"Fang Zhonglian you!" Ling Shian was furious, pointing his finger straight at Fang Zhonglian, but he couldn't utter a word.
"This old minister requests to see His Majesty! I beg Prince Rong to grant your approval!" Fang Zhonglian ignored Ling Shian and knelt down again, kowtowed.
"I, your humble servant, request to see His Majesty! I beg Prince Rong to grant my request!" At once, more than 20 ministers followed Fang Zhonglian and knelt down in unison.
Zhao Changrong listened to the voice and looked behind him. He was stunned. He turned around and looked at Zhong Mingzheng, obviously surprised.
"Since the Left Prime Minister is not happy with my position, I can do nothing about it." Zhong Mingzheng said slowly, pausing and looking at the guards standing on both sides of the court with steel knives in their hands. He said coldly, "The Left Prime Minister Fang Zhonglian contradicted me in public, committing a crime of disrespect. Take him away. Behead him!"
"Yes. I obey your command!" Immediately, two guards came over quickly, dragging Fang Zhonglian away from the left and right.
"Your Highness! You can't do that!" Everyone was stunned, and someone immediately knelt down to plead for Fang Zhonglian. "The Left Prime Minister is a key minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty. His Majesty has always respected and trusted him. Even if the Left Prime Minister contradicted Your Highness today, it was for the sake of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Please be magnanimous and spare the Left Prime Minister!"
"Your Highness, please have mercy!" All the court officials knelt down and said at once.
"You keep talking about Your Highness, which shows that you have the same idea as that old man surnamed Fang. You all think that I am a vicious person who forced confessions to usurp the throne. So even with the oral order of the emperor, you still refuse to acknowledge that I am the new emperor designated by the emperor, right?!" Zhong Mingzheng suddenly slammed the table in anger and pointed at the ministers who were kneeling in the hall. His eyes were bloodshot and scary. When he spoke again, his voice was crazy, "Come here! Drag them out one by one and chop them up! Don't they all sympathize with the old man surnamed Fang? Then go down and be buried with him!"
"Your Majesty, please spare my life!" The officials who were caught cried out immediately, struggling one by one, and the sounds they made were really unbearable to hear, "Your Majesty, please spare my life! I know I was wrong! I know I was wrong!"
Zhong Mingzheng turned a deaf ear to them and just stood in front of the dragon throne, holding his waist, looking at the four ministers who were dragged out. It was not known whether he was angry or excited, but his whole body was trembling slightly and his eyes became even more bloodshot.
"ah!"
Following a series of shrill screams outside the palace, the snow-white ground was stained red with blood. The ministers in the palace looked pale as they stared blankly at the glaring red outside. Then they turned around one after another and kowtowed repeatedly, "Long live the emperor!"
An Zishang was terrified. He had never been a good person, but it was the first time he witnessed such a brutal killing in the Palace of Heavenly Purity. Moreover, he knew all the people who were killed. For a moment, his whole body went limp. If he had not supported himself with his hands, he would have collapsed to the ground.
Zhao Changrong was not much better. Although he knew from the beginning that Zhong Mingzheng was going to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, he was frightened to death when he saw the battle with his own eyes. When he was secretly thinking, he saw another guard coming in to drag someone away, and it was Fang Kaiwen, the grandson of Fang Zhonglian. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying, "Your Majesty, the new emperor ascended the throne, which is a great joyous event. Now the emperor is sick and needs to recuperate. It is really not appropriate for him to be stained with blood. Please spare his life, Your Majesty!"
An Zishang also hurried out and said, "Your Majesty, please have mercy on us! Please spare our lives!"
Zhong Mingzheng killing Fang Zhonglian was enough to shock all the ministers, but if he killed Fang Kaiwen, then all the ministers would not only be afraid, but also angry. Who doesn't know that Fang Zhonglian died unjustly? Who doesn't know that Zhong Mingzheng was killing a chicken to scare the monkeys? Therefore, such things must be done in moderation. If this degree is exceeded, not only will it not achieve the desired effect, but it will be counterproductive.
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