The plume clouds hang low in Jinling City, and a mountain rain is about to come, and the wind fills the buildings.
A long gate was erected in the square in front of the Prince's Mansion. Inside and outside the gate, soldiers from Yingtian Mansion and Beizhen Fusi were lined up in strict formation. Three to four hundred sergeants were watching eagerly with iron chains on their waists and wooden sticks in their hands.
Tightly isolate the Prince's Mansion behind you from the square in front of you.
Normally, the gate of the Prince's Mansion is undefended. Even during the coup last year, we had never seen such a scene. So today, even the dullest people have realized that something big is going to happen here.
If it happens, everyone will stay away...
Without the endless stream of pedestrians, cars and horses, the large flat in front of the East Palace looks particularly solemn and vast.
In front of the gate, Yingtian Mansion Yin Lu Chongzhi looked at Wang Xian beside him with an uneasy expression. He saw the Imperial Guard Commander's hand resting on the handle of his knife, looking at the empty square with an indifferent expression.
"Uncle, it's already this point and there's still no one around. Will they be frightened back by our posture?" Yin Chongzhi endured it again and again, but still told nonsense that he didn't even believe.
"Haha..." Wang Xian glanced at him with a half-smile but said nothing. He really had no interest in answering such a stupid question.
"Haha, this is just wishful thinking..." Yin Chongzhi smiled awkwardly and closed his mouth knowingly.
"Sir," Deng Xiaoxian hurried over at this time and whispered in Wang Xian's ear: "Brothers acted all night and tried their best, but they could only prevent half of the officials from coming."
"Not bad." Wang Xian smiled and said softly: "If you can make more than two hundred officials retreat overnight, you are considered capable."
"Thank you for the compliment, sir." Deng Xiaoxian looked happy, but then worried: "But there are still half of the people who insist on coming to petition."
"It's okay, it's okay." Erhei, who was standing behind Wang Xian, squinted his one eye and said with a strange smile: "The prison was emptied overnight last night, and it can still hold two hundred people."
"Ah!" Lu Chongzhi, who was listening with his ears pricked up, was frightened and couldn't help shouting. "Uncle, think twice! This is hostile to the officials!"
"If Mr. Lu is afraid, you can avoid them before they come." The two black monsters on the side laughed and teased.
"It's not that I'm afraid of being subordinated to an official position." Lu Chongzhi looked at the group of Qiu Ba, filled with the helplessness of "a scholar meets a soldier, it's hard to explain", and said with a depressed look: "I'm thinking about my uncle! I can't be an enemy of the officials.
Ah, uncle!"
"Thank you, Lord Lu, for your kindness," Wang Xian said with a faint smile: "But sometimes, you have to do something you know you can't do." After a pause, he suddenly listened, the smile on his face completely disappeared, and his voice
It was even more cold and chilling:
"They're coming!"
Following Wang Xian's gaze, Lu Chongzhi and other officials looked towards the street. After waiting for only a few breaths, they saw a large group of civil servants wearing various court uniforms appearing in front of everyone...
"I'm a good boy," he said when he saw so many officials in court uniforms coming in angrily. Hundreds of hard-soled court boots stepped on the official road paved with bluestone slabs, making a soul-shattering rumble - this
The formation, let alone Lu Chongzhi, even Erhei and Deng Xiaoxian couldn't help but gasp. "What a huge formation..."
"Ahem!" Wang Xian glared at the few unsatisfied guys, and everyone hurriedly cheered up and put on a fierce posture.
At this time, the officials had already arrived on the large flat, lined up in a long snake, and headed straight for the gate.
"Stop, everyone, stop!" Erhei took a step forward and stood in front of the officials. Although there were hundreds of soldiers and his own adults behind him, he still felt like he was alone... just like he did in Zhenjiang City.
, hitting an egg against a stone, outnumbered.
Those officials stood still... They had to stop, otherwise they would hit the fence. But all of them had dark faces, like creditors who came to collect debts collectively.
"You guys, cough..." Erhei cleared his throat, and was about to change his tune when he heard a fourth-grade official at the head start shouting:
"Bold, whoever dares to set up a private security guard in front of the East Palace Gate has asked His Highness the Crown Prince for instructions!"
"This..." Erhei was at a loss for words immediately, and it took him a while to say: "Can you care?"
All the civil servants laughed loudly when they heard the sound. After laughing, the fourth-rank official raised his head proudly and said: "I, the Young Master of Zhan Shifu, Zhan Shiji Benqing, do you think I can manage it or not?!" Zhan Shifu is an organization of the East Palace, specially managed.
Regarding the prince's affairs, Ji Benqing was the second-in-command of the Zhan family, so he naturally said this with confidence.
But in fact, everyone present knew that a few years ago, Emperor Yongle wiped out all the officials in the East Palace on the pretext that the prince was missing, and the officials of Zhan Shifu who were replaced, Qing Yishui, were all close associates of the emperor and the king of Han.
, King Zhao's cronies, but there are no cronies of the prince. The prince and his Zhan Shifu have been strangers for a long time, and they are not in the same boat at all!
It's just that although this theory is simple, it cannot be explained clearly...
"We received a tip that someone was going to gather in front of the East Palace Gate to cause trouble today." Erhei could only groan and said, "For the safety of His Highness, we have to set up defense here with Ying Tianfu in case of any eventuality!"
"Where are the people gathering to make trouble?!" All the civil servants looked at the two **** coldly: "You didn't say that I was waiting, did you?"
"Who knows who it is!" Erhei snorted coldly.
"How dare you slander me and all the other officials!" This was regarded as arousing public outrage. All the officials, like wasps in their nest, swung at Erhei and left: "Hey, the emperor is patrolling the north, and the prince is supervising the country. We are waiting for the court.
Your Majesty, come here to see His Highness the Crown Prince. This is the way of court etiquette! How dare you slander us and gather a crowd to cause trouble!!"
"Hey, just wait, we will jointly sign a petition to impeach you, a rabid barking dog!"
"That's right, no one can save you!" The officials were so angry that they almost drowned Erhei: "One-eyed dragon, wash your neck and wait to be slaughtered!"
Seeing Er Hei being blocked, his eyes were wide open and his face was red. Everyone behind him sighed secretly, thinking that this was normal. How could Lao Hei, a martial artist, be compared to the civil servants' ability to talk.
At this time, there was a sudden loud bang, which shocked the civil servants all of a sudden. They looked around in a daze. They saw Wang Xian, the commander of the Imperial Guard, wearing a python robe and raised eyebrows. He was holding a delicate short sword in his hand.
The gun has a wisp of white smoke coming out of its mouth...
"What are you yelling about?!" Wang Xian threw the musket to Zhou Yong beside him to reload, tilted his head slightly, and walked up to the livid officials.
In the eyes of the officials, this big spy leader was looking at them sideways and showing contempt for them!
At that moment, they seemed to see the devil Ji Gang reborn, and they couldn't help but feel chills in the back of their heads... They rubbed their eyes hard again and again, and then they saw clearly that the person facing them was not Ji Gang, but the young Wang Xian...
But the arrogance of the civil servants inevitably declined...
"Uncle, you are so polite," these officials were only of the fourth rank, and they finally did not dare to treat Wang Xian, a super-rank earl and the leader of the Jinyiwei, like they did to Erhei.
"Haha..." Wang Xian took the reloaded fire gun, played with it in his hand, and said with a smile: "What are you guys doing?"
"I want to meet His Highness the Crown Prince!" The civil servants looked at the firecrackers dangling in his hand and couldn't help but feel frightened. "As a rule, during the Emperor's tour, the Prince Supervisor should receive the ministers on behalf of his father."
"You all want to see the prince?" Wang Xian smiled and swept away everyone with his hands, scaring all the officials to retreat because he still held that damn musket in his hand! And it was loaded!
"Yes..." The civil servants replied tremblingly, but they stood firm and did not retreat. Although their faces were earth-colored, they all showed a posture of looking forward to death.
"No!" Wang Xian straightened his face and raised the muzzle of his gun slightly.
"Why?" All the civil servants were naturally dissatisfied and shouted loudly: "This is our duty, and I have no right to stop it!"
"That's right, we have no right to stop it!" Some people became bolder, and more people followed suit and shouted: "We want to see His Highness the Crown Prince!"
‘Bang!’ There was another gunshot, making everyone tremble again - they saw an official hat flying into the sky!
The civil servant who was shot in the official hat had his knees weak, and he knelt on the ground with his head covered, his teeth chattering and he was speechless...
‘If this score is one point lower, he will be shot!’ The officials couldn’t help but gasp.
‘If this is one point lower, he will be shot!’ Lu Chongzhi’s and Wang Xian’s subordinates were also shocked, and the former even cursed Wang Xian as a ‘madman’ in his heart!
‘If this was one point lower, he would have been shot!’ Even Wang Xian was shocked... Oh my god, the shot he just fired actually went off...
"******! What are you yelling about?!" Of course, Wang Xian would never admit such an embarrassing thing. His eyes widened and he yelled at the frightened civil servants: "I
Did he say that you are not allowed to meet the prince?!".
"..." In front of the Prince's Mansion, it was quiet for a while, and then an official said cautiously: "Then please remove the troops and let us go in..."
"What will it look like when so many people go in together?!" Wang Xian snorted coldly: "I know it's to pay homage to the prince, but I don't know that I thought you were going to the market!"
"Then..." When all the officials saw that Wang Xian's gun was filled with bullets, they all trembled with fear.
"Register and meet one by one!" Wang Xian rolled his eyes, and the secretary next to him set up a table with pen and ink books on it.
"This..." All the civil servants looked at each other and asked each other with their eyes what was going on and whether they would do as they were told.
If you just do it, wouldn’t it violate the original intention of the petition? Moreover, when everyone petitions together, they already have the idea that the law will not punish the public. Now, if everyone signs and stamps their signatures, wouldn’t it mean that they will be settled by the future?
But if you don't follow the instructions, how will you deal with Wang Xian, who is like the King of Hell?!