The Regent's Sweetheart

Chapter 403 Palace Change
In the early spring of the first year of Yan Ming, ten days after the new emperor ascended the throne, Yan Anzhi was young and didn't understand the affairs of state affairs. The three auxiliary ministers disagreed with each other.

What's more, the Kingdom of Jin frequently invaded the southern border due to severe drought.

One month after the new emperor ascended the throne, Taiwei Pei showed signs of rebellion. First, a fire broke out in the city, which attracted a large number of guards to be mobilized, resulting in weak guards in the imperial city.

There were also actions in the palace, a fire broke out in the harem, and the palace became a mess.

Afterwards, Li Tiancheng, the deputy of the commander of the Imperial Army bought by Taiwei Pei, opened the three closed gates of the imperial city.

As soon as the city gate was opened, Pei Taiwei led his troops into the imperial city, and went all the way through the imperial street and directly entered the palace gate.

There was great chaos in the palace, and the lack of vigilance of the imperial guards made Taiwei Pei and others approach the Hall of Mental Cultivation where the emperor was.

At that time, the Department of Internal Guard dispatched the Shadow Guard immediately after receiving the news, and the Regent also ordered the Iron Blood Battalion to send troops into the imperial city to rescue him.

The torches were randomly discarded in the palace, causing fires everywhere. Taiwei Pei led only 2000 soldiers, and they were all scattered soldiers.

At that time, Taiwei Pei had already controlled the little emperor Yan Anzhi who was still asleep, pointed his sword at the little emperor, and forced the little emperor to kneel in the palace to prepare an edict to pass the throne.

When the imperial edict was halfway through, the arrogant Taiwei Pei thought that he had won the throne and became the lord of the world, so he relaxed his vigilance for a while.

And at this moment, Taiwei Pei was shot to death in the hall by the shadow guards, with an arrow piercing through his heart, it was possible that he would not survive.

The so-called trees fell and the monkeys scattered, those soldiers who were brought into the palace were all in chaos, and the Iron Blood Battalion had also led soldiers into the palace.

Pei Yongchang, the son of Pei Taiwei, who was a doctor in the Ministry of War, saw his father was dead, and entered the Hall of Mental Cultivation with all his might, just to take the little emperor's life.

The little emperor was escorted by the shadow guards, and Pei Yongchang was seriously injured by the shadow guards, who pushed down the oil lamp and set fire to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

There were many burning objects in the hall, and the fire spread extremely fast. The shadow guards no longer stayed in the battle and left the hall. After being seriously injured, Pei Yongchang couldn't escape, and finally died in the fire.

All the soldiers led by Pei Taiwei outside surrendered and were captured one by one by the Iron Blood Battalion.

The next day, the Regent ordered that the rebellious soldiers be dispatched to the border. All males in Pei Taiwei's family who were ten years old or older were beheaded, and all males under ten years old and all the female relatives were tattooed and exiled as slaves at the border.

It is reported that more than half of them died during the exile, which is not surprising among the exiles.

At that time, Zhao Quan, Minister of the Ministry of War, was suspended for half a month because he did not participate in the conspiracy.

Although Zhao Quan did not participate in the treasonous matter, he was indeed dereliction of duty, but the position of Taiwei always needs someone to sit.

In order to ensure that such things would never happen again in the future, the regent Wang Leilifeng directly pushed Zhao Quan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, to the position of Taiwei, emptied his military power, and held the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household in his own hands.

Since then, one of the original three auxiliary ministers has been hollowed out.

Seeing this, Prime Minister Mu has also changed from a virtuous prime minister of a generation to one who never asks questions now. Once Prime Minister Mu is given something that is not compatible with the emperor and the regent, Prime Minister Mu will directly fall to the ground and twitch.

It is not surprising that the court is also surprised by this.

"It's you." Yan Sihan opened his mouth. Back then, he didn't pay much attention to Pei Yongchang.

The fire in the Hall of Mental Cultivation made it difficult to identify the body, only his personal jade pendant was still in the hall, so he thought Pei Yongchang was dead.

Pei Yongchang smiled contemptuously when he heard Yan Sihan's words, especially Yan Sihan's slightly surprised eyes.

(End of this chapter)