Ruan Qingwen is naturally concerned about the fate of the princelings after the chaos in Longdu. Although he is protected by the people in Mucheng, if the prince of the prison country severely punishes the remaining princelings, he will not be able to escape the involvement, and he will even have to change his name and hide in another place.
He couldn't help but ask: "Where are the remnants of the deposed prince? What will happen to them after their failure?"
Ji Yushi said with drunken eyes: "Death from natural causes must be punished. More than 50,000 people were arrested in Longcheng. But Renyi, the prince of the prison country, did not want to kill rashly. When the chaos broke out in Longdu, tens of thousands of people had already been implicated."
, he didn’t want to see too many people killed, so he just ordered the generals to be killed.
The leader and hundreds of thugs were beheaded in public. Among them were not only the princelings who rebelled against the leader, but also some bandits and gangsters who took the opportunity to cause trouble. On the contrary, less than half of them were princelings." He chuckled and said: "You are a bait thief, so far.
Those who rebel against the capital during a time of national calamity should really be killed!"
"The princeling party will kill the rebellious leader?" Zhang Xiaowu said with emotion: "The prince who supervises the country is a real and benevolent king."
Ji Yushi nodded and said: "This time we will only punish the rebels, and next year we will offer amnesty to the whole world. The Holy Han Empire finally has a benevolent king. Heaven treats the people well, which is also our blessing."
Ruan Qingwen asked: "Mr. Ji, please ask again, who is this Nidu? Chi Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, Yuan Qi, the commander of the Silver Guards, or is he alone?"
Ji Yushi said: "The people in the prince's house will naturally be punished. In addition to the execution of the generals, the prince's family members were demoted to common people and sent to the frontier fortress. The prince's concubine Chi Guifei also hanged herself. The family of Chi Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue was beheaded. Chi
The family's Hengtong Bank was collected as the national treasury.
The person who started the mutiny was Shangshu Chi, and he brought it upon himself. As for the Gu family, it was not affected. The Gu family was very thieves, and the door was closed tightly during the mutiny. Therefore, the Gu family was not punished, and they were still the Gu family.
clever."
Ruan Qingwen was relieved. Since the Gu family was not punished at the moment, if the investigation continued in the future, the Gu family would not be punished to death.
Ji Yushi raised his glass and said, "Drink again!" As soon as everyone raised their glasses, they saw him plopped down on the kang and fell asleep. Everyone looked at each other and smiled, then put down their glasses and smiled bitterly.
There was not only great chaos in Longdu, but also a sudden change. They were lucky enough to know such chaos in Longdu and the civil strife in the court. In order to compete for the throne, the princes were killing each other, so they still had time to take care of Saibei.
"Sure enough, he is still the fifth prince." Zhang Xiaowu said, "In the future, this court will be ruled by Zhang Dang and Du Shanbo. I just don't know whether Zhang Dang listens to Du Shanbo, or Du Shanbo listens to Zhang Dang?"
Ruan Qingwen said angrily: "Bo Dushan is so stupid that he cannot establish the fifth prince. If he establishes the fourth prince as the supervisor, he will be rich and prosperous, but he can establish the fifth prince as the supervisor. After he dies of old age, Uncle Dushan will
I am afraid that I will be exterminated."
After Zhang Xiaowu heard this, his heart skipped a beat.
There are only two consequences for warriors involved in politics, either to change the dynasty, or to have their family confiscated and exterminated. This Uncle Dushan is an old fox, shouldn't he be so careless? Does he have any other plans? Thinking of this, he felt
It is absolutely correct to take away 700,000 taels of silver in advance. In the future, whether there is chaos in the Central Plains or the barbarians march south, at least they have 700,000 taels of silver in hand. People like them will enjoy wealth wherever they go.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaowu looked at Ruan Qingwen with particularly gentle eyes. Hu Sanwan pulled his sleeve and whispered: "Sir, if you need anything, I will help you find some prostitutes. Just stare at Ruan Sima.
What to do?"
"..." Zhang Xiaowu was furious, "Your sister!"
Hu Sanwan said: "My sister is at home."
Zhang Xiaowu almost spit out a mouthful of blood. This guy is so annoying.
Ji Yushi had been hiding at home to avoid trouble during the chaos in Longdu. All he knew was hearsay, which was half true and half false and the information was incomplete.
On October 12, the twenty-ninth year of Taiqian, he heard that the crown prince was defeated and the Qinglong Army was almost completely destroyed. Emperor Taiqian was so angry that he vomited blood and passed out. Before he fell into coma, Emperor Taiqian personally conveyed the eunuch's oral instructions to depose the crown prince Xuanyuan Zixun. .
On October 16th, Emperor Taiqian passed away.
Although Emperor Taiqian deposed the crown prince of Xuanyuan Zixun before his death, he did not leave a posthumous edict to appoint a new crown prince. The eunuch in charge of the palace immediately informed the imperial concubine of the news. The imperial concubine naturally wanted to support her son as emperor. So he summoned his father to the palace. Zhang Kuan went to the palace overnight and told the imperial concubine that there would be no funeral. He also planned to bribe the palace eunuch to falsely pass on the imperial edict that the emperor would pass on the fifth prince Xuanyuan Zixiao. However, although the palace eunuch was a eunuch, he was loyal. She would never falsely convey the imperial edict, so the imperial concubine was so angry that she had the eunuch who was inspecting the palace be killed with a stick.
Zhang Kuan originally wanted to falsely pass on the imperial edict, but the eunuchs in the palace were well prepared and sent people to ring the long bell on the Tiantai. This long bell was only rung by the emperor himself at the New Year's Eve, which meant the transition between the old and the new. At that time. If this clock had not rung, there would have been only one possibility: the emperor's death.
At this time, everyone knew that the emperor was gone. The imperial concubine tricked her father and said that the palace eunuch was dead. Let's find someone else to pretend to pass on the imperial edict. Zhang Kuan smiled bitterly. Except for this eunuch, no one else can pass on the sage's words. When hundreds of officials enter, After the palace, Zhang Kuan truthfully said that the emperor died without leaving a crown prince, but the country could not live without a king for a day, and he also asked the elders to recommend a prince to the imperial concubine to oversee the country.
Naturally, there were princelings among the hundreds of officials, including Chi Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, and a group of party members. They naturally supported the restoration of the prince's status, questioned the eunuch's false transmission of the holy edict, and asked the eunuch to confront him in person. However, the eunuch The eunuch was beaten to death because he was unwilling to forge the edict for the imperial concubine. The imperial concubine first blocked the officials from seeing people. At this time, many people in Zhang's party began to suspect that the imperial concubine was forging the edict. Zhang Kuan had no choice but to say The eunuch who inspected the palace followed the emperor and committed suicide by hanging himself. All the officials were in an uproar and even more suspected that Zhang Dang and the imperial concubine had tampered with the imperial edict.
At this time, the imperial concubine used a tough attitude to demand that the Senate must support the appointment of the fifth prince as the crown prince to supervise the country on behalf of the emperor. The princes refused to comply. The imperial concubine ordered the imperial army commander Xue Chi to enter the palace and forced all officials to support it. Under the strong suppression of the imperial concubine , all the officials had to agree to appoint the fifth prince Xuanyuan Zixiao as the crown prince, and in the next two months of the 29th year of Taiqian, the prince would supervise the country.
However, the imperial concubine thought that forcing the officials to appoint a prince would stabilize the country. Who would have thought that after the officials left the palace, the princelings immediately launched a mutiny. The princelings assembled 8,000 troops, captured 5,000 civilians, and confiscated 13,000 people. Thousands of people attacked the palace, and the Qing emperor executed the treacherous traitors.
This traitor was the imperial concubine and everyone in Zhang's party. Zhang Kuan sent people to ask for help from the Imperial Army and to kill the rebels.
At this time, the only Forbidden Army in Longdu was the Xuanwu Legion, but the Xuanwu Legion did not yet have a commander, and the generals of each regiment did not want to participate in the battle for the crown prince, so the Forbidden Army watched coldly. Although the Royal Forest Army only had two thousand people, the palace city was fortified and deep. The rebels were unable to attack for a long time. There were also rumors that the fifth prince was still in the prince's mansion. The rebels decided to kill the fifth prince. Since Zhang Dang had no hope, they attacked the prince's mansion. At this time, Zilong's army returned to Longdu Mansion and quickly supported the fifth prince. , defended the prince's palace and continued the bloody battle with the rebels. During this period, the fifth prince persuaded a thousand Dogyi prisoners of war who were originally preparing for the prisoner ceremony and hired them to annihilate the rebels. These battle-hardened Dogyi soldiers were immediately defeated after receiving the money. Rebels.
At this time, the Dragon City was already in chaos. There were vendettas in the rivers and lakes, among the common people, and among the nobles. The entire Dragon City was full of blood, and demons and ghosts were dancing wildly.