Chang'an City
Tai Chi Hall
The burly armored general stood outside the gate of the main hall with his hands behind his back. Behind him is the majestic Tai Chi Hall, but standing in front of the Tai Chi Hall, he doesn't look small at all.
Looking at the iron armored soldiers standing upright in front of the main hall square, he seemed quite satisfied. Although the brows were still flat, but the eyes were soft. Looking at these soldiers, he felt young again. The elite of these soldiers surpassed any army he had led before.
In a corner of the main hall, in front of an old scalper was a large wooden barrel. The barrel was full of raw meat, dripping with blood. The old scalper seemed to enjoy the smell of blood, chewing slowly. It eats slowly, but every bite is big, so the rate of reduction of raw meat is not slow. There is an iron basin next to the raw meat, and the iron basin is also full, but it is just wine. Smelling the aroma of the wine, one knew that it was the tribute wine of Shenquan Villa, and ordinary rich and wealthy people could not buy it.
The old scalper ate a few mouthfuls of raw meat and drank a few mouthfuls of wine, and he looked a little leisurely.
The black boy who was dressed in an armor that seemed to be made of stone was muttering to himself, grabbing a sip of wine with the old scalper from time to time. He took a puff of air from his nose, quite dissatisfied.
A large cattail fan was leaning on the pillar beside him. There were many dense patterns on the cattail fan, which looked extremely complicated, with neither the beginning nor the end. This cattail fan is very old but not broken, and the pattern on it looks like a map. If you look carefully, it looks like the meridians in the human body.
After listening carefully, I realized that the black boy was scolding the old scalper for being greedy, but the old scalper ignored him.
The Iron Armored General looked at Hei boy and the old scalper, then smiled, but immediately frowned once he smiled, with a bit of pain on his face.
Hei boy's senses were extremely sensitive, and he immediately looked over here.
"Master, are you seriously injured?"
he stood up and asked.
The Armored General nodded, and first waved his hands to signal the armored soldiers to disperse: "I didn't expect Luo Yao's cultivation to be so superb, I blamed you. I thought it would be easy for Mr. Wan to prepare so much, but But I couldn't kill him, even though Luo Yao was severely injured, his Brahma karma still hurt me..."
This man, being burned by Luo Yao's karmic fire, did not die!
You must know that as long as Luo Yao's karmic fire is touched, it will never go out until it burns the target! I don't know what method he used, but he was able to survive the karmic fire sticking to his body without being burned to death! Just this point, if you look at the whole rivers and lakes, I'm afraid you won't be able to find anyone on par.
After all, there is no more Wan Xingchen in the Jianghu of the Central Plains.
"what to do?"
Black Boy asked.
"repair."
General Tiejia said a word lightly, then turned around and walked towards the Tai Chi Hall. The black boy immediately grabbed the cattail leaf fan beside him, and then jumped over with a stride, followed the Iron Armored General into the hall. Those Jinyi schools in the main hall immediately gave way to the two sides, as if they were extremely afraid of these two people.
In the Tai Chi Hall, Yang Chengqian, who was sitting tremblingly on the dragon chair, changed his expression immediately when he saw General Iron Armor coming in, and straightened his body to hide his fear carefully.
"I'm hurt."
General Tiejia said to Yang Chengqian: "It needs to be repaired."
This is just an ordinary sentence, but Yang Chengqian trembled when he heard this sentence. He shrank back subconsciously, and it took him a while to calm down: "This... you can decide for yourself, don't ask me. Those things hidden in the imperial tomb are all prepared for you, old man Wan I have also prepared a lot for you, I will send someone to open the imperial tomb soon... "
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
General Tiejia nodded, glanced at the ministers who kept dodging back, and then sneered: "Sui people should be the most proud in the world, and you as courtiers should naturally have your own pride, but look at you The way they are now, everyone is as timid as a mouse... More than half of the reason why Da Sui has fallen to where it is today is because of you, Emperor Tianyou is a man of great courage, he wants to completely goug out your cancerous tumors, and give Da Sui a favor A healthy and strong body, but when the luck is bad... If his luck is better and his body is better, give him another ten years, Tai Sui will rise again."
"I don't have to come out either."
The ministers were so frightened that they didn't even dare to breathe out.
"But now that I've come out, I can't just sit idly by. Your Majesty is still young, and you can't tell right from wrong. You will always be swayed by some villains' slander. From now on, if I hear someone talking nonsense in front of Your Majesty again In other words, if the Iron Armored Army under my command can kill the rebels, it can also kill you!"
"yes."
All the courtiers bowed and agreed, and no one dared to look straight into the eyes of the Iron Armored General.
"Pounce on the tiger."
"The subordinates are here!"
The black boy who resisted the cattail fan immediately took a step forward: "It will take at least ten days for me to enter the imperial mausoleum, and the affairs of Chang'an City will be left to you within these ten days. I have made a list for your majesty to use." Minister, you help Your Majesty to use these people. I also made a list of people who are not available to Your Majesty. After reading it, Your Majesty will seal and decree that all of them be sent to prison. If someone speaks slander in front of Your Majesty, then You don’t need to go to jail, you’ll be sent directly to Caishikou.”
"Here!"
Hei kid immediately clasped his fists in response.
General Tiejia hummed, turned to look at Yang Chengqian and said, "Your Majesty, your father did too many things for the Sui Dynasty. In fact, these things were all done for you. He wants to solve everything he can. Get rid of it, and leave you a peaceful world, you only need to do nothing to rule and you will be a wise king. But he didn't do it, so the next thing is up to you, Your Majesty. Do you understand?"
Do you understand
These three words were like a hammer hitting Yang Chengqian's heart, his face was as pale as paper.
"I... understand!"
"Ah That's good."
General Iron Armor glanced at the group of officials: "Your servants must look like servants. After I came out, I heard that many of you bullied your majesty when he was young, and even threatened him. When was the emperor of the Sui Dynasty ever coerced?" ? These are all debts, and I will hook them up one by one."
The ministers were so frightened that they couldn't help trembling, and some even fell down limply.
"Pounce on the tiger."
"The subordinates are here."
"Send a group of people to the south of the Yangtze River and bring Wan Lao's body back to Chang'an City."
"Here."
"His Majesty."
"I... I am here."
"Your Majesty, please build a cemetery on the mountain behind Yanwuyuan, so that the old man cannot be wronged. In addition, if I need a lot of things for the expedition, it is time to do it."
"I... but... now the national treasury is empty, and there is really no money in the household department. I have been thinking about this these days. I have decreed a while ago that everyone in the palace will reduce their salaries by half, but it is not enough. It’s a drop in the bucket... After Gyeonggi-do was besieged, taxes from all over the country could not be paid, and the household department was really... stretched."
General Tiejia pondered for a while, took out a list from his armor and threw it on the ground: "This is the second list I just mentioned, and it contains people who are not qualified to stay in the court, so there is no need to lock them in again." The food was wasted in the prison, and they were sent directly to Caishikou, and the family property was naturally filled into the national treasury. It is expected that the property of these people will not be enough, but it will not be much worse."
"ah?"
Yang Chengqian froze for a moment, not knowing what to say. Immediately, there was a wailing in the hall, and it is unknown how many people collapsed to the ground.
General Tiejia didn't seem to care about the emperor's attitude at all, he paused and continued: "Luo Yao must have escaped to find his body that has been prepared for many years. I met Wudang Zhang Yiyang a few days ago, and he told me that the man named Fang The person who solved it is a natural primordial body. If Luo Yao takes his body, it will not be easy for me to kill him even if I mend the body. So the things prepared by Emperor Tianyou and those prepared by Wan Lao are not effective enough …”
"Then...then what should I do..."
Yang Chengqian didn't notice that his teeth were chattering when he spoke.
"Don't bother Your Majesty, I will find a way myself."
He turned his head to look at Hei Zizi: "Go and get them, and send them all to the secret room."
"Here!"
Hei boy immediately turned around and walked outside the hall, he beckoned, and a group of cold and fierce armored soldiers came over immediately. Hei Xiaozi confessed a few words, all of them were names, every name made Yang Chengqian tremble in fright, his dragon robe was already drenched with sweat.
He didn't dare to look at the armored general, and the words his father Tianyou Emperor Yang Yi said before his death reappeared in his mind. It's just that even though he was afraid at that time, he didn't really know it. When he thought of those words at this time, every sentence was cut back and forth in his heart like a knife, and his flesh was bloody.
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Yang Chengqian didn't know how he got back to Dongnuange, the newly promoted Bingbi eunuch Dou Shuangfang helped Yang Chengqian onto the kang, and then quickly poured a cup of hot tea and handed it over. Yang Chengqian took the teacup subconsciously, but the hand holding the teacup was trembling all the time.
He raised his hand to drink water, but the teacup kept bumping against his teeth.
The sound of tap-tap-tap was like a drum beating to death.
"Your Majesty..."
Dou Shuangfang saw the emperor was frightened like this, and felt pain in his heart: "It's not an option to go on like this. How could he overstep like this? No matter what his status is, you are His Majesty the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty after all... Before in the hall, where did he go?" A little respect... how about asking the Queen Mother to discuss this matter?"
"don't want!"
Yang Chengqian trembled, shook his head and said: "You can't involve the empress in this matter. The empress is now learning Taoism in the bedroom, and she finally calmed down. How can you disturb me? And... and this matter involves the empress. If not, I'm afraid of hurting her."
Dou Shuangfang shook his head slightly, not daring to say anything more.
He watched Yang Chengqian grow up from a young age, and he was the chief eunuch of the East Palace. After Yang Chengqian ascended the throne, he became the eunuch of Bingbi as a matter of course. But he doesn't know how to do his own thing well, his vision is too small. Compared with his predecessor, Su Buwei, who never took the initiative to intervene in government affairs, he talked too much. But it's no wonder, in his eyes, Yang Chengqian was not only the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, but also the child he cared for carefully.
He was naturally annoyed when the child was wronged.
"The Jinyi School that the servants have accepted... seems unreliable."
Dou Shuangfang lowered his voice and said: "But this person must not stay. This servant thinks that after he kills Luo Yao, he must be eradicated. No... we can't wait that long."
"Don't I know?"
Yang Chengqian slammed the cup on the ground: "But who can I use now? Zhang Yiyang? That old man left Chang'an a long time ago. He said he was going back to Wudang Mountain to retire, but he was afraid of death!"
"Give the camp."
Dou Shuangfang reminded: "Could it be that Your Majesty forgot that the Shiying was left to you by the late emperor. In terms of personal cultivation, no one is his opponent. But the eight hundred elites of the giving camp are unparalleled in the world when they cooperate. This As long as the matter is arranged well, it may not be impossible! The servants watched, this person is even more threatening than Luo Yao... Even if Luo Yao is not killed, he must be killed... After all, Luo Yao does not know where he has gone. It’s unknown if he can’t come again. And this person is in Chang’an right next to His Majesty... This servant remembers a saying that said, how can others snore on the side of the couch?”,
He took a cautious look at Yang Chengqian: "And now is the best time, he... is also injured!"
Yang Chengqian's eyes flickered, bit his lips and said: "Go, call me Xie Manjia, the commander of the Ministry of Finance!"