Chapter 103: Life or Death?
In the Jinluan Palace, Dongfang Ming and the others were still thinking about the emperor's hideous expression, and they couldn't help but feel a wind behind their backs, and their hearts were chilling! They had never seen the emperor like this!
Dongfang Ming has already reminded the courtiers in the class room, asking them not to advise the emperor anymore and protect Sun Shengde, because the emperor has made a decision, they are naturally not good at saying the emperor's scary appearance, but he still tells you that unless you want to die, or you are tired of being an official, you can go to the book, otherwise you still keep the emperor, this is better to let the emperor be the master alone!
Immediately, Dongfang Ming chatted with a group of officials from the Sixth Department for a while, and soon it was time to go to court, so he dispersed immediately.
Everyone also knows that in recent days, the emperor has become more and more arbitrary, if it weren't for the first assistant Dongfang Mingjiwei, this first assistant may basically have no right to speak, and this time he can't even keep his proud protégé!
But they obviously didn't think through Dongfang Ming, the scheming elder, anyway, Sun Shang didn't believe that Dongfang Ming had no backhand, although Dongfang Ming swore that he didn't care, but he still felt that as long as Dongfang Ming was still there, Sun Shengde would not die!
Soon, everyone came to the main hall and stood in their own shifts, but there were many fewer civil and military officials, because many military attachés and generals had been dispatched, and they seemed a little scattered.
After a short time, I saw a middle-aged man entering, about forty-five or sixteen years old, wearing a flat heavenly crown, pedaling the emperor's shoes, wearing a nine-dragon robe, a flying cloud belt around his waist, holding a demon sword, a tiger and a dragon, stepping on the sky, and the end is majestic! This person is the emperor Xuanyuan Yu, Xuanyuan Yu is holding a eunuch on the left and right, holding the jade seal of the country and the golden seal of the town country. Further back is a group of palace maids and eunuchs, each holding a number of honor guards of the court.
The emperor ascended the golden steps, sat on the throne, looked down on the ministers, his face was a little strange, it seemed to be a little dark, and said: "Zhuqing is flat!"
Then Wang Bao shouted on the side: "All the ministers have something to do, and they have nothing to do to retreat!"
Everyone looked at the emperor, if it weren't for the imperial doctor swearing that the emperor was fine, they would have thought that the emperor would either be controlled by others, or he would have gone mad, and his temperament would have changed so much!
Everyone was silent for a while, and no one dared to do the account of Ma Zhiming, so as not to be regarded as a bird, and the innocent was implicated!
Soon, the member of the criminal department, Wai Lang, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Sun Shengde, the chief soldier of Linjiang, has already explained many things in the prison, but most of them are inconsequential things, and Wei Chen and others have nothing to do, according to the routine, they can only be punished with disobedience, I don't know what Your Majesty thinks should be?"
Xuanyuan Yu looked at the minister in charge of Sun Shengde's case standing below, and couldn't help but scold in his heart that this person was such a waste, he couldn't even get the evidence! But he is not good at attacking directly, after all, Sun Shengde has a lot of connections in the imperial court on weekdays, even if he disobeys orders, he can't cure any crime, and Sun Shengde captured Yunfeng Dao, in fact, it can be regarded as a great achievement, originally Xuanyuan Yu didn't plan to deal with Sun Shengde, after all, he was a talent, but his spies came to report, that Sun Shengde turned out to be an undercover agent, in fact, he had already surrendered to the family, and everything he did was for acting, in order to win more trust and rights, and bury chess pieces for the future!
In comparison, Xuanyuan Yu naturally believes in his secret agent more, so even if he cherishes talents, he can only kill him, but it is impossible to kill him on the charge of treason and defection to the enemy, once the news leaks out, the person he has finally installed is likely to be exposed! For a traitor, it is really worth the loss, so Emperor Xuanyuan Yu sent someone to investigate carefully, but the waste of the Criminal Department is really useless!
"Hmph! Let you do a person's crime can't be done, what do you want to do Xuanyuan Yu snorted coldly, everyone saw that the atmosphere was very embarrassing for a while, and a man from the military department came out and said:" It is a fact that Sun Shengde's crime is unforgivable, but it is excusable to disobey the order, I still hope that His Majesty will be dismissed lightly, and he will be assigned a position, first, to show punishment, and secondly, Sun Shengde's capture of Yunfeng Dao is also considered meritorious, if it is dealt with with as a major crime of disobedience, it is likely to chill the soldiers of the three armies, so it is better to let him go to the post of the department, be a small officer, and restrain him, so that he can be supervised!"
This Lang Zhong speaks in an orderly manner, knows how to reason with emotion, if it is in normal times, it is a big thing to turn into a small thing, and a small thing to finish the matter, but at this time it is obviously not true.
Xuanyuan Yu glared at Dongfang Ming and the others, meaning that he was very dissatisfied, he was afraid that the ministers would oppose him, because he really couldn't come up with any decent evidence, and it would be difficult to deal with someone opposing it next, not to mention that this matter was related to the big move of the three armies, and it was really difficult to deal with, but this Lang Zhong's suggestion really almost made Xuanyuan Yu angry, and the staff department was to give advice to the army in front, and he was also responsible for the transfer of the national army, where to transfer a traitor!
Xuanyuan Yu was so angry that his face turned red all of a sudden, and he almost scolded people angrily, Dongfang Ming saw that things were not good, and he wanted to lose control, so he immediately came out and said: "It is a fact that Sun Shengde committed disobedience, and the merit is not worth it, the emperor must not let him go because of a moment of mercy, although the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped!"
Xuanyuan Yu originally sounded quite pleasant, Shoufu Dongfang Ming had never been so obedient to himself, this old stubborn! But something was wrong in the back, he was almost surrounded by this old fox, when did he promise to exempt Sun Shengde from the death penalty, and "the capital crime can be avoided from the living crime!"
However, Xuanyuan Yu also knew that it was impossible to kill Sun Shengde at the moment, and there was no need for him to go to such great lengths, looking at the officials of the six ministries who wanted to make a move in front of him, it seemed that it was because the emperor's tone was relaxed, and he was also eager to try, since the death penalty can be avoided, then the living crime is also negotiable!
Immediately, before the ministers swarmed to plead for mercy, he hurriedly said: "Okay! It is a fact that Sun Shengde deceived the king, but it is also a fact that he has meritorious service, so then, cut his post to the people! At this time, if there is any renegotiation, he should be guilty of the same crime!"
At this time, everyone closed their mouths tightly, compared with Sun Shengde's black gauze hat, it was still their own black gauze hat that was more important!
Sun Shang smiled at the corner of his mouth, Dongfang Ming really had a trick left, Sun Shengde really pulled out his teeth and saved it! Sure enough, he deserved to be the old man of the pavilion! The old fox with the number one character in the officialdom!
Dongfang Ming was overjoyed, he didn't expect Sun Shengde to be reinstated or something, he had been in the officialdom for many years, thinking that Sun Shengde, a person like the emperor who the emperor wanted to kill, it would be good to leave a life, and the rest, it was all fantasy!
Immediately, Dongfang Ming bowed and said loudly: "The emperor's holy ....." Before he finished speaking, he fell to the ground and fell unconscious.