"Your Majesty, the Queen is wicked. She's using every trick in the book to force us to choose sides... We have no choice but to do this!"
......
The courtiers wailed and cried, each with their own reasons, while Ji Xi looked at them with a cold and sinister smile.
"Cough cough!"
He coughed twice, and the hall immediately fell silent.
"You all say you're completely loyal to me..."
Ji Xi stroked his beard and pondered, "Then I will test you... To be honest, I am terminally ill, and I am only speaking to you with forced strength. If you are willing to die with me, then I will believe in your loyalty..."
Upon hearing this, the courtiers turned pale with fright and fell silent.
"Shi Qiu? You've been prime minister for over a decade now, haven't you?"
Ji Xi smiled and said, "Why don't you come down with me to the underworld and continue to be my prime minister?"
"Big...King..."
Shi Qiu's teeth chattered violently as he stammered, "It's not that this old minister is unwilling to continue serving Your Majesty, it's just that... Your Highness lacks experience in governing the country. For the sake of the nation, this old minister can still continue to assist Your Highness... This old minister..."
Ji Xi was really unwilling to listen to his nonsense, so he gave the head guard next to him a look, and dozens of warriors immediately went down and arrested Shi Qiu and other ministers of the Empress Dowager's faction who had been shouting loudly in the court and were the most triumphant!
"Light the fire! Carry out the execution! Right here in this great hall, I want to witness with my own eyes how these treacherous ministers who scheme against my son every day and even try to kill me die!" Ji Xi said coldly.
"Your Majesty, spare my life!"
"Your Majesty! No!"
......
The seven or eight ministers who were captured screamed like pigs being slaughtered, their voices trembling with fear, almost like ghostly tones...
Soon, a campfire was lit, and copper rods were inserted into the stove to heat it up!
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