The sky is getting dark, the new wind is blowing, and the road to the mud pavilion, which was trampled on at noon, gradually shows signs of freezing as the temperature drops.
There is an endless flow of people wearing coats on the street.
The Laba Festival has passed, and the New Year is approaching. No matter whether you are rich or powerful or poor, you are still looking forward to the New Year in your heart. The streets and alleys are full of people buying new year's goods, even if there is only more than half the time before the city gate closes.
At this time, there were still many carriages and horses rushing into the city.
In order to buy New Year goods, even if a small family cannot leave the city in time, it is not considered extravagant to stay in an inn in the city during the New Year season. They will even generously give a few copper coins to beggars on the street.
Feng Liao accompanied Han Wenhuan to sit in a spacious and gorgeous carriage. He opened the curtain and saw the prosperity of the street. There was no sign of murderous fangs showing at all, as if all the crises were just their illusions.
Not far from the Han family's mansion, several people walked out of an alley. Feng Liao saw Jiang Huo from a distance, and quickly stopped the Han family's blockers and let Jiang Huo get into the car to talk.
"Have Xinchang Hou and the others left the city?" Feng Liao asked.
Jiang Huo got used to the dim light in the carriage and saw Mr. Han sitting in the carriage. After saluting, he sighed and said to Feng Liao: "The marquis decided to leave the city and went directly to Taowuji to avoid disaster. He only agreed to let the generals who were too late to leave the city go.
Families, gather at Lanting Lane... In addition, the people from the Chuzhou Pavilion have already left the city. They have been preparing two speedboats at the Daji Township Pier in the early morning, and have been transporting some important supplies out of the city one after another since noon.
go."
Among the people in Jinling, Feng Liao is the one who knows the inside story best.
When he was in Tanzhou, Feng Liao was worried that Chuzhou would make a fuss about Shen He's death. No matter whether Shen He died of poisoning or not, his identity was too sensitive and crucial. Chuzhou would seize the rare opportunity to make a big deal.
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This may be Chuzhou's only chance. Otherwise, the new emperor may be the crown prince, or he may fall into the hands of the third prince, and Chuzhou will not have a chance.
At that time, Han Qian said that he had a plan to delay Chuzhou, and indeed he stabilized Chuzhou for more than three months and bought Prince Tan's palace three more months.
However, no matter how slow Chuzhou is, it is time for him to react.
Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that Zhou Zhi's blockade was caused by Chuzhou people hiding behind the scenes.
Chuzhou's people who were openly present in Jinling City have all withdrawn. In other words, no matter what, even if Anning Palace has not been alerted at this time and is still kept in the dark, Chuzhou will pierce this shocking hole.
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"Your Majesty entered the palace early in the morning, and it is very likely that he has arrived at Anning Palace in shock and worry. Is there any news from the Shadow Bird Group?" Feng Liao asked.
Jiang Huo never knew that Feng Liao had been lurking in Jinling a long time ago. Seeing that Feng Liao even knew about it, even the Yingque Group, who was specially lurking in the dark to pay informants to keep an eye on key news such as Niu Mansion, Dong Palace, Zifang Division, etc., must have known about it.
Han Qian really told Feng Liao everything about Jinyun Tower.
"The Shadow Bird Group has always been lurking in the deepest place, but just now, I saw that I couldn't persuade the Marquis, so I went back to Jinyun Tower and six Shadow Bird secret messages were sent over." Since the Third Prince and Han Qian are in the Secret Order City
Jiang Huo made it clear that all matters must be discussed with Feng Liao. At this time, Jiang Huo directly showed Feng Liao all the six secret letters, "The guards of Chongli Gate have been changed. It will be difficult for Zhong Yuli to leave the palace with the secret edict; Privy Council
, Wu Desi is also under their control!"
The Ministry of War was inactive, and the power to transfer military attachés above the sixth rank and to deploy the imperial army was mainly concentrated in the Privy Council; the power to mobilize the guards and personal troops was in the Wude Department.
Anning Palace may not be able to completely control these two yamen, but as long as the order is prevented from being issued, no one can legally mobilize the imperial guards and guards in Jinling City.
Anning Palace first froze the movement of other large forces in the city, controlled the entry and exit of the palace, and then took the initiative. No one outside Chongwen Palace knew what the situation of Emperor Tianyou was now.
, how many people dare to act rashly?
Feng Liao sighed slightly in his heart, continued to read the secret letter, handed it to Han Wenhuan, and asked: "Do you think it is possible to save the crisis?"
Han Wenhuan sighed: "The building will collapse and it will be difficult to support it alone. Daoxun should know this truth!"
"I would like to trouble Mr. Jiang to take the people to Lanting Lane first, and I will accompany Mr. Jiang to the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen." Feng Liao said.
Jiang Huo hesitated to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything. After getting off the car, he led his men to Lanting Lane.
Jinyun Tower's spies lurking in the dark will not be alerted by their informants, but the existing guards of Tanzhou Prefecture and the manpower arranged by Jinyun Tower in Jinling City also have a small number of two hundred elites, and these people are all controlled by Jiang Huo.
Furthermore, as the family members evacuated to Lanting Lane, Feng Liao was worried that Zhao Wuji would not be able to suppress the situation and would need Jiang Huo to rush back and take charge.
Zhao Wuji did not obey his orders decisively, and was accidentally restrained by Zhao Kuo. Feng Liao had no way to complain about Zhao Wuji - after all, Zhao Wuji was only eighteen years old, and he used force to detain the head of the family. Who else could not hesitate at all?
It's just that Zhao Kuo, who usually doesn't stand out much, performed somewhat shockingly.
The Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion is not within the imperial city, but within Guangde Alley, which was transformed from the southeast corner of the original Guangde Square.
After the founding of the Chu Kingdom, no official residence was built after the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion, and several Jingzhao Yins were just walk-ins. Feng Liao used to hide in the shadows and had not had the opportunity to walk into the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion and watched the Han family stop the carriage.
On the horse-tying stone pillar in front of the Yamen, it seems that the smell of blood in the city has condensed.
Just as Feng Liao was about to help Han Wenhuan through the gate, he heard the sound of horse hoofbeats coming from afar. He turned around and saw Zhao Kuo and two people with livid faces riding their horses towards this side.
Zhao Kuo glanced at Feng Liao and saw that it was no surprise that Feng Liao could get out of trouble at this time. He saluted Han Wenhuan and said, "Zhao Kuo has met the Grand Duke."
"Where did you just go?" Feng Liao stared at Zhao Kuo's face with sharp eyes and asked.
Zhao Kuo naturally did not need to pay attention to Feng Liao, but when he saw Han Wenhuan's eyes showing inquiry, he said: "Your Excellency sent me to persuade Wang Wenqian to stay in Jinling. After all, Wang Wenqian did not believe that Your Excellency would support King Xin and left by boat.
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"The great Confucian scholars in ancient times all said that justice was valued over profit, but in the court, among the high-sounding figures, who have been scheming for so many years, how many of them do not value profit over justice?" Han Wenhuan sighed softly and motioned for them to go in first.
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The sky is almost dark, but candles are already burning high in Chongwen Hall, exuding a sweet smell, but for those who have lived in Chongwen Hall for a long time, after getting used to it, they can no longer feel it at all.
"The building was about to collapse. That thief got a hint of the news and fled out of the city. How could he care about His Majesty's safety? But Your Majesty, you are still trying every possible means to pass the throne and the Kingdom of Chu to that one.
You bastard born of thieves! Your Majesty, have you ever thought about who worked so hard with you to conquer this great Chu country? Do you still remember that when you had nothing, you relied on your brute strength in the army to fight to the death for only a living?
To earn the title of commander, who does not care about honor and disgrace, does not care about the ridicule of the world, abandons the noble status of the daughter of a prince, and condescends to marry you? Who has gone through all the hard work to organize your family business, settle down the rear, and even defend your home?
Yuchengchi, help you to care for the generals and encourage them to serve you? Who persuaded her brother to give up the authority of the separatist party and serve you to achieve your hegemony? And who swore on the snowy night that he would only love me in this life?
Man, who vowed to share the world with me and never take other sluts as concubines? Your Majesty, you have become the emperor, and you feel that the Ai family is old and shabby, and you want to have three palaces and six courtyards, but the Ai family will not tolerate you; Your Majesty
You know clearly that that bitch has an unknown origin, but you still linger, and the Aijia tolerates you. What is wrong with Wo'er, what is worse than that bitch, and what is worse than that bitch whose origin is unknown?
Your Majesty, you actually want to depose Wo'er, make that bastard your heir, and hand over the empire that the Ai family and you have earned together into the hands of that bastard, but you completely ignore what the bastard will do to the Ai family after he takes the throne?
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A sharp and resentful voice echoed in the empty hall.
Zhong Yuli was lying on the cold grindstone floor covered in blood. His hand tendons and hamstrings had been severed, and the wounds were directly exposed, but blood was still flowing out. Zhong Yuli opened his mouth, and blood foam overflowed, and his tongue could be seen.
He was also cut off in half and could only scream dumbly. No matter how spiteful his eyes were, it was of no use.
"You think I am not as obedient as before. You think there are too many old people in Guangling in this palace, so you brought the old dog Zhong Yuli here to recruit old soldiers to deal with the Aijia. Your Majesty, do you have any ideas?
, this country was conquered by the Ai family with you. When you were fighting everywhere, the Ai family also led troops and defended the city! Do they not care at all about the kindness that the Ai family had towards them in the past? "
Empress Xu's thickly powdered face looked ferocious and twisted at this moment, full of murderous intent, as if staring at a dead fish as she stared at the paraplegic Emperor Tianyou, who was slumped on the dragon chair.
Her eyes were as sharp as a knife, and she wanted to cut the flesh from Emperor Tianyou's body alive, so as to relieve the resentment that had been suppressed in her heart for many years and could not be vented.
Zhao Mingting and Chen Xingmo knelt on the ground, feeling chills running down their backs.
They had served Empress Xu for many years and knew that Empress Xu would have backup plans for everything, but they did not expect that among the six officials in the Internal Affairs Bureau who were regarded as confidants by Zhong Yuli, two of them happened to be the two most trusted by Zhong Yuli.
The two people who accompanied Zhong Yuli to Jingzhao Mansion and Han Daoxun to investigate the truth about Shen He's death turned out to be Empress Xu's people.
Niu Gengru was sitting on the brocade couch beside him, also restless. He did not expect that Emperor Tianyou had been promoting and re-employing Emperor Tianyou since he was the commander of the camp in Huainan Army. After Emperor Tianyou served as the envoy of Zhunnan Festival, he would continue to promote the emperor.
Wen Muqiao, who stayed in Huainan to supervise the army and assist Emperor Tianyou, was like a crow at this moment, with his old eyes half-closed and standing silently behind Empress Xu.
"You don't want to think about how you were nothing back then, so why did Mr. Wen appreciate you and promote you? Your Majesty, you were beaten like a prodigal dog by Sun Ru, and only a few hundred soldiers fled back to Chuzhou. Why did Mr. Wen have to
Like a loyal old dog, I gave up all my belongings to help you recruit new members? It was so easy for you. You really thought that you were destined by fate, and you really thought that everyone should owe you everything.
Everyone should be obedient to you, and everyone should let you go back on your word? Even if Wo'er is incompetent, even if my brother really has the intention to rebel, your Majesty, please think about it in your heart, even if the country of Chu is really replaced by me.
If the Xu family comes to sit down, does that mean you have fulfilled your original promise to the Ai family?"
Emperor Tianyou opened his mouth, but he was deeply poisoned and his tongue was paralyzed. He could no longer pronounce half a word clearly, so he could only raise his hand tremblingly.
"Serve Your Majesty with the pen and ink." Empress Xu stood high in the Chongwen Palace like an eagle, signaling to the two officials from the Imperial Bureau standing on the left and right to give the pen and ink to Emperor Tianyou to see if the old dog was still alive when he was about to die.
Do you have any last words left behind?
One person handed over a pen dipped in ink, and the other held up the rice paper and came closer. They saw Emperor Tianyou trying his best to write out the numbers in a crooked way:
"I can draw up an edict, but you must swear that only the Yang family can be passed down in the country of Chu!"
"Your Majesty, you have forgotten that even if your Majesty did not write it in your own hand, there are two ministers, Mr. Wen and Mr. Niu, drafting the edict on their behalf. Who among the courtiers dares to question it?" Empress Xu said disdainfully.
Emperor Tianyou wrote again in a crooked way: "Han Daoxun won't believe it, and you can't fight Han Daoxun! Which of you could have planned the Xuzhou plot to assist San'er four years ago? Wen Muqiao has a problem, and Han Daoxun hinted at me, hateful
I can’t believe him!”
Wen Muqiao, who had slightly squinted eyes, suddenly opened his eyes at this moment.
Niu Gengru and Zhao Mingting, who was kneeling beside the dragon chair, were also secretly shocked:
Yes, who would have thought that when Han Daoxun admonished the hungry people in court, he was seeking the military power of the Dragon Bird Army for the third prince. Who could have thought that Han Daoxun was sent to a remote place like Xuzhou, which would lead to the unification of the three princes.
A series of changes such as the military reduction of vassals?
Han Daoxun is too strong. This man must be eliminated. He must not be allowed to leave the city!
When everyone was suspicious, no one noticed the last trace of fierce murderous intention hidden in Emperor Tianyou's dull eyes.
