"Who's there?!"
On the city wall of the capital, the officers and soldiers on duty stared at the stairs behind them and asked sternly.
"We're one of us! We're the Fifth Prince's guards. In two days, the Fifth Prince will be leaving the capital on behalf of His Majesty for an inspection tour, so we've been asked to check out the situation at various points ahead of time to prevent any problems on the day of departure."
I saw a man in armor holding a token in his hand, leading his troops up to the city wall.
"His Highness the Fifth Prince? I've never heard of him going out of the capital for inspection." The officers and soldiers were puzzled, but after taking a closer look, they saw that it was indeed the token of the Fifth Prince, so they didn't ask any more questions and just obeyed the order.
The man waved his hand and instructed the soldiers behind him to spread out to various points on the city wall. He instructed them, "Find the points you are responsible for that day. Don't make any mistakes!"
Then he looked at the officers and soldiers on duty and said, "Since we are here, why don't we take over your duty and you can take a rest."
The officer waved his hands and said, "No, no, thank you for your kindness, sir. But if someone investigates this matter, it will be difficult to deal with, so forget it, haha."
The man nodded casually, looked around, and seeing that his men had mostly dispersed, he sighed, "Alas...it would be better if you just went and rested quietly, then I wouldn't have to do anything."
"Ah? What?" The officers and soldiers on duty were stunned.
The man in front of him suddenly attacked and punched the soldier on the chin, making him faint instantly.
Looking around, the many soldiers who had been scattered around earlier also took action, silently attacking the officers and soldiers on duty on the city wall.
There were also many soldiers who quickly changed their clothes and replaced their original positions after knocking down the enemy.
Seeing that the task was completed, the leading man walked to the city gate, looked around, and carefully opened the gate a crack.
In an instant, a team of people in night clothes came in one after another from the gap and hid in various places in the capital under the cover of night.
…
Chiang family.
Jiang Shang frowned and sat up from the bed.
The woman beside him also woke up and asked, "Master, what's wrong with you?"
Jiang Shang muttered, "I'm feeling a little uncomfortable and can't sleep... You go to sleep first. I'll go sit in the yard."
The woman rolled her eyes at Jiang Shang, wondering what he was doing in the middle of the night.
Jiang Shang was also puzzled. His eyelids were twitching tonight and he always felt that something big was going to happen.
After taking a sip of tea, he wanted to open the door and go out for some fresh air. However, just as he reached the door, he saw a shadow flashing across the window. His face changed in shock and he shouted, "Who is it?!"
There was only a "swish" sound.
What answered him was a blade that pierced through the doors and windows!
Jiang Shang quickly retreated, only to see the blade in front of him turn, and the doors and windows were instantly torn into pieces, and several men in black rushed towards him.
The woman on the bed was so frightened by this scene that she kept screaming.
But Jiang Shang, as a master of sage studies, was not powerless. An image of a sage appeared behind him, protecting him firmly.
At this time, the Jiang Mansion also became chaotic. Men in black who came from nowhere were wantonly killing people in the Jiang Mansion.
"Father! Mother!"
Suddenly, a white light appeared in the courtyard of Jiang's mansion, and a man in black was knocked away and hit the rockery in the garden. He fell to the ground with a scream of pain and could not move.
Then a young man walked out with an anxious look on his face. The saint statue behind him was even more glorious than Jiang Shang's. It was Jiang Shang's son, Jiang Yuan.
When Jiang Yuan saw that his father and mother were temporarily safe, he breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to go forward to rescue them, two people came out from the darkness again and entangled him.
Jiang Shang saw this and shouted angrily, "Who are you? How dare you attack and kill an important official of the imperial court so brazenly? Aren't you afraid of being hunted down by the imperial court?"
"Old sir, if we kill you we will be heroes, so why are we chasing us?" A man in black smiled when he heard the voice, and slashed at Jiang Shang again with the long knife in his hand.
Jiang Shang was stunned. "Hero? What does that mean? What exactly happened?"
Then his pupils suddenly shrank, and ignoring the long sword in front of him, the saint behind him slapped out both palms and slapped the two people who were besieging Jiang Yuan.
"Yuan'er, hurry up! Go find Minister Wu... No, go find the Left Prime Minister directly!"
…
The chaos in the Jiang family was like a signal. For a moment, screams were heard from the Wu and Pan families.
“Boom!”
Suddenly, a huge roar was heard in the area of the West Third Ring Road of Beijing, followed by a sky-high flame.
The patrolling detectives took one look and exclaimed, "That's the location of the Imperial Workshop!"
At the same time, flames broke out in various places in the capital. What was the same was that most of these explosion sites were properties owned by the current Crown Prince.
The patrolling detectives were quickly divided and scattered everywhere.
Before many civil officials could react, half of the military generals in the capital had already rushed to the homes of nearby officials with their retainers and soldiers, and either suppressed or killed them.
And inside the palace.
Deep in the bedroom, the current Emperor Wen, wearing a dragon robe and with slightly gray hair on his temples, was sitting cross-legged on a cushion, holding a small jade alchemy furnace in his hand, and in the furnace were three red pills.
This is the elixir made by the Imperial Workshop. I heard that it combines the demon blood fusion method discovered by Xiao Qi. After taking it, not only can one gain some power, but also steal the demon clan's power of immortality.
Suddenly, the panicked voice of the eunuch came from outside the palace: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, something terrible has happened!"
Emperor Wen frowned and shouted angrily, "What are you arguing about? What happened?"
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