God bless the twenty-sixth day of the 40th lunar month.

In the early morning, the sun rises in the middle of winter, and the warm sunlight shines over the city of Shenjing, dispelling the dark clouds that have accumulated in people's hearts.

At night, Jia Jue had a dream, dreaming that Jia Fu and Niu Er were standing in front of him covered in blood and crying, both saying that they had died unjustly, and the two pointed to the blood hole in their bodies to make up for them, Jia Jue was awakened suddenly, sweating profusely, he wiped the sweat off his forehead, looked at the sky outside, his heart was pounding, he couldn't sleep anymore, turned over and got up, asked the night vigil outside, and knew that it was just the beginning of the morning, and walked to the study after getting dressed.

Jia Jue waited until Yin, but he couldn't wait for the news from Dongcheng to come, but Xicheng received a lot of information.

First of all, the Duke of Zhenguo led the forbidden army to ambush several groups of rebels who went to attack and kill Zhu Wucheng, the king of Liang, in the palace of King Liang, and then Fuchengmen Street was attacked by unknown militants, and the mansions of the three clans were breached, not only the money was looted, but even the two county kings and the general of Zhenguo were killed in the chaos, and the most surprising thing for Jia Jue was that the palace of Zhongshun was also attacked, and Zhu Zaimo, the second son of the king of Zhongshun, was killed in front of the gate of the palace with a fire hammer.

Such a chaotic situation made Jia Jue puzzled for a while, especially Zhu Zaimo's death, obviously, someone learned the news in advance and deliberately took advantage of the chaos to shoot Zhu Zaimo, could it be Li Jiqing?

He has a reason to do it, and he also has information channels, but, where did he get the firecracker?

When he learned that Xicheng Gonghou Street, Fuchengmen Street, and Xizhimen Street were all attacked, Jia Jue decisively gave up the idea of leading the Jia family's personal soldiers to rescue the Liang Palace, he guessed that it must be the emperor who was using the chaos to clean the clan and the nobles, otherwise where did the dignified Ming Jingshi come from so many thieves and dare to besiege the palace?

It's looking for death!

However, such an outrageous thing happened last night, and the shouting and killing continued from the third watch to the fourth watch, for more than an hour, until after the ugly hour, the news came that the forbidden army began to quell the rebellion, and the news from the scout camp said that the Pingxibo Mansion located on Gonghou Street was breached, and four noble mansions on Xizhimen Street were looted, and there were heavy casualties.

Jia Jue didn't care about these things, he had been worried about Jia Fu and the others in Dongcheng, because of the blockade of Jinyiwei and Dongchang Tiji, Jia Jue didn't let the scout camp risk sneaking out of Xicheng, which was too dangerous.

In this way, there were casualties in the scout camp last night, and a team of scouts was besieged and killed by the Imperial Forest Army sentry camp near the Liang Wangfu, and finally successfully escaped at the cost of one dead and one wounded.

"Dangdang...."

The Jingyang bell from the direction of the palace resounded throughout the Shenjing City.

This is the voice of the emperor summoning hundreds of civil and military officials to the court, and the noble officials living in the eastern and western cities have gone out and rushed to the imperial city.

Jia Jue sat quietly in the study, since he woke up, he has been sitting here in a trance, he is thinking, everything that may happen in Dongcheng, the first thing that is certain is that Jia Fu and the others did not have an accident, because Niu Er has more than ten earth-shaking thunderbolts on his body, with Niu Er's temper, once he steps into the trap, he will definitely ignite the earth-shaking thunder desperately, such a loud explosion will spread far away in the middle of the night, and Xicheng can hear it completely.

There is also whether the emperor will take the opportunity to clean up Zhang Fu, Wu Shichang and others like cleaning up the nobles of the clan, Jia Jue has a faint intuition in his heart, the emperor did not attack them, because the actual situation is not yet mature, at this time, a personal soldier came to report, "Uncle, Jia led them back." ”

Jia Jue was startled, immediately got up, and asked urgently, "What about them?" ”

"Commander Jia is preparing the carriage and horses."

Jia Jue breathed a sigh of relief and secretly thought: Things must be going very well, otherwise Jia Fu would not have prepared a carriage and horse to send him to the court first.

............

"Fengtian carried the emperor's edict and said: 'Since ancient times, the emperor has succeeded the heavens and established the pole, and the emperor has returned to the area, and will establish the Yuan Prince, Maolong Guoben, and the Mianzong Society will not be stiff and restive. Today's emperor five sons of the city, generous and benevolent, Yun Yi is the prince, on the temple of Chengzong, under the hearts of the people. Chin this. ’”

Zhu Wucheng, the king of Liang, raised the holy decree above his head with both hands, knelt down on his knees, and said in a trembling voice: "Son, thank your father for your grace!" ”

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor, long live, long live!"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chitose, Chitose, Chitose!"

The civil and military officials knelt down together to pay homage, and Emperor Tianyou was dressed in a dragon robe and stood high on the throne, waving his hand and saying in a deep voice: "Excuse yourself from courtesy!" ”

Looking at the Chinese martial arts officials in the palace, Emperor Tianyou's eyes flickered, and after a long pause, he slowly spoke: "Last night, the thieves rebelled and led troops to attack Xicheng, and the mansions of seven clans including the king of Xiliang County were besieged by the chaotic army, the palace of the king of Xiliang County, the palace of the king of Qin and the general of Zhenguo were breached, and the three clans also died under the swords of the chaotic soldiers, and their belongings were looted. In addition, the rebels also besieged Gonghou Street and Xizhimen Street, and the mansions of several nobles were ransacked, and the mansions were heavily killed and wounded. ”

Looking at the silent civil and military ministers in the hall, Emperor Tianyou's eyes flashed with a deep and faint light, glanced at the vacant cabinet deputy assistant position, and then fell on the body of the imperial historian Wu Shichang, "Wu Aiqing, there is news that the traitor who attacked the Guozijian last night is related to you!" ”

All the ministers were stunned, and they all turned their eyes to the imperial envoy Wu Shichang.

Wu Shichang was also stunned for a while, stunned.

Emperor Tianyou's voice seemed to come from far away, "Wu Shichang, do you have anything to say?" ”

Wu Shichang was shocked and replied urgently: "The minister is wronged!" ”

Emperor Tianyou's eyes were cold, and he sneered in his mouth: "Wronged? People say that you Wu Shichang is ruthless, how did Song Qian, the original head of the household department, die? Also, what did you do last night? It's rare that you're still calm at this time. If I don't explain the matter today, I'm afraid that you and those who support you behind your back and those who point to your glory and wealth will not be convinced. Come on! ”

Dai Quan: "Yes." ”

"Xuan Zhoukun!"

"Yes."

Dai Quan replied, walked to the door of the palace, and preached loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree, Zhou Kun, the son of Zhou Yang, the secretary of the Xuanyuan Ministry—"

Wu Shichang trembled subconsciously!

Everyone turned their eyes to the outside of the temple gate.

In a moment, a white figure walked over quickly, getting closer and closer, and it became clearer and clearer, and the person who came was actually wearing filial piety clothes.

Everyone was stunned.

Zhou Kun walked in with his head down, and knelt down in front of Emperor Tianyou, "The grass people knock to see Your Majesty!" ”

Emperor Tianyou: "Tell the ministers what happened to the Zhou family last night!" ”

"Yes."

Zhou Kun's heart was sour, "In addition to the grass people and two small servants in the Zhou family, all the two hundred and seventeen people in the family were killed, and my father was even cut off by someone..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Kun burst into tears, and couldn't help crying bitterly, "Your Majesty, please be the master of the Zhou family..... My father's death was unjust! Woo..... Woo....."

Emperor Tianyou: "Don't cry, your Zhou family has suffered all these years.... Don't worry, I will definitely make decisions for the Zhou family in this matter, and it will not be in vain for the Zhou family to seek perfection over the years, it was I who wronged your father, do you know who did it? Get up and speak. ”

Zhou Kun wiped away his tears, stood up, gritted his teeth, his eyes flashed, and he looked directly at Wu Shichang fixedly.

Wu Shichang: "You.... Virtuous nephew.... What do you mean? ”

Zhou Kun didn't speak, and looked at Wu Shichang coldly.

At this time, Dai Quan spoke, "Gongzi Zhou, Your Majesty asked you!" ”

As soon as these words came out, many people couldn't help but tremble.

"You old bastard, take your life..."

Zhou Kun roared like a madman, and then threw Wu Shichang to the ground, holding his neck with both hands.

Wu Shichang also panicked, he led people to the Zhou Mansion last night, but, at that time, Zhou Yang had already been killed, and he was also going to the secret files of the West Factory, but unfortunately he was taken first, and then he found the Zhou family girl roll who was imprisoned in the backyard, originally he wanted to leave, but he didn't think that the Zhang family recognized him, and had no choice but to kill the Zhou family girl roll, he acted very carefully, and left no clues, how did this Zhou Kun know?

Wen Fangyan, the first assistant of the cabinet, looked at the two people who were scuffling, then looked at the emperor, gritted his teeth, and shouted: "Don't let go yet?" Come on, set them up. ”

Liu Wenbin also hurriedly greeted the forbidden army guards standing at the gate of the palace.

Several forbidden army guards glanced at each other, Emperor Tianyou was a little impatient, and with a wave of his hand, the forbidden soldiers immediately pounced and pulled the two up.

Zhou Kun shouted: "Old thief, you didn't expect it, there was a maid who was not killed by you, she told me everything!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Kun was even more crazy, and fell to his knees on the ground, and then he hit his head on the brick floor like crazy, and cried and shouted: "The Zhou family has lived up to the grace of the previous emperor and His Majesty's love, and for his own selfish desires, he watched the old thief Wu Shichang kill Song Shangshu's family, and the grass people regret it....."

The hall fell silent immediately.

"You! You're spewing blood..."

Wu Shichang was completely panicked, and his two red eyes stared at Zhou Kun fiercely.

Zhou Kun suddenly stopped crying and raised his head to look at Dai Quan, "I have a letter here that can prove that Song Shangshu's death is related to Wu Shichang. ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a letter from his bosom.

Glancing at the letter in Zhou Kun's hand, Wu Shichang was not hysterical as he imagined, with a hint of a smile on his face--- looking at Emperor Tianyou, who was high on the throne, he suddenly burst out laughing, laughed, shook his head and said, "This is your means?" .... But that's it! It seems that you are ready and determined to destroy the family such as me, but you have destroyed Jiangsu and Zhejiang, what do you use to defend against the grassland people! Don't expect to steal a lot of money from us families. ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a lot of discussion in the hall, and Emperor Tianyou laughed and nodded at Dai Quan.

Dai Quan stepped forward, took out a holy decree, and said loudly: "Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and says: Wu Shichang, the imperial historian, murdered the court officials, and Zhu Wuxiang, the third son of the traffic emperor, plotted against him, and wanted to cause chaos. Chin this! ”

At this moment, a eunuch hurriedly walked in, almost tripped on the threshold, then knelt on the ground, and said urgently: "Your Majesty.... Out, something went wrong.... Three, the third prince, he... He..."

Dai Quan hurriedly walked over and shouted, "What's wrong?" ”

The eunuch put his head to Dai Quan's ear and whispered, "The third prince is gone!" ”

Dai Quan was stunned, and it took him a long time to come to his senses, he waved his hand, signaled the eunuch to retreat, turned around and walked to Emperor Tianyou to tell him the news.

Emperor Tianyou stood up and hurriedly walked out.....

Half an hour later, the entire upper echelons of Shenjing got the news.

Zhu Wuxiang, the king of Shu, hanged himself!