Seeing that the prince was trying to kill himself with his sword, everyone rushed forward desperately to snatch the prince's sword. Soon after, the prince Su Li was the closest and kicked the prince's sword away. The prince finally got the courage. When he had the courage to commit suicide, he was interrupted. He was so angry that he grabbed the young master Su and beat him violently.
Young Master Su sneered and didn't fight back. The prince hit him halfway, then suddenly let go of his hand and fell to the ground, pointing at Young Master Su and yelling: "You won't let me die if I die, and you won't let me live if I live. You won't kill me even if I kill you." What on earth are you going to do?"
Young Master Su sneered: "It's very simple. I'm here to ask you today, do you feel any guilt towards me and Young Master Kang?"
The prince was stunned when he heard the words, and suddenly he laughed strangely and said: "Fifth brother, it's not me and you, you are really rare and cute. I have done everything, do you think I will feel guilty? You, sometimes You are not even as good as your third brother, Master Kang. You were born in this imperial family, what kind of human relations do you want? Don't be serious, okay?"
"There is no real brotherhood! They all have big eyes and want to compete for the position of prince. Even the third brother knows that he cannot let go easily. Even if he becomes a fool and still talks about the position of prince, you, you , I don’t even know how you are!”
Young Master Su angrily rebuked: "You are all lunatics, none of you are normal, even your Majesty. He is ruthless, hypocritical and cunning, and only sees power. I am ashamed to be associated with you."
The prince laughed loudly and said: "Okay, you have been squatting in the frontier for so many years? Have you finally understood? To be honest, apart from the third brother, you are indeed the most humane, but you are too human. In this palace, it is a sin for you to be too human. You have to become less human in order to survive in the palace. What a pity for you! You woke up too late and you deserve to be punished."
Young Master Su was trembling with anger and angrily shouted: "What nonsense? Do you have to live like a human being in the palace to protect yourself?"
The prince sneered: "What about you? Doesn't it prove that you are like this now? If you are not born with a wolf heart, then you can only accept the fate of being bitten to pieces and squeezed dry. You! You are a good person, but it is a pity that you were born in the wrong place. , I was born in this imperial family by mistake. In my next life, try to be born into a good child and be born into an ordinary family, where you can find the beauty of the world and the human relations and family ties you want."
Young Master Su smiled sadly and said: "Hahaha... This world is so filthy. It seems that I have nothing to remember. Fourth Brother, I will call you Fourth Brother for the last time. If you still have a trace of conscience, can you Promise me something?"
The prince said helplessly: "I may not agree if someone begs me. If you ask me, I will just agree to it. I have nothing now but one life. If you want it, you can take it anytime."
Young Master Su sneered and said, "Okay! Go out with me and surrender. You are at your wits end anyway. You might as well help me. I will use your wealth and life to restore my clan status."
The prince shook his head and said: "I can promise you everything, except this one. I can't surrender. My only way out is suicide. I can't go back, and I can't involve more people..."
The prince suddenly understood when he came here. He looked at Young Master Su and asked: "I understand. Do you want to take revenge on my father? Take me back and ask my father to give me the death penalty himself, so that this old man will have a bad name for killing his son." ?”
Young Master Su said with a cold look, "Yes!"
Hearing this, the prince laughed and said, "Okay! Then I will go back with you, but if you do this, my father will never let you go."
Young Master Su sighed and said: "Do you think I still care about this now? I have thought very clearly in the past few years. If His Majesty hadn't acquiesced back then, how could you dare to kill your brothers so unscrupulously? I am the emperor in that battle The loser of the game has completely lost everything. The reason why I can survive until now is revenge. I want to take revenge on everyone who ruined me, including your Majesty."
"Prince, I am not the only one who wants to unseat you, but also my ninth brother An Guojun. He has been on the line with me a long time ago. He also prepared these hundreds of dead soldiers for me. If your military remonstrance succeeds, I will With that last killer move, you will never be able to ascend to the throne alive."
The prince was moved in his heart and said: "I know that Lao Jiu has always been ambitious. What if I succeed? With you and your hundreds of dead soldiers, can you really capture me?"
Young Master Su shook his head and said: "It's true that I can't, but I just want a chance to take revenge on you. Even if the final outcome is that the chaos blade is added to my body, I have no regrets. The reason why Lao Jiu helped me is because he likes me." That’s my determination to die.”
"Okay! Okay! Fifth brother, I'll help you. Anyway, I don't have the courage to commit suicide. I might as well help you before I die. I'm actually very dissatisfied with your majesty's superstitious belief in immortality. If the old man hadn't insisted on immortality, how could I have fallen into this situation? Such a land now? Hahaha...this is fate!"
At this time, Qin Shao, Liu Yu, and other cronies gathered around and knelt around the prince, crying: "Your Highness, let's break out! Ding Sheng, an old cunning guy, has left us a way out. As long as we can escape to Dongyi On Rao’s territory, at least we still have a chance to make a comeback.”
Upon hearing this, His Highness the Crown Prince smiled helplessly and said: "We can't escape there smoothly. Didn't you see that Zhou Jian has been following us from a distance? The reason why he didn't rush to start is because he wanted to find us. A greedy idiot took the blame for him, and if he saw that we were planning to surrender to the enemy, he would definitely kill us without hesitation."
"I have a special status. Compared to the death of a former prince and the Dongyi people using my status to make a fuss, he, Zhou Jian, knows the importance. This is the important reason why Your Majesty sent him to encircle and suppress us."
The prince sighed and said dejectedly: "Let's surrender. The land below is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers. We can't leave. The land is so big that there is no place for us. Then The failure of the mutiny has already doomed our outcome. It only forces you to die with me. I have betrayed you. If you want to survive, you can disperse. It's still too late!"
Qin Shao and other cronies surrounded the prince and cried loudly: "Your Highness... We will follow you to the death."
After the prince comforted him with kind words, he ordered everyone to put down their weapons and open the city to surrender. Qin Shao and others also knew that the situation was desperate, so they had no choice but to follow the orders. Seeing that the prince was willing to surrender, Prince Su turned around and left the city to follow Ding. Sheng and Zhou Jian reported the situation.
At this time, Guo Huan in the crowd took one last look at the prince who had been following him for many years. Thinking of what Wang Shen said to him in the prince's house, he suddenly thought to himself that it seems that this old Taoist is just a charlatan, just a charlatan used by the prince to unite people's hearts. It's just a means, it's ridiculous that I still believe it, Prince! My ambitions have not yet been achieved, and I don’t want to die yet. Let’s just say goodbye today!
Thinking of this, Guo Huan quietly left the lobby and went to the backyard and took out a skin bag from his arms. Guo Huan touched it and muttered to himself: "Second brother, the life-saving thing you left for me, I never expected that it would be used in today's sect." Come in handy..."
Guo Huan fumbled for a while, and actually took out a human skin mask, hid in a corner and disguised himself, and then he turned into another person. He spread out his body skills, jumped over the courtyard wall, and disappeared into the vast sea of people. Already...
Outside Huai'an County, after listening to Su Mu's report, Ding Sheng and Zhou Jian looked at each other and were overjoyed. Unexpectedly, Su Mu actually persuaded the prince to surrender with his words, and the prince's hot potato was thrown back to the court. How to deal with the headache with Your Majesty.
At this time, Zhou Jian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was finally able to escape unscathed. The only way to deal with this kind of thing is not to seek merit, but to seek no fault.
Then the prince led all his relatives to surrender with Kaicheng. Seeing the prince leading everyone out, Zhou Jian stepped forward and saluted the prince:
"Your Highness, please follow me back to the capital!"
The prince smiled bitterly and said politely to Zhou Jian: "General Zhou, thank you for your hard work along the way."
Zhou Jian bowed his hands and sighed: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, I am a humble minister who has the responsibility of the emperor and cannot help myself."
In fact, Zhou Jian still sympathizes with His Highness the Crown Prince. The current situation is a result that no one wants to see.
The prince sighed, and was then arranged by Zhou Jian to be detained in a tent.
A few days later, the prince and his cronies mounted their horses and followed Zhou Jian on their way back to the capital. On the way, Prince Su Ziran also revealed his identity to Zhou Jian. When Zhou Jian heard that the mysterious knight who helped them persuade them to surrender turned out to be more than ten years ago. The young master Su Ye who was demoted to the frontier was so surprised that he had no choice but to take him with him to the capital to recover.
Tens of days later, the prince rebelled against the party, and hundreds of people including the prince, Qin Shao, Liu Yu and others were forced by Zhou Jian into Qingyang Tingwei Prison to await trial.
At this time, in the main hall of Qingyang Palace, the emperor stared at Young Master Su with a frosty face. He never expected that Young Master Su would actually persuade the prince to surrender. At this moment, the emperor was angry in his heart, but he could not show it.
The emperor thought for a while, calmly, and said comfortingly: "Mu Su, you have done a good job in persuading the prince to surrender and restore his status as a clan member. It just so happens that Sheng'er has been granted a title and gone to another place. I will give you his original mansion!"
Young Master Su knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
"Well! Please step back..."
Huo Zheng, the prime minister on the left, saw the young master Su exiting the hall, and stepped forward to ask for instructions carefully: "Your majesty, the prime minister on the right, Cui Yan, participated in the rebellion against the prince, and the whole family has been in Tingwei's prison for some days. Tingwei discussed the crime, and Cui Yan instigated it. If the prince conspires to rebel, he will be punished with five punishments, including cutting in half the three tribes of Yi."
When the emperor heard this, he leaned back on the dragon chair. He closed his eyes and asked, "Huo Aiqing, didn't you go to Tingwei Prison to see Cui Yan? What's so good about him?"
Huo Zheng pondered for a while and said: "Your Majesty, Cui Yan, before he died, he wanted to see you, Your Majesty, do you think so?"
When the emperor heard this, he said coldly: "I don't want to see him."
Then the emperor asked Huo Zheng: "Huo Aiqing, what do you think of Cui Yan's treatment?"
Huo Zheng remembered the emperor's attitude just now, secretly guessed the emperor's thoughts, and then said:
"Your Majesty, the crime discussed by the court officer is in compliance with the laws of the country. I have no objection. However, I feel that Cui Yan has served as the right prime minister for more than 30 years and is quite prestigious in the court. He has worked hard with the country and the country and has made great achievements. This incident of rebelling against the crown prince , Cui Yan was actually coerced by the rebel party, and had no choice but to participate in the rebellion. If he is severely punished, I'm afraid..."
After hearing this, the emperor opened his eyes, nodded slightly, and said in a calm tone: "In the seventh year of the Second Emperor's reign, during the Second Central Plains War, our army fought in Pingcheng and defeated the coalition of 500,000 princes. The late Emperor personally came to the front line to labor. On the way back to the army, the late emperor suddenly passed away. If Cui Yan hadn't turned the tide, obeyed the important ministers in the court, and supported me on the throne, how would I have the chance to inherit the legacy of the Jin Dynasty's ancestors and complete the unification that has never been done before and will never come after? great cause."
When the emperor came here, he sighed and said: "In view of Cui Yan's past contribution to the country, he will be exempted from punishment and allowed to commit suicide. The entire Cui family will be pardoned and he will be exiled to Yunzheng."
Hearing this, Huo Zheng nodded and said, "Your Majesty, I will go to Tingwei Prison to convey the order."
Huo Zheng went straight to Tingwei Prison with his decree. Since the Taiji Palace Incident, Huo Zheng had dealt with it well, and he gained the emperor's trust even more. In fact, Cui Yan has been the prime minister for much longer than him, and his appeal is unparalleled both inside and outside the court. , Right Prime Minister Cui Yan has always been suppressing Left Prime Minister Huo Zheng. Now with the failure of the prince's military remonstrance, Right Prime Minister Cui Yan is completely finished, and the Cui family is also finished. From now on, inside and outside the court, he, Huo Zheng, is really under one person. , more than ten thousand people, even if the emperor appoints a new right prime minister, it is difficult to compare with him. In fact, he will be an independent prime minister from now on.
In Tingwei Prison, Cui Yan, the current and dignified Prime Minister, has disheveled hair and dull eyes. He seems to have aged a lot in an instant. He is waiting for his final fate in prison. He knows very well that back then, he supported the current emperor to win the throne. He and the Cui family have spent more than thirty years of glory, but now with the defeat of the prince, once the prince is deposed, it means the complete end of his political life, and the Cui family will also die with him. However, he and the prince The binding was too deep and forced.
A short while later, in Cui Yan's prison, Huo Zheng came to promulgate the decree. Seeing that his political opponent who had been fighting openly and secretly for more than ten years was over, he was filled with sadness.
Huo Zheng stepped forward and said, "Cui Xiangguo, your Majesty has a decree."
When Cui Yan heard this, the old man sighed, dragged his shackles and knelt in front of the imperial edict to welcome his final trial.
After the eunuch read the edict, Cui Yan seemed to be stunned. He couldn't believe that the emperor only gave him the death penalty and spared the Cui family. Cui Yan knew that the emperor was thinking about his old relationship, otherwise the Cui family would definitely This is the result of having everyone copied and beheaded.
Huo Zheng reminded: "Cui Xiangguo, please thank me quickly."
Old Cui Yan burst into tears and kowtowed to the imperial edict repeatedly: "Thank you, Your Majesty. I thank you for your kindness. I deserve what I have done..."
Seeing this, Huo Zheng sighed and said: "Cui Xiangguo, before you die, what else do you want to say?"
Cui Yan stood up slowly and asked Huo Zheng: "Huo Xiangguo, I want to know how the prince is doing?"
Huo Zheng did not expect that Cui Yan was still thinking about the prince, so he said: "Prince Ni is fine. He has surrendered. He was just escorted back to the capital today."
When Cui Yan heard this, he nodded repeatedly and said: "Huo Xiangguo, we have been enemies for more than ten years. I want to ask you something. The crown prince's position as heir apparent cannot be guaranteed. Can you please ask your Majesty Do you want to save His Majesty’s life? After all, he is His Majesty’s biological flesh and blood!”
Hearing this, Huo Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "Cui Xiangguo, do you think it is possible? You actually know the fate of His Highness the Crown Prince better than I do. Even if the Crown Prince is spared his life now, if the new king succeeds to the throne in the future, the Crown Prince may not be able to survive. .”
When Cui Yan heard this, he sighed and said nothing.
Huo Zheng waved his hand, and the eunuch presented a piece of white silk to Cui Yan to commit suicide. Cui Yan took the white silk tremblingly and kowtowed towards the palace to thank him.
When Huo Zheng saw this, he sighed, turned around and left...
