Chapter 35: Ling Chi's Inner Attendant
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In the center of the imperial city, there is a palace complex covering more than 600,000 square meters.
Although thousands of years of history have left a mark on the architecture, the palace is still graceful and magnificent, showing the majesty of the Pigg Empire.
In fact, the palace was not built by the Pige Empire, but the legacy of the Elven Empire.
After the Pigs seized power, they did not demolish the elven imperial palaces, but replaced the plaques engraved with elven characters in each palace and continued to use them.
It's a pity that the Pigs are created words, and their use was very limited before the overthrow of the Elven Empire, and after the establishment of the Pigs Empire, the Pigs wanted to rule over tens of thousands of elves, and the Pigs were useless. Later, even the Pige Emperor himself did not recognize half of the Pig script.
Therefore, five hundred years ago, the then Emperor Pige ordered the plaque to be replaced again, with a plaque in elven script.
This incident made many Pige ministers shout that if the ancestral system is destroyed, the country will not be a country.
However, it was just talk, because they themselves did not know the Piggy script.
On this day, after the Hajj ceremony, the Pigg Emperor Uyasujit dismissed all the elven ministers and summoned the Pig ministers to the main hall to discuss the matter.
Uya Sujit said with a solemn face: "Ladies and gentlemen, I received a message from General Gilbert Flying Eagle yesterday that Jinglin had been attacked. ”
The crowd was amazed. After destroying the resistance of the elves physically and mentally, Jinglin has been peaceful for three thousand years, is there another turmoil?
Uyasujit summoned the chamberlain, who was beside him, and asked him to recite Gilbert's secret letter.
The chamberlain unfolded the secret letter and read it aloud: "Gilbert respectfully: On March 22, 3017 Piggy calendar, a meteorite fell from the sky and crashed into the magic shield of the Jinglin, and the wind and clouds in the forest were turbulent, and the strange sound lasted for nearly an hour. Luckily, the magic shield was sturdy and undamaged. On March 25, the elven rebels attacked the fortress. Fifty-two soldiers were killed because the ministers led troops to suppress the bandits, and the remaining troops were insufficient, and another Bucuri and one soldier were missing. The minister immediately led his troops back to help, and after fighting hard, he finally repelled the elven rebels before the fall of the key race. In addition, a young man of the Terrans, handsome and graceful, who passed through the Elven Fortress, was currently on his way to Piglia, the capital of the Empire, to beg His Majesty to summon him. Gilbert was in tears, and he didn't know what to do. ”
Prime Minister Hubert frowned when he heard the word Jinglin, but he did not make a sound.
It wasn't until the chamberlain finished reading the secret letter that he stepped forward, knelt down and played: "Your Majesty, in the past, Emperor Zu had an order that Jinglin was a secret of the Pige Empire, and it was strictly forbidden for the elves to probe, listen, and talk about all affairs involving Jinglin. ”
Emperor Uyasuji nodded and said, "I know this. That's why I asked the Elven Minister to step down, and my Minister Pigs came together to discuss the matter. If not, I really want the elven minister to be involved in this matter. These elven ministers are obedient and capable, and they are smart, and I am more at ease when things are left to them. ”
The ministers fell to their knees and shouted in unison: "The incompetence of the ministers has worried the emperor." ”
Uyasujit smiled and said, "Get up, I don't blame you. The elven minister is obedient, and my Pig minister is loyal. The difference between obedience and faithfulness is still clear to me. ”
Prime Minister Hubert did not stand up, but continued to kneel and said: "The emperor's mercy to Minister Pig, the minister always has it in his heart, and he does not dare to forget it in the slightest. However, at this moment, there are still non-Pigs in the main hall. ”
Emperor Pige and the ministers were still a little puzzled, but the attendants in the hall all knelt down.
In order to maintain the purity of the Pige Palace, there is only one male in the palace, and that is the Emperor. Even the prince, when he became an adult, had to leave the palace.
Most of the affairs in the palace were done by women.
And all the women in the palace, except for the biological mother, are the wives of the current emperor, in order to maintain the purity of the Pige bloodline, so the palace maids are only selected from the Pigs.
But there are some things in the palace that women can't do, so the palace also uses castrated men, who are called chamberlains.
Because of the scarcity of the Pigs, in order to maintain the advantage of the Pigs, Emperor Zu strictly ordered the castration of the Pigs and only the elves to serve them.
The elves were originally beautiful, but after castration, their appearance was more delicate, and their movements were more charming, so everyone in the imperial city was proud to have elf attendants.
Uya Sujit also has six of the most favored elven chamberlains, and legend has it that he also had an illicit relationship with Uya Sujit, who was his |luan boy|.
Most of the Pige ministers were unimpressed by His Majesty's hobby, and who didn't have a few habits that were not enough for outsiders. However, the more upright ministers in the Pigs, led by Prime Minister Hubert, hated this abnormal hobby and often wrote to admonish them.
Now it seems that he has seized the opportunity to take down the six most favored chamberlains of His Majesty the Emperor in one fell swoop. Because at this moment, in addition to the Pige ministers summoned by the emperor, only the palace maids who served on the side and the six chamberlains who were most favored by the emperor were left in the main hall.
The palace maids are the Pigs and can listen to royal secrets, while the chamberlains are elves and belong to a race that cannot listen to secrets.
A chamberlain cried and said, "Your Majesty, the villain is just a waiter next to him, not a pure intention to listen to secrets. I beg the emperor to spare the little man's life for the sake of the villain's service to His Majesty for many years. ”
The other chamberlain was so shrewd that he struck his own ear with his fist, and after only two blows, blood flowed from the ear hole - he had beaten himself to the point of deafness.
He said loudly: "The villain is born deaf, and I didn't hear what His Majesty the Emperor and the adults just said. ”
One of the chamberlains went even further, biting hard and spitting out a bloody piece of flesh - he actually bit his tongue off.
Then he pleaded vaguely, to the effect that he was now mute, and although he had misheard the secret, he could not divulge it, and begged the emperor to spare his life.
The other three chamberlains also kowtowed like pounding garlic.
The look of pity on Uyasujit's face turned up, but Hubert was unmoved, and continued: "Your Majesty, the ancestral system stipulates that if any elven clan discovers any secret related to the fortunes of the Pig, whether it is intentional or not, it will be punished by Ling Chi. ”
Ling Chi is to use a knife to cut off the flesh of the tortured person piece by piece until the tortured person turns into white bones.
The six attendants cried loudly.
Hubert took off his hat and placed it on his left-hand side, slamming his head on the ground.
This is a dead admonition, which means that if the emperor does not listen to his opinion, he will hang up his crown and leave.
When the hat is removed, Hubert's bare head is revealed.
In fact, it can't be said to be bare, Hubert's head is in the center, with three locks of hair, these three locks of hair are arranged in the word "pin", and the position of each lock of hair is only the size of a copper coin, and then crossed into braids, so the braids are extremely thin, a bit like a rat's tail.
The other ministers were also shocked, and after hesitating for a moment, they all took off their hats and kowtowed—what kind of thing are the chamberlains, who are guilty of doing it for them and the head of the court?
Uya Sujit's face turned pale.
It wasn't that he felt sorry for the six chamberlains, but that Hubert had hurt his pride.
He is the emperor of the Pigg Empire, and everything in the Pig Empire belongs to him, and he controls life and death.
Now Hubert insisted that he put six chamberlains to death, and it was the most miserable Ling Chi. If Hubert does what he says, where will he put his face?
However, Hubert's words were very reasonable, and he moved out of the ancestral system, and Uyasujit did not dare to openly oppose it no matter how angry he was.
Wuya Sujit coughed and said: "Aiqing, please get up, a little thing, can you commit a death sentence? In the three thousand years since the founding of the Pige Empire, there has been no faint king, relying not only on the excellent inheritance of the royal family, but also on the concerted efforts of all of you. Aiqing's opinion, I heard it in my heart. However, clothes are not as good as new, people are not as good as the old, can we open up the net for the old people? I decree that these six people will be brought into the ...... No, it's for them to guard the cold palace and never be replaced, so won't the secret be kept?"
The cold palace is a remote corner of the palace, where the king places his concubines who have fallen out of favor.
Wuya Sujit originally wanted to say that he had entered the cold palace, but suddenly remembered that although these six chamberlains were skin-to-skin with him, they were not concubines, so he had to change his words and let them guard the cold palace.
Hubert's head was still on the ground.
The other ministers wanted to stand up, but when they peeked at Hubert, they honestly knelt on the ground.
Uyasuritai's face became even more angry, and he roared, "Someone!"
"Yes!"
With an answer, the guards outside rushed in.