Tyrant Whitewashing Plan [Transmigration Book]

Harmonious relationship between monarchs and ministers has been the foundation of a stable and prosperous dynasty since ancient times. Therefore, the palace will hold New Year banquets during Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival banquets, and then the emperor will entertain all ministers on these big days. Giving vegetables on New Year's Eve, or rewarding moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, to show the favor to the ministers, these measures are all to enhance the relationship between the monarch and his ministers, and better maintain the rule.

And above the palace banquet, the position of the ministers is also very particular.

Generally speaking, the higher the rank, the closer the courtiers who are favored sit to the emperor, and vice versa.

There is no doubt that Prime Minister Xie, the head of all officials, can sit in the first position on the left hand side of Xiao Jining. As for the first seat on the right hand side of Xiao Jining - it should be the position of the head of military officials, the Central General.

In the past, the central general of the Great Xiao was Jingyue, and this position was also held by Jingyue at every palace banquet when Emperor Yunhong was there.

But after Xiao Jining came to the throne, Jingyue fell, and now the position of general of the central government is also vacant and there is no one to take his place for the time being.

It's just that the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner is about to start, but this place is occupied by Jing Yuan.

Jingyuan's status in the court has always been special. Officials have been afraid of the power of the Jing family for a long time, and they dare not be angry or speak out. As a result, after the Jing family fell a Jingyue, Jing Yuan can still lead the Jing family to stand firmly on the ground. The top of Da Xiao's power is still standing still - even if there is a real Jing family, he is almost the only one left.

In the past, the ministers were afraid that he would usurp the throne suddenly, and then he would be rejected by the emperor and be abandoned. In addition, Jing Yuan was a smiling tiger, so no one dared to have a close friendship with him.But now his biological father committed such a serious crime as "conspiracy of treason" and will be executed soon, but he is still the emperor's number one favorite minister, won the favor of Emperor Yunchu, and his future is immeasurable.Now that he is sitting on the position of "General of the Central Committee" again, does this mean that... Jing Yuan is going to replace his father and take over this position?

Considering that Jingyuan is almost 26 now, but has no wife and no children, some officials with school-age daughters in their families have some thoughts of getting married, but Jingyuan is so cruel to his biological father, even if he gets married, can he guarantee Jingyuan's marriage? Yuan Yuan will take care of family relations?

Therefore, the ministers wanted to exchange pleasantries with Jing Yuan, but they hesitated.

While they were hesitating, a handsome and young minister who had just entered the court walked straight towards Jingyuan - that was this year's new champion, Wen Yu.

Civil servants and military officials sat separately, and the court clothes were also different. A civil servant in silver and white shirts with black background could not be more conspicuous when approaching a military officer in black armor and heavy armor.

So Jing Yuan raised his eyes and glanced at the person who came.

After meeting Shang Jingyuan's gaze, Wen Yu immediately bowed to him and said, "General Jing."

"Bachelor Wen." Jing Yuan opened his lips and said softly.

Wen Yu's current official position is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and Wen Yu had this position not long after he entered the court, and his future is bright, and because he was once the favorite student of Prime Minister Xie, everyone guessed that after Prime Minister Xie retired and returned to his hometown, he would probably be the next one. A prime minister.

It's just that his current position is still lower than that of Jingyuan, so Jingyuan just calls him "Scholar Wen".

Of course, it is unknown whether it was because of his low official position that he called him that way, or whether Jing Yuan didn't want to call him "Master Wen" politely.

Wen Yu congratulated him: "General Jing, I wish you a happy Mid-Autumn Festival."

Jing Yuan continued to say indifferently: "Scholar Wen is too."

"Mid-Autumn Festival is a great day for reunion. You see, these seven princes have all rushed here from the fief." Wen Yu smiled with his eyes bent, and said casually, "I heard that you have a distant cousin who also came to the general's mansion. Went to visit General Jing?"

Jing Yuan curled his lips when he heard the words, looked at Wen Yu and said, "Bachelor Wen is well-informed, even Jing can't match him."

"Where is it? It's just that I often go to Yipinlou to listen to books, and I accidentally heard a lot of news." In the Great Xiao Dynasty Hall, Li Wen Yuding, the minister who sees people talking about people and ghosts, is on the list, "Look at Beijing The general's position today, is there any good thing coming up recently?"

Jing Yuan asked without answering: "I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but besides me in Da Xiao, is there anyone else who can sit in this seat?"

"General Jing's words are domineering." After Wen Yu praised, he said something that seemed ironic but not quite right, "But you wouldn't allow others to sit in this position, would you?"

"I'm cowardly and dare not speak nonsense." Jing Yuan also snorted, "But since Scholar Wen mentioned my position, does Scholar Wen know why I have to sit here?"

"It seems that General Jing is well prepared today." Wen Yu smiled, "It's just that the enemy is in the dark, and you and I are in the open. I don't know if General Jing can protect the safety of the emperor."

"Why not?" Jing Yuan looked into Wen Yu's eyes and asked him, "As a subject, shouldn't he die for His Majesty's sake?"

Wen Yu also asked, "Among these courtiers, do you include General Jing?"

Jing Yuan answered him: "Especially me."

"Then I'm relieved." Wen Yu raised his wine glass and said in a low voice while toasting to Jingyuan, "The Fifth Prince Chen Yu has something different, I hope General Jing will be more careful."

"Oh?" Just a short sentence, with profound meaning, Jing Yuan raised his eyebrows and said, "It's really rare that Scholar Wen is willing to give advice to Jing."

"If I want to be a chancellor, Chen Yu is my biggest obstacle. They were expelled from the school for the same reason, how can I not guard against it?" Wen Yu smiled and drank the wine in his glass before returning to his own. in situ.

Chen Yu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, happened to be sitting in front of Wen Yu, and when he saw him coming back, he asked him, "I saw that Junior Brother and General Jing had a very happy conversation, what are you talking about?"

Wen Yu smiled and said, "It's just congratulations to General Jing for being awarded the position of General of the Central Committee in advance."

"Really." Chen Yu also smiled and said nothing.

In the military officer's seat opposite the civil servant, Jing Yuan, who heard Wen Yu's words, was sitting quietly with his eyes downcast, thoughtful.

He guessed that something would happen tonight, but before that, his attention was too much on Xiao Jining's safety and the mysterious assassin on Yugui Island in Lixing Palace, but according to Wen Yu's words just now, tonight's event Is the mutation more related to the Fifth Prince?

But Jing Yuan didn't have much time to think, and the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet began.

During this period, Jing Yuan has been carefully observing the surrounding situation, but he still can't find too many abnormalities. After all, if there is a change tonight, it will only be an assassin.Assassins often either disguised themselves as eunuchs and maids, or mixed in with dancers and entertainers, so Jing Yuan kept a close eye on these people.But tonight, the number of forbidden soldiers in the hall of the Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet will be more than before, so there is no need to worry too much even if there are assassins.

On the other side, Xiao Jining, who was in the main seat, didn't have much leisure to enjoy the performance tonight. He had to be on guard against someone assassinating him all the time, and he was also cautious about the food he ate.So the palace man brought him a bowl of minced meat soup, even though he had tried the poison, Xiao Jining just fiddled with it gently with a spoon, and didn't eat it.

Xiao Jining has never hoped that someone would come to kill him so quickly at any moment. Waiting aimlessly is too boring. Xiao Jining hopes that tonight's big event will happen quickly, and he can go back to sleep early if it is resolved.

And Mu Kui just reminded Xiao Jining at this moment: "Your Majesty, it's time to give moon cakes."

"Okay." Xiao Jining immediately lifted his spirits after he had something to do, and ordered Xi Shu, who was beside him in his left hand, to ask the palace people to distribute Mid-Autumn moon cakes to the ministers.

It's just that Xi Shu just turned around at the command, Xiao Jining looked at his back that was about to leave, and suddenly thought of one thing - after the chaos in Li Xinggong, everyone knew that one of the two best guards around him was Xi Shu. One is Jing Yuan.

Now that Jing Yuan is sitting on the other side of the military commander's seat, some distance away from him, and Xi Shu next to him has to leave his side for a while at this time, could this be the best time to assassinate?

Xiao Jining tensed his body, waiting for the assassin to move as well, picking the right time to prepare to escape.

But until Xi Shu returned to him, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was still full of joy and harmony.

The ministers stood up together, held up the moon cakes that Xiao Jining had admired and said in unison: "May the emperor have a happy Mid-Autumn Festival."

This scene was too peaceful, Xiao Jining was a little stunned, and said: "I also..."

As a result, just as Xiao Jining uttered two words, several forbidden soldiers who were originally arranged by Jingyuan in the main hall to protect the smooth progress of the Mid-Autumn Banquet suddenly pulled out the sabers around their waists, stabbing the fellow forbidden soldiers beside them without saying a word, and then Then charged towards Xiao Jining.

The palace people screamed everywhere, and the hall was thrown into chaos.

Seeing this scene, Jing Yuan couldn't help cursing in a low voice: "Xu's evil party!"

Xu Junhui, as a military commander who can lead the forbidden army in the capital for decades, can also help the second prince ascend to God for a time, and was once able to share the military power of the Great Xiao with the Jing family and the Ji family, is enough to prove that he is definitely not an ordinary person.

Such a person, even if he died, would still have a group of loyal soldiers following him.

Although Jingyuan is the commander of the Beijing Army, these soldiers are not the troops stationed in Beijing who have followed him for many years. It is not easy to completely find out who is the evil party of the Xu family from the 20 forbidden troops. Take the forbidden troops who assassinated today. He said that they were not exposed even when Li Xinggong was in turmoil, and they were all imperial troops following the orders of General Jingyuan Hussars, so now they have slipped through the net.

And these forbidden soldiers mainly did not assassinate Xiao Jining alone, apart from rushing towards Xiao Jining, they also dealt cruel blows to the high-ranking ministers in the court and other members of the royal family.

"Zheng-!"

Seeing this, Jing Yuan immediately drew out the iron sword at his waist, threw it in the direction of Prime Minister Xie, and nailed a forbidden army who was about to cut towards Prime Minister Xie to the pillar of the temple.

Xiao Jining also said anxiously: "Quick! Protect Prime Minister Xie!"

It's just that at this time, who can rest assured that the forbidden army is close to his side?What if they were also part of the Custodian Assassins?

At this moment, the forbidden army who could be trusted turned into his enemies. Rao Xiao Jining, when he saw the forbidden army surrounding him with knives, hesitated a little whether they were here to protect him or to kill him.

Fortunately, in addition to the imperial guards, there were many generals present in the hall, and the imperial guards were not trained deadly assassins. Until their rebellion was completely stopped, except for a few fellow imperial guards who were wary of them, no important officials died.

But many people were injured.

Apart from a few ministers, several princes were also injured. Among them, the fourth prince was the most seriously injured. He received a blow to his back, bleeding profusely.

A good Mid-Autumn Festival reunion banquet turned into a bloody banquet. All the officials covered their wounds and looked at each other speechlessly.

Finally, the fifth prince, whose face was pale due to blood loss, staggered a few steps forward, and said to Jing Yuan, "General Jing, shouldn't you give us an explanation for what happened tonight?"