Chapter 353: Killing and Beating

The well-organized rows of civil and military officials were silent for a moment, and only the soft and gentle voice echoed in Fengtian Hall.

As the reverberating sound dissipated, you could hear a needle drop in the main hall.

However, rather than awe, behind the silence in the palace was actually more shock and confusion.

The current Holy Emperor has not been to court for more than ten years, and during these more than ten years, the court has been in turmoil and the struggle has been fierce.

The important ministers of the five houses and six ministries, the princes and princes of the noble family, all had their ups and downs. Except for the dozen or so evergreens in the court, a large part of the ministers had never even seen what the emperor looked like.

Why are you suddenly in court now?

However, doubts remain doubts. Ministers who are able to serve in the palace and discuss affairs in the palace basically have the skill of political literacy to the fullest.

Although a glimpse may not necessarily tell the whole story, it can at least give you a rough idea.

The emperor's sudden appearance to court after such a long time must have a profound meaning. He first performed the national ceremony for Prime Minister Xu and opened the Meridian Gate to welcome him, and then added the words of admonishment given by General Huaiyuan just now.

There was no discussion or voice transmission, but there was eye contact.

Officials of the same government and friends of the same party all look at each other with something meaningful in their eyes.

Some people were gloating about the prince's misfortune, looking at the prince behind the low table with python horns under the palace.

Some people's eyes are filled with worry.

Some people just ignore it and ignore it.

Compared with the different expressions of the courtiers below, Li Yucheng, who was sitting behind the low table in Mangjiao, could not see the slightest difference on his face, and there was even a hint of joy in his eyes.

In the silent hall, Li Yucheng stood up from behind the desk, straightened his python robe, and then moved to the front of the line of honorable guests, waiting for his father to arrive.

suddenly,

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

The sound of three clean whips came from the screen at the back of the palace as a sign of salute.

Crash--

The prince took the lead, and all the officials in the palace fell to their knees.

"clatter"

"clatter"

"clatter"

Red walls, green tiles, Optimus Prime, white jade railings on the ground.

The silent hall was solemn and solemn. All the ministers were kneeling on the ground. No one made a sound or raised their head. Only the sound of gentle footsteps echoed.

finally,

The footsteps stopped in front of the golden throne.

He did not follow a large group of followers according to the Great Flame ritual system,

Independent from the palace,

Li Yaoxuan's turbid and indifferent eyes swept across the ministers below, and finally landed on the only black dragon robe standing below.

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The eyes of both parties collided with His Highness Fengtian for a moment.

There was a smile in Li Yaoxuan's eyes, and the corners of his lips were slightly raised:

[What, you don’t salute? 】

Hearing this, Xu Yinhe lowered his gaze, did not reply, and bowed his hands.

Seeing this, Li Yaoxuan shook his head boredly, leaned back and sat on the golden throne.

As he sat down, a light cough sounded from the censor.

"Long live my emperor! Long live! Long live!"

"Long live my emperor! Long live! Long live!"

All the civil and military officials who were kneeling on the ground shouted out in unison. After reaching the circular square outside Fengtian Hall, hundreds of officials from the upper court and the imperial guards with swords all knelt down and shouted out.

Long live Shanhu! Ringing through the sky!

Leaning lightly on the dragon chair, Li Yaoxuan looked down at the familiar and unfamiliar scene below. He found that he had almost forgotten the feeling of sitting on this throne.

At some point, his wrinkled palms carefully rubbed the carvings on the dragon chair that had remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Li Yaoxuan suddenly smiled and said with a sigh:

[Xu Xiang, as dusk approaches, I suddenly miss the time when we stood together under this palace, walking on thin ice, and every step was startling. 】

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Hearing the sound transmission, he slowly raised his eyes and looked at the twilight appearance of the young man who was so energetic back then. Xu Yinhe's eyes were slightly complicated.

Be a little quieter,

He sighed softly:

[I miss you too. 】

When Li Yaoxuan heard the other party actually answer, a smile appeared on his old wrinkled face:

【Do you miss it? If it happens again, I won't let you grow up again. 】

Xu Yinhe shook his head, did not answer, and reminded:

[Your Majesty, you are not here to reminisce with your ministers. It is time to discuss matters in private. 】

Li Yaoxuan paused for a moment while rubbing his palm on the dragon chair. The cloudiness in his eyes disappeared instantly. He took a deep look at the other party and said loudly:

"Everyone loves you."

The voice was vigorous and powerful, resounding throughout the palace and inside, without any signs of decay.

Crash--

After all the civil and military officials stood up one after another, Li Yaoxuan glanced at the prince, who was standing at the head of the distinguished ranks, and said in a calm voice:

"Yucheng, I have lived in the palace for a long time and have worked hard these years."

Upon hearing this, Li Yucheng immediately took a step to the side, saluted meticulously, and replied:

"Father, it is a child's duty to share your worries."

Li Yaoxuan leaned on the dragon chair, looked down at his eldest son, and chuckled with unknown meaning:

"very nice."

As he spoke, he raised a finger and pointed at the low table with python horns placed under the palace steps:

"What are you standing for? Sit back."

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Li Yucheng's eyes were slightly stunned and he hesitated in his words:

"Father, you."

Li Yaoxuan's old face revealed a smile:

"I am exhausted mentally and physically and have no intention of dealing with government affairs. I just came here to take a look and continue."

After saying that, Li Yaoxuan no longer paid attention to the hesitation in the prince's eyes, and asked the eunuch chief in front of the palace:

"Mingyou, where were the discussions just now?"

Upon hearing this, the chief eunuch in front of the palace, who was wearing a python robe, immediately bowed and said:

"Back to Your Majesty, General Huaiyuan just came to ask for orders to lead the troops for the second prince."

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Li Yao

Saying,

He looked at His Highness Xu Yinhe and asked with a smile:

"Xu Xiang, what do you think about this matter?"

Xu Yinhe's expression remained unchanged, he raised his eyes and glanced at the other party, and said in a deep voice:

"There must be a rift in Your Majesty's heart regarding this matter, and it is inconvenient for me to say more."

After hearing this reply, Li Yaoxuan tapped the dragon chair twice with his fingertips and said slightly dissatisfied:

"I just want to hear Prime Minister Xu's opinion. There is no need to worry, just speak frankly."

"The Second Highness's actions will deprive him of his status as a prince according to law."

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After the words fell, there was silence in the hall.

Since the sect's world evolved into the dynasty's world, there have been occasional battles between emperors and ministers between the imperial power and the prime minister, but in today's generation, it has basically become a battle between two emperors.

It's just an emperor still wearing the skin of a prime minister.

Therefore, the conversation between the emperor and the prime minister seemed to be just for reference, but it naturally changed in the ears of the important officials in the court.

They all tried to figure out the connotation behind this short statement.

With the current Holy Master's cultivation level, it is impossible not to hear the discussions in the court. Choosing to come out at this time, and the first thing he said after taking his seat was to mention something about the second prince, is already a statement of attitude.

However, Prime Minister Xu, who originally held a neutral attitude, immediately turned his back on this matter.

What does this mean?

Is it a case-by-case discussion, or is it based on a topic?

Different political senses gave many important ministers different plans and plans.

"Xu Xiang's words make sense."

After a brief silence, Li Yaoxuan echoed, but then he changed his tune: "Excuse me, Prime Minister, what should I do if an important official in the court hides and raises a private army according to the laws of Great Yan?"

Xu Yinhe replied directly in a deep voice:

"According to the law of Great Flame, the nine tribes should be punished."

After a moment of pause, Xu Yinhe raised his eyes and looked directly into Li Yaoxuan's eyes:

"I just don't know who the important minister mentioned by the Holy Spirit is?"

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Hearing this, almost all the officials present, including Prince Li Yucheng, lowered their heads.

But before Li Yaoxuan could say anything, a middle-aged Confucian scholar wearing the official robe of a royal censor stood up, his voice filled with anger:

"Xu Pifu, why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf? Those hundreds of thousands of black scales?"

As he spoke,

Time suddenly became very slow at this moment,

Amid the angry voice of the imperial censor, Li Yaoxuan and Xu Yinhe's eyes collided again.

Then,

boom! !

The head of the imperial censor who spoke out exploded without any warning.

Bright red blood spattered on the dark and solemn vermilion pillars and floor tiles. The headless corpse stood for a moment, and then collapsed to the ground. Bright red blood gushed out from the uneven neck and flowed all over the floor.

Who did it?

Most of the officials with high-level cultivation above the court have been sent abroad. Now the most important minister with the highest cultivation level in Fengtian Palace is Yuanchu, but they can't find out who did it at all.

Although it is not certain who it is, this method of hiding from Yuanchu has been able to target the only two people.

The emperor and the prime minister.

The blood-stained Fengtian Hall was filled with a sudden chill, and most of the people present were as silent as a cicada.

Except for some evergreen trees, which they were used to.

How about killing people in front of the palace? These two masters have done this a lot in the past. They were blown into a pulp and looked like a mess to everyone else's face.

Li Yaoxuan looked at the headless censor with pity in his eyes and said calmly:

"Come here, find out who did it."

The words fell,

The Commander-in-Chief of the Forbidden Army quietly appeared outside Fengtian Hall, his cold eyes locked on the back of the black dragon robe, and he slowly walked towards it with his sword in hand.

Sensing the lock of Qi Ji, Xu Yinhe still stood there quietly without any expression.

in silence,

The scraping sound of the armor of the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard as he walked was particularly alarming.

bass--

The cold light suddenly flashed, and the blade came out of its sheath, with a faint blue light.

Poof!

The blade of the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard pierced the chest of a young official, Qi Shizhong.

Insert, pull out, sheath.

After doing this, the Commander-in-Chief of the Forbidden Army bowed his hands expressionlessly:

"Your Majesty, the murderer has been executed."

"Go down."

Li Yaoxuan looked at the two corpses in the hall and sighed:

"We are all colleagues, so why bother plotting against each other? What do you think, Mr. Xu?"

Xu Yinhe's voice was indifferent:

"What the emperor said is absolutely true."

The loss of two lives represented a direct turn of events. The commander of the Forbidden Army waved his hand, and the two corpses disappeared in an instant with the overflowing blood.

After doing this, he walked out of Fengtian Gate expressionlessly, leaving only a handful of court officials who remained silent.

Accompanying a prince is like accompanying a tiger, let alone having two gentlemen in the court.

Li Yaoxuan suddenly glanced sideways at the prince below:

"Yucheng, what are you doing standing there in a daze?

"When dealing with government affairs, your second brother is still waiting for your decision."

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Li Yucheng glanced at his father above him, and then at His Highness Xu Xiang. He took a deep breath, his fingertips under his sleeves were trembling a little, and he bowed his hands:

"Yes, Father."

After that, he walked slowly towards the low python-cornered table under the only remaining stairs.

His steps were slow and the look in his eyes was very light.

The death of the imperial censor and the official just now seemed like a victim of the conflict between his father and his teacher, but in fact it was just an accident.

Although the father was asking about his teacher's attitude toward Li Zhaoyuan's desire for military power, he was actually targeting him.

Although Li Zhaoyuan said he recruited troops from among the people, how did he recruit soldiers from among the people?

A commoner with no cultivation? Or those ragtag warriors?

The only way to quickly form an army is through the sect.

And let the sect's private army enter the northern border openly and openly with the court's order?

Whether it was for selfish reasons or for the teacher's ideals and righteousness, it was impossible for him to agree.

The teacher refused. As a member of the royal family, it was naturally impossible for him to stand on the same side as him, at least not in front of his father.

This father was forcing him to watch his second brother grow up in the north.

A knock.

It seems that his private contact with the imperial sister really made the father a little unhappy.

While thinking,

Li Yucheng sat back on the low table with python horns with a calm expression and whispered:

"General Huaiyuan."

The middle-aged man wearing a military robe immediately bowed his hands and saluted:

"I'm here."

Li Yucheng looked at the other party and took a deep breath:

"The second brother has already established his own government. Although it is not in line with the ancestral system to lead troops abroad, he still obeys the authority in a hurry. Barbaric disasters and natural disasters have swept through the three northern continents, and the common people are suffering. Since the second brother has such a sincere heart, naturally he cannot let him feel cold. , I wonder if the general knows what kind of organization he wants?"

General Huaiyuan lowered his eyes when he heard this:

"Back to Your Highness, Your Highness has just arrived at the battle formation. No matter how many soldiers there are, we only need two towns."

As soon as the words came out,

Xu Yinhe raised his eyes and looked at Li Yaoxuan on the Jinluan throne, with a murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

Two towns, 100,000 people.

Li Yaoxuan, what do you want to do if you allow 100,000 sect troops to enter the northern border?

Li Yaoxuan nodded gently at Xu Yinhe, his cloudy eyes were as calm as water, and there was no trace of what he was thinking.

Li Yucheng, who was sitting behind the low table, naturally noticed the change in the teacher, so he did not answer immediately.

He wanted to wait and wait for the party members to speak out against it.

Although you cannot refuse, you should be able to reduce the number of people.

But unfortunately, the Fengtian Hall was completely silent, and no officials discussed the matter.

Seeing this scene, Li Yucheng sighed in his heart:

"Since all the ministers have no objections, let's settle the matter as follows. We will give the two towns troops and horses, and the military title Feng Yuan."

General Huaiyuan's eyes were filled with joy when he heard this. He half-knelt on the ground, cupped his hands and accepted the order:

"My lord, take your orders."

Li Yucheng smiled warmly:

"Although the second brother has experience in the military, he is still not as shallow as the imperial sister. I hope that General Huaiyuan will protect the second brother during his trip north."

General Huaiyuan replied in a deep voice:

"My lord, I will do my best to serve you to the death."

After saying this, General Huaiyuan stood back in the queue.

Seeing this, the chief eunuch in front of the palace nodded at the last person who coughed slightly:

"Jiuqing, what do you want to say?"

Hearing this, a minister whispered:

"Nothing has happened."

After hearing this, Li Yaoxuan suddenly said:

"In this case, Yucheng, I am tired of you continuing to preside over the government."

After saying that, he stood up from the dragon chair and walked towards the side hall.

But halfway through, Li Yaoxuan suddenly stopped, looked back at his old friends in the audience, and whispered:

"Xu Xiang, come with me and tell me something."

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