Chapter Twelve: Forcing the Palace to Establish the Reserve (2)
As soon as Zhu Yinglong returned to the palace, he received a bolt from the blue. The lady Xu Rongrong gave birth to a baby boy in the palace. Emperor Tianqi, who was lying on the hospital bed, was overjoyed. After hearing Wei Zhongxian's announcement of the good news, his condition improved a little. He gave the name Ci Rui and appointed Xu Rongrong as Concubine Shu. Xu Rongrong, who was originally just a lady, rose to heaven and became the most powerful concubine under the position of the queen. His value doubled, and he became a powerful figure in the harem with bare hands.
With the banquet held in the palace to celebrate, the eunuchs outside the palace also began to celebrate vigorously. Now they can rest assured. Since Concubine Shu gave birth to a baby boy for Emperor Tianqi, the candidate for the crown prince crown prince is this baby boy. Concubine Shu Xu Rongrong is a factory owner and will not be the only one in the factory in the future. They don’t have to worry about losing their position and life.
However, before they could come back to their senses happily, the next day, the news came from the palace that Emperor Tianqi was critically ill, and he ordered Wei Zhongxian to summon the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet to discuss the establishment of the crown prince.
Among the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, after Gu Bingqian went to the cabinet, Huang Liji was the chief minister of the cabinet. Later, Wei Guangwei went to the cabinet and was changed to the Grand Secretary of the Jianji Palace. Zhu Yinglong secretly supported Huang Daozhou to enter the cabinet. Wen Tiren was once again forced to suppress him and had already formed a mortal enemy. However, he is now in a dangerous and has the least qualifications and has no choice but to speak. Huang Liji, Shi Fenglai and others are all Wei Zhongxian's lackeys. I am afraid that the boy born to Concubine Shu will be determined to be the crown prince.
Sure enough, Huang Daozhou secretly gave Zhu Yinglong the news from the palace. Huang Liji and others tried their best to support the establishment of Zhu Cirui as the crown prince. Wei Zhongxian even cried and begged Emperor Tianqi to quickly make Zhu Cirui as the crown prince. Strangely, this time Kebaba did not agree with Wei Zhongxian and did not make any statement.
Zhu Yinglong was worried. Once Emperor Tianqi really issued an order to make Zhu Cirui born to Concubine Shu the crown prince, everything would change, everything he had done before would be in vain, and Wei Zhongxian could deal with himself legitimately. In the face of the state machine, unless he chose to rebel, he would not have any ability to resist. Once Emperor Tianqi died, he would be the next one to die.
History has changed, what else can't be changed? Time has not waited for anyone, so Zhu Yinglong could not hesitate any longer. He immediately ordered Xiong Hu to take all the people in the mansion to evacuate from the capital before dusk and stand by Tongzhou. Xiong Hu and Ye Lianyi refused to leave Zhu Yinglong. In the end, there was no choice but to let them stay and let Shi Kefa be responsible for the evacuation.
Shortly after Huang Daozhou spread the news to Zhu Yinglong, the eunuch in the palace suddenly issued an order, and Emperor Tianqi summoned him into the palace. At this time, the summoning him into the palace must be related to the enthronement of the crown prince. Zhu Yinglong hurriedly changed into the robes of the vassal king and took Wang Chengen and Xiong Hu who were dressed up as eunuchs, and Ye Lianyi and the two girls hurriedly entered the palace.
When entering Maode Hall, Huang Liji and several other cabinet ministers stood aside with sad faces. Zhu Yinglong looked at Tianqi lying on the soft couch, his face as white as white paper, and his anger was as angry as a wandering spring.
"My brother Zhu Youjian respectfully invites the Holy One!"
Emperor Tianqi slowly opened his blood-colored eyes, his lips trembled constantly, and he couldn't hear what he was saying. Wang Tiqian beside him hurriedly turned his ears over and nodded frequently.
After Emperor Tianqi finished speaking, Wang Tigan turned around and faced Zhu Yinglong with a cold face and shouted: "King of King Zhu Youjian formed a clique for personal gain, colluded with a rebellion, and planned to rebel. Come on, take it down for me!"
Zhu Yinglong was shocked and sweated in a cold manner. His hands were involuntarily touched the two muskets on his waist. Suddenly, he saw the angry eyes of Emperor Tianqi and cried bitterly indescribable. He immediately understood that Wang Tigan was falsely passing the imperial edict. It must have been Wei Zhongxian's instructed him to do this. He glanced at the hall in an instant and did not see Wei Zhongxian's figure. Several major scholars were seriously surprised.
"Wang Titan, you dare to falsely pass the imperial edict!" Zhu Yinglong shouted violently, rushed forward and grabbed Wang Titan's collar, stuck his neck and looked at him coldly.
"Come on, take this traitor down!" Wang Tigan's eyes were extremely frightened, and he shouted at the big guard who rushed in at the top of his lungs, but after looking at me and I still rushed up.
"Don't move me!" Zhu Yinglong handed the king's body to Xiong Hu behind him. Ye Lianyi and the other women shouted at the big inner guard who was about to move in.
The great guards and eunuchs retreated a little after hearing the sound.
"If you let go of the prince, maybe you all plead for you and leave a life!" Li Chao said with a stern look.
"You, and you, come up and listen to what the emperor said?" Zhu Yinglong ignored Li Chaoqin's words at all, pointed at Huang Liji, and pointed at Huang Dao Zhou Dao.
The two looked at each other, looked at Wang Titan, whose neck was stuck by Xiong Hu and Ye Lianyi, who had difficulty breathing, and then looked at Li Chaoqin, whose face was extremely gloomy, and then walked forward tremblingly, put his ears to the mouth of Emperor Tianqi. Only Tianqi said, "The edict for the throne is with the queen, and the king Titan is falsely spreading the imperial edict, it should be killed!" After that, Emperor Tianqi tilted his head and died.
"The emperor has passed away!" Huang Liji immediately cried bitterly, and everyone in the hall knelt down.
After hearing Huang Daozhou's narration, Zhu Yinglong thought it was not good, and Wei Zhongxian must have gone to Kunning Palace to grab the throne edict. If Zhu Cirui was appointed as the crown prince, Emperor Tianqi would not need to put the edict to Queen Zhang Yan, just say it out. The only explanation is that the crown prince written in the throne edict was not Zhu Cirui, the son of Concubine Shu.
Huang Liji and Huang Daozhou heard the last words of Emperor Tianqi at the same time, so they naturally refused to speak nonsense. They immediately ordered the false imperial edict to arrest Wang Titan, who was deceived by the emperor. Seeing that the situation was wrong, Li Chaoqin wanted to run away, so he was tied up. Zhu Yinglong hurried to Kunning Palace with Wang Chengen and others.
There were tens of thousands of martial eunuchs in the palace, all of whom were confidants trained by Wei Zhongxian. Before leaving the Maode Hall, hundreds of eunuchs wearing armor were stopped. When Zhu Yinglong entered the palace, he only had a dozen people around him, but these dozen were all good at blocking ten, and each of them carried muskets that were comparable to Zhu Yinglong.
"Kill--" Zhu Yinglong burst out a word from his chest.
"Wu, wu..." Dozens of gunfire, hundreds of eunuchs who stopped Zhu Yinglong fell down dozens of them. The eunuch in charge did not expect that King Xin and others would carry such exquisite firearms. Before they could even come, they would be killed. Although the remaining dozen eunuchs also had firearms in their hands, the main general was dead. They were so scared that they ran away and ran away desperately.
Huang Liji and others in the hall heard the gunshots. When they rushed out, they only saw blood and dozens of corpses on the ground.
Maybe it was because Wei Zhongxian was too confident that more than one hundred people could not stop more than a dozen people. Zhu Yinglong and more than a dozen people rushed to fill the ammunition all the way, and almost unimpededly came to Kunning Palace.
At this time, Kunning Palace had been surrounded by hundreds of eunuchs sent by Wei Zhongxian. The angry voice of Queen Zhang Yan and Wei Zhongxian's sharp voice kept floating outside.
"Wei Zhongxian, don't think about it. This palace will not hand over the throne edict to you!" Zhang Yan said coldly to Wei Zhongxian who was holding the baby. Beside Wei Zhongxian, the mother of the baby, was standing next to Wei Zhongxian, Concubine Shu Xu Rongrong, a snobbish woman who wanted to sit on the throne of the queen mother, was screaming at the top of her lungs, calling Queen Zhang Yan "bitter, bitch..." and other vicious words.
"Empress, don't toast or eat and punish the wine. Now the court is inside and outside the court. If you cooperate with me, your queen mother's status and wealth will be endless. If you don't consider yourself, you should also consider your father?" Wei Zhongxian chuckled, but it sounded creepy.
"Wei Zhongxian, don't think that I don't know the things you do. Do you really think that I and the emperor really don't know who the child you hold in your arms?" Zhang Yan took the initiative. Even if she agreed to Wei Zhongxian today, there would be no good ending. She just could live a few more days, so she would just make the matter clear.
When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he changed color and squeezed out a little coldness from his teeth and said, "You bitch, since you know, I can't keep you anymore. Take out the edict to pass the throne. I can keep you a whole body and bury you and that sick ghost!"
"You're dreaming!" Zhang Yan shouted coldly.
The Concubine Shu suddenly stepped forward and slapped Zhang Yan with a "slap" and said, "The Ai family hates you the most uncooperative bitch!"
"Just because you are qualified to call him "Ai Family"?" Zhang Yan replied with a backhand. The woman who gave birth was already weak. This slap was irritated by Zhang Yan slapped it with anger, and the force was even more powerful. She slapped Xu Rongrong to the ground in an instant, and her beautiful pretty face suddenly became swollen.
"Don't be polite to her like this kind of woman. Come on, help the queen wear a loose clothes!" Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhang Yan's convex curves with resentment and said, although he didn't have that thing, his lust was no less than a real man. Queen Zhang Yan was one of the women he wanted but could not get. Today we came together, killing two birds with one stone.
"What do you want to do? I am the queen?" Zhang Yan said in a panic with her arms wrapped around her eyes.
"So what about the queen? You will not be there from today, do it!" Wei Zhongxian ordered coldly to his confidant eunuch.
"Wei Zhongxian, you are so brave. You dare to be so rude to the Queen!" Several gunshots rushed to Queen Zhang Yan and several eunuchs who rushed to the ground fell to death.
Seeing King Xin appearing intact in front of him, Wei Zhongxian panicked and said, "Bold King Xin, you are committing a rebellion, come here, take it down quickly!"
Dozens of Wu Yin, holding steel swords rushed out from behind Wei Zhongxian, rushed forward, preparing to capture Zhu Yinglong and his dozen others in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, they all fell to the ground and died before they could get close to Zhu Yinglong.
"Who dares to come forward again? These people are your role models!" Zhu Yinglong held a musket in his hand and shouted at Wei Zhongxian.
If you ask how Zhu Yinglong entered Kunning Palace under the heavy siege of Wei Zhongxian, it is very simple. Attacking Kunning Palace is undoubtedly the stupidest way, but you can only take it by wisdom. In fact, the Forbidden City has designed a low sewer since the day it was built. Of course, there are Kunning Palaces. They entered Kunning Palace from the underground sewer. Maybe Wei Zhongxian felt that it was too sure. He did not send anyone to guard the entrance of the sewer of Kunning Palace, and naturally he was penetrated by Zhu Yinglong.
Sure enough, facing dozens of black guns, most of the eunuchs under Wei Zhongxian were greedy and afraid of death, and none of them dared to step forward again.
"Don't be afraid of them, they are just individuals. Come forward and take down these traitors!" Wei Zhongxian roared angrily to his subordinates.
"Wei Zhongxian, who is the traitor? I believe you know more clearly about the people behind you. Tell me, who was so rude to the Queen just now and humiliated me in every way?" Zhu Yinglong asked the group of martial eunuchs behind Wei Zhongxian.
Except for Wei Zhongxian's deadly tough guys, most of them looked ashamed, and some even lowered their heads. However, due to Wei Zhongxian's tyranny, they also stood there holding a steel knife in their hands.
Zhu Yinglong was actually delaying time and waiting for reinforcements. This storm came too suddenly, making him unprepared. Wei Zhongxian was too short of his decision to execute. He almost did it when he decided. No matter how fast the Shadow's intelligence was, it was useless. Sometimes intelligence was not omnipotent.
Suddenly, there was a hurried sound of horse hooves outside Kunning Palace. This was definitely not a reinforcement from Shangzhiwei. At this moment, Wei Zhongxian's face had changed. He heard what the sound of horse hooves came from. He hurriedly held the baby and hurriedly retreated from Kunning Palace with Xu Rongrong and hurriedly left Kunning Palace. Wang Chengen wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Zhu Yinglong. He ran away and the monk could not run away from the temple.
"I am late to save the emperor, so I would like to ask the Empress to forgive me!" Zhu Yinglong knelt down to apologize to Empress Zhang Yan.
As the mother of a country, she quickly restored her nobleness and calmness and said, "Has the late emperor passed away?"
"Yes, the emperor..." Before Zhu Yinglong could reply, Zhang Yan's body fell towards him. Zhu Yinglong hurriedly stood up and held her back.
"The will is in my palace's arms, hurry, hurry..." Before Zhang Yan could finish speaking, her eyes turned dark and she fainted.
At this time, no matter whether it is to avoid suspicion or suspicion, he could not care about the difference between men and women. Zhu Yinglong reached out to take out the yellow cloth silk that was slightly warm and had a fragrance in his daughter's house from the arms of Queen Zhang Yan, and opened it and looked:
"I am following the will of heaven and the emperor summoned him and said, "The King of Xin is a prosecutor, with a kind character and agile nature... I specially issued an edict to pass the throne to the King of Xin, and I hope that the ministers will be given a dedicated support. I respect this!"
The throne was finally passed to him, but Zhu Yinglong couldn't be happy at all, because in the current situation, he didn't know whether he could hold the throne firmly?
"I am the founding Duke Chang Yanlin, who was the one who bowed to the prince Xin!" A bunch of people surrounded the young man in golden armor and walked into Kunning Palace. When he saw Zhu Yinglong, he bowed.
"Duke Chang, this is the will of the late emperor to pass the throne, look." Zhu Yinglong handed the Huang Ling in his hand to Chang Yanlin. The founding Duke Chang Yanlin was originally Zhu Yinglong's last move, and it was also the deepest buried move. You should know that when he was in the palace, before his wedding, the relationship between the two was very good. Chang Yanlin worked as an Imperial Horse Supervisor and often walked around the palace, so he often came to Xuqin Palace to see him. The two of them had a relationship after a while. At that time, they had not conspired to deal with Wei Zhongxian. Last year, they returned to Beijing. Zhu Yinglong
He quietly met Chang Yanlin and told him his purpose in a vague way. He immediately received his support. After the honorary relatives like Chang Yanlin were already dukes and had no more to enter. What he thought of was to make achievements. After Wei Zhongxian came to power, he began to exclude people like them. Therefore, he naturally supported Zhu Yinglong, the Xinwang. With Chang Yanlin's Wuxiang, Tengxiang, Zuowei, and Youwei, and the Shangzhiwei who was controlled by him, controlling Beijing City would not be a problem. At this time, he truly felt relieved.
After Chang Yanlin glanced at him with all his eyes, he respectfully returned it to Zhu Yinglong, and knelt down again for Zhu Yinglong and said, "I am the founding Duke Chang Yanlin respectfully to the emperor for his holy care!"
"Get up!" Zhu Yinglong was a little excited and his voice trembled. From this moment on, he knew that he was no longer the King of Xin, but the supreme ruler who dominated the fate of this country.
Chapter completed!