Chapter 7: The Emperor's Wrath
The imperial capital of Xianyang, in the Xianyang Palace, the early dynasty, which was arguing like a noisy city on weekdays, was unusually quiet today, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty all lowered their heads, not daring to look up at the golden dragon chair with a face full of anger and gloom.
This morning, the civil and military officials of the dynasty quarreled endlessly, waiting for the emperor's order, and they would discuss it again tomorrow, and then they could go home for dinner.
But people are not as good as heaven, and when the quarrel was in full swing, an eight-hundred-mile urgent document was sent to the court.
Ying Kongli just glanced at it, then he was furious, threw the document on the ground, and scolded angrily: "Something that has not happened in a thousand years, in my hands, could it be that I am young?"
As soon as these words came out, the Manchu Dynasty was shocked, and in the end, it was the CRRC Mansion beside the emperor that ordered Zhao Ling to pick up the document tremblingly and read out the content of the document.
After reading it, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were even more shocked, the imperial envoy was assassinated?
If the emperor dies, the emperor will be humiliated; since ancient times, if the emperor is humiliated, the minister will die.
So all the ministers had to shout: "The ministers are guilty!"
However, the emperor did not speak, and they could only stand like this, the imperial privilege, and the emperor could not kneel above the six realms of the divine soul realm.
But even when they were standing, their backs were like sharp edges, and they couldn't stand up.
Emperor Gain's last sentence "bullying the young" is too terrifying, as if it is a pun, thinking like this, some ministers have inadvertently drifted to the middle-aged man led by Ying Kongli's left subordinates, the prime minister of the Great Qin Empire - Li Tai.
Everyone knows that three days ago, Ying Kongli wanted to send a strong man from the Xuanxuan Realm to send the imperial envoy to Yuyou City, but was rejected by Li Tai on the grounds that "the great Jin in the world, how can the thieves assassinate?" and the strong people in the imperial capital through the Xuanjing Realm all have important positions and cannot be transferred.
Ying Kongli has never refutated, but today's assassination happened, and he is mainly responsible for rejecting the emperor's order!
The words "bullying the young" are not said to Li Tai?
As if sensing everyone's gaze, Li Tai took a step forward, leaned over and said, "This matter is caused by the minister's poor consideration, and I ask Your Majesty to surrender the crime!"
Ying Kongli's face softened slightly, and he said lightly: "The prime minister said that he laughed, and the prime minister is also thinking about the country, how can he blame you for this incident?"
Besides, the Li family has worked hard for the Great Qin Empire, and their dedication is not as good as Lu Chunqiu at the beginning!"
These words sounded in the minds of many ministers like thunder, is this a compliment?
It seems to be a compliment, but it is full of deep meaning.
Lü Chunqiu, once a prime minister when the Great Qin Empire was still a small country in the northwest, his status is like that of today's prime minister.
At the beginning, Lü Chunqiu proposed a series of reforms, so that Daqin began to slowly become stronger, and the reason why Daqin could unify Kyushu was closely related to Lü Chunqiu's reforms!
Lu Chunqiu's contribution to Great Qin is not insignificant.
However, what about the ending of Lu Chunqiu?
After the first emperor ascended the throne as the queen of Qin, someone accused him of forming a party for personal gain, fornicating with the enemy country, the first emperor was furious, and under the investigation of the black ice platform that was not reorganized at that time, the evidence was conclusive!
The first emperor remembered his great dedication to the country, and demoted the Lu family to Shuzhou, and then Lu Chunqiu committed suicide because of guilt and facelessness.
The Lu clan also declined, and it was not until after the unification of Kyushu that the first emperor was relieved and took the Lu family to Xianyang, but the Lu family was not allowed to enter the Shi for life!
Win the empty and borrow Lu Chunqiu to praise Li Tai, the implication is self-evident!
The corners of Li Tai's mouth, who lowered his head, showed a batch of bitterness, and said: "The minister is ashamed, and he asks His Majesty to surrender!"
Sun Tinglei, the Taiwei Gongwei on the side, was shocked in his heart, as he expected, the emperor was going to make a move against the Li family!
He's right!
Since last night, when Ying Kongli asked him about Confucianism in Luzhou, he had some guesses.
Li and Confucianism have been inseparable since the first emperor killed the seventy-two Confucian doctors, and it was the prime minister and Legalist Li Yan who killed the Confucian doctors at that time!
It can be said that Confucianism was forced to go into hiding, and Li Yan contributed a lot!
After the seclusion of Confucianism, Li Yan began to respect his own teachings of the law, and the first emperor readily agreed, and in the next thousand years, seventy percent of the people in the court were from the Legalist family!
And Li Fa, Li Fa, the Li family and the Legalist family have never been separated, and the Legalist family can have today's glory, which is closely related to the Li family!
Most of the people of the Legalists in the court are looking forward to the Li family, and in addition, the Li family has been the prime minister for three generations, and the reputation is so high, I am afraid that the emperor is also afraid!
Therefore, last night's talk also made Gongsun Tinglei think clearly, this young emperor probably wanted to use the hand of Confucianism to suppress the Li family, and prevent the Li family from becoming a big family in the court.
And after his marriage with the imperial family is announced, his Gongsun clan will become the emperor's pawn and fight with the Li clan.
Thinking like this, before Gongsun Tinglei could react from his reverie, he saw Ying Kongli stand up from the dragon chair, ignoring Li Tai, who was leaning down, and took the imperial sword from the hand of Zhao Ling, the commander of the Zhongche Prefecture, Tianwen.
In an uproar, Ying Kongli pulled out his sword, his face was full of anger, and he scolded loudly: "I swear by the First Emperor's sword Tianwen, although I am young, but I will not be humiliated!"
With the words, a sword qi came out from the sky, the cold air was pressing, I don't know whether it was intentional or not, a sword mark appeared on the stone slab in front of Prime Minister Li Tai!
All the people were shocked, and they all leaned over and shouted: "Wait for the death penalty!"
Ying Kong snorted coldly, ignored the frightened ministers in the whole scene, and turned to leave.
Zhao Ling hurriedly shouted: "Retreat!" and then hurriedly chased after him.
In Xianyang Palace, Li Tai's face was a little ugly, and the sword mark in front of him was only a fraction of a millimeter away from slashing his neck and making his head fall to the ground!
This is the Emperor's warning to him that if I want, I can take off your head at any time.
Li Tai was a little clear at this moment, what this young emperor wanted was absolute imperial power like the first emperor, and he would follow his words and decrees.
In order to achieve this goal, the First Emperor did not hesitate to send Lu Chunqiu to the guillotine, so how could this emperor not push him and the entire Li family into the streets of Xianyang to behead the public?
But Li Tai didn't have a choice, in Li Tai's eyes, Daqin is not only the Daqin of the Win clan, but also the blood of his Li clan in every inch of Daqin!
The First Emperor, since ancient times, there is only one, and only one is enough!
Raising his head, the hall was already empty, and there were only a few people left, all of whom were his henchmen!
Li Tai secretly glanced at them, let them go first, and secretly cursed in his heart, a group of fools, I don't know what reason that Lu Chunqiu was killed?
A bunch of idiots, want to kill me?
Do you really think that His Majesty the Emperor will not pay attention to this place when he is gone?
When several ministers saw Li Tai's eyes, they also seemed to realize something, and hurriedly left, leaving Li Tai alone.
Li Tai looked at the golden dragon chair on the high platform, his eyes darkened, but he was firm again!
Great Qin is by no means anyone's Great Qin, all the people of Great Qin have shed their blood for this country!
With a deep sigh, Li Tai also slowly left the hall, but he was not in high spirits when he came, and his steps were a little staggering!