Chu Heyi said: "Your Majesty, when I met Song Ju, he was just a groom in charge of feeding horses at the palace stables. He didn't even have the qualifications to train horses. The first time I met him, he was still being whipped by his master.

"I just learned that he is the prince of Northern Zhou. It's really strange that he was beaten to pieces in the horse farm of Daqi Palace. No matter how wild my thoughts were in the past, I could never have guessed his identity.

"Besides, I dare to ask, if it is said that I was wrong to send Song Ju to the military camp to train horses, then whose fault was it that Song Ju entered the palace horse farm?"

When she said this, everyone's heart trembled.

The Prime Minister immediately asked, "What does the Princess of Cheng'an mean by this? Do you dare to say that this is the Emperor's fault?"

Chu Heyi: "Look, Lord Zheng, I just raised this question, and you think it's the emperor's fault... because the palace is the emperor's place?

"So you think that the fifth prince of Northern Zhou was allowed to enter the palace horse farm because the emperor's people failed to conduct adequate inspections? Lord Zheng doesn't think that the emperor colluded with Northern Zhou to allow the fifth prince to enter the palace horse farm, right?"

The prime minister was so angry that his face turned pale and blue.

The emperor slammed the table again: "Chu Heyi, what are you talking about!"

This time he called her by her name, not even calling her Lady Cheng'an County, which shows the emperor's anger.

Chu Heyi immediately replied politely, "Your Majesty, I am only speaking the truth. I am accused of colluding with the Northern Zhou because I know Song Ju and Sang Nong. I am really wronged.

"It's just like your subordinates failed to conduct adequate inspections, which led to Song Ju sneaking into the horse farm of the Daqi Imperial Palace. Your Majesty was then considered to be colluding with the Northern Zhou Dynasty. This is just as absurd."

The court officials were silent. They wanted to say something but didn't know what to say.

According to Chu Heyi, it is indeed absurd to accuse her of colluding with the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

If she was wrong, it was the emperor who was wrong first, and she was wrong later.

Who dares to blame the emperor for his mistakes?

Who dares to say that their emperor is colluding with the Northern Zhou Dynasty?

Isn't that ridiculous?

After a long pause, the Prime Minister said, "Your Zhenbei Marquis Mansion is extremely powerful. Perhaps Song Ju was sent to the Imperial Palace Horse Farm by your Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, and then your Cheng'an County Lady used conspiracy and trickery to let Song Ju and Sang Nong reach such an important position now!

"You want to cooperate from inside and outside to destroy our Daqi!"

Chu Ren immediately said angrily: "Master Zheng, please show us the evidence when you say such things, otherwise you are slandering a loyal minister and a good general!

“When the men of our Zhenbei Marquis Mansion shed their blood and sacrificed their lives in the northern border, who was the one who advocated that the old, weak, women and children who were left in Shengjing City be allowed to enter the palace?

"If she hadn't entered the palace, how would my sister have met Song Ju? Could it be that the person who proposed that my sister and the others enter the palace wanted to use my sister to promote Song Ju and Sang Nong?"

Chu Heyi and his companions entered the palace at that time, ostensibly by invitation, as a gesture of royal care for the Zhenbei Marquis's Mansion.

But many people knew that they entered the palace as hostages to force the men of the Zhenbei Marquis' Mansion to defend the northern border until the last moment. Even if they were to die, they could not die easily.

Therefore, when Chu Ren said this, there was a moment of silence in the Purple Palace, and even the emperor felt guilty for a moment.

Runxue sensed that the situation was not good and gently bumped into Dongfang Shuo's arm, who immediately stepped forward and spoke.

"Father, although it is still unclear whether the Princess of Cheng'an County and the Marquis of Zhenbei are colluding with the Northern Zhou, it is a foregone conclusion that Song Ju and Sang Nong are members of the Northern Zhou royal family. There is no point in keeping them alive, so just kill them.

"If we don't kill the Northern Zhou royal family quickly, they will think we don't dare to kill them and laugh at us in secret. If our soldiers in the north find out, their morale will definitely drop.

"Let's kill them right now in front of the people. This will not only enhance our national prestige, but also deter the Northern Zhou and those who want to collude with foreign races to betray our dynasty!"

The Prime Minister immediately echoed: "Your Majesty, I agree with what His Royal Highness Prince Cheng said."

Most of the court officials also spoke up immediately, and their words were exactly the same as the prime minister's.

Chu Heyi said: "Your Majesty..."

The emperor's sharp eyes locked onto her immediately: "Why, the Cheng'an County Lord is pleading for them?"

Dongfang Shuo said sharply, "The people who let Song Ju sneak into the palace horse farm didn't come to plead for them. The Cheng'an County Lady is pleading for mercy now. Is she trying to overturn what you said before?"

Well, Runxue still has a way. As long as Song Ju, Sang Nong and others are pushed into a desperate situation, Chu Heyi will definitely expose his weaknesses.

Chu Heyi ignored Dongfang Shuo and said to the emperor on the high platform: "Your Majesty, Song Ju has been training horses in the military camp for half a year. The horses he trained are very convenient to use. When we go to the battlefield in the north, our soldiers in the north will no longer be afraid of the Northern Zhou cavalry.

"Then there is Sang Nong, who has an amazing talent for repairing and digging canals. This summer there was a lot of rain and floods were everywhere, but with Sang Nong there, Shengjing City avoided being flooded and saved tens of millions of people.

"The contributions they have made to Daqi are obvious to all. They are visible and tangible. I did not know their identities before, but I am indeed their good friend. Therefore, I beg the emperor to let them go for what they have done for Daqi!"

Dongfang Shuo: "Before, you didn't know their identities and had close contacts with them, which is understandable. But now that you know their identities, you still plead for them. It's hard to make people believe that your Zhenbei Marquis Mansion is not colluding with the Northern Zhou Dynasty!"

Chu Heyi: "Your Majesty, I am begging for mercy for them based on the good things they have done for Daqi!"

Dongfang Shuo: "But you can't prove that your Chu family didn't collude with the Northern Zhou! And you pleading for them, it can prove that your Chu family has a good relationship with the Northern Zhou royal family!"

During the last verbal battle at the mansion on Gufeng Road, Runxue analyzed to him the reason why he lost - he put the other party in a situation where he had to prove himself!

Once you fall into self-affirmation, you will lose.

Chu Heyi is indeed cunning and treacherous.

They lost a talent like Gan Sui in vain.

But Runxue told him that it didn’t matter. If Song Ju and Sang Nong were killed, Chu Heyi would not be able to escape. Once the barrier of Chu Heyi was gone, Gan Sui would still die!

Gan Sui wanted to take their method of treating malaria and follow Chu Heyi, but that was absolutely impossible.

Dongfang Shuo gave her a cruel sneer.

Yao An hurried forward and said, "Your Majesty, thank you for asking for an audience outside the palace."

Dongfang Shuo and Runxue frowned almost imperceptibly.

They knew that Xie Lin and Chu Heyi were in the same group, so before coming here, they had sent people to encircle Xie Lin. Unexpectedly, the encirclement of Chu Heyi failed, and the encirclement of Xie Lin also failed.

They originally thought that Xie Lin entered the palace to absolve Song Ju and the others, but they never expected that he would actually... betray Chu Heyi!

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