Liu He, the prince of Changyi, is the sixth son of the first emperor, he has been favored since he was a child, and he has developed his arrogant character of no one in his eyes, but this person is also an all-rounder with both civil and military skills, and he thought that he had made countless great contributions in the annals of history in the military camp of the Han State, and was once a popular candidate for the position of the crown prince, but his character was too moody, so he was not very popular with the people。

After the death of the first emperor, Emperor Tiance ascended the throne, this arrogant and domineering younger brother was sealed by him to Changyi, and cut off all the military power in his hands, Liu Hekong, who was in his twenties, had a talent to conquer the world but had nowhere to show it, and he lived in Changyi, and he was even more depressed, so his temper became more and more violent, even far beyond before, plus his identity as a prince, few people in the entire Han Kingdom dared to provoke him half a point.

Tiance Emperor Liu Che has always felt a little guilty about the younger brother of the entire mother, because the other party did not show any intention of rebellion, but as the emperor, he had to guard against it, so all along, as long as the king of Changyi did not do anything excessive, he would never ask too much.

Liu Che has no queen, and if he wants to choose an heir from the clan, the first thing that comes to mind is not Liu Yi, the son of King Wuling, but his son Liu Zhuang, who is probably also grateful for the throne he fought for from Liu He back then.

But today, in this court, he is really angry!

When the prime minister of the dynasty and the governor of the capital city Yin, these two big men who held the core power of the empire, actually helped the king of Changyi and the little prince Liu Zhuang to bully the king together! If they dare to do things to bully the king today, if they are not severely punished, then they will not help the Changyi palace usurp the throne in the future?

Liu Che has been martial all his life, how could he allow this kind of thing to happen to him?

He looked at Zheng Wentao and Pei Xiuqi, who knelt on the ground and were silent for a long time, a fire of ignorance burned in his chest, he sat down, held back his anger and said coldly: "Zheng Wentao and Pei Xiuqi, one of you is a high-ranking prime minister, and the other is the governor of the capital, I trust you, so I put the core power of the empire in your hands, is this how you repay me?"

"Minister, the crime deserves death!" I don't know if it was the tacit understanding that the same palace had cultivated for many years, or because of something else, Pei Xiuqi and Zheng Wentao actually answered His Majesty's question in unison.

"A good crime deserves ten thousand deaths, a good crime deserves ten thousand deaths!" His Majesty the Emperor of Tiance said in a cold voice: "The crime of deceiving the monarch is equivalent to disobedience, and I will cut you two with a thousand knives, which is not enough to offset your sins!"

"Spread my will, Prime Minister Zheng Wentao and Chang'an Mansion Yin Pei Xiuqi deceived the monarch, dismissed Zheng Wentao Cheng and demoted to Hucheng Sword and Pen Officer, and dismissed Pei Xiuqi Ying Tianfu Yin Position, demoted to Nanlin County Sword and Pen Officer, and will never be allowed to return to Beijing!"

"The king of Changyi cut the fief for eight hundred miles, and the prince Liu Zhuang misbehaved and was expelled from the capital!"

The two decrees were promulgated without hesitation, and all the civil and military officials knelt on the ground and shouted to your majesty to think twice.

His Majesty the Emperor was not moved in the slightest, got up and left the court, leaving only a cold voice.

"I have made up my mind, and if there is another intercessor, I will be guilty of the same crime!"

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The matter of the Prime Minister and the Lord Yin of the Mansion being turned into Hucheng and the swordsmen of Nanlin County soon spread throughout the capital, and the government and the opposition were all shocked, you must know that the Prime Minister is a member of the first rank of the dynasty, and the Lord Yin of the Mansion is also a high-ranking figure, but the swordsman and pencil are not in the stream, no different from the lawyer, and even a nine-grade sesame official is not counted!

What's more, Hucheng and Nanlin County are both the border places of the Han Kingdom, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are poor mountains and bad waters, and the lives of the two of them are completely ruined by this incident.

No one thought that a fight in Huamanlou would cause such an earth-shattering whirlwind in the upper echelons of the empire, the two current court officials ruined their careers, and the power of the king of Changyi suffered a heavy blow, but at this time, the initiator of everything, the young man who was wanted on the city wall, did not know anything about these things.

The night was dark, the stars were dim, and the moonlight was hazy.

It has been two days since they left the Confucian Dojo, Chen Linci and Tuoba Tianye have gone all the way to the south, and they have already traveled I don't know how many miles away from the team led by Old Master Qi, and they don't know where they are, but Chen Linci's sense of direction has always been wrong, as long as they go all the way to the south, they will one day reach the boundary of Liang Kingdom.

In front of him is a mountain forest, there is a path between the mountains, and there is a small temple on the mountain, and at the suggestion of Tuoba Amano, Chen Linci decided to stay here for the night, and then continue his journey south after dawn the next day.

He hadn't eaten for two days, and even the cultivators couldn't bear it, so Chen Linci planned to find a place to eat and replenish his nutrition as soon as it dawned tomorrow.

The two of them led the horse up the mountain, from time to time there was a faint cold wind blowing, and from time to time there were a few bird calls in the distance, Tuoba Tianye shivered, looked at Chen Linci and said with a smile: "Chen Linci, this scene is dark and windy, like the scene in a ghost story, you say that the two of us will not encounter any ghosts, right?"

Chen Linci looked at Tuoba Tianye like an idiot, and said with a smile: "Those gods and ghosts are all mythical characters, they have long been shattered and the void has flown away, and you still want to meet them in the world, it's really wishful thinking!"

"Hehe, you seem to be talking about it too. Takuba Amano laughed embarrassedly.

"This barren mountain, the moon is dark and the wind is high, even the robbers and bandits don't bother to come out to rob, not to mention that you and I are both cultivators, what are you afraid of?"

"How can I be afraid, it's not that the atmosphere is too gloomy, so I'm kidding you!"

The two chatted without saying a word, and soon came to the small broken temple, Chen Linci found an old tree to tie up the white silk horse, and walked into the small broken temple with Tuoba Tianye.

A group of bats were awakened by the footsteps of the two, and they all flew out of the main hall, covering the sky and the sun, and flew out of the small temple, not knowing where to fly, Chen Linci frowned, and said in a low voice: "These bats live in it all the year round, and they must have already made a mess of the small temple, or let's go." ”

Tuoba Amano nodded and said, "I always feel that this place is gloomy, and I don't want to stay any longer. ”

Chen Linci turned around and was about to leave the temple first, but he saw that behind the wooden door of the small ruined temple, which had long since decayed, there was a large plaque that had fallen for an unknown number of years.

He walked over and looked at it, and the words on the plaque were still vaguely recognizable.

There are three big characters written on it in small seals.

Lanruo Temple.

Chen Linci frowned, and suddenly felt that the name seemed to be a little familiar, but for a while, he couldn't remember where he had heard it anyway.

Just as he was thinking, in the main hall in the distance, a black figure came out.