King Zhongshun and the others had just finished discussing the matter in the room, but they did not know that some of them were spies deliberately arranged by Jia Ke. These people were loyal and patriotic on the surface, but secretly they were in the business of informing Jia Ke.
As a result, they had just finished their meeting, and Fan Kang received the news in the evening.
Among them, Liu Fang, the first-class son and grandson of Li Guogong Liu Biao, was the one with the highest status.
After Liu Fang ended the secret meeting at Prince Zhongshun's residence, she hurried back to her residence at Prince Li's residence.
Liu Fang hurriedly wrote a letter in his study, but he did not let the boy go out to deliver the letter. Instead, he held the letter in his arms and walked towards his backyard.
When he reached the second gate, a gatekeeper immediately came out to greet him.
Liu Fang glanced at the old lady and said calmly: "Prince Zhongshun's palace is very lively these days. I wonder if Duke Yan has heard about it."
The woman glanced at Liu Fang, lowered her head, and did not reply.
Liu Fang calmly took out a letter from her arms, dropped it on the ground as if by accident, and then went into the inner house.
When the mother-in-law saw this letter, a golden light flashed in her eyes. She immediately picked up the letter and put it in her arms, then returned to her porterhouse as if nothing had happened.
That night, this letter was delivered to Fan Kang. Fan Kang had several of the same letters in his hands.
Fan Kang took several envelopes in his hand, opened them one by one, looked at them, and compared them again. They were all similar.
From the looks of them, Fan Kang knew that they would take action within a day or two. In this case, it would be time for him to leave.
Fan Kang immediately ordered his family to pack their bags and evacuate the capital early tomorrow morning and head to Baoding.
After Fan Kang gave these instructions, he wrote several letters on his desk and sent them to Sun Yan, the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, Zhang Chaoxin, the Minister of Industry, Zhao Shu, the Minister of Rites, and several other close associates of Jia Ke. A total of
More than a dozen letters.
Fan Kang did not hesitate after writing the letter, and immediately ordered his soldiers to deliver the letter to these people's mansions quickly, asking them to be ready tonight and leave the city together to Baoding early tomorrow morning to save the lives of their families.
Because of the other minions, the emperor can still be safe once he wins. After all, the emperor cannot kill everyone, but for these leaders, I am afraid the emperor will never forgive them.
That night, Fan Kangli's residence was in chaos all night, and his wife and her son stayed up all night to tidy things up.
And although this lady is mentally determined, she does come from a small family. She wanted to bring almost everything, so she only packed half of it in the morning.
When Fan Kang saw this situation, he was furious. He was about to run for his life. What else were he preparing for?
"You don't need to prepare these, just prepare some gold and silver, and don't need anything else."
Although Fan Kang's wife was unwilling to hear what the master said, she could only reluctantly accept it. She put the gold and silver items that had been prepared in the car, and the other valuable furniture and furnishings could only be put back to their original places.
So a dozen or so of their carts left the Office of the Minister of Civil Affairs from the side gate and headed straight for the north gate of the capital.
When Fan Kang arrived at the north gate, several other ministers were already waiting for them there.
As soon as Sun Yan saw Fan Kang, he immediately rushed forward and asked Fan Kang: "Why are you leaving in such a hurry? You just told me that nothing happened, and you immediately called for a retreat. What happened?"
Fan Kang smiled and cupped his hands and said, "I didn't expect these people to be in such a hurry, so I miscalculated the time. Lord Sun also invited Haihan."
When Sun Yan saw Fan Kang apologizing to him, he had no choice but to let it go, because he knew that although Wan Kang was inferior to him in official position, he was much inferior to Fan Kang in terms of favor in front of Jia Ke.
While they were talking, a dozen other ministers also gathered around.
Fan Kang quickly bowed his hands and saluted these people, and then said: "Everyone is ready. In this case, we will set off together."
Everyone else returned the gift, and then explained to the diner that they were ready.
Fan Kang then came to the city gate and ordered the small school guarding the city to open the city gate.
Fan Kang was in charge of the security in and out of Zhongjing City at this time, so the primary school, after listening to Fan Kang's order, immediately opened the city gate.
So Fan Kang left the city first, followed closely by the other ministers. They left the capital without delay and headed directly to Baoding in the north.
At this time, the officials in the capital did not know that their leading military ministers were no longer in the capital.
At half noon, Tian Ye and Lao Mengming came to the Prime Minister's Yamen to handle today's official business.
As a result, these two people waited for almost an hour, but did not see several other military and aircraft ministers coming to the Yamen.
These two people felt that something was wrong.
Tian Ye, in particular, is still very tactful and knows all about life-saving tricks.
After discovering that something was wrong, he did not say anything. Instead, he left the Prime Minister's Office and walked around Fan Kang's Mansion of the Minister of Rites. After asking someone about it, they found out that Fan Kang had left the city early.
After Tian Ye got the news, he didn't care about anything else. He returned directly to the house and ordered several large cars to be prepared. He only asked his family members to take some jewelry with them. Then these people hurried out of the capital and arrived.
I took refuge in the countryside.
Therefore, in the end, only the honest old Meng Ming was working as an errand at the Prime Minister's Office in the capital, and by the time he reacted, it was already too late.
Besides, since King Zhongshun was preparing to rebel, he was naturally very cautious, because this was a serious matter of confiscating the family and destroying the family, so he sent out all the spies he could send out.
These people are not professional spies, so they can only roughly monitor the yamen gates of each yamen and the residences of the chief officials.
As a result, in the afternoon, these people realized that something was wrong, because none of the other military and aircraft ministers from the Prime Minister's Yamen came, and only Lao Mengmin was waiting there anxiously.
When these people knew that something was wrong, they immediately reported it to King Zhongshun. When King Zhongshun got the news, he immediately recruited several cronies and Sun Xuan, the head of the Nan'an County Prince's Palace.
After these people arrived, King Zhongshun first informed them of the matter.
After hearing this, these people were in an uproar. The matter was very obvious. It seemed that the high officials in the capital had noticed their actions.
Sun Xuan was also a ruthless person. After hearing this, he reported to King Zongshen: "Something is wrong with your prince. If we delay it any longer, we may be in danger of annihilating our family. It is better to act immediately and break through the palace today, rescue the emperor, and then
Send an edict from all over the world to come and help the king."
King Zhongshun was not given for free. In fact, he had already made such a judgment. However, he was only the leader of the alliance, but he did not have a superior-subordinate relationship, so he had to summon the leaders of these parties for discussion. Now I hear it.
Sun Xuan said this and immediately gave the order.
"Immediately send a message to each mansion and ask them to send their servants to me immediately. Today we will burn everything."
As soon as King Zhongshun passed the order, the servants rode fast horses to the mansions of the princes and nobles. Soon these people gathered in sedans or cars and gathered again at Prince Zhongshun's mansion.
In addition to their respective servants, they brought with them almost all the servants who could be used. There were seven or eight thousand people in total.
These people seemed to be a large number of people, but they were all a mob. The servants had received some training, and these people carrying knives and guns were still somewhat majestic.
But those little boys all had everything. Although they had knives and guns in their hands, their legs were shaking like chaff.
These young servants and their masters have been prosperous and wealthy for several lifetimes, and now they are suddenly sent to the battlefield to fight, which makes everyone feel trembling.
King Zhongshun received the news and personally greeted them at the gate. After looking at the people gathered at the door of his house, King Zhongshun also frowned. Can these people really fight? But the matter has come to this, and it is too late to turn back.
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King Zhongshun bowed his hands to the princes, nobles and doctors in each mansion, and then led them to the main hall of Prince Zhongshun's mansion.
After everyone sat down, King Zhongshun didn't waste any time and said directly: "I got the news. Those people at the Military Aircraft Department have got the news that we are going to start an uprising. Now that people have escaped from the capital, I think Jia Ke will be there soon."
We will get a report, and we have no choice but to take action."
After hearing this, Niu Jizong immediately stood up, bowed his hands to King Zhongshun and said, "Since Your Majesty is like this, I won't delay here any longer. I will immediately go out to tidy up the servants and the boys, and will be ready to listen to Your Majesty's orders at any time."
King Zhongshun nodded to Niu Jizong and said, "In that case, you should hurry up and do it, and you can always listen to my orders."
Sun Xuan, the head of Nan'an County Prince, stood up and said: "Now we should immediately send some troops to block the nine gates, otherwise, everyone in the capital will run away."
As soon as King Zhongshun heard that this was reasonable, he immediately ordered one of his generals, more than a thousand troops, to go to each city gate and make sure to seize control of the city gate.
King Zhongshun's allocation has been completely allocated by those outside. Now if we want to attack the palace, I'm afraid there won't even be anyone left to use it.
At this time, an old man from the royal family stood up. This man was no one else, but the uncle of the current emperor, Prince Yixiao.
Prince Yoshitaka saw that they were only controlling the gates of the capital, and they had all the people they summoned beaten down, so he got up and said quickly.
"Although we are preparing for an uprising now, we still have too few men under our command to control the capital. It is better for each of us to spend some money to recruit warriors in the city so that we can fight against the enemy together."
King Zhongshun nodded immediately after hearing this. He knew very well what had just been assigned. The capital was so big, with a population of one million, and it was simply impossible to control it with just a few thousand people.
But as soon as this idea came out, there was a lot of discussion below. It was okay for the princes and nobles to ask them to provide some people, but asking them to provide money would be even harder than climbing to the sky.