Chapter 819: Abstain, full of grievances
"Report…" The urgent and tense announcement interrupted the conversation between the Emperor and the Special Envoy.
"Hurry up!" The Emperor"s hand shook and stood up abruptly.
This was the military situation, and the notification channel will only be activated when the military situation was tense.
"Your Majesty, Xiao w.a.n.gye arrived outside the city gate with his vanguard troops. He sent an appeal letter. He claims that the courtiers around the emperor took advantage of their power and corrupted his innocence. He asked the emperor to kill the traitors and restore his innocence. Otherwise, Xiao w.a.n.gye will send troops to clear the traitors on the Emperor"s side." The soldier who delivered the urgent news presented the appeal message with both hands and presented it to the emperor for reading.
"Hurry up, submit it quickly." The Emperor had long known that Xiao Tianyao would do this, but he didn"t expect it to be so fast, and his hands and feet couldn"t help shaking.
According to his deduction, Prince Xiao"s troops will arrive early tomorrow morning at the earliest, and reinforcements will arrive tomorrow.
Now, one night earlier, if Prince Xiao breaks the city before dawn, it will be useless even if reinforcements come.
The eunuch took the proclamation and presented it to the Emperor. The Emperor glanced at ten lines, and before he finished reading, his face was distorted and his veins were exposed: "Xiao Tianyao is too deceitful!"
In a fit of rage, the Emperor crumpled the letter in his hand and smashed it on the ground.
The Special Envoy didn"t want to read it at first. It can be seen that the Emperor was so angry with a piece of paper. He couldn"t help being curious. After hesitating for a while, he picked up the ball of paper on the ground and unfolded it… …
Seeing this, the Special Envoy"s face could not help but twitch.
Prince Xiao was indeed arrogant. In the letter, Prince Xiao firmly insisted that he was innocent. He did not use war to raise troops, nor did he collude with the enemy and betray the country, nor did he not slack off fighting the Northern and Southern Countries when he was capable.
To prove his innocence, Xiao Tianyao listed the grain, weapons, and military supplies provided by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household over the years in the form of a table, and listed each item clearly on the paper, including the time, place, and who in the court hand it over one by one.
In addition, Prince Xiao also made public all the property and wealth of Xiao w.a.n.gfu and listed the origin and expenditure of each sum of money.
To prove that he was not as rich, Prince Xiao listed the size of the Xiao w.a.n.gfu and the number of rooms and finally concluded that unless every open s.p.a.ce in the Xiao w.a.n.gfu was filled with wooden boxes filled with money, and only when stacked to the height of a person can it be possible to hold the figures announced by the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Households.
However, facts proved that it was impossible to stack money boxes in every corner of Xiao w.a.n.gfu, and it was impossible to stack the boxes as tall as a person, which affects life too much.
Prince Xiao didn"t say a word of nonsense. He used simple and straightforward words and numbers to tell the world that it was not that he didn"t want to clean up the Northern and Southern Countries, but that the food, medicines, and armaments provided by the imperial court could not support him to fight them.
He didn"t keep defending himself, he didn"t use the war to make money, he just used the simplest way to tell the world that Xiao w.a.n.gfu couldn"t get so much money, how could the court say he has so much money?
As for the matter of privately leading troops into the city, Prince Xiao also answered.
Prince Xiao led troops in the capital privately because he received the emperor"s secret decree. He led troops into the city under the emperor"s order. Otherwise, how could the soldiers and horses in his hands be stationed outside the city?
The private possession of the dragon robe was even more nonsense. The military camp was an important place. People who go in, let alone a few civil servants, even the Eldest Prince and the Seventh Prince, were not allowed to walk around at will. But those civil servants said that they found his privately hidden dragon robe in the army. It was ridiculous.
With his ability to hide the dragon robe privately, how can it be discovered by a few powerless civil servants?
Prince Xiao w.a.n.g"s words can be said to be very arrogant, but he has the capital to be arrogant, and his arrogance also suits the appet.i.te of the world. The Special Envoy can imagine that once this letter spread all over the world, Prince Xiao"s reputation will be even reached a higher level.
A piece of paper, Prince Xiao didn"t shout a word of grievance, but the paper was full of grievances.
Of course, although Prince Xiao was full of grievances, he didn"t say anything wrong with the Emperor. He only said that the imperial court was a treacherous and sycophantic person, who flattered the people up above and bully the ones below. The Emperor should kill such treacherous people to govern the country properly.
To let the Emperor know who the treacherous villain he was referring to, Xiao Tianyao specially wrote it down who put forward the punishment against Xiao w.a.n.gfu, and they were the Ministry of Punishment, the Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Household, which were very suspicious.
The Ministry of Household provided the food, medicines, and armaments of the Jinwuwei Army and issued those fake doc.u.ments was very suspicious.
The officials in charge of promotion were also very problematic. In addition, Prime Minister Lin, Imperial Doctor Qin, nine admirals, General Zhou, General Situ, and others who went forward to deceive the Emperor should be punished!
In a word, Xiao Tianyao"s move was to wipe out the emperor"s confidants. The Emperor now has two ways to go, one was to hand over these people to Prince Xiao, and the other was to wait for Xiao Tianyao to lead an army to attack the city, and kill all these people.
No matter which one it was, it will be a fatal blow to the emperor. If he loses his confidants, the Emperor will be just a decoration, even if he sits on the throne in the future.
When the Special Envoy read the appeal letter in his hand, he hesitated for a while, but then said: "Your Majesty, it"s getting late, and this lowly one should leave the palace."
Prince Xiao has made it clear that the Emperor has almost no chance of winning this battle. Although he wants to help the Emperor, he does not want to gamble on the entire Tiancang Pavilion.
Moreover, Tiancang Pavilion has never partic.i.p.ated in the struggle for imperial power. Before, he helped the Emperor because he wanted to vent the anger of their young master. As for this moment?
It was okay if the Emperor has a chance of winning. The Tiancang Pavilion can be regarded as people who maintain the imperial family’s influence. But in the current situation, the Emperor has no chance of winning at all. If they go all the way to the dark, they will only tarnish the reputation of Tiancang Pavilion. In the future, the North, the South, and the West will probably move their minds to clear Tiancang Pavilion.
"You…you…" The Special Envoy"s backing out hand halfway undoubtedly made the Emperor"s situation worse.
"Your Majesty, Tiancang Pavilion is just a small business and has never partic.i.p.ated in the struggle for imperial power." The Special Envoy hurriedly stated his position without giving the Emperor a chance to speak.
"You! Get out, get out, get out!" Although the Emperor was angry, he knew that Tiancang Pavilion could not be offended.
"This lowly one will leave." The Special Envoy looked calm and did not deceive the emperor in the slightest.
At this time, it was not their Tiancang Pavilion that cheated the Emperor, but the Emperor cheated them, okay!
How much Tiancang Pavilion has lost because of the emperor?
The spies buried in the East have been wiped out, and many of their men have been disabled due to injuries. Tiancang Pavilion will have to support them for a lifetime.
The Special Envoy was a decisive person. To show Tiancang Pavilion"s position and keep the signboard of Tiancang Pavilion, he asked Tiancang Pavilion to announce to the outside world that they will temporarily withdraw from the East, and restart their business when the situation in the country stabilizes.
In this way, apart from Prince Xiao, the master behind the Ci Entang, no one knew that Tiancang Pavilion was suppressed in the East and was taken care of by Prince Xiao.
Xiao Tianyao received the news soon, and couldn"t help saying: "The people in Tiancang Pavilion are fascinating."
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