Chapter 193: The Emperor Appoints His Generals (1)
Lu Fu gave Zhuge Mingming some dignity.
Zhuge Mingming changed into a full set of court robes and brought a full set of ceremonial guards of the Minister of Rites. He was escorted to the imperial city by Lu Yi and his men.
Of course, Zhuge Mingming’s family members in Haojing did not receive such preferential treatment.
There was a team of imperial guards and a team of imperial guards, who, following the orders of the empress dowager and the emperor, surrounded Zhuge's residence and began to arrest Zhuge Mingming's relatives. The residences of other members of the Zhuge clan in Haojing were also surrounded by the army, and they arrested people one by one according to the list provided by the palace guards.
Zhuge's properties in Haojing, such as shops and farms, were also seized by the imperial guards stationed in various cities. All the properties were sealed. All those with the surname Zhuge were sent to the secret prison of the Shougong; the shopkeepers, waiters, servants, maids, etc. were all thrown into the dungeon of the general's mansion.
Lu Yi escorted Zhuge Mingming into the imperial city and all the way to the Fuyao Palace.
The arrest of Zhuge Mingming took some time, and everyone who should have arrived in the Fuyao Palace had arrived.
General Le Wu, Prime Minister Zhu Chong, and all the civil and military ministers of sufficient rank, all stood in the Fuyao Palace, looking at each other's hearts and lowering their heads in silence.
Li Zi, the Minister of Rites...
It’s the unlucky Li Zi again.
Among so many civil and military ministers in the hall, Li Zi was the only one kneeling on the ground in an extremely embarrassed manner, with a blow on the forehead. When Lu Yi escorted Zhuge Mingming into the Fuyao Palace, a trickle of blood was dripping down Li Zi's cheek.
Lu Yi looked up and saw Yin Yuan, who had a gloomy face and twitching eyes, sitting behind a huge long desk on the steps.
He also noticed that the gold and jade treasures that were originally placed on the long table in front of Yinyuan, such as the gold seal, jade seal, jade paperweight, antique bronze incense burner and other furnishings, were all gone tonight.
On the huge table, there were some bowls, plates and other things with blue and white patterns.
Lu Yi opened up all the acupoints in his body and his eyesight became astonishingly good. As soon as he entered the hall, he could see clearly the quality of the blue and white bowls and plates - they were all crudely made goods from folk kilns, which cost only two or three copper coins each on the market. If he bought ten at a time, the boss would give him one more.
In front of Li Zi, there was a patch of broken porcelain slag scattered on the smooth gold brick floor.
Lu Yi could imagine that Yinyuan roared, Li Zi knelt down to report something, and Yinyuan took the opportunity to smash a blue and white bowl down, hitting Li Zi right on the forehead.
Unlucky Li Zi!
Lu Yi rolled his eyes at Li Zi - this guy, how come he has the cultivation level of Half-Step Fiery Realm, so why is his life so miserable?
After coughing lightly, Lu Yi stood beside Li Zi and bowed to Yin Yuan: "Your Majesty, I have invited Minister Zhuge to come over."
Yin Yuan, with a gloomy face, raised his eyelids, smiled at Lu Yi, and then waved his hand gently: "Lu Qing, stand aside. Oh, by the way, stand a little further to the side!"
Lu Yi hurriedly took several steps towards Lu Yu and joined the ranks of military generals and nobles.
Yin Yuan chuckled a few times and hooked his finger at Zhuge Mingming: "Minister Zhuge, Mr. Zhuge, Mr. Zhuge, please... please take two steps forward. Oh, yes, it's where Lord Tianyang was standing just now, next to the Minister of Honglu. Oh, yes, stand there, don't move, don't move!"
Yinyuan ordered Zhuge Mingming to stand still, then stood up suddenly, picked up a stack of twelve large coarse porcelain bowls with blue and white patterns on the table, raised them high above his head, and with a "wow" sound, smashed the twelve large porcelain bowls hard at Zhuge Mingming.
Zhuge Mingming is not Li Zi. Even if he was escorted into the imperial city by Lu Yi, he would not be so obedient to accept a beating.
Seeing a stack of coarse porcelain bowls falling down with the sound of wind, Zhuge Mingming quickly stepped back several steps. A large stack of coarse porcelain bowls hit the ground heavily, and broke into pieces with a "crash". The broken porcelain slag splashed everywhere, and many of the slag flew onto Li Zi's face, scratching his old face and leaving several small cuts.
Li Zi raised his head with resentment and glanced at Yin Yuan.
Yin Yuan slammed the table in a rage, "Well, old Zhuge, you are indeed a traitor, a great traitor... You old dog, you old dog... You... I'll poke your mother to death!"
The emperor cursed in public in the court hall, and the curse was so harsh.
The two court officials at the side had distorted faces and looked at Yin Yuan with their eyes rolled back for a long time. They finally came to their senses and finally realized their duties. They knelt on the ground with a thud and said, "Your Majesty, I am guilty of the death penalty."
"Get lost!" Yin Yuan pointed at the two court officials fiercely and said, "Today, I will not talk about manners anymore. Today, no one should talk to me about 'etiquette' or 'manners'. Today, if anyone dares to advise me to maintain the manners of an emperor, I will kill his entire family!"
Behind the pearl curtain, the Dowager sat there upright, not saying a word and not moving an inch, allowing Yin Yuan to rage.
Yinyuan pointed and gestured, jumped to his feet and cursed, starting with the second sage ancestor of the Zhuge family, greeting and criticizing each generation after another, and cursed all the ancestors of the Zhuge family to pieces.
After cursing Zhuge Mingming's ancestors, Yinyuan began to curse Zhuge Mingming's son, grandson, and great-grandson.
On the table in front of him were piled thick case files, all of which were collected by the Palace Guards, and were evidence of the crimes committed by Zhuge clan's descendants who were running rampant and wantonly in the city of Haojing.
Therefore, Yinyuan's scolding was well-reasoned and clear.
After scolding for a full quarter of an hour, Yin Yuan finally took a breath and stretched out his hand towards Yu Changle.
Yu Changle stuffed a teacup into Yinyuan's hand. Yinyuan glared at Yu Changle fiercely and scolded him harshly: "Old Yu, you old servant, are you stupid too?"
Yu Changle hurriedly took back the teacup and took a large teapot from the eunuch behind him.
Yinyuan grabbed the big teapot and gulped down several mouthfuls. Then he suddenly lowered his head and looked at Zhuge Mingming, who was standing below. His face turned pale, red and black, and his whole body was trembling.
Yinyuan raised the teapot in his hand.
Le Wuyin smiled, put his hands behind his back, and slowly walked behind Zhuge Mingming, then stretched out his hand and pressed Zhuge Mingming's shoulder hard.
Zhuge Mingming shouted, "General, you...are ridiculous!"
Yin Yuan laughed: "Great job, uncle!"
Yu Changle muttered in a low voice behind Yinyuan: "Your Majesty, this teapot is an antique, an antique... It's worth hundreds of thousands of strings of cash."
Yin Yuan threw the teapot back to Yu Changle, chuckled, and reached out to pick up a large blue and white porcelain baby pillow on the table in front of him.
This children's pillow is a solid thing.
Yin Yuan gritted his teeth, aimed at Zhuge Mingming's head, and smashed it hard.
Zhuge Mingming wanted to dodge, but Le Wu held his body tightly. Zhuge Mingming used all his strength to shake violently, and a soft, strong, and endless Yuan Gang in his body burst out, but it was like a tsunami hitting a reef. Le Wu did not move at all, but Zhuge Mingming used too much force and suddenly got a stitch in the side.
With a dull thud, the solid blue and white porcelain baby pillow exploded into seven or eight pieces on Zhuge Mingming's forehead. Zhuge Mingming's forehead was smashed into a bloody mess and blood spurted out all at once.
Zhuge Mingming groaned, and his body shook violently before he finally stood up straight.
He raised his sleeves and covered the wound on his forehead tightly. He looked at Yin Yuan angrily and shouted word by word: "Your Majesty, your Majesty's actions tonight are... tyranny!"
"I'm a tyrant, what can you do to me?" Yin Yuan was so angry that his ten fingers became like chicken claws, twitching as if he had a chicken claw madness.
"Zhuge Mingming, Zhuge Mingming, I thought that after the death of that hypocrite Bai Changkong, the world would be at peace. But Bai Changkong is the culprit for the fights in Gaojing!"
"I originally thought that everyone could live in peace, and Dayin would really return to the good days of good weather, peace and prosperity."
"I never thought that there really is a treacherous minister in the court!"
"The people of Anping Prefecture rebelled and shouted slogans to purge the imperial court. They were not wrong!"
"Purge the emperor's entourage and kill the traitors. There are treacherous ministers and traitors in the court. There are traitors who wish to destroy the country and the people of the Yin family and make them all exterminate!"
Zhuge Mingming said in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, this old minister..."
Yin Yuan waved his hands vigorously and shouted, "That's enough. Stop playing the game of your aristocratic families betting on multiple parties. Although I am a tyrant, I am not stupid... What do you want to say? Say that you are loyal to Dayin, and that you are loyal to the queen mother and me. Can you make it known to the world?"
"Ugh!" Yin Yuan jumped up and spat far away.
"Pah", all the spit sprayed on Zhuge Mingming's old face, not a single drop was wasted.
Zhuge Mingming screamed in exasperation: "Grand Prime Minister, how can you allow a tyrant to humiliate a senior official like me?"
Zhu Chong coughed lightly, looked up at Zhuge Mingming, and then shook his head gently.
The family of culture and education has now evolved into a huge complex of interests.
Logically speaking, whether it was Zhu Chong, or the six saints, nineteen sages, and sixty-three cultural and educational officials who came from aristocratic families in the Fuyao Palace, everyone should speak up for Zhuge Mingming.
However, what the Zhuge family had done this time... made Zhu Chong and the others unable to bear it any longer.
Without any rumors, without any warning, without informing any of them, the Haojian Palace controlled by the Zhuge family just openly acted as the vanguard of Dongqi Bo, opened the Dongjie City, and marched straight in with the army, invading Dayin's core territory?
It was the Zhuge family who first betrayed the cultural and educational interest groups, not the cultural and educational interest groups who betrayed the Zhuge family.
Zhu Chong walked out of the class slowly and said softly, "Your Majesty is wise. Zhuge Mingming is still trying to deceive Your Majesty with his sweet words and deceiving His Majesty. This is truly an unforgivable crime. I think that all the Zhuge clan members in Haojing City, as well as all their relatives, disciples, etc., should be arrested and thrown into prison and tortured severely."
Looking at the pale Zhuge Mingming, Zhu Chong said in a deep voice: "I ask Yu Changle and Yu Jiangong to personally torture Zhuge Mingming and find out what conspiracy the Zhuge family has."
After taking a breath, Zhu Chong continued, "In addition, I ask Your Majesty to mobilize elite troops as soon as possible to resist Dongqi Bo and conquer Dongjie City... Otherwise, I am afraid that something unbearable will happen..."
Yin Yuan's eyes flickered for a while, then he looked towards Lu Yi.
"Lord Tianen, Lord Tianyang, can I trust you? Or rather, can Dayin trust you? Can the Yin royal family trust you?"
