Chapter 157 Ye Qingmei? She deserves to die! (33)

Li Changan looked indifferent to Chen Pingping's accusations.

"President Chen, Your Majesty and I are good brothers, how can you accuse me of rebellion?"

At this moment, Fan Xian tried his best to appear calm.

Because Chen Pingping planned this matter and did not let him participate.

Fan Xian knew that Chen Pingping would not let him participate in anything that had the slightest risk.

Chen Pingping hopes that Fan Xian can take over the Inspection Institute smoothly.

Chen Pingping said slowly, "Your Highness Prince Qin, you are transferring the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry and the Black Armor Dragon Cavalry to the vicinity of Kyoto. Do you have an imperial decree?"

"According to Daqing's laws, how can we mobilize troops at will without an imperial decree?"

Li Changan said disapprovingly, "I was assassinated at Hongshankou, and I dispatched these two cavalry just to guard against the assassin."

“In order to assassinate me, the enemy mobilized the elite troops and siege equipment.

Why can't I call in the cavalry for defense?"

Chen Pingping continued, "Your Highness should send the cavalry back to Dingzhou once he has returned safely to Kyoto."

Li Changan glanced at Qin Ye and said, "There are still assassins in the capital, and I am worried."

Qin Ye said calmly, "Your Highness, Prince Qin, who dares to use force under the feet of the emperor?"

"I am in charge of the Privy Council. Since Your Highness has resigned from the post of Grand Commander, you have no authority to mobilize troops."

Although the prince of Qing can have private soldiers, they can only have 1,000 men, and 20,000 men is indeed too many.

"Therefore, Your Highness should immediately hand over the 20,000 cavalry to the Privy Council."

Li Changan said coldly, "Okay, but please ask the Inspection Bureau to thoroughly investigate the assassination at Hongshankou."

"Qin Yi confessed before he was beheaded. The assassination was carried out by Li Chengqian and Qin Ye!"

"You keep saying that I am the most meritorious official in Daqing, but the Inspection Bureau does not investigate the assassination case, but instead asks me why I mobilized troops to protect myself."

"Is this how your Inspection Bureau monitors the world?"

"If you want me to withdraw my troops, bring the mastermind to justice first!"

"This matter..." Emperor Qing just opened his mouth but was ruthlessly interrupted by Li Changan.

He pointed at Qin Ye and said, "Qin Ye, old dog, you will commit suicide immediately in front of the emperor, and I will withdraw my troops immediately!"

Qin Ye is a veteran in the army and a close confidant of Emperor Qing. It is clear that he is going to take the lead for Emperor Qing today.

He fell to his knees in front of Emperor Qing, "Your Majesty, I was completely unaware of Qin Yi's assassination!"

"I am willing to accept the investigation of the Inspection Institute. Let President Chen clear my name!"

Emperor Qing said slowly, "Okay, this matter has nothing to do with treason."

"The Inspection Bureau should conduct a thorough investigation. If it is confirmed that the culprit has been brought to justice, it will put the King of Qin at ease."

Emperor Qing's implication was that once the investigation was complete, Li Changan should withdraw his troops immediately.

However, Li Changan came prepared today, and these 20,000 elite cavalrymen will be stationed in the suburbs of Beijing in the future.

Chen Pingping said, "I obey your orders."

"Your Highness, the King of Qin, my second question is, after you conquer the capital of Western Qin, would you like to grant titles to the civil and military officials of Western Qin?"

Li Changan said, "Since I have conquered Western Qin, of course I must stabilize people's hearts as soon as possible."

"If I hadn't stabilized Western Qin in the first place, how could I have used Gao Yao to successfully seize Han Xin's military power, and how could I have won a great victory in the thousand-mile raid on the Northern Barbarians!"

"Chen Pingping, I am fighting hard on the front line, so it's okay that your Inspection Bureau didn't provide any intelligence support.

But here you are stirring up trouble and stirring up trouble. You deserve to be killed!"

"If we had to ask for permission for everything as you said, we would have missed the opportunity long ago!"

Chen Pingping responded sharply, refusing to give in. "Your Highness the Prince of Qin seems to be doing everything out of public interest, but in fact he is just trying to win people's hearts!"

"My third question is, you privately decided to arrange the personnel of Dingzhou Army and replaced all the important generals with members of the Ye family or generals you subjugated in Xiqin. Do you want to ask for permission?"

“What you did in the northwest showed that you didn’t take His Majesty seriously at all.

You act on your own, disregard the laws of the country, and even have the intention to rebel against the court!"

"You have made the entire Northwest and Western Qin Kingdom impenetrable to anyone!
If this isn’t rebellion, then what is it?”

After Chen Pingping finished speaking, Li Changan sneered, "Nonsense!"

“Excuse me, Your Majesty, which envoy did not enter the northwest?
Didn't the officials sent by the imperial court to pacify the people enter the northwest?"

"The Northwest is not blocking people from the imperial court, but it is blocking people from your Inspection Bureau!

Because your Inspection Office is plotting something bad!"

Hearing this, Emperor Qing interrupted and said, "Okay, okay, don't hurt the harmony.

One is my brother, the other is my right-hand man.

Chang'an did not stop my envoys from entering the northwest.

It is understandable that personnel matters in the Northwest are decided by the Grand Commander.

If there is anything wrong, the court will slowly correct it. "

Li Changan sneered in his heart. Emperor Qing was still so hypocritical and was still pretending to be a good person.

This sentence means that the court will slowly replace Li Changan's people in the future.

Emperor Qing seemed to have suppressed every accusation made by Chen Pingping, but in fact he took the initiative back into his own hands.

On the surface, he is protecting his meritorious officials and he is still a benevolent monarch. But in reality, he is a despicable person and even pretends to be a virtuous woman.

Emperor Qing then said to Chen Pingping, "Dean Chen, although the King of Qin handled these matters improperly, it cannot be considered as treason."

Chen Pingping took out another memorial and said, "Your Majesty, the King of Qin has evil ambitions and has already started to plot rebellion. I have concrete evidence!"

"Your Highness, Prince Qin! This old minister has a fourth question!
You incorporated the intelligence organization Langya Pavilion in Western Qin State, why haven't you reported it to His Majesty yet? "

"Your Majesty, my colleagues, after investigation by the Inspection Institute, it has been found that the Langya Pavilion of Western Qin is definitely not a martial arts sect!"

"Langya Pavilion is a secret agency just like the Inspection Office!

Tens of thousands of minions are spread across Northern Qi, Daqing, Dongyi City, Northern Barbarians, and Western Hu!"

"His Royal Highness Prince Qin was able to successfully penetrate the snowy region and grasslands because of the intelligence support from Langya Pavilion!"

Secretly incorporating intelligence agencies is no small matter.

The ministers in the Imperial Study began to discuss the matter.

Chen Pingping looked like he saw through everything and said to Li Changan, "Your Highness, Prince Qin, what exactly do you want to do by supporting Langya Pavilion privately?"

"Do you really want to build a second inspection agency in Daqing?"

"Don't you know that the Inspection Institute is the arm of His Majesty, and Daqing is the only one of its kind!"

"Who do you want to monitor by supporting Langya Pavilion? Which country do you want to spy on?"

Qin Ye lost no time in saying, "Your Majesty, this matter is of great importance and must not be ignored!"

"The King of Qin's private support of Langya Pavilion may be detrimental to the court and even endanger Your Majesty!"

As soon as Qin Ye opened his mouth, several ministers immediately reconsidered and expressed the same concerns.

Fan Jian did not say anything. Chen Pingping was his old partner and Li Changan was his son-in-law.

Even though his daughter was upset with him, he would never do anything to take advantage of her misfortune.

What's more, he knew Chen Pingping and Emperor Qing quite well, so he was even more reluctant to intervene.

After reading the memorial, Emperor Qing's voice became noticeably gloomy.

"Lin Xiang, what do you think?"

Lin Ruofu didn't know yet that the person who occasionally directed him to do things was Li Changan.

But he knew that Li Changan and Lin Wan'er were in the same party.

"Your Majesty, precisely because the matter is serious, it should be investigated thoroughly."

"Perhaps His Royal Highness Prince Qin has other plans, so he has not reported it yet."

The eldest prince also said, "Your Majesty, Uncle Qin's contribution is rare in hundreds of years!"

As soon as these words came out, Li Changan heard Emperor Qing's cold snort.

The eldest prince is a very honest man, and he is really good at talking.

"I also think that Uncle King Qin may have other plans.

Perhaps he wants to find out everything about Langya Pavilion and then report to His Majesty!"

Emperor Qing handed the memorial to Eunuch Hou, "Let the King of Qin read it himself and tell him what he wants to say."

Li Changan didn't even take the letter, and said directly, "Don't read it. I did take over the Langya Pavilion, and I did not report it."

After hearing what Li Changan said, Emperor Qing said angrily, "King Qin!
You don't even call yourself a minister! You seem really rebellious!"

"Alas, you are young and frivolous. It's all my fault! You have been smart since you were young, and I have been too indulgent to you."

"You are being disrespectful to me. I think you are a literary giant, so I will let you do what you want!"

"You sit on the throne in Northern Qi and tell the Queen Mother and the Emperor of Northern Qi to their faces that you want to rebel against me, and I will indulge you!"

Emperor Qing looked extremely distressed, he even stood up, and his voice began to tremble.

Li Changan looked at him coldly and said, "Go on, act well, you will have your turn to act soon."

"Until now, you have relied on your favor to become arrogant, disrespectful of the superiors and the inferiors, and you are so bold and reckless! You even dared to privately support a secret police department of the whole country!"

"Does Langya Pavilion have any assassins? Does it have any poisoners? Does it have any private soldiers like the Black Cavalry? Does it have any spies all over the world?"

"If it were someone else, he would have been thrown into jail and charged long ago!"

"But this person is you, Li Changan. I am heartbroken!"

"Well, first of all, I will exempt you from the special honors and the post of governor of Kyoto, fine you three years' salary, and confine you to your home for one year, so that you can reflect on your mistakes... Alas!"

This is equivalent to canceling Li Changan's qualification as the crown prince. Coupled with the one-year house arrest, it is no exaggeration to say that the situation is hopeless.

If Li Changan had not built up his power in the northwest, Li Changan had no doubt that Emperor Qing would have stripped him of his title of king by now.

Emperor Qing looked extremely heartbroken, but Li Changan didn't believe a word of it.

"Your Majesty is wrong!"

Li Changan's light words made the imperial study suddenly quiet.

There were not many people present, all of them were high-ranking officials of the Qing Kingdom.

Except for Lai Mingcheng who showed curiosity, everyone else thought Li Changan was crazy.

Because such offensive words had only been said by Lai Mingcheng before, and he said them often.

Emperor Qing has already pretended to be a heartbroken brother, so he has to keep pretending.

Even though he was about to burst into anger, he still said with a heartache, "You want to quibble? Fine, fine, go ahead and I'll listen."

Li Changan glanced at Chen Pingping and said, "In fact, I have just said that the Inspection Institute has evil intentions!"

"I deliberately concealed this from Langya Pavilion in order to let Dean Chen investigate me and reveal his rebellious intentions!"

As soon as these words came out, Lai Mingcheng suddenly said, "Your Highness, Prince Qin, fishing enforcement is not advisable!"

Li Changan said, "Imperial Censor Lai, Chen Pingping's rebellious intentions have existed for more than ten years. I did not induce him, so this is not a sting operation."

Chen Pingping's eyelids twitched, and he said in a cold voice, "What do you mean, by investigating Your Highness, I mean I have a rebellious heart?"

"Your Highness the Prince of Qin is also a minister, not a king!

How can an old minister who has not investigated the king have the intention of being disloyal? "

Emperor Qing also said, "Chang'an, don't make random accusations just to exonerate yourself."

He said this, but he was panicking for no reason. He also suspected Chen Pingping of having treasonous intentions, but he had no evidence.

Li Changan took out a memorial from his sleeve and handed it to Eunuch Hou without any hurry.

"Dean Chen, you have asked me many questions. Now it is my turn to ask you."

"My first question is, is it illegal for the Inspection Bureau to recruit martial arts masters into the bureau, collude with the Ministry of Justice and the Kyoto Prefecture, and abuse criminal charges?"

"Over the past ten years, I have found 32 people with solid evidence!"

"You first collude with the Kyoto Prefecture or the Ministry of Justice, throw him into prison, charge him with a serious crime, and then pretend to be a good person to rescue him."

"Such means, where does this place the law and morality of the country!"

Hearing these words, Lai Mingcheng widened his eyes in excitement. This was something he had always wanted to participate in but had no evidence!

Emperor Qing opened the memorial and found that the names, charges, and process of framing were clearly written.

"You have been the governor of Kyoto for more than a month, and you have achieved some results."

Chen Pingping also read the memorial and said, "Your Majesty, this is because I, an old minister, failed to discipline my subordinates, and the officials in the court acted in violation of the law."

Seeing that Chen Pingping was unable to refute, Emperor Qing was about to try to smooth things over, but Li Changan took out another memorial, leaving no time for Emperor Qing to show off.

"My second question is, at the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Meeting in the Hanging Temple, why did Dean Chen plot to assassinate Your Majesty?"

"You are the one who secretly guides the swordsmen of Xihu and the eunuchs holding swords!"

"The swordsman in white is the shadow leader of the Sixth Division of the Inspection Bureau!"

The memorial was handed to Emperor Qing, and it contained all the facts confessed by Shadow.

After hearing these words, Chen Pingping clenched his teeth, knowing that things were going to get bad today.

Only he, Shadow, and Fan Xian knew about this matter. How did Li Changan know about it?

Emperor Qing's expression kept changing. It seemed that Li Changan had really got the solid evidence against Chen Pingping!
"Humph! Si Gu Jian's younger brother!"

"The first person under the Grand Master!"

"Chen Pingping! This is how you act as my right-hand man!"

He had long guessed that Chen Pingping was behind the assassination, and now Li Changan has confirmed it.

Chen Pingping, ah, Chen Pingping, you finally showed your true colors!

But Emperor Qing felt a chill down his spine, as Li Changan actually got Shadow's confession!
Could it be that there is also a grandmaster behind Li Changan?
The eldest prince looked at Chen Pingping in surprise, "Uncle, is this true?"

The eldest prince's mother, Ning Cairen, had some disputes with Chen Pingping.

Lady Ning, out of consideration for the friendship they had, asked the eldest prince to call Chen Pingping uncle.

Fan Xian was stunned. It turned out that the two people except Shadow were also guided by Chen Pingping!
What a magical game!
When Qin Ye saw this situation, he suddenly felt frightened.

Did I make the wrong bet today? Chen Pingping assassinated Emperor Qing, and Li Changan privately kept a spy agency, each of them is guilty of treason!

Lin Ruofu, Fan Jian and other senior officials all shrank their necks.

They were both afraid and curious, wondering what big news Li Changan would come up with.

Chen Pingping smiled like a venomous snake and looked at Li Changan.

"Your Highness, Prince Qin, you have such deep thoughts. I'm afraid it won't end here today."

Li Changan continued, "My third question is, why did you secretly help the Crown Prince and the Second Prince fight each other during their struggle?"

"Six swordsmen have tried to assassinate the crown prince three times, and the Second Prince's Eight Generals took the blame for all these things!"

"The Second Prince was imprisoned and poisoned five times in just one year. Everyone thought it was the Crown Prince's doing!"

When Li Changan took out the memorial, Emperor Qing stepped out quickly from behind the curtain.

He took the memorial and the more he read it, the more frightened he became. He felt a chill on his back and his heart was filled with panic!
"Chen Pingping! You have such a vicious mind!"

"You actually want my sons to kill each other!"

At this point, Chen Pingping knew that today would probably not end well.

He pressed the secret button on the wheelchair, turned the wheelchair towards Emperor Qing, and instantly regained his confidence and courage.

"My Lord, it was you who caused your sons to kill each other."

"You had no intention of changing the crown prince, but you are looking for a grindstone to sharpen the prince."

"First it was the Second Prince, then it was Li Changan. I just added fuel to the fire."

Emperor Qing looked at Chen Pingping's calm eyes and suddenly felt unsure about what this old dog could rely on.

"I am an old dog by your Majesty's side. Everything a dog does is for the sake of his master!"

"You want to raise poisonous insects to torture your sons. I will help you to make the killing more intense. Isn't that good?"

"You set up the Hanging Temple to discredit the Ye family and plot against the other two great masters."

"The fire you started is not enough. How can I set up a trap to kill you?"

"My Majesty, my master, I have always done things according to your Majesty's wishes. Your Majesty should reward me."

After Chen Pingping finished speaking, Fan Xian immediately said, "Your Majesty, this is a family matter. We will take our leave now!"

Fan Xian is very smart. Now that so many people have heard these things, Dean Chen will have no way to survive.

If it was just Chen Pingping and Emperor Qing arguing, there might still be room for maneuver.

"Okay..." Emperor Qing nodded and was about to ask everyone else to leave, but was interrupted by Li Changan again.

At this moment, Emperor Qing thought of Li Changan’s first birthday party.

At that time, the late emperor talked about Li Yunrui's marriage. Emperor Qing, who was still the crown prince at the time, directly interrupted the emperor's speech. How domineering!
Emperor Qing turned his head and looked at Li Changan, who had a cold expression and the same determined look as Chen Pingping.

What on earth do you rely on and what confidence do you have? You are not afraid of me at all!

I am far from being as cowardly and weak as the late emperor!

This is simply a matter of time! But Li Changan is much stronger than he was back then.

"Fan Xian is so bold!"

"As a director of the Inspection Bureau, when faced with a major case, the first thing he thought of was to retreat. This is totally unreasonable!"

"Today Chen Pingping said that I was plotting a rebellion, so I will argue with this old villain in front of you to see who is the real traitor!"

"You are all important officials in the court, so stay here and behave yourself!"

Emperor Qing was so angry that he was about to curse, "I'm not dead yet!"
However, Li Changan took out another memorial from his sleeve, and Emperor Qing suppressed his anger.

He was also curious and wanted to know what else Li Changan had found out.

"Chen Pingping, my fourth question is, are you aware that the poisons and aphrodisiacs developed by Fei Jie and his disciples have already entered the market?"

"Among the poisoning murders that occurred in Kyoto City in the past ten years, more than forty of them used the poison from your Inspection Bureau!"

"These are all based on solid evidence. I don't know how many of them can't be found out!"

"The Inspection Bureau is the right-hand man of His Majesty. Did His Majesty ask you to sell poison and aphrodisiac for money?"

Emperor Qing took Li Changan's memorial. He didn't care about the wife poisoning the concubine or the son poisoning his father.

He flipped all the way to the end, where he saw the aphrodisiac developed by Fei Jie, which was given to a noblewoman in the Taichang Temple and then put into the mouth of the crown prince.

Li Changan did not mention this matter publicly, but he wrote about it in great detail.

When Emperor Qing saw the end, he sat down on the steps of the imperial study, his hands shaking.

"Chen Pingping! You have such a vicious mind!"

Chen Pingping still looked at Li Changan with a smile, and he also guessed what Emperor Qing saw.

"Li Changan, I underestimated you."

"You are the most venomous snake lurking in the depths. You are a hundred times, a thousand times more vicious than me!"

"You arrested Fei Jie and Yingzi, and you actually made them confess. You are really capable."

Li Changan said calmly, "I have always been gentle to others. As long as others don't provoke me, I will leave them a glimmer of hope."

"But you old dog, have been plotting against me for more than a day or two."

"If you respect me one foot, I will respect you one foot. If you offend me by mistake, I will turn you into ashes."

"Killing a crippled loser like you is too easy for me and too cheap for you."

"I must let you watch your hopes die and the light in your heart extinguished.

Let you die peacefully and comfortably."

Chen Pingping was not afraid of Li Changan's threat at all.

"Li Changan, I admire you very much. You are very capable."

"But don't get me wrong, I'm not targeting you."

Chen Pingping's calm face suddenly became ferocious, and his eyes were like poisonous tongues as he swept over Emperor Qing and Li Changan!
"Everyone with the last name Li in this palace deserves to die!"

Seeing Chen Pingping's crazy state, Fan Xian was horrified.

"Dean, what's wrong with you!"

Chen Pingping opened his mouth and revealed a ferocious smile.

"Fan Xian, you bastard!"

"Why are you her son?"

"Why should his dirty blood flow in your body?"

When Chen Pingping spoke of him, he pointed his finger at Emperor Qing.

Chen Pingping said this, of course, to protect Fan Xian.

Fan Xian really didn't know about his revenge on Emperor Qing, so he needed to draw a clear line between himself and Fan Xian.

Emperor Qing's eyes gradually began to reveal viciousness.

"Chen Pingping, it turns out that you have been secretly pushing the royal family to kill each other."

"You have been the one who planned so many bloody incidents in this palace!"

Chen Pingping smiled coldly, "I said, I am just adding fuel to the fire, that's all."

"My Majesty, you don't know how lonely and desperate Xiao Ye was the night she died!"

"It's you! Remove all the people she can trust from her life!"

"You said that it was the nobles in the capital who killed her! But you planned all this!"

"You killed Xiao Ye, but you're still pretending to be a good person! Pretending to join us in avenging her!"

"My Lord, you are a whore, and you still want to build a chastity archway for yourself!"

Chen Pingping exposed the true face of Emperor Qing, and the whole room fell silent.

Qin Ye looked at Emperor Qing with a horrified expression, and Emperor Qing looked at Fan Xian in a panic.

If this matter gets out, Wuzhu will definitely kill Emperor Qing.

At this time, Li Changan's voice suddenly came out.

"It turns out that this king has been implicated."

"You old dog want to plot against the Li royal family because of Ye Qingmei."

"Ye Qingmei, I know, she died a long time ago."

"Chen Pingping, why are you so resentful?"

"Ye Qingmei? She deserves to die."

Li Changan downplayed it, but in Chen Pingping's calm eyes, a raging fire had already appeared!
The veins on his face were exposed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You, what did you say!"

(End of this chapter)