Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 767 Turned over

In the face of the emperor's emotional outburst, the Marquis of Jing'an still did not panic, he just remained silent for a while, and then slowly said: "This minister has never been malicious to His Majesty, otherwise the minister could have stood on Li Shen's side five years ago, or even Take over the Pingnan Army from Li Shen."

   Having said that, Li Xin raised his head and glanced at the Son of Heaven.

   "At that time, the minister had no children or daughters, and only the eldest princess who had just married stayed in the capital. To say something ugly, if the minister fell to Jincheng at that time, your Majesty's day might be a little sadder today."

   Having said that, the Marquis of Jing'an was expressionless.

   "The matter in the southwest, the minister has done very cleanly. Your Majesty can't find any evidence that the minister connected Muying, but since His Majesty wants to talk about this matter, it is meaningless for the minister to say those lies."

   Li Xin can certainly argue with the emperor again, but that is meaningless. After all, everyone knows exactly what the other party has done.

   Having said this, Li Xin said calmly: "This time, I did help the Hanzhou army and repelled General Pei Jin, but I thought it was not a sin."

   He looked up at the emperor.

   "I may ask, Your Majesty, what is Mu Ying's sin?"

  The emperor had a gloomy face: "He refuses to obey the imperial decree!"

  Li Xin nodded and continued to ask: "What are the sins of the people of Hanzhou? As for the imperial court's use of more than 100,000 troops to go to war?"

  The Emperor was speechless.

This time, in fact, the imperial court unilaterally provoked Hanzhou. The imperial court first wanted to replace the Hanzhou general for no reason. When Mu Ying had already agreed that the new Hanzhou general should be stationed in the Hanzhou General Mansion, but was unwilling to go to Beijing, Pei Jin waited. People then brazenly launched an attack on Hanzhou.

   In other words, fundamentally speaking, it is the court's fault.

As Li Xin spoke, he took out a document from his sleeve, put it in front of him, and said, "This is the second year of Taikang, and His Majesty asked the minister to contact the survivors of Nanshu, and made an agreement with the survivors of Nanshu. , it is written in black and white, in the future, the remnants of Nanshu will be the people of Dajin, and the court will give them a place to live, and the two sides will no longer be enemies."

   "For this agreement, five years ago, the survivors of Nanshu did indeed pull up all the farmers in the fields, and formed an army of 50,000 people to follow the imperial army to conquer the Pingnan army."

   "In that battle, they also killed more than 10,000 people."

   Li Xin took a deep breath and continued: "For them, the dead are worth it. After all, they don't need to hide in the future, they can live in peace under the sun."

"Five years ago, His Majesty recognized their Hanzhou army as the imperial establishment, but they have not received a grain of food for the past five years. Even so, the five-year tax of Hanzhou City has not been paid at all. to the court."

   "But it's only been five years..."

  The Marquis of Jing An raised his head and looked at the Son of Heaven: "In just five years, the people who have died, and what His Majesty said, will not count."

   "I may ask, Your Majesty, what are these people guilty of?"

Having said this, Li Xin pointed to his nose, and continued: "Of course I understand, Your Majesty probably doesn't look down on a small Hanzhou, and the reason why you want to fight against them is because they feel that they are my people. , and even the Hanzhou Army is my own private soldier, and I, Li Xin, conspired against it."

  The Marquis of Jing An took a deep breath and said indifferently: "If this is the case, His Majesty will directly dismiss the minister. If it is a big deal, the minister will be like Master Ye, who will not leave the house for decades, and be an idle consort with peace of mind."

   "But Your Majesty, I didn't say a word in advance. I just transferred my minister to the northern border, and then I started to attack Hanzhou."

   General Li frowned and finally took a deep breath.

   "The minister does not agree."

  The emperor was justified, but he couldn't admit it. He walked up to Li Xin angrily and said in a low voice, "You mean it's all my fault?"

   "I dare not."

  Li Xin bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty is not guilty, the blame lies in all directions."

   "It's just that Your Majesty has lived in the capital since he was a child, and he has never been to other places to see it. 10,000, 20,000 or even 100,000 people may be just a number for His Majesty."

   "But everyone is a living being. They are not as noble as His Majesty, but they also want to live."

  The emperor was already full of anger at Li Xin, but after hearing Li Xin's words, he became even more angry, almost gnashing his teeth.

   "So five years ago, you made up a story about the real person Chunyang to deceive me?"

   "So you Li Changan, at this time, you handed that unknown weapon that I had concealed from me for five years and handed it over to outsiders to deal with the imperial army?"

  The Marquis of Jingan knelt on the ground and glanced at the emperor calmly.

   "If there is no matter of Hanzhou, the real person of Chunyang will always be the real person of Chunyang, and will not become a weapon in His Majesty's mouth."

   "I have never thought of turning it into a weapon, let alone deceiving Your Majesty."

  Emperor's eyes are terrifying.

   He walked in front of Li Xin, squatted down, gritted his teeth and said, "Did you give this thing to Mu Ying?"

  Li Xin frowned slightly.

   "Your Majesty, this thing is ominous."

  After a pause, he continued: "Also, it's not as powerful as His Majesty thought, it's just a plaything. The reason why General Pei was defeated is because the generals under his command are all rabble and have little to do with that thing."

   "You treat me like a child, don't you?"

  The emperor gritted his teeth and said: "Xiao Zheng saw it with his own eyes. The thing fell from a high altitude, and its power can open mountains and crack rocks!"

   Lord Jingan bowed his head.

   "Your Majesty doesn't believe it, and this minister has nothing to do. This time, although the minister knew about the change in the southwest, but the minister did not participate in it, it was more or less related to the minister. No matter how sinful your majesty was, the minister accepted it with pleasure."

  The emperor was furious and shouted, "What if I kill you?"

   Li Xin closed his eyes and bowed his head: "I have nothing to say, but please, Your Majesty, please read on the brother-sister relationship with the eldest princess, and spare the two children of the eldest princess and the minister."

   Seeing Li Xin's ignorant appearance, the emperor was even more angry.

   "You're really sure that I won't kill you?"

   Li Xin stopped talking, closed his eyes and was silent.

  The Emperor took a few breaths before he managed to calm down. He walked over to Li Xin and stretched out his hand to help Li Xin up.

   But Li Xin was still kneeling on the ground, unwilling to get up.

  Tianzi simply sat down next to Li Xin and tried to slow down his tone.

   "Chang'an, you and I are like brothers, I will not kill you."

  After he paused, he tried his best to say in a calm tone: "You handed that thing to me, and I will treat it as if the Southwest thing never happened, and the people of Hanzhou will always be the people of Dajin, how about that?"

  Li Xin opened his eyes, bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, you have already broken your promise once."

"Besides, this item was obtained by chance in a "Pure Yang Taoism", the production process is extremely complicated, and I can't remember it. This Taoist book is now in the city of Hanzhou. Impotent."

   "You really gave that thing to Mu Ying!"

  The emperor stabbed again, his face gloomy.

  Li Xin shook his head slightly: "Your Majesty, although the Taoist book is in Hanzhou, it is not in Mu Ying's hands, and it is temporarily placed with a friend of the minister."

   "Rest assured, Your Majesty, if there is no accident in Hanzhou, there will never be such an ominous thing again."

   "To put it bluntly, you just don't want to give this to me!"

   Emperor Taikang blushed, and finally slapped the table hard.

   "Come on!"

  Xiao Zheng and others were already at the gate of the palace, when they heard the words, they ran in immediately and knelt down on the ground.

   "The slave is in..."

   "Send Li Xin down and imprison him in Dali Temple awaiting trial!"

   (end of this chapter)