The first prince to be assassinated was the seventh-ranked King Kangjun.

This stupid gun recognized by the government and the opposition was bitten to death by the Qing people who brought him back to the palace on the way back to the palace for a banquet in Hualou. When he died, he was drunk, he didn't say a word, and when he died, he still had two lewd smiles on his face.

It is said that the reason why this Qing man was ruined and had to sell his own flower house was because King Kangjun coveted his heirlooms. So she wants revenge.

After the death of King Kangjun, the Qing people also committed suicide. This assassination case was thus determined. The main reason is that King Kangjun's biological mother died early, and his foreign family is a small official family with a small family, which can't help him and will drag him back. No one pursued the truth for him.

When King Kangjun came out of the funeral, except for Murong Shu, there was no one else to send it. Even though the courtiers and clansmen all knew that Prince Xiang was coy, he still won a reputation among the people as a friendly brother.

sent this brother, who looked down on him in every way, to the imperial tomb, and on the way back to the palace, Murong Shu was also assassinated and seriously injured and returned to the palace. From day to midnight that day, the imperial physician came and went, sighing.

It is said that if it weren't for the Pei family's emergency pick-up of Mr. Gu, the former famous imperial doctor, from a friend's house, Prince Xiang would probably follow in the footsteps of King Kangjun and become the second prince to be stabbed to death.

For a time, everyone in the princes was in danger. Not only did the adult princes greatly increase their guard strength when they traveled, but even those underage princes were firmly watched by their biological mothers in the palace.

But despite this, within a month of the following, there were still two underage princes who died unexpectedly. The poor two little princes, one fell to his death inexplicably, and the other was inexplicably stoned to death by a flying stone from outside the sky.

The Jade Empress Dowager was furious because of this. scolded Queen Xu fiercely, and strictly ordered her to strengthen the defense of the palace. She even said ruthlessly, if there was an accident with the underage prince and princess, Queen Xu would hand over the palace power and go to the Feixian Hall to chant and pray for blessings.

It didn't work. Those who want to die still have to die.

When the heavy snow finally stopped after five consecutive days, the last minor prince in the palace died before he was a year old. This little prince died a miserable death, and he should have been poisoned continuously for a period of time. Poisoned to death. When he died. Purple-black blood flowed from all the orifices, and it took a whole night of wailing and crying before he died.

Unfortunately, that night. Emperor Xuantong also showed signs of death. All the imperial doctors, including several divine doctors invited by the people, were gathered in Miaoying Xuan, and no one went to save the little prince.

After the death of the last little prince, the sons of Emperor Xuantong were only the adults. Shi Guifei was scared half to death. kowtowed in front of the Jade Empress Dowager and asked the Jade Empress Dowager to allow the eldest prince, who was canonized as the king of Shijun, to go to the fief. Far away from the capital, this is a place of right and wrong.

The concubine also helped to intercede, and the Empress Dowager Jade reluctantly agreed. Originally, I would wait until the end of the New Year to go to the fiefdom, but Shi Guifei was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so she urged the family of the prince of Shijun to step on the white snow and set off reads();.

Pity. News came on Chinese New Year's Eve. The big and small families of the King of Shijun all died in the landslide after the avalanche in the mountains. Shi Guifei almost went crazy.

When Zong Zhengke heard this, he shook his head and sighed: "If you go fast, you will die quickly." ”

The situation in Beijing is getting weirder and weirder. Of the only three remaining adult princes, Murong Shu is still bedridden. Several times dying. The third prince is the prince of Yan, and the biological mother of the fifth prince is Jin Guifei, and they all have strong and powerful foreign families, and they are the most likely candidates to be appointed as the crown prince. But because they were unharmed, they are regarded as the two most likely murderers in the assassination of the princes.

After the siege of the Golden Horde was lifted, the most discussed major event in the court was the selection of the prince. Obviously, Emperor Xuantong is just dying. How long you can live depends entirely on the will of God.

If the prince is not appointed, as soon as the emperor dies, it will be a big storm. Although due to the matter of the establishment of the reserve, the court has been magnificent* one after another.

This winter is very cold, and snow disasters are frequent. Concerts that were denser than heavy snow poured in from all over the country, all asking for money and food for disaster relief. The Empress Dowager Jade was already annoyed by the battle for the storage position, and she was even more irritable when she saw these fate-like concerts again.

To add insult to injury, this autumn's grain harvest is not abundant. The people's food stock was not much, and this snow disaster destroyed the houses and collapsed, and some of the grain was buried deep in the ground. If you don't have enough warm clothing, you may freeze to death before you can dig up food. It snowed heavily for several days, and I don't know how many human tragedies have happened.

Finally, the hungry and cold people stormed the local government yamen and demanded that a landlord open an official warehouse to release grain. Naturally, the officials and masters will not be persecuted by these untouchables, and bloodshed and suppression are inevitable.

So there was the first evil case of killing an official and releasing food. The point is that after the official warehouse is opened, it will either be empty and even the rats will be starved to death; Either the grain is not new grain at all, but old grain that has been moldy and green for an unknown number of years, and this grain can be used as poison.

Inevitably, the size of the exile army grew, and countless people staggered south in the direction of the capital. Some of them were killed on the way, and they were pulled into the exile army all the way.

From the bottom of her heart, the Jade Empress Dowager didn't want this kind of thing to happen. The lack of food and clothing for the people and the expansion of the scale of the bandits will undoubtedly shake the foundations of the country.

But she didn't have a good way, and the successive emperors did nothing in the affairs of the court, but the silver in the treasury was spent like a lot of water. What can you do without money?

On that day, the head of the household came to report with a bitter face, and there were less than three million taels of silver left in the account. And these silvers also include the food and salaries that will be allocated to Ningyuan and Suyuan soon.

These two sums of silver are indispensable. Because the Golden Horde and the Eastern Tang Dynasty did not know whether they had reached an agreement, they actually launched attacks on the two borders in about the same time.

The Eastern Tang side is better, but the border army guarding the border in the Eastern Tang Dynasty is an old acquaintance with the Yan family army stationed there. But on the side of the Golden Horde, the flying scouts of Dingguo Gong came to report that at least three or four elite cavalry of large tribes had been gathered, no less than 80,000 people.

At such a time, he would never dare to withhold the salaries of the two border troops. Otherwise, I am afraid that there is a risk of losing the country! The Empress Dowager Jade had a small calculation in her heart, and bitterly found that the silver that could be taken out for disaster relief was less than one million taels.

No, no, the bitter gourd face of Tobe Shangshu is getting more and more bitter. This million taels of silver also included the usual rewards of the imperial court officials in the upcoming New Year, as well as the royal expenses for the New Year. Oh yes, before the tax money is paid next year, the silver will have to be paid to officials, and a Taoist Buddhist temple will be built.

The face of the Jade Empress Dowager turned blue. (To be continued.) )