Chapter 42 Borrowing the head of Kyoto
The red glow of the sky in the east is on the white of the fish's belly, although the morning sun has not yet risen, its brilliant golden red light can be seen, the door of the Taihe Palace is wide open, and the surrounding area is full of guards and eunuchs and palace maids. The faint golden light of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info emanates from the golden glazed tiles and dragon head sculptures on the roof of the palace, which is extremely gorgeous.
Today is the day of the Great Pilgrimage, and the topic is the attitude towards the Holy Martial League, and according to the previous day's recital, there are more and more officials who support the recruitment of the Holy Martial League, although this seems a little late. The news of Yan'an Mansion has been heard by the imperial court, and because the Holy Martial League controls all the road gates near Yan'an Mansion, most of the news has not yet reached the ears of the court officials and the emperor, as far as the previous situation is concerned, they probably know that the Holy Martial League broke the Sword Gate Pass and surrounded Yan'an Mansion, and His Royal Highness King Jing was trapped in this matter.
The hall of the Taihe Hall is very wide, enough to accommodate thousands of people, although it is so wide, but its lighting and ventilation conditions are not very good, every few times there are officials who can't see the situation on the ground and fall down and get injured or have a good breath and faint to the ground.
At this time, the morning sun is rising, the light in the hall is not very sufficient, dozens of arm-thick butter candles are arranged in various places, the fragrance of butter, not very bright light, shadows everywhere, plus the whispers of hundreds of officials, constitute a fantastic and beerous scene.
When the morning bell struck thirty-six in a row, the Emperor yawned and came out of the back room, and came to the table in front of the hall, and looked at the half-man-high recitals on the table, and his heart was full of disgust and impatience.
Suddenly, a blue box caught his eye, and the box exuded a strange aroma, as if it were the aroma of well-cooked and fine beef, but without the slightest shame.
"It's really a strange aroma, what the hell is it, can these officials get this kind of thing" With curiosity, the Emperor of Tang carefully opened the box.
"This, this. Such an astonishing scene made it impossible for the emperor to utter a complete sentence
Immediately after, a stench came out of the box, and the emperor suddenly threw up loudly on the table, this time he saw the contents of the box more clearly, the white eyes of the dead man exuded an aura of panic and despair, and the blood stains on his mouth and neck and ears made the emperor understand what it was at once.
The Emperor had not seen the death of living beings, he had also shot rabbits, pheasants and deer when he was young, and had seen his subordinates cut off the heads of these prey to make food. But the three heads in front of him were of the same kind, they were people, and they were people he knew, officials he had appointed and businessmen he had seen, what a terrible thing it was, seeing this scene, the emperor's neck instantly fluttered, as if he saw the scene of his head being cut off and put in front of him.
At this moment, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, he was extremely panicked, he wanted to leave, but his body couldn't move, he wanted to shout but couldn't make a sound, like a nightmare that couldn't wake up.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty" "At this time, the eunuch who was waiting for a zhang away finally reacted, and hurriedly came to caress the emperor to calm his mind, and fed him the Tranquility Pill and so on.
"Take this thing away, take it away. Before the eunuch could make a move, the emperor swept his sleeves and pushed the box with a human head and the half-man-high piece blocking the box together, and pushed them down to the bottom of the hall.
The three human heads rolling around exuding the stench of corpses made Baiguan vomit and understand things instantly, and at the same time, a panic also spread, and some timid people even began to look left and right in the shadows, fearing that their heads would be cut off by the killers in the shadows.
At the same time, a concise and concise proclamation was posted on the gates of the major east, west, north and south sides of the capital, which mentioned the current situation of the Tang State and the news that the Shengwu League had captured Yan'an Mansion and captured King Jing, and by the way, it also mentioned the matter of sending the heads of the three officials of An Guotai to the emperor.
This proclamation document, the words are simple and clear, the full text is only more than 200 words, the font is large, posted under the city wall, the pedestrians and businessmen who pass by can read this article with a little knowledge of words, and soon the content of this article spread to the capital, and spread, for a time the people talked about it, and at this time, the government finally reacted and immediately tore off the notice document, and pasted another article, warning the people not to discuss the government affairs.
As the old saying goes, "The mouth of the people is better than the defense of Sichuan", although it is forbidden to discuss on the surface, but secretly to talk about who can prohibit it, even if it is not discussed, people's ideas are all kinds of things. What's more, even the imperial court's own people, from officials at all levels to subordinate servants and maids, were all discussing, thinking about the retreat of the Holy Martial Alliance into the capital of the Tang Kingdom.
The court meeting can no longer be held, as for the topic, the matter of recruiting the Holy Martial League is even more of a joke, the people of the Holy Martial League directly sent the heads of the officials to the emperor, and informed the people of the world about the matter, in this way, the imperial court can still recruit rebels, but if the traitors are not accepted, what can the imperial court do. Almost all the troops and generals who could fight were sent out and lost. Those martial artists of the imperial court were even more unbearable, and the training heads were all sent by Gu Jianping to the court meeting, and to the emperor and hundreds of officials, which scared them to the point of trembling and overwhelmed.
A proclamation spread to the world, and three heads were in the capital. After this incident, even if the army and warriors of the Holy Martial Alliance are still in Yan'an Mansion hundreds of miles away, the hundred officials and emperors in the capital have been sucked off their backbones, and they no longer have the confidence and courage to talk about the Holy Martial Alliance, although they still handle affairs and fun as usual, but they are very clear in their hearts about their future fate, and the current days are just the afterglow before the end of the day, but there is an exception.
"Could it be that you were just suppressed by Gu Jianping and a few people from the Holy Martial Alliance, and you were willing to wait for them to come in and let them deal with it" Taishi Mansion, Taishi Pang and a few henchmen told their hearts
"Master Taishi, of course we don't want to, but our force is low, even if we go up all of them, we will only be sent to death. An official said indignantly
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"It's true that the combined strength of our people is not the opponent of a congenital master, but we still have a lot of silver taels, beauties, etc., which can be recruited. Another official said
"Master Taishi, I have an idea," a young official said
"Well, well, young people are young people, it's a bold idea. Okay, just do it according to your plan, Gu Jianping, Shengwu League, the old man will make you uncomfortable even if he dies. Master Pang laughed wildly