Entering February, there is more or less the atmosphere of grass growing warblers flying in the south of the Yangtze River, but in Bianjing City, it is still cold in spring, the grass leaves are withered and yellow, a cold wind blows, and the yellow leaves that have survived the cold winter fall down at the top of the treetops, which is even more depressed.

More than 1,000 black-armored warriors lined up at both ends of the road on the east side of Qiuyang Palace, and the thick high wall nearly two feet high seemed to be a desperate iron prison, besieging hundreds of eunuchs and palace maids.

The night was cold, and there was a howl from the leaden night sky, which made hundreds of eunuchs and palace maids intuitively feel a chill oozing out of their hearts, and they couldn't help but tremble slightly.

The armor soldiers on both sides, their faces were covered under the armor, only the cold and ruthless eyes were exposed, and the halberd spear pointed obliquely at the sky, under the reflection of the beeping and burning torches, it exuded a cold cold glow, and also revealed a murderous aura of extreme hunger for flesh and blood.

Within the thick palace walls, the tall dragon candles that burn brightly illuminate the hall as bright as day.

Chen Kun put on a plain robe outside the armor to protect against the night cold, and he stood in front of the corridor of the main hall, looking at the open square in front of the palace.

And in recent years, Lei Jiuyuan, who has become increasingly old and has an old face like withered bark, stood silently in the main hall, as if drowsy, the dragon chair was high, but it was empty at this time, but there was a small and violent struggle in the west chamber hall, but it didn't seem to arouse his interest at all.

Beyond the heavy brocade curtain, there was no palace eunuch waiting in the West Chamber, and King Yong, who was holding a giant bow, had a face so gloomy, hideous, and distorted under the reflection of the giant candle.

Emperor Liang's neck was strangled and twisted by the deer tendon bowstring, and the divine power that he used to pull the galloping horse in his early years had already passed away from his mournful old body, his feet were twitching and struggling in vain, and his cloudy tiger eyes were open angrily, trying to turn his head and want to see the second son who sent him to the west with his own hands, for a woman who could get it casually, and the second son who did not hesitate to kill the king and kill his father was so hideous at this time, but the moment he completely swallowed, King Yong was always a hard and cold rock, standing behind him, Only the shadow pressed against him like a mountain.

After the movement of the West Chamber Hall stopped, Lei Jiuyuan waited for a long time, but he didn't see King Yong come out, so he straightened his robe a little, strode into the West Chamber Palace, and saw that Emperor Liang had already lost his breath, and his neck was almost strangled by the giant bow, but King Yong was still tense and twisted the giant bow, as if as soon as he loosened his mouth, the dead would come back to life, stand up and devour everything.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor has died!" Lei Jiuyuan reminded in a hoarse voice.

At this moment, Zhu Yu came to his senses, threw away the giant bow in his hand, and sat on the ground as if drowning, as if he had woken up from a nightmare, gasping violently, feeling that something in his heart seemed to be swallowed up little by little.

Lei Jiuyuan picked up this carved feather bow that had accompanied Emperor Liang for half his life and didn't know how many strong enemies he had shot on the battlefield, and re-hung it on the big pillar carved with dragon beasts.

"The eunuchs and palace maids of Qiuyang Palace have been brought to the east corridor, what should Your Majesty do with it?" Lei Jiuyuan asked.

Zhu Yu got up from the ground, sat on the pedal in front of the dragon couch, his gloomy face twisted and twitched, and then straightened his waist, a line of cold flashed in his eyes, his pupils looked at the deep night outside the hall, and waved his hand hideously: "Allow them to be buried!" ”

"Weichen Command!" Lei Jiuyuan sighed for a long time, and then walked out of the West Chamber.

Lei Jiuyuan returned to the main hall and said to Chen Kun, who was guarding in front of the corridor:

"It's too high to die, and the whole country mourns! The eunuchs and palace maids of Qiuyang Palace, who are grieving, want to be martyred for the emperor, and His Majesty allows it! ”

Chen Kun suppressed the urge to look at the West Wing Palace, walked directly down the corridor in front of the palace, dressed in the square in front of the palace, signaled the street guards guarding in front of the palace gate, pushed open the heavy palace gate, and said to the captain who was waiting for orders outside the palace gate: "The Taishang has died, the whole country is mourning, Your Majesty Xu Qiuyang Palace eunuchs and palace maids are martyred!" ”

The lieutenant waved his hand, drew the saber at his waist, shot diagonally into the night sky, and ordered: "Archers come out of the ranks, shoot arrows!" ”

Hundreds of armored archers, after walking to the array of armor soldiers at both ends of the road, pulled out their longbows and pointed diagonally at the night sky, and threw sharp and ruthless iron arrows towards the Yongdao between the two palace walls, shooting at those unarmed eunuchs and palace maids.

The muffled sound of sharp arrows entering the body was so clear in the night, and the miserable wails of hundreds of people, like hazy rain clouds, shrouded the Daliang Palace in the cold spring.

Thousands of sharp arrows were shot, waiting for a stick of incense, the wailing and moaning gradually subsided, and more than 100 armor soldiers entered the Yongdao in several teams, and found out the eunuchs and palace maids who were injured but not dead or hid by the dead corpses, to ensure that everyone in the Qiuyang Palace was buried tonight, and then used dozens of carriages to transport the corpses out of the imperial city and send them to the Yushan Imperial Mausoleum, which had been almost repaired.

More than a dozen waterwheels were parked on both sides of the road, and low-level eunuchs transferred from other classes carried buckets of water to wash away the bloodstains.

In the early morning, when the south gate of the palace was opened, the corridor on the east side of the Qiuyang Palace was as clean as new, as if nothing had happened last night; It seems that all kinds of ugly things that happened in the Qiuyang Palace have also been completely washed away.

At this time, more than a dozen palace envoys went out of the palace with a decree to report that the clan, the ministers, and the Emperor Tai Liang, who had only been in Zen for 20 days, died of a violent illness last night.

Emperor Taishang's edict was frugal, and he did not summon the princes and ministers, civil and military officials to come over to pay homage to the treasures of Taishang, so he directly carried out the funeral, put it into the coffin, and transferred it to the Qianyang Palace to stop the spirit.

The new emperor ordered the princes of the clan, the princes, the princesses, the princesses, and the concubines to go home to fast, and the ministers of the six ministries and nine temples went to the official residence of the government office to stay and fast, and were forbidden to return home.

The idle officials who did not have a formal official shortage gathered at the noon tide gate to fast, the civil and military officials were not allowed to have fun, mourning clothes were forbidden to marry, and the military and civilians were all required to take off the crown and wear vegetarian clothes, and were not allowed to slaughter or pray for sacrifices.

In addition to the martyrdom of 672 palace attendants in Qiuyang Palace, the new emperor authorized 17 eunuchs of the inner dynasty, such as the provincial eunuch, the young eunuch, and the inner permanent attendant, to commit suicide and be buried with them, and serve the ancestors forever......

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What happened in the Imperial City of Daliang was as far away as the affairs of another country to the ordinary generals guarding the southern gate of Bianjing.

No one knows why King Yong suddenly led his troops into Beijing and couldn't wait to force His Majesty to give up the throne, and no one knew why Emperor Taishang, who had only been on the throne for 20 days, suddenly died of a violent illness in Qiuyang Palace.

Even if there are a few of the martyred chamberlains and eunuchs in the palace who really want to follow the Taishang underground and serve forever, it is difficult to tell the ordinary generals under the South City Gate.

Near noon, I heard that the ministers of the Ministry of Shangshu, Zong Zhengqing, General Youshenwu, Song Guogong and other court ministers and generals, as well as Concubine Zhou and Concubine Yang, who accompanied Taishang in his later years, also wrote to the new emperor to ask for the burial of the Yushan Emperor's mausoleum and serve the Taishang forever.

"It's really strange, Master Gou, you said that people live well, why do you have to follow Taishang if you are looking for death and life?" A soldier with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, holding an ash gun crookedly against the base of the city wall, discussed with the colonel who led them on duty today.

The little school was younger, only thirty-five or sixteen years old, and he ignored the words of the monkey-cheeked soldier, and listened to the sound of horses' hooves approaching, and saw from a distance several fast horses galloping towards him, raising up the dust in the sky, and being swept by the cold wind, and the sky was gray.

Several knights wore black armor, the leader of whom had short hair of an inch long, and the black armor was worn by a monk's robe, which was strange.

Seeing that the other party galloped to the city gate, he suddenly retracted the reins, and the horse's nose sprayed hot steam, almost spraying on the face of the South City Gate Colonel.

"Come down, come down!" The little colonel who defended the city also didn't have a good temper, so he pressed the handle of the knife on his waist and shouted loudly.

Seeing that the guards of the city surrounded and blocked them, and ordered them to be interrogated, the leader took out a bronze talisman from his arms, and wrote the word "Chengtian", the face of the city gate colonel changed slightly, and he hurriedly signaled the generals behind him to get out of a passage, so that the people could enter the city as quickly as possible.

"Who are they, so rampage?" The sharp-mouthed pawn watched as he rode into the city, and instead of slowing down, he whipped his horse and rampaged through the streets, muttering in displeasure.

"These masters are all from Chengtiansi, but it's not something we can afford to provoke." The colonel glared at the tongue-in-cheek and told him not to talk nonsense.

The other generals were all shocked, and then looked at the fast horses, and there was more or less awe in their eyes.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, the generals of the imperial court did not move their positions for the time being, and they all took over their duties, and Xuanjia only took over the defense of the imperial city and Dongyang Gate and Zhengyang, but the most critical decree was to order the establishment of the Chengtian Si Du Governor's Mansion, so that Xiangcheng Marquis Jing Zhen was in charge, in addition to the direct driving guards, but also specially ordered in Dali Temple, Yushitai, and the Criminal Department, Chengtian Division was in charge of the affairs of the edict and prison, and also had the right to patrol and arrest and scout military intelligence.

That is to say, in the future, all the criminals who are ordered to be arrested by the new emperor will be dealt with by the Chengtian Division, and the Chengtian Division will also be directly responsible to the new emperor.

"The one at the head is the head of Chengtiansi's big stall, Shen Peng, nicknamed Monk, right?" Some of the soldiers were well-informed, exchanging messages and saying.

"They seem to have rushed back from the direction of Xuzhou," the sharp-mouthed soldier was still not very calm, watching Chengtiansi's probe horse go directly to the direction of the imperial city, holding the ash pole of the fine iron spear, his hands in his sleeves, close to the little colonel, and said, "Master Gou, I heard that the south of our Daliang has been in a mess, right?" ”

"Do you have to sew up your stinky mouth before you know to shut up?" The little colonel scolded in displeasure.

Han Yuanqi killed his uncle Han Jian to dominate Caizhou, and Zhu Qi, the king of Bo, and Feng Tingyi, the deputy privy envoy, were ordered to lead 80,000 forbidden troops to the south, and there were less than 20,000 defenders left in Bianjing at that time.

Zhu Yu led the Xuanjia Dujing to ride day and night, running to the Bianjing City, Xiangcheng Marquis Jingzhen led the palace guards, Chengtiansi secretary more than 800 elite raids Xianjin Bridge, from the city for the Xuanjia Dujing to ride into the city to open the passage.

At that time, most of the ministers and defenders of the court had not even figured out what was going on.

Although some of the defenders received an amnesty order to resist, they were quickly defeated by the elite of the Xuanjia Cavalry.

There are also quite a lot of defenders, who are afraid of Zhu Yu's great military exploits in the past, but also dissatisfied with the emperor's tyrannical temperament and killing Zhongliang after the death of Empress Zhang, and choose to belong to the new emperor.

These generals on duty at the south gate were the generals of the old forbidden army who belonged to the new emperor.

They guarded the main southern gate of Bianjing, and the news they saw and heard in their eyes was richer and more timely than the ordinary officials in the city, and they also knew very well that although the new emperor occupied Bianjing City and ascended the throne, it did not mean that the emperor had already sat on the throne.

On the one hand, the Bo king Zhu Jue learned the news of the new emperor's raid on Bianliang, and the privy deputy envoy Feng Tingye led 80,000 forbidden troops on the way to attack Caizhou.

In addition to Bowang Zhu Qi and Feng Tingqi, in addition to Caizhou Han Yuanqi, Caizhou also has four major festivals to make each party, they are still waiting to see the situation, not in a hurry to support the new emperor, and it is not excluded that some of them will have greater ambitions and choose to stand on their own.

Regardless of the strong enemies of Chu, Shu and Jin, the interior of Daliang alone has been turned upside down, and the new emperor only has less than 40,000 soldiers and horses in Bianjing, whether he can resist the counterattack of Bowang Zhu Jue is still two words.

All this in front of him is called the small school guarding the city, who knows a little about the situation, and his heart is covered with a shadow of impending disaster!