Hongguang is thirty-one years, and the winter moon is twelve.

This is a day destined to be remembered by history.

Because on this day, too many big things happened.

Emperor Chu Ling died, leaving an edict and ordering the crown prince Chu Long to succeed to the throne, but the edict was tampered with by his most trusted palm seal eunuch Wei Minghuan, and the youngest third prince Chu Ming was recommended to succeed him.

The Prince's East Palace mobilized skilled eunuchs, and with the support of Hua Taishi and other ministers and generals, staged a coup d'état.

Immediately afterwards, the mother concubine of the second prince Chu Xiong, united with a group of relatives and magnates, mobilized the guards of the capital city into the palace, and tried to force the palace.

The three princes fought in full swing in order to compete for the throne.

But no one thought of it.

Chu Feng, the eldest princess who has been imprisoned for many years, was welcomed back by Xiao Hongwu, the commander of the Praetorian Guards, and the eight thousand Imperial Forest Guards all obeyed his orders.

and invited an Innate Realm Ancestor who had been in retreat for many years in the royal family, and got his support.

A congenital shot is devastating.

At the first time, the prince's personal guards were captured, the party was wiped out, and the great eunuch Wei Minghuan was killed on the spot.

Immediately afterwards, many families in Beijing responded to the call of the eldest princess outside the palace.

The private soldiers and guards who had been gathered for many years were jointly dispatched, and the inside and outside should be combined to defeat the city guards who tried to attack the palace.

This turmoil, from the inside out, affected almost the entire imperial capital.

The battle in the Imperial City burned from dusk until the next morning, and then the curtain finally came to an end.

In the end, the eldest princess, who was well prepared, got the final victory.

The most powerful prince and the second prince were all killed on the spot, and all the supporters were also implicated.

On the contrary, it was the cowardly and young third prince who saved his life.

Because in the history of Chu State, there has never been a precedent for a woman to ascend the throne and claim the emperor, even if the eldest princess is eloquent and strategic, and has been planning for many years, but the law of the ancestors cannot be changed, if it is forcibly called the emperor, it will make the government and the opposition turbulent, and the Great Chu, who has just experienced this turmoil, can no longer afford any turmoil.

In the end, the ancestor of the royal family spoke, and the eldest princess could only compromise temporarily.

Leaving the three princes who are easy to control, they are ready to let them ascend the throne and become emperors, and they will temporarily stay behind the scenes.

So far.

This court turmoil, which was recorded in the annals as "The Tribulation of the Dragon and Phoenix", has only then settled.

Everyone is talking about the impact and changes brought about by this upheaval, busy purging the rebels, suppressing political opponents, drawing a line with former colleagues, or rushing to hug the thighs of the upstarts......

No one would have known that on this cold winter night, there was an old eunuch who died quietly in the wind and snow.

Except for Su Chen.

……

The next day.

Dawn breaks.

Su Chen put on the mourning clothes sent by the Department of Internal Affairs, but it was not for the emperor to wear filial piety.

He pushed open the courtyard door.

The two Praetorian Guards who were originally guarding outside have been recalled.

Su Chen got up and went out, he had to go to the Department of Internal Affairs to report the death of Gonggong Li, and then go to the back room and let people send the body out for burial.

At this time, the blood stains on the palace streets had not been cleaned up.

Many palace maids and eunuchs, under the supervision of the guards, dragged corpses one by one, threw them into the carriage like sundries, and then dragged them to the back room for centralized cremation.

The vast majority of these people don't even have their names left.

Like dust, they quietly disappeared into this deep palace and became victims of the struggle for imperial power.

"In this world, human life is like grass......"

Su Chen sighed in his heart.

If there was no immortal Dao seed, he might be like these people, either killed quietly, or like Gonggong Li, he died in a place where no one cared about.

But compared to before, Su Chen is much calmer now.

Maybe it's because I've seen too much life and death along the way.

He's starting to get used to it.

He didn't know if this kind of "numbness" that bordered on indifference was good or bad, but all he could do now was to make himself live better, and no matter how many people fell on the side of the road, he would keep moving forward.

"If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world. But as long as there are people, there will always be struggles, for power, for wealth, for women, for immortality...... No one can change that......"

Su Chen shook his head.

Put aside those sentimentality, these things, thinking too much, will only become the demons and distractions on the road to your own immortality.

……

"Dog minion, you are presumptuous......"

"Let go of Hongu! I am the concubine of the first emperor, and I am the daughter of the princess, what kind of thing are you, you dare to do anything to this palace! Get out of here, or watch your heads......"

When passing by Qionghua Palace, Su Chen heard a noise coming from inside.

Turn your head to look.

I saw a group of guards escorting a beautiful young woman out.

She looked no more than in her early twenties, dressed in silk and satin, gold and silver, and her makeup was luxurious, so that her originally delicate face had a bit of a worldly taste.

This woman is the unbeatable Concubine Hua at the beginning.

He once relied on the favor of Emperor Ling and the power in his family, his eyes were empty, he was very arrogant, and he often beat and scolded and even killed people in the palace.

The original little car was ordered by her to be beaten to death.

"Let go of me! Are you going to rebel? Although the first emperor is gone, my father is a court master, you dare to ......"

Concubine Hua obviously didn't know the situation yet, and when she was taken away by the Praetorian Guards, she was still screaming wildly.

Who knew that the captain who led the team was not used to her, so he slapped her directly.

said coldly: "Hua Rong followed the rebel party Chu Long, intending to tamper with the edict, seek power and usurp the country, and go against the grain, your Hua family has been punished!" The eldest princess remembered that you were loved by the first emperor, so she saved you face and let you go to the emperor's tomb to be buried, and accompany the first emperor forever......"

Hearing this, Concubine Hua's face turned pale.

The strength of the whole body seemed to be drained, and the body suddenly weakened, and there was no mental struggle, allowing the guards to drag away and drift away.

Su Chen looked at all this indifferently.

Seeing her rise up a tall building, seeing her feasting guests, and now seeing her building collapse, the world is impermanent, nothing more than that.

However, this Concubine Hua is also to blame.

If you can accumulate a little more virtue at the beginning, maybe you won't end up like this today.

Walking through the bloody streets, Su Chen returned to the Department of Internal Affairs.

Three years ago, he was sent out from here, and when he came back three years later, there was no change here, but some of the original familiar faces were now gone.

It seems that this palace eunuch is really a high-risk profession, and it is changing too quickly.

He quickly found the eunuch in charge of the registration of internal affairs and told him the news of Gonggong Li's death, but the other party just nodded lightly, then found the roster of Kwai Yuan and ticked it casually.

The person named Li Luosheng completely ceased to exist.

During the whole process, the eunuch looked indifferent, and did not show any emotion, and since last night, he has ticked off the names of many people.

Even the most emotional people are numb at this time.

Su Chen didn't bother to care about these, and after explaining and reporting, he went to the back room by himself.