Chapter 311: Chapter 170: Lu Jin’an: "Yin Family has no place meddling in the affairs of the Great Domain!" (Two in one mega Chapter)_3
After Zhao Yunyan ascended to the throne, she asked Liu Gong to retire to the countryside and once again took control of the royal authority.
Watching Liu Gong approach slowly, Zhao Yunyan’s gaze turned sharp: "Liu Gong, what are you intending to do, trying to become the all-powerful Prime Minister again!?"
Liu Gong stopped in his tracks and bowed to Zhao Yunyan: "This humble servant merely doesn’t want Your Majesty to be blinded by Yang Guan."
"It seems it is you who is blinded!" Zhao Yunyan rebuked angrily: "Considering your many years of loyal service to the country, leave, get out, or don’t blame me for not being merciful!"
Liu Gong raised his head and looked at Zhao Yunyan, then turned his gaze to Yang Guan’s face: "King Dingxing, do you dare to look at me?"
Yang Guan, whose face was cold and dark, looked at the old man in the rain, feeling the anger in his heart becoming difficult to suppress.
This group of damned Lower Realm peasants... Every single one of them should have been killed!
"Liu Gong." Yang Guan’s voice was icy: "Every emperor of Xunfeng Country in history has died in war, and you took the opportunity to control the court; all the country’s decrees came from you, and now...
Do you also want to take the opportunity to overthrow me, so that Xunfeng Country can bear the Liu name?"
Liu Gong remained expressionless: "If I wanted to be emperor, why wait until I am old? I merely..."
He looked towards Zhao Yunyan: "Your Majesty, everything I did today was for Xunfeng Country!"
"Do you also want to slander Brother Yang just like those two ingrates?" Zhao Yunyan now displayed the majesty of the country’s empress: "Come, I’ll let you speak, weave a story for me!"
"Your Majesty, this humble servant means evidence!" Liu Gong spoke firmly: "Not hearsay rumors!"
"Ridiculous!" Zhao Yunyan looked coldly at Liu Gong: "First it was Baoyuan Sect, then the Yang Family, now it’s Xunfeng Country’s turn, and then is it Divine Intent Sect’s turn?!"
Her icy gaze swept around, lingering on Li Wuyi’s face for a few seconds: "Cowards who dare not face reality, using such low methods because you can’t defeat Brother Yang, laughable to the extreme!"
Intentional and unintentional glances passed over Li Wuyi, feeling that the Tongqi Hehuan Sect indeed had the audacity to create such rumors.
"Looking at me?" Li Wuyi chuckled: "Come, come, all of you, search my soul, and if there’s anything I did, I’ll perform a triple kowtow and nine obeisances to Yang Guan again!
So many people speaking against him, there must be something wrong with him!"
As Zhao Yunyan raised her brows, just about to speak, Liu Gong spoke first: "Your Majesty, please let this humble servant finish."
He looked towards the young man beside him, expression calm: "Speak."
The young man looked fearfully at Zhao Yunyan and Yang Guan on the platform, his legs trembling as if from fear.
Liu Gong took a deep breath: "Speak, old man is protecting you, and with Saint Lu of the Wandao Sect here, no one dares to act rashly.
Tell everything you’ve seen; you will be the hero of the Yulin Domain and perhaps the entire Human Clan."
"Speak!" commanded Yang Guan in a low voice, his face expressionless as he looked at the young man he had never seen before: "I want to hear what you can say!"
The young man knelt down as his legs gave way, a hunter by birth, this was his first time seeing so many prominent figures; his teeth chattered, voice stammering: "Commoner, commoner..."
Liu Gong sighed lightly and cast a spell in front of everyone, and the young man’s voice returned to normal.
"On the eleventh of February four years ago, the commoner went hunting on Yunluo Mountain with the elders of the village, and saw him fishing by the stream with a girl..."
As he spoke, the expressions of the gathered people from Xunfeng Country began to change.
At that time, Tianming Country took advantage of the succession of Xunfeng Country’s royal power to launch a massive invasion, capturing several passes and pressing straight to Xunfeng Country’s capital!
At that time, the new emperor Zhao Yunyan issued an order to coexist and perish with the capital.
At that time, Yang Guan was in closed-door training... closed-door training?
Fishing with another woman... was it closed-door training?
"Nonsense!" Zhao Yunyan’s expression was grim: "How could a mere hunter approach Brother Yang?"
The young man hurriedly kowtowed: "Forgive me, Your Majesty, forgive me, everything the commoner says is true... the commoner has a Capturing Stone as evidence!"
Saying this, he hurriedly took out the Capturing Stone from his chest and placed it on the ground: "The commoner has been hunting for generations, using the Capturing Stone to observe the movements of wild animals on the mountain, increasing the chances of hunting, so we placed a certain number of Capturing Stones on Yunluo Mountain..."
Zhao Yunyan’s face slightly changed; she instinctively looked towards Yang Guan.
At this moment, Liu Gong once again touched his forehead to the ground: "Your Majesty, at the critical moment when Xunfeng Country was in danger, King Dingxing clearly knew the news but did not arrive at the first opportunity; he only came after more than half the casualties had occurred...
Whether it was the Yang Family, Baoyuan Sect, or our Xunfeng Country, one incident could be a coincidence, but every incident like this, he has ulterior motives, it is indeed the manner of the Demon Path!"
Liu Gong raised his head and looked at Zhao Yunyan: "This humble servant suspects that King Dingxing is practicing an unknown Demon Path technique, deliberately sacrificing lives!"
"Ridiculous!" Zhao Yunyan shouted angrily: "Is war a child’s play? You..."
"Is Your Majesty afraid to face this matter because those who died were your political enemies?" Liu Gong looked Zhao Yunyan in the eye: "This humble servant investigated, the deceased of Xunfeng Country were all opponents who opposed Your Majesty’s ascension as a daughter, did you... know about this?"
Zhao Yunyan remained expressionless: "I have given you a chance to retire as a gesture of mercy... A new emperor, new ministers, what fault is there in how I handled things?"
Liu Gong’s expression froze: "So, did you and King Dingxing conspire on this matter together?"
Zhao Yunyan’s gaze turned cold: "The affairs of a country have both light and dark aspects, I’ve merely done what I should... Chancellor Liu, you’ve embarrassed me, and you’ve made the entire Xunfeng Country lose face with you."
Liu Gong fell silent, so, was this all just the emperor employing the imperial way to eliminate adversaries?