Thinking of this, the Termite King broke into a cold sweat. He sat down and picked up the sweat towel placed next to him to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
After reading the memorial presented by the ants, he relaxed slightly and said:
"They are working together in collusion, and I will not let them succeed." Afterwards, the Termite King sent the imperial guards around him out of the city.
Most of the generals at the border are tough, but Jia Yi is a civil servant. If it causes a mutiny in the army, he cannot suppress it.
The Royal Forest Army left the city overnight and rushed to Shitan City with the house ants. Enter the military camp and summon the generals to the military camp.
The house ants walked up and the generals said:
"Big ant." The ant faced the generals and said:
"Generals, there is no need to be polite." Then he quickly walked up and stood next to the commander's position. The military leader stood behind to protect him at any time, pressing down the long sword hanging on his waist and watching the generals.
The house ant said:
"According to the King's oral instructions, General Black Chest Sanbai and General Lian Yi bribed a certain high-ranking official in the dynasty to usurp the power of the dynasty. The evidence has been verified and the two generals were immediately captured." All the generals drew their swords and rushed forward, threatening. :
"Why do you have it? I won't accept it, I won't accept it." General Black-chested Sanbai and General Lian Yi were even more arrogant. They squinted or glanced and said:
"Our two generals were personally promoted by the Prime Minister. Without the Prime Minister's will, you have to take the junior generals and ask them first if they agree." The generals pressed forward step by step and said:
"We won't agree, we won't agree." The military leader rushed forward, pulled out the long sword from his waist, and said angrily:
"This is the king's will. Do you want to rebel? You must think clearly. Rebellion is a serious crime of annihilation." The ant took off the sword given by the king and said:
"Here is the sword of the king. Your Majesty has given me the right to act expediently, to kill first and then to report. Seeing the sword is like seeing the king. Who dares to disobey?" The generals shouted back, and the Imperial Forest Army rushed out and captured the two generals.
The second general shouted:
"We want to see the king, the king, the king, the king." The house ant walked out of the military camp and said:
"I will let you see the king after you enter the capital. Take him away." The second general gestured to break free and shouted: House ant, house ant, don't forget, you were promoted by the Prime Minister himself, you ungrateful little ant, Little ants. "The house ant said:
"Push them down." Then the house ant turned around and said:
"General Ant, you are a trustworthy leader of the Forbidden Army beside the king. The military and political affairs of Shitan City are temporarily entrusted to the general." The military leader said:
"Don't worry, Big Ant. The general will definitely live up to the king's trust." The next day, in the main hall, I received news that the army had been defeated in Qingshuihe.
The 1.8 million army, which was all the elite of the termite tribe, were all killed in battle. The news of this bad news shocked the entire court.
The Termite King was also very sad about this, pointed angrily at the Prime Minister, and said:
"Xiangguo, what crime do you deserve?" Xiangguo knelt down and said:
"Your Majesty." The Termite King stood up and said:
"Mr. Zeng tried his best to persuade Gu Gu not to attack the Ant Clan, but what about you? You tried your best to encourage Gu Gu to send troops to the Ant Clan. Now that the army is defeated in Qingshuihe, it is because you listened to your slander and regretted it. You formed a clique for personal gain. This is all the evidence of your crime. Let's see." Then he threw down the list of bribes.
Xiang Guo knelt on the ground, stretched out his trembling hands to pick up these lists, sat limply on the ground, and said:
"It's over, it's over." The Termite King said:
"You will be stripped of your position as Prime Minister and thrown into death row. You will be executed tomorrow." After being escorted out of the hall, the Termite King angrily pointed at the ministers and reprimanded:
"And you, those who pay bribes, those who take bribes, those who treat sons as sons, are worse than grandsons. You are harming the country, the people, and the king!" The Termite King walked down the hall, picked up these lists, and scolded:
"Officials of the imperial court, who rely on me, you do not serve the country, but use your power for personal gain. You, you have let me down and made me sad." The ministers knelt down and said:
"I am guilty and deserve death." The Termite King walked up to them, walked back and forth again, and said:
"Not only do you deserve death for your crimes, but one death is enough. I wish I could kill you all to revitalize the government." Then he walked up exhausted, sat down and said:
"Your sins will be remembered for you. I will be fined for half a year and demoted three levels to serve as a warning. We will wait and see what the consequences will be." On this day, the ants returned from Shitan City.
The termite king led hundreds of civil and military officials out of the city to greet him. The house ants drove a carriage through the mountain paths, stopped in front of the royal city, stepped out of the carriage, knelt down and said:
"Your Majesty." The termite king stretched out his hands to help the house ant and said:
"No need to be polite, Jia Yi, just go into the palace with Gu Gu." Jia Yi and the Termite King rode in the same car and walked around the street to accept the worship of the onlookers.
After entering the palace, he worshiped the house ant as his prime minister. The house ants stood up, faced the termite king, and said:
"Your Majesty, I have few talents and little knowledge. How can I accept the post of Prime Minister with so much virtue?" said the Termite King:
"Jiayi, you are so loyal. If you hadn't risked your life late at night to remonstrate, I would still have been kept in the dark by them." Jiayi said:
"Actually, this is not my fault, but my junior brother Yun Qi. Yun Qi died in my hands. Please punish me, your Majesty." The Termite King said:
"I already know about Yunqi. He was a loyal and brave man of the Termite tribe. I was really sad to hear about Yunqi's death. At that time, the power of the Prime Minister was overwhelming, and you had no choice but to do it in order to win the trust of the Prime Minister. As the Prime Minister, you Just don't refuse." The house ant knelt down and said:
"I shall serve my whole life till my death." After dark, the Prime Minister personally went to the White Mansion to visit his wife and entered the gate.
The master's wife and her senior brothers and sisters kept silent. The house ant knelt down and shouted:
"Master's wife." Its senior fellow apprentices walked out and said:
"House ant, you'd better go back, my wife doesn't want to see you." Ye ant continued to call:
"Master's wife." The senior fellow apprentices said:
"Why are you still kneeling here? Your current status is so noble. The red ants and favored ministers around the king are all ordinary people. We can't bear it. You go, go!" The house ant shook his head and said:
"No, I won't leave. If the master's wife doesn't see me for a day, I won't be able to kneel here forever." The master's wife walked out, looked at the house ant who was still kneeling in front of her, and said:
"The Great Ant of the Prime Minister." Then he knelt down and said:
"Xiangguo Big Ant, I'm just an ordinary woman. I beg you, please let us live." The senior brothers said in shock:
"Master's wife." Master's wife faced the disciples and said:
"Don't help me. You still don't kneel down when facing the giant ant of the Prime Minister." The disciples knelt down and said:
"Xiangguo Big Ant, you'd better go, we are all begging you." The house ant also burst into tears and was very sad, saying:
"Master, my disciple is unfilial, please accept my bow." The house ant kowtowed, stood up and stepped back, bowed and saluted, looked up, turned around and took a few steps forward, looked back and left sadly.
At dawn, the sun rises in the east, clearing the clouds and fog, and the sky is clear and bright. The Prime Minister walked out of the prison in heavy shackles and was put into a prison cart. He was accompanied by black-breasted termites and cheap ants. They were also wearing prison clothes and were put into a prison cart and paraded through the streets.
The people gathered around and vented their anger on vegetable leaves or eggs, throwing them at them and shouting:
"Corrupt official, big corrupt official." He rushed to the execution ground and knelt on the execution platform. There were sword and ax hands standing behind him, ready to kill him.
On the execution platform, the lingering cold lingered and the fog was hazy. The red sun dissipates the hazy mist, and the dewdrops bend down the two tentacles above the forehead and drip down.
Black-breasted Termite and Lian Ant accompanied Xiangguo to his death, and felt a lot of dissatisfaction in their hearts, saying:
"Xiangguo, I hate you so much! We have been fighting for the termites for many years, going through life and death. I never thought we would end up like this. I feel so unwilling!" Xiangguo looked up at the sun in the sky and said:
"In my life, there are brilliance and ending. Every ant will die one day, and die well. Happy! Happy! I thought I was very smart, but what I didn't expect was that I was so smart that I was confused all my life. If I did one thing wrong in my life, it was a mistake. Believe in the house ant. The house ant is very scheming and hides its secrets. Although I have been careful not to find any flaws in it in the past few days, it is almost a perfect ant in front of me. I appreciate it and promote it in front of the king, so I Depending on how I end up today, maybe this is my life." After saying that, he looked up at the scorching sun in the sky, almost three o'clock in the afternoon.
House Ant and Da Sikou walked up. Da Sikou saluted and said:
"Xiang Guo, please come first." Jia Yi returned the gift and said:
"You are the presiding judge, and I am only a jury member. Si Kou Dayi should invite you first." Da Si Kou saluted again and said:
"Then I will be disrespectful." Da Sikou stepped up and sat in front of the desk, with a serious look on his face, without a trace of smile. The house ant sat aside and said:
"Sin Ant Huang Wing, what else can you say?" Xiang Guo looked at the house ant and said:
"House Ant, I hate you so much. I hate that I didn't kill you in the first place." After hearing this, House Ant calmly said:
"Xiangguo, do you know why you ended up like this? Let me tell you, it is your selfish desires. Your selfish desires are constantly expanding. You are not satisfied with the power you have now. You form cliques for personal gain and control the government. Covering the sky with one hand, you control the wind and rain in the court. You squeeze out loyal ministers and cultivate your own core group. Who doesn't know that the king has long known your crimes? The king is wise and aware of everything. He knows you well, how can he tolerate you? You use despicable means to harm people. Mr. Death, if I had seen you end up like this under the spring, you should have closed your eyes." When the Prime Minister heard this, he laughed wildly and said:
"House ants, do you know who killed Bai Zhen? It was the king, and King Ruluo Nan. Bai Zhen has great talent in the world. If the termite clan is governed by Bai Zhen, the national power will become increasingly powerful, and it can even surpass anyone in the South China Sea. A country, who doesn’t want to see this? King Ruluo Nan, King Ruluo Nan wants to kill Bai Zhen, of course he will not do it himself, so he will use the king’s hand to eliminate it, and remove its only opponent. What kind of method is this? Gao Ming, and I am just a scapegoat at best." The house ant got angry and said:
"You dare to slander the king. What a sage the king is. How can he allow you to wait for little ants to slander him? If you hadn't slandered me, the king would not have killed my husband, because he is my husband." Da Si Kou said:
"It's three quarters past noon, kill!" The token was thrown, and the executioner raised his axe. When the token fell to the ground, blood splashed, and the heads of the three ants rolled down at the same time. They fell down and kicked their legs wildly, then trembled slightly, and then Rigor mortis.
The traitor is dead, and the people are watching and cheering to get rid of these three evils. The house ant stood up, looked around at the people around him, walked forward and said:
"Xiangguo, big ant, I still want to give you a word of justice, justice will be at ease in the worm's heart."
