After the city of Chang'an was broken, the Xiliang army completely exposed its true nature and turned into bandits, burning, killing and looting the people, even the imperial palace was not spared.
"Beast, let me go, you beast!"
"Help, help..."
As soon as he entered the palace, he heard a woman's cry for help.
Looking for fame, just behind the palace gate, three or five soldiers were holding down a palace maid, frantically venting their animal desires.
"Bastard thing!"
Jiang Yuntian was furious. He rushed forward and chopped down the soldiers to the ground with two swords. Then he turned to his troops and yelled:
"Pass my order. No one should sleep tonight. I only want to do one thing: arrest the soldiers who invaded the civilian population. Kill every one I see!"
"yes!"
Afterwards, the army quickly poured into the palace and captured the rebels and officials.
Daming Palace, Xuanzheng Hall.
Song Che gently pushed open the palace door.
Zhao Sui was wearing a dragon robe and sitting firmly on the throne. Next to him were more than 20 old ministers headed by Gao Chen. Now they were like a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered, panicking.
Song Che glanced at the ministers, made a stop motion with the general behind him, and then, holding the imperial edict, strode into the palace with Jiang Yuntian.
"Song Che, please pay homage to the Supreme Emperor."
"Jiang Yuntian, come and see the Supreme Emperor."
You still have to have the proper etiquette.
"Song Che, in the past you helped me quell the rebellion of King Anyang. Did I promise you that as long as you are willing to serve as an official, I will guarantee that you will be a supreme minister and the prime minister! I think you are a talent and I have never treated you badly. , why do you want to help King Rui to rebel against me!" Zhao Sui asked angrily.
Song Che said calmly: "Your Majesty, Song has never thought of rebelling against you. This time he came to Chang'an with an order to wipe out the traitors in the country, and to welcome His Majesty back to Beijing and restore the throne."
Zhao Sui shouted: "Young Xingxing is hypocritical. If Prince Rui wants to return my throne, why bother to raise an army to invade! I will never go back, even if I die!"
"Then I will satisfy you!"
"choke!"
Jiang Yuntian drew his sword out of its scabbard, and the sound of the sword trembled, which shocked the officials' expressions.
"Protect Your Majesty!" Gao Chen was the only one standing in front of Zhao Sui. You can tell who is loyal and who is traitorous at a glance.
"Jiang...Jiang Yuntian, you...don't you want to kill the king! How brave are you!" Zhao Sui shivered in the dragon chair.
Jiang Yuntian smiled coldly, "Brother Song, I'll be a loser with you, and I'll be a loser with you -
You are a foolish king who listened to treacherous people and lost most of the country. If the current Holy Emperor had not been ordered to call on the world to resist foreign enemies, the Liang Dynasty might have been trampled by the iron hoof of Dijon!
Furthermore, don’t you know why Dijon released you?
You know, all the officials present know that Dijon let the tiger return to the mountain, and provoked the two tigers to fight so as to reap the benefits, but you just pretended to be deaf and dumb, for the sake of the throne, for the official title, but not for the people of Daliang!
How can a king who has brought disaster to the country and people be qualified to sit on the throne again?
How can such a traitorous official seek glory be worthy of an official title? "
A few words of scolding made the officials blush and feel ashamed.
"Okay, the matter has come to an end, there is no point in talking more." Song Che slowly opened the imperial edict in his hand, "Your Majesty, I have an abdication edict here. Do you think it is appropriate for you to listen to it?"
"impossible--"
"I! After seven years of reigning, I was overthrown by foreigners. Fortunately, thanks to the spirit of my ancestors, I survived the crisis... My husband's journey on the road, the world is for the public, selects the virtuous and capable, so I abdicate the throne in favor of my younger brother Zhao Heng, and continue the building. It is majestic and inherits the legacy of the prosperous age!"
Song Che finished reading it loudly and looked coldly at Zhao Sui, who was ashen-faced, "Does your Majesty think this edict is reasonable?"
"It goes against the law of heaven! It's extremely ridiculous!"
"I prepared an imperial edict privately! It will be infamy for thousands of years!"
"Pfft!"
Jiang Yuntian casually slashed the noisy man's throat and beheaded him with two swords. His blood spattered into the hall, intimidating the officials.
"What's the use of a bunch of poor and rotten scholars shouting to the sky? If you hadn't been weak and wielded power, how would he be today? Anyway, the Liang Dynasty belongs to your Zhao family, doesn't it matter whoever comes to sit here?"
Jiang Yuntian wiped away the blood on his sword and strode towards Zhao Sui who was sitting on the dragon throne, "Your Majesty, will you come with me yourself, or will the future take you away?"
"I...I won't leave!" Zhao Sui found courage and pointed to the beams of the main hall and said: "I will hang myself here and let our ancestors see that Zhao Heng did not hesitate to kill each other in order to seize the imperial power!"
"If you had such great sense of loyalty when you were captured by Dijon, why would you end up in such trouble? Your Majesty, you'd better go to Jinling. When you become the Supreme Emperor, you don't have to deal with government affairs. You have good food and drink, and you have no food or clothing for the rest of your life. Worry, why not do it?"
Jiang Yuntian pinched Zhao Sui's shoulders and lifted him up like a chicken. Then he coughed twice, and his subordinates who were waiting outside the hall came in and dragged the old ministers out of the hall one by one.
"Master Gao, how about you move on and say something?" Song Che smiled at Gao Chen, and without waiting for his consent, he made a "please" gesture and walked out of the hall first.
Gao Chen hesitated for a moment, then followed with a straight face.
"Sun Ting, Sun Bao, these siblings must have grown a lot taller, right?" Song Che asked in a calm tone.
Sun Ting and Sun Bao were orphans who had been rescued in Qingzhou City in the past. It happened that Gao Chen had no heirs, so Song Che took it upon himself to give them to Gao Chen.
Gao Chen was a little surprised by these common words, but after thinking about it, maybe this was Song Che. He hummed slightly.
"Master Gao should know that the crime you committed is enough to kill everyone in your family," Song Che said in a calm tone: "It doesn't matter if you die, you are certainly not afraid of death, but those two children are innocent."
Gao Chen frowned and said, "Since Mr. Song mentioned them individually, he said he would save them. I'm not worried."
"But I'm very worried. You said that I found their father for him, and I was the one who killed their father in the end." Song Che shook his head and sighed, "Mr. Gao, now I am also the father of three children. I can understand it very well. This feeling."
Gao Chen was silent and understood. He said coldly: "If you lose, you lose. You should be punished accordingly. Children are never excuses or shields."
"You still didn't understand me. I pity the child, not you."
Song Che took out the checkbook from his sleeve, filled in five thousand taels of silver with a pen, tore it off and handed it to Gao Chen: "This money is enough for you to buy a small house and do some small business. I gave Xiaoting and Xiaobao away I gave it to you without considering your feelings, so I treated this money as compensation."
Gao Chen hesitated but didn't dare to answer.
Song Che forced the check into his hand and pointed in the direction of the pier: "I have prepared a passenger ship for you at the pier. You should go home quickly, pack up, take the children and leave Chang'an, and find a place to remain anonymous for a few years. If If you really can’t survive anymore, come to Hangzhou to find me again.”
"But I am a sinner..."
"Sinner? Hahaha..." Song Che laughed and said: "Master Gao may not know that in Western beliefs, people are sinful from birth, and only by repenting constantly can they ascend to heaven. I thought it was extremely ridiculous at first, but now After some hindsight, I found out that they were right - we are all guilty, we just forgot to repent."
"Mr. Song..." Gao Chen's eyes turned red.
Song Che waved his hand, turned around and walked a certain distance before saying goodbye slowly:
"Goodbye, Mr. Gao."
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