Chapter 863
From Guo Kai's point of view, there is no danger for him to return to Huandu now, because King Huan doesn't know about the matters related to Huayang, and people will only think that he is still sick at home.
But what he didn't know was that Jia You's poisonous plan had already been used on him.
A few days later, Huanzhou, Prime Minister's Mansion.
The housekeeper hurriedly walked, holding several secret letters in his hand, all of which were written with the Prime Minister's marriage invitation. After seeing Qiu Rong, he respectfully said: "Master Prime Minister, look..."
Qiu Rong took the secret letter, first lowered his head and counted how many there were, then frowned slightly and said, "Who sent it?"
"I didn't know who was coming. This morning I found that the letter was already in the house." The housekeeper returned truthfully.
"You go down first." Qiu Rong said nothing more and returned to the study with the letter.
When someone writes a letter to themselves, out of curiosity, everyone will open it and read it, and Qiu Rong is no exception.
But after he opened the secret letter, the more he read, the more frightened he became. When he read the third letter, his eyes widened. After reading the last letter, he stood up abruptly.
The content of the secret letter is about the correspondence between Guo Kai and the Qin army, and each of them is a major event. More importantly, Qiu Rong and Guo Kai have been ministers of the same dynasty for many years, so they know his handwriting, and these are all his own handwriting!
There is no doubt that these secret letters are enough to prove that Guo Kai surrendered to the enemy and treason.
Who is Qiu Rong? He is a pedantic and foolish loyalist. He has been on the same level as Guo Kai for a long time. How could he not be angry if such a thing was discovered.
The next day, Huan Guo went to court early in the morning.
King Huan's mood became heavier day by day.
In the court meeting hall, Guo Kai winked at a minister and was about to take the lead in taking the lead and say his submission, but Qiu Rong stood up first, raised his hands upward and said: "Your Majesty, I have the right to do so.
Play."
"Say it." King Huan looked weak.
Qiu Rong glanced at Guo Kai subconsciously, and then said straight to the point: "What I want to report is that the imperial censor Guo Kai surrendered to the enemy and treason!"
What!? After hearing this, King Huan immediately became serious.
Guo Kai was even more frightened, and immediately pointed his finger and shouted: "Nonsense!"
After saying that, he also faced King Huan and said seriously: "Your Majesty, my loyalty can be demonstrated by the sun and the moon. However, I have always been at odds with the Prime Minister. This is obviously a slanderous act by the Prime Minister, taking the opportunity to suppress the humble ministers. I hope your Majesty will learn from it."
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Hearing what he said, King Huan also became nervous and glanced at Qiu Rong angrily: "At this time of national crisis, the Prime Minister should not cause trouble over nothing."
"No! I have sufficient evidence!" Qiu Rong said, and took out a few secret letters from the sleeves of his official uniform. He bent slightly and raised his hands respectfully: "Please have your Majesty read it."
King Huan frowned slightly, but seeing this, he naturally signaled to the attendant: "Send it up."
"No." The attendant responded, took the secret letters, and respectfully placed them on the king's desk.
Guo Kai, on the other hand, was obviously a little nervous because he didn't know what was being presented to him.
There were several secret letters on the king's case. King Huan picked up one at random, opened it with shaking hands, and lowered his head to read it carefully.
As he looked at it, his eyes widened suddenly, and then he put down the first letter, then hurriedly opened the second letter, and then the third letter...
The more he looked, the expression on his face kept changing, including anger, shock, and disbelief.
All the court officials couldn't help but whisper to each other. Guo Kai swallowed hard and had a bad feeling in his heart.
After finally reading the letter, King Huan's hand holding the letter trembled slightly, then he slapped the king's case hard, stood up suddenly, pointed at Guo Kai, and shouted: "Guo Kai!!"
Ah!? The latter was startled, knelt down in a hurry, and said in a trembling voice: "I don't know, I don't know why the king is so angry..."
"You traitor!" King Huan was furious: "I trust you so much in vain! You actually secretly collaborated with the enemy! You are willing to be King Qin's eagle and dog's spy! You betrayed the country!"
"This, this, this, please calm down, the king, I am wronged!" Guo Kai hurriedly defended himself.
"Shut up!" King Huan became even more angry because he had been betrayed by the person he trusted most. Even if he knew that he had been defeated, he would certainly not tolerate treason.
"You despicable villain! In order to seek glory and wealth, you not only leaked our country's secrets, but also conspired with the King of Qin many times. You even colluded with Xiang Ge and turned against you in the face of battle!"
"This, this, this, your Majesty, don't listen to the slander. Those, those things must be the Prime Minister's deliberate attempt to frame the ministers..." Guo Kai continued to kneel on the ground to defend himself. In his heart, how could Qiu Rong be the one to conspire with the King of Qin? Therefore,
Of course I still have a sense of luck in my heart.
After hearing these words, the other ministers suddenly became commotion.
"What, Xiang Ge surrendered, how is this possible..."
"That is the last line of defense to stop the Qin army..."
Just when people were shocked, an urgent military intelligence report came in at the right time.
"Report~~~~"
"Your Majesty, Xiang...General Xiang Ge surrendered to Qin. Qin...Qin's army has passed Huayang Pass and is less than two hundred miles away from Huandu..."
This military information caused the Huan Kingdom court to explode again.
The anger in King Huan's eyes became even stronger, and he glared at Guo Kai who was kneeling below, as if he wanted to eat him alive: "Did you hear that! Did you hear that! Xiang Ge surrendered! It was you who conspired! There are still dog thieves
What can you say!"
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, Xiang Ge's surrender to the enemy has nothing to do with me. I have been in the capital all the time." Guo Kai was already panicking.
When King Huan heard this, he grabbed the secret letter on the king's case and threw it into the palace angrily: "Don't I recognize your handwriting? You traitor! No wonder you keep urging me to surrender to the imperial court! It turns out that you have already become
Enemy traitor!"
At this point, he couldn't bear it any longer and immediately shouted: "Someone is here!"
Following his words, the imperial guard stepped inside and saluted with clasped fists.
"Drag this traitor down! Kill the whole family!" King Huan pointed at Guo Kai.
"Nuo!" The imperial guards of the palace didn't care about that many people. After receiving the order, without saying a word, they held Guo Kai to the left and right and began to drag him out.
The latter's three souls and seven souls were almost frightened to death, and he immediately screamed like a slaughtering pig: "My king, spare my life! Your Majesty, spare your life! I am wronged! I am wronged—"
But the evidence was conclusive, but the anger in King Huan's heart could not be calmed down, and his screams quickly disappeared outside the palace.
Seeing this scene, many ministers looked at each other, and no one dared to say anything about surrender. Several other officials who had exchanged secret letters with Xiao Yuan swallowed hard and couldn't help but raise their heads.
He took off his sleeves and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Chapter completed!