More children, more blessings, starting from marrying a wife to fight for world hegemony

Chapter 98

The atmosphere in the Xuanzheng Hall was extremely dull, and the ministers did not dare to take a breath.

This kind of thing happened under the feet of the world, Xia Huang didn't know how angry he was now, they didn't dare to provoke Xia Huang at this time.

After a while, Emperor Xia finally said: "Since I ascended the throne, this is the second time such a bad incident has happened in the capital. This is a contempt for the imperial power and a provocation to me!"

Speaking of this, Emperor Xia's eyes fell on the commander of the imperial army, "Li Ming, have you caught all the assassins from last night?"

Hearing this, Li Ming, the commander of the Forbidden Army, knelt on the ground and said hastily, "Your Majesty, when your subordinates arrived at the eighth prince's mansion yesterday, those assassins had already fled."

Li Ming was sweating profusely, fearing that Emperor Xia would be dragged out and chopped up in a fit of rage.

Hearing Li Ming's words, Emperor Xia said coldly: "Last time you let Chen Guo's remnants sneak into the palace, I didn't punish you. You didn't even see the shadow of the assassin, what's the use of you as the commander of the forbidden army!"

"From now on, Li Ming will be relieved of all his duties and assigned to the frontier."

Hearing Emperor Xia's words, Li Ming heaved a sigh of relief, then kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En!"

Although the job was gone, Li Ming still felt a little lucky that his life was saved.

At this time, Emperor Xia continued: "This case is handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for investigation. Within three days, I need to get a satisfactory answer!"

As soon as these words came out, the officials of the Ministry of Punishment trembled.

How can they investigate this kind of thing, dare to investigate.

The assassins directly bloodbathed the eighth prince's mansion, and even the master of the eighth prince's mansion was killed, which shows that at least one of the assassins last night was a master.

To be able to send a master, and dare to run to bloodwash a prince's mansion with great fanfare, there must be a big force behind it.

It may even be the handwriting of another prince.

When they really find out that another prince did it, it will definitely be a hot potato for the Ministry of Criminal Justice. In Daxia, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has no way to do it, and it is not qualified to try the prince's crime.

Although they knew that this was a hot potato, the officials of the Ministry of Punishment did not dare to refuse. Now that Emperor Xia was angry, they dared to say something at this time, and they were afraid that they would move their heads later.

At this time, Emperor Xia said to Lu Shuyun: "King Qi, get up, I will decide this matter for you."

Lu Shuyun hurriedly said: "I thank my father and emperor."

Emperor Xia did not continue to say anything about this matter. Although this matter is very bad, the assassins have not been caught yet, and there is no information about the assassins. It is too early to discuss how to deal with the assassins.

They still have other things to discuss today. At this time, Emperor Xia looked at the Hubu Shangshu and said, "Wang Shangshu, I heard that you have been stuck with the food and grass of the army going to Beijun. I wonder if there is such a thing?"

Wang Hai, Shangshu of the Household Department, said quickly: "Your Majesty, it's not that the minister wants to get stuck with the army's food and grass. It's that the Household Department is in a serious deficit. It really won't be able to collect so much money in a while."

Emperor Xia said indifferently: "You mean that if you can't get enough money, the imperial court doesn't need to send troops to Beijun to resist the barbarians?"

"Wang Hai, could it be that you have colluded with the barbarians, wanting the barbarians to drive straight into the capital, deliberately delaying the departure time of the army?"

Hearing Emperor Xia's words, Wang Hai's face instantly turned pale. The Wang family had indeed colluded with the barbarians, but he didn't expect Emperor Xia to say it directly.

Although it sounded like Emperor Xia was trying to test them, Wang Hai always felt that Emperor Xia knew something.

Wang Hai immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, I have already tried my best to prepare the food and grass for the army."

Emperor Xia said coldly: "In three days, if the army is still unable to go north, you, Minister of the Household Department, don't have to do it."

Just when Emperor Xia was about to continue to say something, a voice suddenly came from the entrance of the main hall.

"Northern Emergency Report!"

The next moment, a red silk messenger rushed into the hall.

After seeing the red silk messenger, the faces of the ministers in the hall became very ugly.

Using the red silk courier at this time, does that mean that the barbarians have already started going south?

The army of the imperial court here is still worrying about food and grass, and the barbarian cavalry in the north has already gone south. How can we defend Beijun?

Is it possible to really rely on that trash prince?
Forget it, I'm afraid that the useless prince fled back to the capital before the barbarian cavalry arrived in Yancheng.

At this time, the red silk messenger said: "The barbarian North Korean king has led a hundred thousand cavalry to join the barbarian Sirius King's court and is about to go south!"

"This is the battle report from the Northern King, and the Northern King sent a letter from home to His Majesty."

Hearing this, everyone in the hall was stunned.

Home letter?

A lord of the ancient clan wrote a letter home to the emperor?

This……

It seems not impossible.

Although the Northern King has already gone out to become a vassal, he is the emperor's son after all, and there is a father-son relationship.

It's just that since the founding of Great Xia, it seems that no vassal king has ever written a family letter to the emperor, and they have always been memorials.

The eunuch next to Emperor Xia did not hesitate, and immediately came to the red silk messenger, picked up the battle report and family letter, and presented it to Emperor Xia.

After Xiahuang received the battle report and the family letter, he first read the battle report, but there was nothing wrong with the battle report, and the King of the North also talked about the arrangements of Beijun in it.

But what puzzled Emperor Xia was that Lu Chen actually planned to fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, and transfer all the people from the north of Yancheng to the south of Yancheng, and then he led the army and the 30 barbarian army to fight to the death in Yancheng.

Emperor Xia frowned, who came up with this strategy?
He didn't think that his useless son had such courage. Let alone whether this strategy was effective, it would take a lot of courage to dare to do so.

Yancheng currently only has [-] soldiers, at most [-] soldiers. It may not be so easy for a Yancheng to block the barbarian cavalry.

Moreover, this would also cause Yancheng to be besieged by the barbarian army. How could he not know what kind of character his son was? Emperor Xia didn't quite believe that Lu Chen would put himself in danger.

After reading the battle report, Emperor Xia then opened Lu Chen's family letter.

Just seeing the beginning of the family letter, Emperor Xia snorted coldly, and he said how Lu Chen became so bold all of a sudden, it turned out that he wanted to send an army to Beijun for support as soon as possible.

Seeing how cowardly Lu Chen was crying in the family letter, Emperor Xia wanted to tear up the family letter immediately, but he finally held back and read it.

When he saw the back, his face darkened instantly, especially when he saw the last row of words, Emperor Xia immediately frowned.

In fact, he already knew that this time the barbarians went south must be related to the aristocratic family. This kind of thing can be guessed without investigation, but he didn't know who was colluding with the barbarians.

The Daxia-style weapons that Lu Chen mentioned in his letter from home just confirmed his guess once again.

What really made Emperor Xia frown was that Lu Chen mentioned the Eighth Prince in his letter.

(End of this chapter)