The thirty-eighth emperor Luo Xizheng, when his succession ceremony was carried out to the last item of worship to heaven and earth, King Jing Luo Yuanjing suddenly led troops from Sheji Palace to launch a rebellion. However, the mutiny was as short-lived as a child's farce, and was soon turned around by the emperor's army.

As the queen mother, Zhao Tianyuan should normally take the people in the harem and the nobles of the family to wait for the emperor's return at the state banquet. When he heard about this incident, he was naturally worried, and immediately asked Mrs. Meng to preside over the overall situation instead of him, and then ordered the attendants around him to prepare a sedan chair and go straight to the Sheji Palace.

I don't know, but when I came to see this scene, it almost scared her away.

On weekdays, the maids are required to clean the spotless Sheji Palace, and at this time, there are large patches of bright blood-red color, and most of them are spread on the ground one by one, and at a glance, you can see that this is obviously the trace left by the drag of something.

Zhao Tianyuan's eyes were dark, and she was almost frightened and fainted, but fortunately, the attendant next to her was quick and reached out to support her.

Meng Yan, who was directing the forbidden army and the attendants to clean up the blood stains on the ground, saw Zhao Tianyuan, who was hesitating at the palace gate, and was about to step forward to stop her from entering: "Zhao ...... Empress Dowager Zhao. ”

Meng Yan swallowed, and almost hadn't changed his mouth from "Zhao Guifei".

"General Meng, General Meng." Zhao Tianyuan bit her tongue before she said with difficulty, "This is ...... It's been solved, right? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty has been prepared for a long time, Your Royal Highness...... No, His Royal Highness King Jing has been captured. Meng Yan stood still in front of her, carefully blocking the blood-red hell for her, "Now this place has not been cleaned up, and the Queen Mother should not come here." ”

"It doesn't matter." Zhao Tianyuan unconsciously stabilized the Queen Mother's Chijin Zhai Phoenix Crown above her head, "Is the emperor still inside?" ”

"Your Majesty...... should still be discussing with Ning Xiang how to deal with King Jing. Meng Yan paused, but still resolutely blocked in front of her, and persuaded, "The Queen Mother should go back, the blood and light here are too heavy." ”

"Then ......" Zhao Tianyuan frowned, looked at his face and asked, "What about Princess Yao?" She...... Still in the Sheji Palace? ”

"Her Royal Highness Princess...... There is still a tablet dedicated to the royal family. Meng Yan paused and said, "...... is this Queen Mother?" ”

"Go and see." Zhao Tianyuan bypassed him, grabbed the waiter's arm tightly, and put almost all the weight of his body on the waiter's body, trying to keep his mentality stable, not looking at the blood red all over the ground, "The emperor's enthronement ceremony has not been completed yet, and the mourning family can not rest assured." ”

Meng Yan: "......"

Meng Yan didn't know how to stop it, so she only instructed the others to continue to clean up the blood stains carefully, and she hurriedly followed and led her in front.

Walking on the first high platform, several people heard Luo Xizheng's voice: "Yinghua, you get up first." ”

"Big brother, this ......"

"What I promised, I will naturally do." Luo Xizheng saw that he hesitated and didn't dare to get up, so he simply stepped forward and pulled him up, "You get up first." ”

"Your Majesty!" Ning Zhong hurriedly bowed his hand, and said in a solemn tone, "The crime of rebellion should be severely punished to establish prestige!" ”

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister also seconded the proposal—"

At that moment, Ning Zhong had just expressed his attitude, and some of the ministers who had already recovered from the previous scuffle began to echo, and they wanted Luo Xizheng to sentence Luo Yuanjing in unison-after all, everyone was just a person who had rolled around on the line of life and death, and they also saw the tyranny and cruelty of His Royal Highness King Jing, if this recuperated person made a comeback, it was not yet known what the outcome would be.

Therefore, it is better to completely strangle this threat in the cradle - the best result is that Luo Xizheng will kill Luo Yuanjing and never suffer in the future.

"You guys are really ....... I can't wait. Luo Xizheng looked around at the people standing beside him, and everywhere he looked, they all bowed their heads silently.

Half of them are people who are weak and inward-looking, and half of them are people who are just conforming to the herd.

Luo Xizheng shook his head in his heart.

Most of these officials are nobles, and the education they have received since childhood is to subtly believe that "people go to high places, and water flows to low places".

Therefore, now Zheng Luoyuan Jing is in a one-sided defeat situation, and even the ministers who have always claimed to belong to the orthodoxy of the Yan faction will shout a few times after Ning Zhong immediately asked for severe punishment, "The minister also seconded the proposal".

for fear that he would be implicated because of this.

However, in Luo Xizheng's eyes, the threat of these people who are accustomed to seeing the wind and the rudder is even greater than Luo Yuanjing's - after all, it is easy to block open guns, but it is difficult to defend against hidden arrows.

Keeping such a group of wall grasses who don't know when they will defect is undoubtedly exposing their weaknesses and sending the knife to the enemy.

There are hidden dangers everywhere.

"Emperor." Just when Luo Xizheng was thinking about how to deal with everyone's proposals, Meng Yan finally led Zhao Tianyuan to arrive.

"Mother." Luo Xizheng stepped forward, took the place of Zhao Tianyuan's attendant and supported her, and asked suspiciously, "Why are you here?" ”

"There is such a big thing, how can the mourning family sit still......" Zhao Tianyuan looked him up and down worriedly, and saw that he couldn't see any obvious injuries, so he was even more worried, "You're not injured, are you?" ”

"Mother, you don't have to worry." Luo Xizheng was helpless, "I have already made arrangements. ”

"If that's what you know?" Zhao Tianyuan was even more worried when she heard this, and grabbed Luo Xizheng's arm, "Why don't you talk to the mourning family about such a big thing...... Do you know how worried the mourning family is about you? If you have anything but that, the mourning family and you ...... What should your brother do......"

"Mother, it's okay." Luo Xizheng sighed softly, directly interrupting her sadness, "Now is not the occasion to talk about this. ”

Zhao Tianyuan stopped talking, glanced at Luo Yuanjing, who was kneeling on the side as if he had lost his soul, and turned his gaze to Ning Zhongji.

"What did Prime Minister Ning say?"

"The minister still said to His Majesty just now - the crime of treason should be severely punished to establish prestige!" Ning Zhong's face was solemn, and as soon as he lifted the hem of his clothes, he knelt straight down in front of Luo Xizheng and Zhao Tianyuan.

"Emperor?" Zhao Tianyuan turned his head to look at Luo Xizheng again.

Luo Xizheng didn't say anything, just bowed his head slightly, and asked Ning Zhongji: "Then according to what the prime minister sees, how to deal with it?" ”

"Presumably....... His Majesty had already made a decision in his heart. Ning Zhong didn't look up, leaned over and replied.

The implication is that my attitude has been clearly given, but what you want to do and whether you want to listen to my advice, Your Majesty, is not up to me.

This is clearly for other people.

Luo Yinghua on the side was very anxious when she heard this, and she opened her mouth but she really didn't know how to reduce Luo Yuanjing's crime.

"Whew." Luo Xizheng patted Luo Yinghua's shoulder comfortingly, "A few days ago, there was an excerpt in Beiyuan City that reported that the city lord was terminally ill and died soon, but I couldn't find a suitable new city master for a while......

Luo Yinghua blinked, instantly understood what he meant, and began to think about it in her heart.

"Your Majesty, a national scientific expedition will be held in March next year - it is most reasonable to select the right person to go to Beiyuan City at that time." However, there are always some people who don't know how to look at themselves, so they have to stand up and give advice.

"You don't seem to understand me?" Luo Xizheng smiled slightly, but there was already a bit of chill in that smile, "Do you know that from Beiyuan City to Qiushui City, how many days will it take to send the folds day and night?" ”

Although the person who spoke just now was only a small official position, he was also a child of a family born in Qiushui City, and his understanding of Beiyuan City was limited to knowing that it was the northernmost city in Tianqi and closest to the barbarian territory, where could he know the specific distance from Beiyuan City to Qiushui City?

Luo Xizheng's question directly confused him, and the emperor had to reply, so he had to reply: "This is ...... I really don't know. ”

Ning Zhong was personally helped up by Zhao Qianyuan, and when he heard the conversation of Luo Xizheng, he immediately felt the same thing.

"No more, no less, twenty days." Luo Xizheng stared at the man, just staring at him so calmly, but it inexplicably gave him a sense of oppression.

The man's heart "chuckled", and there was a faint sense of unease.

Sure enough, Luo Xizheng continued: "As we all know, Beiyuan City is a moat, and it has been blocking the attack of the barbarians for Tianqi - do you think that Beiyuan City can be defended for twenty days without the city lord?" ”

The man broke out in a cold sweat inexplicably, and he didn't dare to say any more.

And Luo Xizheng obviously didn't intend to let him go, and continued: "Do you know that once the Northern Plains City is captured by the barbarians, which other city can stop the barbarian army a little? ”

"Minister...... I don't know. The man was already trembling and kneeling, although he didn't know what he was wrong, but he felt as if he had committed some taboo against the new emperor.

"Nope." Luo Xizheng's tone was already a little serious, and his words were also loud, "If the barbarian army enters from Beiyuan City, and then the terrain to Qiushui City is flat and unhindered—have you ever thought that by that time, how many people in Tianqi will become the souls of the barbarian iron horses?" Even if Tianqi wins in the end and drives the barbarians out of the country, how much will Tianqi have to pay a heavy price and how many years will he have to recuperate before he recovers? ”

“.......”

Silent.

Although he said this obviously to save Luo Yuanjing's life and release him to Beiyuan City, it was really reasonable, and the reasons put forward were irrefutable.

"Tianqi's royal family shouldn't use their lives to fight." Luo Xizheng's sharp gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, and said firmly, "King Jing Luo Yuanjing, for a while, he was instigated by someone and almost made a big mistake - he was released as the city lord of Beiyuan City, guarded for life, and could not return without an edict. ”