Chapter Twenty-Three: Thunder
Zhu Yueyao was a frequent visitor to Liu's Mansion, and the fat woman drove the carriage to the alley behind the official residence and entered the mansion through a side door. The four Flying Feather Guards who followed were naturally impossible to follow, and after discussing it, two stayed at the side door to guard, while the other two went to the main gate.
When Liu Yingrong, the eldest lady of the Liu Mansion who was wearing a men's dress and two fake beards on her upper lip, came to greet her good sisters, but when she saw the palace maid Lotus Fly walking out of the carriage wearing Zhu Yueyao's clothes, she immediately realized that something was wrong.
"Liu Gongzi, it's not good, something is wrong. Fan Liren colluded with King Yong to rebel, and my princess went to the altar alone in disguise to send the jade seal. Find a way to help the princess. ”
The palace maid Lotus flew into Liu Yingrong's arms and sobbed and said.
Hearing the word rebellion, Liu Yingrong's heart was sudden, but she did not panic, but gently stroked the back of the lotus fly, and gently relieved her before letting her explain the matter in detail after her mood stabilized.
After learning what happened, Liu Yingrong hurriedly sent someone to find her brother Liu Qi, and then went to the garden where her father lived together to find Wei Lin, who had been guarding there in recent days.
Knowing that Fan Liren had betrayed His Majesty, Wei Lin was suddenly frightened with cold hands and feet, and he was about to rush to the altar to protect His Majesty's safety.
"At this time, the side of the sacrificial platform must have been tightly guarded by the Yong Party, and Wei Gong is afraid that he will not be able to enter."
"Hmph, the miscellaneous family wants to see who dares to stop it."
After all, Wei Lin is a seven-rank cultivator, and his words are quite imposing.
"Duke Wei must not, the government has a solution to the government, and using the power of the cultivators is to break the rules of the court, but it will give the four absolute holy lands an excuse to mix, making the situation even more out of control."
"Could it be that the miscellaneous family can only stay stupid and can't do anything here?"
Wei Lin jumped to his feet anxiously, Liu Chuanfang's eldest son Liu Qi was also in a hurry but couldn't come up with an idea.
"It seems that there are two keys to breaking the game. The first is to help the sixth princess send the jade seal to the sacrificial roof, as long as the jade seal is not fake, the Yongdang will not find an excuse to force His Majesty. The second is to fall on his father, with him coming forward to deter hundreds of officials, the Yongdang does not dare to be too presumptuous. ”
On the contrary, Liu Yingrong is quite calm and composed, thinking about countermeasures in a clear manner.
"Now let's split up on two things. Duke Wei, you continue to stay here, and my eldest brother and I rushed to the altar to help the six princesses. ”
"Ah, what can I do when I go? It's better to stay here and take care of your father with Duke Wei. ”
When Liu Qi heard that he was going to enter such a dangerous place, he immediately flinched.
"Women are not allowed to enter the altar, and then everything can only depend on you, eldest brother."
Liu Yingrong no longer gave Liu Qi a chance to refuse, and after explaining, she dragged him and ran outside.
Let the subordinates bring two horses from the stable, and the brother and sister rode their horses and whips to the altar.
"The eldest brother listened carefully, with the relationship between his father and His Majesty, if King Yong's rebellion succeeded, he would be liquidated. If you are beheaded at the end of the house, you will also be charged with treachery. If you want to keep the glory and wealth of our family and continue to live your free life, you will have the courage to fight once. ”
Liu Yingrong shouted at Liu Qi, who was full of reluctance, while riding the horse.
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In the Tiantai Square, because of the words of Zhu Cheng, the king of Yong, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
"Is there a precedent for verifying prayers?"
Emperor Yan Zhu Sheng did not panic at all when he heard this, held the prayer firmly in his hand, looked at King Yong and asked slowly.
"Today's first case is tomorrow's precedent. If it is not broken, it will not stand, and if it is not broken, it will not be prosperous. The younger brother is also for the sake of Dayan, and I hope that His Majesty will adopt it. ”
King Yong replied meaningfully.
"The old minister agrees with His Royal Highness King Yong's proposal, and I hope His Majesty will adopt it."
Gao Taiji, the second assistant of the cabinet, walked out of the queue and bowed and said.
"Minister, second."
Dai Yuanzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, echoed.
Subsequently, the secretary of the criminal department, the secretary of the ministry, the four servants except the ministry and the military department, and the rest of the Yongdang belonged to the ranks one after another, supporting King Yong and putting pressure on Zhu Sheng.
"Bold! Licentious! Wait... Are you going to rebel? ”
Shan Zhongji, the head of the household, jumped out and pointed at everyone and shouted and scolded.
Liu Chuanfang is not there, and the qualifications and prestige of the royal vein in the field are the highest in Shan Zhongji. But Zhu Sheng didn't fully trust him, and he didn't tell him about the loss of the jade seal.
So much so that the Yongdang suddenly attacked collectively, and Shan Zhongji was caught off guard. But at this time, the situation did not allow him to continue to observe and think, so he could only stand up and support the field.
But the Yongdang didn't like him at all, glanced at him contemptuously, sneered a few times and continued to force Zhu Sheng to go.
And the rest of the royalist officials were already confused, and when they saw this situation, they didn't dare to end up embarrassed easily, and they all made up their minds to watch from the wall for the time being.
At the front of the queue of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Cai Jian, the right capital imperial history, stretched out his hand and stabbed Qin Feng with an excited face.
"Lao Qin, the big scene that is rare in a hundred years is a good opportunity for our Metropolitan Procuratorate to show its strengths. Do you come first or do I come first? ”
Qin Feng's gaze wandered back and forth between Zhu Cheng, the king of Yong, and Zhu Sheng, the emperor of the left capital, and the doubts in his eyes became thicker.
"Who are you going to help?"
Qin Feng asked.
"Of course it's Your Majesty and Shan Shangshu, the ambition of the wolf son of the Yongdang is already obvious, if such a chaotic minister and thief don't scold him for being a bloody dog, wouldn't this official uniform be worn in vain."
Cai Jian replied as a matter of course.
"If the Yongdang is not completely sure, how dare they persecute Your Majesty on such an important occasion as the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony. This battle may be a matter of life and death, so don't rush to bet and wait and see. ”
Qin Feng shook his head and said.
On the left side of the square, there is a stone platform three feet high and three feet wide, on which four chairs are placed. In the field, even the royal bloodlines such as King Yong and the crown prince and the courtiers and bigwigs such as Gao Taiji could only stand, but there were four people sitting on the stone platform chairs.
Behind each of the four of them, there were a different number of young people, male and female, and all of them looked proud and domineering.
This stone platform is specially prepared for the four absolute holy land envoys to prepare the viewing platform, the four people sitting on the chair are the East Jue Shushan Teaching Zhao Ge, the South Jue Qiankun Guan Qingyang Dao people, the West Jue Sword Pavilion Changkong Wuji, the North Absolute Demon Hall Shamaner.
The young people standing behind the four of them are all the best in their doors, and they have also become the world's walkers.
Looking at the confrontation between Emperor Yan Zhu Sheng and King Yong Zhu Cheng on the altar of the festival, Qingyang Daoren's face moved slightly, and he looked at Zhao Ge who was sitting on the left and said in a low voice.
"Someone found me the night before and promised that if you help King Yong, the first thing you will do after ascending the throne is to abolish the Immortal Division, and establish my concept as the state religion, and worship the Tao as the heavenly master. I don't know if someone has promised the same conditions as Shushan. ”
"What about the promise? What about unpromised? What does Qingyang Daoist want to hear from Zhao? ”
Zhao Ge smiled slightly, and asked without answering.
"Hehe, just a casual question. If someone also makes a promise to Shushan, let's have the same breath, and it's good to have a discussion. ”
Qingyang Daoist laughed.
Zhao Ge also smiled, and then turned back to continue to look at the confrontation on the other side of the altar with interest.
Old fox!
Qingyang Dao secretly cursed in his heart, and then turned his head and went to Changkong Wuji to listen to the tone.
"Promise? What promises? Since I arrived in Kyoto, I have been in retreat and practice, and I just came out of the customs this morning, and I didn't see anyone to make a promise. But then again, why is your Qiankun view the state religion, and Daozun is the heavenly master. The fat meat is all eaten by you, and our Sword Pavilion can only gnaw on the bones you don't want. If you don't do it, you definitely don't do it. ”
Changkong Wuji's mouth was full of northwest accents, and he roared so badly that the Qingyang Dao people couldn't tell for a while whether he was pretending to be stupid or if no one really had looked for him.
As for Sha Man'er, who was sitting at the bottom, the Qingyang Dao people ignored it.
The demons set up their own country in the north, and they have to fight several battles with Da Yan every year. Zhu Cheng's brain is in water, and he will negotiate with the enemy country about usurping the throne.
The various forces in the square have ghosts in their hearts and are pondering their own plans.
The confrontation between the upper and lower ends of the altar is about to reach a climax.
The so-called civil and military hundred officials, this hundred characters are interpreted as imaginary numbers, and the other refers to the number of official positions, not the number of officials.
There are almost 400 people who participated in the ceremony today, including the imperial relatives, state relatives, and nobles, as well as the ministers and military generals who are above the seven grades in Beijing.
At this time, standing out of the queue, the officials who showed the horsepower of the car to support King Yong accounted for almost half of them at a glance. The arrogance of the Yongdang can be seen from this.
Even though Zhu Sheng had been prepared in his heart, at this time, when he saw the hundreds of officials densely gathered behind Zhu Cheng, he was still dizzy with anger and almost wanted to vomit blood.
Whose country is this, who is the master of this world!
Zhu Sheng roared hoarsely in his heart, and the green tendons on the back of his right hand, which was holding the prayer to the heavens, burst out.
But on the surface, he still made a light appearance, looking down at Zhu Chengdao condescendingly.
"If I don't allow it, what will you do?"
"Mingjun should accept advice."
Zhu Cheng replied without showing weakness.
"Your Majesty, please!"
More than 200 Yongdang people shouted loudly in unison, and Zhu Sheng, who was so loud and terrifying, turned pale and took a step back.
"That's it, I'll just wait for you, take it and see it, look carefully."
Zhu Sheng raised his hand and smashed the holy decree with the prayer written on it towards Zhu Chengmian's door.
Gao Taiji, the second assistant of the cabinet, was over sixty years old, but his hands and feet were quite dexterous, and he blocked Zhu Cheng sideways, and received the smashed holy decree firmly in his hand.
"Humph!"
Zhu Sheng glared at Zhu Cheng and Gao Taiji hatefully, turned around and looked at the sky speechlessly.
Under the altar, Gao Taiji, Dai Yuanzhi and other Yongdang bigwigs gathered together to unfold the prayer, and the content of the previous prayer was directly skipped, and their eyes were all focused on the vermilion jade seal at the end.
has been an official for many years, and the jade seal has also seen a lot, and the bigwigs can depict it with their eyes closed.
The jade seal on the prayer was compared with the one in memory.
Gao Taiji handed Dai Yuanzhi a look, Dai Yuanzhi comprehended, and cut his middle finger with his fingernails to cover it with the sleeves of his robe, and then pressed the blood-stained middle finger on the heavenly character ordered by the sky, and added a red dot to become the Taizi.
"Your Majesty, there is a mistake in the imperial seal, please verify the jade seal of the country."
Gao Taiji raised the holy decree that had been modified with blood and shouted loudly.
Thundered...
At this moment, the clouds that had been holding back for two days finally moved, and a dull sound of thunder came from the sky.
The muffled thunder was mixed with a sound that sounded like a firecracker exploding.
However, everyone's attention in the square was attracted by the thunder in the sky and Gao Taiji's shouts, and even if they were vaguely heard, they ignored it directly.
Only Yu Qingzhi heard it clearly, and turned his head to look in the direction where the voice came from.