Chapter 216: Should You Be Blind?
The emperor said that he had no opinion, who would dare to say that he had an opinion?
The matter of the lottery was over, and the scholars in the south were holding their breath in their hearts, and although the scholars in the north finally took advantage, they were also uncomfortable.
Li Hui didn't know whether he was alive or dead: "Your Majesty, the matter of drawing lots, our southern scholars have confessed, but the people of the Soldiers and Horses Division have killed us so much, the court should always have an explanation!"
"What do you want?" Wang Mang said coldly.
"The murderer pays for his life!" Li Hui said ruthlessly.
"Haha. Wang Mang laughed, didn't pay attention to Li Hui, but looked at Wang Qinian and said: "Wang Qinian, do you see it, this scholar asked you to pay for your life?"
"Your Majesty, the minister has nothing to say!" Wang Qinian said respectfully: "The minister has issued many warnings to the scholars in advance, but they don't listen, in addition, they still kill people, as this scholar said, the murderer pays for his life, and that's it." ”
"You...... Li Hui pointed at Wang Qinian and said angrily: "The scholars present are all future pillars of the imperial court and pillars of the country, let you kill more than a hundred in one go, you are not ashamed!"
"The slain scholar is the pillar of the imperial court, isn't the slain soldier the pillar of the imperial court?" Wang Qinian glared and said loudly: "You are just the future pillars of the imperial court, these soldiers are now the pillars of the imperial court, and you are also a scholar who reads the book of sages, so it is ...... Shame on the teachings of the saints!"
Li Hui's face was pale, his hand pointed at Wang Qinian, and scolded: "Dog official, dare to bully me!"
Wang Qinian almost fainted, he was scolded in front of so many people, if he couldn't find a place today, how would he gain a foothold in the court in the future.
But Wang Qinian didn't dare to do it, because Wang Mang was by his side, and he couldn't figure out what the emperor meant.
Of course, Wang Mang knew what Wang Qinian was thinking, so he just waved his hand and said: "Wang Qinian, what crime should you be guilty of gathering people to make trouble and insulting the court officials in public?"
"Chen understands!" Wang Qinian bowed down, and then as soon as he stood up, he waved his hand, and more than a dozen soldiers rushed over directly with knives, and directly put the knife on Li Hui's neck.
Li Hui only felt a cold neck, and then looked at the same year lying in a pool of blood around him, and finally felt afraid, but he still gambled that the imperial court would not dare to do anything to him, and stretched out his head and shouted: "Your Majesty, the student is not convinced!"
"Your Majesty, what is Li Hui's crime?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, Li Hui is asking for the life of our soldiers, what is his crime, he actually let the blade be added!"
"Your Majesty, we and the other scholars are not convinced!"
A group of soldiers clamored, hundreds of people shouted, even Wang Mang was a little frightened, not to mention the soldiers who put their blades against Li Hui's neck, the soldiers all looked a little nervous.
Li Hui obviously noticed this, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the students are not convinced, Your Majesty, if you indulge these people to arrest the students today, then Your Majesty will regret today's actions in the future!"
Immediately following Li Hui, a group of students shouted, and all the court officials also turned their inquiring eyes to Wang Mang, Wang Mang's face was cold, and he looked at Li Hui and said, "Do you think you are very important?"
"Students don't think that. Li Hui said.
"Then do you think that you have so many scholars to support you, and you have nothing to fear?" Wang Mang said again.
The students didn't think so. Li Hui said.
"You don't have such thoughts, you don't have such thoughts, then I am very strange, what gave you such confidence, I think I dare not kill you!" Wang Mang looked at Li Hui expressionlessly.
Li Hui looked at Wang Mang's eyes looking at him, cold, very cold, Li Hui finally felt scared, he felt that he seemed to have made a mistake, and the emperor would really kill himself if he didn't do it.
But how is this possible?
In this world, I have never heard of an emperor who dared to risk the world to kill a scholar, you must know that a scholar is the cornerstone of the court officials, if he loses his reputation in Shilin and makes the whole Shilin disgusted, then this emperor will definitely not last long.
Water can carry a boat, or it can capsize a boat!
This is the teaching of the saints, and it can never be wrong.
Li Huiqiang calmed his mind and said: "If Your Majesty has to think like this, then the students have no choice, the students just want to tell Your Majesty that the will of the people is difficult to disobey, even if Your Majesty forces the requests of the scholars today, but if the matter is not solved after all, it will be a big trouble, Your Majesty should be cautious!"
"Yo, I've really thought of myself as an opinion leader. Wang Mang sneered and said, "You are sure that I don't dare to do anything to you, but you don't know, I have always eaten soft rather than hard!"
"Wang Qinian!" Wang Mang turned his head and shouted.
Wang Qinian then said loudly: "The minister is here!"
"Wang Qinian, what kind of crime should be committed to such a disloyal and unfilial person who contradicts his father!" Wang Mang asked loudly.
"Kill!" Wang Qinian's eyes lit up.
"Then what are you waiting for?" Wang Mang said.
Wang Qinian took a deep breath, suddenly pulled out a snow-bright long knife from the waist of the soldier on the side, and jumped up suddenly, in the incredible eyes of a group of courtiers and soldiers, the knife flashed, and Li Hui's head fell to the ground with the sword light.
Until Wang Qinian made a fuss, Li Hui still had an incredible look, he wanted to break his head, and he couldn't understand why the emperor killed himself like this, the script was not written like this!
"Your Majesty, I can't help it!"
"Your Majesty, don't!"
"Wang Qinian, in front of Your Majesty, you must not use swords and soldiers!"
When Li Hui's head hit the ground, the voices of the courtiers' dissuasion spread, but it was too late, Li Hui was already dead.
The scholars with an incredible face also reflected at this time, and at that time, more than 100 scholars yelled at Wang Mang: "Faint monarch, dare to trample on me like this!"
Kill!
In the face of a group of scolding scholars, Wang Mang only had one word, and Wang Qinian rushed directly with a knife.
Wang Qinian's thinking is simple, as the so-called one does not do two endlessly, anyway, he first ordered to kill more than 100 scholars, and then killed Li Hui with his own hands, and now he simply kills all the people, anyway, killing one is also killing, and killing two is also killing.
"Crazy!"
Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhang Jian finally couldn't help but roar, stood up directly, glared at Wang Mang with both eyes, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, do you want to be that faint king?"
"Zhang Jian, I respect you, it doesn't mean that you can be presumptuous in front of my eyes!" Wang Mang looked at Zhang Jian and said, "Now step down, I can treat you as if you didn't say anything just now!"
"Your Majesty......" Zhang Jian said bitterly: "Your Majesty, please stop, if you don't stop, then Your Majesty's reputation in Shilin will be ruined, but it is just some students with poor brains, why is Your Majesty so unwise!"
"Zhang Jian, your brain is broken, I don't have the same knowledge as you, Li Lan, help Lao Shangshu go home and rest!" Wang Mang said coldly.
"You ......" Zhang Jian stretched out his hand violently and waved Li Lan away, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, look around, who is not looking at you with timid eyes, what are you doing now, Your Majesty wants to shock the world, not by killing people to shock the world, but by virtue to shock the world, Your Majesty, you listen to the advice of the old minister, today's matter is settled, let Wang Qinian stop it first, and then make an edict for himself, the old minister will give up his old face and help His Majesty to publicize more propaganda in Shilin, this matter is probably over." ”
"Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian, what do you think of this person?" Wang Mang suddenly asked Zhang Jian.
Zhang Jian was silent for a moment before he said, "I don't know." ”
"You know. Wang Mang said directly: "Do you think that I am too much to use, or at least at the moment, in the eyes of an old minister like you, everything I am doing now is tossing around, and I have nothing to do, why is this happening, because you seek stability, and I will change!"
Without waiting for Zhang Jian to speak, Wang Mang continued: "The Great Qin has been established for thousands of years, and it has reached a situation where it has to change, if you continue to follow your old-fashioned approach, I am sure that my generation may still be able to continue to call the emperor in this land, but my next generation is likely to be driven out of Chang'an City!"
"Long live Your Majesty, Great Qin for thousands of generations, how can Your Majesty say that. Zhang Jian looked at Wang Mang with a shocked expression, as if he knew the emperor for the first time.
"Don't tell me long live, thousands of generations or something, that's all a lie, if you can really live it, then now being the emperor of Great Qin is not me, but my ancestor." Wang Mang sneered, looked at Zhang Jian, and finally his eyes fell on the ministers, Wang Mang said: "Here, I can tell you very clearly that the change of the law is necessary, and it must be implemented, if anyone stands in my way, then I don't care who you are, what background you have, I only have one word, that is to kill!"
"The ministers don't dare!" The ministers kowtowed one after another, looking at Wang Mang with frightened expressions.
Wang Mang just sneered and continued: "Who are you coaxing the scholars? Are you really like a fool and don't know anything? I don't care who among you is in charge of all this, I tell you today, don't mess with me, annoy me, I really make you cry!"
"Your Majesty......" Zhang Jian once looked at Wang Mang, and the old tears were full of tears.
Wang Mang just waved his hand and motioned for Li Lan to take the person away.
Seeing that Zhang Jian really let a group of brocade-clothed guards under Li Lan escort away as if they were prisoners, the ministers were dumbfounded for a while.
"Faint King!"
"Faint King!"
A series of voices suddenly came from the group of scholars, and the scholars resisted and yelled, but Wang Qinian cut down one after another, and each knife was a human head.
"Don't kill, we don't dare!"
"Your Majesty spares your life!"
"The villains don't dare anymore!"
"It was all Li Hui who instructed us to do it, we were coerced, how dare we go against the court!"
"Li Hui is a member of the Li family of the four major families in Nanyang, the Li family wants to put pressure on the imperial court through the trouble of the scholars, and then seek some interests that we don't know, this is all Li Hui, no, it is the four major families behind the instigation, it is none of our business, Your Majesty spares your life!"
A group of scholars finally made Wang Qinian scared of killing and begged loudly for mercy.
Wang Mang looked at this group of scholars who were under pressure and kneeling in a pool of blood and begging, looked at the ministers and said: "Just these scholars who are about to die and beg for mercy when they see a little blood, should you be blind? Do you really expect them to be the pillars of the imperial court?