A fire in the main courtyard of the Great Sect shook the hearts of the people in the capital, and everyone could guess that this festival tomorrow must be unusual, but who could have known that the night before the festival was already so unpeaceful.

It is impossible for the main courtyard of the sect to catch fire for no reason, in addition to the fact that Jinyiwei clearly saw that there were thieves in the fire, the subordinate officials in the main courtyard also provided an important piece of information.

"It seems that there is something important to discuss in the courtyard last night, and the sect people order the lord, the left and right sect masters, and the left and right sect people, all of them are in the courtyard, and the thieves come to the door to kill people, probably to escape conveniently, so they want to create chaos, so there is that fire," said the experience division.

There was a fire last night, and the main courtyard of the Great Sect can be said to be broken, and those damaged case files and records are of course the most precious, but even more fatal, the five adults in the mouth of the experience division, all died!

This is about to turn the world upside down, and the main court is in charge of the royal family's name, heirs, births, deaths, marriages, and burials, which is very important to the imperial court.

And more importantly, the positions of Zongzheng Zong in the main courtyard of the Great Sect are all held by the children of the royal family, and this fire is not only the face of the Jinyi Guard of Jingzhao Mansion, but also the face of the royal family.

Someone put fire oil into the fire, and the fire was not completely extinguished until sunrise, and now almost half of the main courtyard has been burned to the ground.

On top of the rubble, the servants of the Jingzhao Mansion were laboriously moving out the corpses, all of which were charred by the fire, and it was almost impossible to identify them with the human eye.

Therefore, the officers at the scene could only count the number of corpses first, and unfortunately, according to the calculation of the charred corpses that were moved out of the main courtyard, none of the following five elders were spared.

It is a bold move to burn down the main courtyard of the Great Sect, and it stands to reason that the matter should be reported to the cabinet today, and then the ministers of civil and military affairs will go to the palace together and invite the old emperor out to discuss this matter.

But unfortunately, let alone a hundred officials and ministers today, even the cabinet elders were blocked out of the palace gate today, and when they asked and asked, the little yellow door with a bitter face only had one sentence: "Your Majesty has an order, today's sacrifice is very important, and no one can enter or leave until the end." ”

The princes had already been summoned to the palace at the end of the day, and even the fire could not stop His Majesty the Emperor's determination to hold a sacrifice today.

"This father-in-law."

Wei Ge Lao stood up and said: "Please also go in and report that the main courtyard of the Great Sect was burned, and the court was shaken, and the old minister also knew that the year-end ceremony was related to the fortune of the coming year, and it should not be taken lightly, but this matter involves the prestige of the imperial court, and it cannot be treated simply." ”

This little yellow door was stared at by a group of old ministers, and there was even a cabinet pillar like Wei Ge Lao who put pressure on him, and his face was suddenly pale, he was just a little eunuch in the celebrant eunuch, how could he withstand such a battle.

Just when his face was full of embarrassment, suddenly a cold snort came from the city tower, it was Xia Zhang, the commander of Dongchang, who had arrived.

"Your Excellency, please go back, Your Majesty has a will, and you don't need to worry about today's ceremony." Xia Zhang's tone was full of the ridicule of the fox and the tiger, and the ministers below looked at him angrily.

It's just that when Xia Zhang's gaze fell outside the crowd, it was obviously a lot more restrained.

Next to the ministers who were fighting for red faces in front of the palace gate, there was another group of people who were clearly divided and behaved completely opposite, Lu Hanjiang, the commander of Jinyiwei, and Qiu Qingyun, the commander of the Tongzhi, plus Wu Qiming, the servant, and Xu Le, the pacification envoy.

Almost the entire high-level of Jinyiwei has arrived, on the left side of the palace gate, on a hexagonal chair of golden silk nanmu, Lord Lu is leisurely sipping tea, and several high-level Jinyiwei officials around him are also old gods.

It is said that the front of the palace should not be so public, but this is not Lord Lu himself, but the group of internal officials who are responsible for stopping people at the palace gate have prepared these things for him early.

These things were originally there, originally to give favor to the elderly ministers, but the ministers generally refused these politely to show their respect for the emperor in the court.

It's just that Lu Hanjiang doesn't play this game, he chooses to accept it calmly, drinking morning tea while listening to the hundred officials and ministers spitting here.

From time to time, some people also set their eyes on him, but soon they hurriedly moved away, after all, Jinyiwei's notoriety has long been like rolling thunder, not everyone has the guts.

And when there was a lot of noise outside the palace gate, the Zixiao Hall was unusually quiet, and in the fairy-like palace, the old emperor sat on the soft collapse like a colorful cloud, and the six princes and a grandson behind him were quietly kneeling on the futon.

The year-end ceremony was originally the same thing as going through the motions, and in previous years, it was also presided over by the main court of the Great Sect, and at most two more princes were sent to participate, and the emperor rarely or almost never cared about it.

But this time it was very different, the emperor not only personally intervened, but also personally presided, even if such a big thing happened last night, the emperor was still stubborn.

At this time, even the four princes and the seventh princes, who were the most disagreeable to each other, did not dare to be presumptuous, and they all sensed the unusual solemnity in the air.

It had been an hour since they had been summoned into the palace to sit here, and the emperor had not said anything, nor had he expressed any attitude, and a group of people just sat like this.

The fourth prince couldn't sit still, and he wanted to ask the emperor directly several times, but he was stopped by Cao Yuan on the side with a gesture in his eyes.

In fact, there are many people who are more anxious than the fourth prince, such as the second prince, who was originally still the eldest son, but now that something like this has happened in the East Palace, his status is obviously going to be impacted.

Not to mention, he is still a straight-tempered person, and he can't tolerate sand in his eyes, he has 10,000 words to say about the fake death of the eldest brother of the prince and the private soldiers raised by the East Palace, but he can't say a word.

It wasn't because he was also stunned by Cao Yuan's eyes, but at this moment, there was a sacrificial messenger wearing a ghost mask wearing a dark robe and a ghost mask standing behind him, and he had the audacity to point to the second prince's acupoint, making him unable to move.

This was undoubtedly a criminal act, but the emperor did not say anything about it, obviously acquiescing in the matter, which made everyone even more frightened.

Especially in this empty hall, in addition to the emperor himself and the great eunuch Cao Yuan, there were just seven sacrificial messengers, standing behind each prince and grandson.

The seven sacrificial envoys wore ghost masks and were not angry and arrogant, holding ritual vessels in their hands and chanting ancient poems in their mouths, and several princes suddenly realized that these seven people were as feared as the prisoners who were beheaded.

Among these seven princes and grandsons, there is only one person who can be calm, and that is His Royal Highness Taisun Yu.

And he was able to stand out from the crowd without being affected by these weirdos, not because he was much stronger than others, but because at this moment he was pale, in a cold sweat, as if he had some serious illness, and his kneeling figure was shaky, and he didn't have the strength to care about anything else.