The white-clothed fluttering shadow belonged to the princess of the Jin Kingdom, the king of assassins of the Qin State, the former academy teacher of the Chu State, and the current courtier Bai Wuyan.

There is a story about the relationship between the Iron Blood God Emperor and Bai Yiqing, after all, it is all an afterthought, and now the young Jingming Emperor Zhao Tianming is still an immature emperor, and Bai Wuyan, who is not too young, is far from being able to do it later, and the matter between the six clans of Huaihe is still an unsolvable problem for them.

But fortunately, Chen Lin resigned, and there was a Bai Wuyan who was willing to come to his side and accompany him to meet these storms.

"The clouds that are guarded will eventually see the moonlight, the eyes of the first emperor, the eyes of the national teacher, and the eyes of the dean, all of which will not be wrong. Bai Wuyan looked at the little emperor Zhao Tianming with a young face very seriously, and said slowly: "I believe that Your Majesty, you will get through this difficulty, just like all the male lords in history." ”

Under the dim sunset, in the cold and quiet imperial study, a few rays of light were released in Zhao Tianming's tired eyes.

Even if the entire six clans of Huaihe have turned away from me, at least, there are still some people who are unswervingly on my side.

That night, Emperor Jingming Zhao Tianzhi came to the dormitory of the Empress Dowager Anqi.

After the death of Emperor Zhao Xixuan, Concubine Anqi was honored as the queen mother by Zhao Tianming, because her share of the Qingqiu clan had been exposed, in order to avoid suspicion and in order not to let the hundred officials have any suspicion of her, she gave up her glorious and rich life, chose to live alone in the deep palace, and wore a soap robe to mourn the former emperor all the year round.

Zhao Tianming naturally knew that behind all these behaviors of the queen mother, it was all for the sake of the stability of his imperial power, in fact, this move of the Empress Dowager Anqi did attract the praise of the officials, without the queen mother's involvement, there would not be the harem chaos that they least wanted to see, and secondly, in everyone's hearts, they were actually still afraid that the Chu State would really change its name to Qingqiu one day.

Therefore, after the six tribes of Huaihe announced that they were out of the control of the imperial court, many people entered a state of wait-and-see.

Seeing the emaciated queen mother, Zhao Tianming's heart softened, knelt on the ground, and said slowly: "Erchen greets the queen mother." ”

"It's destiny. Empress Dowager Anqi opened her eyes and looked at the little emperor outside the tulle, and said with a slight smile: "Your Majesty is now the king of a country, when you see the mourning family, where is there such a big etiquette, hurry up." ”

"Queen Mother, no matter how you are the king of a country, the destiny of heaven is your son first. Zhao Tianming knelt on the ground, still not getting up.

Empress Anqi's face was filled with a happy smile, she stood up and slowly walked to Zhao Tianming's side, helped him up with her own hands, sighed and said: "Your Majesty, if you have this filial piety, the mourning family will be content." ”

Zhao Tianming stood up and sat down with Concubine Anqi, who was already the queen mother, it was not long ago, and there was a lot more white on Concubine Angel's head

, as if those past events do not exist, and those feelings have dissipated, so there will be a question and answer between the two people on the star-picking tower about whether they are or not.

But Zhao Xixuan knew in his heart that An Qi was his.

Concubine Angel has always been his, there is the whole world, there are thousands of miles in the belly, but the person is gentle and kind, how many women can refuse his will not indulge in it? It's just that at that time, An Qi knew that his bones couldn't last long, and she didn't want him to go too painfully, so she deliberately pretended to be indifferent to him.

She wanted to make him feel that she wouldn't be too sad when he was gone, so that he would be more at ease when he left.

But these disguised strong, in the end, I couldn't help but burst out the moment I saw him close his eyes, after the Qingqiu clan was wiped out by Huang Tianyi, she was left with only two relatives in this world, Zhao Xixuan and Zhao Tianfang, and the pillars of the spiritual world suddenly collapsed in half, which is enough for any woman to collapse.

Zhao Tianming knew the past of his father and mother, so he felt even more sorry for the haggard mother in front of him.

Empress Dowager An Qi touched Zhao Tianming's immature little face, smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I heard that there has been a lot of trouble in Huaihe County recently. ”

Zhao Tianming sighed and said: "Erchen still underestimated the heritage of these thousand-year-old families, the six clans of Huaihe have cultivated countless branches over the years, and they have already infiltrated the important hubs of the Great Chu State, and now Zhou Yu and Zhou Xingyun have been executed, and the six clans of Huaihe have been reduced to commoners, and those people have blown up, and the rest of the major families have burned their anger on the Zhou family, slaughtered the Zhou family, and then began to pull the flag to make an independent. ”

"The branch disciples of the Zhou family, in order to avoid trouble, have defected to the Huang family in the six clans, and now in the school hall of Yingtiancheng, a large group of scholars of the six clans are making trouble, and the officials of the six clans branches in many places have also begun to pick and choose. ”

"What is Your Majesty's headache?" asked the Empress Dowager Anqi calmly.

"These people control the lifeblood of all joints of the Great Chu State, the scholars control the public opinion guidance of the Great Chu State, and the sons have just ascended the throne as the emperor, they make such a fuss, whether it is for my rule or for the exhibition of the entire Chu State, it is a very unfavorable thing, how can the sons and daughters not have a headache. ”

"Whoever disobeys, kill him. ”

"Killed, so many children of the six clans of Huaihe hold important positions in various counties and even in the capital, and those scholars make friends all over the world, if they are all killed, then the entire Chu State will not be in chaos immediately?"

"Your Majesty, the Buddha still has the wrath of thunder, not to mention that you are the king of a country, if you don't have some iron-blooded and tough skills, how can you make these courtiers below subjugate you?

Frustrated people, there is no shortage of scholars who read poetry and books and want to become officials and glorify their ancestors, the foundation of the Great Chu State is controlled by these rich children, and it has long been decayed, and now they have their heads under His Majesty's knife, and His Majesty will not purge it, even when?"

Empress Anqi's words, the Mandate of Heaven was enlightened, and she immediately said goodbye to her mother and returned to the imperial study.

He had already made up his mind that the state of Chu needed a thorough purge, just in the early Ming Dynasty.

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At the end of the summer of the first year of the Jingming Era of the Great Chu Kingdom, a great thing happened in Yingtian City.

Led by the cabinet minister Bai Wuyan Bai himself, dozens of people broke into the library where the scholars of the six clans in Yingtian City gathered.

This was followed by a brutal massacre.

Since the dynasties, the emperors have been the most annoying and the most troublesome, that is, these disobedient literati, there is a saying called murder and punishment, the pen in the hands of these people, in many cases, is often more hurtful than the sword in the hands of the practitioners, because they control the public opinion of the world, see that you are unhappy and write an article to scold you, you are angry, kill him or lock him up, but it is to fulfill their reputation, you are not angry...... How can you not be angry when someone writes an article to scold you?

Therefore, since the past dynasties, this kind of ** led by scholars has been very effective, and the government will choose to give in many times, after all, who does not care about their reputation? I really haven't heard of a few emperors who dare to slaughter scholars.

So they stood up boldly, so they had no fear, so they dared to gather in the library in broad daylight to discuss the next step.

It's just that scholars are still just scholars after all, they have the spirit of a scholar, but they don't know the laws of this world, and the strong will always be king.

And the emperor of Zhao Tianming is obviously different from those monarchs of previous dynasties.

Hundreds of scholars died tragically in Yingtian City, and immediately after, the shadow of this death began to cover the entire prefecture, county, and county of the Great Chu Kingdom.

All the officials of the side branches of the six clans who came out to make trouble and strike were dealt with for treason, whether they were endangering one party or really doing something in their posts, everything became infamous for eternity, and for a time the entire Great Chu State began to panic.

Someone criticized His Majesty's actions behind his back, and he died in his own mansion that night, and someone secretly reported the news, and since then he has become a mute who has lost his tongue, and this kind of thing is staged in the Great Chu State every moment.

Soon, these people were killed by Zhao Tianfang and Bai Wuyan.

The wolves are dead, and all that remains is the five old lions.

Zhao Tianming looked at the death list sent by Bai Wuyan and nodded slowly.

Two thousand six hundred and twelve people, the thousand-year-old family is really a thousand-year-old family, and they can firmly grasp the foundation of this country in their own hands.

Fortunately, you rebelled, Zhao Tianming looked at the list in his hand and smiled knowingly.

If

Otherwise, I really can't find a reason to cure you.

After killing the scholars and officials, the former Iron Blood God Emperor and his white-clothed prime minister set their sights on the five major families who had regained control of Qinghe County.

He didn't know that at this time, the neighboring emperor who was about the same age as him, Emperor Yongzheng Bai Wuyi, also fell into a similar predicament as him.

It's just that Bai Wuyi's sister stayed on the side of his destiny, and the little emperor Yongzheng was far less fortunate than him.