On the first day, the emperor led the princes back to the palace. Above the court, hundreds of officials knelt together. When the man sitting on the dragon chair said "Zhong Aiqing is flat", the civil and military officials dared to stand up.

All the officials lowered their heads at this time, and no one dared to touch the emperor's moldy head at this time! They already knew about the assassination of the four princes of Nanyou, and they really couldn't imagine which sect dared to commit such a bold assassination!

Seeing that none of the officials in the court dared to speak out, the man seemed to be enraged, and shouted: "Are you all dumb? Don't you usually be able to speak! Don't tell me that you haven't heard the wind, have I always raised a bunch of waste!"

Seeing that the emperor was furious, the hundred officials fell to the ground again with trembling, shouting, "Please forgive your majesty!"

At this time, a slender man, handsome man walked in from the outside, the most surprising thing was that he actually carried a long knife around his waist, you must know that no martial arts are allowed to enter the palace and the court are not allowed to carry a sword, since the establishment of the Tongtian Dynasty, only one person has received the emperor's amnesty, that is Zhong Zhixing! After the slaughter of the Ao Zhou soldiers, the emperor pardoned him for being able to face the saint with a sword, which is also because of the emperor's trust in him. And this man is obviously not Zhong Zhixing, how dare he carry a knife to face the saint?

The man with the knife knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty!"

"Wu Chao, of course you are guilty!I handed over all the guards to you to command, and you actually let the assassins go up the mountain, I want to ask you, how did you become the commander of the guards!" The emperor said angrily.

"The minister is guilty!" said the man with the knife kneeling on the ground and bowing his head.

"Okay, since you know your guilt, I won't talk nonsense with you! Come on, drag Wu Chao down and behead me to make an example!"

The man with the knife knelt on the ground and was unmoved, but the surrounding ministers of civil and military affairs were anxious, and almost everyone opened their mouths to intercede for him.

The emperor laughed angrily, and said coldly: "Wu Chao, I didn't expect your popularity to be so good, even Mrs. Ye interceded for you? Are you forcing me to put pressure on me?!"

"Don't dare!" the officials hurriedly shook their heads.

"Don't dare? I don't think you dare to do anything! Wu Chao, as the commander of the guards, holds an important position and has a heavy responsibility! It is the four princes who are in danger this time, what if it is me next time! Do you also intercede! Do you wait until I am dead to be happy?!" The more the emperor spoke, the more angry he became, and he raised his hand and overturned all the folds on the table to the ground. The heads of the hundred officials are about to be lowered to the ground, they have never seen the emperor lose his temper so much!

The emperor gasped and sat on the dragon chair, pointing to the man with the shoulder knife kneeling below and shouted: "Wu Chao, I will give you a chance to explain! If you persuade me, I will spare you the death penalty, if you are not convinced, I will prepare a good coffin for you for the sake of your loyalty to the court for many years!"

Wu Chao lowered his head and hesitated, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister didn't plan to leave the court alive today, and the assassination of the fourth prince can't leave the relationship between the ministers no matter what, it's just ..... There is a sentence not to say, and the minister is also uncomfortable in his heart. Wu Chao raised his head when he said this, looked directly at the emperor, without the slightest nervousness and fear of a dying person, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the mountain you chose to hunt temporarily is really too big, the minister observed the mountain before, dozens of zhang high, stretching for several miles, but this trip to the south only brought fifty internal guards, even one mile is not enough! The gap is too big, the minister can only arrange manpower in the place where it is easiest for people to go up the mountain, but helplessly, he still let those little people go up the mountain." Hehe, the minister can only say, Your Majesty, your vision is really not good, that mountain was not picked well!" Wu Chao seems to be out of the way, and he has said everything he dares to say and dare not say on weekdays, as he said, I'm afraid he really doesn't plan to leave alive today.

The emperor stared at Wu Chao who knelt down, and said lightly: "Your reason has persuaded me, you have no jokes, and I will pardon you for your innocence, but your words are so disrespectful, the death penalty can be avoided and the living crime cannot be escaped, come on, drag Wu Chao down and beat me thirty boards!"

Wu Chao looked at the emperor on the dragon chair in a daze, "Minister, don't you have to die?"

Before the emperor could speak, two people walked up and grabbed Wu Chao's arms and dragged him down, Wu Chao shouted while being dragged "Thank you, Your Majesty for not killing!"

The emperor looked at Wu Chao, who was dragged out, without a trace of change on his face, as if everything was going according to plan, and said: "The four princes can be safe and sound in distress, and his talent for reading books and children's calendars is indispensable! If it weren't for his sacrifice to save the four princes, I'm afraid they would have died in the hands of that traitor! The Tongtian Dynasty has always been rewarded for meritorious deeds, and rewards for talents!"

Li Tian, who had been standing beside the four princes and dozing off, heard that he was going to reward himself, and instantly came to his senses, trotted to the middle of the court and knelt down and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you want to reward me.....?" Forget about the beauty, the minister has a favorite person, but the more official positions and silver or something, the better!"

These unobtrusive words amused the emperor and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, the emperor rewarded you with something that is the grace of heaven, no matter what reward you is your blessing, you have to go next, even if you are rewarded with a glass of poisonous wine, reward you with three feet of white silk, you have to smile and say "Thank you, Your Majesty!" This is the gift of the monarch and the minister! How can there be such a talent as Li Li to listen to the reward and pick and choose, and it is really the first in the past.

"Hehe, do you still have a favorite?, I heard which girl was so blessed to be so favored by you!" the emperor asked with a smile.

Li Tiantian did not hide it, and said with a smile: "It is the woman from the Flower Shifting Sect who saved me and the Four Princes in Flower Leaf City!"

The emperor nodded, "Well, I heard about this woman, and the woman who can be remembered by you so much is not an ordinary person, but this matter is about two loves, and I can't give marriage directly, it depends on the fate of the two of you!

"Thousand taels?!hahahaha!Thank you, Your Majesty!" After Li Tiantian finished speaking, he got up and trotted back to the four princes, and smirked: "I have a thousand taels of silver! I can't spend it in my next life!"

"This Flower Shifting Sect helped me kill the enemy many years ago, and today I helped the four princes to live, if the sects on the rivers and lakes were as chivalrous as the Shifting Flower Sect, there would not be so many incidents. The emperor said with emotion.

At this time, Mrs. Ye, who had not spoken up, said respectfully: "Your Majesty, this incident is also caused by some small people in the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes are so big, there is no shortage of chivalrous sects like the Flower Shifting School, but there is also no shortage of such evil martial arts people, Your Majesty should govern it." ”

Zhong Zhixing, who was standing at the head of the left side of the court, suddenly took a step to the right, bent slightly and said: "Your Majesty, I would like to ask for my life, lead the imperial iron cavalry to exterminate the rivers and lakes, and return the Tongtian Dynasty to a chivalrous rivers and lakes!"

Li Tiantian, who was standing on the side, heard this, and his whole person was like a lightning strike! He finally understood that everything turned out to be a scene between the emperor and Zhong Zhixing and Mrs. Ye!

From the beginning of beheading Wu Chao, to punishing Wu Chao a little, to rewarding himself, leading to the matter of the Flower Shifting Sect, and then from Ye Taifu to the entire rivers and lakes, and finally Zhong Zhixing made a statement to ask for battle!

Li Tiantian felt that his entire back was wet with cold sweat, the emperor, is he going to use this as an excuse to take action against the Jianghu sect? Why is the emperor so anxious? Could it be that if there is a war with the Aozhou Empire or the Qianbang Empire? Otherwise, it would be impossible for the emperor to be in such a hurry to absorb these forces on the rivers and lakes!

Wait, absorb the forces? Those black-clad and masked killers on the mountain?!

Li Tiantian swallowed with difficulty, and looked at the middle-aged man who was giving orders sitting on the dragon chair with a trembling look! This was the first time, he felt that this man was so terrifying!

It's just that the emperor shook his head unexpectedly, and said with a smile: "Since ancient times, the rivers and lakes and the imperial court have not interfered with each other, and I don't want to break this rule as a last resort, so let's discuss this matter in the future!"

After retiring from the court, Li Tiantian left with the four princes with blank eyes, and the four princes asked Li Tiantian all the way What happened to Li Tiantian, Li Tiantian was silent, as if he hadn't heard.

In the back garden deep in the palace, the emperor was followed by several palace maids and grandfathers strolling here, and walked to a willow tree surrounded by three people, the emperor stretched out his hand and gently broke off a willow branch, and said lightly: "Have those people been disposed of?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the ashes are sprinkled in Lingtai Lake. Grandpa Sun said in a low voice.

The emperor nodded, "The origin of those people, is it clean?"

Gonggong Sun smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, they are all the goods that lick the blood from the knife edge caught by Sanzhi, and the net worth is dirty!"

"Hehe, Grandpa Sun, you can climb in this harem where your heart is like the deep sea, so that the queen will respect you for three points, you really have your ability!" said the emperor playing with the willow branch in his hand.

Grandpa Sun was not afraid, but bowed slightly and did not make a sound.

"Tsk, this willow branch that I planted unintentionally turned out to be a shade, I didn't expect the second prince to be so unbreathable. As he spoke, the emperor threw the willow branch in his hand on the ground, and the willow branch was stuck straight into the soil.

"Flower Shifting Sect, interesting!" the emperor laughed and continued to walk forward.