Demon Emperor

Chapter 71 A Dog-like Lowly Thing
the other side.

Ruan Hu had been waiting for news, while on the table was an edict that would determine the fate of Huang Hui and the Huang clan of Yan County.

This matter also carries enormous risks. If it fails, the chain reaction it will trigger is unpredictable.

Zichen Palace.

The candle is about to go out.

The lady-in-waiting who had been standing behind them immediately stepped forward with several palace servants, quickly relit the lamps, and then returned to her original position, placing her hands folded in front of her abdomen.

Nowhere else can one feel the strict discipline and solemnity of the palace.

It seems that everyone here is bound by lines, like chess pieces trapped in a grid, unable to move.

Only one person can transcend it.

Wang Ru walked in from outside the palace. He kept walking on the straight line that extended from the floor tiles, kneeling beneath that person.

Ruan Hu looked up from behind the desk and asked.

"how?"

In fact, Ruan Hu already knew the result, because Wang Ru's face was full of smiles.

He seemed even happier than the emperor when the matter was accomplished.

Ruan Hu's eyes flickered; he saw not only Wang Ru's smile, but also what lay behind it.

Changpo, a fortune teller.

"Judging from this person's appearance, he fears me, respects me, and is loyal and utterly devoted, yet dares not defy my will in the slightest."

Before this, all Ruan Hu had ever seen was loyalty.

The news he had just received seemed to have greatly shocked the eunuch who had always been by Ruan Hu's side. His mind was shaken, and he became more respectful and fearful of Ruan Hu, the emperor, and also more cautious.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

Wang Ru's smile was mostly obsequious, but only he knew how scared and nervous he truly was at that moment.

That was the Huang family of Yan County. In the past, they were a powerful clan that could influence who owned Xicheng. They collapsed overnight.

and.

It is done in the most violent and direct way.

However, he hadn't finished speaking.

Ruan Hu raised his eyes slightly: "Hmm?"

In an instant, Wang Ru understood something.

He was so nervous that he almost said the wrong thing.

He immediately knelt on the ground, his smile vanished, and he spoke tremblingly.

"Your Majesty, Huang Yan, the magistrate of Yan County, is plotting a rebellion."

"Upon receiving the news, General Yuchi immediately led his troops to quell the rebellion. The rebels have been executed, and hundreds of armors, weapons, bows, and crossbows have been recovered from Huangzhuang..."

Ruan Hu nodded: "We still need to use Yuchi Chongwu."

Wang Ru quickly replied, "This is all thanks to His Majesty's discerning eye."

Ruan Hu received the definite news and knew that Huang Hui was dead.

He stood up from behind the desk.

Passing through the candlelight, the shadows stretched longer and longer, growing larger and larger until they almost covered half of the hall.

Wang Ru, who was kneeling on the ground, immediately adjusted her posture and knelt down in the direction Ruan Hu was going.

Suddenly, Ruan Hu stopped in his tracks.

Why is there sweat on your forehead?

Wang Ru was so frightened that she sweated even more profusely, pressing her head tightly to the ground as if trying to cover herself.

"I rushed over as soon as I received the news, so I'm sweating a bit."

Wang Ru certainly dared not say this, for he was frightened by the emperor.

Ruan Hu: "Wipe it off!"

Wang Ru quickly reached out and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve, but as soon as she finished wiping, even more sweat began to flow out.

However, at this moment, the emperor had already stepped out of the threshold, and a group of palace servants and eunuchs immediately followed him, forming a grand procession.

The last few words Wang Ru heard while kneeling on the ground were these.

"The imperial edict on the table is finished. Take the person with you!"

"It's nothing, don't bother me."

Ruan Hu went to sleep.

Wang Ru, feeling weak all over, stood up and went to the imperial desk. There she saw the tragic end of Huang Hui and the Huang family.

In the end, Huang Hui, who seemed like a mountain to everyone else, was gone.

Even before the emperor, it's only worth a single sentence.

"It's nothing, don't bother me!"
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West of Xijing City.

Huang Hui's residence.

The candle on the bronze sparrow lamp stand had already gone out. Huang Hui, the gatekeeper, had gotten up early and, behind the embroidered screen with colorful chickens, was dressed in his official robes with the help of a large group of concubines and servants.

The silhouettes of Huang Hui and his concubines were visible behind the screen, while rows of maids and servants stood in front of it.

In this one room alone, there were countless people serving him.

"We must stop Yuchi Chongwu from going to the capital to take his leave of the emperor today; we cannot sit idly by and watch this happen."

"But what reason should we give?"

"The emperor thought he could get away with it by ignoring the advice of all the officials; how naive he was." Even at this point, he was still thinking about how to turn the tables.

Suddenly, a servant rushed in and lay down on the ground.

Huang Hui frowned, his anger evident, and rebuked him.

"what happened?"

"It's unbecoming to be in a panic."

"Drag him away and give him twenty lashes."

The servant, his face ashen, pointed outside and said...

"Outside, outside."

Huang Hui's face showed only disgust as he spoke to the person beside him.

“You dog, drag it out.”

Huang Huixian didn't ask for any reason; he only wanted to establish rules and authority. Twenty strokes of the rod would have been enough to kill a person.

He was just a servant, after all.

They're worse than dogs, so it's no big deal if they're beaten to death.

however.

No sooner had he finished speaking than a large, imposing group of people entered, passing through the courtyard and around the gallery before heading straight into the house.

Censor-in-Chief Gao Jian walked at the front, holding the imperial edict in his hand as he stepped over the threshold.

Sixteen golden-armored guards behind him gripped their swords, the scraping sound of their armor plates startling everyone into wide-eyed stares.

When the imperial edict was unfurled.

The Imperial Censor used considerable force, even making a scraping sound.

"Huang Hui, the Chancellor, held a pivotal position, akin to a prime minister, yet he dared to collude with regional military governors, secretly plotting rebellion."

Gao Jian's recitation echoed in the five-room, nine-bay main hall. The honor that should have been bestowed upon the Imperial Secretary by the Secretariat was now replaced by the presence of the Imperial Censor.

This is the most dangerous signal.

"what?"

Huang Hui was still wearing a purple robe and jade belt, and the goldfish pouch at his waist was swaying slightly.

At this moment.

He was completely at a loss, his face blank with confusion.

As he reached out to take the imperial edict, Gao Jian suddenly raised his voice.

"Upon the arrival of this imperial edict, this sinful subject shall remove his hat and go barefoot!"

The golden-armored captain's leather boots slammed heavily onto the blue bricks. Two guards braced their iron maces against Huang Hui's shoulders, while someone else ripped off the seven-beamed scholar's hat from his head and removed the goldfish-shaped pouch from his waist.

The golden earrings on her crown rolled to the ground, startling the concubine who was peeking from behind the screen, who screamed in shock.

Outside the courtyard.

Soldiers were breaking down the west gate of the Huang residence. The imperial edict at the end, with its vermilion imperial approval stating "The relevant authorities shall arrest them immediately," allowed these imperial guards to kick over the screen wall painted with the mythical beast Xie Zhi without any hesitation and arrest the entire Huang family.

Some able-bodied men tried to stop them, but soldiers whipped them in the face with iron chains, and drops of blood splattered onto the blue camphor gauze hanging between the pillars.

Come back to your senses.

At this moment, Huang Hui suddenly remembered the steward he had sent back to his hometown of Yan County. If things went well there, it was not impossible for the situation to turn around.

Huang Hui, a high-ranking official, was now in a sorry state, completely lacking his former prestige.

Even so, he still held his head high, trying to maintain his arrogance.

He is the head of the Huang family in Yan County.

He still has a trump card up his sleeve.

However, at this moment, the Imperial Censor Gao Jian seemed to have seen through his thoughts.

"Huang Yan, the magistrate of Yan County, plotted a rebellion and has been executed."

These words struck Huang Hui like a thunderbolt.

They committed heinous crimes, even plotting rebellion and colluding with regional warlords to carry out treacherous schemes.

They might not necessarily die.

However, if the family's power and soldiers are lost, the foundation of Yan County will be lost.

Then I'm really going to die.

Huang Hui could no longer maintain his arrogance and burst into tears.

"His Majesty!"

"His Majesty!"

"You're really ruthless!"

"My Huang family shed blood for your Great Sheng Dynasty, and I, Huang Hui, also followed the late emperor..."

However, the golden-armored warrior beside him kicked him to the ground, stopping him from wailing any longer.

"Something like a dog."

"take away!"

Huang Hui never expected this.

It wasn't his servant who was dragged away like a dog, but himself.

(End of this chapter)