Mrs. Leisurely

Chapter 138 Unreasonable (5)
"What King Chun said is very true, we must follow the instructions carefully."

Zhong Liyu waved his hand and asked the guards to let them go out of the palace gate. The crowd left in a mighty way. Their steps were brisk, without the heaviness they had when they came.

Zhong Aotian saw that the sky was already dim, and he said to the guards guarding the palace gate: "Come here, beat the drums, and inform all the officials to go to court."

Everyone looked at the sky, the emperor sent people to court just as the genius was getting dark, could it be too early?However, they did not dare to object and could only execute orders.

The officials had heard the movements in the palace long ago, and they had already arrived at the gate of the palace, but the gate was closed tightly, so they could not enter, so they had to wait at the gate of the palace, when the clock rang, the gate opened, and they walked in immediately .Inside the palace, countless corpses were lying here and there, and the strong smell of blood still reverberated in the air.The officials were shocked when they saw all this. They were outside the palace gate, although they heard the murderous aura inside, but now they saw this scene with their own eyes, they couldn't help but tremble. Officer, I haven't been on the battlefield yet, when have I seen this kind of battle?Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I have truly seen what it means to flow blood into a river.From then on, Tangling's civil servants no longer dared to despise the five senses, because they knew that the country's strength and tranquility were achieved by soldiers fighting with their flesh and blood, and countless people sacrificed their lives in order to protect their country.

When the officials controlled by drugs saw Mo Qing's body, they were shocked. Mo Qing was dead, so who would come to give them the antidote?It seems that they can only wait to die, and die as long as they don't hurt their family members, they thought silently.

Zhong Aotian glanced at the expressions of the officials, turned around and entered the Golden Luan Hall, and the officials immediately followed him, entered the hall, and neatly lined up in two rows according to their ranks as they usually do when they go to court.

Zhong Liyu was the last to enter, and people couldn't help being surprised when they saw him, thinking, isn't King Chun already deprived of his title?Why are you back again?

After the officials saluted, Zhong Aotian glanced at the officials in the hall, took out a list, and started to read: "Liu Changwen, Lin Bochong, Huang Bingnian..." He read the names of a dozen officials in a row, and then, Waiting quietly for the reaction of the officials, they found that the officials whose names were read were all the officials who tried their best to make Dongling King guard against Zhong Liyu.

Those officials whose names were read couldn't help trembling, and lowered their heads guiltily. They all walked to the center of the hall and knelt down.

Zhong Aotian glanced at them indifferently, and said in a deep voice: "Are you guilty?"

Those officials were startled, and said in unison: "Your minister is guilty, I should not have let the emperor guard against King Chun."

Zhong Aotian snorted coldly, and said: "So, do you think that your crimes are just these? Don't think that others don't know what you have done."

The faces of those officials turned pale in an instant. It turned out that the emperor knew everything.Since Mo Qing used drugs to control them, he secretly did a lot of things that harmed the court, thinking that he did it without anyone noticing, who would have thought that none of these things were hidden from the eyes of the emperor.

"Your Majesty, I am guilty, and I am willing to die." Liu Changwen spoke first. He saw Mo Qing's body. Mo Qing was dead. No one gave him an antidote. After a while, he himself would die, and he could only blame himself. Life is hard, being threatened for no reason.

Seeing that Liu Changwen was the first to ask for death, the other officials followed suit. In short, all of them wanted to die, because they didn't know that they had already taken the antidote. At this time, they just wanted to die, so as not to hurt their family members.

Zhong Aotian looked at the officials and said: "I will give you a chance to argue, I hope you have a reason to convince the town, otherwise, you will know the consequences."

"Your Majesty, we don't need to argue, we just want to die." The officials said desperately, without the antidote, even if the Emperor kept them alive, they would still die in pain in a short time.

"Are you really not going to tell the whole story? Now, I order you to tell, otherwise, I will destroy your nine clans." Zhong Aotian said in a deep voice.

Zhongyonghou was the first to stand up. The reason why he was threatened by Mo Qing was not because he was afraid of death, but because he was afraid that Mo Qing would harm his daughter. At this time, the emperor said everything. If he didn't explain clearly, the emperor would destroy his nine clans , how dare he hide it?Zhongyong Hou thought of the scene of being threatened at the beginning, and he didn't feel distressed. He said sadly: "Your Majesty, it's Mo Qing from the Thousand Poison Sect. He forced his ministers to take a poison. If you don't stop his orders, he will not only Let the minister die, and threaten the minister to harm the minister's daughter, Mo Qing is a master of martial arts, the minister has no choice but to obey his orders."

"Tell me, what did he ask you to do?"

"He asked his ministers to speak out in front of the emperor, told the emperor to guard against King Chun, made the emperor suspicious of King Chun, and always deprived King Chun of his title."

After Zhongyong Hou finished speaking, the Golden Luan Hall was in awe. They did not expect that such a thing would be used. At the beginning, they strongly opposed the emperor's decision, and these people had been persuading the emperor to guard against Zhong Liyu. It turned out that this was the reason.

After Zhongyonghou finished speaking, the remaining officials also answered truthfully. Most of them were similar to what Zhongyonghou said, and they were all threatened by Mo Qing.

Zhong Aotian listened to their answers and kept silent for a long time. In fact, he was very sad at the moment. These officials were carefully selected by him. Everyone took office based on their own talents and skills. Under his management, There has never been a phenomenon of buying and selling officials. Over the years, everyone has jointly governed Dongling. Then, when personal interests and national interests conflicted, these people chose themselves. How could he not feel sad.

Seeing Zhong Liyu's silence for a long time, all the officials were upset. They stood still and did not dare to move. At this time, the golden hall was so quiet that even a needle could be heard falling to the ground.

When everyone was holding their breath and felt as if they were about to suffocate, Zhong Aotian spoke, and he said slowly: "Say, what should we do with these people?"

"Your Majesty, this matter is not trivial and should be severely punished." An upright official took the lead.

"Your Majesty, they were also forced to be helpless. In fact, the circumstances are justifiable. Please forgive me again." The minister, who was a little more soft-hearted, hurriedly said.

"Your Majesty, I think that although they are wrong, they are not guilty of death. Please think twice, Your Majesty."

"..."

Officials express their opinions and have their own reasons.

Zhong Aotian sighed helplessly, looked at Zhong Liyu who was standing quietly by the side, and said, "Yu'er, what do you think?"

At this moment, all the officials looked at Zhong Liyu quietly, waiting for his answer, because he was the victim.

I saw Zhong Liyu said indifferently: "Your Majesty, they also have their own difficulties. In order to protect their families, they did some things that violated their conscience. This is also understandable. Why don't you punish them lightly."

(End of this chapter)