This dynasty is really messed up

After one night, the bustling scene dissipated.Shang Xie stayed up all night, wandering around looking for the son-in-law, and finally sat down in the inn and sighed, desperately thinking that last night was just a dream, and what he saw was just a fantasy.After staying here for a while, it's time to leave. The martial arts conference in a month's time is nowhere in sight. Many martial arts practitioners have coveted the position of the martial arts leader for a long time.He understood that he and his second junior brother were the best candidates for the sect to compete for the position of leader, but one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.

Seeing his depressed expression, the white-clothed young man at the next table picked up the jug and walked to his table and sat down: "I said brother, you are so depressed early in the morning, if you have anything to say, I will come to you." Let me help you think of a way."

Shang Xie glanced at the person who came, and shook his head: "Brother Lao is worried, but I am not sentimental."

"Hey," the man frowned, "I'm a pawn shop, and I have seen countless people, so let me guess, well, you must be looking for someone, and there is a merchant in his name." Character?"

Shang Xie was a little surprised, and blurted out: "How do you know!"

The man smiled, and couldn't help but feel ridiculous, how could I tell you that Gongzi Shang asked me to come here to guard you, and explain to you the reason why he left without saying goodbye. "Hey, I always guessed right. This is a secret, so don't let it out. However, I can tell you that the man is in Jinling now. He is a prince, and he is called 'Gongzi Shang'." After finishing speaking, the man stood up. He took out the copper coins from his pocket, shouted the bill, and left.

In Jinling in summer, the lake is covered with dots of emerald green lotus leaves. The pink lotus flowers are swaying in the heat waves, the willows are blowing on the shore, and the breeze is blowing, and a few ripples are rippling on the emerald green lake.

In order to stand up for the emperor, Prince Shang specially held a banquet in his mansion.

The emperor had just complained about the intrigues and intrigues of the concubines in the deep palace, and then changed the subject and stated the purpose of today: "I heard that Xuanyuan Xia Yu sword was lost in your territory, why didn't you report it? You can You know, the world is in turmoil now, and even the Xuanyuan Xiayu sword that can stabilize the overall situation is lost, do you think this ancestor's country can still be kept?"

"Didn't I want to relieve your worries, Brother Huang? Besides, it is not the sword that really stabilizes people's hearts. How can such illusory things be reliable? In the end, it is necessary to take practical actions, or need Brother Huang Yours." The son-in-law said seriously.

"Well, I also know, but recently someone told me that this sword is in your hands, brother, is it true?" The emperor glanced at him with an extremely complicated expression.

Young Master Shang broke out in a cold sweat, he could not help but knelt down towards the emperor, and slammed his forehead heavily: "I have no ambiguity towards my brother, please be careful! Now the world is in the hands of my brother, and my brother is only a half-assed person, how dare I dare to dare?" Please rest assured, Brother Huang, for the sake of the stability of the world, I will devote all my efforts to find this sword and stabilize the hearts of the people!"

The emperor hurriedly stepped forward to help him up: "My brother is serious, it is enough if you have this heart. I know that Xuanying will not let me down. It doesn't matter if you find this sword or not, just as you said , practical actions are more important than those illusory things."

"No, Brother Huang," Young Master Shang vowed, "Xuan Ying will definitely do everything to find the sword, not only because of Brother Huang, but also for the sake of our ancestors!"

The emperor nodded in satisfaction, it seems that this effect is what he needs, everyone is devoted to him and has no second thoughts.

Shang Xie was led into the palace and arranged to wait in the lobby.

Two days ago, I was instructed by the man who claimed to be the shopkeeper of the pawnshop, and immediately packed my bags and rushed to this place without stopping.He just heard his name, knew where he was, and wanted to find him immediately.

Shang Xie smiled and thanked the maid who brought him tea.As soon as she touched his outstretched finger, the maid's face immediately turned red, and she quickly passed the cup, then turned her head shyly, and fled the scene quickly. The son-in-law Shang bumped into him head-on, her already flushed cheeks started to smoke now, she lowered her head and humbly apologized quickly.At this time, Gong Zishang didn't care about these things with her at all, he smiled politely, and told him to be more careful in the future.The poor little girl wanted to dig a hole in the ground and bury herself in it when she was told so.

As soon as Young Master Shang walked in, Shang Xie quickly put down his teacup and stood up hastily.

"Brother Shang, please sit down. You and I have known each other for a long time. Why are you so cautious? Sit down, sit down." He raised his hand and motioned Shang Xie to sit down. "The king apologizes for leaving without saying goodbye. It must have caused you a lot of trouble, seeing that you are so dusty, right, Hero Shang? The great disciple of the Wuyue Sword Sect." The corners of his lips curled up into a smile, and there was only a tea table between Shang Xie and the two of them. look at each other.

Shang Xie was taken aback, remembering that he didn't seem to have mentioned his real identity to him, and said embarrassingly: "My lord laughed at me. I concealed my identity for a reason. I..."

"No problem, I understand. If I were you, I would do the same. After all, you have a heavy responsibility." Young Master Shang waved his hand and interrupted him, "Then, have you found the Xuanyuan Xia Yu Sword? This is about the royal family after all. safety."

Shang Xie shook his head: "There are very few clues so far. I have been walking around the Western Regions for a year, but there is no news of Yin Shang, and the same is true in the Central Plains. I almost wonder if this person has died. He died and disappeared for a whole year. However, I learned that the swordsmanship used by Yin Shang is very similar to the teaching method of the Saint Cloth Sect in the Western Regions, so I beg the prince to pay more attention to people who are similar in the future."

"That's inevitable, it's just..." Young Master Shang sighed seriously. "Brother Shang doesn't know something, not only about Xuanyuan Xia Yujian, but also the case that you and I investigated together before, which also alarmed my brother. If the case cannot be resolved quickly, it may hurt the dragon's body. I have a suggestion, brother Shang, you might as well go to visit the emperor with me, so that he can rest at ease? He is resting at the palace right now."

Shang Xie thought about it carefully, and finally agreed.

That day, the emperor only called Shang Xie into the room for a long talk. When the two came out together, the emperor seemed very satisfied with Shang Xie. Inscribing a poem about the case of exterminating the family and robbing the prison, while he and the prime minister went south to visit the people according to the previous plan.

Shang Xie and his son Shang came to the capital again.

After careful investigation, they found that the number of cases during the year continued unabated, except that the number of prisoners escaping from prison decreased from two per month to one, and the case of extermination changed from one family per month to one family per month.In summary, including two cases last year, there are six cases of extermination this year.They are:

There are 104 people in the Liu family in the suburbs.Liu Yuanwai is a local wealthy businessman, and usually mainly deals in salt food.Except Liu Yuan, his thirteen concubines and the eldest son, all the others have white lines in their hands. 104 heads were placed in the stove, piled up into a mountain, and the kitchen seemed to be a place for cooking corpses.The doggerel was inscribed in the eldest prince's room.

Mr. Mo, a fourth-rank official in the court, is in charge of salt and iron.There are a total of 198 people in the whole house, except Mr. Mo's murder weapon is kept beside him. 198 heads were piled up under the maple trees in the mansion, and the green maple leaves floated down, adding to the special scenery.The title of the poem is on the brown-black tree trunk.

Zhao Shengyuan, the official of the imperial court, the official reached the second rank, and his wife was once conferred the title of second rank imperial wife by the former emperor.136 people in the whole mansion were killed, and their heads were buried in the big pit dug in the mansion. Only Zhao Shengyuan's head was exposed to the ground, and the tragedy was not seen until the loess was dug up.The title of the poem is on a piece of red paper hung on a century-old banyan tree in the mansion.

Ma Jiayin, whose family lives by circulating currency, was recently admitted to Jinshi, but suffered a massacre before he took office.The heads of the 36 members of the family were hung on the trees by the murderer with ribbons. When the wind blows, it seems that they can hear the terrifying screams.The psalm is inscribed on the back of the scholar.

Both Shang Xie and Gong Zishang went to various sites to investigate, but they did not get any reliable clues.

On this day, Gongzi Shang and Shang Xie met for tea in a bustling teahouse in the city.When the two were discussing the case, someone from across the street shot a dart into their desktop, with a note attached to it——If you want to know the truth, come to Chenghuang Temple in the suburbs.This person was so fast that it was too late to see who did it.

The Town God's Temple on the outskirts of the city has been dilapidated and there are few people there. It is said that the City God here has never been alive.When he arrived outside the temple, Shang Xie motioned for Young Master Shang to stop. He stepped forward and looked around to make sure it was safe enough, then gently opened the temple door and walked in.

Seeing the scene inside, Shang Xie couldn't help but be amazed, and the son Shang who came in later had the same expression.

Mountains of human heads were piled up in front of the dilapidated Buddha statues, and the bottom row has long been decayed and only bones are left exposed.The only head on the top floor seems to have just been cut off, it is considered fresh, as if it still has a fresh life.It's just that the rows of human heads under it were not so lucky, and they would not escape after all.The light yellow oil and water from the rotting human head flowed down together with the milky brain, covering layers of skulls until the last drop flowed to the edge of the table, and then slowly fell down.The hungry rats smelled the smell, "squeaked" and ran to lick the liquid on the ground, but fell to the ground struggling to die in less than a moment.

There are men and women here, their eyes are tightly closed, their expressions are very peaceful, they may have been killed by the murderer in their sleep, the murderer should have pulled off these heads with his own strength, the wound on the neck Very irregular, the flesh is still tearing.

For the people who are sleeping here at this moment, Gongzi Shang should be most familiar with it, because after all, he is the one who gave them the hope of rebirth.

Shang Xie is also very familiar with these people. He has seen the portraits of the wanted criminals countless times. He saw Zhao Dazhuang, but it is not what it used to be.A total of 21 heads, 21 fugitives are here, not one is bad.Now, in a most brutal way, he meets the escapees he'd only dreamed of capturing.

Gongzi Shang received a confidential letter, which listed in detail the recent activities of the six exterminated families.The heads of the six families all have a certain status and authority in the capital. Although they all hold different positions, there is always one thing in common. Almost all the relationships between them are based on one person there. Play a connection role.He couldn't figure out that apart from his own desire to rid the world of corrupt officials and villains for his brother, there were also Heren who would be as jealous as he was and cruelly murder so many innocent people.Unless, that person wants to kill them all, so that future generations will not be left behind.

He sneered, and he had guessed seven or eight points in his heart.Unexpectedly, after being together for more than ten years, he has changed so much, and he is so insatiable that it was a waste of the previous emperor's cultivation of him.Now all the evidence points to him, and he is fully sure to bring him down.

Prince Shang had asked and ordered the servants to be released, but they only followed his orders and did not do much.It seemed that the man really wanted to destroy the corpse.

Young Master Shang took the letter and slumped on the chair, leaning against the back of the chair very tiredly, pinching the bridge of his nose with his hands.

He did all this just to pave the way for his imperial brother and eradicate dissidents.This seemingly solid and indestructible country has actually been decayed for a long time, leaving only an empty shelf.He doesn't want to rule the country, he has never had such great ambitions since he was a child, he just doesn't want his brother to be spurned by others in the future, and people will use the word "incompetent" to summarize his life.He has already thought about it, and when the time is right, he will surrender himself. First, the people can praise the world for the lack of many greedy people. Known as wise and powerful.It's just that in the end it was cheaper for the real murderer.

He will do his best to protect the emperor's brother, because this is what he owes to the emperor's brother, and what he owes him will never be repaid for the rest of his life.Since the death of their young mother and concubine, the two brothers have depended on each other for life, living in this world for the time being by relying on their young and ignorant words.They were bullied and neglected, until the cold-blooded father saw the portrait of the emperor brother who looked exactly like his mother and concubine by chance, and then he remembered them and sent people to take them back to the palace from the hometown of his mother and concubine—the Western Regions. Received the same treatment as other princes, or even better.But it is difficult to erase those unbearable past events.

He was only 15 years old when he went to the Western Regions with his father. He was the first and last prince to go to war with his father.He hated this man who looked like him very much, because of this man, because the emperor saw the death of his mother and concubine with his own eyes, since then he dared not eat steamed food or bathe in hot water. Futian used cold water to irrigate his body, which caused the emperor's brother to be cold, weak and sick, and the root cause of the disease was hard to heal.On the last day of the war, he stabbed fiercely into the chest of the supreme man with millions of people with his saber. Together with the cavalry who had been ambushing behind the sand dunes for a long time, he opened the gate for them. Let this invincible army that has galloped on the battlefield for a long time be annihilated overnight. I am afraid no one will know how this battle failed, because the dead cannot speak.He wanted to tell the man that he was not a dog he raised, he was a wolf, a wolf who might bite him back anytime and anywhere.

The concubine mother is a princess from a certain country in the Western Regions. She came to the capital in the name of marriage. The man she loves the most in her life is also the man who hurt her the most.He concealed his identity and stayed in the country of his mother and concubine under the name of dead. It was not until two years later that he honed himself stronger than before before returning to protect the emperor's brother.From then on, on the one hand, he went back to Beijing to recognize his relatives, on the other hand, he used Yin Shang as a pseudonym, constantly honed himself in the Central Plains, and planned his own plan by the way.After returning to Beijing, many things have changed in the past two years. With the assistance of the current prime minister, the emperor sat on the dragon chair. All this seems to be thanks to the academician of the Imperial Academy who was very close to his father at that time, that is, the prime minister’s Father, academician of the Hanlin Academy, based on his close relationship with the emperor, announced the edict issued by the late emperor in advance, announcing the appointment of the emperor.

He hated his filthy soul and bloody hands.Until he met such a heartless, simple and clear Shang Xie, he had some inexplicable feelings and wanted to rely on him too much, and being with him seemed to relieve all his troubles, before and now.Gongzi Shang smiled lightly, even if they are already people from two worlds, even if they are about to part ways, then thank God for allowing them to meet and get acquainted.