Gao Huan immediately said: "What Your Majesty said is that the minister accidentally got a secret edict here, the content of which is very bizarre, and he actually said that His Majesty wants to harm the minister, and the minister never believes such nonsense, it must be Yuwentai's spy who made a divisive plan." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Saying that, he took out the secret edict and handed it to the eunuch on the side, meaning to show Emperor Yuanshan a look. Yuan Shanjian saw that his face changed as soon as he saw this secret edict, and he began to scold his mother in his heart, saying that you grandsons still betrayed Lao Tzu.

Yuan Shan saw the secret edict of pretending to be calm, and immediately said: "Who wants to drive a wedge between my monarch and minister, and come up with such a vicious plan, it is simply an intolerable act of human and divine indignation. It was as if he really had nothing to do with him. Gao Huan secretly said in his heart: You can act, let everyone see your face, you villain. He then said: "The minister also feels very puzzled, this kind of drama of using secret edicts is outdated, and he dares to take it out to be embarrassing for such an old-fashioned one? ”

Yuan Shan smiled wryly: "That is, how can the relationship between our monarch and minister be divided by such a thing?" Gao Huan said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the minister knows that he has made great achievements over the years, and it is inevitable that some people will come out to slander the minister, but it doesn't matter, the right and title have never been taken very seriously by me, and today the court wants to resign with Your Majesty." ”

Yuan Shanjian was immediately very happy when he heard what he said, and then he knew that this was Gao Huan playing tricks on him, deliberately asking him to reveal his true intentions, so he quickly got up and said: "Father Xiang has worked hard, and my Great Wei also pointed to you to open up the territory, and I also hope that you can help me and help me govern the world, who dares to say the words that make you resign, I will be the first to behead his dog." Father Xiang doesn't have to be kidnapped by the public opinion of those villains, I absolutely trust you. ”

Gao Huan said with a smile: "Although the minister is loyal, but after all, it is inevitable to be burdened by fame, and now the minister has also figured it out, and he can leave a whole corpse when he resigns and goes home, but I am afraid that if he continues to stay in the court, he will one day be in a different place." These two sentences are true. Yuan Shanjian also swore with a fake gambling curse: "I ordered in the name of the Son of Heaven that whoever wants to slander his father behind his back is equivalent to treason and will exterminate the Nine Clans." Is that okay? Hearing this, Gao Huan bowed to the emperor gratefully, and said excitedly: "Minister Gao Huan, thank you for your majesty's love." ”

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty looked at the acting skills of the two monarchs and ministers, and scolded their mothers in their hearts, who still doesn't know the scheming that you play with, acting in front of so many people, but then again, today's court Gao Huan made such a fuss, and public opinion and public sentiment began to sympathize with him. After all, powerful ministers like Gao Huan are still supported by most officials and ordinary people.

The court dispersed, and Emperor Yuan Shanjian was surrounded by the big eunuchs, and returned to his bedroom angrily, and said to the queen who was dressing up: "Hmph, this old thief has played a bitter trick for me today, and I want to retreat as an advance, I really want him to resign and go home." It's a pity that this is his high-spirited scheming, and I can still see it. The queen sat there and kept pulling her hair, and she didn't know who she was going to show in the deep palace. I heard the queen say without replying: "I heard that the old thief is going to the palace in full armor today, isn't this clearly going to rebel, Your Majesty, you should have let people take him down at that time and punish him for the crime of disrespect." ”

Yuan Shanjian sighed and said: "Hey, do you think I don't want to, he is the sword I gave him back then." I really regretted giving him too many rights back then, but now I hurt myself by raising tigers. Gao Huan is indeed wolf-hearted. Yuan Shanjian didn't want to think that when he ascended the throne, he didn't have a confidant in the palace, and he relied on this Gao Huan to prop up the field for him later, so he accepted some henchmen and eunuchs little by little. Now that he is full-fledged, he wants to get rid of the burden that gets in the way, and he himself is a wolf-hearted dog.

Suddenly, he remembered that Gao Huan also offered him a coral, so he said to the queen: "That old thief specially offered a coral today in order to show his sins, which is said to be the treasure that Shi Chong had when he was rich. Let's take a look? The queen happened to be dressed up, and at this moment she also wanted to go out to take a walk, and then said with a smile: "Follow Your Majesty's will." "They also deserve to die together in Jingyang Palace today.

Yuan Shanjian led the queen and the two to the gate of Jingyang Palace one after the other, and said to the eunuchs and palace maids behind him: "You wait here, I and the queen will go in alone." The big eunuch also wanted to see this coral, but the emperor gave an order, so he had to wait at the door. Yuan Shanjian and the queen entered the palace, and they saw a huge coral on the side of the screen throne from afar, and it looked like a small sapling from afar, this coral was amazing, extremely tall, taller than the height of an adult man, and the whole body was like sprinkled with gold bead powder, shining and very beautiful.

When the two came closer, Yuan Shanjian said very happily: "Queen, come and see, the roots of this coral are really very thick, don't you say that this kind of thing grows in the sea like a big tree?" I've heard people say that a coral of this size can't grow in hundreds of years. The queen looked at the coral and said angrily: "He can have so much wealth with a single prince, I think the flattering people below only know that there is him as the king of Qi, but they don't know that there is His Majesty in the world." ”

Yuan Shanjian was also a little angry when he heard her say, and then said: "Gao Huan, that traitor, I am inseparable from him. Then a voice came from behind the screen, "Who do you say is a traitor?" Yuan Shanjian and the queen were taken aback by this business, and took a closer look, and a big man with a tiger's back came out from behind the screen, only to see that he was wearing ordinary clothes, looking like an ordinary person, and should not be a person in the palace.

Yuan Shanjian then asked, "Who are you, why don't you kneel down when you see me?" The man said angrily: "Some people say that you want to rebel and pretend to be the Son of Heaven, I didn't believe it at first, but I just heard you scold the prime minister, I believed it, you are really a traitor." Yuan Shanjian was trembling with anger by his divine logic, and said loudly: "Bold maniac, what crime should you be guilty of if you dare to speak wildly?" Before this crime could be said from his mouth, I saw that the man had already raised two big palms like pliers, directly pressed Yuan Shanjian's head, and with a little force, he snorted, and Yuan Shanjian's head was pinched and shattered like a rotten watermelon.

Seeing this, the queen turned around in horror to run, and was picked up by the man and lifted his limbs high above his head, and the queen was about to shout, but the man had been thrown to the ground heavily, and she was a weak woman who could stand this blow, and her bones were broken at that time, and she passed out. I saw that the man was stunned and said: "My lord said, kill you two, I have white flour steamed buns to eat every day, you two traitors." As he spoke, he pulled the queen's body, held his head with one hand and his thigh with the other, and pulled the queen's head off with a click.

The head rolled behind the screen like a ball, the coral was splashed with blood, the whole scene was very terrifying, the man did not forget to wipe his hands, took out an object from his arms and threw it behind the screen, and then escaped from the back door of Jingyang Palace, where a little eunuch was waiting to answer him, who was Gao Ming's henchman. The little eunuch saw that he was covered in blood, and did not dare to say much, but whispered to him: "Please come with me quickly." The two of them chose the remote path where no one was around, and after a while, they came to a palace wall, and the little eunuch said to him: "You go out from here, there is a stone pier there, you move here, climb over this palace wall, and someone outside will naturally pick you up." ”

The man nodded, and the little eunuch disappeared between the palace walls. The man moved over a stone pier, and then climbed up the palace wall that was almost higher than the second floor, and was about to turn over, when a few people outside had been waiting there for a long time, and the leader was Gao Zhongming's henchman, he asked, "Is it Cheng Biting Yin?" The man nodded, and the following people lifted him down, and the group quickly disappeared into the alley.

In the afternoon of the same day, Gao Huan was urgently summoned to the palace, and now something big happened, the assassins of Yuwentai of the Western Wei Dynasty killed both the emperor and the empress, and this is okay! The whole Yecheng was shaken, the entire Eastern Wei was shaken, and the emperor was assassinated. When Gao Huan came to the government affairs hall, all the first-class officials of the dynasty had gathered inside, and when these people saw Gao Huan coming, they saluted one after another: "His Royal Highness King Qi." ”

Gao Huan asked the old heir of the clan pavilion very anxiously: "What's the matter, how could Your Majesty be killed?" Yuan Hei said very sadly: "Today in Jingyang Palace, Your Majesty and the Empress are watching the coral you sent over, who knows that Yuwentai's assassin somehow sneaked into the palace and hid in the palace, and killed two nobles when he saw the opportunity, how is this good, and ask His Royal Highness the King of Qi to come out and preside over the situation." ”

One of the ministers asked, "How did the assassins know that His Majesty had gone to Jingyang Palace?" How can it be such a coincidence? Unless it's hiding somewhere beforehand. Gao Huan immediately said: "What's so strange about this, he must have a party in the palace, otherwise how could he have mixed into the palace?" We are heavily guarded, and it is definitely impossible to blend in without internal guidance. Now that he has an internal response, he naturally knows the emperor's whereabouts well. ”

Everyone nodded one after another, and Gao Huan said: "The top priority is to welcome the new monarch first, and then close the city gate to strictly investigate the assassins, and start from the palace." The second is to prepare for the funeral of the first emperor. Seeing that Gao Huan was more serious than anyone else and more anxious than anyone else, these people believed it. So everyone went their separate ways, Gao Huan was mainly responsible for arresting the assassins, he immediately ordered the city gate to be closed, and searched for suspects from house to house in the city, etc., and the review in the palace was handed over to Yang Xiuzhi and Yang Kan.

Soon the great eunuch beside the emperor was reported that he was implicated with Yuwentai's people, and then some strong evidence began to point to the great eunuch, Gao Huan was very angry when he knew it, and said in front of the courtiers: "Such a traitor has been entrenched in the deep palace for many years, and all his forces must be eliminated, otherwise the new monarch is afraid that one day he will not escape his clutches." So he vigorously searched for the party members of the great eunuch, and even the family members who showed him the house were all arrested.

Gao Huan's original intention was that as long as the great eunuch and his henchmen were executed, those irrelevant people would let go of the matter. But Yang Kan, who planned everything behind the scenes, disagreed, and said to Gao Huan: "Killing people is to establish power, now that we are getting closer and closer to success, we can't be bound by such a trivial matter, since we have decided to rebel and become the emperor, it is inevitable that an innocent person will die."

Gao Huan also knew in his heart that these people were innocent, but for the sake of his own great cause, think about the consequences of what Yang Kan said, originally this snatching the throne was a life-and-death drama, if Yuan Shanjian won today, then he would treat his family and friends. Even the servants who guard the door must have been killed without leaving them all. The so-called non-toxic husband, Gao Huan immediately decided to behead the great eunuch Zhu Jiu Clan.

Yang Kan put the basin on the head of the big eunuch party, although the big eunuch was wronged, no one could complain, so he could only carry this black pot silently for Gao Huan, and before he died, he said to Yang Kan: "Lord Yang, I know what you do, God is looking at you, I'm waiting for you over there, let's see." Yang Kan was unmoved by such a threat, and said very calmly: "Each is his master, no way, since you are the henchman of the former emperor, it is natural for you to accompany him now that the former emperor has died, don't have any other thoughts, go with peace of mind." (To be continued.) )