C69 A Broken Stone

The entire body of this strange stone was smooth and glossy with an amber hue. The noon sunlight shone down from the sky, reflecting a golden light on the rock.

The upper part of the bird's body was like a golden crescent moon with a red cloud that looked like a flying phoenix.

The combination of the moon and the phoenix was the symbol of the Great Yue State, Yue Yao.

Other than the emperor and Wen Jianzheng, this was the first time everyone had seen this crescent and they all gasped in admiration.

The emperor listened to the praises of the crowd and caressed the smooth as jade crescent s: "The Heaven Descending Divine Stone should be placed in the Qintian prison's Bo Wen Hall. I want to engrave a biography of this matter, but I am afraid I will be disrespectful to the God's Stone. Wen Jianzheng, in your opinion, what should we do? "

Wen Jianzheng took nine steps to the east side of the divine stone, turned towards the southeast, and took another six steps. Then, he knelt down facing the divine stone, clasped his hands behind his back, and muttered a prayer.

Although all of this seemed to be an intentional mystification, because of the emperor's superstition of the Tao technique, he had complete trust in Wen Jianzheng. Everyone held their breath and looked at Wen Jianzheng, not daring to reveal even the slightest bit of disrespect or suspicion.

Feng Ningyan thought, what stone banquet, it was extremely boring! She also didn't know when the main highlight that Shen Lingjue had mentioned would be ready for battle.

Wen Jianzheng completed everything exaggeratedly, he suddenly raised his hand to the sky, as if he saw a strange scene in the sky.

"My royal father sensed the spirit of the heavens and was blessed by the world. Heaven's will created the divine stone, protecting the Radix Macrocephalae from the heavens! "

As soon as he finished his sentence, a loud sound came from the sky and the ground suddenly shook, making people's feet go numb.

Right at this moment, a change suddenly occurred to the crescent.

At the bottom of Yue Yao's pattern, the surface of the stone suddenly began to peel off pieces of the stone. Following that, rows of small ancient characters were revealed.

When Shen Chenxuan saw this, he was overjoyed. "Wen Jianzheng is really a god that can reach the heavens!"

It turned out that after the stone fell, four lines of words were revealed. It was precisely the poem Wen Jianzheng was reciting just now!

This time, the people who thought that Wen Jianzheng was deliberately making things difficult for them and tried to flatter them, were all shocked. They started to admire Wen Jianzheng to their very bones, and all of them kneeled down, crying out how long it had been.

The empress, crown prince and imperial concubine kneeled on the floor and shouted, "Our emperor's rule is filled with emotions. No one has ever come before, no one will ever come!"

Consort Shu, Shen Lingjue, Shen Yusu, Feng Ningyan and the other princes and imperial concubines also knelt down.

Such a magnificent and wondrous scene made everyone extremely excited.

Shen Lingjue glanced at Wen Jianzheng, and the corners of her mouth curled into a disdainful sneer.

Feng Ningyan couldn't help but say softly, "Your Highness, Wen Jianzheng's way of doing things is basically like a god's rod, that rock is extremely suspicious …"

Shen Lingjue silently held her hand and smiled faintly at her. She shook his head, as if he wanted her to calm down a little.

The emperor anxiously helped Wen Jianzheng up and allowed everyone to rise.

"Wen Jianzheng is truly a good national genius. Order, Wen Jianzheng levelled up from Level Four to Level Two! "I will reward you with a hundred taels of gold, a mansion in the capital, three other establishments, and a hundred servants!"

Wen Jianzheng expressed his thanks, following that, the officials of the Department of Rites and Services announced that they would be moving the crescent to the Blog Temple, the Hall of Heaven and Earth.

Amongst the hundred officials, besides some nobles who had rendered meritorious services, no one else had received such a reward.

Just a rock at the bottom of the river had made Wen Jianzheng suddenly levelled up by two levels, receiving a generous reward that left all the civil and military officials speechless.

Many people dared to be angry, but just at this time, the Assistant Minister of Revenue, Liu Jun suddenly walked out, and with a "Putong", he knelt on the ground, and raised a thick stack of reports above his head, wailing in pain:

"Your Majesty! This subject, Liu Jun, has an introduction! The Yellow River had been turned into a disaster, and the village of Hundred Miles City was littered with corpses. However, in the capital, it was a place where deceitful and deceitful people roamed and evil arts plagued the nation! "Using a broken rock to hide the Yellow River's calamity and millions of lives, stopping the Ministry of Revenue's memorial, making it impossible for the people to listen to the story …"

Before he could finish speaking, the Crown Prince gave a meaningful glance to the guards, who immediately pressed Liu Jun to the ground. With one kick, Liu Jun's front teeth fell off, and his face was covered in blood.

Liu Jun suddenly requested for orders for the citizens' sake, pointing the spearhead straight at Wen Jianzheng, the great red man, everyone was shocked.

When the Consort Shu was close, she was so frightened that she retreated a step, stepped on the hem of her skirt, and almost fell down.

Feng Ningyan hurriedly supported the Consort Shu and whispered, "Empress, be careful."

The other day, when she was chatting with the Consort Shu about the stone banquet, she also thought that countless people would die from the Yellow River water disaster. However, she never expected that the disaster would be so severe that the local officials would actually dare to hide it from her.

The Consort Shu looked at the emperor worriedly. "I can't believe the water disease is this severe …"

How many people would be killed and how many crops would be harmed if the village was flooded?

The food production and taxes of Henan Province were always plentiful. Once the harvest failed, it would lead to famine throughout the country and the weakening of the treasury.

The emperor was in high spirits, who would dare to not mention the pot at this moment?

This Liu Jun, however, was not afraid of death.

The imperial reports were scattered all over the floor. Each and every one of the words written on it was heartbreaking and touching, as if it was written with blood and tears.

Feng Ningyan read a few lines, and then became extremely angry. She made a fist and was about to rush over to teach the guards a lesson, but Shen Lingjue held her hand tightly.

Shen Lingjue gently shook her head and looked towards the crown prince and Wen Jianzheng.

Feng Ningyan followed his gaze and realized that the crown prince and Wen Jianzheng were both looking at each other in panic.

She immediately understood.

The Crown Prince won over the various powers, not only within the imperial court, but also at the local government.

If he had been planted by the crown prince, it would not be hard to explain why crescent would suddenly appear in times of great disaster, and why the Ministry of Revenue's imperial report of the Henan Prefecture's flood was effectively stopped, so that the emperor only knew of the auspicious sign from the heavens and not the Yellow River.

She softly said to Shen Lingjue: "The Crown Prince wants to protect Henan Yin Wang Yan Zhong, but Wen Jianzheng's mission is to use the crescent to help the Crown Prince divert the attention of the Emperor. So Wen Jianzheng is the crown prince's man?! "

Shen Lingjue nodded slightly and smiled confidently, "Wangfei is so smart. The assassins in Taiping Inn were sent by the Crown Prince. Wen Jianzheng framed you as the bane of a country and it was also under the orders of the Crown Prince. There's a secret you don't know.

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Looking at his relaxed appearance, Feng Ningyan felt that the rascally appearance he usually had in front of her was probably just a disguise.

His true nature, his deep shrewdness, his machinations, she did not understand at all.

It was just like how she couldn't understand why he would smile at her when they were passing through marble temple. He even nodded his head to indicate to her that she should draw a painting, and why he would rather die with her while carrying the notoriety of a disorderly palace …

Shen Lingjue, what kind of person are you exactly …

"Your Majesty …" Liu Jun's head was stepped on, his entire face was covered with blood and dust, but he was still shouting with all his might, "Wen Jianzheng is a villain of evil, a villain who deceived the world! The Emperor absolutely could not trust the demon so easily, ignoring the suffering of the people! Water can carry boats, but it can also overturn boats! The blood of tens of thousands of civilians, is it not even worth a stone? "