Chapter 63: The Edict
This is by no means a ritual to follow the worship of heaven at the top of Shengshan Mountain. Su Gong and the others had not raised their heads, so naturally they couldn't see it, and the ceremonial officials who had not saluted had their backs to the north and south to witness the fire under the mountain, although they didn't know why, they always felt bad. For a while, I didn't know whether to continue the ceremony or remind Su Gong.
Su Gong and others prostrate for a long time is the last item of the ceremony, until the sun rises completely, if there is a cloudy day, the official can judge the time by himself, in order to prevent the cloudy day from not seeing the sunrise, the ancestors choose to sacrifice the day in the deep winter, at this time Jiangyuan is almost every day sunny day.
The sun finally rose completely, and the ceremonial officer shouted at the top of his voice: "Licheng." Su Gong and the hundred officials got up and retreated to the south of the platform, and the entire ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens was completed. At this time, Duke Su and the hundred officials still couldn't see the fire in the city because they had their backs to Jiangyuan City.
The ceremonial officer carefully identified it, and when he saw that the fire came from Miyagi, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and he directly caught up with Su Gong and whispered: "Yu Su Gong, Miyagi is on fire." ”
Hearing this, Su Gong stopped his retreat for a short time, did not react, nor spoke, but nodded to indicate that he knew, and then continued to retreat, and the officials who had already retreated behind him turned around and saw the fire in Miyagi, and suddenly felt bad, but because the ritual of worshiping the heavens was not completely over, Su Gong was still slowly retreating, and he had to whisper private chats with his colleagues who were close to him, even so, the more and more noisy whispers reached the ears of Su Gong, who was retreating.
He just listened, his expression unexpectedly serious, and this seriousness seemed to have nothing to do with the sacrifice. Finally retreated to the south edge of the platform, Su Gong was not in a hurry and turned around slowly, seeing that the fire in Miyagi seemed to have known for a long time, he did not panic, and asked calmly:
"There's a fire in the palace."
The official close to Su Gong thought that he was asking him about it, and hurriedly turned around and responded: "It is estimated that this winter day is dry and easy to catch fire." ”
"I hope it doesn't hurt the innocent." Su Gong whispered.
The official who had just answered sounded awkward, thinking about how Huo could distinguish between innocent and innocent, and he didn't know how to respond to Su Gong for a while, and then he looked frightened when he thought about it. He looked at Su Gong with a serious face, afraid that he would leak his secret, so he had to hold back what he wanted to say.
The other ministers saw that Su Gong did not react too much to the fire in Miyagi except for the seriousness of his face, so they were a little relieved and thought that it was a fire, not that it was arson. However, this perception changed completely when everyone came to the tent on the south side of the peak.
In front of the tent, Wei Li led more than 1,000 elite soldiers to crowd the south side of Tianwen Peak, and the ministers who came first had already smelled the smell of the coup, and the fire of Miyagi made him convinced, and the ministers who wanted to protect themselves had nothing to do except be frightened, so they had to stand there in fright, waiting for the duel between Wei Li and Su Gong.
Su Gong walked last, the ministers in front of him all stopped, Su Gong looked up at the south side of the peak, but saw Wei Li, who should have been on duty in the camp, and more than a thousand heavily armored elite soldiers to enclose the small mountain top.
The ministers who had not yet walked down the top of the mountain in front of them made a way, and the young Duke Su understood what the ministers meant, and slowly walked down, several guards followed closely behind him, and when he reached a calm place, he stood firm and shouted to Wei Li with a tense face:
"You are not in the camp, why are you here? Want to rebel? ”
Wei Li or tired of mountaineering, he was sitting on a chair that he had moved from nowhere, closed his eyes, and when he heard Su Gong's shout, he opened his eyes and did not make any courtesy:
"I have an edict here, save some face for you to read for yourself."
With that, Wei Li took out a neatly folded brocade cloth from his sleeve and handed it to Su Gong who was standing beside him.
"Edict? I'm afraid it's a cunning edict, and the rebellion still has to be so secretive? Before he could join the army, he was directly rejected by Su Gong.
Joining the army was in a dilemma, Wei Li saw that such a tough Su Zheng wanted to speak, but was scolded by Su Gong's personal guard Yuan Lie:
"Wei Li, you chaotic minister and thief, it is a capital crime to leave the camp for no reason, and if you rebel here, you will be captured without restraint, leaving your whole body."
Yuan Lie is two years older than Su Gongchang, is Su Gong's sparring partner for learning literature and martial arts, can be described as a bare-ass friendship, although the martial arts are not good, Su Gong remembered that he was loyal to give him the position of the head of the guard, commanding seven personal guards.
Yuan Lie's scolding like this made Wei Li twist his eyebrows and laugh: "Haha, I can't do my best, what about the people, first execute this barking dog on the spot." ”
Although Yuan Lie is not good at martial arts, but the other guards are by no means idle, how can they let Wei Li do whatever he wants, they are already around Su Gong, Wei Li's order makes the guards Qi close to Su Gong and also surround Yuan Lie in the middle.
Seeing this, Wei Li smiled contemptuously, and that expression was disdainful and disdainful, disdainful of these samurai who were inadequate. Raising his right hand and gently moving his index finger, he saw that there were many heavy armor soldiers coming from nowhere, and the number was estimated to be no less than 3,000.
Wei Li's point guard army was originally the benchmark of Dongsheng's top combat power, and 4,000 people were selected from nearly 40,000 elite soldiers, which must be the ace battalion.
Yuan Lie and the other guards couldn't help but tremble in their hearts when they saw this, and they could either fight to the death to keep a good name, or beg for mercy and hope to survive.
The ministers who had been protecting themselves before were already afraid of it at this time, and in their hearts it had nothing to do with Su Gong being in power, so they were not afraid that Wei Li would rebel, but that they would hurt themselves by fighting each other.
And Chen Jing and the others who support the ministers of Su or have already prepared to be righteous, and their expressions are indifferent. The minister's expression was the most weird, as if he was smiling, his chin was cocked, and he glanced at all the ministers, as if he was in the world.
"Take it, don't hurt Su Gong." Wei Li ordered.
The innermost elite soldiers quickly surrounded Su Gong. Seeing the disparity in strength, Yuan Lie didn't want to involve the samurai who guarded Su Gong on weekdays, so he walked out of the circle alone, holding a long sword and ignoring Su Gong's obstruction, shouting with all his strength: "You rebel thief, grandpa, I will take a few with me if I die." ”
Yuan Lie and the generous scolding rushed into the encircled rebel brave formation, Yuan Lie, who was already not good at martial arts, could withstand the siege, only heard a few tragic shouts, and a soldier came out of the formation with Yuan Lie's bloody head in his hand to Wei Li, and reported: "General, Yuan Lie has been corrected." ”
Su Gong, who was only seventeen years old, experienced such a brutal and bloody thing, he died a tragic death in grief, regretting that he did not disclose the news in advance, so as to control his emotions and not cause death.
What's even worse is that Su Gong's abdomen is like a river and a sea, and he vomits nonstop. Several spasms made his eyes bloodshot, tears flying, even if there was nothing in his stomach, kneading back and forth to squeeze out a mouthful of acidic water. Su Gong could no longer stand, so he had to squat down. The guards beside him were only concerned with guarding the rebel soldiers who were encircling, and they had no time to deal with the filth of Su Gong's mouth and nose.
Wei Li didn't seem to be interested in such a sure thing, but just hummed softly, and then saw that Su Gong vomited nonstop, and suddenly became interested, got up and looked at Su Gong who was surrounded by guards, and saw that Su Gong was already squatting on the ground, and said with a smile: "Since Su Gong doesn't want this face, then I will announce the edict to the world." ”