Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Yes, their performance was not as good as Lu Chen's. They didn't follow the empress desperately like him, and did what they could for the declining Great Xia. But that was because Lu Chen was alone and had no worries. People can naturally go forward without any scruples.

Their family has a great career, even if it is not for themselves, they must also consider for the family, otherwise one wrong step will lead to eternal doom.

Although loyalty and righteousness will not affect the clan, they are the mainstay of the clan. If they lose this power, what will happen to the clan's future?

In their view, to be an official and a person is to think about yourself six or seven times, and think about the court two or three times. If there is still one point left, think about others.

Only Lu Chen, who is so different, would think of the imperial court as pure gold.

Looking at the history of Daxia for nearly a thousand years, before him, how could there be pure gold in this world?

Besides, they at least kept the bottom line and did not betray the empress.

It's just that the thieves were powerful back then, and they were powerless to change the status quo. It was helpless to let them go. How can they be blamed?

Since there is no betrayal, how can it be considered loyalty?

But although they were dissatisfied, they did not dare to refute Gu Simiao.

After all, Gu Simiao has just made great achievements for the imperial court, and the holy family is in prosperity. If it is not necessary, it is best not to provoke him lightly.

"The general's words are too absolute."

Chen Cang glanced at her indifferently, "Although Lu Chen's previous actions seemed to be for the country and the people, loyal to the emperor and serving the country, but people's hearts are far away, and no one knows what he was thinking at that time. As the saying goes Dao, if things go wrong, there must be demons, maybe he did this not purely for the sake of His Majesty and Daxia's country, but for a purpose that we can't see through, and there are other plans?"

Hearing this, Lu Chen looked at Chen Cang with a strange look.

This old boy, there is something.

Gu Simiao snorted coldly, and said in a cold voice: "Youdu Yushi, you should think about it, and punish the false accusation as the crime you accuse. If you can't produce enough evidence to prove that Lu Qing committed treasonous acts, and In the end, it was proved that your complaint was an intentional false accusation, and you will have to bear the charge of treason."

Faced with Gu Simiao's slightly threatening reminder, Chen Cang's face was as usual, with a confident look.

"I will never talk nonsense, and I will never wrong my colleagues. Since I dare to stand up and accuse Lu Chen, I will not be aimless."

After saying that, he stopped looking at Gu Simiao, turned his head to look at the empress who stood up on the steps at some point, and said solemnly:

"Your Majesty, I have ample evidence to prove that Lu Chen must have a very close relationship with Yu Jiuyuan, the leader of the rebels who is currently entrenched in the northern part of Tianlan Province! And a person who is so ambiguous with the rebels, what he said Yes, everyone is suspected of treason, no matter how he behaved in the past and how loyal he seems, it is not enough to believe it!"

Hearing this, all the courtiers couldn't help but froze.

This is not the first time the name Yu Jiuyuan has appeared in the court.

As early as three years ago, when the Demon Empress was in power, this person took advantage of the famine in Tianlan Province and led a lot of reckless rivers and lakes, and rose up under the banner of "The Holy Duke comes to the world, burns the sky to reshape, and all people are safe". The local government robbed the gentry from all over the country to strengthen themselves and absorb more people who were completely desperate for the imperial court.

Naturally, the imperial court would not let the traitors go, but Yu Jiuyuan was like an unbeatable Xiaoqiang. Servant will soon make a comeback and become even more difficult to deal with than before.

The year before last, he was just a bandit who led the mob to cause chaos, but now he is the number one enemy of the imperial court who shouted "open the city gate, welcome the Holy Duke, and the Holy Duke will not pay the food", and the leader of the world's rebels.

And Lu Chen is now the number one loyal minister recognized by the court.

This kind of thing...if it were true as Chen Cang said, it would be terrible.

Chen Cang continued: "I know that your majesty values ​​love and righteousness, but I ask your majesty to put the ancestral country and society as the most important thing, and don't be emotional. Besides, as the saying goes, no one is perfect, and loyalty is like traitor. With such perfection, I have reason to suspect that this guy has other plans."

"For example, when the Qingjiang River was flooded, it was very suspicious that this guy proposed to mobilize Yuzhou Wei and Suizhou Wei to control the water. Weichen investigated afterward. When Yuzhou Wei and Suizhou Wei were transferred to control the water, the rebels Suddenly attacking Huiyang Mansion, which is only a few hundred miles away from Yuzhou Tianmenguan, and opening up the entire northern part of Tianlan Province, I suspect that the water control is fake, and the truth is to adjust the tiger away from the mountain and coordinate the anti-thief action!"

"And what Lu Chen did in Yuzhou, if you think about it carefully, it seems to be disrupting Yuzhou everywhere, delaying the Qingning Army's military situation, making Yuzhou unable to take into account the suspicion of Tianlan Province, hope your Majesty will learn from you!"

The empress did not directly respond to his words, but turned to look at Lu Chen, the person involved.

"Lu Qing, do you have anything to say?"

While speaking, the trust in her eyes did not decrease in the slightest.

Seeing that the empress asked him to express his opinion, Lu Chen stepped forward and responded: "Returning to your majesty, as the saying goes, the pure will be clear, and the turbid will be turbid. I don't know where Mr. Chen learned that my minister has an affair with the rebels. I don't know what this so-called evidence is and where it came from. I only know that since I became an official, I have never done anything to be sorry to the court or Your Majesty. Therefore, I have nothing to say. of."

"What a shameless one!"

Chen Cang smiled coldly.

"Lu Chen, Lu Shilang, I hope you can say the same thing when I present the evidence later."

Lu Chen glanced at him, and said lightly: "If you haven't done it, you haven't done it. Even if you kill Mr. Chen, I will still say the same."

"Hmph!" Chen Cang looked disdainful.

The Empress looked at Chen Cang condescendingly, and said calmly:

"Chen Du Yushi, show your evidence about Lu Qing's collusion with the rebels."

Hearing this, Chen Cang's eyes trembled slightly.

But in the next second, his complexion returned to normal.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

He straightened up, then turned his head, glanced at Lu Chen who was not far behind him, and saw that his face was still as usual, and he didn't show a trace of panic because of his impeachment, and he didn't even bother to say a rebuttal Finally, he couldn't help but sneered in his heart.

The old man wants to see if you can still be as calm as you are now!

While thinking this way, he directly asked the empress for instructions to activate the shadow transfer circle.

After the empress agreed, he slowly stretched out his hand and took out a crystal clear spar from his bosom.

"Your Majesty, colleagues, please take a look!"

As he spoke, Chen Cang violently activated the huge spiritual power in his body, and poured it into the backtracking stone in his hand.

In the next second, the Photo Stone burst out a beam of white light, and flew towards the Shadow Transmission Array on the right side of the Tai Chi Hall.

wow~

The moment the shadow transfer circle was in operation, a light curtain suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Then, in the light curtain, an incomparably clear image soon appeared.

"Huh? This is..."

The moment he saw the image in the shadow transfer circle, Lu Chen's eyes suddenly showed a clear color that seemed to confirm the guess in his heart.

But what appeared in the light curtain was that when Fu Yu was crossing the catastrophe, he, Tao Ji and other Xuanji guards, as well as Chai Hongyu and others who came to support them "in time", were desperately trying to stop the case involving the empty warehouse The patriarchs of the eight mastermind families used spells to attack and protect part of the scene where Fu Yu was immobile.

The patriarchs of the eight major clans jointly cast the [Eight Branches of Heaven] formation, and the terrifying scene caused by the extremely aggressive and large-scale attack technique was displayed in front of everyone through the screen, making people There is an inexplicable sense of suffocation.

The angle of the backtracking stone recording the picture is extremely tricky. At that time, Tao Ji and other Xuanji guards who were isolated by the non-phase derivation technique rushed towards the caster of the Eight Branches of Heaven, not a single bit of the scene was recorded.

There is almost no picture of Fu Yu's crossing the catastrophe.

Yes, it's just that Lu Chenzheng is gritting his teeth tightly, holding the sword of the extreme way tightly with both hands, forcibly launching the forbidden technique Wuxiang Derivation with a painful expression on his face, and the expression behind him is also extremely painful, obviously he is launching something that needs to be activated. A woman in red who can only activate a forbidden technique after paying a huge price.

It looked as if Lu Chen was desperately protecting the woman in red behind him, and the woman in red would never leave him.

As the most expensive functional spiritual tool for recording, the Retrospect Stone can record not only images, but also sounds, and it is so clear that it makes people feel like they are on the scene.

But when Lu Chen desperately resisted the attack of the Eight Heavens, the words of the eight old men who maintained the formation sounded very clearly in the ears of everyone in the Taiji Hall——

"No wonder an anti-thief leader not only came here specially to stop me from waiting, but also did such a thing for Lu Chen, a lunatic.

"Tsk tsk... I didn't expect that the dignified governors of the two states would have an affair with a rebel leader. It's true that people are not flirtatious, hahaha!!"

"..."

"Holy Maiden of Burning Heaven, you risked your life to save a court official. Could it be that Lu Chen is a pawn buried in the court by your holy father?"

"Hehe... He is indeed the number one rebel in the world today. He can actually plot against the temple. Shenggong Yu Jiuyuan is really awesome!"

"If Great Xia's vitality is exhausted, the one who can win the world in the future must be this person!"

"..."

In just a few words, the meaning that Backtracking Stone wanted to convey was clearly conveyed to everyone's mind.

Looking at the image recorded by deliberately adjusting the angle above, which was extremely unfavorable to him, Lu Chen's expression remained the same, let alone flustered in his heart, there was no fluctuation at all.

beep!

With a soft sound of silence, the picture in the light curtain stopped abruptly, and the image transfer circle also stopped operating at the same time.

In the next second, everyone looked at Lu Chen together, with obvious strangeness in their eyes.

They are not unfamiliar with the title of Holy Maiden of Burning Heaven. After all, the first time this woman appeared in the sight of the imperial court, she captured more than ten county towns and two prefectural cities in succession for the Holy Duke. They even defeated the Qingning Army who went to Tianlan Province to suppress the rebellion several times, causing the court to suffer great losses.

Eighty if not one hundred court officials died in her hands. Among them, there were even many dignitaries of the clan whose hands were stained with the blood of the royal family. They could be described as heinous crimes. If they were caught by the court, they would at least be sentenced to death by Ling Chi supervillain.

Such a sworn enemy of the imperial court who could not be punished actually did this for an official of the imperial court...

Who would believe it if there was no dark secret behind it?

Since Chai Hongyu and Lu Chen are close friends of life and death, and Chai Hongyu is Shenggong’s number one general, then Lu Chen and Shenggong are between Jiuyuan...

At this thought, some courtiers could not help but take a deep breath.

This matter...I'm afraid it's not meant to expose the truth!

"Lu Chen!"

Chen Cang's loud and angry reprimand suddenly sounded.

"You are so close to Chai Hongyu, a close confidant of the imperial court, and you must have a close relationship with the rebels in Tianlan Province. The evidence is here, what else do you have to say?!"

The moment the voice fell, the Empress and Gu Simiao frowned almost simultaneously.

Faced with Chen Cang's questioning, Lu Chen, the person involved, just slightly raised his eyelids, and said calmly:

"It's slander."

He was not the only court official who was present at that time, Xuanjiwei and especially Fu Yu were all present, if he didn't deny it, it would be too abnormal.

When Lu Chen denied it, Chen Cang smiled coldly.

"Slander? The picture recorded in the backtracking stone is clear, can it be faked?"

Lu Chen said calmly: "The retrospection stone cannot be faked, but it can be used to disrupt the audio-visual and take quotes out of context by adjusting the recording angle..."

"Stop quibbling!"

Before Lu Chen finished speaking, Chen Cang asked loudly:

"Then Chai Hongyu almost gave up her life for you. How dare you say that you are not her lover if a woman has done this for you?"

Hearing this, the empress and Gu Simiao locked their eyes on Lu Chen at the same time.

Under everyone's gaze, Lu Chen shook his head with his usual expression.

"No, I and Miss Chai met by chance."

"Hahaha!!!"