Chapter 98 Letter From the Northern King

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

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

After a long while, Emperor Xia said: "Since I came to 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!"

Having said this, Emperor Xia's eyes fell on the commander of the Forbidden Army, "Li Ming, have you caught all the assassins last night?"

Hearing this, Li Ming, the commander of the imperial army, knelt on the ground and said quickly: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, when my subordinates arrived at the eighth prince's residence yesterday, those assassins had already escaped."

Li Ming broke out in cold sweat, fearing that Emperor Xia would drag him out and chop him out in anger.

Hearing Li Ming's words, Emperor Xia said coldly: "Last time you let the remnants of the Chen Kingdom sneak into the palace, I didn't punish you. This time, another bad incident like the bloodbath of the prince's mansion happened in the imperial city, and You didn't even see the shadow of the assassin, what use is it for you, the commander of the Imperial Army!"

"With immediate effect, Li Ming will be relieved of all his posts and sent to the frontier."

Hearing Emperor Xia's words, Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief, then kowtowed and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty!"

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

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

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

There is no way they can or dare to investigate this kind of thing.

The assassins directly massacred the eighth prince's residence and even killed the grandmaster in the eighth prince's residence. This shows that at least one of the assassins last night was a grandmaster.

Anyone who can send a grandmaster and dare to go and bloodbath a prince's mansion with great fanfare must have a big force behind him.

It might even be the work of another prince.

When they really find out that another prince did it, it will definitely be a hot potato for the Ministry of Punishment. In Daxia, the Ministry of Punishment has no way and no qualifications to try the prince's crime.

Although they knew that this was a hot potato, the officials of the Ministry of Justice did not dare to refuse. Now that Emperor Xia was furious, they dared to say anything at this time, fearing that their heads would be moved later.

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

Lu Shuyun said quickly: "My dear father, I thank you."

Emperor Xia did not continue to say anything on this matter. Although this matter was very bad, the assassin has not been caught yet, and there is not even any information about the assassin. It is too early to discuss how to deal with the assassin.

They had other things to discuss today. At this time, Emperor Xia looked at Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue and said: "Wang Shangshu, I heard that you have been blocking the food and grass for the army heading to Beijun. I wonder if this is the case?"

Wang Hai, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, said quickly: "Your Majesty, it's not that I want to hold up the army's food and grass. It's that the Ministry of Revenue is seriously short of money and it's really hard to get so much silver in a while.

Emperor Xia said indifferently: "You mean if you can't raise the money, the court won't have to send troops to Beijun to resist the barbarians?"

"Wang Hai, is it possible that you have colluded with the barbarians and want the barbarians to march straight into the capital and deliberately delay the departure 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 testing them, Wang Hai always felt that Emperor Xia knew something.

Wang Hai immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, I have been doing my best to prepare food and fodder for the army."

Emperor Xia said coldly: "If the army is still unable to move north within three days, you, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, will no longer need to do this."

Just when Emperor Xia was about to say something more, a voice suddenly came from the door of the hall.

"Urgent report from the North!"

The next moment, a Hong Ling messenger hurriedly entered the hall.

After seeing the Hong Ling messenger, the faces of the ministers in the main hall became very ugly.

Using the Red Silk Messenger at this time, does that mean that the barbarians have begun to move south?

The imperial army here is still worried about food and grass. The barbarian cavalry in the north has moved south. How can they defend Beijun?

Is it possible that we really have to rely on that useless prince?

Forget it then, I'm afraid that useless prince has fled back to the capital before the barbarian cavalry reaches Yancheng.

At this time, the Hong Ling messenger said: "The Barbarian King of North Xian has led one hundred thousand cavalry to meet at the court of the Barbarian Heavenly Wolf King and is about to go south!"

"This is King Bei's battle report. In addition, King Bei sent a letter home to His Majesty."

Hearing this, everyone in the hall was stunned.

Letter from home?

A vassal prince writing a letter home to the emperor?

this……

It doesn't seem impossible.

Although King Bei had already gone out to join the vassal, he was the emperor's son after all, and there was a father-son relationship.

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

The eunuch beside Emperor Xia did not hesitate, and immediately came to Hong Ling's messenger, picked up the battle report and family letters, and then presented them to Emperor Xia.

After Emperor Xia received the battle report and the letter from home, he first read the battle report. There was nothing wrong with the battle report, and the King of Bei also talked about Beijun's arrangements in it.

However, what puzzled Emperor Xia was that Lu Chen actually planned to fortify the city and move all the people north of Yancheng to the south of Yancheng, and then he led the army to fight a decisive battle with the 300,000 barbarian troops in Yancheng.

Emperor Xia frowned. Who came up with this strategy?

He didn't think that his useless son had such courage. Let's not talk about whether this strategy is effective or not. How much courage would it take to dare to do this.

Yancheng currently has only 30,000 soldiers, at most 50,000 soldiers. It may not be so easy for Yancheng to stop the barbarian cavalry.

And this will also lead to Yancheng being besieged by the barbarian army. How could he not know what kind of character his son is? Emperor Xia didn't 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. He said how Lu Chen suddenly became so courageous. It turned out that he wanted him to send a large army to Beijun for support as soon as possible.

Seeing Lu Chen's cowardly look in the letter, Emperor Xia wanted to tear up the letter immediately, but he finally resisted the urge to read it.

When he read the rest, his face darkened instantly, especially when he saw the last line of text, Emperor Xia frowned immediately.

He actually knew that the barbarians' southward movement must be related to the aristocratic families. He could guess this without investigation, but he didn't know who was colluding with the barbarians.

The Daxia-style weapons mentioned by Lu Chen in the letter just confirmed his guess again.

What really made Emperor Xia frown was that Lu Chen mentioned the eighth prince in the letter.