Placid Chang'an

"What do you want, are you crazy?!" Zheng Yang held Su Cen in his arms, stared at the two eunuchs who took out the shiny knives from the box, and approached them step by step.

Castration, the punishment of a second death, is not as pleasant as a death.This is the champion of the new discipline who was named on the gold list back then, and he talked eloquently above the hall, and his elegance was second to none in the world.And now Li Sheng wanted to impose castration on him in front of all the courtiers, so what's the difference between beating him up on the spot? !

Su Cen buried her head and coughed for a while before she could straighten up, raised her hand and patted Zheng Yang's hand, as if to comfort him.

Zheng Yang suddenly understood that he deliberately provoked Li Sheng, so that Li Sheng's anger would be borne by him alone, so as not to implicate others.

This madman, this fool!

Zheng Yang gritted his teeth, opened his arms to protect Su Cen behind him, put on a desperate posture, his eyes were about to burst, "Whoever dares to come over! I will fight with him if anyone dares to come over!"

The light in front of his eyes suddenly dimmed, and he saw Mr. Zhang Junzhang, who usually knows how to protect himself the most, took a step forward, standing in front of them with his belly upright.

"If you want to move them, you have to destroy my old bones first!"

"And me!" Wen Xiu sent the little emperor to Zheng Yang's side, rolled up his sleeves and stood forward, "A bunch of old things, their lives are not worth a lot of money, you can take it if you have it!"

The courtiers glanced at each other, and they all stood up in twos and threes, surrounding the little emperor and Su Cen like a human wall.

Seeing this situation, Li Sheng rubbed his chin and smiled, "Interesting."

At the beginning, these ministers were like a group of quails, who shrank their necks and let him handle them. For a little favor or a little trick, they would bow their heads and obey him.Unexpectedly, at the critical moment of life and death, he was forced out of his bones.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

"Your Majesty, don't cry." Su Cen gently wiped away the tears for the little emperor, "My lord asked me to tell Your Majesty, don't be afraid, he will come to save Your Majesty."

"I... I'm not afraid... I believe in the emperor..." The little emperor said while crying, as if all the tears he had suppressed in the past year poured out, "You...you don't need to be afraid, I am the emperor ...I will protect you!"

Su Cen smiled weakly, but slowly stood up while supporting Zheng Yang's shoulders, pushed aside layers of crowds, and walked to Li Sheng step by step.

"Did you see? Even if you have a knife in your hand, you can't threaten people's hearts. Even if you become an emperor, you are destined to be a lonely family. There will always be people who want to pull you down from that position. , you can’t rest day by day, sleepless night, because when you close your eyes, there are ghosts who come to seek your life. Do you still want to be such an emperor?”

Li Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the person in front of him, and for the first time in his life, he had the urge to back away.

He simply stood still, with poison in his eyes coldly, "That's because they don't know what it means to be afraid. They are so afraid that they dare not come here even if they become ghosts. I advise you not to take yourself too seriously." Now, look at Li Shi, isn't he still hiding outside the city gate and not daring to come in, if he really took you seriously, he should have called in by now."

Su Cen smiled when he heard the words, and suddenly turned his head to look out the window. There were not even a single star in the pitch-black night, but Su Cen stared at the darkness as if he had a feeling and couldn't move his eyes away.

It seems that there are shouts cutting through the long silent night of Chang'an City, and something is fiddled, stirred, and brewed in the darkness.

A moment later, the artillery rang, and a flame exploded in the night in the southwest.

At the same time, a guard broke into the door and knelt on the ground as soon as he entered, "Emperor... Your Majesty, let's fight!"

Li Sheng's expression suddenly changed.

Everything around seemed to have stopped, and everyone was either surprised or terrified, and didn't know how to react for a while.Su Cen looked away and smiled at Li Sheng, "You will never win against him."

After a while, Li Sheng suddenly raised his sleeves and laughed loudly, "Look at your good uncle, your good prince, does he care about your life?"

The little emperor wiped away his tears, and stood up among the ministers, "Hear the orders."

Everyone in the room knelt down instantly.

"I am very happy that there are so many people standing with me now. You are all wise men and capable ministers of my Great Zhou. Fortunately, I have you, and Da Zhou is fortunate to have you! What I will say next, I want you to be Swear a blood oath in the face of Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizong, and the first emperor. If you violate it, you will be ashamed to be a citizen of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If something happens to me tonight, it will be passed on to Li Shi, the fourth emperor's uncle. Those who die tonight will be taken by the emperor's uncle. All traitors and sycophants will be compensated according to the state officials. As long as there is one person left, they will follow the lead of the four emperors and uncles, convey my will, and listen to their orders. Do you hear me clearly?!"

There was already a lot of crying at the bottom, and after a while, Wen Xiu led everyone to raise their hands and swear, "I... swear in front of Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizong, and the late emperor, Your Majesty... If anything happens to your Majesty, you will definitely abide by it." Holy will, support Ning Wang Li Shi to inherit the Datong, listen to his orders, and rectify Chaogang. If there is any violation, I am ashamed to be a citizen of Dazhou!"

"Okay, very good, let's all be flat." The little emperor raised his chin and smiled at Li Sheng. As long as there is still one breath left, the throne will not fall on Li Sheng's head.

After watching all this with cold eyes, Li Sheng sneered, "How do you know whether the person you are waiting for can come here alive? The mere troops of the Zhechong Mansion are also trying to fight against my Imperial City Imperial Army! Come!"

Bai Cho came in with a suit of battle armor in his hand, and dressed Li Sheng himself.

Su Cen suddenly understood why Li Sheng was dressed like this.

He was waiting, had been waiting.

Sooner or later there will be such a battle between them, either you die or I die, he has waited for this battle for too long, longer than he wanted to be the emperor, so long that he heard Li Shi come in The news was so exciting that it was hard to hold back.

The unicorn silver armor is majestic, and it can defeat the dragon-scale black armor that Li Shimobei often wears. In his dreams, he wants to have a fight with Li Shiming with a sword and spear, and cut him off under the horse in front of everyone. Trampling thousands of times!

When he held the black iron gun in his hand, he was so excited that he wept.

Flicking his silver armor, he took big strides and headed towards the battle of his destiny.

When Li Sheng's back disappeared into the darkness, the ministers who had just looked at death as home hadn't recovered yet.Li Sheng actually left, just left them behind and left.

Zheng Yang was patted lightly on the shoulder by Su Cen, his legs softened and he almost couldn't stop.

The little emperor stared blankly at the direction Li Sheng was leaving, and asked Su Cen, "Do you think the emperor will win?"

Su Cen stood with the little emperor, nodded firmly, "Yes, my lord is the best general in my Great Zhou, invincible and invincible."

The shouts of killing in the distance gradually approached, and the artillery fire became more and more intensive. Some people were hitting the city gate, arrows pierced through the air, some were begging for mercy, and some were shouting.

The entire city of Chang'an was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames, and no one slept peacefully.

Everyone is here, and in any corner of the Great Zhou, anxiously waiting for the fate to come.

That night seemed extraordinarily long, but it seemed that dawn came in the blink of an eye.

At dawn, two eunuchs came in, dark and cautious. Zheng Yang asked them how the fight outside was going, but no one responded, only telling them to change their court clothes quickly, and the morning will be as usual.

The sound of the guns outside seemed to be quieter, but the air was full of saltpeter and sulfur.A group of people were driven to the Hanyuan Hall by more than a dozen guards, the sky was not yet bright, and there was no one in the dark hall.

Not long after, two eunuchs came in and lit the lamps in the main hall one by one, flustered and hurried, trembling, fearing that they would lose their lives if they were too slow.

Trembling lights were lit up in the entire hall, making the shadows of people more and more enchanting.

After finally lighting the last lamp, the two eunuchs ran out.

Before walking down Longwei Road, someone wiped his neck with a knife.

Someone shouted outside: "The new emperor is here!"

Everyone looked outside the hall, only to see Li Sheng coming slowly surrounded by several trembling eunuchs, wearing a dragon robe and wearing a twelve-pronged crown.

Everyone's heart went cold.

Su Cen took a step forward, "Where's the prince?!"

Li Sheng passed him step by step to the supreme position without seeing him, and with a wave of his sleeves, the eunuch at the side immediately said: "The new emperor is on the throne, and all the gentlemen welcome you."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one knelt down.

Li Sheng was not annoyed, and looked at the people in the court with a peaceful expression.

Su Cen could no longer care about the absurd scenes in front of him, broke free from the crowd, and ran out.

He didn't believe it... Li Shi would not lose, let alone die, he must be waiting for him somewhere, he had to find him!

As soon as he ran out of the palace gate, the Danfeng gate in front of him was suddenly knocked open!

People from the brigade rushed in, banners were unfurled, and the sound of killing was loud.One of them took the lead, dressed in black armor, shining brightly against the first-born sunlight on Longshouyuan, and he couldn't look directly at him in panic.

When he came to Longwei Road, the man got off his horse and climbed to the top step by step like every morning in the past. There is a bright road under his feet, and the glory behind him.

Su Cen felt that all the strength in his body was exhausted, and he slowly slid down along the palace door.

Until a hand with a black jade finger puller was handed over to him, pulling him into his arms.

When they entered the main hall, a group of old officials were almost crying, calling out "Prince", and couldn't say anything else.

The little emperor rushed over, regardless of Xuanjia's coldness, he refused to let go.

In the end, Li Shi took a little effort to get the person to let go, and picked up the person's arm again, hugging him like he did when he was a child.

Zheng Yang also wanted to jump up, but was wedged in place by Li Shi's cold eyes.

Sure enough, nephews and nephews are treated differently!

Li Shi held Su Cen with one hand, and hugged the little emperor with the other, so he didn't have the energy to meet Zheng Yang's pounce.

After getting everything in order, he looked up.

Li Sheng was still looking at the people below with a smile on his face, he really looked a bit majestic.

"You really came to attend my enthronement ceremony."

"Yeah, you are truly lonely." Li Shi climbed up to the imperial platform step by step, overlooking Li Sheng on the dragon chair, "Song Fan is dead, and Bai Cho is also dead. The imperial army has surrendered, and you have become your own emperor."

"I didn't lose! I am orthodox, and I am the son of Prince Chongde!" Li Sheng waved his sleeves, "Thousands of people in Dazhou will come to pay homage to me in the future!"

The soldiers and horses outside the main hall had already followed closely behind. Qi Lin led the troops to surround the main hall, and kept a close eye on Li Sheng to prevent this man from being forced to bite people in a hurry.

At the end of the road, this is already a dead move, and he has indeed lost.

Li Sheng sat on the dragon chair and laughed loudly, "Just because of you... just because you want to arrest me, that despicable bastard, what are you!"

Suddenly, a cold light flashed, and there was a dagger hidden under the dragon robe!

"Escort!"

There was chaos in the hall for a while!

But Li Shi just stepped in front of Su Cen, and gently pressed the little emperor into his arms.

Moments later, blood spattered, and Li Sheng killed himself on the dragon chair.

This chair has always been born with blood.

Li Sheng has been drunk and obsessed with this all his life, and eventually died of it.

In the end, that pair of gazes also stared at the outside of Hanyuan Hall foolishly, it turns out that this location is such a scenery.

Li Shi waited until the people from Tuduo Sanwei came in and cleaned the main hall before he put the little emperor down, and said as usual: "Forget about going to court today, I will give you a day to rest. From tomorrow on, everything will go on as usual."

The little emperor looked at Li Shi with his mouth pouted, and the golden beans in his eyes turned a few times.

Finally, he couldn't bear it, and touched the person's head again, "Good job."

After finishing speaking, without further delay, in front of everyone, he led Su Cen and walked away.

Su Cen noticed the fiery gazes from all over the back, and felt that it was like a light on his back, but it was funny.After all, these people paid wrongly with affection. I was expecting Prince Ning to comfort them one by one, and then confided in them with snot and tears. I never thought that Prince Ning had finished his duties and just wanted to go home and sleep.

To appease the officials, that is what the emperor does.

The sunshine outside the main hall was still good, Su Cen slightly squinted his eyes, the night was too long, and he was not used to it for a while.

Li Shi accommodated him, and walked slowly down the Longwei Road side by side, step by step, as long as half a lifetime.

After falling down the last stone step, Su Cen's up and down heart finally fell to the ground.

Yanyan looked over with a smile, "Where are we going?"

"Go home," Li Shi said, "Go back and pull weeds to mend the hole."

More than half a month later, Chang'an City finally came out from the haze of King Yu's treason, Li Sheng's remaining party was wiped out, and the secret door was gone.

It was only later that Su Cen learned from Qu Ling'er that Song Fan died from random arrows, and that arrow was not aimed at him at all.After Su Cen entered the palace that night, they obeyed Li Shi's arrangement and moved all the people along Zhuque Street away, and it happened that Huang's family was among them.The people at the secret door became so angry that they used bows and arrows to shoot and kill the common people. Huang Wan'er, holding the child in her arms, was placed on the list, just within the range of the shooting.

The severe pain imagined did not subside, and the crying of the child in her arms did not stop. Huang Wan'er opened her eyes tremblingly, but saw a pair of peach blossom eyes looking at her with a smile.

Afterwards, Huang Wan'er changed her son's surname.That person said, how could his son be named Huang, but he didn't even know his own name, so he might as well take the surname Bai, come here in a clean manner, behave in a clean manner, and don't have anything to do with people like them.

Su Cen understood that he finally knew what he wanted.

Later, people borrowed Li Sheng's year name, which only came and appeared for a moment, and called that coup "a change made in heaven".

The East and West Market reopened, the Suzaku Street was lit up with lights and festoons, Prince Ning still kept his word in the court, and the little emperor was still reprimanded to lose the golden bean.But fortunately, someone can ask for help now. As soon as the little emperor was scolded miserably, he asked, "Su Aiqing, what do you think?"

The scientific examination, which has been delayed for nearly a month, is finally on the agenda. Since half of the courtiers in the "Natural Change" defected to Li Sheng at the beginning, these people were later dismissed from their posts and investigated. Da Zhou urgently needed a batch of new ones. Officials came to fill the previous vacancies, so this imperial examination is particularly important to everyone, and the chief examiner who presides over the imperial examination is even more important.

It's just that they didn't expect that such an important candidate would be unanimous, and they all pushed Su Cen out.

Mr. Su really can't laugh or cry, he is neither an official of the Ministry of Rites, nor was he from the Imperial Academy, but a criminal law repairer from Dali Temple came to preside over the imperial examination, what kind of job is this?

But in the face of the enthusiasm of the officials, each of them was almost buried in spit, and Su Cen could only take a step back. Youyou's mouth was blocked.

Mr. Su is now living in Xingqing Palace, the reason is that his small house has been completely taken over by Qi Lin and Qu Ling'er.Qi Lin was expelled from Xingqing Palace because of Princess Ning's affairs, and had nowhere to stay, so he had to go to Qu Ling'er instead.

From then on, the two lived a life without shame or shame.

In the final analysis, Qi Lin was kicked out because of him, not to mention that his house had been given to Qu Ling'er long ago, if he still insists on leaving now, it would be a little ignorant.

With snot and tears and quick hands and feet, Qu Ling'er packed the things for someone, called a donkey cart at the door, and sent them to Xingqing Palace in one fell swoop.

Seeing Li Shi's meaningful smile, Su Cen said righteously that he was just staying here for a few nights, and he would naturally move out when he found a house in Chang'an City in the future.

It's just that he missed the cost of land in Chang'an City. He is no longer the second son of the Su family. With that little salary, he is estimated to be seventy or eighty years old before he can buy a house.

He has to wait for a long time to live under the same roof as Prince Ning.

The clapper sounded at the third watch, and Su Cen poked his head out of the incense tent to take a breath, his shoulders slightly exposed in a lotus flower, and his brows were watery.

"I...I can't do it anymore, I have to go to court tomorrow," Mr. Su scolded, "If you are so unreasonable again, I...I will sue you in front of the imperial court!"

Prince Ning chuckled a few times, "What are you telling me? Win a hundred battles? Or keep going?"

Su Cen leaned down and bit the man's shoulder hard, "I'm suing you for being an old fox who has become a sperm and squeezed blood to harm people!"

The old fox narrowed his eyes slightly, and pushed the person back under him, "You are the one who caused it."

Except for the light in the Xingqing Palace, the entire Chang'an City fell asleep quietly, and the watchman knocked on his clapper loudly, "The sky is dry and the things are dry, be careful of the fire and candles, and have a good night, peace and prosperity in Chang'an."

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The author says:

It's over here, thank you for your company all the way, I have a lot to say before, but I really don't know what to say at this point.I have been in Taiping Changan for nearly two years, and I am really sorry for the friends who have been chasing me all the way. It also witnessed that from studying, defending, to working, this story was basically successfully written according to my expectations, which can be regarded as a complete accomplishment.Next, of course, there will be extra episodes. Many things that have not been explained in the main text will be presented to everyone in the extra episodes. If you have anything else you want to see, you can write it down and I will think about it.The next book is probably "Yunxiang Clothes", and there may be an introductory article first, after all, the last volume of Taiping Chang'an is too gloomy, everyone can take it easy and collect it first.

Finally, thank you all, bow!

The 2nd is still the new year, I wish you all a happy new year!