Although the royal family of the Daning Dynasty once reached more than 100,000 people after 300 years of reproduction, a palace coup 40 years ago canceled the vast majority of the royal family, making the number of royal families less than 1,000, and the total number of more than 10,000 people.

Half a year ago, there was a split between the east and the west in the Daning Dynasty, when almost ninety percent of the royal family were in Guanzhong, it was too late to withdraw to Luojing, forced by the pressure of personal safety, they were also forced to recognize Yongjing as orthodox, and then they transferred their property on a large scale, almost all of Luojing's property was transferred to Yongjing, and Huangfu Heng did not stop it at that time.

At present, most of these royal families live in Guanzhong or all parts of Guanzhong, and a small number of them go to Shuzhou, and in these months, these wealthy but powerless royal families have become the common goal of Luojing and Yongjing.

Like Yuzhou, most of the land in Guanzhong is also occupied by the imperial family, and the manors of the emperor's relatives are all over the land of Guanzhong, and each manor has a granary, and countless new rice and old grains are hoarded.

For more than a month, the royal families in Guanzhong were in a state of indignation, protesting against their expropriation of their land in Yuzhou, and demanding that Yongjing send troops to eliminate the puppet court of Huangfu Wujin and recapture their land.

Even the Yongjing court appeased them, swearing that once they captured Luojing, they would first return their land, which once made the royal family full of expectations for the Yongjing court, but before this sense of expectation disappeared, another bad news befell them.

Beginning on December 25, Empress Dowager Shen, who was overwhelmed by the problems of food and military salaries, adopted the advice of Zuo Prime Minister Bai Mingkai and ordered the formation of a special gendarmerie team, with 5,000 embroidered guards as the backbone, and another 20,000 troops to assist, and began to clear and raid the major imperial villages in Guanzhong.

For a time, hundreds of royal families in all parts of Guanzhong were facing annihilation, soldiers rushed into the manor and granary, requisitioned in the name of the military, they smashed open one black lacquer door after another, searched the house, and confiscated all the gold, silver, copper coins and valuable silk and cloth seized.

On the night of 26 December, groups of gendarmerie teams lined up and ran in Yongjing City, and the Anrenfang and Wubenfang where the royal family was concentrated were full of chickens and dogs, and nearly 30 royal mansions were raided at the same time, and millions of taels of gold and silver were snatched out by the army, and the cries and shouts and scolding made the entire Yongjing City sleepless all night.

In the Ping'an Palace, Empress Dowager Shen's illness had been cured, and the inspiring amount of food and money was more effective than any panacea, and Huang Jing, the general of the embroidered clothes, reported to her one after another numbers that had been difficult to calm down for a long time.

In just three days, they seized 7 million stone of grain from the granaries of the estates of the major royal families, and confiscated 6 million taels of silver, 800,000 taels of gold, and countless copper coins, silks, and cloths from the palaces of the major royal families in the capital.

Empress Dowager Shen squinted her eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief, these money and food were enough to maintain the military salary and food expenses of the 400,000 army for more than half a year.

"Queen Mother, should we stop for a while?" Huang Jing, the general of the embroidered guard, asked cautiously.

Empress Dowager Shen stopped the ginseng tea bowl in her hand, "Why stop?" ”

"Their emotions are too strong, Weichen is a little worried, it is not good to offend the royal family too much."

"This mourner knows!"

Empress Dowager Shen put the ginseng tea bowl in her hand on the table, and said lightly: "If it weren't for the last resort, the mourning family wouldn't want to move them, but since it has been moved, then the surname Suo will be checked to the end, so that at least the mourning family will not be stuck by Shen Qin in the next two years, if you stop, these fat sheep will escape, and the emperor will be cheaper in vain, go ahead!" Thoroughly inspect the mourning family. ”

"Yes! Wechen understood. ”

Huang Jing gave a salute and retreated, and Empress Dowager Shen showed a smug smile on her face, and said to herself: "What a fat sheep!" ”

She never dreamed that these royal families actually had these huge wealth and food, she needed money and food to maintain her rule, but he didn't dare to fight the idea of the people at the bottom, she was afraid of provoking the rebellion of the people at the bottom, and more importantly, she knew that the people at the bottom couldn't squeeze any oil and water, and these royal families were pampered one by one, fat and incompetent, blackmailing them would not provoke the people's uprising, but would make many people applaud.

In addition, Empress Shen also has a secret hidden in her heart, that is, she wants to emulate Wu Zetian to ascend the throne as the empress, these royal families are her biggest stumbling block when they fall, it is better to deal with them earlier, isn't Wu Zetian as ruthless in dealing with the Li royal family at the beginning?

After a long groan, she remembered something again, so she ordered: "Go and find Zhang Desheng for the mourning family." ”

Not long after, Zhang Desheng hurried over, knelt down and saluted, "Little slave Zhang Desheng knocked on the Queen Mother." ”

"How's he doing?"

"Hui Niangniang, these emperors have been studying very hard, and they don't rest until late every day."

"Hmm!" Empress Dowager Shen nodded, it seemed that she was too doting on him, knocking on him, he was honest.

"Go ahead! Keep an eye on him and report to the mourning family at any time. ”

．．．．．．．．． With the successive storage of silver grain, the Yongjing Imperial Court finally took measures to put 500,000 stone parity grain on the market, so that the price of grain fell rapidly from 800 yuan to 800 yuan of doumi, and the people's boiling anger finally calmed down and began to welcome the arrival of the new year.

But on the contrary, the anger of the royal family was blazing, the family wealth was confiscated, the food was robbed, and the dignity of the royal family was lost, so that these battered royal families began to look for a way to save themselves.

There is a mansion covering an area of 20 acres in the northeast corner of Anrenfang, which is the mansion of Huangfu Luosong, the king of Pengcheng County, like other royal families, this mansion was also raided by the embroidered guards two days ago, and was robbed of 500,000 taels of silver and 100,000 taels of gold, the most heavy loss among all the royal families, and Huangfu Luosong was also so angry that he couldn't afford to get sick.

Huangfu Luo Song is one of the four members of the Nanshan faction, the Nanshan faction took advantage of the opportunity to attack the Phoenix Society thirty years ago, founded the Baifu Firm, the Baifu Firm accumulated a lot of wealth for the four royal families of the Nanshan faction, but with the rise of Huangfu Wujin, the Baifu Firm suffered a heavy defeat, lost the territory of Chuzhou, Qizhou and Luojing, and more importantly, the leader of the Nanshan faction, Huangfu Yibiao, died in the Huaqing Palace, so that the Nanshan faction almost disbanded.

But this time, the Yongjing royal family was wiped out, so that the Nanshan faction, which had almost been disbanded, reunited.

In a quiet room, three important royal families, Wang Huang Fu Luo Song of Pengcheng County, Wang Huang Fu Juncheng of Huai'an County, and Wang Huang Fu Zihan of Ruyang County, were secretly discussing countermeasures.

Huangfu Juncheng and Huangfu Zihan were also tragically raided, and they also lost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but their property was not completely lost, and they still hid a lot of wealth, at this time they were more worried about the interests of the royal family, Luojing did not allow them, Yongjing did not allow them, where should they go?

"Otherwise, let's hide in Shuzhou!" Huangfu Zihan whispered.

In the Nanshan faction, Huangfu Zihan is the youngest one, timid and afraid, his family was robbed of 200,000 taels of silver, the manor was robbed of 500,000 stone grain, and he was distressed by the heavy losses, but he was frightened by the wolf-like embroidered guards, and his first thought was to escape.

"Worthless guy!"

Huangfu Juncheng scolded him fiercely, "Where can you escape, can you go to heaven if you escape to Shuzhou?" You can't run away, and when Shen Qinyu's money runs out, she will come to raid your home again, and then you wait to go to the street to ask for food! ”

"So what to do? Luo Jing's side is even more ruthless, I heard that Huangfu Mustard's land and family property have been confiscated, and the family has been ruined, where else can we escape? ”

Huangfu Juncheng was even more furious, almost roaring, "Don't mention the word 'escape'!" ”

Huangfu Luo Song on the side waved his hand and said to Huangfu Zihan: "Fourth brother, if you want to escape again, there is really nowhere to escape." ”

He sighed, "Our royal family is facing the biggest existential crisis in forty years, Luojing's Huangfu Wujin is the grandson of Emperor Jin'an, we all betrayed Emperor Jin'an back then, and fell into the well for him, who would have thought that the mountains would not turn around, his grandson would be killed again, he couldn't spare us, Huangfu Mustard is a living example, and Yongjing is even more terrifying, the Shen family's power, I suspect that this action against the royal family is the Shen family's planned extermination of the imperial family, first take our property, and then eliminate our **, the royal family is completely wiped out, The Shen family naturally usurped the throne, don't you think? ”

Huangfu Juncheng nodded, "The second brother is really good, now there are two theories, one is that the Empress Dowager Shen wants to follow Wu Zetian to ascend the throne, and the other is that Shen Ji wants to ascend the throne as the emperor, but no matter which of them wants to be the emperor, this is an internal problem within their Shen family, it is very likely that it is the same as Wu Zetian's succession to Wu Sansi, the Empress Dowager Shen first ascended the throne as the emperor, and then passed the throne to the son of Shen Ji, and the Daning Dynasty will be over." ”

Huangfu Zihan was so frightened that he trembled, if it was to seize the wealth, he would be able to endure it in the end, but if he wanted to cut off the whole door, he would be frightened, he was not stupid, he knew that it was completely possible.

"That'..... We should.... What to do? He asked, in a trembling voice.

"What if there's nothing?"

Huangfu Luo Song gritted his teeth and said word by word: "If we want not to be wiped out, we can only resist, and we must find our own interests to represent." ”

Huangfu Juncheng groaned for a while, and suddenly woke up, "Second brother is talking about the little emperor Huangfu Tian?" ”

Emperor Rozon nodded, "That's right, only he might be able to side with us." ”

At this moment, the butler's whispered report came from outside the door: "Lord Wang, there is a guest visiting outside, and he said that he has something important to discuss with you." ”

"Who is it?"

"It seems to be called Xu Yun!"

"Xu Yun?" The three of them were stunned at the same time, didn't Xu Yun go out to Ziyang County to be a assassin?

"Please, please let him in!"

The three of them glanced at each other, and they all understood that this must have been sent by Huangfu Tian, and he came at the right time.

After a while, Xu Yun walked into the quiet room, he was indeed appointed to Ziyang as the assassin, but it happened to be the New Year, and Uncle Shen agreed to let him go on the fifth day of the first month.

He sat down and smiled at everyone: "I am here to express my condolences to you on the orders of Your Majesty. ”

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(To be continued)