Chapter 136: The first time I pulled out the dagger from my boots

Many people died overnight. The news was like the first frost falling in early autumn, which immediately made the conspirators and followers who were originally excited to be in a state of decay.

After the death struggle between civil officials in Taiji Hall, the successive night deaths finally made these people understand that there is never a gentle ending in the dispute between the country, let alone Lord Xiao Fan holding the will in his hand and stepping on the black water of the Supervision Bureau. Such a person is not caught for a day, and no one can think of his own wealth and prosperity.

The empress dowager and prince in the palace understood that this was the attitude that Fan Xian, who was hidden in the dark, expressed to them. The empress dowager and prince were naturally extremely angry about this attitude. Because this attitude, if Fan Xian stood in front of them, he said nakedly: I have the ability to kill anyone who wants to kill, I am threatening you.

This is an extremely rogue terrorist practice. I will threaten the Queen Mother and the Prince not to move around for the time being, do not move the Fan family, and do not move the dozens of ministers in the Heavenly Prison. Otherwise, if they really move around, who can kill whom?

From a certain perspective, Fan Xian's method of intensifying conflicts is very likely a stupid choice. Because how could the people in the palace be threatened by a minister? If the empress dowager really plays a furious game, both sides are injured and leads troops into Beijing, what can Fan Xian do? The Supervisory Office can only exert its magic in the darkness. Once it encounters a truly powerful army, it still has to retreat.

But the wonder is that for some reason, the Empress Dowager and the Prince temporarily chose to remain silent and did not launch the strongest counterattack.

Two days afterwards, the forces of the eldest princess gathered together and were still in the streets and alleys of Kyoto. She tried her best to capture Fan Xian's traces. Her powerful movements finally only destroyed several Dachun from the Supervision Bureau and killed seven swordsmen in six places, but still did not catch Fan Xian.

The permanent personnel of the Kyoto Prefecture and some of the garrison troops in the city surrounded Yan's mansion as soon as possible, but after entering the mansion, they only captured some servants in Yan's mansion. Yan Ruohai was not caught, and even the shadow of Miss Shen was not seen, let alone the Xiaoyan, who helped Fan Xian contact the old subordinate of the Supervision Bureau in Kyoto.

The army had not yet entered Beijing, and the forces of that side could only surround the Fangzheng Building next to Tianhe Avenue from afar and monitor it, but they did not dare or had the ability to enter the headquarters of the Supervision Bureau. They just made sure that Fan Xian and Yan Bingyun could not enter the Supervision Bureau.

The siege and surveillance of the Prince Jing's Mansion has also been stepped up, but no one dared to lead troops into the mansion because everyone was afraid of Fan Xian's eyes lurking in the darkness.

Just one night, most of the spies and officials of the Supervision Bureau received secret orders from Shangfeng and stopped returning to the yamen to work. They disappeared into the crowds of people in Kyoto, hiding their power. They maintained their safety and returned to the darkness they were most accustomed to.

A total of more than 600 people disappeared like this, and the disappearance of these inspectors' officials was the most direct threat to the nobles in the palace.

The rumored prince's ascension ceremony suddenly disappeared without any follow-up news. Although the palace kept the news tightly, more than 40 ministers were arrested and imprisoned. How could such a shocking thing be kept concealed?

Gradually, the people of Kyoto began to find out the truth of the matter and knew that there was a big chaos in the palace. The people had no strength to change history, and at least in front of them. They did not have the courage to face all this calmly, closed their merchants, hoarded enough goblin food, hid back to their humble houses, got into bed, put their hands together, and prayed that the temple of heaven could solve this problem quickly.

No matter who is an emperor, it is good. But there must be someone who is an emperor.

The streets of Kyoto are unprecedentedly solemn and desolate. Even though it is just a curfew now, there are not many citizens who dare to go out in broad daylight.

According to the plan of the eldest princess, she should have become the prince of the new emperor of Qing State. She has already felt the uneasiness among the people. The current cause of chaos is only accumulated within Kyoto. If it is spread from Kyoto and extended to prefectures and counties, Qing State will be in chaos.

So he must stabilize all this in the shortest time, and to be stable, he must find Fan Xian and kill him.

The prince smiled bitterly at the mountain memorials beside him, and could not speak for a long time. In just three days, more than 1,700 memorials submitted by various counties and states of the Qing State had accumulated. In the past, these memorials were taken by several Grand Secretary of the Secretariat of the Secretariat, important matters were handed over to His Majesty, and the rest of the small items were distributed to various departments for processing.

However... nowadays, the Grand Secretary is in prison, and officials from various departments are in chaos. Kyoto is panic, the government is gradually becoming unworkable, and government affairs are already in chaos.

After taking down the top of the hill, the prince glanced at it and his pupils gradually became confused. The latest letters were written by the governors from six other roads except Dongshan Road to learn about the assassination of His Majesty.

Although these governors spoke respectfully, the meaning of swords hidden between the lines is very obvious.

The prince sighed and thought helplessly, when did the civil officials in Qingguo become so backbone? He suddenly thought of the dozens of ministers in the Tianzhu, led by Hu Shu and the two great ministers, who stayed in the prison for two days and three nights, but none of them let go!

I couldn't wait any longer in the palace, so I used punishment since yesterday, but I still didn't get rid of the bones of the ministers. I even heard that starting at noon today, Grand Secretary Shu began to take the lead in a hunger strike!

The prince rubbed his temples and had a headache. Do you really have to kill all these ministers according to your aunt's wishes? But what should I do if I kill them all? Who will deal with the court affairs? Do you want me to be a real lonely person?

At this moment, Eunuch Hou suddenly walked into the imperial study without asking for a message, and he looked at him with panic. The prince raised his head and looked at him, narrowing his eyes slightly. He knew that Eunuch Hou was his aunt's confidant and the one who had believed in it.

Eunuch Hou leaned into his ear and said a few words, his face turned pale.

The prince was shocked and slapped the desk with his palm. The shocked memorials fell to the ground, gritting his teeth and saying, "The third brother was assassinated! Who gave you this courage!"

Eunuch Hou was shocked and quickly lowered his body and said wailingly: "It has nothing to do with the little one, it has nothing to do with the little one."

"It doesn't matter!" Prince Hanhan stared at his eyes, "Now you are in charge of this palace. Without you, how could an assassin run to Chenling?"

"It really has nothing to do with slaves." Eunuch Hou quickly begs for mercy and whispers.

The prince calmed down his anger after a while. He waved his sleeves and walked into the harem. Yes, he wanted to be the emperor and he wanted to kill Fan Xian. He knew that his third brother was Fan Xian's student and his biggest enemy of the throne, but he still had never thought about killing the third brother, because in his eyes, the third brother was still a child.

If something really happened to the third brother, who would know what the already turbulent palace and Kyoto would be crazy? Walking towards the harem, the prince's face turned pale and thought, who wanted to kill the third brother? Is it my aunt who used the third brother to force herself to be more ruthless? Is it my second brother who used the third brother to intensify the conflict between himself and the world?

But he knew that no matter from any aspect, the third brother could not die.

The prince prayed in his heart.

Yes, Li Chengping is the third prince, and his death and life have a great impact. Therefore, he needs to be cautious. However, the officials in Kyoto did not have such good treatment. Not to mention the great officials who were extremely ministers, they were locked in the prison of the inner court and suffered a lot. So they said that the officials who still insisted on working in the six ministries were also living a very sad life.

The ministers under the Secretariat did not have a consul, but officials from the six ministries were still working hard to maintain the operation of this country. Although the prince in the palace had not passed the seal in the memorials for the temporary approval of the land, most of the officials acknowledged the prince's authority.

The Minister of Revenue Fan Jian hid in the palace of Prince Jing, while the Minister of Personnel Yan Xingshu was busy arranging new officials to enrich the ministries to lay the foundation for the prince's ascension to the throne, while the other four ministries were in a panic mood.

As for those officials with unstable positions or inherent problems, they have naturally been excluded and those who have the deepest relationship with Fan Xian were even cleanly seized from their official positions and were held in the house for trial.

The Heavenly Prison can no longer be settled, and it has been filled with the loyalty left by Fan Xian's father-in-law. Fan Shangshu's relationship in the court is relatively secret. He was not all dug up by the eldest princess for a while, and Fan Xian himself did not have much help in the court. Logically speaking, there should be no big problem.

Even the four sons of Fan Sect who are well-known in the world, Hou Jichang was still in danger and watched the navy in Jiaozhou. He secretly talked about the music with Xu Maocai and was ready to take action at any time. Cheng Jialin was arranged by Fan Xian in Suzhou and controlled the inner trunk with Su Wenmao. Yang Wanli had been building a dike in the east of the southern land for a year. Shi Chanli should be in the Song State at this time and continue his journey as the world's largest turtle man.

Even if the eldest princess wanted to attack Fan Xian's four students, she could not reach that far without the current situation in Kyoto, the prince could not ascend the throne, and the six-way governor's attitude was unclear.

Unfortunately, it was early autumn, and after the summer flood season, after the Water Transport Governor's Office completed the construction of the embankment, he was sent back to Beijing to ask for money as usual. The person who sent back to Beijing to ask for money this year was not someone else, but Yang Wanli. He was inserted by Fan Xian to the Dushui Qingli Office and worked hard to repair the embankment, which was highly rewarded by the Water Transport Governor's Office. In addition, he knew his family relationship with the Minister of Revenue, so he naturally chose him to go back to Beijing.

I thought it would be easy for Yang Wanli to return to Beijing to ask the court for money, but I didn't expect that His Majesty would be assassinated. Since Yang Wanli's sect's teacher Fan Xian was beaten to be a criminal assassinating Qin.

So, as soon as Yang Wanli joined the Ministry of Works, he asked himself in.

He had been locked in a dark room in a sidelines for two days. He had suffered many tortures in the past two days, and his body was covered with scars. However, the person from the Ministry of Justice could not pry open his mouth and could not get a confession about Fan Xian.

Of course Yang Wanli was innocent. He didn't believe that his master of the Earth Sect would do such evil things that both humans and gods were angry, and he couldn't know where Fan Xian was.

At the end of the day, the inner court sent someone to escort him. Although his rank is far from enough to be worthy of the Heavenly Prison, the Empress Dowager gave him this honor for his relationship with Fan Xian.

Yang Wanli narrowed his flowery eyes, held his waist like an old farmer, and walked out of the dark house. He felt that there was no pain in his body. The blood scar on his fingers became broken and broke, and blood began to seep out again.

He felt desperate in his heart, knowing that once he was taken to the heavenly prison, he was afraid that he would be unable to see the birth of heaven again.

Two inner court guards escorted him and walked out cursing and cursing. The officials of the Ministry of Works saw the tragic scene along the way, but they did not dare to look at each other, so they turned their heads and pretended not to see it.

The officials knew what happened in the Tai Chi Hall two days ago, so there was no surprise at all about the iron-blooded treatment in the palace. If the prince wanted to ascend the throne, these officials always had to bow their heads and surrender. Without the last step, the prince was always unwilling to kill all the officials in the court, but in two days, the prince could not wait any longer... so what should he do?

After leaving the office of the Ministry of Works, he got on the prison car and passed a certain street corner, but the prison car suddenly stopped. A guard frowned and stretched out his head to look. He just stretched out the curtain of the car and fell down with a sound.

The whole thing fell down!

Looking at the headless corpse that fell in front of him. Looking at the blood gushing out of the cavity, Yang Wanli's face suddenly turned pale, his empty abdomen was very uncomfortable, and the sour water was gushing. He was about to vomit.

Another guard beside him was shocked and wanted to call for help, but his voice was blocked by an iron rod piercing into his car.

The curtain of the car was lifted, revealing Fan Xian's ever-serious and handsome face. Fan Xian smiled at Yang Wanli, who was still in shock, and asked, "Do you want to come out?"

Yang Wanli burst into tears, looked at the sect master and nodded repeatedly, and said in a trembling voice: "Teacher... is too risky. Wanli is not worth your doing."

Fan Xian listened impatiently and pulled him down and got on the ordinary carriage specially made by the Supervision Bureau. In a short while, he disappeared into the quiet streets and alleys of Kyoto and came to a secret contact point.

"Rehabilitation, I didn't save you specifically, I just passed by..." Fan Xian looked at Yang Wanli, who was seriously injured, and sighed and said, "Of course. If you really die, I will probably be sad for a while."

Fan Xian is not pretentious. He is indeed passing by the Ministry of Works, and his destination is farther away. That's why he came to this secret contact point, looked at Yan Bingyun in front of him, and asked, "Are you confirmed?"

"The eldest princess, queen mother, princess, concubine Shu... are all in the palace." Yan Bingyun looked at him and said, "It's confirmed. As long as the palace is controlled, the major matter will be settled."

"Does the Empress Dowager really trust the eldest prince so much?" Fan Xian frowned, "If I were her, I would have replaced the eldest prince with the old Qin family."

"Maybe the Empress Dowager thought that under the joint efforts of the eunuchs in the inner court and the guards, no one could rescue Ning Cairen."

"I can." Fan Xian smiled and said, "Tonight I will rescue all my relatives and lock others up."

Yan Bingyun smiled, but his smile was a little astringent.

Fan Xian saw that his expression was unnatural, frowned and asked, "What's wrong in the palace? Or is there something wrong with Lord Yan?"

"Don't worry about my father. I guess he is in the Qin family at this time." Yan Bingyun lowered his head and said, "There is something I think I should tell you before you enter the palace."

Fan Xian looked at him.

"The third prince was assassinated." Yan Bingyun raised his head and looked at him, "You did not give me the channels in the palace, so I cannot verify the result of this assassination, but I advise you to think about the worst... After all, he is just a child, and Concubine Yi has no power to protect him."

"You mean... Chengping was assassinated?" Fan Xian narrowed his eyes and didn't say anything for a long time. He just gradually clenched his fists and turned white and blue knuckles, revealing his true feelings.

After a while, he said in a deep voice: "It was not done by the prince."

Yan Bingyun looked at him, a little surprised, not understanding why he confirmed so much that the mastermind who murdered in the palace this time was not the prince.

"It's blood already." Fan Xian looked up at him, "I didn't need to enter the palace tonight, and I did it according to the original plan."

"With the help of Kyoto Prefecture, the black cavalry scattered into Beijing, gathering 400 people in total." Yan Bingyun knew Fan Xian's mood at this time, so he did not misunderstand his particularly indifferent behavior, but said calmly: "Since you have decided to give up your efforts on the Chengmen Department, then the action in the palace tonight must be captured in one net, and no one can be missed."

"Which one can I control in the nine city gates?" Fan Xian said with a wry smile: "If the troops on hand are insufficient, you cannot fight head-on. You can only take risks."

"Of course, I believe that the Queen Mother and the Princess never thought that I would dare to force the palace..." He stood up and said with a smile: "People who are used to the imperial minds often forget the things like courage. A drunk man may not have a clear mind, but he is still very powerful with a kitchen knife."

"Everyone says that my mother-in-law is a lunatic. I want to know. Will my strong attack without any beauty make her scold her in anger?"

"This is not a strong attack." Yan Bingyun said: "At least the imperial guards won't stop you. But we only have four hundred people, and the remaining seven places must set up a suspicion array outside the palace... The palace is so big and we are short of staff. If we want to ensure that all of them are captured, we must know very accurately where the targets are."

He looked at Fan Xian and said with a little sadness: "Breaking through the central camp is a taboo in military tactics. The gambling meaning is too strong. I don't know where your confidence comes from."

"There are my people in the enemy camp." Fan Xian said with a smile. Then he touched his smooth cheeks.

Since he learned that the third prince was assassinated, he had never communicated with Yan Bingyun about this matter, but just calmly arranged the attack at night. However, in the end, Fan Xian couldn't help but lower his head slowly. He felt sad in his heart, and he secretly prayed that there would be nothing wrong with the child.

"You can't die." Fan Xian seemed to be saying to himself, and to the third prince who was ignorant of life and death: "You will be the emperor in the future."

Let us take the time one hour ahead to see a palace murder that may change history and many people - the second major event that alarmed the palace after the assassination of Emperor Dadongshan, the Emperor of Qing Dynasty.

The target of this murder was the third prince. The third prince was named Li Chengping, and his mother was Concubine Yi from Duke Liu. He once studied in Jiangnan with Fan Xian, Duke Danbo, for a year. And he was the heir to the throne supported by Fan Xian during this year.

No one knew about the envoy in this murder until a long time later. Because no matter from any perspective, the third prince was not an important goal at this time. Although everyone knows that this boy in his teens has had a great impact on the inheritance of the prince, this influence is mainly based on Fan Xian's support.

The third prince himself does not have any surprising magic or powerful power.
To be continued...