At night, a hundred miles from the capital, there was no sound in the forest except for the sound of the carriages and the ground, and not long after, suddenly a flock of birds in the forest suddenly flew up and left their original nests. This attracted the attention of the guards who followed the carriage.

One of the leaders immediately drew the broadsword beside him, and at the same time said to the soldiers behind him, "Be careful, there is an ambush, protect the people in the carriage." ”

Soon, some masked people rushed out of the forest, their purpose was very simple, they came straight to the carriage, not in love, the number of men in black was not large, but some of them dragged the guards, and some of them fled from their place directly with those carriages.

The leader saw that something was wrong, and immediately chased after him with a few people, but when he chased to a river, those people and cars disappeared out of thin air, so he issued an order: "They must be around here, find them all for me." ”

After looking for a while, they still didn't find them, and there was no track of the carriage, when a man ran from the other side, his body was covered with blood, and when he walked in front of the general, his legs knelt down unconsciously, and he said with a cry, "Head, those people are all dead, all dead." ”

"What did you say?" The leader couldn't believe what he was hearing, and excitedly lifted the man's collar.

"Really, just as you were chasing your brothers out, they suddenly drove back in those carriages, killing none of our brothers, and killing all the monks and scholars." The horror in the man's eyes looked at the leader in front of him, indicating that he was really scared at the moment, as if he had just encountered a particularly terrifying practice.

The leader followed the man who had just reported the news, and returned to the place where they had just left, and there was a bloodstain, and some of them were lying on the ground, some of them were their own people, and some were enemies, but there were only one or two enemies, and the soldiers under their own command, except for the person they had just taken out to chase and the one who reported the news, the others were all dead.

Looking at the carriage before, it had already been torn apart, and those Confucian scholars had already burned beyond recognition, and the high monk, not a single complete corpse could be found, the head was here, but the body was on the other side, and the limbs were incomplete. I have to say that the methods of these people are very cruel, what the hell is this going to reveal to them!

At this time, he quickly grabbed the hidden weapon flying towards him, and there was a note inside, he opened the note and saw "Burning Confucianism and killing monks, the new emperor is against the sky"

In the palace, Si Yuanqiong looked at the person kneeling on the ground wearing a battle uniform, and angrily threw the fold in his hand in front of him, "Waste, a few people can't protect it, what are you all eating?" ”

"The last general deserves to die, and he is willing to accept his sin." The person who knelt on the ground responded sonorously and forcefully, neither humbly nor arrogantly, nor postponed his own mistakes.

"You confess? You can't get a few heads! Si Yuanqiong stood up and angrily threw the cup on the table towards him. And the man kneeling below still didn't dodge.

"Your Majesty, the time for the early dynasty has arrived, and several ministers are starting to get restless in the main hall." The father-in-law looked at Si Yuanqiong, who was angry, and although he was a little scared, he still had to remind him.

Si Yuanqiong closed her eyes, eased her emotions, and when she opened her eyes again, she said to the person who was kneeling below, "Give you two days to find out who is behind the scenes, otherwise you will come and see you." ”

"Yes." The man who knelt on the ground immediately saluted and withdrew.

Si Yuanqiong said to the father-in-law next to him, "Call someone to come in and wait for me to change my clothes and go to court!" ”

In the court, Si Yuanqiong has not yet come, and there is a mess below, and there is a lot of controversy. The old party of the prince and the current party of Si Yuanqiong, two waves of them argued endlessly in the main hall, accompanied by "The emperor has arrived!" The hall immediately returned to calm, waiting for Si Yuanqiong's arrival.

After he sat on the dragon chair, before the eunuch began to announce the start of the early dynasty, Zuo Xiang took the lead in standing up, "Your Majesty, early this morning, someone found in the suburbs that the people who came to participate in the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens were all in different places, how cruel is this!" ”

Si Yuanqiong stroked her forehead and said that she had a headache, but there was no way, what should come would always come, and this accident must have been deliberately created by someone, as for who it was, needless to say, everyone also knew it, but everyone didn't tear their faces on the surface.

"The ministers feel that this is the first time in the past dynasties that the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens has been brutally killed by senior monks and Confucian scholars, and there are rumors among the people that the new emperor is against the sky by burning Confucianism and killing monks!" Zuo Xiang then said righteously, not caring at all about how Si Yuanqiong, who was sitting on the dragon chair, was feeling now.

Si Yuanqiong sat there, Buddha on his own sleeve, his face that could not be seen, and asked them, "But what other rumors are there?" ”

"Your Majesty, burning Confucianism and killing monks is a very serious problem of Ming etiquette, since the founding of the country, the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens represents the rise and fall of the next generation of emperors to the gods, among which the Confucian monks are the guardians of the gods, and now, the monks and Confucians were mutilated on the road, and your Majesty should immediately retreat from the court and go to 。。。。。。"

Before the left prime minister finished speaking, the right minister stood up and resisted what he was about to say later, "Your Majesty, I don't agree with the left minister's statement. ”

"Oh? Right Aiqing, please say! Si Yuanqiong stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of invitation, naturally wanting him to refute Zuo Xiang's statement, otherwise how could there be anyone to resist that old man.

"Your Majesty, the temple is important, but monks and children cannot represent the rise and fall of kings, from ancient times to the present, no dynasty has said that monks and Confucianism are related to the rise and fall of the whole country, and accidents are unavoidable." The right minister expressed a different point of view from the left, and he looked at the left with a hint of disdain.

"Right Minister, since the founding of the country, the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens is a grand event, and every generation of kings attaches great importance to monks and children. The left minister looked at the right minister's expression at the moment, and there was an inexplicable anger, so his tone was a little heavier, which was naturally related to Si Yuanqiong, and he was also unkind.

"Zuo Xiang, etiquette, etiquette, nothing more than the law of etiquette, let me ask the new emperor what he has not done, since the death of the first emperor, after His Majesty ascended the throne, to the people, to the prince, to the people of the former emperor, has he done anything?" The right minister said with a full sense of reason,

And after he finished speaking, he looked at all the ministers in the hall, some of the ministers were indeed favored by Si Yuanqiong, so naturally they wouldn't say anything, but the people of the prince's party took it for granted, and felt that Si Yuanqiong didn't clean himself up because their official position was here, so Si Yuanqiong was not easy to do.