After repeated repetitions, this time there were more than twenty officials in the prince's family, including important ministers, and those low-ranking officials were even more ignorant. So many positions were suddenly vacant, and the courtiers were very busy.
Among them, the busiest ones are the eldest prince, Prince Qing, and the third prince, Prince Xiang.
Needless to say, King Qing naturally took his fancy to the position of leader of the hundred officials, the position of Zuo Pushe. Fan Shitong, who originally supported him, once occupied this position, but it was just because he failed to handle the Western Barbarian envoys well. After that, Xia Youran was demoted, giving Xia Youran a chance.
Now that Xia Youran has fallen with the crown prince, will Fan Shitong have the opportunity to return to the throne?
King Qing had an idea and took action after discussing it with Fan Shitong. As the iron king of the Daqian Dynasty, Fan Shixi was the first to make an effort and proactively stated that if he could reinstate his brother to his post, he would donate iron tools and weapons to Daqian. As he watched, Da Qian and the King of Jin fell out. Once the army needs to be used, weapons are indispensable.
King Xiang also danced happily.
Different from King Qing's win step by step, he worked hard together. King Xiang took a fancy to all the positions he could grab.
The prince had been riding on his head before. Although King Xiang, who had been used to being the second-in-command for thousands of years, had thought of many ways, he had never been able to shake the prince's foundation. Now that he was fine, the boulder pressing on him was gone, and he finally You can breathe a sigh of relief and compete for the position of boss.
In King Xiang's eyes, this old man must be him, and he can only be him.
Although the eldest prince is still here, what can he do with a lame leg? I have never heard of any emperor being a cripple since ancient times, right?
The eldest prince couldn't do it, and the other princes were young, so he was the only one suitable for the position of prince. Prince Xiang seemed to have seen the golden emperor's chair coming towards him, and he danced the most happily these days. He has almost become a regular visitor to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, talking to officials at all levels and recommending a large list of officials.
As soon as the prince fell, everyone seemed to be optimistic about King Xiang. Those who had been contacted by King Xiang's staff in the past had an ambiguous attitude at first. Apparently, they still had no idea whether to choose the prince or King Xiang. There was hesitation. But now, everyone has made a decision, and Prince Xiang's power in the court suddenly increased greatly.
Three busy days passed like this. On the fourth day, the market entrance on East Street of Daliang City was overcrowded. Almost all the important ministers, nobles, nobles and generals of the court showed up here. Even if they were like Marquis Zhongcheng, who never paid much attention to greetings, also appeared here with a few soldiers.
King Xiang, surrounded by officials, walked into the beheading platform.
King Xiang got the position of supervisor and beheading officer on his own initiative. Seemingly to prove his determination to be irreconcilable with his brother the prince, this position that everyone shunned fell into King Xiang's hands.
Sitting high in the position of the supervisor, King Xiang looked around, just like a king inspecting his territory. "Xiao Yuzi, go check and see if there is anyone who has not come."
"No." Wang Yu, the chief eunuch of Prince Xiang's Mansion, stood aside and quickly agreed, then turned and left with several eunuchs.
When the prince fell, Prince Xiang was naturally the happiest. Also very happy were the people in Prince Xiang's Mansion. After all, as the master's status increased, everyone's status could rise with the tide, right?
Especially Wang Yu, as the chief eunuch around King Xiang, his biggest idol is Yan Fu. He hopes that one day he can be like Grand Eunuch Yan, able to be majestic wherever he goes and represent the emperor.
In the past, there was a prince above King Xiang. Although King Xiang's development momentum was very strong, Wang Yu did not have much confidence and was very low-key. And facing the relatively short-tempered King Xiang, he had to Be careful everywhere.
Now that it's better, the prince has been captured, and Prince Xiang has a chance to ascend to the throne. Wang Yu also sees more hope. In his eyes, the only person who can threaten Prince Xiang's master is the prince. Even this person If it falls, who will the future emperor of the Daqian Dynasty be if he is not King Xiang?
The change in the situation has made Wang Yu seem to be a different person in the past few days. He is no longer so submissive and groveling when he sees people. Instead, he starts to become arrogant and arrogant. He doesn't seem to know how to look at people. Take a closer look.
Since his master was a supervising officer, Wang Yu mobilized some silver-armored guards who were responsible for the order of the scene, and asked them to go separately, write down the names of all the officials who came, and then eliminate them one by one according to the list of officials. If Anyone whose name has not been assigned is obviously someone who did not come.
Wang Yu, who was doing this, didn't think that any official would really dare not to show up here. After all, this was the emperor's order. It was said that all officials in Daliang City would participate, so who dared not to come? This was not to resist the order. ?
King Xiang is responsible for this matter. If anyone doesn't come, wouldn't it be disrespectful to King Xiang? Is there such an official with such courage?
Wang Yu thought there was no such thing, so he didn't take it very seriously when doing this. He left the matter to a few young eunuchs below to complete, while he hid aside and drank tea, leisurely crossing his legs. .
When the time came, Xia Youran, Ji Cai, He Yuan and others were pressed onto the execution platform one after another. Each of them had their heads lowered, or had sad looks in their eyes, or their whole bodies were trembling, and they looked like they were frightened. Of course, there are also people like Xia Youran who hold their heads high and don't take everything in front of them seriously.
More than 20 executioners with bare chests and abdomens each grabbed the target to be beheaded and pushed them to the ground to kneel down, which caused a lot of crying and begging for mercy.
"What are you doing? I was once the leader of hundreds of officials. Even if I die, I will die standing." Xia Youran said forcefully, but if you look carefully, you can still see a trace of light in the corner of his eyes A look of fear.
From being arrested to now, other officials have all confessed their crimes, and even told some truths. Only Xia Youran has not confessed anything, insisting that he was wrongly accused and that everything he did was consistent with his identity. , and there is nothing wrong with that.
The reason why Xia Youran refused to plead guilty was that he put all his hopes on the prince. Perhaps the emperor spared the prince's life out of various considerations?
The prince was saved and wanted to get back on his feet. If this was the case, the officials who confessed were hopeless, but he might still have a chance to survive.
In this way, he persisted until now. Seeing that he was on the guillotine, but things still hadn't turned around, Xia Youran thought of the most terrifying possibility, that he was really going to die today.
He felt scared when he thought about where people would go after death, and about the existence of the underworld in people's legends, and based on what he did, he didn't know how the King of Hell would judge him if there really was one. If you shout, you are just emboldening yourself.
However, there are no eggs!
King Xiang would not show mercy at all when dealing with the prince's people. If possible, he would rather kill them all, so how could he let them go? He raised his head and squinted at the sky, feeling
When the time was running out, King Xiang grabbed a bamboo stick that looked like an arrow, threw it to the ground in front of him, and said loudly: "The time has come, let's carry out the execution!"
"Wow!"
Immediately, there was a burst of crying on the beheading stage, and one after another the courtiers began to cry bitterly. At this moment, they were not talking in the court hall, and they looked like they were arrogant in the yamen.
Facts have proved that everyone is afraid of death, even important ministers are no exception.
When the execution was about to be carried out, one executioner after another took a swig of strong alcohol, and then sprayed it into the air. The alcohol was scattered on the ghost head knife, and each one took the opportunity to raise their right arm. This scene fell under the stands.
In the eyes of some timid people, they could not help but close their eyes.
"No! Don't! I want to see your Majesty, I want to see your Majesty, I have something to say." Seeing that there was no room for change, Xia Youran finally became afraid and started shouting in an attempt to attract the attention of others.
Thereby achieving the purpose of self-salvation.
Such shouts indeed attracted the attention of others, and the eyes of many officials and people involuntarily fell on Xia Youran, who was already kneeling on the ground. This scene gave other people the feeling that he had really been wronged.
"That's nonsense." King Xiang who was sitting there said something like this with disdain, and then shouted loudly: "Be quick and do it!"
King Xiang urged, but the executioners did not dare to show mercy. Suddenly, a flash of sword light flashed past. In exchange, one head after another was thrown up high, and then fell heavily again. All the important ministers of the prince family were like this
Being killed cleanly also represents the complete decline of the prince line.
At this point, even if the prince is acquitted, he may not be able to gain the right to speak and influence in the court overnight.
"Haha, hahaha." With so many people dead in front of him, King Xiang was not only not afraid, but also looked happy. Only by killing these people could he truly feel relieved. He believed that from now on, the prince would
It will not stand in the way of your progress. The era of the prince has passed.
After the execution, all the courtiers left Caishikou in various moods. King Xiang also stood up and walked straight to his car. He still needed to return to the palace to report to his father. It was at this time that Wang Yu approached.
Come over and say, "Your Highness, all the courtiers who can be reached have arrived, only one person is missing."
"One person is missing? Who is missing?" After hearing the previous words, King Xiang was still very happy, which proved that everyone still gave him face and did not dare not to come. But when he heard that there was only one person missing, he suddenly became angry.
Why, it was my father's will in the past, and I personally appeared in the end. Who else would be so disrespectful? This is really looking down on myself.