After three days, Kyoto has returned to calm.
The Habayashi Army was heavily guarded outside the palace, and their expressions were as cold and resolute as usual. Only the most careful people could see the exhaustion and confusion in the eyes of those soldiers. City inspections have arrested many thieves who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rebel, and there is no problem with law and order.
The people are busy with their livelihoods again, and they no longer like to discuss political affairs in the teahouse as they usually do in their spare time, secretly scolding the demon queen for harming the country, but go home early, lock the courtyard door, and treat it as a storm outside the small courtyard It has nothing to do with me. The people in Kyoto have seen too many things and heard too many stories. Don’t talk about the past of Baicao Garden, let’s just say that when the massacre at the Orthodox Academy happened in Kyoto twenty years ago, many people had Having witnessed bloodier scenes with their own eyes, no matter the coup d'etat or the rebellion or the side of the Qing Dynasty or the return of Zhengshuo, they already have experience, that is, these things have nothing to do with them, just wait silently for the initial turmoil to dissipate.
The weather in the past few days is also exceptionally good. The autumn is high and crisp, the sky will be bright tomorrow, and the fallen leaves will be light, as if nothing happened a few days ago. However, there are no pedestrians on the street, and the quiet Kyoto is not quiet, but dead silent, because after all, there are still many things happening.
On the morning after Empress Tianhai died, a young Taoist priest, accompanied by Shang Xingzhou from the former Orthodox Academy, the prince of the Chen family, and countless ministers, walked into the palace from the Mausoleum of Books, and then accepted the ministers again in the court hall. worshiped and formally enthroned.
It was rumored that it was Prince Zhaoming who escaped from the palace.
The first thing the new king did after he ascended the throne was to issue an imperial edict. The imperial edict has a lot of words and is very complicated. Even the officials of the Ministry of Rites cannot remember all the details, but even the most stupid fool can hear some basic meanings from the words in the imperial edict, that is—Tianhai Sheng All the things she did in the next few years were wrong, and those she punished were innocent, and then there were rewards, and naturally there were punishments.
Those who are rewarded are the official positions of the imperial court. Anyway, those officials who are loyal to the Holy Queen of Tianhai are sent to prison, and the glory of the generals. Anyway, those generals who are loyal to the Holy Queen of Tianhai are either dead, seriously injured, or betrayed. Well, as for the punishment, it's even simpler, it's just a killing word.
It is said that the autumn wind and autumn rain are good for killing people. It has been a cold and cold autumn these days. There is no bleak wind or miserable rain, but it also killed many people.
After killing those who should be killed and those who must be killed, many people turned their attention to one place. Logically speaking, at this time, everyone's eyes should be on the Imperial Palace or the Li Palace, but the strange people just couldn't help looking there, with completely different emotions.
There is the Orthodox Academy.
Few people know that that morning, Chen Changsheng returned to the Orthodox Academy with the body of the Holy Empress Tianhai on his back. From that moment on, the door of the Orthodox Academy has never been opened again. The melons and vegetables were not brought in, because the gate of the courtyard was never opened, and also because the Orthodox Academy was surrounded.
Two thousand Xuanjia cavalry surrounded the Orthodox Academy, and the Baihua Lane and Baicao Garden were full of ascetics. Only few people know that after the new king ascended the throne, the first thing he did was not to promulgate the edict to the world, but to issue a decree to make people guard the Orthodox Academy and strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving. No pardon.
What's a bit subtle is that the person in charge of guarding the Orthodox Academy is Tianhai Shengxue and a Hejun king.
King Hejun is the same mother and younger brother of King Xiang, and the relationship has always been close. Back then, in order to vent his anger for King Xiang, he beheaded to death an official assigned to him by the palace. Tianhai Shengxue is the most outstanding younger generation of the Tianhai family. He has an old grievance with the Orthodox Academy, but it seems to have been resolved. The key is why the palace let the two of them handle this matter together. Empress Tianhai is dead, will the complicated relationship between the Chen family and the Tianhai family continue
Those who knew the inside story remained silent, looking at the Orthodox Academy with complicated emotions, because the body of the Holy Empress Tianhai was inside. People who didn't know the inside story were discussing in their respective mansions, looking at the Orthodox Academy with eyes full of ridicule, sympathy, or gloating.
The night three days ago was really long. It started when Chen Changsheng left the Orthodox Academy and killed Zhou Tong half to death in the courtyard with a crabapple tree in Beibingsi Hutong. After that, he was sent back to the Orthodox Academy by the Orthodox , and was taken to the peak of Tianshuling by the Holy Empress. Just when everyone thought that the Holy Empress would kill him, she let him go for some reason. Return to the Star Sea... With so many earth-shattering events happening in one night, the details of relatively unimportant events are naturally easily forgotten, but the whole world will never forget Shang Xingzhou's words.
Chen Changsheng... is not Prince Zhaoming, he is not the son of the Holy Empress. He is just a cover to protect His Majesty's safety, he is just a bait to weaken the Holy Empress, now that the Holy Empress is dead and His Majesty has successfully ascended to the throne, what use is he then? Without background identity, what's the use of Chen Changsheng's cultivation talent no matter how high it is? Everyone admits that he showed extremely rare ability and courage in the killing of Zhou Tong, but...if nothing happens, Mr. Zhou Tong, who played the most critical role in this conspiracy, will definitely play a role in the new structure of the court. With a more important role, how will he handle himself by then
Those dignitaries thought about the heavy cavalry surrounded by the Orthodox Academy, and believed that in a short time, there would be a new and accurate decree, and Chen Changsheng would lose everything he once owned, the dean of the Orthodox Academy? The pope's successor? Everything is just a galaxy in Luoshui, after all, it is not real.
Looking at the closed gate of the Orthodox Academy, thinking of the sneering smile on his father's lips during the past two nights, and thinking of the gloating appearance of Tian Hai Ya'er's family, two dissatisfaction appeared on Tian Hai Shengxue's pale face. With a normal blush, he said, "I'm going to throw it away right after I'm done. Is this really using him as a rag?"
Knowing that he was talking about Chen Changsheng, King Hejun laughed and said, "I don't know where the bastard came from, but because of good luck, he picked the dean of business and an old man to be His Majesty's substitute. It's raining, but chess pieces are just chess pieces after all, do you still want to keep holding those things that he is not entitled to?"
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