Chapter 143 – Tough Hand (Up)

Mu Feng’er was stunned, his eyes narrowed, he didn’t know why this guy in front of him, who looked like an old scholar, dared to make such an absurd request. A captured rebel, actually wants to see his own Lord Tiji, even if you are Xin Yang’s chief strategist, but on such a tense night, you can only be caught and imprisoned, temporarily saving your little life.

In his mind, Yuan Hongdao only knew that he had no way out, so he wanted to use his own three-inch tongue to meet Fan Xian and persuade Lord Tiji to let him live.

However, Mu Feng’er, an official of the Supervisory Yuan, detested these so-called strategists who only knew how to talk and weave strategies from the bottom of his heart, and there was no relevant explanation in the order he received, so he would not give Yuan Hongdao any more time to struggle.

Watching Yuan Hongdao open his mouth to speak in fear, Mu Feng’er confirmed his judgment more and more, this little old man seems to be really afraid of death to the extreme.

He frowned and didn’t give Yuan Hongdao another chance to speak, retrieved his short sword, and then smashed his fist over, directly smashing a bruise out of Yuan Hongdao’s temple and knocking him unconscious.

Yuan Hongdao only felt a buzzing sound in his head and a blur before his eyes, then he fainted on the ground, the moment before he fainted, his heart was full of anger and helplessness, because as the only person left in the first batch of nails of the Supervisory Academy, he deeply knew how strict the requirements of the Supervisory Academy’s mission were, and this Supervisory Academy official, since he did not know his own identity, of course, he would choose such a crude and simple way to shut himself up.

In the entire world, there were only three people who knew that he, the Chief Schemer of Xinyang, was from the Supervisory Yuan, one was His Majesty the Emperor who had already died on top of the Dadong Mountain, one was the old Dean Chen who had heard about the poisoning and was being hunted by the Qin Clan’s army, and another was Yan Ruohai, as for the palace maid who had once had a court appearance with him, she had already died in an accident.

Yuan Hongdao was unable to confirm his identity, and Mu Feng’er did not give him that opportunity in strict accordance with the regulations of the institution – this was perhaps the common sorrow of the infernal walkers in countless worlds from ancient times to the present day, and the likelihood of them falling at the hands of their own comrades was often greater than the likelihood of them revealing their identities and being silenced by their enemies.

He just had some remorse and intense worry.

Mu Feng’er did not know that the man who had fainted in front of him was his own old senior, nor did he know how many unknowable dangers his simple punch would bring to Kyoto in the days to come; he simply instructed his men to clean up the Elder Princess’ other courtyard, and then escorted the few remaining captives, locking them up in the deeply darkened prisons of the Supervisory Court.

Fan Xian had taken two ephedra pills in a row, and the strong medicinal power of the pills had caused a faintly ominous red color to cover his eyes, which he just couldn’t see very clearly in the dead of night.

He walked under the imperial city, respectfully welcomed in those ministers who were detained by the crown prince in the Ministry of Justice’s prison, and a pair of hands carried Shu Wu and Hu Da Shi, his thin lips slightly opened, but he was moved to say nothing.

No need to disguise anything, Fan Xian really touched by the civil ministers of the Qing Dynasty at such a critical juncture. He actually stood on his side. Although he had His Majesty’s posthumous edict in his hands, and although his father-in-law in Wuzhou had finally asked his most deeply hidden disciples and old friends in the court to stand up at the most urgent juncture, he was aware of how much courage it took to oppose the Crown Prince’s ascension to the throne at the Taiji Hall.

If Li Chengqian was as cold-blooded as himself or his second, I am afraid that these ministers would have already turned into dozens of wisps of English souls in the palace.

Shu Wu and Grandmaster Hu did not say anything, but only saluted Fan Xian. Shu Wu was the first person in the world to see the posthumous edict, and Grand Maester Hu was also clear about the contents of the posthumous edict, and knew that nowadays, although Fan Xian did not have the name of the Supervisor, he had the reality of the Supervisor.

His Majesty had given all the power to set up a successor to the throne to young Lord Fan, and this kind of trust, this kind of trust, was really hard to see in the past.

“Time is short.” Fan Xian knew that this was not the time to exchange words of admiration, and said in a harmonious voice to the group of ministers in the hall, “Please rest here, ministers, and in a few moments, an imperial physician will come to treat you.”

“Your Excellency go and busy yourself.” Grand Maester Hu said mildly, “At such a time, we people have no role to play, the flag has been waved and the shouts are out, if those rebellious ministers still won’t stop, then we need Lord Tanya to hold the Sword of the Son of Heaven and put them to death one by one.”

Although the words are light, the support for Fan Xian is revealed.

Fan Xian said, “I don’t know how many other big things, need you all adults to support, now the empress dowager has already known the evil behavior of the crown prince and the eldest princess, heartache, sick in bed, will be the dynasty affairs all entrusted to the two bosses, but also hope that the two adults to endure the pain of the skin for the time being, for me to stand for the Great Qing this class.”

“Dare not as wish.”

Shu Wu hissed his voice and opened his mouth to answer, dozens of ministers behind him also arched their hands, these civil ministers know that nowadays the situation in Kyoto is still complicated, and it is necessary to hurry up to finalize the grand unification as well. As for the news that the Empress Dowager was bedridden, these ministers subconsciously filtered it out in their minds.

No one was a fool, especially these civil ministers, they all knew that Fan Xian was planning to use the tactic of holding the empress dowager hostage. Now that he had the late emperor’s posthumous edict in his hands, the empress dowager, and the support of all the ministers, the entire Kyoto, at least on the surface, seemed to be stable.

The ministers began to rest on the spot in the side room of the Taiji Hall. Although this place is much better than the Ministry of Penalty prison, but still cold and clear, the floor is hard and cold, but the people are clear, in the big court meeting did not open before, the people of their own or do not rush to enjoy the good.

While Hu Shu the two Grandmasters followed Fan Xian into the Imperial Study Room. Inside this room where Emperor Qing presided over the court and approved zhangzhi day in and day out, the lights were still very bright. Fan Xian no longer needed to hide anything in front of the two university scholars, and a look of worry naturally appeared on his calm face.

After some conversation, Hu Shu’s two senior scholars’ faces were also heavy, they had thought that Fan Xian had completely controlled all the situations, but they hadn’t thought that the Crown Prince and the Eldest Princess had actually disappeared!

“Everything will be done according to the ancestral rules.” In the midst of the silence, Grandmaster Hu suddenly spoke up and said calmly, “No matter what kind of absurd and shameless things these chaotic officials will do, I’m sure they won’t surprise us. Although today can not immediately end the current chaotic situation, but today’s great dynasty must be opened, the crown prince and the crimes of the eldest princess, must be explicitly promulgated in the world.”

Shu Wu said cautiously, “Explicitly awarded to the world …… this …… how does this make the court to the world’s millions of people to explain?”

Grand Maester Hu said calmly, “Orthodoxy, great righteousness, is the explanation, if one acts in secret and does not state it explicitly, instead, it is not proper.”

Fan Xian nodded, thinking that this Grand Maester Hu was extremely close to his own thoughts as he still insisted on convening a great dynasty immediately at such a complicated time. Precisely because it was not known whether the Crown Prince and the Eldest Princess would escape from Kyoto or not, these people in the palace had to abolish the Crown Prince immediately, pass on the great lineage of the Qing royal family smoothly, and then edict all the four fields ……

Deliberations established, Hu Shu two bachelor began to personally write letters, the things that happened in Kyoto, to draw up a brief, and then by Fan Xian solemnly stamped the emperor entrusted to him line seal, and then stamped the empress dowager’s seal signature snatched from the Hall of Containing Light, and then signed his own name.

After sealing the dozen letters, Fan Xian handed them over to his own close friends, and sent them by the secret mail route in the Supervisory Academy towards the Governor’s Office of the seven major roads of Qing, as well as to the five armies stationed on the borderline.

Fan Xian knew that the letter sent to Cangzhou’s northern conquest camp would be of no use at all.

When Fan Xian stamped the Empress Dowager’s seal, Hu Shu’s two bachelors glanced at each other and shook their heads slightly, thinking that little Lord Fan had no qualms about being bold in front of his own face.

More than ten horseback messengers in the accompaniment of the sound of hoofbeats, with the fastest speed rushed out of the palace, rushed into the streets of Kyoto seems to never be able to daybreak, and all around the noisy sounds of fighting mixed together, and sometimes burning sometimes extinguish the fire head mixed together, toward the direction of the city gate.

They had an important mission on their shoulders.

“Can we get out of the city?” Grand Maester Hu suddenly gazed quietly at Fan Xian, this Grand Maester wanted to get a precise message from Fan Xian as to whose control the Thirteen City Gates Division was now under.

Fan Xian’s brow furrowed as he said, “There shouldn’t be a problem, my people went there at the beginning.”

Grand Maester Hu knew that Fan Xian never spoke falsehoods, and since he had already sent his people, he must have sent the most capable people for such a vital position like the Thirteen City Gate Division.

Fan Xian walked out of the imperial study, waved his hand and summoned Eunuch Dai who was waiting outside the door of the room, and said after a moment of silence, “Is there anything wrong with the Empress?”

Nowadays the situation in the palace changed early, Hong old eunuch and Yao eunuch sacrificed to heaven with his majesty, I’m afraid that they have long since died on top of the great east mountain, while Hou eunuch was shot to death with a crossbow and arrow by Fan Xian with exceptional indifference and callousness, the two years of unlimited popularity of Hong Zhu is along with the eunuchs and palace maidens of the east palace, was imprisoned in the cold palace, and Eunuch Dai today opened the palace door privately, made a big achievement, and is a person that Fan Xian trusts, it’s very natural for him to pick up the position of the head eunuch again. The post of the chief eunuch is now guarded by the forbidden army.

Nowadays the harem is guarded by the forbidden army, while the internal affairs are all handled by Eunuch Dai.

He answered respectfully with a stooped body, “By order of His Excellency, she has been escorted into the Cold Palace, and the Queen is still in good health, only her spirit is a bit disturbed.”

Fan Xian nodded, fleeing in the middle of the night only to be captured again, no one else could withstand this kind of mental torture.

The power of the drug gradually weakened a bit, Fan Xian felt a bit mentally exhausted, although he knew that this was not the time to rest, he still leaned wearily on the column outside the imperial study, looking at the square next to the palace, silent.

He did not lie to Bachelor Hu, and just as the Grand Imperial Prince argued, from the very beginning he could not really give up the City Gate Department, it was just that his manpower in Kyoto was really too small, and with thousands of officers and soldiers in the City Gate Department, it was simply impossible to solve the problem with that kind of violence, so he made a copy of His Majesty’s posthumous edict, and gave it to that person that he trusted the most.

He had confidence in that person, and he also had confidence in the City Gate Department’s Commander Zhang, that Commander Zhang was an authentic royalist, and after Emperor Qing’s assassination, he had only obeyed the Empress Dowager’s orders, and thus was able to keep the Qin and Ye families’ armies, hardened, outside of Kyoto.

No matter which way you look at it, the City Gate Department should have made a choice that was in Fan Xian’s interest at this time.

Fan Xian did not know that the pillar he was leaning on had once been the site of two conversations between His Majesty the Emperor and Chen Pingping, nor did he know that a man named Yuan Hongdao had been knocked out by his own loyal subordinates at this time and locked up in the prison of the Supervisory Court.

He is just very worried about Wan Er Dabao, and the father in the King of Jing’s House, there has been no news to return, and do not know whether there is anyone who can save his wife and great-uncle, the King of Jing’s House at this time the safety and security of how.

When the white-clothed Prince Xiao Yan came out from the back garden of the Kyoto Mansion, Fan Xian’s palace raid had not yet begun, and Mu Tie, who was in charge of subduing the Kyoto Mansion, was still in ambush outside the mansion in the darkness of the night. He straightened his white clothes and walked into a street and alley, and still had the remaining leisure to look back at the night sky, in which a firework had bloomed beautifully.

Yan Bingyun, who was usually cold and indifferent, looked at the fireworks in the night sky that dispersed in a matter of moments and smiled, knowing that Fan Xian had already made his move, and that he himself had to be quicker as well.

He wasn’t wearing his night clothes today, but rather a strikingly white outfit that seemed out of place with the darkness of the surrounding night. Because his mission to the City Gate Division was not to assassinate, but to subdue, dealing with those loyal generals, Yan Bingyun knew how to win each other’s trust.

Arriving at the City Gate Division’s stationed office, escorted by dozens of officers and soldiers with lances, Yan Bingyun calmly arrived at the office and waited for Commander Zhang to receive him.

“Lord Yan is now a wanted criminal of the imperial court, actually coming to see this general, you really don’t have a lot of guts.”

Thirteen City Gates Division Commander Zhang, the key figure controlling the opening and closing of Kyoto’s nine city gates, slowly walked out of the doorway and looked at the white-clothed Yan Bingyun with a frown and said.

Yan Bingyun quietly looked at him, and after a moment took out a piece of paper from his bosom and said, “His Majesty’s posthumous edict, I wonder whether Commander Zhang will accept it or not.”