"Grandfather..." Zheng Zhao knelt in front of the imperial bed, watching his grandfather's hand slip, the emperor who had ruled the country for 60 years finally closed his eyes.

Outside the Zichen Hall, short soldiers were handed over.His two uncles are leading their subordinates to fight for the right to enter the palace.After fighting for seven or eight years, victory or defeat depends on one action.Whoever walks in can tamper with the will and whoever is the heir emperor.

The sky was dark, Zheng Zhao got up and lit a red candle, waiting for the dust to settle outside the hall.

"My lord!"

"King An Fuzhu, you will be captured without a fight, and you will not die!"

"The third prince is dead, the third prince is dead..."

Third uncle?Zheng Zhao's hand holding the candlestick trembled, red tears dripped on the outside of the silver tray, staining his moth-yellow clothes.The third uncle likes to go hunting in autumn. The first time he rode a horse was brought by the third uncle.

Now that the third uncle is dead, Zheng Zhao looks towards the door, waiting for the fifth uncle to come in.

Grandfather has always disliked Uncle Wu, because Uncle Wu always smiles like a Maitreya Buddha, he is so kind, and one can't help but suspect that he has hidden evil intentions in private.But for the check and balance of the court, the fifth uncle was still one of the most important sons of his grandfather in his later years.

"Go to meet His Highness King Ning!" Outside the hall, there was a turmoil, and groups of soldiers were fighting with open flames, illuminating half of the sky.

The fifth uncle's title is Ning, because the fourth uncle died young, this "Ning" title is actually followed by the third uncle's "An", which means Yongan Ning in Dingye.I heard that the broken willow tree in the Imperial Garden was broken by the third and fifth uncles looking for crickets.

Inside the Zichen Hall, there is only a bean of light guarded by Zheng Zhao.The door of the hall was pushed open by some people, and I didn't feel anything during the day, but at night, the night wind rushed in, blowing the veils fluttering, and the room was cold.After an unknown amount of time, a pair of golden silk beast boots stepped over the threshold.

There are still bloodstains under the boots, leaving auspicious cloud patterns on the ground.

"Imperial nephew." The man lowered his head and glanced at him who was kneeling on the ground. He didn't pay much attention to it. He just lifted his robe and knelt in front of the imperial bed.

It wasn't the third uncle or the fifth uncle who came in, but the uncle who was injured in the war and had to recuperate for five years without asking about the government.

It turned out that the uncle won.

"King An and King Ning raised their troops to cause chaos, and my sons and ministers have already challenged them and punished them. Please rest in peace." The burly man told a lie that no one believed to the old man whose bones were already cold on the imperial bed, but soldiers came from outside the door. The wails of all of them oppressed the air like a landslide, as if they had been rehearsed.

After going through the process of mourning and mourning, and the time limit for the deep love between father and son, Prince Zhongjing stood up and looked straight at Zheng Zhao.

"Nephew, where is the late emperor's edict?"

"There is no will."

Zheng Zhao looked up at his uncle, and repeated under his sharp eyes: "Grandfather has no will."

"Heh." Prince Zhongjing sneered, as if he didn't bother to ask whether it was true or not, he took out a yellow silk from his sleeve and threw it on him and said, "Then read this tomorrow morning."

Zheng Zhao picked up the yellow silk and began to read it under the gaze of Prince Zhongjing.There are more than a thousand characters densely packed on the yellow silk, but in fact, there are four characters all over the scroll: change the dynasty and change the dynasty.

July [-]th of the first year of Huanglong.

The morning sun is out and the doors are closed, and the birds are chirping in the corner of the eaves.A face-faced court lady was sprinkling water onto the ground to wet the dust. Behind her were several young eunuchs in filial piety uniforms, who kept raising their brooms, completely ignoring the princes and grandchildren in yellow clothes.Only by getting rid of the old bad luck in the palace can we welcome the new master.

Zheng Zhao walked out of the Xuanzheng Hall, walked through the Hanyao Gate, picked off a palace wall willow, and walked towards the Zichen Hall.When he arrived in front of the Xibian Hall, he handed the willow branch to the little eunuch waiting at the door, turned around and looked behind, there was a group of Imperial Guards who had followed him from the door of the Xuanzheng Hall.

It's called an escort, but it's actually an escort.

"Do you want to follow inside?" Zheng Zhao asked as he rolled up the sleeves of his clothes, his movements were chic and calm.

The onyx clothes didn't fit well, and looked a little shabby at first glance, which was the complete opposite of Zheng Zhao's status as noble and noble.But his complexion is like jade, and under the reflection of the morning sun, it is slightly moist and glowing, which can only be born if he is pampered.

The lieutenant of the Imperial Army withdrew his gaze, lowered his head and cupped his hands and said: "Please forgive me, the king. According to His Majesty's will, the humble post must protect the safety of the prince throughout the entire process, and he must not leave even a single step."

Zheng Zhao chuckled, and walked up the green steps two steps at a time.This is against the rules in the palace, but for him today... as long as he is happy.

The main hall of Zichen Palace is the living place of the emperor. Every time he enters the palace, he lives in the West Side Hall. He is very familiar with the plants and trees here, but the situation of the West Side Hall now makes him unable to bear to look directly at it.The hall was in a mess, a group of people were rummaging through boxes and baskets to find things. The wooden nails were broken, the porcelain was smashed, and the documents were all scattered on the ground.

The uncle did not give up looking for the will.

Zheng Zhao looked around, all the gates were guarded by the forbidden army, and the maids and eunuchs who had been serving before were all locked in a room, crying constantly.

"What does this mean?" He looked at the captain who was always one step behind him.

The captain was slightly taken aback by the question, and then bowed calmly and said: "I fear that some thieves will take advantage of this to make trouble and alarm His Highness, so I locked up the idlers." In fact, he thought the eunuch and maid were in the way and stopped Army search.

Although the young man in front of him is no longer a grandson, he is still the first emperor's favorite little grandson.The late Emperor Long Yu has passed away, and he is also King Xiao Jing who has taken over the title of abolished prince.How can you allow Xiao Xiao to offend the emperor and grandson?As long as he is obedient, there will always be some dignity left.

Zheng Zhao smiled, but did not give up, but said again: "Your Majesty sent me out of the palace, allowed me to take away the usual household items, and locked me up. Do you want me to move it myself?"

The school lieutenant frowned in confusion. His Majesty was very close to King Xiao Jing in the early court. After King Xiao Jing asked him to leave the palace, he repeatedly asked him to take away the things he was used to. Don't be embarrassed to take them.But His Majesty did this in the early court to show his magnanimity and to appease the officials.

Pay attention to euphemism and concealment in the court, and you can't yell like ordinary people in the market, take a look, take a look, don't miss it when you pass by.I am so nice to a threatening imperial nephew that I want to give you whatever I want, and I will definitely let go of the past for you, and don't care about being on the wrong team.Come and give me your allegiance, don't mess around, just stay at home and wait for reuse.

As for settling accounts after autumn, how is it possible?If you don't believe me, take a closer look at my amiable smiling face.

"My lord, there are so many people with mixed hands, it's easy to lose things if you don't take good care of them." The captain stepped forward and persuaded him earnestly.Of course, the thing that is most likely to be lost in the West Side Hall at present is the last emperor's edict. Anyone who puts it in there can be sent out of the palace without noticing it for a while, causing a catastrophe.

Zheng Zhao didn't mind moving things by himself, but he did it on purpose.

Since the uncle allowed him to take away the usual belongings in the early court, it was not because of the little kinship that was so cold that it was almost gone, but because he made up his mind that he had a will here, so he would definitely take it away, and wanted to get it from him. The will was found in the things he took away, so why didn't he take this opportunity to do it?

Anyway, he is not happy.

Zheng Zhao raised his head and told the imperial guards who were guarding the main entrance of the side hall: "You guys come over and help me move things."

There are 36 guards in the imperial army, and His Majesty doesn't trust many of them. The only ones who came here today were the Ying Yang guards, which were obviously not enough.The imperial guards at the main entrance moved things, so there was no one guarding the entrance, and it was easier for people to rush out or rush in.The few forbidden soldiers who were named looked at each other, and looked at their captain as if they could only ask for help.

"Wait a minute, my lord." The school captain quickly stopped Zheng Zhao.Zheng Zhao looked back at the captain, who cupped his hands and said, "They are clumsy, how can they move delicate objects. Come on, go open the room and let them out."

A guard responded to the door of the house where the maid and eunuch was being held, took out the key from his sleeve, and the door lock clicked.

"Your Highness..." The maid with disheveled hair rushed out first, crying and kneeling at Zheng Zhao's feet.

Zheng Zhao waved his hand, the palace maid forcibly held back her tears, and reluctantly stood up, staring at him closely with her eyes wide open, a middle-aged eunuch stood behind her.Zheng Zhao nodded to him, and the eunuch smiled back, but his expression was slightly sad.

Maybe touch the shadow to fall in love, after all, my father was kicked out of the palace in a state of embarrassment back then.

"My lord, everyone has been released." The captain gently urged him to pick something.

The west side hall is sparse and spacious, and all the furniture and furniture are treasures.Zheng Zhao walked in the West Side Hall and said calmly, "Well, take this, this, those, and all the books away."

He picked up two swords, the three-foot Yaoqin left by his mother, her favorite pair of Tibetan flower hanging vases, and the copper incense burner made by his father.

The eunuchs were moving things, and the maids were arranging their clothes. Seeing the captain looking straight at a crossbow, he picked it up and put it in the arms of a passing court lady holding a fur coat.After all these things had been searched and loaded into the carriage, Zheng Zhao pointed to the Jiangzhen sandalwood case.

The eunuchs tried several times but couldn't move it. The two imperial guards looked at each other with contempt. One of them grabbed the two corners of the wooden case and tried to lift it up, ah, it didn't lift it up.

The captain stepped forward to persuade again: "This wooden case is too serious, my lord..."

Zheng Zhao interrupted: "Given it by the emperor's grandfather."

The imperial guards don't need to move this big case, because they can search it if it is left here, and the wooden case is everywhere, he doesn't have to use it, but he will toss them.

Seven or eight imperial guards tried their best to move the wooden case out, but at this moment, there was a gust of rain, which wet the entire palace.The school captain hurriedly asked people to find tung oil cloth to cover the carriage from the rain, and for a while, people couldn't tell each other apart when they were running around.

After covering the carriage with tung tarpaulin, the guards came to shelter from the rain under the eaves.After all this work, they were soaked to the skin, no different from the eunuchs they looked down upon, they couldn't bear the aggression at the beginning, after a while of silence, they chatted with the eunuchs in a few words, and their shadows overlapped and mixed into the banana leaves.

After an hour, the rain stopped.

The onyx clothes were soaked in cold moisture, if it was usual, Zheng Zhao would have changed clothes.But it was not usual at this time, he put on the crane cloak and walked outside the hall, his clothes fluttering with every step.The maid hurriedly rolled up the water essence curtain, and respectfully sent the old master away, the tears on her face were not known because of the parting, or because of the crying makeup.

"My lord, please get in the car."

The palace chariot rolled out of the imperial city, and it was gone forever.

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