The five thousand villagers of the Zeng family seemed to be quite large, but they had little chance of resistance against Cao Bin's personal guards.
It only took less than half an hour for Cao Bin to leave under the leadership of Shi Wengong, a teacher from Zengtou City.
Gao Qian was stunned for a long time before he said, "Are you leaving now?"
The fifth lady of the Yang family also breathed a sigh of relief and said: "That's fine, let's go back and hand over the order. The matter is quite troublesome. Let's see how the court handles it."
As she spoke, she said worriedly: "I don't know what will happen next. I'm afraid Cao Bin will be in trouble."
Gao Qian looked at the deep forest and smiled bitterly: "I don't know if he will be unlucky. Anyway, I am quite unlucky."
Sanniang of the Yang family glanced at him:
"Okay, Black Tiger was almost stabbed to death and didn't say anything, so stop complaining. Who knew Cao Bin was so brave?"
Entering Shandong, Cao Bin took advantage of the situation and razed Zengtou City, and sent 500 personal guards to escort Pang Taishi to Haizhou, and then hurried to the capital.
Just walking halfway, he bumped into Uncle Fu. Seeing that his hands were empty, Cao Bin asked quickly:
"How about it? Didn't the officials pardon the grand master?"
Uncle Fu glanced at Cao Bin and said resentfully:
"I asked Princess Zhaoyang to take me into the palace, but the Queen Mother was nowhere to be seen."
With that said, he handed the tooth plaque to Cao Bin and said:
"Master, your dental card doesn't work at all!"
When Cao Bin heard this, he was suddenly startled and could smell the danger.
At this moment, a group of palace guards galloped up from the official road and shouted:
"Is this Uncle Zhongjing in front of you? The officials have summoned you. Please follow me into the palace immediately!"
Just as Cao Bin was thinking about running away, the leading Gong Wei said:
"Uncle, you have caused a big trouble. The officials are furious and want you to go and take the blame."
Seeing the palace guard blinking at him, Cao Bin immediately recalled that that person was the one who followed him as an envoy to Xixia.
After receiving the signal, Cao Bin immediately felt relieved, quickly put Pang Yanyan in front of him off his horse, and ordered:
"Uncle Fu, please escort the Pang family's young lady back to her home."
Pang Yanyan called Cao Bin worriedly and saw him leaving with the palace guard without looking back.
Tears flowed down uncontrollably and he said: "Brother Juncai..."
She felt that the autumn wind in the wilderness was extremely cold, and the tears on her face were also cold.
Uncle Fu advised: "Second lady, don't worry, nothing will happen to the young master."
The more he said this, the more Pang Yanyan felt that something was going to happen, and she murmured:
"This is all for my family. If something happens to him, I won't be able to survive..."
On the way, the palace guard whispered:
"Uncle, don't worry. Although the official is angry on his face, he seems to be eating half a bowl of rice more and is not really particularly angry."
When Cao Bin heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and asked a lot of questions before he felt confident.
Punishment is certain, but as long as he can save his life, he can accept it.
Compared with life, titles and official positions are external things, and they can be taken back if they are gone.
After traveling through time, he could still see through these things.
Rushing back to Bianjing, Cao Bin was taken directly to the palace without any delay.
In the Zichen Hall, the female generals of the Yang family, the generals of the Gao family, the Zheng family and others knelt on the ground.
Kou Zhun and Mrs. She also lost their seats and stood respectfully in the main hall, waiting for the emperor's reprimand.
There were also other important ministers from various ministries who looked at their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses. They said nothing and were extremely calm.
Seeing Cao Bin come in, everyone looked at him.
Most of them were angry looks, and even Kou Zhun couldn't help but look at him fiercely.
These people were all tricked by Cao Bin. If he hadn't gone out to fight without any scruples, things would never have reached this point.
Although Kou Zhun's methods were fierce, he was controlled, and every step was within his psychological expectations.
Only Cao Bin always exceeded his expectations.
It wasn't that he wasn't careful enough, but that Cao Bin had the courage to show off his love and acted too arbitrarily. He couldn't figure out Cao Bin's thoughts at all.
The emperor glanced at Cao Bin and shouted to everyone below with a livid face:
"You are really my good ministers. The chief minister issued an imperial edict, but you did not report it. You also falsely conveyed my order and intercepted and killed the ministers."
"The generals are leading their troops to fight each other. Do you still take me seriously?"
"And Pangji... Even if I kill you all, there will be nothing wrong..."
The emperor became more and more angry as he spoke, and smoke almost came out of his nose.
Seeing that everyone bowed their heads and remained silent, the emperor shouted:
"Cao Bin!"
"You are bold! Insolent! Lawless!"
"Do you know your guilt?"
Cao Bin was so excited that he quickly paid homage and said honestly:
"Cao Bin pleads guilty and asks the officials to punish him!"
Everyone was stunned, even the emperor was stunned for a moment, and said with a cold face:
"Cao Bin, do you know that he sent troops to attack his colleagues, resulting in the death of hundreds of people?"
"Even if I cut you into pieces, it's not an exaggeration!"
Cao Bin already had some confidence, and was actually not afraid of the emperor "clicking" him, so he said in a deep voice:
"The Grand Master is kind to me. I just want to save his life. Even if he makes a lot of mistakes, I am willing to shoulder the responsibility."
He was about to bring out the evidence of the Zeng family's crimes to exonerate Master Pang.
The emperor's face softened, and he said with a cold "hum":
"If you hadn't known how to be loyal to the imperial court and hadn't been deceived by the Pang...Zeng family and annihilated them, I would have killed you with a thousand swords!"
"Why?"
Cao Bin was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that before he spoke, the emperor already knew part of the truth and explained it to him. What kind of operation was this?
The emperor looked at him again and said, "Hand over the evidence of the Zeng family's crimes and wait for punishment!"
Cao Bin opened his mouth and thought to himself, are you not giving me a chance to make excuses? Or do you want to let me go?
At this time, the emperor no longer paid attention to Cao Bin, turned to look at Kou Zhun, and said:
"Prime Minister Kou! You agreed to let Pang Ji serve as an official at an old age, but why did you add the imperial prefix? Are you kidding me?"
Kou Zhun had no intention of answering, because Zhongshu Sheren had already stood up and said with emotion:
"Going back to the official house, this matter has nothing to do with Prime Minister Kou, but was done by a minor official."
"Wei Chen believes that Pang Ji's crime is so heinous that he should not serve as an official because of his old age. The imperial edict is unreasonable and I have the right to reject it."
The emperor was stunned by him, then became angry and said:
"Since you sealed the imperial edict, why didn't you repay it? Is this also your right?"
"Why did you draft the imperial edict privately without my permission and the Zhengshitang's approval?"
"This is transgression, this is false preaching of the imperial edict!"
As he said that, the emperor looked at him with disgust and said:
"If someone comes, he will be imprisoned for prosecution. From now on, his relatives, regardless of direct descendants, will never be used."
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
The man in the bookstore was stunned. Even if he was killed directly, he could accept it and expected it.
But I didn't expect that the emperor would be so ruthless as to directly cut off the career of his descendants. ,
This was unacceptable to him, so he quickly looked at Kou Zhun.
Kou Zhun had no choice but to stand up and said: "Guan family, there is also the instruction of the minister."
There was no way he wouldn't stand up.
In this case, even if he didn't say anything, the people from Zhongshushe would expose him, which would make it even more embarrassing.
(I wish all book friends a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and family reunion.)
