Chapter 39 The heart is like a knife
"I know." Han Ying knelt down and said.
Zhao Hai immediately left, leaving Han Ying standing in place, looking at the sky.
"This time, I don't know how many people want to lose their heads. Xianyang, I'm afraid it's going to be a river of blood. ”
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Zhao Hai's Chengming Palace.
Gongsun Jian, who was tall and had extraordinary martial arts, knelt on the ground, and cold sweat had already wet the ground.
The lieutenant Nie Xiao on the side was no better, sweating like rain, wiping sweat with his sleeve, and he had not stopped since he entered the temple gate.
Zhao Hai took a sip of the tea on the table and said, "Say, what do you think of the home now?" ”
"Sixty or seventy assassins came to my room last night, and you're still sleeping, aren't you?"
Gongsun Jian, who was in charge of guarding the core of the palace, heard this, and felt like falling into the abyss.
Originally, the most forbidden army in the palace, its commander Long Xiang, with himself and Nie Xiao, was responsible for the main security work of the palace.
Long Xiang was transferred to the north to become a general, and the three security captains have now become two, and the forbidden army in the palace has no leader, and the security system is relatively weak.
However, Gongsun Jian knew that he was responsible for the core work of defending the imperial power, so not only did he not dare to slack off, but also strengthened the patrol and security forces in the palace.
This time, more than sixty people broke in, and he really didn't understand how these people got in, as if they were divine soldiers descending from heaven.
But he knew that it was useless to say anything at this time. I can only say that I should try to reduce the guilt as much as possible, and let His Majesty give him death, and don't wipe out his three clans.
"Minister-Sun Jian, the crime deserves death, and I ask for the death penalty, please punish Your Majesty." Gongsun Jian said.
At the moment when he became Lang Zhongling, who was the most beautiful and closest to the imperial power, Gongsun Jian was ready to meet such an ending.
Zhao Hai said: "Want to die so soon? ”
"Nie Xiao, I ask you, Gongsun Jian sleeps a lot, and he doesn't know that there are assassins. What's going on with you? More than sixty assassins crossed your defenses, and it was that easy? ”
"If it is so easy for all countries to enter the palace and kill the emperor, why don't I send you to assassinate the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan Yu now, can you do it?"
Nie Xiao, who was extremely tall and thin as a bamboo, and was once a first-class peerless master in the rivers and lakes, knelt on the ground and trembled, and now he couldn't even speak clearly.
He was patrolling the palace at the time, and he couldn't figure it out when he was killed, so it was clear that nothing had happened.
Not even a single mosquito flew in.
But there were fifty or sixty assassins who killed in the Jiangxue Palace. This really made him bitter and couldn't speak.
"Your Majesty! The minister personally patrolled the defense last night, and the minister has practiced a pair of eyes for decades, and even the sparrow eyes of a mile away can see clearly. The minister was sure that none of the assassins had passed through the minister's line last night. ”
"Then you say that these sixty or so assassins are made up by me!" Zhao Hai was furious, and smashed the teacup in his hand out and smashed it on Nie Xiao's head.
Nie Xiao was frightened, knelt on the ground and hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Majesty is angry!" Your Majesty, that's not what the minister meant. ”
"What the minister suspects is that the assassins came from within the palace."
When Zhao Hai heard it, he felt that there was a little truth.
After all, after interrogating so many palace people last night, none of them said that they had seen the assassin.
These people seemed to have come out of the outside of the Snow Palace.
Perhaps, this assassination has been planned for a long time, and it is possible that the assassins have been secretly planted in the palace since a few years ago.
However, more than sixty assassins directly killed in the Jiangxue Palace, slashing people everywhere. This kind of thing, the head of the internal guard in the outer city of the palace, can't get out of it.
Zhao Hai asked, "So, is this your reason to excuse yourself?" ”
Nie Xiao was also in a cold sweat, trembling for a long time, and finally made up his mind, raised his head, looked at Zhao Hai and said, "The minister deserves death, please give it to Your Majesty." ”
It is better to be given death than to be caught in a prison and sentenced to death. Daqin's torture is obvious to all.
"Good, good! You really have backbone, don't you think it's a big deal to die, and the matter will be settled? If the affairs of the world are settled as soon as they die, where is there so much trouble? ”
Zhao Hai got up, walked outside the hall, and left slowly.
Behind him, Li Angelica came in and recited the holy decree to the two kneeling on the ground.
"Carried by heaven, the emperor said."
"Lieutenant Lang ordered Gongsun Jian, Lieutenant Nie Xiao, to neglect their duties, let the assassins enter the palace, alarmed the holy driver, seriously injured the concubine, and put the Son of Heaven in danger. The crime is extremely heinous, and it will be hit with a hundred big boards immediately. Starting today, he will be dismissed from his post and sent to death row, waiting for the investigation of the case. ”
"Chin this."
"Minister's decree, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." Gongsun Jian and Nie Xiao knelt on the ground, crying bitterly.
According to their original thoughts, their sins were enough to destroy the Nine Clans.
The greatest extravagance is not to destroy the nine clans, and only to die oneself.
Now His Majesty has only put them on death row, and he has not even asked for their lives immediately, and he will not be released until the facts of the case are thoroughly investigated.
This is the great Ron.
Later, Zhao Hai mobilized the Black Ice Terrace, summoned Tingwei, and urgently convened a secret meeting.
The meeting was brief, with only two sentences in total.
"The suspicious guards, eunuchs, palace maids, etc. involved in the assassination of Jiangxue Hall last night were all beheaded, and they were killed, and this matter will be handled by you."
"Tingwei, Hei Bingtai, I order you two to find out the results before tomorrow, otherwise you will follow those palace maids and eunuchs involved in the case."
After Qin Song said these two words, he returned to the Jiangxue Palace, and he accompanied Concubine Lan all the time. Leaving several trembling high-ranking officials in the Chengming Palace.
Today's early dynasty is naturally abandoned, even if Zhao Gao, who is powerful and closest to Zhao Hai, does not dare to go to the Jiangxue Palace to play.
Everything is now piled up in the Chengming Palace.
Li Yuan, the right prime minister, also said that because his beloved son's whereabouts were unknown, he became ill and could not come to see His Majesty for the time being.
All of a sudden, the whole Xianyang was full of rumors, and everyone who heard about the assassination of Jiangxue Palace, from the officials to the people, was all shocked.
"Did you hear that? His Majesty is now assassinated in his own palace. ”
"I didn't expect someone to be so bold as to dare to assassinate the emperor. Although the emperor is mediocre, he is also the destiny of heaven, how dare anyone. ”
"I can't say, it was the backhand of the failed arrangement of the succession back then, and now it has been triggered."
"Rebellion and usurpation! Rebellion and usurpation! ”
There were discussions among the people and the imperial court, and some of them sent this point, but Zhao Hai ignored it.
Zhao Hai was in the Jiangxue Palace, looking at Concubine Lan, who had huge scars on her arms and chest, and her face was as pale as paper, her heart was like a knife.