On the night of September 6, the eighteenth year of Zhao Mingde, Wang Di rode a horse and galloped on the road of Denggao Street, which is located in the inner city of Kyoto, close to the imperial city, and is the residence of major officials in Kyoto. Open the door! Wang Di ignored the pain when he turned over and dismounted, and knocked on the door quickly.

"Who?" The door opened a crack, and the porter poked his head out of the crack in the door, and as soon as he asked a word, Wang Di directly pushed the door open and rushed in. "Someone! There are assassins! The porter got up from the ground and shouted.

Wang Di ran quickly in the path of the Prime Minister's Mansion, his heart was pounding, and his whole body was oozing with sweat, and suddenly he was thrown to the ground, and then seven or eight strong men pounced on him.

"Let go of me! I'm Wang Di, the head of the Imperial Pharmacy! I want to see the Prime Minister! ”

Wang Di screamed desperately, but the strong man on his body didn't care about him, and still held him down, until a person similar to the captain of the security team came to Wang Di with a torch

"I'll see, which deflated calf dares to come to the Prime Minister's Mansion to make trouble."

The man approached Wang Di with a torch, and only then did he see the person clearly, "Oh, I'll go, Wang Gonggong, let go quickly!" After seeing Wang Di's appearance, the man hurriedly ordered his subordinates to let go of Wang Di.

Wang Di, who got up from the ground, glared at the man fiercely, and then hurriedly continued to run towards the target location.

Soon he came to a room, kicked the door open, looked left and right at the sleeping man who came to the bed, and shook vigorously, "Prime Minister!" Prime Minister wake up! Something is wrong! ”

The man who was sleeping soundly was Xiao Yunzhou, the prime minister of the Great Zhao Dynasty.

"Who?" Xiao Yunzhou, who was sleeping, barely opened his eyes, and when he saw someone coming, he asked weakly, "Princess, what happened in the middle of the night?" ”

"Prime Minister! The emperor's illness is approaching! The Praetorian Army has sealed off the Imperial Palace! The Dead are coming! Seeing Xiao Yunzhou like this, Wang Di slapped him in the face with a hurry.

This palm directly woke Xiao Yunzhou up, he wanted to be angry, but after hearing what Wang Di said, he immediately calmed down, "Say it carefully!" ”

"In the afternoon, the emperor suddenly had a chest pain, and he had been resting after taking the medicine in the imperial pharmacy, until the time came, the emperor suddenly got up and vomited a mouthful of blood directly, and the imperial doctor diagnosed that the emperor's heart was all broken! The emperor directly ordered the blockade of the Golden Dragon Palace, and I was boiling medicine in the apse at the time, and I took the opportunity to run out, Prime Minister! Get an idea! ”

Xiao Yunzhou squinted at the kneeling Wang Di, rubbing his index fingers back and forth with the thumbs of both hands, silent, deathly silence; If what Wang Di said is true, then as long as he moves fast enough, this is an excellent opportunity for him to support the new emperor and control the government, and it is also an opportunity that the family has not encountered in a century, but if this is a bureau set up by the emperor, then he will be doomed as soon as he moves.

When the emperor Chu Pingxiong, twenty-four years old succeeded to the throne, after the succession to the throne reformed the military system, encouraged production, persuaded the agricultural mulberry, and sent troops to recover the lost 62 counties in the north, under his governance Zhao swept away the haze of the Xizong period, the national strength is thriving, but unfortunately the emperor has not given birth to a son.

The emperor has reached middle age but has not yet been born a prince, which makes many people have other ideas, and many ministers have also stood in line to ensure their future happiness.

"Prime Minister! Don't hesitate! Make a decision! Wang Di's sudden shout pulled Xiao Yunzhou back to reality: "Call the eldest prince over!" Fast! Come on! After thinking that he was going to gamble, he gambled that the emperor's life would not be long, so he ordered his eldest son to be called to his room.

After a while, a young man came to Xiao Yunzhou's room, "Hong'er, you and Manager Wang will immediately take someone to Jiangzhou to take the king of Jiujiang into Beijing." Seeing the man coming, without waiting for him to speak, Xiao Yunzhou hurriedly asked him to go to Jiangzhou.

Seeing Xiao Yunzhou so abnormal, the man had some doubts, "Father, what is the matter?" To be in such a hurry? Looking at his son, who was full of doubts and didn't move for a long time, Xiao Yunzhou kicked up, "Go quickly!" ”

Seeing this, Wang Di pulled the man and walked to the back door: "Son, go quickly, I will explain the specific reason to you on the road." At this time, the porter came to report that the dead man had besieged the prime minister's mansion, and the eunuch was already waiting in the main room.

"Take the dark passage!" Xiao Yunzhou was amazed at the speed of the dead soldiers, and at the same time, he was even more convinced that the emperor really had a short life.

At the same time, in the imperial city, in the Funing Palace, the empress of the dynasty, Murong Xueyuan, sat on the main throne and looked at the little eunuch kneeling below, and asked softly, "Are you sure the old lady really said that?" ”

Hearing her question, the little eunuch immediately lay on the ground and trembled and said, "This matter, how dare the little one deceive the mother." Looking at the expression of the little eunuch, Murong Xueyuan was sure that the emperor was really not good, but the emperor had no heirs, why did he block the palace and strictly prohibit the news, so that the prince with the right to inherit would not know the news, and also close the Changle Palace and not let her take care of it by his side? All this means that he has a suitable heir, and this person has no deep or even no foundation in the court, and the emperor did all this to prevent them from sending people out of the palace to inform those powerful princes to compete with him for the throne.

Thinking of this, think about the rumors I have heard, some people say that when the emperor was still in the shallow mansion, he had a son with a woman, but the emperor was forced to lose contact with the woman because of the war, thinking of this, Murong Xueyuan couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"Don't be afraid, you're doing well, it's all yours." Looking at the trembling eunuch below, Murong Xue Yuan smiled and lifted a plate beside him, waved his hand to him, and motioned for him to come over.

Seeing the gold on the plate, the little eunuch who was originally a terminal Parkinson's patient seemed to be possessed by Bolt and quickly crawled to the feet of Murong Xueyuan, constantly thanking Murong Xueyuan for his great kindness.

"Don't knock, you have to remember that you have never been to Funing Palace, and you have never said anything." Murong Xue Kite hooked the little eunuch's head with her hand and said softly with a smile.

"The minion remembers, the minion has been cleaning the room in the imperial study all day today, and has never gone out for a single step." After speaking, the little eunuch left the room with a crawl, and when he saw the little eunuch leaving, Murong Xue Kite beckoned a palace maid next to him, "Let Yunhai tell the prince to enter Beijing immediately, and the time is not waiting for anyone." Tell General Murong that Funing Palace lost a batch of jewels tonight for him to help check it. ”

"Tell King Chu Lou and let him enter Beijing quickly!"

At three o'clock, countless soldiers in black armor and black cavalry rushed out from the imperial city to the streets of Kyoto, and their target was the residence of officials at all levels in Kyoto, Denggao Street!

In the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Households, a eunuch in a purple robe was waiting anxiously in the main hall, when a man with sparse hair and untidy clothes trotted all the way to the purple-clothed eunuch, "Manager Mo, I don't know?" ”

But before the man finished speaking, the purple-clothed eunuch pulled him aside, "Lord Chen, the emperor is critically ill and fears that his life will not be long in coming, the emperor has ordered me to give you this secret edict, please be sure to act in accordance with this edict." You have a moment of timing. ”

Chen Run'an, the head of the household department of Zhao Guo, was born in a poor family and was trusted by the emperor of the current dynasty.

"How so, how so!" Chen Run'an took the secret edict and looked at it carefully, the more he looked back, the tighter his brows wrinkled, his hands became more and more shaky, and his head continued to sweat, the information contained in this secret edict definitely exceeded his cognition.

"I am the captain of the eighth team of the forbidden army, and I am ordered to go out of the city! Open the gates! "At the Chuzhou Gate, a group of knights was stopped outside the gate, and one of the knights led by him pointed at the soldiers who blocked him and scolded loudly.

"General, wait a minute." The soldier carefully examined the token, and then hurriedly climbed the tower to ask the officer.

"When the hell is your captain coming! It took us half an hour here! Don't say a word! The door doesn't open! Seeing that the soldier ignored him, the man just wanted to draw a knife, "Oh, isn't this the queen's younger brother, Lord Murong Kang?" Disrespectful, disrespectful. A soldier came down the stairs and stood in front of Murong Kang.

"Who are you? What about Zhang Hu of the patrol battalion? The person he saw was not someone he didn't know, Murong Yunhai asked subconsciously, seeing him ask Zhang Hu, the man said with a smile: "Lord Zhang has been removed from his post and investigated just now because of corruption, and below is the new captain of the third squad, Zhao Qiang." I don't know what Lord Murong asked him about? ”

The captain of the third squad of the patrol battalion was still Zhang Hu yesterday, why did he become this person today? But at this time, Murong Kang couldn't care so much, and hurriedly asked the other party to open the door, "Hmph!" Don't ask so much, open the door quickly! ”

"No, the brothers are also guarding here under the emperor's orders, and they can't open the door for you casually." Zhao Qiang stood in place with a smile on his face, just not opening the door for Murong Kang.

Murong Kang heard that this person had something to say, so he took out a piece of gold from his arms and threw it to him, Zhao Qiang took the gold with a smile, weighed the weight and asked people to open the door and let them out.

In the woods twenty miles outside Kyoto, a group of cavalry was rushing in the direction of Jiujiang, and suddenly! The two horses running in front of them tripped suddenly, and the two knights were thrown straight away, and the people behind hurriedly stopped the horses when they saw this.

While everyone was still wondering where the rope came from, countless arrows shot at them, "Armor-piercing arrows!" ”

The captain at the head hurriedly shouted at the flying arrows, but the incident happened suddenly and the other party used arrows that could break through even heavy armor, not to mention the light armor they were all wearing.

When the arrows touched them, the team of more than thirty people was instantly reduced by half, and the leader was also pierced by seven or eight arrows and fell to the ground.

Just when the rest of the people were stunned, another wave of arrows shot everyone to the ground, and then hundreds of people sprang out of the woods on both sides, and after mending the knife and confirming the number of people, they dragged the corpses away and restored the road to its original appearance.

Outside the Golden Dragon Hall of the Imperial City, hundreds of ministers who had just crawled out of the bed of their wives and concubines were trembling and talking about what might happen next under the gaze of the dead and the forbidden army.

"Prime Minister, what the hell is going on?"

"Why did Your Majesty suddenly call us into the palace!"

"Prime Minister, do you know what the reason is?"

Xiao Yunzhou was already extremely irritable, but now this group of people kept chattering in his ear, so angry that he rolled his eyes, patted his legs and shouted, "Don't say it!" What a mess! ”

After Xiao Yunzhou glanced around with cold eyes, everyone didn't dare to speak loudly anymore, and An Zexiang, the servant of the ministry, leaned over to Xiao Yunzhou's side and whispered: "Prime Minister, Your Majesty called us so late, do you think it will be .......?"

Before An Zexiang finished speaking, Xiao Yunzhou glared at him, "Lord Xiao, is it too tired to hang your head around your neck?" ”

"No, no"

"Smack!" A eunuch standing on the steps waved the iron whip in his hand, and with a loud bang, seeing that everyone's eyes were all attracted to the past, another eunuch next to him shouted loudly, "Edict: Prime Minister Xiao Yunzhou is here!" ”

When Xiao Yunzhou entered the hall, he found that the Golden Dragon Hall was full of armor soldiers with knives, and when he entered the inner hall, the eyes of the armor soldiers in the hall made him chill, as if these armor soldiers were specially prepared for him, just from the outer hall to the inner hall This short few hundred steps, Xiao Yunzhou seems to have walked through the ghost gate.

When he walked into the inner hall, he saw the emperor who was lying on the bed with a small face but extremely cold eyes waiting for him, and Chen Run'an, who was standing next to the emperor with complicated eyes, and the empress dowager who was sitting on a stool staring at him.