In the eleventh year of Defeng, Tianjing City.

After the heat, the hot weather has lasted for several days. In the whole Tianjing City, there are few pedestrians on the road, and most of the shops are half-covered on the streets, except for the small stalls selling herbal tea and cold drinks.

And in the center of Tianjing City, the boxy imperial city stands solemnly and majestically under the direct sunlight, and the red palace wall is like a red-hot iron, silently announcing its temperature.

The golden road connecting the Wumen Gate and the Daming Hall is lined up with black-armored royal guards at this moment, and there is nothing else around them except a stump high at the bottom of a bowl, under the scorching sun, sweat slides down the iron armor and falls on the floor of white marble, and after a while, it evaporates, leaving a shallow white mark.

At this moment, the courtiers in the Daming Hall are even more difficult, this steamer-like Daming Hall has been carried out several hotly dizzy ministers, and everyone doesn't know how long they can hold on. Everyone's eyes were focused on the man who was "performing" in the middle of the hall, and there was resentment, anger, anxiety, and more in his eyes, but there was helplessness.

"Your Majesty, don't you know how critical the situation was at that time, seeing that the sword of the Tubo general stabbed over, Weichen is like this," said the man in the hall, who was only three steps away from the emperor, and pulled out the sword at his waist with a "bang" and placed it horizontally on his waist.

Seeing this scene, the few old ministers at the front wanted to stop it, but they saw that Xu De, the king of Qin, who was sitting at the head of the emperor, was expressionless, so he could only swallow the words that came to his throat again.

"It's such a sword," the man didn't notice the abnormality behind him at all, his waist turned horizontally, and the sword stabbed out diagonally from the back waist: "It pierced the heart of the Tubo general and ended him, does the emperor see my old Du Yongmeng?" ”

The emperor's face was pale, the sweat on his forehead was as big as a bean, and he didn't know whether it was hot or frightened by the man's sword. ”

"Where, where is the emperor's praise, hahahahaha," the man listened to the emperor's words, and did not kneel down to thank him, but stood like that, and continued: "Your Majesty, you don't know, the battle of Qamdo City is even more dangerous!" ”

Seeing that Du Ping was about to speak again, the emperor looked at the few old ministers who could no longer straighten their waists, and said in a low voice: "General Du is very powerful, I am very interested in this matter of Ping Tubo, why don't you come to the imperial study after the next court, and listen to me carefully." ”

Du Ping was about to speak, but Xu De, the king of Qin, who had been sitting upright and looked like he was asleep, finally spoke, his voice indifferent, and said, "General Du is tired of traveling and driving, please rest first." ”

Du Ping, who wanted to say something more, listened to Xu De's words, put the sword back into the scabbard at his waist, and knelt down to the king of Qin and saluted, "The child obeys." He got up and stood behind Xu De.

He didn't even salute the emperor!

Seeing such a situation, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs had a strange face, but no one dared to say anything, last month, Lin Lao Lang of the Ministry of Rites, who had been against the King of Qin, was slashed and killed on the street by Xiao Zhengdao, the righteous son of Xu De who returned to Beijing to report on his work, and his emaciated remains were smuggled away and buried by his family a few days ago. The Chinese Wudo was afraid to follow in his footsteps.

"Zhong Aiqing, do you have anything else to say?" The emperor raised his sleeve and wiped the sweat from his forehead, forced a smile, and asked the ministers below.

The only thing that answered the emperor was the silence of a falling pin.

The emperor seemed to be accustomed to such a situation, and did not feel strange at all, and said, "Then let's retreat." But before he finished speaking, the emperor suddenly saw the red eyes of Sun Hong, the head of the Ministry of Rites, who was at the front of the queue, and these eyes revealed a trace of the will to die.

When the emperor saw him, he also saw the emperor. The eyes of the two looked at each other in the air, and the eldest grandson Hong smiled slightly, this smile was as kind as the smile of the emperor when he was a child, teaching the emperor to read.

He was old, and now he appeared tremblingly out of the queue, like dead grass in a storm, ready to be swallowed up by darkness at any moment.

By the time he stood still, the eyes of the entire hall had converged on him.

He said loudly: "Sun Hong, the chief secretary of the Ministry of Rites, ask the emperor to kill Du Ping, this thief!" After saying that, he bowed down, and the sound of kowtowing spread throughout the hall.

When the emperor heard this, his heart was moved, but he couldn't help but feel sad, this eldest grandson master was destined to leave the court today.

"Sun Hong, the chief secretary of the Ministry of Rites, ask the emperor to kill Du Ping, this thief!" Everyone didn't react, Changsun Hong had already shouted again, and on his forehead, the blood was like a small snake, sticking out of the wrinkles between his foreheads, and it was extremely dazzling on the white marble floor.

In a panic, the emperor didn't know what to say or do.

Du Ping originally followed behind Xu De, the king of Qin, although the incident happened suddenly, but after the eldest grandson Hong finished speaking for the second time, he also reacted, scolded foul words in his mouth, ran over, jumped up, and kicked the eldest grandson Hong to the ground.

With this kick, Changsun Hong could no longer kneel and speak, and said with a dying breath: "Minister...... Ministry of Rites...... Chancery...... Eldest Sun Hong, knock on the emperor ......" His voice was weak, and no one in the hall could hear his vague words anymore.

"You old thing!" Du Ping said, and with another kick, he kicked Changsun Hong, who was originally lying on the ground, and turned over, and his bleeding forehead went straight to the golden dome of the Daming Palace.

When the ministers saw this scene, they knelt down one after another, but none of them dared to stand up or even say a word for Changsun Hong.

"General Du, stop!" The emperor's voice was already crying, this eldest grandson Shangshu was his closest and most trusted minister, if he was killed, he would have no more courtiers to talk to. But Du Ping's kick had already been kicked out, as if he hadn't heard the emperor's voice, and went straight towards the head of Changsun Hong.

"General Du, stop!" Although this sound was slower than the emperor's voice, it actually made Du Ping's feet stop at a place that was no more than a grain of rice away from Changsun Hong's head. Du Ping retracted his feet, snorted coldly, and turned to King Qin's side.

The second voice was said by Xu De, the king of Qin, and only he could command Du Ping.

"Master Eldest Sun." The emperor couldn't care about his demeanor anymore, he rushed down from the dragon chair crying, stumbled, stumbled and fell to the ground, crawled to Changsun Hong's side in a few steps, and hugged Changsun Hong's weak body.

Changsun Hong unexpectedly opened his eyes slowly and said, "God bless the Great Han, the emperor ...... Must be killed...... Xu De, this thief! After saying that, he closed his eyes again, but unfortunately, he was completely lifeless.

Although Changsun Hong's voice was weak, it reached Du Ping's ears a few steps away. Du Ping stopped, turned around, and walked step by step to the eldest grandson Hong in the emperor's arms, the emperor looked at Du Ping who was approaching step by step, and cried: "General Du, General Du, you bypass the master." ”

The emperor's voice was sad and moving. The old ministers below the stairs all whimpered and shed tears, and began to kowtow to plead with King Qin.

"General Du." That Xu De's voice was only a little louder, but in this not small Daming Palace, it was not going to go around the beam.

Du Ping heard this from General Du before turning around and standing still behind Xu De.

Seeing the appearance of the Chinese martial arts, Xu De collected the lazy aura on his body, got up and walked to the emperor's side, bowed and saluted, and said, "Minister Xu De, please rest the emperor." ”

"King Qin, you save the master, he won't go against you anymore, you save him."

The emperor cried and begged Xu De, but Xu De's eyes were Gujing Wubo, and he said to the emperor's guards: "Take the emperor down to rest!" ”

Immediately, two sergeants dressed in red armor and holding Chang Ge walked to the emperor's side, picked up the emperor's not strong body, and dragged him away, leaving Changsun Hong lying alone on the floor of white marble, the blood between his foreheads had dried up, and he looked miserable, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.

Xu De got up, patted his knee, looked at Changsun Hong not far away, and said, "Come on, invite Changsun Shangshu down!" ”

The two eunuchs standing outside the hall hurriedly ran in and helped the mud-like eldest grandson Hong to go outside.

Xu De put his hands behind his back, his tiger eyes narrowed slightly, and swept over the heads of the ministers, although this hall was like a steamer, but the people who were swept by Xu De's eyes seemed to be like falling into an ice cave, and their backs were cold.

Xu De saw that the ministers were all bowing their heads, and some were still quietly wiping their tears, and said: "Today's matter is a bet between this king and the emperor and the eldest grandson Shangshu. Xu De's voice was unhurried, unaffected by Changsun Hong's words in the slightest.

When the ministers heard this, they all said in their hearts: Xu De, this thief, everyone will be punished! On the surface, they still knelt one by one, burying their heads in their chests.

Seeing that no one in the group objected to him, Xu De's thin face actually added three points of anger, and said: "But this bet, this king, the emperor, and the eldest grandson Shangshu did not win." Qing is the same as this king, eats Hanlu, for Hanchen, why don't you dare to attack in groups! Afraid of the sword in Dupin's hand? Saying that, Xu De took off the sword at his waist and handed it to Liu Guang, the household servant, and said, "Liu Shilang, use the king's sword to cut down Na Du Ping!" ”

When Liu Guang, the head of the household, heard this, he waved his hand and refused, kowtowing like pounding garlic, and hurriedly confessed.

"That Wan Shangshu, the sword is for you, you come and cut off Du Ping's head!" Xu De handed the sword to the criminal department Shangshu Wan Kefa, Wan Kefa's eyes were blank and he didn't say a word.

Du Ping was originally shocked, but when he saw that no one dared to take Xu De's sword, he felt amused, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud now.

"You're a bunch of cowards!" Xu De threw the sword on the ground fiercely, and the beautiful jade decorated on the scabbard was shattered and rolled out of the distance: "You are the moths of the big man." Xu De was like an angry tiger, and the green tendons on his neck bulged.

He suddenly saw Xu Guangyuan, the official secretary who was kneeling in front of him and still crying silently, and said softly: "Xu Shangshu wants to use a sword?" ”

"King Qin spares his life, King Qin spares his life......" Xu Guangyuan's voice was hoarse, Changsun Hong, who was beaten unconscious at first, was his only old friend, the two were both old ministers of the Three Dynasties, and they also swore to die for the Han Dynasty.

"You Xu family, the world is favored by the emperor, you and the eldest grandson Shangshu have also been friends for many years, why don't you dare to step forward and cut off Du Ping's head!" Xu De was harder than one word at a time, and when he reached the end of the head, he almost roared out.

"The old minister doesn't dare, King Qin, the old minister doesn't dare." Xu Guangyuan couldn't stand up straight, so he could only collapse to the ground and speak vaguely.

"It's all rubbish!" Xu De scolded again.

"Xu Guangyuan, you are an old minister of the Three Dynasties, this king remembers your hard work and high achievements, if I don't kill you today, I will step down from your post as Shangshu, you, go back to your hometown to retire. Also, your descendants of the Xu family will never be hired in the future. ”

Hearing this, Xu Guangyuan used his last strength to speak: "Thank you for the grace of King Qin!" Before the words fell, he softened, and there was no movement.

Xu De frowned, two Shangshu died in the morning, even though it was him, he didn't feel good about the end, and said, "Take Xu Shangshu down to rest." Immediately, two chamberlains came and took Xu Guangyuan away.

"As for you," Xu De glanced at the ministers: "Today's things are considered dereliction of responsibility, but the emperor has not been in power for a long time, and it is the time to employ people, so he will no longer cut off your heads, and you will be fined for one year." ”

"Thank you for the grace of King Qin." The ministers kowtowed in thanksgiving.

"Then let's retreat." After speaking, Xu De turned around and went to the harem by himself.