The Blood Crown

Huo Li, the chief assistant of the cabinet who succeeded Yan Zilian, could not bear all kinds of difficulties from the eunuch party, and he hastily retired from office after sitting at the head of the ministers for less than a month.

The cabinet ministers pay attention to seniority, the ones at the top are gone, the ones at the bottom can go up. When Yan Zilian was in office, he drove away Wang Shengsheng, and he has already monopolized the power of the cabinet, so the five cabinet ministers are all his people, but now he is gone, Huo Li It is difficult to support the overall situation, let alone the remaining few. Seeing the faction of the gentry being bloodbathed, the original three assistants are unwilling to take the position of chief assistant, and the cabinet is completely chaotic.

This situation was exactly what Xie Zhongren expected. He tried in vain to install eunuchs in the cabinet, but Emperor Zhaowu uncharacteristically did not use the people he recommended.

Yan Sikong is sensitively aware that although this dog emperor is stupid, he has not lost his last trace of reason because of the wine. The so-called art of the emperor lies in checks and balances. It is still very important, and he will not sit back and watch Xie Zhongren monopolize the power.

Therefore, although the original three assistants—Wang Wenyu, a scholar of Longtuge University who had served as the minister of the Ministry of Industry—rejected repeatedly, he still ascended the position of chief assistant under the instruction of Emperor Zhaowu.

After seeing enough of Xie Zhongren's evil deeds of harming courtiers and framing Zhongliang, Yan Sikong finally saw a little hope in the endless despair. This incident shows that Emperor Zhaowu did not trust Xie Zhongren wholeheartedly and had no scruples. The eunuchs will not be allowed to get their hands on the power, and the more flamboyant Xie Zhongren is, the more he will gradually lose the emperor's favor.

Of course, Xie Zhongren served Emperor Zhaowu for half his life, and he knew his temper well, and he also knew that he would accept it when he was good. Wang Wenyu's position as chief assistant was a hint that he should stop.At this time, nearly a hundred officials of the gentry were implicated. Even if Yan Zilian was resurrected from the dead, the gentry faction would have no chance of turning around. The next thing to do is the three major events that can please Emperor Zhaowu-Jiangnan sea tax, Datong military power and The position of the crown prince—everything they do is for these three things.

Many years later, when Yan Sikong recalled all kinds of things at that time, he could still clearly recall everything.At the end of summer and early autumn, the weather was unbearably hot, but he never felt a trace of heat, because everything that happened around him always made him feel a bone-chilling chill, as if there was an invisible sharp blade lying in front of his neck, snugly touching his flesh, ready to strike at any time. To swig his blood.

With no one daring to disagree, the Ministry of Household Affairs proposed a new sea tax proposal, which nearly doubled the Jiangnan sea tax.

The Feng family's treason case, which has been shelved for more than a month, was thoroughly investigated, but Emperor Zhaowu issued an imperial decree. Regardless of whether the two pleaded guilty or not, the Feng family, which has maintained Datong for 30 years and made great achievements for Dasheng, was abandoned. The fate of the Jue and the Yi family.Xu was worried about Concubine Xian and Princess Wanyang, Xu was afraid that people in the world would criticize, Emperor Zhaowu thought that Feng Jianping had made great contributions to defeating the enemy, so he "mercifully" did not punish him.

But there are more than [-] people in the Fengfu, and there is no way out, and they will be killed after the autumn queen—the Empress Dowager's annual festival and Princess Wanyang's wedding.

Although it had been expected, Yan Sikong still felt a suffocating chill when he actually heard about the execution of the Feng family father and son.

There is nothing in this world that is more dirty than the heart.

Not long after that, as expected, it was Chen Yu's turn. Emperor Zhaowu didn't even bother to find any excuses, because he knew that no one could compete with him for "establishing long-term love". Abandoning the crown prince and changing Chen Chun, the son of a beloved concubine, to be the crown prince is so easy, so contemptuous, so frivolous, without the slightest dignity of a king.

After Chen Kui was abolished, Emperor Zhaowu granted him a fief in Luzhou Mansion and named him "King of Chu". The prince forced him to leave Beijing within two days on the grounds that he was not allowed to stay in Beijing after he became an adult.

The eldest prince and former crown prince of the dignified Dasheng Dynasty left the capital in a state of resentment and embarrassment.

Yan Sikong's words became a prophecy, that day on the side of the East Palace was his farewell to Chen Kui.

He saw all the people he valued dying, imprisoning, degrading, and walking away, and he wanted to flatter and flatter his enemies. Every day, every moment, every moment made him more painful than death, He didn't know how far the heavens would torture him. If he would be rewarded for doing bad things, why would the treacherous and evil people always get what they want?

What about their retribution?

Yan Sikong no longer has any tears, no emotions, and the contemptuous gazes and sarcastic words of the people around him can no longer stir up waves in his heart. He has engraved the side of him that he wanted Xie Zhongren to see into his flesh and blood. On top of it, it became a mask and armor, hiding the real self in the depths of spiritual consciousness.

For those names that were uttered with blood, he endured the humiliation, and he dragged out an ignoble existence.

After several months of planning and preparation by him and She Zhun, the entire plan for the prison robbery has been drawn up. Every checkpoint and every key person has been carefully deliberated and confirmed. overwhelmed.

At this time, the sentence is only fifty days away, and what they have to decide now is when to do it, and there is a day that makes the two of them coincidentally, that is - the wedding day of Yan Sikong and Princess Wanyang day.

On that day, the whole city must be restless, the guards must be lax, and it must be the time when it is easiest to fish in troubled waters and hide things in the dark. If you miss this day, you will have no chance to attack.

Yan Sikong and She Zhun looked at each other for a while, then suddenly laughed out loud, almost crying.

He wants to marry Feng Ye's cousin on the day when he sends Feng Ye away to another country, maybe the day when he will say goodbye forever, hahahaha, how ridiculous, how ridiculous!

She Zhun looked at him silently.

"She Zhun... Hahaha... She Zhun..." Yan Sikong said with a smile that was uglier than crying, "In my previous life, I was afraid that I was a big devil who harmed the world, so I have to suffer so much in this life. You still don’t believe me if you say I’m a malevolent star, just see…”

"Nanyu..." She Zhun said in a deep voice, "You can go with him."

Yan Sikong's miserable smile froze on his face.

She Zhun said softly: "Let's go with him, why bother to torture yourself like this for revenge, let it go now, there is still time..."

"It's too late." Yan Sikong looked at She Zhun absent-mindedly, but it was clear that there was nothing in his eyes, no one, "If I don't take revenge, I won't die. Only the blood of a stray dog ​​can cure me in this life." The poison of the curse."

She Zhun closed her eyes, heartbroken.