(The next update will probably be on the 20th or 21st. I'm really sorry, because I'm going home soon, and the journey will take three days and two nights. Our great motherland is really... so big... It has a vast territory, sometimes What a torture.)
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With a ding sound, the knife in the eunuch's hand rubbed against the young body of the third prince, and ruthlessly pierced it on the bluestone floor under the Chenlang, a few pieces of gravel unexpectedly burst up, which shows how powerful it is.
The third prince twisted his body, screamed loudly, kicked his feet blindly, but just avoided the knife, and the dagger he was holding tremblingly swung twice indiscriminately.
There were two chi chi sounds, and the lower robes of the two eunuchs were cut, revealing two gaps. The eunuch had a cold face, as if he hadn't thought that the noble prince of Tianhuang would carry a dagger at any time, and this dagger would be so sharp.
The dagger he pulled out of his boot for the first time didn't seem to have played his due role. Although the dagger is sharp, it is held in the hands of an eleven or twelve year old boy.
At the moment of life and death, Li Chengping learned the killing courage that Fan Xian had when he was twelve years old, but he didn't learn the killing skills of his teacher. Although the murderous eunuch didn't have much martial arts skills, he was strong and strong, so there was nothing he could resist.
An eunuch stomped Li Chengping on the ground, and another eunuch stepped on Li Chengping's elbow, making him unable to move. Seeing the tear on his clothes, he shook his head and strangled Li Chengping with one hand. On the neck, holding the knife in one hand, he stabbed it down again!
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Li Chengping's breathing became more and more difficult, and he watched the knife stabbed down, knowing that he would die, he couldn't help feeling endless regret, thinking that the knife he swung just now didn't even touch the opponent's side, desperate Besides, I couldn't help but give up, closed my eyes, and cried out.
However, it took a long time.
Li Chengping even felt the pain of a sharp object piercing his chest, and the iron hand on his neck was cutting off his breathing... But he found that he was still alive, and the two feet on his body and hands seemed to have no longer Step down hard.
He opened his eyes in horror, and then saw a scene that made him terrified. He saw the two eunuchs on top of his head, just like himself, with their eyes open in horror, and two streams of black blood flowed from the corners of their eyes!
Li Chengping knew that his life was coming back, screamed hoo hoo, pulled out his right hand from under the eunuch's feet, stabbed his knife hard on the calf that was stepping on his chest.
The dagger pierced into the flesh, and a bloody flower bloomed.
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Li Chengping struggled to stand up, seeing the two eunuchs, who were still looking fierce before, fell down like two logs, he couldn't help feeling palpitations. His legs were trembling, and he didn't dare to step forward to check what happened, why the two eunuchs fell down with black blood dripping from the corners of their eyes.
He looked down at the knife stuck in his chest, only then felt the endless pain, and cried out in pain.
Fortunately, at the last moment when the eunuch came down with the knife, he was already out of breath and could not continue to exert force. The point of the knife penetrated only three points into the flesh, which allowed Li Chengping to narrowly save his own life.
Li Chengping dragged his limp legs and walked to the side of the two eunuchs who had already been killed. Apart from fear, he also had endless doubts in his heart, thinking that God was helping him by casting a spell on these two eunuchs
It's not a curse—the Third Prince finally understood when he woke up. He stared blankly at the two cuts on the abdomen clothes of the two eunuchs, and then looked down at the black dagger in his hand.
The dagger in his hand was too sharp, so even though he just swiped it twice, it not only cut the eunuch's clothes, but also slightly grazed the skin under his clothes. However, because the dagger was too sharp, or the teacher applied some medicine on the dagger, the two eunuchs didn't feel anything.
The dagger was quenched with the most powerful poison of the Overwatch Council. When the blade pierced the skin, the medicine entered the blood. It only took a split second for the two eunuchs to be poisoned to death, leaving no time for the last kill.
What a powerful poison!
Li Chengping, who narrowly escaped from the dead, was trembling everywhere, holding the dagger tightly in his hand, watching the two eunuchs whose faces gradually turned black under their feet, finally couldn't stand anymore, and fell to the ground. He knew in his heart that if it wasn't for the powerful poison on the dagger, if it wasn't for the two eunuchs not having thought of it at all, no matter how much he struggled today, he still couldn't escape the end of death.
He sat tremblingly beside the two corpses, his face was pale, and he didn't know what he should do next. It was the first time to be killed, the first time to kill, even though he was a very powerful precocious prince, he was still shocked and confused.
I don't know how long he sat there, the twelve-year-old Li Chengping finally came to his senses, got up with some difficulty, looked at the two corpses beside him, his eyes showed complicated emotions that a child shouldn't have, and these emotions were caused by Fear, helplessness, sadness, a little bit of excitement... gradually turned into calm and anger.
Calm anger.
Who wants to kill himself? Li Chengping didn't know, but he knew that he couldn't break away from his brothers. He suddenly burst into tears, then clenched the dagger in his hand, and stabbed hard.
With two stabs and three stabs, he numbly and mechanically stabbed the dagger into the corpse of the eunuch next to him, bleeding countless blood, which finally splashed into black blood.
He hates these people, so he wants them to die thoroughly. Of course, he will be very careful not to let the blood poison on himself.
After a while, he stopped crying in fear, stood up with the support of the pillar, looked at the quiet and empty long corridor of Chenlang, his lips trembled slightly, and then he shouted loudly.
At the end of the Chenlang is the Lenggong, and there are always maids in the Lenggong.
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"Mother, I don't want you to live in the cold palace."
The weather in early autumn was not cold, but in a wing room at the back of Hanguang Hall, the Third Prince was tightly wrapped in a large bed of quilts, looking at Yigui who was tearfully looking at him beside him, lowered his voice, and said with a kind of He said in a strong and cold tone, "I don't want to die, and neither can you."
Concubine Yigui's eyes were red, and she hugged him tightly.
When the Leng Palace came to report the news earlier, everyone knew that the third prince had sneaked out of the Hanguang Palace, and even met an assassin in the deep palace! In a rage, the Empress Dowager ordered the inner palace to strengthen its defenses, not to mention the arrest of assassins, and even the eunuchs and maids in Hanguang Palace, even Concubine Yigui was not spared.
The Empress Dowager stayed by the unconscious third prince's bedside for a while before leaving.
As soon as the Queen Mother left, Li Chengping woke up and said these words to his mother with a trembling voice. Obviously, the coma in front of the queen mother was faked. The third prince just had a secret fear of the queen mother and didn't want to face his grandmother directly.
"Don't worry..." Concubine Yigui hugged her son, and said with a trembling voice, "In the Hanguang Palace, the Empress Dowager and the ancestors are watching, so they don't dare to mess around anymore."
Li Chengping's face darkened for a moment, knowing that his mother was just comforting him, but he didn't say anything. Concubine Yigui looked down at her son, hesitated to speak, but finally couldn't hold back, and asked softly: "The two eunuchs...how did they die? Who belonged to them?"
"I don't know." Li Chengping didn't explain about the dagger. While calling for help, he had already hidden the dagger in the trees beside the Chenlang. There was a trace of horror in his eyes, he looked at his mother and said, "He died suddenly... I don't know who wants to kill me."
Concubine Yigui fell silent, looked around, and found that there were too many people talking, many eunuchs and maids were waiting outside the wing room, it was really inconvenient to say too many things, so she stopped silently.
Ever since she and the third prince learned the news of His Majesty's assassination, she and the third prince waited until they were under house arrest in the Hanguang Palace. They didn't really know what happened outside, but they knew that Fan Xian had been beaten as a criminal, and the Fan family and Liu family were all in the inner court. Under her control, the Empress Dowager looked at herself more and more coldly.
Looking at this palace today, Concubine Yigui felt a bone-chilling coldness, she thought in her heart: "This Hanguang Palace may not be very safe."
At this moment, a middle-aged woman came in from outside the house. It was Ning Cairen, the eldest prince's biological mother. Concubine Yigui quickly stood up and saluted. The two mothers looked at each other, sighing endlessly.
The prince also came to visit, so he comforted his younger brother a few words, and promised to find out who the real culprit was. What she said was very sincere, but Concubine Yigui couldn't listen to her. It wasn't until the night gradually approached, people gradually left, and the room became quiet, that Concubine Yigui looked at her son hidden under the quilt and said quietly, "If it wasn't the prince, who would it be?"
The third prince was stabbed to death, who is the most beneficial to the various forces in Kyoto at this time? Concubine Yigui couldn't help thinking of a person's name, but she didn't dare to say it.
Seeing his mother's thoughtful expression, Li Chengping's heart trembled. Knowing who his mother was suspicious of, he shook his head firmly and said, "It's not the teacher."
Yes, Concubine Yigui is suspicious of Fan Xian, because there are a large number of civil servants in the current court who firmly stand by Fan Xian's side, using the name of the so-called will and righteousness to attack the prince, if the third prince really dies before the palace Among them, the prince can't clear up his crimes no matter what, and he will be at a disadvantage in terms of speech, and...
If Fan Xian is really sure of defeating the crown prince, then why keep the third child? Concubine Yi Gui looked at her son and said quietly: "Although he is your teacher, he is not your cousin after all."
"He's my own brother." The third prince bit his lip and said.
Concubine Yigui sighed: "In this royal family, where is there any brotherhood between master and apprentice? You didn't tell the queen mother and the prince earlier that the two eunuchs used tokens to lure you to Chenlang... If not How can someone from your teacher have a token in his hand?"
The token is actually very simple, it's just a page from the third prince's favorite book in Peng's Manor by the West Lake in Hangzhou, south of the Yangtze River.
Li Chengping lowered his head: "I won't doubt Master...and I believe in his ability. If he really wants to kill me, he will cause chaos in the palace for a while, and he won't use tokens. This is a place where loopholes are easy to come by." .And the master... never reveals so many flaws."
Concubine Yigui forced a smile and didn't say anything else. From an emotional point of view, and from the current critical situation, she was also willing to trust her son's judgment on Fan Xian, because apart from Fan Xian, the mother and son had nothing to rely on.
"Yes...but I don't know when Lord Fan will rescue us." Concubine Yigui thought in her heart, if Fan Xian really pushed the prince to the point of no return, the prince would have no choice but to risk the world For the sake of it, use bloody means to subdue the hearts of the officials, and at that time, I am afraid that my mother and child will no longer have a way out.
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In the front hall of Hanguang Hall, everyone was silent, and the whole palace was shrouded in a depressive and tense atmosphere. The prince and the queen sat next to the queen mother, gently beating the old man's back. The situation of this pair of mother and son was much easier than that of concubine Yigui's mother and son, but they also knew that nothing would happen to the old woman under the fists.
"Aunt." The queen glanced at the queen mother, and said timidly, "The youngest child is very lucky..." She glanced again, "...to be able to survive like this, it seems that that traitor Fan Xian really taught him not to Less stuff."
The crown prince frowned, seeing the skin on the temples of his grandmother stretched slightly, knowing that his mother's words foolishly angered the queen mother, he snorted coldly and said, "It's good for my brother to live, let's not talk about other things for now."
The queen mother forced herself to breathe a few times, suppressed the anger in her heart, and gently patted the back of the prince's hand, thinking that among so many descendants of the royal family, probably only the prince really understood what she was thinking. Thinking of this, the queen mother felt more and more that her choice was not wrong. Qingguo really needs a child who understands filial piety like the prince to take charge.
"You all go out." The queen mother coughed twice, feeling extremely tired, and waved her hand. All the eunuchs and maids who served were ordered to go. Even the unwilling queen was kicked out of the palace. She and the prince are left alone.
The queen mother turned around, looked at the prince with some dull eyes, held the prince's hand, and said quietly: "I just don't want your brothers to kill each other, so I support this body and look at all this, can you Knowing that, I am very relieved.”
The prince didn't respond, but just sighed, wondering if he thought of Fan Xian, his brother.
The empress dowager's eyes suddenly turned cold, as if she could see through the prince's heart: "As an emperor, you need to be severed when you are severed, and when you are lenient, you must be lenient... As for Fan Xian, this person is the evil thief who plotted to assassinate your father. His surname is Fan and not Li, what do you want to do so much?"
The prince bowed his head to be taught: "My child understands that some people cannot be let go."
"It's a pity we still haven't caught him." The queen mother slowly closed her eyes and said, "Where are the ministers of Shuwu detained?"
"Put it in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice." The prince smiled wryly: "Now it is naturally not easy to put it in the prison of the Overwatch Council, but... for some reason, these ministers were deceived by Fan Xian, and they were so confused. Willing to give in."
The queen mother sneered: "Blinded? It's not just some sour people who read dead books, and only your father allows them to be so presumptuous... Maybe they have seen the will of Fan Xian before they dare to be so stubborn."
The prince's complexion changed slightly, and he calmed down immediately, and said: "There is no will at all."
"That's right." The Queen Mother looked at him approvingly, "So, in your opinion, how should we deal with these ministers who speak lies and threaten the royal family?"
The prince's complexion changed again, knowing that the queen mother made him make up his mind, and after a long time, he said in a deep voice: "If you have to kill, you will kill."
"Very good." The Empress Dowager's face gradually became indifferent, "If you want to be safe, don't be afraid of killing people."
"It's just that the subordinates of the Overwatch Council are not ordered by the emperor at all, which is a bit tricky." The prince said after pondering, "Many ministers in the capital were assassinated and killed today. Time can't think of a good way to deal with it."
"Fan Xian is using blood and head to frighten the court officials, intending to cause chaos in the capital." The queen mother looked at her grandson and said softly: "Whatever you want to say, just say it."
After a moment of silence, the prince raised his head and said in a firm tone: "My son dares to ask the queen mother to transfer troops to Beijing... Suppress it!"
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The Hanguang Hall became calm again. After a long time, the Empress Dowager said slowly, "Today in the Taiji Hall, Yan Xingshu had already discussed this. How was it rejected?"
The prince gave a wry smile, shook his head and said, "No one would have thought that all the Zhongshu University scholars under his sect would be imprisoned...but someone jumped out today."
The person who jumped out of the court today is not a high official, but his status is very special, because he is the Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, He Zongwei!
He Zongwei has always been a member of the Eastern Palace faction, and later helped the Eldest Princess drive Prime Minister Lin Ruofu out of the capital, and has always had some inexplicable enmity with the Fan Mansion. The prince had always thought that this person would be his pillar minister in the court in the future, but he didn't expect that when the army was about to be transferred to Beijing to issue an edict, this person actually jumped out to oppose it.
He Zongwei's opposition was extreme. He took off his official uniform, took black gauze, led more than a dozen censors, and just knelt in front of the Tai Chi Hall! In a rage, the prince beat him with twelve sticks and drove him out of the palace, but this talented man who was famous in the capital at the time knelt in front of the palace wall with bloodstains, refusing to budge!
"He Yushi's objection is very reasonable." The queen mother lowered her eyes slightly and said tiredly: "Actually, the Ai family has never allowed the Qin family to enter Beijing, and this is what they are worried about... The imperial court forbids the military from entering Beijing to do politics. This precedent Once opened, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles in the future."
The prince is silent, knowing the worries of the empress dowager's ancestors. The empress dowager still hopes that she can succeed peacefully. Once she is involved in the military, the Qin family and the Ye family will be big. What will the Qing Dynasty look like
"The Qin family has been loyal for generations, so don't worry." The queen mother said indifferently. She has a very deep relationship with the Qin family, so naturally she doesn't need to worry about this issue. "But what about the Ye family? Ye Zhong is your second brother's father-in-law!"
The queen mother looked at the silent prince, took a deep breath, and said grimly, "It's just that Fan Xian... this Yinzi is acting too crazy. If there is no army to suppress, this capital will never be able to stabilize, even if you kill him." How can the dozens of ministers in the prison help the situation? If the situation is delayed for a few more days, once the morale of our other five elite troops in Daqing is unstable, the situation will be worrying."
The prince bowed silently and said, "Therefore, my son needs the army to enter the capital. Compared with the troubles in the future, Fan Xian today is a dagger in front of him."
He frowned slightly and said, "It's just... what about He Zongwei? After all, he is the censor of Zuodu, and he has a group of censors who are not afraid of death under his command, and he is playing death admonition outside the palace wall..."
The prince's worry is not without reason. It is not uncommon in history to kill ministers, but it is a taboo to kill officials. Even with Emperor Qing's supreme authority back then, the censors collectively attacked his illegitimate son Fan Xian, Emperor Qing still only had a few sticks to show.
"There are always people who need to be villains." The Empress Dowager stared into the Prince's eyes and said lovingly, "Let the Ai family deal with these people by decree."
The queen mother paused and said: "After the army enters the capital, your elder brother's commanding officer can hand it over."
The prince was stunned, and he saluted sincerely, speechless after being moved.
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In Guangxin Palace not far from Hanguang Palace, the eldest princess, who had drawn up this plan from the beginning and then watched countless characters acting on the stage with cold eyes, finally fell into some kind of worry for the first time, because today What happened that day made her feel a little strange.
"Why hasn't Fan Xian been caught yet?" She looked at Eunuch Hou beside her, and asked coldly, "It's not that the inner court has no experts, and the Kyoto Prefecture has no efforts. When will I have to wait until I can see his head?"
She said these words in front of her daughter, and Lin Wan'er listened with a smile on the side, as if she was not worried about her husband's safety at all. Several days have passed, since the palace has no way to catch him, then He will never be caught.
After driving Eunuch Hou out of the palace, the eldest princess's face immediately changed, she was completely calm, and she couldn't tell that she had lost her temper before.
Because she knew that Fan Xian was not so easy to catch. Since this young man was able to come back alive from Mount Dadong, it proved his ability.
This is an overall situation involving the whole world. The eldest princess's focus has always been on Mount Dadong, not in the capital. From the very beginning, she never thought that Fan Xian would be able to return to the capital alive. This point has fundamentally frightened her mind.
Fan Xian lived, Yan Xiaoyi died naturally. Li Yunrui lowered his eyes slightly, the coldness in his eyes subsided slightly, thinking about what kind of state Fan Xian's current cultivation has reached? How dare you dare to challenge the authority of the imperial palace by assassinating in such a presumptuous manner in the capital!
She frowned suddenly, looked at the deserted Guangxin Palace, and said: "This palace... smells like death, I want to go out."
Lin Wan'er looked at her mother quietly, and said, "You're scared."
"What do I have to be afraid of, that Fan Xian will break into the palace tonight?" The eldest princess patted her daughter's thin cheek lightly, and said, "I know Fan Xian very well, he will always be able to He is an assassin and a mouse who fights in the dark, he has never had the courage to fight the enemy head-on... because he is more afraid of death than anyone else."
The eldest princess tilted her head slightly, looked at her daughter, and said, "I've been thinking about a question, if you threaten him with your life, what will he do?"
"I'm curious about the answer to this question." The eldest princess smiled happily, "So I'm waiting for Fan Xian to kill me."
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Fan Xian always thought that he could see the queen mother's mind clearly. The grandmother of the old Li family wanted a peaceful handover, and was unwilling to let the army's wild and uncontrollable power turn the entire Qing Dynasty into a mess. That's why he made his arrangements in an orderly manner.
Obviously, he underestimated how powerful his image of a dark murderous god is in the hearts of the nobles in the palace. Unexpectedly, his assassination in the capital finally stimulated the queen mother and the prince to a certain extent, forcing them to prepare to transfer troops to Beijing to suppress them.
The next day, the Kyoto garrison in the Yuantai camp would enter Beijing to suppress them. If Fan Xian hadn't been able to control the palace before that, he would have a disastrous end.
He didn't even think that the time for the Qin family's army to enter the capital was delayed by He Zongwei, a servant of the three surnames whom he always despised and hated, with a bloody and tough attitude.
In this sense, He Zongwei did him a huge favor.
The determination of the Queen Mother and the Prince was obviously a day late.
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It was night, a very deep and quiet moment, and the night fell asleep deeply, and it was time for the imperial guards to take turns. The Imperial Army controls the first half of the palace in the imperial city, as well as several key streets outside the imperial city. Now that the situation is tense, the guards who have exchanged value are temporarily stationed in the houses in these streets, and they dare not return to the camp to stand by.
A contingent of about 200 imperial guards, all in full armor, walked to the gate of the main palace very calmly, and exchanged the deployment procedures and passwords with the imperial guards on duty.
Due to the current situation, the eldest prince, the commander of the forbidden army, has not been back to the palace for three days. He stood on the city wall, watched the handover below with cold eyes, paused for a while, and walked down slowly.
He was dressed in armor, standing in the palace gate, like a god, trying to block all attacks from outside the palace.
He looked coldly at the 200-member Imperial Army team, and after a while, he nodded silently. The military academy officer beside him swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stepped forward nervously, went through the formalities, and then waved his hand to let the team of Imperial Guard officers and soldiers, who looked a little strange, into the palace.
The eldest prince stood at the gate of the palace like that, and let the Imperial Guards who came to take over be divided into two columns and walk past him.
This batch of imperial troops who came to take over walked quietly, with strict military discipline.
When the last of the forbidden army was about to enter the palace gate, the first prince suddenly sighed.
The man at the end of the Imperial Army team nodded slightly to him.
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"Marshal, what should we do next?" The school official was a close confidant of the eldest prince, a general who rose from the Western Expeditionary Army. Logically speaking, it is not up to him to deal with such trivial matters as defense procedures, but he knows that this time the defense change must be handled by himself.
Seeing the soldiers of the imperial army gradually disappearing on the thick city wall, the school officer swallowed his saliva, suppressed the fear in his heart forcibly, and asked for instructions with a trembling voice.
The eldest prince slowly clenched the sword at his waist, his face facing Night Breeze looked extraordinarily hard: "Let everyone wake up, a temporary meeting before the army."
As soon as these words came out, a strong killing intent surfaced outside his body. Although the eldest prince is not a master of martial arts, he has been fighting on the battlefield all year round, and there are countless dead souls under his sword. The resolution is made tonight, so naturally the first thing to do is to deal with the uneasy factors inside the imperial army.
The school officer knew that the commander-in-chief was going to kill people tonight, and that the cronies in the forbidden army who originally belonged to Yan Xiaoyi's family might be slaughtered, but at this moment, he was no longer afraid, and he was filled with endless excitement from the bottom of his heart. Start ordering now.
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The city wall in front of the palace is extremely wide, and four horses can run side by side on it. They are all built of blue bricks, and naturally exude a chilling atmosphere.
A line of imperial guards lined up here, looking at the square below the imperial city, taking precautions, as if they were ready to receive attacks from outside the palace at any time.
However, one of the imperial guards looked at the palace with far-reaching eyes.
Fan Xian lightly arranged the clothes of the imperial army, looked at this familiar palace, the inside was pitch black, he didn't know where his relatives were or where his enemies were. He knew that he led two hundred people into the palace, and what he was going to face were the inner guards and the eunuch masters of the inner court. No one knew how much such a risk would be.
Because he also couldn't judge whether the eldest prince could completely control the imperial army when the sound of killing started. He could not rely on the strength of the Custodian.
"Never do what the enemy wants you to do, simply because the enemy wants you to do that."
Fan Xian said to Jing Ge, the deputy commander of the black cavalry beside him.
"This is what a man named Napoleon said. The gate of the imperial city has been opened, but the gate of the harem is still closed. They didn't expect us to dare to use such people, so they went to storm the palace."
He still doesn't know how the eldest princess thinks of him. If it was Fan Tisi and Shixian before, he would definitely not choose such a direct and brave attack.
It's just that Fan Xian has changed since the moment he stood up from the grass. (, If you want to know what happens next, please log in, there are more chapters, support the author, support the original!)