The Son of Heaven was furious, and the blood flowed and drifted.

If the Son of Heaven bleeds, naturally someone will shed blood.

The streets of Chang'an City were filled with soldiers who appeared out of nowhere. Every square road is covered with iron armor, and there is a sense of slaughter in the air.

Such an atmosphere awakened the same memory of the people of Chang'an City. Five years ago, on such a cold night, the same thing happened in this city.

Countless soldiers filled the streets, standing like statues carved in stone. They stared at the end of Suzaku Street, waiting for the birth of the next king of the Tang Empire.

The current emperor is the winner of the year.

But why this time? Today, the Holy Spring and Autumn Festival is at its peak, with millions of male soldiers, and no one dares to offend on all sides, who is so bold and dares to provoke the imperial power?

The people were curious, but not afraid.

The people, whoever is the emperor, they are all the people. No emperor will care about the people, let alone a change of emperor, even if it is a change of dynasty? In this world, the surname is Ying, the surname of Ming'er is Liu, and the surname of the day after tomorrow is Li, what is the difference between a common person.

The people are like spectators under the stage. Looking at the people on the stage, singing, chanting, fighting, and gesturing. The iron stage, the flowing water, the spectators are still spectators, no one will really take it to heart.

But there are some people who can't stay out of it. Because these people are not ordinary people, whoever becomes the emperor is very important to them, very important!

……

Cheng Yanjin was full of food and drink, and was about to go to bed, but his right eyelid kept jumping, which made him unable to sleep. Sit up, and the bright moonlight shines into the room. His two plate axes, hung on the shelves on the wall, seemed to have fallen a layer of dust in the moonlight, except for the blades.

Cheng Yanjin put on his clothes, took the axe off the shelf, and wiped it gently. If his memory was correct, the axe hadn't drunk blood for five years. The last time the person who died under the axe was a lieutenant under Li Yuanji, on that bloody night, he split the man into two pieces in order to save Li Shimin, who was trapped in the siege.

"I know what you want, old man, but ...... I'm old, and I don't know if I'll have the chance to fight with you again in this life."

Cheng Yanjin muttered to himself, and before the words fell, suddenly a chaotic footsteps came. Cheng Biting Jin raised his eyebrows, came to the courtyard with an axe, and shouted: "What's wrong, people?" Come! ”

The butler hurriedly ran in and shouted, "Grandpa, Your Majesty has a decree!" ”

When the night came, Cheng Yanjin knew that it would not be a trivial matter, and immediately said: "Please!" ”

Wei Fu came to the courtyard, but he didn't have time to give a salute, and said: "Your Majesty Guogong, Your Majesty was assassinated and wounded in the valley outside the city, and the Duke of Guogong led the troops to escort him!" ”

Cheng Bingjin frowned and said, "Who are you and what are your tokens?" ”

"Subordinate to the Jinyi Guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the token is here." Wei Fu took out a jade pendant from his sleeve, which was Li Shimin's belongings, Cheng Yanjin took it in his hand, carefully identified it, and asked: "Where is Your Majesty, and the assassin can be ambushed?" ”

"Your Majesty is recuperating in the valley in the south of the city, and the thieves take advantage of the weakness to enter. Ten thieves, four dead and six wounded, are now on trial. ”

"Chase the deer? Li Mu? Cheng Yanjin frowned and pondered for a while, snorted, and said: "This kid is so thick-skinned, obviously looking for him, Your Majesty was injured by mistake, and he became his desperate protection!" Anyway, the matter has come to this, how can I miss my old Cheng family? ! ”

When the butler and the porter heard this, they raised their hands and tore off their robes, revealing the leather armor inside, and shouted with their necks in their hands: "The end will be here!" ”

"Beat the drums, order the troops, and escort out of the city!"

"Obey!"

The two of them rushed out as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and Cheng Yanjin looked at Wei Fu and said, "Did you only come to me to give orders?" Does Your Majesty have any other wills? ”

"Returning to China, there is also a will for General Hou."

"Hou Junji ......" Cheng bit the corner of Jin's mouth with a playful smile, and said: "Go, I'll send a team to protect you, don't make a mistake." ”

"Xie Guogong!" Wei Fu saluted and retired, Cheng Biting Jin swept the axe in his hand, looked up at the moon hanging high in the sky, and didn't know if he was dazzled, and the cold moonlight reflected a red edge at some point.

……

Wei Fu came out with Cheng Bitingjin's personal guards, and hurried to Zhuque Street, he pretended to suddenly remember an important matter, handed over the matter of the herald to Cheng Yanjin's personal guards, and he broke away, performed light skills, jumped through the house, and came to Wang Ou's mansion.

Somehow tonight, Fat Da, who slept early in the past, couldn't sleep. Wang Ou was troubled by this, and at this time, Wei Fu came. Wang Ou didn't want Fat Da to see Wei Fu, so he asked through the door, "What's going on?" ”

"Tell the Holy Maiden, the emperor has been assassinated!"

Wang Ou's heart fluttered, he knew that Li Shimin had gone to the valley. In the afternoon, when Li Shimin and Empress Changsun went out of the city, an eyeliner came to report to her. The emperor was assassinated in the valley, didn't it mean that Li Mu was also in danger?

Wang Ou asked urgently, "How about chasing the deer?" ”

"The Hou Ye is fine, but the emperor is injured in the wrist."

Wang Ou breathed a sigh of relief.

Through the door, Wei Fu didn't know what Wang Ou's reaction was, so he had to completely repeat everything he saw.

Wang Ou stroked Fat Da's hair over and over again, while listening to Wei Fu's narration, the coldness in his eyes became thicker, and his whole body exuded a cold breath. What's even more creepy is that her pupils have changed shape, three points are not like human eyes, seven points are like snake eyes, Fat Da saw this scene, and was so frightened that he arched his head into the quilt and never dared to show his head again.

"Are you saying that the assassination of the emperor was fake, but the assassination of my husband is real?"

Wei Fu swallowed his saliva and replied cautiously: "Subordinate, guess, guess." ”

There was silence in the room for a long time, and suddenly, Wei Fu heard a very small sound, he subconsciously looked for the source of the sound, and found that a small black snake about two inches long went down from the beam of the house, it was so black, the color of night, perfectly hidden in it, if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't find it at all.

Waifu recognized the snake's origin, and instinctively tensed. Although the little snake was only two inches long, and with his skill, he could step on it with his feet, but he did not dare to move, and let the little snake get into his trousers.

"Take it with you, and ask where the Assassin came from. Whoever dares to assassinate my husband is unforgivable. ”

"There must be a price!"

……

Heaven and earth.

The elevator squeaked upward, and Li Yourong took a cup of tea.

"Knock knock!"

"Come in."

Li Yourong pushed open the door, brought tea into the house, and saw Li Yuan standing by the window, the window was open, and the wind blew into the house, making the temperature in the house very low.

Li Yourong put the tea next to him, brought Xiong Zhen Dayu to put it on for Li Yuan, and stood beside him with his hands tied, without saying anything.

Outside the window, the voice of the captain scolding the soldiers came very noisy. But Li Yuan didn't have a look of surprise, as if he had long been accustomed to all this. A quarter of an hour ago, Hou Junji arrived, bringing news and soldiers.

In heaven and on earth, there are more than 1,000 soldiers. It was full on all sides, and it was full inside. Out of the fifth floor where Li Yuan slept, all of them were full of soldiers.

There are many people, and it is inevitably noisy, so there is a captain to scold, but they are like this, but it is even more noisy and annoying.

Li Yuan pointed out the window and said, "When your father died five years ago, it was almost like this. It almost rained, and I remember it was raining that day. ”

Li Yourong didn't speak, she wasn't Li Jiancheng's daughter, she just borrowed this identity. She didn't know what expression she should make on such an occasion, whether it was schadenfreude or sadness.

She didn't know how to do it, she could only make herself expressionless.

Li Yuan turned around, looked at Li Yourong, saw that she had no expression, sighed, and said, "I'm really old and confused, seeing the scene, I said something that shouldn't be said." Yourong, Grandpa Huang told you this, not to make you hate your second uncle. Their brother's business has nothing to do with you. Your father didn't raise you, and you can't afford to bear hatred for him. I just want to tell you that five years ago, it was about the same as it is now. ”

Li Yourong saw worry on Li Yuan's face, and she couldn't help but think, is this old man worried about his son? Did he think of Li Jiancheng, or was he worried about Li Shimin?

After hesitating for a while, Li Yourong spoke: "Second uncle, will it be fine?" ”

"In his life, he has experienced a hundred battles." Li Yuan actually smiled, did not answer the question, and said: "Child, you have also read a lot of books during this time, have you ever seen in the book that a generation of heroes and a generation of heroes were choked to death by steamed buns?" ”

Li Yourong shook his head, thinking to himself, even if he was choked to death by steamed buns, how could such a thing be recorded in the history books?

"Even if the hero is at the end, he will not die in the hands of Xiao Xiao, not to mention that this time, he will not rush to him."

Li Yourong was puzzled and blurted out: "It's not for the second uncle, is it for Li Mu?" ”

"Isn't it?" Li Yuan closed the window, sat down, took a sip of the teacup, and said, "Li Mu, this kid, is too eager, he actually wants to move the roots of those gate valve families, and the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry." ”

After all, he is the male master of the generation who ended the troubled times, and Li Yuan is better than Li Shimin in his understanding of the gate valve family: "However, Li Mu, this kid is not easy to mess with, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, he has suffered such a big loss, how can he not retaliate, look at it, just in these few days, there will be a bloody storm." ”

"Does Grandpa Huang think he can do it?"

"Success or failure, in the providence, in the current situation, in luck, but also in man-made. I have read countless people in my life, Li Mu is the most special one, if he doesn't succeed, no one can become it. ”

Li Yuan put down the teacup and said, "You can rest too, don't worry about those soldiers, they won't be good." ”

"Hmm."

Li Yourong responded and went downstairs with a teacup, but he was thinking about his last question in his heart. Li Yuan seemed to answer, but she didn't seem to answer, whether Li Mu could succeed or not, she really wanted to know.

……

After Hou Junji received the order, he made his mansion a temporary prison, led the guards on the left and right with his family generals and soldiers, first blocked all the city gates in the south, east and west, and then martial law all the neighborhoods, and then began to arrest and arrest people from house to house.

Three provinces and six departments, Hou Jun can't manage it, he also has a way, he notified the news, and then sent troops to 'protect' all the way to the valley. Wang Qi and Wei Zheng are also among them. As for the official rank is smaller than him, and he is an official with a family background, then he is embarrassed, so he can only be invited to the mansion for tea.

It's not that there is no stubborn resistance, but when the butcher knife is raised, smart people still choose to give up resistance. Hou Junji is a well-known tendon in war, brave and unscrupulous, simply put, what my boss asks me to do, I will do it, his boss is Li Shimin, Li Shimin asked him to arrest people, he will faithfully do this thing well, who dares to resist, he just cut off a few heads and make up a military exploit.

Wang Qi and Wei Zheng were in the carriage, under the 'protection' of a team of soldiers, and rode into the valley in the night. After receiving the news, he felt that he couldn't live, not only could he not survive, but the Taiyuan Wang family was also destroyed.

The leader was surnamed Wang. These are the words that he put out of the mouth of the captain who led the team with a big face. He only hoped now that this captain was nonsense, and if it was true, it would be a real disaster.

Not only did a fast horse pass by, Wang Qi lowered the curtain and said to Wei Zheng: "This is Li Mu's conspiracy!" ”

Wei Zheng sneered and said, "So far, is it still useful for such words?" You say yes yes? I said yes, yes? Now that His Majesty has been wounded, the Assassins have been caught, and there are six of them alive! Will Your Majesty believe you or Li Mu? Now I can only pray to God and worship the Buddha, and there must be no children of each family in the six living mouths, but if there is one, it will be a disaster! ”

Wang Jue said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty will not ignore it, if he does something to the gate valve, the world will be chaotic!" ”

"Your Majesty is the founding emperor of the country, and the four sides are fighting, and there are more than 10 million people who die in his hands. Did you forget five years ago? Provoke him, he can't do anything! Does he care about chaos? Perhaps, chaos is what he wants! ”

"No, it can't be!" Wang Qi was like a drowning man, desperately trying to grab a straw, tugging on Wei Zheng's sleeve, and said: "Your Majesty can't not care, if he does it, the major clans in Shandong will rebel, will he kill all the people?" ”

"It's not terrible to kill them all, it's ...... terrible" Wei Zheng looked at Wang Qi and said word by word: "I don't know who I will kill!" ”

Wang Jue's face turned pale and said, "What do you mean?" What do you mean! ”

Wei Zheng said coldly: "Let me ask you, what is the crime of assassinating the emperor?" ”

"Sins are unforgivable, punish the nine clans!"

"Your Majesty is merciful, and only punishes the evil. How will each family choose? ”

"This ......" Wang Qi was just blindsided, not stupid, Wei Zheng added a little more, and he figured it out. Li Shimin will not easily start a war with the gate valve, but the gate valve is even more reluctant to go to war with the imperial power. If the fish dies and the net is broken, you have to fight hard, but what if the net is open?

As a disciple of the gate valve, Wang Jue knows too well what the gate valve is all about, the gate valve is not a monolith, on the contrary, the gate valve is a plate of loose sand. If Li Shimin opens the net, the gate valve will definitely choose to abandon some people and give Li Shimin an explanation.

And those who are forsaken will surely die!