Chapter 18: The Bloody Case of the Heavenly Prison
If you say that the brightest new star of Youdu in the past ten years is not the newly succeeded Majesty Kayun XVI, nor the glamorous Governor Mu Zhijing. It's an almost legendary easy recruitment.
In the spring of 545, the Shuangbai River thawed and everything recovered, but bad luck struck, and the area around the Shuangbai River was infected with an unprecedented plague, and all 170,000 civilians living on both sides of the Shuangbai River were killed, shocking the whole country.
And the only one who survived was Yi Zhengqi, this orphan. He walked out of the pile of dead people alone, looking up at the sky, overwhelmed. He was only twelve years old that year.
People's caring eyes slowly focused on him.
The following year, he was the youngest in history to enter the Royal Craftsman City. This is where mysterious weapons are made. At the end of the same year, he won the first place in the casting training competition in the Royal Craftsman City, like a proud dark horse. The name reached the ears of His Majesty Kayun.
Immediately after that, he opened the most bizarre and exciting underground gambling and was arrested. The content of the bet turned out to be the number of favored concubines brought by His Majesty Kayun at the New Year Ceremony of the Far Eastern Empire? And the main reason for his arrest was because the imperial guard guessed wrong and lost 100,000 gold coins.
The gold coins he was fined were enough to deduct his salary for the next 82 years in the Craftsman's City, and he was known as "the youngest and poorest master caster". His news continued, and when he was seventeen years old, he had a breakthrough that shocked the whole country and forged the first weapon of the Seventh Army.
He became the hottest and brightest figure in the hidden capital, and became the next successor of the Craftsman City. Because of the breakthrough in the weapons of the Seventh Army, he has attracted much attention, and various military departments have asked for customization. Although not many people can use the Seventh Army, it does not prevent the characters from collecting the Seventh Army.
He went in and out of the Prime Minister's Mansion Houmen, made friends with the prince's relatives and relatives, and was a prominent figure in the 32nd issue of the Youdu Minbao, and even the free-trade Wahran Empire sent envoys to ask for a meeting.
At the height of his glory, he was assassinated by a group of men in black in Artisan City, almost killed, and lay down for several months. But in the past few months, rumors and news about his serious injury, death, escape from marriage, casting special weapons, practicing peerless kung fu and so on have emerged one after another, which has pushed him to a higher peak.
In the second month after his recovery, he did another big thing. Together with several princes and families, including Mu Anchen, the next governor of the prison army, they rented the Shuangbai River. It is a place of fireworks that the women of the entire secluded capital hate, and all men like. (Yi Zheng's big proprietor is to say: a holy place for cultural exchange.) )
From Youdu, there is a special carriage team to transport to the Shuangbai River, this originally unattended long stream has become the most outstanding and fashionable "Qinhuai River". Those breathtaking poems and songs, those unheard of novelties, those endless services. Later, even His Majesty Kayun wanted to go and see the lantern festival there.
It wasn't until later that a bloody case in the prison put an end to his brilliance.
In June 551, the Heavenly Prison in Youdu caught fire due to dryness, and the princes and ministers led troops to the rescue, because the fire was too big, resulting in three imperial uncles (Ka Yunhui, Ka Yunyun, Kayun Kaiyi), two princes (Ka Yunxu, Kayun Boyi);
Mu Anchen, the next governor of the prison army, Lei Hongzhi, the chief of the imperial guard, and 3,000 guards, the Imperial Forest Army, the Forbidden Army, the Janissary Guard, and the guards of the Heavenly Prison, a total of 36,600 prisoners in the Heavenly Prison were all buried in the fire. (That's what the royal family declares to the outside world!) The fire burned for three days and three nights, and many people were burned down to a handful of ashes.
It was later discovered that the prison was already full of kerosene and other flammable coal. And most of these dead aristocratic princes were the behind-the-scenes owners who cooperated with Yi Zhengqi to run the "Qinhuai River".
In this fire, only Yi Zhengqi escaped. The suspicious eyes of the entire Youdu were focused on him, and gossip was flying all over the sky, and even the ministers in the main hall of the palace were arguing about it.
However, there is no direct and convincing evidence to prove that Yi Zheng murdered him. In the end, His Majesty Kayun deprived Yi Zheng of all his power and property, and in the same year, Governor Mu was no longer qualified for the post of Governor due to the loss of his male grandson, Mu Anchen, who was in a trance, and was replaced by the seventeen-year-old Mu Zhijing with the support of His Majesty Kayun.
The first thing Mu Zhijing did when she took office was to take Yi Zhengqi and expel him, and he would never be able to step into the hidden capital.
Yi Zhengqi and Mu Zhijing stood on the head of Kasangla's city, and both of them fell into deep memories.
Yi Zhengqi continued: "The fire that night was indeed deliberately arranged. This plan is still the attention of His Majesty Kayun and your grandfather, Old Governor Mu. The Far Eastern Empire is not peaceful, His Majesty has long received the news that the Gale Empire will invade, and his biggest threat is the Imperial Uncle Kayun Kaiyi.
At that time, I was ordered by His Majesty to pretend to be drunk at a banquet and talk nonsense, saying that the secret of the Seventh Army's casting was not in the Craftsman City, but in the Heavenly Dungeon, and the preliminary results of the study of the Eighth Army were also in it. Actually, I just wanted to lead Ka Yunkai to discuss one, who knew that so many people came.
Originally, under the arrangement of Governor Mu, your brother and I and I faked our lives in this fire. However, because of your appearance, the plan was disrupted. ”
Mu Zhijing said incredulously: "Me? ”
Yi Zhengqi said: "Yes, you know that Mu Anchen was also in the prison at that time, and you rushed here after hearing the news, you must go into the prison to save him." If you come in, you too will surely die. Your brother and I were about to retreat from the dark passage, and when we saw you, he refused to leave. He can't save you, only I come out to save you. ”
Mu Zhijing frowned, this was indeed the case at that time.
Yi Zhengqi continued: "Because I saved you and affected the whole plan, Your Majesty is furious, nothing can be more terrible than the anger of the king, he almost killed me, fortunately the old Governor Mu interceded."
Later, when you took office and expelled me, and your majesty did not stop me, I knew that he would also want to expel me. He has stripped me of all my glory and possessions, and perhaps all of them are just his pawns. It's really hateful, I carried such a big black cauldron for him, and I even had to ask someone to borrow the money for running away. ”
Mu Zhijing said: "What kind of plan did Your Majesty and my grandfather make? Why didn't I know at all? ”
"I don't know, don't point your sword at me at every turn, I really don't know. I'm just doing what I'm told. Think about it, I had the money and the power at the time, did I have to take this risk? ”
Mu Zhijing put away her sword and said, "Don't pretend to be innocent in front of me, didn't you say that the weapons of the Seven Armies would secretly kill more than 36,000 people in the Heavenly Prison?" How many people inside are innocent? Those who died, who will raise their wives and children? What did those guards who were just on duty do wrong? ”
Yi Zhengqi did not speak, because there was no point in arguing now.
Mu Zhijing said: "You can't be unaware of their plan at all. ”
Yi Zhengqi felt that she was really an unreasonable woman, and said: "Mu Zhijing, your grandfather is one of the masterminds, please review for yourself at this time why he didn't tell you the secret." I was just forced to participate, I didn't know what was going on. Because of the affairs of your royal family, I have lost everything, everything! Nothing! What more do you want? ”
Mu Zhijing gritted her teeth, took out a letter from her clothes, and said, "Na, this is a letter from my grandfather to you." ”
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