Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

The moon sets and the sun rises, but the street market that should have become noisy is still quiet. Squads of soldiers in full armor wearing armor and holding weapons pass through the city, marching on the street. Ordinary ordinary people see such a formation How dare you go out and cause trouble at this time?Even the officials and eunuchs are honestly guarding the gate and dare not go out.None of the high-ranking officials who went to the palace yesterday for a banquet did not return home. How could their family members not be worried?But looking at the soldiers all over the city, no matter how worried they are, they dare not go out casually, for fear that there will be trouble and nothing will return, and the original one will catch another one if he does not come back.

Whether it is Zhongcui Palace where Concubine Zhen is located or Chengqian Palace where Concubine Rong is, whether it is Yongwang's Mansion or Lian Wang's Mansion, they are all peaceful.Winning kings and defeating bandits is the eternal principle. If one can ascend to the throne of God and become an existence above tens of thousands of people, then the prince's mother, wife, relatives, and even servants can ascend to the top and fly to the top, but if the remonstrance fails, then The result of waiting for them is not so good, either death or a second half of life that is more painful than death.

The weather is gloomy, the gray sky is very heavy, the clouds are dense, the darkness is dark and low pressure, which adds a pressure to the soul.The low sound of horseshoes came from a distance, and a group of hundreds of knights rode their war horses across the bluestone road to the gate of a mansion.The two big stone lions in front of Zhumen showed a hint of ferocity under the dim skylight, facing the screen wall where the lions rolled the hydrangea ball, they forcibly exuded bursts of murderous aura.The crimson gate is the only bright color around here. It is so eye-catching in the black and white, as if stained with blood. The copper nails on the vermilion lacquer gate have been wiped clean, but there is no light at this time, only It makes people feel depressed.

The leading general gave him a wink, and a knight immediately got off his horse and knocked on the door.As soon as the gatekeeper answered the door, he just opened the door, and the knight kicked the door open. The other soldiers didn't care about that, and just rode in, but the whole house heard the sound of a cup of tea. There was a sound of crying and crying, and for a while, people jumped up and down, men shouted and scolded, women screamed and wailed, combined with the startled birds, and the horses neighing when reining in, broke the entire capital city. peaceful.

Another official house not far away also suffered the same fate, not only them, at least dozens of mansions in this capital were broken into by soldiers, both male and female masters and servants were locked up, and the gates were locked. , The warehouse is sealed up, waiting for the crime to be punished.

Someone asked loudly in a panic: "Who are you?!"

The answer is very simple, only four characters - "Gyeonggi Daying"!

All the nine gates changed hands overnight, and all the guards who did not follow the orders of Hu Fu were captured and imprisoned by the soldiers of the Jingji Daying led by Situ Sheng.The guard of the Desheng Gate was a subordinate of King Yong, and he even drew out his sword to try to resist, but what he met was Zhang Dahai, who had a bad temper. The heads of the king's subordinates were chopped off, and the splashed blood was splashed on the tower, and even stained the heads and faces of the sergeants standing nearby.Seeing this bloody scene, who would dare to resist? The defenders on these towers surrendered their weapons obediently, and let out the entire outer city wall of the capital, obediently letting the troops of the Gyeonggi camp enter the city.The rebels who were cornered even tried to attack Prince Rui's Mansion in the city, but what they faced was the double attack of the guards in the mansion and the army behind them, and in the end they didn't even survive.

With a good heart in mind, Jiang Yuan reported the names of the ministers who followed the rebellion of King Yong and Lian Wang one by one. Groups of soldiers set off separately, and one by one they directly controlled the families of these rebellious officials.But King Yong and King Lian are more shrewd. They have already sent people to transfer their children out of the capital, thinking that even if there is a mistake in the military remonstrance, they can save the lives of their children and grandchildren. Unfortunately, since Jiang Yuan has already guessed their actions in advance, how could they not be wrong? What about guarding against this move?He had sent people to monitor their palace day and night, and those dragon sons and grandchildren who were sent away could not escape the pursuit of the Gyeonggi camp, and they had all been arrested before the palace change.As for the family members in the two palaces who couldn't be sent away because the targets were too big, they could only wait for the army to capture them.

Jiang Yuan personally led a sentry team to the gate of Prince Lian's mansion.King Yong's family members had already been captured by Situ Sheng himself, and Prince Lian's mansion had to let Jiang Yuan, the son-in-law, bring troops to capture them.It has to be said that Prince Rui was worthy of King Yong and Prince Lian, he didn't let those ordinary lowly soldiers humiliate his brother's family, a prince and a son-in-law are enough to deal with these people in the palace.The most important thing is that Jiang Yuan is the confidant of Situ Sheng's confidant, and only Jiang Yuan personally leads the team to make this counter-insurgency matter come to a successful conclusion.What he wants is to ascend to the position of prince dignifiedly, and even if it is in the history of thousands of years, he can't leave half a word of no. Rumors like " are never allowed!

Before arriving at the gate of the mansion, Jiang Yuan stepped on the snow and Wu Zhi, and ordered the soldiers to knock on the door, while he looked at the carp jumping over the dragon gate facing the gate and snorted coldly.A carp jumps over the dragon gate. If it can jump over it, it will of course turn into a dragon and swim around the world.

As soon as a sergeant knocked on the door, more than a hundred servants immediately climbed up on the palace wall of the palace. Each of these servants pointed their bows/crossbows at Jiang Yuan and his party, wanting to resist to the death.

With a wave of Jiang Yuan's hand, all the knights dismounted immediately and used the armored horses as a cover. Half of them took out their bows and arrows to prepare to meet the enemy, and the other half drew their knives and shields and were ready to rush into the gate of the mansion at any time.At such a short distance, the gap between the bow and the crossbow is infinitely narrowed, but the sergeants who are fully armed and proficient in archery are not comparable to these lax servants.Jiang Yuan's subordinates are all elite soldiers who survived the war in San Francisco, and they all have seen blood. Except for the defenders in the northern border, there is no army in Dajing that can match them. They are no match for these servants. It's a piece of cake.

Jiang Yuan reacted the fastest, holding a bow in his hand, bent the bow and set an arrow and shot it out, hitting the head of a servant, the arrow directly pierced his head, and the momentum of the arrow remained undiminished. It flew forward several zhang and nailed it to the eaves of the corner of the house before coming to a stop. Just this one arrow shocked all the servants out of their wits.

"Surrender on your knees, you can save your life, and if you resist stubbornly, no one will be spared!" All the soldiers shouted loudly with high momentum.The sound is loud, straight into the sky.

The servants looked at each other, not knowing whether to surrender or fight.Jiang Yuan snorted coldly and frowned. Situ Yi's ambition and scheming were deeper than he thought, but his actual control ability was not good enough. Even his servants in his family couldn't work hard for him. Compete for this world?It seems that he has read a lot of books, and some of them were brainwashed by civil servants. Those "those who have attained the Tao will help more" are used by Confucianism to fool people. What is Tao?Profit is the way.It can give people benefits, even strangers will support each other, but without benefits, loyalty will be gone, so how can things be done without cultivating some confidantes who don't care about benefits?

Jiang Yuan said loudly: "Now that King Lian and his two sons have been captured, if they don't surrender at this time, when will they wait!"

It doesn't matter when he shouted like this, a thunderbolt suddenly struck down from the sky, and it hit the courtyard of Prince Lian's Mansion amidst the rolling thunder, and after a while, he heard shouts from the courtyard, "Let's go, let's go!" , the main house is flooded!"

The soldiers outside the government looked at Jiang Yuan with eyes full of awe, while Jiang Yuan himself held back his twitching cheeks, how should he explain this?Didn't he strike the thunder?It's easy to say, but will anyone believe it?I thought that there was no unreasonable phenomenon in the battle with King Liao, and his name as Thor would be gradually forgotten by people. Who knows that this happened again now, and it is estimated that even the official history of later generations will fall. a sum...

At the beginning, a certain costume TV series made people familiar with the poem "Shangxie".This winter thunder is a normal natural phenomenon, but the poem "Shangxie" alone shows the rarity of winter thunder. This is not modern, and the cause of thunder and lightning cannot be explained clearly. The abnormal lightning strikes did not hit the soldiers in iron armor, but the main room of Prince Lian's mansion. You have to believe that it has nothing to do with miracles...

Amidst the panic, the gate of Prince Lian's Mansion was pushed open by the people inside, and those servants who had just bowed and arrowed each other knelt on the ground in order, with low eyebrows, fearing that Thunder God would be angry and there would be a few more thunderstorms After hacking them, Jiang Yuan's team captured the entire Prince Lian's mansion quite easily, and arrested and imprisoned all Prince Lian's family members.

Situ Sheng also encountered a miraculous thing. As soon as they arrived at the Yongwang Mansion, a stone lion in front of the Yongwang Mansion's base shattered and fell down. The movement of the fallen lion seemed to be worshiping Situ Sheng. .The servants inside the Yongwang's mansion were horrified, and quickly came out to open the door and surrender, and a military disaster disappeared invisibly.

According to Jiang Yuan, the cause of the stone lion's fall may be the resonance generated by the horse's hoof hitting the stone road... But this is Jing Dynasty, and no one in the world except him knows that resonance is a magical thing...

According to the old saying, the appearance of Donglei is not a good thing. The so-called Donglei shakes, everything fails, insects do not hide, and soldiers often rise.But when this thunderbolt hit the rebellious Prince Lian's mansion, it was different. This "soldier rise" should have been on him and King Yong, and because of the existence of Jiang Yuan, the "God of Thunder", public opinion was immediately censored. It led to the place where King Lian was punished for his rebellion.In addition, worshiping the stone lion is like fulfilling the destiny. Countless common people have already regarded Situ Sheng as the Lord of the destiny. He is the incarnation of the Emperor of Heaven and a symbol of justice. The King Yong and the King Lian he wants to conquer must be the ones that the heavens will not tolerate. the wicked.Since the sky can't tolerate it, how can people tolerate it?

There were some ministers in the court who planned to intercede for King Yong and King Lian, but now they dare not even open their mouths. Jingchao is not happy to kill his son and son-in-law, but it is not that he will not punish him!The old emperor was very angry at this remonstrance, he was dizzy and had the appearance of apoplexy, if not for the timely treatment by the imperial doctor, he would have died in bed.After waking up, the old emperor announced on his sickbed that King Yong and Prince Rui would seize the title of prince and relegate him to common people. King Yong was dead and not allowed to enter the imperial mausoleum. Just find a place to bury him according to commoner rules. side.Prince Rui and his family members will also be sent to Gansu, and they will not be allowed to leave the place of distribution without imperial decree.Concubine Zhen and Concubine Rong, Bai Ling's poisoned wine dagger, choose their own, and it will be done after they die.As for the domestic slaves in the two palaces, they all filled the mines to mine, and no one else was allowed to buy or sell them. They had to stay in the mines for life and death.

It can be seen that the old emperor is really angry. Both Yunnan and Gansu are quite difficult places at this time, and being sent to mine is a hundred times more painful than being assigned.Although the distribution is close to death, there is still a chance of survival after all, and the mine is a place where there are ten deaths and no life, and no one survives.It is a miracle that Jiang Yuan's father, Jia Du, escaped from the mine. It is absolutely impossible for other people, especially the house slaves who were sent by the government to be forbidden to trade, to escape from the heavily guarded mine. After escaping, how can a slave survive?There is only a dead end waiting for them.

The old emperor still had some sense of reason. He knew very well that if he insisted on pressing down the affairs of King Yong and King Lian and let their whole family stay in the capital, it would not be impossible to take care of them like Prince Yizhong back then. Wang Yu Nie's ambitions, if they fail, they will cause some big troubles.Even if nothing major happened when he was alive, could his third son tolerate such a threatening existence after he died?These remnants are not the opponents of his third son at all. If Situ Cheng really can't bear it anymore and plans to do something, then the lives of King Yong and Lian Wang's family will really be lost, and Situ Sheng's reputation will also be damaged. Don't worry. Charged with killing relatives and brothers.

It is not wise to destroy the third son in order to save two unworthy and unfilial sons.Moreover, King Yong and King Lian were punished heavily, and their families were sent to the border areas. Although they would inevitably have a miserable life at the beginning, they still had hope of surviving in the end.He understands that King Lian may be "died of illness" in the next few years, but his descendants will always be able to survive in Gansu, and it is enough to have fireworks to inherit.

The rebellion was over, and the emperor drafted an edict to confer the title of Prince Rui, Situ Sheng, as the crown prince, and Concubine Shu, the Jiang family, as the empress. In this way, Situ Sheng gained the orthodox name and became a legitimate son. His enthronement in the future can be said to be justified, and no one can hinder him.The old emperor also knew that he had treated Empress Jiang and Situ Sheng badly in the past, and now that he was still alive, he could hold back. If he died, Situ Sheng's brothers and nephews, including the concubine Hua who lived in the palace, would be able to live and how to live. It depends on Situ Sheng's mood.The emperor can be regarded as an exchange, in the name of orthodoxy, the position of empress in exchange for the livelihood of these people.These words need not be said clearly, and they cannot be said clearly. If they are too clear, they will not be able to be done. Seeing Situ Sheng's expression, he has already agreed.

Jiang Yuan still sat in the position of Zuo Shilang and was not promoted, but his marquis's salary has doubled, and his wife Yuehua's Tang Muyi has also increased a lot, and there are countless rewards, so Jiang Yuan is not dissatisfied. .He occupies a high position at a young age, so it is not a good thing to be promoted rashly, not to mention that there is no constraint in his position, Zuo Shilang and Shangshu are not much different in power, but the lack of names is not a big deal.The entire Ministry of War has no right servant and no minister, and he alone has the final say. Except for the emperor, all soldiers and horses in the whole country listen to him, a second-rank left servant. Isn't that enough?Asking for more is dangerous.

The emperor was seriously ill, and the crown prince supervised the country. The ups and downs of the great tide finally subsided.Some officials' whole families were exiled to the army, some officials were demoted to a barren land, some lost their lives and fell to the ground, and some were so brilliant that they rose to the top.There are crying and laughing, joy and sorrow, birth, old age, sickness and death, joys and sorrows.Many people under King Yong's command were lost in this battle, and King Lian's power was even uprooted.Zhenguo Gongniu's family, Qi Guogong Chen's family, Zhiguo Gongma's family, Xiuguo Gonghou's family, even though the Dongping County King and Xining County King's family did not take part in the King Yong's remonstrance, they were also reprimanded and demoted. It is because many families have their property confiscated and confiscated into the national treasury. The founding nobles have been involved more than half of the King Yong's affairs this time, and none of them can escape unscathed. Fortunately, the Holy Majesty did not intend to kill them all, so You can still hang on there.

There are too many entanglements in the palace change. If the family is ransacked and the family is wiped out as long as it is involved, then half of the officials in the entire capital may fall.The old emperor who had always been "kind" still didn't kill them all this time, but left a little respite for the nobles.

Wang Ziteng was very clever and saved him from this catastrophe, but Situ Sheng didn't want to keep him in his way, so he directly gave him the false title of the Nine Provinces Commander and sent him to patrol the northern border.This official title has no benefits at all, no direct subordinates, no own yamen, only the right to submit confidential reports.It sounds nice to be a first-rank subordinate, but in fact, the poor military power left in his hands was taken away secretly, and he was sent to the northern border to linger on his last breath.

Shi Ding of the Shi family is still eating taro in Guangxi. Shi Nai just has the title of Marquis for nothing. Even if his father made it clear before his death, he paid back the debt owed by the Ministry of Households with all his family wealth in exchange for Shi Nai. Title and survival.He knew that Jiang Yuan had been staring at him all the time, so how could he dare to participate in such a life-threatening event as military remonstrance, so although he lived a poor life, he was able to live a more stable life, at least he was not involved in this rebellion.

The Wang and Shi families managed to escape, but the Zhen family was not so lucky. As the mother's family of King Yong, they naturally had their shadow in the conspiracy.The whole family of the Zhen family was confiscated, and the men who were officials did not escape the knife. All the women in the family were sent to the teaching workshop, and the young boys did not escape the crime of being a border guard.This kind of fate frightened the Rongguo Mansion. You must know that the eldest girl Jia Yuanchun in their mansion is the female official of the Lian Wang Mansion. The Lian Wang suffered a disaster. Who knows if the entire Jia family will be dragged into the water because of Jia Yuanchun? ah!They didn't dare to get involved in the treasonous matter, they just put a few words in perfunctory, so they won't be ransacked, right? !

Usually no one would pay attention to Jiamu Shishi, but at this moment both of the housekeepers rushed over to ask her what to do.Jia's mother also lost her position, and she was silent for a long time before she finally said, "It's this time, I can only abandon the car to save the handsome!"

Just this sentence frightened Mrs. Wang to the ground, but Jia Zheng let out a long sigh of relief. Even Jia She, who always dislikes the second wife, frowned. Is it really necessary to do this?No matter how bad Yuanchun is, he is still the flesh and blood of the Jia family!