Chapter 803 The whole family is a rebel (87)

When a country is about to perish, there must be monsters.

In the eyes of all the civil and military officials in the court, the newly enthroned emperor was such a being.

Needless to say, there was a lot of jokes on the day of his enthronement. Every day thereafter, countless absurd and outrageous imperial edicts were issued from the emperor's palace.

Why not the court?
What a joke! The new emperor never attends court!
He was in a good mood and called his ministers together to share some of his sudden ideas.

There were absurd proposals such as building a Star-Picking Palace for him in mid-air so that he could enjoy the moon with the gods, building a hothouse in the imperial palace to move all the rare treasures from the south of the Yangtze River into it for him to enjoy, and sending a minister's daughter into the palace every day to sleep with him and then send her out of the palace at dawn.

When he is in a bad mood, he will start to bring up old issues.

Anyone who saw him in the palace without bowing and showing disrespect would be executed by slow slicing, all the men in his family would be put to death, all the women would be exiled, and all their property would be used to build a new palace for him.

Anyone who has ever had a grudge against his mother, and who took advantage of his uncle's misfortune when his family was ransacked, and who harmed loyal people, will suffer the same fate as his uncle's family!
Anyone who showed disdain for his behavior during the coronation ceremony and did not look him in the eye, since there was no use for a pair of eyes, would just gouge them out and feed them to the dogs. Not only him, but also all the people in his family, relatives, elders, servants and guards, would have their eyes gouged out.

Overnight, hundreds of blind people appeared in Chang'an City.

Not only the men from the families of court officials, but even the common people had their men conscripted to build palaces. Women, regardless of their age, as long as they had a good look and figure, had to enter the palace and serve as emperors in the same order as the daughters of ministers.

As for whether they were married already, whether they had children, or whether their fathers, brothers and sons were fighting on the battlefield, these were not things the new emperor cared about.

But one thing is that if these women disobey the imperial order and regard serving the emperor as a shame, then she and her family and relatives will all suffer a devastating disaster.

On that day, after the body of his granddaughter was sent back from his home, an old Confucian scholar of high moral character dressed himself, set fire to the body, and then came to the palace alone. In front of countless onlookers and palace guards, he looked up to the sky and sighed.

"When a country is about to fall, there must be evildoers!"

"The new emperor is the evildoer who brought disaster to the world! How can such a country not perish? How can it not perish?"

After saying this, without waiting for the guards to take action, he drew the sword from his waist and cut his own neck without hesitation.

The guards dragged the old scholar's body away with expressionless faces, and the onlookers left the scene numbly, bearing the sight of numb bodies.

In the crowd, there was an old man with a hunched figure and a cane. He looked at the back of the old man being dragged away with a sad face, then turned around resolutely and went to where he should have gone.

Not far from the old man, a young man with a sickly face walked around the crowd and came to a remote and deserted alley. He took off the disguise on his face, revealing a thin but ambitious face.

"Sir, the prince has gone to the north, what should we do next?"

The guard asked.

The young man narrowed his eyes and slowly left two words, "Regicide."

Once raw, twice cooked.

The more you do the same thing, the more you will become proficient at it.

After issuing the order, Zhong Xing returned to the unknown cave where he was hiding, changed into the attire of a palace servant, and entered the palace openly together with other Northern soldiers who were undercover in the palace and the people who went out to purchase.

After all, paper can't contain fire.

Not to mention that the imperial palace in Chang'an City was already leaky on all sides.

The new emperor learned what happened at the palace gate on the third day.

He was furious and first ordered his men to kill all the guards on duty at the palace gate that day. If these people had not neglected their duties and given the old scholar the opportunity to speak, how could the old scholar have made up stories and slandered the emperor!

Afterwards, people were sent to search for the people who had watched the event that day. Regardless of whether they had spread what they had seen that day or not, they were all killed on the spot without leaving any alive.

A massacre ensued, and the city of Chang'an once again became a river of blood.

When Zhou Jin led a group of ministers into the palace to meet the emperor, the boots on their feet were stained red by the blood on the ground. Wherever they went, they left a red footprint, as if the people who died unjustly were unwilling to leave.

When they arrived at the palace gate, a minister suddenly fell to the ground.

"Sir Zhou, I am ill and I am afraid that I may infect Your Majesty. Can you allow me to stay outside the palace and wait for your order?"

After hearing this, everyone understood.

It's not that he's ill; it's that he's clearly frightened and is afraid of entering the palace upright and coming out sideways.

But then again, at this point, who wouldn’t be afraid?

Having served in the same court for several years, they may have different political views and positions, and have wanted to kill each other countless times for their own interests. But now, seeing their once noble and arrogant colleague pretending to be sick in such a sloppy way, they could not feel the slightest bit of ridicule in their hearts.

What are you laughing at?

Laugh at his cowardice? Or laugh at his poor disguise skills?
Totally unnecessary.

Because they all know in their hearts that today's colleagues will be them tomorrow.

it's the same.

The ending is the same.

Zhou Jin and others entered the palace, but were told that the emperor had no time to summon them at that moment.

"May I ask the angel, where is His Majesty?"

The person Zhou Jin was asking about was the new emperor's favorite, the chief steward in charge of all the palace servants, named Wang Wu.

Although Wang Wu was a eunuch, there was no trace of a eunuch on him. He had a handsome face, an upright posture, and even a strong sense of righteousness between his brows, which was only found in marching soldiers.

In the past, ministers always looked down upon eunuchs of low status, and only the emperor's confidants were worthy of their attention.

But now, the emperor is incompetent and does not attend court, so they cannot see the emperor. However, these lowly eunuchs are always serving him. If they want to find out news about the emperor, they will inevitably have to deal with these people, and even try to please them.

Since even Zhou Jin had this attitude, others did not dare to offend him and nodded to Wang Wu to show their friendship.

After some false greetings, Wang Wucai said, "His Majesty is currently favoring Madam Furong, who has just entered the palace. Please go to the side hall and wait for her."

The ministers looked at each other in confusion.

Mrs. Fleur?

Who is this person?
Ever since that old scholar committed suicide in the street, Your Majesty has not summoned any women into the palace for three consecutive days.

Seeing the confusion among the crowd, Wang Wu explained: "My Lords, you may not know that this Lady Furong's surname is Mo."

Last name Mo?

Everyone was confused at first, and then they didn't know what they were thinking about, and everyone's face became extremely horrifying.

Last name——Mo?

Could the "Mo" in Madam Furong's name be the same "Mo" as General Mo who is currently killing enemies on the front line?


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