The prince of heaven only wants salted fish

The Northern Xia envoy was assassinated late at night, his heart was stabbed, and there was no way to save him. By the time the imperial doctor arrived, he had been cold for a while.

However, the assassin escaped safely after a whole night of manhunt. As soon as this incident came out, all the ministers appeared on time at the morning court the next morning, all with serious faces and prepared for battle. Among them, the face of the regent Li Heng was the most ugly.

In fact, Jiang Li's psychological fluctuations were no less severe than Li Heng's, but he didn't dare to show too much - otherwise he would tell others that he had a problem!

Among the people in Taining Hall, there was only one person with a relaxed expression.

Jicheng.

Because of the assassination incident last night, almost all the ministers arrived early this morning. Only Jicheng still showed up at the right time. Even from the way he yawned, he might sleep a little longer if conditions allowed. .

Li Heng went to bed early last night, but after receiving the news of the assassination of the Northern Xia envoy last night, he never fell asleep again.

So when he saw the sleepy Jicheng, he felt extremely angry. He immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the Northern Xia envoy was assassinated and died on the spot last night. This is a serious matter, and we must handle it carefully!"

Jicheng yawned: "Isn't the imperial uncle in charge of state affairs now? You are also responsible for receiving the envoys of Northern Xia. What does it have to do with me?"

Li Heng's temples jumped heavily, but now is not the time to care about the other party's words: "This time something happened to the Northern Xia envoy in our capital city of Daning. If it gets bigger, the whole of Daning will be affected. As a big man, Emperor Ning, how can you stay out of this matter?"

The corners of Jicheng's lips curled up: "So there is a problem and I have to take care of it?"

Li Heng was about to say something, but Jicheng continued: "Okay, is there anyone who knows what happened last night? Come out and tell me what happened."

The matter was so serious that no matter which side the ministers were on, they immediately rushed to tell what they knew about the situation.

After a heated debate, Jicheng concluded: "So last night, the two envoys from Northern Xia, led by the Prince Regent, went to Zuixian Tower and stayed there for the night. It was the troops of the Prince Regent's Palace who were responsible for protecting them, but They still failed to prevent the assassin from appearing, allowing the other party to succeed and escape safely? "

The person in charge of receiving the envoys was Li Heng, but he was busy with official duties and really couldn't stay with the two people every day, so he asked Li Yuzhi to do it for him and watch them not to do anything too radical. But this matter comes to the very beginning, and that is what the two envoys themselves requested!

Zuixian Tower is one of the most famous brothels in the capital of Daning. It goes without saying why the envoys went there - even compared to the fact that a few days ago they openly said on the street that the people of Daning were like two-legged sheep. What they did last night was simply lawful.

As the regent, Li Heng also had a certain quota to build his own army. Many of the defenders in the capital belonged to the royalists. Li Heng was not sure what he would do. He was not reassured, so he sent his own sergeants to protect him. .

There seems to be nothing wrong with the above content after knowing the premise, but after Jicheng summarized it like this...

Li Heng had an ominous premonition, and as expected, Jicheng's conclusion followed: "Then what else is there to say? Isn't this just because the emperor didn't protect him?"

The next moment, the royalist ministers in the main hall were shouting "Yes, yes, yes, your majesty is wise."

The ministers from the regent faction looked at each other in confusion, unable to find any rebuttal argument for a while.

Li Heng gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, although I was negligent in this matter, now is not the time to hold me accountable, right? Find out the murderer, restore peace to the innocent souls of the Northern Xia envoys, and attack them before Northern Xia An explanation is the most important thing!”

The ministers of the Regent faction quickly agreed: "That's right!"

"The most important thing now is to track down the murderer!"

"These thieves are so audacious to dare to openly commit murder in the capital!"

Jicheng held his chin: "Uncle Huang is right..."

He suddenly turned his head, looked at Jiang Li who was bowing his head silently in the crowd, and asked with a smile: "What do you think, Prime Minister?"

How else could the Prime Minister feel?

Everyone present thought, that must mean that the regent is responsible but he must not be left behind when looking for a thief!

Then they saw Prime Minister Jiang, who was also a 10th-level player on the wall, and said in a firm voice: "Your Majesty, I believe that the Regent has an unshirkable responsibility for this matter!!"

Everyone present: "???"

Damn it! The sun is shining in the west, and Prime Minister Jiang will clearly take sides!

Jiang Li, with a huge sweat on the back of his head, was still trying his best to stand up for Jicheng: "Everyone knows where Zuixian Tower is. The flow of people there is complex, and it has three religions and nine streams. It is extremely easy for things to happen. Why is the Prince Regent? Are you going to take the envoys there?"

"Moreover, the Northern Xia envoy is visiting our Daning, not the Regent's Palace. Why do the soldiers for close protection choose the troops of the Regent's Palace instead of the Imperial City defenders?" Jiang Li said loudly, "The Regent made such a choice. , Don’t you have any idea in your mind?”

——Don’t you know what I should be thinking? !

Li Heng almost roared on the spot, but at this time, the officials sent by the Prime Minister had received the signal from their elder brother and nodded in agreement: "What the Prime Minister said makes sense!"

"This matter is indeed due to the disadvantage of the guards of the Regent's Palace!"

——Today, the court is roughly divided into three forces: the ambitious regent faction, the royalists who firmly defend the orthodoxy, and the third largest faction, headed by Jiang Li, also known as the Qingtoucao faction.

This faction is mainly composed of He Xini, but they do not maintain complete neutrality. Instead, they consider the situation and sell sides, and they appear to be quite ambiguous about their sides. Anyway, they have many people, and no matter which side wins, they will not dare to settle the matter afterwards. On the contrary, in order to win their support, the regent and the royalists sometimes had to curry favor in return.

But now that Jiang Li is so determined to take the lead and stop at Jicheng, the voices in the court immediately become one-sided: "Your Highness the Regent, you should give everyone an explanation for this matter, right?"

Although they don't know why Prime Minister Jiang changed his gender today... but they can just follow the accusation anyway!

Li Heng, who was pointed out by Qianfu, almost puffed up and said: "You--"

He was so angry that he began to speak indiscriminately: "Okay, then this matter is my responsibility. May I ask what your Majesty is going to do?"

Li Heng sneered and said, "Kill me to apologize to Bei Xia?"

He suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Jicheng, the meaning in his eyes was obvious: Do you dare?

The Taining Hall, which had been as noisy as a vegetable market, suddenly became quiet. Even Jiang Li, who had just stepped on Li Heng under pressure, couldn't help but look over in shock.

Is Li Heng already mad?

Jicheng smiled and said: "How can I do such a thing?"

Li Heng sneered. He had more than half of Daning's military talismans and the support of Bei Xia's strength. If Li Ji really went crazy and wanted to kill him, at worst, he would just do the opposite. Who would be killed by then is still unknown. ——

However, the next second Jicheng said in a leisurely voice: "Those two Northern Xia envoys have done many evil things in Daning, and they will be clean after death."

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"Anyway, I've been dissatisfied with them for a long time. If Bei Xia wants to pursue them, then just fight them."

Now everyone in the Taining Hall looked at Jicheng as if they were crazy - Did your Majesty drink too much last night and still not wake up this morning?

Only Jiang Li was horrified by two things that were expected: to a certain extent, this could be regarded as the end of madness...

The ministers were as quiet as chickens. At this time, Li Heng broke the silence with a sneer again: "Your Majesty's words of 'then fight' were said lightly. Have you ever considered the strength of Daning's troops? The Northern Xia envoy was assassinated and died because of us. If Bei Xia really attacks without being reasonable, it will not be a loss of profits, but the country will be destroyed!"

His words were loud and clear, and because no one in the palace spoke, his powerful questioning voice echoed throughout the palace. Jicheng chuckled: "Die the country?"

He glanced down casually - he was born with a pair of pink and phoenix eyes, which looked extremely narrow and long when he squinted slightly. At this moment, he was looking down at others with a bit of mocking contempt: "I would like to ask everyone here Everyone, how different is our current situation from the country’s subjugation?”

The ministers below all choked.

"Northern Xia was so powerful that they sent two envoys to frighten all the civil and military officials in the dynasty. They coaxed and protected them all the way, fearing that they would be unhappy in the slightest, so that they would stand on the land of Daning and look down upon them. When people in Daning are being called two-legged sheep, taking human life seriously and acting recklessly, the court in Daning will send troops to protect their safety. "

The corners of Jicheng's lips raised slightly: "——So this is what you call living a dignified life?"

"Or let's talk about something else," Jicheng continued, "Northern Xia and Daning have been at war for many years. During the humiliation of the Pingcheng fifty years ago, Daning lost ten cities in a row, and my grandfather even moved the capital in despair. Since then, I, Daning, have been like They were so frightened that they never resisted no matter how provocative and oppressed they were. It didn't matter that they lost the border battle, that they had been robbed of a large amount of supplies, or that the people of Northern Xia killed the people of Daning every year. "

"Oh, it doesn't even matter that our Daning's internal affairs are controlled by Bei Xia," Jicheng glanced at Li Heng, "Are you right, uncle?"

Li Heng's face was so ugly that he could hardly speak.

Jicheng clapped his hands and said, "If you still want to continue kneeling, please do so. Anyway, I don't want to accompany you anymore."

His voice was not high-pitched, and there was no obvious echo in the hall, but every word struck people's hearts with great force.

After a long while, a general finally shouted: "I am willing to fight to the death for Daning!!"

Then one after another people responded: "Your Majesty is right!"

"I am willing to fight to the death for Da Ning!"

"Originally, it was Bei Xia who went too far!!"

The crowd in Taining Hall was excited. Li Heng stood in the middle and looked up at the emperor on the throne. His heart felt cold for a moment——

He had a premonition: No, the status and power he had accumulated in the past few years when he took the position of regent and took charge of the government in Daning for more than 20 years would be completely destroyed now.

A military general shouted: "If Bei Xia makes an excuse to attack, I am willing to take orders and fight!!"

"No," Jicheng flatly refused, "No matter what, the envoy from Northern Xia died here, we still have a certain responsibility."

He pointed at Li Heng under the high platform and said righteously: "Uncle Emperor, in the final analysis, will the envoy be assassinated or will you fail to protect him? You still have to shoulder the responsibility."

"Let's do this. I'll give you a chance to make a difference: you lead the troops to the border now. If Bei Xia comes over then, the task of resisting them will be left to you!"