Chapter VII

A fire in Daxing City shocked the entire Great Sui. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Among the four major gates, the mansion of the Yuwen valve was burned to the ground, and more importantly, the children of the Yuwen family, as long as they were in the mansion that night, from the lord of the valve to the children of the side lineage, none of them could escape alive.

This is quite surprising. Although the Yuwen family is a little weaker than the gate valve of the same level, it is also a real high-door valve. In contrast, the disappearance of one of the prince's Liangdi, although it is also big news, is not as exciting as the destruction of the Yuwen family.

The doorman, the door; Valve, valve read.

The door refers to the family background and status, and the door refers to the courtyard door that is directly facing the street, which is a sign of noble status.

As for valve reading, it refers to family merits, official history, etc. The historical records summarize that there are five qualities of people's and ministers' merits, and they are called honors by virtue and temples, and they are said to be hard work, and they are said to be meritorious, and they are said to be cut down and read for a long time. In order to show their achievements, these meritorious ministers and their descendants erected two pillars on both sides of the gate, the one on the left is called "valve" and the right one is called "reading".

These high-ranking heroes are often more than one generation in power, and their descendants are also under the shadow of this, through various ways, to hold important positions in the imperial court, forming family and surname power. As a result, people call such families gate valves. Some dynasties even explicitly stipulated the privileges enjoyed by the gate valve in the form of law, which became the gate valve system.

Only famous families who have been officials for generations can become gate valves. The so-called door, clothing, family, scholar, power, family, giant room, etc. all refer to the door valve. And the Chinese regime since the Wei and Jin dynasties has almost always been controlled by the gate valves. Especially since the implementation of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, these families have sufficient political and social status and economic power. The power of the various gate valves is intertwined, the power is huge, and at the same time, a large number of children are out of office, and at the same time, they also have a large number of fields, land, and various industries, and a large number of martial arts masters and private soldiers have been cultivated in the clan, and when necessary, they can even protect themselves according to the city and even pull up a large army in the name of regimental training.

In the Sui Dynasty, although the power of the gate valve was weakened, because the power depended on the support of the Guanzhong clan, and the Shandong clan still maintained a centuries-old tradition of heavy valve reading and lecturing, so the gate valve still enjoyed a superior political and social status.

The social and economic status of these Shandong and Guanzhong gates, which have existed for hundreds of years, is very superior. So much so that many monarchs have no way to do anything even if they want to weaken them. Even Yang Jian can only weaken the gate valve with moderate policy reforms and gradually eliminate it. For example, the purpose of abolishing the nine-rank Zhongzheng system of selecting officials by the door and trying to take the imperial examination is to select talents and destroy the system of appointing officials by the gate valve.

In the first month of the third year of the emperor's reign, Emperor Wen of Sui issued an edict to promote "virtuousness". In the seventh year of the emperor's reign, he ordered the Beijing officials to be more than five grades, the chief manager, the assassin history, and the two subjects of "Zhixing Xiu" and "Qingping Ganji" were promoted......

However, this series of measures was useless, his own queen came from the Dugu valve, and several other gate valves also made great contributions when the Sui Dynasty was established, from high-level to middle-level officials, and the gate valves and the forces dependent on them occupied most of the court. At the same time, it is not a lie that the big gate valve is rich and rivals the country, plus the masters and elite private soldiers they have piled up with a lot of resources, the emperor can't be old and serious.

But such a freak was hit hard overnight.

How can it be? As the first-class force in this world, what force can destroy the core power of the other party overnight? The key is that this matter is still going on almost silently, and everyone only found out that Yuwen's house burned down after the fact. This is terrible, there are only about one or two forces that can do this?

Suspicious eyes and rumors began to spread from within Daxing City. At the same time, there are also some people who have bad intentions.

That's right, Yuwen still has a large number of children alive, those core disciples who are officials in other places, and the middle and lower class disciples who are not in the mansion but in the manor and other properties, are still alive. The property of the Yuwen family has not suffered much loss, and the real estate, especially the land, which is the foundation of the family, is still there, and the transactions that bring a lot of turnover are also there, and the gold, silver, jewelry, and grain that account for the majority of the mansion outside the family reserve are also there. Zhao Kun burned down only the mansion and a little floating wealth. The merchants and officials who are attached to the Yuwen family, and the elite private soldiers who are kept in the manor are fine...... In the end, he just served a mansion and the people in the mansion.

The problem is that the core strength of the Yuwen family has suffered untold losses. The lord with the highest martial arts died, and Yuwen Shu, who had the largest official position, died. The high-ranking officials in the court were swept away, not to mention, the high-end force of the gate valve, the valve owner and several grandmasters, and a large number of first-class and second-rate masters died, and the masters of the Yuwen valve suffered heavy losses all of a sudden.

This is no longer a matter of the hundred-legged insect dying but not stiffening, but the tiger dying and not falling, the loss of high-ranking officials above the third grade and a large number of top-level masters and backbones, the double loss of the court and the force made the Yuwen family weakened all of a sudden. Re-developed? No, the Yuwen family, which has lost its core strength, will lose a lot of peripheral power, and the only remaining children of the family can't hold the things in their hands - the three-year-old child walks in the downtown with gold, which is the Yuwen family at this time. If they don't find a thigh to take refuge and take refuge, they will be carved up immediately, and the forces that think they are capable will come up and take a bite. And even if the thighs are hugged in time, they can only become second-rate vassal families in the future, and they don't know when they will have the opportunity to stand up again......

And just when the emperor, high-ranking officials of the court, and the big families of the family, down to the peddlers and pawns, and the gangsters of the rivers and lakes were gloating or worrying about the "tragedy" of the Yuwen family, a new major event happened immediately.

It's another big news, and Zhao Kun is much bigger than the previous big news.

Two monks...... The two Buddhist masters, who hit the imperial city, entered all the way from the palace gate during the Great Dynasty Meeting, and directly killed the emperor Yang Jian and the empress Dugu Jialuo. The Manchu Dynasty's civil and martial arts, the masters of the Great Inner Dynasty, and Yang Jian and Dugu Jialuo, who had reached the realm of grandmasters in their own martial arts, were not even enemies of the other party. Xiaoguo tried his best, but whether it was a siege or a strong bow and crossbow, he couldn't help the other party. The guard's attack only turned him into flying flesh and corpses, and the strong bow and crossbow and even the true qi of the grandmaster could not hurt the two of them for half a point.

As a result, the first court meeting in the first year of Renshou became Yang Jian's last court meeting. In the world uproar, Yang Guang ascended the throne as the emperor and changed the great cause of the yuan. At the same time, while holding a funeral for the emperor, he mobilized a large army to defend the imperial city, and also issued a sea fishing document and ordered the Buddha to hand over the murderer. It's a pity that even with Yang Guang's temperament, he hesitated to do the latter matter, which is quite a bit of thunder and rain.

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Zhao Kun, dressed in filial piety, returned to the East Palace - Yang Guang became the emperor, and the East Palace naturally belonged to him, the crown prince who was promoted from the grandson.

However, he has not had an easy time these days, as soon as Yang Jian died, the palace began to handle the funeral of the emperor, and he was naturally an important supporting role, guarding the funeral and crying...... As the emperor, Yang Guang took the funeral during the day, and he had to handle government affairs as a common person, and Zhao Kun naturally had to stay in front of the spirit all day and night, and from time to time he had to cry in front of Yang Jianqi. In such a round-up, not only the former emperors and grandsons of his generation were miserable, but even Yang Guang and several important ministers found it difficult to support.

After Yang Jian's coffin was moved to the palace and Yang Su was buried on the auspicious day after the Tailing was built, His Royal Highness the newly baked prince got a chance to breathe.

He picked his eyelids, and after the palace maid brought the tea, he asked the palace people who were waiting around him to go down, saying that he wanted to be quiet.

Although his Royal Highness the Crown Prince is young, he has always been a prodigy, and his style on weekdays is no different from that of adults. Therefore, although even the palace was not peaceful, they still honestly carried out Zhao Kun's orders.

"I've been hiding for so long, are you tired?" Zhao Kun took a sip of tea without hesitation, and asked at the corner of the palace. "It's you, don't take it seriously, I wish the sect master."

Before the words fell, a fierce energy was already under the hood, and a man in black appeared in the corner of the palace at some point, and then flew like a ghost.

However, a cold light flashed, and the face towel on the face of the man in black had turned into butterflies and flew in pieces, revealing a graceful and intoxicating face—a pair of beautiful eyebrows were obliquely inserted into the sideburns, and the eyes were as black as paint, which was very bright, and could make any man fall in love with it. With her delicate and white skin carved like flawless white jade, who can not give birth to a stunning feeling.

However, this beauty was not comfortable at this time, her heavenly demon aura had not yet been exerted, and it was broken by a strange force, and then this power turned into a heavy shackle and sucked the internal force of her hard cultivation, making her extremely weak and unstable, if it wasn't for holding on to a chair, she would have fallen to the ground.

"It's ...... What the...... Demon ......"

"I'm ashamed, it's just a little bit of my little magic, I don't have to care about the sect master," Zhao Kun didn't even move, just raised his eyelids, and was extremely calm, "I didn't expect the sect master Zhu to actually send it to the door, this palace thought that you would be more honest after the Yin Sect broke the two elders." ”

"What?" Zhu Yuyan couldn't have imagined that this was the ghost of the teenage prince in front of her. "You-"

Zhao Kun shrugged, "What's the problem?" After saying that, he put down the teacup, thought about it, and threw something in front of Zhu Yuyan - it was the head of the elder of the Yin Sect, Senior Brother Zhu Yuyan, and his eyes were wide, obviously shocked by something.

"By the way, this is your faction's thing, and now I will return it to Sect Master Zhu. I'm sorry, I was a little busy a few days ago, and the two elders of your faction are really too bad, and by the time I rushed over, this elder of your faction had been blown apart, and I could only give you a head, which is a pity. Zhao Kun said, but the expression of embarrassment or regret on his face was not good. By the way, as for the other Elder Wen who has a better brain......"

He stood up, walked over to the bookshelf, reached into the door of the space arranged at the back, and pulled a man out of it. It was another elder sent into the palace by the Yin Sect to investigate because of the mysterious disappearance of Zhang Lihua and Wei Lianxiang, Wen Caiting. He dragged Wen Caiting's ankle back to the seat. The elder of the Yin Sect dragged his hair on the stone slab, his eyes were blank, and the legs that were torn apart were red and swollen, Zhao Kun frowned and threw a cleaning technique, so that it was not as unorthodox as before.

"Ah, it looks like the incineration ointment is a little better than I thought." As he spoke, he threw the person in front of Zhu Yuyan, who was uncertain. "Before I could touch her, I couldn't wait to knead her like this."

"Speaking of which, I wish the sect master and this Elder Wen can be regarded as sending them thousands of miles this time, regardless of the long distance, they have sent x to the door all the way, wouldn't I be sorry for the Yin Sect if I don't do something?"

"You ......" became weaker and weaker, and Zhu Yuyan, who couldn't even speak, trembled, God knows if she was so angry and frightened or trembling because of the loss of strength.

"Huh?" Zhao Kun seemed to have discovered a new world, he walked over and stretched out his hand to point on Zhu Yuyan's forehead, "The amount of energy in your body is actually less than Zhang Lihua, so you can't resist energy devouring?" ”

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"Wow", the cold water poured down, and the beautiful woman hanging in the air groaned and slowly opened her eyes.

It was a dark dungeon, with walls neatly built with granite more than two feet long. There was a strange circular lighting device on the roof, which was not very large, and there were no flames in sight, but the dungeon was as bright as day. But the eerie atmosphere of the room, no amount of light can be driven away.

Zhu Yuyan's arms were tied with iron chains, and her mature and plump body hung straight down from the top of the stone like a perfect work of art. The water-soaked hair was scattered on the cheeks, and the water beads crossed the eyebrows, falling from the small tip of the nose to the placket. The tapestry tunic was so dense that the drops of water did not penetrate it, but rolled down like pearls along the rich curves of the beautiful woman.

The face of the famous Yin Queen was snow-white, her body was empty, her true qi from years of cultivation was nowhere to be found, and her abdomen was even more like being kneaded by a cold big hand, and there were bursts of cold spasms. Only when the dizziness in her brain gradually dissipated, did she see the smiling face in front of her.

With a kind smile, Zhao Kun breathed a sigh of relief, "I wish the sect master finally woken up." Hehe, I don't like picking up corpses, really. ”

Zhu Yuyan trembled, and there was an uncontrollable horror and a hint of despair in those heart-pounding beautiful eyes. Relying on her martial arts, wisdom, and of course, the power of the Yin Sect, Zhu Yuyan never thought that she would fall back into such a situation. Since she suffered a big loss on Shi Zhixuan back then, she has never suffered such a big loss, and she has never thought of the current situation.

A large hand touched the cheek and brushed away the wet hair one by one. Zhu Yuyan turned her face sideways in embarrassment, and there was despair in her eyes. According to the tradition of the Demon Gate, in fact, she has many ways to deal with it - it is also the characteristic of people in the Holy Gate to wait for opportunities in the face of the strong, but the true qi that is nowhere to be found makes her heart feel like ashes.

Zhao Kun felt the smoothness of Zhu Yuyan's cheeks with his fingertips, and said with a smile: "The queen of yin is really a blessed person, this face feels like a twenty-eight beauty, without the slightest wind and frost ......" (To be continued.) )