Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 395 Oh, this is the fate of going against me
"Yeah, that makes sense." Li Yunqian's straightforward answer came from behind the bamboo curtain.

"I heard your name is Wu Qingyou? Are you the Minister of Works?"

Chu Pingsheng walked to Wu Qingyou again and patted the middle-aged man's shoulder who was already sweating profusely. "I said, isn't it the first time that we are enemies with Qing? In the past 20 years, Nanqing and Xihu have been in constant friction and conflicts. You don't have any idea how many wars they have fought, right? Why is His Majesty so kind to me? Because His Majesty cares about the people and doesn't want to see the people on the border suffer from war. He hopes to resolve the years of grievances between Nanqing and Xihu through me and make peace from now on. You need to understand one thing. I am not a minister of Nanqing. I am an envoy. If His Majesty treats me well, I will repay the kindness. If His Majesty treats me badly, it will be hard to say whether Nanqing and Xihu are enemies or friends in the future. So you use this to accuse me. Don't you think it's stupid? By the way, who is the one who helped Yuan Hongdao to speak up for justice? It's you, right?"

"No, it's not..."

Wu Qingyou waved his hand quickly, pointing at the man with the bulbous nose who was sticking his butt out and wiping his sweat, "It's... it's Mr. Cui, the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Metropolitan Censorate."

By now he knew very well that the person sitting on the dragon throne was on the same side as Chu Pingsheng.

"Yuan Hongdao, Yuan Hongdao... Lord Cui, if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten about him."

Chu Pingsheng said as he walked up to Lin Ruofu: "Minister Lin, Mr. Yuan...are you okay?"

"..."

"Looks like he's not dead yet."

Chu Pingsheng coughed lightly and looked at Li Yunqian behind the bamboo curtain with a smile: "Your Majesty, the foreign envoys can't figure it out. The dungeon of the Supervisory Office is said to be so tight that even a mosquito can't fly out. Si Lili is an imperial prisoner. How did Yuan Hongdao, a retainer of the Lin Mansion without an official position, get into the dungeon of the Supervisory Office? Lin Xiang's influence on the Supervisory Office must be too great. He was able to torture Si Lili without telling Your Majesty. It seems that the Supervisory Office is not as impenetrable as the rumors outside say."

As soon as these words came out, Lin Ruofu, who was lying on the ground, suddenly raised his head: "This matter... has been approved by His Majesty."

The man sitting on the dragon chair leaned forward and said in a joking tone: "Prime Minister Lin, I told you to go to the Supervisory Council for questioning, but I didn't ask you to carry out lynching."

Lin Ruofu's pupils suddenly shrank, and his hands pressed on the ground kept shaking. He knew that something was wrong and he had fallen into Chu Pingsheng's trap.

"That's strange. Since the emperor's order was an interrogation, who ordered Yuan Hongdao to torture him? Prime Minister Lin, could it be that you are falsely conveying the imperial decree?"

Look at the question.

Chu Pingsheng put his hands behind his back and paced among the civil and military officials, asking himself and answering: "No, why would Prime Minister Lin do such a thing? I think it must be Yuan Hongdao who took the initiative and disobeyed the imperial edict... Hmm, is the Minister of Justice here?"

Standing in the front row, a middle-aged man with very deep forehead wrinkles leaned forward and bowed.

"Let me ask you, what is the punishment for disobeying the imperial decree?"

"According to the law, he should be beheaded."

"In that case." Chu Pingsheng took two quick steps and said to Li Yunqian, "Your Majesty!"

"Then... kill him."

Lin Ruofu's face turned pale, and his hands clenched tighter and tighter, his nails almost digging into the flesh.

Cui Peng was even more confused. He had some friendship with Yuan Hongdao and his original intention was to seek justice for his friend and help the prime minister. But who would have thought that he would end up doing more harm than good and indirectly kill Yuan Hongdao?

"It's going to be a slow process."

At this moment, the three words that Chu Pingsheng blurted out made all the civil and military officials present feel cold all over.

Lin Ruofu pointed at Chu Pingsheng and said, "You...you...are so cruel."

"I think it is because Your Majesty has given Prime Minister Lin so much honor and favor that his followers are so self-righteous that they take advantage of the fact that their master is the prime minister, the first person under His Majesty, and so they do evil things and ignore His Majesty's orders. They should be severely punished to warn the world and prevent others from imitating them in the future."

The man on the dragon throne hesitated for a moment, then waved the sleeves of his robe and said, "Approved..."

Chu Pingsheng cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

Lin Ruofu looked dejected at first, then he covered his face and pounded the ground, almost crying out loud.

"Don't cry yet, don't cry yet, it's not over yet."

Chu Pingsheng patted his shoulder, suddenly exerted force backwards, his body like a slingshot, his five fingers like arrows, and with a speed so fast that all the generals present could not react, he pierced the head of the light chariot captain Lin Youdao with a "plop".

That’s right, fingers in the head!

The human skull, which is extremely hard, is like tofu in front of him.

poof...

People fell down and their bodies lay on the ground.

A third-rank military officer died a violent death.

Wow.

The whole place was in an uproar!

No one expected that Chu Pingsheng would dare to take action in the court in front of Emperor Qing and kill a descendant of the previous emperor's in-laws in the Taiji Hall.

"Commander Yan, Commander Yan, protect the emperor!" All the civil and military officials felt threatened, and one person shouted when the crowd was outraged.

There was the sound of armor clattering, and the commander of the palace guards, Yan Xiaoyi, ran into the Taiji Hall with a team of guards. There were clanging sounds, and several long swords were unsheathed.

Yan Xiaoyi looked at the light car captain lying on the ground in a miserable state and asked: "Did you kill him?"

"Yes."

Chu Pingsheng grinned: "It was His Majesty who ordered me to kill him."

Did His Majesty ask him to kill him?
Seeing the commander of the imperial guards leading their troops into the palace, all the court officials breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at the emperor who was silent behind the bamboo curtain.

Little did he know that Li Yunqian already had a hint of anger on his face.

Killing Ye Zhong's personal soldiers at the West Street entrance, killing the Black Cavalry in front of the Supervisory Council, and now killing the third-rank military officer of the dynasty at the court meeting. Even if Chu Pingsheng's master is a grandmaster, this move is really too much.

"It just so happens... my master is in Kyoto these past two days."

Is this a threat?
Li Yunqian stared at the man who was talking in the hall with his sharp eyes, thinking that no wonder he was so bold and presumptuous, it turned out that he had someone backing him up.

"Master told me something. Fan Xian, the illegitimate son of Si Nanbo Fan Jianzhi, is actually the child of His Majesty and Ye Qingmei."

As soon as this was said, the whole audience fell into silence.

No one had expected that he would actually...actually reveal such a royal secret in front of all the officials.

"Why did I kill the Black Knights? Why did I wipe out the Overwatch Council? It's all for His Majesty the Emperor Qing."

Chu Pingsheng pointed at Chen Pingping and said, "Because this eunuch has a rebellious heart."

Everyone looked at each other. The fact that Fan Xian was the illegitimate son of Emperor Qing was shocking enough, but he actually... actually said that Chen Pingping wanted to... rebel?
Fan Jianyi flicked his sleeves and said, "That's nonsense. Anyone in Qing Kingdom could have the intention of being disloyal, except Chen Pingping... It's impossible."

"What's impossible? In order to avenge Ye Qingmei, Chen Pingping personally led the Black Cavalry to slaughter the Queen Mother and the Queen's relatives. I believe everyone has heard of this. You can imagine his friendship with Ye Qingmei. The Supervisory Council was also established by Ye Qingmei. On the surface, after Ye Qingmei's death, the Supervisory Council became the right-hand man of His Majesty, but in reality it was an independent kingdom controlled by Chen Pingping. To this day, His Majesty has betrothed Lin Wan'er to me, and Fan Xian is deeply in love with her. That day I went to the Supervisory Council to ask for Si Lili, but Chen Pingping refused to hand her over. Was it just because she was an imperial prisoner? People who know the details of the Niulanshan assassination case can probably guess who he wants to protect by doing this. Although His Majesty and Fan Xian are father and son, there is a conflict of interest over the issue of Lin Wan'er. Instead of helping His Majesty share his worries, he supported Fan Xian in going against the will of the emperor. It seems that Dean Chen has made a choice between His Majesty and his son."

No one in the audience dared to speak, only his voice, although not loud, was deafening: "Haha, among the people in this court, there are those who are close to the crown prince, and those who are close to the second prince. But all of these people combined are not as powerful as the one who is close to Fan Xian, the illegitimate son. Chen Pingping helps him, Fan Jian helps him, and Prime Minister Lin also helps him. Crown prince, second prince, what do you two have to fight Fan Xian?"

"enough!"

The person who spoke was Li Yunqian.

Because he gradually realized that things were beyond his control.

Just now when the ministers were reporting on Chu Pingsheng's life, that boy looked as if he didn't care at all. He thought it must be Li Yunrui who gave advice to the "good son-in-law".

In the beginning, he did a great job in refuting Lin Ruofu and putting Yuan Hongdao to death, but it was too much to reveal Fan Xian's background later.

"Enough? Not enough!"

Chu Pingsheng disobeyed Emperor Qing on the spot and said, "My teacher Bai Feng also found out something. Chen Pingping has never given up investigating the cause of Ye Qingmei's death for so many years. Recently, he has turned his attention to the Qin family. And Yan Ruohai is a spy planted by Qin Ye in the Supervisory Council on the surface, but he is actually a double agent."

After saying this, he patted Privy Councilor Qin Ye on the shoulder.

"I didn't give you this seat in vain. If it weren't for me, you would die someday without even knowing how."

Then he walked over to Lin Ruofu and patted him on the shoulder.

"The same is true for Lin Xiang's retainer Yuan Hongdao."

Yuan Hongdao is also from the Supervisory Commission...Chen Pingping's side?

"So, Your Majesty, do you know how many tricks this eunuch Chen Pingping has done behind your back?"

"..."

"So the Overwatch Council and the Black Cavalry are in Chen Pingping's hands. Your Majesty, are you at ease? Lin Youdao, a third-rank military officer and a descendant of the emperor's foreign relatives, has come out to be his dog to bite me, a foreign envoy who can bring huge benefits to the Qing Kingdom. If Fan Xian integrates the resources of Prime Minister Lin and Chen Pingping in the court and controls the empire's financial power, Your Majesty, can you still sit firmly on the throne of emperor?"

"I've said enough! Do you really want me to have someone arrest you?" Li Yunqian was angry.

Chu Pingsheng said fearlessly, "I am representing Xihu to make peace with Nanqing for your sake. If Nanqing changes and Fan Xian becomes the emperor, will my efforts be in vain? So, Emperor Qing, please give me a positive answer. Do you want to kill Chen Pingping or not? If not, Xihu will never consider making peace with Nanqing again, because my teacher Bai Feng never does business with big risks."

Li Yunqian slowly calmed down because he suddenly realized that Chu Pingsheng was speaking on behalf of his master Bai Feng.

From Xihu's point of view, there is nothing wrong with the other party's behavior.

Li Chengqian is the crown prince, and Li Chengze also has the potential to compete for the throne. Now he has an illegitimate son, and he seems to want to return the royal economic lifeline to Fan Xian. Chen Pingping is willing to sacrifice the interests of the Supervisory Council to help Fan Xian. Fan Jian, who will be the Minister of Revenue sooner or later, is his adoptive father, and Lin Ruofu, the prime minister of the current dynasty, regards him as a proud son-in-law. In time, who in the Nanqing Kingdom can suppress Fan Xian?
Fan Xian and Chu Pingsheng had many conflicts over the issue of Lin Wan'er's belonging. When he was alive, Nanqing and Xihu might be able to divide the world and maintain friendship. If he died, would Fan Xian not avenge his wife being taken away?

Chu Pingsheng just said that Bai Feng was in Kyoto City. The other party did not talk to him in secret, but chose to use Lin Ruofu to make small moves at the court meeting. Chen Pingping added fuel to the fire and brought the fire to him, just to force him to make a choice in public.

(End of this chapter)