Outside the cell, Liu Qi was sitting in a quiet room with a cup of wine in his hand, sipping the wine gently and staring intently at the flames in the fire.

"Your Majesty, four sticks of incense are ready." Dian Wei said to him solemnly from the side.

"Four sticks of incense?" Liu Qi came back from his dazed state, looked at Dian Wei and said, "Are you dead?"

Dian Wei shook his head: "He's not dead, he's still spinning around in the cage."

Liu Qi laughed loudly when he heard this: "If you can't even get rid of four sticks of incense, it is probably impossible for you to die."

Dian Wei looked at Liu Qi with some confusion: "His Majesty concluded from the beginning that he would not commit suicide?"

"Actually, I am not sure, but I want to give it a try. If Ma Rixi is really willing to commit suicide, then let him die. It will be regarded as my fulfillment of the promise I just made to him, and I will give him, a descendant of Ma Rong, a

Courtesy.”

Speaking of this, Liu Qi smiled and poured another full glass of wine into the wine cup.

"After burning four more sticks of incense, I will go in and have a chat with him."

Dian Wei asked Liu Qi in a low voice: "If Ma Rixi does not commit suicide, what will your Majesty do with him?"

Liu Qi smiled and said: "He neither wants to die, nor does he want to tarnish his reputation after death. What other options do you think he can take?"

"Your Majesty means... surrender?"

"good."

Dian Wei suddenly realized: "It turns out that His Majesty planned to conquer this beast from the beginning!"

"Don't say that. After all, he is a great scholar, and his reputation spreads throughout Kansai. Don't be rude."

After that, Liu Qi stood up, stretched, and said: "After this interrogation is over, I will definitely clean up the court and clean up the rebel tribes. There are more than ten thousand people implicated in this. Although it is bloody... but

I can't leave any trouble for myself, so I have to kill...but once I kill them all, I'm afraid they will also leave a stigma."

Dian Wei said: "Your Majesty killed all traitors, and there was so much evidence of confessions. How could he still leave a stigma? They are the ones who will be infamy for thousands of years."

"This is the truth, but many things are not certain." Liu Qi smiled faintly and said: "The mouths of scholars are deceitful. Those who usually call themselves scholars and scholars, once they curse others, they will

Each one is more ruthless than the other, and sometimes you can really turn black into white, and white into green, which is hard to guard against."

Dian Wei didn't quite understand the meaning of Liu Qi's words, and he didn't really want to understand this aspect of Confucianism.

However, Dian Wei was still able to hear a key message from Liu Qi's words.

"Your Majesty wants to use this person to prove his name?"

Liu Qi chuckled and said, "Having been here in Luoyang for a while, Dian Wei knows something about the affairs of the court?"

Dianwei cupped his hands and said, "I owe you to His Majesty for your cultivation. I don't hesitate to teach you every day."

Liu Qi clasped his hands behind his back and walked in the cell, saying: "Although they are all scholars, Ma Rixi's status is different from other people. The Ma family in Fufeng is famous in Guanxi. Ma Rixi's grandfather Ma Rong is a famous person in the world.

Various schools of thought wrote numerous scriptures, and they had thousands of disciples and tens of thousands of disciples... Lu Ziqian and Zheng Kangcheng were all his disciples... and Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan later founded sects.

He is famous all over the world, and most of the scholars in the northern classical literature are his disciples. Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan are also disciples of Lu Zhi. How many scholars are involved with the Ma family among them?"

Dian Wei was confused when he heard it, but he grasped the essence of it.

"Your Majesty wants to pardon Ma Rixi so that the scholars who are related to the Ma family will come to your Majesty's side?"

Liu Qi shook his head: "They will not stand on my side, but they will definitely support what Ma Rixi said."

"Others don't talk about it, only Zheng Xuan and Zheng Kangcheng... Ma Rong is his teacher, and the Ma family is his sect. If the sect is in trouble? What do you think he will do?"

Dian Wei was a rough man and didn't understand much about this, so he shook his head when he saw him.

"The relationship between the sect and the sect cannot be separated. If the Ma family is dragged into the water, Zheng sect cannot be immune to the blow. Even if he can resist, he does not want to face the fact that the sect of the sect is Han orthodox.

Regarding the fact of rebellion, as long as I let Ma Rixi go and determine that Ma Rixi was coerced by other scholar families, and Ma Rixi himself is willing to admit this fact... Na Dianwei feels that he is tainted with the Ma family

What would those schools of thought among teachers and students...such as Zheng Xue and others say about this matter?"

Dian Wei thought about it and said hesitantly: "Others don't know, anyway, if someone is Zheng Xuan... then, it must mean that the Ma family did not rebel, he was coerced by other scholars! Such a reputation of the Zheng family

Just keep it.”

"The Zheng Sect is the largest academic school in the world. There are scholars studying Zheng Xue in all states and counties. The elders of the Zheng Sect have said so. What about the scholars and various schools of thought who are related to the Zheng Sect?

explain?"

"They must be following the teacher's lead! They say that the Ma family was coerced and coerced into rebellion by those other people."

Liu Qi nodded and said with a smile: "This is the effect we want."

Dian Wei was still a little confused.

"What does this have to do with Your Majesty?"

Liu Qi patted his arm helplessly: "You have figured out so many great principles, but you still can't figure out the last key point?"

"Hey, I'm stupid, please give me some advice."

"The Ma family is a big Confucian family in Guanzhong, and Zheng Xue is the first school of ancient Chinese classics. Four to five out of ten civil scholars in the north come from these two schools. In addition, 70 to 80 percent of the Confucian scholars in the north come from the same school.

Lin Feng's direction can be controlled. If they all echo Ma Rixi's statement and say that the Ma family was coerced, does that mean they are convinced...are all these confessions correct? "

After that, Liu Qi picked up the confessions from the table and shook them gently: "Then now even if I confirm that they colluded with Yuan Shao and wanted to subvert the Han Dynasty, it is not considered slander, right?"

Dian Wei looked at him dumbfounded: "No, it doesn't count."

"Actually, it's that simple... I want to kill people now. This time I want to kill people with blood flowing like rivers. But I don't allow anyone to find fault with me. I want all the literati in the world to agree that the person I killed this time is...

No matter how many there are, they all deserve to be killed!"

…

The time for eight sticks of incense passed, and the cell door suddenly opened.

Ma Rixi, who was already at a loss inside, was so frightened by the sound that he almost jumped up from where he was.

He turned his head in horror and looked at Liu Qi who walked in from the cell, his panic clearly evident.

"Not dead yet?" Liu Qi raised his eyebrows and said with a half-smile.

"Old man, I will never die!"

"Do you need Dianwei to help you?"

"No! No! I won't die."

Liu Qi sighed softly, crossed his arms and looked at him helplessly: "Mr. Ma, you are making it difficult for me to do this."

Ma Rixi pursed his lips with a grimace on his face.

After a long while, he finally knelt down and whispered to Liu Qi: "Please, Your Majesty, give me a clear way to survive!"

"Do you really want a clear path?"

"Sin, I want it for the Ma family!"

"If I show you the way, then don't go back on your word, otherwise I'm afraid your end will be even worse."

"The sinner won't!"
Chapter completed!