At this time, the Wei State was in an extremely terrifying political atmosphere.

Why this kind of atmosphere only appears in the Wei State at present, this is not an accidental situation, since Cao Shuang, the Wei State has entered this extreme political atmosphere, and the wave of Sima Yi has entered the climax.

At this moment, there are not many people who are openly opposing Cao Chengsi, it does not mean that he has really won the hearts of the people, in the invisible corner, there are countless people staring at Cao Chengsi's flaws.

The emperor was young, which was not good for the political struggle, and many people were waiting for the emperor to grow up a little.

At that time, there will be countless people who will stand on the side of the emperor to defeat Cao Chenghe, and this is the political logic since the Later Han Dynasty.

But most people don't realize that times have changed, and now it is not the era it used to be, but Cao Chengsi realizes this, and his madness is unimaginable to others.

No one could have imagined that it was just a little change from the Queen Mother, which directly made him think of killing the king.

This kind of madness, even if you let Sima Yi go, you can't do it.

……

In the palace, the majestic and gorgeous palace is still as calm as before, but the people running back and forth in the palace are panicked and anxious.

On the bed in the hall, the little emperor was lying on the bed with a sallow face, the queen mother held his little hand while weeping, and a group of imperial doctors knelt beside the bed, all of whom looked panicked.

Another imperial doctor shook his head and knelt there, helpless.

The child's body is too fragile for even a good pediatrician in modern times, let alone in this era, when Luo's was dying, he left the medical saint as the head of the family, and it was for this reason.

The Queen Mother was completely desperate, she was counting on her son for everything, but now she saw that the emperor was about to die, and said hatefully: "Execute all those palace servants who look at the emperor, even the emperor can't see it well, what's the use of living."

If you can cure the emperor, I will give you a prince, but if you can't cure it, you will all die. ”

As soon as these words came out, the imperial doctors immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed their heads like pounding garlic, and begged the queen mother to spare their lives.

The Queen Mother's younger brother hurriedly walked into the hall and said something in the Queen Mother's ear, and the anger on the Queen Mother's face deepened when she heard it, and she gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "Cao Chenghei, I don't share the sky with you." ”

As soon as she said this, the eunuchs and palace ladies in the palace immediately lowered their heads, their expressions full of panic.

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Gong E's scream, and hurriedly saw that the emperor's chest had no rise and fall, and he died directly, she was extremely sad, and cried out: "Emperor." ”

I don't know how long it took for her to recover from her grief, first let her brother execute all the people in the palace, and then took her brother's hand and said: "To avenge the emperor, call Cao Chengsi into the palace, and then hack him to death, in order to eliminate the hatred in my heart, kill Cao Chenghe, we can set up a new emperor, otherwise he will definitely ascend the throne, his bloodline is almost the recent." ”

The younger brother of the Queen Mother already had this kind of thought, so he immediately nodded and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, the queen mother will definitely get this matter done, so that Cao Chenghe, the thief who killed the king, will pay for his blood debts and blood, and he must not live in the world at ease with a traitor like him who should go down in history." ”

The slightly calm city of Chang'an was shocked by the sudden death of the emperor, and the queen mother issued a decree in the palace to let the ministers enter the palace to mourn for the emperor, which is a normal operation, and most people entered the palace directly without thinking too much.

But Cao Chengsi didn't think so, he knew that the emperor was definitely going to die, and the news of the emperor's death was true, but as a person who was good at playing with conspiracy, he didn't like to put himself in danger, and seeing that there was only one step left before the throne, he didn't want any accidents.

But it's not okay not to enter the palace, the emperor is dead, but he doesn't enter the palace as a courtier, doesn't that tell everyone that this matter has nothing to do with him, although Cao Chengsi is shameless to the extreme, but he wants to get a good reputation as much as possible, and this kind of thing naturally can't have anything to do with him.

He thought about it in the palace, first asked people to clean up the palace ban, replaced his most elite dead soldiers, and then put armor in the inner lining, and then brought the guards with him, he had to protect himself.

When they arrived at the palace, everyone else was in official uniforms, but Cao Chengsi was like this, which naturally attracted the attention of a lot of people, and someone immediately asked: "General, what is the matter with the escort into the palace?" ”

Cao Chengsi replied coldly: "The queen mother's relatives just entered the palace, Your Majesty suddenly died, this king thinks that there must be something strange in it, now in the royal family of the Cao clan of the Great Wei, this king has a close bloodline, high prestige, and strong ability, this king is worried that someone is dissatisfied with this king, is there anything wrong with this?" ”

Cao Chengsi got straight to the point, and suddenly made the other courtiers a little speechless, he knew that he would hide it, but he would talk directly, and he did not hide his ambition for the throne, as a descendant of Emperor Wu, at this time, if he said that he had no thoughts about the throne, it would be simply self-deception.

With this excuse, there is a reason to bring a little guard into the palace, if he is unwilling, then he will not enter the palace, and no one can accuse him at that time.

Under the guidance of the guards, the group quickly entered the palace, and the white silk cloth had been hung on it, and there was a solemn and sad feeling, and all the ministers walked forward with white cloth tied around their waists.

Cao Chengsi was sure that the emperor was really dead, and he couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, and looked left and right, and his dead man also appeared here, and his heart gradually relaxed.

The group walked to the palace, the emperor's coffin was ready, Cao Chengsi had just stepped into the palace door, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, the queen mother had never called her name from beginning to end.

This is quite unreasonable, he is the person that the Queen Mother has always trusted, and among the officials present, he is also the most powerful person, and the Queen Mother should not ignore herself no matter what.

He took a look through the light outside the hall, and saw that the Queen Mother's face was tense, but her eyes wandered from time to time, something was wrong, quite wrong.

This queen mother, I don't have a good heart!

Cao Chenghei lives by himself, at this time, if there is a marksman ambushed on the roof, or behind the coffin, and he kowtows in front of the coffin, it will immediately be the end of ascending to heaven.

Thinking of this, Cao Chengsi kept walking, and asked loudly: "Queen Mother, what are the black shadows on the beams of the roof and behind the coffin, as well as the black shadows in the corners?" ”

His deception, the Queen Mother, who was already extremely nervous, immediately couldn't hold back, thinking that she was recognized by Cao Chengsi, and immediately screamed: "Kill Cao Chengsi, the traitor who killed the king!" ”

This one.

Like a cold wind from the far north, blowing through the cold ice field, and then blowing in the palace at this moment, everyone was stunned in place, thinking that they had heard it wrong, and they only had time to turn their heads to look at the Queen Mother.

Cao Chengsi only felt that the soul was in danger, and he didn't know where he was exposed, so he saw a few majestic figures suddenly standing up behind the coffin, Cao Chengsi instinctively withdrew from the hall, and heard the arrow nailed to the ground, and the feathers at the end of the arrow were even trembling slightly.

A breath of death rushed directly onto his Heavenly Spirit Gai.

This sudden change stunned everyone, and such a big thing happened in the emperor's mourning hall.

The Queen Mother wants to make a move against the general, and the undisguised killing intention, if it weren't for Cao Chenghe's precautions, he would have been a corpse lying on the ground now.

And what did the Queen Mother just say?

Regicide?

The emperor died because of the general?

This sounds a bit ridiculous, but now I think it's very possible, but it is really what Cao Chengsi did after clearing out other auxiliary ministers, and he is definitely not a loyal minister.

Seeing Cao Chengsi dodging, the Queen Mother was anxious and angry, and roared angrily: "Look at what to do, kill Cao Chengsi, the emperor was killed by him, you all have to watch the monarch killer get away with it?" ”

Cao Chengsi hid behind the guards and quibbled loudly: "Queen Mother, who is slandering me, the emperor was never killed by me, I am the loyalty of the country, how can you slander me like this?" ”

But the Queen Mother didn't give Cao Chengsi a chance to speak at all, Cao Chengsi knew that at this point, simple quibbling was useless, his eyes were ruthless, and he immediately shouted: "Queen Mother, you have been deceived by traitors, and the minister can only be offended, if there is a chance in the future, the minister will be guilty again."

, kill all these traitors who deceived the Queen Mother, and return the world to a bright future. ”

The most sacred place in the Wei country, actually started to fire directly, arrows flew in the air, and there were bursts of screams, those courtiers were miserable, they didn't wear armor, whether it was the queen mother or Cao Chenghe, they didn't think about leaving their hands to prevent them from being injured, and suddenly dozens of people were shot by stray arrows, and they were simply unjustly killed.

The rest of the people either ran towards the temple or to the sides, vowing to stay away from this land of right and wrong.

Cao Chengsi has more manpower, and gradually has the upper hand, this time the Queen Mother's face is even more difficult to see, she thought that today was foolproof, but she didn't expect Cao Chenghe's power to have reached such a point.

In the palace, he was not Cao Chengsi's opponent, Cao Chengsi was hiding in the army, and when he saw that the situation was gradually tilting to his side, he couldn't help but feel relieved, but what he was worried about now was whether to kill the Queen Mother, and these courtiers, if the Queen Mother was killed, then these courtiers would have to die.

Since he ascended to the throne step by step, those who resisted him have been killed a lot, and now he is not afraid to kill him, but he is really all killed, he doesn't know who will rule the huge Wei State for him, and the most important thing is that if he kills these people, the charge of killing the king will really be placed on his head.

As the number of soldiers under the Queen Mother's command gradually decreased, the Queen Mother woke up from her anger, her face became more and more pale, and she began to feel afraid.

Among the courtiers who hid before, there were still some more upright courtiers who had not been killed before, and couldn't help but stand up and say: "General, it's no longer right to use swords and soldiers in the palace without permission, do you still want to kill the queen mother in front of the world?" ”

Cao Chengsi immediately said loudly when he heard this: "This king is the loyalty of the country, and what he has done now is forced by the queen mother, if the queen mother is willing to lay down her arms and hand over the traitor who bewitched her, this king is absolutely unwilling to see blood." ”

Someone else stood up and said: "The general Empress Dowager said that you killed the king, and if this happens, you should come out to confront the Empress Dowager, clear your guilt, and return your innocence, instead of doing these rebellious things here." ”

These people are ostensibly reconciling contradictions, but in fact they are biased towards the Queen Mother, but under Cao Chenghe's obscenity, they don't dare to say it directly, and those who dare to say it in the court have been dealt with by Cao Chengsi.

Luo's has influenced the world for more than a thousand years, and there are naturally a lot of scholars cultivated, but that can't withstand Cao Chengsi's killing, the weapon of criticism is not as good as the criticism of weapons, and he scolded Cao Chengsi twice, but in the end it was Cao Chengsi's butcher's knife.

In other words, this kind of butcher knife has been wielding in Wei for many, many years, and it is not just Cao Chenghei alone.

The Queen Mother was still hesitating what to do, the soldiers under Cao Chenghei had already entered the hall, and there were only dozens of people left around the Queen Mother, Cao Chengsi also entered the hall and said loudly: "Queen Mother, the minister wants to talk to you and solve the misunderstanding between us, but the minister really doesn't want me to let Wei Guozhong have such a tragic thing." ”

Seeing that the general trend was gone, especially the corpses falling beside her, the bright red blood, and the imminent death made her fear reach the peak, and she could only agree to Cao Chenghe's request.

Cao Chengsi talked to the Queen Mother, naturally not to let other courtiers hear, he first glanced at the corner, and then glanced at the people around him, made a movement to wipe his neck, and then walked to the side with the Queen Mother under the protection of several dead soldiers.

The historian in the corner only felt the shadow coming, hid the paper in his arms, opened his mouth to say something, only to see the soldier directly swing his sword and stab through his body, the blood soaked the words recorded in his arms, and the ink marks that had not yet dried up were mixed with blood, and the original appearance could not be seen at all.

The soldiers pulled the paper out of their bosoms, they didn't recognize the words on it, they tore it to pieces, and the blood-stained words were scattered.

Wei Guotaishi's eyes widened, he stared at the fluttering paper, his eyes were full of pain, "Supreme King Su, Divine Luoshen, when will Luo's return to the world, the sacred Qingshi has been trampled, I hate it!"

The history is clear, and it is covered with dust. ”

An incident that happened in this corner did not attract Cao Chenghe's attention, and it was not the first time he had done these things in the past many years, and there was no more such group of Luo Clans in the way in this world.

Die well.

This is the truest thought in Cao Chengsi's heart, he really hates Luo's family, what morality he talks about every day, even the dignified Son of Heaven has to be confined to restrictions, this is a world where the weak eat the strong, a strong man like him should stand at the top of the world, and everyone else must worship and surrender to him.

Cao Chengsi and the Queen Mother walked into the corner, facing Cao Chengsi who had completely gained the upper hand, the Queen Mother didn't know what she could talk to him, she just asked with a frosty face: "Cao Chengsi, this is what you have always wanted, right?"

Blame Yu blindly believed you, and when you come to this point, I'm sorry for your ancestors. ”

Cao Chengsi sneered and said: "Queen Mother, that's my Cao Chenghe's ancestors and ancestors, what nonsense are you talking about here, it's really funny." ”

The Queen Mother's delicate body trembled lightly and said coldly: "Cao Chenghei, are you here to humiliate you?" Then let's die together, and see if the charge of killing the Queen Mother can make you die in the spitting of thousands of people. ”

Cao Chengsi laughed softly: "Queen Mother, you don't have to scare this king, if you really have the courage to seek death, you won't talk nonsense with this king here now, in fact, you just don't dare to do these things, so you are standing here."

Death is indeed the most frightening thing in the world.

You don't want to die, I can prevent you from dying, and give you glory and wealth, it's as simple as that.

And, you have the life you have now, shouldn't you thank me?

Among Cao Chao's concubines, you are not favored, if it weren't for the crown prince to succeed to the throne, would you have your current status?

Not to mention becoming the queen mother and living a pampered life.

A woman who has no husband and no son, who is just thirty years old and cannot remarry, what will the rest of your life be like?

As long as you support me to become the emperor and take back the words of killing the king, I will let you live in the palace and give you all the provisions of the queen mother, which can be said to be extremely favorable. ”

The figure of the Queen Mother couldn't help but tremble, Cao Chengsi looked at the Queen Mother, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a little smile, he believed that the Queen Mother would definitely agree.

He still understands the Queen Mother, in fact, it is beyond his expectation that the Queen Mother dares to raise troops with him today, but the nature of the country is easy to change, and the cowardly nature of the Queen Mother will definitely give in.

……

Cao Chengsi ascended the throne and became the emperor in front of the still living courtiers, but he may be the most illegitimate emperor when he ascended the throne, an emperor who came to power through a military coup, whether the emperor was killed or not, but countless rumors are enough to make him a laughing stock, and in the history books, he will not be recorded as a succession to the throne.

In addition, the history books of the Three Kingdoms will definitely be written in large volumes, and all kinds of speculations will be written, although I don't know what happened in Wei, but they can be compiled.

Cao Chenghe's desire to cover up can't convince the Wei people, those officials don't dare to speak, but those scholars do, although the scholars have entered the stage of the gate valve, but no matter what the stage, there are those hot-blooded scholars.

In the previous few things, the reason why there are few people who oppose Cao Chengsi is because Cao Chengsi has done relatively clean hands and tails, and he has picked himself cleanly, but no matter how he deals with this matter, it is impossible to deal with it cleanly.

The ugly face can be said to be completely exposed, and those righteous scholars broke out, criticizing Cao Chengsi in the streets and alleys of Chang'an and in the academy.

Cao Chenghe, who had just become the emperor, sat on the throne, his face was full of pride, and he felt that he had completely reached the peak of his life.

He quickly regained his mind, he not only wanted to become the emperor of Wei, but also the emperor of the whole world, and then he learned the news that was coming from the streets and alleys of Chang'an, and he was immediately furious.

A will came from the palace, this was Cao Chenghe's first will, but it was not a holy decree of amnesty, but a will to kill.

"I have heard that since ancient times, subjects have always spoken respectfully to the king, so that the king can be merciful to his people.

But what do I see now?

Is it permissible for people to criticize their king with harsh language?

I want to be a benevolent emperor, but there are many who don't want to, and they force me to be angry.

I want to tell the subjects of Wei here that I cannot tolerate the words of the Confucians, and that they are there to spread rumors and slander my character.

I know that some people criticize me with the words of Mencius, I know that some people use the words of Mozi to accuse me, and I know that some people use the words of the two sages of Luokong to admonish me.

To slander my sainthood with the words of the so-called saints is unbearable in the heavens, and this is the sorrow of the saints.

Only with the most severe punishment should be admonished to these people, and in this way, to all men. ”

This decree was accompanied by countless officials who walked out of the palace and the palace, and then arrested those who were talking in the streets and alleys.

For example, there are a lot of readers today, in the pre-Han Dynasty, there were more than 10,000 readers in Taixue, and in almost every country, there were a large number of readers gathered in the capital, and Wei was no exception.

This scene almost instantly reminds people of the book burning pit Confucianism during the Qin Dynasty, or that the book burning pit Confucianism was a small matter in front of this matter, because there were not so many Meng Confucians in the Qin Dynasty.

Under the curses of countless people, the scholars were arrested and then died in prison, and almost every day people died in prison, because Cao Chengsi insisted that someone must have instigated it.

His thoughts were not wrong, but it was impossible to find the true messenger of the Lord, just as those who had opposed him, many of whom were upright, spoke out of the morality of their hearts.

There are countless scholars in this world, how can there not be some righteous people in their hearts?

Luo's has been gone for tens or hundreds of years, and such a long time has been able to change very quickly for a national dynasty, but for an academic thought, there are not many changes.

The change in academic thought is slow.

After Rock's departure, the whole society was degenerating, but scholarship was not degenerating, so there were many anachronistic people, who were still stuck in the last era.

Those ministers who faced Cao Chengsi were dead, and now it was the turn of these Wei scholars who had never seen Cao Chengsi.

Those scholars who were born in Confucianism, those last remaining Huang Lao students, those Mojia students who have hardly expressed their opinions in the political arena, and many upright Confucian students.

In this round of storms, he almost bore the brunt of the storm and directly faced Cao Chengsi.

The opposite side of the two sides seems to be like a collision of two eras.

There have been emperors like Cao Chenghe, but they were all quickly ousted in the end, such as Emperor Han Er, and even Emperor Ling of Han, who implemented the scourge of party control, did not dare to kill scholars on a large scale, and there were only hundreds of scholars he killed.

And those people are on the list.

But Cao Chengsi is not like this, he is completely killing according to the school, but anyone who studies several classics such as Meng Ru and participates in a rally in Chang'an City will be killed.

"The national glory of Wei will not last long."

"If you do this kind of thing that people and gods are angry about, the Wei State will be destroyed."

"Faint King, Faint King, I want to watch you die."

Countless curses sounded in Chang'an City, and even the listeners only felt related.

But Chang'an City did not fall into chaos, because Cao Chengsi strictly controlled the streets and alleys, allowing these wails to resound in prison.

"Plucking out their tongues, knocking out their teeth, and cutting off their hands and feet is the price to pay for cursing a king.

No matter what happens, I will face it head-on, even if it is a raging storm, and you rebellious people must not shake my persistence. ”

Cao Chengsi coldly ordered, declaring his strong will to the entire Chang'an City, and no words could shake his strong heart.

This unrepentant attitude makes people feel only frightened, and the flattering villain soon surrounds Cao Chengsi, there are always some people in this world who have a straight backbone, and Cao Chengsi chooses to interrupt them all.

He has read a lot of history, those emperors always let go of those courtiers who dared to admonish, so those courtiers were able to become famous, and the emperor became a negative type, he would never let people become famous through himself, those so-called people who admonished, he would let them all die in misery, and when those people died, there would be no one to oppose him.

There was a faint smell of blood wafting through Chang'an City, and corpses wrapped in straw mats were transported out of prison, faintly dripping from carts, and all these corpses were thrown into mass graves twenty miles outside Chang'an City.

There are wolves and wild mice all day long, and these corpses will eventually become a white skeleton that has been gnawed away.

One after another, the people of Chang'an City went from astonishment to numbness, and no one knew how many people died in prison, and not many people knew the names of these people.

No matter what happened in life, it was just a straw mat wrapped in a straw mat, and then there was no place to bury it.

Will anyone regret it?

There will definitely be.

There is a great terror between life and death, which is not something ordinary people dare to step into.

But will there be anyone who doesn't regret it?

Even if you do it all over again, will it still be the same?

Yes.

There is such a group of people in this world, they have light in their hearts, and these people naturally cannot illuminate the heavy darkness alone.

But when these people come together, they spread the light throughout the world.

Before these people died, many people were nostalgic for the Luo family, the family that has always led the world to the light of the world for the past 1,400 years.

Come back.

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Cao Chengheyin made the eunuchs kill Emperor Wei, and the empress dowager lewd, killing dozens of courtiers in order to seize the throne, and he was a traitor and a thief, and people and gods were angry. ——"The Relics of the Wei State (Yan Taishi)"

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Cao Chenghei secretly passed through the palace, Emperor Wei was ill, and the heir was in medicine, causing Emperor Wei to collapse, and the heir forced the empress dowager to submit, and killed more than 100 people who were loyal to Zheng, and the Wei people all hid their faces and wept. ——"The Legend of the Palace Changes of Wei Chounian (The Legend of King Liang)"

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Inheriting the heir of the Yin Owl, quite Xiao Qizu, Wei Wu forced Han Sheng, inherited the heir to kill Emperor Wei, slaughtered Chang'an, killed and injured tens of thousands, and truly inherited the virtue of the ancestors. ——"The Biography of Wei Thieves (Ji Han Record)"

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