Chapter 409: Right Prime Minister and Li Xuanjing_3
After Wei Country annexed Daxia, eliminating those Revolutionary Army, it was effortless.
He is a sinner, an eternal sinner of Daxia...
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then slowly stood up and left the Ministry of Personnel.
Inside the Ministry of Justice.
King Chun no longer had the mind to play chess. Even though he usually did not care about state affairs, with Daxia about to fall, as a member of the Daxia Imperial Family, if he still didn't care at all, he would feel it was a bit too much.
He scratched his head, looked at Li Xuanjing opposite him, and asked, "Xuanjing, is Daxia really going to perish?"
Thinking over and over, he couldn't think of how Daxia could escape this predicament. Surely they couldn't rely on Father Emperor to kill Emperor Wei in the battle, which indeed was a way to break the situation, but did Father Emperor have this capability?
Obviously not.
He wanted to say something more when a figure slowly walked in from outside.
King Chun looked at the Right Prime Minister, and the words he was about to utter were swallowed back.
At this time, Li Xuanjing said, "I suddenly feel like having some Snow Pearl Jade Dew Soup today..."
King Chun jumped up immediately, saying with a smile, "Then wait here, I'll go back and cook it for you..."
After saying this, he turned around and hurried away.
Leaving the Ministry of Justice, he glanced back once again when getting on the carriage.
Did Xuanjing and the Right Prime Minister have something to say? This was the first time he made an excuse to send him away; what exactly was there that he couldn't hear...
In the Ministry of Justice, the Right Prime Minister closed the government office's door, casually pulled a chair, and placed it opposite Li Xuanjing's desk.
Sitting like this across from the Minister of Justice, there was quite a feeling of being on trial.
Neither spoke.
Silence.
A long silence.
Ultimately, it was the Right Prime Minister who broke this silence, saying, "I am guilty, guilty of treason."
Li Xuanjing picked up the teacup, wetted his lips, and asked, "Are you referring to orchestrating the assassination of the Chu Country envoy at the Four Directions Hall, stirring up the Xia and Chu dispute, or sending an envoy to Liang Country after the Second Prince of Liang Country was killed in the embassy village, thereby undermining the relations between Liang and Xia, pushing Liang Country towards Wei Country, thus instigating the Wei Xia war?"
The Right Prime Minister suddenly stood up, his face showing shock: "You know it all!"
Li Xuanjing neither confirmed nor denied. The Right Prime Minister had intended to offer his guilty body as a contribution to Li Nuo's ascension to the Magic Saint, but in shock, he forgot the purpose of this trip and asked, "Does the Emperor know too?"
Li Xuanjing shook his head and said, "The Emperor does not know."
The Right Prime Minister pursued, "Then how do you know?"
Li Xuanjing said, "More than thirty years ago, the son of the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Zhang Feng, who was executed for treason by the Emperor, should have been beheaded, but was saved by the Right Prime Minister. You let him change his name to Chen Qi, conceal his identity, and go to Chu Country, becoming a guard for the Chu delegation... For the Spiegel Bureau, it's not difficult to investigate these matters."
He continued, "As for the School of Cross and Vertical that killed the Second Prince of Liang Country, although he hid deeply, upon closer investigation, his mentor is your registered disciple, and he has to call you 'master'... Am I right?"
The Right Prime Minister slowly sat down, after a long silence, finally spoke, "It is indeed you. Since you knew all this long ago, why not inform the Emperor? Over the years, I have been against you at every turn, you could have used this to bring me down..."
Li Xuanjing shook his head slightly and said, "You simply want to use the power of Wei Country to eliminate the entrenched problems of Daxia's famous families, so that the court wouldn't be controlled by them, and the people wouldn't be oppressed by them... Am I right?"
The Right Prime Minister stood up once again, staring straight at the person opposite him.
He never would have thought that his most hated enemy on the court over the years was the person who understood him the most!
At this moment, even if he died, he had no regrets.
Li Xuanjing walked up to the Right Prime Minister, held his wrist, and softly said, "You've worked hard all these years..."
The Right Prime Minister's body trembled slightly, and two lines of old tears rolled down...
When his only son died, he did not shed a tear.
When his first wife died, he did not shed a tear.
When a few of his most valued disciples were unjustly executed for treason, he did not shed a tear.
But at this moment, looking at the refined gentleman in front of him, he could not stop his tears from flowing...