Chapter 1380 The Foolish Empress 3
Everyone watched in stunned silence as the empress held the Emperor's Sword. The bright red blood pooled on the coldly radiant sword surface, flowing along the edge of the sword and dripping onto the gold bricks in the palace.
But Mianshou's head rolled to the ground, and his kneeling headless body shook, and fell to the ground with a "pop".
The palace maids and eunuchs were even more frightened, but they did not dare to scream as they collided with Tianyan, causing death. Many of them covered their mouths with their hands, and one even fainted.
Xining looked at the sword. This Emperor's Sword had been on the shelf for many years and had been used as a decoration. Unexpectedly, it was quite sharp.
After sheathing the sword, he turned to look at the head on the ground: "Put it in a box and follow me to Chongde Hall."
Chongde Hall is the place where the emperor discusses political affairs. Xining sat on the dragon chair and said: "Bring the jade seal passed down to the country!"
The eunuch with the palm seal immediately placed the jade seal on the desk on the tray and brought it over with both hands.
It's such a big box, put on the red paint box, and repeatedly brush the red paint on the copper embryo dozens of times. Brush it once and wait until it is completely dry before brushing it again. When a thick layer condenses on the embryo, use a knife to carve out the layers. layer pattern. The top of the box is decorated with double dragons and beads, and the body of the box is decorated with large peonies, showing the empress's style.
Xining held the top of the box with both hands and opened the box. The national seal inside is not small, carved from a single piece of Hetian white jade.
She grabbed the national seal and looked around, but couldn't find anything: "Look for a piece of cloth, any kind of cloth will do."
The eunuch with the palm print reacts very quickly, and those who can serve the king closely are naturally the most intelligent and diligent ones. He immediately put down the plate, took out the sweat towel from his sleeves, and handed it to him respectfully: "Your Majesty, this is a new addition from the slave. It has never been used."
Xining took the sweat towel, briefly wrapped the national seal, put it under his feet, and kicked the national seal under the chair with a kick of his heel.
Before everyone could recover, they heard the empress’ order: “Open the palace door and welcome King Duan!”
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The palace gate was closed tightly, and the rebels took the siege dragon pillar and slammed against the gate. The palace gate has three levels, this is the last level. As long as this door is broken, you can enter the palace.
Suddenly someone shouted: "Your Majesty has a decree, open the city gate and welcome King Duan!"
The person shouting had a loud voice, fearing that the other party wouldn't hear, so he raised his gong-like voice and shouted twice.
Not only that, even arrows are no longer fired from the towers.
Um? ? ? The rebels who were attacking the city were stunned for a moment. They attacked the city just to open the city gate. If the city gate opens on its own initiative, why bother fighting?
King Duan, who was riding behind, raised his hand to signal to stop first.
After a while, the city gate opened, and the left and right doors were fully opened.
A group of forbidden soldiers walked out from the door. The leader was tall and sturdy, wearing armor that looked like a heavenly soldier.
After approaching, he knelt down and clasped his fists: "Wei Heng, the deputy commander of the imperial army, is here to greet King Duan's guard of honor according to your majesty's imperial decree."
Guard of honor? These 50,000 are full of murderous rebels, what kind of guard of honor are they?
A guard of honor is a guard of honor. It seems that the empress still wants room for relaxation. Now that the palace door is open, let's go in and see what she wants.
So King Duan rode his horse and led the rebels through the last defensive palace gate.
Prince Duan is riding a horse, and Wei Heng is holding the horse in front. They look so harmonious. The number of people and horses behind Prince Duan is hundreds of times more than the imperial army that greets them.
King Duan deliberately asked: "You are the deputy commander, what about the commander?" Wei Heng replied: "Commander Zhang ate a whole boiled elbow for dinner. It was too greasy and made him feel upset. I was afraid of bumping into His Highness Prince Duan, so why not?" Will be greeted.”
At this time, Zhang Tong was lying in a pile of corpses behind the second palace gate. His head was split into two parts.
King Duan's guards, armed with swords, guarded the left and right with vigilance. At this time, the palace was very calm. Only when the army walked in, it became a bit orderly. There was no one in the palace along the way. The calmer it is, the more likely it is that there is hidden murderous intent.
King Duan asked again tentatively: "How is your Majesty doing now?"
Wei Heng still replied calmly: "His Majesty is at Chongde Hall, waiting for His Royal Highness Duan Wang."
Chongde Hall, Hehe, is it telling him to pay attention to his morality and not to do the following?
Arriving at the entrance of Chongde Hall, Wei Heng turned around and pulled the reins: "King Duan, please dismount and enter the hall to face the saint."
After King Duan got off his horse, his trusted aide came forward and whispered: "Your Highness, be careful of fraud."
King Duan thought for a moment and raised his hand: "It's okay, I trust Your Majesty."
Then he turned his head and whispered: "Call hundreds of good men to follow me in."
Xining was sitting on the dragon chair, holding the Emperor's Sword in his hand like a crutch, with the top of the scabbard supporting the ground. Wait quietly.
A group of palace maids and eunuchs stood left and right according to their tastes. Even though these palace servants were carefully selected and had seen some scenes before, some of them still couldn't help but tremble.
There are rebels outside, and they will definitely die if they come in. Who is not afraid of death? In fact, when the critical moment comes, I am afraid of death.
The gate of Chongde Hall was open. In the past, every morning, ministers would enter from there one by one to discuss matters in court. But it opened at midnight today, and the people who arrived were rebellious officials and traitors.
When King Duan entered with his sword in hand and looked carefully, Xi Ning couldn't help but cheer.
King Duan was extremely tall and handsome. His eyes are like stars, his steps are steady when he walks, and he looks like he is dominating the world. No wonder people say that King Duan has the legacy of the founding king, but it's a pity that he was a concubine.
At this time, King Duan was also walking along the road and looking at the empress. Unexpectedly, she was wearing a royal robe, a nine-bead crown, and sitting on a dragon chair holding the Emperor's Sword.
Even facing him and the hundreds of officers and soldiers behind him holding swords and wearing armor, they still sat steadily, as if watching the ministers attending court in the morning. It’s quite a bit bold!
Prince Duan stood under the stage and faced the empress. The two looked at each other like needles facing each other.
The scene was a bit awkward and frightening. I don’t know whether the empress cursed loudly or whether Prince Duan came forward and forced the palace to kill the empress.
After only a short moment, but as long as a day, King Duan finally spoke first: "I see your Majesty."
He said he was talking, but he didn't kneel down.
The chief steward next to him raised his eyebrows, but looking at Prince Duan and the hundreds of military guards behind him with strong murderous auras, he swallowed all the disrespectful words.
"Brother Emperor, why are you here?" The empress looked domineering, but when she spoke, she spoke with a bit of warmth, without a trace of hostility, and it sounded very nice: "They all said that you brought soldiers to fight me, right? Really?”
Of course I'm here to attack you. Why don't you bring so many soldiers and come here for a trip?
But this cannot be explained clearly. Even if we usurp the throne, there must be a reason. To gain the world, one also needs a rationale.
King Duan clasped his fists, then put his hand on the handle of the sword tied to his waist, and said sternly: "Your Majesty listened to the slanderers and levied high taxes on the territory of Yan. If half of the harvest is not taxed, the country of Yan will surely starve to death. The people will be everywhere. Unable to endure it, thousands of people wrote to me, asking me to go to the capital to eradicate evil and protect the world."
(End of chapter)