Chapter 692: Counterattack
Song Xinghai is no longer the prince of the empty bucket in the past, the more powerful he is, the more natural his momentum is, his face is so sinking, the entire court is like entering winter in advance, it is called a cold. 【】
It stands to reason that during this kind of court meeting, officials who don't know each other will get together to chat, even if they want to strangle others to death, they have to maintain a harmonious situation, so on the whole, it will be lively. Before the Holy Emperor ascended to the court, no one would blame the officials for being wrong.
But it's good now, Song Xinghai is not happy here, and the officials who vassal him are naturally unhappy together, who of the other officials dares to be happy at this time, if they commit Song Xinghai's bad head, then don't think about being happy anymore.
As a result, the entire court hall was called a cold, every official either had a cold face or a gloomy face, everyone was silent, and the huge Jinluan Hall was silent.
If you don't know what's going on, when you see the faces of everyone present at first glance, you might think that the Holy Emperor has died.
Song Xinghai's displeasure is half real, and half is pretended. He is not close to others, but when he saw Queen Helen coming, he saw that the other party took the initiative to nod to him, and he still nodded, which was regarded as a return salute.
After all, no matter what, Queen Helen is an ally today, and at the same time, she is not an outsider, and Song Xinghai has to give this face.
In fact, Song Xinghai saw that Queen Helen took the initiative to nod to him, and Song Xinghai was still a little proud. Of course, this is not because he has any thoughts about Queen Helen, but because he thinks that it is quite face-saving for a female dynasty of a country to greet herself.
Of course, this face is the blessing of his son, not only Queen Helen, but even the Dragon Emperor of Dragon City has to be respectful when he sees him, no way, we are so big-faced, who told us to have a good son.
Thinking of Song Li, Song Xinghai's heart was relieved, but as he thought that the Holy Emperor had sent someone to kill his son, the anger and murderous aura in his heart came out again, and the surrounding air became much more solemn again, and the person standing beside him subconsciously gave way to the side.
"The Holy Emperor went to the court, and he came to play it, but he retreated from the dynasty without it. With the shout of the eunuch on duty, the Holy Emperor walked up to the court, and when he saw the gloomy faces of everyone in the court, the Holy Emperor's heart chuckled, realizing that maybe something would happen today.
Sure enough, before the eunuch's cry had fallen, Queen Helen was the first to stand up and began to complain of bitterness with tears in her eyes.
To say that this woman may not be as strong as a man as a king, and her methods may not be tough enough, but she also has advantages that men do not have. For example, now, if you are a man, no matter how much you are wronged, you will probably be embarrassed to cry and wipe your tears on the Jinluan Palace, but Queen Helen will do it.
Women cry and people present have seen a lot, but Queen Helen, who has always felt stronger, cried, and the lethality was too great. Everyone will think about how much grievance it would have to be to make a queen cry.
If you have grievances, you have to talk about them, and Queen Helen added fuel and vinegar to tell the story of the Holy Lion Mountain. Of course, she didn't tell the identity and origin of the old man without a face, but just bit him to death, he was a Zoroastrian, and asked the Holy Emperor to make the decision for her.
During this period, Queen Helen not only strongly condemned the actions of the Zoroastrians, but also praised Song Li's heroic behavior in order to protect her, so that he was seriously injured, and expressed gratitude and praise for this.
This somewhat made the originally depressed court a little more comfortable.
At this time, the officials who didn't know why Song Xinghai was unhappy also understood that if their son was seriously injured, they would probably not be happy, unless they were not biological.
As soon as Queen Helen finished speaking, Song Xinghai stood up to relay and said over and over again, his son was injured, this matter can't just end like this, no one who should be responsible can run, and as for Zoroastrianism, it can't be let go, it must be severely cracked down, otherwise where is the majesty of the Holy Lion Empire.
Song Xinghai's words were not simply said from his father's point of view, but also pointed out that Song Li was also the prince of the empire. If someone casually assassinates the prince and does not punish him severely, then what if someone follows suit in the future? The prince is not safe, so what about ordinary officials?
There are no fools in the Jinluan Palace, they will associate it, especially when it comes to their own safety, it is quite nervous, so as soon as Song Xinghai finished saying this, he immediately got the collective secondment of almost all officials.
Originally, the Holy Emperor felt that his head was big after hearing Queen Helen's crying, followed by Song Xinghai's finger scolding Huai, although he knew in his heart that this matter was his mastermind behind the scenes, and Song Xinghai scolded him, but he couldn't have a seizure, so he had to endure it.
finally waited for Song Xinghai to stop talking, and a group of ministers stood up again and again to support Song Xinghai's words.
Such a situation made the Holy Emperor a little overwhelmed.
Although the world belongs to him, he is also inseparable from these ministers under him. He couldn't do anything that caused public anger, and saw that almost all the ministers in the court stood on the side of Song Xinghe and Queen Helen, and begged him to investigate the matter strictly and punish the murderer.
No matter how unhappy the Holy Emperor was, he had to choose to compromise and seek perfection, and said: "Zhun Song, the Ministry of Punishment will thoroughly investigate this matter, no matter who is involved, it will be severely punished." ”
"Long live the Holy Emperor. "Long live the crowd.
The Holy Emperor sat on the throne and looked at the people who were shouting long live from the mountain below, but in his heart he felt that he was not sitting on a dragon chair but a mountain of flames that would explode at any time. If this thing comes out, it will be a big trouble, no, you have to improve the beginning and end of the cooking.
Having made up his mind in his heart, the Holy Emperor had already made a killing move against some people who knew about it, such as Su Yunqi.
In order to prevent the truth of the whole matter from being leaked, the Holy Emperor casually found a reason that night and gave Su Yunqi, who knew the inside story, to death. Coupled with the fact that the old man has been killed, the whole thing is basically no longer alive.
The Holy Emperor was actually not sure whether Song Li and Queen Helen knew about it, but without the evidence of Su Yunqi and the old man Wuxiang, even if they turned against each other in the future, it would be useless.
The Holy Emperor was not worried about how much impact it would have on him, after all, it was just empty nonsense without evidence, and he could completely accuse them of bullying the monarch.
Although there is no head and tail, the Holy Emperor no longer has to worry about fire burning on his body, but he is not relaxed because of this, because there is a bigger trouble in front of him, that is, he has to make some gestures, and even kill a few people to calm the anger of Song Xinghai and Song Li's father and son, appease Queen Helen, and bring peace of mind to the hundred officials who also put everyone in danger.
The Holy Emperor knew very well that he was the mastermind behind the whole thing, and there were no Zoroastrians at all, and of course there would be no conspiracy behind this matter.
If he had to say that there was, it was also because he wanted to use the hands of the old man without a face to get rid of Song Li's confidant.
But such a fact obviously cannot be made public, so the Holy Emperor has to find a scapegoat to help him carry the black cauldron.
If it is something else, it is still easy to find a scapegoat, as long as he is willing, even if he is a first-class person, he can become a scapegoat at any time. But the problem is that the current situation is not extraordinary, and the people who were attacked are not ordinary people, one is the Ming King of the Empire, and the other is the queen of the Rambis Kingdom.
After thinking about it, the Holy Emperor finally set his sights on the war dragon.
The current war dragon is no longer the former King of Jingnan, since he came to the imperial capital, in the eyes of the Holy Emperor, he is a soft persimmon that he can handle at will.
Despite this, the Holy Emperor's scruples about the war dragon have not dissipated, as long as the war dragon does not die, then it will be difficult for him to live in peace. After all, although Zhan Long is now in the imperial capital, his influence in the three southern counties is still there, and the 500,000 male soldiers in his hands are not a joke.
As the so-called side of the couch does not allow others to snore, even if the Holy Emperor is confident that he can completely control the war dragon, so that he does not dare to have the slightest rebellion, but when he thinks that such a person is by his side, he still feels that his sleep is not very stable.
With such an opportunity, the Holy Emperor took the opportunity to get rid of it. Even the reason why the Holy Emperor has already helped him think about it, that is, the son of the war dragon died at the hands of Song Li, and the war dragon has always held a grudge against him, and once sent his powerful people to attack and kill Song Li but failed, but he still refused to give up, so he made this kind of collusion with the Zoroastrians, intending to murder Song Li and Queen Helen.
In order to protect the car, you can only discard a pawn. The Holy Emperor sighed secretly, although he had already made a decision, he was a little reluctant to think that the war dragon would be abandoned like this.
Of course, the Holy Emperor's reluctance is not because he still has any royal affection for the war dragon, the Son of Heaven is ruthless, and so is the Holy Emperor.
The reason why he felt a pity was only because the war dragon was originally a pawn he used to fight against Song Li, but now, in order to quell the attack on Queen Helen and Song Li's injury, he had to give it up.
The Holy Emperor made a decision, and the Criminal Department, which was tasked with investigating the attack on Queen Helen, immediately took quick action.
In the past, the Criminal Department couldn't be said to be procrastinating, but it didn't have much to do with vigorous and resolute action, but this time it was surprisingly fast.
Almost on the third day after the Great Dynasty Meeting, the Criminal Department had already come to a conclusion, that is, there was indeed another mastermind behind the scenes, but King Zhanlong of Jingnan had a grudge against Song Li and had been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge, and it happened that some Zoroastrians intended to assassinate Queen Helen, so he thought he saw an opportunity, colluded with him, and finally did such a heartbreaking thing.
In addition to the results, the Criminal Department also came out with all kinds of human and material evidence, confessions, etc., among which there were even confessions from people in the Jingnan Palace, in a word, the evidence was ironclad