305 Sprouting, the Emperor's Suspicion
After the Ninth Prince said this, he calmly returned to his original position. The Emperor looked at the Ninth Prince thoughtfully, with a cold light flashing in the depths of his eyes, and he looked like a hunter who saw the weakness of his prey.
However, no one will know who is the hunter and who is the prey until the very end.
The Ninth Prince lowered his long eyelashes to hide the cold light in his eyes.
The lords were unsure of the severity of the incident and did not dare to speak easily. The Crown Prince thought for a moment, stepped forward and broke the silence: "Father, I think what your uncle said is right. Miss Feng was slandered like this, so it is inevitable that she was a little angry. Any woman who was insulted in the street would be angry. I think Miss Feng is innocent and has the spirit of a general."
"What the Crown Prince and the Emperor's uncle said is really unfair. Miss Feng is already sixteen years old, not a child. As a subject, you can't kill people at will just because you are angry.
You have to know that Miss Feng's honor and favor were given by the emperor. If she behaves like this, people who are not aware of it will think that her arrogance is allowed by the emperor. Then it will be a loss for the emperor. "Dong Ling Ziluo said slowly, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Feng Qingchen was full of murderous intent.
Feng Qingchen was calm and composed. He looked at the memorial seriously, while adjusting his breathing and trying to slow down the blood flow.
Judging from the emperor's attitude, he won't let her go back for a while. The wound on her head is serious.
The emperor showed no mercy when he smashed the thing.
When someone starts, the people behind him will of course rush forward: "Your Majesty, the princes and sons of Nanling, Xiling and Beiling are now in my Dongling Imperial City, and the young masters of several other large cities are also in the Imperial City.
Feng Qingchen is so arrogant that he really brings shame to Dongling. He covered up the fact that Feng Qingchen killed people with just one sentence: "She was just angry. The princes and young ladies of other dukes and marquises will follow suit. Please punish Feng Qingchen severely to set an example for others." The speaker was the father-in-law of the current dynasty, the father of the queen, and interestingly, he was the prince's guardian.
The fact that the Emperor made Prince Luo's grandfather the Prince's Guardian shows that the Emperor had no intention of letting the Prince succeed to the throne, nor would he allow the Prince to have his own trusted ministers.
"Your Majesty, I think what Prince Luo and the father-in-law said is unfair. When should the daughter of a duke of Dongling country act according to the opinions of the other three kingdoms and nine cities? What the crown prince and the emperor's uncle said makes sense. Women from military families don't understand those scheming. It's human nature for Miss Feng to be furious when she hears those rumors. Miss Feng is a person of temperament.
In my opinion, please ask the emperor to investigate this matter thoroughly. A group of beggars actually besieged Miss Feng's carriage in the street. There must be someone behind it. How could those beggars have such courage? Under the emperor's governance, our Dongling country is peaceful and the people live and work in peace. Where did these beggars come from? It's really strange.
Miss Feng is the daughter of the Marquis of Loyalty, who was personally conferred by the Emperor. Those beggars do not take Miss Feng seriously, which is equivalent to not taking the Emperor seriously. This is tantamount to treason. I beg the Emperor to investigate this matter strictly to serve as a warning to others. "
The person who was speaking was the left prime minister of the current dynasty. After Prime Minister Zhu was killed for treason, this Lord Du was promoted to the left prime minister of the current dynasty. His words not only cleared Feng Qingchen of the charges, but also escalated the matter and severely slapped the father-in-law of the emperor in the face.
As soon as the Left Prime Minister finished speaking, the Right Prime Minister and the censors began to refute again. The censors quoted from classics and almost said that Feng Qingchen was a vicious and evil woman. Not only that, they also directly said that the descendants of generals were uneducated and vulgar.
When these words were spoken, the military generals were unhappy. They said that they wanted to talk about Feng Qingchen, but how did it involve their children? They left an impression on the emperor that they were uneducated and vulgar. How could their children have a future?
It is true that military generals are not good at speaking, but their advantage is that they have loud voices, and their roars can drown out the voices of civil officials.
The so-called meeting was actually just the ministers arguing with each other. It was common for ministers to quarrel in the hall due to different political views. Although the emperor was troubled, he did not stop it. This kind of thing happened more than once or twice, and the emperor was used to it.
The Ninth Prince looked at his nose with his eyes, and at his heart with his nose, with an indifferent look on his face, as if he was not the one who started the fight.
Another calm person was Feng Qingchen, who was kneeling in front of the hall. He looked like a complete outsider. In fact, the focus of the ministers' quarrel shifted away from Feng Qingchen and now became the issue of the upbringing of both sides' children.
The civil officials said that the military generals did not know how to educate their descendants, and raised them to be simple-minded, strong-limbed, and only knew how to fight and kill, and had no understanding of the etiquette of Confucius and Mencius.
The military commander was not happy and said carelessly: "You civil officials know how to raise children, but how could you raise a woman who has no sense of shame, commits adultery before marriage, stays with a strange man without any reason, and how could you raise a woman who takes advantage of the cousin's wife being seriously ill to have an affair with her cousin."
Without being pointed out, everyone knows that these two women are Rong Qingqiu from the Duke of Anguo's Mansion and Jiang Yuxiu from the Marquis of Jinyang.
The civil officials were speechless, their faces turned purple, and they could only point at the military generals' noses and scold them for their foul language and vulgarity.
The general ignored him, smiled and looked smug.
When the two groups of people were almost done arguing, Feng Qingchen also finished reading the memorial. She had learned speed reading and could read things very quickly, but...
She was really tired of reading the vertical traditional Chinese characters without punctuation, so she slowed down a bit. In addition, the memorials written by these adults were very flowery, but the key points were only one or two sentences. Feng Qingchen was really bored reading them.
"Your Majesty." Feng Qingchen placed the memorials one by one and held them above his head with both hands.
It was very heavy, and Feng Qingchen felt her hands sore after a while. Fortunately, she had strong willpower and was able to hold on.
"Have you finished reading it?" The emperor's tone was much calmer than before. It could be seen that the quarrel among the ministers was useful. At least the emperor was much less angry with Feng Qingchen.
"In reply to the emperor, I have finished reading it." The hands holding the memorial began to shake. The emperor was too lazy to argue with a young woman and asked the eunuch to take the memorial away. Feng Qingchen breathed a sigh of relief and obediently knelt in a pool of blood.
She couldn't get up unless the emperor asked her to. She didn't come to the palace to complain, but she couldn't defy the royal authority. She had to give the emperor face, and only then would the emperor give her substance. The higher the position, the more they cared about their face.
"Do you admit your guilt?" The emperor was very satisfied with Feng Qingchen's attitude. This was the attitude a subject should have. He challenged the emperor's authority everywhere. Even the emperor, who was very magnanimous, could not tolerate such a person.
Not everyone has the magnanimity of Li Shimin, who can tolerate a minister who often criticizes him. Besides, Li Shimin can only tolerate one Wei Zheng, and he cannot tolerate more.
"Your Majesty, you are all very talented and eloquent, but I really don't know what crime I have committed. You saw me killing people in the street and accused me of it. I don't know if you have found out why I killed people.
Your Majesty, I was besieged by a group of beggars on the street. I immediately asked the guards to give them some money to get rid of them. However, those beggars did not want any money at all. Not only that, they still besieged me even though they knew my identity.
Those beggars are all good at fighting, and are there any beggars in this world who don't want money? No matter how dumb I am, I know that this beggar is not an ordinary person. I really have no choice but to let the guards take action and order them not to harm innocent people. However, I didn't expect that the group of beggars would not give in and insisted on killing me. I had no choice but to let the guards kill me.
If it weren't for my guards fighting to the death, and if the officials hadn't arrived in time, I would have been dead on the street. It doesn't matter if I die, but I am really worried that those people can sneak into my Dongling Imperial City today and assassinate me in the street without any discipline. Maybe they can sneak into the palace and assassinate the emperor one day.
"It is not a pity for me to die, but the emperor is the supreme ruler, and there must be no mistakes. My parents have told me since I was a child that the emperor is a great monarch, and under his rule, Dongling will surely make the world submit. Even if all the people in the world die, the emperor cannot be harmed in the slightest. I dare to ask the emperor to investigate this matter thoroughly and eliminate the scourge."
The person who fears death the most in the world is the emperor, the person who is most greedy for power in the world is the emperor, and the person who likes to hear good words the most in the world is also the emperor.
Her words were straightforward and clear, which was consistent with what the Ninth Uncle said about the nature of children, and also consistent with what the Left Prime Minister and the generals said about being direct and without scheming.
An emperor who doesn't want to conquer the world is not a good emperor. It is obvious that the emperor has this ambition. Feng Qingchen's flattering words made the emperor feel comfortable, but the following words made the emperor alert.
The emperor's sons are all adults, but the emperor is still young. If nothing unexpected happens, it will take at least ten or twenty years for the emperor to die. Ten or twenty years is too much of a variable. The emperor does not believe that his sons can wait in time, and in fact, his sons really can't wait in time.
Feng Qingchen's words touched upon what the emperor cared about most. The emperor could not tolerate anyone eyeing his position.
The emperor did not show it on his face, but he was on guard in his heart. Feng Qingchen's reminder was all reasonable. He had just come out of a fight for the throne. If he could kill his brothers, then his son could certainly kill his father as well. The power of the throne was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
The emperor's anger shifted from Feng Qingchen to the crown prince and Dong Ling Ziluo. His sharp and murderous eyes swept across the crown prince and Dong Ling Ziluo.
There are only two princes who did not return to their fiefdoms after reaching adulthood and are still in the imperial city. Of course, it is not ruled out that those princes in their fiefdoms would use the name of this birthday celebration to commit treason.
The Crown Prince and Dong Ling Zi Luo raised their heads and faced the Emperor's gaze calmly. Although their clothes were already soaked through, they did not dare to show it on their faces. They only dared to secretly blame Feng Qingchen in their hearts.
This woman is really amazing. The emperor has always been very suspicious. He has always been worried that the adult princes are eyeing his throne. Feng Qingchen's words undoubtedly let the seeds of suspicion germinate...
The future of the Dongling princes will probably not be easy, and among them, the most powerful and prestigious Dongling Ziluo will be the worst...