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Chapter 196 Your Majesty, the Princess Beats the Prince Consort to Death

Zhao Erya is not a mad dog that bites people indiscriminately. Her previous targets were people with red names or evildoers who committed crimes.

She let go of those minor flaws but still maintained her loyalty, and planned to tell Zhao Xuan privately and let him deal with it.

As for the three regent ministers, Wei Jiaping had a bad temper and acted impulsively, but his loyalty to Zhao Xuan was 86, so Zhao Erya did not target him.

What is surprising is Qi Guanhong. Although his loyalty to Zhao Xuan is only 69, his loyalty to the Xia Dynasty is 92.

In other words, in Qi Guanhong's mind, the Xia Kingdom is the Xia Kingdom and the emperor is the emperor.

No matter who is on the throne, if he does something that is detrimental to the Xia Kingdom, he is likely to depose him.

Zhao Erya still admires Qi Guanhong very much. He is loyal to the country rather than to himself, and he is not blindly loyal.

However, his power is too great, and his subordinates are a mixed bunch, including many scum. Half of Zhao Erya's men are his, and there is nothing he can do about it.

As for Ru Liangjun, the man with a red head and pigtails, who in the original plot stood on the side of the deposed prince and attempted to rebel, Zhao Erya had no intention of letting him go.

She has sent people to collect evidence, and she thinks there will be results soon.

Don’t worry, there is a long way to go.

Facing Zhao Erya's good attitude, Lord Gan tried hard to suppress his doubts and continued, "However, Cai Mingyuan deserved to die. Although the princess acted impulsively, she was willing to sacrifice her own family for the greater good..."

Lord Gan bowed to Zhao Xuan and said, "Your Majesty, please give me a small punishment and a big warning!"

What this means is that today's drama started with the impeachment of Zhao Erya, and it will end with a minor punishment of Zhao Erya, so don't make any more trouble.

It's not that Lord Gan didn't want to take this opportunity to cut off Qi Guanhong's followers, but Zhao Erya had already taken down sixteen ministers, each of whom held important positions and implicated many people. He was afraid of causing instability in the court and affecting Zhao Xuan.

Zhao Erya understood Lord Gan's thoughts. Although she did not quite agree with them, she was still willing to give face to this old man who was dedicated to the public.

She gave Zhao Xuan a wink: That’s all for today?

Zhao Xuan blinked: I’ll do as you say.

Zhao Erya smiled and said good-naturedly, "I will listen to Master Gan!"

She turned around and looked around. Everyone whose eyes caught her lowered their heads involuntarily, for fear of attracting the attention of this crazy woman.

Zhao Erya was very satisfied with the impact she had made. She laughed and said loudly, "Today, I will give Lord Gan a favor."

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Lord Gan with gratitude.

In the end, Zhao Erya was fined half a year's salary and confined to his home for a month, and the matter was settled.

After the court was dismissed, Zhao Erya and other ministers walked out of the front hall, and Qi Guanhong called her.

"The princess has some tricks!" Qi Guanhong sneered, "She has quite the style of the Grand Princess of Guo State!"

Zhao Erya glanced at him sideways, did she think she couldn't understand what he meant?

The eldest princess of Guo did not have a good ending. Her son and daughter died early, and in her later years she was involved in the affair of the deposed crown prince and was imprisoned by the late emperor until her death.

Qi Guanhong compared Zhao Erya with the Grand Princess of Guo State, and the meaning is self-evident.

Zhao Erya didn't argue with him because of his loyalty to Xia Guo 92. She just looked him up and down, rolled her eyes, and walked away.

She has to hurry back to her house arrest!

Qi Guanhong was angered by Zhao Erya's attitude. He pointed at Zhao Erya's back and was speechless for a long time.

Ru Liangjun on the side took the opportunity to step forward and comfort him: "Master Qi Guanhong, please calm down. Princess Dongping has behaved perversely and will surely suffer the consequences. Don't get angry and hurt yourself!" As he spoke, he patted Qi Guanhong on the back to calm him down.

Qi Guanhong waved away Ru Liangjun's hand and snorted coldly: "You'd better take care of yourself!" Then he looked up and left.

Ru Liangjun looked at Qi Guanhong with a gloomy face, secretly cursing him for being ungrateful.

"I'll kill you all sooner or later!"

Ru Liangjun thought bitterly.

Zhao Erya was put under house arrest, but no one else in the princess's mansion was.

She sorted out the collected information and asked Cheng Zhi to give it to Zhao Xuan.

Not only did it contain the evidence she had found about the minister's crimes, she also wrote down the information of people she thought could take the place of the minister for Zhao Xuan's reference.

Cheng Zhizhi was stunned for a moment when he saw this, then lowered his head and responded.

In the following days, although Zhao Erya did not go out, news from outside continued to come in.

After those sixteen people, Zhao Xuan dealt with several more families and replaced some positions with his own people.

Qi Guanhong and Ru Liangjun were naturally unwilling, but with the full support of Wei Jiaping and Lord Gan, and the "living devil" Zhao Erya fanning the flames from behind, the matter was finally accomplished.

During this time, Zhao Xuan secretly ran to the princess's residence, tearfully held her hand, and said, "Sister, you've been wronged!"

Zhao Erya looked at the intimacy value of 99 on Zhao Xuan's head and sighed helplessly.

"Okay, okay, why are you still so crybaby like when you were little?" She wiped Zhao Xuan's tears. "It's rare for you to come over, so I'll make you your favorite pea yellow!"

Zhao Xuan wiped her tears, smiled and nodded.

The two siblings were having a great time, but Ru Liangjun was almost mad with anger.

Zhao Xuan has found out that Ru Liangjun has connections with the deposed prince's lineage, and he has found excuses to eliminate many of Ru Liangjun's men in recent days.

The time for rebellion was not yet ripe, and Ru Liangjun did not dare to act rashly, but he also did not want to sit and wait for death, so he asked to see Qi Guanhong, wanting to form an alliance with him, first suppress Wei Jiaping and Lord Gan, and eliminate Zhao Xuan's people.

Unexpectedly, Qi Guanhong rejected him.

Qi Guanhong loves power and his loyalty to Zhao Xuan is average, but he is loyal to the late emperor who has been kind to him.

In his opinion, although the Zhao siblings were not human beings, he would never suppress loyal and capable ministers for his own selfish reasons.

In fact, he has recently been considering whether to return to power.

The main reason why he clung to power before was that he looked down on Zhao Xuan, who had taken advantage of the opportunity, and thought that Zhao Xuan had mediocre talents and could not shoulder the responsibility of making the Xia Kingdom prosperous.

Now the Iron Fang tribe in the north is on the rise again. Only a tough emperor can curb this foreign enemy.

Just like the late emperor.

However, after Zhao Erya's last incident, Qi Guanhong discovered Zhao Xuan's abilities, especially his subsequent methods of dealing with corrupt officials, which made him see the shadow of the late emperor in Zhao Xuan.

"Perhaps, the late emperor was not wrong about the person, and he did find a good successor!" Qi Guanhong said to Wei Jiaping who came to persuade him to return power again.

Wei Jiaping nodded: "The emperor is very good, I believe he will be a wise ruler!"

Looking at Wei Jiaping's matter-of-fact expression, Qi Guanhong smiled and said nothing more.

At the first grand court session in the 15th year of Longxing, Grand Marshal Qi Guanhong and Imperial Censor Wei Jiaping requested Zhao Xuan to return power to the emperor.

Zhao Xuan refused it briefly, then accepted it.

As for the unwilling Ru Liangjun, who cares?