Say it's too late, then it's too fast.

I only heard a loud "boom", and in an instant, blood splattered, and the chessboard and Zhao Kou's head were smashed together.

Zhao Kou didn't even have time to scream before he fell to the ground.

All of this happened in a matter of moments.

Cai Xin, who was standing on the side, had a white beard and was stunned.

When I came back to my senses, I saw that the surrounding eunuchs were frightened one by one, hugging their heads and running away, and fled without a trace in the blink of an eye.

That Shen Jing had red eyes on his neck, lifted his halberd upside down, and walked towards Cai Xin crookedly.

"General Shen, you-"

Cai Xin retreated again and again: "No, no!" ”

"No?" Shen Jingyuan's eyes glared, "Zhao Kou, this faint king, cut my general's position, took away my military power, and insulted me in public, I want to let him know today, I, Shen Jing, today is the opposite!" ”

Cai Xin only felt that his thighs were trembling.

Holding the pillars of the flower hall tightly, he was sighing that his old life was dying, when he suddenly saw two black shadows flashing in front of him, and in an instant, Shen Jing was captured by two men in black.

Cai Xin trembled and let go of the wooden pillar and came to the two black-clothed men: "Thank you for the chivalrous action, otherwise this thief will be really lawless." ”

Ah Qin and Ah Chu Qi crossed over to Cai Xin and looked behind Cai Xin: "Childe." ”

Cai Xin turned around and found that Zhao Yan, dressed in moonlight brocade, was standing in the snow, blending with the heavens and the earth.

The six gods have no master, and the panicked Cai Xin suddenly seemed to have found the pillars, and old tears suddenly gushed out: "Wow, Shizi! ”

Zhao Yan hurriedly walked over: "Master Cai, what's going on?" ”

Cai Xin wiped his tears and told Zhao Yan exactly what he had seen and heard.

Ah Qin squatted down to check Zhao Kou, who was brainy, and turned around and shook his head at Zhao Yan: "It's out of gas." ”

"Wow! Your Majesty! ”

Cai Xin suddenly cried.

Zhao Yan immediately made a decision, thought for a while, and resolutely ordered: "Ah Qin, handle a few things immediately." 1. Immediately Xuan Taiyi came to diagnose and treat the emperor. 2. Immediately order a powerful guard to detain the eunuch who had just escaped. 3. Xuan Baiguan immediately entered the palace to see him. Fourth, quickly dispatch two thousand knights with military talismans, and stand by in front of the gate of the state house after half an hour. ”

Ah Qin agreed, handed over Shen Jing, who was drunk and scolding, to Ah Chu, and went to do his errands lightly.

Cai Xin, the secretary of the military department and a scholar of the Cabinet University, also regained his Qingming at this time, and he bowed his hand to Zhao Yan: "What is the dispatch of the prince?" The old minister will never give up. ”

Zhao Yan pressed his hand: "Don't worry, Master Cai. ”

He walked up to Shen Jing: "As a human minister, you committed the crime of killing the king, do you know it?" ”

Shen Jing's hands were tied behind his back, but he struggled with red eyes, and the thick rope strangled his arms with a few bloody strangulation marks.

His eyes were red and he didn't say a word.

Soon, all the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital hurried to officially announce the emperor's death.

In December of the first year of Hongqing, Emperor Hongqing died at the age of twenty-eight and reigned for only eight months.

The civil and military officials received the news from the palace and rushed to come, and for a while, inside and outside the flower hall, there were cries.

Prime Minister Wang Cheng was gray-haired and thin, he pretended to wipe two handfuls of tears with a cane, and after knowing the ins and outs of the matter from Cai Xin's mouth, he began to secretly sum it up in his heart.

God doesn't protect Daqing!

For decades, the monarch of Daqing is not as good as one term, and finally came out of the young talent Zhao Kou, whose wrist is strong and vicious, and it has only been less than a year since he ascended the throne to empty the rights of the old clan in the DPRK to the point that only an empty shell remains, but now he has died dramatically and tragically under the hands of a courtier, which is really embarrassing.

In any case, the country cannot be without a king for a day, and now that the emperor has died, the first thing is to establish a new emperor.

After this period of blows, Prime Minister Wang Cheng had lost interest in the struggle for power, but now, he has begun to be active again.

At the beginning of the year, he planned to honor Emperor Youqing's favorite little prince, and now Zhao Chen, who is not yet ten years old, is the emperor, but Zhao Yan came to intervene and let the abolished prince Zhao Kou sit in that position, but unfortunately Zhao Kou was not born to be the emperor, and that position was not hot, so he died first.

Prime Minister Wang squinted, if it weren't for the wrong occasion, he would have wanted to laugh three times.

Now, Prime Minister Wang looked at the place where Zhao Yan was standing, this person was long and resourceful, but with the relationship between him and the demon girl Gu Huaiyu, if he was the emperor, he would definitely not have the good fruit of their Wang family to eat.

When Wang Cheng was thinking about it, the civil and military officials had been divided into two teams in an orderly manner, and the emperor's body was packed and sent to the Guande Palace.

In the next few days, although the funeral presided over by Prime Minister Wang Cheng was held in an orderly manner, due to the sudden death of the emperor and the fact that the emperor had only reigned for less than a year, the construction of the imperial tomb took some time.

After consulting with the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, Si Tianjian decided to dig a mausoleum next to the tomb of the first emperor, and the mountain tomb and Si Tianjian became busy, and became the only group of people in Kyoto who seriously prepared for the emperor's funeral.

Zhao Kou has no son, and when he dies, the throne will either fall to his younger brothers, or to the head of the Eight Princes' Mansion.

In all fairness, among the royal children of the right age, except for the two princes of the Eight Princes' Mansion, the rest of the princes are too young, and the little prince Zhao You's biological mother Concubine Mei before Zhao Kou was also given to death by Zhao Kou after the death of Emperor Youqing.

has no power, is still young, no matter who is supported to the throne, the person who supports it is suspected of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes".

The eighth prince is still there, but Zhao Kou, who just died, is his nephew, if he becomes the new emperor, won't it become a joke that his uncle takes over the nephew's position?

Therefore, although many officials supported the Eighth Prince at the beginning of the year, at this time, they were all silent, only secretly paying attention to the movements of others.

Among them, the most high-profile is naturally the Prime Minister's Mansion.

It stands to reason that Prime Minister Wang is now a person who is about to enter the ground with half of his body, and after half a life of glory and wealth, whether it is royal power or imperial power, it should not be strange.

But Prime Minister Wang is not a person.

Unlike the people in the court, he quickly set his sights on the Eight Princes' Mansion, and like everyone else, he did not approve of the Eighth Prince's accession to the throne, but he set his sights on Zhao Xuan.

Zhao Xuan only married his precious granddaughter a few months ago, and now he is also a member of his Wang family.

If Zhao Xuan becomes the emperor, then he is the father-in-law of the emperor worthy of the name, such glory, but he has never had it in his life.

In addition, Prime Minister Wang Cheng knows that although Zhao Xuan and Zhao Yan are brothers, the two have always been at odds, and supporting Zhao Xuan can not only benefit himself, but also suppress Zhao Yan, so why not?