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

At this time, the empress suddenly strode forward, stretched out her hand, pointed her white jade finger at Li Zheng, who was looking at her as if he were laughing, and said to Jiang Chengdao on the horse: "King Cangming, immediately take those few I will capture this barking dog with a broken spine and put it in the sky prison!"

Hearing this, Li Zheng couldn't help laughing.

"Hahaha!"

He laughed wildly and unscrupulously. Although Xie Hongyun and others were a little more restrained than him, they could not help laughing.

It's just a puppet emperor supported by the Queen Mother Zhao for the convenience of control. What?Do you really think that you are the so-called co-owner of the world?

How dare you order Saint King Cangming?

Even the serious Emperor of Great Xia is not qualified to order the legendary strongest man in Central Continent. How can you, a puppet emperor with no majesty, have the courage to point fingers at the Holy King?

Moreover, His Highness the Holy King also intends to dominate the world. You, an eyesore and a stumbling block, don't ask His Highness the Holy King to give you a happy life, but you still give orders to the Holy King without knowing whether to live or die.

Do you think you are not miserable enough?

Ha ha ha ha......

Unfortunately, it seemed too early for them to be happy.

Just as they were laughing wildly, a voice that seemed to them like coming from the Nine Nether Hells suddenly sounded in their ears——

"Sir, obey the order!"

???

The arrogant laughter stopped abruptly.

Like Lu Chen, they looked at Jiang Chengdao in astonishment.

The next second, all the courtiers' eyes widened at the same time, their eyes full of horror.

I saw Jiang Chengdao, who was originally arrogant, suddenly arched up, stepped hard on the pedal with his left foot, and quickly broke away from the other pedal with his right foot. He turned over and dismounted with extremely skillful movements, and then bowed to the empress with great respect. present.

Seeing this scene, Li Zheng, Xie Hongyun and others felt an extremely strong sense of something bad at the same time.

Under the cold winter day, they felt a chill that was even colder than the surrounding cold wind suddenly rising from their feet, spreading throughout their bodies in an instant, making them shiver subconsciously.

Courtesy is not something that a person who is about to become emperor can do...

In an instant, when the Holy King of Cangming refused to take the Holy Road to enter the Huangji Gate, an unbelievable possibility emerged in his heart and flashed through his mind.

Then, it occupied the entire mind in an instant.

"Is it...could it be..."

As if to confirm their guesses and ominous premonitions, Jiang Chengdao stood up, waved his hand suddenly, and shouted loudly: "Where is the Xuanwu Guard?!"

Before he finished speaking, a group of Xuanwu guards took a step forward almost instinctively.

"The general is here, please give orders from His Majesty the Holy King!"

Jiang Chengdao turned around, looked at Li Zheng and others as if they were dead people, pointed at them and said loudly:

"Get it for me!"

"promise!"

After the order was given, the Xuanwu Guards took action instantly, and then like a torrent of black armor, they rushed towards the courtiers who had not fully reacted, and captured them all without any effort.

With the empress's first public statement, the situation was completely reversed in just a few breaths.

It wasn't until Li Zheng and others were escorted away by the Xuanwu Guards, wailing incessantly, that Lu Chen finally came to his senses.

Lu Chen couldn't help but twitch at the corners of his eyes when he saw the Xuanwu Guards escorting their "good teammate" away who had been "making great assists" before.

"What the hell? I'm on the wrong team again?"

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"Huaiyu."

In a daze, the empress walked quietly to Lu Chen's side.

"Are you OK?"

A slightly concerned voice sounded in his ears, and Lu Chen, who was originally hopeless, suddenly came back to his senses.

He turned back with a mask of pain, then twitched the corners of his mouth, forcing out a smile that was uglier than crying.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I will not die yet."

fine?

Nima, do you want to experience two roller coaster-like ups and downs in succession? !

Before, he openly sided with the empress and fought tooth and nail to offend the Empress Dowager Zhao. He suffered a lot in the court and was so overpowered by Ling Tianfeng that his whole body seemed to fall apart. He couldn't get out of bed for a long time just to offend the Empress Dowager Zhao and seek to be removed from office.

The eunuch who was waiting to announce that he was dismissed from office and exiled thousands of miles suddenly came from the Holy King of Cangming. Before he could react, the Empress Dowager Zhao fell. The edict of dismissal from office that he had dreamed of was aborted. .

The eunuch who announced the decree did not wait, but a young Xuanwu Guard general who kindly asked him to take leave and not go to court.

The first opportunity to become an immortal was so inexplicably gone. He was so angry that he lay there for a long time.

Then when the Holy King of Cangming showed his ambition to covet the throne, he, like most people, really couldn't imagine the possibility of the Holy King's failure. After all, the Holy King was too powerful, so powerful that it almost made people despair. There is no weakness.

So he stood up again and firmly supported the empress. He looked like he was ready to die. This was also to offend the people in power so that he could be dismissed from office as a matter of course.

As a result...this stupid holy king is actually a die-hard loyal minister of the empress?Is it her biggest reliance on regaining the supreme royal power?

Gan ah!

This sudden and huge reversal not only caught Li Zheng and others off guard, but also left Lu Chen confused.

Then, he quickly realized that the current situation was extremely bad for him.

The empress is no longer the puppet emperor who can be manipulated by others. After passing through the ultimate power of Saint King Cangming, she will inevitably become the true dragon emperor who controls the world, the supreme king in the world!

And he, whether it was during the period when Empress Dowager Zhao was in power or when Saint King Cangming pretended to be a powerful minister and took power forcefully, he stood unswervingly by the side of the empress who was not favored by anyone.

What is this called?

This is called "a rare commodity to live in"!

When everyone despised and ignored the empress and avoided her, he was the only one who remained loyal to the empress until the end. He was a model of loyal minister. In a political sense, this was equivalent to placing all bets on extremely risky risks. On the tall empress.

High risk means high reward.

But now, he has staked all his political investments. If it weren't for the existence of that weird system, he would almost lose money.

As long as the empress behaves a little bit, she won't be able to live up to his love of sacrificing life and death.

Naturally, it is impossible to dismiss him from his official position casually like the Empress Dowager Zhao did. On the contrary, it is very likely that he will be reused, and promotion and wealth will be around the corner.

But there is no if in the world.

Getting promoted and making a fortune is nothing in front of the Ascending Immortal World.

There are only two ways to be promoted: to be dismissed from office or to die in the line of duty, if it is reasonable and reasonable.

In other words, the condition of being dismissed from office, which could have been easily accomplished, became almost exponentially more difficult after he stood on the wrong team twice in a row.

Not to mention being dismissed from office, if you want to keep your seventh-grade official position, you have to do everything you can to find a justifiable reason to refuse. Otherwise, refusing to be promoted without reason will also violate system restrictions.

If a person is not good, he may be promoted by the empress "with good intentions", and then the system rewards will be immediately cancelled, not even the guaranteed reward of neither promotion nor reduction.

After figuring out the current situation, Lu Chen was about to cry without tears, and almost suffered internal injuries from the anger.

Regarding the Empress who was the culprit of all this, and the Holy King Cangming who had a smile in his eyes, he could not hold back from scolding because he had great self-control. How could he have a good face?

Hearing Lu Chen's obviously emotional words, the empress was stunned.

After she came to her senses, she thought for a moment, and then she didn't know what she thought of, and a flash of understanding quietly flashed through her bright eyes.

"Huaiyu, are you annoyed that I've hidden it from you so far?"

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but feel moved.

Um?Angry?

Angry emperor?

By the way, no matter how generous a superior is, he will gradually lose patience with his subordinates who are arrogant and pampered...

if it is like this……

Thinking of this, Lu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he was possessed by the Oscar winner again, and a cold look gradually appeared on his face.

"I dare not."

Just because you don't dare, doesn't mean you won't.

Jiang Chengwan instantly heard the implication of Lu Chen's words.

"Ugh…"

She sighed helplessly, and then said softly: "I know very well that Huaiyu is loyal and loyal, and I also know that this move is a bit unkind to Huaiyu, but I have no choice but to wrong you for the sake of the overall situation. Don't worry. , I will definitely be honest with you in the future and will never let down your loyalty..."

As an emperor, it is undoubtedly a rare thing to be able to take the initiative to patiently explain to a minister, even vaguely intend to admit his mistake and restore the relationship, and also make a promise.

However, when he heard her say this, the corners of Lu Chen's eyes twitched slightly, and he looked inexplicably unnatural.

God is so loyal!

I beg you to chop my so-called loyalty into pieces and feed it to the dogs!

Moreover, being frank and so on... It can be done in the physical sense, but forget about the rest. I just want to be dismissed from office by you. Do you want your so-called sincerity to be of any use?

Shaking his head, Lu Chen waved his sleeves and turned around without any shame in response to the empress's sincere words.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to explain. The minister is just an insignificant seventh-grade official, and he should not be treated like this by your Majesty."

After a pause, before the empress could speak, he endured the pain in his body, took steps, staggered towards the direction away from Ziji City, and said without looking back: "Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Holy King There must be many follow-up matters to be dealt with, so I won’t disturb you and will take my leave first.”

Hearing this, the empress immediately swallowed back what she originally wanted to say, and just stood there, watching Lu Chen's swaying back getting further and further away under the increasingly intense sunlight.

At this time, Jiang Chengdao suddenly turned his head and winked at the six personal guards standing by.

In just a moment, the six people nodded tacitly, then moved quietly, disappearing in the blink of an eye, turning into black shadows and quickly rushing towards Lu Chen, and finally disappeared around Lu Chen, protecting him silently. The man who was about to become the most favored minister of the dynasty.

After doing this, Jiang Chengdao walked slowly behind the empress.

"This guy doesn't know how talented he is, but he has quite a bad temper."

The empress said nothing and watched Lu Chen leave quietly.