Chapter 174: The Traitor is Executed

Outside the Taiji Palace, Liu Mingan and several hundred students were cornered by the blades, feeling infinite sadness in their hearts.

They were all scholars, how could they not know what this situation meant?

The imperial power was overthrown, and their corpses were used to pave the way.

There were constant cries and begging for mercy in his ears, but Liu Mingan stood woodenly, looking out of the palace gate.

Ah Ning...

The past scenes came to his mind, Liu Mingan lowered his eyes, and a smile appeared on his lips.

This life is not in vain, he thought.

"Your Highness, spare my life! Spare my life..."

The cries exploded in an instant, and Liu Mingan came back to his senses from the past memories and found that a large number of students around him knelt down.

Looking up at the white jade steps, it turned out that the soldiers were threatening the people in mourning to come out of the hall. The wide corridor was crowded with shivering people. Liu Mingan took a quick look and saw several familiar faces.

Yuwen Yan, Lou Baili, Nangong Ya, Lou Yuhuan, Lou Lianyu, Nangong Muyan...

and a bunch of great talents who had taught him when he was studying at the Royal Academy, all of them were among them.

Men and women were on both sides. A burly middle-aged man came out first. He looked at the pair of weak scholars and smiled happily. He praised the person who led the way to the tribute court: "Linwei, you did a good job!"

"Thank you for the compliment, Dad!" Chang Linwei smiled proudly.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I will listen to you in everything! I will listen to you in everything!"

A frightened man in the crowd shouted at the top of his lungs, ignoring the people around him and trying to get to the jade steps to beg for mercy.

Liu Mingan glanced at him with pity. He was a man in his forties, with gray hair on his temples. He must have spent half his life preparing for the imperial examination. How could he be willing to die like this?

Before the man ran two steps, Chang Linwei frowned and said "noisy" with annoyance. He swung the long sword in his hand, and a head rolled to the ground. Blood spurted out, stinging everyone's eyes.

"Ah!"

When had those ladies in the inner chambers seen such a bloody scene? They screamed and fainted. Those who didn't faint were also scared to death, with pale faces and tears flowing down uncontrollably.

Nangong Muyan hugged Luo Siyi, who had fainted from fear, with helplessness in her eyes. What kind of thing was this? Why can't she just have a couple of days of peace?

Nangong Muyan pretended to faint as well, and put Luo Siyi against the railing. They were all women and children, so there were only seven or eight guards guarding with knives, and they didn't pay much attention to them, their eyes were looking elsewhere.

After settling Luo Siyi, Nangong Muyan looked at the pile of statues. There were more than 500 people in one place, and from where she was, she could only see a sea of ​​black heads, and couldn't tell who was who, but she knew that Liu Mingan must be among them.

Alas, there was no way, after all, she had raised him, and she couldn't just watch Jiang Ning become a widow.

To shoot a man, shoot the horse first, to capture a thief, capture the king first.

Nangong Muyan moved towards the palace gate calmly, thinking about the right time to take action.

There were only Prince Lin, the Crown Prince, and two guards holding knives to the Crown Prince's neck in the palace. Nangong Muyan clenched the silver hairpin in her hand, intending to take action when Prince Lin came out.

When the head of the prince fell to the ground, a cry was heard, and Yuwen Yan's eyes flashed with hatred: "Second brother, our father's body is still warm, and your behavior is truly treasonous!"

"Sixth brother, I want to take advantage of his body while it is still warm, do you understand?"

Yuwen Jin walked slowly to the cold jade coffin, stared at the corpse wearing a dragon robe inside and smiled: "When he really enters the imperial mausoleum, you should ascend the throne, and then it will be too late for me to do all this."

Yuwen Yan looked at his back, and suddenly smiled indifferently: "If you want the throne, I will give it to you directly. Why kill innocent people?"

Yuwen Jin turned around in surprise: "You will give it to me?"

"Yes, I will give it to you, and I can immediately write a manifesto to denounce myself as unworthy of the position, unable to shoulder the heavy responsibility, and request to abolish the position of prince..."

"Hahaha..." Yuwen Yan was interrupted by Yuwen Jin before he could finish his words: "Do you think I'm a fool? You just want to delay time and wait for the troops stationed outside the capital to rescue you!"

Yuwen Yan swallowed the second half of his words after his thoughts were seen through.

The troops stationed outside the capital will arrive in half a day. They are his trusted confidants. As long as he is still alive, Yuwen Jin's conspiracy will not succeed.

But looking at Yuwen Jin like this, he is not stupid enough to leave such a big hidden danger for himself.

"Pretending to be so righteous and loving the people like your own children," Yuwen Jin looked at Yuwen Yan and sneered, "I've come this far, why should I go the long way around?"

Yuwen Jin stepped forward and met Yuwen Yan's eyes, with clear sarcasm in his eyes, "You are still thinking of using a delaying tactic? I won't leave any harm to myself. But since you pretend to be so righteous, I will spare your life first. After you watch those hundreds of people die, I will send you off--"

A sharp pain came from his neck, and blood gushed out. Yuwen Jin stared wide-eyed and wanted to turn around to take a look, but all the strength in his body was drained in an instant, and he fell to the ground, dying with his eyes open.

Before the two guards could see what was happening, their necks were also cut by the sharp blades.

They collapsed to the ground without even a chance to scream. The situation changed drastically in an instant. Yuwen Yan looked at Jiang Ning who appeared out of nowhere and killed three people in the blink of an eye. He was shocked.

"Miss San," Yuwen Yan shouted with difficulty, "Why did you..."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Jiang Ning looked outside the palace. Except for Nangong Muyan who was smiling meaningfully at the door, no one noticed what happened here.

"Once Chang Jian dies, those rebels will be leaderless. It's time for you, the crown prince, to play a role."

Yuwen Yan nodded quickly, "Don't worry!"

However, before Jiang Ning could take action, Chang Jian turned his head to look into the hall. Nangong Muyan, who was squatting beside him, stood up abruptly, deftly passed through the guards with knives, and stabbed the silver hairpin in his hand into the artery in his neck.

"Dad!"

Chang Linwei, who was standing on the steps, was furious when he saw this scene, especially when Nangong Muyan kicked the corpse down after killing someone.

Blood flowed down the white jade steps, and Chang Jian's body rolled to the bottom. Chang Linwei rushed up, feeling grief-stricken: "Dad! Dad!"

"Kill her for me! Kill her! I will chop this woman into pieces and mince her!"

Chang Linwei stared at Nangong Muyan with bloodshot eyes, as if he wanted to peel off her skin and drink her blood.

The guards on both sides of the corridor heard the order and were about to move, but two people walked out of the Taiji Hall side by side. A stern male voice came, and the voice was deafening at this moment: "I want to see who dares to be presumptuous?"

This stern shout made the guards pause, and then everyone saw the two people who walked out.

It was Yuwen Yan, Yuwen Yan who was unharmed.

Beside him, Jiang Ning, with a murderous look on her face, carried a dead body in one hand, walked to the steps, and kicked him down like Nangong Muyan.

The body rolled along the blood trail and fell next to Chang Jian. Chang Linwei recognized that it was Yuwen Jin.

"The traitor Yuwen Jin and Chang Jian have been executed. If you surrender, you can save your life!"

Yuwen Yan raised his eyes and scanned the area. His voice was like a bell, shocking everyone.

"Don't listen to him, he is lying to you! Don't listen to him!"

Chang Linwei shouted at the guards who slowly put down their knives, already a little crazy.

"I know that you were coerced and had no choice but to participate in this kind of activity. As long as you turn back from your mistakes and make meritorious contributions, I promise as the crown prince that your crimes of treason will not harm your wives, children and parents."

Yuwen Yan added another chip to the hearts of those wavering people. After a while, someone put down his knife and knelt on the ground with a "thump".

One, two, three... ten, a hundred...

Chang Jian looked at himself who was isolated and helpless, and laughed up to the sky: "Hahaha... The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he raised the bloody sword in his hand again, but this time it was stained with his own blood.

Four corpses were laid out in front of the Taiji Palace, announcing the end of the forced abdication.

Those who had brushed shoulders with death had faces full of expressions of surviving a catastrophe, some crying, some laughing.

In the crowd, Liu Mingan was so quiet that he didn't fit in, just staring at the figure on the steps stupidly.

Ah Ning, come and protect him.