At this moment, in the imperial city of the Song Dynasty, in the Zichen Hall.

"What? Li Xiuyuan was assassinated on the road and was seriously injured and dying. His life or death was uncertain? Han Shizhong led 20,000 cavalry and came to the imperial city?"

Zhao Jing, who had only been sitting on the Dragon Throne for ten days, heard the report from Six Doors, Yan Kuan, and Master Yan. He jumped up from the Dragon Throne in shock. His face suddenly changed, like a frightened child.

Not even the slightest bit of an imperial gesture.

Yan Kuan saluted and said, "I'd like to report to the official family that this is indeed the case."

"How could this happen? How could such a thing happen..."

After all, Zhao Jing had experienced so few things. When he heard about this, his face turned pale and he felt a little lost.

"On the way to Li Xiuyuan's assassination, Han Shizhong must have suspected that I was the one who ordered the assassin. According to the plan, Li Xiuyuan's 20,000 cavalry were supposed to defend the capital for me in case someone disobeyed me and ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. Now Han Shizhong is dissatisfied with me and is suspicious of me.

These... these 20,000 cavalrymen are afraid that they can be used at any time, at any time.

It is possible to break into the imperial city at any time."

His lips moved slightly and he looked outside the palace with a look of horror.

This was Li Xiuyuan's back-up plan, in order to prevent himself from being harmed. Therefore, he sent 20,000 elite cavalry to the capital to prevent the imperial court.

Yan Kuan immediately said in a deep voice: "The top priority for the officials should be to issue an order to track down the murderer of Mr. Li, punish him severely, and give Han Shizhong an explanation outside the capital. At the same time, the officials should also issue an order to appease him to prevent a mutiny in the capital.

..... Mr. Li is the commander of an army. If something happens to him, what will happen to him?

It may lead to a catastrophic disaster, so please act quickly and solve the case as quickly as possible."

"Yes, yes, yes, what Aiqing said is absolutely true. I would like to ask Mr. Yang to prepare a decree quickly. The case will be entrusted to Aiqing. I hope Liumen will solve the case as quickly as possible this time." Zhao Jing said in a panic.

.

Mr. Yang on the side squinted his eyes and said: "Just solving the case is not enough to convince the arrogant soldiers under Mr. Li. Another imperial edict is needed to convince the people. I suggest that once the murderer is traced, he should be charged with treason."

When it comes to punishment... we should punish the nine tribes."

Kill the Nine Tribes?

Yan Kuan's eyelids twitched.

From the founding of the Song Dynasty to the present, an imperial edict to punish the nine tribes has never been issued, and the previous dynasty has issued such an edict.

Because the Nine Clans were so implicated, at least a few hundred or even a thousand people, young and old, would be killed as soon as the imperial edict was issued.

"Officials, the crime of punishing the Nine Tribes is really too big. The crime of assassinating the governor of a state is really not up to the level of punishing the Nine Tribes. I suggest that he should be punished appropriately." Yan Kuan said.

Mr. Yang said calmly: "If we don't kill the nine murderers, we can't express the indignation and sadness of the officials, nor can we quell the anger of Han Shizhong's 20,000 soldiers and horses outside the city. This is not an indiscriminate killing by the officials. It is really an extraordinary thing done at an emergency."

, if this imperial edict is not promulgated, if something goes wrong, I don’t know if Mr. Yan can

Be responsible.”

"This, this..." Yan Kuan hesitated, not knowing how to respond.

The other officials all looked at their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses, motionless like wooden figures.

The assassination of a human saint on the way, such a major event is enough to shock the three realms, but now that the ancestor is being executed, he and others are unable to protect themselves, how can they dare to do something about a human saint.

Finally, Zhao Jing gritted his teeth and said: "I decree, once the identity of the murderer is found out, his nine tribes will be executed immediately. There is no need to wait until the end of the autumn to ask for execution, and officials from all over the world will be executed immediately. Yan Aiqing, I will leave this matter to you. You

Cui Wei, my subordinate, is very good. I asked Xu Bao to also lead a forbidden army.

, we must find out the murderer within three days and give Mr. Li justice."

"Your Majesty, I obey the order." After the imperial edict was announced, Yan Kuan had nothing to say and immediately bowed his hands and saluted to accept the order.

At this moment, the Great Song Dynasty was doing things surprisingly fast.

Less than half an hour after the imperial edict left the capital, two groups of troops headed straight for the capital.

Cui Wei led the imperial edict to the army formation outside the city. When he saw the black cavalry outside the city, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

Banners are like clouds, swords and spears are like forests, war horses are like dragons, murderous intent is rolling, 20,000 cavalry are stretched across the field in front of you, even the earth is covered. Such an army will make gods tremble when they see it. No one in the world can stop it.

I'm afraid this army no longer exists.

He hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty has a decree. Mr. Li was assassinated on the road. Your Majesty was deeply saddened and angry. He specially ordered General Xu, a low-level official, to investigate the murderer strictly. Once found, he would be punished for treason and the nine tribes would be punished.

At the same time, His Majesty was worried about Mr. Li's safety, so he sent ten imperial doctors from his humble position.

Thirty boxes of precious medicinal materials..."

"The imperial edict of the official? Cui Wei, we are also old friends. Now that the eldest young master has been assassinated, this matter will definitely not let go." Han Shizhong came running with a group of soldiers on horseback. He looked a little haggard and said in a cold voice.

"Han Meng, you have to believe that this matter was not done by His Majesty. I will find out what happened today. Don't worry, I will give you a satisfactory answer within three days. So please don't act out of anger.

If Mr. Li is here, I don't want to see you use weapons again." Cui Wei shouted

: "Furthermore, Mr. Li has his own good fortune, so everything will be fine."

"Also, think about it carefully. If it is really your Majesty's fault, wouldn't the crime of killing the nine tribes be punished on His Majesty's head? I am going to investigate the case now. If you are worried, you can send someone to follow me. I will definitely

There will be no partiality.”

Han Shizhong's eyes moved slightly, and he shouted: "Mao Wu, please lead a team of people to follow Cui Wei to see if there is anything fishy here. The injury of the young master cannot be in vain. If it is really the fault of the imperial court, I will definitely

We must seek justice for the young master."

"yes."

Mao Wu responded with cupped fists and immediately ran out with a group of cavalry.

"Han Meng, don't act out of anger." Cui Wei warned again, and then he took six doors, General Yaksha Xu Bao, and a group of forbidden troops and rode towards the outside of the capital.

"Actually, we have already targeted the murderer, but the eldest young master said he would not kill her, so he let her go." Mao Wu said in a deep voice on the way: "If my prediction is correct, she should be from a certain county and will never leave the capital too far.

Far."

"Really? That's good, thank you very much." Cui Wei cupped his fists and cupped his hands.

And in a certain county.

Gu Sheng tossed and turned all night and did not fall asleep. He was worried about his wife's safety.

A daughter's family actually imitated Zhuan Chu's move and wanted to assassinate some corrupt official. You must know that no matter whether it succeeds or fails, it will bring death.

"That immortal shouldn't have given her that dagger, otherwise nothing like this would have happened. Having such an immortal treasure made her determined to avenge her father." Gu Changshang sighed.

, he heard the young child crying in the house, but he hurriedly went to comfort him.

Finally, feeling depressed, I spoke to my parents at home and took my young son for a walk around the town.

He bought some valuable money, incense and candles, and decided to worship his ancestors and pray for their protection, hoping that his wife would be safe.

Originally, he should pray to gods and worship Buddha for this matter, but he was a scholar and did not worship ghosts and gods, only ancestors, so he gave up this idea.

Holding hands with his young son, who had just learned to walk, Gu Sheng came to the ancestral graves not far outside the town.

Just as he was lighting the paper money and preparing the incense candles for worship.

Suddenly a strange wind blew up, forming a whirlpool in front of the ancestor's grave, rolling up paper money, blowing out the incense candles, and making a mess of the neatly arranged sacrifices.

"Why did the wind blow suddenly?" Gu Sheng covered his face with his sleeves to protect his youngest son, waiting for the strange wind to pass.

But just as the wind stopped, he suddenly felt a rumbling vibration under his feet.

"Boom~!"

Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and the ancestral tomb in front of me suddenly shook violently, and then the whole ancestral tomb collapsed. The tomb seemed to have fallen into a mud pit below, and then the nearby soil fell, and the entire ancestral tomb was buried in the blink of an eye.

, even the tombstone fell to the ground and shattered into pieces

Countless pieces.

"This, this..." Gu Sheng was dumbfounded for a moment, but before he could react.

"Boom, boom~!"

However, other Gu family tombs in the nearby ancestral tombs collapsed rapidly in no particular order. Like the ancestral tomb in front of them, they were all submerged in soil and the tombstones were broken.

One, two, three... more than twenty ancestral tombs collapsed.

It is strange that there are other people's tombs near these collapsed ancestral tombs, not far away, but other people's ancestral tombs are intact, only the Gu family's ancestral tombs have all collapsed.

"How could this happen? How could this happen? The ancestors of my Gu family..."

Gu Sheng murmured to himself, feeling at a loss. His whole body was like a demon, and he was frozen in place. He just stared blankly at the sunken ancestral graves, feeling at a loss.

After a long time, he woke up with a start. He was also a scholar after all, and then he realized that this was a warning from God, a sign that something big was going to happen, and even the ancestral graves were affected.

"Hurry, go home quickly."

Gu Sheng took the young son in his arms and ran to the town.

But before entering the town, many people in the town were seen running out as if they were fleeing.

An old man on crutches grabbed Gu Sheng's lapel with grief and anger and said, "Gu Sheng, why are you still hurting us? Why are you trying to hurt us?"

"Uncle, what happened?" Gu Sheng said with a confused look on his face.

"Don't you know what you did? The officials in the capital issued an edict saying that the Gu family was rebellious. They have already issued an imperial edict to punish the nine members of the Gu family. My God, my Gu family is full of loyal people. How could we suffer such a disaster? How could we?

Suffering from such a disaster..." The old man looked up to the sky and cried bitterly.
To be continued...