Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

"Oh? Chen Aiqing, what do you mean, Lu Qing was disloyal to me and suspected of treason?"

The flat voice of the Empress slowly sounded in the Tai Chi Hall.

Chen Cang replied solemnly: "Return to Your Majesty, this is exactly what I mean."

He spoke with great certainty, as if he was ready to fall to land.

The empress narrowed her eyes, and the temperature in the hall quietly dropped a little.

However, before she could speak again, a beautiful figure suddenly stepped out from the front of the ranks of military officers.

"Lu Shilang is unfaithful? What a joke!"

Gu Simiao looked at Chen Cang with a cold face and said:

"Youdu Censor, have you forgotten that when the demon queen was in chaos, corruption was rampant in the government and the public, riots continued in all directions, the society was in turmoil, and the people were in dire straits, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty sat back and watched His Majesty's power fall aside, watching helplessly. When the demon queen's party feathers were causing troubles in Great Xia, who would stand up to be loyal to His Majesty regardless of everything, and angrily denounce the demon queen's party members for the country and society, and who would sacrifice his life to protect your majesty when the holy king pretended to rebel and usurp? retreat?"

"If you, Mr. Chen, were in Beijing at that time, would you have followed His Majesty as desperately as Lu Shilang, and devoted everything to Daxia's Jiangshan Sheji?"

Hearing this, Lu Chen's eyes twitched.

Miss Gu, Miss Gu, can I call you Miaomiao? !

You said it well, but please stop it!

Lao Tzu's heart began to ache again! !

Thinking of himself who was on the wrong team consecutively during that earth-shattering change, and thinking that the fairy road that was within reach has become more and more out of reach in the successive backstabs, Lu Chen felt so depressed that he wanted to die.

Who the hell would have thought that the Empress would be able to come back from a desperate situation under such circumstances, and the Holy King led an army all the way here, and it was really just to help the Empress regain power? !

This was the pain that Lu Chen didn't want to talk about, Gu Simiao's words were like adding salt to his wound.

Gu Simiao naturally didn't notice the strange look on Lu Chen's face, and didn't know his real thoughts.

After a slight pause, her voice suddenly raised, and she said word by word:

"If Lu Shilang's achievement is not enough to prove his loyalty, then in your eyes, Chen Cang, what is loyalty? Are there still loyal people in this world?"

This is a bit heavy.

Some courtiers who were at the scene but did not stand up to be loyal to the empress like Lu Chen did, but chose to keep silent and let it go, glanced at Gu Simiao with some dissatisfaction.

Yes, their performance was not as good as Lu Chen's. They didn't follow the empress desperately like him, and did what they could for the declining Great Xia. But that was because Lu Chen was alone and had no worries. People can naturally go forward without any scruples.

Their family has a great career, even if it is not for themselves, they must also consider for the family, otherwise one wrong step will lead to eternal doom.

Although loyalty and righteousness will not affect the clan, they are the mainstay of the clan. If they lose this power, what will happen to the clan's future?

In their view, to be an official and a person is to think about yourself six or seven times, and think about the court two or three times. If there is still one point left, think about others.

Only Lu Chen, who is so different, would think of the imperial court as pure gold.

Looking at the history of Daxia for nearly a thousand years, before him, how could there be pure gold in this world?

Besides, they at least kept the bottom line and did not betray the Empress.

It's just that the thieves were powerful back then, and they were powerless to change the status quo. It was helpless to let them go. How can they be blamed?

Since there is no betrayal, how can it be considered loyalty?

But although they were dissatisfied, they did not dare to refute Gu Simiao.

After all, Gu Simiao has just made great achievements for the imperial court, and the holy family is in prosperity. If it is not necessary, it is best not to provoke him lightly.

"The general's words are too absolute."

Chen Cang glanced at her indifferently, "Although Lu Chen's previous actions seemed to be for the country and the people, loyal to the emperor and serving the country, but people's hearts are far away, and no one knows what he was thinking at that time. As the saying goes Dao, if things go wrong, there must be a demon, maybe he did this not purely for the sake of His Majesty and Daxia's country, but for a purpose that we can't see through, and there are other plans?"

Hearing this, Lu Chen looked at Chen Cang with a strange look.

This old boy, there is something.

Gu Simiao snorted coldly, and said in a cold voice: "Youdu Censor, you should think about it, and punish the false accusation as the crime you accuse, if you can't produce enough evidence to prove that Lu Qing committed treasonous acts, and In the end, it was proved that your complaint was an intentional false accusation, and you will have to bear the charge of treason."

Faced with Gu Simiao's slightly threatening reminder, Chen Cang's face was as usual, with a confident look.

"I will never talk nonsense, and I will never wrong my colleagues. Since I dare to stand up and accuse Lu Chen, I will not be aimless."

After saying that, he stopped looking at Gu Simiao, turned his head to look at the empress who stood up on the steps at some point, and said solemnly:

"Your Majesty, I have ample evidence to prove that Lu Chen must have a very close relationship with Yu Jiuyuan, the leader of the rebels who is currently entrenched in the northern part of Tianlan Province! And a person who is so ambiguous with the rebels, what he said Yes, everyone is suspected of treason, no matter how he behaved in the past and how loyal he seems, it is not enough to believe it!"

Hearing this, all the courtiers couldn't help but froze.

This is not the first time the name Yu Jiuyuan has appeared in the court.

As early as three years ago, when the Demon Empress was in power, this person took advantage of the famine in Tianlan Province and led a lot of reckless rivers and lakes, and raised up under the banner of "The Holy Duke comes to the world, burns the sky to reshape, and all people are safe". The local government robbed the gentry from all over the country to strengthen themselves and absorb more people who were completely desperate for the imperial court.

Naturally, the imperial court would not let the traitors go, but Yu Jiuyuan was like an unbeatable Xiaoqiang. Servant will soon make a comeback and become even more difficult to deal with than before.

The year before last, he was just a bandit who led the mob to cause chaos, but now he is the number one enemy of the imperial court who shouted "open the city gate, welcome the Holy Duke, and the Holy Duke will not pay the food", and the leader of the world's rebels.

And Lu Chen is now the number one loyal minister recognized by the court.

If this kind of thing is true as Chen Cang said, it will be a disaster.

Chen Cang continued: "I know that your majesty values ​​love and righteousness, but I ask your majesty to put the ancestral country and society as the most important thing, and don't be emotional. Besides, as the saying goes, no one is perfect, and loyalty is like traitor. With such perfection, I have reason to suspect that this guy has other plans."

"For example, when the Qingjiang River was flooded, it was very suspicious that this guy proposed to mobilize Yuzhou Wei and Suizhou Wei to control the water. Weichen investigated afterward. When Yuzhou Wei and Suizhou Wei were transferred to control the water, the rebels Suddenly attacking Huiyang Mansion, which is only a few hundred miles away from Yuzhou Tianmenguan, and opening up the entire northern part of Tianlan Province, I suspect that the water control is fake, and the truth is to adjust the tiger away from the mountain and coordinate the anti-thief action!"

"And what Lu Chen did in Yuzhou, if you think about it carefully, it seems to be disrupting Yuzhou everywhere, delaying the Qingning Army's military situation, making Yuzhou unable to take into account the suspicion of Tianlan Province, hope your Majesty will learn from you!"

The empress did not directly respond to his words, but turned to look at Lu Chen, the person involved.

"Lu Qing, do you have anything to say?"

While speaking, the trust in her eyes did not decrease in the slightest.

Seeing that the empress asked him to express his opinion, Lu Chen stepped forward and responded: "Returning to your majesty, as the saying goes, the pure will be clear, and the turbid will be turbid. I don't know where Mr. Chen learned that my minister has an affair with the rebels. I don't know what this so-called evidence is and where it came from. I only know that since I became an official, I have never done anything to be sorry to the court or Your Majesty. Therefore, I have nothing to say. of."

"What a shameless one!"

Chen Cang smiled coldly.

"Lu Chen, Lu Shilang, I hope you can say the same thing when I present the evidence later."

Lu Chen glanced at him, and said lightly: "If you haven't done it, you haven't done it. Even if you kill Mr. Chen, I will still say the same."

"Hmph!" Chen Cang looked disdainful.

The Empress looked at Chen Cang condescendingly, and said calmly:

"Chen Du Yushi, show your evidence about Lu Qing's collusion with the rebels."

Hearing this, Chen Cang's eyes trembled slightly.

But in the next second, his complexion returned to normal.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

He straightened up, then turned his head, glanced at Lu Chen who was not far behind him, and saw that his face was still as usual, and he didn't show a trace of panic because of his impeachment, and he didn't even bother to say a rebuttal Finally, he couldn't help but sneered in his heart.

The old man wants to see if you can still be as calm as you are now!

While thinking this way, he directly asked the empress for instructions to activate the shadow transfer circle.

After the empress agreed, he slowly stretched out his hand and took out a crystal clear spar from his bosom.

"Your Majesty, colleagues, please take a look!"

As he spoke, Chen Cang violently activated the huge spiritual power in his body, and poured it into the backtracking stone in his hand.

In the next second, the Photo Stone burst out a beam of white light, and flew towards the Shadow Transmission Array on the right side of the Tai Chi Hall.

Wow~

The moment the shadow transfer circle was in operation, a light curtain suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Then, in the light curtain, an incomparably clear image soon appeared.

"Huh? This is."

The moment he saw the image in the shadow transfer circle, Lu Chen's eyes suddenly showed a clear color that seemed to confirm the guess in his heart.

But what appeared in the light curtain was that when Fu Yu was crossing the catastrophe, he, Tao Ji and other Xuanji guards, as well as Chai Hongyu and others who came to support them "in time", were desperately trying to stop the empty warehouse case The patriarchs of the eight mastermind families used spells to attack and protect part of the scene where Fu Yu was immobile.

The patriarchs of the eight major clans jointly cast the [Eight Branches of Heaven] formation, and the terrifying scene caused by the extremely aggressive and large-scale attack technique was displayed in front of everyone through the screen, making people There is an inexplicable sense of suffocation.

The angle of the backtracking stone recording the picture is extremely tricky. At that time, Tao Ji and other black pole guards who were isolated by the formless derivation technique did not record a single bit of the scene of rushing towards the caster of the Eight Branches of Heaven.

There is almost no picture of Fu Yu's crossing the catastrophe.

Yes, it's just that Lu Chenzheng is gritting his teeth, holding the sword of the extreme way tightly with both hands, forcibly launching the forbidden technique Wuxiang Derivation with a painful expression on his face, and the expression behind him is also extremely painful. Obviously, he is launching something that needs A woman in red who can only activate a forbidden technique after paying a huge price.

It looked as if Lu Chen was desperately protecting the woman in red behind him, and the woman in red would never leave him.

As the most expensive functional spiritual tool for recording, the Retrospect Stone can record not only images, but also sounds, and it is so clear that it makes people feel like they are on the scene.

But when Lu Chen desperately resisted the attack of the Eight Heavens, the words of the eight old men who maintained the formation sounded very clearly in the ears of everyone in the Taiji Hall——

"No wonder an anti-thief leader not only came here specially to stop me from waiting, but also did such a thing for Lu Chen, a lunatic.

"Tsk tsk... I didn't expect that the dignified governors of the two states would have an affair with a rebel leader. It's true that people are not flirtatious, hahaha!!"

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"Holy Maiden of Burning Heaven, you risked your life to save a court official. Could it be that Lu Chen is a pawn buried in the court by your holy father?"

"Hey. As expected of the number one rebel in the world today, he can directly plot against temples. Shenggong Yu Jiuyuan is really amazing!"

"If Great Xia's energy is exhausted, the one who can conquer the world in the future must be this person!"

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In just a few words, the meaning that Backtracking Stone wanted to convey was clearly conveyed to everyone's mind.

Looking at the image recorded by deliberately adjusting the angle above, which was extremely unfavorable to him, Lu Chen's expression remained the same, let alone flustered in his heart, there was no fluctuation at all.

Beep!

With a soft sound of silence, the picture in the light curtain stopped abruptly, and the image transfer circle also stopped operating at the same time.

In the next second, everyone looked at Lu Chen together, with obvious strangeness in their eyes.

They are not unfamiliar with the title of Holy Maiden of Burning Heaven. After all, the first time this woman appeared in the sight of the imperial court, she captured more than ten county towns and two prefectural cities in succession for the Holy Duke. They even defeated the Qingning Army who went to Tianlan Province to suppress the rebellion several times, causing the court to suffer great losses.

Eighty if not one hundred court officials died in her hands. Among them, there were even many dignitaries of the clan whose hands were stained with the blood of the royal family. They could be described as heinous crimes. If they were caught by the court, they would at least be sentenced to death by Ling Chi supervillain.

Such a mortal enemy of the imperial court, who cannot be punished for his crimes, actually did this for a court official.

Who would believe it if there was no dark secret behind it?

Since Chai Hongyu and Lu Chen are life-and-death friends, and Chai Hongyu is Shenggong's number one general, then Lu Chen and Shenggong are between Jiuyuan.

At this thought, some courtiers could not help but take a deep breath.

I'm afraid this is going to break the sky!

"Lu Chen!"

Chen Cang's loud and angry reprimand suddenly sounded.

"You are so close to the court's confidant, Chai Hongyu, you must have a close relationship with the traitors in Tianlan Province. This is the iron proof, what else do you have to say?!"

The moment the voice fell, the Empress and Gu Simiao frowned almost simultaneously.

Faced with Chen Cang's questioning, Lu Chen, the person involved, just slightly raised his eyelids, and said calmly:

"It's slander."

He was not the only court official who was present at that time, Xuanjiwei and especially Fu Yu were all present, if he didn't deny it, it would be too abnormal.

When Lu Chen denied it, Chen Cang smiled coldly.

"Slander? The picture recorded in the backtracking stone is clear, can it be faked?"

Lu Chen said indifferently: "The backtracking stone can't be fake, but it can disturb the audiovisual and take the meaning out of context by adjusting the recording angle."

"Stop quibbling!"

Before Lu Chen finished speaking, Chen Cang asked loudly:

"Then Chai Hongyu almost gave up her life for you. How dare you say that you are not her lover if a woman has done this for you?"

Hearing this, the empress and Gu Simiao locked their eyes on Lu Chen at the same time.

Under everyone's gaze, Lu Chen shook his head with his usual expression.

"No, I and Miss Chai met by chance."

"Hahaha!!!"

Hearing Lu Chen's answer, Chen Cang couldn't help laughing out loud.

"You still dare to deny the matter until now. I really think that your Majesty and the princes in the court."

"enough!!"

Before Chen Cang could finish speaking, the empress suddenly interrupted.

Under the terrifying coercion, Chen Cang's voice stopped abruptly, and he swallowed back the words he was about to say, his face flushed instantly.

The empress snorted coldly, and then slowly sat back on the dragon chair.

"Youdu Censor, is this the only iron proof you mentioned?"

Hearing this, Chen Cang's expression didn't waver much.

"Returning to Your Majesty, I believe that such ironclad evidence is enough to prove that Lu Chen has an affair with the rebels, and the relationship is very close, and no other evidence is needed. What's more, I still have some officials in Yuzhou who have provided information about the appearance of this beast." Suspicious evidence, there are also some righteous men in Yuzhou who are willing to come forward to prove the various suspicious actions of this beast in Yuzhou. Get rid of disobedient ministers."

As he spoke, he suddenly knelt heavily on the ground, and raised his voice solemnly:

"For the sake of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians in Tianlan Province, please take down this dog immediately!"

After the heavy voice fell, everyone looked at the empress on the jade steps.

"not enough."

Among hundreds of gazes with different expressions, the empress spoke two words lightly, expressing her attitude.

"Only relying on such a retrospective image with the head cut off and the angle adjusted intentionally is not enough to judge the crime. Lu Qing made drastic reforms in Yuzhou to make profits for the court. There must be selfish and shameless people who hate Lu Qing. Then The so-called righteous men of Yuzhou are not trustworthy at all, and "

As she said that, she turned her head slightly, and looked at Lu Chen who hadn't shown a trace of panic from the beginning to the end.

"I believe in Lu Qing's judgment. This retrospective image must be the slander of some petty people."

"Lu Qing is the pillar of the country appointed by me, the minister of Zhongxing, such a pillar of talent, will definitely be hated by the rebellious officials and thieves who don't want to see Daxia Zhongxing, and they will use various means to frame and frame me, and separate me and Lu Qing , How can I do what they want?"

Hearing this, many courtiers couldn't help but froze.

The rebels have already been involved, yet His Majesty still trusts Lu Chen so much.

At this moment, they once again refreshed the empress' understanding of Lu Chen's favor.

So scary!

Even Yan Song, the chief assistant of the three pavilions who stood at the forefront of the officials, couldn't help flashing a dignified look in his originally cloudy old eyes.