"Prince Pei, please say something!"
Pei Huan spoke slowly amid many urgings: "I do have a way here, but I'm afraid you won't be able to bear the price of this way."
"Can't bear it? What price is more important than life? As long as we live, we can pay any price."
The officials responded one after another. They were locked up for a whole night, and their hearts trembled when they thought of the officials who had died in the past.
Pei Huan twitched his lips: "It's very simple. The emperor wants to kill court officials. If you resign, you will no longer be officials. The emperor will naturally let you go."
No one expected that Pei Huan would say such words, and everyone was silent for a while.
After a long while, someone spoke with difficulty: "Prince Pei, are you kidding me?"
Pei Huan glanced at the official who was speaking and asked in a calm tone, "Do I look like I'm joking?"
There was deathly silence all around.
Pei Huan didn't care, he just found a place to sit down.
I don't know how long it took, but a young eunuch came over and said, "Prince Pei, your Majesty, please come over."
The word "please" attracted all the officials to look sideways and wanted to ask about the situation, but the little eunuch left without stopping for a moment.
Pei Huan stayed where he was, looking around and telling them to leave.
"Given the current situation in the capital, it is actually best for you to wait until you leave. At least you can save your life. But in the future, that may not be the case."
Pei Huan put one hand behind his back and left as he spoke, leaving behind a group of officials with uncertain expressions.
"How? Have those people revealed their intention to leave?"
When the emperor saw Pei Huan, he asked the official's attitude.
Pei Huan sighed: "If the emperor wants to make room for others, he can simply demote him. Why go to all the trouble? Make such a big circle?"
The emperor smiled: "Do you think I have gone too far in this circle?"
"Isn't it the emperor's land in the world? The emperor really has his heart, what can they say?"
The emperor snorted coldly: "A group of people with nothing but wine and food, live so comfortably on weekdays, how can I let them leave easily?"
Pei Huan sighed: "Even if that's the case, you can't scare them like this. They are all a bunch of idiots. They have made their words clear and they still want to fight. It's really a headache."
The emperor also felt a headache after hearing this. He really didn't expect that those officials would want to keep their official positions even when they were about to die.
"Hmph, I want to see how long they can hold on!"
The emperor made up his mind, and even Pei Huan had trouble persuading him. In the end, he could only sigh and leave again.
There was a stalemate on the palace side, and on the other side, Song Shuwan also learned about the situation from Shanhaikou.
"The entire palace was blocked. Not only could the news not be spread, but no one could get in. I tried to force my way in, but was surrounded by several secret guards and almost died there."
Song Shuwan frowned: "What do you think of the current situation in the palace?"
Shan Hai shook his head gently: "I don't know, but judging from the defense situation in the palace, I'm afraid there is..."
At this point, Shanhai paused.
Song Shuwan was silent. She knew what Shanhai meant. She just felt that the situation in the palace was very bad. But the question was, would the emperor really arrest officials in the palace and massacre them again and again?
After thinking about it, Song Shuwan had no answer, so she could only suppress her thoughts and let Shanhai recuperate in her mansion.
That night, a news suddenly came back to the other village - Pei Huan would be able to leave the palace by noon tomorrow at the latest.
Song Shuwan's heart tightened when she heard this: "Is this news reliable? Could it be that something went wrong along the way and she was left in the palace again, unable to come out?"
"As for the Crown Princess, this is a message sent by the Crown Prince personally from the palace. Generally speaking, there will be no problems."
Song Shuwan was a little suspicious, but now that no one in her hands could find out the news in the palace, she could only choose to wait.
Time passed to the next day.
Seeing that Pei Huan still didn't turn around when noon was approaching, she couldn't hold back and ordered the people below to hitch up the car.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived outside the door, he saw Pei Huan appearing covered in blood.
When the two parties met, Song Shuwan rushed over anxiously. After looking up and down, she quickly asked the guards to help her back to the house.
"What's going on? Why are you hurt so badly?"
Pei Huan leaned on the bed, his eyes closed tightly, and his face turned pale.
"There was an accident, but it's not a big problem. I was just slightly injured. I'm lucky to be alive."
Song Shuwan was silent, compared to death, living is indeed considered lucky, she thought, treating Pei Huan's wounds without saying a word, and then let him lie down to rest.
In the evening, Song Shuwan appeared again: "How does the Crown Prince feel now?"
Pei Huan raised his eyes: "It's not bad. I no longer feel like I'm going to die at any time."
Song Shuwan nodded, stretched out her hand to feel his pulse, and then stopped after confirming that the situation was stable.
When their eyes met, Song Shuwan raised her eyebrows: "The Crown Prince should know what I want to ask."
Pei Huan nodded: "I do know, but I think right now..."
"The Crown Prince can evade it, but I can't guarantee that the Crown Prince will be stable during the subsequent treatment."
In one sentence, Pei Huan fell silent. After a long time, he sighed and said, "The emperor wants to change the officials in the court."
Song Shuwan was shocked. She had considered many possibilities, but she never thought that the emperor would have such an idea.
"For no reason, why does the emperor want to replace all the officials in the court?"
"It's not for no reason. The emperor had this idea earlier."
After Pei Huan's narration, Song Shuwan learned that the people left in the court today were all the people of the late emperor. The late emperor disliked the current emperor the most during his lifetime, and this dislike even continued after his death.
"No one knows why the late emperor was tired of the emperor, but he did leave a lot of trouble for the emperor."
Pei Huan sighed, feeling very melancholy.
Song Shuwan felt that this matter was a fantasy. Did she not even care about the stability of Dazhou just because she didn't like it? Or is it that the late emperor did not agree that the emperor was his child, so he was deliberately disgusting?
After a long silence, she asked about the subsequent arrangements: "If the emperor really clears out those officials, who will be responsible for the important affairs of the court? No matter how capable the officials outside the capital are, it will take some time to adapt, right?"
Pei Huan said calmly: "Don't worry, the emperor knows it well. He has already arranged it. Now we are waiting. The officials outside the capital are in place."
Half a month later, officials from outside the capital arrived one after another.
The emperor directly asked the veterans of the court to take action. Under his strong suppression, the veterans of the court were completely disordered.
In just one month, most of the old ministers had resigned several times. Even Pei Huan was shocked when he heard this number.
The emperor is definitely the first person to do such nonsense.
Song Shuwan frowned, her heart full of worry: "Your Majesty, if this continues, will the court really not be in chaos?"
