Chapter 90 (2/2)
Just as the e the painting of his beloved concubine, Concubine Ling, called the ‘Sovereign King Banquet’ the chamberlain Li Fu rushed over and disturbed him at the most unsuitable time: “Your majesty, the Defence Minister requests to see you”
“Lu Xingkong?” Chu Xianda was at the pri rise to his refined appearance He wholeheartedly tried to e up new territories and expanding their e that the most senior and experienced elder ca major happened in the country, why is he here?”
“The Defence Minister did not specify” Chamberlain Li Fu bowed and replied
Chu Xianda glanced over at Ling concubine’s drawing board, in a short while the painting will be completed, he wanted to be the first to feast his eyes and did not want to leave at this ti important to attend to, I’m too busy to see him”
“Your Majesty——–” Chamberlain Li Fu looked distressed, he stood at the door refusing to leave, then cautiously persuaded: “Your majesty, you should see Defence Minister ——-”
Chu Xianda was enraged, he thundered: “you old dog, you dare to teach the emperor what to do?”
“I don’t dare to” Li Fu ihtly: “Defence Minister is wearing the Dragon ar the Heavenly Emperor Sword at the Hall of Supreme Harmony”
“You old dog——” Chu Xianda’s face looked like he can’t bear it any longer, he ——–”
Theconcubine heard what Li Fu said, her little hand holding the paintbrush began to trereat black mark onto the piece of paper
“Ahh——-” Ling concubine exclaimed, her few days of hard as destroyed within seconds “The painting is ruined”
Chu Xianda glanced over, he was evento be so old is so troubleso so much trouble to me——-We’ll head to the Hall of Supreme Harmony”
Chu Xianda along with a group of guards rushed to the Hall of Supre in the rasping tightly onto the Heavenly E a weapon into the Hall?
Lu Xingkong stood up tall with dignity
This rier, this old , does he even take notice of the emperor?
However, what Chu Xianda shoas a different story
He looked at Lu Xingkong in astonishment, then asked with concern in his voice: “What is theheavy armour, could there be people ants to harm the Defence Minister?”
“Yourfell to his knees in front of the emperor Chu Xianda and said in a low voice
“Farewell?” Chu Xianda hastened to pull up Lu Xingkong, frowning, he asked: “Where will you be going?”
“I volunteer uard at the Broken Dragon Pool I won’t return until I die” Lu Xingkong said in a clear and loud voice
“Defence Minister, what are you talking about? Defence Minister has been fighting for this country for many years, now is the tiion to suffer? Broken Dragon Pool is guarded by Xu Da, he is Defence Minister’s hand-picked general and is known as ‘iron wall’ along with Zhou Dong of red river valley Since we have theuard there, what does Defence Minister has to worry about?”
Lu Xingkong carefully observed Chu Xianda’s facial expression, he then said with indignation and grief: “Your majesty, Xu Da was haron Pool——Broken Dragon Pool is the region between West Wind Kingdom and Wu Country, both sides have sent uard If the Wu Country discovered that the co and that our army is unstable, they would attack us ion Pool will most likely fall into the hands of the Wu Country”
“If Broken Dragon Pool was occupied by the Wu Country, our West Wind Kingdoate would be widely opened and the Wu Aryuan, Xinkou and Changdi At that time, even if anted to force them out it will be extremely difficult, ill most likely have to pay a heavy price ”
“Defence Minister———-defence ’s ‘deduction’ “What do you ? Why would the aron Pool be unstable? Where is Xu Da? What happened to Xu Da? He was entrusted with heavy responsibility, he was ordered to defend the frontier, he dares to desert?”
“Your Majesty——-” Lu Xingkong’s face looked shocked as he stared at Chu Xianda: “Don’t tell me the arrestment of Xu Da was not commanded by your majesty? ”
“When did I send people to arrest Xu Da? What crime did General Xu commit?”
“——–” Lu Xingkong’s face turned crier as he said in a fierce voice: “Don’t tell me the Monitor Division made the decision by themselves and decided to detain the ion?”
“Defence Minister, what is the , stared at Lu Xingkong and asked
Lu Xingkong was indignant as he once again gave an account of the arrestment of Xu Da and hoas framed
“General Xu Da is eneral, he started as a soldier and then step-by-step achieved outstanding military service and is non as ‘Iron Wall’ General Xu has been guarding Broken Dragon Pool for a decade; he had fought in several hundred battles to ensure stability in the border regions The Dawu nation could hardly step into our West Wind Kingdom thanks to his efforts”
“Your Majesty, what crime did Xu Da committed? Why was he suddenly arrested by the Monitor Department? And also they subjected him to all kinds of torture to obtain a false confession——-I don’t care if they’re against me but they used such unlawful acts to destabilise the country”
“If the commander-in-chief broke the law, then the Monitor Division should investigate first and gather evidence The final judgment should be made by the emperor——However, the Monitor Department made the arrest and faked evidence to force him to confess Your majesty did not know about this so did not eneral to replace hion Pool also does not knohat happened, they are all in a state of panic and the morale is low If a spy from the Wu Country probed into this matter, it will definitely lead to a battle, the consequences are unthinkable——–”
“Where is General Xu?”
“When General Xu was secretly ier shi+p by the Monitor Depart found out and rescued him—–Otherwise General Xu’s life would have ended”