Xiao Jiangyuan understood what she meant: "If the slave maid is outside the palace, it is Xiao Ya's slave." ”

Seeing that there were many people around, Shangguan Wan'er didn't say much, only nodded with a smile: "...... It's good. ”

At this time, Li Longji said: "Is that Shangguan Zhaorong?" ”

Everyone immediately made way of a road, allowing Shangguan Wan'er to walk in front of Li Longji step by step. Li Longji had already dismounted, and when he saw Shangguan Wan'er, he didn't salute, but smiled coldly: "Zhaorong is still alive?" After a pause, he angrily reprimanded, "Who violated the military order and stood up!" ”

Liu Youqiu hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Please calm the king's anger, and there is a reason why the minister will keep Shangguan Zhaorong alive." ”

"Oh?"

"Shangguan Zhaorong, please also present the edict of the first emperor to the king of Linzi."

Li Longji raised his eyebrows and said: "Haven't all the edicts of the first emperor been announced, how can there be a copy?" ”

Shangguan Wan'er took the bright yellow scroll in the hands of the harem people, supported it lightly with both hands, and presented it to Li Longji, and smiled gently: "The King of Linzi doesn't know that this edict was originally drafted by Wan'er and Princess Zhenguo together, and it was deleted and changed by Empress Wei without authorization, so that there was a copy that was announced." If the king of Linzi doesn't believe it, he can open it and take a look. Wan'er is by no means a chaotic party of Empress Wei, but has already seen Empress Wei's wolf ambition, so she deliberately did her best to fight for the right to assist the prime minister, but unfortunately Wan'er was humble and failed to stop Empress Wei's ......"

She couldn't say anything for a moment. Regardless of the King of Linzi seen tonight, it was very different from what she had seen in the past, she said for so long, if someone else stood opposite her, she would have taken the edict in her hand and read it, but this Li Sanlang only looked at her with a light smile, and didn't say anything or do anything.

He was not surprised at all by what she said, this should be Xiao Jiangyuan's credit, and he asked knowingly, with such an attitude, as if he just wanted to see what she would say and what she could do......

The atmosphere was sluggish, but Xiao Jiangyuan stood up, took the edict from Shangguan Wan'er's hand, and presented it to Li Longji. Only then did Li Longji take the edict and unfold it. That look of understatement, as if he was just putting on a shelf.

Xiao Jiangyuan and Shangguan Wan'er couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, but seeing that Li Longji only smiled lightly and nodded, they put aside the torch facing the side and let it burn. Xiao Jiangyuan was still stunned, and Shangguan Wan'er had already said with a smile: "What does King Linzi mean?" ”

The people around them also changed color one after another, and they didn't know what was going on.

Li Longji lightly threw away the brilliant edict in his hand, and said, "Come on, immediately ...... Shangguan Wan'er" He said and looked at Xiao Jiangyuan on his side, and then said, "Drag it down and behead it to show the public!" ”

"Slow down, king!" Liu Youqiu hurriedly said, "Shangguan Zhaorong's testament, the minister has seen it, it is true, the king is ......" Before he finished speaking, Liu Youqiu knew that he had made a big mistake - Li Longji was his lord, but he demolished his platform in front of the public.

Li Longji really glanced at him inadvertently, and said, "Shangguan Wan'er, even if the edict you took is true, if you don't take it out sooner or later, what kind of thoughts do you have in front of me tonight?" ”

Suddenly there was a low voice of voice all around. Seeing that everyone was thoughtful, Li Longji continued: "In the past, who introduced Wu Sansi to Empress Wei, and who advised Empress Wei to improve his status? Who saw the death of the first emperor and was suspicious but never mentioned it, and who drafted the edict, knowing that Empress Wei tampered with it without authorization, but did not reveal the matter to the world? Are you loyal to Datang? Are you loyal to the emperor? Your allegiance is nothing more than power, so you've always been able to live well since your grandmother's abdication, but from tonight onwards, I'm not going to give you that chance again—don't put it off soon! ”

Shangguan Wan'er's always gentle and cautious image has finally loosened a little. Her eyebrows furrowed and stretched, and before the two forbidden soldiers approached her, the corners of her lips hooked up with a sneer: "Wait a minute! ”

When she heard this, she knew that Li Longji had made up her mind, and even if she had changed multiple masters over the years, since Empress Zetian, she had never given up her dignity to beg bitterly, let alone tonight. She was just a little unwilling: "What about her, isn't it the same?" She stretched out her hand and pointed at Xiao Jiangyuan.

Li Longji obviously didn't expect that Shangguan Wan'er didn't intercede for herself, and asked such a strange question. He looked at Shangguan Wan'er as if he had heard a joke: "You actually think that you are the same as her?" ”

He has always been very soft-hearted towards women, and when he saw that Shangguan Wan'er seemed to be caught in some kind of obsession, he sighed lightly: "You and her are originally two people, people are different, even if you and her have very similar experiences, but because people are different and have different hearts, the path you choose will be different, and in the end, it should be different, right?" ”

This dissenting argument made everyone feel like a cloud falling for five miles, but Shangguan Wan'er understood. Her unwillingness dissipated little by little, and finally turned into a little stunned and abrupt, she thought quietly for a while, and suddenly chuckled: "...... I see. ”

With such a helpless smile, she neither let the forbidden army touch her, nor did she refute and struggle, turned around, and walked towards her own ending step by step.

She thought that even if she and Xiao Jiangyuan took two completely different paths, they would finally end up on the same path, but she was wrong. They are different after all, and even if they are in the same camp right now, they are still completely different - how long will this camp last? Once the princess of Zhenguo and the king of Linzi fall apart, who she will follow, even she doesn't know, but who Xiao Jiangyuan will follow is undoubted. This is perhaps the biggest difference between them.

Xiao Jiangyuan, who had been silent, suddenly said: "She can't die yet!" ”

Sure enough, it came-Li Longji's eyes sank, but his smile did not change: "Why can't it?" ”

Xiao Jiangyuan also smiled as before, but there was no smile in his eyes: "Didn't Ah Lang promise the slave maid......"

"I said yes?" Li Longji suppressed his anger and interrupted.

Xiao Jiangyuan was stunned for a moment, glanced at Li Longji fixedly, and finally lost all his smiles. Suddenly, a familiar soft voice came, and it was Shangguan Wan'er who was calling softly: "Crow slave." ”

Xiao Jiangyuan turned around and saw that Shangguan Wan'er had already stood still and was looking at herself.

Seeing Xiao Jiangyuan look over, Shangguan Wan'er smiled softly - just like the most profound appearance in Xiao Jiangyuan's memory.

"You're right." Shangguan Wan'er's voice had not been so soft for a long time, and after speaking, she turned around without any hesitation and walked under the banner not far away. She first found the direction of Qianling, and then knelt on her knees, as if she had silently recited something, and then closed her eyes: "Come on." ”

Although the accompanying soldiers of the forbidden army sighed in their hearts, they still drew out their Tang knives and raised them high.

Suddenly, there was a violent panic, Xiao Jiangyuan's brain was blank, and he walked over, causing everyone to be shocked.

Li Longji hurriedly followed, gritted his teeth and roared, "Are you going to be beheaded?!" ”

Seeing that Xiao Jiangyuan was only staring at Shangguan Wan'er's back and didn't say anything, Li Longji said angrily: "Cut!" ”

Tang Dao fell in response!

Xiao Jiangyuan immediately stood still, her eyes widened slightly, and she only heard the sound of the extremely fast sword entering the flesh, and her eyes were dark, and she couldn't see anything.

At the same time as the knife fell, Li Longji grabbed Xiao Jiangyuan's arm with one hand and blindfolded her with the other.

He could feel that her eyes were unblinking at first, only after a few moments, they closed heavily, and when they opened again, she had taken a few steps back and distanced herself from herself. There were many people around, so he had to let go of his hand and watch Xiao Jiangyuan slowly kneel down against him.

Xiao Jiangyuan said in a deep voice: "Although Shangguan Zhaorong deserves to die, he was once the teacher of slaves and maids. One day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father, the slave maid was in a hurry, and almost missed Ah Lang's big event, and hoped that Ah Lang would be guilty. ”

The stalemate in front of Lingyan Pavilion suddenly eased a lot. Li Longji said lightly: "So that's the case." Thinking that you have a pure character, you can change your mistakes, and you have made great contributions tonight, I will not punish you, but I will not reward you. Get up. ”

"Slave, thank you."

Seeing that the soldiers were still a little at a loss, Liu Youqiu hurriedly said: "Tonight, the king of Linzi led you to kill the traitor of Empress Wei and support the king as the emperor. ”

Without waiting for the soldiers to react, Li Longji said, "I'm not busy." At present, there is still the remnants of Empress Wei's party, and the matter is not over. In order to ensure the peace of the Tang Dynasty, the generals immediately led their subordinates to close the gates of Chang'an City, vowing to eradicate the remnants of Wei Hou inside and outside the palace, leaving no trouble! ”

"Yes!" Among the generals, Ge Fushun agreed the most.

"Gong Liu, you will lead the people to count the casualties."

"Yes."

"The rest of the people...... Come with me to the Taiji Hall and meet the saints. ”

"Yes."

A massive massacre began.

The crown prince Shaobao and the three pins of Wei Wen under the Tongzhong Book Gate were beheaded in the north of Dongshi.

Zhongshu ordered Zong Chuke to flee in disguise wearing mourning clothes and riding a black donkey, but was recognized and beheaded by the gatekeepers along with his brother at Tonghua Gate.

Si Nongqing Zhao Luwen used to slap the horse on Princess Anle's beard and build a lot of construction, which caused a lot of burden and harm to the people, and even wore a purple official uniform at the same time, he also used his neck to drive Princess Anle's ox cart. As soon as Princess Anle died, he went to Anfumen, where Li Dan and Li Chongmao appeased the people, went to the mountain to shout long live, and was directly ordered by Li Dan to be killed. When the people saw that he was dead, they rushed forward, but in a short time he was left with only a skeleton.

Li Yong and Dou Congyi of the clan, the former married the sister of Empress Wei, and the latter married Empress Wei's nurse, as soon as they heard about the coup, they immediately killed their wives and dedicated their heads to Li Dan.

Empress Wei's henchmen are not only greedy for life and afraid of death or despicable and shameless, Shangshu Zuo servant shot Wei Juyuan is eighty years old, and his family does not listen to the persuasion, insisting on generously going to the street to die.

The Wei family and the Du family lived next to each other, and after this night, not only did the Wei family not even have a baby left in swaddling clothes, but the Du family was also unjustly killed.

The first year of Tang Long, June 20, night.

Capital, Chang'an.

Li Longji, the king of Linzi, with the help of Princess Taiping of Zhenguo, successfully launched a coup d'état, which is known as the "Tanglong Coup" in history. This coup d'état shattered Empress Wei's dream of being an empress, but it put Li Longji on the road to the emperor. At that time, no one thought that he, a young and handsome man who seemed to be not doing his job properly, would end the enchanting red makeup era and the turbulent court in the next fifty years, push the Tang Dynasty to its heyday, and then let it fall into hell with his own hands.

The swan song of the Tang Dynasty