It was raining heavily outside, lightning was followed by thunder, and the lanterns in the palace kept shaking in the rain.
The emperor was walking around in the Shangqing Courtyard wearing a thin robe, and the chamberlain next to him was following behind carrying a coat, "Tianjia, please be slow, be slow."
The emperor seemed to have never been so happy, "I hate him every time the late emperor praises him. I have long wanted to trample him under my feet. In what way is he better than me? I can't answer what the master said.
Isn't he unable to tell? But the late emperor said that he deliberately hid his clumsiness." The emperor waved his sleeves and said, "So what now? You don't have to kneel outside the palace, yes, let him kneel, I like to trample him under my feet.
I feel so bad, let the late emperor see if he has misjudged the person."
The servant next to him responded, "Who can be smarter than the Tianjia? The Tianjia can only move their fingers, and King Xuan will come to plead guilty himself."
The emperor turned his head and smiled very happily, "Not a single soldier was used, but it was just a woman, just a woman who was about to die of illness. She wanted to take away his title. How scary it sounds to have two titles..." The emperor laughed more and more.
The bigger it is, "what's the use." The emperor's long hair hung down on his waist, and he looked like an immortal when blown by the wind. The emperor closed his eyes and thoroughly enjoyed this moment.
He is so high that everyone must bow to him.
"The late emperor was afraid of King Kang's power, but I played with his descendants in the palm of my hand. Who do you think is wiser, me or the late emperor? If I don't go to court, I will still control the government, and I will still play with them. Why should I be kind to them?
He asked him to serve the court wholeheartedly. All he had to do was grab his throat, just like a cat catching a mouse." The emperor opened his mouth and said, "Ouch," and said, "Bite him to death. The Zhou Dynasty does not lack a loyal minister of his. I have him.
Thousands of loyal ministers can be used, and with them here, we can protect our empire for thousands of years."
The chamberlain next to him laughed, "Yes, the emperor is wise."
The emperor sat down and closed his eyes enjoying the sound of rain outside.
The chamberlain brought a cup of tea, and the emperor took a few sips, then leaned on the cushions and fell asleep after hearing the smell of sandalwood in the hall.
The chamberlain stood waiting beside him and kept looking out the window. It was very quiet in the palace, but the chamberlain felt very uncomfortable. He wondered how Prince Xuan was kneeling outside.
After an unknown amount of time, the emperor stretched and opened his eyes, "Are you still kneeling outside?"
The emperor didn't let him get up, could King Xuan stand up on his own? The emperor was pursuing this kind of feeling. He talked about the misery outside again and again, and the emperor felt indescribably comfortable in his heart.
The chamberlain stood up and went out to take a look. Then he came back shivering from the cold and said, "I'm kneeling outside."
The emperor's eyes were very bright, "Are you cold?"
The chamberlain nodded hurriedly, "It's cold, the autumn wind blows into the bones of people."
The emperor retracted his hands into his sleeves and looked a little more leisurely, "Go out and tell King Xuan that the marriage I have given you can't just be divorced. How can I show my face? I won't let him go back."
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The waiter responded.
The emperor looked at the servant ducking out and went out. The emperor smiled proudly. He knew that King Xuan would not leave, so he wanted to make him kneel down more logically.
The emperor rang the golden bell next to him, and immediately a palace attendant came forward to help the emperor lie down and rest.
The emperor lay on the soft couch and waited until the chamberlain came back and said, "King Xuan refuses to leave."
The emperor felt elated. If he hadn't been so solemn and solemn, he would have stood up and laughed, but he pretended not to hear, as if he had fallen asleep.
The rain outside gradually stopped, and the servants had already lowered their heads and fell asleep. Only then did the emperor get up.
The chamberlain hurriedly roused himself and immediately went forward to serve him. The emperor reached out for his cloak, put it on and told the chamberlain, "I'm going to see King Xuan."
The chamberlain responded, and the emperor slowly walked out of the hall and stood in front of Zhou Chengling. The emperor's eyes moved downwards. If he was not afraid that the clan camp would explode and those who supported King Kang would bring chaos to the court, he would have watched King Xuan
Kneel down and die here. Wanting King Xuan to die is just his imagination. Who can kneel down and die here alive?
He wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to achieve what he wanted. Since King Xuan came to his door, he had to comply with King Xuan's request.
The emperor pretended to help King Xuan up, "I didn't mean to let you go back."
Zhou Chengling did not stand up and said, "Please, Your Majesty, approve my petition."
The emperor deliberately made a serious face, pretending to be thunderous and angry, "I have covered it for you, and now you bring up the old matter again, where will you put my face?" At that time, Zhou Chengling was seriously ill, which was known to everyone in the capital.
How could a man who couldn't move his fingers disappear from the capital? He deliberately suppressed this matter because the border area was in chaos at that time, and there were external and internal troubles. The court became more chaotic because of this matter, and his throne was not stable, and even more
What's more, he could take this opportunity to secretly find King Xuan to kill him, but he didn't expect that the matter would be delayed until King Xuan returned to the capital on his own.
Now Feng Guochang arranged for the imperial censor to impeach King Xuan. The only mistake he could take advantage of was the marriage he had rewarded. He did not expect that King Xuan not only did not cover it up, but admitted it so easily.
Zhou Chengling said: "The emperor has been suppressing the imperial censor's impeachment memorial for me. Now the matter of me has caused speculation among the government and the public. I have done nothing to serve the country. I was indeed disobeying the decree back then. I beg the emperor to punish me for my crime."
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"The late emperor has always raised you as his own son," the emperor seemed to be thinking about the past relationship, "I have no biological brothers, and I have always regarded you as a sibling. But now that you have caused such a thing, it has really embarrassed me.
If I don't punish your crime, the laws of the country and the laws of the family will be intolerable." At this point, the emperor sighed and ordered the servants around him, "Summon the clan leader to enter the palace, and I will discuss with him the matter of proclaiming the king."
Officially bringing the crime of King Xuan to the surface, he wanted to push King Xuan to the point of no return step by step, first punishing King Xuan for the crime of disrespect, and then punishing King Xuan for the crime of disrespecting the emperor.
The emperor had already thought about it, turned around and ordered, "Get up and go back to the palace to listen to the decree!" The drama of punishing King Xuan had just begun, but he did not expect that King Xuan himself came to confess his crime.
The emperor felt indescribably relaxed and happy. What he thought he had to put in effort to do was suddenly accomplished without any resistance.
The emperor returned to the main hall, and after a while he turned to look at the chamberlain, "Do you think he is ill and has damaged his brain..." He paused, "Bring the memorial he sent me, I want to take a closer look."
The chamberlain responded and hurriedly went to the table to get King Xuan's memorial.
The emperor opened the memorial and squinted his eyes to read it. The memorial was full of generous words about the country, which gave him a splitting headache.