Xiao Rongshen asked people to build a temporary platform for worshipping heaven and earth on the steps in front of the Qinzheng Palace. The civil and military officials lined up left and right, the civil officials all lowered their heads to their chests, and the generals looked at a point without care, or looked away aimlessly.

Xiao Rong was wearing a vermilion dragon robe, with a white jade crown in his hair.

The dragon chair, which had not been touched for a hundred years, was carried out of the Qinzheng Palace, and Xiao Rongshen sat on the dragon chair, looking at the ministers, but he did not have the feeling of dominating the world before. He stared at the witch doctor who was chanting a spell, feeling a little depressed. Being an emperor shouldn't be like this, it's very different from what he felt in his dreams.

Gao Bingyan looked down and saw Xiao Rongshen twisting his eyebrows, and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, but the dragon is not well?"

Xiao Rongshen shook his head: "Gao Xiang, do you really believe that there are ghosts in this palace?"

Gao Bingyan was stunned, if you don't believe it, he is actually a little scared. But if you want to believe it, reason is against him.

"Why did Your Majesty suddenly ask that?"

Xiao Rongshen stroked his palm and hesitated for a while: "You said that this emperor of mine, will you do it too early?"

"Too early?" Gao Bingyan didn't understand, too early, it means that it's not time, doesn't it mean that Prince He suddenly doesn't want to be the emperor? Gao Bingyan arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the Sacred Heart cannot be changed at will!"

Xiao Rong glanced at him deeply: "I haven't changed my mind. I just think it's too hasty, and even though we've been preparing for today for more than 20 years, I still feel like there's something missing. ”

What is less is military power, which is a * annoyance. It's a pity that this problem can't be solved in a while, and if you want to recruit troops and buy horses, you have to spend money like flowing water, but where does the money come from? Gao Bingyan was a little annoyed that guarding the golden mountain of the Wei family had no silver flowers.

If it were according to his temperament, Gao Bingyan would really want to raid the Wei Mansion cleanly, but he couldn't. Although the Wei family is just a businessman's family, its relationship network is intricate. Not to mention that the Wei family controls the economic lifeline of the capital, let's just say that the nobles of Princess Hanzhang, plus the power of the sixth master, which one is easy to provoke? Not to mention that the raid on the Wei Mansion will force the Wei family to rebel, just from the perspective of public opinion, it is also not good for Xiao Rongshen's throne.

Gao Bingyan clenched his fists, what a mother!

"Gao Xiang, what do you want?" Xiao Rongshen raised his head and asked.

Gao Bingyan wiped away the ruthlessness on his face and shook his head: "Your Majesty, Weichen didn't think about anything. ”

Xiao Rongshen sat for a while, feeling a little tired, so he twisted his body. His eyes fell on the witch doctor on the platform, and Xiao Rongshen paused for a moment: "What is he doing now?"

"Like, it seems to be begging for rain, isn't it true, the water without roots comes from the sky?" Gao Bingyan also glanced at it.

The witch doctor's body trembled like chaff, and there was an eerie smell in the dance. Xiao Rong turned his face away with disgust and looked at a bronze bell falling from the eaves of the palace wall. Jingle bells, jingle bells...... The witch doctor shook a brass bell in his hand, and the sound of the bell pulled Xiao Rongshen back from fantasy to reality.

A drop of rain fell on Xiao Rongshen's face, and he stretched out his hand: "It's raining?!"

He didn't quite believe that there was really someone in this world who could go up to heaven and hear it? If this was the case, Da Chu would not have to be afraid of drought and flood disasters. Xiao Rongshen smiled: "Okay, it's a little interesting." ”

Gao Bingyan wiped the raindrops on his face: "Your Majesty, why don't you go to the Qinzheng Palace to take shelter from the rain?"

Xiao Rongshen was interested: "No, what's the point of a little rain, the eight-foot-tall man is afraid of being drenched in the rain?"

Gao Bingyan was silent, standing aside and accompanying the rain. The rain fell all over the sky, pouring down like a pour, and several of the emperor's ministers raised their faces, looked at the Qinzheng Hall shrouded in gloomy clouds, and cried sadly. Emperor Xian, if you have a spirit in the sky, wake up this group of hypocrites who are drunk and dreaming of death!

The rain dripped down Xiao Rongshen's cheeks, and Xiao Rongshen sat up straight: "Who is crying?"

Gao Bingyan raised his ears vigilantly, listened for a while, and didn't hear anything. Then he said, "Your Majesty, no one is crying?"

"No!" Xiao Rongshen stood up suddenly: "Someone is cursing me!"

When he blurted out this sentence, Gao Bingyan was stunned for a moment, cursing the emperor and daring to do it in front of the emperor? Whose brain is in the water?

"Who is crying!" Xiao Rongshen sighed.

The courtiers looked at each other, and under the cover of the rain, everyone's face was wet, and they couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain.

"Isn't it you?!" Xiao Rong pointed at an important minister of the previous emperor: "Someone! drag him out and cut him down!"

"Your Majesty!" Gao Bingyan stepped forward to stop: "Your Majesty, you must not, today is a way to exorcise evil spirits, so don't add to the killing." If you annoy the ghosts and gods, there will be no peace in this palace. ”

"Gao Xiang, I see that you are carried away by these nonsense!" Xiao Rongshen drew his sword and pointed at the courtiers who were in charge of Xuanhe when the first emperor was there: "I know that you are all fooling me one by one, and you are scolding me in your hearts, scolding my brother for taking the throne." Isn't it?

Li and Yang glanced at each other, stood up left and right, and said, "Your Majesty, the ministers dare not insult Your Majesty's brother and take the throne." Li Yushi suddenly raised his face and looked at Xiao Rongshen with hatred: "The minister wants to scold His Majesty for taking his father's throne, killing his father and killing the king, heaven will not tolerate it!"

Yang Yushi turned around, raised his arms and shouted: "Rank, there are some words, the minister has been holding back for a long time! When the first emperor summoned us that day, he was still in good health. Because what we did was related to the prince's violation of law and discipline, the first emperor was worried that we would be harmed by him, so he asked Eunuch Xu to send us out of the palace. During this period, only Xiao Rongshen, a rebellious minister and thief, came into contact with the first emperor alone, and it is conceivable who poisoned the first emperor. The first emperor was all to save us, and this was the only time he was poisoned! If Eunuch Xu was here, even if he Xiao Rongshen couldn't touch half of the emperor's hair!"

"Take it! Take down the two rebels to me! Peel the skin, file the bones, and chop them into minced meat!" Xiao Rong blushed deeply.

The loyal ministers looked at each other, and even the guards were in a daze, Xiao Rongshen was extremely angry, and shouted: "Why don't you go quickly!

No one dared to resist the decree, as soon as he spoke, the guards rushed up with a hula and twisted the two imperial historians, Li Yang and the two imperial historians immediately pointed to the sky and scolded, the scolded courtiers were like ashes, and even the witch doctor put down the peachwood sword, and the scolded witch doctor almost forgot what he was here for.

Gao Bingyan blushed, Li Yang and the two of them were the imperial historians, and killing the imperial history was tantamount to openly blocking the way of speech. In his later years, Emperor Taizu had killed a blatant and outspoken imperial history, which brought three years of panic to the imperial court. Therefore, the monarchs of the Great Chu Kingdom in later generations have not killed the imperial history, and this is the first time that it has ever been unprecedented!

Gao Bingyan felt that it was inappropriate, even if he didn't like these two Yu Yushi, he couldn't kill them in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, right? And he killed them so cruelly.

"Your Majesty, why did you suddenly get so angry?" Gao Bingyan asked in a low voice.

Yes, why? Xiao Rong was stunned, and he didn't know. At that time, he only felt a tremble, and then he was distracted. He turned around and raised his hand: "Slow!"

But it was too late, and once the guard's knife was cut down, it couldn't be stopped if he tried to take it back. The bones were sloppy, two human heads rolled to the ground, and plasma spurted out two feet high. A drop of crimson blood splashed on the offering table in front of the witch doctor, landing on the white pig's forehead.

The witch doctor quietly took out his handkerchief and wiped away the bloodstains.

He turned his head and saw the sixth master pretending to be a witch boy behind him, the sixth master had no expression on his face, just a few muscles tensed. His eyes were bloodshot, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his lips, and he didn't know if he had bitten his lip or crushed his teeth.

The sixth master didn't move, and the witch doctor couldn't move either.

The witch doctor grabbed the peachwood sword, poked up a piece of yellow paper, waved it, and lit it on the candle. The yellow paper was stained with phosphorous powder, and it burned with a blue glow.

Gao Bingyan looked straight, there was still a blue flame in the world, Xiao Rongshen had never seen it, and couldn't help frowning. The witch doctor picked up the bowl on the table, which contained a bowl of spirits, and when it rained, he took a piece of oiled paper to cover it slightly, and the wine in this bowl was still fragrant.

He took a large sip from his bowl and spewed it out a violently burning fireball on the flame of the candle. The courtiers were taken aback, and heard that the trick would also breathe fire, but they used oil and wine, and it was raining today, and the bowl was filled with rootless water. Can you breathe fireballs with water?

The rain on the ground gradually gathered, and a little flocculent material appeared, which slowly accumulated more and more, and merged on the ground to form a human figure.

Gao Bingyan screamed in surprise, Xiao Rongshen turned his head in annoyance, and suddenly saw the flocculent figure on the ground, he couldn't help but jump, and glanced at Gao Bingyan, Xiao Rongshen didn't say anything for a while.

"It's ......"

The witch doctor bowed down and bowed: "Your Majesty, there are three souls and seven spirits in the evil spirits, this is one soul, and there are two souls, scattered in other places in the palace. ”

"Good ......" Xiao Rongshen kept fighting between his upper and lower teeth, is this a soul of his father? He didn't believe this, but what was going on with the human form on the ground, he really couldn't figure it out.

"Where are the other souls?" Xiao Rongshen asked.

The witch doctor twisted his fingers, pretended to calculate for a while, and said, "Your Majesty, the villain looks at his qi, there is a soul hovering on the east side, and a weak yin person comes out." ”

"Weak yin?" Gao Bingyan looked at him with frowns.

"Yes, women are yin, children are weak. I wonder who lives on the east side of the palace?"

Gao Bingyan and Xiao Rongshen glanced at each other, on the east side of the palace, women, children, all the information was entangled together, and finally pointed to one person-Princess Chenxiang.

"Your Majesty, it seems to be Princess Chenxiang?" Gao Bingyan's eyes rolled in the frame: "Your Majesty, it also makes sense, the first emperor's favorite is Princess Chenxiang, and she misses her daughter after death, so it is not impossible to hover in Cheng'an Palace." ”

"Hmm. Xiao Rongshen glanced at it and shuddered: "Gao Xiang, you just take the witch doctor there." so that the courtiers were scattered, and I was tired. ”