Chapter 254: Peng Feng Fights Two Officials and Kills Them
Minister of War Zhang Jinyan said unhurriedly, “Of course, Sect Leader Peng, you are, after all, His Majesty’s future son-in-law. We are all on the same side, and we shouldn’t harm our harmony. How about this, you hand over the heads of the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants to us, and we’ll let this matter go.”
“Oh, just the heads of the Eight Great Shanxi Merchant families?” Peng Feng’s lips curled into a smile that wasn’t quite a smile.
“Of course, it’s not just the heads of the eight families.”
“You must also return the wealth you plundered from them to the heads of these eight families.”
“The Great Ming has its own laws. Even if you are the future consort, you cannot just rob other people’s property. You must return the property to the eight families,” Minister of War Zhang Jinyan said with considerable righteousness.
Of course, once the heads of the Eight Great Shanxi Merchant families and their property fell into Zhang Jinyan’s hands.
Then, these eight family heads would die one after another due to their serious injuries. In that case, the property of the eight families would naturally fall into Zhang Jinyan’s hands.
Plan, perfect.
This is the Confucian way.
Clearly, their hearts are full of bad intentions.
But on the surface, they still appear righteous and dignified.
“Yes, yes.” Duke of Cheng Zhu Chunchen, who was beside him, also nodded. In his heart, he was also slandering, these Confucian disciples are awesome. Clearly, they want to covet the wealth of the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants, but they say it so righteously.
No, he, Zhu Chunchen, also needs to read more books and learn more from these Confucian disciples.
“Clap, clap.” Peng Feng clapped his hands, “Wonderful. Wonderful. That was wonderfully said. In fact, you just want the property of the eight families.”
“Nonsense, I am the dignified Minister of War of the Great Ming, how could I covet these properties? You are insulting my character!” Minister of War Zhang Jinyan slammed the table, saying very righteously.
When you’re an official, you have to be shameless.
Zhang Jinyan had long since abandoned his shame.
Peng Feng smiled, “Actually, I was just looking for you, Zhang Jinyan, the Minister of War of the Great Ming.”
“The eight families of Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa are smuggling and selling out the country, selling military supplies, food, magical artifacts, and pills to the Manchu Qing. Don’t tell me you don’t know about this. As the Minister of War of the Great Ming, why do you seem completely unaware of this? Are you derelict in your duty?!”
Zhang Jinyan was not flustered at all, “You say these eight families are selling out the country, so they are? Do you have evidence?”
“I do.” Peng Feng really had evidence. When he raided the eight families, he conveniently seized a lot of evidence.
But, Zhang Jinyan was still not flustered, “Oh, you have evidence? Okay, hand over the evidence to me. I can take it back for review.”
You have evidence? Then take it back and go through the process.
Such a major case of selling out the country, it’s normal to review it for a year or two, right?
And during the review, if a fire happens by accident, and the evidence is destroyed, that’s normal, right?
“However, the review can be discussed later. You must first give me the people of the eight families. And return the property of the eight families to the eight families,” Zhang Jinyan said righteously.
Peng Feng laughed, “Stop trying to play that game with me. You powerful officials, how could you not know that the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants are selling out the country? You must have received countless benefits from these eight families to cover up for them. More than half of the officials in the court have received benefits, right?”
“You are slandering officials of the court,” Zhang Jinyan was overjoyed, “According to the laws of the Great Ming, you are guilty!!!”
“I have your mother,” Peng Feng directly sneered, “No need for nonsense. You came for the wealth of the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants. Why say these empty words?”
“Those who can beat me can take the wealth.”
“Those who can’t beat me, leave your lives behind.”
Zhang Jinyan was amused by Peng Feng’s fierce and menacing appearance, “You are threatening officials of the court, your crime is doubled. Do you want to rebel?”
Peng Feng sneered, “Still using the entire court to scare people, how ridiculous. Leave your lives behind.”
Zhang Jinyan was not flustered at all, “Since that’s the case, then don’t blame me.”
“Duke of Cheng, you saw it too, this Peng Feng intends to attack officials of the court, which is equivalent to rebellion. Even as the future consort, he deserves to die. Let’s attack together and kill him.”
“Okay.” Duke of Cheng Zhu Chunchen nodded.
This was clearly a two-on-one fight.
And Minister of War Zhang Jinyan was at the eighth level of the Land Immortal Realm.
Duke of Cheng Zhu Chunchen was also at the eighth level of the Land Immortal Realm.
Zhang Jinyan had powerful magical artifacts.
Zhu Chunchen had powerful bloodline abilities.
The combined power of the two was no less than that of a ninth-level Land Immortal Realm.
In their minds, with their combined power, dealing with a mere Peng Feng was an extremely simple matter.
After all, no matter how strong Peng Feng was, he was only seventy-three years old.
He could defeat the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants because the strongest of them was only at the third level of the Land Immortal Realm.
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But, they would definitely not lose to their combined attack.
Therefore, Zhang Jinyan and Zhu Chunchen both felt that this round was a sure win.
Kill Peng Feng and obtain endless benefits.
Haha.
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Peng Feng against Zhu Chunchen and Zhang Jinyan.
One against two.
Peng Feng nodded, “That’s more like it. No more nonsense, let’s see your true power, you two great parasites of the Great Ming!”
Zhu Chunchen’s figure directly swelled, transforming from a ten-meter-tall figure into a two-hundred-meter-tall giant black bear.
His mythical black bear bloodline was directly activated.
This giant black bear directly swung an enormous iron rod. This iron rod was also not ordinary iron, but the Heaven-Leveling Staff. It was said that it was a staff left behind by the Great Sage Bull Demon King of the past, but no one knew if it was true or not.
But the power of the Heaven-Leveling Staff was not fake.
In the past, Zhu Chunchen’s ancestor, Zhu Neng, relied on this move to sweep across the battlefield, and countless of Zhu Yunwen’s subordinates died under this Heaven-Leveling Staff.
And at this time, the giant black bear that Zhu Chunchen had transformed into, wielding the Heaven-Leveling Staff, heavily swung it down towards Peng Feng.
This swing carried tens of millions of pounds of force, sweeping straight down.
No matter who was in front, they would be directly smashed by this swing.
Even a mountain range would be directly split in half by this swing.
This swing was definitely not easy to receive.
The power of this swing was probably not much weaker than that of the mythical black bear monster of the past.
Duke of Cheng Zhu Chunchen dared to come here to provoke trouble and seize wealth, so he naturally had some skills.
Without some skill, how could he dare to challenge the world.
Zhu Chunchen’s attack was terrifying.
And Zhang Jinyan’s attack was equally terrifying.
Even more terrifying, perhaps.
Zhang Jinyan, this Minister of War, used flames.
He held the Remnant Fire Blade in his hand. This blade could instantly release a million degrees of high temperature. What he practiced was the Two Flavors Divine Fire, yes, the same Two Flavors Divine Fire that Peng Feng had obtained before.
He wielded the Remnant Fire Blade with a million degrees of high temperature, with the Two Flavors Divine Fire on the blade. He could truly burn gods and Buddhas alike.
These two were simply weakened versions of a black bear monster and Red Boy.
No matter how strong the opponent was, once they encountered these two, they would only die!
Below the Heavenly Immortal Realm, there were very few people who could withstand their combined attack.
And Peng Feng in front of them was clearly not one of them.
So, die.
Both of them were confident.
As for how to explain killing the emperor’s future son-in-law to the emperor.
Haha, when it came to fooling the emperor, these ministers were professionals.
Back then, the Eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the Nine Thousand Years Old, was a peerless expert, loyal to the country, collecting taxes everywhere for the Great Ming Dynasty, and maintaining the crumbling Great Ming Dynasty.
What was the result? Wasn’t he still killed by them using various methods, borrowing the Emperor’s hand?
In an instant,
The battle was fierce and dangerous.
The staff came like the destruction of the heavens.
The fire burned like the scorching of the heavens.
Boundless energy swept around, and the Demon Sect’s reception room was directly blown apart. And the people nearby were lucky to have dodged quickly, otherwise, they would have died under the aftermath.
