Pei Gonggui

Jiang Zhan looked at Cai Lan with trembling lips, unable to speak for a long time, but Cai Lan swayed and fell to kneel beside Cai Yan, the porcelain jar in his hand was about to slip, when he suddenly heard a heavy panting from his feet——

Cai Yan's body moved slightly.

Jiang Zhan's eyes widened instantly, and his whole body trembled violently, while Cai Lan almost hesitated for a moment, then picked up the porcelain jar in his hand again, and slammed it violently on top of Cai Yan's head again and again.

As if he was tireless, he poured all his fear and anger into this moment, turned into a huge force and smashed Cai Yan's head, until Cai Yan's head was bloody and bloody, and his brains were scattered, and he didn't stop .

Jiang Zhan huddled in the corner, murmuring fearfully: "Mu...Mu Feng..."

When Cai Lan heard his weak call, the movement of her hands stopped suddenly, and she raised her bloody face in an instant, the corners of her lips twitched like crazy: "Don't be afraid...he will never, never again ... hurt us..."

At this time, there was a suppressed low cry from behind him.

He turned his head and saw that Jiang Xuan who had been hiding under the dining table just now had crawled out and was covering his mouth under the purple-gold gauze screen inside and outside the partition, staring at everything that happened inside.

"Cai, Cai Yan's people are still outside the palace... We can't let people find him dead here..." Jiang Zhan stood up while leaning on the edge of the bed, and waved at Jiang Xuan with trembling hands, "Go, call Hu Li here , he will handle this..."

He looked at Cai Lan again: "As for you, change your clothes quickly...wash your face, and go out later and tell Cai Yan's people that Cai Yan will live in Chongning Hall today..." As he spoke, he looked down. Staggered forward to the waist of Cai Wei's body, bent down and took off the token on his waist, and handed it to Cai Lan with shaking hands, "Then, take this token and go to arrest Zhang Ling in the prison. Release it and let him find a way to enter the palace to meet me!"

Jiang Xuan jumped up the support door and ran to the apse to find Hu Li, Cai Lan took the token from Jiang Zhan.After a while, Hu Li hurried over with Jiang Xuan, and when he saw Cai Min's tragic death, he took half a step back in shock.

Jiang Zhan and Cai Lan stood in a pool of blood, looking at Hu Li with a stern expression: "Eunuch Hu, what do you think we should do now?"

Hu Li's face was pale, his lips twisted, and it took a long time before he said:

"Close the palace gate."

On this day, Cai Yan, who was in power for a while, disappeared quietly in the Jiangzhan Palace. The news was hidden in the Chongning Palace, but Cai Yan's token was taken out of the palace by the murderer who killed him. Used to release Zhang Ling from prison.

Throughout the day, Jiang Zhan wailed mournfully and shouted "forgive me" from time to time in the four-doored Chongning Hall, in order to make the guards outside the hall think that Cai Yan was still alive and beating him as he had done in the past few months. All Cai Yan's food and clothing expenses were delivered inside and outside by Hu Li's confidant eunuchs, who lied about the delivery, which eliminated the concerns of Cai Yan's palace.

"Uncle Huang, why can we trust Eunuch Hu again now?" Jiang Xuan asked Jiang Zhan in a low voice while hiding in the hall.

Jiang Zhan took off Cai Min's clothes, and replied in a cold voice, "Because Hu Li is a weed, and now there is no Cai Min to climb to. If he wants to live, he can only depend on me."

It wasn't until night that all the people in the hall waited for Zhang Ling to ask for an audience.

Zhang Ling lied to the guards that it was Cai Yan who ordered him to come to discuss matters, and he showed a token, led a burly man into the palace, put on Cai Yan's clothes, and ordered him to leave the palace in a sedan chair at night and return to Cai's family. The mansion, and Cai Lan, who was in Cai's mansion, cooperated with him inside and out, and shouted that an assassin had entered the mansion that night.When Cai Yan's guards rushed to the inner courtyard, the courtyard was already in flames, Cai Lan knelt down and cried bitterly: "Brother! Brother!"

All the guards carried water to put out the fire and searched, but only found a dry corpse. From then on, Cai's cronies were in chaos.

The northwest rebel army in central Beijing was originally assembled by powerful forces from all sides, but suddenly they were leaderless, and internal strife soon broke out.Taking advantage of the chaos of the rebel army, Jiang Zhan secretly issued an edict under the guidance of Zhang Ling, ordering the reinforcements outside the capital to gather at the southeast corner gate. On the third night, a general attack broke out. After five days and six nights of melee, they finally counterattacked and won a big victory. , Take back the capital.

Jiang Zhan, who regained power, became more and more suspicious. Not only did he wash the palace with blood, but even Hu Li, who wanted to escape along the secret road, was intercepted by the palace guards, and finally he was taken to the imperial garden to be tortured and tortured. The court ladies watched and tortured to death.

And Cai Lan was granted the title of Marquis of Qinshun because of his meritorious service in saving his family and accompanying him faithfully, and he was extremely favored by accompanying the emperor every night.But Cai Lan couldn't help becoming arrogant, so that she drove Jiang Zhan's emperor's chariot around the palace, scolded, and even picked up Cai Yan from the palace without asking Jiang Zhan for instructions, and even misappropriated the work outside the palace. He wantonly built Cai's burned-out mansion, repaired the courtyard more magnificent and extravagant, and bought hundreds of servants and retainers himself.

The midwinter in the capital was crushed by this change of day. Before the spring thunder struck, one night, the Chongning Hall was warm and bright, and the warm quilt was taken off. Jiang Zhan got out of the brocade quilt. Zhi Yi looked at Cai Lan beside him and said: It has been several months since I was urged to deal with the treason case of the Cai family, you say, how should I deal with your father and brother?"

Cai Lan's cheeks were slightly red, and her expression was satisfied and blurred: "The rebel is my eldest brother, my father and second brother did not participate, and now my eldest brother is dead, and the rebels have all been convicted and recruited, how can Zhang Ling deal with it?" What about my Cai family? I’m afraid I’m old and confused? I can’t even distinguish between personal grievances and business affairs! Right now, the court is unstable and the people’s hearts are scattered. It’s time for employing people. The emperor should re-enable my father and the Cai family. Since the dynasty, generations have been loyal and loyal to the country and the people, and now if they are allowed to enter the dynasty again, they will definitely pay off their merits and become more loyal to the emperor."

Jiang Zhan paused with his finger on his cheek, and lowered his eyes. Seeing that he was silent, Cai Lan said, "What's more, isn't it all Pei Jun's fault? If it wasn't for Pei Jun's collusion with King Jin One place framed my elder brother, how could my elder brother rebel?"

Jiang Zhan frowned suddenly.

He slid his fingers onto the beeswax necklace around Cai Lan's neck, and tapped lightly: "What a beautiful bead, the color is good, but it needs polishing."

"This is a tribute from Fahua Temple. If you like it, I will give it to you." Cai Lan lay on the couch completely relaxed, closed her eyes and smiled.

"Are you sending me?" Jiang Zhan was still smiling, but the words he asked were extremely cold, "You are very knowledgeable, don't you know what the word 'tribute' really means?"

As soon as this question came out, Cai Lan woke up instantly, but before he had time to explain, he saw a silver light flashing in front of his eyes, and there was a sharp pain in his throat, and a sharp short knife had already pierced his neck hard.

Blood gushed out immediately, splashing on Jiang Zhan's pale and calm cold face.Cai Lan couldn't even yell out, he could only desperately clutch his windy throat and struggle to get up, but the next moment he tripped over the bed and crawled out in terror.

Jiang Zhan got up slowly, walked from behind him to in front of him, blocked his way, looked at him condescendingly and said:

"Since you like this bead, I will give it to you for burial."

The spring of the tenth year of Yuanguang started amidst the blood.

Because of the crime of disobedience, the Cai family destroyed the imperial court, insulted the saints, and even slaughtered the common people and fish and meat people. After being drafted by the three divisions and approved by the emperor, they ordered the world to hunt down and kill the ten clans of the Cai family.

When Cai Yan was arrested, he was riddled with many diseases and was as old as a dangling candle.When the court official broke into Cai's mansion with a seal, he stood in front of Cai's ancestral hall in a silver silk crane gown, holding a family-heired sword in his hand, and raised his hand when he heard the word "take down". sword, wiped his neck with a flick of his sleeve.

Until the summer and autumn of the following year, this unprecedented "disaster of ten clans" was still going on. In winter, the imperial court issued an order to cut down the feudal vassals, putting everyone in the four realms at risk, and encouraging the prosecution to completely eliminate The remnants of Cai's Dangpeng were wiped out.At this moment, Jiang Zhan finally felt that the power in the world had completely returned to his hands, so he ordered the Secretary of the Imperial City to investigate Pei Jun's whereabouts closely. A large amount of grain was transported to the south of the Yangtze River.

The new Si Cheng of the Imperial City Department laid out a map in front of Jiang Zhan, flatteringly said: "Please look, your majesty, the grain from Mei's Grain Village was transported to the tea mountain here."

Jiang Zhan looked at his finger, narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "You mean, all of Pei Jun and Jiang Yue are in this mountain?"

Si Cheng nodded and said: "Our people pretended to be woodcutters and saw Pei Jun enter the mountain with their own eyes. They are absolutely sure that they are in the mountain. I wonder what the emperor's plan is?"

After Jiang Zhan listened quietly, he looked down at the verdant green on the map, thought for a while, and ordered:

"Set fire to the mountain."