webnovelfull Chapter 517: Identity Card Mine Sweeper
Chapter 517: Identity Card Mine Sweeper
This bombshell news about Yao Chengping was like a stone that caused a thousand ripples.
Almost everyone stopped what they were doing and the sound of discussion was endless.
"Ah? It was the Emperor who ordered it?"
With He Lin's navy base in place, rumors were flying around that the emperor was secretly instructing Yao Chengping to persecute Prince Zhao's Mansion, but Emperor Qingning did not hear the rumors in the capital, which was because the eunuch Zhou Jushan beside him was covering up the truth.
"It seems that the rumors on the day when Prince Zhao returned to the capital were not groundless. This Yao Chengping was pushed out by the emperor as a scapegoat!"
"Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet. Prince Zhao and Xue Wei are both in the palace now. I wonder if they can leave the palace safely tonight?"
"Everyone, go to Prince Zhao's Mansion and the Imperial Tutor's Mansion and wait for them to find out. If these two families don't return safely tonight, then I'm afraid they are in great danger."
"The current emperor is too narrow-minded. If he controls the country, something bad will happen sooner or later!"
The common people originally did not have the courage to attack Emperor Qingning, but they saw someone taking the lead among them, and the fact that many people followed the crowd and had a lucky mentality, so they could not help but discuss it.
"Borben is eyeing us covetously. If we get rid of the Xin family and the pillars of the northwest, what will Dasheng use to resist the barbarians?"
"If the emperor hadn't persecuted the Xin family three years ago, and the Xin family had enough support to fight wars in the south and the north, there wouldn't be any incidents on the Bol Grassland now."
The news that Yao Chengping personally admitted that it was the emperor who ordered him to attack the Xin family spread like wildfire to every corner of the capital on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
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Changchun Garden of the Imperial Palace.
At this time, outside Changchun Garden, there were three layers of guards standing inside and outside.
Zhou Jushan just went out for a stroll and finally returned to the Changchun Garden Banquet Hall to report to Emperor Qingning: "Your Majesty, Yao Chengping is indeed being held in a prisoner car and is being paraded on Suzaku Street by the Yuelai Escort Agency."
"He vomited a lot of things. Now the people in the capital are talking about it, waiting to see whether Prince Zhao's family and Grand Tutor Xue Wei can return home safely tonight."
Emperor Qingning was looking at Xue Wei at this time. When he met the latter's teasing eyes, he didn't even have the strength to spit out blood.
So he invited people over to humiliate him with a feast?
Whatever, even if he is scolded by the people of the capital, what does it matter? The world is still his.
Xin Che, you killed the son of the leader of the martial arts world. Do you think your Xin family will really have a good ending?
Emperor Qingning pushed the bowls and chopsticks on the table and said, "I am not interested in the palace banquet today. The dishes are cold. You can go away."
The martial arts masters have set up many ambushes outside the palace. It will be none of his business if anyone dies outside the palace.
Last time, a martial arts master assassinated the Zhao Wang family, Prince Zhao was poisoned, and Xin Che was poisoned with cartilage powder that would make him lose his martial arts skills. Once he left the palace, he met the martial arts leader again, and there were various ways to promote the onset of the poison.
Emperor Qingning only regretted that he did not get back at the palace banquet today. Well, just let these people die, out of sight, out of mind.
When the other guests heard the emperor announce the adjournment of the banquet, they felt as if they had been granted amnesty and quickly said goodbye to the emperor and the empress dowager and left the banquet hall.
However, King Zhao's family and Xue Wei remained unmoved and had no intention of leaving.
Emperor Qingning saw that people were not taking the bait, and he became anxious: "I told them to disperse, why don't you leave?"
Of course, the purpose was to create an illusion among the common people outside the palace that Prince Zhao's Mansion and Xue Wei were being oppressed and threatened by the emperor, so that it would be natural for them to kick the emperor off the throne.
Jiang Lili chuckled: "Most people have left, now it's time to close the door and beat the dog."
Xin Che turned the chopsticks in his hand and said, "We are here to take your imperial seal today. How can we not get the things before?"
Emperor Qingning and the Queen Mother, who was being supported by Hou Xiaoxiao to leave, looked as if they had heard some joke.
Emperor Qingning laughed in anger: "Are you planning a rebellion?"
"What can you use to fight me?"
"So what if there are 100,000 prairie cavalry? Dasheng is not powerless to resist. With the General of the Cavalry and his two capable sons, our northwest defense is not impregnable, but we can still resist!"
Moreover, he had recently learned a secret weapon from a master, and he didn't believe that the grassland cavalry could withstand the firepower of his secret weapon!
"Stop talking nonsense. Hand over the imperial seal, write a letter of abdication, and then commit suicide or hang yourself. It's your choice."
"Otherwise, I will kill the Queen Mother now."
When Emperor Qingning heard the voice, he turned around abruptly and saw Hou Xiaoxiao, the biggest financial sponsor of their court, already holding a black hidden weapon of unknown origin against the empress dowager's head.
Emperor Qingning was struck by lightning, his eyes widened in disbelief: "Hou Xiaoxiao, you!"
He stammered for a long time, the shock still surging in his heart: "When did you collude with Zhao Wangfu?"
Hou Xiaoxiao smiled slightly: "It's very early."
"Let me tell you, the Zhao family was able to safely cross the dangerous Qinglin Mountains with my help."
"Speaking of which, I have to thank you and the Queen Mother for giving me a legitimate reason to assist Li Li and the others. Thank you very much. The money I sponsored you over the years was not wasted~"
Hou Xiaoxiao blinked her eyes. Her face was no longer the fake smile she had towards the Queen Mother and the Emperor. Her smile was very genuine: "After all, the national treasury will be ours now."
Emperor Qingning still couldn't understand why the two feuding families would collude with each other: "Why! Are you worthy of your grandfather, the General of the Cavalry?"
After saying this, Emperor Qingning suddenly paused. Oh no... Could it be...
He felt his heartbeat slow down, and he quickly took out the medicine for self-defense that Doctor Qi had left for him, the Heart-Rescuing Pill.
Hou Xiaoxiao's smile became even brighter: "My grandpa is playing chess with old doctor Qi in the northwest now. I guess, indeed, sending him to the northwest can be regarded as a party person."
"We have the final say on the northwest defense line now. If the grassland cavalry comes to support us, they can come and go freely."
Emperor Qingning was already crazy after hearing what Hou Xiaoxiao said. He still didn't know what the problem was and how these people were connected. He could only yell, "You are traitors and collude with the enemy. You are colluding with the grassland!"
Wait...Hou Xiaoxiao's grandfather is playing chess with old doctor Qi...
"Is Doctor Qi one of your people?!"
The Queen Mother, whose head was pointed at by a gun, cried out in surprise, "Impossible! Doctor Qi is my confidant!"
Hou Xiaoxiao sneered: "Do you think that old doctor Qi is closer to you or to his son Qi Yun?"
"Qi Yun!"
Emperor Qingning suffered more and more blows each time. He held the bottle of Jiuxin Pill in his hand and felt it was too hot. "Qi Yun, is he one of yours too?!"