Chapter C116 Part1
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Chapter 116 The black and white world (1)
Emperor Jinghui’s voice slowly spread throughout the hall with the oppression that only emperors have. The faces of the officials below turned pale in an instant, but Lin Qing almost laughed out loud.
These loyal officials who always said that they were doing things that were good for the country, now when Great Liang needed them, why didn’t he see them contribute generously now?
A group of hypocrites who only spoke of compassion, duty, propriety and integrity…
Without waiting for Lin Qing to add oil to the fire for them, some tactful officials stood out and said loudly, “This subject is willing to dedicate this subject’s meager strength for Great Liang. Your Majesty is benevolent. The soldiers of the northwest would certainly appreciate Your Majesty’s intentions.”
“Your Majesty is benevolent, the emperor’s grace is mighty!” The officials felt very bitter because it was thanking the emperor’s grace but using their money. However, they still knelt under the leadership of Lin Xian and expressed their loyalty to emperor Jinghui. Only now did emperor Jinghui’s expression recover a bit.
The issue of raising army provisions was settled with a solution that no one had expected.
The officials hated Lin Qing even more.
All the officials wondered whether Lin Qing had taken the wrong medicine. There was actually a day that he would worry about the country? The more thoughtful ones suspected whether Lin Qing was brewing some conspiracy, waited for them to step into the trap and then beat them all at once.
While the officials at court were surprised and angry at the same time, they couldn’t find the reason. Not only couldn’t they find the reason, but they could also not find any excuse to accuse and scold Lin Qing because of this incident. Although, Lin Qing did nothing bad this time and the fact was that he helped the soldiers of the northwest, but if they didn’t denounce the treacherous official Lin Qing, how could they show that they were loyal officials?
The thought was bizarre, but the officials didn’t feel that it was strange at all. As long as Lin Qing was still here, they would use this excuse to attack him and they would be happy to continue like this.
Lin Qing defrauded them this time and it was the effortless kind that would make their hearts bleed. However, could they scold Lin Qing for defrauding them of their money?
Although, they really wanted to do that, but as long as they were not idiots, they wouldn’t do that. If they did that, not only would they provoke ridicule from the people, but they would also offend Chen Jin and the entire frontier army of the northwest.
Consequently, they could only swallow these unspoken grievances. At least a thousand silver liang from each of them! Some important officials had to take out about ten thousand silver liang. Their hearts hurt!!
This was not the most annoying thing. What made the officials want to vomit blood was that emperor Jinghui handed this matter over to the Prefecture of Arrest that is under Lin Qing’s command, to take care of! This way, they had to hand out real money!
What was the gang of assassins from the Prefecture of Arrest? That was an existence equivalent to the Embroidered Uniform Guard of the previous dynasty. Would such people reason with you?
What? Don’t have money? Okay. There has been a homicide case in Liang capital recently. The Prefecture of Arrest suspects that the suspect had escaped into your yard and must go in to conduct a search!
What? Your house doesn’t have a yard? Isn’t that it?
What? It is only that kind where a few trees were planted? It actually took up such a large piece of land and isn’t a yard? Search!
Therefore, never reason with this group of unreasonable guys. Otherwise, they could casually put any crime on you. By then, would you still have a place to cry?
Moreover, Lin Qing’s grounds of this time was selfless and justifiable. What reason did they have to not cooperate?
If they really didn’t cooperate, the first person who would want to find them and vent his anger would definitely not be Lin Qing, but their sacred emperor. After all, frankly speaking, the person who felt the happiest that this matter could be settled was emperor Jinghui. The one who dared to disobey or adopt a confrontational posture would definitely be slapped by the heaviest slap in Great Liang!
Therefore, although the officials felt heartache, they had no choice but to hold their hearts and bear with it!
But unexpectedly, this incident didn’t end quietly with the failure of the officials. It had silently set off some waves that were different from the past.
In the past, Lin Qing would definitely not care about the impact of this incident because Lin Qing wasn’t ostentatious. What was ostentatious was his identity of Jiu Qiansui.
If Lin Qing did some evil, the whole court would definitely know and it may even spread to the ears of the commonfolk, let everyone in the world fear him and all his bad things would become a sin in everyone’s eyes.
Lin Qing had never defended himself because he was he. Aside from emperor Jinghui, he didn’t have to explain his actions to no one. As long as emperor Jinghui believed in him, what could the people of the world do to him?!
Hence, Lin Qing continued his own way. The ten thousand scoldings of the world were like a cool breeze to him.
So, Lin Qing’s bad name was notorious all over the world.
Originally, the officials thought that this matter would also pass away extremely quietly like usual, but what stunned the officials was that Lin Qing was not like the past where he didn’t utter a word even though the officials didn’t scold him this time.
After the matter was settled, the news spread quickly across the streets and alleys. Now, all the people of Liang capital knew that Jiu Qiansui who had always done nothing but bad things had actually done a good deed and it was for the good of the country and the people.
All the people who had heard this news seemed to be struck by lightning in the sky. The first reaction of the dumbstruck people was to look up at the sky, thinking that this was a joke made by the heavens because only a fool would believe that the all-evil-doing Jiu Qiansui would actually do good things.
However, with the eloquent narratives of some people, even if it was weird, some people have to believe it.
The commonfolk half believed and half doubted this. The officials at court were the most stunned about this matter. No matter whom at court, they wouldn’t spread the good deeds of their arch enemy. No fool would do such a thing that would only benefit others and harm himself.
The most surprising thing was that it was not someone else who did this. It was Lin Qing who had never bothered to defend himself. Now, he actually actively spread the news for himself for the sake of a good reputation. Everyone was dumbfounded. Is he still Lin Qing?
Why did the behavior of this treacherous official have the tendency to slowly move closer to them? Is it that he still wanted to be a loyal subject like them in this lifetime?
Such an uninteresting guessing was soon strangled in the cradle. Who could know what that Jiu Qiansui was thinking?
Time would undo all the dense fog. Not long after, they would know what the motive of Lin Qing was.
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