My Husband Is Not Easy To Mess With. - Chapter 11: What Are You?
Chapter 11: What Are You?
Nie Yao wanted to quickly finish his task and leave work early.
However, Sun Ji’s people wouldn’t agree.
One after another, they stepped forward, demanding the new Emperor severely punish Nie Yao.
“Prime Minister! As the head of all officials, are you just going to stand by and watch Nie Yao sow chaos in the court without doing anything?”
Because the Prime Minister had not yet stated his position, the Censor was heartbroken and included him in his scolding.
Now the Prime Minister’s faction was also unhappy and stepped out to refute.
The entire grand hall was filled with spit-flying arguments, and the officials dissolved into a brawl. The civil officials’ verbal skills were indeed formidable; the military officials watched in awe.
Without Nie Yao needing to kick them, they retreated back to their positions in a daze.
“Silence!!”
After they had argued for about fifteen minutes, the Chief Eunuch, Duke Dou, finally spoke up to quiet them.
His Majesty was about to speak.
The Censor quickly kowtowed three times with loud thuds, “Your Majesty, if scoundrels like Nie Yao are not eliminated, our Great Yu will likely be completely eroded by treacherous officials! We implore Your Majesty to see clearly, kill Nie Yao, and rectify the court!”
“Kill Nie Yao, rectify the court!”
“Kill Nie Yao, rectify the court!”
Quite a few people knelt.
In addition to the officials under Sun Ji, there were many others who hated Nie Yao and wished him dead.
Together, they constituted a significant force.
They all knelt down, their words sincere, hoping that Nie Yao would be sentenced to death.
The enraged military officials once again left their positions and came forward to kick the civil officials’ butts.
“You pieces of crap! When the former old emperor was enjoying himself all day and not working, why didn’t you criticize him?”
“Your grandpa sees that you think our Lord is kind, which is why you dare to spout nonsense in front of him! You censoring—censoring censoring—censoring censoring censoring—”
The military official’s mouth was full of profanity.
Nie Yao couldn’t bear to listen himself.
“Shut up!”
Nie Yao ordered them to retreat, stand properly, and wait for His Majesty the Emperor to finish speaking.
The Emperor said, “Since everyone wants to ask the Prime Minister. Then, Beloved Minister Dou, what do you think of what these people have said?”
He called Nie Yao’s ally, Dou Jin Yuan, “Beloved Minister,” but Sun Ji and his ilk were merely “these people.”
The distinction between close and distant relations was self-evident.
Sun Ji, dripping sweat as he bowed, seethed with resentment.
In truth, he knew clearly that killing Nie Yao today was impossible, and even weakening his power was a remote hope.
But their purpose today was not this.
This whole performance was merely a feint, like Xiang Zhuang performing a sword dance with the intent to kill Liu Bang.
“Prime Minister! For the sake of the Great Yu Empire, we implore you to speak the truth with righteousness, undeterred by evil!”
Nonsense righteousness!
Siding with you two makes it righteousness? Did your family wholesale righteousness?!
The military officials were filled with fury, but since their boss told them to wait for the new Emperor to finish, they had no choice but to hold their breath.
“Everything rests on Your Majesty’s decision.”
Dou Jin Yuan stood at the very front of the civil and military officials, completely aloof.
He did not participate in the verbal spat, merely lifting his eyelids when the new Emperor called his name. He spoke, “This world belongs to Your Majesty. Whatever Your Majesty wishes to do, so shall it be done.”
The content sounded like he was just flattering his leader.
Only Nie Yao knew that Dou Jin Yuan’s words were ninety-eight percent likely to come from genuine sincerity.
“You! Birds of a feather!!”
“The Great Yu is in peril!”
The Censor was grief-stricken, once again imploring the new Emperor to execute Nie Yao.
“Kill Minister Nie?” For some reason, even though the new Emperor’s tone was flat, Nie Yao felt as if he could hear a hint of anger within it.
How inexplicable!
Nie Yao looked away to prevent his hallucination from intensifying.
“By what right do you ask me to kill Minister Nie? By the right of your wife’s brother forcibly abducting and raping a common girl to death, or by the right of you constantly frequenting brothels and publicly murdering a maid to snatch the top courtesan?”
“By the right of your inaction, while Minister Nie saved the world from collapse?”
A clear, cold chuckle echoed through the grand hall.
The new Emperor stood up, looking down at the officials.
He slowly parted his lips, “Shameless ants, utterly ridiculous!”
Sun Ji’s faction had not expected that even though Nie Yao was so arrogant, the new Emperor would still protect him!
It must be a trap! Absolute praise leading to a future downfall!
The Censor wiped his sweat.
He didn’t understand why he, a Censor who had been completely invisible for over twenty years, was so thoroughly investigated by the new Emperor.
He was a little scared.
But having come this far, he had no other way to turn back and could only close his eyes and commit to the dark path.
“To condemn a man, any pretext is sufficient!” The Censor heavily knocked his head on the ground, making a muffled sound.
He swore loudly, “All my life, I have served the ruler and the people with a clear conscience!”
He insisted he had never done anything bad, that he was innocent.
The crimes the new Emperor mentioned were all fabricated.
They were false incidents concocted by Nie Yao to eliminate rivals.
“I am utterly devoted. If Your Majesty does not believe me, I am willing to die to prove my innocence!”
After saying this, he closed his eyes and lunged forward violently.
He attempted to smash his head against a pillar in the hall, using his filthy life to prove his belief riddled with lies.
“Kill.”
However, faster than the Censor hitting the pillar was the blade of the Dragon Guard.
The new Emperor ordered plainly.
After that faint word, a silver flash cut through the hall.
Bl00d spattered.
The Censor got his wish and lost his life. But he did not die gloriously as a martyr remonstrating the Emperor; instead, he was executed by the new Emperor’s command for the heinous crime of harming common citizens.
This was not the end. The evidence in the new Emperor’s hands could convict that Censor of more than just a death sentence.
He threw all the documents to the Minister of Justice, telling him to determine the appropriate sentence.
The Minister of Justice, Guan Gu, read them.
He frowned and reported, “Your Majesty, this man has violated forty-seven laws. Among them are three death sentences, and two that warrant the confiscation of property and the execution of three generations of his family.”
“Your Majesty, injustice!”
With the planned pawn failing to perform its expected role, Sun Ji was filled with resentment.
He loudly cried “Injustice!”
He said he knew the deceased Censor’s character and that he absolutely had not committed those wicked deeds. Everything was a trap set by Nie Yao to eliminate dissidents.
“We implore Your Majesty to see clearly, lest the loyal officials become disheartened!”
Nonsense.
The military officials didn’t want to tolerate it anymore; they wanted to imitate Qian Henduo and beat the hell out of him.
“Clang!!”
Nie Yao also felt that enough was enough. Was this idiot being given too much face?
He didn’t waste time bickering with Sun Ji; he drew his sword and swung it directly.
“Ahhh, murder!!!”
The officials, already terrified by the bl00d of the dead Censor, shrieked in panic.
One carelessly stumbled and fell to the ground, trembling.
“Idiot.”
Nie Yao sliced off Sun Ji’s official hat and simultaneously shaved the hair on top of his head clean.
The official hat fell.
White hair fluttered.
As the sword edge approached, there wasn’t much fear in Sun Ji’s eyes.
He was certain Nie Yao wouldn’t dare to kill him.
In fact, he was truly unharmed this time, but before he could feel smug, he realized his hair had flown off.
“How dare you, you brat!!!”
Realizing the top of his head was bald, Sun Ji’s eyes bulged with uncontrollable rage.
Nie Yao dropped his sword, stepped forward, and swung his hand, slapping Sun Ji one more time to balance the swelling on both sides of his face.
He slowly took out a handkerchief.
Carefully wiping every long, strong finger clean.
Then, he disdainfully threw the handkerchief onto Sun Ji’s face, “Bald old thing.”
Perhaps their faction had a great talent for insults.
Even the old fox, who had been immersed in court politics for many years, couldn’t maintain his composure when faced with Nie Yao’s humiliation and followed Guan Junmao’s old path.
—Fighting the military officials with all his might.