Princess Ningyuan was so angry that she wanted to step on Li Xinchen, but she thought of something and said aggrievedly: "Brother-in-law... Your Highness, you can't kill him."
"It's useful to keep him here." Li Xingchen laughed and looked around, "What else are you looking at?"
Pei Zilie next to him was dumbfounded. With a wave of his hand, the guards rushed forward.
And Li Xingchen gently patted Princess Ningyuan: "Li Ping, take them to the East Palace to make arrangements for them. When the queen comes, just invite the queen to come over."
"promise!"
"Is there anyone down there?" Cheng Feng shouted.
It was quiet down there for a while.
"Then move the rocks and seal the well." Han Qinhu also said with a smile.
"Someone, someone!" At this time, a voice came from the well.
Cheng Feng and Han Qinhu looked at each other. It really took no effort to get it. The soldiers grasped the well pulley tightly and pulled it up hard. They watched as several people used their strength to suck, and the lower parts moved very slowly.
, Cheng Feng was suddenly a little surprised, and hurriedly stepped forward to help. As soon as he used his strength, he couldn't help but sigh: "Why is His Majesty the Emperor so heavy?"
"Come up, are there... three people?" Han Qinhu, who was lying by the well, stared wide-eyed, "There are actually two women?"
The soldiers helped Chen Shubao, Zhang Lihua, and Kong Pin up. The rouge and gouache on Zhang Lihua and Kong Pin's faces had been wiped off a lot. Their hair was disheveled and they looked quite embarrassed. However, when they looked up, their pretty faces looked pitiful.
Han Qinhu and Cheng Feng couldn't help but feel soft.
"Chen Shubao?" Li Xingchen strode up to the middle-aged fat man.
"Yes, yes," Chen Shubao suddenly fell to his knees, "I can give you whatever you want, don't kill me, don't kill me!"
The surrounding soldiers almost laughed out loud, not expecting that this was the emperor of Nanchen.
What a coward.
"Zhang Lihua?" Li Xingchen also noticed the absolutely beautiful woman behind Chen Shubao, "Tsk, tsk, I really feel pity for her."
"I, I am willing to serve the general, please spare my life, general!" Zhang Lihua immediately cried and bowed to the ground.
Li Xingchen frowned and clapped his hands in disgust.
At this time, Han Qinhu held up his hand and said, "Your Highness, this girl is causing harm to the country and cannot be kept."
"Your Highness, spare your life!" Zhang Lihua realized who was in front of her at this time, "I am willing to work for Your Highness!"
"It is not a woman's turn to bear the blame for the harm to the country and the people." Li Xingchen said lightly, "Chen Shubao, raise your head."
Chen Shubao tremblingly wanted to step forward and hug Li Xinchen's legs. If the blame for "causing disaster to the country and the people" should not belong to Zhang Lihua, then it should belong to himself? This Li Xinchen wanted to kill himself!
"Your Highness, spare your life, Your Highness, please spare your life! I am willing to give this Lihua to Your Highness. I am willing to give it to Your Highness whatever you like!"
When Zhang Lihua and Kong Bi heard what Chen Shubao said, their expressions darkened.
Li Xingchen snorted and patted Chen Shubao's face with the sword in his hand: "I'm not interested in them. What's more, you are a prisoner now. You have nothing. Whatever you want, you can take it yourself. It's not your turn."
deliver!"
Chen Shubao suddenly shuddered and almost fell to the ground.
"But I won't kill you, so keeping you is still useful." Li Xingchen waved his hand with some boredom, "Take them all down, lock them in the East Palace first, and give them some water. Just don't starve to death."
"Your Highness, that Zhang Lihua..." Han Qinhu frowned.
Li Xingchen glanced at him: "How about I give you a reward?"
"I don't dare, it's just..."
Do you really want to kill Zhang Lihua in your life? Li Xingchen muttered in his heart and said with a smile: "Okay, let her live with Chen Shubao. I am not interested."
Putting his sword back, Li Xingchen let out a long breath: "What a boring opponent."
Before he finished speaking, he had already strode towards the main hall ahead.
Pei Zilie and others looked at each other without saying anything, but quickly followed.
On the thirteenth day of the eighth month of the Han Dynasty, Li Xinchen's troops arrived at Jiankang Mansion. Chen Youpu shot Kong Fan Kaicheng and surrendered. Li Xinchen captured Emperor Chen Shubao alive in the dry well of the palace that day.
Because Chen Shubao, Zhang Lihua, and Concubine Kong hid in the well together, the emperor would not forget the beauty until his death. The news spread in the market and became a joke. Zhang Lihua's rouge rubbed on the well railing, leaving a trace of pink, so the well
It is also nicknamed "Rouge Well".
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Kong Fan carefully walked through the corridor full of soldiers and walked towards the imperial study.
The feeling of coming to the Royal Study Room is different every time. In Chen Xu's era, there was an indescribable depression that made Kong Fan dare not raise his head; in Chen Shubao's era, there was so much wealth and luxury that Kong Fan couldn't even feel that this place was...
It was a place where the emperor and his trusted ministers discussed government affairs; in the Li Xingchen era, what Kong Fan felt was the awe-inspiring murderous aura and the heroic spirit exuded by the young soldiers.
Nanchen's Yu Linlang and Hu Benlang don't have this kind of momentum. It's obvious at a glance that they are elite soldiers who have experienced many battles on the battlefield.
The general standing at the door of the Imperial Study Room crossed his legs and folded his hands with a solemn expression. When he saw Kong Fan coming, he just made a gesture of invitation, and Kong Fan also knew that the person in front of him was the elite of Li Xingchen's elite - the commander of the Yulin Cavalry.
Cheng Feng.
No wonder the soldiers outside, even though they were young, gave people the impression that they were fighting for the rest of their lives. After trembling slightly, Kong Fan bravely walked in:
"Weak minister, please see Your Highness."
Li Xingchen was leaning on the table at this time, playing with the jade seal on the table.
That's right, it's the famous Chuanguo Jade Seal.
The quiet jade color of the Heshi Bi and the iconic gold-inlaid corner undoubtedly told Li Xingchen that this was the jade seal of the Great Qin Dynasty that future generations would never see.
It is said that the jade seal of the country fell into the hands of Zhao Liucong, a former Hu man, when the Western Jin Dynasty fell. It was then circulated between Later Zhao and Ran Wei. Because the "Killing Hu Ling" became more and more popular in later generations, Ran Min, the king of Wu mourning, when the country was destroyed
Asked for help from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the request for help was based on the Jade Seal of Chuan Guo. The generals of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who were ordered to come used clever tricks to defraud the Jade Seal of Chuan Guo and sent elite cavalry back to Jiankang overnight.
So the imperial seal returned to the Jin Dynasty and passed through the four generations of the Southern Dynasties. At this time, it appeared in front of Li Xingchen.
Slowly lifting the imperial seal, Li Xingchen saw the shoulders and sides of the imperial seal. There were traces of polishing there, which should be the "Great Wei Shou Han Imperial Seal" engraved by Cao Pi and the later Zhao Shile's special engraving.
The words "Shishi of Destiny" have been polished off, and the gold-inlaid corner of the jade seal was, needless to say, broken when the Empress Dowager Yuan of the Western Han Dynasty threw the jade seal to the ground in anger when Wang Mang usurped the throne.
(Author's note: "Hanshu", "Zizhi Tongjian" and other official histories do not record that the jade seal is damaged, so there is doubt. Here we follow the public opinion)
The bottom of the jade seal is naturally the four well-known characters.
"If you are ordered by heaven, you will live a long and prosperous life." Li Xingchen murmured, gently stroking the jade seal that had been passed down through countless generations of emperors and countless wars and chaos. (To be continued)