It’s hard to break a phoenix’s destiny

Chapter 683 The Court is in Chaos

The days passed quickly, and the autumnal equinox had already passed in the blink of an eye. The weather was gradually getting colder. Because it was cold in the morning and evening, and hot in the afternoon, people had a lot of trouble getting dressed. The weak wore more clothes, while the strong still wore thin clothes. People thought they could handle it, but many people still got sick.

Even many ministers who were supposed to attend court asked for leave and lay down at home, saying that they felt dizzy and could not attend court.

In fact, Liu Yao had caught a cold in the past few days, and Yang Xianrong was so anxious that she made him medicine for several days. As a result, Liu Yao relied on Yang Xianrong like a big child and insisted that she feed him the medicine personally.

While the two were playing, they knocked over the medicine bowl, and as a result, it took a long time to feed the child one bowl of medicine.

Even Zhang Du, who was standing outside the hall helping to boil the medicine, said with a gloomy face: "Can't you just drink the medicine properly? How old are you?"

Yang Xiankang, who was standing outside, was unhappy when he heard this. He pouted and said, "What's wrong? Third sister is so pretty. I would believe her if she said she was in her twenties."

"I didn't mean the girl, I meant the emperor." Zhang Du's figure became more and more hunched, but he looked very energetic. He had lived a stable life in the past few years, and he had gained a lot of weight, looking very kind and lovely. How could he look like the general manager of the palace of the Great Jin Dynasty who had served two generations of emperors?
However, he didn't dare to speak like this when he was serving the emperor before, but now when he looked at Liu Yao, he dared to say whatever he wanted, without any hesitation. Because he knew that he had his girl Yang Xianrong as his backing, so he was not afraid at all.

"Of course the girl is beautiful, no matter how beautiful she is!" He also emphasized this sentence, and Yang Xiankang was very satisfied. However, he was too lazy to care about Liu Yao's affairs, because he had found something more interesting now.

Liu Yao had been upset after hearing about the porcelain incident, so he asked the Chang'an Palace to check to see if there was anything unpleasant.

It just so happened that Yang Xiankang had some free time, but he felt uncomfortable staying at home, so he took the initiative to take on this task. He went in and out of the palace every day, and was in a very happy mood when he saw his third sister.

Of course, he now also wants to have another son with Cuixi, at least to expand the Yang family. But Cuixi said that she wanted to stay with Yang Xianrong and had no time to be with him. This made Yang Xiankang a little unhappy, and he complained to his third sister.

As a result, the third sister actually asked him to take a concubine, saying that he could have anyone he liked.

For a moment, Yang Xiankang didn't react, but just nodded out of habit to whatever Yang Xianrong said. As soon as he nodded, Cui Xi rushed over with a wooden stick, scaring him so much that he ran around the imperial city, losing all his image.

Despite all the noise, Liu Yao would not say anything to them. Instead, he stood with Yang Xianrong and watched the chaos in the harem with a smile.

However, the atmosphere in the front hall was not so good. Even if he had come to power by force, and with Liu Yuan's words, it was understandable that he was the emperor of the Former Zhao. But the point was that he had only military generals under his command, not to mention the few civil officials, and a large part of them were old officials who surrendered from the Jin Dynasty, mixed in with the hundreds of officials, looking out of place.

In particular, there was even a suspicion that Guanglu Doctor Xiao Yi was taking advantage of his seniority. He relied on the fact that he had once saved the life of the previous emperor Liu Yuan and had devoted his efforts to assisting Liu Cong. He was very confident and was not particularly polite to the new emperor Liu Yao.

Although he was a civil official and was over fifty years old, he was able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Liu Yao when standing together with him. Moreover, with his calm demeanor, he seemed to be suppressing Liu Yao.

Liu Yao was very unhappy, but did not show it.

However, the generals around Liu Yao were not so polite. Seeing Xiao Yi being so outspoken, they also started to speak. After a few rounds, they could not win the argument and had to scold him. But what Xiao Yi said was indeed very reasonable. "The world is divided into pieces, so it is natural to strengthen ourselves first. The emperor is eager to send troops, so he should first let Liu Ya, the Northern Expeditionary Army, and Liu Ce, the Northern Guardian Army, march to Fenyin, and then pretend to unite with Shi Le to form an angle, which will pose a great threat to the Sima family in the south. Now just sending 100,000 troops across the river? It's pure suicide! This is killing us!"

"What do you know? Now we have to seize the prosperous areas of Jiangnan in one fell swoop." Guo Jin has already shouted, "The emperor hasn't spoken yet, what do you want to say?"

Liu Gu was also unhappy. "The army's food and grass are a problem. We should attack Jiangnan as soon as possible and grab more food as soon as possible."

Some of Liu Yao's former deputy generals were now promoted to generals. They started arguing with Xiao Yi in the court, saying they would never agree with his ideas. Some even cursed: "You old man, you don't know anything!"

"How can we cooperate with someone like Shi Le, who has evil intentions?"

"We should hurry up and charge directly to the south to kill them all!"

"The world belongs to us!"

Noisy and shouting.

Liu Yao sat in a high position, watching these people getting more and more angry, and he became more and more unhappy. He glanced at Liu Cheng, who looked at these people with a dark face and clenched his fists. However, at this moment, he didn't know what to do, because he couldn't decide how to fight or whether to fight.

He glanced back at Liu Yao, who sighed and said, "Send some people to check the situation first, and come back and tell me later."

"Yes." Liu Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and hurried out of the hall.

Seeing that some people had left, the hall became even more chaotic, because some people also wanted to leave this place of trouble, so they told Liu Yao that they had something to do and had to leave first.

Now it was Xiao Yi's turn to be unhappy. He looked at Liu Yao and sneered, "Your Majesty, I am not feeling well and will not be able to attend court in the next few days. If you have anything to do, please let these reckless men do it. I feel chest tightness and shortness of breath, and I am very uncomfortable."

"We are discussing the matter now. What do you want?" Someone immediately shouted, "Don't think you can be so presumptuous just because you are an old minister. The emperor hasn't said anything yet!"

"Explain the matter clearly!"

"We must reach a conclusion today. The army cannot wait!"

As a result, the crowd shouted even louder, and Liu Yao was so angry that he threw the wine glass in his hand. Fortunately, he used a golden cup, so it didn't break. However, everyone also felt his strong aura and extremely bad mood, and immediately shut up and stopped talking.

Liu Yao looked at the ministers who bowed their heads and sneered, "What? You made a scene in the court today. Did you say anything? The lives of tens of thousands of soldiers are in your hands, and you still can't say anything. Do you have the nerve to stay here?"