Feng Jin vehemently insisted that he was the Emperor's man, an attitude that infuriated the hundreds of men in the tent.
"You despicable and shameless wretch! His Majesty appreciates you and allows you to serve the country, but he has never allowed you to embezzle or break the law. You are utterly shameless!"
"You keep saying you're loyal to His Majesty, so why don't you die in Lan City? So many brothers have been killed by you, why are you still alive?"
Wang Yushi raised her right hand, and the noisy officers in the tent immediately shut up, glaring fiercely at Feng Jin and his group of cronies.
"You don't need to use His Majesty's name to intimidate people. Even Wang Yan didn't receive His Majesty's thorough investigation. Do you think... you can expect to?"
In an instant, the entire place fell silent. Not only were Feng Jin and the others terrified, but He Qingyun and the others were also filled with fear and trepidation.
Wang Yan's sudden death is suspicious. The Prince of Changle once vaguely indicated that he "drew his own way to death," so everyone believed that Wang Yan either committed suicide out of fear of punishment or was ordered to die by Qin Mo with an imperial edict.
After all, Wang Yan was the military supervisor appointed by the emperor and one of the closest people to Emperor Zhaowu. Anyone who touched him would be challenging the authority of the imperial family. If he had been killed by the mutinous soldiers, the consequences would have been unimaginable. Didn't you see that Prince Chang Le was willing to kill hundreds of people to save him?
So when Feng Jin saw Qin Mo in the morning, the first thing he asked was if he had an imperial edict on him. Qin Mo said no, and he was relieved. He was also afraid of being sentenced to death without knowing why.
But now Wang Yushi's meaning is very clear: don't expect your master, Emperor Zhaowu, to save you. I did this, and I didn't even get Emperor Zhaowu's permission.
Then everyone remembered what Wang Yan had said: "Even if their master, the Empress, came, it wouldn't make a difference!"
It truly was a case of "seeking one's own death."
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, Wang Yan was personally appointed by His Majesty..."
"Go ahead and file a complaint with the Emperor! Say that I have brutally murdered loyal officials!"
"..."
Feng Jin's mouth was full of bitterness. Go and appeal to the emperor himself? How could he do that?
"Your Majesty, your wife has killed someone, and she's trying to kill me too! You must do me justice..." Emperor Zhaowu would probably kill him on the spot.
Three days later, dozens of officers from the Xu Ri and Wei Yue Imperial Guards resigned on their own initiative, and the military merits they had previously withheld were returned. Everyone in the camp cheered, and the soldiers were even happier than if they had won a battle.
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