Chapter 166: The King of a Country
As soon as the envoy of Zhang Guo finished speaking, the palace guards who had already surrounded him couldn't help but take a look at each other, and they began to hesitate.
Seeing this, the envoy smiled again, and said in a sarcastic tone: "Wait for a desolate small country! It is ridiculous to dare to do something to the envoys of the great powers! β
His words were so straightforward and unpleasant that the ministers of the Wind Country at the gate of the palace almost got their noses crooked when they heard this!
It's a pity that people dare to be angry but don't dare to speak, the current Zhang country, in terms of strength, the wind country is indeed incomparable, and its envoy's arrogant attitude is also in common sense. It's just that this person dares to kill the minister of the Wind Country in front of the palace in public! It's just going too far!
And the several palace guards surrounding him didn't know whether to arrest the envoy at this time, and they were stunned one by one, you look at me and I look at you.
"Take it!"
At this moment, a cold cheer suddenly came from inside the palace gate, and with the words, Lu Chen didn't know when, he was already standing at the gate of the palace, and he was coldly looking at the envoy of Zhang Guo with a wooden stick in his hand.
Yes!? The king has arrived! The people hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted, "Knock on the kingβ"
"Get up!" Lu Chen waved his hand casually, and then walked out of the palace gate, and when he walked to the side of the guard commander, he easily drew the sword at his waist, and then walked over without saying a word.
When everyone saw this, they were shocked and couldn't help but glance at each other.
And that envoy of Zhang Guo, under Lu Chen's order at this time, has also been detained by several palace guards, he watched Lu Chen's movements, couldn't help but slide his Adam's apple, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.
The appearance of the Wind King also swept away his previous arrogance and domineering, and instead of it, he saw sweat on his forehead and began to say in a slurred voice: "Wind ...... Your Highness the Wind King, you, what are you going to do......"
Lu Chen said angrily: "You, a foreign envoy, killed the minister of my Feng Country for no reason when this king was newly married!" What do you say this king is going to do!? β
As he spoke, Lu Chen stood a few steps away from him, then pointed at him with his sword and shouted, "Kneel!" β
Poof! Zhang Envoy didn't even hesitate this time, he knelt on the ground all of a sudden, and said with a pale face: "Feng, His Royal Highness the Wind King, is it...... It was the Shangshu Lord who provoked the envoy first, and the non-envoy deliberately wanted to kill him......"
"Oh? That king is also provoking you now, do you even dare to kill this king!? Lu Chen smiled angrily.
"Huh!? Don't dare! How dare you be rude to His Royal Highness the Wind King......" Zhang Envoy hurriedly said.
"Hold it down, cut it!" Lu Chen didn't bother to talk nonsense with him anymore, and immediately shouted at the guards left and right.
"No!" Several guards immediately responded, and now that the king has ordered, no matter who the other party is, I'm afraid they won't even think about it anymore.
"Wait!"
At this time, Shang Shuling Li Miaocai walked out, went to Lu Chen's side, and Shi Li said: "King, although the envoy of Zhang Guo is hateful, he entered the wind this time to congratulate the king on behalf of King Zhang, and he cannot be killed. β
"Yes, the king, the envoy can't kill it......"
"The minister also thinks that it is inappropriate for the king to kill the envoy......"
"Please calm the king's anger......"
With Li Miaocai's advice, many ministers of the Feng Country also stepped forward to persuade at this time, including Sima Wen, Liu Yuan and other important ministers, although everyone hated Zhang Envoy, but from the perspective of the country's plan, they all knew that they could not kill this person, if they killed this person, I am afraid that Zhang Guo would not give up!
However, Lu Chen shouted: "Shut up!" Today's events, this king will be investigated to the end! If a foreign envoy in my country can kill my ministers at will, and I, the king, let them do whatever they want, and let my ministers be bullied by them and ignore them! That king, the king, has also done too much! And in what face do you lead the ministers of the Wind Country!? What qualifications do you have to govern tens of millions of people in my wind country!? β
"This king tells you! Today, even if it weren't for Lord Chen, the head of the household, and if it were any one of you, this king would still be like this! β
Yes!? Lu Chen's words refuted all the ministers and had nothing to say, and at the same time, people were also moved in their hearts. Yes, as the king said, what if it was himself who died? If the king didn't even dare to stand up because he was afraid of Zhang Guo and even his courtiers died, would such a king still be the king he followed?
For a while, people stopped talking, and seeing that Lu Chen didn't listen to the advice of so many ministers and still insisted on killing himself, the envoy of Zhang Guo immediately panicked, and he hurriedly said:
"His Royal Highness the Wind King spares his life - His Highness can't kill me! If you kill him, it will undoubtedly be equivalent to slapping King Zhang's face, and it will definitely anger my king! At that time, His Highness will face hundreds of thousands of troops from the Zhang Kingdom......"
"Shut up! This king can tell you today! Take less King Zhang to press this king! β
Lu Chen said categorically: "In this matter, this king Ning Yu is not broken!" β
"Pull it down and cut it!"
At the newlywed banquet of the Wind King, the envoy of the State of Zhang killed the Minister of the Wind Kingdom, and was then beheaded by the King of the Wind at the palace gate. This incident quickly spread among the people, and it also became the material of many teahouse storytellers.
Among the people of the Wind Country, some people feel that the king is undoubtedly offending the Zhang State by doing this, killing a second-grade minister, and incurring future disasters, and the gains outweigh the losses.
And more people feel that it is a blessing for their country to have such a king!
This matter, in Lu Chen's heart at that time, was actually after some thought, he knew very well that whether he killed the envoy or not would bring a lot of negative effects.
If you don't kill them, the subjects of your own country will be dissatisfied and have certain doubts about yourself as a king.
If you kill, you will definitely offend Zhang Guo.
After weighing left and right, Lu Chen immediately decided that he would rather meet with Zhang Guo's soldiers than chill the hearts of his own people!
Although the country of wind is poor, Lu Chen believes that as long as the whole country is united, it will become strong sooner or later!
And Lu Chen's decision to kill also gave the hundred officials of the Wind Country a deeper understanding of their own king.
When the news came back to Zhang Guo, at the beginning, King Zhang Yan Han was furious, and in the court hall, he angrily scolded Lu Chen in public for not knowing what to do! And claim to raise troops to fight the wind!
It was only soon that his anger disappeared without a trace under the persuasion of a group of ministers of the Zhang State.
The ministers of Zhang Guo persuaded him one after another, saying that it was his own envoy, and at the wedding banquet of the King of Wind, he killed the ministers of the family in public, and whoever put this on him would be angry. And in principle, one's own side is on the unreasonable side, so if you send troops to fight the wind, your morale will not be high. Moreover, you should now focus all your energy on the Yan Kingdom, not the small Wind Country.
In this case, although the matter was over, in Lu Chen's heart, Zhang Envoy's arrogant and domineering attitude, and the arrogant posture that he did not put his own minister in his eyes at all, pierced deep into Lu Chen's heart like a thorn.
It also made him step up the pace of going east!
(End of chapter)