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Chapter 169 Difficult...

Shen Liuzhen remained silent in a vicious manner, his movements were serious and dignified, every step he took, he opened the lid and brushed the soil, solemnly as if he was about to hold out some peerless treasure.

It successfully attracted Ulay to take another step forward curiously, leaning slightly and waiting to see what he was going to show.

As a result, as soon as the lid inside was opened, a foul smell shot up into the sky, almost making Ulay faint.

He hurriedly held his nose and backed away a bit, about to curse.

I saw Shen Liuzhen clutching his wide sleeves, gracefully grabbing the bun of the human head, lifting it up, and shining it in front of Shi Yu Wulei's eyes.

Shi Yu Wulei saw the facial features of the human head clearly, his pupils shrank slightly, his eyes widened angrily, he stretched out his finger in disbelief, pointed at the human head, and shouted: "Zong Ai!"

Everyone could feel his deep hatred from his gnashing of teeth.

"Why is his head here with you?! Didn't I order that his body be smashed into pieces?! Who is so courageous to deceive the king?!"

Shen Liuzhen's voice was steady and gentle, in stark contrast to Wu Lei's voice, but he said something even more uncomfortable:

"Your Majesty, the matter is far more than what you think. You know, after the news of Zong Ai's death was announced to the world, he went to Linjiang City with Cao Min. What about the Southern Song Dynasty?"

Shi Yu Wulei looked at Shen Liuzhen in shock, his eyes were red and he couldn't speak.

After Shen Liuzhen explained the ins and outs of the matter clearly, Shi Yu Wulei turned around and meditated silently until he fell down on his seat, then murmured:
"It's really chilling... such a villain, who killed Prince Jingmu and two emperors, yet there are still people who will lend a helping hand to him and help him escape..."

Shen Liuzhen said: "Zong Ai has been operating in the court for many years, often relying on the trust and connivance of Emperor Taiwu to buy people's hearts with kindness. If he hadn't been really popular, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to do so many things one after another. Be safe and sound."

When Wu Lei heard this, he suddenly raised his eyes to look at Shen Liuzhen, and asked, "What about you... Others have been favored by Zong Ai, either because of benefits or because of friendship. Zong Ai has always taken care of you, and he came to see you." When you were here, did you think about it and help him too?"

Shen Liuzhen's heart suddenly woke up.

It's not easy to answer this question... Although he felt that he was quite ruthless, he couldn't make the emperor feel that he was ruthless.

Who wants to trust a ruthless person?Keeping a knife in the back?

Hiss...what to do?In fact, what he did was quite ruthless.

Shen Liuzhen was silent for a while, and said: "Zongai and I are not the same people. He is selfish, for his own selfishness, by slandering Emperor Taiwu, boycotting the New Deal, and covering criminals everywhere, in order to harm the people. To save his own life, and to kill Prince Jingmu and the two emperors in a reckless manner, is to bring disaster to the country.

To me, such a person who has brought disaster to the country and the people is really a scumbag, and my association with him was false from the very beginning.Since it's fake, why should we consider the friendship? "

After hearing this, Ulay blinked and said, "Well said!"

With a bright light in his eyes, he turned to Shen Liuzhen, on the hideous head that was placed on the ground, and said in a gloomy voice:
"Come here, take Zong Ai's head and burn it outside the hall, and burn it to pieces! I want to see with my own eyes this time, whether this ghost can still haunt me!"

Too listening to the order, enduring the stench and carrying the head out.The little maids immediately fetched water, took rags and began to clean up the ground, and there were people carrying incense burners everywhere, all in a mess.

A little palace maid purposely walked around Shen Liuzhen who was kneeling there, holding the copper censer, and walked around several times with her head lowered. It seemed that she really couldn't bear the smell of Shen Liuzhen.

Shen Liuzhen looked at the censer swinging around in front of him, and couldn't help raising his arms to smell himself, and said:

"No way, why can't I smell it myself?"

The little maid quietly raised her eyes and glanced at him, as if she was amused by him, she smiled coquettishly, and then walked away with the censer in hand.

Ulay disliked him: "You have heard too much, right? This smell is really not ordinary."

Then he gave him a dissatisfied look, and said, "Just kneel down, and let you deliberately show off and make the smell everywhere."

Shen Liuzhen was embarrassed, but then smiled shamelessly at Wu Lei.

At this time, the little eunuch outside came in to report: "Your Majesty, everything is ready and waiting for you to see it."

Hearing that, Wu Lei went out aggressively, and when he got to Shen Liuzhen's side, he said, "Come on, let's go and have a look with me, to relieve our hatred."

When Shen Liuzhen heard this, he quickly got up from the ground and followed him out.

In the middle of the courtyard outside the main hall, firewood was set up inside the cauldron, and the human head was placed outside the stacked pile of firewood.

People who do things are very good at it.The firewood was deliberately placed high, so that the entire head was exposed outside, so that people could see it clearly from a distance.

Shi Yu Wulei stood still on the steps outside the hall, and Shen Liuzhen took a wrong step and stood beside him.

The eunuch poured kerosene on the pyre, held up the torch a little, and with a bang, the flame ignited, and above the yellow flame, blazing black smoke rose.

Zong Ai's head was submerged in the fire, and it also became fuel for the fire.

Shi Yu Wulei looked at the head under the black smoke with dark eyes, and asked in a gloomy voice:
"You brought his head all the way back to show me, not just because you want me to burn it to relieve my hatred, right?"

Shen Liuzhen raised his head, looked up at the sky where the black smoke rushed straight up, and said with emotion:
"Your Majesty is wise... Your Majesty is facing a serious problem now. The army in the south is suppressing the border, and the various factions in the court are splitting power and seizing profits, making a mess. Both of these two things are the top priority, and neither can be delayed.

Caomin wants to remind His Majesty... You must find a way to get the power in your own hands as soon as possible, and at the same time, you must have capable people to fight for you to deal with foreign enemies.If these two things are done together...it won't be easy. "

Shi Yu Wulei's complexion became even more serious.He knew that what Shen Liuzhen said was exactly the problem.

If he wants to take power, he will inevitably offend many powerful Xianbei nobles, and if he offends them, who else is willing to contribute to him and go to war?
difficult...

The sternness in Shi Yu Wulei's eyes flashed, and he scolded: "The Southern Song Dynasty is really itchy. It was punished by Emperor Taiwu three years ago. Just after recovering, he came to look for trouble again. I don't have a long memory!"

Perhaps it was because the Southern Song Dynasty was the imperial court of the Han people. When Wu Lei scolded him like this, he unconsciously felt as if he had been scolded, and felt a little uncomfortable.

So he said: "The south of the Yangtze River is rich and prosperous... In the Southern Song Dynasty, although they were not very good at fighting, they were quite good at managing people's livelihood. This point is worth learning."

(End of this chapter)