Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 839
When Yan Mu rushed to Chengtian Palace, the old Jijiu had already been kicked out of the palace, but he was still cursing.

"Your Majesty, conquering the world is easy and defending the world is difficult. The ancestors laid the foundation of great prosperity. Even if the descendants can no longer expand their territories, they must keep this foundation! Your Majesty, this is a time when the country is in crisis. Please come out of this place." Chengtian Palace, go outside and take a look, the flames of war in the south of the border have already started, and the people in the south of the border are in dire straits! How can you not see, how can you not hear, all the people are calling for you, calling for your rescue Save them! This moon picking building cannot be built. Firstly, it will cost a lot, and secondly, it will hurt the hearts of the officials and the people! They are all watching you. If you are really a wise monarch, you should sit in that temple Come on, think with your ministers, and feel the suffering of the people!"

When the ministers who followed Yan Mu heard this, they stopped a few steps away, shaking their heads and sighing.

Yan Mu glanced at the closed palace door, his face darkened, and ordered several ministers to come forward to persuade the old Jijiu to stop cursing.

Every sentence he scolded was like a knife, cutting the emperor's face, if he continued to scold, the emperor might kill him.

Several ministers rushed forward to persuade them, but the old Jijiu didn't listen and pushed them away.

"The emperor has to wake up, if you close your eyes and listen like this, the glory will be over!" The old Jijiu shouted heartbroken.

Several officials were so frightened that their faces turned blue, and they asked the old Jijiu to keep his voice down.

"I just want the emperor to hear it, I want to wake him up with a stick!"

As the old Jijiu said, he even rushed up the steps, rushed to the palace gate, and shouted inside: "Your Majesty, I was once your master and taught you the way of being a sage and being a king. You probably forgot all about it." My Great Glory used to be the most powerful country in the Central Plains. Since you came to the throne, the national strength has been declining day by day. Even now, other countries wantonly invade our borders, but we dare not fight! Sad! Sad! Everything The fault, the root cause, lies with you, the emperor! You harmed Zhongliang! You favored traitors! You are fatuous!"

"Presumptuous!" There was a loud shout from inside, which was the emperor's thunderous anger.

"The old minister's words are true, please the emperor rein in the precipice and return to righteousness!"

After the old sacrificial wine spoke righteously, the inner hall suddenly fell silent, the silence was terrifying.

Several ministers retreated behind Yan Mu, and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry whispered: "It's broken, it's broken, this old Jijiu has caused a big disaster today."

Calling the emperor a fool today, and counting so many crimes, with the emperor's temperament, he must not be spared.

Several other people were also wiping cold sweat over the old Jijiu, and an official from the Ministry of War said, "It's really impossible, let's take the old Jijiu away?"

"That's a good idea! Keep his mouth shut!"

"Let's go together!"

Several ministers were about to step forward, when there was a loud shout in the hall: "Come here, take this...take down the old things that have committed crimes below this!"

This is the voice of the emperor. It is estimated that he was too angry to speak just now, and he is still out of breath at the moment.

Because of this order, the guards surrounded him from both sides.

"Your Majesty!" the old Jijiu shouted, "Can you stand up to the ancestors of the Qin family?"

"kill him!"

"Your Majesty! Wake up!"

The old Jijiu yelled this sentence hoarsely, and then rushed towards the nearby pillar with fixed eyes.

Under everyone's astonishment, there was a bang, and the old Jijiu splashed blood on the spot with a determined heart.

"Old sacrificial wine!"

After several ministers were startled, they rushed up.

Seeing this scene, Yan Mu felt as if he had also been hit with a hammer, and was stunned in place.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! Old Jijiu has something to tell you!" The minister shouted at Yan Mu.

Only then did Yan Mu come back to his senses, and hurried forward, but saw the old Jijiu's face covered with blood, looking straight at him, his lips trembling, "Prince...Da Rong...can't perish... ...the people of Great Rong...you are saved...you are...the Qin family...you were born to shoulder all of this...you can't escape...you can't leave it alone...the crown prince...I was once in great glory...a strong soldier and a strong horse...a flourishing age... ..."

After saying the last sentence, the old Jijiu closed his eyes.

"Old sacrificial wine!"

"Old sacrificial wine!"

Several ministers cried around the old man. He is a great Confucian and a teacher for the world.

After a long time, the emperor in the hall reprimanded: "Xu Zhong and his subordinates committed a serious crime against the nine clans. If this case is handed over to the crown prince, all the nine clans of the Xu family must be arrested and beheaded at the Meridian Gate in ten days' time!"

In the study room, Shangguan Xu and Hongxuan sighed again and again.

"All the literati in the world claim to be Mr. Xu's students. He is the real teacher of the world. Today, he died outside Chengtian Palace, and the literati in the world must be greatly shocked. If you arrest his family at this time, prince, you will be killed." If you want to behead all of them, then you..." Hongxuan couldn't go on talking here, he could only let out a long sigh.

Shangguan Xu continued: "Then you will be scolded by the scholars of the world, no, maybe the people of the world!"

"You've lost the hearts of the people."

"And this is a scapegoat, the emperor made it clear for you to bear it."

"You still have to recite."

"Everyone is looking at you."

"If you don't follow the emperor's order, you are disobeying the imperial decree. If you follow the emperor's order, you are a sinner through the ages."

"How to choose, I can't choose."

"One step forward and one step back is an abyss."

The corner of Yan Mu's mouth twitched, "Can you two say something useful?"

Shangguan Xu sighed again, "It's useless."

Yan Mu was silent for a moment, and said, "Arrest the Xu family first."

Shangguan Xu and Hongxuan sat up straight together and looked at Yan Mu, "Your Highness, the Xu family can't be killed!"

Yan Mu took a deep breath, "Who said this king wants to kill them."

"Then..." Hongxuan changed his mind, and immediately understood, "His Highness is here to show the emperor, and secondly, to protect them."

"Well, just in case people with evil intentions take advantage of the chaos and cause more trouble."

Shangguan Xu nodded, "It's just that the prince will be scolded."

"Heh, I've been scolded less often?"

"And after that?"

Yan Mu took a deep breath, "Drag."

On the same day, the camp in the suburbs of Beijing arrested Xu's family members, regardless of age, anyone within the nine clans will be sent to prison.There are many families, including hundreds of people in Shengjing City, so the team lined up a long street, and the common people watched from both sides of the street.

"Xu Jiale is kind and generous, they are all good people."

"Yes, their family is very kind."

"Oh, what a crime, even the baby in the swaddle will not be spared."

"I heard that the prince ordered the arrest."

"This is the traitor."

"Prince Xu was also forced to do nothing. Let's not forget that during the famine, the Crown Princess rescued us."

"Yes, and the war at Zhenbeiguan that year was also put down by the prince."

"The riots in Nanzhou were also put down by the Prince's Suppressing North Army."

In the study, Hongxuan stroked his beard, "Although the people have their own opinions, most of them didn't scold the prince, and they also said that they believed that you would uphold justice for the Xu family and would not kill them."

Yan Mu snorted, "Where do they have confidence in me?"

"People's eyes are discerning. They have seen what you and the princess have done all these years."

Yan Mu snorted, "I don't even have much confidence in myself."

After saying this, Shangguan Xu came and said that the courtiers were on a hunger strike outside Chengtian Palace to protest that they could not build the Yueyue Tower.

(End of this chapter)