"Lan Xiuyuan! You, as a subject and younger brother, actually suggested that I kill my own flesh and blood. Has your heart been poisoned?"
"And you, you ministers, are you trying to force me to leave behind the name of a tyrant who slaughtered his own flesh and blood?"
Everyone knelt on the ground, no longer daring to raise their heads.
Lan Xiuyuan stared expressionlessly at the floor tiles in front of him. He had heard Lan Shanyang's words clearly, but if he had to do it all over again, he would still say the same thing!
Was he really wrong? If the person who committed this crime wasn't Lan Linxue but any other prince, would Lan Shanyang still be so angry?
Therefore, Lan Xiuyuan would never regret it, nor would he feel ashamed. His hatred for Lan Linxue would only deepen with Lan Shanyang's bias.
Lan Shanyang, like an angry beast, glared fiercely at the crowd below, slowly walking down and passing by them step by step.
"Before the court assembly, I reminded you all, Hu Feifan and the others were still kneeling there! I told you to think things through carefully before you act, but you actually came up with knives to dig into my heart? Hu Tianyong, I'll ask you one more time, how does the Crown Prince intend to deal with this?"
Hu Tianyong stood up, glanced at Hu Feifan who was looking at him anxiously, and then looked at Lan Xiuyuan, who was looking down with a cold and hard face.
"Your Majesty! The Crown Prince has indeed committed heinous crimes, and it is extremely difficult to redeem him! This old minister knows that Your Majesty is deeply devoted to your son, but even if the Crown Prince is not executed, he absolutely cannot remain in the royal family any longer! This minister implores Your Majesty to consider the greater good of the nation, to depose Crown Prince Lan Linxue, to remove him from the royal family genealogy, to demote him to a commoner, to exile him to the frontier, and to banish him from the court forever!"
Lan Shanyang glanced coldly at the others around her: "Is that what you all think too?"
Immediately, half of the people stood up and said, "I will reconsider."
Only Chen Kuangzheng and a few others remained silent.
Lan Shanyang walked up to Lan Linxue and sneered, "See that? There are more people who want you dead than those who want you alive!"
Lan Linxue's expression turned even colder, "Your subject has remembered!"
The court was unanimously in favor of expelling Lan Linxue from the clan. In Hu Tianyong's view, sparing Lan Linxue's life was already giving the Emperor ample face. It was a trade-off: he spared his son's life for the Emperor, and the Emperor had to spare his entire family.
Lan Shanyang looked around at the court, his heart filled with such hatred that he felt he could take a knife and chop someone up.
Is his son's life so worthless? Why doesn't a flood wash away all these bastards?
Just then, Qin Kou'er stepped forward again and knelt down gently beside Lan Linxue: "Your Majesty, I, Qin Kou'er, have something to say!"
Lan Shanyang immediately turned around, his eyes sharp as he looked at Qin Kou'er: "Oh? You tell me!"
“Your Majesty, you just asked me if someone had blown up the Qinhuai River embankment, and I answered yes. But I never expected that this matter would involve the Crown Prince. However, if this matter is related to the Crown Prince, then I have something to say.”
Lan Shanyang looked at Qin Kou'er and suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly. Could she possibly say something else?
How interesting! The only person among all the officials who could explain things clearly to Lan Linxue was actually a commoner!
“Your Majesty! First of all, I must say that I only mentioned that there were traces of bombing on the Qinhuai River embankment. As for those four counties, I have never said that they were bombed! Because I have never received such information!”
"Secondly, although I don't know who tampered with the Qinhuai River embankment, if it really was the Crown Prince, then I, on behalf of the people along the Qinhuai River, would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Crown Prince!"
As she spoke, Qin Kou'er turned around and bowed deeply to Lan Linxue.
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