The court has been very restless these days.
The commander of the Royal Forest Army was replaced by a member of his mother's Lin family by the newly appointed regent.
At that time, the imperial tutor tried hard to remonstrate with the emperor to remove the regent, but the emperor drove him back to his hometown to retire. The vacancy was filled by the regent.
All the first-grade tutors were dismissed from office, and a minister was killed in the main hall, which failed to make the emperor change his decision. Therefore, no one in the court dared to remonstrate.
Someone from the Ministry of Rites took the lead and proposed to hold a ceremony to worship the sky during the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Usually in disaster years or bad years, altars are opened to offer sacrifices to heaven. Now the reason given by the Ministry of Rites is that the dragon's body is not in good health, so it is necessary to offer sacrifices to heaven to pray for the health of the dragon's body.
The court was vaguely divided into three factions.
One is the faction re-promoted by the Prince Regent. This faction has a weak foundation in the court.
The second is the vast majority of courtiers who are unaware of the inside story, the so-called neutral faction.
Third, the Donggong Party, headed by Yunchu, secretly enlisted the neutral factions to jointly propose a ceremony to hold a memorial ceremony for the heaven.
Those courtiers who did not know the inside story also discovered that the emperor's health was getting worse and worse. When he went to court, the ministers who were close could see that the emperor's eye sockets were deeply sunken, his cheeks were too thin, and his sleeves were sticking out. His hand is like a stick of firewood.
We really need to hold a sacrifice to heaven.
Therefore, under the operation of the Donggong Party and with the approval of the vast majority of people, the Mid-Autumn Festival Night Sacrifice was decided.
The emperor did not appoint any more concubines to hold the Phoenix Seal, so the matter was left to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to jointly handle.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is here in a blink of an eye.
The moon came out before it got dark, and the round moon hung in the sky, symbolizing reunion.
Red lanterns were lit in the west part of the palace, and the largest Hall of Supreme Harmony was full of people. Hundreds of civil and military officials were standing there, the imperial guards were standing in large numbers, and the emperor was at the top.
As the night wind blew, the dragon robe outlined the emperor's thin figure. Concubine Yin couldn't help but feel distressed. Why did she feel that the emperor was only sixty years old, and he looked like an eighty-year-old man...
Magnificent music sounded in the main hall, which told God that the ceremony was about to begin.
A raging fire was ignited in the altar.
The two palace attendants supported the emperor and walked forward step by step. The emperor threw the talisman paper with scriptures written on it into the altar and burned it.
Master Xiang and Master Nie, who were standing at the bottom, looked at each other.
Master Nie threw something out of his sleeve and dropped it to the ground.
The people standing behind him saw him and sent signals one by one.
Soon, a guard came to report: "Report to the Prince Regent that an unknown person appeared at the gate of the palace, please give instructions!"
Chu Rui's eyes wrinkled: "Take some people to check, don't affect the ceremony of worshiping the heaven!"
"yes!"
The Imperial Guard went with a detachment.
Chu Rui's eyes turned left and fell on Yunchu's head.
He knew very well that this heaven-sacrifice ceremony was promoted by Yunchu, and he must use the ceremony for something.
pity……
A smile appeared on his face.
His smile was like a poisonous snake crawling up from Yunchu's ankles, making her hair stand on end.
She immediately looked away and shook off this terrible feeling.
She turned to look at Yunze not far away.
As a member of the Yun family, Yunze stood in the first row, very close to the emperor.
When a piece of talisman fell to the ground, he bent down to pick it up and walked to the edge of the altar with his head lowered.
He was about to take action when he was only half an arm's length away from the emperor.
"Eight hundred miles urgent report - report!"
A voice, approaching from far away, interrupted the ongoing ceremony.
Generally speaking, urgent reports from eight hundred miles are related to the war on the front line. They are the top priority and must be reported as soon as possible.
The music for worshiping the gods stopped at the scene.
A soldier wearing armor rushed to the front and knelt on the ground with a plop: "Report——! His Royal Highness, he has passed away!"
These words were like a bomb dropped in the crowd.
"What did you say?"
"The prince is dead, what do you mean?"
"Quick! Make it clear!"
The soldier fell to the ground and said tremblingly: "Not long ago, the 150,000-strong army arrived at the seaside of Dongling Kingdom. Suddenly, an enemy army attacked. His Royal Highness personally led 10,000 cavalry to catch up. However, he fell into the enemy's trap by mistake and was pierced by thousands of arrows... …”
"What……"
Yunchu's body shook.
Chu Yi is dead?
impossible!
How could the mere Dongling Kingdom kill him!
If the Dongling Kingdom ten years later has a stronger military force, Chu Yi may not be able to defeat him!
But today's Dongling is empty and vulnerable. How could Chu Yi die there...
"Why did the prince personally lead the troops to chase the enemy?" Yunze rushed over and grabbed the soldier's collar, "Explain clearly!"
The soldier broke down and cried: "That day, all the generals who led the troops had diarrhea. They were lying on the couch and could not get up, so His Highness the Crown Prince had to go there in person... After His Highness the Crown Prince passed away, the mighty General led 30,000 elite soldiers to snatch it back. The body of His Highness the Crown Prince was still a step too late, that group of people threw the body of His Highness the Crown Prince into the sea!!"
"puff!!"
The emperor spit out a mouthful of blood and almost fainted.
"Uncle Emperor!" Chu Rui supported the emperor with a worried look on his face, "Uncle Emperor, please take good care of the dragon body. If something happens to Uncle Emperor, who will avenge His Highness the Crown Prince? Also, now that the Crown Prince has passed away, the crown prince of the country No, for the sake of the future of the Jin Dynasty, the emperor must cheer up and choose the next leader!"
As soon as he said these words, the people present, who were still mourning the death of the prince just now, immediately began to think about who the next prince would be.
Now, there are only seven princes, nine princes, and ten princes left in the court. Which one will it be...
Yun Chu looked down at the ministers of the East Palace Party. Before their tears dried, their eyes began to wander.
The three adults, the Young Master, the Young Master and the Young Protector, lowered their heads and talked to each other.
She looked from a distance to Fan Ming, who was hiding in the Royal Forest Army, and saw Fan Ming shaking his head, which meant that the plan was cancelled.
It turns out that this is Chu Rui's plan.
Once the prince died, she, the princess, was nothing.
The East Palace Party automatically collapsed.
Yun Chu took a deep breath and braced himself.
Even if there is no evidence, she can be sure that it was Chu Rui who attacked the people in the military camp that made Chu Yi...
"Send...send an additional 100,000 troops!" The emperor gasped and spoke with difficulty, "Immediately march eastward, flatten the Dongling Kingdom, and avenge the crown prince!"
"Peel down the Dongling Kingdom!"
"Peel down the Dongling Kingdom!!"
"Peel down the Dongling Kingdom!!!"
In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, all the civil and military officials shouted in unison, their voices shaking the heaven and the earth.
"puff!!"
The emperor vomited blood again and fainted in Chu Rui's arms.
"The heaven-sacrifice ceremony will be held another day!" Chu Rui ordered someone to pick up the emperor, "We will discuss the matter of sending an additional 100,000 troops to the court tomorrow! Everyone, please step aside!"
The civil and military officials started talking about it and gradually dispersed.
Yunze came over in one stride and supported the swaying Yun Chu: "Chu'er, are you okay?"
"Brother, Chu Rui will never arrange for a hundred thousand troops to go for reinforcements!" Yun Chu calmed down and said, "Write a letter to dad, I can only trust dad!"
