The new year is finally here. Chinese New Year's Eve, as usual, is the annual big sacrifice, the sacrifice is solemn and sacred, but this time the sacrifice is a little unpleasant. According to the old calendar, the sacrifice was sent by the emperor to preside over the ceremony, although Sima Zhen did not care about anything, but the surface work still had to be done, but this Sima did not take care of the emperor at all, thinking that now he is an auxiliary government, and it is natural for him to represent the emperor to sacrifice, so on Chinese New Year's Eve, he wore a full set of court clothes, surrounded by everyone, and went to the Taimiao in a mighty way.

Unexpectedly, the Taimiao was already full of people, and after sending someone to inquire, it was found that His Majesty had appointed Sima Wang, the king of Hejian, to preside over the ceremony. Sima arrived here an hour ago, and everything was arranged, and as soon as the hour came, the sacrifice began.

Sima was furious when he heard this, he pushed through the crowd and rushed straight to Sima's side, who was arranging to be dotted around, and said, "Bastard, what an important matter for the sacrifice, how can you be allowed to point fingers here?" ”

Sima didn't talk nonsense with Sima, and directly ordered someone to take out His Majesty's holy decree, and said: "Your Majesty personally ordered the ministers to be the main sacrifice, and also said that the King of Qi is here, if you are willing, you can give me a hand, if you don't want to, just stand in the back." Now that the hour is coming soon, if you are dissatisfied, you can speak to Your Majesty yourself after the sacrifice. ”

How could Sima stand such an insult, not to mention that Sima also used His Majesty to press him, in order to show that he didn't care about His Majesty or not, he snatched the holy decree on the spot, glanced at it hurriedly, threw it on the ground, and shouted "Come on" again, and when the soldiers who followed him rushed into the hall, Sima glanced at the people who were stunned with fright, sneered, and then looked at Sima on the side.

Sima frowned, picked up the holy decree from the ground, ordered someone to make offerings, and then said, "King Qi wants to resist the decree?" ”

"So what?" Sima was full of people and did not take Sima in his eyes at all, no matter what, this was the first Chinese New Year's Eve sacrifice since he was in power, how could this person who presided over the ceremony not fall into the hands of others, as for Sima Xin, he was not afraid of him, a useless holy decree, what could he do?

Sima beckoned, and a large number of soldiers and horses poured out from behind the palace, which was the people and horses he brought, in order to prevent Sima from making trouble, he brought the soldiers in his own house, and borrowed people from the Su Guards, and guarded the surroundings of the temple.

Sima obviously didn't expect Sima to dare to openly oppose him like this, he was angry, and smashed into Sima with a punch, Sima refused to suffer, and also stretched out a punch to return the beating he had just received to Sima, and the two quickly scuffled into a mess, and the soldiers on both sides also scuffled, for a while, the Taimiao Temple, which should have been a holy land, was bleeding like a river, with countless casualties.

When the matter reached the palace, Sima was so angry that he threw something in the Taiji Palace, but he was completely powerless to stop the current situation, so he couldn't send someone over to persuade him. was angry, Yang Xianrong came over, and she also knew about the Taimiao, so she hurried to the Taiji Temple, and came to put out the fire for Sima Zhen.

"Queen," Sima Zhen complained as soon as he saw Yang Xianrong: "I said that this method will not work, you want me to listen to you, and now there is an accident, and it is in the Taimiao, and the ancestors will blame it." ”

This made the idea of the king of Hejian presiding over the sacrifice indeed a sheep sacrifice, Sima Zhen because of his grandson

Sima Zhen was a little dissatisfied with Sima Cheng's affairs, and because he did not mention the appointment of the chief priest for a long time, Sima Zhen was also extremely unhappy, thinking that this auxiliary prince did not take him as an emperor in his eyes at all, that is, when Jia Nanfeng was there, he would have to inform him of something, and he would not completely treat him as a useless ornament.

Seeing this, Yang Xianrong simply asked Sima Xin to appoint Sima, firstly, to show his recognition of Sima, and secondly, to warn Sima, so that he should not deceive people too much. Sima Zhen was reluctant at first, after all, the sacrifice was a big deal, and it was difficult to explain if he messed up, and he didn't dare to provoke Sima, that prince had a big temper, and if he didn't go well, he didn't know what kind of crime he would suffer, he didn't want to be locked up in Kim Yong City again.

Yang Xianrong had intended to provoke the contradiction between the King of Hejian and the King of Qi, how could he let go of this great opportunity, so he persuaded Sima Zhen in every possible way to let him show the majesty of the Son of Heaven, otherwise sooner or later, Sima would follow Sima Lun's old path, and when the time comes, I am afraid that there will not even be a person around to help him. In the end, she persuaded Sima Zhen to draw up a holy decree and appoint Sima to preside over the ceremony.

Seeing that Sima was in a panic, Yang Xianrong said unhurriedly: "What is Your Majesty anxious about? In terms of ability, the King of Hejian is not under the King of Qi, but in terms of loyalty to His Majesty, the King of Hejian is much better than the King of Qi. Your Majesty is calm for a while, sit down and wait for news. ”

It's also strange to say, the two groups of people are fighting, but for some reason, the temple suddenly caught fire, everyone beat in the dark, no one paid attention to when the fire burned, and when they found out, the flames had jumped to the altar, and the sacrificial supplies prepared by Sima were burned clean.

"The Ancestors are angry." Sima shouted, first stopped the fight with Sima, and he shouted outside again: "Walk the water." ”

There was an instant panic outside, and all the people in the hall poured out, Sima and Sima hurriedly arranged for people to fetch water to extinguish the fire, but it was too late to say that it was too late, and the flames suddenly jumped up, burning along the altar to both sides, and soon the wooden pillars and beams were all on fire.

Everyone brought water and poured it into the hall one by one, but it was too late, and the flames had turned into a fire dragon, and soon the main hall of the entire Taimiao Temple was burned clean.

Sima knelt down outside the ruins, weeping bitterly, kowtowing and crying: "Ancestors and ancestors, please forgive the great disrespect of the descendants of Sima." ”

Sima stood aside, looked at the dark house, snorted, and turned away. He entered the palace and went directly to the Taiji Palace, saw Sima Zhen, pointed to his nose and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Sima Zhen was shocked and shouted towards the back hall: "The queen save me." ”

Yang Xianrong walked out of the back hall and saw the angry Sima, but he was not afraid, but just asked, "Why is this so?" ”

Sima suddenly realized, he let go of the trembling Sima Zhen, walked in front of Yang Xianrong, circled her twice, laughed twice, and said: "I didn't expect that the queen mother could effectively imitate the mind of the demon woman Jia." But the queen doesn't want to think about it, the world today is not the world of the past, and my Sima is not the king of Chu back then, so it is not so easy to follow your way. ”

"I wonder if the prince has misunderstood

What? Yang Xianrong said: "Or what did the prince forget?" The presiding over the sacrifice was ordered by His Majesty himself, and the prince did not ask for a decree, so His Majesty thought that the prince was not available, so he chose the king of Hejian to preside over the ceremony. The prince should not forget that there is still a real master of the Jin Dynasty in the Taiji Palace, right? ”

"I understand," Sima squinted at Yang Xianrong, and said: "Niangniang is still angry because I didn't approve the 100-year-old banquet of Princess Hedong, then I will compensate Niangniang, it's just a major event in the previous dynasty, Niangniang is a woman, and she hasn't come in, otherwise, if there is such an unlucky thing as burning down the Taimiao, I'm afraid that Niangniang can't afford this infamy." ”

"The temple is on fire?" Yang Xianrong asked with a frown.

"What?" Sima Zhen also panicked: "The temple is on fire, what happened to the burning?" ”

"Burn it down." Sima looked at Sima Zhen: "The ancestors and ancestors are angry, I'm afraid that Your Majesty will personally go to confess this matter." With that, he glared at Yang Xianrong and swaggered away from the Taiji Palace.

Sima Zhen was so anxious that he burst into tears, and circled around the empty hall, chanting all the time: "What should I do? What to do? My father will definitely ask me questions. ”

Yang Xianrong didn't expect things to develop like this, the temple was burned, it was an ominous symbol, the ancestors were angry, I don't know what kind of disaster to come, tomorrow is the New Year, when everyone is looking forward to a year of peace and tranquility, such a thing happened, it's really bad, maybe the new year, will not be better than before.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Sima Chen simply hid in the Taiji Hall to listen to music and drink because he was afraid, and Yang Xianrong invited the second and third princesses to observe the New Year in the Xianyang Hall together. The second princess's body is good and bad, these days may be because of the New Year, her spirit is much better, I wanted her to go to bed early, but she had to join in the fun, so she came over to keep the New Year, saying that it was the New Year, and only let her have a reunion dinner and clean up a room for her to rest.

Yang Xianrong and Sima Xuanhua were eating wine and chatting about what happened in Taimiao today.

"Until now, King Qi still dares to be so arrogant?" Sima Xuanhua said: "I'm afraid that his death is not far away." ”

"The contradiction between the King of Hejian and the King of Qi has been made public, and the next thing is the question of standing in line, on the surface, it seems that the King of Qi still has the advantage in the court, and we don't have to worry, we just push the King of Hejian secretly." Yang Xianrong said: "The king of Chengdu now seems to have a good relationship with both sides, it is nothing more than that both sides are not offended, and it is good to be a wall grass in the future, let's win him over, and the odds are stable." ”

"Niangniang still wants to pass the young lady of the Liu family?" Sima Xuanhua asked.

Yang Xianrong shook her head, Liu Ling's words that day were very clear, she would not participate in these struggles, she had already promised her peaceful days, and besides, she was going to get married in the next year, and she didn't want her to be distracted.

"I'm going to hold a banquet on the fifth day of the new year, and I'm going to meet the princesses of those two princes." Yang Xianrong said: "I don't believe that they are willing to be crushed by Princess Qi." ”

"How is Niangniang going to convince the king of Chengdu?" Sima Xuanhua asked again.

Yang Xianrong smiled slyly: "At that time, the position of the East Palace will be vacant, the so-called brother and brother, I dare to allow him the position of the emperor's younger brother." ”