Quick Wear: Under the Skirt, All Beings Are Equal

Chapter 447: The Traitor: Bright Moon, Drinking Alone in the Autumn

Tang Ran asked people to call all the civil and military officials to discuss the matter and see what the princess thought about the marriage.

Tang Ran disagreed in his heart. He felt that if peace had to rely on a woman, then what was the point of men like them?

Girls should be pretty and do what they want. They can make money like the Tenth Princess, save people like Xue Nanyin, or go to the battlefield like the girls from the Xie family.

It can be said that the status of women in the Northern Qi Dynasty was still quite high. Especially after Tang Ran came to power, the restrictions on women were relaxed a lot, and even some laws were enacted to protect the interests of women.

"Prime Minister, I think that peace has just been restored at the border, and what we should do is to comfort the people and recuperate. It is not appropriate to start a war again at this time."

"There has been a tradition of princesses marrying other princesses throughout the dynasties. Our dynasty is not setting a precedent. We are just following the old customs of the previous dynasty. There is nothing wrong with princesses marrying other princesses."

"I second what Lord Jia said."

"..."

Tang Ranran smashed the cup in his hand to the ground, scaring the ministers below so much that they shrank their necks and looked at Tang Ran anxiously.

They didn't know why the prime minister was so angry.

Tang Ran was angered by these shameless words and pointed her finger at them: "I thought I was tough enough, but I didn't expect you guys to be even more shameless than me. How can you say such shameless words? It doesn't matter if she is not your daughter, right? You are so righteous, why don't you send your daughter to the enemy?"

"Yes, it's you, Master Zhu, right? I remember that you have a daughter who is of marriageable age, right? Master Liu's son is just the right age, so why don't you just marry your two families and put aside your past grudges and make peace."

When his name was called, Master Zhu's face turned pale, and he immediately knelt on the ground, crying and saying, "Master, please spare my life. My daughter is not in good health and cannot endure this kind of suffering."

How could that man surnamed Liu dream of such a delicate and gentle daughter of his?

Moreover, the two families have a deep feud. If their daughter were to marry into this family, she would be tortured to death.

Tang Ran's face was cold and hard. Lord Zhu knelt on the ground and walked over to her. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the corner of Tang Ran's clothes. "Sir, please spare my life. From now on, I will fight wherever you point me. If you say go east, I will never go west."

As for Lord Liu who was implicated, he also knelt on the ground, but he did not cry like Lord Zhu. He ran forward and hugged Tang Ran's legs tightly.

His face was also filled with sorrow, and he looked at Tang Ran eagerly.

Their Liu family and the Zhu family are separated by several generations of blood feud, so he cannot marry the daughter of his enemy. Otherwise, if the news gets out, his family will be kicked out of the clan by the Liu family.

Tang Ran's eyes were gloomy, and his gaze fell on Lord Jia in front of him.

Lord Jia felt a chill on his back, his knees went weak, and he almost knelt down to Tang Ran.

He thought for a while. His daughter was already in her thirties and his son was almost five years old. The Prime Minister couldn't let his daughter get divorced and then remarry.

Besides, he didn't have any irreconcilable enemies. After all, the grass on his enemies' graves was three meters high.

Tang Ran also thought of this, and became even more angry. The more he looked at the people in front of him, the more he felt that they were useless. They were hundreds of times worse than himself, a treacherous minister.

They all love their daughters very much, but how come they say these words when it comes to other people's daughters?

Because of this incident, the old emperor changed his previous style and attended the morning court.

Listening to those veterans who were taking advantage of their seniority, the old emperor's hands were shaking in his sleeves.

What does it mean that if they had a daughter, they would not even frown even if she died for the sake of the people of the world?

This group of old bastards.

If I had known that when I lost my mind, I would have rushed into their house with a sword and killed them all.

The old emperor was already on the verge of death, relying on those powerful medicines to stay alive. He was bullied by the ministers one after another and almost died.

The old emperor said coldly: "The princess is in poor health, how can she endure the pain of marriage?"

"Your Majesty, it is indeed not appropriate for Northern Qi to go to war now."

"If you abandon the people of the world for your own selfish reasons, how can the people at the border who have just escaped from the war not be disheartened? How can they not doubt that the king they respect and support is really incompetent..."

Before he could finish his words, he felt a pain in his chest. He lowered his head and saw a sword piercing his chest.

Tang Ran said unhappily, "Stop making so much noise. Why didn't you chatter like that when the envoy from Chen Kingdom was here?"

The hall was filled with silence, so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. Everyone was silent, looking at the lazy Tang Ran with horror on their faces.

Once again, they saw Tang Ran killing people in the hall. This overlapped with the scene a few years ago. The young man with immature eyebrows and eyes had a stern expression. Just like now, he took the life of a court minister with ease.

The old emperor opened his mouth, just like he did a few years ago, "Tang Aiqing, be careful with these things, don't hurt yourself."

Tang Ran was also distracted for a moment, and raised his eyes to look at the old man sitting on the dragon throne.

The emperor is really old.

Tang Ran was thinking about the past scene in her mind.

At that time, the old emperor's eyebrows and eyes were still very handsome, and his cheeks were not as sunken as they are now. He had a faint smile on his face and said that such things would be left to his servants in the future, and the emperor should be careful not to hurt himself.

Tang Ran has changed after all, and can no longer treat the old emperor the same way as before.

Or perhaps, he has never changed and has always adhered to everything he believes in, no matter if the road is full of thorns or blood, he would rather bleed to moisten the thorns along the way than not stop going on.

Tang Ran blinked, holding back some wet tears, and then smiled and said, "This man is extremely rebellious and reckless. He knew that Your Majesty was ill, but he deliberately angered Your Majesty. This is the first thing. He spread rumors and misled the people in the court. His words were disrespectful to the majesty of heaven. This is the second thing. He clearly has evil intentions. He is a treacherous minister of Northern Qi and a parasite in the court. He really cannot be kept."

"I will only kill him today. Considering that he has no merits but has worked hard to make up the number of court officials, I will not pursue his family members."

Civil and military officials: "..."

Hearing Tang Ran's words, everyone's faces twisted violently.

Prime Minister, are you really polite?

I'm sure you are not talking about yourself when you said these words. If you rank second to the greatest traitor of Northern Qi, no one dares to rank first.

But they didn't dare to say these words, and had to put on a smile that was uglier than crying to flatter Tang Ran, saying that Prime Minister Tang Ran was a man of great generosity and was too kind-hearted to have punished the family of the dead minister, and that he was simply the most virtuous prime minister of all time.

Anyway, no one knew what Tang Ran thought of what they said, but they couldn't help blushing as they spoke, feeling that they had read the books of sages for so many years in vain and had only learned some flattery.

Even with Tang Ran's thundering means of intimidation, all civil and military officials still advocated a marriage alliance.

Either they are neutral or they use all kinds of moral kidnapping, citing all kinds of classics, and analyzing the national conditions of Northern Qi from all angles. They all think that letting the princess marry is the best option, which gives both countries peace of mind.

The old emperor's first morning court session in several months lasted from morning to evening and ended in a bad mood.