The sky was already bright, and the ceremony for offering sacrifices to heaven was about to begin. As the princes and nobles and ministers were greeted by the guests, the guests of the Ministry of Rites sat in front of the altar. Musicians from the Ministry of Rites were placed on both sides of the altar, holding ritual instruments with drums and music, with solemn eyes.

Emperor Jin was wearing a luxurious fur suit, with rust sun, moon and stars on it, twelve golden crowns on his head, jade belts on his waist, and Zhengui in his hand. Accompanied by Taoist Taiwei, he came to the center of the altar step by step to stand at the center of the altar.

In front of it were nine jade tripods, which contained various sacrifices such as blood, rhododendrons, live pigs, etc.

There was a pile of firewood at the front of the altar, with haystacks on it. After the rituals and music were heard, Emperor Jin slaughtered the living creatures, put the slaughtered animals, jade bi, brocade and silk and other sacrifices on the firewood pile to ignite them, allowing the fireworks to rise high in the sky, so that the Emperor of Heaven could smell the smell.

After that, Emperor Jin still had to offer wine to Emperor Tian, ​​and the Taoist Taiwei read the prayer of sacrifice to heaven, and then bless the ministers. Only then could the entire ceremony of sacrifice to heaven be considered to be completed.

The musicians on both sides were ready and could start singing at any time. The Taiwei Taoist man held a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, and his expression seemed a little nervous. As for the live pig in the jade tripod as a sacrifice, he was still struggling desperately.

Just when Emperor Jin makes a statement, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven will officially begin.

Everyone is looking forward to this moment, not only the powerful people who are fortunate to climb to the top of Changbai Mountain today, but also the ordinary people who kneel down at the foot of the mountain, and the people who are far away from all over the world of Dajin.

But before this, following the old example, Emperor Jin still needed to ask a question in public.

"I am here today to pray for the people, thank the heaven and earth for nourishing and nourishing all things, and to tell the Emperor of Heaven. Now that the time has come, the ceremony is about to begin. I wonder if you have any objections here?"

Of course, these words were not really asking these ministers and giants in the field whether they agreed to start the ceremony of worshiping the heavens, but just taking a process.

In fact, under normal circumstances, no one will jump out to object. After all, everything is ready at this moment, and only the east wind is needed. Anyone who is qualified to climb Changbai Mountain to watch the ceremony is not a fool. No one will be in trouble at this time.

But today, a guy who was not afraid of death came out of the crowd.

"Your Majesty, I have any objection!"

After the words came to an end, everyone in the field was stunned, including Taiwei Taoist, Qin Xiaohua, Nan Sirong, and Old Prime Minister Ye. Some even suspected that they had auditory hallucinations.

Immediately afterwards, everyone's subconscious action was to turn their heads and see which ignorant person dared to make trouble at this time.

However, when they saw who the person was, the shock on their faces immediately turned into deep doubts.

Because before this moment, no one seemed to know that this old marquis had also come to Changbai Mountain!

Today's Dajin Dynasty has only three marquises.

Ye Jiang, the Marquis of Weining, was leading the Thorn Army to Jiangzhou.

Han Bai, the Marquis of Shifang, and his Yao Bei army under the command, should still be on the front line of confrontation with the demon army.

Therefore, the only person who came is the last marquis.

Marquis of Pingnan, Xue Sheng!

Speaking of which, this name has indeed been a long time ago. Since the Marquis Xue, who was assassinated on the way to Beijing, escaped from the ruling officer Cao Jing and returned to Xiling, people have never heard of him again.

But I wonder why he suddenly appeared at the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven today?

What's even more bizarre is that everyone present clearly knew that Pingnan Hou was not as wise and brave as Ye Jiang and Han Bai. He was a wise and brave general who was good at fighting. Although he was nominally responsible for commanding the Xiling Army's military affairs, he was actually as timid as a mouse and was nicknamed General Paopu.

Because whenever Mr. Xue finds out that there is any sign of defeat during the war between the two armies, he will be the fastest one!

But why at this moment, he dared to jump out and oppose the sacrifice to heaven?

How could this be the timid general Paopu?

He is simply bold! He doesn't know how to live or die!

Who would have thought that Emperor Jin did not look unhappy because of the shout of Pingnan Hou, but instead asked, "Oh? I wonder what objection does Pingnan Hou have?"

Xue Sheng took two steps forward, knelt down on his knees, and said loudly: "Reply to Your Majesty, since ancient times, the ceremony of worshiping heaven has been the most sacred ceremony of our Dajin Dynasty. It requires everyone to be sincere and sage and pray for thousands of people to be blessed by the Emperor of Heaven. But I found that there were people with bad intentions in the field today, which really made me feel uneasy, so I said this uniquely!"

As he said that, Xue Sheng slowly raised his head and directly fell on the Minister of Revenue and Qin Xiaohua!

For a moment, everyone in the venue was upset, but Qin Xiaohua's face was calm and seemed to have a faint smile.

Relatively speaking, the expression in Emperor Jin's eyes was even more unpredictable. Faced with Xue Sheng's shocking accusation, he just nodded lightly: "What do you mean by Pingnan Hou? You might as well say it."

Emperor Jin did not let Xue Shengping go, so he still knelt on the ground, but what he said next was almost shocked that everyone present jumped up from the ground.

"In the summer of the 127th year of Yonghe Li, the grassland people suddenly launched a large army and attacked Changyan Pass. Our Xiling Army suffered heavy casualties and fled in that battle. Ten days later, and lost Ningwu Pass, allowing half of the grass-cut defense lines to fall into the enemy. Although His Majesty was kind afterwards, he did not blame him, but I couldn't sleep day and night and couldn't sleep or eat. It seemed that as soon as I closed my eyes, I could hear tens of thousands of heroic souls wailing in my ears!"

"To this day, my Dajin has been working with the leaders of the grassland tribes, but I still cannot forget those innocent soldiers in the army who died in vain. So today I dared to apologize to Your Majesty and accused the real culprit behind the defeat of the Xiling Army that day..."

Speaking of this, Xue Sheng raised his hand directly, pointed at Qin Xiaohua, and shouted in tears: "That's this person!"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Jin seemed to chuckle and said, "How could the Secretary of Qin be related to the defeat of the Xiling Army? Could it be that the Marquis of Pingnan made a mistake?"

Xue Sheng turned around, smashed his head to the ground, making a muffled sound, and then said sadly: "How could I admit my mistake? If the Secretary of Qin had not deducted military pay and distributed inferior materials, how could the tens of thousands of passionate men of our Xiling Army be buried in a foreign land!"

As soon as these words were spoken, even the giants in the cultivation world who had been watching the development of disobedience coldly showed incredible expressions.

Perhaps no one would have expected that before this, the scene of the Marquis suing the Secretary of the Heavens before the ceremony began.

And don’t forget that Qin Xiaohua is not an ordinary Minister of Revenue, but the head of the Qin family among the nine major families, and the chief manager of Shantang!

Not to mention whether the accusation of Pingnan Hou is true, the key is where did he get the courage!

However, what happened next really subverted the perception of everyone in the field, and even Ping Nanhou himself was slightly stunned.

Emperor Jin looked at Qin Xiaohua and slowly spoke, "Shangshu Qin, do you have anything to defend yourself?"

Qin Xiaohua shook her head calmly: "No."

Upon hearing this, there was no slight anger on Emperor Jin's face, and he also said calmly: "Since that's the case, Qin Nian, let's take the Secretary of Qin down first, and the rest will be tried again in the future."

After the words came, Qin Nian, the head of the Judgment Office who had been waiting aside, walked slowly to Qin Xiaohua with a steel cable in his hand.

However, Qin Xiaohua did not move, but lifted the black jade short staff in her hand up half an inch.

At the same time, a middle-aged man with kind eyes and a bloated figure in the crowd also stepped on the field half a foot.
Chapter completed!