Chapter Seventy-Three: Killing
This is naturally a joke, how can the gentlemen in the Xiaoqi camp take it seriously? I didn't open my mouth to answer. Quietly staring at the gentlemen of the Xiao Cavalry Camp, Ji Qingchen, who was waiting for them to answer, did not see the Xiao Cavalry Camp gentlemen answer him after a while, he was not angry, but ordered lightly, "Go home and sleep!" ”
In the Xiao Riding Camp, everyone was stunned and left!
The horsemen of the cavalry camp could only whisper their orders and escort the bewitching women of Jiang Guifang to the yamen of the prefect of King's Landing, and then they pulled the silver and prepared to return to the military camp of Kunshan, but when they arrived at the city gate, they found that the city gate was closed, and they had the power of the Nine Highnesses to let the Longxiang army open the door for them, so they could only return and store the silver in the yamen of the prefect's mansion.
Besides, Ji Qingchen rode back to the palace, and Zhang Rang and Guo Quan came in a hurry.
"Is it done for the two of you tonight?" Ji Qingchen asked.
"It's done!" Zhang Rang replied.
Guo Quan is still the same as before, with very few words.
"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded slightly, didn't say anything, went out of the study, and came to the small courtyard of Mingyan, at this time Mingyan was still playing the qin, he stood quietly in the pavilion and listened to half a pillar of incense before leaving the small courtyard and returning to his room to rest.
The two didn't say a word the whole time.
In the morning of the next day, Ji Qingchen, who was dressed in a pale yellow python robe, appeared in front of the Taiji Hall with a wolf blade. On the square of the Taiji Palace, a stone tablet standing tall is very eye-catching, which is engraved by him himself, "Those who dare to offend the Great Yan by a strong enemy will be punished even if they are far away." "It is to let him rise to the top and be crowned the king of Northern Liao.
At this time, the ministers had already lined up to stand in the square in front of the Taiji Palace, quietly waiting for the eunuchs to sing the early dynasty.
There are two columns of civil and military officials, which are on both sides of the jade steps in front of the Taiji Palace.
The civil officials were headed by Prime Minister Pei Wenju and Guozi Priest Jiu Yu Qingze, and the military generals were headed by Li Muzhi, Marquis of Bai Jin and Pingyang. The second is the chief general of the army of the Ministry of Rites. And the third prince Ji Hongchang and the fourth prince Ji Wen were also among them, but they didn't see the figure of the second prince Ji Ping.
This is because the third prince Ji Hongchang has a military position, and the fourth prince Ji Wen is also the editor of the Hongwen Pavilion, so they are qualified to enter the court to listen to politics. However, based on this alone, if they want to attend the court meeting, I am afraid it is not enough to qualify, after all, it is King's Landing City, like the sea where there are many high-ranking officials above the fourth grade, but how many people can attend the Taiji Palace? So their prince has a part of the advantage. Positions and titles are the capital that they can participate in politics with the members of various ministries.
Similarly, the reason why Ji Qingchen can participate in politics today is clear to Ji Hongchang and Ji Wen, in addition to the title of King of Northern Liao, because he is also the deputy general of the hussar general Long Xiangjun.
Dare to walk with a sword in the Taiji Temple?
This grandmother is so bold that she must have gone to heaven!
It was the ministers who couldn't help frowning when they saw Ji Qingchen, who was wearing a wolf's blade at his waist, stepped into the ranks of military generals, and followed closely behind the third prince Ji Hongchang. The military generals of Dayan Wenchen are not very powerful, but they still look at each other unpleasantly, the civil official group feels that the generals are arrogant and domineering, and they lose the interests of Sven, and the generals feel that they are useless scholars, without us to fight on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions in blood, you have the wealth of your birds.
It's just because Pei Wenju and Bai Jin are pressed that the two sides didn't really fight!
Now they saw that Ji Qingchen dared to go to the palace with a sword, and he was still standing in the column of military generals.
The people in the civil official group disdained and sneered, secretly scolding him for being another reckless embryo, and he would have to be yelled at by His Majesty later. And the generals felt that in addition to raising their eyebrows, they were faintly worried about Ji Qingchen. After all, this is a saber temple! Only a few people such as Bai Jin, Li Muzhi, and Pei Wenju know that His Royal Highness the Nine, who has always been cautious, dares to go to the palace with a sword today, and naturally has another deep meaning.
Finally, the eunuch in front of the Taiji Hall shouted loudly, "Early dynasty! ”
The ministers slowly climbed the steps and entered the Taiji Hall, where the civil and military were lined up on both sides. Emperor Yan slowly stepped into the Taiji Hall under the escort of thirty-six internal guards, and ascended to the high position that symbolizes the dignity of the Ninety-Five - the Golden Dragon Chair!
The ministers have finished bowing three times and nine knocks!
At a glance, Emperor Yan saw a wolf blade on his waist, dressed in a pale yellow prince's python robe, and his expression was restrained, but he faintly revealed his son with the posture of a dragon and tiger, but he didn't say anything. Because at this time, someone had already spoken, "Your Majesty, Weichen wants to join the Northern Liao King to be lawless, and last night he robbed Jiang Guifang of his money." "The one who spoke was the right deputy of the Imperial Palace. As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Baoxiang, the left deputy of the Imperial Palace, came out and said proudly, "Weichen wants to participate in the crime of bullying the king of Northern Liao, and His Majesty has set a limit for the king of Northern Liao to solve the case within two days, but now that the two-day period has passed, Princess Meng still has no whereabouts, and he also asks His Majesty to govern the crime of bullying the king of Northern Liao." ”
"Your Majesty, Weichen wants to participate in the Northern Liao King to use his power for personal gain, and openly embezzle 50,000 taels of silver from Jiang Guifang." Another imperial historian spoke.
With the leadership of Zhang Baoxiang and Yu Wenshi, the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who were instructed by Cha Shenxing, the imperial envoy of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, attacked him in groups, and took Ji Qingchen for half a pillar of incense, and listed Ji Qingchen's ten major crimes. The ministers who listened looked sideways, and everyone was terrified, thinking that how did this king of Northern Liao offend the Metropolitan Procuratorate and provoke these guys who detain pots.
Emperor Yan didn't speak, just stared at Ji Qingchen in the main hall quietly, "What is your defense?" ”
Ji Qingchen, who stood out proudly, did not speak and was silent.
"Your Majesty, in the early dynasty today, the content of the discussion is first of all diplomatic relations with Lingnan, Western Shu and Eastern Wilderness, and then the punishment of the king of Northern Liao." Seeing that the hall was almost cold, Prime Minister Pei Wenju immediately spoke.
"The night before yesterday, the pikemen of Western Shu and the iron sword warriors of the Eastern Wilderness appeared outside the capital of the Great Yan Kingdom, and the two countries dared to send troops to the Great Yan privately, is this their diplomatic relationship?" Emperor Yan was slightly furious, and his tone was very stern, "Also, the Lingnan soldiers dare to trespass into people's houses, do they think that the King's Landing City of Great Yan is their Baiyan City?" ”
The back soldiers in Emperor Yan's mouth broke into people's houses privately, which means that the corpses of the back soldiers who appeared in the Situ Zhengtang extermination case.
Seeing that the ministers did not react and were silent, Emperor Yan said coldly, "The envoys of Xuanlingnan, Xishu and the Eastern Wilderness!" ”
"No!" Wei Zhongxian received the order and conveyed the will of Emperor Yan to the outside, and the inner attendants of the Taiji Hall were passed to the outside of the hall, and the big inner attendants on the square were passed down again, and in this way, eight people were passed on to the will in front of Bai Zhiquan, Bai Shangwu, Han Peng and Zhang Mo who were silent in the side hall of the Taiji Palace. When the four of them got the order, they immediately tidied up their clothes, and under the guidance of an attendant, they cautiously entered the Taiji Hall.
The four of them went to the palace and were busy saluting Emperor Yan.
Emperor Yan did not let them get up, but questioned Han Peng and Zhang Mo about Ji Qingchen's appearance of soldiers from Western Shu and Eastern Wilderness in the battle outside the city. The two of them turned pale, afraid of Emperor Yan's dragon face and anger, they didn't dare to quibble, they could only bow their heads and admit that this was the mistake of the two countries, and said that they did not know that they had sent Da Yan to the time, and now they had sent what happened to the country quickly, and they would receive a reply from the country in a few days, and they would definitely give Da Yan an explanation at that time.
Seeing the sincerity and resignation of the two of them, Emperor Yan's anger was mostly gone, so he ordered the two to get up and talk, ignoring the gratitude of the two, and moved his eyes to Bai Zhiquan and his son. The father and son are not as afraid of Da Yan and Emperor Yan as Han Peng and Zhang Mo, they are not humble or arrogant, they are very calm and calm.
"How do you explain the trespassing of the soldiers' houses?" Emperor Yan asked lightly. The voice is ethereal, there is no emotion in it, and it is extremely cold.
"Back to His Majesty, the back-to-back soldiers appeared in the house, all because the princess was robbed and the savior's heart was heartbroken." Bai Zhiquan replied.
The meaning of his words is very obvious, that is, if it weren't for the chaos in your city and our princess being kidnapped, how would our backswainers break into people's houses?
Emperor Yan snorted coldly and did not speak.
Pei Wenju, the silent prime minister in the main hall, said, "In the case of the poisoning of the pavilion post and the robbery of Princess Meng, Dayan will give Lingnan an explanation." But now, we want to ask, how does Lord Bai explain about the trespassing of the soldiers' private houses? As the prime minister who has stood on the court of Dayan for decades and the head of the seven great families, as soon as Pei Wenju spoke, he made a loud noise, and his eyes were firmly fixed on Bai Zhiquan's father and son.
"What does Prime Minister Pei Cheng think he should do?" Bai Shangwu said out loud.
This is a tough performance, and the meaning is obvious, I am trespassing on the house, what kind of momentum can you have. This is also because Bai Zhiquan's father and son have figured out the bottom line of Dayan, and they know that because of Beirong's impatience, Dayan does not want to start a war with Lingnan at the moment, so that there will be a situation where the enemy is on the back of the abdomen, so that they will be so tough. Let's put it another bluntly, this is what they have planned a long time ago, so that their father and son will have no fear.
"Kill!"
Seeing that Pei Wenchao was blocked by Bai Shangwu, Ji Qingchen gently spit out this word. His voice was not loud, but when he said this, he was murderous, and immediately attracted everyone's attention to him.
"Your Highness the Nine, you have such a big breath!" Bai Shangwu sneered, "There are eight Lingnan Yi clans, and the number of Beiwei soldiers is no less than 80,000, may I ask Your Highness the Nine, with your current strength in Dayan, can you kill them all?" ”
Dare to speak like this in the Taiji Hall, this is definitely a provocation to the authority of Dayan. Even Bai Zhiquan himself didn't expect his son to be so bold and dare to provoke Emperor Yan in the Taiji Palace, he raised his head slightly and glanced at Emperor Yan who was sitting on the dragon chair expressionlessly, and began to worry about his son secretly. No matter how strong the Lingnan soldiers were, it was not impossible for Emperor Yan to really kill their father and son now.
"Eighty thousand people is indeed a lot, but they are all in Lingnan, there are not many thousand, but they are all in King's Landing City, it is not easy to kill 80,000 people, but it is easy to kill 1,000 people, may I ask Bai Shizi if you believe what this king said?" Ji Qingchen strode out of the queue and proudly walked in front of Bai Shangwu, his left hand tightly grasped the wolf blade at his waist, and looked at Bai Shangwu kneeling in the main hall condescendingly, with indescribable contempt and disdain.
"If you can't kill 80,000 people, what if you kill 1,000 people?" Bai Shangwu was-for-tat, even if he knelt on the Taiji Palace, his aura did not belong to Ji Qingchen.
"If you can't kill him for a while, you can kill him slowly, kill him for ten or eight years, and there will always be a day when you can finish killing, right?" Ji Qingchen replied in a cold tone, "However, if you kill these 80,000 back soldiers in ten years, who should you kill at that time?" What about another ten years? I'm afraid it's going to be my turn to kill the elderly and children, right? ”
His flat tone, without a hint of threat, could stop in Bai Zhiquan's ears, which was more terrifying than verbal threats. It is true that Lingnan is not afraid of fighting with Dayan, but Lingnan is afraid of fighting with Dayan for decades. As a dynasty that has been established for more than 800 years, how strong is the heritage, and how can it be compared with the newly rising Lingnan? If you really want to think about what Ji Qingchen said, Dayan really wants to spend national strength with Lingnan, I'm afraid it won't take ten years to consume Lingnan! The reason why their father and son are so strong this time is because they have a secret agreement with the three kingdoms of Beirong, Xishu and Donghuang, Lingnan takes advantage of the opportunity of Beirong to go south, and forcefully forces Dayan to obtain the benefits he wants, and when Beirong goes south, Lingnan has to wait for the opportunity to attract Dayan's southern army. But the agreement here is that Beirong will fight a quick battle, conquer Yanmen Pass in one fell swoop, and go straight down to Liaozhou, Shangzhou and Yingzhou, and negotiate with Dayan after arriving in Hangzhou, so as to obtain the benefits he wants. Because the Beirong people themselves know very well in their hearts that with their current strength, they can't swallow Dayan in one bite. Now that Ji Qingchen said this, Bai Zhiquan felt a little troublesome. If Dayan is really like Ji Qingchen said, he will fight Lingnan to the end at the expense of national strength, I am afraid that even if Lingnan's goal is achieved and he gets what he wants, how long can he enjoy it?
"The dog is ignorant, please atone for your sins!" Bai Zhiquan immediately said that he didn't want the relationship between Lingnan and Dayan to be too stiff, at least not to the point of fighting each other now.
"Lord Bai, since you know that your son is so ignorant, why did you bring him to the Taiji Palace?" Ji Qingchen said sarcastically, "Please Lord Bai, how should your country explain about the trespassing of the soldiers into the people's houses?" ”
Bai Zhiquan, who was shocked by Ji Qingchen's aggressive momentum, immediately weighed the pros and cons, and hurriedly said, "Go back to Your Majesty, and when you return to the pavilion after the end of the early dynasty, your subordinates will definitely give your Majesty a satisfactory explanation." Seeing Emperor Yan nodding slightly, he continued, "However, the three-day deadline is coming up, Your Majesty, don't forget the agreement with your subordinates?" ”
"Naturally!" Emperor Yan lightly spit out these two words and did not speak again.
"Resignation!" Bai Zhiquan and Bai Shangwu's father and son withdrew from the Taiji Palace.
"What about the Western Shu and the Eastern Wilderness?" Emperor Yan asked coldly.
His inexplicable question naturally referred to the topic that had not been resolved just now, that is, the appearance of soldiers from the Western Shu and Eastern Wilderness outside King's Landing.
Han Peng and Zhang Mo knew that their perfunctory attitude just now could not satisfy Emperor Yan at all. Now that Bai Zhiquan's father and son have bowed their heads, where do they dare to rebel against Emperor Yan's dragon scales. Ai Ai can only expect, "Please rest assured, after the end of the early dynasty, when you return to the pavilion, you will immediately repair a book, and you will definitely give an explanation to Your Majesty." ”
"Stand down!" Emperor Yan got a satisfactory answer and said lightly.
Han Peng and Zhang Mo were relieved and exhaled softly, before respectfully exiting the Taiji Hall.
"What else do you Aiqing have to play?" Emperor Yan's spirit was much better, and his face was not as gloomy as he was just now.
The ministers were collectively silent, just now Ji Qingchen turned his hand into the clouds and covered his hand for rain to deal with the issue of diplomatic relations between Dayan and the Three Kingdoms, which shocked them, but also deeply realized Ji Qingchen's strength and arrogance, and did not think about it in their hearts, whether they really want to go against this newly crowned King of Northern Liao in the future? Especially the group of imperial historians who swore just now and listed Ji Qingchen's ten major crimes, they looked at this saber prince who scared off Bai Zhiquan's father and son with a few words.
Of course, among these people, the seven great families, the six Shangshu, the chiefs of the various ministries and the princes are not counted!
"Your Majesty, the day before yesterday, His Royal Highness Jiu swore an invitation to ask His Majesty for military power, saying that it would only take two days to solve the case and find out the whereabouts of Princess Dream, but today it has been two days, and Weichen wants to ask His Royal Highness Nine, have you found Princess Dream?" In the silent hall, Wang You, the secretary of the ministry, came out and said.