Today's Chu Palace.

The inside and outside were filled with shouting subjects, and their voices pierced through the iron-clad "Miyagi" cast by Ruo Ao Ziyan, making this place lose its solemnity and solemnity in the past.

"My lord, it is indeed ...... It was the lady who told the witch to die. ”

Zhao De wiped the non-existent sweat on his forehead and said intermittently: "Madame also said that she was invited to ask the Eastern Emperor why she was left alone to survive......

"Ah...... Ah......h

The baby's heart-rending cry sounded in the corner of the hall, and if Ao Ziyan's eyes fell on the little hand that was clutched in the corner, the servant woman in charge of taking care of it immediately clutched the little boy's quilt in fear, and stroked his back over and over again: "Don't cry...... Don't cry...... Please don't cry...... My son-in-law ......"

A voice as heavy as iron and stone sounded in the dark hall, knocking on everyone's hearts: "Then send those people to show her." ”

"Let's see if she's living alone. ”

"No. ”

On the same day, countless prisoners who were originally locked in the palace prison died, and after the corpses were carried into the Chu Palace in batches, no one knows what happened in the end.

But many people can guess with the soles of their feet that they will end up with such a fate, but no one intends to investigate the truth behind these things, and the answer is already obvious.

This will not be the first batch of people to be killed by An under various names after the Chu Palace Mutiny.

The Manchu civil and military forces in Yingdu knew that it was only a matter of time before they were eliminated, and this joint sitting represented that as the "crown of a country" now, Ruo Ziyan's anger was no less than that of the Son of Heaven.

The wrath of the Son of Heaven ambushes millions of corpses.

The wrath of the national crown, bleeding thousands of miles!

Instead of caring about the life and death of others, all Chu people are now more concerned about the astonishing development speed of this small "witch case", which may be enough to burn the anger of the entire Chu State from the commoners to the nobles.

As for the cause of death of this low-level god, the witch ministers have not yet questioned the new monarch for the first time, and someone in the court has already begun to investigate the truth of her death.

As many as hundreds of officials of the Chu State followed the palace where Mi Huang was living so efficiently for the first time, looking for eyewitnesses at the time, and checking their testimony one by one, the results can be imagined, it didn't take long for the evidence to come out, or witnesses, and the evidence had already been prepared.

This is definitely a long-planned political conspiracy.

When the three-foot-long case file was sent to the Taimiao Ancestral Hall: "Ladies and gentlemen, you see?"

Bu Yin just looked up at the dim temple, the priest slowly added sesame oil to the ghosts of the past dynasties represented by the ever-bright lamp, and slowly finished all this, before he walked down step by step from the sacrificial altar, bent down a white robe that dragged the ground in pain, hung a portable jade cong on his chest on the chest of the dead witch, and gently closed her hideous and painful eyes: "Rest in peace, child." ”

"Your plea, the Eastern Emperor will hear it. Then he raised his compassionate gaze and looked at the Donghuang Shrine in the southeast of the Taimiao, and agreed to Elder Li's proposal to convene a temporary emergency court meeting.

Elder Li assured him with a sincere expression: "You witches are powerful, Duke Chu will definitely give an explanation to the deceased!"

Big wishes, small wishes sincerely thank: "Thank you for your words." ”

After speaking, the three of them led people into the Nagisa Palace without looking back.

At this emergency court meeting, Li Lao and Xiao Zhu made detailed explanations respectively, and for the first time showed the seriousness of the situation at the same time, and after an extremely fierce debate and even an angry curse, there was a unanimous voice inside and outside the court.

"A woman is not virtuous, she is not worthy of being a king!"

"The Eastern Emperor is already furious!"

"Heavenly will!"

As one of the old and spicy politicians who can influence the remarks of the Chu court the most, Li Lao's blow is definitely not just a big court meeting that will be stopped.

Just after the Great Dynasty Meeting, the famous witch historians of the Chu State also stood up one after another, expressing their sorrow over the words of the gods, their worries about the future of the Chu State, and their ruthless condemnation of the Huang, and at the same time, the various clans also expressed their positions in line with the Duke of Chu, as well as their great dissatisfaction with the current Xinjun regime.

And these are just a part of Li Lao's preparation in order to make Ruo Ao Ziyan one step closer to the position of Chu Jun, and hollow out his mind - "the abolition of the new monarch", but the abolition of Chu Jun was initiated by hundreds of officials, which is not in line with the old system, and there is no basis to follow, after all, Mi Huang is still Chu Jun, and now he is just recuperating from illness, so who will pass this order to abolish the establishment has become a problem.

As the regent of a country, if Ao Ziyan did not respond at the first time at the court meeting.

Li Lao naturally understood that if Ao Ziyan couldn't mention it accurately, after all, the fire was not enough, the time had not come, and he always had to make a gesture in front of people, so he expressed his understanding when he turned his head, but turned his head and united with Wu Shi to claim that this was "God's mandate", and at this time, no one in the court had any reason to object.

The entire royal city once again showed signs of unprecedented unrest.

The courtiers, who had long been ready to pull Mihuang off the throne, mobilized a group of believers of the Eastern Emperor with lightning speed, all of them carried out the statue of the Eastern Emperor and the ancestral card, and roared, scolded, and cursed loudly in the square and the temple, and at the same time cheered to the group of gods and scholars who walked quietly along the stone steps.

For they were carrying a thin coffin, and in it lay the little witch, covered in wounds and dead for many days.

Recently, the situation of the spread of the plague in the city has become increasingly severe, and some people may say that to stop this plague, as long as Ao Ziyan is willing to nod and release the miracle doctor who saved the soldiers and civilians of Phoenix Mountain, but the old doctor who was locked up in the prison shook his head and said: "The sky is going to die, how many people can I save if I am an old man?"

"Everyone, either you have your destiny, or ask God to bless you!"

At this moment of internal and external troubles, only the gods who are witches are still performing their duties, acting as the redeemers of the world in this land of Chu full of disasters, redeeming the suffering Chu people and those who are worried about the future, giving them the last comfort in their hearts.

The Chu people believe in witches and ghosts, and they are obscene.

Faced with the desecration of the pious priest by the faint king, and even the threat of his life, the Chu people looked at the cold sarcophagus from afar, their eyes closed, their expression was serene, and the witch was dressed in white and wearing feathers, and the corners of her pale lips were still coagulated with red blood that could not be wiped away.

The real cause of her death was explained......

There are all kinds of angry voices.

A "death of a witch" was soon spread by people with good intentions, from the towering high platform palace walls of the palace, to the golden palace of Zhu Palace, to the temple gods, and finally to the ears of all Chu people.

The whole country was shocked and relieved.

At this time, the god who was revered by the people of the country died in the hands of the faint monarch who "refused to admonish" and "only knew pleasure", but besides her, who else had such courage?

Many witches witnessed this scene.

"She was wishing her, but she told her to die!"

The singing and dancing sound from the distant platform only tugged at Da Zhu's nerves, pointing to the heavens and vowing to let her go to the Nine Hells to atone for her sins: "Such a king should be punished by frying and cooking!"

The entire Zhu Palace has set off a terrible storm, this storm not only caused a shock in the court just controlled by Ruo Ao Ziyan, but also caused a strong impact on the political situation that Chu had just stabilized.

"If you don't do something, my Great Chu will die in this generation!"

The court and the witches, who had originally had left-sided opinions, seemed to have found a unified voice, and in hindsight, the storm began to blow at this time.

So far, Mi Huang, who has never shown up, has been completely labeled as a "faint king".

Peng Yan and Li Chen fell at the end of the hundred officials, looking at the chaos inside and outside the palace, they couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "Isn't it just a dead witch, why not?"

Li Chen turned his head and glanced at Peng Yan, who didn't know that he was also involved in the case, but he glared back: "Isn't what I said right?

Li Chen chuckled and bowed his head: "That's right." ”

"But politics is so unreasonable. ”

The earnest admonition of the old man in the family is still in my ears: Reasonable people do not play politics, but do learning; now those who do learning have come out to mingle, which shows that this world is unreasonable.

Therefore, it is so unreasonable for him to finally be in charge of the power of a country for nearly 20 years, and the major events that have happened in Chu in the past six months also seem to show the truth that this thing is not needed at all in the bloody political struggle, the most trusted monarchs and ministers add up swords and axes, and close siblings kill each other, and why is it impossible for this huge power struggle to break out between the Duke of Chu and the queen?

As mortals, they are just camping and choosing to take sides in order to protect themselves.

"Alright. ”

Li Chen pulled the indignant Peng Yan: "Handing over the two petition folds we wrote is also a bad deal." ”

Peng Yan was unwilling to join Li Chen, took out the recital written by someone on his behalf, took it out of his arms, respectfully handed them the current peak, and then watched the falling bamboo slips under the guardianship of the forbidden army led by Xiao Huanglin be lifted on a stretcher by the temple people and carried to the towering palace behind the Zhu Palace.

The sound of glamour came from afar.

Peng Yan couldn't help but be a little curious, and turned Li Chen's arm with his elbow: "Hey, you say, is this the new master of the palace a faint king?"

"We've been back to the city for so long, and at the court meeting, your uncle led the hundred officials to approve her worthless, and almost took off her throne...... She is a good person, she has never shown her face once, and she is still drunk and dreaming of death every day. ”

"Wouldn't it be as rumored, terminally ill, and a long time ago, he couldn't be a director, right?"

"Only then did I let this court comment inside and outside!"

Peng Yan whispered malicious speculation.

Li Chen raised the corners of his mouth, and suddenly remembered the palace people who secretly sent them news and evidence, and panicked to accept a large amount of gold and silver, and said: "The mountain ghost is in the world, so do you know the truth or falsehood?"

"I don't know if it's true or not, I just know that someone is going to be unlucky!"

Peng Yan pursed his lips.

Li Chen turned around, only to see ** alone being guarded by the soldiers, falling behind the county Yin, looking anxious and even looking left and right, as if there was a difficulty, so he groaned, turned around and walked towards him: "Jiangxian Yin, what's wrong? But what is the difficulty?"

**Seeing that Li Chen seemed to have seen a savior, he immediately confessed the reason after pleading with several forbidden soldiers: "**I'm afraid I can't stay until after the ceremony, Duke Chu instructed me to leave for Jiangxia on the same day to prepare winter food." But I'm thinking about how to report a message to someone at home......"

Li Chen was not surprised by this.

After this war, internal and external troubles, if there are still so many soldiers and horses hoarded outside the city, sooner or later the entire Yingdu will be dragged down, and the day when the grain and grass are exhausted, the country will really have chaos, and now it is just some "little ghosts dancing".

"Duke Chu is reasonable. ”

"If Brother Jiang needs to pass on the word to his family, Li Chen is willing to do it for him. handed over his name and introduced his entourage, **grateful: "Thank you so much." ”

"Please be sure to tell the house. ”

"Brother Jiang rest assured. ”

The two chatted for a while, thanked them again and again, and left.

But Peng Yan, who was waiting on the side, couldn't hold back his temperament, and Huo Di pulled him away from Zhu Palace: "What kind of friendship do you have with that ** Pan? He is obviously marked by the rest of the Cheng clan because of the matter of water control, and I am afraid that he will have no career in the future and will be marginalized." ”

"Yo, it turns out that you have a brain...... too"

Li Chen took the name of **, but his eyes widened, and he looked him up and down, but he didn't expect this guy to see the direction of the wind in the court so quickly: "Old Peng also asked me to remind you more, the water in the capital is too deep, it seems that I don't need to be distracted by you......"

"Do I still need you to be distracted?"

Peng Yan glared, this is too boring.

"I said you were the one who did it. In case it's too prominent, be careful that those brothers in your family will not be too comfortable in the first place. ”

This remark made Li Chen look at Peng Yan even more differently.

It made him feel embarrassed for a while.

Peng Yanhun said nonchalantly: "Okay...... Even if our Da Chu's innocence is about to collapse, there are those people in the Zhu Palace who will stand up to it first, and even if it wants to press on us county officials, it will be the last. ”

"Hmm!"

Li Chen nodded.

Forget it, if he wants to squeeze into the circle of scholars and doctors in this Yingdu, he still needs time.

"Okay, okay, let's go home, no matter what happens outside, the day is over peacefully. ”

After speaking, Peng Yan immediately pulled him out of the palace, and he couldn't wait to leave as soon as he was smeared with oil: "You see that I followed you back to Beijing this time, and I didn't dare to ask the horses to move bigger when walking horses in this capital." Now you can only sit in a broken ox cart when you take a car, and the ox cart is just that, and I am afraid of overtaking which noble chariot and horse in front of me. And in this palace, I have to bend down and kowtow when I see a person, my waist and legs are about to break these days, and this day is called a grievance. ”

Peng Yan scolded with an aggrieved face: "I think that back then, the two of us brothers, in Shenxi and Xi, it was called a majesty, who dared to surpass our carriages and horses!"

"Master, I have to kill him!"

Li Chen wanted to laugh when he heard this, but not far away, Lao Wu, who was now a guard at the palace gate, seemed to be hearing the two of them laughing, and was looking at them, he hurriedly pulled Peng Yan into the ox cart: "My Master Peng, be quiet, this is not out of the palace yet!"

"Shhhh ”

So the two hurriedly got into the ox cart and walked away.

Seeing the two of them go, the five got into the car with a reverence, and recruited the palace slave who was in charge of watching the car and feeding the feed: "Who left just now?"

Gong Nu thought for a while and replied: "Master Yujun, they are Shen Gong and Xi Gong who have just returned to Beijing to continue their duties. ”

Because of this storm of political scenery, Liu Yi was very much used by Ao Ziyan, and he soon became a new scholar, and these people under him also got some good errands.

The fifth child was dressed in a brand-new bronze armor, waved his halberd quite majestically, and at the same time ordered someone to let him go: "Okay, okay, got it." ”

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The wind is surging outside the window, but the clouds are light and the wind is clear.

Looking at the "court officials", "clans", "scholars", and "witch history" who were organized to protest by people in the distance on the Nagisa Palace Square...... It was hard to make a wave in her countenance.

Even after Ruo Ao Ziyan brought out those corpses, Zhao De ordered five times to send her a message: "Tell her to stop all this stupid suicide." ”

But she still showed no signs of cowardice.

"Don't you have a hint of fear?"

Si Mo, who was guarding, took a deep look at her.

Facing the sound of ridicule and shouting outside the palace, and the dancing and singing voices in the palace are more like a tactful confrontation with it.

The noise outside became more and more boiling, the louder the drums played, and the female musician's posture became more flexible and light, just like a bird standing on a wall and wanting to spread its wings and fly, fluttering its wings.

In the dimly lit wooden pavilion covered with pear blossom wooden floors, the four walls of bookshelves are full of rows of bamboo slips.

Mi Huang listened to the melodious music, and was in a rather happy mood flipping through "Chu Zhu" over and over again, counting over and over again the monarchs who were usurped by Shi in the three hundred years since the founding of the Chu State, and even did not even have a nickname after his death, and in the face of Si Mo's ridicule, he just smiled: "Take history as a mirror, and you will know your fate soon." ”

"Luckily!"

In every period of the most fierce struggle for the throne change of the Chu State, these successors who failed in the struggle for the throne of Chu basically could not escape the end of "death" in the end.

Her good father did not have Ruo Ao Ziyan's foresight, and the entire Hegong was impregnable, the enemy could not attack, and she could not get out of it, so her father faced Yue Jiao, who was ambitious by the wolf, and finally could only take poison and mock himself in this palace.

She was "imprisoned" in the palace in disguise.

How easy is it to get out of this place?

Under the firmament, the clouds cast huge shadows, enveloping the palace, and at this moment, even the sky without a trace is a luxury.

The footsteps of the machine followed her everywhere, and the vigilant eyes watched her everywhere, as if the invisible shackles were added to her limbs, groping for the empty wrists, where only the dagger had strangled her wrists for many years left bruises, the little arms that hung down at will, and only the gorgeous sleeves of the sleeves swept through the cold bricks of winter, slightly undulating.

If there really is a phoenix in this world.

Without "wings", how to leap over the high wall and iron curtain?

Or there is no other choice but to jump down from the top of this twenty-zhang high platform and fall to pieces, or until this limited life is gradually consumed by this cold and desperate endless days, and it is consumed into a touch of powder in the cracks of the blue bricks and boulders under his feet.

"Madame, this is a note sent today. ”

The palace people carried Xiao Huanglin and the others escorted over the hill as high as a fall, and asked, "Do you want to read it?"

In this regard, she didn't bother to take a look, and threw it into the bronze furnace with a brain: "Burn!"

And she burned these things on fire, and it was even more known to the entire Yingdu inside and outside the city as quickly as possible under the hype of people with intentions.

A group of temple maids and palace maids claimed conclusively: "It was the queen who ordered us to burn all the doctors' notes...... Say...... It is said that it is the end of October, and the weather in this Dachu is getting colder and colder, just enough to add some firewood......"

It's like adding wood to a fire.

Immediately burned the buttocks of all the courtiers and witches.

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"Uncle, is this queen really breaking the jar and wanting to set a fire and burn herself to death?" Li Chen reported the first report he received to Li Lao with doubts.

Li Lao indifferently cast his gaze on the towering platform: "Since she begged for death, how could we not fulfill her?"

"Let's go!"

Li Lao then went out of the court room, looked at the ministers outside the Zhu Palace, and the small and small witch ministers who were waiting, and walked into the Zhu Palace.

On the Golden Palace, Taishi Pan Chong still claimed that he was sick and had never gone to court, but Shen Wuxing, who had rested for more than ten days and returned to the court again, was the first to step forward and question: "Duke Chu, now as the prince of regent, but he does not persuade His Majesty, it is better to break the mouth of the embankment and ruin his reputation, how can he blame others again?!"

Ruo Ziyan did not respond.

Elder Li had already spoken: "What does Xianyin mean by this? Your Majesty has done ridiculous things, haven't we been carrying out the responsibility of persuasion?"

"What's more, even Lord Xianyin blames her with a stick. ”

"Did she heed your advice?"

"The sign of 'those who break into the palace, there is no mercy for killing' is still hanging on the door and has not been taken off!"

After Li Lao finished speaking indignantly, he turned around and said to Ruo Ao Ziyan on the seat: "Although Xianyin has no form, his words are also good, so I implore the Duke of Chu to put aside his personal feelings for the time being and restrain the queen for one or two, otherwise I am afraid that one day the queen will burn the entire Chu country to the ground!"

Although Ao Ziyan has always exercised the right to silence, in hindsight, his silence only made the storm bigger and bigger.

A phoenix placed in the golden palace on a high platform.

There was no way to escape the storm that swept towards her.

This is the abolition of the new monarch that happened in the last year of King Chumu.

This year, if converted into the history of the Jin Dynasty, is also a very unusual and turbulent year.

This year, the domestic political storm set off by the Yingdu of Chu not only brought earth-shaking changes to the power class of Chu State, but also had a strong impact on the political arena of Chu State.

The four sins of "disrespecting ghosts and gods, not worshipping heaven and earth, not bless the people, and ignoring state affairs" accused by Li Lao were quite serious in the society at that time, no matter which country they looked at.

Immediately afterwards, in order to allow Ruo Ao Ziyan to take a step closer to the position of Chu Jun, Li Lao tried to find a basis for dethronement from various aspects such as legislation, clan, religion, and the mandate of heaven.

Then, Shen Wuxing only claimed in his official residence that if Ruo Ao Ziyan was made the king of Chu, "the disaster of the country will start here!"

It was this word of distress that brought trouble to him.

He just finished saying this on the front foot, and the officials in his official residence on the back foot informed Li Lao of the details one by one, and because of the pain of losing his arm, Li Lao naturally took the opportunity to retaliate against the Pan family, and soon if Ao Ziyan heard the news, in less than two days, Shen Wuxing was demoted out of the Chu court, and was kicked to the most remote wasteland in Chu - Wuyue border, guarding the southeast gate, and he immediately set off for his post, which is also a warning to the next Xianyin of the head of the Yanguan with his actions.

"Grandfather, the traces of the country's survival, then Li Lao and his ilk are simply the tongue of the Duke of Chu, let it be reversed, it is only a matter of time before the monarch and the minister are in a different position, and it is necessary for you to stand up at this time!"

But Pan Chong was indifferent and didn't say anything: "This is here, thousands of mountains and rivers are far away, and there are many ant beasts in the land of Wuyue, which should be cherished." ”

Under the teaching of Pan Chong, Shen Wuxing has always been a person who pursues great right and wrong, so for him, the state of Chu at this time is even darker than when Yue Jiao was in power, and the so-called great right and wrong are already tiles that can be thrown into the manure tank casually, and the grandfather who respects the gods in his mind is even more ignorant of the country's danger and stands by and watches, and he can only be forced to leave a foreign land in the face of the isolated court, and the court of Chu has truly become a hall of words of the Ruo Ao family.

The will that belongs to Ruo Ao Ziyan seems to have shrouded the entire royal court, and even the kingdom, everywhere......

It is difficult to break this iron curtain!

At this moment, many people are strongly aware that if Mi Huang can't get rid of this religious war framed by Li Lao, and challenge Ruo Ao Ziyan's super authority to regain the royal power and monarchy that should belong to her, then she will always be able to act as a puppet emperor who lives in the deep palace in name only, or is about to step down!

This year is also the first year that Mihuang should have reigned in Dachu.

She will be in double decade of life.

If you can't successfully clear the haze in this political storm and see the light of day again, you will become the first Chu Jun to be ousted from power by the courtiers in "Chu Zhu" and become famous through the ages!

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