Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger.
In the eyes of the world, the king is as ferocious as a man-eating tiger.
Those who always accompany the king must always be careful, because if they are not careful, they may cause death. The main reason why the king is feared is because he has supreme imperial power. Because there is imperial power and no one can limit it, the king's joys, angers, sorrows and joys can become reasons for killing.
If the king wants his minister to die, he must die.
This is the unshakable majesty of ancient imperial power.
Of course, kings are humans too and have likes and dislikes. If he likes a person, that person will most likely be able to rise through the ranks, being inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. Without ability and good connections, these are not important. But if the king doesn't like someone, even if you are talented, brave, and versatile in both civil and military affairs, it will be of no use at all. Just a "dislike" and you will never get ahead.
Those who always accompany the king must act cautiously and be careful about their lives at all times. Not to mention, if those rebellious officials and traitors who gathered together to rebel met a king with a little courage, they would naturally kill the nine tribes and kill them as a warning to others.
It is said that Sheng Ling, as a member of the Jianghu, brought many disciples to rebel in the capital, intending to seize the world and ascend the throne as king. This is probably an unprecedented and unprecedented Jianghu event! Of course, this is also related to the geographical location of the temple.
Under normal circumstances, if the Sheng Ling people dared to openly gather a crowd to rebel, they would definitely be punished with death, and they would also be in danger of being exterminated by the Nine Clans. But the current emperor is relatively young, and has never encountered such a chaos before, so he doesn't know how to deal with it for a while. Moreover, the disciples of the temple who participated in the rebellion this time, in addition to the more than a thousand royal forest rebels inside the palace, there were actually many supporting disciples outside the palace. The total number of these two groups of people was close to more than ten thousand. Originally, Sheng Lingren had recruited far more than 10,000 temple disciples in advance. However, after the incident was defeated, many alert disciples saw General Lu Xiao's army entering the city and realized that the incident had been exposed, so they took the lead in fleeing for their lives. Therefore, many of the disciples who participated in the rebellion in the temple were actually at large. Because these people had already escaped from the capital, and the foundation of the temple was very large, many secret organizations were only known to Sheng Lingren. Therefore, the court could not figure it out for a while. It did not know who had been arrested or who Who are still at large?
But even so, thousands of disciples in the temple were arrested. If they were all beheaded and the nine tribes were annihilated, more people would die, perhaps tens of thousands.
Even if these people are guilty of participating in the rebellion, killing so many people at once will still cause a lot of panic among the people. Moreover, the emperor has just ascended the throne and has not yet achieved any benefits for the people. If he starts killing people to show his authority, he will definitely lose the support of many people.
The people will not care about what you have done. The people will only see that this king killed many people and made rivers of blood flow. He looked very much like a tyrant.
Faced with so many rebellious parties, the young emperor could not make up his mind for a while, so he secretly summoned two important figures to discuss the matter with him in the upper study.
These two people are also representatives of the two major factions in the court. One is the emperor's brother, Prince Xiao, and the other is the father-in-law of Dongchang, Shi Zhongshi.
Prince Xiao was undoubtedly the first to quell the rebellion. Many matters to quell the rebellion, as well as the helpers in the world, had been arranged in advance by Prince Xiao. If not, Sheng Lingren might really succeed this time.
Eunuch Shi is the owner of Dongchang Factory, so the security issues within the palace are naturally related to him. But Prince Xiao knew about the relationship between Shi Zhong and Sheng Lingren, and was a little uneasy about him. In addition, Dongchang himself had been seriously injured before this, and many masters were severely injured. Shi Zhong also roughly guessed that this matter was related to King Xiao, so he thought that King Xiao was already wary of him, so he did not dare to act rashly.
However, in order to prevent Shi Zhong from becoming suspicious, Prince Xiao still handed over the protection of the harem and the Queen Mother to Shi Zhong's Dongchang. In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, King Xiao also asked martial arts masters such as the snake-shaped sword Gu Song and the two heroes of success and failure to secretly patrol around the palace to be ready to deal with emergencies at any time.
Solekorn only focused his attention on the emperor, so he did not assassinate the queen mother. After they planned to successfully assassinate the emperor, other disciples who came in to help him would deal with the affairs of the harem and the Queen Mother together.
Because the first step was not completed, the second step could not be started. As the owner of Dongchang, Shi Zhong had already received some news and knew that Lu Xiao had led an army into the city. So he simply calmed down and did not dare to join forces with the Sheng Ling people and get involved in unnecessary disputes.
In the study, there was no one else except the emperor.
Because this matter involved so much, the emperor did not want more people to know about it, so even the maids and eunuchs around him reprimanded him.
Prince Xiao and Eunuch Shi came in together, and they had already guessed that the emperor wanted to discuss something with them.
"I asked you to come here today just to discuss with you the follow-up of this matter. How do you think it should be handled?" The emperor asked directly without mincing words.
"Back to the emperor, I think this is the most unforgivable thing for the powerful people in the temple to dare to gather people to rebel. The nine tribes should be killed as a warning to others." Shi Zhong was the first to suggest.
"Eunuch Shi is suggesting that all these assassins be killed as traitors?" the emperor asked again.
"Exactly."
"Your Majesty, I do not agree with Eunuch Shi's suggestion. Nowadays, there are a large number of rebels, and there are still remnants of the rebels who are still being hunted. Therefore, the final number of rebels should be greatly increased. If these people are killed regardless of their circumstances, they will be If he is killed, it will definitely cause greater panic among the people, which will not help the court appease the people." Prince Xiao immediately ran out to object.
"Your Majesty, this is wrong! I believe that it is precisely because these rebels are so numerous that they should be punished more severely. If the court encounters such a serious rebellion and cannot establish its authority well, then those rebels will They will think that the imperial court is afraid of them. Therefore, they will become more unscrupulous and even carry out greater rebellion than this time. If the imperial court can kill chickens to establish its authority, then those rebels will see the lessons learned from the past and know that the death penalty is difficult If you want to escape, you will definitely have some scruples and will not dare to form a party for personal gain or gather people to rebel." Shi Zhong did not give in and still insisted on executing those people in the temple who participated in the rebellion.
"But have you ever thought about it, father-in-law, that in order to quell this rebellion, I promised the second son of the temple, Sheng Muming, that the court would not kill all the temples? The fact that the court was able to win this rebellion is also in line with the temple. The two young masters did not support Sheng Lingren, but instead abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side. They were inseparable from the relationship. The eldest prince of the temple saved the emperor, and the second prince Sheng Moming also helped the king and the fifth young hero escape from danger. Both of them are Judging from these two points alone, the court cannot generalize and execute all the disciples of the temple. Moreover, if the court goes back on its promise, it will be breaking its promise, which will probably drive the remaining members of the temple to the end of the road and once again If we fight to the death with the imperial court, there will inevitably be unnecessary casualties." Prince Xiao had previously made an agreement with Sheng inexplicably that he could not exterminate the entire temple because he also had to maintain his credibility.
"The traitor this time is a reckless person who has never kept his word. The court does not need to talk to him about the moral principles of the world, and the prince must not leave these seeds of chaos and disaster because of his own likes and dislikes, laying the foundation for his future. Unnecessary hidden dangers." Shi Zhong was still arguing.
In fact, Shi Zhong's suggestion to kill everyone in the temple was also for his own safety. Shi Zhong had made many secret transactions with Sheng Lingren in private before, and they had very close contacts. Much of Shi Zhong's criminal evidence is actually still in the hands of Sheng Lingren. If Sheng Ling really wanted to harm him, as long as he confessed one or two of these things, Shi Zhong and everyone else in Dongchang might be executed and the nine clans would be exterminated.
It's just that for some reason, since Sheng Ling was defeated and arrested, he has not revealed the private transactions between him and Shi Zhong, which also puzzled both Shi Zhong and King Xiao.
King Xiao didn't understand because he had known for a long time that there had always been many quarrels between Sheng Ling and Shi Zhong. However, Sheng Lingren did not reveal any of these relationships. Prince Xiao would definitely not believe that this matter had nothing to do with Shi Zhong. In order to fight for power, Prince Xiao and Shi Zhong were actually considered mortal enemies. If Prince Xiao can pass this matter and eradicate Shi Zhong from Dongchang, that would be great. From then on, the power of the court will truly return to the emperor and his hands.
Shi Zhong was also a little puzzled. He didn't understand why Sheng Lingren wanted to protect him since he had become a prisoner. Could it be that Sheng Lingren still wants to make a comeback? And he has regarded Dongchang and himself as the capital for his comeback. If Sheng Lingren does not die, Shi Zhong's clues that can lead to a death sentence will always be in his hands, and he may be threatened by Sheng Lingren at any time.
In this world, only the dead can keep secrets, so Shi Zhong strongly suggested that the emperor execute Sheng Lingren.
King Xiao did not agree to execute Sheng Lingren, also because King Xiao knew that Sheng Lingren must know many things that they did not know, and they had not confessed them to him. After Prince Xiao removed the poisonous thorn in the capital that was the Temple, his next target would definitely be Dongchang, who had always been against him.
"Okay! I called you here to discuss a solution, not to quarrel. You argued so hard that I was dizzy, but still couldn't come up with a result. So be it! You continue to hunt down the remaining party members, these people in custody, Let’s interrogate carefully first. Let’s wait until all interrogations are completed and then decide on the results!” The emperor saw that the two people had completely opposite opinions, and both of them were quite reasonable, so he was a little undecided. He also wanted to think about it carefully, so he planned to discuss the matter again after the trial and training was completed.
Of course, the emperor did not immediately agree to execute the people in the temple, which actually indirectly supported Prince Xiao's point of view, because they were brothers after all.
