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Chapter 733 - 607: Deciding a Winner (Great Climax - , Requesting Monthly Tickets)_2

Chapter 733: Chapter 607: Deciding a Winner (Great Climax Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)_2

On the 28th day of the tenth lunar month, the escalating political struggle in the court abruptly ceased.

This was because the New Year was just around the corner. From the 28th of the tenth lunar month to the seventh day of the New Year, nearly 90% of departments in the court would be closed for the holiday, plunging the entire court of the Jin Dynasty into a state of paralysis.

Although there is a grand court session on the first day of the New Year, it is a ritual to pay homage to the Emperor. Everyone must adhere to the national rites, and no one would be foolish enough to stir up trouble at this time.

New Year’s Eve was Li Xuan’s 20th birthday, as well as Yu Hongshang’s birthday.

Since the end of the tenth lunar month, Yu Hongshang had closed himself off for cultivation and had not shown up since. Every two days, he would send a folded talisman paper to reassure Li Xuan a bit.

Li Xuan didn’t make a big fuss either. At this time, because of him, many people had to feign illness to stay home or even be arrested and sent to jail.

How could Li Xuan feel at ease to celebrate his birthday on a grand scale?

Would he dare to celebrate his birthday by assembling all the girls?

So on New Year’s Eve, Li Xuan was defeated once again.

He tried to control the timing, but Zhang Yue and Peng Fulai remembered the lesson from the previous time and kept their distance from him out of respect. Li Dalu took the excuse of official business to stay in the Liudao Division and refused to return home.

With no support on either side, Li Xuan suffered another defeat. On New Year’s Eve, he was beaten black and blue, which was rather pitiful.

However, he realized now that it wasn’t a bad thing to allow the girls to vent some of their anger -

As the New Year’s holiday ended on the eighth day of the New Year, smoke again arose from the political arena.

Every day, no less than three hundred complaints about Li Xuan were filed with the Tongzheng Division, and the language grew increasingly fierce. Some even directly called Li Xuan a ’traitor to the nation’.

As time went by, Li Xuan was still unable to present evidence implicating Prince Xiang in the Golden Knife Case, and the number of court officials leaning towards Prince Xiang was increasing, so was the number of complaints.

Li Xuan himself was rather indifferent and didn’t bother about it, but his subordinates and supporters couldn’t withstand the pressure.

Especially Wei Zhen, Xue Bai, and Quan Dingtian, these three core figures, received at least a hundred complaints every day.

After the 15th day of the New Year, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Wang Wen, also joined in.

He kept his promise and waited for Li Xuan for a full two months.

Then on the 15th day of the New Year, after all the ministers had accompanied the Jingtai Emperor to worship at the Tiandi Altar, he submitted two memorials.

One impeached Li Xuan for negligence in his official duty, and the other nominated Prince Xiang, Yu Zhanshi, as the ’Regent Prince’ to participate in the cabinet’s affairs.

He bypassed the Tongzheng Division and handed the memorials directly to the Jingtai Emperor.

By this time, Li Xuan knew that he could no longer drag out the case concerning Prince Xiang.

Because after the New Year, there were more and more court officials involved, among which were some of straightforward and unyielding nature, and those with exceptional abilities.

If these people’s futures were adversely affected by the case of Prince Xiang, it would not be good news for the court.

However, on the 22nd day of the New Year, when Li Xuan was preparing to make a move against Prince Xiang, Luo Yan gave him a ’surprise’.

"That illusionist, I now have about sixty or seventy percent certainty that he is hiding at this location."

Luo Yan looked at Li Xuan with a touch of teasing and expectation as she spoke, "Now it’s up to you, Li Xuan, to have the courage to take this gamble."

Li Xuan looked at the ’Map of the Capital’ in front of him. The location pointed out by Luo Yan was exactly ’Prince Xiang’s mansion’.

He pondered for a moment, then chuckled, "What’s there to be afraid of? However, the time should be in seven days, on the day of the First Hope Dachao on the first day of the second lunar month!"

This was the crucial moment he had been waiting for two months, how could he possibly give it up?

Li Xuan then looked up with cold eyes towards the outside of the Marquis of Guanjun’s mansion, "On the first day of the second month, I will have a showdown with that Prince Xiang."

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On the morning of the first day of the second lunar month, it was raining heavily in Beijing.

Li Xuan finished his cultivation precisely at the fourth moment of the Hour of Yin, then he put on the bright yellow Feiyu Suit that Yue Qianqian had ironed for him, wore the Liudao Fumo Armor over it, carried a pair of Great Sun Divine Sabers on his belt, rode his Jade Qilin, and went to court.

But just as Li Xuan was leaving the Marquis of Guanjun Mansion, Xue Bai rushed over in a hurry on a horse.

His face was pale, and he seemed agitated, "There’s trouble, Qianzhi! Someone is coordinating and inciting the candidates for the exam and the students of the Guozi Bureau to go to the Chengtian Gate and implore the court. Now there are already four hundred people kneeling in front of the Chengtian Gate, and it is said that more people are rushing there."

Li Xuan was taken aback. His information network covered all of Beijing, and he had a lot of influence in the Guozi Bureau, with a large number of students.

But before this, he had received no news at all.

Xue Bai then explained the reason, "Yesterday, someone in the Guozi Bureau hosted a literary meeting in the name of celebrating a birthday, and invited the candidates who came to Beijing for the spring exam, as well as the students of the Guozi Bureau, to a grand banquet in Shiyong Lane.

The banquet lasted until late at night, and somebody suddenly brought up the issue of the emptiness of the foundation of the nation, inciting the people present to implore the throne. At that time, nearly sixty percent of the candidates and students of the Guozi Bureau were persuaded, and then these people called their friends, and their momentum gradually increased."

His expression was filled with rage, "This should be the doing of Prince Xiang, totally unexpected. It seems that he is hell-bent on the position of ’Regent Prince’ proposed by Wang Wen."

Xue Bai was not worried about Prince Xiang getting what he wanted, but was filled with resentment at the means employed by the seemly virtuous prince.

He believed that this malicious prince had caused countless candidates and students to get involved in his pursuit of his own ambitions, thereby ruining their futures at a stroke.

Although the Emperor is naturally kind and generous, the officials of the future court would inevitably look differently at these people who had supported Prince Xiang.