The palace remains quiet during the day, with soldiers and horses standing in awe at every level of the palace.

The last trace of the spring cold has disappeared, the palace city is full of red flowers and willows in the deep spring, and the corridors are filled with flowers and trees.

The wind blows the petals of the flowers, flying like butterflies among the walking palace maids. This is a grand scene in the palace.

But at this moment, all the beautiful palace maids disappeared, and the petals flew uneasily between the cold light of the thick official boots.

"Luo Shi must be arrested." Cui Zheng walked among them, his face solemn.

"Will this make those rude soldiers more arrogant and make more demanding demands?" some officials were worried.

Cui Zheng looked at the flying petals: "Is it more rude and arrogant than Ankang Mountain?"

Of course not, these vulgar soldiers just complain about some food and drink treatment, just like poor relatives coming to rich relatives' homes to complain, with the purpose of trying to cling to and get more care.

Ankang Mountain directly wanted to destroy the rich relatives' homes and take them for themselves.

Officials dropped the subject and stopped talking.

"What we have to do is not to deal with these rude generals, but to win more generals and let them fight bravely." Cui Zheng said, "Now we are not afraid that they will have extravagant demands, but we are afraid that they will not have demands."

There were rapid footsteps coming from behind. A eunuch passed by the soldiers and officials and went straight to Cui Zheng. He whispered a few words. Cui Zheng's expression changed, but he soon returned to normal. He whispered a few instructions to the eunuch.

The eunuch's expression also changed, and he leaned over and stepped back.

Cui Zheng led the officials to continue forward, his figure became more upright and upright.

The crabapple flowers in Haitang Palace were in full bloom, and the entire palace seemed to be in a sea of ​​clouds. The emperor was sitting on a high platform. Cui Zheng led a group of officials to kneel down and told how many soldiers and horses there were in the capital. The good news of the victory over the rebels came from outside, and what would happen next for the imperial court.

arrangement.

The emperor sat sideways with a harp on his knees, leaning his head with one hand and strumming the strings with the other. The sound of the harp made no sound, but it did not affect the ministers' conversation, and it is not known whether he heard what the ministers said.

Until the woman's scream broke the peace between the monarch and his ministers.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! They have rebelled!" Concubine Luo came running with her hair half combed and her dress yet to be put on. Her expression was not lazy and coquettish, but angry and sad. "Your Majesty, they killed my brother. They killed Luo Guifei.

The family was surrounded and killed."

The emperor who was playing the piano opened his eyes, looked at the beauty who fell at his feet, and hurriedly stretched out his hand: "Xiang'er, the ground is cold."

Concubine Luo grabbed his hand and buried it in his lap, crying loudly. She pointed at the officials in the audience: "They faked the imperial edict, and they killed my brothers."

The emperor's eyes finally fell on Cui Zheng and others: "Have you killed Shi Qing?"

This seems to be a question, but also seems to be a sigh of statement.

"Your Majesty, many generals have complained to Luo Shiqing."

"The shortage of military pay in the previous period was also found out, and it is related to Luo Shiqing."

"So we need to bring Luo Shiqing to trial."

Officials explained one after another.

Cui Zheng stood up straight: "Luo Shiqing has committed suicide out of fear of crime."

The other officials who were explaining to the emperor were stunned. They didn't know the news yet. Concubine Luo, who had already learned the news, cried and pointed at Cui Zheng: "You didn't commit suicide, you falsely conveyed the imperial edict and asked people to kill him!"

The emperor looked at Cui Zheng and thought for a moment: "Is it an imperial edict? It seems that it has been spread throughout the sea."

The emperor's words were a little confusing, but they made everyone present feel inexplicably clear. He was scolding Cui Zheng like Quan Hai.

"Your Majesty, it is clear that this is not Prime Minister Cui's fault." An official explained hurriedly, "Prime Minister Cui only ordered Luo Shiqing to be arrested and brought to justice, and there was never any rumor that he wanted to kill Luo Shiqing."

"Your Majesty, due to the previous chaos across the sea, the capital was short of troops and horses, so we had to use newly transferred troops and horses from outside." Another official also said hurriedly, "This must be because they acted improperly..."

But these explanations were interrupted by Cui Zheng. He lifted up his official robe and knelt at the foot of the steps: "This is what I did and has nothing to do with others."

The officials around were anxious and sighed: "Prime Minister, stop protecting those soldiers at this time!"

"If I don't protect them! They won't protect His Majesty! Protect the capital! Protect Daxia!" Cui Zheng suddenly shouted.

The officials were startled and suddenly looked sad: "Master Prime Minister!"

Cui Zheng looked at the emperor again: "It was me who killed Luo Shiqing, and it was me who pretended to preach the imperial edict." He kowtowed heavily and took off his official hat, "I wish to die."

The officials fell to their knees with cheers and cheers, some were excited, some were angry, and some were choking and crying.

"Your Majesty, do you know how many crimes Luo Shiqing was found guilty of?"

"Your Majesty, our troops in Great Xia are in ruins all because of him."

"The guards from other places didn't know that Ankang Mountain was guilty. They only knew that Luo Shiqing Quanhai was guilty of evil."

Concubine Luo's cries on the high platform were drowned out, and the nonsense you yelled was as silent as a cow drowning in the sea.

The emperor's eyes were cloudy and he looked a little confused: "So, he should be killed?"

"Your Majesty." Concubine Luo screamed and shook his knee.

Some officials with a louder voice also shouted to Your Majesty: "The soldiers who killed Luo Shiqing were loyal to Your Majesty, but Luo Shiqing was guilty of a serious crime."

"Your Majesty, Ankangshan is using the name of crusade against Luo Shiqing." Another official trembled, "Many soldiers and horses in the world have been deceived by him."

"Killing Luo Shiqing now will appease the soldiers and horses of the world and expose Ankang Mountain's lies." Another official said, throwing a flag on the ground.

This is the confiscated Ankang Mountain rebel flag, with Luo Shiqing Quanhai’s name and charges written on it.

The official pointed with his hand: "Now that Luo Shiqing has been killed all over the sea, if Ankang Mountain does not withdraw its troops, it will no longer be possible for the wolf's ambition to deceive the world."

All the officials leaned forward and shouted: "Your Majesty, please give me a clear warning!"

Concubine Luo grabbed the emperor's sleeve and raised her head: "Your Majesty!"

The emperor wiped the concubine's delicate face with his sleeve and looked at the kneeling officials: "Okay, Luo Shiqing should be killed, let's kill him."

Concubine Luo cried loudly, but was drowned out by the wise voices of His Majesty the officials.

"The man has been killed. Those soldiers and horses should stop in the capital and go out to do what they should do." The emperor continued, looking at Cui Zheng who was kneeling on the ground, "Cui Zheng, get up, all of you, get up."

This meant that he was no longer blamed. The officials were overjoyed and thanked the emperor again and stood up, but Cui Zheng still knelt on the ground.

After the noise subsided, the emperor sitting on the high platform and the courtiers kneeling had a strange atmosphere.

"Master Cui, please get up," the emperor said again.

Cui Zheng straightened his back and said, "Your Majesty, Luo Shiqing has committed a serious sin and your concubine cannot serve as his attendant. Please punish the king by rectifying the law."

The emperor trembled, and Concubine Luo stopped crying and looked at Cui Zheng in disbelief.

"Cui Zheng, you want to kill me?" she shouted with a sarcastic voice, "Why are you telling the world? You are afraid that I will retaliate against you in the future, so you want to eradicate it!"

Cui Zheng did not look at Luo Guifei at all: "I want to cut the grass and root out the roots for the people of the world. If the imperial concubine is not eliminated, the Luo family will be impure, and the world will be unsafe."

More officials knelt down.

"Your Majesty, Luo was able to commit such a heinous crime only by relying on the imperial concubine, and that led to today's attack on Ankang Mountain!"

"If the imperial concubine is not removed, it will be difficult to comfort the hearts and minds of the people and the military, and it will be difficult to boost morale."

People knelt down one by one, and the sound was like waves, sweeping across the high platform again.

The emperor looked confused, as if he heard something but seemed to hear nothing. Concubine Luo Guifei looked at this scene and suddenly laughed.

"What are you talking about?" She leaned on the emperor's knee, "Why does it sound like the rebellion in Ankang Mountain is all my fault? If you want to quell the rebellion in Ankang Mountain, just kill me?"

No one in the audience answered, only official hats were taken off one after another.

Cui Zheng only looked at the emperor: "Your Majesty, if the imperial concubine is not removed, morale will be low, soldiers and horses will be unable to leave the capital, and the guards will not know what to do. We will have no face to face the world."

All the officials bowed their heads and raised their official hats: "Your Majesty, please make your decision."

Concubine Luo laughed sharply: "You don't dare to attack Ankang Mountain and the rebels, you only dare to come to persecute His Majesty!"

The emperor sat on the high platform and looked beyond the officials into the distance. The palace in Shengchun was really beautiful. It was the same as before, but it was different. What was different?

There are a lot of people missing. We can't see the palace maids flying like butterflies, and the eunuchs. We can hardly see the eunuchs. Are they all dead?

A figure approached in the emperor's cloudy vision.

"Your Majesty." These were four eunuchs. They knelt down in front of the emperor. The leading eunuch held an exquisite and clear wine glass in his hand. There was red agate juice in the wine glass, which was very beautiful in the sunlight.

"Your Majesty, please give me wine for your concubine," Cui Zheng said.

All the officials bowed their heads and shouted again: "Your Majesty, please give me wine for your concubine."

Concubine Luo grabbed the emperor's sleeve. She didn't know whether she was trembling or the emperor was trembling. She was about to stand up and fell down again.

"You dare! You dare!" she shouted repeatedly, hiding in the emperor's arms, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

The emperor's hand held hers.

"Your Majesty, please pray for peace in the world."

"Your Majesty, Luo's sins are so serious that it will be difficult to bring peace to the world unless they are eliminated."

Voices of persuasion and questions also rang in my ears, cutting off the cries of the beauty in front of me. The three eunuchs did not dare to pull the emperor, so they could only pull Concubine Luo hard. The concubine's dress, which had not yet been dressed up, became even more messy, revealing more of her nakedness.

The skin is radiant under the spring light.

The bright white and tender arm clings tightly to an old hand.

The withered vines suddenly spread apart as if they were overwhelmed.
To be continued...