Chapter 53 My Rules Are Rules

Buzz!

All the court officials felt their heads explode with a buzz!

Emperor Zhao Gan's words: Chen Huaian wants to rebel, completely punctured the huge bubble of "Jian'an prosperity, world peace" woven by the treacherous ministers headed by Prime Minister Qin Ruhui with deception and lies.

Sun Heling's sudden remonstrance disrupted Qin Ruhui's overall deployment.

For a time, Prime Minister Qin Ruhui's cunning face turned pale and sweated.

The rest of the court officials were in danger and could not take care of themselves.

Only Sun Heling, the Minister of Rites, still stood up straight, raised his head, and faced Zhao Gan's anger calmly.

Sun Heling shouted loudly: "Reporting to the emperor, I think that the prince of Jin, Chen Huaian, has no intention of rebellion, nor does he have the intention of claiming to be alone and establishing a new country!"

"On the contrary, I think that the prince of Jin, Chen Huaian, has made contributions to the country and the people, and he should be rewarded!"

Swish!

As soon as this was said, all the civil and military officials in the court looked at him sideways.

The look in his eyes when he secretly looked at Sun Heling was hard to tell whether it was sympathy or gloating.

Puff!

In the Jinluan Palace, Emperor Zhao Gan almost got his nose crooked by Sun Heling's words.

He resisted the urge to order the Red Guards to drag Sun Heling out and chop him off, and said angrily: "Sun Heling, what did you say? Did I hear you right?"

"He Chen Huaian has already raised an army in Longcheng to fight against the court, and has raised the banner of "following the imperial order to quell the rebellion and clear the court", and even said such treasonous words as the new emperor is stupid."

"Now you are actually saying in front of all the civil and military officials that Chen Huaian has made contributions to the country and the people, and should be rewarded?"

As he said this, Zhao Gan changed the subject and scolded in a cold and sharp tone: "Sun Heling, is your head stuck in the door, or did I hear it wrongly because my ears were stuffed with donkey hair?"

"Your Majesty, please calm down!"

Under the hall, Sun Heling still had that neither humble nor arrogant attitude, holding up the letters between Wu Qingyun, the general of the Northwest, and Temur, the Khan of the Turks, and presented them above his head.

Then, he continued, "Your Majesty, this is the correspondence between Wu Qingyun, the general of the Northwest Army, and Temur, the Great Khan of the Turks. Please take a look!"

"If I am not mistaken, the one who destroyed the Turkic country this time is none other than Chen Huaian, the prince of Jin!"

"Placing the rebellion at the Northwest Border and sweeping away the Turkic people in the north of the desert, isn't it a contribution to the country and the people? Shouldn't he be rewarded?"

As soon as Sun Heling finished speaking, the eunuch of Emperor Zhao Gan had already presented the correspondence between Wu Qingyun and Temur in his hand to Zhao Gan.

The latter's face was ashen, and he read the contents of the letter at a glance, and the violent aura in his pupils became even worse.

Boom!

Zhao Gan suddenly made a move, and smashed the screen behind the dragon chair into several pieces with a slap, frightening the favorite concubine Wen Renyu who was leaning on the dragon chair, but she didn't dare to make a sound.

"Qin Ruhui!"

"Your humble servant, your humble servant is here!"

Zhao Gan shouted, almost making Prime Minister Qin Ruhui's heart stop beating. He knelt tremblingly and moved half of his body to the hall, anxiously waiting for the imperial edict.

Zhao Gan said sternly: "Tell me, is what he said true?"

Qin Ruhui replied in fear: "Reply, reply to the emperor, the war to destroy the Turks in the north, um... indeed, but, Your Majesty, please listen to your humble servant's explanation..."

"Enough!"

Zhao Gan roared and interrupted Qin Ruhui directly.

Then, Zhao Gan walked down the steps aggressively, walked straight from the Golden Palace to Qin Ruhui, and stared at him condescendingly.

Angrily: "Tell me, is it true or not?"

At this point, Qin Ruhui dared not lie anymore, and nodded like pounding garlic and replied: "Your Majesty, yes!"

Haha!

After receiving Qin Ruhui's affirmative answer, Zhao Gan laughed instead of getting angry.

But the arrogant and domineering laughter of the past was a little more pathetic and ridiculous.

After a long time, Zhao Gan regained his sanity.

He looked at Qin Ruhui and said in a cold tone: "Qin Ruhui, I will give you another chance to report everything you know to me truthfully!"

"If you lie again, I will kill all your clans!"

Qin Ruhui's face was pale, but he had to bite the bullet and report to Emperor Zhao Gan the major events that happened after Chen Huaian started the rebellion in Longcheng.

Including the 300,000 Yunhui troops were completely wiped out, the Northwest General Wu Qingyun died in Yunzhou, and Chen Huaian led his troops north to destroy the Turkic royal court at the foot of Shifeng Mountain in Mobei, all of which were reported to Zhao Gan.

Even Chen Huaian made a detailed report on the policy guidelines issued by the three important military towns in the northwest and the ninety-eight counties under his jurisdiction.

However, the cunning Qin Ruhui deliberately made a time difference when reporting, delaying the time when he learned the news from the front line by two months.

He pushed all the responsibilities onto the dead ghost Wu Qingyun.

Anyway, there was no evidence, so he simply let Wu Qingyun take all the blame. Sacrificing him alone could save the entire "princelings"!

At last, Qin Ruhui concluded with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty, I am guilty:"

"In the past two months, I have been concentrating on the two major events of digging the Grand Canal and rebuilding the imperial mausoleum, and thus neglected the supervision of the civil and military officials in the court, which led to the occurrence of such deceiving the emperor and committing crimes."

"Your Majesty, this Northwest General Wu Qingyun was recommended by me. I am guilty of dereliction of duty, please punish me!"

As he spoke, Qin Ruhui raised his hand to wipe the two tears that rolled down his cheeks, then took off the prime minister's black gauze hat on his head and raised it high above his head.

Haha!

Zhao Gan laughed out sadly and ridiculously again, and said to himself:

"I have always constrained my behavior according to the requirements of the greatest emperor in history, and have always taken it as my responsibility to promote the prosperity of Jian'an."

"Now it seems that the so-called "prosperous Jian'an, the world is peaceful", is nothing more than a bunch of flattering civil and military officials, using deception and lies to weave flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water for me!"

"On the contrary, it is this Chen Huaian's treasonous act that has pierced the illusion I have been living in."

"In this way, Chen Huaian really deserves a reward!"

As he said, Zhao Gan changed the subject and said in a ferocious tone: "I will not only reward him with a slow death, but also punish him with the punishment of nine clans!"

"Shen Guangming!"

"I am here!"

Zhao Gan shouted, and Shen Guangming, the Minister of War, immediately knelt down and moved out from the crowd of officials, waiting for the imperial edict.

Zhao Qian said: "The traitor Chen Huaian has raised an army to rebel. The rebel army has occupied the three towns in the northwest of Daxin and 98 counties. I order your Ministry of War to immediately submit a memorial to quell the rebellion. I want to lead the army in person!"

"Your Majesty, you can't do that, Your Majesty!"

As soon as these words came out, Sun Heling, the Minister of Rites, stood up again and risked his life to persuade him, saying:

"The Prince of Jin, Chen Huaian, raised an army in Longcheng in accordance with the will of the previous emperor. He held the Golden Whip and obeyed the order to quell the rebellion. He was to clear the court and eliminate the treacherous officials, not to raise an army to rebel!"

"Since Chen Huaian raised his army, whether he went north to conquer the Turks or to fight against the Yunhui Army, in essence, he was acting on behalf of the court, eliminating external threats and internal thieves. If you insist on saying that the prince is rebelling, there is no evidence, Your Majesty!"

Hmph!

Zhao Gan suddenly snorted coldly, stared at Sun Heling fiercely, and said word by word: "Sun Heling, listen to me clearly-"

"From the beginning to the end, there is no golden whip bestowed by the late emperor!"

"Also, I said that Chen Huaian was raising troops to rebel, and he was raising troops to rebel, why do I need evidence?"

"Dismiss the court!"

"Your Majesty..."