Before dawn, the frightened Yuan Hongdao fled along an alley in Xicheng to the side of Hechifang, and cautiously avoided the pursuit of the Supervision Yuan and the patrol of the Kyoto garrison, and finally came to a private house.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and sat down at the table a little blankly, stupid, unable to speak for a long time. In his life, he doesn't know how many big things he has done, and even his predecessor was brought down by him with his own hands, but this scene in the early hours of this morning still made him feel thrilled.

Presumably, everyone in the eldest princess Beppu died, in a sense, these people were killed by Yuan Hongdao, and the problem is that in everyone's cognition, Yuan Hongdao is now a close confidant of the eldest princess, so if he didn't run away before, I am afraid that he will be killed on the spot by the swordsmen of the sixth division of the Supervision Yuan.

If Fei Jie hadn't made the first move.

............ This private house is one of the most secret transit stations of the Supervision Yuan, Yuan Hongdao turned his head sideways, and saw a cup of tea on the table, he drank it without hesitation, and moistened his extremely dry throat.

"Aren't you afraid that this tea is poisonous?"

A middle-aged man walked out of the inner room with a smile, it was Xiao Yan Gongzi's father, the predecessor of the four commanders, Yan Ruohai.

Yuan Hongdao glanced at him, and after confirming the identity of the other party, he said softly, "I didn't expect to live in the first place. ”

In the eyes of the most successful Departing Wanderer in Qingguo, the half-hour arrest in the early hours of this morning has already shown that His Majesty no longer tolerates the eldest princess, and he believes that with the action of His Majesty and Dean Chen, it will only take half an hour for the eldest princess's side to be swept away.

If the eldest princess no longer poses any threat, then her own death will naturally be erased from the traces of zài, but Yuan Hongdao does not have a trace of sadness, because since he began to follow Lin Ruofu many years ago, he is ready to sacrifice for Qingguo at any time.

However, Yan Ruohai just smiled, took out all the customs clearance procedures and disguises that had been prepared for him, and said, "You have been absent from the courtyard for a long time, so you may not know that Your Majesty and the Dean will never abandon any of your subordinates lightly. ”

Yan Ruohai was slightly stunned and smiled bitterly.

At this moment, another woman dressed in civilian clothes flashed through the back door with a frightened face. When the woman saw Yuan Hongdao's face clearly, she couldn't help but open her lips wide, revealing a shocked expression, as if she never thought that the other party would appear here.

Yuan Hongdao was also extremely surprised, because he had seen this woman in Xinyang, and the identity of this woman at that time was a confidant palace maid beside the eldest princess...... It turns out that this palace maid is also a person from His Majesty!

Yan Ruohai glanced at the palace maid, frowned and said, "You came out late." ”

The palace maid bowed her head and replied: "Last night, as soon as I left, Gonggong Hong personally went out to surround Guangxin Palace...... I didn't dare to walk at will, so I slowed down. ”

Yan Ruohai glanced at the two of them and said: "Both of them are heroes of the imperial court, Your Majesty and the Dean are very satisfied with the appearance of the two of them over the years, and today the matter is urgent, so I have to let you take care of each other, and also prevent you from not knowing each other's identities and bringing unnecessary losses." ”

Without too many superfluous words, Yan Ruohai confessed a few words, and began to send the two most successful spies of the Supervision Yuan to Kyoto.

Yuan Hongdao frowned and said, "Where are we going?"

"You reply to Xinyang. Yan Ruohai said word by word: "Wait in Xinyang." ”

Yuan Hongdao couldn't believe his ears, raised his head and asked, "You mean...... Will the eldest princess reply to Xinyang?"

"Just in case. Yan Ruohai said softly: "No one can say for sure about the royal affairs...... As for how to explain after replying to Xinyang, I will tell you slowly. ”

He turned to the palace maid again and said, "You are lurking in the capital, and if something happens after the rì, you still need to enter the palace." ”

In the end, the nominally retired senior official of the Supervision Yuan bowed very sincerely to Yuan Hongdao and the palace maid, and said, "Thank you two for your hard work. ”

The room was quiet, Yan Ruohai looked at the wall outside the window, thinking about the colleague who had just left, frowning slightly, not knowing what he was thinking, after a long time, he laughed.

With the strength of the eldest princess, it only takes half an hour for the Supervision Yuan to dig out her hidden forces in Kyoto, and clean them up with the fastest speed and the most thunderous means, which looks so easy...... It is completely inconsistent with the world's awe assessment of the eldest princess, because the Supervision Yuan has buried two nails beside the eldest princess a long time ago.

Especially the nail of Yuan Hongdao, which was arranged next to Lin Shusheng as early as when the eldest princess fell in love with the handsome Lin Shusheng in the imperial examination.

If the palace maid only grasped some of the eldest princess's preferences, and at the same time arranged for Hong Zhu to "coincidentally" discover that personal matter, and Yuan Hongdao is now a Xinyang strategist, and he is extremely clear about the eldest princess's strength and goals.

There is such a person who secretly helps the Supervision Yuan to deliver the news, the eldest princess's side, where can she withstand the wind and rain of the Supervision Yuan, the reason why Chen Pingping has never regarded the eldest princess as an enemy worthy of attention, and the reason why the Supervision Yuan's shot is so accurate and vicious, is because of this.

Yuan Hongdao is the first basket of nails scattered at the beginning of the establishment of the Supervision Yuan, after so many years of wear and tear in the court, he is the only one left in the basket of nails, but now he does not know that the current Supervision Yuan is no longer the Supervision Yuan of the year.

Chen Pingping has long been indifferently in the middle of these people and His Majesty, the so-called overhead, is like this, a qiē for the sake of Qingguo, or the obsession in the hearts of these people, but in fact, their qiē must be arranged by Chen Pingping.

――――――――――――――――――――――― day was still dark, and in that huge mansion, the old man who liked to grow cabbage had already gotten up and watered the ground with a wooden scoop.

The most respected elder in the military, Old Man Qin is old, so he gets up earlier than ordinary people.

Today, his second son got up very early, and now he is serving as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, but Qin Heng, who was forced to break away from the garrison in Kyoto, rushed over from the front garden with a worried face, and put on a single jacket on his body. He leaned into his old father's ear and whispered something.

Although he is no longer the commander of the Kyoto garrison, after all, the Qin family has many eyes and ears in the army, and in the first time, he knew about the changes in Kyoto in the early hours of this morning and the actions of the Supervision Yuan.

Old Man Qin frowned slightly, and a trace of surprise appeared on his old face: "Your Majesty did something to the eldest princess...... Why?"

No one knows why, Emperor Qingguo would suddenly make a move after being quiet for so long, especially with such a well-behaved background that the eldest princess has been showing in the past few months.

"What should we do?" Qin Heng asked worriedly, if His Majesty the Emperor's action today was just the beginning of a big action, then who would be unlucky next?

"We're not going to do anything. Old Man Qin sighed and said, "Do you want to rebel? ”

"But...... The eldest princess knows some things about our family. ”

Old Man Qin sneered and said, "What's the matter? The Ming family's dry stock is still the water master of Jiaozhou? Your cousin is dealing with it in Jiaozhou, and there will be no handle in the palace, as for the Ming family...... Your Majesty will not burn my old bones just for the sake of a dry strand. ”

"But ......" Qin Heng was still a little worried, "If the eldest princess loses power today, we won't make a move...... After rì, Fan Xian's faction was dominant, and I was worried about what Fan Xian would do in the future. ”

Old Man Qin frowned and said, "The key depends on whether Li Yunrui can survive today." ”

"Are you saying that Your Majesty will give the eldest princess death?" Qin Heng's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe his ears, "How could the Queen Mother allow such a thing to happen!

Old Man Qin sneered and said, "If I were His Majesty, dealing with a crazy horn like the eldest princess, I would either stay still and kill if I moved...... But what you said is also right, there is also a queen mother in the palace, and His Majesty is a monarch who cherishes his reputation, so Li Yunrui may not die. ”

"If Li Yunrui dies, it will be useless for us to do anything. Old Man Qin threw the wooden scoop to the ground and said, "If she can survive by luck, we can't do anything now...... Believe me, as long as she is alive, the future counterattack must be very crazy, and when the time comes...... We have a chance. ”

............ The palace door was closed, and the copper nails on the door were like the protruding eyes of a ghost, staring at the people outside the palace walls with worried faces, and there were not many people waiting for news outside the palace, mainly the eldest prince and the Kyoto garrison Xie Su and his party. They looked at the closed palace door and didn't know what was going on inside, but they already knew that the Supervision Yuan had arrested all the high-ranking officials on the eldest princess's side and sent them to Dali Temple.

The eldest prince's brows furrowed extremely tightly, and after a while, he suddenly said, "No, I want to enter the palace and admonish." ”

Xie Su cautiously tugged at his sleeve, lowered his voice and said, "Don't be confused, it's not for those of us who are courtiers to speak at this time." ”

The eldest prince frowned and said, "I can't watch this happen, what should the imperial grandmother do?"

The Empress Dowager of Qingguo was still lying high in the Hanguang Hall at this time, sleeping very sweetly, and the news transmission inside and outside the Hanguang Hall had been sent by the Emperor of Qingguo to ensure that no one from another palace would come to disturb the Empress Dowager's rest, and would come to tell the Empress Dowager what was happening in some palaces.

Guangxin Palace, not far from Hanguang Palace, is the queen mother's most beloved little daughter, the sleeping palace of Li Yunrui, the eldest princess of Qingguo.

An old eunuch with a stooping body, like a dead tree in winter, stood at the door of Guangxin Palace.

The dead trees are here, and there is no clear scenery.

The eldest princess Li Yunrui stood outside the threshold of Guangxin Palace, looked at the old eunuch outside the palace indifferently, and said, "Father-in-law Hong, I want to see the queen mother." ”

The old eunuch Hong did not speak, and no one else answered, and the eunuchs who followed him to Guangxin Palace were busy in the palace at this time, busy carrying corpses from all corners of Guangxin Palace.

The twenty-seven palace maids in Guangxin Palace, including the palace maid with martial arts in the eldest princess, were all dead at this time, and several corpses were under the wall outside the palace, obviously intending to go over the wall to ask for help at first.

However, since it was the old eunuch Hong who personally brought people here, the palace maids in Guangxin Palace did not have any ability to fight back at all, and they were all killed, and no one even had time to say a word.

No one wanted to hear them, and His Majesty's will was clear, no one was allowed to speak, and all of them were killed.

The eunuchs carried the bodies of the palace ladies onto several broken carriages, and then walked to the burning ground, where blood flowed from the empty boards of the carriages and dripped on the stone pavement in the palace, which was particularly shocking.

Another eunuch took a broom in his hand, pulled a cart of loess behind him, sprinkled the soil on the blood stains on one side, and swept it away on the other.

After a few moments, the carriage moved away, and the blood stains on the stone slab gradually turned into extremely shallow marks, as if there was nothing.

It was only at this time that the old eunuch Hong slowly raised his head and said weakly: "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, the queen mother is resting, Your Majesty asked you not to disturb her, please wait for a while, Your Majesty will come to see you in a while." ”

A trace of resentment flashed in the eyes of the eldest princess's Qingmei, and the hands hanging beside her slowly clenched, but after a while, she laughed, bowed slightly politely, and said, "That palace...... I waited here for the emperor's brother. ”

After saying this, she reflexively entered the palace and closed the wooden door.

The old eunuch Hong is still leaning around, like a dead tree, quietly guarding outside the Guangxin Palace, although the branches of this tree have no leaves, it feels like it is stretching around the Guangxin Palace, wrapping the upper and lower sides of the palace, making the woman in the palace a little difficult to breathe.

............ The East Palace was noisy and chaotic, everyone was panicked, and the queen mother, who came out without jewelry, looked at the eunuchs who were not invited, and was furious, raised her eyebrows, and scolded: "You dog slaves!

Eunuch Yao bowed respectfully and said softly: "Niangniang, the slave doesn't dare, but he has the emperor's order and has to obey." ”

At this time, the pale prince also walked out of the apse, he looked at the eunuchs and guards in the palace, his pupils shrank, and found that the people who came were the absolute cronies of his father and the emperor in the Taiji Hall and the imperial study, he didn't know what happened, and let these minions dare to break into the East Palace to make trouble, but he knew that this must be the intention of his father.

But...... The prince forcibly suppressed the horror in his heart and asked calmly, "Gonggong Yao, what is this for?"

Gonggong Yao bowed and respectfully reported: "Your Majesty heard that there are people in the East Palace whose hands and feet are not clean, and he is worried about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Queen's mother, so he sent a small one to bring these subordinates to Taichang Temple for review. ”

This is naturally a false excuse, the queen and the prince glanced at each other, seeing each other's uneasiness and doubts, how could the death of a palace maid not make such a big move.

The queen forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart, gritted her teeth and said: "The affairs of the palace have never been managed by the palace......? Which minions are talking too much and alarming His Majesty?"

Eunuch Yao stood calmly below, without replying.

The crown prince sighed and asked, "Since it is the intention of my father, then take it to trial." ”

As soon as these words came out, the eunuchs and palace maids who had been gathered in the East Palace were all wailing, although they didn't know what their fate was, but they also knew that the place in Taichang Temple was even more terrible than the black prison.

"How many people are you going to take?"

"All. Eunuch Yao raised his head and said softly.

The queen gasped, and after a while, her lips trembled, and she said angrily: "Is there no one to serve in this palace?"

"Someone will be reassigned to serve the two masters soon. Eunuch Yao said respectfully, and then with a wave of his hand, he commanded his eunuchs and guards to tie up dozens of eunuchs and palace maids in the East Palace.

Bundled all the way, some people whispered begging for mercy all the way, but these people brought by Eunuch Yao not only tied up people, but also tied up the mouths of these people.

The queen knew that there must be a big problem with today's affairs, so she looked back at the prince helplessly, wanting to know the truth of the matter from her son's eyes. However, the prince's face turned pale at this time, and he didn't know how to deal with it at all.

Eunuch Yao and his party were about to leave the East Palace when Emperor Qingguo walked in from outside the palace, frowned slightly, and said, "What's the matter?"

When the queen saw this scene, she hurriedly took the prince forward to salute, and said sadly: "Your Majesty, are you going to make this place a cold palace?"

The emperor glanced at her in disgust, but he didn't look at the prince at all, and said directly to Eunuch Yao: "How did I tell you?"

To put it mildly, Eunuch Yao knelt on the ground in fright, kowtowed repeatedly, and then turned around and said something fiercely.

The queen and the crown prince watched this scene dumbfounded, and then the queen screamed miserably and fainted on the prince's body.

Because...... Just outside the most sacred palace in Qingguo, the most lenient East Palace, those guards raised their knives in their hands and softened downward!

Countless sword winds sounded, dozens of muffled snorts struggled from the gagged mouths, dozens of heads fell to the ground, dozens of headless corpses twitched on the ground, blood almost stained the courtyard of the East Palace, and the smell of blood rushed straight to the palace.

The queen fainted in fright, and the crown prince was pale and trembling, but he immediately stared at his father with a stubborn and vicious look.