Tiandu, Chaotian Palace.
"Your Majesty has arrived~"
As Cao Jingzhong shouted, the civil and military officials from all over the court who were whispering stood together and looked at the jade steps.
But when they saw Ji Huanlong walking like a tiger, his aura was much better than before, they couldn't help but be shocked.
Just a few days ago, when Ji Huan vomited blood in the Chaotian Palace, there were reports from the Imperial Hospital that Ji Huan's body was in decline and that medicine and stone were ineffective. But today, looking at Ji Huan's complexion, not only was he fine, but he had even regained some of his strength.
"See your majesty!" Seeing Ji Huan take his seat, all the civil and military officials quickly bowed down.
"Get back on your feet!" Ji Huan waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After the ministers stood up, the emperor's master Zhang Shen stepped forward, bowed and asked: "Your Majesty, do you know why you mobilized this youthful energy?"
"I was just about to ask all of you dear friends about this." Ji Huan's eyes swept across the civil and military forces of the court, and he said in a deep voice, "Who was taking away my luck just now?"
Just looking at Ji Huan's murderous look, he knew that this was not a good thing to say, and the civil and military officials in the court did not dare to speak for a while.
"Your Majesty, it's Cheng Xi, the Master of Taiyuan Academy." Jiang Song saw Ji Huan's eyes falling on him, hesitated for a moment, and stepped forward and said.
It is Taiyuan College that is responsible for condensing Tiandu’s city-protecting green energy.
Hearing this, Cheng Xi bowed and said: "Your Majesty, most of the youthful energy of the dynasty suddenly disappeared. I am worried that the capital will be invaded by external evil spirits, so I make my own decisions!"
"What a man who is good at making opinions!" Ji Huan looked at Cheng Xi and said solemnly: "Did you know that in the battle of Dongzhou, the Taoist League deceived our court, and three beloved ministers, Cui Huchen, Xie Xiong, and Murong Ke, were killed by the Taoist League rebels? With my hands, I mobilized the Qing Qi of Tiandu to seek justice from the Taoist Alliance for the three beloved princes. In the middle of the process, the luck of the jade seal was suddenly withdrawn. Cheng Aiqing felt that I, the emperor, had not done a good job and wanted to seek justice for this great emperor. Want another emperor?"
"I don't dare! I don't know about this!" Cheng Xi's expression changed when he heard this, and he knelt down quickly and said.
At the same time, the expressions of Xie Yao and others also changed drastically. The news from Dongzhou has not yet been sent back. After Cao Jingzhong returned to Tiandu, he immediately looked for Ji Huan. Naturally, the three major families did not know that they had lost a fifth-grade master.
"I think you are very brave!" Ji Huan stared at Cheng Xi and said, "I remember that you haven't broken through to the realm of fame yet, right?"
"This... I am stupid!" Cheng Xi's face froze, and he lowered his head again. He also wanted to achieve a breakthrough in fame, but he always fell short.
"The dean of Daqian Taixuan Academy has not even reached the fifth level. Now he is trying to murder me. Cheng Aiqing, you better not become the dean of the Taixuan Academy, lest the news spreads and loses the face of Daqian. What a joke!”
"Your Majesty, this matter is of great importance. I hope your Majesty will think twice!" Upon hearing this, Jiang Song's face changed slightly and he came forward to plead.
Taiyuan College is the place where Daqian cultivates talents. It is also a Confucian academy established specifically to compete with Hongru Academy. It can be said that it is an academy supported by the imperial court and the gentry. Today, most of the officials of Daqian are from Taiyuan.
Besides, the sixth-grade Confucian and Taoist cultivation of the president of Taiyuan College is not like this in recent years. Except for the first president of Taiyuan College, who was a Confucian with a good reputation, all the subsequent presidents of Taiyuan College were almost all of sixth-grade cultivation. How come today Just take this as an example?
"It is precisely because the matter is so important that such mediocre people should not be allowed to live in this position. Looking at Tiandu, there are so many sixth-grade Confucian students. As the head of the Taiyuan Academy, he has been unable to break through to the fifth grade. It can only be said that his moral character is lacking. Or does Prime Minister Jiang think that this person should be forgiven even if he attempts to murder me?" Ji Huan looked at Jiang Song, his eyes getting colder.
"I don't dare!" Jiang Song quickly knelt down and kowtowed.
"Your Majesty, those who don't know are not guilty. I don't know what your Majesty means!" Cheng Xi knelt down and said quickly.
"Those who don't know are not guilty, so even if you plot to kill the emperor, you should be given a lighter sentence!?" Ji Huan seemed to be getting more and more angry as he thought about it, and waved his hand directly: "Cao Jingzhong!"
"The slave is here!" Cao Jingzhong quickly stepped forward.
"Drag him out, twenty sticks!" Ji Huan shouted: "You personally supervise!"
As soon as these words came out, the whole court was shocked. Twenty court staffs may not sound like much, but the person who executed the execution was a guard in front of the palace, a sixth-grade martial artist, and Cao Jingzhong personally supervised it. There was no way he would be lenient.
A sixth-grade martial artist strikes with all his strength. Not to mention a Confucian scholar whose physique is not much different from that of a mortal. Even the same sixth-grade martial artist can still stand up after eating all twenty courtyard rods. The prince drank tea.
"My slave obeys the order!" Cao Jingzhong agreed and ordered the palace guards to drag Cheng Xi out, who was pale and begging for mercy.
"Your Majesty, is this punishment too severe?" Several ministers immediately changed their expressions and stepped forward to plead. Ji Huan did not leave Cheng Xi a way to survive at all.
"Your Majesty, think twice!" Many civil and military officials in the court knelt down.
Seeing the civil and military officials begging for mercy, Ji Huan's eyes flashed with a cold light: "Okay, okay! Very good!"
The civil and military voices in the court were suppressed by Ji Huan alone, and everyone was a little shocked for a while.
"You all asked for mercy for the matter that almost killed me. It seems that my life is worthless in the eyes of all my dear friends!" Ji Huan glanced at the ministers, and his voice became louder and louder: "I know, you guys , including the world’s officials, most of them come from the Taiyuan Academy, so you think that even if the Taiyuan Academy deceives you and ignores you, and even puts me to death, it is excusable? "
Is this a thing?
The officials saw that today Ji Huan was determined to pin Cheng Xi's crime on assassinating the emperor.
"I don't dare!" I thought so, but no one dared to say it, so I could only kowtow.
Today's emperor's behavior is completely different from that of the past, and he is extremely domineering.
While he was talking, Cheng Xi's screams had already come from outside, but they disappeared after just two sounds.
A sixth-grade martial artist strikes with all his strength, even if the buttocks with the thickest flesh are struck, the person may have been cut into two pieces.
In the square outside the Chaotian Palace, looking at Cheng Xi whose buttocks had turned into a puddle of flesh and whose intestines were leaking out, the two palace guards couldn't help but stop.
"It's only two sticks, why did it stop?" Cao Jingzhong said dissatisfied.
"Eunuch, this...has been interrupted." A palace guard bowed.
"You have to hit even if it's broken. Your Majesty said there are twenty sticks, and you can't miss even one stick. It's not just here that he can hit. Keep going!" Cao Jingzhong glanced at Cheng Xi, who had lost his breath, and sneered.
"Yes!" The two palace guards did not dare to say anything, and continued to swing the court staff, knocking it down one by one. After twenty staffs, Cheng Xi only had one human head left, and the remaining places were all covered with adultery. Got minced meat.
Above the main hall, the ministers were silent, silently protesting against the emperor's atrocities.
This is the first time in the history of Youqian that a great scholar has been humiliated and died like this.
Ji Huan ignored them. Now that he had the Mountain and River Seal in his hand, he was determined to reorganize the Great Qian. He immediately ordered: "It is my decree that from today on, the Qintian Prison will be abolished. From today on, the five sects of the Tao Alliance will be If there is a heretical cult, the five sects of the Taoist Alliance will not be allowed to enter our major cadres. Anyone who violates this rule will be killed!"
"Your Majesty!" An official couldn't help but said: "Qin Tian Jian was established since Emperor Taizu. It has been passed down for eight hundred years. Why was it suddenly abandoned? The alliance between Da Qian and Dao Alliance also lasted for eight hundred years. After such a long time, wouldn’t this unwarranted abandonment disturb the society?”
"Why?" Ji Huan groped his beard and said, "I have to ask Xie Aiqing, Cui Aiqing and Murong Aiqing. Is this reason enough for Qin Tianjian and Dao Alliance to kill Daqian court officials for no reason?"
"In addition, Qin Tian Jian has enjoyed my eight hundred years of great luck. Today I suddenly want to ask, what contribution has Qin Tian Jian made to my great work?"
This is really not much. At most, I helped design the city defense mechanism, but what can I say about this thing? If there is Confucianism, it makes no difference whether there is a city defense mechanism or not. In the larger cities now, there are no Confucian scholars who serve as county magistrates or prefects.
Moreover, Qin Tianjian is aloof from all things, whether it is aristocratic families, princes or generals, they are all like ants in the eyes of Qin Tianjian.
The relationship network is equivalent to no one. Now that it is banned, the reaction of the officials is not too big. They just feel that it violates the ancestral system. Compared with the previous killing of Cheng Xi, this matter is really not important at all.
"In addition, I will send another decree to the five sects of the Dao League. All the spiritual mines that Da Gan gave them before will be taken back. From today on, they will be mined by the imperial court!" Ji Huan said solemnly.
Now that the power in the court has become established, it is difficult to move, but when dealing with the five sects of the Taoist Alliance, there should be little resistance from the court.
The interests occupied by the five sects of the Dao League should have been divided by the imperial court. If these spirit stone veins can be recovered now, it will not only be Ji Huan who will benefit in the end, but also the entire imperial court and various families.
Moreover, according to the news brought back by Cao Jingzhong, the mountains and rivers seals can annex each other. He also wants to take this opportunity to take all the mountains and rivers seals into his own. By then, Daqian will truly be a kingdom for eternity, and he can also enjoy immortality. life!
"Your Majesty, the Qingqi of Tiandu is related to the safety of Tiandu. Your Majesty, please decide the position of the dean of Taiyuan Academy as soon as possible." Jiang Song sighed.
"This is very urgent, but because of this, we should select carefully. Don't let unscrupulous people occupy high positions anymore. The officials need to be screened carefully." Ji Huan said in a deep voice.
All the luck is used to condense the green energy to protect the city. How can he get the luck to nourish the mountains and rivers?
The Qing Qi used to protect the city has been used since the creation of Confucianism. How many years it has been used cannot be verified. If it is abolished at once, it will cause unrest. Now is not the time to use strong medicine.
Ether Academy's urinary nature, if Cheng Xi dies today, he may be threatened by not continuing to condense the green energy to protect the city.
In the past, any emperor would have to compromise, but this time, Ji Huan hoped that they would make more trouble, the better. He took the opportunity to support Hongru Academy and at the same time select people who supported him to rise to power. It was not that Dongzhou Guiyi Sect was causing such a big trouble. It's no good. Now Dongzhou is just a blank piece of paper, just used to seal one's own officials.
As for using someone from Hongru College as the head of Taiyuan College, Ji Huan never thought about it. What he wanted was for the two sides to check and balance each other, not to unite.
"If there is nothing else, just retreat from the court!" Ji Huan stood up and said when no one spoke.
"Send off to your majesty!" After the ministers respectfully sent Ji Huan away, they gathered in groups to discuss what to do next.
The emperor killed the master of Taiyuan Academy today with a stick. This is a big deal and we must fight back!
"Master Xie, what happened in Dongzhou? General Xie really..." Jiang Song turned around and looked at Xie Yao. He had too many things to ask. What happened in Dongzhou? Why did three people die at once? Fifth grade? And why didn’t the three major families refute the emperor just now?
"Xiang Xiong, I have important matters to deal with at home. We will discuss this later." Xie Yao has no intention of talking nonsense to Jiang Song now. Xie Xiong is his younger brother and one of the only three fifth-ranked ones in his family. Now that he is dead, it is not only a big blow to the Xie family, but also a huge blow to his lineage. We must find out!
The Cui family and the Murong family did the same. After a perfunctory polite word, they left in a hurry.
Looking at the backs of the three of them, Jiang Song deeply felt the shortcomings of the Jiang family at this moment. He even found out about this kind of thing after the incident was over...
(End of chapter)
