Wei Ran sat alone in Shangshu Province, and he felt very powerless about the current situation of the Southern Qi court.

The situation that the family has mastered the government for many years cannot be solved overnight.

Even if you kill so many family lords, but where there are people, there is the right to fight, there is desire, and if you destroy a local family, a new powerful will soon appear, and after they are not satisfied with the accumulation of wealth, they will want to obtain higher rights.

Outside Jiankang City, the Imperial Forest Army broke into Liu Cheng and Luo Datong's mansions, and arrested all the people in the two mansions, and the entire Jiankang City was panicked in an instant.

After learning the news, some ministers who had a close relationship with Luo Datong and Liu Cheng also stayed in the mansion like pins and needles.

Although they didn't know exactly what had happened, Wei Ran had just returned on the front foot, and he was making a big move in Jiankang City on the back foot, which made it difficult for these ministers not to think about whether Wei Ran had begun to eliminate dissidents.

Especially those ministers who have criticized Wei Ran on various occasions have already begun to arrange the aftermath at home.

However, Wei Ran's mind is obviously not on these ants, and through the interrogation of Luo Datong, Wei Ran can be regarded as having a general understanding of the reason.

Originally, some gate valve families joined forces, intending to let Xiao Yi gain greater power and gain Xiao Ju's trust, so that when Wei Ran was leading troops outside, they could weaken Wei Ran's influence in the court, so that Xiao Ju could slowly alienate Wei Ran, but Xiao Ju's trust in Wei Ran was not something that these gate valves could understand.

Therefore, when Xiao Ju suddenly fell ill, the gate valve family felt that a good opportunity had come, and if there was a new emperor, the power would be reshuffled, but Xiao Ju was a recurrence of the old disease, and it was enough to recuperate, so they asked the imperial doctor to find a way to let Xiao Ju sleep all the time, and took the opportunity to lobby the orphans and widows, and wanted to take advantage of the power reshuffle in the court when Empress Yang was in power.

People are not as good as heaven, I didn't expect Wei Ran to return to Jiankang too quickly, and only brought a hundred people back to Jiankang, if it was to transfer the army back to Jiankang, they could also use the name of trying to rebel to deceive the people, but Wei Ran brought people obviously couldn't rebel, so they wanted to delay time, and continued to lobby Yang Lan to start during this sensitive period.

But Wei Ran's courage is very comparable, not to mention that he himself is reckless in doing things, and his character of starting a fight if he disagrees is even more than the Southern Dynasty.

After Xiao Ju became seriously ill, there had been no court meeting for many days, and all things were handled in Zhongshu Province, so Wei Ran ordered in the name of Yang Lan to have a court meeting tomorrow.

This move caused dissatisfaction among many ministers, Wei Ran had the right to organize a court meeting, and such an arrogant move obviously did not pay attention to the court's etiquette.

Wei Ran, who returned to the Qin Palace, informed Xiao Yanran of the matter, Xiao Yanran, as the eldest princess of the dynasty and Xiao Ju's younger sister, was naturally indignant, and hurriedly asked, "How does the husband plan to deal with a few people?"

The few people Xiao Yanran said naturally referred to Luo Tongda and others, Wei Ran pinched Xiao Yanran's face and said, "What can I do?" Kill it all and you're done. ”

Hearing that Wei Ran was going to kill again, Yuan Shu said beside him: "Husband wants to kill again?" Since coming to Nanqi, Fujun has been killing people every year, and the officials of Nanqi and the people of the gate lord family who died at the hands of Fujun are afraid that they have already exceeded 10,000. ”

When Wei Ran heard this, he was not angry, but turned back to Yuan Shu and said: "I only kill those who do evil, besides, these people can give birth very well, the children in the family can give birth to more than pigs, Your Majesty is in poor health, this incident has also given us a wake-up call, we must kill them." ”

Wei Ran's words made the second daughter feel that the air around her seemed to be cold, and Xiao Yanran wanted to persuade Wei Ran.

Wei Ran directly stretched out his hand to stop her: "I know what you mean, but now that we are the target of public criticism, for your safety, I also have to control all the rights in my own hands." Although Yang Lan is now the queen, she is already a member of the Xiao family, if I don't return to Jiankang in time this time, I'm afraid she will really be bewitched by thieves. ”

Yuan Shu hurriedly grabbed Wei Ran's arm: "Husband, you won't want to abolish Yang Lan, right?" ”

Wei Ran couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and then shook his head: "After all, she is my sister-in-law, and she is the daughter of Yang Hu." You have to go to the palace more in the future and talk to Yang Lan more, the throne will definitely be passed on to Ye'er, after all, it is His Majesty's only son. What I can do is to have real imperial power in my hands after Ye'er is in power. ”

In the early morning of the next day, outside the Taiji Hall in Taicheng, although the Wuyang was full of people, everyone did not dare to make a sound

The ministers looked forward and saw Wei Ran wearing a python robe and a sharp sword at his waist, standing at the head of the hundred officials, and the guards outside the Taiji Hall were not the Imperial Forest Army, but the Tianxiong Army transferred from Dongfu overnight.

This made the ministers even more frightened, and they didn't know what Wei Ran planned to do today.

As the gate of the Taiji Hall slowly opened, Wei Ran took the lead and walked into the hall, followed by Xiao Yi.

At this time, Xiao Ye sat on the dragon chair in the name of the prison country, but after all, he was still an ignorant child, sitting on the dragon chair and looking around, seeing everyone facing down, Xiao Ye suddenly cried for some reason.

Yang Lan hurriedly came out from behind the screen, and after comforting her, she stopped Xiao Ye's crying, and just when Yang Lan was about to retreat behind the screen, Wei Ran said loudly: "The prince is young, and the queen is still staying by the prince's side, and she has calmed down." ”

The implication was to let Yang Lan sit on the dragon chair with Xiao Ye in her arms, Yang Lan was quite embarrassed and was about to excuse herself, but when she saw Wei Ran's eyes, she sat down helplessly.

This sat down, the whole court was in an uproar, and the whispers of the court were endless.

Seeing this, Wei Ran snorted coldly and said to everyone: "This is the court meeting, not the vegetable market, if you like to talk privately, you adults can go to the room, go to the bed, blow the wind in your ears, whisper in the court, what kind of system!" ”

As soon as these words came out, it can be said that all the ministers present scolded them all over again, and even the corners of Yuan Muzhi's mouth twitched.

Wei Ran then shouted, "Bring people up!" ”

Then I saw Tianxiongjun with Luo Datong, Liu Cheng, and Wang Siyi to the palace, and threw them to the ground like garbage.

Everyone looked at it at this time, and saw that the flesh and blood of the three people were blurred, and there was no intact place on their bodies, and after they were thrown on the ground, the three of them howled in pain.

With such a scene, even Yang Lan couldn't bear to look at it.

Wei Ran coldly swept over everyone, and saw that everyone's eyes were full of fear, so he said: "These people, first provoked the relationship between the king of Xiang and the king, and after the failure of the provocation, they took advantage of His Majesty's serious illness to instigate the queen to attack the king, and finally led troops outside the healthy city with the intention of killing the king, and the king wanted to put them to death, do you have any opinions?" ”

At this time, Wang Haozhi, the commander of the Royal Forest Army, said loudly: "King Qin, Wang Siyi is a member of our Wang clan after all, my grandfather died for His Majesty's great cause in the past, and if you want to deal with Wang Siyi, you have to wait for Your Majesty to speak in person." ”

With Wang Haozhi making the first bird, many ministers immediately echoed it, and they all asked Wei Ran not to abuse the punishment and dispose of the second-grade Shangshu order, which was not something that he could call the shots of a vassal king with a foreign surname.

Wei Ran then glanced at Wang Hao: "In the past in the Fengyi Palace, someone tried to murder the prince through your Imperial Forest Army, Your Majesty took pity on you as a member of the Wang clan, so he did not punish you, and now who gave you dog guts and dared to bark in front of me." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wang Haozhi's face changed greatly, and then he showed dissatisfaction, and he was about to step forward to argue with Wei Ran.

Wei Ran didn't want to deal with him at all, so he just said: "Come on, kill these three people directly, and Luo Datong has colluded with the southern gate valve, this king knows that many people in the court are also connected with them, this king reiterates here again, in the future, this dynasty needs to rely on students to govern the world, not rely on the father's budding shade or recommendation, if these gate valves want to nominate spokespersons in the court for their benefit, this king does not mind letting the Yangtze River become boiling blood!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, and Wang Haozhi said: "There is no precedent for our dynasty to kill ministers with a cane above the court. ”

Wei Ran smiled: "Then you saw it today!" Come on, give me a cane to kill! ”

Under the gaze of the ministers, Luo Datong and the three of them were directly killed on the Taiji Palace, Yang Lan hurriedly held Xiao Ye in her arms, and then covered Xiao Ye's ears.

In the midst of the screams, the three of them were beaten to death on the spot, and the death was not tragic.

Even Xiao Yi couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, when the dynasty killed Shang Shuling, there had never been so many dynasties, and in the past, he had to behave like this, find a side hall, give poisoned wine, and declare that he died violently, Wei Ran directly beat them to death, which is really unheard of.

Wei Ran then called the historian and said, "Write it down, these three people intended to plot chaos and were killed by the rod in the Taiji Palace. ”

The historian reluctantly wrote down this time, Wei Ran then took the historian's book and looked at it, and then threw it back to the historian: "Being a man can't be a person for a hundred years, but also for ten thousand years, today this king has fulfilled their desire to leave a stench for ten thousand years, they should be happy, especially Wang Heiyi, a dog-like person, can also leave a name in the history books." ”

Hearing Wei Ran scolding like this, Wang Haozhi's anger had reached the extreme, and he roared at Wei Ran: "Wei Ran, don't deceive people too much!" ”

Wei Ran heard the roar from behind him, and did not answer, but said again: "Wang Haozhi, the commander of the Royal Forest Army, relies on the favor of His Majesty, does many illegal things, robs people's daughters, occupies people's land, and even molests the wives of subordinates. ”

When Wang Haozhi heard this, he was struck by lightning, and then shouted: "You don't have this right, the Royal Forest Army belongs to Your Majesty." ”

Yang Lan said at this time: "Your Majesty is seriously ill now, and the future will assist the crown prince in supervising the country, according to what King Qin said." ”

The reason why Yang Lan was so decisive was that Wei Ran reminded him that in the Fengyi Palace in the past, it was this incompetent commander of the Imperial Forest Army who almost made her and the prince suffer, but now that Wei Ran has opened his mouth, he will take advantage of the situation and drive this person out of the court.

Wang Haozhi was about to resist, Wei Ran clapped his hands, and brought in four generals, all of whom were Wang Haozhi's cronies and generals in the Imperial Forest Army.

As soon as the four of them entered the hall, they quickly knelt on the ground and began to accuse Wang Haozhi of his crimes.

Wang Haozhi suddenly became angry, and pointed to a few people who couldn't speak.

Wei Ran then waved his hand, and a few soldiers came in and dragged Wang Haozhi down.

After dealing with these things, Wei Ran said: "Ministers, don't think that this king is too cruel, Your Majesty has woken up, this is also what Your Majesty means, after Your Majesty can go to court, everyone can ask Your Majesty." Now that my Northern Expedition is at an important time, if you want to play some tricky games in normal times, this king will also play with you, but now whoever stops my Northern Expedition, who prevents me from sweeping the world, then don't blame this king for using extraordinary means. ”

Hearing Wei Ran's naked threat, the ministers of the court and the central government couldn't help but tremble at this time, and they didn't dare to say more.

After the next dynasty, several senior officials of the court and the central government gathered together to drink, and one of them said: "Your Majesty raises tigers for trouble, Wei Ran's current actions, even Huo Guang is afraid that it is nothing more than that." ”

Hearing this, the rest of the people were all startled, and hurriedly said, "Shen Youzhi, hurry up and stop talking, don't set yourself on fire." ”

After Shen Youzhi heard this, he could only keep silent, but at this time, another person said: "Now only when the prince ascends the throne, how can the prince ascend the throne, how can he tolerate a powerful minister like Wei Ran?" His Majesty and Wei Ran are friends of life and death, with deep feelings, once a son of heaven and a courtier, if Wei Ran wants to maintain the character of a loyal monarch, then he must get the order of the new emperor, if Wei Ran is not respected, it means that this person is indeed a wolf ambition. ”

When Shen Youzhi heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Stupid, Wei Ran's actions today, do you want to see him to someone who cares about such comments?" It's not a secret, Wei Ran is indeed very courageous, and his methods are extremely rough and simple, no wonder he has almost never been defeated on the battlefield, he doesn't play cards according to common sense, and he doesn't care about credibility, and he fights against this kind of person, before Xiao Luan, Xiao Yin, lost is indeed unjust. ”

After Wei Ran went down to the court, he did not leave the palace, but went directly to the Shangyuan Palace.

At this time, Xiao Ju had woken up, although he could only be bedridden, but his overall spirit was much better than yesterday, and when he heard that Wei Ran had directly killed three people in the Taiji Hall today, and also drove Wang Haozhi out of Jiankang, Xiao Ju was also quite speechless.

Xiao Ju didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only look at Wei Ran with a wry smile: "Brother Wei's move is quite impulsive." ”

Wei Ran didn't care, just looked at Xiao Ju, who was yellow, and said: "Your Majesty, this is a trivial matter, the minister just hates, the great time of the Northern Expedition, Wei Chen has captured the Hanging Gourd, and is preparing to seize the land near the Hanging Gourd, and the Bingfeng can be pointed directly at the two Qin, but the great cause is blocked by these small people." ”

Hearing Wei Ran's words, Xiao Ju was also silent, and Wei Ran's long-cherished wish to dominate the world was also Xiao Ju's long-cherished wish.

Originally, Xiao Ju felt that it was impossible for the Southern Dynasty to unify the Northern Dynasty, but now under a series of plans, there is indeed a great opportunity, and Xiao Ju can only say desolately: "My body, in my lifetime, I am afraid that I will not see Wei Di make miraculous achievements." ”