Chapter 39: Desperate
Soon, as soon as the news of the emperor's death came out, there was chaos in the palace again.
It is said that in the palace of the King of Jin that day, it was Gonggong Li and dozens of guards who came later to see with their own eyes, and the prince of Jin stabbed the emperor to death with a knife and injured King Yan.
After that, this statement was spread inside and outside the court: His Royal Highness the King of Jin was dissatisfied with his small fiefdom in Jiangzhou, and this time he returned to Beijing, with ill intentions, and had been planning for a long time, deliberately trying to kill his brother and seize the throne on the grounds of reminiscing about the past. I didn't want the matter to be revealed, so I was caught red-handed, and now I have been put in prison and are waiting to be released.
The emperor went up suddenly, and none of the three princes of the Great Yuan Kingdom had any heirs. King Jin killed the king, and now the person who can justifiably grasp the power of the court is His Royal Highness King Yan. And how should His Royal Highness the King of Jin deal with it, who will sit on the throne in the future, all the officials of all sizes have their own pedigrees in their hearts, but they don't say a word, and no one dares to stand up first. At this time, the safest thing is to wait and see what happens, and follow the situation.
Only the General's Mansion remains, but at the moment it is full of trouble.
"Rebel! Don't forget this Sima family, who is in charge! Sima Cheng stopped Sima Jing, who was anxious to enter the palace, and reprimanded angrily: "If you dare to insist on leading troops into the palace today, I will personally solve you here, and you will never be allowed to do such a rebellious thing!" ”
"Father! I'm just going to enter the palace to save people, so what's the big rebellion? ”
Knowing that Gao Xun was arrested and all the cadres in the Jin Palace's mansion were imprisoned, Sima Jing and Ye Xiuying were naturally anxious, but the two of them were stopped in the mansion at the moment, not only could they not enter the palace, but they couldn't help at all.
"Who are you going to save? What you want to save is the King of Jin who killed the emperor and wanted to rebel! If you save her, you are guilty of the great sin of conspiracy. My Sima family has been loyal and good for generations, and has never had two hearts, how can you be such a tiger and ruin the reputation of Sima Mansion! ”
"This is obviously someone deliberately framing the prince! She didn't have the intention of seizing the throne at all, so how could she be stupid enough to kill the monarch in her own mansion? ”
"Hmph, you think she is wronged, but the rest of the court doesn't think so!"
Sima Cheng also hated Gao Heng at this time, as soon as the emperor died, his harem concubines would naturally not have a good life, and his baby daughter Sima Xuan was destroyed in the palace for the rest of her life.
"Ah Jing, at this time, I really shouldn't let you take the liberty of leading troops into the palace, it's better for me to sneak into the palace first and see if I can see the prince."
After Ye Xiuying calmed down, she thought carefully, now that the emperor is dead and King Jin is in prison, most of the people in the palace obey King Yan's orders. Sima Jing entered the palace to save people at this moment, and he was not sure that he would be implicated, so he was arrested together.
And when the prince returned to Beijing this time, most of the soldiers only stayed in Jiangzhou Mansion, even if she wanted to break into the prison to save people, she only had the heart to reads;.
Although he didn't know what happened in the Jin Palace's mansion that day, the prince must be innocent of the rebellion. If it was really King Yan who intended to frame her, then the prince was even more unlucky when he was locked up in prison at this time. I'm afraid that King Yan will take action before finding out the truth, and he will kill the prince in prison. What's more, the people of the Jin Palace, along with her father, were also arrested, so she was even more anxious and wanted to find out.
"You are not allowed to go!" But he didn't want Sima Cheng to stop her in a hurry and said, "Ah Ying, since you have married into the Sima Mansion, you are a member of the Sima family." Besides, you are still pregnant, in case of an accident, wouldn't it be a loss of two lives! ”
Ye Xiuying was choked for a while when she heard this, and she couldn't defend herself.
Sima Jing was on the side, and she was not allowed to go to the palace alone to take risks.
Although Sima Cheng was angry, he also knew that the third prince did not seem to be a person who intended to rebel against the usurper, and this matter was indeed strange. Seeing the anxious appearance of the two, he was also helpless, sighed, and said:
"Hey, Sima Jing, you first go to the mansion of Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, and talk to him well, are you willing to go to the table with you and other officials, and I will definitely ask the Supervision Yuan to investigate this matter thoroughly."
Gao Heng has been in power for five years, and he can be regarded as a strong ruler, and he has gradually won the hearts of many people. After the resignation of the acting prime minister, several officials resigned one after another, and most of the people who remain in the court are the emperor's people.
Only Lord Shangshu of the household department was left to have a good relationship with the same generation, and now that the three princes have an accident, the crime of killing the king should have been punished. It's just that this matter is suspicious, and many people are afraid that they have doubts in their hearts, and what they can do at the moment is to delay this matter for a day to see if there is any hope to return King Jin to an innocence.
I'm afraid that His Royal Highness King Yan will convict the criminal department first, and when the time comes, whether the rebellion is true or not, I'm afraid I can't help but ask.
As for whether this Lord Wang is willing to help, it depends on whether God is willing to give His Royal Highness King Jin a way to live.
Hearing this, Sima Jing looked at Ye Xiuying, who was anxious on the side, and nodded heavily: "No matter what, I will try my best to persuade each other to keep the prince!" ”
And at this moment, Gao Xun is locked up alone in this prison that does not see the light of day.
The jailers in the prison have received orders from His Royal Highness King Yan, but they must ask the King of Najin to admit it and tell the truth.
Your Highness doesn't recruit?
That's naturally torture.
What happened, His Royal Highness King Yan is on the shoulder, look at the current situation, the world will be King Yan sooner or later, what are you afraid of?
Gao Xun's hands were hung on the torture rack, and he was still wearing the brocade robe he wore on the day he was arrested, but it was already stained with blood, and he couldn't see the original color at all.
She could never have imagined that one day, she would be reduced to such a state of being slaughtered by others.
Look, His Royal Highness the King of Jin, who is rumored to be invincible on the battlefield, is beaten so hard that he doesn't dare to come out at the moment, and that's it.
The jailers who had just finished the execution sneered, and as if they had received a lot of silver, they shouted to each other in the blink of an eye that they would drink the wine in the streets tomorrow. Soon, he was dismissed by someone.
Gao Xun had half-closed eyes, his head hung down, his body was unconscious, and his mind was already in chaos.
All she could hear was the laughter fading away, and the footsteps getting closer, getting closer......