Yao Guangxiao quickly walked into the Yamen of Dali Temple, surrounded by a group of masters serving in the imperial court and generals of the imperial army.
Di Renjie, who had just entered the cell and received the news, hurriedly walked out of the cell to greet him and saluted:
"I've met the Marquis!"
When Yao Guangxiao heard this, he nodded solemnly and said:
"Did you tell me anything?"
When Di Renjie heard this, he quickly said:
"The lower official has already used a strategy to make the two of them panic. He also proactively promised that the matter would only be pursued on the two of them, and would no longer investigate the legalists and famous scholars. Ji Fang and Gongsun Song then
He took the initiative to tell everything he knew."
As he spoke, Di Renjie handed the file he had just compiled and recorded in front of Yao Guangxiao.
"It's just my lord, what happened to these two people is not enough to determine Shi Mingzhe's guilt! If this is just based on these, there must be ways for Confucianism to evade..."
Shi Mingzhe, Ji Fang, and Gongsun Song only had a cooperative relationship with each other, and the connection was not very close. Shi Mingzhe was obviously prepared for the fact that Shi Mingzhe was unable to persist with the two of them.
Any conclusive evidence that could prove that Shi Mingzhe was involved in planning the assassination was never made known to the two of them.
Yao Guangxiao listened to this, took a deep breath, looked calmly, and said in a concentrated voice:
"It doesn't matter, this isn't important anyway..."
Speaking of this, Yao Guangxiao said again:
"Take me with you to meet with Master Mingzhe!"
"yes!"
Upon hearing this, Di Renjie quickly led Yao Guangxiao to see his teacher Mingzhe.
In the cell, Shi Mingzhe was sitting on the cushions. Seeing the arrival of Yao Guangxiao and Di Renjie, he once again acted calm and calm, which gave people an unfathomable feeling, which was very bluffing.
"Hello, Marquis of Changzhou, you are well!" Shi Mingzhe picked up the teacup, raised his hand to Yao Guangxiao, and said with a chuckle.
Yao Guangxiao looked at Shi Mingzhe in front of him, and after a moment of silence, he spoke:
"Congratulations, Master Si Ye, the plan has come true!"
When Shi Mingzhe heard this, he curled up his lips and showed a proud smile. He pointed to the window in the cell and said:
"Thank you, Lord Marquis, for informing me, but I have already heard the movement outside just now."
Yao Guangxiao nodded, looked at Shi Mingzhe again, nodded in praise:
"Good idea!"
"hehe……"
After finishing this conversation, Yao Guangxiao did not speak again, but turned and left.
When Shi Mingzhe saw Yao Guangxiao turning around and leaving without hesitation, the smile on his face suddenly stopped, revealing a look of surprise.
He originally thought that even if Yao Guangxiao would not choose to surrender immediately for the sake of the stability of Zhongqing City, then he should threaten him again or say some harsh words.
The fact that he turned around and left straight away made him a little surprised.
Seeing Yao Guangxiao leaving like this, Shi Mingzhe became a little impatient and immediately shouted:
"Marquis Changzhou, just left like this?"
Yao Guangxiao paused before leaving, turned around slightly, pondered for a moment, and then turned back again.
When Shi Mingzhe saw Yao Guangxiao returning, his wise smile appeared again on his face.
But before he could speak, he heard Yao Guangxiao say directly:
"I don't want to waste too much time on a dead person! But Shi Siye is very resourceful and resourceful. For people like you, you have to give him some dignity!"
When Shi Mingzhe heard this, his face and body froze, his brows wrinkled slightly, and he said in a deep voice:
"Master Hou, what does this mean?"
Yao Guangxiao stood outside the cell, looked down at Shi Mingzhe in front of him, and said coldly:
"That's what I meant!"
"I wanted to use a gentler approach before, but Shi Siye and the Confucian disciples in the capital didn't realize it. They actually had the courage to collude with the embroidery envoys of Xia Kingdom... You are seeking death like this. How can I not help you?
?”
At this time, Yao Guangxiao's slightly sinister inverted triangular eyes were full of awe-inspiring murderous intent.
"You think that I will restrain my hands, but you don't know that when I entered the capital before, I had given an order. If anyone attacks the palace, city gates, or disrupts the capital, the soldiers of the army will be killed directly regardless of their identity!"
Hearing this, Shi Mingzhe, who had been able to maintain his calm appearance, suddenly trembled in his heart, widened his eyes, and looked at Yao Guangxiao in disbelief.
"Yao Guangxiao, those in the capital now are all students from Jixia Academy. These people are the pillars of talents among hundreds of schools in the world! They are also Emperor Qin Dayun, who issued edicts to the world and recruited people.
Talents who came here! Do you really have the guts to kill them all?"
"At that time, even if Emperor Yun has great trust in you, he will not blame you. But if he wants to continue to march out of the Central Plains and dominate the world, then he must appease the hearts of hundreds of schools of thought and the hearts of the world's scholars, and he must give an explanation.
come out!"
Shi Mingzhe's biggest reliance now is his Confucian reputation, influence, and the use of many means to make hundreds of schools of thought share the same hatred with him, put pressure on the Yun State, and finally forced the Yun State court to bow its head.
If it arouses the dissatisfaction of hundreds of scholars, the city of Zhongqing will be in turmoil, the prestige and reputation of the Yun Kingdom court, and the benevolent and virtuous orders of Yun Emperor Xiao Cheng will also be completely wiped out!
But if the imperial court of the Yun Kingdom did not care about the influence behind the various schools of thought, then his trump card of being a disciple of Mingzhe would be useless.
Among the two to three thousand disciples of hundreds of schools in Jixia Academy, there are naturally many talents and masters.
But in the end, these people are just ordinary students. Facing the hundreds of thousands of Yun Kingdom forbidden troops in Zhongqing City and the soldiers and horses of the large camps on the outskirts of Beijing, they are nothing more than a delicate disease. It just costs a little money to clean up!
Hearing Shi Mingzhe's shocked voice, Yao Guangxiao sneered and said murderously:
"After entering the capital, you failed to follow His Majesty's will and cut through the mess quickly, which led to your plan to advance to this point. It would be a betrayal of His Majesty's trust. I must not make the same mistake again! Even if His Majesty has to explain something later, I, the Marquis
I will never regret it!”
"Only by killing heads and dripping with blood can the people of your family fully understand the situation!"
As he spoke, Yao Guangxiao's inverted triangular eyes were filled with blood, and his cheekbones twitched slightly, showing his ferociousness. There was no trace of the compassion of a monk.
Shi Mingzhe was a little frightened by Yao Guangxiao's expression. A chill ran down his back, and he immediately remembered that this person had single-handedly concocted the chaos in Jinling City. His ruthless methods were even among the embroidered envoys of the Xia Kingdom.
Keep it secret...
At this time, Shi Mingzhe suddenly stood up and exclaimed:
"It's not like that..."
At this moment, he finally felt fear and panic in his heart, and subconsciously wanted to turn around.
"Isn't it? It's too late! You Confucians dare to spy on the palace, collude with enemy countries, plot evil, and aim to control the court! If you don't punish them severely, how can you deter hundreds of people?"
Having said this, Yao Guangxiao took a deep breath, clasped his hands together, and whispered:
"Amitabha! Your majesty's benevolent reputation must not be tarnished, and the court's prestige must not be lost. Then let me, the demon monk Daoyan, bear the responsibility for slaughtering people from hundreds of families."
After saying that, Yao Guangxiao tossed his robe and left quickly surrounded by everyone.
Shi Mingzhe's eyes widened as he looked at Yao Guangxiao's leaving figure. He couldn't say a word. He only showed a complex expression of shock, anger, panic and fear, mixed with regret...
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At this time, in Zhongqing City.
In panic, the hundreds of disciples who chose to rush out of the Forbidden Army were now hurriedly avoiding the Forbidden Army General who was chasing after them.
Then I heard someone shouting:
"Leave the city quickly, return to the academy, and ask the elders of each school to take charge of the overall situation!"
The hundreds of disciples who broke out of the siege were quite large, numbering in the hundreds.
However, these people come from different schools of thought and do not have a convincing backbone. It is difficult for them to be of one heart and one mind. They cannot even guarantee basic order, and there is no hope that they can resist the pursuit of the Forbidden Army.
Therefore, the best choice at this time is to go to Jixia Academy immediately and ask the elders of each school to take charge of the overall situation.
But immediately, someone else retorted:
"City gate? The city gate has been heavily guarded by the Forbidden Army for a long time. It is impossible to rush out... Each family must have a hidden stronghold in the capital. Only by spreading out and fleeing can there be a chance of survival!"
This is the disadvantage of not having a core. At such a critical moment, we should be united. But when faced with a life-and-death decision, everyone holds their own opinions.
Although they did not waste time arguing, they soon chose to part ways.
Some people rushed towards the city gate, trying to fight their way out of the city. Others fled in all directions, hoping to temporarily hide in the hidden strongholds of various schools to avoid the limelight.
Scholars from all walks of life fled the city in such a desperate manner and made such a big noise, which also made the already extremely tense situation in the capital suddenly become anxious.
The men who had been arranged by Xia Guo's embroidery envoy in advance and who had not yet been captured by Dongchang and Niangan began to cause riots in various places in the city according to the original plan.
In order to force the imperial court to bow its head, people secretly arranged by the Confucian master Mingzhe also started to disrupt the city.
There was sudden chaos everywhere in the capital. Cries for death, begging for mercy, screams, and wails could be heard everywhere.
Before they could figure out the situation, the people in the capital were at a loss and began to flee in panic.
After the loss of order, even those gangsters who had no reputation in the past dared to be bold and took advantage of the chaos to start looting and smashing everywhere in the city.
Zhongqing City, which has been stable for hundreds of years, is now in chaos. There are even fires igniting and black smoke billowing upwards, as if it was suddenly involved in a war.
Just when all order was lost and the situation was in turmoil, one could hear the neighing of war horses, the clanging of gold and silver swords, and the sound of heavy military columns trampling.
The sound of violent shouting echoed throughout the capital.
"I have been given an order to restore stability in the capital. Anyone who disobeys the order and plots evil will be beheaded! Anyone who attacks the military formation with the intention of treason will be beheaded! Anyone who is waiting for an opportunity to cause chaos, burns, kills, and loots will be beheaded!"
The Forbidden Army general responsible for suppressing the capital was dispatched boldly at this time.
The cold and heavy military aura now lingered over Zhongqing City. The spear array was like a forest, the swords were like snow, and the neat troops were mobilized and began to restore order in the capital.
The rioters who burned, killed and looted, or the reckless scholars of hundreds of families who did not know how to avoid and rushed straight into the military formation, were crushed to dust without making any waves under the power of the army.
At this moment, several cavalry teams, carrying command flags on their backs, drove out from the Yamen of Dali Temple and galloped towards the city, shouting loudly:
"The Marquis of Changzhou ordered that the people should return home, close their doors tightly, and not go out. If the soldiers and horses in the capital encounter disciples from hundreds of schools, they will capture them all and hand them over to the chief to screen them! If there is resistance, they will be killed or alive!
"
"The Lord of Changzhou has ordered that the people return home..."
The sound of violent shouting quickly spread to all parts of the capital. Each battalion of forbidden troops immediately obeyed the order and began to search for the scholars of hundreds of families in the city.
At this time, hundreds of scholars who wanted to risk their lives and rush out of the capital also ran to the city gate.
What greeted them were elite soldiers and horses, fully armed and armed with bows and crossbows.
The leader of the Forbidden Army General, facing the slightly panicked scholars from hundreds of schools of thought, said loudly:
"If there is really no treasonous act, just capture him without restraint. You can save your life! If there is resistance, you will die!"
"Ho!" A group of forbidden soldiers shouted in unison.
The fierce murderous aura and heavy military might came from the front at this time, making the hearts of all the scholars from hundreds of schools tremble.
All the scholars from hundreds of schools of thought never thought of why they and others ended up in this situation in such a confused way. I don’t know how many people began to regret why they were so obsessed and passionate...
…
Just when these people were hesitating to surrender, they heard someone in the crowd shouting:
"It's unbelievable! Shi Siye was deceived into Dali Temple using such means, and he still doesn't know whether he is alive or dead!"
"Only by rushing out of the city can we have a chance of survival!"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone pushed the people next to him and rushed towards the city gate.
The people, who were already confused and their minds were filled with confusion, just kept their heads down and rushed towards the city gate.
The Forbidden Army General at the city gate saw the crowd rushing towards him. His eyes turned cold and he said without hesitation:
"If you are stubborn, kill!"
"Kill!" The Forbidden Army officers shouted loudly, followed by the shouts.
The next moment, the heavy military force soared into the sky, and the vision of the army instantly condensed, overwhelming everyone. The masters among the hundreds of scholars, suppressed by the military force, suddenly felt that their aura was weakened, their hearts were frightened, and their skills suddenly disappeared.
Thirty to four percent.
Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of bowstrings vibrating. Arrows shot out and fell one after another. The hundreds of scholars who rushed towards were covered by the rain of arrows, and they could only hear screams and wails.
Many people were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
At this time, outside Zhongqing City.
Sensing that something was wrong, the hundreds of people from Jixia Academy who rushed here in a hurry heard the clearly audible screams of disciples from hundreds of schools coming from the city at this time.
Seeing the closed city gates and the soldiers of the Forbidden Army standing on the city wall with bows and crossbows, waiting in strict formation, with murderous intent, these people from hundreds of families suddenly had eyes wide open.
"The imperial court is really taking action!"
"Damn it, my closed disciple is still in Zhongqing City!"
"Hurry up and save people!"
People from hundreds of families can never imagine why the situation has developed to this situation.
There was an impatient master from hundreds of schools who took action boldly at this moment.
Under the change of breath, various strange phenomena manifest.
The awe-inspiring spirit of Confucianism came out majesticly, turned into a vision of books, stood in opposition to the vision of the army in the sky, and withstood the pressure of the military.
A master of Legalism condensed an iron ruler several feet in size and smashed it down from the city wall. There was a loud "bang" sound, and the city gate made of fine iron trembled violently after being hit, and it was slightly deformed.
image.
A famous master opened his mouth and vomited, and the vision of a white horse appeared. He leaped up and reached the city wall. His body swung from side to side, knocking the soldiers of the Imperial Army off their backs.
The Taoist master waved his Taoist robe, and the Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram condensed and manifested, circling endlessly, blocking all the arrows fired from the city wall.
…
These elites from hundreds of schools in Jixia Academy are trying their best to meet the disciples who are trapped in the city. Even though there are no soldiers and horses on the side to respond, these ninth-level masters are not here anymore.
Vegetarian.
Even though there were thousands of soldiers and horses on the city wall, it was extremely difficult at this time. If it weren't for the city wall that towered over them, I'm afraid these forbidden troops would have been dispersed by these masters.
The leader of the Forbidden Army general, with the help of his own soldiers, killed a master from hundreds of schools who was attacking the military formation. Looking at his soldiers who were trying to resist and showing signs of decline, he gritted his teeth and shouted:
"Quickly light up the beacon fire and ask for reinforcements!"
Before his soldiers could respond, a slight shaking sound suddenly came from the city wall. The tiny gravel on the ground had already begun to vibrate.
"Boom, boom, boom", thunderous horses galloped, and the muffled sound of iron hoofs hitting the ground was heard.
This kind of movement immediately caused two groups of people to stop fighting and look towards the outside of the city.
Then, on the official road in the distance, there suddenly appeared more than a thousand cavalry, forming a neat and solemn military formation, like a white wave, surging from a distance.
The most eye-catching thing is the big cloud dragon flag that rustles in the wind among the cavalry in front, and the extremely dazzling emperor's canopy!
"Emperor Dayun returns to the capital. The Holy Emperor has arrived. Xiaoxiao retreats and kneels down to welcome him!"
The sound of loud cheering suddenly resounded in everyone's ears.
