A lot of people died!

This is really a painful and tricky thing, not a typo, it is really "painful and tricky". Of course, it is painful and intractable because this is a plague, and the menacing epidemic has swept away some people's ambitions, and rumors have begun to spread among the government and the opposition.

It is rumored that the plague brought about by the heavy snow this time is the punishment of God for Wudan's rebellion and murder, and he feels that Wudan should be guilty of himself. At first, he just said that Wudan should admit his mistakes, but later some people became more and more bold and began to bluntly say that Wudan should return to the emperor.

How did Wudan get into the position of Prince Regent? That was when the country was broken, and it was he who came out to turn the tide and save the people from fire and water, and then was jointly elected by all the ministers of civil and military affairs! Now, there was only a small plague, and they said they wanted him to come down!

It's a bunch of shameless villains!

Wu Dan was furious and smashed the porcelain that had just entered to the ground.

"It's not these porcelains that make you angry, what are you doing smashing them?" Li Chengxiu picked up the porcelain piece and said: "This time I smashed it, I have to re-put it on, and they want to say that you are extravagant, why bother!" ”

Wu Dan gasped and sat down on the couch sulkingly.

Li Chengxiu lightly put the porcelain piece aside and sat down next to Wu Dan: "What are you angry about!" Sitting in your position, what's so angry! ”

"How can I not be angry!" Wu Dan said angrily: "How can they do this? ”

"Why can't they do that?" Li Chengxiu said: "It is a fact that people are dead, and someone must take responsibility!" The emperor has now retreated to the second line and does not care about anything, they can't rely on the emperor, of course they have to rely on you. ”

"That's why I'm angry!" Wu Dan hated.

Li Chengxiu said: "If you want me, I won't be angry!" ”

"You're not angry?" Wu Dan's tone was picked, and he squinted at Li Chengxiu, as if to say: "With your little temper, will you still be angry?" ”

"I'm not angry!" Li Chengxiu said solemnly, of course Wu Dan didn't believe it, so Li Chengxiu said: "They rely on your head, you don't know on their head!" ”

"Blame them?" Wu Dan was stunned and didn't understand what Li Chengxiu meant.

"yes, it's up to them." Li Chengxiu said: "The common people have a saying, which means that the county officials are not as good as the current management. You are in charge of the government, but they are the ones who do the work. To use a more vivid analogy, that is, they are your feet and hands, eyes and mouth, and they have not seen such a great disaster, they have not told you, they have not reached out to help those poor people, who are they to blame? ”

Hearing Li Chengxiu's words, Wu Dan's eyes lit up, but then they darkened again, and sighed: "But they got the damnation!" ”

"Damnation is damnation!" Li Chengxiu said indifferently: "Now they are ruling the world with you, even if it is the punishment of heaven, it is also the punishment of God." What do they want to do? Is it true that you are guilty of forgiveness? That's great! Then sin yourself, everyone sin together, well, let's say get a kneeling punishment or something! ”

"Kneel punishment?" The corners of Wu Dan's mouth twitched, he felt that Li Chengxiu had given him a bad idea.

Sure enough, when Wu Dan told Li Chengxiu's idea to the staff, the staff shouted, "Wonderful!" "And then it was extended.

I don't know if it was deliberately arranged by Wudan, or if the matter had already been brewing at that time, and the next morning, some officials went directly to Wudan and let Wudan blame himself. After some verbal arguments, Wu Dan was defeated and agreed to sin himself, but the courtiers did not run away and had to go with Wu Dan to sin himself.

The emperor's relatives, civil and military ministers, hundreds of people entered the Xianju Palace, although the Xianju Hall was large, it could not accommodate these many people, so they had to be treated differently. Those of high rank and rank will be punished in the hall and punished, those of rank and rank will be punished in the porch outside, and those of the lowest rank will be punished and kneeling in the courtyard. Hundreds of people knelt on their knees, and it was truly spectacular.

Wudan's current staff team is headed by Liu Yang, Gong Siwu and Qi Tai, and these three masters are all afraid that the world will not be chaotic. What's more, this time it was supposed to give the courtiers some colors, so how could they not make trouble?

Liu, Gong, and Qi got together to discuss, and decided to quietly send food to Wudan and those who support Wudan. On a cold day, kneeling in the ice and snow, drinking cold water! Although these people are all dressed in fox fur and animal skin and feathers, they are all cold at this time. After only kneeling for half a day, three or four of those who were in poor health in the snow in the courtyard collapsed.

"Drag it down, drag it down!" Old Eun Wei beckoned the guards to drag the frozen officials out of the Xianju Palace, and then threw them outside the Luoxi Gate, ordering his family to carry them back.

It was also a coincidence that there was another snow that night, so by the time dawn, there was almost no one in the snow in the yard. One by one, all of them were knocked down, and those who didn't fall down also knocked themselves down when they saw this frame.

When night fell the next day, half of those kneeling under the porch fell.

"Prince, what are you going to do?" Yushitai's Yushi Wang Gui angrily shouted at Wu Dan: "You are abusing and killing the minister!" ”

Wu Dan raised his eyelids and didn't say anything, because he didn't need to speak, and someone asked for justice for him: "Lord Wang, please be careful!" What kind of torture and killing of ministers, those people have been punished by God! ”

"You ......" Wang Gui froze, and almost swallowed the sentence "What a curse, they are frozen" in his stomach. It cannot be said that if the ministers were frostbitten, what about the people who died? If they also froze to death, wouldn't it be wrong for them to force the prince to "sin himself"?

"Okay, don't talk about it." Wu Dan said leisurely: "Since it is self-punishment for sin, you should sincerely repent, so that you can move heaven and earth." For the sins we have committed, let us encourage you! ”

He ate secretly, stuffed a sheepskin bag filled with hot water in his arms, and even installed a stove with hot coals on the cushion under his knees!

This time, the punishment lasted for five days, and in the end, less than one-fifth of the officials could barely support themselves. It is said that more than 20 people were dragged home to die after fainting! Wudan, this time it's a big killing.

Hearing the return, Li Chengxiu shuddered in his heart, but soon calmed down again, he was also forced to be helpless and had no choice.

But it didn't take long for another accident to happen.

Wei Laoguan secretly sent someone to send a letter to Li Chengxiu, saying that Wudan was on fire, and no one could stop him, so please Li Chengxiu hurry up, otherwise something big will happen! When Li Chengxiu hurried to the Dayi Palace, he saw that all the palace people and eunuchs were kneeling outside the hall in a hurry, the palace door was closed, and the old eunuch Wei stood close to the palace door, peeking into the hall from time to time, and looking in the direction of the Zunyi Gate from time to time.

"Mother, you're here." As soon as Li Chengxiu came in from the Zunyi Gate, Wei Lao Eun saw it and hurriedly greeted him.

"What's wrong?" Li Chengxiu saw that Wei Lao's expression was wrong, so he asked.

"Today, Wang Gui is entangled in more than a dozen imperial history troubles." Old Eunuch Wei said the middle point first in a concise and shocking manner: "The prince is angry." ”

"Imperial History? What's going on with Yushi? Li Chengxiu was stunned.

"What else could it be!" Old Eunuch Wei pursed his lips and said, "The leader is Wang Gui!" ”

Wang Gui, surnamed Wang, seems to be a little familiar.

Li Chengxiu: "People from the Wang family? ”

"Sort of." Wei Laoeun said: "Actually, he is not a member of the Wang family, but he changed his surname to Wang just to tie up with the Wang family." Now that the big house and the second room of the Wang family have fallen, he will now emerge as the head of the Wang family. ”

"Oh." Lee Sung-so nodded noncommittally.

As he spoke, he went to the door of the hall, and Wei Laoyun stood still by the door.

"Open the door!" Li Chengxiu glared at Wei Laoe, and Wei Laoeun winked and smiled flatteringly.

This guts old gelding!

scolded secretly, Li Chengxiu did not force Wei Lao Eunuch to open the door.

Stretching out his hand and pushing hard, the heavy red lacquered and gold-painted door creaked open.

"Get out!" As soon as Li Chengxiu pushed the door open, a hidden weapon flew straight with an angry shout, and he couldn't dodge, and smashed into Li Chengxiu's shoulder with a bang.

"Ahh Li Chengxiu pressed his shoulder and fell to the ground with a scream.

This frightened the old eunuch Wei, his face turned white, and he hurriedly came to help Li Chengxiu, but when he lowered his head, he saw that Li Chengxiu was grimacing at him, and the old guy immediately understood, and howled very well: "Niangniang, Niangniang, what's wrong with you?" Mother, wake up! ”

"Ah Xiu?" A person in the dim part of the hall slowly stood up, glanced at this place in a daze, and immediately ran over as if he was stimulated by something: "What's wrong with Ah Xiu?" ”

This person is the regent prince of the dynasty, and Wu Dan is also.

"Your Highness, you just hit the mother!" Old Eunuch Wei cried.

Hearing Wei Lao's words, Wu Dan's face turned pale, but he was more puzzled: "It's just a book, I just threw it away so casually, why did I get knocked out?" ”

"Why can't you be stunned?" The person who was beaten and "fainted" gave his own explanation: "I'm still a patient!" ”

"Poof!" Old Eun Wei finally couldn't hold back anymore, and quickly retreated and ran away.

"You, you, why are you messing around again?" Wu Dan helped Li Chengxiu up with a smile, but in the end he still took her sentence "I'm still a patient" to heart, reached out and touched Li Chengxiu's shoulder gently: "Does it hurt?" It can't be a real injury, right? ”

Li Chengxiu didn't answer in words, just picked up the "hidden weapon" and threw it at Wu Dan's body, and then asked, "Do you say it hurts?" ”

Wu Dan replied silently: "It hurts!" ”

……

Although the crown princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty has the right to participate in political affairs, Li Chengxiu of the Great Yi Palace is the first time to come. It is not as majestic as the Hanyuan Palace, nor as majestic as the Zichen Palace, nor as mysterious and majestic as the Zhenguan Palace, but the Dayi Hall has a unique taste, a taste outside the palace. The whole hall, in addition to the hall is red lacquer painted gold, the hall is vermilion lacquer, there is no gold painting, there is no luxurious furnishings, at first glance, it seems to have stepped into the hall of which high gate mansion. The osmanthus in the corner of the wall is in full bloom, fragrant, I really want to immediately conjure up a rocking chair to sit down, quietly lean against the door, smell the fragrance of osmanthus and gently shake and fall asleep.

It's just that the wolves all over the ground have ruined this beauty.

On the smooth marble floor, there are scattered pieces of music everywhere, as well as porcelain smashed by Wudan.

Carefully avoiding those porcelain, Li Chengxiu picked up the nearest note, which read: "Fu Wen Shengtianzi rules the world with filial piety......" talks about filial piety, saying that all the saintly sons of heaven are to use their filial piety as an example to educate the people, and whoever does not do this no matter how good he is, he will not be able to be the son of saint tomorrow, this advises His Royal Highness the prince to also be a good child who is filial to his parents.

I picked up another letter, which read: "All things are born, birds fly in the sky, beasts walk on the ground, fish swim in the water......"

It is about heaven and earth, and there is a way to follow, but in fact, it is also a queen. Even birds have the right to fly freely in the sky, animals have the right to run on the ground, and the queen should have the right to her own.

Picked up another one, this one was more direct, and it said: "Yin is because of Xia Li, and the profit and loss can be known?" The reason is that the three outlines and five constants are also ......"

What are the Three Principles and Five Constants? Three outlines: the king is the minister, the father is the outline, and the husband is the wife; The five constants: benevolence, etiquette, reason, wisdom, and faith. As a child, you need to absolutely serve your parents, and as a son, you must absolutely obey your father and mother, if you don't do this, you don't have to talk about any benevolence and etiquette, and the rational faith behind is bound to be gone. How can such a person be a worthy king? Besides, the sage Yun, the monarch and the minister, the father and the son, the father and the son, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have been a minister, but now he is the monarch, which is obviously very inappropriate.

The encounter with the emperor's northern tour hit Li Chengxiu very hard, it peeled off the illusion that the original owner had sealed well, and let Li Chengxiu see the dirtiness under the illusion, so that she didn't even have the courage to live here. The beginning of all this was the sudden attack of the queen.

Therefore, according to the hatred in Li Chengxiu's heart, it is really impossible to hang the queen upside down with a knife, and take a small blade to scrape off the flesh on her body piece by piece to relieve the hatred.

Therefore, when he heard that Wudan just asked the Empress Wang to "recuperate" in Shangyang Palace, Li Changyou was very unhappy in his heart. However, when she saw these three letters, the resentment against Wudan in her heart immediately disappeared a lot. - As a superior person, although he is high up and seems to be infinite without light, he is not able to do whatever he wants.

"You don't have to worry about them." Wu Dan's voice was a little hoarse, he sat on the steps a little dejectedly, and patted his side: "Come, sit with me for a while." ”

"Okay." Li Chengxiu put the music at hand on the long case and sat down gently beside Wu Dan.

For a moment, neither of them spoke, just sat there quietly side by side in a daze.

After a long time, Wu Dan sighed: "I'm so tired!" ”

"Can it still hold on?" Li Chengxiu tilted his head and asked with a smile.

"Huh?" Seeing Li Chengxiu smiling, Wu Dan also pulled away his smile inexplicably, and raised his eyebrows: "How can it last?" What if you can't hold on? Although he was smiling, he couldn't hide the tiredness and decline in his tone.

"Then it depends on how you choose." Li Chengxiu blinked: "If you want to rely on me, let's just pick and choose." This is a errand, whoever you love will do it, let's pick a few good horses, lead a few, rush out of Luoyang in one go, and escape to the end of the cape to be at ease. ”

Wu Dan stared at Li Chengxiu with a subtle expression.

Li Chengxiu said: "This world is very big, in addition to the Central Plains, the South China Sea, the Western Regions, and the East Ying regions that we know, there are also Americas, Australia and so on. Now it is estimated that those places are still some Primordial Furious Forests, and even if some people are sure that they don't even know why they are naked all over the mountain, 'oh oh oh', similar to monkeys, with the martial arts of the two of us, we can easily conquer them, and then we will teach them the art of farming and weaving...... Wow, then we're going to create a world civilization! Oh my God, that's pretty remarkable! Maybe they will be worshiped like a god! ”

Wu Dan was made to cry and laugh by Li Chengxiu's words: "What are you thinking about!" ”

The gloom in his chest and abdomen was swept away with laughter.

Blinking his eyes, Li Chengxiu said extremely seriously: "What I said is true, and it is all serious, you can consider it." ”

Dialing the earrings hanging from Li Chengxiu's cheeks, Wu Dan asked with a smile: "This can't hold up, what about the one that can hold up?" ”

"If you can hold it, just hold it well." Li Chengxiu said angrily: "Don't disturb my rest by making people panic all day long." ”

"Angry?" Wu Dan grabbed Li Chengxiu, who was about to get up and leave, and then pulled him into his arms and hugged him: "Ah Xiu, I just feel annoyed." ”

Li Chengxiu pursed his lips and did not say anything.

It's not that Li Chengxiu doesn't help Wudan, but she can't help him either. The current situation is somewhat like the Tang Dynasty after the "Anshi Rebellion", Wu Dan held the great merit of quelling the rebellion and the regent, but he did not occupy the imperial throne, although the emperor retired to the harem, he was still the emperor, and he was not the emperor. In general, Wudan now listens to the government every day, and there are still criticisms and reviews, which are still somewhat unjustifiable. Especially not long ago, the emperor forcibly entered the Shangyang Palace, where the empress was imprisoned, and sent a very bad signal to the courtiers.

It is actually easy to solve this problem, as long as Wu Dan can be ruthless, find a dark and windy night to solve the queen, so as to coerce the emperor to give way to him. But...... If Wudan had such ruthlessness, the emperor would not be able to return to Luoyang City, and he was afraid that he would have already arrived at his "Zhangling" that had been built for more than ten years.

And Li Chengxiu is more cowardly than Wu Dan. - Occasionally remembering the metaphor that died in her hands, she would have nightmares that night.

Li Chengxiu was a little angry, not only to Wudan, but also to herself.

I really didn't know how to comfort Wu Dan, Li Chengxiu had to sit on his lap and accompany him quietly.

"Just ignore them." After thinking about it for a long time, Li Chengxiu only came up with such a sentence.

"I'm afraid that the more I ignore them, the more they think I'm afraid of them." Wu Dan sneered.

Li Chengxiu clearly understands that the "they" mentioned by Wu Dan refer to people, not the "songs" she said.

"And what are you going to do?" Li Chengxiu asked, but only casually.

Wu Dan sneered again: "I can't move them, I can't move them?" ”

Obviously, the two "they" this time have different meanings, Li Chengxiu guessed that the first they should refer to the emperor, and the second they should refer to those chaotic imperial histories.

Sure enough, early the next morning, Li Chengxiu heard a report from Liusheng: "The prince ordered someone to copy the imperial historian who had been with Wang Gui in the past few days!" ”

It's pretty fast.

And even faster!

On the third day, news came, saying: "A lot of unknown property was copied from the homes of Wang Gui and several people, among which Wang Gui's family also copied out a large number of weapons, and the courtiers were shocked that the nine clans of Wang Gui were not enough to calm the anger of the heavens. Outside of the three clans, if they are not involved in the case, they will not be involved, and they will still occupy any official position after the original position. The first offender, Wang Gui and others, was sentenced to a sentence of Ling Chi, and the execution will be carried out tomorrow, and the prince asked all the courtiers to observe the punishment. ”

Secretly possessing a large number of weapons, this is too sensitive and deadly for the Great Zhou, who has just experienced the catastrophe of war. Such a big crime should only be punished by his own family, which is really compassionate.

Although they were compassionate, there were more than 300 corpses that could be thrown on the execution ground. More than 300 corpses were thrown on the execution ground in the wind and sun, and the corpses were allowed to be collected for seven days, and when the people of his clan went to collect the corpses, the corpses were blackened.

There was only less than a month between Wudan's two sword swings, and nearly a thousand lives were crushed!

Everyone knows that "rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry" is true! The government and the opposition suddenly stopped a lot.

Xu felt that his comeback was hopeless, and the emperor began to let out words, saying that he wanted to be in Wudan in advance. The queen reacted very much, and sent a message to Li Chengxiu from Shangyang Palace, saying that she wanted to see her.

"Ignore her!" Wu Dan said this to Li Chengxiu.

Since Wu Dan said so, Li Chengxiu would send it to the door by himself when his brain was pumped.

However, two days later, the emperor came again, saying that he wanted to drink Li Chengxiu's pickled dishes. The queen is a stepmother, and she is a stepmother who has committed a big crime, so she can ignore it, but her father-in-law ...... A filial piety word is out of the sky, and you can't ignore it!

After cleaning up, Li Chengxiu only got a trip to Shangyang Palace.

But when he arrived at Shangyang Palace, it was not the emperor who saw Li Chengxiu, but the queen. Since he came to Shangyang Palace, it was naturally not surprising to see the queen, but the emperor did not show up, so this is a little too much to say. Isn't that a lie!

But it was obvious that the queen didn't think so, she looked at Li Chengxiu condescendingly, with disdain in her eyes.

"What about the emperor?" Li Chengxiu didn't pay attention to the queen, but turned around and asked the eunuch at the gate of the palace.

The eunuch replied: "I don't know! ”

"Humph!" Hearing this, Li Chengxiu threw up his sleeves and left.

The queen was angry and shouted, "You stop me!" Do you still have me as a queen in your eyes? ”

"Nope!" Lee Sung-so replied.

The empress was so angry that she screamed and shouted: "Emperor, emperor, emperor!" The emperor walked out from behind the golden jade screen and looked at Li Chengxiu with a reproachful face, the queen pounced on the emperor, pointed at Li Chengxiu and shouted: "Look at it, look at the two of them!" Now you're alive, they're like that! ”

"Do you always look forward to the emperor's death?" Li Chengxiu cut off the empress's words, turned his head to look at the emperor and said, "Do you know why Shi Maitreya was mistaken for an assassin by you?" ”

"Why?" The Emperor asked, stunned.

"Ask the Queen." Li Chengxiu said coldly.

"What a misunderstanding, he's an assassin!" Queen Sisdy roared.

"I tell you, Shi Maitreya he is not dead!" Li Chengxiu also yelled at the queen.

The queen was stunned by Li Chengxiu's yelling and looked at her blankly.

Li Chengxiu also looked at the queen, and said word by word: "Queen mother, people are doing it, the sky is watching, if people don't know, unless they don't do it." What did you say to Wang Ting at that time? You know, Wang Ting knows, God knows, the earth knows, and Shi Maitreya also knows. ”

"Nonsense, you nonsense!" The queen roared a little nervously.

"Aunt, what my father means is that although you are the queen of a country, you are above and below one person, but in the end, you are under others, and your net worth and life are tied to others. Since ancient times, emperors have been merciful, how good is the emperor? He didn't marry another woman or have other children...... If he hadn't gotten such a woman, how could the prince's cousin have died early? Now, he is determined to help the sixth child. Who is the sixth person, you didn't know before, but now you should know, right? It's not going to happen yet, it's going to make our Wang family restless, if it really puts him on the throne...... It's a trivial matter for us to wait for our lives, but I wronged you, aunt, that Concubine Li is the culprit who killed the prince's cousin, let her son take the throne, can you be willing? It's better not to do one, and the other is endless...... If you become the emperor, then you are the second Wu Zetian! That Empress Wu is just the daughter of a timber merchant, aunt, our Wang family is one of the seven sects and five surnames, a thousand-year-old gate valve, if you are the emperor, you will become the king of the saint of the world! ”

Li Chengxiu learned the tone and voice of Na Wang Ting and said these words, which were exactly what Shi Maitreya overheard that day in order to chase the man in black who had infiltrated the camp.

As Li Chengxiu's lips closed one by one, the queen's body trembled, and her face became pale.

Just when the queen was about to collapse, Li Chengxiu spit out another sentence: "The pill has to be eaten by the emperor, and it can't be stopped, not only can't it be stopped, but also let it eat more!" Must...... Doesn't he like the Northern Capital? Then let him stay in the Northern Capital forever! ”

Then came the queen's voice and tone: "One day husband and wife hundred days, how can I bear to hurt him for more than thirty years!" But either he is or I am dead. Gorou, Goro, how many times have I told you, but you always don't listen. I've done my best for you, don't blame me for hating! ”

"Don't blame me for my hatred!" It was a few words squeezed out of the teeth by gritting the root of her teeth, the tone was not high, but the words were like thunder, and the queen finally collapsed: "Nonsense! You are talking nonsense! There is no such thing! There is no such thing! ”