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In the past 21 years, Si Yuanting has made very detailed plans and deployments for the Daheng Kingdom and for the revenge of everyone in the Si family.

There is only one chance, and if you make a slight mistake, all your previous efforts may be wasted and your success may be on the verge of failure.

It took him a long time to follow the vines and find out everything that happened back then, from the relationship between the system of Daheng Kingdom and the surrounding countries, the various new systems advocated by his father at that time, to the academicians and concubine Hui in the past few decades. The roles and functions played in a series of events later, as well as the various decisions of the old emperor.What he wants to sort out is not only the relationship between the court, but also the corruption of officials and officials outside the court, and the economic form of Daheng's farming system when it is impacted by trade with surrounding countries. The shake and change of consciousness, and whether the lives of the people far away from the capital are really as peaceful and happy as they imagined.

Si Laoshangshu's last words to Si Yuanting before his death: "If you want to carry out reforms, you must first rectify the rules and regulations."

But when he first entered the palace as a eunuch, he didn't really understand this sentence, so when he found out about the Hanlin scholar and Concubine Hui, he chose to kill Concubine Hui first.At that time, there were not many people in the palace who were willing to serve Concubine Hui who had fallen out of favor, so he invited him to go, day after day, he added several flavors of tranquilizing medicine that Concubine Hui drank before going to sleep at night, which would make people feel uncomfortable. Medicine for heart failure.On the night that Concubine Hui died, he stood in the courtyard, feeling neither fear nor joy in his heart. From then on, he knew that revenge could not save him, but from the moment his hands were stained with human life , he has lost the benevolence in his heart.

This is a road of no return, and he chooses to keep going.

After the death of Concubine Hui, he was not in a hurry to overthrow the Hanlin scholars. First, he did not have that much power in his hands, and the court was already undercurrents due to the struggle between the prince of the East Palace and the second and fourth princes. He began to seek the method of longevity and relied more and more on Hanlin scholars; second, at that time he realized that the purpose of Hanlin scholars was to finally push Chu Yuelei to the throne of God, turn Chu Yuelei into his own puppet, and eventually become the king of the Daheng Kingdom. Master behind the scenes.

Hanlin Bachelor knows his daughter well, but he doesn't know his grandson well enough. Chu Yuelei is not a person who can become a puppet.Si Yuanting saw through this, so after Chu Yuezhi left the palace for the military camp, he took refuge in Chu Yuelei.

In fact, among the several princes, Chu Yuelei is indeed the most suitable person to sit on the throne of God. He knows how to restrain his sharpness and has a plan. The image of a mediocre prince who can please the old emperor and know how to measure; at the same time, he is also decisive and ruthless. He throws away the chess pieces in his hands as soon as they are used up. After the incident with the envoy, he never visited his mother and concubine.Before usurping the throne, Chu Yuelei perfectly deceived the Prince of the Eastern Palace, the Hanlin Bachelor and the old emperor.

The second prince and the fourth prince were caused by Chu Yuelei using a series of tricks to make them overthrow each other due to internal strife, suspicion, but on the surface, all the plans were arranged by Hanlin scholars.As for the Prince of the East Palace, it was Si Yuanting who offered advice to Chu Yuelei. When Zhi asked for an order to lead the troops to the frontier, the court battle lasted for a month. In the end, the old emperor issued an order to go to the frontier. If the seventh prince, Chu Yuezhi, could not bring victory to the Daheng Kingdom, he would never have to return to Beijing.

At that time, there were still two years before the cession of the city for the ten-year stability of the frontier. When Chu Yuezhi led an army of 15 to the frontier, the tribal alliance on the frontier was caught off guard, which was one of the important factors for the victory in the first battle.

From the beginning to the end, the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace opposed war with the frontier. He was extremely anti-war and only wanted stability, and he aimed to vigorously develop the economy of the Daheng Kingdom with sufficient treasury. In his opinion, as long as the economy was stable, he would have It is a bargaining chip that can be negotiated with surrounding countries, large and small, and even foreign tribes on the frontier. Moreover, he believes that the territory of Daheng Kingdom is large enough, and there is no need to further expand its territory.

Later, the frontier wars were victorious one after another, so the old emperor greatly admired the Hanlin scholars and Chu Yuelei. At the same time, he also had more and more suspicions with the East Palace Prince who continued to play wars, wasting the people and money, damaging the luck of Daheng, and who was still resolutely singing the opposite tune in the court. .

Chu Yuelei realized the importance of the border defense line of a big country a long time ago. He also believed that the strength of a country lies not only in the economy, but also in the military. It also has the strength not to be afraid of war. The power to deter neighboring countries and even launch a war of aggression should be planned in the national policy, so when Chu Yuezhi asked him to talk about the hope of strengthening the military power of the Daheng country, he immediately expressed his support.

From the perspective of structure and vision, Chu Yuelei is higher than other princes.When Si Yuanting was given the position of Chief Writer by him, he did not spare any effort to support the proposal to promote border defense, because Si Yuanting agreed with him on the point of border defense.

It's just that Chu Yuelei didn't know that Si Yuanting never really supported him for a moment.

The prince of the Eastern Palace launched the palace change, which was the result of Si Yuanting’s long-term vacillating hints. At that time, the Prince of the Eastern Palace was not really cornered. It was Si Yuanting who convinced the Prince of the Eastern Palace that the old emperor would soon abolish the crown Coupled with the fact that his mother and the queen are seriously ill, the time is short, so the prince of the East Palace will be desperate.

After Chu Yuelei ascended the throne, Si Yuanting became an eunuch with palm seals. All people, things and news entering or leaving the palace had to be confirmed by Si Yuanting. As long as they were inside the palace, there was nothing Si Yuanting didn't know about.But in the court, there are also Hanlin bachelors.

The Imperial Academy was not complacent for too long. After Chu Yuelei began to speed up the rectification of the imperial court, and appointed Si Yuanting as the admiral of the East Factory, and shortly after Chu Yuezhi left Beijing for the frontier again, someone in the court reported that the Imperial Academy had participated in After discovering the palace change of the former prince of the East Palace, Si Yuanting took the Dongchang guards to the residence of the Hanlin scholar. Not only did he find evidence of his participation in the palace change, he even found the secret dragon robe. There are many irrefutable evidences such as accepting bribes and recommending officials to cultivate party members.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, the first person to be confiscated and imprisoned was not any one of the princelings, but the grandfather of the new emperor and his family. This seemingly self-mutilation shocked everyone.

However, this was planned by Chu Yuelei a long time ago. He will not be a puppet emperor. He has kept records and backups of all the things planned by Hanlin scholars in the past ten years. Where and where, as well as the relationship network extending from the court to the outside of the capital, he secretly grasped and copied them all. As for the secret dragon robe, it was arranged by Si Yuanting.

Chu Yuelei wanted to wipe out all the people, but was dissuaded by Si Yuanting, because he wanted to reorganize the rules and regulations was not a matter of overnight, and when the water was clear, there would be no fish. Killing people with the force of thunder may not necessarily get what you want As a result, it is better to leave a little available talent and use it to cultivate, so as to achieve the effect of combining grace and power.

As a result, the new emperor righteously killed his relatives, and the party of Hanlin scholars seemed to be uprooted. In fact, those who were really useful were sent out lightly, and they were kept in a low-key manner such as demotion to avoid the limelight.

On the day when the Hanlin scholar beheaded, Si Yuanting supervised the beheading.

Si Yuanting has always remembered the day when the male of the Si family was beheaded, because he was sent to the palace again to become a eunuch on that day, and before that, he was first brought to the execution ground to watch the execution, and saw it with his own eyes. His own relatives were beheaded.

The men of the Si family on the execution platform were all so calm, without the fear and trembling that most people thought. All of them were sinking into water, with a trace of regret and powerlessness, kneeling on the execution platform with disheveled hair. Si Yuanting, who was kneeling on the edge of the monitoring platform, was finally beheaded under Si Yuanting's desperate eyes.

Fourteen years later, Si Yuanting came to this execution ground again, and supervised the beheading of Hanlin scholars.

There was no cold wind and rain that day, and there was no vision of frost in June, just like the day when all the adult males of the Si family were beheaded. Hard to find shade.

The day before the execution, Dongchang got a report that an assassin was going to assassinate Chu Yuelei in the palace.

The imperial guards of the palace are under the control of Si Yuanting himself, and all the palace people around Chu Yuelei have been replaced by the Dongchang guards personally selected by Si Yuanting, the assassination is impossible.The so-called assassination was just a cover, and the real target was the Hanlin scholar who was about to be executed. In other words, someone was coming to rob the execution ground.

Therefore, the hidden guards who had not waited until Si Yuanting was recalled to the palace finally couldn't hold back and rushed directly into the execution ground before noon.

It was a dark guard trained by Hanlin scholars in the past. They had a clear goal, only to take away Hanlin scholars.

However, it is not the executioner but Si Yuanting who really wants to execute the Hanlin scholar.

When they rushed towards the execution platform, Si Yuanting had already left the execution platform and stepped onto the execution platform step by step.

Before that day, no one had seen Si Yuanting make a move, and after that day, no one dared to disrespect Si Yuanting.

Under the scorching sun, Si Yuanting held a bone unloading knife and stood firmly beside the Hanlin scholar. No matter how many people besieged him, he always stood where he was. After the severed limbs were removed, blood flowed profusely on the execution platform, and the hidden guards whose arms or legs had been cut off were thrown off the platform one by one by Si Yuanting. A piece of flesh was cut off from the bachelor's body. How could an old man over half a century old stand up to being cut by a knife?

A total of 30 people escorted Hanlin scholars to the execution ground. It was a beheading that ordinary people could not participate in. There were layers of Dongchang guards guarding inside and outside the execution ground. There were a total of 300 hidden guards who came to rob the execution ground. More than 100 people, according to their original plan, successfully robbed the Hanlin scholar and then escaped. In the end, it was almost just that the few with the strongest martial arts were left by the side of the Hanlin scholar.

However, none of them expected that Si Yuanting's martial arts would be so high.

He didn't care if he would get hurt or not, the shot was a deadly move, there was no flinching, no fear, and no hesitation.

In the end, on the execution platform, the pool of blood was full of severed limbs, the robe on Si Yuanting's body was soaked in blood, and thick blood was stained on that indistinguishably beautiful face.

After killing all the hidden guards, Si Yuanting cut eleven more knives on the body of the Hanlin scholar. Before beheading the Hanlin scholar at last, he stepped on the face covered with holes that he had hated for 14 years, and said : "The Si family was beheaded 130 people, and our family chopped you 130 twice. For the rest of the debt, you will have other ghosts to ask you for it when you go down."

When Si Yuanting walked out of the execution ground with the head of the Hanlin scholar, he kowtowed three times in the direction of the Si family's mansion, and then threw the head into the cage where the hounds were kept.

After the death of the Hanlin scholar, Chu Yuelei did not have an early morning court for several days, declaring to the outside world that he felt extremely distressed and sad about the matter of the Hanlin scholar, which led to worry and depression, and then the dragon body fell ill, and the affairs of the court were temporarily handed over to Si Yuan Proxy.

The news in the palace was completely blocked, and only a very few people knew that the assassin in the palace almost succeeded in assassinating Chu Yuelei on the day the Hanlin scholar died.

Because Si Yuanting's order to the guards was that Chu Yuelei could not die but could be injured.

The assassin's knife pierced Chu Yuelei's right chest and injured his lung. When Si Yuanting returned to the palace, the imperial doctor who treated him after he was seriously injured by an envoy was treating Chu Yuelei.

The imperial doctor, when the old emperor was still in power, strongly opposed to inviting so-called Taoist priests to the palace to refine elixir for the old emperor to take, but was reprimanded by the old emperor. It was transferred to the Huimin Pharmacy Bureau under the Tai Hospital, and it was not until Chu Yuelei ascended the throne that Si Yuanting took him back from the Huimin Pharmacy Bureau to the Tai Hospital again to serve as an imperial physician.

For the imperial physician, Chu Yuelei's injury was either minor or not serious. Si Yuanting asked him how long it would take to heal, and the imperial physician replied: "It all depends on what Si Gong wants."

Si Yuanting was standing in front of the dragon couch at that time, looking at the unconscious Chu Yuelei, and said, "What our family means is that His Majesty was seriously injured by the assassin and was overly frightened. He needs to rest for a while."

Afterwards, Chu Yuelei recuperated for three whole months. During this period, he suffered repeated injuries and was disturbed by nightmares. He was mentally weak for a long time, and he always fidgeted and suspected that there would be assassins rushing out from nowhere to hurt him.

During that time, Si Yuanting has been personally serving the decoction.

Chu Yuelei was suspicious, Si Yuanting had to try all the decoctions before he was willing to drink, Si Yuanting never complained and only said: "I have today, all thanks to His Majesty's grace, I am willing to go through fire and water for Your Majesty, and I will not hesitate to do so."

Every time Chu Yuelei woke up from a nightmare, Si Yuanting was by his side, and played the piano to help him fall asleep.

There has never been a problem with the prescriptions prescribed by the imperial physicians and the soups and medicines prepared by the imperial hospitals.

Chu Yuelei gradually became inseparable from Si Yuanting.

Three months later, Chu Yuelei recovered, and Si Yuanting left the palace and moved into the Governor's Mansion.

He would still be called into the palace late at night to play the piano for Chu Yuelei to help him sleep.

Chu Yuelei, who returned to the court, became more suspicious and irritable, and gradually began to ignore the advice of the ministers, and began to issue one after another prohibitions, and then began to remove those heroes who helped him usurp the throne one by one, until He recalled Chu Yuezhi to Beijing.

When Si Yuanting received the secret order to serve the bedroom, he had a feeling that this day had finally come. He knew from a long time ago that Chu Yuelei wanted him. After all, the way Chu Yuelei looked at him, he had already Many people have seen it with their eyes, so he knows that this secret decree will be delivered to him sooner or later, and he also knows that after the bedtime, he will become Chu Yuelei's only trusted confidant.

After all, he spent so long and made so many arrangements that Chu Yuelei had no one to trust besides him.

Si Yuanting doesn't need Chu Yuelei to be a Mingjun, and Chu Yuelei can't be a Mingjun, because in Chu Yuelei's heart, the people are not the most important thing. To Chu Yuelei, the most important thing is his posthumous name. I want to achieve a grand hegemony, be the overlord who unifies the surrounding small countries, and then become a king who can be praised by the world and go down in history.

Chu Yuelei supported Chu Yuezhi to fight on the frontier and re-develop the military power. He wanted to use the reputation of the new imperial army of the Daheng Kingdom to frighten the small countries and launch a war of aggression after the establishment of the frontier defense line in the Daheng Kingdom. , and led the imperial army to win the final victory in important battles.

It's a pity that Si Yuanting never planned to let Chu Yuelei sit on the throne for too long from the beginning of the plan.

The imperial physician once asked Si Yuanting why he supported Chu Yuelei as God, knowing that Chu Yuelei was inseparable from the misfortune of the Si family.

It was in Qianqing Palace. Si Yuanting had just come out of Nuan Pavilion after stroking the qin for Chu Yuelei. He was holding the qin and stood at the door. On him, half of his face was illuminated cold and pale, he plucked the strings with his fingers, and said in a low voice indifferently amidst the lingering sound of loneliness: "In this world, if you can't get what you desire, you will only make people feel sad." Disappointed and regretful, but if you get it and lose it, it can make people break down and go crazy. Our family has received so many favors from His Majesty, so naturally we must wholeheartedly plan for His Majesty, and fulfill His Majesty's long-lasting wish."