There was silence in the tent, and dawn was just around the corner.

Long Tai groaned slightly, and finally said: "Guogong should understand that the ancestor handed over the Jiangshan Sheji to me, and I can't let it fall into my hands." The Northern Han people can't, the Eastern Qi people can't, and the Sima family ..... Of course not. ”

Sima Lan bowed slightly: "Actually, the old minister himself can't understand whether he will really commit chaos one day." The minister has served Da Chu for many years, and he has more things to manage, and naturally more people will use them. There are many people who are in charge of things, and the power in their hands will naturally be greater, and it is reasonable to attract people's jealousy. For example, the king of Huainan regards the old minister as a thorn in the flesh, the emperor, if the old minister has no power in his hands, not only can he not protect the emperor at the beginning, but he is afraid that he will be uprooted by the king of Huainan and his party. ”

Long Tai said: "I understand, so I have always felt that you are a meritorious person to me. ”

"Although the old minister is suspected of overstepping, there are still many talented people among the people used by the old minister." Sima Lan said: "The emperor disposes of the old ministers, and it is not practical to catch them all. As long as the ministers are gone, they will not dare to have a heart of non-division, the emperor will knock it, give them the opportunity to atone for their sins, first, let the ministers feel the emperor's compassion, and second, let these people serve the country. ”

Long Tai bowed his head and said: "Don't worry, Guogong, I know how to deal with it." ”

Sima Lan picked up the teacup, drank it all, and was about to get up, as if he thought of something, and asked, "I don't know all this planned by the emperor..... Is there someone behind the scenes? ”

Longtai said: "Why should Guogong care about this. ”

"Not bad." Sima Lan smiled: "It's the old minister who is stupid." ”

Long Tai thought for a moment before he said, "Guogong will go and rest first, and I will send you a decree later." ”

Sima Lan knelt on the ground and saluted Longtai, but didn't say a word more, at this time Chi Fengdian was already standing in front of the tent door, and came over to lead Sima Lan to retreat.

The first glimmer of dawn shone between heaven and earth, this night was thrilling, and the ministers were panicked, although everyone knew that something big had happened this night, but what was strange in the end, it was their own speculation.

When it was dawn, the emperor summoned the ministers to the emperor's tent, and the ministers were worried, and soon Liu Xun came over to read out the emperor's edict: "The emperor's edict said: Ma Lan of Zizhenguo Company has been doing political affairs for a long time, and he has worked hard and made great achievements, but his authority has gradually become heavier, and he has a heart of disobedience, arrogance, monopoly, and power leaning towards the government and the opposition. I remembered the past achievements of the old ministers, and tolerated again and again, but Sima Lan did not repent, and even more had the heart of rebellion, so that on the occasion of the autumn hunt in Pinglin, he secretly ambushed the assassins, intending to assassinate me and try to usurp the government. Although Sima Lan conspired against the usurpation of the throne, the founding ministers couldn't bear it, so he specially ordered the ministers to discuss and dispose of it! ”

Although the ministers already vaguely knew that Sima Lan was involved in last night's event, they were still shocked when they heard the emperor's edict at this time.

After a period of silence among the ministers, they suddenly saw a person come forward and kneel on the ground, and said in a loud voice: "Minister Dou Kui, please play, Sima Lan has monopolized power, cronyism, elimination of dissidents, and the intention of rebellion is clearly revealed, and now he intends to assassinate the emperor, if such a rebellious thief, if he is not severely punished, how can he explain to the people of the world?" The minister asked the emperor to issue an edict to execute the traitor Sima Lan. ”

Everyone knows very well that Dou Kui, as the henchman of King Huainan, has always been trembling after the Imperial Tomb incident, lest Sima Lan attack him, so Dou Kui even defected to Jinyi Houmen, wanting to save his life.

Now that Sima Lan has been identified as a rebellion by the emperor's edict, of course Dou Kui will not be polite, as long as Sima Lan falls this time, the knife that has been hanging on Dou Kui's head will naturally disappear.

But the ministers understand better that since the emperor has issued this edict to the ministers, then Sima Lan has no place to turn over, in the edict the emperor claimed that he was reluctant to execute Sima Lan, which was nothing more than a show, after all, Sima Lan was the founder of the country, although the great crime was in the body, but the emperor also had to show that he was affectionate and righteous.

The purpose of the emperor's edict was nothing more than to execute Sima Lan by the will of the ministers.

Everyone knows it, and they also know that Sima Lan's general trend has gone, and the next round of blood change in the imperial court will definitely be another round of blood, whether he can maintain his current position, this time is obviously a test.

Dou Kui asked for Sima Lan to be executed, and the other ministers did not hesitate, and someone immediately stepped forward and said: "Sima Lan does not think about the emperor's grace, but he has a bad intention, this person is ungrateful, and he will be executed." ”

"Sima Lan pretended to be a public servant, filled his own pockets, nepotism, the minister had already discovered that this person had bad intentions, this time it was really the original form, and this kind of disaster to the country and the people must be destroyed, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the people of the world."

"When the minister heard that Sima Lan invited the emperor to go to Pinglin for autumn hunting this time, he already had hidden evil intentions, but the minister couldn't find evidence and didn't dare to speak out." Another minister stepped forward and said: "Fortunately, the emperor is wise, and the old thief of the east and west is plotting, which is really a fortunate thing for Dachu, and the minister also asks the emperor to kill the old thief." ”

All of a sudden, all the ministers stepped forward one after another, one by one, looking at the expressions, it seemed that they all wanted to take a knife and immediately go to chop Sima Lan into pulp.

Dou Kui saw a small number of ministers standing there without speaking, coughed, looked at Huangfu Zheng, and said, "Lord Huangfu, I heard that you went to see Sima Lan with Chen Lanting Chen last night, and you could detect Sima Lan's treachery at that time?" ”

Among the ministers, half of them were Sima Lan's people, and the other part followed Dou Kui to join the Huainan Wangmen.

After the death of King Huainan, Dou Kui and these people were worried day and night, even if they switched to the Qi Ning Sect, they also knew that the strength of the Jinyi Qi family could not be compared with the Sima family, and they were still worried about disasters falling from the sky every day, and they didn't even sleep well for several months.

This time Sima Lan was beaten into a rebel thief, this group of people only felt that the stone pressed on their heads was moved, and they instantly felt relaxed, at this time, seeing the solemn expressions of Huangfu Zheng and other cadres, they immediately pointed the spearhead at the past, and they wanted to take this opportunity to kill Sima Lan and his party, and at this time they all had a sense of raising their eyebrows.

Huang Fuzheng and the others were all in their hearts, although Dou Kui was just a sentence, the killing intent in his words had already loomed.

"What do you mean by this, Lord Dou?" Huang Fuzheng sneered.

Dou Kui also sneered: "The assassination of the emperor is the treacherous conspiracy of Sima Lao Thief, last night someone saw you two enter Sima Lao Thief's tent, dare to ask the two adults, what were you and Sima Lao Thief discussing last night?" ”

Someone on the side immediately rushed up and said, "Yes, Lord Chen, Lord Huangfu, what did you do last night, but I have to explain it to everyone." ”

Huang Fuzheng put his hands behind his back, sneered, and said, "The emperor has just issued an edict, are you going to exclude dissidents and impose charges on us?" ”

"Lord Huangfu, everyone has doubts in their hearts, but it is not to impose the crime on you." Lu Xiao, the squire of the military department, coughed, and said slowly: "The emperor was assassinated, Sima Lan masterminded, and you did enter Sima Lan's tent last night, everyone should ask clearly, it is also a reasonable thing." ”

Lu Xiao is not Dou Kui's party, let alone Sima Lan's people, but people from the Golden Dao Tai family, standing up at this time, Dou Kui and the others are even more happy.

Lu Xiao's words also represent the attitude of the Golden Dao Tai family, after the fall of Sima Lan, there are only two national princes left in the DPRK, Taihuang and Qi Ning, if these two forces join forces to pursue Sima Lan and his party, they will naturally be invincible.

"Yes, that's what Lord Lu said." Dou Kui immediately said: "That's what we mean, Lord Huangfu, you explain it to everyone." ”

While speaking, a group of people actually gathered around Chen Lanting and Huangfu Zheng, as if they were worried that the two would run away.

As we all know, Sima Lan's power is extremely great, and the forces in the DPRK and China are represented by these two people, Sima Lan has been arrested, as long as these two people are brought down again, the rest of Sima Lan's party will be vulnerable.

Chen Lanting saw that the other party was aggressive, and his eyebrows showed annoyance, and he couldn't help but say: "Lord Dou, the two of us have already written an excerpt of what happened that night and presented it to the emperor, when do I need to report it to you?" ”

When everyone heard this, their voices were quiet.

Liu Zhen, who had read the edict before, did not leave, and kept watching the officials fight, and finally came up at this time and said: "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, Lord Chen is not wrong, the two have indeed presented the excerpt to the emperor, and it is precisely because of the reports of the two adults that the evidence of Sima Lan's crime of rebellion is conclusive." ”

Everyone was stunned again, and Chen Lanting and Huangfu Zheng suddenly looked slightly embarrassed.

"That night, the two adults told Sima Lan of the emperor's whereabouts of the night hunt, and they were also thinking about the emperor's safety, but after Sima Lan learned that the emperor was going to hunt at night, he immediately set up an ambush." Liu Wei said: "In addition, Sima Lan has had many words of rebellion before, and he has also plotted to usurp the throne, and the two adults have made Sima Lan's past crimes clear to the emperor one by one, and it is also the report of the two adults that Sima Lan's rebellion is ironclad. ”

"I see." Dou Kui smiled and said: "In this way, the two adults are not only without fault, but also have great merit. ”

"Yes, I didn't expect that it was the two adults who made a great contribution this time." An official next to him smiled and said: "Lord Chen, Lord Huangfu, the two masters and the old thief were very close before, we thought that the two adults were Sima Lan's party, but today we learned that the two adults turned out to be humiliating and burdened, and the purpose of approaching Sima Lan was to collect criminal evidence, which is wonderful." ”

Another official said: "The two adults have made such a great achievement, everyone, we should play to the emperor and ask the emperor to reward the two adults." ”

The words of the officials were full of ridicule, and Chen Lanting and Huangfu Zheng's faces were black and red for a while, but how could they argue with everyone at this time, but those officials who were close to Sima Lan before all cast disdainful glances at the two at this time, full of disdain.