Awaken Chapter 106

The Ministry of Penalty.

At this moment, Xu Qingnian was certain of one thing.

The Huiping County King would surely die.

Xu Qingnian did not hesitate in any way.

He fully believed in every word that the Huai Ping County King had said just now. If he did not die, he would be mercilessly targeted.

He was not afraid of himself, but what about the people around him? He could not make a mistake, but could they not?

Once they make mistakes, according to the Huai Ping County King’s style of action, I am afraid that one by one, the people around me will die in vain.

If they die, they may be worse than dead.

Therefore, the Huai Ping County King must die.

If he does not die, his heart will not be at peace.

This is a big enemy, a real big enemy.

Xu Qingnian left the Ministry of Punishment and walked towards the palace, not even changing his clothes, just like that.

He was sure that he would torture Xu Qingnian to death, no, not to death, but to make Xu Qingnian live only in pain for the rest of her life.

This was the only way to get revenge on Xu Qingnian, to make Xu Qingnian truly regret, if he killed Xu Qingnian directly, this was not pleasurable at all, he wanted to torture Xu Qingnian to death, this was the only way to have pleasure, continuous pleasure.

Thinking of this, the Huai Ping County King smiled.

He looked at Jiang Xinyan with contempt in his eyes, his gaze cold, without speaking, but his eyes represented everything.

He, Jiang Xinyan, was also going to be unlucky, and the Huai Ping County King would not let him go.

The Huai Ping County King walked with a tiger in his dragon stride, he was cloaked in hair and walked towards the palace.

At this moment.

Outside the palace, the civil and military officials had already gathered. What happened today was ten times worse than Xu Qingnian’s fiasco at the Ministry of Punishment.

The officials of the six ministries were all silent outside the palace, and with the arrival of Xu Qingnian, the eyes of the hundred officials were extremely complicated, they didn’t know why Xu Qingnian had to form a deadly feud with the Huai Ping County King.

But the only thing they knew was that Xu Qingnian was really going to be unlucky, after all, the Huai Ping County King was a prince, and as he had said before, His Majesty would not kill him no matter what.

Unless Xu Qingnian could come up with crucial evidence to prove that the Huai Ping County King was really a suspect, everything was empty talk.

Xu Qingnian arrived, no one spoke to him, while the Duke of State and others looked at Xu Qingnian and nodded, they did not speak, their eyes exchanged everything, telling Xu Qingnian not to say a word, everything would be fine when they arrived at the court.

Soon, the Huai Ping County King appeared, he was still arrogant, his eyes were overbearing, and his cloaked head looked even more majestic and terrifying.

“You’re impulsive.”

Sun Jing’an spoke, looking at the Huai Ping County King, wanting to properly discourage him, believing that the Huai Ping County King was too impulsive and aggressive, and was now also caught in the mud.

But the Huai Ping County King looked at Sun Jing’an indifferently and incomparably, and slowly spoke.

“What business is it of yours about this king’s affairs?”

A single word spoke, causing Sun Jing’an to freeze.

He was a great Confucian, with a very high status, and the Huai Ping County King was a prince, so according to his position, he was indeed higher than him, and not just a little higher, but very high, but the Huai Ping County King was also a scholar, a scholar of their Great Wei Palace of Literature.

His teacher was also a great scholar, so it was normal for him to give a few words of advice, but how could the unexpected Prince Huai Ping speak to him like this?

However, in the eyes of King Huai Ping, what he had done, even including the feud with Xu Qingnian, was because of the Great Wei Palace of Literature.

Moreover, what did he study for? Is it really for the sake of cultivating his body and mind? Wasn’t it to suppress the Huanglong Great True Qi? Wasn’t it so that he could draw in Confucian officials?

But now that he has caused such a big problem, the Huai Ping County King knows that he is in trouble today, but so what? So long as he doesn’t die.

He would be imprisoned or punished, or he would go abroad to become a va*sal king, but sooner or later he would return to the capital, and sooner or later he would take his revenge.

And the Great Wei Wen Palace, there was no need to respect it himself, a bunch of dog-like things.

“You!”

Sun Jing’an was somewhat disgraced, he pointed at the latter and wanted to make an angry rebuke, but was immediately stopped by Chen Zhengru.

“Don’t provoke, he is the king.”

Chen Zhengru’s words made Sun Jing’an silent, full of anger that he could only hold in his heart, his face a little red.

His intention was to educate the Huai Ping County King properly, but he didn’t expect the other party to give him the slightest face, then he couldn’t say anything more, he could only lower his head and take the loss.

“Declare, all officials enter the court.”

The familiar voice rang out again.

The hundred officials entered the court in turn, all of them looking somewhat grim, each with different thoughts in mind.

Today’s incident had become too big and too disturbing.

They didn’t know how it was going to end.

Soon, the hundred officials arrived at His Highness.

Almost at the same time, the eunuch’s voice rang out.

“Enter the court.”

The voice rang out.

The crowd took their places in turn and walked towards the Great Hall, while the County King of Huai Ping took the middle way, he was the County King, the King, the Royal Family of Great Wei, and was entitled to take this path.

All the officials entered the court.

The hall was cool and shady, but the mood of the crowd was extremely heavy.

This was the moment when the hundred officials entered the court, before the courtiers could shout Long Live the Emperor.

Li Yuan’s voice rang out.

“My servant, Li Yuan, has a submission to make.”

Li Yuan was the first to speak.

“Proclaim.”

On the dragon chair, the empress towered above her, and she opened her mouth with one word, allowing Li Yuan to speak first.

“Your Majesty, I refer to the King of Huai Ping County, who has no regard for the law, trampled on the law, hurt people with his hands, arrested and disobeyed orders, and even humiliated the officials, insulting us as pigs and dogs, such words are treacherous, such acts are the wrath of the gods.

Li Yuan came up with a large list of charges to be put on the head of the Huai Ping County King, and his attitude was extremely strong, otherwise he would not even shout “Long live the emperor!

“A bunch of nonsense.”

“How can this king be ignorant of the law? He is just a mere chief of the Ministry of Justice, and he wants to come and arrest my king? I am the king of the county, the king of the Great Wei, and if I were to give up my hand, it would be an insult to the throne.”

“The king’s arrest for resisting orders is normal resistance; the king has not killed a single person, but rather the capital soldiers have killed a number of the king’s men.”

“You, the mouth of a minister, are reversing right from wrong.

The Huiping County King was truly arrogant, already arrogant to the point of no return.

In front of His Majesty, he actually spoke directly, and spoke so pa*sively of what he had done, instead scolding the law enforcers.

“Then how do you explain your insulting us as pigs and dogs?”

Li Yuan spoke coldly, staring at the Huai Ping County King without the slightest fear.

“Are you not?”

“Are not the civil and military officials in this court the dogs of our Ji family? You are the subjects of Great Wei, and Great Wei belongs to our Ji family, is it wrong for this king to say that?”

At these words, the entire courtroom exploded.

The Huiping County King was truly mad, in front of His Majesty, he dared to say such things and was so humiliated that the entire court was enraged.

They were subjects of Great Wei, there was nothing wrong with that, but they were a*sisting His Majesty, and His Majesty was a*sisting the people of the world, they were not slaves, not pigs or dogs, but subjects for the people of the world.

In the mouth of the Huai Ping County King, they became the dogs of Great Wei, the dogs of the Emperor, such humiliation,…… made people’s lungs explode.

“King Huai Ping, you are arrogant!”

“You really have no one in sight.”

“Shame, shame, a great shame.”

“King Huai Ping, you have humiliated us?”

“I implore Your Majesty to severely punish the Huai Ping County King.”

“We implore Your Majesty to severely punish the Huai Ping County King.”

Voices rang out, civil officials and military officials alike, and Confucian officials also began to curse, the words were so unpleasant, calling them pigs and dogs, it was a great shame for them, and they all spoke up, asking Your Majesty to punish them severely.

But the King of Huai Ping laughed out loud, he had completely let go, he was already going to be unlucky anyway, so why not enjoy it?

He was sure of it!

His Majesty would not dare to kill him!

Furthermore, everyone feared His Majesty, but not him, not even every county prince, who, in terms of seniority, was the same as the empress, who was not in complete control of Wei.

What about arrogance? So what if you are domineering?

I am the King of Wei, who dares to touch me? Who would dare to kill me?

As long as his father was around, no one would dare to kill him. Moreover, the reason he was so arrogant was that he had deliberately displayed it in front of Xu Qingnian, knowing that he could offend many people with his words just now.

But he just wanted Xu Qingnian to watch and see that even if he was so arrogant, even if he was so arrogant, in the end, His Majesty still wouldn’t kill him, His Majesty still wouldn’t dare to kill him, and the whole court was just a bunch of dogs that only barked.

Hahahahahahahaha!

However, at that moment, the empress’ voice rang out.

“Someone.”

“Slap the mouth for thirty.”

The Empress’ voice fell calmly, but the sound rang out as two golden-armored guards walked in, their faces expressionless, and directly suppressed the Huai Ping County King.

“Your Majesty, I am the king of Great Wei, you are also bringing shame to the royal family by humiliating me like this, please think twice, Your Majesty.”

At this moment, County King Huai Ping frowned, he frowned not in fear, but he did not expect the empress to slap his own mouth, this was a disgrace to him.

Therefore, he opened his mouth and played the card of affection directly.

The person in front of him was the Emperor, His Majesty, the Son of Wei, but how dare the Huai Ping County King ask His Majesty to think twice?

What arrogance.

However, the empress did not speak, and the golden-armored guard did not hesitate to slap the Huai Ping County King’s mouth.

Slap!

Slap!

Slap!

Each slap was extremely crisp, and the sound of the slap echoed in the hall.

Even though he was arrogant, he knew that he could not be arrogant in front of His Majesty, and if he did, he would not die, but he would bring great trouble to his father.

So he endured.

He had some sense, he was angry, he was stubborn, he was bigoted, but he was not stupid.

Interfering with the case would not affect him in any way.

If he killed Xu Qingnian, it wouldn’t affect him either, just a dog.

If he had oppressed the Minister of Justice, it wouldn’t have affected him either, he would have been a dog.

If he kills the soldiers of the capital, it will not affect him either, except for the royal family, they are all dogs of the Great Wei.

Why should he be afraid?

In fact, if one digs into his heart, the Huai Ping County King does not even see the female emperor in his eyes.

A woman claiming the throne was in itself a great irony, but there were many things he did not understand, why the empress had risen to the throne, he was not sure, these things his father had not said, he had only told himself not to provoke the empress in the first place, no matter what.

So he calmed down and did not continue to die.

But this revenge was also on his mind, partly on the Empress, but more so, on Xu Qingnian.

He remembered every slap he received with a grimace.

It was Xu Qingnian who had caused him to be like this.

Thirty slaps on the mouth soon ended.

The two golden-armored guards put down the Huai Ping County King, who slowly got up, restraining some of his arrogance, but his eyes were still overbearing.

That’s how it is when you have the courage.

On the dragon chair, the empress swept a faint glance at the Huai Ping County King, she didn’t say anything more about this matter, instead, she dropped her gaze on Xu Qingnian.

“Xu Qingnian, I, ordered you to investigate the case, how are you doing now?”

The empress opened her mouth and asked this.

She did not talk about what happened between Xu Qingnian and the Huai Ping County King today, nor did she pursue the matter, because the core of these matters revolved around the ‘Ping Qiu House Disaster Relief Case’, to put it directly, if Xu Qingnian produced substantial evidence.

If Xu Qingnian wins, then the Huai Ping County King will be severely punished.

But if Xu Qingnian can’t produce it, then Xu Qingnian will be finished, and will have to pay a painful price for all the things he did before.

Therefore, instead of wasting time, it was better to get straight to the point.

“Back, Your Majesty, I, Xu Qingnian, have thoroughly investigated the Pingqiu Province disaster relief case.”

They knew that Xu Qingnian dared to touch the Huai Ping County King, so he must have some courage, but hearing Xu Qingnian’s tone, it seemed that he had found substantial evidence.

“Speak.”

The empress spoke out, allowing Xu Qingnian to speak straightforwardly.

“Your Majesty, since I took over this case, I have forgotten to eat and sleep, investigating thoroughly day and night, and finally on the day before yesterday, I discovered several things.”

“The first five handlers of the case file all raised questions in the first paragraph, but then immediately changed their minds in the second paragraph.

“Moreover, apart from Li Jianquan, the other four people died in vain, although the method of death was normal, but one madness and four deaths, there must be something strange in it.”

“The Minister of Justice Zhang sent his men to escort Li Jianquan to the capital, and I interrogated him overnight. In the end, I learned that the King of Huai Ping was the real culprit behind the case, and Zhang Nantian was an innocent man who was killed by the King of Huai Ping.

Xu Qingnian opened his mouth and said one word at a time.

But as his voice fell, the Huai Ping County King’s laughter rang out.

“Hahahahahahaha!”

“Xu Qingnian, this king thought you had found some evidence, but I didn’t expect it to be nonsense here.”

“Li Jianquan has gone insane, how can you interrogate him one night after another? A madman would still remember so many things?”

At first he really thought that Xu Qingnian had any substantial evidence, but what he didn’t expect was that Xu Qingnian was full of lies.

He knew very well whether Li Jianquan had gone mad or not.

So Xu Qingnian was just making things up here.

“Back to Your Majesty.”

Xu Qingnian continued to speak.

“It is true that Li Jianquan has gone mad, but I did not learn this by asking, but I found that Li Jianquan had a wound on his abdomen, which was very odd, and I investigated the origin of Li Jianquan’s wound.”

“I found out that Li Jianquan was chasing the bandit and was cut by the latter, but Li Jianquan is sophisticated and never underestimates his enemies, so I thought there was something suspicious in this scar, so I knocked Li Jianquan unconscious.”

“When the wound was cut open, a secret letter was found hidden in it, and then I stitched up Li Jianquan’s wound and sent him to a medical clinic for treatment.

Xu Qingnian spoke up and told the truth, followed by taking out the secret letter and presenting it.

At that moment, Zhao Wan’er walked down from the hall, came in front of Xu Qingnian, fetched the secret letter, and then came in front of His Majesty and handed it to the latter.

At this moment, a look of surprise appeared in the eyes of the Huai Ping County King.

He did not have any fear, but was only surprised that the secret letter was hidden in Li Jianquan’s abdomen, which he had miscalculated.

The secret letter was unveiled and Xu Qingnian’s voice rang out again.

“This secret letter was written by the ruler of Pingqiu Prefecture, Zhang Nantian, and its contents elaborated that since the relief silver arrived at Pingqiu Prefecture, there was already a shortage of 25 million taels, and he wanted to present it to the court, but was stopped by the Huai Ping County King.”

“The Huai Ping County King was willing to give him a million taels of silver to shut him up, while exchanging the five million taels of silver for lowly chaff that pigs and dogs would not eat, to be used as food to keep the people hanging on for dear life.”

“Zhang Nantian pretended to agree, but in reality he kept a secret and was ready to expose it, but he didn’t expect to be informed by the Huai Ping County King, who coerced Zhang Nantian and even threatened the lives of his whole family.”

“The youngest son of the ruler, Zhang Nantian, had his eyes gouged out alive and his wife had her nails plucked from her ten fingers.

“It is difficult for me to say, and I cannot say.”

“I hope Your Majesty will understand.”

When Xu Qingnian said this, he no longer wanted to continue reading, the evilness of the Huai Ping County King was extremely rare and related to his character, tyrannical and incomparable, even if this kind of person did not offend himself, Xu Qingnian would not allow him to live in the world.

The civil and military officials are also frowning at this moment, they actually guessed that there was a connection with the Huai Ping County King before, but there was not enough evidence and no relevant physical evidence, so they only suspected.

Now that Xu Qingnian has produced the secret letter and physical evidence, they can naturally be certain that this is the work of the Huai Ping County King.

Especially after listening to Xu Qingnian’s words, their eyes showed a cold intent, killing innocent people, this is already against the common sense of man and has no character and virtue.

This kind of person was detestable to everyone, but in the current matter, they could not intervene or say anything, they could only wait for His Majesty’s clear investigation first.

“Ridiculous!”

At this moment, the Huai Ping County King was still towering over everyone, and he was fearless of everything.

“A secret letter can prove that the king killed him?”

“Then the king asks you, if this secret letter was written by the court shang Shu? Does it mean that they are the culprits if it is written to other county kings?”

“Further, this king has no dealings with Zhang Nantian, this evidence is insufficient! And this king can suspect that you are falsifying the evidence.”

The Huiping County King laughed coldly.

He knew there was a secret letter and had been unable to find it, but so what? Really even if someone had brought it out, he could still refute it.

Without real evidence, anything was a guess and a possibility.

If it were possible, His Majesty would not be able to convict himself, he would still be the king.

At this moment, however, Xu Qingnian continued to speak.

“Your Majesty, it is true that you cannot be convicted based on this secret letter alone, but I have iron-clad evidence.”

When Xu Qingnian said this, this moment filled the hall with surprise, there was no way they didn’t know about the Pingqiu House disaster relief case, and had even discussed it countless times for this reason.

They had even locked their eyes on the Prince of Huai Ping, or even the Prince of Huai Ning, but the problem was that there was no iron-clad evidence, how could you prove it? Verbal? That’s not realistic.

If you can’t get evidence, even if it’s really the Prince of Huai Ping who killed him, so what?

But what he didn’t expect was that Xu Qingnian actually had ironclad evidence.

“What evidence?”

The empress opened her mouth.

“The cause of Zhang Nantian’s death is strange, his internal qi veins were forcibly opened, not by swallowing a spiritual fruit, but to open another person’s qi veins requires powerful true qi, so as long as Zhang Nantian Zhang Fujun’s qi veins are taken out and a supreme expert is invited to examine them, we will know.”

Xu Qingnian said so.

This was a good and very effective way to find out the residual true qi in the qi veins and ask a Jedi expert to check it, because the Yellow Dragon Great True Qi practiced by the Huai Ping County King was not said to be unique in the world, but there were not many people who practiced this technique.

At least for the time being, only King Huai Ping knew it, so if there were really residues of the Yellow Dragon Great True Qi in his qi veins, then he could be convicted of the crime.

Only someone couldn’t help but speak up.

“Zhang Nantian’s body was already dismembered and dumped in the wilderness, how can it be found now after decades?”

Someone raised a question, not to help the Huai Ping County King, but to ask, after all, the body was gone, even if you are right in this logic, but the question came, how do you find Zhang Nantian’s corpse?

The court full of civil servants were curious.

And Xu Qingnian spoke up.

“This question, at first the subordinate official was also despondent, but it occurred to the subordinate official that if Prefect Zhang had really been wrongly accused, then he would not be a corrupt official, but a clean official, after all, able to resist the bribe of millions of silver taels from the Huai Ping County King.”

“And also to leave this secret letter, such a person is naturally clean and has a vast and righteous spirit, and the only people in the world who can really determine who is a clean official and who is a corrupt official are the people.”

“Therefore, I sent my men to search for him and found that some people had taken pity on him and put his body away and buried it properly.

“Now the qi veins have been taken out.”

When he said this, Xu Qingnian looked towards the empress, and then slowly spoke.

“Your Majesty, can you present the evidence?”

Xu Qingnian asked so.

In reality, he had made all this up, and his words were seamless and logical, but he did not have Zhang Nantian’s corpse.

But he did not have it himself, but Her Majesty did.

With the means of the Great Wei Empress, it would not be difficult at all to forge a piece of evidence.

However, what Xu Qingnian was more worried about now was that the empress would not produce evidence, she did not want to make a big deal out of it.

Of course the possibility of this was almost zero, if the Empress was unwilling to forge evidence, then it would be completely unnecessary for her to make a scene like this on her own by default.

“Present.”

The next moment, the Empress’ voice rang out.

Soon, an eunuch presented a blackened qi vein, which had been blackened and decayed for a long time.

“Your Majesty, this is Zhang Fujun’s qi vein, now we only need to have it tested to find out whether it is real or not.”

Xu Qingnian spoke up and said so.

While the Huai Ping County King looked at all this indifferently, there was no hint of panic in his eyes, instead he was incomparably confident.

“Test.”

The next moment, the empress’ voice sounded, and at once an old man slowly walked in from outside the hall, and the old man struck out a light red light and entered the qi veins.

In an instant, a slight sound of a dragon’s roar rang out.

“Roar!”

With a yellow dragon shadow coalescing out of the qi vein, the hall was filled with an uproar at this moment.

“It really is the Great True Qi of the Yellow Dragon.”

“This is truly the Yellow Dragon Great True Qi!”

“Huai Ping County King, aren’t you going to ambush the law?”

“Huai Ping County King, I never thought you would do such a treacherous thing!”

“Huai Ping County King, are you still sopH*moric?”

When the iron-clad evidence emerged, all the officials roared in anger.

Such a tactic, such ruthlessness, is really not the son of a man.

“Impossible!”

However, in the face of the reprimands from the court, the Huai Ping County King directly shouted out, his voice overshadowing everyone, and the court was silenced at this moment.

“This is absolutely impossible.”

The Huai Ping County King looked at the scene with deadly disbelief before turning his gaze towards Xu Qingnian, his eyes filled with disbelief.

“Your Majesty, now that the iron-clad evidence is clear, I hope Your Majesty will decree that the Huai Ping County King has embezzled 20 million pieces of silver, slaughtered Zhang Nantian’s entire family, and has made Li Jianquan mad and killed Zhang Wang’s four people, of which I wonder how many other innocent people died at the hands of the Huai Ping County King.”

“The millions of innocent people in Pingqiu Province died in the famine. I hope that Your Majesty will kill the King of Huai Ping, so that the law of Wei can be made right! To return the world to a clear and bright world!”

“My Lord! Xu Qingnian, I beg you!”

Xu Qingnian spoke up, and he spoke towards His Majesty, asking Him to grant death to the Huai Ping County King.

“This is not possible!”

He looked at Xu Qingnian and shouted angrily.

“The ironclad evidence is like a mountain, King Huai Ping, do you still dare to slyly argue?”

Xu Qingnian’s voice was like thunder as he questioned the County King of Huai Ping.

“This is not evidence, this is not evidence, this is evidence that you have forged.”

The Huai Ping County King roared.

“This is Zhang Nantian’s corpse, what proof do you have that this is forged?”

“Huai Ping County King, you are ruthless and unscrupulous, killing millions of innocent people, are you still a human being?”

“You are brutal by nature and your cultivation of the Yellow Dragon Great True Qi has led you to become even more brutal and bigoted, if you weren’t the County King, you would have died without a burial place long ago.”

“You only have a good father, but even if your father’s position is high, you will still have to be ambushed today.”

“Heh!”

Xu Qingnian’s angry rebuke, especially at the end, revealed a look of mockery, as if to tell the Huai Ping County King, I am just a mere chief of the Ministry of Punishment, but I will still punish you.

Xu Qingnian was deliberately provoking the Huai Ping County King, because his purpose had not really been achieved.

“You are reckless!”

“You are bold!”

“You’re arrogant!”

Feeling Xu Qingnian’s mocking eyes, the Huai Ping County King was instantly enraged, he roared and pointed at Xu Qingnian, wishing he could slap Xu Qingnian to death right now.

“Let your dogs bark, today’s ironclad evidence is like a mountain, you will definitely die.”

Xu Qingnian spoke again, a barking dog, simply cursing freely, and the hundred officials were relieved.

And yet the Huai Ping County King roared.

“This can’t be! This is definitely not Zhang Nantian’s corpse.”

The Huai Ping County King roared in anger, his veins exposed as he roared in this manner.

He himself was extremely paranoid, extremely agitated, and extremely arrogant, a man who had a great deal of mental problems and could not be provoked.

“Who are you to say that this is not Zhang Nantian’s corpse?”

“Show me the evidence?”

Xu Qingnian opened his mouth and roared, angering the Huai Ping County King again and again.

“Zhang Nantian’s corpse was destroyed by the king long ago, do you really think the king is stupid? His corpse, long ago, was burned clean in front of the king’s eyes!”

“Zhang Nantian, completely and utterly dead, his whole family is gone, can you still go back in time and get the corpse back? Xu Qingnian!”

The Huai Ping County King’s angry roar rang out.

It was almost hysterical.

Yet these words were uttered.

The courtroom ……. was completely quiet.

The civil and military officials froze.

Everyone was frozen, except for the empress and Xu Qingnian.

This was a direct admission that he was the culprit.

Now it didn’t matter if there was evidence or not.

The Huiping County King had admitted his guilt.

“Say it!”

“You tell this king, ah, this is not false evidence, what is this?”

The Huai Ping County King remained paranoid as he raged furiously, questioning Xu Qingnian.

However Xu Qingnian withdrew all expressions, and instead looked calmly and incomparably at the empress on the dragon chair.

“Your Majesty, I have investigated the Pingqiu House disaster relief case, and I hope that Your Majesty will decide on it.”

Once these words were spoken, at this moment, the crowd completely understood.

Xu Qingnian had made a fraud.

This qi vein was definitely not Zhang Nantian’s, but was forged by Xu Qingnian, whose purpose was to get the Huai Ping County King to tell the truth himself.

This was the ironclad evidence that Xu Qingnian was talking about.

He knew the character of the Huai Ping County King, so he deliberately provoked him, first with a secret letter, confusing the Huai Ping County King, making him understand that Xu Qingnian had proof, and then producing the forged evidence.

Time and time again, Xu Qingnian provoked the Huai Ping County King and eventually succeeded.

But in reality, even if Xu Qingnian had not succeeded, it would not have mattered, because the County King of Huai Ping could not explain clearly whether this was Zhang Nantian’s Qi vein or not.

If he produced evidence, he would be admitting it to himself.

If he did not produce evidence, he would still be under serious suspicion if he could not explain it.

And the choice of everything was in the hands of the empress. If she wanted the Huai Ping County King to die, then the Huai Ping County King would have to die.

Quiet.

Quiet.

Deadly quiet.

At this moment, the Huai Ping County King also completely understood that he had been fooled.

“Xu Qingnian, you lied to me?”

The Huiping County King’s eyes were bared, and it was as if a flame was about to burst out from his eyes.

His aura skyrocketed, but the next moment, the old man within the great hall directly raised his hand.

Boom.

Like a mountain suppressing a mountain, it crushed the Huai Ping County King to the ground on the spot, like a dead dog, while Xu Qingnian stood aside, towering over him.

Fury, fury, fury.

The Huai Ping County King struggled frantically, but in front of the real experts of Great Wei, he, a fifth-ranked martial artist, was still not enough.

“How dare you be reckless even in the courtroom.”

“Huai Ping County King, you are truly lawless.”

An official could not help but rebuke angrily, he really had never seen such an arrogant person, nor had he ever thought that the Huai Ping County King would be arrogant to this extent.

“I beg Your Majesty, convict him!”

“The Huai Ping County King has committed such a great evil, I hope Your Majesty will convict him.”

“I, beg Your Majesty, grant death to County King Huai Ping.”

At this moment, all the civil servants of the court spoke up, since the ironclad evidence was so strong, then the Huai Ping County King would really die.

He had done so many evil deeds, and each one of them was shocking to the eyes.

If he wasn’t killed, it would be hard to appease the hearts of the people.

It would be hard to pacify their hearts.

And on the dragon chair.

The empress was silent, she did not speak, and no one knew what she was thinking.

And so it was, a quarter of an hour later.

Finally, a voice rang out.

“Your Majesty! Prince Huining requests an audience!”

The eunuch’s voice rang out, and at this moment the crowd finally understood what the empress was waiting for.

Waiting for Prince Huaining to come.

But the crowd couldn’t help but frown, although Prince Huaining was in a very high position and held great power, even so, his son, Prince Huai Ping, had caused such a big matter.

It was impossible not to kill.

This was a capital crime, a heavenly capital crime.

They were curious as to what Prince Huai Ning would do to free his son.

It was almost a certain death sentence.

“Proclaim.”

The empress spoke indifferently.

Not long after, a figure slowly appeared outside the hall.

The figure was old, standing on a walking stick, and walked in somewhat trembling.

It was an old man, with a head full of white hair, looking frail and with extremely cloudy eyes, wearing a python robe.

Holding a tray in his left hand, he walked into the great hall.

“Sinner Huai Ning, I am ashamed of the royal family, of His Majesty, and of the people of the world.”

“My son, the son of a sinful minister, has committed ten unforgivable sins, and I am truly ashamed to be a father.”

“But I beg Your Majesty to spare my son’s life. My son is like this because I have failed to teach him well, and because he has relied on my authority to act in a lawless manner and without regard for the law.

“Therefore, today, I am sending you the amulet of the Qilin army. From now on, I will have no more power, and I will teach my son carefully, so that he can repent in his life, and I hope that Your Majesty will have pity on him.”

This voice was old, with sadness, and when he came to the great hall, he knelt down directly on the ground, pushing out the tray in his hand, and was even older with tears.

But once these words were spoken, everyone in the entire courtroom froze.

Including Xu Qingnian’s expression also changed.

The amulet of the Kirin army!

Prince Huaining was actually exchanging this for the life of Prince Huai Ping?

This was impossible!

The Kirin Army was one of the five major military battalions of Great Wei, a million strong, such a huge force, to put it bluntly, this was the capital for a rebellion, if they really wanted to rebel, they didn’t dare say they could win, but at least they would make Great Wei suffer a great loss.

Especially for the current Wei, if the Qilin army rebelled, Wei would face an unprecedented challenge.

In other words, if anyone were to stand in Prince Huai Ning’s shoes, a son, it would not matter if he died, whereas if the Kirin Army talisman were to be handed over, it would be a true blood loss, something that ten sons could not get back.

This was impossible!

What was even more shocking to the court full of civil servants was that His Majesty’s reckoning was the Kirin Talisman of War.

After tossing and turning for such a long time, from the moment Xu Qingnian had just entered the court, the empress had already thought up this scheme.

Everything went according to the Empress’ plan.

First, she arranged for Xu Qingnian to go to the Ministry of Officials, but after she was rejected, she arranged for her to go to the Ministry of Punishment.

The case of the Pingqiu disaster relief will be handed over to Xu Qingnian, and then Xu Qingnian will make a scene at the Ministry of Punishment, and His Majesty will ask him to examine the case.

If Xu Qingnian finds out, then convict the Huai Ping County King, if Xu Qingnian does not find out, then Xu Qingnian’s talent can also be shown, while the empress has other methods.

The empress also predicted that Prince Huaining would offer the Qilin talisman in exchange.

I don’t know why the Prince of Huaining would do this, though. He had the reason and the opportunity to stop Prince Huai Ping from being foolish, just as he had done during the fiasco at the Ministry of Punishment.

But today, Prince Huaining did not do so, but allowed Prince Huiping to act recklessly.

I don’t know how the empress could be so sure that Prince Huai Ning would hand over the Qilin amulet.

But what the crowd did know was this.

All of this!

All of it!

It was all just a deal.

A political deal, the life of Prince Huai Ping in exchange for the Qilin Talisman.

“In this matter, the Huai Ping County King has committed a heinous sin and deserves to be executed.”

“However, it is the father’s fault if the son does not teach, Huai Ping has no one in his sight because of his father’s power, now Prince Huai Ning surrenders the Qilin amulet.”

“I will forgive Huai Ping’s death, but there is no escape from the crime of living, so I will cut off Huai Ping’s throne and remove his name from the Sovereign’s House.

“However, if he dares to commit any more mistakes, I will not forgive him lightly.”

“What do you think, dear ministers?”

At this moment, the empress spoke up.

Her purpose had been achieved.

The Qilin military talisman!

As for the Huai Ping County King, the removal of his throne and the removal of his name from the Sovereign’s House was already considered punishment.

Although this punishment was nothing compared to the mistakes committed, but with the addition of the Qilin Talisman, it could indeed be erased.

It was even a bit more than that.

After all, the Kirin Talisman did not just give His Majesty military power, but more importantly, the country could be more stable and many things could be done more smoothly.

So the civil and military officials did not continue to speak up.

The life of the Huiping County King for the Qilin Talisman was worth it, it was too worth it.

But all of this is from a political point of view.

Standing in the perspective of the imperial court.

So they agreed.

“My subjects, obey the decree! Long live my emperor!”

The hundred officials spoke up, they agreed to the deal, it was a good thing for the country.

Prince Huai Ning, on the other hand, was grateful and said, “Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness! The guilty minister will certainly teach Huai Ping well.”

Everything was as if it had been arranged.

Everything had long been marked down to a price.

In the middle of the courtroom, Xu Qingnian was silent.

And the Huai Ping County King, who was lying on the ground, at this moment looked his gaze towards himself.

This gaze was filled with.

Laughter!

A strong smile!

Arrogant laughter!

As if to say, “What if you convict me? What can I do if I kill someone? So what if millions of people die?

Yes, I am an unforgivable evil.

But so what?

I said, I can’t die!

But ……. You have to die!

Hahahahahahahahaha!

The Huai Ping County King did not laugh out loud, but in his heart, an incomparable piercing laugh came out.

The provocation in his eyes.

The arrogance in his eyes.

The rampant arrogance in his eyes.

It was incomparably piercing.

All the civil servants of the court bowed their heads.

But Xu Qingnian was the only one who did not bow his head.

It was also at this moment.

A voice rang out.

“Minister! Disagree!”

The voice rang out, and at this moment, the faces of the civil and military within the court all changed slightly.