Yan Liqiang did not meet the emperor. Although Eunuch Liu brought him into the palace, it was not so easy to see the emperor.
After entering the palace, Eunuch Liu asked someone to inform the emperor and prepare to file a complaint in person. Yan Liqiang stayed in a place similar to a detention room in the palace and waited for two full hours. Then Eunuch Liu came out with a smile on his face and told him the result. Three days later, the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple and the Inspectorate would jointly try the case. Then he took Yan Liqiang back to Luyuan.
At night, Yan Liqiang heard the news that the doctor from the Ministry of Justice who came to Luyuan to arrest him had been dismissed from his post.
As for why the three courts had to jointly try the case three days later, the reason was very simple. If the case was tried tomorrow, the sensation caused by this incident in the Imperial Capital would be limited, because it takes time for news to spread. But if it was left until three days later, during these three days, the matter would have been fully fermented and known to everyone in the Imperial Capital. The result of the joint trial by the three courts would also attract more attention from everyone in the Imperial Capital, and the effect of slapping the emperor in the face would be better.
Yan Liqiang vaguely felt that this matter seemed to be a good thing for the emperor. The mistakes made by the Ministry of Justice, after being caught by Eunuch Liu and reported to the higher authorities, seemed to have given the emperor in the palace an opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Unknowingly, he was drawn into the deepest and biggest vortex in the imperial capital.
Ordinary people would avoid such a vortex. If Yan Liqiang was still the same Yan Liqiang, he would not want to get involved. But at this time, Yan Liqiang did not regret it. Although he did not want to get involved in the vortex of political struggle, sometimes, he had no choice about these things, especially when others were ready to take action against him. Just because he did not want to get involved, he would wait for others to plot against him? And die? Damn it, Yan Liqiang was not so pedantic. In these four years, in order to survive and save the millions of victims in the future catastrophe, Yan Liqiang would definitely kill anyone who wanted to threaten him, no matter who that person was.
Xu Lang and others are just the first batch, but definitely not the last.
Yan Liqiang also knew that after this incident, he would probably become completely famous in the Imperial Capital. For a person who wanted to live a peaceful life, fame was a trouble, but for a person who wanted to do something big, fame was a necessary process. Otherwise, even if you shouted your throat out on the street, no one would pay attention to you!
"You just wait in the Deer Garden for three days. Don't go out, or you'll have trouble. After three days, I'll go to the Dali Temple with you to seek justice for you!"
This is what Eunuch Liu told Yan Liqiang after they returned to Luyuan. Yan Liqiang knew that what Eunuch Liu said made sense, so he naturally nodded.
For the next three days, Yan Liqiang remained unchanged. He practiced hard during the day, and at night, he continued to take detours with the people from the Sihai Escort Agency in the Tiandao Divine Realm, hurrying on the road, inquiring about the news along the way, and struggling to return to the Sword God Sect in the chaotic situation.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Early in the morning of July 8, the 13th year of Yuanping in the Han Empire, Yan Liqiang got up, changed into a set of clean and decent clothes, and made himself look brand new. After completing morning lessons and eating breakfast, Yan Liqiang went directly to the outside of Eunuch Liu's yard and waited. Not long after waiting, Eunuch Liu, who had also changed into a formal eunuch official uniform that he rarely wore, walked out accompanied by Xiao Lizi and Xiao Chunzi.
"Well, Li Qiang, you're here. Why don't you come in? We were afraid that you had forgotten today, so we were just about to ask Little Li to call you." Seeing Yan Liqiang waiting outside the door in an orderly manner, Eunuch Liu said kindly. Since he discovered three days ago that Yan Liqiang's attitude towards the doctor of the Ministry of Justice was as cold as ice, Eunuch Liu felt more and more happy and satisfied when he looked at Yan Liqiang who was respectful to him. He felt that he had not misjudged the person. Yan Liqiang was young, but he was someone he could really rely on when something happened.
"I'm afraid of disturbing your rest, so I'm waiting here for you to come out. I wonder if you had a good rest last night?" Yan Liqiang greeted Eunuch Liu with a smile. In just this one sentence, Yan Liqiang had already captured all the thoughts in Eunuch Liu's mind. In front of Yan Liqiang, Eunuch Liu was like a transparent person. Eunuch Liu liked his respectfulness, so Yan Liqiang tried to please him more.
"Okay, of course. It's been raining for a few days, and today it's sunny again. The dark clouds have dissipated, and our deer park is refreshing!" Eunuch Liu looked at Yan Liqiang with a smile, "By the way, your practice this morning..."
"I have already asked Master for leave!"
"That's great, let's go!"
"Um!"
Unlike three days ago, this time, Eunuch Liu directly selected a team of soldiers from the Deer Garden, wearing bright helmets and armor, riding rhinoceros horses, to protect him and Yan Liqiang, and go to the Dali Temple to attend today's trial. At first glance, the scene was so grand that it seemed that they were not going for an interrogation, but rather for a parade.
The rain that had lasted for several days almost stopped completely yesterday afternoon. This morning, the red sun came out again, and the sky was clear. Except for some undried water marks on the official road, there was almost no trace of rain.
The group entered from the west gate of the Imperial Capital. Yan Liqiang, who was sitting in the same carriage with Eunuch Liu and chatting, heard a young man shouting from the street outside, "Come and take a look. The first strange case in the Imperial Capital in a hundred years is being tried by the three courts of the Dali Temple today. A young lieutenant of the Imperial Horse and Infantry Division who had just advanced to the Dragon and Tiger Warrior was wrongly killed by a group of powerful warriors. Come and take a look..."
"Hey, young man, what are you selling?"
"This is a newspaper, The Han Empire Times. If you want to read the contents of the newspaper, you need six copper coins..."
Listening to the shouting outside the carriage, Yan Liqiang's face turned strange. He didn't expect that even though he hadn't contacted Fang Beidou in the past few days, Fang Beidou obviously knew about his affairs. The second issue of the "Han Empire Times" just released today undoubtedly reported the three-court trial today. Just by listening to the shouting of the newsboy, it was clear that the "Han Empire Times" had already set a position and promoted him as an innocent person...
Eunuch Liu naturally heard the shouting on the street. He looked at Yan Liqiang with a smile and gently knocked on the partition in front of the carriage.
"Eunuch, what's the matter?" Little Li's voice came from beside the coachman in front.
"Buy us a copy of the Han Empire Times that's sold on the street..."
"yes!"
Before the car had gone far, a newspaper was handed in from the small window at the front of the car, "Eunuch, this is the Han Empire Times you wanted..."
Eunuch Liu took the newspaper and opened it. Then, on the front page of the newspaper, a shocking headline suddenly caught his eye: "A strange case that has not happened in the capital for a hundred years will be tried by the three judges of the Dali Temple today."
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Almost at the same time, people began to buy newspapers in the streets and restaurants of the Imperial Capital. Some people bought newspapers because they were attracted by the shouting of the newsboys, while others bought newspapers because they heard the storyteller say that the sequel to the "Journey to the West" that he had just started would be available in today's newspaper...
These two things, put together today, completely detonated the sales of the second issue of "The Great Han Empire Times"...
Compared to a week ago, the four distribution points of the Han Empire Times in the Imperial Capital City were busy from the beginning today. The young newspaper sellers kept trotting and excitedly going in and out of the distribution points, busy like little bees collecting honey...
"Brother Xiaowu, those 50 newspapers were sold out in a short time today. I want another 50. Here's the money..."
"Brother Xiaowu, I'm going to get 100 this time, and the teahouse over there will directly reserve 50..."
"I want 100 copies too. Several people who listen to books in the restaurant want to read them..."
The copper coins flowed into the cash box, and the bundles of printed newspapers were quickly distributed and spread throughout the streets and alleys of the Imperial Capital...
Today, the name Yan Liqiang was all over the screen in Imperial Capital City...
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ps: The most coquettish author in Tiger’s circle of friends, Silent Pastry’s new work “Eunuch Wu Emperor” has been released. Let me shout out to him. This coquettish man wrote a book under a pseudonym a few years ago. If you search for that book now, you will get all kinds of XXX unabridged search results. Ahem, don’t ask me what the pseudonym is called. I won’t tell you even if you kill me…
(End of this chapter)