"Sisi, where's my snuffbox?"

Ji Chengjue asked while tying the belt of his official uniform.

Dayan, the prince enjoys the prince without accident, and has his own python robe to prepare, but throughout the ages, all aspiring princes prefer to wear official uniforms compared to python robes, which means that he has an errand in the court, which means that he is not the kind of pure idle rice worm prince.

The errand of the six princes has been shouldering the responsibility of the household department, and adding the title of the prince as a prince will look too ugly and destroy the rules of the game, so Ji Chengjue, who is the prince and the actual controller of the household department, wears it in the court and in the yamen on weekdays, but it was deliberately removed from some specific styles, almost, it is a tabula rasa.

But Ji Lao Liu likes this dress very much, and he is comfortable and comfortable to wear.

This is the same as Uncle Zheng doesn't like to wear gold armor, the more bright and dazzling the clothes, the more comfortable they will inevitably be discounted, and the same is true for python robes.

Ji Lao Liu felt that the dragon robe should not be comfortable to wear.

"Husband still wants to bring a snuffbox today?"

Today is the day of the mourning of the three princes.

Because the third prince died to save the driver, His Majesty issued an order to mourn the country.

"Bring, why not?"

"Here."

He Sisi handed over his father-in-law's favorite chalcedony Buddha's hand snuff bottle.

Ji Chengjue pulled the stopper, inhaled into his nose, closed his eyes, and then slowly opened, and his mouth also breathed a long sigh of relief.

The point of the snuff bottle has never been on the inside, but on the outside, not to be used, but to be played with and shown.

Ji Lao Liu got into Father-in-law Zhang's carriage, and in the carriage, today's breakfast was prepared and two white cloths were prepared.

Tying the white cloth to his arms and forehead, Ji Chengjue leaned back slightly against the wall of the car.

When the carriage crossed the street, a smell of meat wafted over, and it was the smell of fried dumplings.

"Zhang Banban, buy two fried dumplings to taste."

"Yes, master."

Father-in-law Zhang stopped the carriage, went to buy two fried dumplings and delivered them.

Ji Lao Liu ate with relish, and as soon as the carriage arrived at the gate of the palace, he just finished eating.

When you get off the bus,

Father-in-law Zhang anxiously reminded:

"Master, mouth, oil."

Ji Lao Liu smiled, wiped his mouth with the sleeve of his official robe, and then flung the cuffs behind him, looking at the majestic palace gate in front of him, his eyes slowly narrowed.

The ministers who came to the court today are all tied with white cloths, and it stands to reason that the prince's funeral will not be so grand, at least, it will not affect the civil and military officials of Yanjing.

In the past, when a noble person in the palace or the royal family died, the big guy would be forbidden to drink and feast for two days at most.

"Third brother, third brother........."

The four princes, supported by the two eunuchs beside them, howled as they came to the palace gate.

His carriage was parked farther than usual, so the walking distance was much longer than before.

Ji Chengjue turned around and looked at the voice, and then stood there, facing his fourth brother.

"Third brother, third brother........."

The fourth prince, Ji Chengfeng, staggered over,

And then

And he saw his sixth brother,

Just look at him, look at him, look at him, look at him......

Ji Chengfeng was suddenly a little cramped.

He didn't know where the emotion came from, but it was really in his heart.

"Fourth brother."

"Yes, sixth brother."

"It's over."

"........." Ji Chengfeng.

Casual meals, in fact, have already been eaten.

The parting feelings were all in the wine that night.

After the incident, Ji Chengfeng didn't think about whether the death of the third child was greasy, no, to be exact, how could the death of the third child not be greasy!

He had already gotten some rumors from the Ministry of War, and his father intended to start the war again;

And then

The third child was released,

And then

The third child died of the rescue.

Such a coincidence?

How could it be so coincidental?

At the same time, he also recalled that night, the second night when the third child came out of the Huxin Pavilion, the brothers got together to drink and "wash the dust" for the third child;

The prince did not come, but only gave wine;

It stands to reason that according to the prince's usual habits, he will not give up this opportunity to show his benevolence, righteousness, brotherhood, and brotherhood.

And the sixth,

That night, he scolded the prince who didn't come,

scolded him for being cold-blooded,

scolded him for being cruel,

scolded him for being merciless,

In hindsight,

Ji Chengfeng suddenly realized, Sixth Brother, is he really scolding the prince, or is he scolding?

The fifth Ji Chengwen accompanied Uncle Hirano to leave Beijing together, because he got up late, Uncle Hirano didn't wait for him, so he chased out of the city in a hurry.

So

Ji Chengfeng doesn't even have a person who can speak now, and when the fifth child is there, he won't be so lonely.

Now that the old five are not here, he suddenly has a feeling of helplessness and panic.

And this feeling reached its peak when he saw Ji Chengjue with a calm face.

Co-author,

You've all guessed it,

Kept in the dark?

Thinking of the words "useful" and "useless" that the fifth child said to himself before leaving Beijing, Ji Chengfeng suddenly felt that the fifth child might have guessed something a long time ago.

This feeling of being completely isolated is really bad, and this kind of recognition that he is actually a depression in IQ is really difficult for Ji Chengfeng, who has always been arrogant, to accept.

But he had to press his head and force himself to accept.

In fact

Ji Chengfeng's tears today are not completely fake, he really cried, he was not acting, and he didn't smear ginger.

However, he is not crying for the third child, but crying for himself.

As soon as I think about it,

Dad killed one of his own sons, the same kind of him Ji Chengfeng;

And several other people of the same kind were able to predict this result in advance, but he realized it later;

It's all born to a father,

Why!

Ji Chengjue's eyes drooped slightly,

Plain Road;

"The boy of the Ji family, bleeding without tears, out of breath."

When a younger brother speaks to his brother like this, it is very rude, but these words came out of Ji Chengjue's mouth normally, and Ji Chengfeng listened to them normally.

He wiped his eyes,

Forcibly calm down.

Ji Chengjue bypassed Ji Chengfeng and walked to the official road outside the palace gate.

Ji Chengfeng turned his head with some curiosity and looked behind him.

there

A group of young officials walked in unison, and unlike the other ministers, these young officials were not tied with a white cloth that symbolized sadness and sorrow, but a festive red cloth.

They were not silent, they did not mourn, and they still had smiles on their faces.

They laughed and walked over together.

Ji Chengfeng recognized many of them, most of them were Jinshi-born officials in recent years.

"Bold, you dare to be so rude!"

When going to court,

Outside the palace gate and inside the palace gate, there are eunuchs who are responsible for order, they hold leather whips, wave them when the palace gate is opened, and at the same time, they are also responsible for maintaining order.

And the latter, in a normal sense, is rarely taken into account, because officials who can go to the court will care about their identity and dare not lose their honor.

However, today is the day of the mourning of the three princes, and the ministers who came first are all mourning, but these people are the only ones who come over in dazzling red and laugh constantly.

The leader of this group of people is Hu Zhengfang, who is the fastest promoted among these batches of Jinshi-born officials, and he is already a household servant at a young age.

Hu Zhengfang faced the eunuch who scolded everyone in front of him,

Laughing:

"Dare to ask my father-in-law, why should I be presumptuous?"

"Today is His Majesty's decree to send a national funeral for the three highnesses, just as the whole country mourns, you are actually ........."

"Get out of the way!"

Hu Zhengfang suddenly stepped forward, and his chest almost pressed against the father-in-law's body.

The father-in-law subconsciously took two steps back, and immediately realized that he had lost his dignity, and immediately raised the whip in his hand.

At this moment,

The father-in-law's hand was grabbed by a hand behind him, he turned his head a little annoyed, and then looked stunned, because the person who grabbed his hand was none other than Ji Chengjue, the Sixth Highness.

"Your Highness Six, you, you, you are ........."

"After asking clearly, they are all pillars of the country, and they will definitely not do unprovoked acts, if they are wronged, this whip will go down, and nothing can be recovered."

When the father-in-law heard this, he was shocked.

Of course, he knows how grouped this group of Jinshi-born officials are on weekdays, and he also understands that in the next few years, in the Dayan Dynasty, the proportion of these Jinshi-born officials will inevitably increase.

If he had gone down with a whip before, the majesty of the palace would have been protected, but most of his little life would have to be lost.

The father-in-law looked at Ji Chengjue with a touch of gratitude.

He actually didn't expect that stubble, wasn't it the Sixth Highness in front of him who could really mobilize this group of Jinshi-born officials?

This is not a secret in the Great Yan court, in the previous several court political disputes, many of these Jinshi-born officials have acted as pawns of the Sixth Highness.

Ji Chengjue looked at Hu Zhengfang and said loudly:

"Give Lonely, an explanation."

forthwith

Hu Zhengfang,

Behind him, a group of officials wearing red belts bowed their hands together.

Hu Zhengfang opened his mouth and shouted:

"How did my Dayan, the eight-hundred-year-old ancestor Sheji, survive?

It is by relying on generations of ancestors that Yandi Erlang has fought to the death with the barbarians and fought to the death with other countries, so that he has been able to shelter the temple to this day;

I have a great swallow tradition,

But there are foreign enemies who come to invade,

The war dead are mourned;

mourners, wearing red belts;

Gao Ge said: You go first, you go slowly, you wait for me, you put wine, you spread the mat, I will come soon! ”

Hu Zhengfang looked around,

Pull up the red ribbon on your body,

Arms held high,

Shout:

"Today, Chu Nu's thief heart is not dead, and he sent assassins to do great rebellion, fortunately, His Majesty is blessed with Qitian, fortunately, His Royal Highness is sincere and filial, and he can protect my Dayan Supreme Safe!

correct

Chunu has already shown his sword,

My generation of Yandi bloody boys,

Encore continues to sit idly by?

The three highnesses will go first, the three highnesses will go slowly, the three highnesses will wait for me, the three highnesses will put wine, and the three highnesses will spread the mat ............"

The next moment,

A group of young officials behind Hu Zhengfang shouted in unison:

"I'll be here soon!"

This momentum really made the palace gate seem to tremble slightly.

This is, the bloody nature of Dayan.

Ji Chengjue's gaze slowly swept over them,

Long

Ji Chengjue took off the white cloth on his body,

Reach forward,

Road:

"But there is also red silk?"

Hu Zhengfang got out of the way, and the people behind him also got out of the way, and there, there were more than a dozen men pushing a cart full of red belts waiting there.

Ji Chengjue took a step, stepped forward, took out a red belt, and wrapped it around himself.

forthwith

Ji Chengjue stretched out his hand and pointed to the rows of ministers waiting outside the palace gate in front of him,

Road:

"Distribute it, all the consequences will be borne by Lonely, today, the national funeral will be happy!"

The officials from the Jinshi laughed and began to distribute red ribbons,

More than half of the ministers had already been infected by this generous atmosphere, and did not hesitate to remove the white cloth from their bodies and replace them with red ribbons.

Dayan,

Regardless of the finances and the treasury,

What you can't deny is that

Dayan is now the veritable number one country in the East!

For 800 years, Dayan Iron Cavalry has been the Oriental Barbarian and has cultivated a self-confident horizontal bone;

And since the current saint ascended the throne, the hearty victories in foreign wars have made the sense of honor and pride of the people of Dayyan reach a peak.

So is the people,

Naturally, these officials are even more so!

In fact, the easiest way to become an official in the dynasty and leave a name for Boqing history is to ...... Main battle.

There are also ministers, who obviously know about it, it's not that simple.

Some high-level adults have already gotten the news in advance that they will start the war, and then the three princes were assassinated like this, and the three princes who were assassinated were just released from the Huxin Pavilion not long ago.

It's true

Is it such a coincidence?

But when Zhao Jiulang took the red ribbon from Ji Chengjue's hand and put it on, outside the palace gate, all the ministers changed into red ribbons.

The agitation of the Jinshi officials,

The prince's encouragement,

Coupled with the final word of the dynasty Zaifu,

There was no second way for the ministers outside the palace gate to choose at all.

or willingly, or a little hesitant, but they all changed into red silk, and a national funeral immediately became "festive".

Everyone was laughing and talking, and some were even singing Yandi folk songs, although they were a little forced, but they also created a hilarious atmosphere.

Ji Chengfeng stood silently behind Ji Chengjue, he knew that all this in front of him was arranged by his sixth brother.

That Hu Zhengfang was originally the officialdom cronies of the sixth brother.

If it were in the past, Ji Chengfeng felt that he would definitely be impassioned, although he had a bad relationship with the third brother since he was a child, to be precise, the third child was not close to his brothers because of his temperament.

But Rao is so, after all, everyone is brothers;

And Ji Chengfeng, like the eldest prince, has more military background, so he is naturally willing to take the initiative to seek battle in order to get the opportunity to lead the troops to experience.

But now,

But right now,

Ji Chengfeng couldn't get excited.

He suddenly felt that the sixth brother in front of him was like a vulture, and his brother's corpse was in front of him, and he did not grieve but gnawed on the flesh of his brother.

Ji Chengfeng was scared,

before

He doesn't think,

He naively thought that he was actually not bad, and he also had the opportunity to fight for that position.

Even after the fall of the Sanshi Deng family, Ji Chengfeng still has confidence, he can lie dormant and wait for his own opportunity.

But at this time,

He found that the gap between him and the younger brother in front of him was too big and too big.

The ruthlessness of his father, using his son as an excuse for war, has already made Ji Chengfeng feel extremely frightened;

But this younger brother of his own, like a person like his father, even if he is a blood relative, as long as it is valuable, he will squeeze it out as much as possible.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

Three whiplashes,

The palace gates open.

A group of ministers dressed in red silk walked into the palace gate.

On the white brick surface of the palace, there is a dazzling red.

Ji Chengfeng subconsciously followed Ji Chengjue's steps and walked inside, and then, he saw the prince standing there.

The crown prince, still emaciated, stood there, as if waiting for his two brothers.

No

To be exact,

is waiting for the sixth child, and it has nothing to do with him.

Ji Chengjue walked up to the prince and saluted.

The prince stood there, not responding, but said lightly;

"Generous."

"And." Ji Chengjue said, "Now, Xizhimen should start gathering people." ”

The Chu people sent assassins in an attempt to assassinate His Majesty, and the three princes sacrificed their lives to save the car and died under the assassin's sword.

The ruthlessness of the Chu people and the pure filial piety of the three princes, with these few things as the theme, the students of the teahouse, the market and the Guozijian and other schools took the initiative to run and pass it on, so that this matter was already known to passers-by in Yanjing City.

And the anger belonging to the Yan people was also ignited in an instant.

Yanren, too proud.

Their iron cavalry has suppressed the barbarians for a hundred years, so that the little princes of the barbarian royal court now have to bow down and be small, calling themselves juniors;

Their soldiers crushed the cadres, tens of thousands of iron horsemen, all the way south, drinking horses by the river, so that in addition to the prosperity of Shangjing, there is also a touch of the sound of soldiers and iron;

The Sanjin knight, who once thought he was also a strong rider in the world, was directly defeated by the Yanren Iron Cavalry; The wild people who are rampant are also all driven away!

Looking at the riverside under Yupan City, the blood of the 40,000 Chu people Qingluan Army poured out is the joy of the Yan people!

Yan country, Yan court, Yan people,

are all used to going from one victory to another,

The inertia of victory is like a wheel,

If invincible,

Who is going to be war-disgusted?

"You're doing a great job." The prince said.

The prince knows that in the capital, the big shopkeeper behind many industries is the sixth brother in front of him.

"It was my father's good arrangement, and he stopped for ten days, just to find out the murderer and then mourn."

Ten days,

It's enough to blow a gust of wind back and forth several times.

In fact, it is not only the people under Ji Chengjue's own industry who attack, but also the people from the secret spy department.

At this time, outside the palace gate, a group of people walked out, they were dressed in ancestral armor, and under the leadership of Da Zongzheng, they entered the palace from another palace gate and converged here.

They are the clan and the nobles.

Some clans and nobles can no longer lift a sword, or they have not served in the army and the court at all, and they will not even come to the court meeting on weekdays.

But today, they have taken out the armor and blades that their ancestors had worn and had been enshrined in the ancestral hall for many years.

Of course

The team of the clan and the nobles is tragic in momentum, but in terms of feeling, it has a sense of twilight.

This is normal,

In fact, Uncle Zheng is also noble, but what are people doing?

Even if it is not a peaceful wild Burbi, in fact, among the clans and nobles, those who can be motivated are basically serving in the army, and those who stay in Yanjing City are indeed the old, weak, sick and disabled.

"Is this your handiwork, second brother?"

Ji Chengjue knew that because he used the grain of the clan and the nobles, his reputation was extremely bad in them, so they naturally took the initiative to move closer to the prince.

It's a human instinct, and it's a group instinct.

Of course, Ji Chengjue of course knows the consequences of doing this, but he still chooses to do it.

Let's not talk about the public heart,

The officials who are serious and honest don't look down on this group of "moths of the country", and Ji Lao Liu didn't give that kind of silver ticket to the hundred officials, so the worse Ji Lao Liu is to the clan and the nobles, the hundred officials here, his impression can get extra points.

The civil officials on the side of Qianguo often took the initiative to touch the porcelain nobles, just to find an opportunity to spit on them and scold them as "moths of the country".

Although the atmosphere here in Dayan is not as exaggerated as that of Qianguo, after stepping on the gate valve, in the court, there are either new scholars or Qianshou origins, and everyone and the noble clan are natural class opposites.

If you are evil to this group of people who can't be on the stage, it is very cost-effective to push this group of pig teammates to the prince's side.

"Let the sixth brother make you smile."

"Let's go to state affairs together."

The prince nodded,

Secluded Path:

"The third child is gone."

The third child is gone, so let him go and be more valuable.

The third child is gone, he can go, we don't cooperate with the father well, if we are disobedient, the father can also let us go with the third child.

Killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys, people kill chickens anyway.

What about the father?

Then

Emperor Yan, who wore the sword of the Son of Heaven at his waist, walked out of the main hall and followed Wei Zhonghe by his side.

Time

The audience was silent.

Even Ji Chengjue and the prince immediately walked to the position where they should stand.

Emperor Yan stood on the top of the imperial steps, his solemn eyes swept the audience, he stood there alone, as if the mountains were lying in front of him, this is the majesty of the Son of Heaven.

"Ministers, what is this going to do?"

Hu Zhengfang didn't speak, because at this time, he was not qualified to speak.

At this point,

out of the queue forward,

It's Jaesuke.

Zhao Jiulang walked to the bottom of the imperial steps,

Take off your hat and put it at your side,

forthwith

He himself slowly knelt down:

"Your Majesty, Chu Nu deceives people too much;

Why is the third prince innocent?

Why is Concubine Ming innocent?

Your Majesty?

How innocent is Dayan?

How innocent is my 800-year-old Sheji Temple?

now

Please ask Your Majesty to issue an edict and send troops to attack Chu! ”

Time

Behind Zhao Jiulang,

civil and military officials,

Honorable Clan,

All fell on their knees,

shouted in unison:

"Your Majesty, please send a decree, Fa Chu!"

"Your Majesty, please send a decree, Fa Chu!"

Thunder and thunder!

Emperor Yan spoke;

"My Dayan is now empty, and the treasury is empty."

Ji Chengjue knelt down and stepped forward and said loudly:

"Father, how difficult it is for our ancestors to start a business, how difficult it is for our ancestors to keep their business, and it is sad that there are countless times!

My ancestors gave me blood and bones,

My ancestors gave me a spirit,

Bone and blood cannot be disgraced, and the spirit cannot fall,

Although the treasury is tired,

My big Yan Erlang is full of blood,

Since ancient times

There is no shortage of generous people in Yandi!

The sons are willing to surrender themselves to make up for the front, but they want to destroy Chu, break their Yingdu, and destroy their ancestral temples!

Yandi man,

Let's go to the national disaster together! ”

rear

The civil and military nobles of the Manchu Dynasty shouted together:

"The minister is willing to surrender himself to make up for the front, Yan Di Erlang, and go to the national disaster together!"

Emperor Yan clenched his fists,

Descending the Imperial Steps,

kicked Ji Chengjue over,

Ji Chengjue was kicked down, his forehead hit the steps, he broke the hole, and blood flowed, but he immediately knelt down again.

"Rebel, do you know that Chu is a big country, my Dayan has been fighting for many years, the people have long been exhausted, and the national war will start again, how can you let my people live?

The people are my people, I just don't have a son today, but I don't want my people to be hungry and vegetarian! ”

The prince knelt down and stepped forward,

Get down on your knees,

Lang Dao:

"Father, my son, please ask my father to move, go to the West Zhimen, and see my big Yan people's hearts!"

Zhao Jiulang raised his head,

He shouted:

"Swing, Xizhimen!"

Wei Zhonghe's face showed a look of panic,

How did you get robbed of your errand?

And Your Majesty, you haven't made an order yet, this Zaifu actually dares to make an edict in front of the saint!

But Grandpa Wei immediately showed generosity again,

Loud Voice:

"Swing, Xizhimen!"

"Wait for the presumptuous, presumptuous!"

Hundreds of officials, civil and military, clans, nobles, forbidden troops, surrounded by Emperor Yan came to Xizhimen.

When Emperor Yan's Jinwu Longxu banner was erected on the wall of Xizhimen Palace,

Outside the Xizhi Gate, the people who couldn't see the crowd were boiling.

At first, they just shouted loudly,

Some are chanting Long live Your Majesty,

Some are chanting to kill Chu Nu,

Some are chanting to avenge the Three Highnesses,

In the end,

The shouts of hundreds of people gradually converged into one place:

"Vachu!"

"Vachu!"

"Vachu!"

"Vachu!"

Under the city walls, there were piles of firewood.

There was a group of old men on crutches standing by the pyre.

scene

Silence immediately fell silent.

"Chu Nu deceives people too much, Your Majesty pities my people, and can't bear to spend the country's strength to attack Chu, but I want my Yandi people, externally, I have always stood tall, even if I go down in the future, I dare to say to my ancestors in front of my ancestors: Future generations have not lost your reputation in the slightest!

The old man is already seventy, if he is thirty or forty years younger, the old man will definitely wear armor and buy a horse, follow my Dayan Black Dragon Banner, and let Na Chu Nu taste the sharpness of my Dayan saber!

If I am twenty years younger, the old man will enter the people's camp to deliver grain and straw for my Dayan soldiers, feed the horses and set up camps!

But old decay,

It's too old to be old,

What the old can do now,

This body is no longer able to do anything.

The only thing the old decay can do now,

It is to walk into this fire, save the old and decayed food, so that the sons and daughters in front can eat one more bite of food, so that they have the strength to kill the enemy!

O Your Majesty, I went,

Your Majesty

O Vachu! ”

Pyre lit,

The old man walked straight into the fire.

forthwith

One by one, the old men knelt down and shouted three times to the Jinwu Longxu on the wall of the Xizhimen Palace.

subsequently

Take the initiative to walk into the fire.

They don't want to be a burden themselves!

On the wall of Xizhimen Palace, the prince turned his head to look at Ji Chengjue who was standing beside him.

Ji Chengjue shook his head slightly,

It wasn't arranged by him.

So

This is really ten days later, these people in Yanjing City, these old people, spontaneously.

Because now not only the officials know that the treasury is empty, but the people are also let go, and the external propaganda is that His Majesty can't bear to continue to squeeze the people's strength to send troops to attack Chu because of the emptiness of the treasury.

Watching the old man step into the fire, or let out a scream, or laugh;

Under the Golden Dragon,

Emperor Yan clutched the battlements of the palace wall with both hands, and his fingertips were already bleeding and bursting into tears.

At this point,

The hundred officials who climbed the palace wall together knelt down again:

"Your Majesty, please send troops to attack Chu!"

"Your Majesty, please send troops to attack Chu!"

Under the palace wall, the forbidden army knelt down:

"Please send troops to attack Chu!"

"Please send troops to attack Chu!"

Outside the palace walls,

And all the people fell on their knees:

"Vachu!"

"Vachu!"

"Vachu!"

Emperor Yan roared angrily,

Draw out the sword of the Son of Heaven,

Aloft

Shouted:

"Today, I am determined to destroy Chu, not to break the Yingdu, and not to turn back!"