"Dong Cheng, what else do you have to say, lord, we should..."
Jia Xu took a few steps forward after suffering. Yang Jie asked Dong Cheng with an excited look on his face while he was about to make his own suggestions to Cao Zhi.
At this time, Cao Zhi, who had been silent for a while, turned around and came to Jia Xu's side, took the secret edict, turned around and came under a lampstand, and a light that had not yet burned out, "Boom!" lit the secret edict.
"Lord...what are you doing? That's evidence, that's an opportunity..." Li Ru ran to Cao Zhi's side regardless of his superiority, preparing to rescue the burning secret edict, but Cao Zhi grabbed it.
Jia Xu, Zhao Yun and others were also shocked by Cao Zhi's sudden actions. Jia Xu stretched out his hand and was about to stop Cao Zhi like Li Ru. Cao Zhi looked at the quickly burning out of his hand and floating on the ground. He glanced at Dong Cheng, who opened his mouth wide in surprise, and said quietly: "Dong Cheng, you claim to be a good person who wants to support the Han Dynasty and justice. In fact, you are all a group of despicable villains and complete hypocrites. If you really want to overthrow me, a treacherous minister, you should not be trapped in the emperor's injustice, and you need such things to protect yourself!"
"well……"
"Why……"
Cao Zhi's decisive behavior attracted a wave of admiration and loss. Dong Cheng's entire body was already collapsed in his soft mat and twitched.
Cao Zhi ignored the surprise or fear of his subordinates and enemies. After dealing with Dong Cheng's affairs, he ran to the palace without changing his court uniform.
"Dang, dang, dang!"
The bell of the Heavenly Ginseng in Zhaoyang Palace rang normally, but for some reason, the morning light of the day only showed its face slightly. Then, dark clouds in the sky became thicker and thicker. The clouds seemed to be pressing lower and lower, and the sky became dimmer and dimmer. Silver lights swayed among the clouds. The autumn wind whistled over the sky with a whistle, bringing out a shrill roar.
In this severe weather, pedestrians on the streets of Xudu were almost extinct. I don’t know if the turmoil in the capital last night was not dispersed, or if the people of Xuchang really didn’t want to take the streets on this day. The streets where Cao Zhi’s horse team passed were empty, and with the shrill wind roar in the air, the place where the horse team passed was almost like a ghost realm.
When the sky was changing, the civil and military officials standing outside Zhaoyang Hall stood solemnly, and they secretly speculated on how the political storm that last night to the present would continue.
Cao Zhi's absolute control over the imperial court and his comprehensive display of team strength in the capital, like a ghost and a demon, killed like a bloodthirsty demon, and frantically struck this uneasy night. He shocked all the senior management of the entire capital with his blood and life, and also hurt many people hard, and many people were in panic all day long! Everyone was thinking and thinking about what should he do in the face of such irresistible power? Should he consider the issue of re-supporting the team? Or was he glad that he was in the world? What's more, he secretly speculated whether there was a possibility of a change of dynasty, and what attitude should he faced it at that time?
Anyway, the court was so quiet that it was terrible, but I didn’t know how surging the civil and military officials were standing there, and how intense it was.
This surging is not conveyed in words, but it affects everyone in the court, and Liu Xie is not exclusive.
His legs were trembling. He was the person who was the least ignorant of his fate among this group. Everyone in the court might have a chance to make a new choice, but he didn't. He was the emperor, a poor emperor who had no rights and took another wrong step.
Liu Xie really wanted to cry. He was afraid that Cao Zhi would not forgive him. He was afraid that Cao Zhi would kill him in anger and establish someone else, or...
Liu Xie didn't dare to think about it anymore. Now he had no one to discuss or seek some comfort, and he felt that he was isolated.
The prescribed morning court time had passed long ago, but the eunuch Sili, who was responsible for singing "Go to court!", had not spoken for a long time, standing there like a statue of the lord. Without this eunuch's voice, "Go to court!", all civil and military officials could only stand outside the hall and were not allowed to enter. If Liu Xie would normally think that the old eunuch had forgotten the time, but today Liu Xie not only understood that eunuch Sili did not forget the time, but also knew that he was waiting for Cao Zhi's arrival. Liu Xie also knew that Cao Zhi had returned to Xudu last night. Without him today's court affairs, there would be nothing to discuss. Today's court officials were actually prepared for him!
"Doctor Cao is probably still in Dong's mansion now? I wonder if he killed his father-in-law Dong Cheng? I wonder if he found that..."
When Liu Xie thought of the blood edict, he looked around uneasy, but all the eunuchs serving in Zhaoyang Hall lowered their heads and tried to avoid Liu Xie's gaze. Some people even never looked at Emperor Xian from beginning to end.
Liu Xie really wanted to cry, but he was already an adult and could not cry anymore. That would only disappoint more people and make more people look down on him!
“Go to court…”
Just as Liu Xie was about to reach the critical point, the long-awaited sharp voice finally resounded in the Zhaoyang Hall, followed by the eunuchs and guards outside the hall. With the neat footsteps of "stop", all the officials finally started and stepped into the Zhaoyang Hall to start court.
All the officials quickly stood in Zhaoyang Hall step by step, but the hall was still unusually quiet. Liu Xie supported his head and stared at the hall gate with anticipation.
In fact, at this time, not only Emperor Xian, Liu Xie, was looking forward to it. All the officials in the hall were looking forward to it, hoping that things would be just a political fluctuation, or would it develop into a coup?
"Dadada..." The crisp footsteps began to sound outside the hall and quickly approached.
When a small tall figure appeared at the entrance of the hall to block the light, everyone in the hall turned their eyes to the entrance of the hall.
"The Grand Sima, General of the Cheqi, and Lord Cao, the Marquis of Qiao Township, met with him..."
When the sharp and bright sound sounded, Cao Zhi stepped into the Zhaoyang Hall. He looked cold and looked straight at the emperor Liu Xie on the dragon chaise on the high platform in the middle of the hall. He pressed the sword between his waist and legs with one hand, his steps were steady and heavy.
"Sword! Take the sword into the palace?"
Did Cao Zhi forgot to understand the sword on his body or did it on purpose? Civil and military officials should not wear any weapons when they went to court, but why did Cao Zhi do this today...
Many people immediately felt extremely stressed when they saw Cao Zhi pressing the hilt of the sword with his expressionless expression. Some people even became difficult to breathe. What would happen? Could it be that Cao Zhi wanted to kill the emperor and seize the throne and launch a coup?
Liu Xie's atrium even contracted. Not only was his legs trembling at this time, but now he couldn't stop his skin trembling in every inch of his body. He instantly lost all his consciousness. He couldn't even feel that his trembling was obviously the sound of Dada caused by the collision between his teeth.
"bass!"
When Cao Zhi stood under the high platform of the imperial carriage and was the first to draw the sword, Liu Xie did not even feel that he had incontinence again.
When the urine that was surging out flowed down the chair where Liu Xie sat, and a smell of urine swept through the hall, Cao Zhi suddenly raised the sword that was overwhelmed, "Pu!" and kneeled down and bowed under Liu Xie's imperial stand with a loud "Pu".
"My name Cao Zhi apologizes to the emperor, but I will die, and I will die!"
The hall was silent, and there was an instant that there was no strange sound. It was the kind of silence that made people forget their breathing.
Everyone was stunned. Cao Zhi did not kill the lord, did not start a massacre, did not roar in the court, and no... He did not do anything he should have, but in front of Liu Xie, who was so scared that he urinated his pants, he asked the emperor for guilt!
Hearing Cao Zhi say this, the ministers in the hall looked at each other, and the same question arose: "What crime did he ask for?"
Everyone shook their eyes back to Liu Xie on the dragon throne. The dragon throne Liu Xie was sitting on was on the magnificent platform in the Zhaoyang Hall. The platform itself was very distinctive, like a flat-topped pyramid. The high platform was steeply slanted in the east, west, and north, and slightly slower on the south. Nine-stage stone steps were built, and the top of the platform was built with a finishing touch. There was a car in the middle of the platform, like a square platform car about five feet high, with a square cushion on the surface, which was elegant and noble. This is the dragon throne.
And on this majestic dragon throne, the emperor of the dynasty, Emperor Liu Xie, was still in a freeze shape at this time, not letting Cao Zhi "flat" or asking Cao Zhi "What crime is it?" He seemed to have his soul out of his body, and only his body was sitting there.
Cao Zhi also looked sincere and sincere, "Apologizing!", and he even raised his sword straight and over the top. He didn't know that Liu Xie was already stupid, lowered his head and never stood up without waiting for Liu Xie to speak.
The hall fell into the point where the needle fell again, and then the officials turned their heads back and forth and rubbed their collars and sounded softly in the quiet hall from time to time. Then there were whispers and whispers and whispers, and Li Ru, Xun Yu and others wanted to remind Liu Xie of the front row of civil and military ministers, and called out a few times, "Emperor!", but Liu Xie did not respond. Finally, the eunuch of a sensible person had to walk to Liu Xie gently, put it in the ear of Emperor Xian, and spoke out loud, which made Liu Xie wake up.
"Doctor Cao... Why are you still kneeling on the ground? Oh, oh, Cao Aiqing is calm, what is Cao Aiqing's crime?..."
Liu Xie was incoherently speaking, and finally understood that Cao Zhi brought the sword into the palace, not to kill him, but to apologize to him.
"Cao Aiqing, Doctor Cao, please get up quickly and talk..."
Cao Zhi was not grateful for the kindness of the emperor's intention to leave his seat and raise his grace, and continued to kneel down and recite: "Your Majesty, I have reported that I heard that someone in the capital wanted to commit a major rebellion yesterday. I have launched a large-scale dispatch of troops inside and outside the capital last night. I did not submit this matter to the emperor, which is actually one of the reasons for my crime!"
"Ah, ah... Cao Aiqing cares about the stability of the country, the safety of me and the imperial capital, and dispatches troops to eliminate the thieves. What crimes are there? What crimes are there?" Liu Xie was in a hurry to talk about this magnificent sentence.