Oh my god, can you play like this?

Chapter 145: Welcome to the throne, long live your majesty

Li Beichen sat on the throne, looking coldly at the prime minister who kept kowtowing.

The prime minister is a high-ranking official. In the court, except for the emperor, the prime minister has the final say. Who dares to offend the prime minister?

But now, the prime minister just kept kowtowing to Li Beichen, and the ministers behind him felt mixed emotions as they watched the prime minister like this.

Some people laugh at the prime minister, some feel that the lips and teeth are in danger, some feel sympathy for him, and some gloat over his misfortune.

People's joys and sorrows are all different.

"Prime Minister, I want to know what happened to that fake imperial edict you issued back then." Li Beichen asked without any emotion.

After hearing Li Beichen's words, the Prime Minister stopped kowtowing.

At this time, the prime minister's forehead was bleeding, and blood was flowing down his face. One can imagine how hard he kowtowed.

"At that time, I was entrusted by the late emperor to obtain the imperial edict written by the late emperor himself, passing the throne to the late emperor's ninth son, Li Beichen. Now the imperial edict is still in the old minister's mansion.

If the prince needs it, you can send someone to get it from the dark room in my study."

Li Beichen laughed disdainfully, "The imperial edict is still in your hands. Why didn't you hand it over to the emperor you supported to ascend the throne?"

Li Beichen asked this question even though he knew the answer, but he just wanted the Prime Minister to say it in person in front of all the court officials.

"This... I have done something wrong, so I will naturally feel guilty and afraid. That is why I did not hand over the imperial edict to the emperor, thinking that it would be a life-saving talisman for me."

As for why the emperor did not ask the prime minister for the imperial edict, or if the emperor asked for it but the prime minister did not hand it over, the prime minister did not say and Li Beichen did not ask.

Because at this point, none of that matters anymore.

"Well, then you admit that you forged the imperial edict to allow Li Beirui to ascend the throne?"

The Prime Minister kowtowed to Li Beichen again, "Yes."

The emperor, who was pinned to the ground, closed his eyes. He knew that everything was over and the thing he feared most had happened.

After suppressing and sanctioning Li Beichen for so many years, everything has been in vain.

After all, it was he who stole the throne, and he eventually returned it to Li Beichen.

Li Beichen glanced at all the ministers standing in the hall and asked in a cold voice: "Li Beirui was thrown into the Heavenly Prison immediately for falsely conveying the imperial edict of the previous emperor and plotting to seize the throne. Do you have any objections?"

Everyone looked at each other, knelt down, and shouted loudly: "Welcome Your Majesty to the throne. Long live Your Majesty."

It's already this time, and the situation has become very clear. Who would stand up and oppose at this time? That would be tantamount to seeking death.

After hearing Li Beichen's judgment on him, and because of the injuries on his body and his emotional ups and downs, Li Beirui fainted.

Unable to change the situation, Li Beirui chose to give up struggling.

Li Beichen looked at Li Beirui with disdain, waved his hand, and Li Beirui was dragged out of the hall.

"Prime Minister Liu Lin, forged an imperial decree to deprive me of my official position and demote me to a commoner. I will also execute my entire clan and execute them in three days."

"Your Majesty, please spare my life. Please spare my life. I beg Your Majesty to spare my bloodline for the sake of my honesty today!"

Liu Lin kowtowed loudly, using even greater force than before.

"Haha... Liu Lin, if you hadn't made the wrong decision back then, how could you be here today?

Since you have done it, you must bear the consequences. You deserve to have your entire clan exterminated."

Li Beichen wanted to ask, just because you confessed everything today, can you erase all the suffering he has endured for so many years? Can you bring his mother back?

The throne should have belonged to Li Beichen. If there were no prime minister, he would have been the emperor long ago!

Even killing all nine generations of his clan would not be enough to relieve the hatred in Li Beichen's heart.

"Your Majesty, please have mercy on me. Please, Your Majesty, please have mercy on me!"

Liu Lin shouted at the top of his lungs, but Li Beichen didn't even look at Liu Lin. He just waved his hand and someone carried Liu Lin out.

Liu Lin kept shouting and begging for mercy until he disappeared from everyone's sight.

The issue of the throne had been settled, and all that remained was the finishing work. Li Beichen asked all the court officials in the palace to leave.

There is no rush to punish someone and spare someone. We can just do it slowly over time.

All the court officials understood the principle that a new emperor appoints new ministers, so everyone was very nervous and trembling with fear.

Because of the fierce fighting, the palace was littered with corpses and blood, which made the court officials even more nervous.

This new emperor is different from previous emperors. He really knows how to kill people without blinking an eye.

Who wouldn't be nervous serving such an emperor?

If you say something wrong and make the emperor angry, it would be hard to say whether you can keep your head.

The entire Kyoto city is in a state of panic these days. No one dares to step out of their home, and the same is true for the Marquis' Mansion.

The main reason is that the entire city of Kyoto is under martial law and people are not allowed to go out casually.

The Madam and the others didn't know that Li Beichen had sent people to protect the entire Marquis' Mansion, so they were just like everyone else, afraid that their family would be implicated.

In the entire mansion, Gu Jingcheng was the only one who remained calm and composed, and did not move.

Ever since that day when someone forced him to ask for leave from the academy and brought him back home, so many soldiers poured into Kyoto City and the city gates were blocked in a short while. Gu Jingcheng figured out the reason.

However, Gu Jingcheng didn’t know who these soldiers who entered the imperial capital belonged to. It was not until he caught Mo Shi who stayed behind in Gu Lanzhi’s yard and asked Li Beichen’s name from Mo Shi that Gu Jingcheng figured out everything.

Although he didn't know what kind of connection Li Beichen had with his brother, just seeing that someone had forcibly taken him home before the incident, Gu Jingcheng knew that nothing would happen to their family.

When the news spread that the emperor had plotted to usurp the throne, falsely passed on the previous emperor's decree of succession, and had been thrown into prison by the new emperor, Gu Jingcheng felt more at ease.

Gu Lanzhi had no idea what was happening in Kyoto City. He was wandering around Wufeng Mountain with his men!

Of course, the harvest was also very good, with more than twenty wolves, three leopards, and five black bears. As for rabbits, roe deer and other things, Gu Lanzhi didn't know how many he had collected.

But he still didn't see any trace of the golden shaded catfish that Gu Lanzhi wanted the most.

They have been wandering in the mountains for two days. Gu Lanzhi decided to spend the last day tomorrow. If they still haven't found the tiger, he will have to give up.

He still remembered that he had to go back to help Li Beichen. It would be bad if he delayed Li Beichen's business because of looking for the tiger in Wufeng Mountain.

The people that Li Beichen sent to Gu Lanzhi all had their own concerns. They knew the time when Li Beichen would take action, and they were all anxious to hear the result.

Just as the sun was about to set on the last day and Gu Lanzhi was about to give up the search for the golden leopard, everyone was surprised to hear a tiger's roar that shook the forest.

Gu Lanzhi reacted extremely quickly, and he pushed his Qinggong to the limit, flying towards the direction of the sound at full speed.