Chapter 326: Xibei Goods
Not to mention how angry County Magistrate Yang was, Xia Daohua had actually forgotten about the imperial edict - although the edict was now placed in the storage area of the space supermarket along with other things on the imperial envoy's person - in fact, she had no need to raise the flag of rebellion.
Just because the imperial envoy lost the imperial edict, he will not get any good results.
What's more, if his bad words and deeds were exposed to the emperor, he would be guilty for sure!
No matter how incompetent the emperor was, you, an official in charge of selecting beauties, actually dared to take concubines on behalf of the emperor, harassing the locals, harming the people, and ruining the emperor's reputation, while you yourself benefited...
This is because he is afraid that the head on his neck is too strong!
County Magistrate Yang thought for a long time and finally submitted a letter of apology.
However, his so-called apology was actually an impeachment - he listed all the evil deeds of the imperial envoy in Jixiang County, deliberately using a sarcastic tone and being extremely sarcastic.
There is really nothing wrong with the text, but the reader will definitely feel like he has been stabbed in the lungs - based on his understanding of the emperor, even an emperor who made many stupid decisions could not tolerate someone losing face, corrupting his character, and tarnishing his reputation like this.
However, contrary to County Magistrate Yang's expectations, the imperial court's reply did not come until more than half a month later.
The imperial envoy's body was destroyed by wild beasts in the mountains. Only half of his head was left, and his bones and flesh were eaten to pieces. When the hunters in the mountains found him, he couldn't even put his hands and feet together...
Lord Yang took one look at the miserable corpse and asked the imperial envoy's guards to identify the body. However, he refused to look at it a second time and only muttered in his heart:
Could something have happened in Beijing?
In fact, everything seemed normal in the capital, except that the emperor seemed to be making more and more stupid moves.
The emperor had refused to attend court for fifteen days. Several respected old ministers, along with a group of officials from the Censorate and some enthusiastic new scholars, had already run to the palace gate and were kneeling there.
But the emperor remained unmoved.
During these fifteen days, he only issued three edicts, but all of them urged local officials and imperial envoys to speed up the selection of concubines - the emperor said that his harem was full of old-fashioned people, which made him feel disgusted and he couldn't eat them.
The beauties in the harem had never been humiliated like this before. They were all very sad and cried. The imperial doctors in the hospital were running out of time.
When this news spread, the whole court was in an uproar.
It is said that the emperor has always been diligent and caring for the people. Although his abilities are not outstanding, his work attitude has always been dedicated.
It is unbelievable that he is so lazy that he doesn't even attend court.
Moreover, the emperor has always been an emperor who is willing to listen to advice. All the officials have knelt at the palace gate, but he can still remain indifferent?
There's something wrong with this situation...
Why has the emperor's temperament changed so much recently? Is he sick?
Many people even suspected that someone had forged the imperial edict and falsely conveyed the imperial decree.
But they invited a noble lady from the royal family and found a way to pass a name card into the harem. They found that the emperor was fine except that he had become thinner, his face had become paler and gloomier, and his temperament had become more weird.
However, the emperor’s confidants have all been replaced.
The original eunuchs Wei, Gao, and Xu were all demoted for unknown reasons.
Eunuch Gao and Eunuch Xu are fine, as they are people the emperor is used to serving, and who knows if they will rise again one day.
Although they are in a somewhat humiliated state now, those villains who flatter the powerful and bully the weak and take advantage of the powerful will not dare to bully them until they are sure that they cannot turn things around.
But it was different for Eunuch Wei, who had always been kept in the imperial presence.
Eunuch Wei must have offended the emperor badly!
Eunuch Wei was originally the emperor's confidant, controlling a force similar to that of the Jinyi Yunqi. However, his combat effectiveness was far less than that of the Jinyi Yunqi, nor was his power as great as that of the Jinyi Yunqi. His only advantage was secrecy.
The emperor asked Jinyi Yunqi to do any work that was inconvenient for him to do.
Normally, such a person, even if he fell out of favor, would end up dead and would not have to suffer in such a disorganized way.
How long have you been with the emperor?
Originally he had a rosy complexion and was full of energy and vitality, but now he has become a bag of bones!
Moreover, among the three, Eunuch Wei offended the most people and in the widest range. However, his biggest backer, the Emperor, got so angry that he wanted to torture him piecemeal for fun, without even one person to plead for him.
No one could understand why the emperor treated Eunuch Wei like this.
Eunuch Wei knew it clearly in his mind - he was afraid that the current emperor was a fake.
However, when he said this, he himself didn't believe it!
Eunuch Wei suffered for a long time before he met Gu Mingzhen and took the risk of spreading the news.
I don’t know if Gu Mingzhen will believe him…
Eunuch Wei didn't know that this Western emperor liked to torture himself, a eunuch, every day because he knew that he had discovered the truth.
The most painful feeling is knowing that there is a butcher's knife hanging over your head but never seeing it fall.
Moreover, the most important thing is that Eunuch Wei doesn't know who to trust and who to ask for help...
There has been no news from Li Gan.
Both Eunuch Gao and Eunuch Xu fell out of favor and were sent to nursing homes.
None of the women in the harem are useful.
Eunuch Wei first suspected that the emperor had been replaced when he flipped the cards.
The emperor has recently been very fond of a new concubine named Xiao, and has summoned her to sleep with him more than ten times.
And because her last name was Xiao, her facial features were deep, her body was hot, and even her words and actions had some of the charm of a northern barbarian girl, the emperor had a secret pleasure, as if he had seized the northern barbarian's territory and robbed a northern barbarian royal woman as a concubine.
Although this talented lady Xiao was actually the daughter of a minor official of humble origins.
Speaking of which, it was the Yang family who helped send her into the palace.
Their identities and backgrounds are very clean, and they have nothing to do with the northern barbarians at all!
The emperor especially liked her pair of green eyes. Eunuch Wei alone knew that he had praised her no less than three times:
Once, she said her eyes were as bright as green crystals; once, she said her eyes were as charming and affectionate as a cat; and once, she said her eyes could be made into two emerald ring faces...
However, it was this Concubine Xiao who, perhaps because she was spoiled by her husband, actually bumped into Concubine Xie in the imperial garden. Concubine Xie had a high position but was not favored, so Concubine Xiao did not take her seriously at all.
But Xie Zhaoyi was somewhat stubborn and was unwilling to bow to palace maids of lower rank than herself.
The emperor happened to see the two sides arguing with his own eyes.
But after taking a look, he frowned and blurted out, "Who are those two stupid women?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Eunuch Wei's face turned green.
Although the emperor hasn't turned over the cards for more than ten days, these ten days should not be enough for him to forget his new favorite, Concubine Xiao, right?
(End of this chapter)
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