On the day Su Ce took up his duties in April, a big event happened in Chang'an.
It is only said that Wannian County rebuilt the river channel and excavated a stone tablet.
"The world is separated, the Qing Palace is overthrown." These are the eight words engraved on the stone tablet.
Chang'an City always has the best news, and soon these eight words spread throughout Chang'an City.
The name of the country of Daqian is Qian, the soldiers in the palace are called Kun, spring is Qing, "East" belongs to wood in the five elements of Yin and Yang, "green" in the five colors, and "spring" in the four seasons. The Qing Palace refers to the East Palace.
Don’t these eight words refer to the prince Zhao Zaicheng?
An ancient sage once said: If you don't talk about the strange power and chaos of the gods, it's not because you don't believe in them. You should respect them and stay away from them.
After exhausting human efforts, there are indeed phenomena in real life that are difficult to explain with reason.
And if this stone monument suddenly appeared at this moment, if there was no one behind it, even the fools on the street would not believe it.
But this method made the people who belonged to the East Palace restless.
When it comes to the closest and most trusted forces to the prince, they are undoubtedly the Zhan Shifu, which gathers many high-ranking officials, including Chunfang and Donggong.
One mansion, two houses, and ten rates represent the next generation of the imperial court.
The next day, when the scholars in Chunfang heard the news, they couldn't sit still. They drew their swords one after another and vowed to go to the three provinces to get an explanation. Using such a dirty method to slander the Crown Prince of Daqian was more than just an ulterior motive. I want to throw the prince's reputation to the ground and trample on it.
The prince was not in the East Palace at the moment. The prince went to the imperial city to discuss with the officials of the Five Supervisors of the Nine Temples. This year, he was not in the East Palace to prevent floods in the southern rivers.
Zuo Nei led Zhou Xing'ang to see hundreds of officials in Chunfang on both sides, taking off their crowns, wearing scholar's robes, holding long swords, and shouting: "Qingjun side!"
My heart skipped a beat, this was going to cause trouble! Four gray-haired bastards, as the chief officials of Zuichunfang, who did not have the scholarly demeanor to do so, also came to join in the fun.
Zhan Shifu values talents, and although Zuo Chunfang is lower in rank than Zhan Shifu, it pays more attention to moral character. Therefore, the four concubines of Zuo Chunfang are all selected from the elderly admonishers. Now the four old men lead a group The young man was going to Qing Jun's side with a sword. Zhan Shifu heard that he was in his forties and was being scolded by four old men and a brat.
Although he knew the prince Zhan Shi, who was of the third rank, he could only let the four concubines on the left and right of the fourth rank point their noses and scold him for not being as bloody as his father's sniffer.
The four or so concubines were all highly qualified in terms of talent, learning, and moral character. After serving as admonishers for decades, they were all old and stubborn. Wen Shu saw that an old man of the same generation as his father was using his position to dominate this person. This kind of thing can't be done if you know it well.
Having just scolded the young men in Zhan Shifu, facing the four old men, Wen Shu could only persuade them.
Zhan Shifu and Zuo Chunfang are the three provinces of the East Palace. The young people here have been settling for twenty years. When Zhao Zai succeeds to the throne, he is sent to the local area for a few years, and when he returns to the capital, he will be a high-ranking official in the court.
No matter how well-born the Qinxun Yiwei were, they would not mess with these noble officials, because as soldiers they knew that these people were the ones with the real ability to govern the country.
Zhou Xingang saw Wen Shu constantly winking at him and turned around quickly. He would definitely not be able to stop these people with his powerful Qianniu Preparation, so he would have to look for some unreasonable people.
And it’s not like there are no such people in the East Palace. Lu Benjun came from the Zhechong Mansion under the leadership of Prince Shi. Lu Benjun can do things that Qinxun Yiwei cannot do.
For example, when he stopped these scholars and looked at the timid appearance of his Qianniu soldiers, Zhou Xingang sighed. He was not a soldier after all, so he could not hope to enforce orders and prohibitions.
I heard that Su Ce had just returned to Shili Mansion and was brought back by the Saint. Now Jiang Lan is in charge of guarding Zuo Lie in the East Palace. I don’t know what identity the Saint has arranged for Su Ce.
Looking at the panting Sengyu Bishen running in front of him, he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember his name.
This Qian Niu prepared himself to take the tea handed over by Su Ce and drank it in one gulp: "Su... Uncle Jingyang, my name is Wei Feng. The people around Chunfang in the East Palace want to clear the king. Zhou Wei, please lead someone to stop them."
Su Ce also understood this. The heirs of noble officials who entered the East Palace commanded the outer six ranks of the army, the heirs of civil servants who wanted to pursue a career as military attachés entered the fourth commander of the Eastern Palace, and the sons of noble civil servants who wanted to pursue a civil service career entered Zuoyouchunfang.
The water in Zuo Chunfang and Zhan Shifu is very mixed. Children of aristocratic families, heirs of distinguished nobles, high-ranking officials, newly promoted Jinshi, children of the royal family, and children of various forces are among them. Su Ce does not know which family this child is.
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After finishing speaking, Wei Feng was out of breath. There were brigade soldiers in the East Palace Ten Command House who were on duty in turn. They were not many in number. There was only one brigade. But now the outer six brigade forces were no longer what they used to be. Each brigade force had five hundred brigade troops.
The Ben army must have enough numbers.
At this time, Zhou Xingang, who was leading the guards in Zuo Nei, was helpless because the Qianniu guards under him seemed to have been persuaded by the people in Chunfang.
The prince Zhan Shi Wen Shui was also a little anxious now. Seeing that the people in the East Palace were about to rush out of the East Palace, there was nothing he could do. He was just a civil servant who used force. Although Wen Shu also stayed in Zhe Chong Mansion for two years.
Years ago, but except for the embarrassed Qianniu Preparations, no one present was from Zhe Chong Mansion, and there were four old men surrounding Wen Xu who scolded and harassed him.
All we can do is put up our shields and close the palace doors.
The officials from Zuochunfang, who were furious, plus Qianniu Preparation, and officials who had sneaked over from Zhan Shifu, totaling four to five hundred people, did not take any action and crowded outside the palace.
It's just a pity for the dozens of people at the gate of the palace who are in charge of the prison.
In fact, Zhou Xingang was furious, but he understood that the East Palace was at the cusp of the storm at this time, and he did not dare to cause any more trouble. The situation was now out of control, and Zhou Xingang, who was just twenty-one years old this year, was also a little at a loss.
The prince summoned Su Ce this afternoon. Apparently, he already knew from Emperor Zhao Yumin that the Golden Tiger Talisman was in Su Ce's hands.
However, Su Ce was supposed to hand over the chores in the morning and go to the East Palace to meet the prince in the afternoon.
Unexpectedly, there was a disturbance in the left and right Chunfang in the East Palace, so Su Ce had to rush to the East Palace with the 500 brigade of Ben troops led by the right wing of the East Palace.
As for the Forbidden Army of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya, many people have been reduced now. The East Palace Brigade's Ben Army has increased, and the number of the Four Nei Commanders has also increased a lot. The defense of the East Palace has simply been handed over to the Prince's Ten Commanders.
I thought that the East Palace was to the east of the palace, and there were imperial guards guarding it outside, so there wouldn't be any trouble, but this trouble caught up with me.
The Prince's Tenth Palace was not far from the East Palace, less than a kilometer away. On this short journey, Su Ce didn't have much time to think about anything else. Although he felt that something was strange, it had already happened, so it was best to suppress it.
I have taken the courage of a bear's heart and a leopard's courage. Can I just shout these three words "Qingjunzi" casually?
Although the three prime ministers are fighting against the saint and the prince, this is a matter in the court, and it is not the turn of the subordinates of the East Palace to take care of it. After all, the subordinates of the East Palace only have the power to listen to the government and have no power to discuss the government.
The reason why the five eunuchs of the Nine Temples obeyed the prince was because the prince was in charge of the country, and the subordinate officials of the East Palace said that Po Tian was just a man of rank but no authority.
When Su Ce arrived, the palace door opened, and the scene in front of him made Su Ce's face darken.
At this time, there was no one pushing and shoving inside the palace gate. The people led by the prison gate drew out their horizontal knives to stop everyone, and the dazzling blood red stained the floor tiles of the East Palace.
They were both young men and very angry. They would inevitably get angry and do something troubling during the pushing, but no one would hold them accountable. But looking at the two people who fell on the ground, Su Ce became angry.
Unlike the left and right internal forces, most of the prison guards are generals. Although the nobles and generals dislike each other, they are both from the military. There is competition internally and they are consistent externally. The generals will never hold back.
"Who did this!" Su Ce was very kind to everyone when he was in the East Palace, but Su Ce found that many people seemed to have forgotten that Su Ce was different from the others in the East Palace. Others were influenced by their elders or passed the imperial examination.
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As for Su Ce, he was a real warrior who came out of the battlefield.
Although today was only Su Ce's second day in charge of the Ten Commander's Mansion, his soldiers fell to the ground. Su Ce stepped forward to explore their necks, and dark black blood stained Su Ce's fingers.
Someone was killed. At this time, the impulsive officials of the East Palace were dumbfounded. Standing aside, Wen Shu and four or so bastards were checking who did it.
It's just that Su Ce didn't wait for Wen Xu and the four or so bastards to give him a result.
"Jiang Lan, are you blind? All my soldiers are dead! Arrest them!" Su Ce stood up and shouted angrily at Jiang Lan.
Looking at Su Ce with red eyes, Wen Xu and the four old men wanted to step forward to explain, but Jiang Lan did not give them a chance.
"My lords, let's go back!" Jiang Lan stopped the five people. At this time, Jiang Lan also lost control.
People in Zhan Shifu and Zuo Chunfang have always looked down on Shisuifu because they thought they were well versed in poetry and books, while people in Shisuifu relied on the shelter of their elders and had not read many books, never fought in battles, and had not made any achievements.
Therefore, Jiang Lan only asked the chief officials of the first house and the two houses to leave. As for the others, they could not leave until the murderer was found.
There were two corpses on the ground, but no one moved them. The scars on their necks were very thin, but fatal enough. The blood vessels in their necks were severed, and even the gods could not save them. The injured would lose their vitality little by little as the blood drained away.
Five hundred brigades of soldiers rushed into the East Palace and began to arrest people. They said they were arresting people, but in fact they took off the swords of these East Palace subordinate officials and squatted in the corner.
Su Ce looked at the sword mark. The murderer was a master and was very covert when he did it. Otherwise, Zhan Shiwenshui would have found the murderer just now.