After the old emperor knew the whole story, he couldn't help but feel guilty. He secretly blamed himself for missing Qin Jiyan and was thinking about how to compensate Qin Jiyan...
The leader of the Jinyiwei noticed the change in the old emperor and was unwilling to miss this opportunity. He said casually: "Your Majesty, as far as I know, the reason why His Highness the Emperor Taisun chose to take this road is because of the people who were chasing him along the way.
There were too many people. In just three days after leaving the northwest, His Highness the Emperor Taisun was hunted down dozens of times. He didn’t even have time to close his eyes along the way. His Highness the Emperor Taisun had no choice but to leave the army behind and flee.
Take the shortest way back to the capital."
"Pursuit?" The two places are far apart. The leader of the Jinyi Guards didn't say anything about this, so the old emperor really didn't know. "I privately ordered him to come to Beijing. What? The news was leaked?"
What?
The leader of the Jin Yiwei was a little stupid when he heard what the emperor said.
His Highness Qin is the commander-in-chief of the army. The Emperor doesn't think His Highness Qin can leave the northwest quietly without giving an explanation to the army, right?
Doing this will cause chaos in the army, and it has happened once before!
He was slandering in his heart but did not show it on his face. The leader of the Jinyi Guards said with a cold face: "Your Majesty, when His Highness returns to the capital this time, it will be impossible for him to go to the battlefield again. His Highness must explain clearly before leaving."
The old emperor frowned and said dissatisfied: "Didn't I tell him to come back privately? By the way, he turned it in and left the military camp. Where did he go?"
The old emperor has been forgetful recently, and his behavior is more paranoid than before. The leader of the Jinyiwei has been cautious recently, fearing that the old emperor will be dissatisfied.
The leader of the Jin Yiwei selectively ignored the previous words and only answered the latter, "His Highness's whereabouts are secret, and I don't know it. My subordinates only found out that His Highness rushed to the battlefield with a large amount of gunpowder, and successfully drove back the Xihu and Zhao Wu coalition forces.
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This is the cleverness of speaking. There is no need to speak too bluntly. Once this matter is brought out, the old emperor will naturally think that Qin Jiyan left to prepare gunpowder.
God knows, those gunpowders were all prepared by their Jin Yiwei people, and His Highness Qin just kept talking.
"That kid knows how to use tricks all the time. However, his performance in the northwest is indeed outstanding." The old emperor suddenly laughed again, his eyes full of pride.
He is moody and angry, just like the current emperor.
Because he felt guilty, the old emperor could not say anything directly, so he asked the Ministry of Rites to make grand arrangements and send all the civil and military officials to the outside of the city to welcome Qin Jiyan back to the capital.
This move undoubtedly established Qin Jiyan's identity.
Since ancient times, the only people who can accept the kneeling of civil and military officials are the emperors.
In addition, the old emperor also expressed his dissatisfaction with the King of Zhou.
Don't think that without evidence, he doesn't know who sent the murderer to ambush Ji Yan halfway.
The fifth prince has been completely ruined. The one who has this ability and is crazy enough to kill Qin Jiyan is the King of Zhou besides King Zhao.
In the afternoon of the same day, the old emperor reprimanded King Zhou and sent an imperial edict to King Zhou's palace. In addition, the old emperor also sent an old gentleman to King Zhou, saying that he wanted to teach King Zhou what it means to be loyal to the king and patriotic, and what it means to be a king and a minister.
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In addition, the old emperor asked King Zhou to send all his sons to the palace. The reason was that King Zhou did not know how to teach his sons, so he, the grandfather, would do it for him.
Needless to say, scolding, this shows that the emperor is disgusted with the king of Zhou. As for sending all his sons to the palace?
It sounds nice that the emperor wants to teach him personally, but in fact he is using King Zhou's son as a hostage. He is warning King Zhou not to touch Qin Jiyan, otherwise his son will not end well.
The old emperor was a kind grandfather, but he was also a cruel grandfather. The announcement of the sons of King Zhou into the palace at this time meant that the old emperor would definitely be able to destroy all the sons of King Zhou.
Although King Zhou is not very old, it is hard to say whether he can still give birth to a son...
After the imperial edict was issued, the whole court was in an uproar. When the civil and military officials saw that the old emperor had surrounded the five princes in the palace and suppressed the king of Zhou, they increasingly believed that this was to pass the throne to Qin Jiyan. Only Lord Feng was uneasy.
The more he thought about it, the more strange it seemed to him. Thinking of the previous run on Daqin Bank, Lord Feng had a bad feeling. However, Daqin Bank has returned to calm in the past two days, so everything should be fine, right?
Lord Feng really wanted to discuss it with his father, but thinking of his father's attitude, Lord Feng held back.
His Highness Qin was about to enter the city tomorrow, so he had better find an opportunity to go to His Highness Qin to inquire about the news.
"Hey, I wonder if Sijin is okay in the northwest? It's been so long and I don't know how to write a letter back. It's really the same whether the son is born or not." Master Feng sighed, suppressing the uneasiness in his heart.
He believed that no matter what happened, Qin Jiyan could solve it.
Prince Zhou's Mansion
After the Imperial Guards announced the imperial edict, they did not give King Zhou a chance to think of countermeasures. They forcefully "invited" King Zhou's sons, including the crown prince, one by one, onto the carriage and into the palace.
The older sons were okay. Although their faces were ashen, they could still maintain their appearance of dignity and pride. The younger ones were not so good. When they saw the imperial guards forcing them into the carriage, they all shouted in panic: "
Father, father... I don’t want to enter the palace, I want to be with you.”
"Father..."
King Zhou knelt there, watching helplessly as his sons were being taken away one by one, and there was nothing he could do.
After the imperial guards left, King Zhou stood up tremblingly and glanced at the imperial edict in his hand. He was about to throw it to the ground without thinking. But as soon as he lifted it up, he heard the great scholar sent by the old emperor say: "Your Majesty, thunder and rain are coming."
It's all your kindness. My lord, you really have to learn more."
The sound was not loud, but when King Zhou heard it, it was like a lightning strike. The expression on his face was uncontrollable, twisted and ferocious. He looked angrily at the imperial edict in his hand, but in the end he did not fall down.
The old emperor's very high-profile rebuke to King Zhou was almost known to everyone in the court. Qin Jiyan, who was far outside the city, knew about this without the need for a secret guard to report, and he also knew King Zhou's expression at that time.
Seeing the old emperor suppressing King Zhou so bluntly, Qin Jiyan was not happy, "The emperor is trying to force Uncle Zhou to rebel."
"If I were King Zhou, I would also take risks." Gu Qiancheng sighed.
With the imperial edict of reprimand from the old emperor, King Zhou lost all face, had almost no place in the court, and had no hope of ascending to the throne. Under such circumstances, King Zhou would most likely take risks. Just like King Zhao,
Seeing that there was no hope of succeeding to the throne, he resolutely rebelled and even cooperated with Xihu to lure Xihu into the pass.
There is also the fifth prince. The reason why he was stupid enough to fall into the trap of others was because he saw that he had no possibility of ascending to the throne, and was tempted by others to take risks for that one-in-a-ten thousand possibility?
Do you really think that the fifth prince does not doubt Xiaoyao?
However, there is a one in 10,000 possibility that the fifth prince does not want to give up.
The temptation of the throne to the prince is too great. For the sake of the throne, he can kill his father and his brother, so why not sacrifice a little money...
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