The morning and autumn colors touch my fingers, and the fireworks weep sadly.

The loyal bones are buried in the palace city, and the imperial power is drunk with the original intention.

This morning in Xianyang Palace, Emperor Zhou, who had not slept all night, could not suppress his anger.

There were many people kneeling in the hall, except for the Grand Sima Xu Xuanzhi, the Imperial Guard Commander Yue Qi, the deputy commander Liu Xin, the two princes of the Han family, Amu, the Yin of Jingzhao Prefecture, and Zheng Heng's brother and sister, etc. all knelt down.

Last night, the imperial guards searched all night but couldn't catch even a small remnant of the Fu family. This made him frightened!

He had received the news as early as when the remnants of the Fu family came to Beijing. Everyone knew that it was impossible for those few people to succeed in the assassination, so he did not immediately order the arrest, but wanted to use them to catch bigger fish.

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Sure enough, the Xie family master took the bait, which made Emperor Zhou very satisfied!

Emperor Zhou felt that although he was weak and did not have the same literary and martial arts skills as the previous emperor, as an emperor, he was diligent in serving the people and organizing new policies, which was no worse than the previous emperor.

But these were not enough. He wanted to take back power and implement reforms to make the Zhou Dynasty more powerful.

After six years of preparation for the Northern Expedition, he wanted to recover the lost territory, unify the Central Plains, and become an emperor for the ages.

He has done all these and achieved great results.

But there was a bigger hidden worry in his heart, which was to never leave the emperor's life in the hands of powerful ministers again.

So he eradicated Fu Lei and reduced Xu Xuanzhi's military power, followed by the Xie family.

However, the Xie family in Chen County is a large family that has lasted for hundreds of years, and its strength is not inferior to that of the Langya Wang family.

With such a behemoth, he needs a chance to hit the target.

I didn't expect this opportunity to come so soon.

This time, he planned to use this leverage to take back the military power in their hands even if he couldn't knock Xie down.

What's more, Xie Sheng has already been recruited. He has indeed taken in the remnant of the Fu family. As long as the assassin is caught and both the assassin and the stolen goods are taken away, Xie family will definitely not be able to escape this time.

But one night passed, and reality slapped him hard. If he couldn't catch the assassin, he wouldn't be able to confront Xie, and Xie Sheng would change his mind at any time.

As expected, Xie Shengtian refused to admit it as soon as dawn. He only said that he was a fellow countryman whom he had known since childhood. Because his family was poor, he came to Kyoto to make a living and had nowhere to stay for the time being, so he kindly took him in.

I don’t know what kind of remnant of the Fu family he is!

This made Emperor Zhou angry, powerless and deeply afraid!

Although they replaced the Yue clan with the Xiahou clan and seemed to have control over the country, their father almost wiped out the Xiahou clan with blood back then. Now it seems that they are not completely in control of a small palace.

Could it be that one day while he was sleeping, his life could be taken without anyone noticing, just like the deposed emperor of the Xiahou family back then?

In fact, Emperor Zhou knew that not only the Xiahou remnants, but also the Xie family and other noble clans must have secretly provided help to the Fu family remnants last night, otherwise the man would not have disappeared out of thin air after being seriously injured!

So he couldn't sleep, as soon as he closed his eyes, he seemed to feel that someone was coming to take his life.

When no one was found in the palace, Emperor Zhou summoned the governor of Jingzhao to search the whole city. The Grand Sima Xu Xuanzhi felt that searching from house to house would cause panic in the people of Kyoto, so it was not appropriate to make a big splash, so he should send people to search secretly.

Emperor Zhou also had this concern after hearing this, so he did not make a decision for a while.

But those rebels did not give Emperor Zhou a chance to hesitate. He received a message from Han Shidi to the imperial guards. Tuobayu had escaped. The West City and South City were set on fire. He asked for support and asked the Jingzhao Mansion.

Yin sent his government officials to put out the fire, but his brothers led dozens of private soldiers in the house to chase him!

Soon after, I received the news that more than 20 soldiers guarding the Dongyang Gate had been massacred. I was so angry that I almost had a recurrence of my old illness.

But at this time, Emperor Zhou quickly felt that this was a good excuse for a city-wide manhunt, so he sent the Imperial Guard to search for arsonists in Jiankang City, and ordered the governor of Jingzhao to send a team of government officials to put out the fire.

Another group of government officials assisted the Imperial Guard in the search in the name of putting out fires.

The rescue team from Nan City was actually sent to search and arrest, and they didn't expect to encounter Zheng Wei, a group of ancestors who couldn't be offended.

Emperor Zhou couldn't wait to order the sealing of the Xie family's residence, and the mansions of major aristocratic families were also put under surveillance. There was no news until this morning.

It wasn't until Han Shidi came back to report that Tuoba Yu had been taken away from Jiankang by Xia Houqing and He Lianbo that Emperor Zhou stumbled and fell on the dragon throne as if he had just woken up from a dream.

He may have been really crazy, and he actually held on to a little assassin and let the real tiger go back to the mountain!

At this time, he also understood that he had fallen into someone else's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

When he saw his two children kneeling in front of him with wounds all over their bodies and dirty faces, Emperor Zhou knew that he had to regain his composure and stop acting willfully.

On the night of Mid-Autumn, most of the outer city of Jiankang was burned down, and thousands of people were killed and injured. The people must be given an explanation for this.

On that day, Emperor Zhou summoned the emperor to summon the emperor. The remnants of the previous dynasty colluded with Fu's traitors and kidnapped the three princes of the Wei Dynasty and fled to Jingkou. They ordered the governor of Yangzhou and the Jingkou County Sheriff to arrest him with all their strength.

The Imperial Guards were unable to protect themselves effectively, and both the chief and deputy commanders were fined a year's salary and given three days to clear out all remnants of the previous dynasty and the secret works of the Wei Dynasty in Kyoto.

The governor of Jingzhao failed to do things well and failed to provide disaster relief in time, so he was exiled to Panyu and became a small county magistrate.

The general guarding the city of Dongfu neglected his duty, was demoted from his official post, and transferred away from Jiankang.

Such a painless punishment obviously did not satisfy Emperor Zhou, but he knew very well that if he could not hit the enemy with one blow, he would rather stand still.

In the end, Xie Sheng was returned to the Xie Mansion, and the supervisory troops around the Xie family were also transferred back.

Such a painless punishment made many people feel that something was wrong, but it also made many people relax their vigilance and feel complacent that they had escaped a disaster.

Punishment was followed by appeasement. Emperor Zhou listened to the suggestions of Zheng Heng's brothers and sisters and ordered Shangshu to transfer money from the treasury to help rebuild the two cities, build temporary shelters for homeless people to live in, distribute food, and exempt merchants in the two cities from taxes for one year.

.It can be regarded as a solution to the pressing problems of ordinary small businessmen.

After making these arrangements, Emperor Zhou took his children back to his palace and summoned the imperial doctor to treat their injuries.

Looking at these two children, he felt distressed and proud.

He had no one to care for him since he was a child, and he was frail and sick. He only had the prince in his twenties and fifties, and he is only two years old now. The second prince was only born last year, and is now less than one year old.

He had been taken care of by the eldest princess since he was a child, and he was close to the eldest princess. He even treated these two nephews as his own children.

Emperor Zhou always wanted to promote them, so he supported Zheng Heng when he secretly joined the army, and secretly ordered Han Daoyuan to look after the child.

Zheng Wei wanted to enter the martial arts academy to practice martial arts, but he didn't stop him. It wasn't that he really believed Zheng Wei's rhetoric about defeating Tuobayu and whipping him with a whip. He just thought that if she was more powerful, she would be less bullied when she married her husband's family.

I really didn't expect that these two children would really make him look bad today. Although they didn't capture Tuoba Yu, which is unrealistic, it is a fact that they killed many Xia Hou's secret works.

Emperor Zhou planned to think about how to reward his children after these matters were over.

After Zheng Wei washed and changed clothes and bandaged the wound, she came to see Emperor Zhou again.

She reported back to Emperor Zhou how Liu Erlang and the others behaved last night, and also told the story of Peng Huai's murder.

When Emperor Zhou heard that Liu Erlang was still kneeling in front of the Peng family's gate, he gave a rare compliment, "He is a very affectionate boy!"

After saying that, seeing that Zheng Wei was still hesitant to speak, he couldn't help but feel distressed and touched the little girl's soft hair, and asked with a smile: "But you still have something to say to uncle?"
Chapter completed!