Chapter Seventy-Two: The Stone Breaks the Sky

"Stop!" The empress spoke, and Long Yuan, who had been moving forward, stopped directly.

The eunuchs and palace maids who followed around naturally all stopped aside.

Behind the door curtain, the empress didn't say anything for a long time, she couldn't see joy and anger on her face, with a contemplative look between her eyebrows, Wu Xukuan must be doing something today, this can already be confirmed, but what will he do?

"Holy Lord, let's go back first." Kang Longji, who was on the left side of Long Yuan, said, "The old slave will go and spread the word, saying that the Holy Lord has occasionally felt a cold, and this morning will be exempted from ......."

"Kang Gong ......" The empress's voice came from behind the door curtain, she called Kang Longji, and was silent, and then said after a while: "I can endure him Wu Xukuan for a while, can I endure him for a lifetime?" Repeatedly endure it, in the end, what else can be left except to end up in the name of weakness? The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty looked down on me, and they all felt that I was afraid of him Wu Xukuan, and endured it again and again, when was it a head? ”

There is a reason why Empress Shenzhao can succeed to the throne.

She is assertive, although she attaches great importance to Kang Longji's opinion, but it is not Kang Longji who says anything, she only nods, and from the paragraph just now, she can also feel her respect for Kang Longji.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have said that much at all.

Now the two have different opinions, she wants to convince Kang Longji!

In fact, what the empress said is very reasonable.

Endure and endure, it will only make more people despise her, and more people will turn to Wu Xukuan.

Especially today, it's special!

Before, Wu Xukuan led a large number of important ministers in the court to complain about illness and not go to the court, and finally arrived at the court, Wu Xukuan's illness was also directly cured, the empress must not be "sick" at this time, otherwise, it really became a big joke, how afraid of Wu Xukuan, will it be like this?

She's the Emperor!

Afraid that Wu Xukuan is a courtier like a tiger, if it goes on like this, she might as well give the country to Wu Xukuan directly, anyway, it will be sooner or later.

However, Kang Longji's meaning is not unreasonable.

It is clear that Wu Xukuan is going to make trouble today, and he has to hit it hard, he has to hit his head and break the blood, although he looks weak when he takes a step back, it is not a bad strategy to delay the army.

This matter is justified by the public, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and it makes sense.

However, Kang Longji did not try to convince the empress further, he originally wanted to train the empress to be an emperor with brains and decisions, not a puppet who obeyed his orders.

Moreover, anyway, now Wu Xukuan's 100,000 Sichuan River Army is still in Gaoyang County, dozens of miles away from Qianjing City, even if there is a big thing today, the empress will not be fine.

"Come on." In the end, Kang Longji only said these two words.

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Fengtian Palace, when the bell of the upper court rang, the princes and ministers who lined up outside the hall as early as possible, walked into the main hall from the south gate without hurrying, and at the same time, the empress entered from the east gate of the Fengtian Palace, surrounded by a group of eunuchs and palace maids, walked up the steps, ascended the high platform, and finally sat down on the dragon chair of the high platform.

Kang Longji and Zhou An followed the empress on the left side, and when the empress sat down, Zhou An was standing behind the empress on the left, while Kang Longji was in front of the right, both of them with floating dust on their hands.

In the wide hall with a very high roof, only more than 100 princes and ministers lined up to enter, which was more than in the regular dynasty, and the rest of the officials of the Qianjing city were all listed outside the gate.

Zhou An's position is very high, so he can see far away, and he can see that the black pressure outside the gate is full of people.

"Going to court." Kang Longji took a step forward and spoke.

"Ministers see the emperor, long live my emperor!" The Manchu Dynasty civil and military fell to the ground and saluted the empress, but at the front, there was a courtier who knelt on one knee and made a kneeling posture very copingly, and then got up directly.

It's Wu Xukuan!

This is the first time Zhou An has seen Wu Xukuan with his own eyes, including Xiao Anzi before, and he has not seen Wu Xukuan with his own eyes.

"Zhongqing is flat." The Empress preached.

"Your Majesty." Except for Wu Xukuan, everyone else thanked him in unison, and all of them got up, and many people noticed Zhou An, after all, there was one more person beside the empress, and it was impossible not to pay attention.

Although the empress usually goes to the court, there are many palace maids and eunuchs who come over, and the palace maids don't say anything, just say that those eunuchs are the empress's long-term entourage or permanent attendants, and they will not follow the empress to the high platform, but scattered all over the Fengtian Palace, guarding each gate.

The only one who can walk on the high platform with the empress is Kang Longji.

But today, there is one more little eunuch who doesn't look very old.

Most people don't know who this little eunuch is, but there are some who do.

In the morning, no one talked to each other, but after noticing Zhou An, many people looked at the ministers around them.

"There is a book to play, and there is no book to retreat." Kang Longji announced again.

The Fengtian Temple suddenly fell into a deathly silence! The atmosphere suddenly became extremely oppressive for some reason! Some princes and ministers hung their heads, and even put on a look that they didn't dare to breathe, which was very weird.

The oppressive silence didn't last long, though, and was soon broken.

"Weichen, there is a book." Wu Xukuan took a step forward and raised his head to look directly at the empress.

The courtiers are all to bend down and walk out of the queue, facing the emperor, bow their heads and speak, not look up at the emperor, otherwise it will be disrespectful, but these rules have not been reflected in Wu Xukuan.

He walked out directly, raised his head and talked to the empress.

"Bring it in." The empress also looked directly at Wu Xukuan and said majestically.

Kang Longji had already moved down the steps, and the courtiers wanted to hand over the recital, Kang Longji needed to go down, took the recital, walked up again, and handed it to the empress.

"Wechen hasn't prepared a transcript, can you dictate?" Wu Xukuan said.

Kang Longji, who had not yet walked down, stopped directly.

"Accurate!" Empress Dao.

Can the empress say no?

Absolutely! But that's meaningless, Wu Xukuan wants to dictate, the empress says no, he will still dictate, if the empress stops, he will dare to contradict, and then there will be a big fight, and he can't block Wu Xukuan's mouth, he can still say what he wants to say.

This kind of thing happened, and the consequence was that Wu Xukuan still said that the empress quarreled with him and lost her prestige.

So, if he wants to dictate, let him speak.

"Three hundred and seventy-two years ago, Emperor Taizu founded the country in the east, so far, the throne has been passed on to the nineteenth generation, the first seventeenth, all father to son, son to grandson, only to the eighteenth, Empress Xiaodun sought to usurp the throne, seize the imperial power, called the god capital, called the emperor for more than ten years......" Wu Xukuan's play, this opening remark, can be described as a shocking stone!

He actually started attacking the Empress of the Divine Capital directly!

There was an instantaneous buzzing sound inside and outside the hall, and many people were frightened and subconsciously made a sound.

Empress Shenzhao's face changed drastically, and she wanted to say something, but she heard Wu Xu raise her voice violently and suppressed all the noisy voices: "Yes! Empress Xiaodun is an immortal talent, although it is not the blood of the Wu family, nor has it been given the edict of Shizong Chan, and its succession to the unification is unreasonable, but it has reigned for more than ten years, the country has not changed, the four seas are leveled, and all countries come to the dynasty, it is for the prosperous era, and the Empress Xiaodun passed on the throne to the eldest daughter of Emperor Shizong, and the imperial power of the Wu clan was restored. ”

Many people were stunned at the moment, Wu Xukuan first said that the Empress of Shendu was plotting to usurp the throne, and it was unreasonable and illegal to ascend the throne, but he recognized the ability of the Empress of Shendu and agreed that this country belonged to the Wu family.

What exactly does Wu Xukuan want to say?

"But ......" Wu Xukuan's voice paused, and then said: "Since Empress Xiaodun was seriously ill and bedridden, until its collapse, in the past few years, Dongqian has been plagued by natural disasters and man-made disasters, first there has been a drought in the north for many years, and then there are rivers and rivers in the south flooding, the people are suffering, and the people are not able to make a living. ”

"In October last year, there was a locust plague in southern Fujian Province, the grain harvest was lost, and the displaced people caused chaos in many state capitals along the border, intercepting and killing large households, and impacting the county seats, but they still couldn't eat enough, and even the horror of Yizi cannibalism occurred, which was a tragedy."

"At the beginning of this year, Ganbei Province encountered a hundred years of extreme cold, the people died of hunger, hundreds of thousands, many counties and ten rooms and nine empty, although the imperial court allocated funds for disaster relief, but the court was full of moths, layers of greedy ink, the imperial court with a million taels of silver relief, but did not save a few more people."

"In March, the Pearl River burst its banks again, washing away more than 200 villages and counties, and the surrounding counties were affected, floating corpses for thousands of miles, and the imperial court had the intention to provide disaster relief, but the treasury was already empty, and the disaster relief food money was insufficient, and there was almost no effect."

"At this time, the world is like purgatory on earth, the land of Zhongzhou has always been rich, and it has not yet suffered, but outside Zhongzhou, the world is suffering. In the court, the government is chaotic, the corrupt people are like rats in the granary, outside the court, thousands of miles of red land, starvation is everywhere, there are rivers and lakes and green forests that take advantage of the chaos, and there are also rich and killing officials for food, but this is only internal worries, and external troubles! In recent years, the northern Yirong country has repeatedly violated the border, and the small feudal states in the southwest no longer call them ministers and pay tribute, and the anti-intention is obvious. Today's Dongqian, internal and external troubles, there is already a building will fall, if there is no holy monarch, the mountains and rivers will collapse, the country will not be a country! ”

"Holy!" Wu Xukuan's tirade was not finished, and he suddenly took a step forward and accelerated his speech, "Empress Xiaodun usurped the throne, but her great talent, and the prosperity of the country, did not change the country, and did not hold her responsible, Empress Xiaodun is passed on to you, and our courtiers should be fully assisted, you are the daughter of Sejong, although the throne is passed on to men and not to women, and your succession to the unification is against the ancestral system, but if you have the talent of Empress Xiaodun, you can save the building from the general tilt and turn the tide, and the ministers will not have any criticism!" ”

"But! You don't have the talent of Queen Hyodun! ”

Wu Xukuan suddenly accentuated his voice, "Although you are full of knowledge, but you have not experienced the suffering of the people, you have been on the throne for several months, and I have not seen you have any effective moves, although you are still young, you have just ascended the throne, you can be forgiven for being at a loss, you will still grow, and the ministers can also wait for you to be reborn and become a generation of sages and famous monarchs!" But! This Jiangshan Sheji can't wait for you! I can't wait for you in this world! The world is coming to an end! If you can't save the people of the world! What kind of face do you have to sit on top of the high hall, and how can you be worthy of the ancestors of the Dongqian royal family? ”

"You !!" Empress Shenzhao slammed into her feet from the dragon chair.

"Wechen is bold!" Wu Xukuan's voice instantly became like a Hong Zhong, like thunder, "Please abdicate and make way for Xian!" Hand over the throne to the capable people of the Wu clan and save the world from fire and water! ”

After Wu Xukuan finished speaking, he knelt heavily on one knee and hung his head!

"Weichen is bold, please abdicate and make way for Xian!" In the main hall, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military fell to their knees.

"Weichen is bold, please abdicate and make way for Xian!" Outside the main hall, people also fell to the ground in black pressure.

Please abdicate the empress!

The sound is like a tsunami of mountains, wave after wave!

The empress stood on the high platform, looking at the courtiers kneeling down below, her face pale.

Bone-chilling!