The next day, the world was pitch black, the bell did not ring, there was still an hour before the early dynasty, the Jinluan Hall was already full of people, the civil and military officials were in groups, there were many voices of resentment.

An hour later, the majestic bell rang throughout the imperial city, the Jinluan Hall was wide open, Zhang Dechang walked out of the hall, waved the dust, and the sharp voice spread in all directions.

"Your Majesty has arrived, and the ministers are here!"

The discussion stopped abruptly, and the ministers tidied up their clothes, entered the court hall in order, formed a formation, bowed down to the majestic figure sitting on the nine steps, and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Flat. ”

Emperor Yang said lightly, not angry and arrogant, the ministers got up with thanks, and when Zhang Dechang's voice of "having a fast play, no capital to retreat from the dynasty" shouted, a minister immediately came out of the ranks, facing the Yang Emperor.

"The emperor, the minister impeached the imperial forest army Sima Lin Yuan for contempting the king's law, confusing the dynasty, and even falsely preaching the holy decree, privately sealing the official houses of the major fang cities, and taking people to prison without authorization, it is really a traitor to my dynasty, I hope that the emperor will be clear, behead this fang, raze its three clans, all the generals of the imperial forest army will be beheaded, and the rest of the people will sit together according to the crime, with the law and discipline, and the dynasty will be corrected!"

"What Lord Wu said is extremely true, Wu Yong, Chen Jie, Zhang Yuan, Yan Jin, etc. are all law-abiding, virtuous and benevolent, and are great talents in governing the country, important ministers of our dynasty, as well as Cao Ding, Han Yi and other generals in the army, who have made many meritorious achievements in the Northern Expedition, but they have been imprisoned unjustly, such traitors like Lin Yuan are heinous and must be severely punished!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

“......”

One official after another came out, and they were full of indignation, as if the great Sima Lin Yuan had an enmity with them, and everyone was punished!

It's not that Lin Yuan really does things so aggressively that the sky is angry and resentful, it is true that the actions of the Imperial Forest Army frightened the ministers, and there were hundreds of officials above the sixth rank who were taken into prison alone, and more than a dozen ministers above the third rank, and even Yan Gaochuan, the head of the household department, the uncle of the fifth prince, and the second person in the Yan family did not escape the clutches of the Imperial Forest Army, and now almost everyone in the court is in danger, and it is not guaranteed that one day the Royal Forest Army will break into their homes and arrest themselves in prison.

Under this kind of psychology, many ministers who had no grievances with Lin Yuan and had no conflict of interest at all stood up with their heads held high, demanding that the supreme commander of the Imperial Forest Army, Da Sima Lin Yuan, be severely punished!

As the party who caused the anger of the public, Lin Yuan closed his eyes and recuperated on the ground, and turned a deaf ear to the voices of resentment and accusation in the hall, these people were just clowns jumping off the beam in his eyes!

Who is he Lin Yuan, the great Sima of the Imperial Forest Army on the right side of the Praetorian Guard, is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and his status is only under the left Yulin Guard of the Praetorian Guard, to put it bluntly, it is a knife in the hands of the Yang Emperor, who he wants to kill, as long as the Yang Emperor is willing to use his own knife, even the civil and military officials want his life, and his head will always grow on his neck.

Emperor Yang listened to the impeachment of the ministers with a faint smile, and it was not until all the statements were made that he couldn't see the joy and anger of looking at Wei Zhengxian, the secretary of the ministry who lowered his eyebrows and lowered his head, and asked, "What does Wei Aiqing think?"

Pretending to be stupid and useless, Wei Zhengxian sighed secretly, only had to be listed, and replied respectfully: "The emperor is wise and martial, and there must have been a judgment on what is right and wrong, and everything is subject to the emperor's will." ”

Old fox!

Emperor Yang's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he looked at another person, Li Ren, the secretary of the Criminal Department: "Li Aiqing is in charge of the Criminal Department, and I will also tell you your opinion." ”

"Yes!" Li Ren came out and said in a righteous manner: "This matter needs to be clarified, if what you have said is true, the great Sima Lin Yuan falsely passed on the holy decree, created an unjust case, and should be beheaded according to the law, and the generals at all levels of the Imperial Forest Army will be demoted to one rank and fined for three years to set an example, but if Lin Yuan is acting according to orders, it is also a serious crime to slander the minister." ”

After speaking, Li Ren ignored the cold light that came from the strafing, returned to his original position, and stood silently.

Li Aiqing's words won my heart. Emperor Yang said in an astonishing voice, "I did give Lin Yuan a secret decree, do the princes also want to accuse me of being dumb and not distinguishing between loyalty and treachery?"

“？？？”

“！！！”

"The minister doesn't dare! The minister is guilty!" It was like a thunderbolt that thundered down, and the ministers who impeached Lin Yuan were shocked, their legs were weak, and they rushed to grab the ground with their heads, drenched in cold sweat.

Today's Yang Emperor is more majestic than in the past, and every word and deed has a great deterrent effect, just a simple sentence, it is more terrible than a cold storm and snow.

"Don't dare? You are bold, why don't you dare?" Emperor Yang said in a deep voice, the coldness in his eyes was like a blade, and under his scrutiny, the ministers seemed to be under a thousand cuts, and their whole bodies trembled.

"Without verification, it was said that Lin Yuan falsely passed on the holy decree, and he was beheaded all over the house, razed the three clans, and sat down with officials, so great official authority, the Tianyang Law is to stabilize the world, but it has become a sharp weapon for you to compete for fame and fortune, this world, is it my world, or your world?"

"Eat the king's lu, be loyal to the king, but you are for your own selfishness, bewitching my emperor, fighting in the same room, you are so loyal to the monarch and serving the country?"

"Don't you like to be slashed all over the house, and the three tribes are destroyed?"

"Okay, I'll be perfect!"

Emperor Yang's eyes were full of murderous intent, and for the first time, he showed his sharp fangs above the court, and the entire Jinluan Hall was filled with a murderous aura, not only those ministers who were prostrate on the ground, but even those who were standing were terrified, like falling into an ice cellar.

Listening to the emperor's meaning, it is clear that he is going to kill!

"Lin Yuan!"

Emperor Yang took the name, Lin Yuan had already understood the holy will, walked out calmly, and said meticulously: "The minister is here!"

"Take down all these criminals, behead them all over the house, raze their three clans, but if there is a fish that slips through the net, I will kill you Lin Yuan first!" Emperor Yang said coldly, and the ministers kneeling there were completely frightened, and they collapsed to the ground one by one, and even many people became incontinent because of this.

"Someone!"

Lin Yuan shouted an order outside the hall, and glanced at everyone with a cold gaze, a group of things that didn't know whether they were alive or dead!

Whoa—

Two teams of royal forest sergeants armed with long knives rushed in, without any nonsense, and directly dragged out with a minister, and suddenly shouted "wronged" and "spare life" one after another, but gradually drifted away until it disappeared completely.

The half-empty Jinluan Hall is more spacious, but the atmosphere is tense to the extreme, everyone is silent, they can really see and hear the fate of those people just now, they are all over the house, and they are all over the place, and who dares to speak out at such a time, in case they touch the emperor's mold again, but they will regret it.

In particular, Wei Zhengxian, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Ren, the secretary of the Criminal Department, were even more cold sweat, and they were afraid, the emperor questioned them just now, if they were a little radical words, I am afraid they would have been dealt with like those people, right?

It was not until this moment that the courtiers in the hall really realized that the figure above the ninth order was no longer the gentle and generous benevolent monarch of the past, but a generation of Ming monarchs who were decisive and authoritarian, this was the first time he showed his sword to the courtiers, but it would never be the last!

"Tell me the will. Emperor Yang didn't pay attention to the feelings of the courtiers in the palace, and made the decree without the slightest emotion.

"Except for those people just now, those who have been arrested or are being arrested, they will all be killed and punished by the Nine Clans!"

"In addition, the second prince Zifeng did not cultivate virtue, was instigated by the villain, conspired with his own brother in the front, and plotted against the county lord of the current dynasty in the back, and now he was demoted to a commoner, exiled to Miaozhou, and will not return to Beijing for the rest of his life;

"Retreat!"

Until the sharp voice of Zhang Dechang, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, woke up the ministers, Emperor Yang had already disappeared into the Jinluan Palace, looking at each other one by one, and was still immersed in the content of the shocking holy decree, and was so shocked that he could not speak for a long time.

With Tianyang's promotion to the senior dynasty imminent, the battle for the crown prince is also on the agenda, and there is even news that the candidate for the crown prince will be determined above the promotion ceremony, but they can't imagine that there is still half a month before the promotion ceremony, and three princes will be eliminated at once.

The second prince was demoted to a commoner and exiled to Miaozhou, which was located in southern Xinjiang and would not return to Beijing for the rest of his life.

The five princes were imprisoned for life, and what kind of place was the Zongren Mansion, the nightmare place of the royal family, life was better than death.

The four princes are much better, but the king of Tibet has lost the qualification to compete for the crown prince, and Beiliang is also located in the desolate northern frontier, and it is impossible to live a nourishing life, not even as good as some nominal side vassal kings.

And the reason why these three princes ended up like this is because of the conspiracy with his own brother, although Emperor Yang did not say it explicitly, but the ministers present are not idiots, combined with the causes and consequences, it seems to understand that it is for the seventh prince who has been missing for more than a year and returned inexplicably, Yang Yan!

Even they vaguely guessed that the people who were ordered to be arrested by the Imperial Forest Army were directly or indirectly involved in the conspiracy of the three princes, which provoked the Yang Emperor to kill and wash the court in blood, which shows the status of the Seven Princes in the Yang Emperor's heart.

In addition to the ministers' heart palpitations, some of their minds were also activated, and Yang Yan became a hot figure without him knowing.

......

This day is destined to be an extraordinary day, at the entrance of the vegetable market, a thousand executioners lined up, holding a big knife to chop melons and vegetables, falling and lifting, lifting and falling, under the eyes of everyone, the heads of people are rolling, and the blood flows like a river, which lasted for a whole day and a night.

But for the next three months, the nightmarish blood could not be washed away by daily rinsing, and the vegetable market became a place that many people did not want to mention, and there were even rumors that the vegetable market was haunted, and many people heard the evil ghosts crying when they passed there.

"Evil ghosts, are you worse than me?" the second prince was dressed in cloth, stood at the entrance of the vegetable market, sneered disdainfully, and then disappeared into the setting sun step by step under the supervision of a group of royal forest soldiers......

"What a defeated dog!" the fourth prince stood on a high place, watching the lonely figure leave, and said scornfully.

"Me too. He added, as if laughing at himself, but then his expression became more determined.

"This prince will not lose, everything he has lost, sooner or later, this king will get it back!"