Nuclear Warlord

Chapter 138 Emperor Qianwu's Accountability
"Have you heard? The four brothels, Yihong Yard, Zuihua Lou, Lichun Yard, and Xunfang Pavilion, are owned by the Second Prince Li Shou!"

"I heard that there are people with nose and eyes in the rumors. It doesn't seem to be nonsense at all. Every piece of evidence is clear and verifiable!"

"I really didn't expect that the dignified prince would do such a dirty thing secretly!"

"Who says it's not? Dare to do such indecent things, it's really embarrassing for the royal family!"

"Hehe, before His Majesty inspected the gambling houses, half of the gambling houses in the capital belonged to the second prince. What's so strange about opening four brothels?"

"That's all, what's more, I heard that many women in these four brothels were forced into prostitution by the second prince!"

"What did you hear? This is clearly true. In the past, those who couldn't pay their gambling debts in his casino, and if there were decent-looking women in their families, they were all caught by him in the brothel!"

"Haven't you heard? There were fires in many places last night. I heard that they belonged to the Second Prince!"

"It deserves it! Retribution!"

……

This incident was widely spread in the capital, Zhao Cheng did not dare to hide it, and reported the truth to Li Shou.

"puff!"

After hearing the news, Li Shou immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, his face pale as paper.

"It's over, it's over now!"

The dignified prince opened a brothel privately, causing such uproar among the people, Emperor Ganwu couldn't sit idly by and punish him harshly, how could he give an explanation to the people of the world?
Whatever you want, at this moment, the eunuch in the palace came to the mansion to deliver the decree.

"His Majesty's oral order, the second prince Li Shou immediately enters the palace to face the saint, there must be no mistake!"

Li Shou had no choice but to bow down to accept the order, and went to the palace with a feeling of apprehension.

When he arrived at the palace, he saw Emperor Qianwu sitting on the dragon chair with no expression on his face.

Li Shou prostrated himself on the ground after fulfilling the etiquette: "I pay respects to my father, I don't know why my father summoned me?"

Emperor Ganwu narrowed his eyes slightly, and refused to let Li Shouping kneel like that. He leaned forward slightly, and asked coldly, "Let me ask you, what is the reason why you wantonly exchanged money from sellers a few days ago?"

Hearing this, Li Shou's heart tensed up, and he was a little flustered.

He sold his money, naturally, to raise enough silver taels for the world to assassinate Li Changfeng. After all, such a huge number as 30 taels would hurt even him.

The royal father suddenly asked, could it be that something went wrong in the investigation?
No!

No matter what, this matter must not be admitted!

Fortunately, he had already thought about the wording of this matter, without any panic on the surface, he said calmly: "My son's previous gambling shop was confiscated and suffered heavy losses. After the opening, Erchen's restaurant business plummeted, and turnover was somewhat difficult, so he had no choice but to turn into a seller's fortune."

Emperor Ganwu sneered: "Is that true? Is there no other use?"

Li Shou said without changing his face: "That's true, but all the property of my minister was burned by a fire last night, so please ask my father to ask my minister to be the master!"

Emperor Ganwu said indifferently: "If you dare to burn my emperor's property, I will naturally be the master. Do you know who did it?"

Li Shou was contemplative, and said after a while: "It must be the other princes who took the opportunity to make trouble!"

"Oh?"

Emperor Ganwu suddenly became interested, sat up from the dragon chair, walked slowly towards Li Shou, fixed his eyes on Li Shou and asked, "How do you say that?"

Li Shou said calmly, "Yesterday, Brother Nine Emperors was assassinated in the city, and his property was burned that night. How can there be such a coincidence in this world? Someone must have secretly acted to sow discord between me and Brother Nine Emperors!"

Li Shou thought very clearly that there was no benefit in pretending to be a fool in front of Emperor Ganwu. It would be better to show a candid appearance, directly clarify the matter, and muddy the water.

In this way, Emperor Qianwu's suspicion would not only be on him and Li Ji, but might also extend to the eldest prince Li Chengye and other princes.

The facts were just as he expected, Emperor Qianwu was a little surprised, and after pondering for a moment, he asked: "Then do you think Changfeng did it?"

Li Shou sighed and said, "At first I doubted Brother Jiuhuang. After all, my ministers questioned him in the court before, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that it couldn't be him, because that was not enough to make Brother Jiuhuang feel guilty. Unleash such wild revenge."

When he said these words, Li Shou felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly, because he knew that Li Changfeng must have done all of this.

But in order to clear himself up and reduce his suspicion, he had to say this.

Emperor Ganwu remained expressionless, unable to see what was in his mind, and asked coldly: "Did you find the person who assassinated Changfeng?"

Li Shou didn't seem to be surprised by this at all, and said with a bitter face: "Even Father, do you think so? Just because the restaurant owned by Brother Nine Emperors robbed me of my business, I'm going to kill him? It seems The person behind this plan may have succeeded."

After finishing speaking, he seemed to have been mobilized and sat down on the ground with all his strength, with an expression of lovelessness.

Seeing this scene, Emperor Ganwu frowned slightly, and then he returned to his expressionless face, and said indifferently: "I will investigate this matter and find out. No one can wrong you if you didn't do it. You did it. Can't escape."

"My son is waiting for the day when the truth will come to light."

Li Shou looked upright on the surface, but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

After saying this, Emperor Ganwu's doubts about him will definitely be greatly reduced, and his doubts about other princes will definitely increase.

Now only the brothel is left.

This was what he was most worried about, and there was no way to turn around, except to pray secretly.

Emperor Ganwu said coldly: "It is rumored that you opened four brothels?"

It's not that Li Shou didn't think about remedying the matter of the brothel, but after much deliberation, he finally gave up.

Unless he killed all the participants, such as the shopkeepers and bustards in various brothels, as well as many thugs in charge, etc.

But if you want to kill these people quietly, without leaving any clues, you can't do it in such a short period of time.

And with Emperor Qianwu's methods, it's not difficult to find out.

Li Shou knew Emperor Ganwu's temper very well. For such things that could be found out on the surface, the more he argued, the angrier he would be, and the consequences would be more serious.

So he nodded in a bachelor way: "That's right, Erchen did indeed open four brothels secretly."

Hearing this, the anger on Emperor Qianwu's face could no longer be concealed, and he said coldly: "It is rumored that you forced a good man into prostitution, is there such a thing?"

This point, Li Shou neither admitted nor denied, thought for a while and said: "Maybe there is, but it is definitely not ordered by my ministers. I never ask the people below how to do it. They must have done it. "

"You push it cleanly!"

Emperor Ganwu scolded angrily, and could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, his tone suddenly increased a lot, and asked sharply: "You majestic prince, why did you do such shameless things? Where are you going to put my face when you do this? Wouldn't it make the world ridicule?"

Li Shou sighed helplessly and said: "Father, the monthly salary in the palace is really too little, how can it be enough to spend? As you said, Father, the minister is a dignified prince, and he can't live in the same poverty as those ordinary people, right? As for the embarrassment of your father, this is something that I never thought of, and I don't know who brought this matter to light."

Emperor Ganwu's face was blue and veins throbbing with anger, and he said angrily: "Do you think that I have given you less money? Even if it is less, why don't you do some serious business and insist on doing such dirty things?"

Emperor Qianwu did not object to the princes' self-reliance, but he would never allow this kind of industry that was cast aside by the world.

The last time the casino was raided, half of it belonged to Li Shou, which already made him extremely disappointed in Li Shou, and now this incident happened again, which made him completely disappointed in Li Shou.

At the same time, there is uncontrollable anger.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he was the Emperor Wu's emperor who fought in the south and north, and set the world on a tripod.

But he never thought that he would raise such a son who does evil and become the laughing stock of the world.

He wished he could kill Li Shou.

Li Shou felt the suppressed anger of Emperor Qianwu, and stopped making any sophistry. He kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Father, my son was wrong, and I really know my mistake! Please forgive me, father!" This time, my son must make up his mind!"

"Now you know you're wrong?" Emperor Qianwu smiled coldly, pulled out the belt of the seven wolves, and shouted loudly: "It's late!"

As soon as the words fell, he raised his belt and slammed it down on Li Shou's head.

Snapped!
A crisp sound resounded throughout the hall.

Because Emperor Qianwu came out in anger and didn't hold back his hand, Li Shou's skin was torn apart with just one touch, and he let out a scream like a pig being killed.

"what!!!"

"Father, please forgive me!"

"This will kill people!"

But Emperor Qianwu didn't intend to hold back at all.

"Tell you to open a casino!"

"Tell you to open a brothel!"

"You are being forced into prostitution!"

"Tell you to embarrass me!"

"Tell you to lose face of the Li family!"

"Why don't you want to give me face like your Ninth Emperor Brother? You bastard!"

Every time Emperor Ganwu cursed, he would lash out fiercely, venting his anger crazily.

Li Shou let out heart-piercing screams after being beaten, and felt that his bones were about to be smashed to pieces.

The veins on Gao Dali's face were twitching, because Emperor Ganwu was really ruthless, and if he continued like this, he would have to be beaten to death.

However, Emperor Qianwu was in a fit of anger at this time, and he didn't dare to persuade him at this time, he could only wait for the anger to dissipate.

At this moment, Li Changfeng, who was wrapped in exaggerated white cloth strips around his neck, which was almost as thick as his head, walked in briskly.

Seeing Emperor Qianwu beating the second prince severely, Li Changfeng was overjoyed.

Hit it!

Try harder, beat to death!
It's best to beat him to death right here, so that the prince won't bother to punish him!

When Emperor Qianwu saw that his neck was so exaggerated, he was immediately distracted, and threw the belt aside with a snap.

"Changfeng, are you alright?" Emperor Qianwu asked with concern.

Li Changfeng didn't answer this question, and he yelled strangely: "Father, why don't you stop beating? Continue to beat hard, beat to death, don't stop!"

(End of this chapter)