Oh~Oh~Oh~~~

The rooster's whistle woke up the sleeping people of the city.

Zhang Laojiu, who lives in the west of the city, got up early as usual, splashed his face with cold water, picked up a hoe, and prepared to go out to farm.

At that time, the people did not have the concept of 'eating breakfast', only lunch and dinner.

Since the moth thief, wars have broken out in the Central Plains, and countless people have been forcibly displaced. Don't say two meals, if you can have one meal, there won't be so many corpses starving to death on the way.

Compared with the Central Plains, Guanzhong is much more stable, and most people don't have to worry about food and clothing, at least they won't go hungry.

For the people at the bottom, this is already a great favor.

After Zhang Laojiu went out, the sky was not yet completely bright, he hummed an unknown tune, and his mind was thinking about how much grain he could have left in his house this year in addition to taxes.

After walking for a while, he suddenly stopped, his simple yellow face seemed to be a little puzzled, and he sniffed his nose again, as if there was a fishy smell in the air.

This fishy smell is not like the slaughter of chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs, but an indescribable feeling, and the smell is a little stuffy to the chest.

People are always curious about the unknown.

Even Zhang Laojiu, who is a farmer, is no exception, he is curious, and decides to find out, so he slowly gropes in the direction where the fishy smell is wafting.

The smell wafted from the direction of the market, and at this time the vendors had not yet opened their stalls, and there was not a single pedestrian on the street.

When Zhang Laojiu walked to the gate of the market, the fishy smell was already extremely strong, and even a little smoky.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhang Laojiu's eyes widened, and the whole person was stunned as if he was stupid!

Dead person!

So many dead people!

Not far in front of him, two or three hundred corpses were stacked on top of each other, like a square tower, several people high.

Zhang Laojiu is just a peasant with his face facing the loess and his back to the sky, and he has dealt with the land all his life, how can he ever see such a terrifying scene.

At the first glance he saw, he was frightened by the fierce eyes of the corpse facing him, and he fell backwards to the ground.

Then he crawled and ran to the official mansion as if he was fleeing, and beat the big leather drum at the gate of the Chang'an Lingfu with a bang, a knock.

…………

Weiyang Palace, Xuanshu Palace.

Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, ascended the throne of God, and from his yawning from time to time, it can be known that the Son of Heaven did not sleep peacefully last night.

"Ministers and others to see Your Majesty, Your Majesty Qianqiu." The hundreds of officials in the palace bowed down one after another and asked the Son of Heaven for peace.

Liu Xiegang wanted to say, 'Zhongqing is flat', but he looked down, no!

"Why are there so many missing Qing family members in the early dynasty today?"

Liu Xie asked curiously, when there were meetings on weekdays, one or two people couldn't see it at all. But there are twenty or thirty people missing, as long as they are not blind, they can see that after all, there is such a large empty space.

"Why isn't Sikong here?"

When he looked ahead, Liu Xie became more and more curious, and the three princes who were at the top were only Yang Biao and Wang Yun, and Huang Wan was missing.

"Back to Your Majesty, Huang Sikong has taken two months of sick leave, and he may not be able to enter the court for a short time." Wang Yun, who was in charge of personnel, spoke up.

When Liu Xie heard this, since Huang Wan was sick, he didn't care about him, and pointed to the empty positions and asked, "What about the others, are they also sick?" ”

Except for Sikong Huang Wan, Jiuqing has three people missing, and the other doctors, Ling Shi, and Lang officials are also missing a large piece.

What about people?

Everyone in the hall looked at me, and I looked at you, but they didn't dare to speak.

"Why didn't the Qing family speak, but I asked the wrong question?" Liu Xie became more and more curious about this, in the past, there were always disputes between the Qing family in the court, but why is it so quiet today.

"Back to Your Majesty, the other ministers can't come."

After a moment of silence, Taiwei Yang Biao came out and reported to the Son of Heaven: "Just last night, more than 20 courtiers, including Taichangqing Geng Mi, Tingweiqing Du Xuan, were tragically destroyed, and the corpses were all placed in the courtyard, and none of them lived. ”

When the hundreds of officials in the hall heard this, although they were all mentally prepared, they couldn't help but be moved when they heard it from Yang Biao's mouth again.

More than 20 courtiers, as well as many officials in the city, hundreds of mansions, all finished overnight. Combined with the officials and officials who were strewn corpses on the streets, the number of people who died in this night was seven or eight thousand.

This is still at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

How appalling!

"What!" Suddenly learning of this, Liu Xie, who was on the throne, was shocked.

In Liu Xie's impression, the only person in the world who dares to do such a ruthless thing is Dong Zhuo.

Can......

Not long ago, Dong Zhuo died.

The young Son of Heaven was at a loss for what to do on the throne, with a hint of timidity in his blank eyes, and the officials and ministers below were silent.

For a while, the huge Xuanshi Hall fell into a stagnant silence.

After a long while, the Son of Heaven finally came to his senses, restrained the fear in his heart, and tried his best to calm his tone: "Taiwei, do you know who did it?" ”

Yang Biao hesitated for a moment and shook his head slightly: "I don't know." ”

However, in fact, the day before the incident, Yang Biao had received a secret letter, saying that he was told not to go out at night, otherwise there would be a big disaster.

As for who wrote this letter, it was not clear at first, but now, I guessed that it was not far from ten.

Who else but the army can shed thousands of lives overnight.

As for who is behind the control of that army, many people in the palace know it.

Geng Mi, Du Wan and others teamed up to deal with Lu Bu, Yang Biao knew something, he thought that a little punishment would be enough, but he didn't expect Lu Bu to order the extermination of their entire family.

But even if they know the truth of the matter, who would dare to say it?

Lu Bu is so crazy that he dares to destroy the whole family, they have no military power, how to compete with them. Being able to survive last night, maybe they should also thank Lu Bu for his grace of not killing, which is giving them a chance to stand up again.

"Your Majesty, such a vicious thing is definitely not something that ordinary thieves and Jiangyang thieves can do. Such a big movement is bound to alarm the army defending the city, Your Majesty may wish to summon the general who guarded the city last night into the palace, and you will find out as soon as you ask. As the master who taught the Son of Heaven, Ma Riyan gave his own suggestions.

Liu Xie's words are more or less to listen to, and what Ma Riyu said is very reasonable.

"Who was the general who guarded the city last night?" Liu Xie asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's Song Xian."

"Someone, pass him into the palace."

After half an hour of effort, Song Xian arrived outside the Xuanshu Palace.

When the Son of Heaven learned of this, he had him come in.

Song Xian entered the palace for the first time, and he lowered his head all the way, feeling worried. Now facing the Son of Heaven and hundreds of officials, he is even more restrained, moving his steps like a little woman, clenching his fists and bowing: "Humble Song Xian, please see Your Majesty." ”

Liu Xie nodded, signaling that Taifu Ma Riyan could wait for questioning.

Ma Riyan first looked at Song Xian, and then interrogated him in front of everyone.

"Was your vigil last night?"

"It's a lowly position."

"Have you seen or heard anything moving then?"

"Hui Taifu, when I was patrolling the night last night, I saw a large number of officials and errands gathered in the city. I wanted to find out, but who wanted to be attacked by thieves and almost succeeded. ”

"Who attacked General Song?"

"It's the new school officer on the city tower, he took the documents of the Sikong Mansion, saying that it was a temporary change of defense, and he believed it at that time."

Hearing this, the ministers in the palace whispered, how could they still involve Sikong Huang Wan.

Ma Riyan coughed lightly twice, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then continued to ask, "Then do you have any evidence?" ”

"This is the paperwork."

Speaking, Song Xian took out the Huai Chinese book.

Ma Riyan took it and opened it to take a look, and his brows furrowed for a moment, but he didn't expect that it was really from Sikong Mansion, and the seal on it couldn't deceive people.

"And what did you do after that?"

"Purge the city of traitors, and then stick to your post."

Song Xian replied, in fact, his first reaction at that time was that this matter was definitely aimed at the general. However, as soon as he led people down the city tower, he bumped into the subordinates sent by Cao Xing, saying that he was asked to stay in the city tower and not have to worry about the affairs in the city.

After Song Xian knew, he returned to the city tower.

"Did any other troops enter the city last night?"

"Back to Taifu, the east, west, and north sides are closed with city gates, and as for the south, before the humble post can be verified, he was summoned to the palace by His Majesty."

Don't look at Song Xian's lack of words on weekdays, he answers questions in an orderly manner.

"Since there is no problem in the east, west and north, maybe the problem is in the south. Your Majesty may wish to summon the guards of the south gate and question them face to face. ”

The Great Sinong Ding Palace is very opportune, he has always been a shrewd person, and he knows how to do many things without having to point them out.

Soon, the school officials of the South City Gate were also called to the palace.

When Ma Riyan asked about last night's incident, the general named 'Yao Tong' seemed very excited, and he insisted on the spot, almost crying bitterly: "Your Majesty, it's Yuan Shu, it's Yuan Shu, Your Majesty!" ”

His mentor treated him with great kindness, and he did what he was told, risking a great deal to let them into the city. As a result, he actually recruited a group of hungry wolves with green eyes and killed his teacher's entire family, young and old.

He vowed to avenge this revenge!

Hearing that Yao Tong confessed Yuan Shu, everyone was in an uproar again, and this news was even more exciting than Sikong Huang Wan's involvement.

"Nonsense, the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, who are deeply favored by the emperor, how can they do such a fatherless and monarchless thing? What's more, Yuan Shu didn't have a deep grudge against these officials, so why would he send troops to kill his entire family? ”

Finally, someone in the hall couldn't help it anymore and came out to reprimand angrily.

Although the Yuan family is not in the court, there are still many of their protégés in the court.

Everyone looks at it, it is a high attack in the imperial history.

"I want to ask you, if this matter is really Yuan Shu's doing, then where is his benefit? Is it deliberately to stink his reputation and make the world criticize? Let me ask you, would you do this if it were you? ”

Gao Zheng's debate can be described as hitting the nail on the head.

The ministers in the palace nodded secretly, none of the people who can mix up to the court level are fools.

In addition to the initial surprise, after thinking about it in a blink of an eye, I soon discovered many suspicious points.

The simplest point is that killing so many government and opposition officials of Geng Mi will not benefit Yuan Shu at all. No matter how stupid he is, he won't do such a thing that hurts others and hurts himself.

Since this point has been ruled out, the biggest possibility left is that someone deliberately planted the blame so that Yuan Shu would take the blame.

Who could it be?

Everyone in the hall had their own ideas, and no one said it on the surface. Say it now, I can't guarantee that tomorrow it will be my whole family who will be on the streets.

"Although the person who entered the city is not Yuan Shu, he is also his general Pan Long!"

Seeing that Baiguan didn't believe him, Yao Tong said loudly, and then raised his swollen face and said humiliatingly: "Your Majesty, have you seen my face?" This is when Pan Long left last night, he slapped me hard, and he said at the time that he wanted to go back and ask Yuan Shu for credit. It's too deceitful to deceive people like this, please be the master of your subordinates! ”

Yao Tong even forgot that whether it was Yuan Shu's army or not, he put it into the city without the consent of his superiors, which was already a collaborator.

Sure enough, no one in the palace was willing to deal with this little general, and condemned him as a crime of collaborating with the enemy, so he was pulled out of the palace and sent to court prison for trial.

"Your Majesty, General Yuan is completely unjust in this matter, please be clear." At the instigation of Gao Xian, a group of former officials of the Yuan clan came out to intercede for Yuan Shu.

"Heh, there is a way to know people and faces but not hearts, this kind of thing, who is right? Your Majesty, I beg you to issue a holy decree to arrest Yuan Shu and put him in prison to sue the souls of the dead in heaven. ”

"Doctor Taizhong is right, Your Majesty must not be deceived by Yuan Shu's appearance!"

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The minister seconded the proposal."

Gradually, the hundred officials in the palace were divided into two tributaries, and they fought against each other.

Liu Xietou, who was sitting above, listened loudly, he was only ten years old, and he obviously did not have the ability to make clear judgments, and he was in a dilemma, not knowing what to do.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a plan, maybe he can distinguish the truth from the fake."

At the critical moment, Ding Gong once again made suggestions.

Liu Xiezheng didn't know what to do, and when he heard this, he immediately looked at Ding Gong: "What does Ding Qing have a high opinion?" ”

The officials in the hall also looked at it together.

Ding Gong didn't sell Guanzi either, and said slowly: "General Yuan has now passed the Wuguan Pass, and it is estimated that he will be able to arrive in Chang'an soon." Your Majesty may wish to issue an edict to let General Yuan station his army in Chanshui and enter the capital alone. If he dares to come, it means that he has a clear conscience, and if he does not dare to respond to the edict, he has a ghost in his heart. ”

"Ding Sinong, you are the heart of a villain!" Gao Xi refuted Ding Gong's suggestion on the spot, and this matter would soon spread throughout Chang'an, and then the whole world would know about it.

Yuan Shu knew about it, and he didn't dare to enter Chang'an alone, and it was clear that he wanted him to sit on the charge.

Ding Gong ignored him and continued to say to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, just in case, we should also make preparations with both hands. In case Yuan Shu is difficult, it will be troublesome. ”

"Sage Chang Yun: You can't have the heart of harming people, and you can't do without the heart of preventing people. Yuan Shu's strong generals are like clouds, in case of difficulty, there may be no one in Chang'an City to stop, so Weichen suggested, please ask Your Majesty to quickly adjust Wen Hou to return to Beijing, Gong Wei Jingshi. ”

For this proposal, everyone in the palace was in a war of words.

Liu Xie thought about the throne for a while, nodded and said only one word: Quasi.