Chapter 67: The Changing Tide

King Xing looked at Su Xiaolou and nodded, he really didn't see the wrong person, this kid has a poisonous eye, a brain enough, and a shameless person, he is a person who has achieved great things, if he is lucky, there will definitely be a place for him in the court, if he becomes a political enemy in the future, it will be troublesome, and he must be recruited by his side.

Su Xiaolou walked up to King Xing with a solemn expression, and arched his hand: "I humbly ask the prince to make decisions for the countless children who died in Changshou Village, and ask to dig up this peach forest." ”

"That's right."

"You can't dig it, you can't dig it! Can't dig! ”

The old village chief staggered up and stood up in front of the ironclad guards of the Xingwang Mansion, looking up to the sky and shouting: "This is a blessing from heaven, digging up the peach forest will anger the heavens and bring disaster to An Luzhou!" Don't dig it up! ”

All the villagers of Changshou Village gathered around, and even the old people and children used their bodies to block in front of the ironclad guards, protecting the peach forest behind them.

"If you want to dig up the peach forest, step on us!"

"The lives of our grass people are inherently despicable, and we only deserve to be bullied!"

"My old man has lived enough, if the big official wants to dig up the peach forest, just step on my old man!"

"yes!"

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For a while, the crowd was boiling, Xingwang's blood was up, his head was dizzy, and he was a little at a loss, Zhu Houxi hurriedly stepped forward to support Xingwang, Su Xiaolou could fully understand, today this matter reached the ears of people with a heart, and a little processing of an excerpt will give Xingwang a hat for oppressing the local people.

"Lord, I have a way, in fact, I don't have to dig up the peach forest so troublesomely."

"What's the solution? Say it. ”

"The man who Shizi caught in the lake was not actually drowned, but was forced to death by his three elder brothers, this crazy woman is a witness, the prince can check whether the drowning man has a son named Changsheng, the village chief just said that they have a genealogy in their village, and will record the voice and death time of each villager, and the prince will know the truth when he checks it!"

King Xing hurriedly ordered someone to go through the village chief's house, found the genealogy, checked it, and sure enough, this crazy woman is the man's mother-in-law, they have a son named Changsheng, the family is two dead and one crazy, if it is not artificial, this little brain will not believe it, but it is a pity that this woman is crazy and cannot be a witness.

King Xing immediately ordered the arrest of the old man who belonged to the dog, if the villagers blocked it, it would be to disrupt official business, and take them all away, if the villagers did not stop it, this old man would not be a hard bone at first glance, and the secret of Changshou Village would break out sooner or later, Zhu Houxi couldn't help but sigh when he saw it, this trick is wonderful!

The village chief could only watch as the old man who belonged to the dog was tied up and tied to the back of the horse and taken away, and King Xing left some guards to take care of the whole village on the grounds that there were still suspects in Changshou Village, and a group of people returned to the palace in a mighty way.

Meanwhile, inside the Forbidden City, a coup d'Γ©tat is brewing.

The Queen Mother secretly summoned the important ministers of the court who were completely disappointed with what the emperor had done, and the close relatives who were already dissatisfied with the emperor, to plot major events in the world.

Late at night, Yang Tinghe and other cabinet elders led by the first assistant of the cabinet quietly entered the queen mother's bedroom, and the queen mother was sitting behind the jade curtain.

"The emperor has been indulgent and greedy for fun all these years, unscrupulous, the foundation has long been empty, and now he has been assassinated, I am afraid it will be difficult, the emperor's illness is already a medicine stone, at most until the beginning of spring next year, but the emperor himself does not know, and the imperial doctors dare not say it clearly, so they can only come to the secret report to mourn the family! This is a matter of one nation, so I have come to you for counsel. ”

Now the emperor is still alive but without the emperor's consent to discuss the next emperor, the important ministers of the court and the royal family are plotting here, and it is a rebellion, and the renewal and iteration of the imperial power has always been accompanied by killing and blood, and no one dares to speak out for a while.

Yang Tinghe, the first assistant to the cabinet, broke the deadlock: "The country cannot be left without an owner for a day, and we should indeed prepare early." Seeing that Yang Ge Lao had expressed his position, everyone also echoed: "Yes! You really should be prepared early! ”

The emperor plays with the flowers, wherever the favored minister Jiang Bin goes, he pulls the beauty of the incense car to wherever he goes, and he is weak and sickly, these are not long-term appearances, they all know, and now they can't even leave a son and a half daughter, it's too late in this life, they can only be selected from the royal family, and now they are called to come and choose the heir to the throne.

In fact, Empress Dowager Zhang has already been selected, she has taken a fancy to the son of King Xing, who is still young and easy to handle, and when the time comes, she can control the court situation and develop her power, and Zhu Houxi and the current emperor are cousins, brothers and brothers have been since ancient times.

Empress Dowager Zhang hinted that one of the clan relatives he had bought off gave Zhu Houyu a compliment, which was really heaven and earth, and there was no suitable candidate at the moment, so the ministers agreed to Zhu Houyu to inherit the throne.

Empress Dowager Zhang secretly issued a decree signed by the elders, asking the underage Zhu Houxi to attack the knight in advance, and wait for the emperor to die and immediately welcome him back to the capital.

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There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the frail Wuzong received a secret report on the way back to Beijing, and the Empress Dowager Zhang avoided people's eyes and ears and met with dozens of important ministers and royal relatives in the middle of the night to plot major matters.

Wu Zong became suspicious, suspecting that Empress Dowager Zhang wanted to seize power while he was seriously ill, and ordered to stop in Tongzhou, Tongzhou has 30,000 defenders, and he holds a talisman in his hand, he can command the soldiers and horses of the world, and he is not afraid of the forbidden army in the capital.

But the emperor of a country can't stay in Tongzhou all the time, he thought about it again and again, and issued a holy decree, ordering: The important ministers of the court, the royal family in the capital, and the Jinyiwei and Shenwei Battalion will come to Tongzhou tomorrow to take over, and the Jinyiwei and Shenwei Battalion are Jiang Bin's forces, and if they can come, they don't have to be afraid.

Tongzhou is only thirty miles away from the capital, and the holy decree will arrive in the capital in half an hour, and the officials in the city dare not speak out when they receive the will, and they will welcome each other for ten miles, but now they want our group of old arms and legs to meet each other for thirty miles, which does not toss people!

Complaining is complaining, the second day is bright, the ministers of the court and the royal family appeared in Tongzhou, Wu Zong looked at the big and small officials kneeling on the ground, and shouted: Long live my emperor! It's very enjoyable, he still sits on the world's Ninety-Five Supreme, the anti-thief Zhu Chenhao has been killed, why is he afraid of the Empress Dowager Zhang.

The people along the road greeted each other, the salute opened the road, the red carpet was spread from the Qianqing Palace to the palace in Tongzhou, a set of cumbersome etiquette down, a group of people returned to the capital in a mighty way, I didn't expect such a toss Zhu Houzhao just entered the city and fell ill, and the group hurriedly entered the Forbidden City.