with so many of them arrested, this could not possibly have been His Majesty's order. Was he not worried that they would throw Great Ming's court into chaos?

Several of their families had members serving as regional commanders on the frontier, while others served in other military commands, guarding entire regions. The Emperor of Great Ming would never dare move against so many of them at once.

This had to be Cheng Shifei's own idea, but how had he dared?

Yes, they had indeed embezzled plenty of silver, and there had indeed been incidents of oppressing commoners and seizing property through trickery and force. But they were all hereditary nobles of Great Ming. Which of them had never done such things?

The Jinyiwei were also one of the twelve Imperial Guard divisions. They were comrades-in-arms. If Cheng Shifei wanted to establish his authority to become Commander, he should arrest those civil officials! Those civil officials with mouths full of righteousness and virtue embezzled even more, and every family was a major landowner.

Wang Wu and Jia Liu walked in and looked at Cheng Shifei in bewilderment.

"What are you trying to do? You've made such a huge mess. How is our lord supposed to clean it