Kyoto, Great Wei.
Above the Palace of Literature, the blazing and incomparable Eight Jade Sacred Ruler blossomed with immeasurable light.
The heavens and the earth changed colour.
And inside the Great Wei Palace, the Hao Ran Wen Zhong hung above Xu Qingnian’s head.
The two sacred weapons seemed to have become hostile.
The only thing was that the Eight Jade Sacred Ruler contained stronger energy and was the main attacker.
The Hao Ran Wen Zhong, on the other hand, was in defensive form.
A monstrous holy aura filled the sky, and everyone felt their hearts palpitating.
The heavens and the earth changed colour, the sun and the moon were without light, as if the end was near, and the great scholars of the Great Wei Literary Palace as well as the great scholars of heaven and earth were completely torn apart.
The infinite and endless Hao Rang Qi was submerged into the Eight Jade Sacred Rulers, and they wanted to make a final reckoning, allowing the literary artifact to completely recover and kill Xu Qingnian.
Xu Qingnian had killed the Great Confucian of Heaven and Earth, and this had already touched their bottom line.
The terrifying pressure of the Sacred Weapon came upon them, causing people to feel despair.
Even Xu Qingnian felt this surging and invincible power.
The Great Wei Palace of Literature was truly intent on killing Xu Qingnian.
Otherwise, it would not have revived the Saint Weapon in full force.
And it was at this moment.
In the middle of the imperial palace.
The Empress’ voice rang out coldly.
“Pa*s on my decree.”
“After today’s battle.”
“Exterminate the Zhu Sheng lineage.”
The voice was cold, but it carried a tone that was not to be questioned.
The moment she spoke these words, it silenced the whole of Great Wei’s Kyoto.
The Great Wei Palace of Literature was the first to quieten down.
The Hao Rang Qi also stopped, the Eight Jade Sacred Ruler also stopped vibrating, and everyone fell silent.
Even Xu Qingnian became very quiet.
Everyone looked at the Empress with an incredulous gaze.
Especially Xu Qingnian, whose gaze was even more astonished.
The world knew that he was fierce and cruel.
And the Empress was more of a middle way, in other words, not offending anyone and letting those below her fight on their own, this was the Empress’s tactic, the emperor’s mind, the way of balance.
On this point, Xu Qingnian did not blame the empress at all, on the contrary he thought it was a good thing that the empress was not emotionally involved.
For the development of the country, the most taboo thing for a person in power is to be emotional.
Once emotionally involved, it is easy to raise a bunch of traitors out of it. It is not okay to overly favour one side, or rather to overly suppress one side, it must be balanced.
But what was unexpected was this.
The empress had unexpectedly said such domineering words at this juncture.
This is no longer helping herself, this is lifting herself up, unconditionally lifting herself up.
To offend the Great Wei Palace of Literature would do the empress no good, even if she knew that the Great Wei Palace of Literature was going to secede, she could not offend it, instead, when it really came down to it, for the sake of the country, the empress still had to politely send people away.
In this way, only then can the general situation be stabilized.
But now, the empress directly flipped out, for her own sake, which made Xu Qingnian was really a bit unexpected.
As for the others, the empress’ words were a complete flip-flop.
The Minister of the Six Ministries was stunned, and Chen Zhengru even looked at the empress with an incredulous gaze.
He instantly understood that the empress was betting on Xu Qingnian.
For the sake of Xu Qingnian, she was willing to offend the Great Wei Palace of Literature.
To offend one of the greatest powers in the world, the Zhu Sheng lineage.
A small number of people who were not involved in this matter were inexplicably uncomfortable after hearing these words.
The majority of the readers of the Zhu Sheng lineage were filled with anger, disappointment and disgust towards the empress.
“Your Majesty, what do you mean by these words?”
Cao Ru’s voice rang out, his voice slightly lowered, appearing somewhat puzzled and angry.
After all, this was a struggle between them and Xu Qingnian, it had nothing to do with you, the empress.
“I, haven’t I made it clear enough?”
“After this battle, regardless of the outcome.”
“Within Great Wei, there will no longer be a lineage of Zhu Sheng.”
“Those who do not abolish Confucianism or the will will be beheaded on the spot.”
“Do I need to repeat myself?”
The Empress’s voice rang out again, this time more vehement and overbearing than before.
It was also said more clearly.
Once this was said, the crowd became even quieter; it was no longer a fight between Xu Qingnian and Cao Ru.
Rather, it was a battle between the Great Wei Palace of Literature and the Great Wei court.
When the empress came down, things were completely different.
If it had been Xu Qingnian who had ordered the ma*sacre of the Zhu Sheng lineage, the crowd would certainly not have reacted, after all, Xu Qingnian did not yet have the power to do so and would not necessarily listen to what he said.
But when the Empress spoke up, then it was different.
She was the emperor of the Great Wei.
The imperial decree was greater than everything else, and at least all officials within Great Wei had to obey her orders.
It was no good for anyone to come along.
“Your Majesty, this matter is a matter of removing demons from the Great Wei Palace of Literature, why would Your Majesty offend the world’s scholars just to preserve a man who has entered the demon?”
“I also hope that Your Majesty will think twice about it.”
Cao Ru continued, his tone still somewhat subdued.
“Think twice?”
“That is really ridiculous.”
“I, the Marquis of the Great Wei for pacifying chaos, being described as a demon by you and others? You tell me to think twice?”
“Today is the day of the enthronement of Great Wei, all the amba*sadors from all countries are present, I said that no matter what, I will give you an answer tomorrow, have you given up a step?”
“Great Wei’s national prestige has been destroyed cleanly today by you and other readers.”
“The national prestige brought about by this war, Xu Aiqing, has been swept away by you all in one day, and this is what you are thinking about three times?”
“And again, into the devil?”
“On that day in the palace, Xu Aiqing was examined by Peng Yuan to check the devil seed of the supernatural arts, Peng Yuan failed to find out, and then forced Xu Aiqing to go to the Great Wei Palace of Literature to testify himself, still failed to find out, but instead revived the holy will.”
“And today, the backbone of my Great Wei, once again slandered by you and other readers, revived the holy weapon, Xu Aiqing was judged by the holy weapon, still no trace of the foreign magic.”
“I, for one, would like to ask, where has Aiqing Xu become possessed?”
“In my eyes, you, on the contrary, are the ones who are truly enchanted with the devil.”
At the end of her words, the empress was even more vocal, her beautiful eyes wrinkled as she looked angrily at the Great Wei Palace of Literature, her eyes full of killing intent.
Only this look, in Xu Qingnian’s eyes, inexplicably looked a little ……
He had never really seen the female emperor get this angry.
In the face of the Empress’ vocal questioning, the Great Wei Palace of Literature was somewhat silent, only for the voice of another great Confucian of Heaven and Earth to soon ring out.
“Your Majesty, there may be some misunderstanding about the matter of entering the demon, but killing the surrender and slaughtering the city, is it hard to say that it is also false?”
The other party spoke out, and again brought it back to the killing and slaughtering of the city.
“Shut up.”
“Now, immediately, tell me.”
“Xu Aiqing, where did you become enchanted?”
“Don’t confuse me.”
“Give me an answer.”
The empress opened her mouth and questioned in a stern voice, she didn’t have that much time to listen to these guys dragging their feet.
Let’s get this matter settled first, this matter is not settled, and then go to pull another matter, treating people as fools?
Such a domineering scene made Xu Qingnian somewhat unexpected.
However, Xu Qingnian did not say anything and honestly stood aside, after doing so many things herself, it was indeed time to let the empress come out and shake the heavenly might.
“This …….”
The Great Wei Wen Gong was silent.
If you have to pull this matter, it really can’t be pulled, after all, the Great Confucian of Heaven and Earth can’t check, the holy will can’t check, and the holy weapon can’t check either.
In this case, you still have to say that Xu Qingnian cultivates foreign arts, that is really a bit far-fetched ah, do everything need to take advantage of the reason, do not take advantage of the reason, say anything is useless.
“Your Majesty, if Xu Qingnian did not cultivate the supernatural arts and did not become a demon, why did he want to kill and slaughter the city?”
Cao Ru spoke up.
Still clutching at this point and not letting go.
They still wanted to pull it back, because just on the matter of being possessed, they could not say a reason why, after all, all the evidence showed that Xu Qingnian had practiced the supernatural arts.
But at that very moment.
The empress’ voice rang out again.
“Someone, slap the mouth of Cao Yan for thirty.”
The Empress spoke in a domineering manner.
The moment the words fell, everyone’s faces became even more stunned, and the millions of readers even looked incredulous.
Thirty words?
To slap the mouth of a great scholar of heaven and earth?
This was simply humiliating.
“Your Majesty.”
“Your Majesty, Cao Ru only made a slip of the tongue, you are a man of ten thousand gold, don’t be angry with Cao Ru.”
“I hope Your Majesty will forgive Cao Ru.”
Fang Ru and Jiang Ru spoke instantly, while Cao Ru also shouted out to Your Majesty, they really did not expect that the empress would be so overbearing and stern.
“I, accept the decree.”
However, Duke An’s voice rang out.
In the next moment, Duke An appeared in the middle of the Great Wei Wen Palace, a matchless power filled the air, this was the king’s might, Duke An was like a fierce tiger.
He killed his way straight into the Great Wei Palace of Literature and found Cao Ru inside the palace.
The latter was sitting in the palace with an ugly face, and when he saw Duke An’s appearance, anger flashed in his eyes.
Snap.
Pah.
Snap.
An Guo Gong didn’t care about that, he raised his hand and slapped Cao Ru’s face with thirty slaps.
Each slap was crisp and clear, but unfortunately it did not reach the Great Wei Palace.
Thirty slaps fell.
Cao Ru gritted his teeth and withstood the slaps, and Lord An knew that it was impossible to kill Cao Ru, and that he had to withdraw his strength.
These thirty slaps were not to beat Cao Ru, but to make him lose face.
“In reply to Your Majesty, thirty slaps on the mouth have been delivered, should we continue with the slaps?”
Duke An’s voice rang out from the Great Wei Palace of Literature.
It reached the Great Wei Imperial Palace.
“Listen to the order of An Guo Gong, if anyone dares to confuse the public again, they will be slapped once, punished twice, and beheaded three times.”
The empress once again spoke in a domineering manner, putting an end to these guys continuing to confuse the public.
One thing is one thing, don’t talk about another thing. If you dare to use this tactic again, you will be killed.
Why are we still talking so much?
Everyone could hear the murderous aura in the empress’ tone.
This was not a joke, but a serious one.
“My servant, I obey the order.”
Duke An made a salute in reply, and then his gaze fell on this group of great scholars of heaven and earth and a group of great scholars, his eyes filled with contempt and coldness.
The group of great scholars, on the other hand, all had ugly faces, but they could only dare to speak out in anger in the face of Duke An’s gaze.
Against Xu Qingnian, they could argue all sorts of things, but against the empress, they could not, nor did they dare to continue arguing.
If they continued to argue, they would probably be the next to die.
The crowd was silent.
And the Empress’ voice rang out once again.
“Speak!”
“How do you explain the slander of Xu Aiqing’s demonization?”
“If you cannot explain today, no one will escape.”
“Millions of scholars, do you think I dare not kill them?”
“The Son of Heaven’s army will listen to the order.”
“Control all the readers in Kyoto.”
“But all those in the Zhu Sheng lineage, but all those involved in this matter, if they have not given an explanation, they will be killed on the spot.”
“Today, I will ask a good question! Take a good look! This Great Wei River and Mountain, is it the Great Wei Wen Palace’s or mine.”
The empress continued to speak out, and by the end of her voice, there was also a slight hint of madness and fury.
She liked to target, didn’t she? She likes not to give in, does she?
Then today, she would show these people what it was like when an emperor was angry.
If a man is angry, he will spill five steps of blood.
If the emperor is angry, a million corpses will fall.
She really wasn’t afraid.
As the decree fell, hundreds of thousands of the Son of Heaven’s army instantly began to move, each one drawing their long swords, killing and controlling all the readers, even the 5,000 elites, directly surrounding the Great Wei Palace of Literature.
As soon as the Empress opened her mouth, they rushed in to kill.
Confucians were indeed very strong, able to gather the power of heaven and earth, but the problem was that they were still ordinary people, still mortals, and a great Confucian of heaven and earth could not defeat a seventh-grade martial artist.
In other words, when the empress really dared to say kill, not a single scholar would be able to escape this today.
Tap, tap, tap!
The footsteps were so neat and tidy that in barely a quarter of an hour, the group of readers were directly under control.
All the scholars were trembling, and they all fell to their knees, and some of those who had no balls even fainted in fear.
Even if Xu Qingnian was as vicious as she was, she had only abolished their Confucian status, and they knew that Xu Qingnian would not dare to kill them.
But the empress was different, she was the emperor of Wei, the ruler of Wei, if she opened her mouth and said she would kill the scholars, it would really mean that millions of corpses would be buried.
“Please don’t be angry, Your Majesty!”
“Please calm your anger, Your Majesty.”
“Your Majesty, this matter is our fault, I hope Your Majesty will not be angry.”
“Your Majesty, we have not investigated this matter and have wronged Xu Ru, so I hope Your Majesty will not be angry.”
Finally, under this kind of pressure from the empress, a response came from within the Great Wei Palace of Literature.
They were cowed.
They were completely cowed.
It could be seen that the Empress was truly furious this time, and this heavenly might was just right, pressing them so hard that they really didn’t know what to say.
They admitted their mistake, but it was to the Empress, not to Xu Qingnian.
“Since you are wrong, apologize to Xu Aiqing.”
“The Great Wei Palace of Literature, the Zhu Sheng lineage, all come over to apologise.”
“Great scholars of heaven and earth perform a great salute, great scholars kneel, and scholars bow three times and nine times.”
The empress coldly said.
An apology and that was the end of it? And it wasn’t an apology to herself, it was an apology to Xu Qingnian.
And it had to be a big apology, otherwise, to suffer such injustice for nothing?
“Your Majesty, we have been informed of the mistake, is it ……. for you to do so?”
Some great scholars spoke up, frowning, inexplicably feeling that the empress was really going a bit too far.
We’ve all admitted our mistakes, and you’re asking us to do this? Isn’t this making us lose face? Moreover, the Great Confucian of Heaven and Earth performing a great salute, the Great Confucian kneeling and bowing three times under the Great Confucian?
This is simply a great disgrace.
The entire Zhu Sheng lineage has disgraced itself at home.
The amba*sadors from all the countries are still here, and after today, won’t the world laugh at them?
“Slap your mouth.”
The empress spoke, she didn’t give the other party any chance to retort at all.
If you dare to question, slap your mouth.
If they questioned again, they would be punished.
If they dared to say one more word, they would be beheaded directly.
The great scholar who had just spoken was directly picked up and slapped by Duke An.
When the rest of the great scholars saw this scene, they were inexplicably a little uncomfortable and a little angry.
They thought that this person was sick. Can’t you just shut up honestly? Cao Ru and the others didn’t even say anything.
What are you doing here? You are really tired of living.
After the slap, the latter’s mouth was full of blood, and a handful of his age was thrown directly onto the ground, letting out a cry of pain, mainly for reasons of pain and humiliation.
“We receive the order.”
Just then, Fang Ru’s voice rang out, and he gave a response, agreeing to this request of the empress.
In the next moment, Fang Ru took the initiative to walk out of the Great Wei Palace of Literature and headed towards the Imperial Palace, and the remaining two Great Confucians of Heaven and Earth could not help but follow.
Because they knew.
Once the Empress launched her rage, no one could stop her, and their enemy, at present, was not the Empress, nor could it be the Empress.
So they could only hold back.
Even if they were a little unhappy, they could only endure it.
Soon one of the great scholars followed, including some readers, who knew that if they didn’t do as they were told, the Empress would definitely not relent.
Three quarters of an hour later.
The crowd arrived outside the Great Wei Palace.
Cao Ru, Fang Ru and Jiang Ru, three great scholars of heaven and earth, appeared in Xu Qingnian’s eyes now.
Cao Ru was the oldest, and looked even more weathered, his face was full of old skin and folds, looking somewhat ugly, and his hairline was extremely bald, with only a few white hairs, pestling a walking stick, his pace trembling, looking as if he was going to die at any moment.
Fang Ru was slightly younger and wore a plain robe, and as for Jiang Ru, he wore a black robe.
These three were all great scholars of heaven and earth in the Palace of Literature.
Cao Ru’s attitude towards Xu Qingnian was very strong and extremely disgusted with him, as could be seen from his gaze.
As for Jiang Ru, he is just like Cao Ru.
In fact, Jiang Ru didn’t have that much dislike for Xu Qingnian, at least until Xu Qingnian killed Peng Ru.
But after Xu Qingnian killed Peng Ru, Jiang Ru was completely disgusted with Xu Qingnian.
Not to mention that now, he had to apologise to Xu Qingnian?
“We, being deceived by the villain, did not distinguish right from wrong and wronged Xu Ru, I hope that Xu Ru will be magnanimous and forgive us for not distinguishing right from wrong.”
Fang Ru was so generous that he bowed directly towards Xu Qingnian.
It was indeed a big salute, without the slightest wriggle.
Cao Ru and Jiang Ru were different, they were extremely disgusted in their hearts, but they also understood what the empress’ attitude was.
So the two of them trembled and bowed towards Xu Qingnian, placing themselves in an extremely vulnerable position, so that these readers would look at them and hate Xu Qingnian even more.
Such petty tactics were purely disgusting.
But it didn’t matter anymore, it was the few of them who were at a disadvantage now, not Xu Qingnian.
“Please ask Xu Ru to forgive us for not distinguishing between right and wrong.”
The other great Confucians followed suit and saluted, but they were on their knees, quite a few of them, but not too many, thirty or forty.
It was clear that there was still some of the great Confucians who had not come out.
But it was close enough, for the purpose had been achieved.
“Please, Xu Ru, forgive us for not distinguishing between right and wrong.”
And outside the palace, millions of scholars knelt on the ground as they shouted out, both in fear and stifled frustration, as well as humiliation and resignation, and some cries rang out, and it was clear that they were really struggling in their hearts.
Bang, bang, bang.
The sound of kowtowing was so neat that the ground shook.
Looking at this scene, Xu Qingnian was really happy, from the beginning to the end.
When you reach a certain level of status, it’s great to do things.
No matter what he said, these scholars could find some reason to dislike him, to refute him, either to confuse the public or to pull the wool over his eyes, to avoid the heavy.
Now when the empress opens her mouth, you want to avoid the important by making light of the important? If you dare to obfuscate, you will be beaten until you answer the question honestly.
And if one were a saint, one would be able to do the same. If one were to become a saint, one would definitely be able to make the Great Wei Palace of Literature suffer a great loss, and make the Zhu Sheng lineage, suffer a loss that would last forever.
“A handful of years old and still unable to distinguish between right and wrong, you have lived your life to the belly of a dog?”
“For His Majesty’s sake, this Confucian forgives you, but if there is a next time, don’t blame this Confucian for killing you.”
Xu Qingnian’s angry rebuke was like an elder lecturing a junior.
This kind of humiliation was really hard for these people to bear, and not many of them were able to do so without being shocked by the humiliation.
As for the difference between education and sophistication, it all depends on one’s status.
It is normal for a shrew to insult a great scholar who does not even look at him, not that he is well-bred, because you are nothing in his eyes.
If a great scholar insults another great scholar, the latter will be silent, but if the insult is a bit more harsh, such as slandering you for having done something with someone, you will be so angry that you will jump to your feet and curse.
Even Sage Kong was falsely accused of having done something with the Lord of Song back then, and later forced him to take a poisonous oath.
The three of them had calm faces, but they were only calm, but in their hearts they had already cursed Xu Qingnian a hundred thousand times.
“Your Majesty, can this matter end here!”
Fang Ru took a deep breath, looked at the empress, and asked this.
“Since Aiqing Xu has forgiven you, then this matter will end here.”
“However, I still want to say this, if anyone dares to ask Xu Aiqing to prove herself of her supernatural arts again in the future, no matter what the reason is, and no matter what method is used.”
“Even if a sage comes, I will kill them as they come, do you understand?”
The empress spoke out, and these words were somewhat ferocious, even Xu Qingnian felt that these words were indeed somewhat brutal.
Even when the saints came, they were killed without fail.
When these scholars heard these words, how uncomfortable they had to be in their hearts.
However, Xu Qingnian instantly understood the empress’ meaning, she did not say it unintentionally, but intentionally.
She was telling everyone in Great Wei that the mountain was hers, not the Palace’s. This signal was instantly picked up by many people.
The empress suddenly became powerful today, not only to help Xu Qingnian out, but more importantly to shake the power of the sky, to suppress the Great Wei Palace of Literature, so that everyone up and down in Great Wei would understand one thing.
The emperor is the emperor.
You can make a scene all you want in normal days, but if the emperor speaks and no one listens, then you can go to hell.
“We, etc., understand.”
Fang Ru took a deep breath and bowed towards the empress.
Cao Ru and Jiang Ru also bowed in unison towards the Empress, but after they bowed down, their gazes were filled with a deep coldness.
The Empress had already violated their bottom line by humiliating the saint in this way, but the other party was the Empress of Great Wei, so they could not do anything about it for the time being, but they would keep this hatred in their hearts.
Soon, soon, soon they would make the Empress eat her own words. The three of them shared the same mind, and they could endure what happened today.
It would not be long before they would make the Empress pay the price, an extremely painful price.
When the time came, they only hoped that the Empress would not regret and cry out in pain.
Thinking of this, the three Great Confucians of Heaven and Earth were inexplicably in a much better mood, not so suffocating.
“Your Majesty.”
Just as quickly, Jiang Ru’s voice rang out.
“The matter of Xu Ru’s cultivation of supernatural arts was the result of my listening to the words of a villain, and I have paid the price accordingly.”
“But I would like to ask, how can the matter of killing and slaughtering the city be explained? And how can the death of Zhang Ru be explained?”
“In any case, my country, Wei, is a literary orthodoxy, known as a country of benevolence and righteousness, a state of etiquette, a state of etiquette, to kill and slaughter a city, is this not a joke when word gets out?”
“More importantly, Zhang Ru was unjustly imprisoned and hanged himself, an explanation must be given, right?”
“Your Majesty, this matter is not because I am looking for trouble with Xu Ru, but to discuss the matter.”
Jiang Ru spoke out.
The matter of foreign arts was completely off the table.
There was no way that the killing and slaughtering of the city could just be brushed aside, right?
And the death of Zhang Ning, it was impossible not to give an explanation.
But when Jiang Ru said this.
The empress shook her robe and looked at Jiang Ru and said.
“Fine, if you want an explanation, I will give you one.”
“Where is the Marquis of Ping Chaos?”
The Empress spoke.
“My servant, present.”
Xu Qingnian spoke up at once and gave an answer.
And the crowd was full of curiosity, some even frowned, worried that the Empress was really punishing Xu Qingnian, if so, it would also be bad for Xu Qingnian.
As for all the readers, they finally let out a long breath.
Xu Qingnian was finally going to suffer a loss, and was finally going to be punished.
He had been deprived of his Confucian position and forced to kowtow, he had simply lost his Confucian position and face again, and would be a joke in the future.
Now that they could finally see Xu Qingnian being punished, they had some balance inside.
“This battle, you killed the surrender and ma*sacred the city, indeed ruined my Great Wei’s reputation.”
“I, for one, will punish you severely, and will punish you with a seven-day fast.”
“Are you convinced?”
The empress spoke out and gave Xu Qingnian her punishment.
When these words were spoken, everyone was confused.
The three Great Confucians of Heaven and Earth were also confused.
The millions of readers were even more confused.
To kill and slaughter a city, and to give this kind of punishment? D*mn it, could you be any more outrageous?
Seven days of fasting? Even seven years of fasting is not enough to quell so many grievances, right?
This is too much.
It’s a clear case of harbouring.
“Your Majesty, fasting for seven days is a bit of a punishment, isn’t it?”
Jiang Ru couldn’t help but speak out.
This was too much.
Xu Qingnian killed the surrender and ma*sacred the city, and then he ate fasting for seven days?
“What I say is my decree.”
“It’s your turn to interfere in matters of state?”
“Is it hard to punish my Great Wei backbone for the sake of some people who deserve to die in the first place?”
“In that case, I will give Jiang Ru great power, and I will ask him to bring down the Heavenly Kingdom of the Sea within a month and incorporate it into the territory of Great Wei.”
“If Jiang Ru can do this well, I will immediately abolish the marquisship of Xu Aiqing.”
“How about ennobling Jiang Ru as Marquis of Pinghai again?”
“If you don’t feel satisfied, it’s not impossible for Jiang Ru to think of one himself.”
“Is Jiang Ru satisfied with the Marquis of Demon Punishment? Or the Marquis of Demon Punishment?”
The empress spoke out, a series of pearls and cannons, a sentence full of mocking taste, and extremely sharp logical thinking.
Sure enough, a woman is a woman, this thinking logic, this mocking ability, as soon as she opened her mouth, Jiang Ru lost his wits.
He was left speechless.
“What about the death of Zhang Ru?”
“Your Majesty, is it hard to make Xu Ru fast for seven days again?”
The empress’ every word made him angry and made him stifled, but he did not dare to say anything, and if he argued again, he would probably be slapped in the mouth again.
How can you reason with a woman?
“What does the death of Zhang Ning have to do with Xu Aiqing?”
“In my opinion, Zhang Ning’s death is good.”
“All such tumours should die.”
“What a pity, if he were still alive, I would have sent him to be a general at the border and let him fight the foreigners personally, I would like to see.”
“When the foreigners’ iron hors*men come to kill, will they be respectful because he is a great scholar.”
“Will he cry out in pain because he is a great scholar.”
“Will he give up killing and submit to our dynasty because he is a great scholar?”
“If they would, back then when the barbarians invaded, the Great Wei Dynasty, and the living were in ruins.”
“And where were you all?”
“What use are you but to cry and lament?”
“When the people of Great Wei were being killed, I, for one, did not see Zhang Ru stand up for them.”
“When the people of Great Wei were tied to tree stumps and used as live targets by the barbarians to practise their archery skills, I did not see Zhang Ru stand up for them either.”
“The women of Great Wei, when they were bullied by the barbarians and cried out in pain, I did not see Zhang Ru stand up for them either.”
“When the princess of Great Wei fell into the hands of the barbarians and was abused alive and died, I still did not see Zhang Ru stand up for herself.”
“Now, when Great Wei has produced a great warrior, when an iron-blooded Confucian has emerged, you and others are targeting my Great Wei loyal subjects because of this killing of surrender and slaughtering of cities.”
“No matter how much Greater Wei kills surrender, it never mistreats prisoners, no matter how much Greater Wei ma*sacres a city, it never insults every woman, life and death is but war.”
“Great Wei has never initiated trouble either.”
“All that, aren’t these foreign nations seeking their own death?”
“Jiang Ru!”
“Fang Ru!”
“Cao Ru!”
“I, am I wrong in what I said?”
At this moment.
The Empress was truly furious, and Xu Qingnian could feel that the Empress was somewhat out of control.
She seemed to have suppressed it for a long time, always maintaining her hatred and loathing for the Great Wei Wen Gong, only that as she was the emperor, she could only ever act as if she was cold and heartless.
Anything that happened was borne by her, good or bad, hated or not, and sometimes even when she knew something, she could only bear it in silence.
For, she was the emperor of Great Wei.
But now, her emotions were slightly out of control, but she was saying all the words that were in her heart.
This voice of questioning, said the three Cao Ru’s scalp, said this group of readers, this group of great Confucians, dumbfounded.
The Confucian scholars were quiet.
And a moment later the empress’ voice continued to ring out.
“You and others, what else can you say?”
The Empress asked in a voice.
The three great Confucians of Heaven and Earth were silent, they indeed had nothing more to say.
What else? If they went on, there would really be a big problem.
There was no need to make such a stalemate, there was no need for anything.
“We have nothing to say, Your Majesty, long live your Majesty.”
The three great Confucians of Heaven and Earth bowed deeply towards the Empress.
Indeed, they had nothing more to say, they had reached this point, what was the point of saying anything else?
The Empress was determined to protect Xu Qingnian anyway.
The Empress did not answer, but only looked at them coldly.
Cao Ru, Fang Ru and Jiang Ru were silent, then looked at each other and shouted their farewells again, but the Empress still did not say anything.
They frowned slightly and prepared to shout a third time.
The Empress’s voice suddenly rang out.
“Sovereign Wang, you may begin the evolution.”
An inexplicable word was uttered.
It drew the curiosity of the crowd.
Only, at this moment, a figure slowly surfaced beside the Empress, a Daoist priest, wearing a Daoist robe, holding a jade disc in his hand, before throwing it towards the vault of heaven.
In an instant, a huge circular formation of light appeared, and beams of black and white lines intertwined, instantly evolving into a battlefield.
Tap, tap, tap!
Tap, tap, tap!
Kill!
The sound of shouting and killing rang out in the sky, the sound of stone throwers falling to the ground, the sound of the siege.
There is blood everywhere, killing everywhere, and screaming and crying everywhere.
But one could instantly tell that some of them were Great Wei generals and some were foreign generals.
And this scene was the battle of the Chen siege.
Soon the scene instantly shifted.
It was as if the great battle was over, full of devastation, piles of corpses, emitting a heavenly aura of blood that inexplicably made people feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable, even as they watched.
People were curious and wondered what it was.
But soon, someone realised what it was.
“This is the Great Zhoutian Derivative Calculation Avatar of the Tian Ji Dao Sect, it is the Art of Evolution, which can evolve an alternate future of an event.”
“Hiss! I see, His Majesty has invited the patriarch of the Tian Ji Dao Sect to act out the consequences if the city is not slaughtered.”
The voice rang out, letting many people know what it was.
At this moment, the people were dumbfounded.
They looked at the image of a mountain of corpses and bones, at the image of Great Wei generals spilling their blood on the battlefield, the image was extremely bloody and realistic, making them uncomfortable, but more than that, it made their scalps tingle a little.
Immediately afterwards, the scene shifted once again.
In particular, there was the sound of stampeding iron hors*men, accompanied by all sorts of wild laughter.
It was the foreign iron hors*men, the barbarians from the north, who were raging with glee, arrogance, arrogance and disdain in their eyes, charging towards the territory of Great Wei.
Once again the people were slaughtered, from eighty down to infants in swaddling clothes, none were spared, and the methods were so cruel that the women were seen to close their eyes and tremble, and some of the men were seen to grimace with hatred, ah.
In the end, the image suddenly disappeared, and Patriarch Wang even turned pale, forcing himself to swallow a pill to stabilize his breath.
“Thank you, Patriarch Wang.”
The empress opened her mouth, then her gaze fell on the group of readers and her tone was icy.
“This is the killing and surrendering of the city, and the consequences of Great Wei’s failure to slaughter the city.”
“I have asked Patriarch Wang of the Tianqi Dao Sect to deduce the consequences of not killing and surrendering and not ma*sacring the city.”
“This is a corner of the future, the generals of Great Wei, will die cleanly, and the border gates of Great Wei, will be completely lost, and then again, the living and the dead will be destroyed.”
“Great Wei’s Palace of Literature, Zhu Sheng’s lineage, claiming to be for the sake of the world’s people, I probably understand.”
“The Zhu Sheng lineage, in its eyes, only has the world’s pale life, not the pale life of Great Wei.”
“Whether Great Wei’s pale life dies or not is no longer relevant to you, and you will take the Palace of Literature with you in the near future anyway, to break away from Great Wei and put Great Wei’s pale life in the fire, right?”
The empress spoke out, her tone bland, but employing imperial might that spread throughout Great Wei’s Kyoto in an instant.
It was only when these words were spoken.
Everyone in all of Great Wei Kyoto froze.
There was a dead silence.
Xu Qingnian was also completely stunned this time.
He didn’t expect that the empress would even dare to say this? This was a secret, a great secret in the sky.
Speaking it out in advance would do no good, it would only lead to panic ah.
Not true.
Her Majesty is buying me time?
Xu Qingnian understood the empress’ meaning in an instant.
This move by the Empress was a true retreat for an advance.
A good move, a good move, a good move.
“Your Majesty …… Your Majesty ……. Your Majesty!”
“What are you saying? We can’t understand it at all.”
“Your Majesty should not listen to the rumours.”
Jiang Ru swallowed his saliva, this kind of thing, he didn’t expect that the empress would dare to say it directly? And to say it out in the open?
This was the kind of thing he wouldn’t dare to mention on a normal day, and he wasn’t even sure if he would break away from Great Wei or not, after all, the news he had received was that it was confirmed that he would leave, but the problem was that the plan could change at any time.
Leaving Great Wei.
It was not a small thing.
Something that the whole world would fear.
Such a big thing, and he didn’t expect the empress to dare to say it outright.
“Heh.”
“Since it’s a rumour, that’s natural.”
“Zhu Sheng became a saint in Great Wei, and he is considered to owe the Great Wei Cangzhi karma.”
“Leaving behind the Great Wei Palace of Literature and suppressing the fortunes of the Great Wei nation is also considered repayment of karma.”
“The people of Great Wei have made the Zhu Sheng.”
“And the Great Wei Palace of Literature has also created the people of Great Wei.”
“They complement each other, so don’t chill the …… the hearts of the people of Great Wei.”
“Get lost.”
The empress opened her mouth, and she said no more.
Straight away, she told them to get lost.
The three great scholars of heaven and earth were not half as angry as they should have been, but instead were surprisingly relieved.
Yes, it was relief.
It was because of what the Empress had just said.
It was really too frightening.
How could the matter of the detachment of the Great Wei Palace of Literature be said openly and directly?
If this got out, the Great Wei Palace of Literature would be struck by thunder.
The public opinion of the people would probably curse the Great Wei Wen Gong to death.
At this moment, the three felt that the empress was really ruthless.
No, not ruthless.
It was very cruel.
So ruthless that it made their hearts skip a beat and made them completely and utterly gutless.
“Pa*s on my decree that the enthronement is over.”
“All those who have caused trouble today will have their titles cut, and for three generations, they will not be allowed to enter the capital as officials.”
The empress gave her decree again.
In one sentence, she punished the group of scholars once more.
And then, her gaze fell on Xu Qingnian and said.
“Aiqing Xu, I have something important to discuss.”
She spoke.
Xu Qingnian instantly followed the empress along.
This matter was already completely over.
Relying on the empress emperor’s imperial might.
But Xu Qingnian also knew that.
This matter was over, but the following matter was even more troublesome and terrifying.
The separation of the Great Wei Palace of Literature.
It was a really big event.
The day of separation could have been a month, but now the empress has openly and directly stated the separation.
It was to buy time.
It was inevitable that the Great Wei Palace would break away, so by saying it openly and directly, it was a way to catch the Great Wei Palace off guard and make it fearful.
However, this approach will not change anything.
It could only be delayed for a while longer.
Soon.
Into the hall.
Not even waiting for Xu Qingnian to say anything.
There was a wow.
A mouthful of blood was spat out by the empress.
“Your Majesty!”
In an instant, Xu Qingnian’s face changed.
