"I ask you to kneel down," Lu Zhishan said calmly, "Since you call me the great emperor brother, does it not feel aggrieved to kneel down to my eldest brother?"
Lu Zhiyue gritted his teeth, but finally lifted up his robe and knelt down, and said bravely: "Brother, please give me a lecture."
"Ruan Xinhuai is your disciple, am I right?" Lu Zhishan said slowly.
"Yes, Ruan Xinhuai is indeed my disciple. He used to be my companion. He has always been respectful and courteous. Although he made mistakes in his early years, he has corrected himself. He has been very calm and cautious over the years. This is also the time I want to express my gratitude to my father. The emperor recommended him, and he was able to return to the capital and become the governor of Jingzhao," Lu Zhiyue said, taking a deep breath and adding, "Ruan Xinhuai did not do things well this time, and he indeed deserves to be punished, but in the end he He is a third-grade imperial official. No matter how serious his crime is, he should be tried by Long Live Lord himself or handed over to the Ministry of Punishment. Is it inappropriate for the eldest brother to hastily order the killing of Ruan Xinhuai? "
"Yes, I did act inappropriately, so as soon as daybreak, I will go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to plead guilty to my father," Lu Zhishan took a sip of tea, looked down at Lu Zhiyue, and said calmly, "What about you? Ruan Xinhuai keeps saying that he is acting on your orders. Do you want to go with me to plead guilty to my father?"
Lu Zhiyue's face turned even paler, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead: "Brother Emperor, you should know that the selection of beauties is the will of the father. The reason why Ruan Xinhuai is so unscrupulous is also the tacit approval of the father. Because of this matter, the courtiers have a lot of opinions now, and my father is also worried all day long. Do you really want to bring this matter to the imperial court and make my father unable to stand down in public? "
Lu Zhishan calmly said: "So, why do you think I had to execute Ruan Xinhuai so impatiently?"
Lu Zhiyue felt like he was struck by lightning: "You...are you deliberately trying to make things worse?"
Lu Zhishan put the tea cup on the table, looked at Lu Zhiyue's surprised face, and said with a cold face: "Ruan Xinhuai deliberately picked on the people from southern Xinjiang and said that he would do what you want. I don't believe what he said. I'll face him now." Let me ask you, is this really true? "
Lu Zhiyue's mind was in a mess at this time and he didn't know what to say, so he just nodded.
"Why from southern Xinjiang?" Lu Zhishan's face became even colder.
Lu Zhiyue turned pale and whispered: "We have to select eight hundred people at once, and we have to teach them foreign languages and etiquette nearby. Of course we can't select people from other places. But the people in the capital refused to do it, and the uproar filled the sky. The ministers in the DPRK I wrote to report this matter in the past few days, and my father reprimanded me for it. I had no choice but to ask Ruan Xinhuai to go to the suburbs of Beijing to pick. Later, I heard that there were villages in the suburbs of Beijing where refugees from southern Xinjiang gathered, so I ordered Ruan Xinhuai to go there to pick. People in southern Xinjiang dare not make trouble at the feet of the emperor. Secondly, the barbarians in southern Xinjiang are despicable and go to serve the barbarians in Siam and Tibet. This kind of evil happens to them. "
"In your eyes, the people of Southern Xinjiang are so despicable," Lu Zhishan curled his lips sarcastically, "That's why you don't care about how miserable the people of Southern Xinjiang are, so you don't care about these either. How many people from southern Xinjiang have died at the hands of foreigners over the years, so why do you care about these 800 women from southern Xinjiang?”
Lu Zhiyue trembled and said: "To ensure the stability of Dali, someone has to make sacrifices."