It is better to be devoured by a tiger in a dangerous situation than to be eaten by a fox in a ditch.

--- Western Xia proverbs.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the sacrifice of Emperor Wu of Liang, according to the rules, Emperor Tianjian personally led the hundred officials to hold a ceremony in the Taimiao, so as soon as noon arrived, Emperor Tianjian and the civil and military officials were ready to sacrifice the ceremony, which was still presided over by Liu Siming, the head of the Taimiao. Chen Xian guarded Emperor Tianjian's side, and ordered his henchmen to watch the every move of Xue Taifu and the others to prevent them from playing tricks during the ceremony.

So Emperor Tianjian followed the rules of his ancestors, first led the ministers to burn incense and worship the spiritual seat of Emperor Wu, and after worshipping, he was about to read the sacrificial text, and he heard "Wait, the imperial brother should not delay time, it is better to hurry up and perform the dripping ceremony." Xiao Wen on the side said impatiently.

Gao Dazai heard this, and said disdainfully: "Bold, the first emperor dared to be rude to His Majesty on the day of the sacrifice!"

Xiao Wen sneered and said to Gao Dazai: "Dazai-sama is not an old fool, Dazai-sama should be very clear about what happened back then, I am afraid that this majesty in your mouth was obtained by stealing beams and changing pillars!" Whether it is the real Son of Heaven or not, it will take a while to drip blood and test his identity to know!"

Chen Xian gritted his teeth with hatred when he heard this, and said to Xiao Wen: "Don't forget, the second prince didn't forget that when the second prince murdered the third prince, it was His Majesty's kindness that pardoned the second prince, and His Majesty's magnanimity allowed the second prince to stay in his fiefdom in peace. The second prince's behavior this time can really be described as revenge!"

Xiao Wen smiled coldly when he heard this: "What General Chen said is right, but if the eldest brother is really his father's own flesh and blood, I naturally have nothing to say, but if it is the remnants of the previous dynasty, I hope that General Chen will also kill his relatives in righteousness, abandon the dark and turn to the light!"

Chen Xian looked at Xiao Wen and said angrily: "I hope you don't regret what you said!"

Xiao Wen looked at Chen Xian and Emperor Tianjian with confidence, as if he was winning.

Chen Xian said to Emperor Tianjian: "Your Majesty doesn't have to care about ......"

"No, just follow what Xiao Wen said, immediately carry out the blood dripping ceremony." Emperor Tianjian said decisively.

"Your Majesty?" Chen Xian asked worriedly.

Emperor Tianjian looked at Chen Xian and said calmly: "Don't worry, everything has its own certainty, and the widow believes in his innocence." Emperor Tianjian said loudly.

Chen Xian saw that he still couldn't stop it, so he could only follow what Emperor Tianjian said, ordered someone to take the porcelain bowl, and confirmed the clear water inside, so he presented it to Emperor Tianjian, and quickly ordered someone to bring the two princesses, Xiao Wan and Xiao Xiao, thinking that Xiao Mingyue told him in advance that he was afraid that Xiao Wen would do something, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to prevent it, so he quietly brought the two princesses to ensure that nothing went wrong. But Xiao Wen didn't expect Chen Xian to find the two princesses, thinking that it was just a matter of himself and Emperor Tianjian, who looked like he was winning, and had already taken the medicine, so that his blood would not be fused with anyone's blood, but he didn't want Chen Xian to have this hand, so he couldn't help but be cold, and he thought about it again, thinking that he still had the midwife in his hand, Mama Song, as long as he insisted that Emperor Tianjian was not born because of premature birth, but was born at full term, Emperor Tianjian was also speechless.

So, the sergeant brought three bowls of water to Xiao Wen, Xiao Wan and Xiao Xiao respectively, and let the blood of the three of them drip into the clear water, and the three of them obeyed the arrangement and cut their fingers with daggers respectively and dripped the blood into it. Afterwards, the sergeant brought the three bowls to Emperor Tianjian, and Chen Xian said, "Your Majesty!"

Emperor Tianjian said: "Don't worry. So he cut off the thumb of his left hand with a sharp weapon and dripped blood into each of the three bowls.

When they saw this, they hurriedly went forward to look around, but they saw that the blood in the first bowl was not fused, and they looked at the second bowl, but they did not fuse together, and the same was true of the third bowl.

Xiao Wen couldn't help laughing and said, "Sure enough, what else do you have to say?" The emperor you worship every day is nothing but a son of a traitor!"

Then he said to the sergeant next to him, "What are you doing in a daze?" Why don't you hurry up and take down this emperor who is fake? "

At this time, the civil and military officials were at a loss, they didn't know what to do for a while, they didn't expect this result, they all had no masters, only Xiao Wen and Xue Taifu got carried away and couldn't help themselves.

Chen Xian reprimanded angrily: "I think who dares to be disrespectful to Your Majesty?!" No one dared to do anything.

Emperor Tianjian looked at Xiao Wen with a calm face, and the first thing that came to mind was not that he was not the son of the first emperor, but that his younger brother, who he loved since childhood, now personally led someone to pull him off the horse, and couldn't help but be disheartened, and said, "You want this throne so much?" Do you not care about brotherhood at all? "

Chen Xian looked at Emperor Tianjian and said, "Your Majesty, he has already killed the third prince, this kind of person has lost his mind. It's better to let the ministers capture him and avenge the three princes!"

Xiao Wen said disdainfully: "Kill me, then it proves that the imperial brother is weak-hearted, and he wants to kill me in front of so many people, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, right?" "

"You!" Chen Xian said angrily.

Emperor Tianjian stopped: "Don't do it, he wants the throne, and the widow will give it to him today." Then he took off the crown from his head.

"Your Majesty, you can't do it!"

"Your Majesty, please think again!"

Gao Dazai and the others said one after another.

Xiao Wen saw that Emperor Tianjian was already like this, so he kept asking people to bring up the midwife Song Mama back then, and said: "This old woman is the midwife who delivered the birth of the Empress Dowager Hu back then, as soon as Her Majesty was born, she was secretly sent out of the palace, don't you want to know why?" "

After that, he said to Mama Song: "Tell everything you know, don't hide anything." "

Then Mama Song trembled and said: "Back to everyone, when the old slave delivered the baby to Concubine Hu, it was not because she was born prematurely, the fetus developed very healthily, it should have been born at full term, at that time, it was Concubine Hu Niangniang who deliberately let the old slave say that she was born prematurely, and then gave the old slave some money, so that the old slave should not talk nonsense, just treat the mother as a premature birth, and then let the old slave leave Jiankang quickly and never come back!"

Everyone was dumbfounded, and they were all surprised by this.

Chen Xian looked at the grandmother and said, "This is just your family's words, and I can also say that what you just said was also bought!"

Then he said: "I don't think you know, according to my Liang Law, perjury and casually framing people is punishable by hanging!"

When the grandmother heard this, she hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "What the old slave said is true, and I really don't dare to hide it." "

Xiao Wen said proudly: "General Chen, please don't intimidate an old man. "

Chen Xian looked at Emperor Tianjian and said, "Your Majesty, it's better to let the ministers take down these rebels." "

Emperor Tianjian said indifferently: "In this situation, we can't do anything, he just wants the throne, I'll give it to him!"

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty's throne is the first emperor's personal inheritance, how can he give it to others? Chen Xian said busily.

"Now that this proves that my throne is not stable." Emperor Tianjian sighed and said.

Xiao Wen said loudly: "My Liang's country originally belonged to the descendants of the first emperor, and now it seems that you are just a pheasant mixed in on Phoenix Mountain, as for the throne, it is not you who gave it to me, but it should have been mine!"

And the ministers below also began to stand in line, most of them thought that Emperor Tianjian was generous, although he lacked prestige, but he was benevolent to the courtiers and the people, and he was generally regarded as a Ming monarch. On the other hand, Xiao Wen is very deep in the city and ruthless, and he is still so ruthless to his brothers, not to mention that for others, if he succeeds to the throne, almost no one can have a good life. So almost everyone stood on the side of Emperor Xiao Zhong of Tianjian, knelt down and prayed for Emperor Tianjian not to abdicate, and they all used the edict of Emperor Xian himself as an excuse to let Emperor Tianjian still be the emperor.

When Xiao Wen saw these people like this, he was even more angry and gritted his teeth and said to Emperor Tianjian: "Brother Huang is really popular. But. In front of your ancestors, in front of your father's spiritual throne, do you still want to continue to 'exchange tanuki for prince'? This country was single-handedly won by my father and the patriarchs, and it has nothing to do with you, and the seat you are sitting in now is just a result of your deception with your mother......"

"Enough! Say no more!" Emperor Tianjian hurriedly stopped Xiao Wen from continuing.

He also said to the ministers: "The widow's mind has been decided, and the emperor's brother will be passed on immediately-Xiao Wen!" After saying that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

The civil and military officials who remained tried their best to stop it and refused to let Xiao Wen succeed to the throne.

And Xiao Wen had achieved his goal at this time, so he was naturally overjoyed, and at the same time said coldly to the ministers: "Everyone, please rest assured, even if I succeed to the throne in the future, I will naturally not treat everyone badly." "

Huang Shangshu anxiously said to Gao Dazai: "Dazai-sama, what should we do now?" "

Gao Dazai sighed, and then said, "What else can I do, now Your Majesty has made a decision." You and I will go back and prepare to return to our hometown. "

After looking at Xiao Wen again, he said, "Otherwise, there is only one way to die." "

Huang Shangshu also sighed and said, "I really didn't expect that a good sacrifice would make such a fuss." "

Takadazai said, "Is this the destiny of heaven? With that, he looked straight at the sky with his two eyes.

At that moment, Emperor Tianjian returned to the palace and drafted an edict of abdication, regardless of everyone's opposition, and passed the throne to Xiao Wen. And he chooses the days of idle clouds and wild cranes.

Xiao Wen was of course overjoyed, thinking that the suffering he had suffered for so many years had been rewarded at this moment, on the surface, he followed Xiao Zhong's intentions and let him travel all over the world, but secretly wanted to treat him to death, refused to let him leave Jiankang City for various reasons, and waited for a better opportunity to kill him with his own hands. He also controlled Gao Dazai and Chen Xian and others, and grounded them in their own homes.

and let Chen Xian stay under his nose all day long, not letting him contact Xiao Zhong, although Chen Xian had the intention of rebelling to protect Xiao Zhong, Xiao Zhong had already given up, so he was also very annoyed and had no choice.