Chapter 21: The Siege of the Prime Minister's Mansion
In the middle of the palace, Fury walked through the lantern-laden corridor into the imperial study with a dust whisk in his hand, and knelt on the carved basalt floor.
"Your Majesty, Li Hu has failed."
Sitting on the gilded dragon chair, Qingli wiped his longbow's hand and paused slightly, raising his eyelids.
"Tell me."
"The old slave sent someone to spend some silver money to find a sixth-order martial artist from outside the city, and tested the power of the treasure in Zhang Tian's hand.
Li Hu hid in the dark and observed, thinking that he had a way to deal with it, so he robbed and killed, but he also died under the strange treasure that could make a loud noise and was extremely powerful.
General Zhang, who rushed to the rescue, recognized Li Hu's corpse, recruited 3,000 elites from the military camp outside the city into the city, and had already besieged the Prime Minister's Mansion! ”
Qingli had an inexplicable look in his eyes, and said after a while: "I heard that the treasure in the hands of the heavens was amazingly powerful, but I still didn't believe it, but now I have seen it."
Since that kid has a great life, I will leave him to live a little longer! ”
Furui knelt on the ground, his head almost touching the ground, "Your Majesty, the old slave is puzzled, Zhang Tian not only handed over the formula, but also took the initiative to offer the factory shop, why did Your Majesty kill him?" ”
Qingli stroked his palm on the longbow and chuckled, "After taking the formula of Zhang Tian's lipstick, I do feel a little guilty about the Zhang family in my heart.
But Zhang Tian is smarter than I imagined, he sees the situation that will inevitably compete with the royal family in the future,
Tens of millions of taels of business a year, say don't want it, don't want it, how can this be the courage that ordinary people can have? ”
"Your Majesty, you admire him so much," Fury wondered.
"Hehe, that's why I can't keep him! I wanted to take it slowly, let his business 'naturally' decline,
But that Zhang Tian gave me all the factories and shops, and now in the imperial city, rumors about me taking by force, coercion and temptation are rife, how can I tolerate it?
As long as Zhang Tian is dead, within two years, he will be completely forgotten, and when people see lipstick again, they will only think of me Qing! ”
Fury lay on the ground, cold sweat broke out behind his back as he listened, and he now regretted why he owed this question.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
Qingli got up and paced to Furui's side, "Xu Che and the third prince are too close..."
Furui suddenly realized, no wonder the emperor wanted to use Li Hu's chess piece!
The first person who asked His Majesty to ask for lipstick business was Xu Che and the third prince.
And now, the lipstick business that the third prince tried so hard to come to was handed over by His Majesty to the five princes who had no ambition to take care of.
With Li Hu, whether Zhang Tian dies or not, it will intensify the contradiction between the Zhang family and the Xu family.
Even if Xu Che said that Li Hu was not sent by him to kill Zhang Tian, Zhang Yi would never believe it, so that Zhang Yi could be used to balance Xu Che.
Xu Che would naturally figure out who would be the person who had the ability to place an eighth-layer cultivation master beside him!
This is His Majesty's alarm bell for him!
Xu Che naturally broke off contact with the three princes, and the three princes, who were bent on ascending the throne, lost their greatest help in the court and completely lost their threat to the emperor...
It seems to be killing Zhang Tian alone, but in fact, one ring after another, but Your Majesty is not afraid of Zhang Yi knowing?!
Qingli glanced at Furui, "Okay, drive out of the palace, I still have to add a fire to the prime minister,
If he Xu Che is confused and doesn't understand what I mean, wouldn't he be wasting my good intentions!? ”
"Wow!" Fury put away his thoughts and quickly got up from the ground.
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As the night deepened, Zhang Yi sat on a black lacquered chair, and behind him stood thousands of soldiers dressed in silver armor, holding long knives at their waists, and exuding murderous intent all over their bodies.
If you look down from the sky, the blazing torches resemble a long dragon, completely enclosing this huge courtyard.
Zhang Yi looked up at the plaque hanging on the gate in front of him, the three big characters of the golden Prime Minister's Mansion were extremely eye-catching, and then he looked at the dozens of sergeants standing in front of the door below.
These sergeants are the soldiers of the city defenders who are responsible for protecting the safety of the prime minister, and it is estimated that they have never even been on the battlefield, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads when they saw the battle in front of them.
"Zhang Yi, you are so bold, you dare to lead troops into the imperial city, and dare to surround the Prime Minister's Mansion! Are you trying to rebel!? ”
The butler of the Prime Minister's Mansion hid behind the guards, revealing half of his pale head, and shouted loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, a long arrow flew out of nowhere, and instantly pierced the hat on the butler's head!
The housekeeper sat on the ground in fright, shaking like chaff, "Zhang Yi!" You dare to kill in public! ”
A general standing at Zhang Yi's deputy sneered disdainfully, "Talking about the rebellion of the country and the public in vain, its crime should be punished, and it will spare your life for the sake of the prime minister's face,
If you speak out again, even if you hide in the house, the next arrow will definitely kill you! ”
The housekeeper still wanted to speak, but when he heard the general's words, he immediately swallowed the words into his stomach, how dare he speak again.
At this moment, a rickety old man wearing a satin dark robe and a gray beard walked from the courtyard to the door with his hands behind his back, and his cloudy eyes looked at the battle outside, and sighed.
The housekeeper saw the old man and hurriedly got up, "Prime Minister, Zhang Yi, he..."
"Alright, you can step aside..."
After speaking, the old man slowly walked to the door and looked at Zhang Yi, "Guogong, why are you surrounding my mansion today?" Do you know what it is to lead troops into the city without permission? ”
"What crime? As a prince of the country, I supervised all the affairs of the military department, and the city defenders neglected their duties, and let gangsters enter the imperial city several times to commit murder, and the commander and his generals have been taken down by me and imprisoned in the military department prison pending trial.
These 3,000 elites were ordered by me to enter the city and temporarily take over the guards of the imperial city. Zhang Yi chuckled.
Hearing this, Xu Che was stunned, what happened in the city?
Most of the generals of the city defenders are his descendants, and if anything happened in the city in the past, they would send someone to report to him, but now they have all been arrested by Zhang Yi, and he still doesn't know what happened.
"Hmph, why do you want to surround my Prime Minister's Mansion when you take over the city guard?!"
"After investigation, your son Xu Wei is seriously suspicious, and I hope that the prime minister will hand him over and return to the military headquarters with me for investigation." Zhang Yi said with a sneer.
"You talk nonsense! My son has always been peaceful, how can he do anything evil?! Zhang Yi, don't spew blood! Quickly retreat from the army, I will not blame the past, otherwise I will enter the palace to face the saint and sue you for slander! Xu Che glared at Zhang Yi and roared.
Zhang Yi waved his hand, and several sergeants carried Li Hu's body out and threw it in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"Prime Minister, don't worry, you always know the people on this earth, right?"
Seeing the corpse of Li Hu covered in blood on the ground, Xu Che's pupils instantly contracted, but the expression on his face did not change at all.
"Xu Hu is indeed from my house, but what bad things has he done, and what does he have to do with me?"