Red apricots make spring

Chapter 217

The next day Xie Zhengrui sat on a chair covered with bright yellow satin cushions in the side hall, staring coldly at the memorials piled up on the table in front of him, without saying a word.

Left Prime Minister Shen Yuan glanced at Xie Zhengrui's face, and then looked at the memorial on the case table. It was clearly early spring, but he had already started to sweat. From time to time, he quietly raised his hand to wipe the sweat on the tip of his nose with his sleeve.

In contrast, Jiang Yu, the prime minister on the right, had a blank face, standing there with his eyes on his nose, his nose on his mouth, and his mouth on his heart, without even moving.

In addition, there were ten young princes and all the civil and military officials standing in the hall. Lu Ce's father, Lu Fenglin, stood among them. They ran like two different people.

This is not a formal court meeting, but none of the civil and military officials are invited, and they are all crowded in this side hall.There were many people, but none of them spoke. The emperor sitting on the top was silent, and the people standing below held their breath. The whole hall was filled with a solemn and depressing atmosphere, which made many people feel uneasy.

Xie Zhengrui was silent for a long time, and finally said with a straight face: "My dear friends, do you know why I summoned you?"

All the ministers and princes in the palace knew it well, but no one answered.

"Prime Minister Shen—" Xie Zhengrui turned his gaze to Shen Yuan who was wiping away his sweat.

"Chen..." Shen Yuan lowered his eyes and replied, "I'm ignorant."

Xie Zhengrui took one of the three or four memorials that had been on his knees, threw it at Shen Yuan's feet, and said coldly, "Is this the memorial you wrote?"

Shen Yuan bent down and picked it up to see that it was his memorial requesting forgiveness for Lu Ce, and nodded while wiping his sweat, "It's the memorial from your minister."

"Is this yours? And this one, this one..." Xie Zhengrui glanced at the memorial and threw one out casually.

The faces of the courtiers who were thrown by the emperor's poorly aimed "hidden weapon" all changed.

Xie Zhengrui threw away the memorials in his hand, then stood up, took a deep breath, pointed to the memorials on the case table and angrily reprimanded all the ministers: "I don't need to read these things to know what is written in them. You are all important ministers of Dazhao The court sent you salaries to support you, just to let you take care of these trivial matters? Everyone pleaded for Lu Ce, who is Lu Ce? He is a commoner who was stripped of his official position by me! Even if it involves General Lu, It's not worth your effort to mobilize so many people!"

It doesn't matter if he doesn't scold, but with this scolding, the courtiers standing in the hall who were a little ashamed suddenly straightened up a little, and their expressions relaxed a little.

Xie Zhengrui was so angry that he didn't notice this, he walked to the case table and pushed with both hands, with a "wow", the memorial collapsed like a hill, and scattered piles on the ground.

"I don't have the time to read your stereotyped memorials. Whoever pleaded for Lu Ce, you stand up!" Xie Zhengrui yelled angrily, and looked up at the princes and courtiers.

With this angry shout, Shen Yuan took the initiative to stand up, followed by four or five courtiers, besides this, the other courtiers and the prince stood still as if rooted .

Seeing this situation, Xie Zhengrui was surprised.He always knew that Lu Ce was very popular, and when he saw the hill-like memorial, he expected that more than half of it must be a memorial to intercede for him, and the first few memorials presented were like this, so he made a big fuss. He invited all the officials to reprimand him, and by the way, he swept the face of the Lu family.Who wanted to order, but very few stood up, he suddenly felt that the Lu family's face was not swept away, but his own, and he couldn't help but get really angry.

"You——" Xie Zhengrui had no steps to go down for a while, and originally wanted to let the servants read the memorials in public to confront others, but after thinking about it, no matter how bold these courtiers are, they would not dare to do such an obvious thing Lie Jun, don't make yourself even more embarrassing when the time comes, so I stopped in time, coughed twice, and when the waiter brought tea, I whispered to them to search for the Ninth Prince and Lu Fenglin in the pile of memorials.

The emperor sat down to drink tea again, and the courtiers continued to punish him. Shen Yuan and the others who were standing in the hall were the most uncomfortable. They were left there in full view, unable to advance or retreat, and everyone felt ashamed.

Shen Yuan glanced at Lu Fenglin who was standing there sinking like water, and regretted it in his heart.Even Lu Fenglin was not in a hurry, what was he doing for Lu Ce when he rushed to the memorial?But in the final analysis, he still has to blame his own daughter Shen Mengyi. This time she offended the Lu family terribly. Shen Yuan did this only out of the mentality of remedial friendship with the Lu family. I never thought that the emperor would use the topic to make a play out in public. fell on his face.

Four or five literate servants in charge of the palace's collection of books squatted on the ground and rummaged through them. After a while, they found the memorial of Ninth Prince and Lu Fenglin, and handed it over.

Xie Zhengrui opened it and saw that the Ninth Prince's memorial was written in an extremely grand manner, stating that he and Lu Ce are best friends, but in order to protect the reputation of the emperor and the laws of Dazhao, he begged to punish Lu Ce strictly according to the law, so as to make an example of others.

Xie Zhengrui's first reaction after reading it was relief. He felt that the Ninth Prince had a good understanding of the general situation, but after thinking about it, he became a little suspicious. Could it be that the Ninth Prince deliberately threw a difficult problem for him?Knowing that the current situation in the court and the border area does not allow him to deal with the Lu family easily, and Lu Ce is the only son of the Lu family...

Forget it, let's look at Lu Fenglin's memorial again.

Xie Zhengrui put the Ninth Prince's memorial aside and opened Lu Fenglin's memorial. Unexpectedly, what was written on it was even more righteous. Lu Fenglin first blamed himself for not disciplining his son well, then denounced Lu Ce's crimes, and finally demanded that Lu Ce be severely punished, even if he was punished. Even to the Lu family, they obeyed the holy orders, without any complaints.

Xie Zhengrui was stunned for a moment. In fact, he had seen this kind of apology a lot over the years. Every criminal would denounce his crimes, and finally demanded severe punishment for himself or asked for a lenient punishment. But Lu Fenglin's memorial seems to have gone too far. , Even the Lu family was connected.Although bullying the emperor is a serious crime, what Lu Ce committed was not to the extent of punishing his family. Could it be that he also decided that the court would not dare to move the Lu family with the purpose of retreating?

Thinking of this, a sneer appeared on Xie Zhengrui's lips, and he asked the servant to pick up a few memorials at random, and found that the contents inside were similar, and they all demanded that Lu Ce be strictly punished.

The more he looked, the angrier he became, his thick eyebrows almost stood upright!The Lu family has a lot of political enemies, and many of them have the vicious nature of adding insult to injury, so when Lu Ce commits a crime, it doesn't matter if there are more impeachment memorials, but the strange thing is that even some people who have always been friends with the Lu family or The upright courtiers followed suit to impeach Lu Ce, and the entire court's speeches were completely to one side.He didn't need to guess to know that this must be the Lu family... No, Lu Chenzhou and Lu Fenglin would not do such a thing, it must be Lu Ce's idea!Being imprisoned in the dungeon is still restless, do you really think that the emperor is easy to fool?

Lu Ce's current behavior is no different from standing in front of him, shyly yelling at him to hack and kill, even saying that he is willing to hack and kill, how can he bear it in this situation? !
Well, since you are looking for your own death, then I will help you!
The sneer on Xie Zhengrui's face was even worse, he threw the memorial in his hand on the ground, stood up and said: "I will pass on my will, Lu Ce's eyes are lawless, he deceives the king, he will be beheaded according to the law of the Great Zhao, and he will be executed at a certain date!"

At this moment, most of the courtiers have already seen the reason for Xie Zhengrui's anger, and they couldn't help showing a look of surprise on their faces. Some courtiers who submitted the memorial according to the Lu family's request, thinking that there must be a deep meaning in it, are even more puzzled, really can't figure it out Why did Lu Ce make such a foolish move? Even if he didn't do anything, he would squat obediently in the dungeon, and when the Holy Spirit passed away, he would naturally let him out. How could it be such an irreversible situation?
Xie Zhengrui's decree was handed down, only Hanlin who drafted the decree responded, and the other courtiers were restrained by his memorial, so naturally no one dared to intercede for Lu Ce, so the hall was silent, even the sound of breathing could be heard.

The Ninth Prince's face was a little pale. Although he had predicted this kind of ending yesterday when his confidant sneaked into the prison to deliver a message to Lu Ce, he still felt a little unacceptable when it happened.This move is so stupid!It's not like Lu Ce's behavior style at all. When he first heard what Lu Ce begged him to do, he wondered if his confidant had made a mistake. He even took a risk that night and went to the dungeon to meet Lu Ce in person. was finally determined.But this is not over yet, he will do one more stupid thing for Lu Ce next...

He smiled wryly, raised his hand to touch the jade pendant around his waist, and one of the few officials who went up to intercede for Lu Ce came out, knelt down and said, "I have the guts to ask, how can you bully me like this?" The big crimes were settled without trial, just based on Shi Yushi's two impeachment memorials?"
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(End of this chapter)