Duan Xiangxing felt a little painful, frowned and said: "Father, the Gao family has been in power for so many years, and the treasury is not as good as a year after year, I once went to the treasury, and the faces of the beggars on the street were cleaner than those on the street, and the household department was overstretched, so I took money and grain out to give it to the barbarians, isn't it ......?"

Duan Zhixiang roared, pointed at his nose with hatred of iron and steel, and said, "If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan!" I can't bear it now, and I'll regret it later! If you want to take over the power in the future, how can you become a big deal if you care so much about temporary gains and losses? Needless to say, get to work!! ”

His last few words were almost exhausted, and the prince and Duan Yanzhen were startled, and hurriedly said yes again and again, and trotted away.

Duan Zhixiang was already a drooping old man, he lost his temper with a loud voice, and suddenly became a little short of breath, as soon as the two left, he sat down on the table and gasped several times.

"Don't worry! Everyone's not going to let me worry! He muttered to himself worriedly, holding his chin and looking out of the window, Cangshan's white head was facing the window, and the cliff was as high as ten thousand feet, he could see it a little distractedly: "I can't lose, the Duan family has more than ten emperors, I want to glorify the family, how can I lose?" The Gao clan is so powerful, they are all defeated at my feet, and there are a few small characters left, how can they be my opponents? You won't lose, you won't lose. ”

He muttered, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, Jiufeng Tower stood proudly in the imperial city, the sky was overwhelming, and the height was unbearable. The noise inside and outside can't be transmitted to such a high place, and sitting here, it feels quite lonely and arrogant.

So in the quiet environment, Duan Zhixiang's irritable heart calmed down, and he could think about some things quietly.

After sitting for a while, he stood up, his closed eyes opened, and called out in a loud voice.

A eunuch who had been waiting on the next floor hurriedly came up, because he ran too fast, he almost tripped over the floor, and came to Duan Zhixiang in a slightly embarrassed way.

Duan Zhixiang thought about it and whispered a few words, the eunuch kept nodding and nodding his head, and finally retreated with Duan Zhixiang's wave of his hand.

Looking at the retreating figure of the eunuch disappearing into the stairs, Duan Zhixiang let out a long breath: "Let you be Xiangguo, this is the bottom line, you can't go too far." ”

…….

Once upon a time, Jiufeng Tower was higher than Chenglong.

As the minister of Dali, even the time he spent two years ago was more than Duan Zhixiang and Duan Xiangxing.

Standing at the highest point of the emperor's family, stepping on all the people, holding the authority in his hands, and even the replacement of the king of a country, he can decide with one mouth. Dominating the scenery of all things, it is unparalleled for a while.

But now, Gao Yuchenglong is locked in a dungeon in the imperial city, surrounded by stone walls, wrapped in iron chains, and the pungent musty smell can stun rats, and the windowless cell is only lit by the dim light of an oil lamp, and he is still wearing a brocade dress lined when he went out on the expedition, but it is full of holes, and it seems that when he was caught, those Ouchi guards were not very good to him.

The first person in Dali shrank in a corner, and the chains on his body were tinkling when he moved, the chains were big and heavy, and it was difficult to get up, he stared and looked at the ceiling blankly.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and Gao Yuchenglong heard the sound and came to the door of his cell and stopped, and then the lock on the door fell, as if someone was about to enter.

He sat up straight, straightened his clothes, and tried his best to look as usual. There are still some illusions in his heart, the Gao family is deeply rooted in Dali, although the Duan family has been planning for a long time, but it is not so easy for him to bring down the Gao family, if things take a turn for the better, then it should come at this moment.

It was a eunuch who came in, Gao Yuchenglong took a closer look and found that it was Duan Zhixiang's cronies.

"What did the emperor ask you to do?" He was a little disappointed, and the eunuch must not have let him go: "What about my family?" ”

The eunuch laughed dryly, glanced around the cell, and found that there was no suitable place to sit, so he had to stand and say in a dark voice: "Xiangguo doesn't need to panic, your family and the emperor have sent people to take care of it, and the arrangements are very appropriate, and no one can move." ”

Gao Yucheng glanced at him, he didn't pay much attention to the emperor before, let alone the eunuch, so he leaned against the wall and said, "Raided my home?" If the emperor does this, isn't he afraid of disaster? ”

"I don't know this, the emperor's thoughts, where do we minions dare to guess? That's going to kill the head, isn't it, Lord Xiangguo? The eunuch grinned and reached out to touch something in his arms.

Gao Yuchenglong became more and more bored, and simply closed his eyes: "If it's okay, get out, wait for the emperor's mind to change, and then come and talk to me!" ”

"That's not going to work, Lord Xiangguo, I'm here on an errand." The eunuch was not annoyed at all, anyway, Gao Yu Chenglong had often treated him like this before, so it didn't matter if there was more or less time.

“.…… Errand? Gao Yuchenglong's eyelids jumped, and he suddenly opened his eyes and saw the eunuch feel a rope from his arms.

"What are you going to do?!" His heart also skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition permeated him: "What are you going to do?!" ”

"Don't do anything, don't do anything, you have to do it yourself." The eunuch maintained a smiling expression, as if he was saying something very festive: "My lord has been a Xiangguo for so long, it's time to rest, change someone else, and suffer a little for you, isn't it?" ”

"The emperor wants to kill me? Impossible! How dare he! Gao Yu Chenglong stood up, and because the chains were so tightly tied that he was still confined to a small area in the corner, although he struggled hard, he could only stand upright, like a chicken in bondage.

"Oh, I said Xiangguo, you are like this, why are you still so powerful? It scares the hell out of me! The eunuch touched his chest with a frightened look, but laughed: "Let me tell you the truth, the emperor not only dared to do this!" ”

He clapped his hands, and two wolf-like prison guards walked in, staring at Gao Yuchenglong with malicious intent.

Gao Yuchenglong shuddered all over, clinging to the wall behind him, and shouted in fear: "The Thirty-six Barbarians will not agree!" If the emperor kills me, there will be chaos in Dali, and his throne will not be stable at that time! You go and tell the emperor, he is angry for a while, he can't think of this, you tell him! Go ahead! No, no, you take me, I'll tell him personally! ”

The eunuch looked at him with interest, appreciating the reaction of the prime minister who had the power of life and death in the past, and shrugged his shoulders happily.

"Don't do it, the emperor will definitely listen to me, I apologize to him, ah no, I'm not going to be the prime minister, let it be handed over to others, the emperor has a suitable candidate? It doesn't matter, I give way, I give way! Don't, don't come here......"

The eunuch was impatient, measured his body and stepped aside, and snorted at Gao Yucheng, who was almost in a state of madness.

The two guards went up, first put the rope on the beams of the house, made a knot just big enough for a head to pass through, and then stretched out their hands to the chicken-like height of Chenglong.

"No !!" A scream echoed through the cell, and the bean-like oil lamp projected a violently struggling shadow on the wall, and the eunuch blinked a little in disdain, and turned his head.

He had to wait for Gao Yuchenglong to die before he could go back to the business.

(End of chapter)