The strongest devouring system in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 469 Calm

"I don't want to talk to you about how the Eastern Depot replaced the Embroidered Uniform Guard."

The current emperor looks like a little cheetah, having been poised to pounce for a long time.

The threat of attacking the Empress Dowager at any moment caused her to become slightly unsettled, and she sighed.

"Alright, you've already bestowed the yellow jacket upon Chen Er, so I won't pursue this any further. However, I have one condition: let's just leave it at that. There's no point in pursuing it any further." "Too many people are involved, and it's too difficult to punish everyone. I imagine even the Emperor would be in a difficult position." The Empress Dowager's words made Chen Er's brows furrow even more deeply.

Chen Er stood up abruptly from the ground: "Empress Dowager, what you said is too ridiculous. I was almost killed. If it weren't for the kind people surrounding me, I would have been killed."

“If it weren’t for me, a little boy, he wouldn’t have died. And now you’re saying we should just let it go? Your heart is as vast as the sea.”

Chen Er made no attempt to conceal his mockery of the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager's face was now ashen and ugly; her once charming face was now distorted and deformed.

The Empress Dowager stretched out her little finger and pointed it hard at Chen Er. She wanted to speak, but no words came out. It was clear that the Empress Dowager was furious with Chen Er.

Wei Zhongxian slapped his thigh and said, "Chen Er, you are too presumptuous. Do you know who you are talking to? This is the Empress Dowager, the Emperor's mother."

"You don't need to show respect to the Empress Dowager, but you are disrespectful to the Emperor. What should your punishment be?" In fact, Wei Zhongxian was shrewd and calculating, and what he said made a lot of sense.

After all, the Emperor was the Empress Dowager's son. Chen Er's disrespect towards the Empress Dowager showed that he did not respect the Emperor. Instead of being angry, Chen Er laughed.

Chen Er couldn't help but give Wei Zhongxian a thumbs up.

"Lord Wei Zhongxian, I've long heard that you're quick-witted, and seeing you today confirms it. You truly earn my deepest respect."

"I'd like to ask you, how do you usually treat the civil and military officials? What right do you have to point fingers here? Have you forgotten that you are a castrated man?"

Chen Er's words were quite harsh. The Emperor had just said that Wei Zhongxian was a castrated man, but because of the Emperor's high position, it made a difference.

Even though Wei Zhongxian was almost driven to the point of vomiting blood by the Emperor, he dared not vent his anger on the Emperor. Now, Chen Er has dared to act recklessly and repeat the Emperor's words once again.

This infuriated Wei Zhongxian: "Chen Er, how dare you! You don't hit someone in the face, and you don't insult someone by revealing their shortcomings. You are a second-rank official, how can you be so cruel and vicious?"

"You're making fun of my weaknesses." Wei Zhongxian now looked a bit like a shrew, and was almost about to jump up and start cursing.

Chen Er was already used to this; it was a trick that Wei Zhongxian always liked. Not to mention that Wei Zhongxiang was angry, the Empress Dowager was even angrier.

"No one is to pursue Sun Yunhe's matter any further." With this order from the Empress Dowager, the entire nation was immediately summoned, and Sun Yunhe was released.

Chen Er felt utterly helpless. He felt that serving a ruler was like serving a tiger; if the ruler ordered a subject to die, the subject had no choice but to die. Chen Er felt that his official hat might one day no longer be under his control.

After the Empress Dowager left, the Emperor looked at Chen Er with great urgency and said, "Chen Er, how can you still laugh? Quickly think of a solution for me."

"Now that Sun Yunhe, one of the Five Tiger Generals, has been released again, we are in a very passive position." After saying this, the Emperor seemed to have thought of something and said again.

"Chen Er, I have a very good idea. We should find Zhang Tianfei first. If we have Zhang Tianfei as evidence and he personally admits that Wei Zhongxian did everything, then we will save ourselves a lot of trouble."

The emperor rattled off every single solution he could think of.

The Emperor's words made Chen Er shake his head with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, I have a question. If we really find Zhang Tianfei..."

"Furthermore, under our coercion, Zhang Tianfei insisted on personally identifying Wei Zhongxian. So, if you have evidence, what can you do to Wei Zhongxian?"

Chen Er's words were absolutely spot on. Even if Zhang Tianfei personally identified Wei Zhongxian, so what?

With the Empress Dowager backing Wei Zhongxian up, what could the Emperor do to him? The Emperor, who was originally very excited, was suddenly doused with a bottle of cold water by Chen Er and turned into a drowned rat.

The Emperor slapped his thigh, his expression turning serious: "Then what do you suggest we do? We can't just sit here and wait to die. You really angered the Empress Dowager today."

"I know this Empress Dowager inside and out, so if she couldn't deal with you today, your luck won't be so good next time." The Emperor spoke from the heart.

Anyone who offends the Empress Dowager will suffer dire consequences. Besides losing their official position, if they're unlucky, they might be dragged out and executed along with their entire family.

Those are all things that happened in the past, so the current emperor has absolutely no power; he is simply being sidelined by Wei Zhongxian and the Empress Dowager.

Chen Er could only manage a wry smile: "Your Majesty, I do have a very good idea. We have no other choice but to target Zhao Beixing instead of Wei Zhongxian's Five Tiger Generals. Zhao Beixing will be brought here soon."

"Although Wei Zhongxian was in a cooperative relationship with Zhao Beixing, and Zhao Beixing must have given Wei Zhongxian a lot of benefits, Wei Zhongxiang had already chosen Sun Yunhe over Zhao Beixing."

"We've been working on this for so long, I don't want to end up with no one left. So let's just target Zhao Beixing now."

Chen Er thought about it for a long time before revealing this plan, because he had already considered the pros and cons. Sun Yunhe was under Wei Zhongxian, and then the Empress Dowager. Zhao Beixing was under Qin Zhongting.

To put it bluntly, if Zhao Beixing had Wei Zhongxian backing him up, he might still be able to escape this calamity. Otherwise, Zhao Beixing is doomed this time.