Chapter 871: Never Loyal, How Can You Betray?
Shi Qingrong escaped being kidnapped by accident, but he knew very well in his heart.
He seemed to be in a better situation than King Hui and others, but when the Queen caught the people she wanted to catch, cleaned up those outside, and had time to clean up the palace, he might not be able to save his life, and even the Shi family might not be able to escape.
King Hui and his men would die, and so would he.
Shi Qingrong remained silent in the face of questioning from several people, and his silence seemed to be a sign of guilt in the eyes of Min An and others.
Seeing this, King Hui looked at Liang Guangyi coldly and said, "I have always treated you with sincerity. Although there are some grudges, I have never harmed you. Moreover, once I gain power, the situation of the aristocratic families will never be the same as it is now. Song Tangning will never be able to give you what I can give you."
"I thought Prime Minister Liang was a smart man, but I didn't know you were so foolish."
"Xiao Yan has long wanted to eradicate the aristocratic family, and Song Tangning has repeatedly suppressed you. He and his wife feed on the flesh and blood of the aristocratic family. Sooner or later, they will force you into a desperate situation. And you are still helping them?"
Prince Hui was also filled with resentment and asked angrily:
"What my father said is absolutely correct. Back then, our family was so prominent, and you, Liang Guangyi, were second only to the emperor and above everyone else. Yet, now you are willing to become the queen's lackey."
"You sold out the aristocratic family and my father with your own hands. Have you ever considered how the Liang family can continue to exist after the other families have fallen? Do you think the Liang family can survive without the other families? The Queen will not let you go!!"
Liang Guangyi listened to their curses without any response.
Prince Hui angrily said, "Speak up! Why did you betray my father?!"
Liang Guangyi had a complicated look on his face. He looked at King Hui and the others and didn't want to talk. However, Cao Dejiang, who was standing there with his hands folded, suddenly laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Prince Hui glared at him.
Cao Dejiang: "It is better not to ask who is laughing at the prince, so as not to get upset."
"What do you mean?" Prince Hui felt as if he was mocking him, his eyes full of gloom.
"It means you're stupid!"
Prince Ji rolled his eyes impatiently, looking at Prince Hui who still hadn't figured out the reason and was still shouting and questioning. He felt that Emperor Taizu was indeed partial, and all the smart people in the Xie royal family were born in Xie Tianzhao's lineage.
King Hui was stupid, and his son was even stupider.
Well, he is no exception and was stupid once too.
King Ji simply didn't want to recall what he had done before. Seeing King Hui and his son staring at him, he sneered angrily:
"Have you still not figured it out? The Liang family never came to your Prince Hui's Palace from the beginning to the end."
"He has always been the Queen's man. He has no loyalty to you, so how can he be considered a traitor? Isn't it stupid to ask such a question at this point?!"
"impossible!!"
Prince Hui's face froze.
Prince Hui also lost his voice and said, "You lied to me. How could Liang Guangyi be the Queen's man?"
Any of the ministers in the court could defect to the Queen, except Liang Guangyi!
He is the head of aristocratic family and the leader of the family. He regards the honor and future of the family as more important than anything else. In order to continue the glory of the family and to allow the family to continue to control the court and not be suppressed by the imperial power, he would rather train Lu Chongyuan to succeed him as the Grand Tutor than support the Liang family's mediocre nephews.
His eyes were never on the territory of his own clan, but on the prospects of all the noble families.
He had dedicated his entire life to the family, so how could he possibly be loyal to a woman who was determined to destroy the family and had driven them to this point?!
Min An and the others were also in disbelief. Someone blurted out, "How could he possibly be the Queen's man? After Xiao Yan seized power, he repeatedly suppressed the aristocratic families and reduced Liang Guangyi's power in the court. He was also the first to bear the brunt of the Queen's previous attacks on the aristocratic families."
"Back then, he had such a fierce quarrel with the Queen that the Queen even forced him to kneel in the palace and lose face. It's clear that Liang Guangyi and the Queen are at war until death..."
"Is it possible that the reason he knelt in the palace for so long is because the trouble you caused was so great?"
Prince Ji spoke very bluntly, not even giving them a shred of dignity:
"Liang Guangyi has been in and out of the imperial court for half his life. Do you think you can hide your little tricks from him?"
"He knew what you were going to do, and he knew you wouldn't succeed. But the mess you made dragged him into it."
"The Queen never forced him. He just wanted to protect himself and the Liang family. He wanted to distance himself from you, so as not to be dragged into the bottomless abyss by you idiots and die without a burial place!"
King Hui and others seemed to be struck by lightning.
impossible.
How is that possible!!
If Liang Guangyi had never sided with them, if his kneeling in the palace that day was just an act, then doesn't that mean everything before was fake?!
They couldn't help but look at Liang Guangyi, and saw that he had a calm expression and did not refute King Ji's words. Moreover, there was not even a ripple on his face when he listened to King Ji's ridicule.
Liang Guangyi seemed to see the hope in their eyes. Like a gambler who had reached a desperate situation, he did not want to admit that he had lost everything from the beginning even if he was not as skilled as others. He spoke and directly extinguished their thoughts.
"He's right."
Liang Guangyi spoke calmly, "The Queen has long known about your actions. Ever since Duan Zhiru and the other two returned to the capital, everything you did, every plot, and every meeting with Prince Hui was done with her tacit approval."
"If the Empress didn't want to use you to disrupt the capital and mislead Beiling, if she didn't want to find the Beiling spies hiding in the capital and use them to pass on information to Beiling to put on a big show for them."
"From the day you three returned to the capital without permission and first met King Hui, from the day Wang Huailu betrayed His Majesty and chose the aristocratic family, you were already dead."
"Keeping you here and letting you do as you please is nothing but a trap set by the Queen."
He, Prince Hui, Prince Ji, other aristocratic families, princes of the royal family, and even the entire court and capital were nothing more than pawns in the Queen's plot, and the fate of everyone had already been determined.
Min An and the others looked pale, and Duan Zhiru and the other two looked even more dejected.
King Hui never expected things to turn out like this, and after he figured it out, he also knew why King Ji had just called them fools.
He stared at Liang Guangyi unwillingly, "So, there's nothing wrong with the war in Southern Qi?"
"yes."
"Xiao Yan is not missing? Is the story about Western Xinjiang entering the war all a lie?"
"yes."
Prince Hui clenched his fists tightly, his palms already bleeding. He looked at Liang Guangyi with a ferocious expression: "What about the Ministry of Justice incident, the Shi family incident, and then the Queen's excuse to force the noble families to raise grain, and Cen Guang..."
“They’re all fake.”
Liang Guangyi lowered his eyes and looked at King Hui. There was no trace of gloating in his eyes. He just said very calmly:
"Cen Guang did rebel, but he was executed that night."
All the letters sent back to the capital from Munan Pass were fake.
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