The light of day has been clear, the ceremony of worshiping the heavens is about to begin, a prince and nobles, and the guests who watch the ceremony have sat down in front of the altar, and the musicians of the ritual department are arranged on both sides of the altar, holding the ritual instrument of drum music, and their eyes are solemn.

Emperor Jin was dressed in a luxurious robe, rusted with the sun, moon and stars, wearing twelve golden crowns, a jade belt around his waist, holding Zhengui, accompanied by Taiwei Taoists, step by step to the center of the altar to stand still.

In front of him are nine jade tripods, which contain blood, juice, live pigs and other offerings.

At the front of the altar there is a pile of firewood, spread on the haystack, wait for a while the ritual music is in unison, after the Emperor Jin slaughters the living creatures, he will put the slaughtered animals, as well as jade, brocade silk and other sacrifices on the firewood stack and light it, so that the fireworks rise high in the sky, so that the Emperor of Heaven smells the smell.

After that, Emperor Jin still needs to offer wine to the Emperor of Heaven, and the Taiwei Taoist will read the prayer for the sacrifice to the sky, and then bless the ministers, and the entire ceremony of worshipping the sky will be completed.

The musicians on both sides were ready to start playing at any time, and the Taiwei Daoist was holding a roll of bamboo slips, and his expression seemed to be a little nervous, as for the live pig as a sacrifice in the jade ding, it was still struggling desperately.

As long as Emperor Jin has something to say, the ceremony of sacrificing to heaven will officially begin.

Everyone is looking forward to this moment, not only the powerful people who are lucky enough to climb to the top of Changbai Mountain today, but also the ordinary people who have fallen to their knees at the foot of the mountain, as well as the people from all over the world.

But before that, according to the old practice, Emperor Jin still needs to ask a question in public.

"Today, I am here to pray for the blessings of all the people, to thank the heavens and the earth for the nourishment, to feed all things, and to tell the Emperor of Heaven. Now that the time has come, the ceremony is about to begin, I wonder if you still have any objections here?"

Of course, these words were not really asking these ministers and cultivation giants in the field whether they agreed to start the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony, but just going through a process.

In fact, under normal circumstances, no one will jump out to oppose it, after all, everything is ready at this moment, only the east wind is owed, but anyone who is qualified to climb Changbai Mountain to watch the ceremony is not a fool, and no one will touch the mold of His Majesty the Emperor at this time.

But today, a guy who is not afraid of death walked out of the crowd.

"Your Majesty, minister, there is an objection!"

When the words fell, everyone in the audience, including Taiwei Daoren, Qin Xiaohua, Nan Sirong, and Prime Minister Ye Lao, was stunned, and some even wondered if they had auditory hallucinations.

Immediately afterwards, everyone's subconscious action was to turn their heads, wanting to see which thing that didn't know whether they were alive or dead dared to come out and make trouble at this time.

However, when they saw who the man was, the shock on their faces immediately turned to deep doubt.

Because before this moment, no one seemed to know that this old marquis had also come to Changbai Mountain!

Today's Dajin Dynasty has only three marquis.

Weining Hou Yejiang is leading the Thorn Army south to Jiangzhou.

Han Bai, the Marquis of the Ten Directions, and his Imperial Yaobei Army, should still be on the front line of the confrontation with the demon army.

Therefore, the person who came could only be the last Hou Ye.

Pingnanhou, Xue Sheng!

Speaking of which, this name has indeed been lost for a long time, since this Marquis Xue escaped from the hands of Cao Jing, the ruling secretary, and returned to Xiling on the way to Beijing on the way to Beijing, because of repeated assassinations, people have never heard of him again.

But I don't know why he suddenly appeared at the ceremony of sacrificing heaven today?

What's even more bizarre is that these people present obviously know that Pingnanhou is not like Ye Jiang and Han Bai, he is a wise and brave, brave and warlike marshal, although he is nominally responsible for commanding the military affairs of the Xiling Army, but in fact he is as timid as a mouse, and he is nicknamed: General Runran.

Because in the course of the battle between the two armies, Hou Ye Xue found any signs of possible defeat, he was the one who ran the fastest!

But how could he dare to jump out against the sacrifice to the heavens at this time?

Where is this still the cowardly runaway general?

It's just bold!

Who would have thought that Emperor Jin did not show displeasure because of Pingnanhou's shouting, but asked: "Oh? I don't know what objections Pingnanhou has?"

Xue Sheng took two steps forward, knelt on his knees, and said loudly: "Back to Your Majesty, since ancient times, the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens has been the most sacred ceremony of my Dajin Dynasty. But the minister found that there were unscrupulous people in the field today, which really made the minister's heart uneasy, so he said this!"

As he spoke, Xue Sheng slowly raised his head and directly fell his gaze on the side of the Hubu Shangshu and Qin Xiaohua!

For a while, everyone in the audience was in an uproar, but Qin Xiaohua's face was not shocked, and it seemed to have a faint smile.

Comparatively speaking, the look in Emperor Jin's eyes was even more unpredictable, and in the face of Xue Sheng's earth-shattering accusation, he just nodded lightly: "If Pingnanhou has anything to say, you might as well say it directly." ”

Emperor Jin didn't let Xue Sheng calm down, so he still knelt on the ground, but what he said next almost startled everyone present to jump up from the ground.

"In the summer of 127 years of Yonghe calendar, the grassland people suddenly raised troops to attack Changyan Pass, my Xiling army suffered heavy casualties in that battle, fled in defeat, and lost Ningwu Pass ten days later, so that half of the grass cutting defense line fell into the hands of the enemy, although His Majesty was merciful afterwards, and did not blame, but the minister could not sleep day and night, and it was difficult to sleep and eat, as if as soon as he closed his eyes, he could hear tens of thousands of heroic souls wailing in his ears!"

"Today, my Dajin has reconciled with the chiefs of various tribes in the grassland, but the minister still can't forget those innocent soldiers in the army, so today he has the courage to ask His Majesty for guilt and accuse the real culprit behind the rout of the Xiling Army that day......"

Speaking of this, Xue Sheng directly raised his hand, pointed at Qin Xiaohua, and shouted with tears in his eyes: "This is the person!"

Hearing this, Emperor Jin seemed to chuckle lightly and said, "How could Qin Shangshu have something to do with the defeat of the Xiling Army? ”

Xue Sheng turned around, slammed his head into the ground, let out a muffled sound, and then said in a sad voice: "How could the minister admit his mistake! If it wasn't for Qin Shangshuke's deduction of military salaries and the distribution of inferior materials, how could the tens of thousands of hot-blooded men of my Xiling Army be buried in other places!"

As soon as these words came out, even the giants of the cultivation world who had been watching the development of the gaffe with a cold eye also showed incredible looks.

Perhaps no one would have expected that before the ceremony of sacrificing to heaven began, there would be such a scene of Hou Ye suing Shangshu.

And don't forget, Qin Xiaohua is not an ordinary household book, but the head of the Qin family among the nine great families, and the chief shopkeeper of Shantang!

Not to mention whether Ping Nanhou's accusation is true, the key is where he got the courage!

However, what happened next really subverted the cognition of everyone in the field, and even Ping Nanhou himself was slightly stunned.

I saw Emperor Jin looking at Qin Xiaohua and slowly said, "Qin Shangshu, do you have anything to justify?"

Qin Xiaohua shook her head calmly: "No." ”

Hearing this, Emperor Jin's face did not show the slightest anger, and he said equally calmly: "In this case, Qin Nian, let's take Qin Shangshu down first, and the rest will be tried again later." ”

The voice fell, as if the head of the adjudication division who had been waiting on the side for a long time, Qin Nian, holding a fine steel rope, slowly walked in front of Qin Xiaohua.

However, Qin Xiaohua didn't move, just lifted the black jade short staff in his hand up by half an inch.

At the same time, a middle-aged man with kind eyebrows and a bloated body in the crowd also stepped half a foot towards the middle of the field.

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PS: Thanks to 'Biluo Huangquan XII.' for 100 tips. (To be continued.) )