Recently, there was a sudden news in the court that the crown prince would inherit the throne, and there were voices of rebuttal at first, but it was quickly suppressed by the prince with vigorous and resolute means, and no one dared to express his opinion for a while, and the call for the crown prince to succeed to the throne was getting higher and higher.

The crown prince agreed to the petition of the courtiers in a "helpless" situation, and the enthronement ceremony was set up three days later.

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Half a month later, the enthronement ceremony was held in the Taihe Hall as scheduled!

For a time, the whole country rejoiced!

The capital is full of flags and exhibitions, and people are neighing!

When the prince got up early in the morning, he was dressed in the crown and the silk dragon robe by his jubilant personal palace maids and eunuchs.

The prince looked at himself from the bronze mirror, and felt that he was becoming more and more heroic and imposing!

However, the crown prince behaved very low-key throughout the day. He first took the initiative to go to Kunning Palace to pay homage to his mother, and then took his mother out himself. He walked behind his mother all day.

The auspicious time has come, and Prince Yi led the crown prince to carry out the legal procedures for the enthronement ceremony step by step.

Sacrifice to the sky, sacrifice to the earth, sacrifice to the ancestors, sacrifice to the five grains.

When the crown prince really sat down on the dragon throne in the middle of the Taihe Hall as the king of a country, although he had imagined such a scene countless times, he still felt a deep shock in his heart at this moment.

Prince Yi led the civil and military officials, bowed to him three times and bowed nine times, and the sound of the mountain shouting long live was deafening, resounding throughout the entire palace!

Next, Empress Dowager Chen led all kinds of concubines and palace maids in the palace to kneel and worship.

Then the chief eunuch took the palace eunuchs and internal guards to bow down, and finally the royal forest army shouted in unison!

Amid the chanting of the crowd, the prince began to be somewhat intoxicated. No, now it should not be called the crown prince, but the emperor. It turns out that this is what it is like to stand at the pinnacle of power; It turns out that this is the pursuit of countless people who have spent their entire lives.

From this point on, he is the emperor in full name!

But soon, he saw a cold gaze cast by his "dearest" fourth brother in the audience. The ancients said that coveting, or snooping, should be said to be this kind of gaze.

But it was precisely because of this gaze that he gradually calmed down.

On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore!

So, don't blame him for being ruthless and not caring about brotherhood!

Since Mu Chenyi's whereabouts are unknown, the matter of the fourth prince's intention to rebel is also over, which is why he was able to go out of the palace today to participate in the prince's enthronement ceremony. It's just that today's enthronement ceremony is destined to be turbulent.

However, just when everyone was shouting long live to the new Huangshan-

Suddenly, a large number of black-clothed people poured into the outside of the Taihe Palace, rushing straight towards the Taihe Palace!

"Ah——!h

I don't know who was the first to let out a scream.

Immediately afterwards, the faces of everyone in the court changed, and the guards shouted loudly: "Escort ......!" ”

A large group of black-clothed people suddenly poured in, which was clearly an assassination!

In the lobby, the sound of fighting continued.

The guards around the Taihe Palace, including the emperor's forbidden army, all poured in at this moment and joined the battle.

The assassinations of the Emperor had spread from the Taihe Hall to the wider land outside, and the Emperor and the Queen Mother fled outside with the support of the crowd, and the Assassins followed.

The sound of swords colliding and items shattering became more intense......

The sound of fighting was overwhelming, and it did not subside for a long, long time.

I don't know how long it has been, but the sound outside seems to have gradually become quieter......

The sound of those cold weapons colliding with each other gradually lowered until it disappeared completely.

But suddenly, a guard rushed in!

Immediately, there were gossiping voices in the Taihe Palace—

"Well, is the assassin caught?"

"I don't know how the emperor is now, is he injured?"

"Is there anyone else hurt, what's going on now?"

Perhaps because there was too much gossip in the Taihe Palace, the guards didn't have time to answer one by one, so they shook their heads directly, didn't answer anyone's questions, walked straight towards the four princes, and finally stopped in front of him, frowned and said coldly: "Lord, the emperor now invites you to go out." ”

People who don't know the truth of the matter were shocked, could it be that the assassin was arrested and the main messenger behind it was discovered? But when you do this kind of thing, don't assassins immediately bite their tongues and kill themselves when they are caught, hiding the truth? Why did it explode so quickly? And His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince can't be such a brainless person! Could it be that there is something else going on in this matter?

Therefore, when the four princes walked out with long legs, many good people involuntarily followed.

Seeing that the emperor did not say anything to stop him, more and more people followed out with courage, and in the end, everyone moved from the Taihe Hall to the outside.

The originally empty place of flowers and plants, flags and red silk everywhere should have been a joyful and peaceful image, but now it was destroyed with a certain abrupt decay.

There were also several black-clad assassins kneeling on the ground, unable to kill themselves or escape.

The four princes walked calmly in front of the emperor, looked at the emperor and the queen mother who were slightly disheveled, and said in a deep voice: "I don't know if the emperor is looking for his ministers to come over now, what is the so-called matter?"

Everyone turned their gaze over to them and looked at them with curiosity in their eyes.

"Today is the day of my accession to the throne, and I am very displeased that these assassins have the audacity to come out and make trouble to assassinate me and my mother. Therefore, in any case, I will bring the commander to justice as an example! Although he had just ascended the throne, he put the emperor's shelf on the table.

After that, the emperor's words changed, and Sen Han's gaze was even worse than the cold and snow in this winter, "However, I have been busy for a day today, and I am a little tired at the moment, so these people will be handed over to the fourth brother for trial." ”

"I see." The fourth prince nodded lightly, "The younger brother should obey his orders." ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they thought that the emperor suspected that His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince had done it at this time, so they were in such a hurry to find him!

But the frowning eyebrows of the ministers who are familiar with the emperor's personality were not loosened by the emperor's words, but they were screwed deeper, with their previous understanding of the emperor, things would not be so simple.

The fourth prince walked up to the assassin and said lightly, "How, have you thought it through?" Recruitment? ”

As soon as the words fell, a guard stepped forward to unlock the assassin's dumb hole.

"No recruitment!" The assassin said coldly.

"Really?" As soon as the fourth prince's indifferent words fell, the assassin didn't even have time to deny or justify it, when a scream of tears was heard, "Ah......hh

The onlookers were shocked!

I saw that the fourth prince was caught off guard by surprise and pulled out the sword of the guard next to him, and directly cut off the assassin's arm!

The action is so fast and the means are so ruthless that many people don't even see it clearly.

The emperor looked at him in shock, he was so skilled with a sword? And how could he never have known that his fourth brother had such a decisive and ruthless side?

However, now is not a good time to ask about this matter, anyway, the fourth brother will fall today, so he is not in a hurry to worry about this small problem!

So, he raised his hand to stop the Queen Mother who wanted to speak out, and he stood quietly aside and continued to watch.

The fourth prince looked at the assassin in front of him condescendingly, and said coldly: "How about it, have you thought about it now?" Are you going to recruit? ”

"No...... You...... Don't you think! The Assassin yelled, "Don't just think that I'm going to ...... you like this Yes! Just before he could finish his words, his other arm was also cut off by the fourth prince who raised his hand again and swung his sword in the midst of everyone's exclamations and his own screams!

The fourth prince sneered in a faint cold voice, "Don't you recruit it, right?" Good! This king has a way to make you unable to survive or die. ”

There were even many concubines and palace maids who were present who couldn't help but tremble with fright, and even fainted to the ground in fright.

The assassin immediately screamed, "I'll move, I'll move, I'll do it all!" Rajah...... Your Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, it is clear that you sent us to assassinate the emperor, but now you are doing this to me! Each and every one of us is so loyal to you that we all voluntarily choose to die so that we don't betray you, but why don't you want to reward me with a pleasant and simple death? As he spoke, his eyes turned red, and a big man cried out in public.

Everyone was shocked! Because this assassin is clearly identifying His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince as the initiator of today's assassination!

"Huh." The assassin's screams and cries soon stopped abruptly, because this time, the fourth prince directly stabbed him in the throat with a sword!

For a while, blood splattered and sprayed everywhere. Not to mention that the palace maids, concubines and queen mothers present couldn't bear to look at them directly, even the many ministers couldn't help but feel sick and sick when they looked at them.

"Fourth brother!" The emperor shouted angrily, "Who gave you such the audacity to kill him!" ”

The fourth prince sneered faintly, "Your Majesty, didn't you just say this matter yourself and let your brother be responsible, don't your brother even have the right to kill an assassin now?" Besides, it's not that there are no other assassins here, and now that one of them is dead, it may be able to achieve the effect of killing chickens and monkeys, and also let them see the current situation clearly, in case they talk nonsense again. Could it be that what the younger brother said is not right? As he spoke, his cold gaze swept over the kneeling assassins again, his thin lips curled in a cold arc.

The emperor choked, and the sharp edge in his eyes was revealed, "But this person has already been a personal ** generation just now, and he identified that you sent them to assassinate the fourth brother!" Could it be that the fourth brother wants to use my hand to kill people and destroy his mouth? ”

"Heh, this kind of nonsense is enough to deceive fools, is it possible that the emperor will believe it?"

"You...... It's just presumptuous! The emperor shouted angrily, "Since someone has already confessed, it is natural to send someone to investigate, how can you kill someone so indiscriminately, could it be that the fourth brother is weak-hearted?" Afraid they'll tell you more about you, so you can't wait to do it to the assassin? ”

For a while, the atmosphere in the courtyard became strange and stagnant, and even the air seemed to stop flowing.