in2ebook Chapter 258 Blood Stained the Golden Palace
Chapter 258 Blood Stained the Golden Palace
"I would rather kill a hundred people by mistake than let one go. Since we can't find the spies in a short time, I will deal with them all. Is there anything wrong with that?"
"Whoever dares to offend my majesty and defy the royal family will be killed...without mercy. I am the one who ordered the killing, and yet you are targeting a pregnant woman who is powerless?"
"Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous! If you have the guts, just attack me directly... I am a cruel emperor by nature, and I cannot tolerate even a grain of sand in my eyes. Anyone who dares to disobey me shall die... If you want to die... I can grant your wish."
"Come here... drag this censor away and immediately behead him in public..."
"I want to see how many people are still against me."
As soon as Qin Feiling said this, there was an uproar in the court and the country.
Civil and military officials knelt on the ground and shouted in unison: "Your Majesty, please calm down."
"Your Majesty, you must not execute the censors."
"Your Majesty, please calm down."
Qin Feiling looked down at the censors who were kneeling on the ground, trembling and not daring to say a word.
"Drag him away and kill him..."
The censor was so frightened that he trembled and dared not even fart.
His eyes were filled with fear, and he pleaded for mercy repeatedly: "Your Majesty, please calm down... I only wanted to advise Your Majesty on your words and actions. This is my duty as a censor."
Qin Feiling sneered, "What is the duty of a censor? If I fart, do you all have to hold it up and smell it to see if it smells good or bad?"
Ever since he ascended the throne, these censors have been impeaching him for his words and deeds from time to time. They would threaten him with death for any trivial matter.
As the emperor, he still has to look at the faces of these censors?
He had had enough.
Today, he must catch a prominent censor and make an example of him to scare the others!
Qin Feiling's eyes were as sharp as a knife. He flicked his sleeves and said, "Come here, drag him away and behead him immediately..."
Immediately, guards armed with swords rushed in, clamped the censor's arm, and dragged him away at an extremely fast speed.
The censor who was dragged away was so scared that he almost wet his pants.
"Your Majesty... I am only doing my duty."
"Your Majesty, spare my life."
"Your Majesty, please spare my life."
Everyone in the court was in danger and panic.
Many people didn't dare to speak and knelt on the ground trembling.
Qin Feiling had a stern expression on his face as he stood on the steps, looking down upon the civil and military officials kneeling in the court.
"Who else wants to die for remonstration? Why don't we deal with them all today in the court?"
The entire Golden Palace was in total silence; one could hear a pin drop.
No one dared to speak out loud at this time.
Qin Feiling sneered, "No matter who it is... I will never allow anyone to offend the majesty of the emperor."
"Otherwise, I will kill gods and Buddhas..."
He left angrily.
All the ministers in the hall knelt on the ground trembling, not daring to stand up for a long time.
There was an old minister who was about sixty years old. He raised his head tremblingly and looked at the departing emperor with tears in his eyes.
He clenched his fists tightly, raised his head and wailed, "The emperor is cruel and inhumane. The future of the Great Jin is worrying."
"Your Majesty, I am powerless to stop this. I can only use my own blood to awaken the trace of kindness in your Majesty's heart for the people..."
After the sixty-year-old minister finished crying, he climbed up from the ground tremblingly, took clumsy steps, and slammed into the pillar of the Golden Palace.
Everyone in the hall was shocked and hurried to check on the old minister.
The old minister was old, so the impact was not strong enough, and only a little skin was broken on his forehead, and some blood came out of his nose.
He fell to the ground and continued to slap his legs and cry like a shrew.
"My fellow ministers, I am old, so old that I would not even be able to commit suicide by hitting the pillar... You are young and strong, with great ambitions. You must not allow Your Majesty to continue this reckless behavior."
"Fellow colleagues, we must unite..."
Before he could finish his words, Eunuch Liu coughed softly a few times outside the crowd.
"Cough cough..."
Everyone froze and turned to look at Eunuch Liu.
When they saw Qin Feiling standing behind Eunuch Liu with a sullen face, their scalps went numb and they fell to their knees with a thud.
"His Majesty……"
No one expected that His Majesty would actually come back.
The old minister who was speaking passionately just now suddenly noticed everyone's gaze and looked behind him.
His voice stopped immediately.
He also followed everyone's gaze.
Qin Feiling's ugly, dark face came into his sight.
The old minister's body stiffened and he took a deep breath.
Qin Feiling sneered, "What are you uniting for? Are you planning a rebellion... or trying to usurp the throne?"
"I never knew...that Lord Zhang harbored such evil intentions, intending to overthrow my Qin family?"
The old minister was so frightened that his face turned pale and he kowtowed and begged for mercy.
There wasn't much blood on his forehead to begin with, but after he kowtowed, the blood gushed out like a fountain.
"Your Majesty, calm down. This is not what I meant..."
"I just want Your Majesty to be a benevolent ruler."
Qin Feiling's eyes were full of contempt and mockery.
"A benevolent ruler? If I were merely benevolent while sitting in this position, those wicked and ambitious people would have torn me apart and devoured me long ago. Can a benevolent ruler control you old ministers who rely on your seniority and are so arrogant?"
"Can a benevolent ruler govern the country well and bring prosperity and peace to the people? Be prepared for danger in times of peace... Have you all become so accustomed to the comfortable lives of the past few years that you've all forgotten the days when I first ascended the throne, when external and internal troubles abounded, and when enemy armies threatened to reach Kyoto?"
"If I were a benevolent ruler, the Great Jin would have been destroyed long ago, and you, the pedantic ministers, would have long since become piles of bones buried underground."
Many ministers looked ashamed, and some with shallow eye sockets had red eyes and began to sob.
Thinking back to the year when Your Majesty just ascended the throne, you did face many hardships and desperate situations. If Your Majesty had not been swift, decisive and efficient in your actions, it would have been impossible for you to quickly stabilize the Great Jin Dynasty and let the people live a rich and happy life.
Qin Feiling's eyes were extremely dark, without a trace of warmth.
"Enemy country's spies are about to infiltrate the entire court and harem of our Great Jin, and you still expect me to act with kindness?"
"From now on, anyone who dares to mention the word 'kindness' will be beheaded in public, showing no mercy. Sir Zhang, don't you want to use your blood to awaken the kindness in my heart? Okay, I'll grant you that..."
"Come here... drag him away and execute him with a cane at the entrance to the Golden Throne Hall. Make sure his blood soaks the Golden Throne Hall... awaken the kindness in my heart."
"Ah, Your Majesty, please calm down. I was wrong..." The sixty-year-old minister immediately let out a howl, his eyes went dark, and he fainted from fright.
Qin Feiling was not at all soft-hearted.
He still ordered people to drag the unconscious old minister away and execute him in front of the Golden Palace.