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Chapter 453 Abandoned Son
This bastard! How dare you disobey your own instructions? Could it be that you are going to drag the entire family into the abyss?
If the matter could be settled completely by sacrificing his life, Huo Xuan would personally take action without mercy and send him on his way.

It's a pity that such a major case involving rebellion will break bones and connect tendons. If it is not handled well, it will lead to the death of the nine clans.

Your Majesty is still willing to see him now and listen to his explanation. This is an opportunity.

"Your Majesty, Quanzi is ignorant and was just deceived by the remnants of the Zhuang family. If he talks about colluding to conspire to cause chaos, he definitely doesn't have the guts!" Huo Xuan hissed.

"Are you serious?" Yu Jin sneered and looked up outside the hall.

Huo Xuan felt a chill in his heart. When he turned around to look, he saw Tang Zhan coming with a backlight in a brocade robe. His body seemed to be lined with a layer of gold, which was both dazzling and dazzling.

"Your Majesty." Tang Zhan knelt down and saluted, and presented a foot-long ebony box with both hands: "This is the correspondence with Wusun that was copied out in Zhuang Ni's house. It involves a huge conspiracy. Because Tai It’s so shocking that I immediately went to the palace and presented the relevant evidence to Your Majesty!”

Jiao Zuo walked down the steps and took the ebony box from Tang Zhan. First, he carefully opened it and checked it. When he saw that there was nothing in the box except a few letters, he took out the silver needle from his pocket and poked them one by one. After waiting for more than ten seconds, there was no response, and then he placed the box on the imperial desk.

Huo Xuan's heart sank. Others may not know the cause of the late emperor's death, but the few people currently in the Xuanshi Palace are like a mirror in their hearts.

Wusun was ambitious and conspired to poison the late emperor, which has become the consensus of those in power.

The sooner a big country takes revenge, the better, but now that the young country is suspicious and the barbarians are watching, it is not the best time to launch a war to destroy the country.

But he knew in his heart that within five years at the latest, there would be a battle between Dayu and Wusun.

Therefore, at this time, the so-called conspiracy mentioned in the letter Tang Zhan obtained from the remnants of the Zhuang family to communicate with Wusun was most likely to involve the assassination of the late emperor.

But if this is indeed the case, then it is just their ambition, which may not be related to that villain. No!
At this moment, a thunderbolt suddenly flashed through Huo Xuan's mind, making him feel jittery on the outside and dizzy on the inside.

Wasn't the poison that Wusun handed over in the name of a magic medicine opened by the evil man and a craftsman, and then delivered to the late emperor with his own hands?

Could it be that the late emperor's incident of borrowing the copper mine later offended him, and it was because of this incident that he was spared his life just for the sake of his own face?
Hey, if I had known about this earlier, it would have been better to let that evil son die of old age in Juzhou than to die now and bring trouble to the family!

Sure enough, everything that happened next perfectly confirmed his suspicion.

After reading it, Yu Jin was furious and swept away all the things piled on the imperial desk. The imperial pen dipped in cinnabar crossed Huo Xuan's face, adding a mark as red as blood on it.

But he could only ignore Shangguan Jin's triumphant face, and pressed his head down deeply until it was buried on the green-gold dragon-patterned floor tiles. He shrank desperately, expressing his fear of the emperor's wrath. .

Thousands of thoughts flooded my mind, my blood vessels expanded and contracted rapidly, pumping blood heavily into my heart and brain, and my breathing became more and more rapid. Your Majesty is still young, Shangguan Jin and Jin Xin are not ministers of the world, so they should still need you. But he is still young after all. If he makes an irreversible decision in anger, how should he deal with it? Do you obediently lead your family members and poke them at the neck, or...
Huo Xuan didn't dare to think about it any more, because he had just realized that there was such a rebellious thought hidden deep in his heart.

I don't know how long it took before Yu Jin finished venting. Except for his face being a little flushed, he had basically returned to the gentle and polite boy he had been before.

"Please get up, Grand Sima." He slowed down his tone. Just as Huo Xuan had imagined before, he mentioned the matter at a high level and then put it down gently: "There is no sage like the late Emperor. Since he appointed Grand Sima as the assistant minister, First of all, I can certainly trust you."

"It's just that if a tree has big roots and deep roots, it will inevitably produce one or two dead branches and leaves, which can be taken advantage of by evildoers."

Huo Xuan raised his head with tears in his eyes and took the olive branch handed over by Yu Jin.

When the correspondence between the remnant of the Zhuang family and Huo Yu was discovered, he was already dead, and the Zhuang family had another role in Wusun's conspiracy. It happened that the most critical medicine was handed over by Huo Yu himself - -If it had been someone else, clan execution was just a basic operation, and no one from the three Yi clans or the Nine clans would say a word.

Therefore, the key to the matter still depends on His Majesty's attitude.

The Huo family was not an aristocratic family, and it was only when the late Emperor was abducted that it became a top family in Henan Province in just over thirty years. In fact, it did not have a solid foundation, and everything depended on divine favor.

What is grace? What you get is astonishing, what you lose is astonishing, whether you are favored or disgraced, you are shocked, but you can't get peace and tranquility.

Not to mention just giving up one eldest son, even if he killed nearly three of his juniors, as long as he kept his own life, he would still be grateful to the emperor for his kindness.

Huo Xuan walked a few steps on his knees, went to kowtow, and said in a low voice: "I taught you wrongly and caused my rebellious son Huo Yu to commit a capital crime. But Your Majesty was kind and forgiving and did not impose any additional crimes. I am so grateful that I shed tears and wish I could repay you with my body." The late Emperor and Your Majesty are deeply grateful!"

"As for the treacherous son who committed the most heinous crimes - after I returned, I opened an ancestral hall, kicked him out of the house, and left him at your Majesty's disposal. Even if he was cut into pieces, he deserved it. I will never have any objections."

After Huo Xuan finished speaking, he bent down, adjusted his breathing, and waited for Yu Ji's decision.

There was silence in the Xuanshi Palace. Yu Jin lowered his head, tapping his fingers lightly on the imperial desk, and was speechless for a moment.

Shangguan Jin took advantage of this opportunity and sneered: "What a move to cut off a strong man's wrist. Great Sima, you taught Huo Yu step by step. His behavior is exactly the same as yours. People outside call him Little Sima - this This kind of bondage cannot be escaped by just cleaning up the house. "

After he finished speaking, he turned around and bowed deeply to Yu Jing: "Your Majesty, Huo Yu had an affair with a remnant of the previous dynasty and was suspected of murdering the late emperor. He certainly deserved his death. However, for such serious crimes, the Yi people should act as a warning to others according to the law. It must not be indulged lightly, lest it breeds disobedience.”

"And the sages have said: If you don't sweep one house, how can you sweep the world? Although the Great Sima was an assistant minister appointed by the late emperor, it is difficult for him to raise such a rebellious son to handle national affairs. I hope that your majesty will investigate this case strictly. , As for state affairs, I have ministers and chariot generals working with the prime minister and hundreds of officials to serve your majesty."

When Huo Xuan heard this, he secretly hated it. If you can escape this disaster, I swear to kill you! He took a deep breath, put his hands in his sleeves and clenched them tightly, his nails almost digging into his palms, and then said hoarsely:
"Although the guilty minister has been pardoned by His Majesty's grace, what Lord Shangguan said is also true. It is not a pity for me to die. I hope that Your Majesty will put the world's society first, sacrifice my family, and maintain the authority of the whole country."