Duan Xiangxing felt a little painful and frowned and said, "Father, the Gao family's autocracy has been in power for so many years. The national treasury has been worse than the year. I have been to the warehouse. It is cleaner than the beggar's face on the street. The Ministry of Revenue is very short of money. I'll give it to the Manchu Ministry, right?"

Duan Zhixiang roared, pointing at his nose with a regret that he was unable to bear it and said, "A little impatience will cause trouble! I can't bear it now, and I regret it later! You have to take over the power in the future. How can you make a big deal if you care about temporary gains and losses? Don't say much, go and do things quickly!!!"

His last few words were almost exhausted. The prince and Duan Yanzhen were both startled and quickly said yes and went trotting.

Duan Zhixiang was already a sagging old man. He was angry with his voice and suddenly felt a little short of breath. As soon as the two left, he sat down with the table and took several breaths.

"I can't worry! Everyone doesn't let me worry!" He muttered to himself with worry, holding his chin to look out the window. Cangshan's white head was facing the window, and the cliff blade was as high as ten feet high. He was a little confused: "I can't lose. Duan's family has more than ten emperors. I want to shine the light of the family. How can I lose? Gao's family is so powerful that they are all defeated by my feet. How can the remaining few small characters be my opponent? They will not lose, they will not lose."

He murmured, closed his eyes and took a deep breath. The Jiufeng Tower stood proudly in the imperial city, with the sky reaching the top, and the heights were cold. The noise inside and outside could not be heard from such a high place. Sitting here was quite lonely and arrogant.

So in the quiet environment, Duan Zhixiang's irritable heart calmed down, and he could think about some things quietly.

After sitting for a while, he stood up, opened his closed eyes and called out loudly.

A eunuch who had been waiting for the next floor hurried up. Because he ran too fast, he almost tripped by the floor and came to Duan Zhixiang in a slightly embarrassed manner.

Duan Zhixiang thought for a while, whispered a few words, and the eunuch kept nodding, and finally retreated with Duan Zhixiang's wave.

Seeing the eunuch's retreating figure disappearing on the stairs, Duan Zhixiang breathed a long sigh: "Let you be the prime minister, this is the bottom line, you can't go too far."

....

When did Jiufeng Tower rise above Chenglong go to it?

As the Minister of the Dali Quan, he even went there two years ago, more than Duan Zhixiang and Duan Xiangxing.

Standing at the highest point of the imperial family, pedancing the people, holding authority, and even changing kings of a country, he can decide with just one mouth. He can dominate the scenery of all things, and is unparalleled for a while.

But now, Gao Yuchenglong is locked in a dungeon in the imperial city, surrounded by stone walls and iron chains. The pungent smell of mold can dampen the mouse. The cell without windows is illuminated by dim light from an oil lamp. She is also wearing a brocade suit lined when she went out to war, but it is broken and all the holes are tangled. It seems that when she was caught, the big guards were not very nice to him.

The first person in Dali was once huddled in a corner, and when he moved, the ones on his body were jingling iron chains. The chains were big and heavy, and it was hard to get up. He stared at the ceiling without any hesitation.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door. Gao Yuchenglong heard the sound and came to the door of his cell and stopped. Then the lock on the door fell, as if someone was about to come in.

He then sat down a few minutes, tidy up his clothes, and tried his best to make his usual expression. There were still some fantasies in his heart. The Gao family was deeply rooted in Dali. Although Duan had been planning for a long time, it was not so easy to overthrow the Gao family. If things turned around, then it was time for him to come.

The eunuch came in. Gao Yuchenglong looked carefully and found that it was Duan Zhixiang's confidant.

"What did the emperor ask you to do?" He was a little disappointed. The eunuch must have let him go: "Where is my family?"

The eunuch laughed dryly and glanced around the cell. He found that there was no suitable place to sit down. He had to stand and said in a sinister way: "The Prime Minister doesn't need to panic. Your family and the emperor have sent someone to carefully. The arrangements are very well made, and no one can move."

Gao Yuchenglong glanced at him. He didn't take the emperor seriously before, let alone the eunuch, so he leaned against the wall and said, "Has he confiscated my home? Isn't the emperor afraid of woe?"

"I don't know this. Where can we servants dare to guess the emperor's thoughts? That's to beheaded, right, Lord Prime Minister?" The eunuch smiled and reached out to touch something in his arms.

Gao Yuchenglong became more and more annoyed, so he simply closed his eyes: "Get out if you have nothing to do, and wait until the emperor's mind changes, let's talk to me!"

"This is not possible. Prime Minister, I came with an errand." The eunuch was not annoyed at all. Anyway, Gao Yuchenglong used to treat him like this, and it doesn't matter if he was more or less.

"......Ass?" Gao Yuchenglong's eyelids twitched, he suddenly opened his eyes, and saw the eunuch taking out a rope from his arms.

"What are you going to do?" His heart also pounded, and an ominous premonition filled his mind: "What are you going to do?!"

"I don't do anything, I don't do anything, I have to do it myself." The eunuch kept a smiling expression, as if he was talking about something very festive: "I have been a prime minister for so long, and it's time to take a break. Let's change others to get some fatigue for you, right?"

"The Emperor wants to kill me? It's impossible! How dare he!" Gao Yuchenglong stood up. Because the iron chain was tied too tightly, although he struggled hard, he was still limited to a small range in the corner. He could only barely straighten up, like a bound chicken.

"Oh, I said, Prime Minister, you are like this, why are you still so powerful? You are so scared!" The eunuch touched his chest with a scared look, but laughed: "Tell you the truth, the emperor not only dares to do this!"

He clapped his hands, and two prison guards, like wolves and tigers, walked in, staring at Gao Yuchenglong with malicious intentions.

Gao Yuchenglong shivered all over, pressed against the wall behind him, and shouted in panic: "The Thirty-Six Barbarians will not agree! If the emperor kills me, Dali will inevitably be in chaos, and his throne will not be stable at that time! Go and tell the emperor, he is angry for a moment, and you can't think of this, tell him! Go quickly! No, no, take me there, I will tell him personally!"

The eunuch looked at him with interest, admired the reaction of the prime minister who had the power of life and death in his hands, and shrugged his shoulders with joy.

"Don't do it, the emperor will definitely listen to me. I apologize to him. No, I will not be the prime minister anymore. Give it to others. Is there a suitable candidate for the emperor? It doesn't matter. I will give up the throne, I will give up! Don't come over..."

The eunuch was impatient, and after taking his body to the side, he nodded to Gao Jucheng Long, who was almost in a state of madness.

The two prison guards went up, first put the rope on the beam of the house, made a knot, which was just enough to fit a head through, and then extended his hand to Gao Juchenglong, who was like a chicken.

"No!!!" A scream echoed in the cell. Rudou's oil lamp projected a violent struggle shadow on the wall. The eunuch blinked and turned his head away from looking.

He had to wait for Gao Juchenglong to die before he could go back to report the job.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!