重生爱上九千岁

Chapter 069

Chapter 69: Leaning Towards the Eighth Prince

Lin Qing was very anxious, really anxious. This incident made him realize clearly that as long as Situ Yaohua or Situ Wenrui got the throne, they wouldn't tolerate him.

Needless to say about Situ Yaohua, the hostility towards him was about to be shot through his (SY) eyes. The officials at court also looked at him in that way, so, they didn't find anything strange with it, but to Lin Qing, it was fatal. The future emperor is hostile towards him, will he still be able to keep his life after Situ Yaohua ascended the throne?

It was the same for Situ Wenrui. Although, Situ Wenrui needed to rely on him for the time being, but Situ Wenrui is haughty and arrogant. Once he holds power in the court, he would definitely not tolerate him, the subject who had once helped him and who is a crafty and bootlicking official. To boil the hound once it caught the rabbit, to kill the donkey once the grinding was done had always been the style that every monarch was an expert at and they used it with ease and very severely. The result certainly would also be fine when Situ Wenrui use it.

[1] To boil the hound once it caught the rabbit: get rid of somebody once he had served his purpose.

[2] To kill the donkey once the grinding is done: get rid of somebody once he has ceased to be useful.

After Zhao Zimu was arrested, Lin Qing clearly realized that if he dies, no one will protect Zhao Zimu.

This was not to say that she needed someone's protection. Lin Qing knew that with her ability, she would be able to live well by herself. However, ever since Zhao Zimu was arrested and her complete lack of response with an attitude of waiting to be captured, Lin Qing undoubtedly realized that this was a person who didn't care about her own life and death. Furthermore, such person was very easy to die.

If he truly died, who would hold onto her floating heart, let her be emotionally moved, let her be fond off and let her live well when he was no longer here?

Zhao Zimu needed a purpose to continue to live. This was something Lin Qing got to know the day he went to pick her up from the Ministry of Justice. Furthermore, that day she told him that he was her everything. So, what will happen to her if he dies?

Lin Qing doesn't know whether Zhao Zimu would die with him, but if she didn't die and he wanted her to live on well, then should he expect her to find someone who could become her everything?

Lin Qing couldn't tolerate that happening, so, he couldn't die.

The accusation at court later implicated two more people. Of course, if Lin Qing was willing, he could've dug out more people. However, if he did that, presumably, the contradictions between him and the officials would be one step closer to becoming violent.

There were many people at court who he could bribe or threaten, but these people looked down on him, a eunuch, after all. They could help him today because of being threatened, then, in the future they can also give him a fatal blow.

Hence, aside from the officials that was killing the chicken to warn the monkey, Lin Qing didn't touch the others. The case ended with embezzling the state treasure and seizing the tributes for personal use and the Ministry of Appointments' Wang Fanzhi's son colluding with the rebels.

[3] Killing the chicken to warn the monkey: punish an individual as an example to others.

Needless to say about Wang Fanzhi, at the food market in the imperial capital was stained with red. Three generations were about thousand people, regardless whether they were men, women, young or old, not one was left. Everyone was beheaded as a public exhibition.