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"So many bloody things have happened in this palace, and you were the one who orchestrated them all!"
Chen Pingping gave a cold laugh, "As I said, I was merely adding fuel to the fire, nothing more."
"My lord, you have no idea how lonely and desperate Xiao Yezi was the night she died!"
"It was you! You transferred all the people she could trust away from her!"
"You say that nobles in the capital killed her! But you orchestrated all of this!"
"You killed Xiao Yezi, yet you're still pretending to be a good person! Pretending to avenge her with us!"
"My Majesty, you've been a whore and you still want to pretend to be virtuous!"
Chen Pingping exposed Emperor Qing's true colors, and the entire hall fell silent.
Qin Ye looked at Emperor Qing with a fearful expression, while Emperor Qing looked at Fan Xian with some panic.
If this gets out, Wu Zhu will surely kill Emperor Qing.
At this moment, Li Chang'an's voice suddenly rang out.
"So, I was just caught in the crossfire."
"You old dog, you're plotting against the Li family royal family because of Ye Qingmei."
"Ye Qingmei, I know, she died a long time ago."
"Chen Pingping, why do you harbor such resentment?"
"Ye Qingmei? She deserves to die."
Li Chang'an spoke casually, but a raging fire had already ignited in Chen Pingping's calm and composed gaze!
His face was contorted with rage, and he gritted his teeth as he said, "What did you say?!"
Chapter 158 Chen Pingping Breaks Through Defense and Fires a Shot! The Grandmaster's Secret Revealed! (13)
At this moment, the most shocked person was none other than Fan Xian.
It turns out that Chen Pingping has already found out that it was Emperor Qing who killed Ye Qingmei!
Fan Xian was stunned. His own father had killed his own mother!
He knew his mother was very powerful; the Imperial Treasury and the Supervisory Council were both her creations.
The two most important people who have protected him until now, Wu Zhu and Chen Pingping, helped him entirely because of Ye Qingmei.
But why would a father kill his own mother?
Fan Jian, another die-hard fan of Ye Qingmei, was also dumbfounded. Li Chang'an actually said that his goddess deserved to die!
How could such an ethereal and peerless fairy deserve to die?
Chen Pingping had a shotgun in each of the armrests of her wheelchair.
These two shotguns were the life-saving weapons that Ye Qingmei personally provided to Chen Pingping after he lost both legs.
Compared to the Barrett M82A1, which can penetrate armor, these two homemade shotguns can only fire steel balls and iron pellets.
The Barrett was brought from the temple, and the shotgun was made using the combined resources of the Treasury and the Censorate.
The steel balls and iron filings flying everywhere are far less powerful than Barrett bullets.
Moreover, to kill someone with these two shotguns, you first need to open the mechanism on the wheelchair to expose the muzzle.
There is a sound when the mechanism is opened.
In the original novel, Emperor Qing was unaware that there was a gun in the armrest of Shen Pingping's wheelchair, so he did not take cover in time when he heard the sound of the mechanism.
If he had known that there was a gun hidden in the mechanism on Chen Pingping's armrest, he could have dodged it.
Therefore, whether it was the warning sound from the machine gun or the power of the shotgun, Li Chang'an was not afraid of Chen Pingping firing his gun.
More importantly, Chen Pingping would only shoot the steel balls and iron pellets he had accumulated over twenty years at Emperor Qing!
Because it was Emperor Qing, not Li Chang'an, who orchestrated the murder of Ye Qingmei.
For over twenty years, Chen Pingping's life revolved around killing Emperor Qing and avenging Ye Qingmei.
"Chen Pingping, you say that I am a powerful military force, but the most powerful navy in the Qing Kingdom, the Quanzhou Navy, is practically Ye Qingmei's private army."
"You say that I keep a secret police agency, but Ye Qingmei established the Supervisory Bureau, and you, as the head of the Supervisory Bureau, treat her like a god."
"She also controls the three major workshops of the Imperial Treasury, holding the economic lifeline of the Qing Kingdom firmly in her grasp, and has the emperor by the neck."
"She wanted to achieve her goals through the emperor, but she also wanted to challenge and undermine the imperial power."
"Ye Qingmei's acts of treason and rebellion are far more serious than mine."
"Chen Pingping, do you think Ye Qingmei deserved to die?"
Upon hearing Li Chang'an's words, Chen Pingping's face revealed a look of contempt.
Thinking of the sacred goddess in his heart, Chen Pingping smiled proudly and menacingly.
"You do not understand!"
“You don’t understand!”
"You people only care about power and influence; you have no regard for the people of the world!"
"Little Leaf is incredibly intelligent and full of wonderful ideas; she is like a fairy descended from heaven."
"Little Leaf is compassionate and hopes that everyone in the world will be equal. Such a heart is truly great!"
After uttering the word "great," Chen Pingping's expression resembled that of a believer worshipping a deity.
However, this deity, while claiming equality for all, actually created his own godhood to act superior to others.
Of course, Ye Qingmei didn't do it on purpose; after all, she was just a little fairy with beautiful ideals.
What evil thoughts could a fairy possibly have?
Once upon a time, Li Chang'an thought Ye Qingmei was an idealist.
Later, he felt that Ye Qingmei was a utopian who only daydreamed.
However, she also possesses a certain degree of execution ability, and the result she unintentionally achieved was far removed from her daydreams.
She wanted to achieve equality for all, but she didn't do anything practical for the vast majority of people at the bottom; instead, she kept going around in circles at the top.
The soap, sugar, and glass she invented circulated in the upper layers and were completely invisible in the lower layers.
The social productivity had not fundamentally changed, yet she relied on imperial power to reform the system and directly alter the relations of production.
Wanting to bear fruit without soil, wanting to build skyscrapers without a foundation—isn't that just wishful thinking?
Moreover, she wanted to rely on imperial power to overthrow it; did she think Emperor Qing was a fool?
"What Ye Qingmei says is not important; what matters is what she does."
"She was compassionate and merciful, yet she used the temple's divine weapons to casually kill two princes?"
"She was compassionate and empathetic, yet she created the Supervisory Council, the most harmful government agency?"
"She hoped for equality for all, but she created three Grandmasters. Even Ye Liuyun broke through to the Grandmaster level indirectly because of her."
"A Grandmaster can single-handedly govern a nation and casually kill hundreds or thousands of people. Can you, Chen Pingping, be on par with Ku He and Si Gu Jianping?"
"She talks about equality all the time, yet she's turned you all into her followers and servants?"
"The very systems she claims to be implementing for the sake of equality for all are nothing but the source of the turmoil and bloodshed in the Qing Kingdom!"
"She gained the power to exercise her fantasies only by relying on the emperor's throne, but deep down she despised the emperor's chair as too rotten!"
"Ye Qingmei is not only naive and childish, but she also curses her mother after putting down her chopsticks while eating."
"Ye Qingmei is just a useless, muddle-headed fool who can't understand human nature, can't distinguish friend from foe, and can't grasp the important things."
Li Chang'an was speaking from the heart. According to Ye Qingmei's philosophy, they should launch a revolution at the grassroots level, instead of indulging in romantic relationships with the powerful and wealthy.
She spends her days among the powerful and wealthy, yet she uses the slogan of equality for all to show that she is pure, superior, and untainted by the mud.
Not only is he feigning righteousness, but he's also genuinely confused.
Hearing Li Chang'an's words, Chen Pingping's face twitched incessantly.
His faith, which he had upheld for so many years, was rendered worthless by Li Chang'an, which made him very angry!
The goddess-like fairy in his eyes was actually belittled by Li Chang'an as a fool and a good-for-nothing!
"Shut up!"
"Li Chang'an, you have no right to judge Xiao Yezi!"
"You petty, narrow-minded people have no idea about Xiao Yezi's noble character!"
Chen Pingping roared like a mad dog, defending his most precious faith and purest sanctuary!
Seeing Chen Pingping's madness, Li Chang'an became even calmer.
"Oh, right, I know why you can't forget Ye Qingmei."
“Your real name is Chen Wuchang. You, along with Hong Sixiang and He Qigan, were all young eunuchs in the palace.”
"You feel that when she first met you, she didn't treat you as a lowly eunuch, but as an equal friend."