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The sky was bright and clear in the early morning, but by noon, the sky became gloomy, dark clouds gathered, and the wind roared, turning the dead leaves on the long street.
It seems that the sky is telling the world at this moment that this day has changed.
The Chong'an Gate, the south gate of the Imperial City, which connects to the South City Gate via Imperial Street, was closed yesterday. There was no movement all night. Today, it was not opened until noon. Hundreds of uniformed cavalrymen were seen escorting two vehicles.
The prison cars drove slowly out of the imperial city.
Dozens of eunuchs in green attire rushed in front of the troops and were quickly posting notices along the street.
"Which official is this going to be dragged to Dongshi and beheaded?" A notice posted in front of Imperial Street was crowded with spectators.
Not to mention that the Imperial City and the Nine Gates were in a tense situation yesterday and had to undergo a comprehensive defense change. Even today, the news of Emperor Tianyou being imprisoned by the Queen and the Crown Prince spread in the streets. For ordinary people who are slow to react and can only passively accept all fates,
Apart from being frightened and helpless, I also felt confused and indifferent.
At this time, they saw officials being escorted directly from the Imperial City to the East City for torture, which aroused their indifference and numbness, their natural love for watching the excitement deep in their hearts.
Many people, regardless of the chaos outside, braved the biting cold wind, rushed out of their homes and poured into the streets, encouraging those who could read and read to read the contents of the posted notices to everyone.
"Hey, the person who was dragged to Dongshi for torture at this time is really a big shot. It was this dog official who thought that the hungry people outside the city were an eyesore and wanted to drive them away. I didn't expect that this dog official actually killed Your Majesty today!"
"What's going on? His Majesty passed away? I went out early in the morning and didn't I hear that His Majesty was killed by the Queen and the Crown Prince..."
"Li DaDa, what nonsense did you hear? How dare you talk nonsense here? The notice clearly stated that His Majesty was murdered by Jingzhao Yin Han Daoxun, Mrs. Wang of Cishou Palace, Chamberlain Zhong Yuli, Xinchang Hou Li Pu and others.
——I will read the notice to you..."
"...His Majesty promoted Han Daoxun to Jingzhao Yin at the end of his life. However, Han Daoxun ignored the emperor's favor and had a cold temperament. He did not want to be loyal to your majesty. He and his son instigated the third prince Yang Yuanpu to support the army and respect himself. He also colluded with Wang Chan'er, the thief concubine of Cishou Palace, and Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang.
According to the order of the government, Zhong Yuli and other thieves were waiting inside the house to sneak into Chongwen Hall on the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, suffocate him with a pillow, and harm His Majesty. This notice clearly stated the crimes of Han Daoxun, a dog official.
ah……"
"Ah, suffocate it with a pillow, what do you mean?"
"You idiot, you are uneducated and have no skills. You just press the pillow over your mouth and nose to suffocate yourself to death."
"That's really audacious. Are you going to behead them in public?"
"It would be an advantage for them to behead them in public... The Queen's decree is to split the chariot of Han Daoxun and Zhong Yuli in Dongshi to inform the world and serve as a warning to others - if the chariot is split, it will be divided into five horses..."
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"Yang Tai, you are an old fool. Han Daoxun is loyal to the country and the people. If he hadn't turned the tide, eliminated the scourge of war, and prevented the clan members from killing each other, he would have done it for Jinling and the hundreds of millions of people in the Jianghuai land.
Why bother throwing yourself into a trap? The guy named Xu is already crazy, but we can’t let Han Daoxun die so miserably! We just sit back and watch, and we will be punished by heaven and earth!"
Yang En, with disheveled hair, was grabbed by several people and sat on the grand master's chair in the lobby of Zong Zheng's official residence. He struggled so hard that he had no strength left, but he still pointed his finger at Zong Zhengqing Yang Tai's nose and cursed loudly, and the roar that came out of his throat was hoarse.
"Yang En, Empress Xu finally spared your life, why do you want to be so mean to yourself? Just listen to my advice and stay in my house for the past two days. If you want to scold me, I will listen to you.
If you want to fight, I'll let you fight, okay?"
Yang Tai, the Duke of Ying State, was over seventy years old and already gray-haired. He was the common cousin of Emperor Tianyou and Marquis Yang En of Liyang. His father, Emperor Tianyou and Yang En's grandfather were full brothers. It can be said that they were the Yang family members.
He is the only remaining figure from the previous generation in the clan, and he has always served as Zong Zhengqing, presiding over clan affairs.
Although His Majesty died strangely, as a pragmatic person, he was no longer interested in exploring what happened in Chongwen Palace. He only knew how to protect the Yang clan and ensure that the throne of Chu would not fall into his hands. This was Yang Tai's biggest concern.
Responsibilities.
No matter how much Yang En cursed, Yang Tai just sat firmly on the Taishi chair and at the same time ordered his family members to grab Yang En to prevent him from rushing out of the house and talking nonsense.
"You old fool, you don't have the guts to ask Liuhan Daoxun named Xu for his life and let me go." Yang En was almost going crazy and roared angrily.
"You are weak and weak. What can you do if you go to the palace alone?" Yang Tai urged.
"The whole world is dominated by thieves like you who are greedy for life and afraid of death, so that traitors are in power and evil is everywhere. I, Yang En, am weak and weak, and I am overestimating my capabilities. I am a small mayfly who wants to shake the giant tree, but I, Yang En,
I can still die to prove that under the bright sky, not all of you are thieves who are greedy for life and afraid of death. I don’t think that guy named Xu would mind beheading me one more time!" Yang En roared angrily.
"It's useless even if you want to die. Han Daoxun obtained the Dragon Bird Army for the third prince, and also obtained Tanzhou. Empress Xu hated her to the core. Unless Han Daoxun surrendered at this time and was willing to be used by Empress Xu, otherwise, Empress Xu
How could we spare his life?" No matter how much Yang En yelled, Yang Tai remained unmoved. He sat in front of the door with a chair and asked someone to hold Yang En down.
"Who said that Han Daoxun plotted against the Longque Army and Tanzhou?" Yang En asked.
"Isn't it?" Yang Tai asked.
"Because of this, the person named Xu insists on killing him?" Yang En said angrily with the veins on his forehead twitching, "The person named Xu should be afraid of his son Han Qian, not Han Daoxun - leaving Han Daoxun's life behind.
Only then can we have room for relaxation. The person named Xu wants to kill Han Daoxun, and she will die without a burial place! You old fool, if you help the enemy today, you will die a bad death in the future!"
How could Yang Tai believe Yang En?
How old is Han Qian? Even if he is good at using clever tricks and becomes famous and distinguished at this time, it is also the origin of family education. In the end, it must be attributed to Han Daoxun - as long as Han Daoxun is alive, he will really make Anning Palace and the prince restless.
Having trouble sleeping and eating.
With such a character throwing himself into a trap, how could An Ning Palace be so merciful, and how could they not be afraid that if he escaped, he would bring endless trouble to them?
So many things happened in just one day, and a big hole was opened in the sky. Yang Tai was also exhausted, so he asked his family to bring a rope to tie Yang En up, so as not to let him escape from the house accidentally.
Xu said: "I am already at this age, and I am half buried in the earth. If I don't want to die a good death, I will not die well! You have to live a good life for the Yang clan!"
"If everyone in Jinling is bleeding like a river, how can you, an old fool, plan for the Yang clan?" Yang En was about to cry, but he didn't understand why no one could believe his words?
"Yang Jian has sent his son back to the city. As long as he can control the second child and the third child does not move, I will risk my life. I also ask Xu Hou to seal the second child and the third child will sit in Chu and Tan to share the world.
, together we can conquer Shuliang!" Yang Tai said.
Yang En's hands were tied up and he stamped the ground in a hurry. His eyes were red and bloodshot and he cursed angrily: "What is Han Daoxun throwing himself into? You are all so stupid! You will all
Death without a burial place!”
Yang En closed his eyes in despair, as if a river of blood lay across his eyes: now both sides are at loggerheads, and Yang Tai, an old fool, doesn't know that Han Daoxun's death means that the last trace of the war will be eliminated and the scourge of war will be annihilated.
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Zhao Kuo and Zhao Wuji took several young men of the Xi family and rushed to the city in the early morning. However, the guards of the nine cities were replaced by people from Anning Palace and the Prince's family. After dawn, the city gates were also closed tightly, and people were strictly prohibited from entering or exiting.
Fortunately, despite the cold weather, the rivers and rivers were only covered with thin ice, and the rivers with larger waves were not blocked by river ice.
They reached Beishengmen Shuiguan, took advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders, and endured the biting cold at noon. They successfully dived through the gap in the iron gate of Beishengmen Shuiguan, crossed into the city, and entered the vicinity of Beishengguan.
Secret safe house.
The city is full of armored soldiers patrolling the streets. Anyone who dares to wander in groups will most likely be intercepted and interrogated.
Zhao Kuo and Zhao Wuji's plan was to first send people to contact Yingque to find out the news, and then wait for a few days or wait for the guards in the city to relax, then they would look for an opportunity to rescue Han Daoxun who was in jail.
The north wind roared furiously, and at some point the lead-colored sky blew heavy snow. In a short time, a light layer of white accumulated in the yard.
The two men who were sent out to inquire about the news returned home in less than half a stick of incense, each carrying a notice they had risked their lives to remove from the alley.
Looking at the notice, Zhao Kuo and Zhao Wuji were also struck like a bolt from the blue. They never thought that Anning Palace would be so impatient to kill the family leader, and that they would be taken to Dongshi City where they would be tortured with the cruelest and most brutal method of splitting the body into pieces with five horses?
They no longer cared about carefully concealing their whereabouts or recruiting more people. They hurriedly changed their clothes, pretended to be civilians, hid their swords and crossbows in a diesel truck, and rushed to Dongshi in the snow.
However, by the time they arrived at Dongshi, it was too late.
Onlookers all over the street felt a little bit of fear at the execution just now, but also felt an irrepressible sense of curiosity and excitement.
"Thanks to Your Majesty's kindness to him, this dog officer actually colluded with a traitor to murder Your Majesty. He really had to be beaten to death to get rid of his hatred. What else can you say? The imperial guards tied the dog officer's armpits and crotch with ropes.
"The horse is driving the horse, but the dog officer doesn't howl. After all, it's missing a layer of meaning..."
"My stomach and intestines are bleeding all over the floor, so what else do you mean?"
"I can't say that like you, not to mention that Han Daoxun has a reputation of loving the people in Chuzhou and Xuzhou. Although he has been in Jingzhaoyin for a short time, he has already caught several young men from aristocratic families because of their arrogance and domineering behavior.
The Yamen's use of torture has made the world in the city somewhat purer. It's really unimaginable that he would murder Your Majesty..."
"Are you afraid that you have forgotten which dog official was in the court a few years ago and suggested that the court drive out the hungry people outside the city to cleanse their eyes and ears? This dog official deserves to be quartered with five horses today!"
"It must be a great achievement for the Han family and his son to help the third prince put down the Tanzhou rebellion. Otherwise, how could the emperor transfer him to such an important position as Jing Zhaoyin?"
"What do you know? They say that a traitor looks like loyalty and a fake looks like truth. If His Majesty hadn't been deceived by the false appearance of this dog official, how could he be so easily killed by this dog official and that traitor? It's a pity that the guards in the palace, for a moment,
The son tore the body of the dog official into two pieces. When the rebel leader Ma Yin and his son were executed four or five months ago, they tortured them for a full day before finally tearing their bodies apart! What a pity, what a pity.
, I didn’t see the exciting part today!”
Zhao Wuji's forehead was throbbing with veins, and he wanted to take out his sword and halberd from the chariot, chop the untouchables who were talking nonsense all over the street into meat paste, and tell them that the head of the family couldn't bear to see them fall into the misery of war and separation, so he did not hesitate to sacrifice himself.
, who threw themselves into a trap to mediate with the traitor!
"..." Zhao Kuo grabbed Zhao Wuji's impulsive shoulder and told him not to be like these stupid people. After passing through the crowd and seeing the four-section unrecognizable corpse from the entrance of a less crowded alley, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but tremble all over.
He smashed his hand on the mud wall, and with a muffled sound, the wall's rammed mud peeled off, and his right hand was suddenly bloody and bloody. It was just the pain and anger in his heart that he couldn't feel any pain at all.
The heavy snow was falling, and each of the several guardsmen dragged half of their corpses around the huge East Market. The blood stains that were still flowing blended into the snow. Zhao Wuji and his young men rushed back to the chariot.
If someone is nearby, he will draw out his sword and halberd, rush over and snatch out the body of the family leader.
"Stop!" Zhao Kuo shouted to Zhao Wuji in a deep voice and scolded them to hide their weapons back in the chariot. He suppressed the grief in his heart and said in a low voice, "Zhao Wuji, you immediately lead people to the capital of Shu and report the news to the young master.
The news of the death of the family leader must be reported to the young master before the official announcement, and I will stay here to wait for the opportunity to collect the body of the family leader."
"Today is the master's fiftieth birthday! Do we still want to spare our lives and just sit and watch these beasts destroy the body of the master?" Zhao Wuji's hand holding the handle of the bow was trembling, and his childish eyes were covered with tears.
live.
"If the Shu Kingdom knew the news that the master of the family was framed first, how do you know that they would not detain the young master and trade with the thief?" Zhao Kuo grabbed Zhao Wuji's wrist and glared at him, asking him to calm down first.
Zhao Wuji dejectedly hid the long bow back in the chariot. Despite his grief and anger, he still had a trace of reason and knew that Zhao Kuo was right. The Chu State had fallen apart. No one was sure that when the news reached Shu, the Shu people would definitely choose to follow the Three Kingdoms.
The prince cooperates and does not leave trouble to the young master who is currently on an envoy to the Kingdom of Shu to welcome his bride!
No matter how sad and angry he felt, he had to spread the news to the young master's ears first.
There is heavy snow on the sky and the earth, and the low wind howls sadly...