Chapter 319: The head falls to the ground
Emperor Chengxing is a little bad, he has always felt chest tightness and shortness of breath recently, and it is accompanied by a burst of colic from time to time, which makes him extremely uneasy in his heart.
His health is getting worse and worse, but he has not yet been crowned prince. His two princes, one occupies the long, the other occupies the grandson, behind the eldest prince only the Ministry of War Shangshu Xie Kunyuan is supported by the people, but behind the prince is the head of the cabinet who has the power to lean towards the government and the opposition, Jiang Xian, and the heavy soldier of the Zhenguo Gong Luo Mingjie two big Buddhas support.
But the one he loves the most is the emperor's eldest son, Mu Lianji.
He felt sorry for his favorite concubine, Concubine Li, and wanted to compensate her son with the best.
Concubine Li has favored the harem for many years, and has won the emperor's heart, her son is influenced by his mother, and the best thing is to coax Emperor Xing to please. Even if he wanted the stars in the sky, Emperor Chengxing would try his best to pick them for him.
Xu felt that his time was running out, and Emperor Chengxing was worried that after his death, the simple and beautiful Concubine Li and the benevolent and filial Mu Lianjie would be bullied by the arrogant and domineering Empress Luo, so he broke out with unprecedented impulse and determination.
He summoned Gao Jian, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, into the palace and gave such an order.
Not long after, the mother of Jiang Xian, the first assistant of the cabinet, accidentally overturned the carriage on the way to Lingquan Temple to incense, and died of anger on the spot.
Jiang Xian asked Ding to worry and help Ling return to his hometown to bury his deceased mother.
Emperor Chengxing waved his pen and was accurate. Immediately, Feng Yong, the cabinet minister who secretly cultivated himself for Mu Lianji, was promoted as the first assistant of the cabinet.
Emperor Chengxing made another move, handed over the evidence found by Xue Dongyuan on these two outings to the Three Law Divisions, and imprisoned the two Jiang Xian's in-laws, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials and the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, on the grounds of accepting huge bribes and privately building salt farms.
Emperor Chengxing's thunderous methods finally aroused the attention of the prince's son Mu Lianke and his party.
But it was too late, the charges of the criminal department and the official department were too big, and the evidence that Xue Dongyuan handed over to Emperor Chengxing was conclusive, and he didn't give Mu Lianke room to turn around, so he brought up Mu Lianji's family.
No one would have imagined that Emperor Chengxing, who had always been gentle and gentle, and walked three steps to see four steps, would have such a resolute time, and when Mu Lianke's party wanted to do something, Emperor Chengxing had quietly united the cabinet elders and the six ministries, and pushed Mu Lianjie to the position of the crown prince and entered the East Palace.
Emperor Chengxing issued two holy decrees in a row, and transferred the second prince Mu Lianke's foreign family, Luo Mingjie, the prince of Zhenguo who held military power and was famous, to the western town to guard the border, and he was not allowed to return to Beijing without an edict, and Mu Lianke was named the king of Liang, and rushed to the fiefdom of Liangzhou, and he was not allowed to return to the court if he had nothing to do.
At the moment of the three holy decrees, the government and the opposition were shocked, and the court was in an uproar.
When everyone was waiting for Zhen Guogong to raise troops to rebel, they did not wait for him to take the slightest action until Zhen Guogong went to the western border.
Poor King Liang, there will be no chance to win the treasure again.
Since then, Emperor Chengxing has retired to the inner palace to maintain the dragon body, and let the crown prince Mu Lian Jian supervise the country, and the cabinet and the celebrant will cooperate to handle the government affairs.
Emperor Chengxing's hand was played too fast, but did he think it was safe? He was wrong, he didn't even know that the favored eunuch Fu Ming was Mu Lianqi's person, and he was destined to lose.
None of his two princes can take on big responsibilities, Mu Lianji was still very smart when he was young, but he couldn't stand the people around him confusing him, so he took him all the way to the crooked, and raised him into a person who only values pleasure and has no real learning.
And Liang Wang Mu Lianke, he has wisdom, talent, and benevolence, but he has a congenital defect and his health is too poor.
And he was killed by someone when he was a child, and accidentally fell and injured a man/root, and he couldn't do things like men and women.
This news was covered very tightly, even Jiang Xian was kept in the dark, and he wanted to support Mu Lianke as the prince wholeheartedly, if someone hadn't secretly told Jiang Xian this secret, Jiang Xian hurriedly sent someone to investigate, he still didn't know the truth that made him lose his fighting spirit.
On the way back to Lingfu Township, Jiang Xian heard about these three holy decrees, and knew that the glory that belonged to him was gone forever, and he couldn't help but feel desolate and powerless in his heart.
He took the dragon from Lu Ji's hands, and in the end he made a wedding dress for Mu Lianji.
Before he could recover from the past, he was unlucky enough to be attacked by bandits, escorting his guards all the way and many dead soldiers trained by the Jiang family, desperately fighting a bloody way, and finally rescued Jiang Xian, and then ran out of a hundred miles, and met a wave of black-clothed assassins who had been waiting for a long time in a forest.
The leader of a man with a black scarf covering his face rode on a white horse, as soon as he saw Jiang Xian appear, he raised his hand, and a group of black-clothed people behind him rushed over, and he himself carried a pitch-black big knife and rode towards Jiang Xian.
Jiang Xian, who has just passed the year of establishment, is the youngest cabinet chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, don't look at his young Swen, full of the scholarly atmosphere of a literati, but he can be literate and martial, and when he was seventeen years old, he also pretended to be a mountain warrior, and won the martial champion in one fell swoop, but he has been in a high position over the years, and he has no leisure to practice martial arts, and he has regressed a lot.
The people who were protecting him by his side were killed one by one by the masked man on the white horse, Jiang Xian knew that it was difficult to be good this time, but he was aroused by a ruthless force, he grabbed a retinue of wolf tooth hammers, and fought fiercely with the masked man.
Although Jiang Xian is in an important position, above 10,000 people in the court, there are many people who have offended, and I don't know how many people want his life, so the guards around him are all top masters, not to mention those who are loyal to the Jiang family.
When he returned to his hometown this time, he was also worried that he would be attacked on the way home, and none of the people who followed him were embroidered pillows.
The bandits he met before were obviously sent by others to assassinate him, each of them was extraordinary, if it weren't for his people desperately fighting their way out, they might not be able to escape, who knew that they escaped from the tiger's mouth, and met a more powerful stubble.
Jiang Xian's side suffered heavy losses.
After a few moves with the masked man, the tiger's mouth was already cracked, and he could barely hold the mace to get out.
This man has extraordinary arm strength, and he is no match at all.
Seeing his people fall one by one, Jiang Xian's face became more and more heavy, and the masked man slashed straight at him with a thunderbolt, and with a bang, the wolf's tooth hammer finally came out of his hand.
One of Jiang Xian's arms was almost shattered, and it hung down softly.
"Who are you? Even if you want to kill me, you should let me know who my Jiang Xian died in. ”
The masked man's eyes were cold and indifferent, Jiang Xian thought that he should be a strong man similar to himself, but as soon as he spoke, his voice was too young, "You want to know who I am?" But I'm not as you like, so you can go to the Yellow Spring and be a fool! ”
As soon as the words fell, the masked man slashed his knife, and with a cross-cut, Jiang Xian's head fell to the ground.