After a while.
Liu Mingzhi suddenly opened his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I have thought that you have not committed any serious offenses, and you have performed your duties faithfully since you took office. There is no merit but hard work.
I will not punish you severely.
Each person will be demoted one level and fined three years' salary.
You guys can accept the punishment."
When Yun Yingjie, Yuan Renyi and more than a dozen people heard this, they bowed respectfully and nodded without hesitation.
"Return to Your Majesty, I will accept my punishment."
"Just accept the punishment and get up."
"Thank you, Your Majesty. Long live my emperor."
Liu Mingzhi looked at the officials who stood up one after another, casually put his hands on his back, and sighed sadly.
"well."
"Please remember, no matter whether they are the people of the Great Dragon Celestial Dynasty or the people of the countries in the Western Regions, they are all people under my rule, and they are all my subjects of the Great Dragon.
All of us, the common people of Dalong, should be treated equally.
This time, seeing that you have not made any big mistakes, I will not argue with you carefully.
In the future, if you make such a mistake again.
Then, you can see that you should not blame me for not caring about the feelings of the king and his subjects, and punishing you severely according to the laws of the dragon."
"I obey my orders, and I will never do them again in the future."
"cousin."
"I'm here."
"Do you know why I don't punish you severely?"
"I am stupid, but I have the courage to ask Your Majesty to clear up my doubts."
Liu Mingzhi shook off the jade fan in his hand and looked at the kings of the Western Regions with a faint smile.
"Because I know very well that there is a reason why you are biased against the people of the Western Regions."
Yun Yingjie was stunned, and looked at Young Master Liu in surprise.
"His Majesty?"
"In addition to your own prejudice against the people of the Western Regions, what King Wusun, King Dayuan, and King Dayuezhi have done over the years is what you have always done to the people and merchants of the Western Regions.
, the root cause of the bias, right?”
Hearing his cousin's seemingly pointed words, Yun Yingjie glanced at the kings of the Western Regions with a complicated expression, and nodded with a wry smile.
"Your Majesty, do you know everything?"
Young Master Liu gently shook the folding fan in his hand and glanced at Yun Yingjie silently.
"If that were not the case, do you think I would let you go so easily?
Just rely on the dereliction of duty and oversight you committed.
Although it is not punishable by death, dismissal from office is inevitable."
"Your Majesty is wise, Your Majesty is wise."
Liu Mingzhi pursed his lips gently, then touched the surface of the jade fan with his fingertips and slowly moved around.
Suddenly.
Young Master Liu suddenly raised his head and glanced at the kings of the Western Regions with sharp eyes.
"King Wusun."
"King of Dayuan."
"King of Dayue clan."
"King Kangju."
"King Xiuxun."
"King of Jingjue."
When the six kings of the Western Regions heard Mr. Liu's greeting, their expressions became tense, and they stood up quickly and saluted.
"I'm waiting here."
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the six kings who were paying tribute to him, and took out a few folded pieces of papyrus from his sleeves.
Immediately, he gently shook a few pieces of papyrus in his hand and threw them directly towards the six kings.
"Guys, let's pass it around to each other!"
King Wusun and King Dayuezhi looked at the seven or eight pieces of papyrus falling in front of them and others, and quickly bent down to pick them up.
Immediately afterwards, the six people gathered together and passed the rice paper in their hands to each other.
After the six people read what was written in Dalong script and Western Region script on the papyrus, their expressions changed drastically.
Liu Mingzhi gently shook the jade fan in his hand and returned to his seat and sat down. After taking some tea to moisten his throat, he stared at the six people with sharp eyes.
"Wait, have you finished reading it?"
King Kangju and King Dayuan were trembling, and their bodies were shaking like chaff. They all looked towards Young Master Liu.
"Emperor...His Majesty the Emperor."
"Your Majesty, Xiao Wang, Xiao Wang is guilty."
"Your Majesty, the ministers are confused, the ministers are confused."
"Your Majesty the Emperor..."
Liu Mingzhi swallowed the tea leaves in his mouth and sighed sadly.
"In three years, there have been a total of one hundred and twenty-eight wars, large and small, between your six countries.
There were more than 170,000 dead and wounded soldiers, and about 1.6 million people were affected by the war and forced to leave their homes.
Since you are so dissatisfied with the territory of your respective kingdoms, you all want to continue to expand your territory and dominate the thirty-six countries in the Western Region.
Then, I don’t mind helping you re-divide your territory.”
As soon as Mr. Liu finished speaking, the six Wusun kings were all shaken.
Immediately, several popping sounds were heard in succession.
King Wusun, King Xiuxun, and King Dayuezhi all knelt down to Young Master Liu with fearful expressions.
"I know I was wrong, but I was confused. Please forgive me, Your Majesty the Emperor."
"The little king knows his crime and asks His Majesty the Emperor to forgive me."
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I don't dare to do it anymore."
"Your Majesty the Emperor, Xiao Wang..."
Young Master Liu glared at the six kings kneeling on the ground with a gloomy look. His expression suddenly changed, and he looked at the other twenty kings of the Western Regions with a smile.
"King Loulan, King Xiye, King Qiuci, King Qiemo, King Shule..."
When the twenty kings heard this, they stood up quickly and bowed.
"I'm waiting here."
"I ask you, live a down-to-earth life, are you satisfied with your current life in your respective kingdoms?"
"His Majesty the Emperor, I am very satisfied."
"How about living your own life in a down-to-earth manner, letting the people live and work in peace and contentment, and have enough food and clothing?"
"It would be great to return to His Majesty the Emperor."
"It could not be better?"
To be continued...