Nearest the king nearest the gallows.

In the eyes of the world, the king is as fierce as a man-eating tiger.

Those who are always with the king must always be careful, because if they are not careful, they may lead to death. The main reason why the king is frightening is that he has supreme imperial power. Because of the imperial power, and no one else has been able to restrain it, the king's joys and sorrows can be used as reasons to kill.

The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die.

This is the unshakable majesty of the ancient imperial power.

Of course, kings are also human beings, and they have likes and dislikes. If he likes a person, that person will most likely be able to rise to prominence, under one person and above ten thousand. No ability, no good relationships, none of that matters. But if the king doesn't like a person, even if you are talented, brave and brave in the three armies, and a civil and military all-rounder, it is useless. Just "don't like it" and you'll never get ahead.

Those who are always with the king are still to be cautious of their own lives. Not to mention, those rebellious ministers and thieves who gather people to rebel, if they encounter a king with a little courage, they will naturally exterminate the nine clans and make an example of them.

It is said that Sheng Lingren, as a person in the rivers and lakes, rebelled in the capital with many disciples, intending to seize the world and ascend the throne as the king, this may be regarded as a major event in the rivers and lakes that has never been seen before or after him! Of course, this also has to do with the location of the temple.

Under normal circumstances, if the Sheng Ling people dare to openly gather a crowd to rebel, it must be a capital crime, and there is also the danger of being exterminated by the Nine Clans. But the emperor is relatively young, and he has never encountered such a big mess before, so he doesn't know how to deal with it for a while. Moreover, the disciples who participated in the rebellion in the temple this time, in addition to the more than 1,000 royal forest rebels in the palace, there were actually many disciples outside the palace. The sum of these two groups of people is almost more than 10,000. Originally, the temple disciples recruited by the Sheng Ling people in advance had far exceeded 10,000. It's just that after the defeat, many vigilant disciples saw General Lu Xiao's army entering the city, and they expected that the matter had been revealed, so they took the lead in going out of the city and fleeing for their lives. Therefore, many of the disciples who participated in the rebellion of the temple were actually at large. Because these people had already fled from the capital, and the foundation of the temple was very large, and many secret organizations were even known only to the Sheng Ling people, the imperial court still had no clue for a while, and it didn't know which people had been arrested and which people were still at large.

But even so, thousands of disciples of the temple were arrested, and if they were all beheaded and the Nine Clans were exterminated, then even more would die, maybe tens of thousands.

Even if these people are guilty of participating in the rebellion, killing so many people at once will still cause a lot of panic among the people. Moreover, now that the emperor has not been on the throne for a long time, he has not yet sought any benefits for the people, so he kills first to show his prestige, and he will definitely lose the hearts of many people.

The people will not care what you have done, they will only see that this king, who has killed many people and made rivers of blood, is very much like a tyrant.

In the face of so many chaotic parties, the young emperor couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he secretly summoned two important people to the upper study to discuss the matter with him.

These two people are also the representatives of the two major factions above the current court, one is the emperor's brother Xiao Wang, and the other is the factory prince Shi Zhongshi of Dongchang.

Prince Xiao is undoubtedly the first contributor to this rebellion, and many matters related to the rebellion, as well as the helpers on the rivers and lakes, were arranged by King Xiao in advance. If not, I'm afraid Sheng Lingren really has a chance to succeed this time.

Gonggong Shi is the Gonggong of Dongchang, and the safety matters in the palace are naturally related to him. However, King Xiao knew the relationship between Shi Zhong and Sheng Lingren, and he was a little uneasy about him. In addition, before this, the East Factory itself had been seriously injured, and many masters were hit hard. Shi Zhong also roughly guessed that this matter was related to King Xiao, so he thought that King Xiao was already wary of him, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

However, in order not to make Shi Zhong really suspicious, Prince Xiao still handed over the guard work of the harem and the queen mother to Shi Zhong's East Factory. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, King Xiao also asked martial arts masters such as the serpentine sword Gu Song and the Success and Failure Twin Heroes to secretly patrol all parts of the palace to be ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

Solekang only focused all his attention on the emperor, so he did not assassinate the queen mother. After they were ready to assassinate the emperor successfully, then the other disciples who came in to answer would deal with the affairs of the harem and the queen mother together.

Because the first step was not completed, the second step was not started. Shi Zhong, as the factory director of the East Factory, had already received some news and knew that Lu Xiao had led a large army into the city. So he simply settled down, and didn't dare to be in the same stream with Sheng Lingren anymore, so that he was involved in unnecessary right and wrong.

In the study, there was no one else at all except the emperor.

Because this matter is very important, the emperor is unwilling to let more people know about this matter, so even the palace maids and eunuchs around him have also retreated.

King Xiao and Gonggong Shi came in together, and they had already guessed that the emperor was going to discuss something with them.

"I asked you to come today to discuss with you, how do you think we should deal with the follow-up of this matter?" The emperor didn't beat around the bush, and asked directly.

"Back to the emperor, the servants thought that the people of the temple Sheng Ling dared to gather people to rebel, which was the most unforgivable, and the nine clans should be exterminated to set an example." Shi Zhong was the first to speak.

"Gonggong Shi suggested that all these assassins should be killed?" The emperor asked again.

"Exactly."

"Your Majesty, the minister disagrees with Gonggong Shi's suggestion. Now that there are a large number of anti-thieves, and there are still more parties still in pursuit, the number of anti-thieves in the end should increase greatly. If these people are killed regardless of the situation, it will definitely cause a great panic among the people, which is not conducive to the imperial court to appease the people. King Xiao immediately ran out and objected.

"Lord Wang, this is a bad word! The minions believe that it is precisely because of the large number of these thieves that they should be punished more severely. If the court encounters such a serious rebellion and does not establish its authority well, then the rebels will think that the court is afraid of them. As a result, they will be even more unscrupulous, and even carry out even greater rebellion than this one. If the imperial court can kill chickens to establish its authority, then those thieves will see the lessons of the past and know that the death penalty is inevitable, and they will definitely have scruples, and they will not dare to form a party for personal gain and gather people to rebel. Shi Zhong did not back down, and still insisted on executing these temple people who participated in the rebellion.

"But did the father-in-law ever think that in order to quell this rebellion, the king once promised the second prince of the temple, Sheng inexplicably, that the court would not kill the temple? The fact that the court was able to win this rebellion in the end was also inseparable from the fact that the two princes of the temple did not support Sheng Lingren, and actually abandoned the darkness and turned to the light and acted in battle. The eldest prince of the temple saved the emperor, and the second prince Sheng inexplicably helped the king and the fifth young man get out of danger. Both of these men were meritorious men, and from these two points alone, the imperial court could not generalize and put all the disciples of the temple to death. Moreover, if the imperial court goes back on its word, it will be untrustworthy, and it is only afraid that it will force the remnants of the temple to the end of the road and fight to the death with the imperial court again, and then there will inevitably be unnecessary casualties. "King Xiao had an inexplicable agreement with Sheng that he could not destroy the temple and slaughter it, because he also had to maintain his reputation.

"This anti-thief is a reckless person who has no faith in his words. The imperial court doesn't have to tell him anything about morality, and the prince can't leave these chaotic causes and disasters because of his own likes and dislikes, and bury unnecessary hidden dangers for it. Shi Zhong was still arguing.

In fact, Shi Zhong's suggestion to kill all the people in the temple was also for his own safety. Shi Zhong had previously made many secret transactions with Sheng Lingren in private, and they had very close contacts. A lot of Shi Zhong's criminal evidence is actually in the hands of Sheng Lingren. If Sheng Lingren really wanted to harm him, he only needed to confess one or two of them, and Shi Zhong and the people of Dongchang might be beheaded and exterminated by the Nine Clans.

It's just that for some reason, since Sheng Lingren was defeated and arrested, he hasn't said anything about the deals he had with Shi Zhong in private, which also made Shi Zhong and Xiao Wang a little puzzled.

King Xiao didn't understand because he had long known that there had always been a lot of relationship between Sheng Ling and Shi Zhong. But these relationships, Sheng Lingren did not confess at all, Xiao Wangye categorically would not believe it, this matter has nothing to do with Shi Zhong at all. In order to fight for power, King Xiao and Shi Zhong are actually already sworn enemies. If Prince Xiao can eradicate Dongchang Shizhong through this matter, it will naturally be better, and from then on, the power of the court will really return to the emperor and his hands.

Shi Zhong was also a little puzzled, he didn't understand why he still wanted to protect himself since Sheng Lingren had become a prisoner? Could it be that Sheng Ling people still want to make a comeback? And he has regarded Dongchang and himself as the capital of his comeback. If Sheng Lingren does not die, Shi Zhong's handles that can be condemned to death will always be in his hands, and he may be threatened by Sheng Lingren at any time.

In this world, only dead people can keep secrets, so Shi Zhong strongly suggested that the emperor execute Sheng Lingren.

King Xiao did not agree to the execution of Sheng Lingren, also because King Xiao knew that Sheng Lingren must still know many things they did not know, and they had not confessed to him. After Prince Xiao removed the stinger of the capital of the temple, the next target must be Dongchang, who has always been against him.

"That's it! I have called you to discuss solutions, not to quarrel. You're so noisy that you can't get a result. So be it! You will continue to hunt down the remnants first, and these detainees will be carefully interrogated first. Wait until all the training is completed, and then see the results! The emperor saw that the two had completely opposite opinions, and they both spoke more reasonably, and he was a little undecided. He also wanted to think about it carefully, so he planned to wait until the trial was over before discussing the matter.

Of course, the emperor did not immediately agree to the execution of the temple people, in fact, it can be regarded as indirectly supporting the views of Prince Xiao, because they are brothers after all.