141 Scarlet Chinese New Year's Eve

Bai Poria understood in an instant, this matter didn't need to be asked, the emperor did it! The emperor did this not for fear that the queen would be sad, but to give the Xia family a false hope, so that they thought that there were still bargaining chips to fight with the Mao family.

To this day, the second prince has no use value, so the emperor did not hesitate to let people kill him, and single-handedly destroyed the balance between the Xia family and the Mao family.

"Next, it should be the turn of the Mao family soon...... Although the Mao family has done a lot of evil things over the years, it is not enough for the emperor to solve them openly. Therefore, since the emperor has made a move on the second prince, he must be sure that he can sweep away the two families at one time...... The best and most thorough excuse is to rebel against ......" Bai Poria slowly speculated that the royal family has always paid attention to face, even if it is a despicable and shameless thing, it will try to whitewash it and come up with a justifiable and strict reason. The Mao family and the Xia family assisted the emperor to ascend the throne back then, and they were real ministers of the dragon, and the eldest prince was the eldest son of the emperor.

These methods have been seen a lot on TV and books in the past, so they quickly found out the context, and put them in the idler's house, there will definitely be no such calculation between father and son, but in the royal family, all blood and family factors can be eliminated, that is, biological father and son, mother and son, you can also live and die for their own interests.

Mu Peilan didn't expect Bai Poria to guess this, she was very surprised, her daughter had spent most of her time in a border town like Beiguan City, and she was really smart enough to have such an insight. I couldn't help but feel a deep uneasiness in my heart, people who are too smart generally can't enjoy their old age......

Seeing her mother looking at her in a daze, Bai Poria thought she had guessed wrong, so she flattened her mouth and said, "Am I guessing wrong?" ”

Mu Peilan nodded and said: "You guessed right, three days later, it will be Chinese New Year's Eve, according to the tradition of the Qi Kingdom, the emperor will lead hundreds of officials to the temple to worship the ancestors of the Qi Kingdom, and the queen will also lead the harem concubines to hold a sacrificial ceremony in the palace, that day is the best time to rebel, but I don't know if the eldest prince and the people of the Mao family and the Xia family have the courage to do so......

Bai Poria frowned when she heard this: "Huh? Then we can't celebrate the New Year with Daddy?! ”

"yes!" Mu Peilan also regretted in her heart, they left Bai Poria behind, originally just wanted to spend the New Year together as a family, but they didn't expect that even this wish would be disappointed. Knowing this, it is better to send Bai Poria away immediately after the ceremony, and avoid these many troubles.

The next day, the people of the old party of Xia Ge proposed to succeed a prince to the knee for the queen to comfort the pain of the queen's loss, and the emperor immediately allowed to play, but no candidate was determined.

The mothers of the four princes and the six princes have passed away for many years, and the hearts of the ministers suddenly became alive, regretting that because of the assassination of the second prince, the prince's mansion is now under strict control, and it is almost impossible to find the doorway.

In addition, the old family of Xia Ge was passionate, demanding a thorough investigation of the assassination of the second prince, and the spearhead was directed at the Mao family, and the words in the court were sharp, but they did not name and say that the eldest prince sent someone to kill the second prince.

Indeed, those who can commit murder in the inner palace in broad daylight are naturally people who should cooperate with the outside, and Concubine Mao's position in the inner palace is only one line away from the queen, so it is most convenient to do something.

Mu Peilan knew that the second prince was not born to the emperor, and Bai Poria had been in contact with Xiao You, knowing that he didn't take the princes to heart at all, and disdained to be used by the eldest prince, so he used the elimination method to guess that the emperor was the mastermind of this matter, and in the eyes of other people who didn't know the inside story, the eldest prince was the main suspect, but the assassin who committed the murder didn't leave any handle, so they couldn't come up with strong evidence.

Not to mention the old Xia Ge, even if it is the Mao family, many people feel that most of them are the hands of the eldest prince, and only a few "high-level" people of the Mao family are dumb and eat Coptis chinensis, and they can't say what they are suffering from.

On the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, the people of the Mao family suddenly calmed down, and the bigwigs ignored the Xia family's finger scolding with a cold face, and only sent a few small shrimps to meet the battle.

On the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, the middle gate of the imperial palace was opened, and the emperor and the senior officials above the fourth rank, as well as the princes and princes, marched out of the imperial city under the escort of the imperial forest army and headed for the Temple of Heaven in the south of the city. There was a strange atmosphere in the solemn team, Xia Ge Lao had a sneer on his lips, there was no abnormal look on the face of General Mao, the father of Mao Guifei, but the more he was like this, the more terrible it became, this old general was famous in the army when he was young, and the more critical he was, the more calm and calm he was.

When the team arrived at the temple, they first went to the side hall to rest and wait for the auspicious time to start the ancestor worship ceremony.

The ancestor worship ceremony of the Qi State is very special, first invite the ancestors to the spiritual position, and then the emperor in front of the ancestors and ancestors instead of renting the first rent to admonish the royal children, in order to show sincerity and filial piety and not forget the ancestral teachings, and then by the hundred officials to the emperor to admonish, in order to show that the enlightened and listen to the wise to govern the country, and finally the normal worship agenda.

In the past, these ceremonies were just ceremonies, and the words of admonishment to the prince were the same, and the admonitions of hundreds of officials were all official articles, mainly nonsense and disguised flattery, but today there is a big mistake.

Xia Ge Lao suddenly walked out, and with tears in his eyes, he accused the eldest prince of having no king and no father, mutilating his siblings, and uniting with the Mao family to intend to rebel, and even took out the pre-prepared chapter, which listed the ten major crimes of the eldest prince, and the evidence was sufficient, even the year and month of the eldest prince made a dragon robe in advance and prepared soldiers and horses to force the palace were listed in great detail.

Everyone at the scene suddenly changed color when they heard the things listed in the recital, and the emperor was even more furious.

After reading the chapter, Xia Ge said loudly to the prince and General Mao: "What Weichen played, every sentence is true!" ”

After the death of the second prince, the emperor deliberately expressed his concern in front of Xia Ge Lao and others that the power of the Mao family would become bigger, suggesting that Xia Ge Lao could properly find the Mao family's ballast, and happily agreed to the queen's succession.

Over the years, Xia Ge has long seen through the emperor's way of enjoying the benefits of fishermen by competing between the two families, and which of the two of them is in the limelight, the emperor will help the weaker one to suppress it, so that their strength is equal and check and balance each other, so he thought that he was still fighting this time.

How can Xia Ge be willing?! The two princes were killed by the people of the Mao family, if they don't kill the killer again, then wait for the emperor to use it out in the future and completely destroy it! Therefore, he followed the emperor's wishes and deliberately impeached the eldest prince today, in order to be able to knock the Mao family and the eldest prince into the dust in one fell swoop.

At the moment when he was playing, he had already sent someone to raid the Great Prince's Mansion, and now he was afraid that he had evidence in hand. Even if the emperor wants to defend it, there is nothing he can do.

was exposed in public for plotting rebellion, but the eldest prince showed a fierce look but was not panicked, he raised his head and laughed a few times, and said hatefully: "Even if what you play is true?!" ”

The emperor was very "furious", pointed at him and General Mao and shouted: "Someone! Take down these two traitors! It's the other way around! What a pair of rebels and traitors without kings and fathers! ”

Several Royal Foresters rushed out in response, and were about to grab the two, but they were stopped by several other Royal Foresters, and the two sides were about to fight. The Imperial Forest Army, which was responsible for guarding the palace, was also divided into two factions, one side tried to protect the emperor and the rest of the princes and other noble officials, and the other group guarded the great prince and General Mao.

The eldest prince had limited awe of this incompetent monarch who was addicted to wine, and sneered: "Father, you forced your sons to do this!" ”

Except for the loyal members of the Mao family, everyone else changed color when they heard this, and at this time, there was a lot of noise outside, and a commander of the Imperial Forest Army rushed in to report that the temple was besieged by the rebels.

Today, the two deputy commanders who are responsible for guarding the two battalions of the East and West Imperial Forest Army, one is Pu Huang, and the other is the brother of the old protégé of Xia Ge. One of the two is loyal to the emperor and the other is a person from Xia Ge's side, Xia Gelao dared to suddenly attack when he saw this, but he didn't expect the eldest prince to be more ruthless than him, so he simply chose to rebel today!

This time, the faces of the people on the old side of Xia Ge turned pale, most of them were civil servants, let them talk about swords in the palace or make some conspiracy and tricks to harm people, but if they want to go to the battlefield, they will fight hard with real swords and guns, they are not professional!

The eldest prince they are actually very depressed, the second prince died, although it brought them major suspicions, but it was good to go to a strong opponent, his chances of becoming the crown prince skyrocketed, even forced the palace to be saved, just wait low-key, did not expect to get a secret report, saying that Xia Ge Lao had collected all kinds of evidence that he was planning to rebel before, and planned to make trouble when worshipping the ancestors on Chinese New Year's Eve.

The time is tight and they can't afford to make other contingencies, and the preparations for forcing the palace are not completely ready, so they can only bite the bullet!

At this time, it was superfluous to say anything, and the eldest prince and General Mao personally carried long knives and led a group of cronies to kill in the direction of the emperor.

There was a heavy sound of a giant tree hitting the door outside, the sound was like thunder, and the gate of the temple was broken, where could the royal forest army inside stop the more than 10,000 rebels of the great prince? Pu Huang, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army in the palace, didn't care about anything else, and loudly ordered the Royal Forest Army to escort the emperor, the prince and the officials to break out of the encirclement as soon as possible.

The sound of killing inside and outside the temple shook the sky, and soon the rebels broke into the door and fought with the Imperial Forest Army, the number of the Royal Forest Army was far inferior to the rebels, and they barely protected the emperor and several princes, princes, and important ministers and fought and retreated.

The eldest prince and General Mao were able to kill, as long as they saw the officials of the Xia family alone, they commanded people to rush up and kill them on the spot, and in the chaos, I don't know how many officials of the Xia family died unexpectedly.

The scene quickly turned into a one-sided massacre, and several princes and nobles around the emperor were frightened enough, only Yang Heng and Lin Pingzi were very calm.

Yang Heng looked indifferently at the mad smile not far away, wielding a knife to cut down a great emperor brother of Xia Dang Shangshu, and a feeling of sadness suddenly swelled in his heart.