The atmosphere in the Xuanzheng Hall was extremely dull, and the ministers didn't dare to take a breath.

This kind of thing happened at the feet of the world, and Emperor Xia didn't know how angry he was now, they didn't dare to provoke Emperor Xia at this time.

After a while, Emperor Xia spoke: "Since I ascended the throne, it is the second time that such a bad incident has happened in the capital, this is a contempt for the imperial power and a provocation to me!" ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Xia's gaze fell on the commander of the forbidden army, "Li Ming, have you caught all the assassins last night?" ”

Hearing this, Li Ming, the commander of the forbidden army, knelt on the ground and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, when your subordinates arrived at the Eighth Prince's Mansion yesterday, those assassins had already fled. ”

Li Ming's cold sweat flowed, and he was afraid that Emperor Xia would drag him out and cut him in anger.

Hearing Li Ming's words, Emperor Xia said coldly: "Last time, you let Chen Guoyu infiltrate the palace, I didn't punish you, this time there was another bad incident in the imperial city, and you didn't even see the shadow of the assassin, what's the use of asking you to be the commander of the forbidden army!" ”

"From now on, Li Ming will be relieved of all his duties and assigned to the frontier."

Hearing Emperor Xia's words, Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief, and then kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty Longen!" ”

Although the position is gone, Li Ming still feels a little lucky.

At this time, Emperor Xia continued: "This case will be handed over to the Criminal Department for investigation, and within three days, I need to get a satisfactory answer!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the officials of the Criminal Department suddenly trembled.

Where can they check this kind of thing, dare to investigate.

The assassins directly washed the Eighth Prince's Mansion in blood, and even the Grandmaster of the Eighth Prince's Mansion was killed, which shows that at least one of the assassins last night was a Grandmaster.

Those who can send a grandmaster and dare to run to the mansion of a prince with great fanfare must be a big force behind it.

It may even be the handiwork of another prince.

When the time comes, they really find out that it was done by another prince, it will definitely be a hot potato for the Criminal Department, in Great Xia, the Criminal Department has no way at all, and is not qualified to try the prince's crime.

Although they knew that this was a hot potato, the officials of the Criminal Department did not dare to refuse, and now Emperor Xia was angry, they dared to say anything at this time, for fear that their heads would move later.

At this time, Emperor Xia said to Lu Shuyun: "King Qi, get up, I will make decisions for you in this matter." ”

Lu Shuyun hurriedly said: "Erchen thanked his father. ”

Emperor Xia did not continue to say anything about this matter, although this matter is very bad, but now the assassins have not been caught, and there is not even any information about the assassins, and it is too early to discuss how to deal with the assassins.

They had other things to discuss today, and Emperor Xia looked at Hubu Shangshu at this time and said, "Wang Shangshu, I heard that you have been stuck with the grain and grass of the army going to Beijun, I don't know if there is such a thing?" ”

Wang Hai, the head of the household department, hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers want to get stuck with the grain and grass of the army, it's that the household department has a serious deficit, and it really can't get together so much silver taels for a while." ”

Emperor Xia said indifferently: "You mean that if you can't get together the money, the imperial court doesn't have to send troops to Beijun to resist the barbarians?" ”

"Wang Hai, could it be that you have colluded with the barbarians, and want the barbarian chief to drive straight into the capital and deliberately delay the time for the army to leave?"

Hearing Emperor Xia's words, Wang Hai's face instantly turned pale, their Wang family did collude with the barbarians, but he didn't expect Emperor Xia to say it directly.

Although it sounded like Emperor Xia was testing them, Wang Hai always felt as if Emperor Xia knew something.

Wang Hai immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is already doing his best to prepare the food and grass of the army. ”

Emperor Xia said coldly: "Within three days, if the army is still unable to go north, you don't have to do it." ”

Just as Emperor Xia was about to continue to say something, a voice suddenly came from the door of the main hall.

"Northland Emergency!"

The next moment, a red silk messenger rushed into the main hall.

After seeing the red silk messenger, the faces of the ministers in the main hall became very unsightly.

At this time, the Red Silk Messenger is used, does that mean that the barbarians have begun to move south?

The army of the imperial court here is still worried about food and grass, and the barbarian cavalry in the north has already gone south, how can this hold the northern county?

Is it true that you have to rely on that waste prince?

Forget it, I'm afraid that the barbarian cavalry hasn't arrived in Yancheng yet, and the waste prince will flee back to the capital.

At this time, the Red Silk messenger said: "The Barbarian Beixian King has led 100,000 cavalry to converge in the Barbarian Heavenly Wolf King's Royal Court, and is about to go south!" ”

"This is the battle report of the North King, and the North King sent a letter to His Majesty."

Hearing this, everyone in the hall was stunned.

Letter?

A prince who is a vassal writes a letter to the emperor?

This......

It doesn't seem impossible.

Although the king of the north has gone out to become a vassal domain, he is the emperor's son after all, and there is a father-son relationship.

It's just that since the establishment of Great Xia, it seems that no vassal king has ever written a letter to the emperor, and it is all a twist and turn.

The eunuch beside Emperor Xia did not hesitate, and immediately came to the front of the red silk messenger, picked up the battle report and the family letter, and then presented it to Emperor Xia.

After Emperor Xia took the battle report and the family letter, he first read the battle report, but there was nothing wrong with the war report, and the king of the north also talked about the arrangements of the northern county in it.

However, what puzzled Emperor Xia was that Lu Chen actually planned to fortify the wall and clear the wilderness, and transfer all the common people north of Yancheng to the south of Yancheng, and then he led the army and the 300,000 army of the barbarians to fight to the death in Yancheng.

Xia Huang frowned, who came up with this strategy?

He didn't think that his son of waste had such courage, not to mention whether this strategy worked or not, and how much courage it took to dare to do so.

Yancheng is currently only 30,000, at most 50,000 soldiers, and it may not be so easy for a Yancheng to block the barbarian cavalry.

And this will also cause Yancheng to be besieged by the barbarian army, what kind of character is his son, how can he not know, Emperor Xia does not believe that Lu Chen will put himself in danger.

After reading the battle report, Emperor Xia then opened Lu Chen's family letter.

Just seeing the beginning of the family letter, Emperor Xia snorted coldly, and he said how Lu Chen suddenly became so bold, it turned out that he wanted to send a large army to Beijun as soon as possible to support.

Seeing Lu Chen's crying father in the family letter, Xia Huang wanted to tear up the family letter immediately, but he finally couldn't help but read it.

When he saw the back, his face instantly darkened, especially when he saw the last row of words, Emperor Xia's brows immediately furrowed.

In fact, he had long known that this time the barbarians going south must be related to the big clan, and this kind of thing could be guessed without investigation, but he didn't know who was colluding with the barbarians.

The weapons of the Great Xia system mentioned by Lu Chen in his family letter only confirmed his guess again.

What really made Emperor Xia frown was that Lu Chen mentioned the Eighth Prince in his letter.

(End of chapter)