It is another year of the New Year, from the 28th day of the lunar month to the third day of the lunar month, Chang'an City will lift the curfew in these days, allowing the people to sing all night. This is a new initiative in the year of Zhenguan Majesty's accession to the throne, a thin edict and only a few dozen words, but it has won the heartfelt gratitude of the people.

But after so many years of the Spring Festival, Zhenguan Majesty's mood is not good most of the time. There are always reasons for this or that, so that his bad mood can find a reason. This year is even more incredible, for a whole number of reasons.

First of all, the heroic division sent out by the Eastern Tang Dynasty to conquer the Tianxing Kingdom lost contact with the country for some reason, and there was no news. The military department Shangshu was most afraid of being summoned during this time, and he also shrank as much as possible during the big and small court meetings, for fear of being seen by His Majesty Zhenguan, and pointed at his nose and scolded him in front of the courtiers.

This majesty is not at all as elegant and face-conscious as his father and grandfather, he is really angry, but he will stand in the court and scold his mother.

Then half a month ago, the Eastern Tang Dynasty went to the Great Qin Empire to participate in the Centennial Witch Festival Ceremony, and the envoy group wolf bèi returned to China. The second prince who led the team, King Huai'an, entered the Daxing Palace tremblingly, and when he was only a quarter of an hour, he was carried back to the palace - a bloody hole was opened in the door of his head, which was smashed by an inkstone.

Soon, the will of the palace came down. The king of Huai'an was demoted from the king of the four dragons to the king of the three dragons, and all the real power in his hands was taken away, and he was ordered to think about it behind closed doors, and he was not allowed to leave the palace without a will. King Huai'an's biological mother, Concubine Ying, was also demoted from a concubine to a concubine on the grounds that she had no way to teach her son.

There is also the third prince, King Xiangshan, who is obviously not a member of the envoy group, but because he is the one who fully supports the second prince King Huai'an as the envoy of the envoy group - the reason is that King Huai'an's envoy to the Zongzheng clan of the Great Qi Empire was very successful, and he was also severely punished if he continued to make persistent efforts.

King Xiangshan was promoted to the Prince of Six Dragons last year because of his military exploits, and he was the highest title among the princes.

Not only the king of Xiangshan, but also the other prince of the Three Princes' Party, Lao Wudongqing Wang, although he was not demoted to the knighthood - he was originally a very poor king of Erlong County, equal to Li Xin's title, but he was also stuffed with a cart of books by His Majesty Zhenguan, so that he was not allowed to go out if he couldn't finish reading it. But who doesn't know, the fifth prince is a pure martial artist with only muscles and no brains, let him read, it is better to give him a knife directly.

As a result, after the end of the Great Qin Centennial Witch Festival, the power of the Three Princes was greatly weakened and suppressed. Especially the second prince, the only civilian official in the Three Princes' party, was taken away from all power, and for the third prince who has been in the army for many years, it is not just as simple as breaking his arm.

In this regard, the rest of the princes who were aspiring to the throne were simply overjoyed, and quietly hid to celebrate several times. But the good times didn't last long, and after just three or four days of pride, the Four Princes' Party was devastated.

The military department Shangshu finally contacted the army of heroes who had penetrated deep into the border of Tianxing, and got a piece of news that shocked the old man.

Wang Yu's messenger wept and claimed that the army had not received any logistical help from the Eastern Tang Dynasty more than a month earlier. Wang Yu once sent people to the garrison barracks at the junction of the Eastern Tang Dynasty and Tianxing to ask, but the general of the border army indifferently rejected Wang Yu's people's request for the transfer of food and ordnance, saying that there was no baggage for Wang Yu's army in Beijing.

There was no way, Wang Yu could only lead the army to go deep into the Tianxing Kingdom again and again, with the idea of raising war with war. In the end, they were alone, and they came from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, which deeply aroused the jealousy of the separatist forces of the Tianxing Kingdom, and they were actually attacked by those Tianxing anti-kings, setting countless traps.

Speaking of grief, the messenger tore the tattered military uniform, revealing the wounds on his body, which had not yet fully healed, and slapped his chest with a knife in one hand and the other hand, with the intention of committing suicide on the spot without allocating the munitions.

The military department did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly brought the messenger directly to the palace. His Majesty Zhenguan was furious and ordered the military department to quickly investigate, and it was important to find out who was making trouble.

The secretary of the military department acted vigorously and resolutely, and it only took half a day to find out the matter clearly, and he entered the palace at night to report, directly pointing the finger at the four princes.

It turned out that the fourth prince, King Zhongyang, instructed his cronies to communicate with each other, and made a small stumbling block for the military dispatch and transportation of Wang Yu's army. He probably wanted revenge, because Wang Yu refused his request to install his cronies into the expedition against Tianxing's army.

King Zhongyang knelt in front of Daxing Palace for two nights and a day, until midnight the next day, when he fainted because he couldn't bear it, and was carried away by His Majesty Zhenguan's mercy. This is the second prince to be carried out of the palace, and I don't know how many people were scared stupidly.

Needless to say, as soon as the Four Princes Party did the fourth, sixth, ninth, and twelfth princes, everyone was punished by demotion. The four princes were demoted from the prince of the five dragons to the king of the three dragons, and they were reduced to two ranks. It was not easy for him to reach into the army and the hand in the army, which was cut off and crushed, and in short, he was left with no power at all.

And his biological mother, Huihuang Guifei, who was like a vice queen, was ruthlessly stripped of her title, and was demoted two levels to become Concubine Zhou - which happened to fill the vacancy of Concubine Ying after she was demoted.

Wang Yu's wife, Princess Ningxi, the eldest sister of the princes, entered the palace one day to ask His Majesty Zhenguan Xià for peace, went to the harem for a walk, and happened to meet Concubine Zhou, and for some reason there was a quarrel. Princess Ning Xi was so angry that she slapped Concubine Zhou twice. In the end, this matter was not resolved.

For a few days in a row, such a large-scale incident of an adult prince being demoted and seizing power occurred, and for a while, the court was silent. The clan courtiers and the harem concubines, none of them are not careful in their conduct and work, lest something touch the mold of His Majesty Zhenguan and be implicated.

The remaining eighth, tenth, thirteenth, and fourteenth princes did not dare to show joy in the face of such a good situation, but they had to make a sad face and a worried look.

The fourteenth prince Li Xin also had the courage to plead with his brothers, but in addition to being secretly ridiculed for being fake, he was also torn up the seal in front of Zhenguan and threw him in the face. Zhenguan Majesty scolded angrily, if it weren't for your mother giving birth to your good brother, why would I be so distressed?!

Oh...... Things are finally coming to show! People are very curious to know what happened to the envoys to the Great Qin Empire, so that His Majesty Zhenguan was so angry that he was not merciful in punishing the princes! (To be continued.) )