"Oh? Chen Aiqing, you mean that Lu Qing is disloyal to me and is suspected of treason?"
The empress' plain voice slowly sounded in the Tai Chi Hall.
Chen Cang responded solemnly: "Your Majesty, this is what I mean."
He said it with absolute certainty, as if he was ready to fall to the ground.
The empress narrowed her eyes, and the temperature of the hall quietly dropped a little.
However, before she could speak again, a beautiful figure suddenly walked out of the front of the military attaché queue.
"Shilang Lu is unfaithful? What a joke!"
Gu Simiao looked at Chen Cang and said with a cold expression:
"Youdu Censor, have you forgotten that at the time when the Demon Queen was in chaos, corruption was rampant in both the government and the public, riots continued in all directions, the country was in turmoil, and the people were in dire straits, the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty sat back and watched His Majesty's power slip away. When the Demon Queen's gang was causing havoc in the country of Great Xia, who stood up to be loyal to His Majesty regardless of the cost, and angrily denounced the Demon Queen's gang for the sake of the country and the country? Who was it who risked his life to protect His Majesty when the Holy King pretended to be rebellious? retreat?"
"If you, Mr. Chen, were in Beijing at that time, would you be able to follow His Majesty as desperately as Mr. Lu and devote everything you have to the country and the country of Daxia?"
Hearing this, Lu Chen's eyes suddenly twitched.
Miss Gu, Miss Gu, can I call you Miaomiao? !
What you said is very good, but please stop saying it!
My heart begins to ache again! !
Lu Chen felt so depressed that he wanted to die when he thought about how he had been on the wrong team during that shocking change, and how the path to immortality that was once within reach became more and more out of reach in the successive backstabbings.
Who would have thought that the Empress could make a comeback under such circumstances? The Holy King led his army all the way to help the Empress regain her power? !
This was a pain that Lu Chen didn't want to mention, but Gu Simiao's words simply added salt to his wound.
Gu Simiao naturally didn't notice the strange look on Lu Chen's face, and didn't know what he really thought.
After a slight pause, her voice suddenly rose higher and she said every word:
"If Mr. Lu's achievement of this is not enough to prove his loyalty, then in your eyes, Chen Cang, what is loyalty? Are there any loyal people in this world?"
This is a bit harsh.
Some courtiers who were present at the scene but did not stand up and be loyal to the empress like Lu Chen, but chose to remain silent and let things go, suddenly glanced at Gu Simiao with some dissatisfaction.
Yes, their performance was indeed not as good as Lu Chen's. They did not follow the empress as desperately as he did and did what they could for the increasingly declining Daxia country. But that was because Lu Chen was alone and had no worries. Such People can naturally move forward without any scruples.
Their family has a great cause, and even if it is not for themselves, they must also consider it for the family. Otherwise, if they make a wrong move, they will be in doom.
Although matters of loyalty will not affect the clan, they are the mainstay of the clan. If they lose this power, what will happen to the future of the clan?
In their view, being an official and a human being means thinking about yourself six or seven times, thinking about the court two or three times, and if there is any left, think about others.
Only Lu Chen, a different person, could think of the imperial court with pure gold.
Looking at the history of Daxia for nearly a thousand years, before him, how could there be pure gold in this world?
Moreover, they at least kept the bottom line and did not betray the empress.
It's just that the thieves were powerful at the beginning and they were unable to change the status quo. It was helpless to let them go their own way. How can you blame them?
Since there is no betrayal, how can it not be considered loyalty?
However, although they were dissatisfied, they did not dare to refute Gu Simiao out loud.
After all, Gu Simiao had just made great achievements for the imperial court, and the Holy Family was in full swing. It was best not to provoke him easily if it was not necessary.
"The general's words are too absolute."
Chen Cang glanced at her indifferently, "Although Lu Chen's previous actions seemed to be for the country and the people, loyal to the emperor and the country, but people's hearts are apart, no one knows what he was thinking at that time. As the saying goes Dao, there must be a monster when something goes wrong. Maybe he did this not just for His Majesty and Daxia's country, but for some purpose that we can't see through. Is there another plan?"
Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but look at Chen Cang with a strange look.
This old boy has something.
Gu Simiao snorted coldly and said coldly: "Youdu Censor, you have to think carefully. False accusations will be punished with the crime of the accusation. If you can't provide enough evidence to prove that Lu Qing has conspired to treason, and In the end, it was confirmed that your complaint was a deliberate false accusation, and you will have to bear the charge of rebellion."
Facing Gu Simiao's slightly threatening reminder, Chen Cang looked as usual, looking confident.
"I never hesitate to speak my mind, let alone accuse my colleagues unjustly. Since I dare to stand up and accuse him, Lu Chen, I will not do anything wrong."
As he said that, he no longer looked at Gu Simiao, turned to look at the empress who had stood up on the steps at some point, and said solemnly:
"Your Majesty, I have sufficient evidence to prove that Lu Chen must have a very close relationship with the rebel leader Yu Jiuyuan who is currently entrenched in the northern part of Tianlan Province! And a person who is so ambiguous with the rebels, he said that he He is suspected of treason, no matter how he behaved in the past or how loyal he seems to be, it cannot be trusted!"
Hearing this, all the courtiers couldn't help but frown.
This is not the first time that the name Yu Jiuyuan has appeared in the court.
As early as three years ago, when the Demon Queen came to power, this person took advantage of the famine in Tianlan Province and brought many rivers and lakes with him. He raised the banner of "The Holy Duke came to the world, burned the sky to reshape it, and all the people were safe" and launched an attack. The local government robbed gentry from various places to strengthen itself and absorb more people who were completely desperate for the court.
Naturally, the imperial court would not leave the rebels alone, but Yu Jiuyuan was like a weakling who could not be killed. No matter how he suppressed them, they could not be suppressed. Soon after spending a huge amount of money and food, he had to withdraw his troops and rest, this time Sisi was soon able to make a comeback and become more difficult to deal with than before.
The year before last, he was just a bandit who led the mob to cause chaos everywhere, but now he is the number one enemy of the imperial court and the leader of the rebels in the world who shouted, "Open the city gates to welcome the Holy Duke. When the Holy Duke comes, he will not pay for the food."
And Lu Chen is now recognized as the number one loyal minister by the imperial court.
If this kind of thing is true as Chen Cang said, it would be terrible.
Chen Cang continued: "I know that your majesty attaches great importance to love and righteousness, but I still ask your majesty to put the country and the country of our ancestors first and not to be emotional. Besides, as the saying goes, no one is perfect, and loyalty is like a traitor. This guy has behaved before It's so perfect, Wei Chen has reason to suspect that this guy has other agendas."
"For example, when the Qingjiang River was flooded, this guy's proposal to mobilize the Yuzhou Guards and Suizhou Guards to control the floods was very suspicious. Wei Chen investigated afterwards and found that while the Yuzhou Guards and Suizhou Guards were being transferred to control the floods, the rebels A sudden attack on Huiyang Mansion, which is only a few hundred miles away from Tianmen Pass in Yuzhou, opened up the entire northern part of Tianlan Province. The ministers suspected that the water control was fake, and that it was real to mobilize the tigers away from the mountains to coordinate the counter-bandit actions!"
"Moreover, Lu Chen's actions in Yuzhou, if you think about it carefully, are all suspected of disrupting Yuzhou, delaying the Qingning Army's military situation, and preventing Yuzhou from taking care of Tianlan Province. I hope your Majesty will learn from it!"
The empress did not respond directly to his words, but turned to look at the person involved, Lu Chen.
"Lu Qing, do you have anything to say?"
While speaking, the look of trust in her eyes did not diminish at all.
Seeing that the empress asked him to express his position, Lu Chen stepped out and responded: "To answer your Majesty's question, as the saying goes, the pure will become pure and the turbid will become turbid. I don't know where Mr. Chen learned that Wei Chen has an affair with the rebels. I don’t know what this so-called evidence is and where it comes from. I only know that since I became an official, I have never done anything to disgrace the court or His Majesty. Therefore, I have no regrets and have nothing to say. of."
"What a clear conscience!"
Chen Cang smiled coldly.
"Lu Chen, Minister Lu, I hope you can say the same thing when I present the evidence later."
Lu Chen glanced at him and said calmly: "If you haven't done it, you haven't done it. Even if you kill me, Mr. Chen, I will still say that."
"Humph!" Chen Cang looked disdainful.
The empress looked at Chen Cang condescendingly and said calmly:
"Censor Chen Du, please bring out the evidence in your hand that Lu Qing colluded with the rebels."
Hearing this, Chen Cang's eyes couldn't help but tremble slightly.
But the next second, his complexion returned to normal.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
He straightened up, then turned his head and glanced at Lu Chen not far behind him. When he saw that his face was still as usual, he didn't show a trace of panic because of his impeachment, and he didn't even bother to say a rebuttal. Finally, I couldn't help but sneer in my heart.
I want to see if you can be as calm as you are now!
While thinking this, he directly asked the empress for instructions and applied to activate the imaging circle.
After the empress agreed, he slowly stretched out his hand and took out a crystal clear crystal from his arms.
"Your Majesty, colleagues, please take a look!"
As he spoke, Chen Cang suddenly activated the huge spiritual power in his body and injected it into the retrospection stone in his hand.
The next second, the image stone suddenly burst out with a beam of white light, flying quickly towards the image transmission circle on the right side of the Tai Chi Hall.
Wow~
The moment the shadow formation was in motion, a screen of light suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Then, an extremely clear image soon appeared in the light curtain.
"Huh? This is."
The moment he saw the image in the teleportation circle, Lu Chen's eyes suddenly showed a clear look that seemed to confirm his suspicion.
But what appeared in the light curtain was that when Fu Hua was going through the tribulation, he, Tao Ji and other Xuanji guards, as well as Chai Hongyu and others who came "in time" to support them, were desperately trying to stop the case involving the empty warehouse. Part of the scene where the eight masterminds of the family clan head's magical attacks protect the immobile Fu Hua.
The [Eight Branches of Heaven] formation jointly performed by the heads of the eight major clans, and the extremely aggressive large-scale attack spells caused a terrifying scene like heaven and earth, just through the screen, displayed in front of everyone's eyes, which made people feel uncomfortable. There is an inexplicable feeling of suffocation.
The angle at which the retrospection stone recorded the scene was extremely tricky. At that time, Tao Ji and other Xuanji guards who were isolated by the technique of Wuxiang Derivative rushed towards the Eight Branches of Heaven spellcaster, and not a single bit of the scene was recorded.
There are almost no scenes of Fu Huan going through the tribulation.
Yes, it's just that Lu Chen is gritting his teeth, holding the sword of Ji Dao tightly with both hands, with a painful expression on his face as he overdraws his life and forcibly activates the forbidden technique, phaseless derivation, and the expression behind him is also extremely painful, obviously he is activating something that needs to be done. A woman in red who has to pay a huge price to activate the forbidden technique.
It looked as if Lu Chen was desperately protecting the woman in red behind him, and the woman in red would never leave him.
As the most expensive functional recording device, the Retrospective Stone can record not only images, but also sounds, and it is extremely clear, giving people an immersive feeling.
When Lu Chen was desperately resisting the attack of the Eight Heavens, the words of the eight old men who maintained the formation could be heard clearly in the ears of everyone in the Tai Chi Hall -
"No wonder a rebel leader not only came all the way to thwart us, but also did this for a lunatic like Lu Chen. It turns out he came to save our prime minister."
"Tsk tsk... I never expected that the dignified governor of the two states would actually have an affair with a rebel leader. Sure enough, a man who is not romantic is a waste of time, hahaha!!"
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"Saint Burning Heaven, you risked your life to save a court official. Could it be that this Lu Chen is the chess piece of your Holy Duke buried in the court?"
"Hehe. He is indeed the number one rebel in the world today. He can actually plot against the temple. Shenggong Yu Jiuyuan is really awesome!"
"If Da Xia's energy is exhausted, the person who can conquer the world in the future will definitely be this person!"
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In just a few words, the meaning that the retrospective stone wanted to convey was clearly conveyed to everyone's mind.
Looking at the extremely unfavorable image recorded on it that was deliberately adjusted at an angle, Lu Chen's face remained as usual, and his heart didn't even fluctuate at all, let alone panic.
Beep!
With a soft sound of silence, the picture in the light curtain stopped abruptly, and the image transmission circle also stopped operating at the same time.
The next second, everyone looked at Lu Chen, with an obviously strange look in their eyes.
The name Burning Heaven Holy Girl is not unfamiliar to them at all. After all, the first time this girl appeared in the court's sight, she successively captured more than ten counties and two prefectures for the Holy Duke, and then even more They even defeated the Qingning army that went to Tianlan Province to suppress the rebellion several times, causing the court to suffer great losses.
There were not even a hundred but eighty imperial officials who died in her hands. Among them were many royal family dignitaries. Their hands were stained with the blood of the royal family. They were guilty of heinous crimes. If they were caught by the imperial court, they would at least be sentenced to death. of super villains.
Such a sworn enemy of the imperial court who could not be punished could actually do this for an official of the imperial court.
If there wasn't a hidden secret behind this, who would believe it?
Since Chai Hongyu and Lu Chen are close friends of life and death, and Chai Hongyu is the number one general of Shenggong, then Lu Chen and Shenggong are in the deepest gap.
At this thought, some courtiers couldn't help but take a deep breath.
I’m afraid this matter is not meant to break the news!
"Lu Chen!"
Chen Cang's loud rebuke suddenly sounded.
"You are so close to Chai Hongyu, a close confidant of the imperial court, and you must have a close relationship with the rebels in Tianlan Province. Here is the irrefutable proof, what else do you have to say?!"
The moment the words fell, the empress and Gu Simiao frowned almost at the same time.
Facing Chen Cang's questioning, Lu Chen, as the person involved, just raised his eyelids slightly and said calmly:
"This is slander."
He was not the only court official present at that time, Xuanji Guards, especially Fu Huanke were also present. It would be too abnormal for him not to deny it.
When hearing Lu Chen's denial, Chen Cang smiled coldly.
"Slander? The scene recorded in the retrospective stone is clear. Can it be faked?"
Lu Chen said calmly: "The traceback stone cannot be faked, but it can be used to disrupt the audio-visual and take things out of context by adjusting the recording angle."
"Stop making excuses!"
Before Lu Chen could finish speaking, Chen Cang shouted loudly:
"Chai Hongyu seems to have almost risked her life for you. If a woman does this for you, do you dare to say that you are not her lover?"
Hearing this, the Empress and Gu Simiao locked their eyes on Lu Chen at the same time.
Under everyone's gaze, Lu Chen shook his head with a normal expression.
"No, I and Miss Chai met by chance."
"Hahaha!!!"
Hearing Lu Chen's answer, Chen Cang couldn't help but laugh three times.
"You still dare to deny it until now. I really think your Majesty and all the princes in the court are in trouble."
"enough!!"
Before Chen Cang could finish speaking, the empress suddenly interrupted.
Under the terrifying pressure, Chen Cang's voice stopped abruptly, and he swallowed back what he was about to say, and his face turned red instantly.
The empress snorted coldly, and then slowly sat back on the dragon chair.
"Yu Du Censor, is this the only ironclad evidence you mentioned?"
Hearing this, Chen Cang's expression didn't waver much.
"Back to Your Majesty, Wei Chen believes that such irrefutable evidence is enough to prove that Lu Chen has an affair with the rebels and has a close relationship. No other evidence is needed. What's more, Wei Chen has in his hands some officials in Yuzhou about the animal's traces. There is suspicious evidence. There are also some righteous men in Yuzhou who are willing to come forward to prove the various suspicious actions of this beast in Yuzhou. Now they are rushing to the capital. It’s just that the humble ministers cannot allow this beast to bring disaster to our country, so they attack in advance in order to seek help. Those who are not loyal will be eliminated."
As he spoke, he suddenly knelt down heavily on the ground and said in a solemn voice:
"To save millions of soldiers and civilians from Tianlan Province, your Majesty, please capture this beast immediately!"
After the heavy words fell, everyone looked at the empress on the jade steps.
"not enough."
In the midst of hundreds of looks with different expressions, the empress gently uttered two words to express her attitude.
"Just relying on such a retrospective image that cuts off the beginning and ends and deliberately adjusts the angle is not enough to judge the crime. Lu Qing's drastic reforms in Yuzhou were for the benefit of the court. There must be selfish and shameless people who hate Lu Qing. Then The so-called Yuzhou righteous men cannot be trusted at all, and "
As she said that, she turned her head slightly and looked down at Lu Chen, who never showed a hint of panic.
"I believe in Lu Qing's judgment. This retrospective video must be a slander against him by some disdainful people."
"Lu Qing is the pillar of the country that I have appointed, the official of ZTE. Such a pillar of talent will definitely be hated by the rebellious officials and traitors who do not want to see the ZTE of Great Xia. They will use various means to frame me and drive a wedge between me and Lu Qing. , How can I do what they want?"
Hearing this, many courtiers couldn't help but look dull.
The rebels have already been involved, yet His Majesty still trusts Lu Chen so much.
At this moment, they once again refreshed their understanding of the empress's favor towards Lu Chen.
So scary!
Even Yan Song, the chief minister of the Three Pavilions, who was standing at the forefront of the hundred officials, could not help but flash a dignified look in his originally cloudy old eyes.
(End of chapter)
