Chapter 52 - Warring Dragon Punches Someone in the Hall of Supreme (1/2)

In the Great Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Jade Capital Royal Palace, today’s morning court assembly was especially lively.

Right at the start, there were already many censors who rushed forward to accuse the Ren family head one after another of snatching others’ property, and the quantity was a startling one. He bought properties valued at a few million jade coins at a price of a few tens of thousands. Such was an act that disregarded the laws of the country and shook the fundamental principles of a country’s administration.

He had to be punished severely to be made an example of. Otherwise, there would be huge implications.

By their mouths, Ren Jie was a tyrant, an unpardonably wicked person. Such an incident had never existed in the thousand years since the country was founded, snatching others’ assets was something that a prosperous dynasty absolutely shouldn’t be seeing.

At this point, Fang Tianen stepped forward guiltily, expressing that he was also involved in this matter. In order to save his beloved daughter, he was forced to help Ren Jie seize Chang Le Casino. He took the initiative to ask to be punished by His Majesty. Of course, he also said that he would compensate Chang Le Casino and had prepared several dozens of the Fang family’s properties to allow them to continue doing business and so on.

Moreover, he even stated that he’d already finished negotiating with Chang Laosi of Chang Le Casino. This matter had started because of Fang Qi, the Fang family would remain responsible till the end.

All at once, with regards to the family head of the Ren family doing this sort of thing, people dug out other issues. After all, the Ren family had been in power for so many years, there were lots of things accumulated.

The Ren family line of people did not have a mainstay and it hadn’t been made clear what had been going on with this matter. Their lack of reaction and Fang Tianen’s concealed spurring further galvanized some people’s arrogance.

Hence, a matter that initially wasn’t much snowballed. Gradually, many agitated people started mentioning other matters. The emperor’s expression grew increasingly grim, and some even thought the emperor was about to flare up and punish the Ren family. Hence, they went on even more zealously.

However, Fang Tianen and his group of people also realized that something was amiss. If the Ren family’s people had no reaction regarding the attacks on Ren Jie, it would make sense. After all, there were many incidents of Ren Jie fooling around. Besides, in their opinion, he had not truly established his dignity as the family head. However, things were gradually becoming messy. Several fellows who didn’t know the limits or had risen sharply in recent years actually used Ren Tianxing in their arguments. And at this point, the Ren people still didn’t have much reaction, which was a little abnormal.

“That Ren Tianxing did as he wished since the early years, it isn’t only today that the Ren family has disregarded the laws of the country, except it’s become increasingly exaggerated, even snatching of others’ properties is something they do now. It seems it’s like father, like son in the Ren family. If they continue this way, the Ren family will be even fiercer than bandits…” Li Yan, the son of Prince Anyang, Li Zheng, was also of the royal bloodline and had just joined the court as an official two years ago. Back then, his father was responsible for supervising military rations. When he secretly deducted the rations, he was almost beaten to death by Ren Tianxing. And Ren Tianxing even connived with his subordinates. In the end, Prince Anyang was blinded in one eye and crippled, and he could only return to his fief. Li Yan was young and aggressive, seeing that the crowd was roused, he’d thought it was time to punish the Ren family and also brought out some issues that he’d gathered in secret.

However, he didn’t realize that the more he went on, the weirder the atmosphere became. Subsequently, even Fang Tianen, who started this issue at the start, was looking at him oddly.

“Bam…” Just as Li Yan was getting into it, a person suddenly bolted out from the front of the military officers. General Zhan, Zhan Tianlong, who had always stood right at the front and never uttered a word during court assemblies, suddenly stepped out, his perfected combat skill of traveling far with just a step wonderfully used. With a punch, Li Yan flew out.

“Spat… you… how dare you hit me. His Majesty, Royal Uncle, seek justice for me…” Li Yan spurted out a mouthful of blood from the hit, several teeth falling out as he roared in disbelief.

He was a true descendant of the royals and was also a second-class marquis right now. Moreover, he was his father’s eldest son. If he was lucky in the future, he even had the chance to become a prince. This was the Great Hall of Supreme Harmony, how dare he hit him.

“That’s letting you off lightly. If you dare to continue speaking bad of Marshal I will kill you…” Zhan Tianlong was like a raging huge dragon. Going forth, he added another kick, scolding while kicking. “Is the Marshal someone you can call by his name? So what if I hit you? Your father’s eye was also blasted by me back then. I hit your father in those days too…”

Zhan Tianlong, nicknamed Warring Dragon 1 On the battlefield, he was as ferocious as a massive warring dragon, Ren Tianxing’s capable assistant. Although he only had an official post in the military with little to do, once he flared up, he was unstoppable. His killing intent as he charged into enemy lines made the legs of many ministers that had never been on the battlefield turn into jelly. What was he going to do?

“I beat you too. How dare you speak about the Marshal…

“F*ck, I’ve long seen this bastard as an eyesore, he actually dared to speak badly of the Marshal.

“Who do you think you are, daring to call the Marshal a bandit. Without the Marshal, how could you be alive and speaking here.”

Never mind that Zhan Tianlong had struck, a dozen people rushed out from amongst the military officials. Although they did not use their true energy, their punches and kicks became more forceful. Who were they? People who had fought hundreds of battles. Even if they didn’t use their divine power, dharma spells or their combat skills, their strikes weren’t something that someone like Li Yan could handle.

Not just the military officials, several of the city officials had also rushed out. Back in those days, Zhan Tianlong was the second-ranked general under Ren Tianxing. Together with Sixth Lord of the Ren family, they had assisted Ren Tianxing in creating a monumental legend. Today, the Ren people all watched Zhan Tianlong, once he moved, especially since this Li Yan had often been speaking about the Ren family in usual times, they’d held back for a long time.

Li Yan shrieked repeatedly, wailing continuously, in disbelief that this bunch of people were mad, that they actually dared to beat him up in the Great Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Fang Tianen, Wen Yong, Gao Zhanyuan and others looked at Li Yan without making a sound. They thought to themselves, Your father back then was a true prince. Other than escorting rations in transportation, he also had the responsibility of supervising troops, but even so, he was almost killed. Most importantly, of all people, why did you have to idly push everything onto Ren Tianxing. This is the Great Hall of Supreme Harmony, if you dare to say this to the armed forces, countless people will rip you apart even if it means having their entire clans slaughtered.

Although Ren Tianxing had disappeared for many years, still no one dared to ignore the strength of his influence. Including some actions of the emperor and the big family clans, they were all gradual and tentative, step by step. But look at this rascal.

Eventually, seeing that Li Yan was half-dead from the beating and Zhan Tianlong and others cooled down, the emperor stood up with a furious holler. He reprimanded Zhan Tianlong and the others, then gave everyone a dressing down, ordered Fang Tianen to investigate this matter clearly again, then left with a flick of his sleeves.

“Em… peror… Royal Uncle…” Li Yan laid there, unable to believe that this was the outcome. The rest shook their heads while leaving the Great Hall of Supreme Harmony, thinking, Didn’t you ask for a beating. The emperor had wanted to confer Ren Tianxing the title of Great General King that was equivalent to his own. How did Ren Tianxing get those two Death Exemption Jade Tablets? Back when the emperor was a prince, the number of times Ren Tianxing saved the emperor wasn’t less than ten, not to mention his subsequent work in fighting for the country and expanding its territory.

If he allowed others to speak bad of Ren Tianxing, even the emperor would have no way to explain it, not to mention Ren Tianxing’s unmatched reverence in the military. If Li Yan spoke badly about Ren Tianxing today and the emperor supported his words, the consequences would be unpredictable. This wasn’t a usual matter.