If the water is asleep in a deep dream, I don't know that Borneo has long been turned upside down, and the former benevolent monarch is no more.

Perhaps, Ji Fansheng also walked into Haojing, walked into the royal city, and walked on the dragon chair with the desire to be a benevolent monarch.

But along the way, he had serious doubts about his previous beliefs, his insistence on justice and responsibility. He also wants the peace of the country, the Haiyan River, and the prosperity of the Hongyin Dynasty, he thinks that he has worked hard for this royal city, and he can at least get a little basic love.

But the reality disappointed him, and those assassinations in Bai Zhiguo continued to Haojing Royal City.

This not only evoked terrible memories of his time patrolling in Ziyun Mountain, but also ignited the memories of Bai Zhiguo's people's anger against tyrants.

He only felt aggrieved, only angry, and he wanted these people to know that he was not a good-natured so-called benevolent monarch who could be rubbed by them.

He wants absolute authority, absolute obedience, absolute admiration and love.

All this is not something that earthly emperors can obtain, only the messengers appointed by heaven on earth can have such glory. And he, as the one who was chosen and blessed by the god of fire, should naturally be able to obtain such glory.

Since the rebellion on the Night of the Lanterns, Emperor Xuande has put the worship of the god of fire to a more important extent than the sacrifice to the Taimiao. What is good at the top will be very bad at the bottom.

The officials of Haojing, who were originally panicked because of the Three Holy Sects, were now trembling because of the worship of the god of fire, and heard that the emperor was going to hold a large-scale sacrifice on the day of the god of fire's birthday.

As soon as the news came out, it frightened those old ministers.

They didn't know what Emperor Xuande was going to do, whether to take the death row prisoners to sacrifice or to arrest some other people. If it's just the former, it's nothing, although it's not in accordance with the etiquette and rules, but those death row prisoners are all deaths, which can make the dragon's heart happy, and pray to the god of fire to bless Borneo, and it can be regarded as a well-deserved death.

But if you want to harass the place, it is a tyrant act, and it must be admonished.

Fan Hu, the superintendent of the imperial history, has always liked to criticize dragon scales, but since he got into a relationship with that Lan Zhaoyi in the harem, he doesn't seem to care much about Emperor Xuande's affairs.

As if he had lost his mind, Fan Hu wrote a large number of bad words about Lan Zhaoyi every few days, not to mention that Emperor Xuande was too lazy to pay attention to him, even the ministers of other Taiwanese advice were also ashamed of him, thinking that he only focused on the concubines in the harem, but he didn't care about the major affairs of the court, which was a loss of decency.

On the contrary, it was Tan Shangshu of the Household Department and Kong Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, both of whom sincerely admired Emperor Xuande, but now they saw that he was behaving more and more strangely and behaving rebelliously, so he was a little disappointed.

But the others didn't say anything, everyone thought about preserving their strength and waiting until the emperor really gave a ridiculous order.

Because when Emperor Xuande announced that he would celebrate on the eighth day of the fourth month, the birthday of the god of fire, no one objected, and they all warmly expressed their support.

After all, the emperor's return from Baizhi Kingdom relied on the blessing of the god of fire to make everything go smoothly and the army triumphed.

And the northwest has not been peaceful, if the Hongyin Dynasty does not have the blessing of the god of fire, then how to deal with those disputes about the northwest territory.

The worst news came one afternoon, when the fire rainforest bordering the Great Xia Kingdom was suddenly extinguished.

The people of the military department trembled, this kind of thing only appeared once in the history of the entire Hongyin Dynasty, that time was in the later years of Emperor Weilie, the army of the Great Xia Kingdom passed through the fire rain forest and attacked the Haojing King City, if it were not for the heroic resistance of the three princes at that time, the Hongyin Dynasty would have been destroyed at the hands of the enemy country.

Although it is said that the Hongyin Dynasty and the Great Xia Kingdom have been friendly for more than a hundred years, for more than a hundred years, the fire rainforest has been a natural barrier between the two countries, and the army of the Great Xia Kingdom cannot cross it, nor can the army of the Hongyin Dynasty cross it.

Therefore, this kind of passively won peace does not really show how strong the friendship between the two countries is.

Now that this fire rainforest has been extinguished, and the Great Xia Kingdom may launch an attack at any time, how can the ministers of the military department not panic?

Emperor Xuande heard the news, but he didn't say anything, but the next day, he issued an edict to select some men from among the people who were born on the same day as the god of fire.

This time, the big guy panicked, in connection with the fact that a few days ago, Emperor Xuande said that he would carry out a life sacrifice on the birthday of the god of fire, this is not an obvious intention to burn these men who were born on the same day as the god of fire to burn and pay tribute to the god of fire?

The people were even more panicked, but anyone who had a male born on the eighth day of the fourth month in the family was thinking about how to hide and how to escape.

But the government seemed to be moving faster, and they sorted out the list through the household register the next day.

With such high efficiency, it is difficult not to doubt that His Majesty the Emperor has already made plans.

After hearing the news, Kong Youde even lost his heart to the court, and deliberately called himself sick and took two days off.

When Wang Boqin heard the news and came to see him, he saw that the front and back doors of the Confucian Mansion were closed tightly, and this closed-door posture seemed to be really tired of the government.

Without thinking too much, Wang Boqin jumped directly onto the wall based on his last experience.

"Brother Kong, Brother Kong......" Wang Boqin didn't expect that along the wall, Kong Youde actually asked his family to dig a long deep pit.

The way to climb the wall is also blocked.

If you jump off this wall now, I'm afraid you'll break your leg instantly.

Wang Boqin saw that Kong Hede was in a daze in the vegetable garden at a cucumber that had not yet borne fruit, and the green leaves were still young.

"Brother Kong, Brother Kong, let me in."

Kong Youde was awakened by Wang Boqin's voice, and when he looked up, it was none other than Wang Boqin, a classmate of the White Tiger Academy, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"Why are you here? Has Fengmingshan's errand been handed over? ”

Wang Boqin squatted on the wall, feeling very undignified, and didn't know how to reply, "Brother Kong, you let me in, and we'll talk about it in detail." ”

Kong Youde sighed, after all, he was a friend of cloth, and he couldn't bear to be too harsh on him, so he pointed to the back door, "Go to the back door and wait." ”

Wang Boqin complained bitterly in his heart, "Come openly, and go behind, it's really ...... Hey, this nerd. ”

Complaining and complaining, Wang Boqin still honestly walked around to the back door, and as soon as he cleaned the dirt on his body, he saw that the small black lacquered wooden door was opened with a squeak.

Wang Boqin immediately pushed open the door and got in.

"Brother Kong, let me in."

Kong Youde sighed again, "What are you doing here?" I remember that your birthday is also in April, so it won't be so coincidental that it's the eighth day of the first month? ”

Wang Boqin was suddenly stunned, he almost forgot about this stubble.