strictlysupreme Chapter 243 Goodbye Juli
Chapter 243 Goodbye Juli
As the night ended and the dawn came, only a small number of people from the Inner Guard were left to continue protecting Li's mansion inside and outside, and the rest of the people evacuated after saying hello to Li Cunxi.
Mo Ling and Yingzi rode two horses, driven by Ma Rong, and escorted Li Cunxi and Wu Yanhao to Taichu Palace.
In the Yunsu Hall of Taichu Palace, all the ministers were waiting to attend court.
Among the important figures who had rarely been seen in the court for a long time, there was actually one more person named Xiao Qingfang. Xiao Qingfang, the chief of the Inner Guard Bureau, was born with a sense of distance that kept strangers away. When she sat there, no one dared to approach her.
After Zhang Jianzhi and Wu Sansi came in, they found a place to sit down and chat with the people from their faction.
At four quarters past the hour of Mao, the eunuch came in and delivered an imperial decree, ordering all the ministers to go to the palace to attend the grand court meeting.
After Li Cunxi took a look at the eunuch, he felt that this person looked a little familiar. After taking another look, Li Cunxi immediately recognized who this person was.
"Julians!"
Li Cunxi shouted loudly, rushed forward with a tablet in his hand, and hit Zhu Liren on the forehead with all his might.
Juli screamed in pain, then squatted down with his head in his hands.
Li Cunxi was still not satisfied, so he took the tablet and started beating the Zhuli people's dog heads.
"You dog-head, a few months ago you ordered your eunuchs to ask me for 3,200 taels of silver. I remember it clearly!"
"Looking at your behavior, I'm afraid you're going to pretend to be an official and ask for the salary from me!"
"I will not care about etiquette today. I will beat you to death first, you bastard!"
The tablet flew up and down, hitting Zhu Liren on the head again and again. Li Cunxi was still not satisfied, and kept shouting that he would beat Zhu Liren to death, and then go to Wu Zetian to report Wu Sansi.
Upon seeing this, several censors under the King of Wei stopped several of Wu Sansi's followers. Wu Sansi was being held back by Zhang Jianzhi, and he could not separate from them in a hurry. He could only watch anxiously as Li Cunxi beat Zhu Liren.
There was really no hatred between Li Cunxi and Zhu Liren. If there was any hatred, it started from the first time Li Cunxi went to court, when the eunuch asked Li Cunxi for the regular silver in the name of Zhu Liren.
However, that had nothing to do with Zhu Liren himself. It was all the eunuch's own doing. In addition, Zhu Liren was sent to the Dali Temple by Wu Sansi, so Li Cunxi let the matter go.
The reason why Zhuliren was beaten today was purely because Wu Sansi hired the Iron Hand Group to kill him. The deep hatred between the two was unforgettable, so he took it out on Zhuliren, who was demoted to a minor eunuch.
要说武则天也是真疼爱武三思，这朱利人都贪污成这样了都不宰了，还让他当小黄门，现在正好用来满足李存希揍人的欲望。
Li Cunxi started beating Zhu Liren wildly, causing him to scream in pain and bleed profusely.
Zhu Liren did not dare to resist after being beaten. He just held his head and screamed, hoping that his brother-in-law Wu Sansi would come out and say a few good words for him.
Wu Sansi felt uncomfortable watching Zhu Liren being beaten. Hearing screams, he no longer cared about his appearance. He shook off Zhang Jianzhi and other officials who deliberately blocked his way. He grabbed Li Cunxi's hand that was used to beat Zhu Liren from the side and protected Zhu Liren, whose head was broken and bleeding.
"Lord Li, it's time to go to court. Let him go this time. Thirty-two thousand two hundred silver coins... will be sent to your house after the court is dismissed."
"I will give you ten times the silver that Xiao Huangmen asked you for. It will be his way of apologizing to you. Can't we just let this matter go?"
Li Cunxi smiled wryly, glanced back at Wu Sansi, broke away from Wu Sansi's hand, raised his tablet, and swung it at the Julian's head.
Zhuli was unable to dodge and was hit in the right eye. He screamed, fell to the ground, and cried bitterly while covering his right eye.
"Li Cunxi!!!!"
Wu Sansi was furious and glared at Li Cunxi like a tiger. His hands holding the tablet were shaking. He wished he could rush up and take Li Cunxi's life.
"Master Prime Minister, it is not a good idea to bribe a small councillor like me in public!"
Li Cunxi slowly took back the tablet, took out a towel and wiped the blood off the tablet.
The last blow just now probably destroyed Zhu Liren's right eye. Li Cunxi could clearly see blood flowing from Zhu Liren's right eye socket.
After wiping the blood off the tablet, Li Cunxi turned around and smiled with his eyes narrowed.
"Master Prime Minister, this is the first and last time. If this eunuch who asked me for silver appears in front of me again, I will smash him to death regardless of who recommended him."
"For this reason, I will eat him for the rest of my life!"
"He asks me for my salary every day. Whenever he appears in front of me in this life, he is asking me for my salary!"
"I know you want to refute it. It's okay. I have something good about you here. If you are willing to take a look, we can discuss it in Linde Hall later."
"But I advise you to take action first. Use the excuse that this eunuch continues to ask for my silver as an excuse to persuade His Majesty to kill him. Otherwise, we will have a falling out later, and it will be embarrassing for both of us."
Li Cunxi was also fearless. When Wu Sansi placed an order with the Iron Hand Group to kill him, the secret fight between the two turned into an open fight.
Wu Zetian would definitely not arrest Wu Sansi for such a reason without any evidence, nor would she dismiss Li Cunxi from his post just because he beat Zhu Liren.
There are now multiple parties in the court working together to compete for the throne, and Wu Zetian has to balance the relations between all parties.
The fundamental reason why Li Cunxi was so fearless was that, in the current court, there were only a few people who could truly shake the throne. Dismissing one of them would not allow others to take advantage of the situation, because this person would get up sooner or later.
The only way to get rid of a person is to find evidence that is enough to get rid of him or even kill him.
However, judging from the current situation, Li Cunxi could not produce any solid evidence to implicate Wu Sansi. Even if he did, Wu Sansi would not be eliminated because Wu Sansi and Li Xian were in-laws.
Similarly, Wu Sansi could not produce any evidence that Li Cunxi had committed a crime, so naturally he had no chance of bringing down Li Cunxi.
During the court session, Zhang Jianzhi saw that the farce had come to an end, so he walked out, separated Li Cunxi and Wu Sansi, and said with a smile:
"Since this eunuch is alive, then it cannot be blamed on Cunxi. In my opinion, we should do as Cunxi said, so as to avoid embarrassing you, King Liang, during the confrontation in Linde Palace."
Wu Sansi clenched his teeth, like an awakened tiger, and looked at Li Cunxi with a gaze that almost devoured him.
He knew that Li Cunxi must have known that he had paid money to the Iron Hand Group to buy Li Cunxi's life.
Li Cunxi was now determined to break off relations with him, and Wu Sansi would never dare to bet that Li Cunxi would not be able to produce evidence.