Zhao Jin's mind is now vague. Scenes from childhood often flash. Since he was a child, he was sent to the Empress Dowager to be raised, and he never even met his mother. He only heard when he was a child that his mother died of illness less than two years after giving birth to him.

He has no mother's love since he was a child, and he has become very rebellious. Both the Empress Dowager and her father, who were initially busy dealing with political opponents, neglected to discipline him. From the day he could remember, his father had been in poor health. Knowing that when he was thirteen years old, the Emperor of the Apocalypse died, and he ascended to the throne without the slightest mental preparation. His era officially began.

When he ascended to the throne, he felt that everything was completely different from what he had imagined. When the emperor was not free after an hour, when he was young, he was in charge of his teacher, and when he became an emperor, he was in charge of his uncle. Even his uncle has threatened his throne and threatened his life and death.

For the first time, he felt fear, for the first time, he had the idea of killing. He knew that when he couldn't kill the person he wanted to kill, it meant that his life was also gone.

He was still afraid, afraid that Shi Hongzong would know that he wanted to kill him, and his life would not be guaranteed.

There was no one in the empty Fengtian Palace, only Zhao Jin himself was left reclining on the dragon chair that symbolized imperial power.

Loneliness, confusion.

The rain poured heavily outside the hall, but the inside of the hall was unusually quiet, if it wasn't for the open door of the hall, maybe Zhao Jin would never know what was happening outside, all he had was the child who was wrapped in layers.

"Is this the price of failure?"

"Who else can I use?"

"Is it necessary for me to remain the emperor?" Zhao Jin kept asking herself.

The palace guard barracks were naturally built in the palace, and thousands of palace guards stood neatly on the school grounds. Strangely, these palace guards did not have any blades in their hands.

They stood motionless against the torrential rain in the sky, and all eyes were on the man in front of them.

The person in front of him was a general of the palace guard. The largest official of the palace guard army is the commander, followed by three generals, each of whom leads an army of the palace guard, and is under the jurisdiction of the commander Zhang Zhongshang.

He was also very puzzled, he received an order from Zhang Zhongshang, the commander of the palace guards, ordering all the palace guards under him to rush to the school, but he did not say what the specific thing was. His name is Zuo Ping, and he is the most favored general of the emperor in the palace guards.

On a rainy day, everyone stood outside the house, and the palace guards were ordered not to carry any weapons. Everyone stood stupidly on the school field and looked at Zuo Ping. Zuo Pingzhen didn't know what was going on, so he was waiting here with big eyes.

The torrential rain was pouring down, and the water droplets dripped into his eyes so that Zuo Ping's eyes couldn't open, and he had already rushed to the bottom of his heart that something was wrong.

Two days ago, things had turned weird, and he had received an edict that he had replaced the palace guards under his camp with the guards at the palace gate. He was ordered to seal the gates of the palace and not allow anyone to enter or leave.

Yesterday, the news that the emperor was going to kill Shi Hongzong, the great Sima of the dynasty, was circulating everywhere in the palace. Although he is the emperor's confidant, he doesn't know what the emperor of the provincial party committee has in mind, and he can't believe it when he hears the news.

Shi Hongzong did not enter the palace, and he did not receive further orders from the emperor. It wasn't until last night that he received a holy decree ordering him to return to the camp with the palace guards.

Zuo Pingzhen looked at the dark clouds in the sky, and his heart was very depressed. A lieutenant next to him came up to him and asked, "General, how long are we going to stand here?" ”

Zuo Pingzhen squinted at the more than 3,000 people standing in the school yard, and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "It will only be an order from an adult, let us wait here for his old man's instructions." In this case, when you go to the celebrant and say that I have asked you to ask the commander for instructions on the next step. ”

A lieutenant next to him nodded and said, "My subordinates understand." With that, he took three steps and made two steps, and ran down the high platform.

Zuo Pingzhen and several lieutenants behind him also looked at each other, not understanding what this was about.

Zuo Pingzhen was originally a fierce general in the army, but was later valued by Zhang Zhong and personally transferred him to the palace guard. Therefore, Zuo Pingjiao is regarded as Zhang Zhongshang's cronies.

He always had a sense of foreboding, and his heart could not be calm.

At this moment, a special person was ushered in in the Fengtian Temple.

This is an old woman about fifty years old, she is dressed in a phoenix robe and her hair is pulled back, very graceful and luxurious. She is the empress dowager of Tianwu Kingdom, Shi Xin.

He is the real ruler of the entire Tianwu Empire. It was pouring rain outside, but she walked in from the outside without a trace of rain on her.

She slowly walked to Zhao Jin's side and raised her head slightly, looking at Zhao Jin sitting on the dragon chair.

Shi Xin said slowly: "You have to pay the price for your recklessness. ”

Zhao Jin lay backwards, ignoring his imperial grandmother. "There's one thing I've never figured out. Are you my imperial grandmother? Or is it his sister Shi Hongzong? ”

Shi Xin smiled and said, "Even if I am your imperial grandmother, I am also Shi Hongzong's sister. Does it make a difference? ”

Zhao Jin's eyes widened and she looked at the old woman in her fifties in front of her. "Of course there is a difference! How can a mountain hold two tigers? There can only be one person in charge of this country. ”

Shi Xin suddenly sneered, and she shook her head: "You are still too young, and there are some things that you still don't understand." The reason why one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers is because the mountain is not big enough. Shi Hongzong is still very loyal to the Zhao family and the royal family. If you kill him, it will chill the hearts of the loyal ministers of the world. ”

Zhao Jin's face was silent, but his heart was half cold. "Imperial grandmother, can't the palace guards really stay? That was the last force in the hands of his grandson. I hope that the emperor's grandmother will be kind and save her grandson. Zhao Jin said to Shi Xin almost in a pleading tone.

Shi Xin begged himself with a depressed imperial grandson with a hint of pleading, and couldn't help but be a little soft-hearted.

"Grandson, if you don't hand over the military power of the palace guards, how can you appease the hearts of the ministers of the DPRK and China? If you don't kill a few palace guards, who will be charged with killing the ministers of the court for you? For the sake of your throne, you have to endure it. ”

When Zhao Jin heard Shi Xin's words, he lost his strength, and his last glimmer of hope was gone. He slumped into his chair again, his eyes looking straight at the mountains outside the hall where it was still raining heavily. He couldn't see hope.

Shi Xin's temples were white, and his face was also full of this tired color, looking at Zhao Jin's depression, he didn't know what it was like in his heart. She shook her head and turned to walk outside.

Zhao Jin looked outside and seemed to have seen the scene of the palace guards being slaughtered. The blood of all the people stained the earth red, and after the rain, the blood flowed into a river.

"General!" An armored palace guard officer and soldier ran towards the high platform of the school field, and this person was the person Zuo Pingjiao had just sent to inquire about the news.

Before the man could reach the high platform, he couldn't wait to shout: "General, something has happened!" His voice was so loud that most of the palace guards and soldiers in the school field looked at the high platform in unison.

Zuo Pingzhen frowned and said, "What's wrong?" Panicked, come up and talk about it! "The thousands of palace guards on the school field still looked at the high platform motionlessly, completely unaware of what would happen.

The lieutenant ran to Zuo Ping's side, panting and saying, "Subordinate, as soon as I arrived at the celebrant supervisor, I found that there was no one inside, and the celebrant was full of dead people and blood all over the ground. All the celebrants were killed, even Lianlian. ”

"Even what? Say it! Zuo Pingzhen was really shocked.

"Even the commander died on the chaise longue in the main hall of the celebrant!"

"What!" Zuo Pingzhen's eyes widened, and his face was incredulous. Some of the palace guard generals behind him also showed the same expression. Zuo Ping's first reaction was that he felt that the person in front of him was lying, and the lieutenant in front of him was the henchman he had cultivated, and he believed that the henchman in front of him would not lie to him.

The lieutenant in front of Zuo Pingjiao is a fellow countryman with him, both from Liaozhou, and his name is Sun Xingben. Zuo Pingzhen trusts him very much, and besides, there is no need for him to lie to himself at this time. Except for something really big, Sun Xingben didn't dare to lie no matter what. This is what Zuo Pingzhen is convinced of.

Zuo Pingzhen felt the thick murderous aura around him, and felt that he was about to come to a catastrophe.

Zuo Ping's brain was running rapidly, "Killing people in the palace? Who has so much power? Could it be the emperor? No, the commander is the saint's henchman, how could the emperor kill him, and in such a way? ”

"Could it be the Empress Dowager? Or, yes, Shi Hongzong? Are the rumors true? ”

Zuo Ping's hand kept trembling, and he suddenly thought of something. "Could it be that the emperor sent me to guard the palace gate really to control Shi Hongzong? In other words, I have unknowingly participated in a huge game. But in this situation, it is obvious that the emperor has lost. ”

"Not good!" Zuo Pingjiao subconsciously said, he suddenly thought that if Zhang Zhongshang was killed, then the edict he received was fake. He thought that the oracle saying that he was not allowed to bring a blade was an invisible killing intent.

"What to do, what to do?" Zuo Pingzhen was wondering who could save him.

"Everyone, listen to me. Return to camp and assemble now! Hurry up" Zuo Pingzhen knew that the thousands of people in the school field had no weapons in their hands, just like Gao Yang, who was slaughtered at will, and had any ability to protect himself, so he had to take everyone back to the camp.

"Zhang Qianhu," Zuo Pingxuan turned around and shouted to several generals behind him.

"Subordinates are here" A big man in armor clenched his fists and knelt down on one knee.

"Lead your troops, return to the camp immediately, and be fully armed. Wait for my next command. ”

"Subordinates obey."