An autumn rain and a cold, Shenjing has rained for several days, the Mid-Autumn Festival of the forty years of Tianyou passed away quietly in a rainstorm, fortunately, the face of God, the sky is clear after a night of rain, today is the 68th birthday of the Empress Dowager, the Emperor of God has decreed the whole country to celebrate, but also in the Fengtian Palace banquet ministers, the windfall of the Emperor of God waved his hand, this birthday ceremony, all officials and their families above the seventh grade in Beijing can enter the palace to participate in the birthday banquet, of course, the officials below the five grades can not enter the Fengtian Palace, can only participate in the birthday banquet in the square outside the Fengtian Gate, However, there are exceptions, for example, Jia Zheng, a member of the Wupin Ministry of Labor, was specially allowed to participate in the birthday banquet in Fengtian Palace, although he could only participate in the birthday ceremony outside Fengtian Gate, but it was an honor to be able to personally celebrate the birthday of the Empress Dowager.

As a woman, she is born with some advantages, and the old birthday star is the empress dowager, so the families of those officials below the fifth grade enjoy the same treatment as the families of high-grade officials, and enter the main hall of Cining Palace to attend the birthday banquet.

About to the middle of the unitary hour, the sun is setting in the west, the heat on the ground has just dissipated, the breeze is blowing, it is the coolest time of the day, many people of Shenjing with their wives and children, men, women and children, three or five groups go to Zhengyangmen, Yongdingmen two streets to play, the sky is not dark, the street has been jammed, as far as the eye can see, there are all dense people, as if the people of the whole Shenjing are pouring into the streets.

Both sides of the street are hung with high-end or small lanterns, for which it is said that Shuntianfu spent nearly 100,000 taels of silver, and all the lanterns are lit up when it is dark, and the two streets will be illuminated like a heavenly fairyland.

In ancient times, the people's nightlife was very boring, and it was rare to have such a grand scene, not to mention the homes of the common people, even the wealthy families of the official eunuchs also went out to watch the lanterns, but they would not be crowded with these ordinary people, but set up private rooms in the restaurants on both sides of the street early to watch the night view of the lanterns.

A few days ago, with the cooperation of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, the Criminal Department and Shuntianfu gathered a large number of manpower to crack the previous child abduction and trafficking case, arrested more than 100 traffickers, and even caught a ringleader and destroyed their stronghold in Nancheng.

Such a big loss not only did not stop these murderous traffickers, but provoked their revenge, and they will not be polite to such a rare opportunity today.

Due to the lantern festival at night, except for the female dependents who were left by the Empress Dowager in Cining Palace to watch the play and enjoy the lanterns, the officials of Fengtian Hall withdrew from the imperial city after the birthday ceremony, because the street of Zhengyangmen was crowded with people, and everyone changed to Chongwenmen.

When leaving Fengtian Palace, Niu Jizong told Jia Jue one thing, the king of Nan'an County had already expressed his full support for Zhu Wucheng, the king of Liang, to compete for the crown prince, and the king of Dongping County did not object to this matter.

In the past few days, Jia Jue has been thinking about this problem, according to the memory of his predecessor, in the end, it was Zhu Wuxiang, the king of Shu, who won the throne, of course, because of the sudden death of Emperor Tianyou, he has always suspected that Jia Jing's sudden death is related to the death of Emperor Tianyou, but he has not been able to see Jia Jing after going to Xuanzhen Temple twice.

Just when Jia Jue was in deep thought, suddenly, "Jia Jue! "There was a shout in the distance, Jia Jue was startled, he turned his head, but he heard a sound of breaking the air, and his body instinctively turned slightly to the side, which was a kind of conditional launch formed in his fight with the pirates and pirates in Zhejiang, 'Whoosh!' A sharp arrow passed by him, this arrow shot on the shoulder of the defenders of Chongwenmen, the soldier screamed, turned over and fell to the ground, the forbidden army defending the city suddenly was in chaos, the surrounding officials were in chaos, Jia Fu and others pulled out the saber on their waists and rushed over to encircle Jia Jue in the middle, Jia Jue was also surprised, he turned his head to look at the arrow, only to see another arrow shooting, this arrow was shot towards the chest, Jia Jue turned over and dismounted and dodged an arrow, this arrow was strong, directly nailed to the stone road.

Jia Jue was furious, grabbed the bow and arrow on the horseback, pulled out an arrow from the quiver and wound the bow, pulled the bow like a full moon, and stared at a young man in a gorgeous costume.

At the moment when Zhu Zaiyan took out another arrow, the arrow in Jia Jue's hand shot out, the arrow was extremely fast, and shot straight towards Zhu Zaiyan's right arm, only to hear a scream, the arrow was blocked by Zhu Zaiyan's personal soldiers with his body, Zhu Zaiyan was shocked and angry, he opened his bow is an arrow, but, Jia Jue's arrow was faster, in order to dodge, he rolled off the horse, and the arrow also shot to the body of an official on the side because of his dodge, there was a great chaos in Chongwen Gate, and the hundred officials at the city gate stumbled and fled to both sides, The forbidden army defending the city gate woke up like a dream, shouting and rushing over to surround both sides.

But the two sides did not stop, Jia Jue's arrows were one arrow after another, if it weren't for Zhu Zaiji's personal soldiers who rushed up to block the arrows shot by Jia Jue for him regardless of his safety, at this moment Zhu Zaiyan had already been shot into a hedgehog, only a moment, there were already seven guards of the Zhongshun Palace's palace who fell under the city gate with arrows, except for one unlucky one who was shot in the neck, the rest were fine, and Zhu Zaiyan himself was shot in the left arm by an arrow.

Jia Jue was unharmed, but two of his own soldiers were shot in the shoulder and chest for blocking arrows for him, but they were not a big problem.

A sudden conflict ended like this, and the head of the cabinet, Wen Fangyan, was shocked and angry, he trembled all over, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Presumptuous! ”

The unlucky Liu Wenbin's face turned pale, covered his injured shoulder, and shouted screaming: "How can this be true!" Come on, grab them, catch them all! ”

There was silence under Chongwenmen, and the vigilant forbidden army did not follow the orders of this cabinet minister, this matter was not something they could handle, they could only wait for the will of the palace.

At this moment, a carriage rushed from the direction of the imperial city, and the roar of Zhu Houjiong, the king of Zhongshun, was heard from a distance, "Damn the evil obstacle!" Are you trying to kill me? ”

On the other side, Li Xian, the deputy general of the forbidden army who got the news and rushed to see this, pulled the reins of his horse and turned his horse to the side, the officials on the side and the vigilant Chongwenmen defenders made way for the carriage, and the two palace guards helped Zhu Houjiong out of the carriage, and the Zhongshun King rushed to Zhu Zaiyan angrily, and raised his hand to slap him twice, "Damn the evil obstacle, you don't go back to lie down when you get drunk, what kind of drunken madness are you doing here!" ”

King Zhongshun was sweating profusely, he came to the cabinet and the officials of the six ministries, and bowed his hand and said: "The child is drunk and has no virtue, today is an unintentional move, you adults are frightened, all the losses of this king will bear it, and the governor of the palace will come to the door to send the soup and medicine fee, and please be more forgiving." ”

As he spoke, he gave Liu Wenbin, the cabinet minister who was hit by the arrow, a deep squeeze, "The child is young and reckless, and he is drunk again, and when he wakes up tomorrow, this king will take him to the door in person to apologize!" ”

Liu Wenbin didn't expect King Zhongshun to say such a thing, he was shocked and angry, but he understood that things couldn't go on like this anymore, "The matter of shooting and injuring this pavilion, this cabinet can not be investigated, but Ling Lang is drunk and has no virtue, no king's law, and the assassination of court officials in the street, this cabinet will write to him!" ”

King Zhongshun was anxious and blurted out, "Ge Lao, Xiao'er is just drunk and dizzy, besides, this is a personal grudge..."

"Loyal to the prince!"

Wen Fangyan, the head of the cabinet, shouted: "The matter of that year has already been decided by the imperial court, and the Jia family and the Zhongshun royal mansion have no personal grudges, let alone hatred. Please don't get dizzy. ”

King Zhongshun couldn't help but be stunned and looked at the second assistant Zhang Fu.

Zhang Fu stood there quietly, neither looking at him nor expressionless.

The king of Zhongshun had no choice but to reply: "It is this king who is in a hurry and has said the wrong thing." ”

Zhu Zaiyan spoke, "I didn't get drunk, Jia Yuan's old puppet killed my great-ancestor, can I not repay this revenge!" ”

As he spoke, an arrow that ripped off his left arm was broken in front of the officials.

There was a deathly silence under Chongwen's door.

The cabinet and the officials of the six ministries and the king of Zhongshun looked at Jia Jue together, Jia Jue did not speak, and pulled out the Yanling knife on the horseback with an expressionless face, the head of the king of Zhongshun 'buzzed' loudly, the matter was big, and he couldn't help but turn his eyes to the second assistant Zhang Fu, Zhang Fu's face changed slightly, and seeing that Jia Jue had already walked over with a knife, he stretched out his hand to stop, "Slow!" ”

Zhu Zaiyan also came back to his senses at this time, his back suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, he understood that he was careless, he was definitely not Jia Jue's opponent after hurting his left arm, looking at Jia Jue who was walking slowly step by step, he swallowed his saliva violently, the sweat on his forehead had come down, what should I do?

At this moment, King Zhongshun suddenly turned around and kicked Zhu Zaiyan to the ground, and shouted: "Someone! Beat this obstacle to death for me. ”

The guards of the palace also understood, and immediately rushed up a few guards to press Zhu Zaiyan to the ground, and the other two borrowed two sticks from the hand of the palanquin man who didn't know which house on the side, rushed over and beat the sticks, listening to the angry shouts of the king of Zhongshun, they knew in their hearts, the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and suddenly, the military department Shangshu Zhenguo Niu Jizong smiled: "Such a good show, Your Majesty should be invited to take a look." ”

King Zhongshun gritted his teeth and said: "This matter is that this king's godson has no way, and he is willing to make amends and pay money, 50,000 taels, is it feasible?" ”

"No way!"

Niu Jizong refused.

"Plus two shops in each of the eastern and western cities."

"Hehe, the life of the prince of the loyal palace is worth so much!"

"There are still two granges in Liangxiang!"

"It's enough money, but how to get this breath."

King Zhongshun looked at Niu Jizong, and then looked at Jia Jue who was standing with a knife, sighed secretly, snatched the wooden stick in the hands of the guard, and fell like raindrops on Zhu Zaiji's thighs, suddenly, Zhu Zaiyan screamed, and passed out directly, the crisp sound of broken bones was heard by everyone, King Zhongshun's eyes flashed a fierce color, turned his head to look at Jia Jue, and said lightly: "General Jia, this anger is gone!" ”

"Ahem!"

Niu Jizong coughed violently twice, reminding Jia Jue that he was almost done.

Jia Jue then spoke, "The prince laughed, this is actually just a misunderstanding, there is no need to make such a big move!" ”

As he spoke, he said to the Chongwen Gate guard who was standing on the side: "Hurry up and check the injury, so that the little prince can go back to recuperate." ”

A sentence reminded the guards of Chongwenmen, and at this time, Li Xian, who had been watching the excitement on the periphery, walked in, "Don't thank General Jia yet." ”

Seeing this, King Zhongshun's face sank, and he said to the defenders of Chongwenmen: "Xiao'er is young and reckless, please bear with me, the injured are fifty taels of silver, and the rest are ten taels of hard work for each person." ”

At this moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and then Dai Quan's voice came, "Your Majesty's dictation, Zhu Houjiong, the king of loyalty, and Jia Jue, the commander of the three thousand battalions, will enter the palace to meet you." ”