I write a eulogy every day for the person beside my pillow

The officials knelt down and shouted long live.

No one dared to look directly at the emperor, and they all stared at the scarlet carpet on the steps in front of them in unison, with solemn and solemn expressions.

What they are worshiping is the throne, even if a monkey is sitting on the throne, the expressions of the ministers will not make any difference.

Li Li's gaze casually wandered around the crowd, and wherever he looked, there were rows of black black hats, and no other colors could be seen.

Those kneeling under the court hall are all important ministers of the Lan Dynasty.

Li Li sat lazily on the emperor's throne, even his eyes were idle. The so-called kingly spirit seemed to have nothing to do with Li Li.

Li Li suddenly thought that when his elder brother, the deposed prince Li Yu, was sitting upright in the hall when he was in charge of supervising the country, he looked more like an emperor than him.

Li Li was thin and pale. His eyebrows were black and slender. Against the background of his pale face, his originally affectionate eyes became darker, which made people feel uncomfortable for no reason.

At the same time, his lip color is also very light.From a distance, Li Li's face looks like an uncolored ink painting drawn by a painter, it is a half-finished product.

Such a person should have been raised in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, where the tenderness of the water town nourished a trace of vitality, but he was wearing a dragon robe and sitting on a throne admired by thousands of people. Cold air.

"Your Majesty." Toad Palace reminded in a low voice.

Li Li sneered and made a gesture.

Toad Palace stepped forward and proclaimed for him - "All loves are flat!"

After all the officials got up, Li Li opened his mouth first, "Do you have something important to say, my loves?"

Baiguan you look at me, I look at you, in the end there is still silence.

A smile flickered across the corner of Li Li's mouth, "In that case, let's talk about some important matters with all my lovers."

"Sir, please listen carefully!"

"The first thing," Li Lihao said leisurely, "I have not long been enthroned, and I feel powerless in many things, so I specially invite King Ning to assist the government. What do you think about this matter?"

The civil servants were all whispering and showing embarrassment, but the military officials had already responded to Li Li first, "Your Majesty is wise, I have no objection."

Since the founding of the Lan Dynasty, it has always emphasized civil affairs over military affairs, and the power of civil officials overshadowed the power of generals. However, in this matter, the civil servants were at a disadvantage. Even if they didn't want to, they could only agree.

"The ministers have no objection."

Li Li was a little disappointed with these civil servants, and he also hoped that there would be some strong-willed people who would speak up to obstruct it, so that the court would be lively in advance.

Also, how dare they have any opinions?

The entire Lan Dynasty survived until now with the protection of King Ning.

Just like a play scheduled in advance, the ministers are all competent and famous actors. After this side sings, it's King Ning's turn to appear.

Xiao Luan entered the hall under the call of the Toad Palace.

Before that, he had been serving as King Ning in his fief, and had never appeared in the court, so all the ministers couldn't help being curious about him, and they all turned their faces to peek.

It was rumored that King Ning's mother was a woman from the Western Regions. Everyone thought that King Ning's appearance would be very rough, but the reality was completely different from what they thought.

Xiao Lue's figure is tall and slender, with broad shoulders and narrow waist. He doesn't wear his hair tied up like the men in the Central Plains, but combs it in the style of a knight-errant. Half of it is combed and half of it is loose. There is a slight curl at the end, which makes him appear unrestrained and unrestrained , not like someone who would appear in the court.

His facial features are gorgeous and eye-catching, and his eye sockets are slightly sunken compared to Han people, and his facial bones are more three-dimensional. This is his side that is biased towards the Western Regions. However, anyone who looks at this face will recognize it at first sight. Han people.

At this moment, Xiao Lian's luxurious Han costumes didn't look out of place at all, and he smiled with a careless smile, which made people never see what was going on in his heart.

However, among the crowd, only Prime Minister Yue Qingbai looked at Xiao Lun as if he had seen a ghost.

Xiao Huan nodded politely to Yue Qingbai, but Yue Qingbai's eyes dodged and he didn't dare to look over.

Li Li took everything in his eyes, but his face remained calm.

"The second matter is about the case of the abolished prince's conspiracy."

According to Li Li's vision, if the announcement of Xiao Pun's entry into the court as Zuo Zheng was a stone thrown into a calm lake, then the case of abolishing the crown prince should be a boulder.

However, the expected sound did not explode in the court hall.

The hall fell into silence, and even the sound of a needle falling could be heard.

Li Li said with a smile: "Although the abolished prince has been executed, the officials involved in the case are still imprisoned in the prison. I have wasted a lot of food for more than a year, and there should be a result. Toad Palace, send what I wrote to Ai Qing Let's miss it."

Toad Palace unfolded the yellow silk and read the names of 32 officials plus their party members, a total of 120 four people.

"Qiuhou asks to be cut."

The lingering sound echoed in the hall.

Li Li heard someone crying, and someone even forgot to hide it, staring at him blatantly with hatred.

Li Li felt that the blood in his body was clamoring and boiling again, which made his ashen face glow with a seductive color.

That day in the bamboo hut, Xiao Lian devoured him to the bone, even to the point of arrogance, and said to him, "Being an emperor is so boring, Li'er, may I take you away?"

But Li Li actually likes being the emperor, because the emperor can kill people.

There were two officials who knelt down in front of the emperor and begged Li Li to pardon the capital crime of one of them.

"Your Majesty, Huang Zhengqian has devoted himself to Lan Chao and will not hesitate to die. Huang Lao did not participate in the plot to rebel against the crown prince. He was killed by a traitor."

"Oh?" Li Li looked curious, "Who is the traitor?"

"Yes..." The other speaker looked at Li Li subconsciously, and then quickly looked away. He was known for his integrity and shouted loudly, "No matter what, Huang Zhengqian was born in a family with countless disciples and former officials. Your words and deeds are role models for the world, Your Majesty, if you want to kill Huang Lao, won't it chill the hearts of scholars all over the world?"

Regardless of whether the speaker is really upright or not, his speech skills are quite clever, and he almost touched the emperor's lifeline.

As everyone knows, the Lan Dynasty was established by a family that overthrew the rule of the previous dynasty. The founding emperor was one of the four major families of the previous dynasty. After the founding of the country, the remaining three major families continued to exist.

Although the Huang family is the weakest branch, it has gradually declined in recent years, and many descendants are worthless, but the emaciated camels are bigger than horses, everyone is respectful to the Huang family, even when the late emperor was alive, he often called Huang Zhengqian brothers and sisters, Intimacy.

This officer used Huang Zhengqian's aristocratic identity and threatened him with scholars from all over the world. It seemed that Li Li did not dare to really kill Huang Zhengqian, but needed a step to maintain his dignity as the new emperor.

For a normal emperor who knows the art of balance, this trick is to prescribe the right medicine, and the emperor even has to reward him in private.

Unfortunately, Li Li is not normal.

Li Li's index finger lightly brushed his eyebrows, and then his brows relaxed, and he said in great surprise: "Thank you for reminding me, I almost forgot that Huang Zhengqian's three hundred disciples are still sitting in Taixue, asking me to let their teacher go Well. Three days have passed, Toad Palace, where are these people now?"

Toad Palace looked distressed, buried his head under the flying whisk, and whispered to the eunuch standing at the bottom of the steps who was in charge of this matter for a while, and then reported the situation to Li Li.

"Half of them fainted due to hunger and weak constitution, and were taken away by their families, and the remaining half..." Toad Palace carefully observed Li Li's emotions, sinking his heart to complete, "Still persisting."

"Okay, you have backbone." Li Li sighed and read with emotion.

His tone of speech was half sincere, half helpless mixed with compromise, and he seemed to be really moved by these tough students.

Just when everyone thought that he wanted to follow the example of the gracious and benevolent late emperor, Li Li changed the subject and said, "Then let those who are still in Taixue go and die for Huang Lao."

Crazy, Xindi is crazy!

The ministers looked over in unison, with colorful expressions, and the scene was particularly spectacular.

The two officials who were still kneeling on the ground seemed to be unable to figure it out. They managed to make a good move and walked to the Hall of Yama. Their faces turned green and white, and they cried and howled helplessly, their fists pounding. Smash the ground.

"Your Majesty, you must not do such a rebellious thing!"

"In this way, who among the most educated people in the world is willing to enter the court as an official?"

Seeing that Li Li was indifferent, one of them locked his eyes on Yue Qingbai for help.

As the head of the hundred officials, Yue Qingbai was supposed to play a role, but he was wandering in the sky, and he heard "Yue Xiang, Yue Xiang" several times before he reacted.

"Yue Xiang, hey, hurry up and say something!" the crying speaker kept urging him.

Yue Qingbai had no choice but to stand up, saluted, and said to Li Li hesitantly: "The old minister thinks that Huang Zhengqian's crime is not worthy of death, and His Majesty can just sentence him to exile. As for the disciples who made trouble, His Majesty can order him to return home, but as a punishment, he will be deprived of his life." The eligibility to participate in the imperial examinations will also demonstrate His Majesty's majesty."

Li Li hadn't said anything yet, the even hotter-tempered speaker was already jumping his feet, without permission, he stood up and pointed at Yue Qingbai's nose and scolded: "Yue Qingbai, Mr. Huang has been kind to you, and you hate him so much , the law of heaven is so clear, that a villain like you is allowed to sit on the position of prime minister!"

Yue Qingbai let him scold and didn't reply.

It was Li Li who made Yue Qingbai the prime minister, and Li Li was scolded by the speech officer's words, but he himself didn't realize it and continued to swear.

Li Li got a headache from the noise, so he turned his head to look in Xiao Lian's direction.

Only Xiao Lue, like an outsider, watched all this with great interest.

Li Li was not that caring, he insisted on dragging Xiao Lue to the center of the stage.

Taking advantage of the moment when the speaker was tired and panting from scolding, Li Li asked Xiao Luan unhurriedly: "Prince Ning, do you think it is my decision that is reasonable, or Yue Xiang's opinion is better?"

Xiao Luan smiled, Shi Shiran saluted and said: "Your Majesty is dictatorial, and I naturally follow His Majesty's orders."

Li Li nodded, "Since that's the case, please ask King Ning to be a witness today. I'm going to kill Du Xian and Deng Ming right now."

Du Xian and Deng Ming are the names of the two officials.

"I obey the order." Xiao Lue's smile deepened.

The Habayashi guard guarding outside the main hall did not come in when he heard Li Li's order, and waited until Xiao Luan's voice of "obey the order", then rushed into the hall in a disciplined manner, and erected the two officials.

The two speech officers turned pale with fright, struggling to wipe the ground with their toes, and glanced at the few people in the civil official group from the corner of their eyes with difficulty, signaling them to rescue them quickly.

Those few people were eager to try, but when Xiao Lue spoke, they retreated behind everyone one by one, waving their hands desperately to pretend not to know each other.

Deng Ming, who was among the officials, still had a glimmer of hope, and shouted, "Since the founding of the country, I have never killed an official. Your Majesty does not listen to advice and kills innocent people indiscriminately. Aren't you afraid that the official historian will leave a bad reputation for thousands of years?"

Li Lifan smiled and said: "Deng Aiqing is right. She must be a person who wants to leave a name in history. Anyway, I have made you perfect. As the saying goes, there are living and dead remonstrances. I will treat you as a dead remonstrance today. In this way, Deng Aiqing Death is more important than Mount Tai."

Not allowed to stay, Habayashi Wei quickly framed the two of them out.

Knowing that there was no hope of being rescued, the timid Du Xian had already passed out, leaving Deng Ming alone to smash the jar, stomping wildly with his feet in the air, and opened his mouth to curse:

"Li Li, you murdered the prince and framed Zhongliang, you will die!"

His voice faded away, but he kept cursing, accompanied by the muffled sound of being struck with a stick, and suddenly, there was no more sound.

Seeing the trembling looks of the ministers, Li Li felt that they must really want to end the morning court quickly.

Originally, this morning, Li Li prepared very warmly.

He even wrote the imperial decree, the first to exile Yue Qingbai, and the second to express his condolences for the sudden death of King Ning Xiao Pun.

But now, Yue Qingbai is only sweating on his brow, but he is actually standing in the hall with his beard and tail, while Xiao Luan...

Li Li squeezed the faucet on the armrest tightly, unwilling to recall.

"Yue Xiang, for the sake of Concubine Li's death, I will not punish you today."

Yue Qingbai knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, thanking the Lord for his kindness.

Yue Muting died suddenly, and Yue Qingbai, the father, didn't have any doubts, which is worth pondering, so Li Li took back the imperial edict of attack.

"Retreat—"

Toad Palace's shrill voice was as pleasant as fairy music, and the officials filed out as if they had been pardoned, but as soon as they walked out of the hall, they saw two corpses lying on the long bench with their flesh and blood ripped apart, with blood still dripping from the corners of their mouths. The slate hangs down like silk threads, sticking to the bluestone slab.

Disgusted and vomited many people.

In the afternoon, Li Li was resting in Yanying Hall. Although the weather was a bit muggy, it was still too cold to put ice cubes on. Li Li only put on his coat and leaned on the couch to read a book.

He was fascinated by the reading, and when he came back to his senses, Xiao Luan had been watching him for a long time.

Li Li was not surprised that King Ning had an audience but no one informed him.

"Your Majesty is reading "Mountains and Rivers"? This book is too old-fashioned. There is a book that describes the scenery of mountains and rivers and also writes about strange people and strange things. It will be more interesting to read. Would you like to bring it back?"

Li Li disdains, "Don't flatter me, I don't need it."

Xiao Luan's lost expression flashed across, and then he pulled Li Li's half-bent leg closer, and pressed it against his waist.

"Then be realistic."

Li Li was very light, and Xiao Huan could barely hold Li Li and sat on his lap without much effort.

Xiao Luan accepted Li Li's panic and hatred for a moment.

"Li'er borrowed this knife from me, how do you plan to reward me?"

Li Li resignedly closed his eyes.

The pages of the book fell to the ground with a clatter, and the unfolded page was crushed and deformed, making it dilapidated.