How else can I be comforted? How else can I be excused?
Regardless of one's own moral stance, it would be extremely unwise to comfort the emperor or even excuse the second prince at this time!
If those people were to think that they were somehow involved with the Second Prince, wouldn't they be making themselves uncomfortable!
After some simple thinking, His Majesty the Emperor decided not to conceal the truth of this matter!
The royal family should simply remove this fig leaf!
Firstly, there is no way to hide it. Secondly, if this kind of thing is kept under wraps, one’s conscience will really be unbearable.
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In the previous three consecutive days of killing, the group of killers with mysterious origins had killed most of the Chen Empire.
The whereabouts of these people are mysterious, their movements are fast, and they come and go at high altitudes. It would take a full day and night for a horse to complete the journey, but these people even arrived in less than half a day.
Start killing when you arrive!
You don’t even need to restore your stamina!
Since the first day, during the five days and four nights, the number of people killed by this gang of mysterious killers has exceeded 100,000! Among them, there were officials, royal relatives, nobles, and civilians, all over the place.
Most of the people they belong to are civilians, at least that's what their official household registration records say...
Such crazy killings are almost against the trend of heaven, but it makes the emperor of a country unable to say anything: arrest? Why do you have the face to arrest others? What qualifications do you have to arrest others?
Your own son has committed so many heinous and heartbreaking crimes, why hasn't he been arrested by you?
Even today, have you made any resolution?
You actually want to arrest others when they are doing things that you never knew about and couldn't do?
Are the people in the royal family so thick-skinned?
In addition, the government has made great efforts to collect intelligence during this period, and the statistics of more than 80 Wanyan Baihua Buildings across the country have been integrated...
His Majesty the Emperor ordered all the officials of the entire household department to collect and integrate them. Although it was a full-scale operation, it still took a whole day and night to completely sort out the existing information.
Now, Tobe was still panting with a red face, lowering his head and saying nothing.
If it weren't for the fact that the criminal mastermind was His Majesty's own son, the Minister of Household Affairs would have cursed his ancestors for eighteen generations!
What kind of beast and bastard among men must be to be able to do such a thing!
"Wang Aiqing, you haven't told me the final verification results yet." His Majesty the Emperor's voice came.
"Your Majesty!" Wang Shangshu said in a strong tone: "In the past ten years, Wanyan Baihua Tower has opened eighty-five brothels in the Chen Emperor's Kingdom; thirty-three secret ecstasy grottoes; and ten brothels in the Tianyu Empire.
One place, nine places in the Blue Wind Empire...a total of one hundred and thirty-eight places!"
"In the past ten years, the number of recorded... mutilated women... is 1.27 million!" At this point, Wang Shangshu's voice suddenly became passionate: "1.27 million... young girls.
!1.27 million souls are gone without a trace!"
The old man shouted so loudly in the Jinluan Hall.
Tears abound!
His Majesty the Emperor closed his eyes sadly, his face full of shame.
"In fact, these are just numbers on the surface, those given to dignitaries..." Wang Shangshu's old eyes flashed as he glanced over the faces of the ministers in the court one by one: "I don't know how many there are...
"
All the ministers sighed and sighed, but there were only two of them whose eyes seemed to be evasive.
Although these two people did not collude with the second prince, they once accepted beauties from the second prince, and until now... they still keep them at home...
Wang Shangshu's stern gaze really stayed on the faces of these two people, and he asked for an instant: "Two adults, what do you two think?"
The two of them were so heartbroken that they hurriedly left work and knelt down, kowtowing vigorously: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... I deserve death for my crime..."
His Majesty the Emperor stared at these two people with disgust and even hatred. Looking at these two ministers who he had praised many times for their outstanding abilities, he said coldly: "Since you admit your guilt and deserve to die, then, as you said,
If you wish, drag him out now and execute him in Lingchi!"
"Search the house and kill the nine tribes!"
The palace guards came like wolves and tigers, grabbed the two of them without any explanation, and dragged them out of the hall like dead dogs; the two kept begging for mercy, and were dragged to the entrance of the hall, and finally fell into complete despair.
One of them suddenly shouted loudly: "Kill the Nine Tribes! What a Killing the Nine Tribes! May I ask His Majesty the Emperor, we just took a woman and didn't harm her life, is this really an unpardonable crime? If you judge this, will I be punished?
When Ling Chi is executed and our nine clans are put to death, what should you do if your own son commits such a heinous crime?"
"The so-called prince who breaks the law is as guilty as the common people! Based on what the second prince has done, should the nine clans of the second prince be exterminated? Should the graves of his eighteen generations of ancestors be dug up? Your own son has no conscience.
Do you, as a father, have no responsibility for such a deed? Even if you kill all the ministers in the court, can you deny that this unprecedented scandal was not the work of the royal family?
?”
"Hahaha... Execute the nine tribes! What you said is really nice. I know that my sins are serious, so I went to wait under the Nine Springs first and let's see how your own nine tribes were punished! Can you really let it go?
Everyone in the world is convinced!"
At this moment, these two people knew that they would definitely die and there would be no luck. Before they died, they became bold and unscrupulous.
Naturally, he said everything that could be said, what could not be said, and what should be said and should not be said!
It is true, but as far as the actions of these two people are concerned, let alone the principal and accomplice, I am afraid that the fact that the two knew and failed to report is not considered. They accepted the beautiful women sent by the second prince, which was just a common practice in the officialdom. Moreover,
After taking them in, they loved her very much and never abused her at all. I don’t even know where these two women came from...
If the situation was not different now and the emperor was angry and wanted to vent his anger on them, considering their crimes, the two of them would at most be reprimanded or even fined a year and a half of salary. How could they have done so?
The son then rose to the level of being executed by Ling Chi, or even executing the nine tribes!
The Golden Palace fell into unprecedented silence.
The muscles on His Majesty's face twitched.
The look in his eyes was depressed, dull, angry, guilty, self-blame...
The angry shouts of the two ministers before they died were still echoing in his ears; they were like sharp needles piercing his heart!
Does that make sense?
Doesn't it make sense?
But...what can I do?
His Majesty the Emperor had various emotions in his mind. Finally he sighed deeply and said: "Bring these two people back, remove them from office for half a year, and take over the official duties on their behalf. After half a year, we can see the effects."
His eyes were heavy: "Yes, after all, it was my son who committed such a heinous mistake and vented his anger on others for no reason. How could it be my fault?"