Chapter 654: Abdication by Order
After the destruction of Chang'an City, the Xiliang Army completely exposed its true nature, turned into soldiers and bandits, burning, killing and looting the common people, even if the palace was not spared.
"Beast, let me go, you beast!"
"Help, help......"
As soon as I entered the palace, I heard a woman's cry for help.
Looking for prestige, just behind the palace gate, three or five soldiers pressed a palace maid, frantically venting their animal desires.
"Bastard thing!"
Jiang Yuntian was furious, rushed up and cut the soldiers to the ground with two swords, and then shouted at the troops under his command:
"Pass my order, no one should sleep tonight, only do one thing, arrest the ruffians who invade the civilian population, see one, kill one!"
"Yes!"
Subsequently, the army quickly poured into the palace to capture the rebels and eunuchs.
Daming Palace, Xuanzheng Palace.
Song Che gently pushed open the palace door.
Zhao Sui sat firmly on the throne in a dragon robe, and beside him were more than 20 old ministers led by Gao Chen, who were now like a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered, panicked.
Song Che glanced at the ministers, stopped with the generals behind him, and then strode into the palace with Jiang Yuntian in his hand with the holy decree.
"Song Che, knock on the Emperor."
"Jiang Yuntian, knock on the emperor."
There must still be proper etiquette.
"Song Che, in the past, I helped me quell the rebellion of King Anyang, and I promised you that as long as you are willing to be an official, I will ensure that you are a supreme minister and an official will worship the prime minister! I see that you are a talent, and I have never treated you badly, why do you want to help King Rui to fight against me! Zhao Sui asked angrily.
Song Che said indifferently: "Your Majesty, Song has never thought of opposing you, this time I came to Chang'an by order, one is to eliminate the national thieves, and the other is to welcome Your Majesty back to Beijing and restore the throne." β
Zhao Sui shouted: "Don't be pretended, if King Rui has the heart to return my throne, why bother to raise troops to attack!" I will never go back, and I will not go back if I die! β
"Then I'll satisfy you!"
"Choke!"
Jiang Yuntian drew his sword out of its sheath, and the sound of the sword trembled, shocking the faces of the ministers.
"Protect Your Majesty!" Gao Chen was the only one, and he stopped sideways in front of Zhao Sui. Whoever is loyal and who is traitorous can be known at a glance.
"Ginger...... Jiang Yuntian, you ...... Don't you want to kill the king? You are bold! Zhao Sui shivered in the dragon chair.
Jiang Yuntian smiled coldly, "Brother Song sings white face with you, and I will sing red face with you-
If it weren't for the fact that the Holy Lord was ordered to call on the world to resist foreign enemies, the Great Liang Dynasty might have been trampled by Dijon's iron hooves!
Besides, why did Dijon let you go back to the court, don't you know in your heart?
You know, all the officials present know that Dijon let the tiger return to the mountain, provoking the two tigers to compete for the profits, but you pretend to be deaf and dumb, for the throne, for the officials, but not for the people of Daliang!
How is the king who has brought disaster to the country and the people to sit on the throne again?
How is such a traitorous minister who seeks glory worthy of the title? β
The words scolded bitterly, making the ministers red-faced and red-eared, and they were ashamed of themselves.
"Okay, it's over, it's useless to talk about it." Song Che slowly opened the holy decree in his hand, "Your Majesty, I have an abdication edict here, is it appropriate for you to listen to it." β
"Impossibleβ"
"I! After reigning for seven years, he was overthrown by foreign tribes, but fortunately, thanks to the spirit of his ancestors, he was resurrected...... The trip to Fu Avenue, the world is for the public, the selection of talents and abilities, so the abdication of the virtuous to let the virtuous brother Zhao Heng, continue the majestic building, inherit the legacy of the prosperous world! β
Song Che finished reading it out loud, and looked coldly at Zhao Sui, whose face was like ashes, "Your Majesty, do you think this edict is reasonable?" β
"Against the way of heaven! Ridiculous! β
"Privately pretending to be an edict! It has been stinking for 10,000 years! β
"Poof!"
Jiang Yuntian casually slashed the throat and head of the noisy man with two swords, and his blood splattered into the hall to deter the ministers.
"A group of poor sour and rotten people, what's the use of shouting at the sky? If it weren't for the weakness and power, how would he be where he is today? Anyway, the Great Liang Dynasty is all your Zhao family, isn't it the same who sits on it? β
Jiang Yuntian swept the blood stains on his sword, and strode towards Zhao Sui on the dragon chair, "Your Majesty the Emperor, will you go with me by yourself, or will you take you away in the future?" β
"I ...... I'm not leaving! Zhao Sui had rare courage, pointed to the beam of the main hall and said: "I want to hang myself here, let the ancestors and ancestors see, Zhao Heng did not hesitate to kill each other in order to seize the imperial power!" β
"If you had such righteousness when you were captured by Dijon, why did you make such a fuss as you are now? Your Majesty, you still obediently know Jinling, be a prince, you don't have to deal with government affairs, you can eat and drink well, and you will have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, why not? β
Jiang Yuntian pinched Zhao Sui's shoulder, lifted him up like a chicken, and then coughed lightly twice, and waited for the bee chrysalis outside the hall to enter, dragging the old ministers out of the hall one by one.
"Master Gao, how about moving and talking?" Song Che smiled at Gao Chen, and without waiting for him to agree, he made a gesture of "please" and took the lead in walking out of the main hall.
Gao Chen hesitated for a moment and followed with a straight face.
"Sun Ting, Sun Bao, these sisters and brothers should have grown a lot taller, right?" Song Che asked in a flat tone.
Sun Ting and Sun Bao were orphans who had been rescued in Qingzhou City in the past, and it happened that Gao Chen had no heirs, so Song Che gave them to Gao Chen on his own initiative.
Gao Chen was a little surprised by these common words, but after thinking about it, maybe this was Song Che. He hummed softly.
"Lord Gao should know that the crimes you have committed are enough to be beheaded all over the house," Song Che's tone was still flat: "It doesn't matter if you die, you are definitely not afraid of death, but those two children are innocent." β
Gao Chen frowned and said, "Since Mr. Song mentioned them separately, he explained that he would save them, so I'm not worried." β
"But I'm worried, you said that I found their father for him, and I was the one who killed their father in the end," Song Che shook his head and sighed, "Lord Gao, now I am also the father of three children, I can understand this kind of feeling." β
Gao Chen was silent, but he also understood, he said coldly: "If you lose, you lose, you should be punished accordingly, children have never been excuses and shields." β
"You still don't understand me, I'm a poor child, not a pity for you."
Song Che took out the checkbook from his sleeve, filled in five thousand taels of silver with a pen, tore it off and handed it to Gao Chen: "This money is enough for you to buy a small mansion and do some small business." When I gave Xiaoting and Xiaobao to you, I didn't consider your feelings, and this money was regarded as compensation. β
Gao Chen hesitated but didn't dare to answer.
Song Che shoehorned the check into his hand, and pointed in the direction of the wharf: "I have prepared a passenger ship for you at the wharf, you hurry home and pack up, leave Chang'an with the children, find a place to stay incognito for a few years, if you really can't get along, come to Hangzhou to find me again." β
"But I'm a sinner......"
"Sinners? Hahaha......" Song Che laughed and said: "Master Gao may not know that in the belief of Westerners, people are born with sin, and they can only ascend to heaven by repenting, I thought it was ridiculous at first, but after some things, I found out that they were actually right - we are all guilty, but we have forgotten to repent." β
"Mr. Song......" Gao Chen's eyes were red.
Song Che waved his hand, turned around and walked out of a distance, before slowly saying goodbye:
"Goodbye, Tall Man."
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