Fake Eunuch: Discovering the Emperor is a Woman!-Chapter 105: I, the Official, Am Saving Your Lives

Seeing the situation on the city wall further spiraling out of control, the young Emperor felt a headache coming on.

However, compared to above, below was much more stable.

Even after hearing Lin Yi’s words, the disaster victims showed no change in expression.

They didn’t care whether there was sand in the rice porridge; they cared about whether they could drink it, whether they could survive.

Seeing the situation below, Lin Yi nodded in satisfaction, then continued to shout loudly:

"Very good, it seems you all understand my painstaking efforts.

Indeed, mixing soil into this pot is not to trample on your dignity."

Upon hearing this, the officials above were nearly driven to curse out loud.

Zhang Liang even knelt down in front of the young Emperor with tears and mucus running down his face, saying:

"Your Majesty, do you hear what this man is saying?

His painstaking efforts?

Are his painstaking efforts to smear the court, to smear Your Majesty’s reputation?

This is a calamity!

Your Majesty, he dares to commit such an outrageous act in front of You and the Civil and Military Officials, showing just how arrogantly and unrestrainedly he behaves.

Your Majesty, I beseech you to execute him immediately, to appease the public’s anger!

If such a person is not executed, then I truly refuse to be associated with him, and I beg to resign my post and retire!"

Upon uttering these words, not only the young Emperor but also the Civil and Military Officials felt a sense of déjà vu.

Haven’t they heard similar words somewhere before?

However, at this moment, another person came forward, kneeling on the ground:

"I implore Your Majesty to execute this audacious culprit right here!"

It was only after this person appeared that everyone suddenly realized.

No wonder Mr. Zhang’s words sounded so familiar.

Indeed, this person had made similar remarks before.

Yes, the second person to speak up was none other than Cao Zheng, the Grandee Secretary who had also previously spoken of resigning.

Hearing this, the young Emperor recalled the earlier incident.

He hadn’t yet settled accounts with him, and this fellow had jumped out again, showing such shameless and meddlesome behaviors!

Hah, let no one blame me for being heartless then.

In the heart of the young Emperor, he had already begun contemplating how to deal with these people.

As for that Grandee Secretary, he definitely couldn’t be kept.

Even based on what had just happened, he had already won, as those words had come straight from his own mouth.

However, as the two spoke up, all of a sudden, a wave of people kneeled down around them, seemingly more than half of the officials were now on the ground.

At the same time, they shouted in unison:

"I implore Your Majesty to execute this audacious culprit right here!"

This was the second time today, the second time the young Emperor had been pressured so intensely.

Only during the first instance, because of Lin Yi’s outstanding performance, he directly slapped them back.

But now, this group of people, seemingly not learning their lesson, opposed him once more.

Just like the first time, the young Emperor felt very uneasy.

He also didn’t know how he would bring this to a close.

After all, the words Lin Yi had spoken were indeed outrageously rebellious.

If Lin Yi acted this way on a regular day without Civil and Military Officials present, it would have been acceptable and uncontroversial, but now that he and the Civil and Military Officials were outright witnessing this, Lin Yi still dared to say such things. This was clearly a slap in the face of the court.

Much like the current situation, the young Emperor really didn’t know how to proceed.

If he didn’t deal with Lin Yi, the words Lin Yi had just spoken showed too much contempt for them.

But if he were to act, that was fundamentally against his own desire.

Among the crowd, two people couldn’t help but smile, the most noticeable being the Fourth Prince.

Seeing that the young Emperor did not respond and remained silent, the Fourth Prince slightly bowed and clasped his fist towards the young Emperor:

"Your Majesty, the will of the people cannot be defied; now that all the Civil and Military Officials are watching, Your Majesty, you must not show favoritism."

This undeniably added fuel to the already blazing fire.

And the young Emperor truly felt the immense pressure on himself.

However, the young Emperor quickly diverted his gaze from the crowd, then with an icy tone, his voice reached every person present:

"Do not be impatient, let us see further what Lin Yi’s actions truly signify!

If he genuinely disrespects the law and the court, then without anyone speaking up, I will certainly not spare him."

This statement made his stance incredibly clear.

That is, at this moment, I will not act against him, I still trust him!

I want to let you all listen and see what he intends to do next, what he is going to say.

Now that the young Emperor had spoken thus, even if they were unwilling, they could only patiently look down from the wall.

There was no other way; after all, openly, it was still this young Emperor who had the final say, especially since the current young Emperor was not like his predecessor.

It could be said that after taking control of the three guards, within the Imperial City, few could stand against him.

After all, the troops on these city walls were the Left Martial Guard.

Without exaggeration, with just one command from the young Emperor now, he could have them all arrested and controlled.

Of course, they were confident that he wouldn’t dare to do so.

Because these people were certainly not just isolated individuals; it could frankly be said that these officials had connections throughout the entire bureaucracy of You Country.

Which official in You Country wasn’t a protégé of these people?

Overall, the entangled relationships within the bureaucracy were innumerable.

No grassroots individual could become an official purely by coincidence.

This was also why the young Emperor had not made such a move.

Capturing them was easy, but dealing with the interests involved was not.

Without absolute support, he would not act in such way.

When everyone’s gaze was directed toward the area below the city walls, they saw Lin Yi still standing on the high platform, staring down at the crowd, shouting:

"Trampling on your dignity is something I disdain to do.

The reason I did this, as some intelligent people might have guessed,

is to preserve that bowl of rice in your hands, to preserve your lives."

... End of this Chapter ...

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