Chapter 351

Pointing to kill the last person, Li Miao withdrew his arm and put his hand into his sleeve.

That's it for today.

Li Miao's side and the side of Yingzhou, the Eastern Depot, and the civil officials were actually both afraid of each other, both testing the other's bottom line and time.

Now Li Miao had confirmed that An Qisheng's state was wrong and he couldn't move easily, and the civil official group was frightened by his hand today and temporarily forgot to resist, so he could kill wantonly.

After today, the matter is settled, even if the civil official group wants to overturn the case for these people, it will be too late.

But An Qisheng obviously couldn't let Li Miao kill all the civil officials. The fact that he stopped that Profound Heaven Finger just now showed his attitude—if Li Miao continued to kill, he would also make a move.

The timing for killing people openly and honestly by taking advantage of the first appearance of heavenly beings in the court and the Emperor's first court attendance in more than ten years had ended.

Li Miao took a step back.

An Qisheng in the crowd lowered his head again.

The forced palace forced by Yan Song with the hundred officials ended with dozens of corpses lying on the ground.

Seeing Li Miao stop, Zhu Zai also swallowed the next name he was about to read.

The Emperor also understood and said in a deep voice.

"The three things I wanted to announce today have been settled, and the criminals have also been punished. Beloved ministers, if you have any objections, feel free to say them—I will definitely open the road of speech."

The hundred officials kneeling on the square were silent.

Open the road of speech?

Anyone who believed that wouldn't have reached the position of kneeling here!

Li Miao just took a step back, but hadn't walked away, still standing in front of the hundred officials. Someone secretly raised his head to look at him, and he turned his head as if he had known it beforehand, just in time to meet his gaze.

Li Miao smiled at the person who was peeking, and the person shivered, hurriedly kowtowed his head back to the ground, but happened to kowtow into the blood flowing from the corpse next to him, making his face wet.

In this situation, who dared to "open the road of speech"?

As for whether the Great Ming had any clean officials or loyal ministers who were dedicated to the public and could throw their lives away, and dared to speak out... it can only be said that the Great Ming's rot is not without reason.

After years of tossing by the Emperor, eunuchs, and Yan Song, such good officials were either excluded from important positions and not qualified to kneel here, or were directly squeezed out of the capital, and the few remaining ones wouldn't participate in Yan Song's forced palace.

So, Li Miao and Zhu Zai were not afraid of killing the wrong people.

If anyone really dared to speak up, Li Miao wouldn't mind killing one more fool, assuming An Qisheng wouldn't risk a direct confrontation with Li Miao to protect a fool.

So, only an awkward silence remained on the square.

After a while, the Emperor spoke calmly.

"Since all beloved ministers have no objections, these three things will be settled here."

The officials' shoulders relaxed, and several people couldn't help but gasp for air.

"Do you beloved ministers have anything else to play?"

No one answered.

"Since that's the case, I am tired today, let's retire from court."

The Emperor walked off the dragon throne and stepped onto the dragon chariot.

"If you beloved ministers have anything to play, you can think about it and write it down when you go back... report it to me at tomorrow's court meeting."

"By the way, Beloved Minister Li succeeds as Commander, and Beloved Minister Zhu has worked hard for many years, so fill one of the vacant positions in the cabinet and concurrently serve as Minister of Rites."

"As for who will fill the other positions, you beloved ministers can submit memorials, and I will read them."

The eunuch at the door of the Fengtian Hall shouted: "The playing of matters is finished—"

As the dragon chariot was lifted, he continued to shout.

"Clear the way—"

Yan Song bowed and shouted.

"Respectfully send off the Holy Chariot—Long live! Long live! Long live!"

The officials behind reacted and hurriedly echoed in unison.

"Respectfully send off the Holy Chariot—Long live! Long live! Long live!"

No one dared to raise their head.

After half an hour, some people stood up tremblingly.

Li Miao, Zhu Zai, and the Emperor had already disappeared.

In front of them, only Yan Song remained kneeling on the ground without saying a word, the towering Fengtian Hall... and the scarlet gully, and dozens of familiar corpses lying around.

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Inside the Qianqing Palace. Zhu Zai stroked his long beard and drank tea calmly.

"This time today, not to mention the prestige of you reckless martial artist, just talking about the many vacant positions, it should be enough to let many people leave Yan Song's side and stand on the side."

"Three Grand Secretary positions, more than a dozen important positions, the civil official power can be reduced by forty percent!"

Li Miao waved his hand.

"Just tearing down the east wall to repair the west wall, bringing heavenly beings to the table today will make the Jianghu harder to manage in the future, in the final analysis, it is an expedient measure."

"However, being able to kill so many, we can be considered to have explored An Qisheng's bottom line."

Li Miao raised his hand and held up a finger.

"His state is really wrong, otherwise he should have stopped me at the beginning, instead of waiting until he saw me killing happily to make a move. With his protective internal energy, it's hard for me to kill him or Yan Song, but it's also hard for him to do anything in front of me and the Emperor."

Zhu Zai stroked his beard and pondered.

"So, we can let go a bit."

"Before, I was afraid that you would go out and he would kill his way into the palace, so we were tied up, but now it seems that there is much to be done."

Li Miao nodded and said with a smile.

"That's right."

"Bring the imperial clan into the palace, let the Emperor and the offerings look after them, and I will go out to kill!"

"Aren't they brewing plans and waiting for the opportunity? Let them wait! No matter what plans or conspiracies he has, I will just kill all his people, and when only a few bare poles are left, I'll see what he has to do!"

"If the opposite side wants to stop it, either take out the An Qisheng whose state is wrong, or take out the hidden Ji Tianrui! Just in time to decide life and death!"

Zhu Zai and the Emperor nodded.

The three of them set the plan, Zhu Zai took out a stack of documents from his arms, spread them on the table, and set the people to be killed tonight with Li Miao one by one.

Just at this moment, an excited shout came from outside the door.

"Is this where the Emperor lives! So big! Really so big! How tall must the Emperor be to live in such a big place!"

"Brother Cao, look, it's gold!"

Another helpless voice advised in a low voice.

"Brother Gao, keep quiet, don't make noise."

"No... can't break it, it's gold, but can't break it, really can't break it... biting it doesn't work either!"

While speaking, three people walked in.

It was Gao Anyu, Cao Hanyan, and the old Daoist from the Wudang Sect.

The old Daoist was still hanging behind Gao Anyu outside the hall, but after stepping into the hall, he opened his eyes, took off his hand, no longer looking like a god-talking person, and walked in with a solemn expression.

Entering the hall, he first bowed to the Emperor four times.

"Respectfully, Emperor Majesty, virtue combines heaven and earth, brightness is the same as the sun and moon."

Then he stood up and bowed to Zhu Zai.

"A person from outside the world, I have seen the Lord."

Finally, he bowed to Li Miao, who was looking over with a smile.

"Lord Li, long time no see."

Li Miao looked at the old Daoist with a smile, and after a long while, he spoke slowly.

"Last time I saw the Daoist on Mount Song, I thought the Daoist was really a god-stick who didn't understand things outside the world. Now it seems that the Daoist is very clear-headed."

The old Daoist was silent for a long time before slowly shaking his head.

"Lord, please forgive me."

Cao Hanyan and Gao Anyu on the side were stunned, their eyes widened, even covering the joy of seeing the Emperor and Li Miao.

After a while, Gao Anyu exclaimed.

"Daoist, you are not a stutterer!"