The second prince, Minghua, took three personal guards to take advantage of the night to go out of the west gate of the central capital and go straight to the west. www.biquge.info In order to ensure that the itinerary of the second prince becomes a secret, this time the emperor used the most elite forces around him, at least this time the dark chess used will soon be forced to abandon the son due to the pursuit of the Huangfu family. Not to mention the secret guards and expeditionary forces that were sent to follow the second prince.

Prince Mingcheng is about to get married, and he is now on the verge of becoming a young second prince, even the emperor and queen who have been in business for many years think that they can only protect the second prince while they are still alive, but if something happens to the two of them, I am afraid that the second prince is still fledgling, and his ability to protect himself is not enough. Although the central capital is still calm at present, as veteran politicians, they have smelled the gloom before the storm and snow, and in order to preserve the royal bloodline, they must send the second prince out of the central capital in advance and make plans early.

Out of the west gate of the capital, is a plain, to the west thirty miles is the county, here is the small city that must pass through the east and west, because of the proximity to the capital, so it is very prosperous, although it is only a small county town, but the prosperity of the city is not worse than some state cities. Another characteristic of Jingxian is that the mountains here are endless, and it is a natural barrier located in the west of the central capital, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

When the second prince and his subordinates rushed to Longkou Village, Donglai Town, Jingxian County, the sky was slightly bright, and there were already 300 iron horsemen waiting in the foggy mountains at the end of the village. The second prince, Minghua, rested in the mountains and prepared to turn north after dark.

This time, in addition to the three personal guards with strong martial arts, there were also three hundred iron horsemen, who were the emperor's personal guards for the second prince. In addition, there are ten secret guards sent by the emperor and the empress, who usually do not appear, and will only appear when the second prince is in danger.

According to the emperor's plan, the expeditionary force of 100,000 people, from which the most elite 20,000 people were selected, and the second prince also went north, if the political situation changes in the future, at least the last bit of royal blood and blood, there is also the capital to make a comeback.

Not to mention that the second prince dodged all the way, while marching rapidly, he used his master who was good at anti-tracking to help hide his tracks. The Huangfu family in Zhongdu did begin to have doubts about his whereabouts.

After the second prince left, the official news to the outside world was that the queen had sent him to his grandfather's house in the south. The fifth princess is still young, it is the age of innocence, and she pesters her parents every day to ask, "Where is the second emperor brother today?" The second princess is a little older, and she has been educated by the palace to become a little lady, she is worried that her sister's daily questions will make her father and queen mother embarrassed, so she secretly teaches the fifth princess, "The father and the queen mother are also worried about the second emperor brother, let's not ask them every day, they will cry secretly at night." ”

The fifth princess seemed to understand whether she understood or not, she was worried that her parents would really be made crying by her daily questioning, so she no longer asked the emperor and queen this question, but every day she must find an opportunity to hold her parents' faces to study whether their eyes are red and swollen, which makes the emperor and queen inexplicable.

The crown prince already has his own cronies, and when he heard the news reported by his cronies about the second prince leaving Zhongdu, he just snorted coldly and did not give any special orders. The prince's cronies couldn't figure out his master's thoughts, but he didn't dare to act rashly, but just sent people to try their best to listen to the dynamics of the second prince, after all, although the prince and the second prince are compatriots of the same mother, but the emperor's attention to the second prince over the years is enough to make people reverie.

The queen mother knew that after the second prince left the central capital, she specially sent the housekeeper to invite the prince to Yongshou Palace to discuss countermeasures, although the prince was very filial to the imperial grandmother who raised him, but when it came to his parents, siblings and sisters, he has always been silent and golden.

The queen mother asked the prince if she knew the dynamics of the second prince, the prince frowned and did not answer, the queen mother had no choice but to summon her brother into the palace to discuss countermeasures. For the Huangfu family, wholeheartedly supporting the prince who listens to the queen mother's words is the key, and the second prince has been a thorn in their side over the years, for fear that one day the emperor will abandon the current prince and set up the second prince as the prince, so that all the efforts made by the Huangfu family on the prince will be in vain.

This time the second prince left Beijing to give them a chance, when the second prince was in the capital, although the Huangfu family had already had the intention of assassination, but did not dare to act easily, they have been waiting for the opportunity for the second prince to leave Beijing, according to the past practice, the prince will definitely leave Beijing when he becomes an adult, whether it is for the fiefdom or for the emperor. The Huangfu clan had already prepared a killer and was ready to assassinate the second prince as soon as possible as soon as he left Beijing.

This time, although they learned the news of the second prince's departure from Beijing the next day, they tracked it for three days and found that there was no trace of the second prince.

Huangfu Qingyun is the current head of the Huangfu family, he has been preparing for eight years in order to assassinate the second prince, he has secretly cultivated hundreds of top killers, since he got the news, he immediately sent half of the killers and several trackers to the south, tracking the traces of the second prince all the way. But the news that came back was not optimistic, the second prince seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and he couldn't find any trace of him.

Huangfu Qingyun sensed that something was suspicious, and began to wonder if the emperor had set up a plan to lure the enemy, he had to withdraw some of the killers first, and only the remaining one-third continued to track in the south, and then he tracked the traces of the second prince to the east, west and north respectively.

Although the second prince set off four days earlier than the killers sent by the Huangfu family, they could not travel day and night, so when they were halfway there, his whereabouts could no longer be completely concealed. Fortunately, the emperor also made plans in advance, first of all, he also arranged the same manpower in the other three directions, originally the two princes had thought of dressing up, but with three hundred iron horses, it was really inconvenient, and ten days after they left the capital, they began to travel day and night. When the killers of the Huangfu family caught up, since their identities could not be confirmed for the time being, they first reported the situation to the Huangfu family in Zhongdu.

Therefore, when the manpower in the four directions replied one after another, Huangfu Qingyun concluded that there must be two princes among the four groups, but they could not disperse the limited killer resources in each direction, so they had to rely on the news delivered back from various places one after another to determine which direction was the second prince and his party.

The south is the second prince's grandfather's house, and it seems that he should be the direction in which he went to ask for help, and the explanation given by the royal official is also the south, but the possibility of the plan cannot be ruled out.

Dongfang is the maternal grandfather's house of the current queen, and Dongfang is closer to the sea, if the second prince enters the sea by then, it will be difficult to track.

The west and the north are the two regions with which the royal family has the most unfamiliar relationship, there are snow-capped mountains in the west blocking the way out, and the northern snowy regions are full of alien grasslands and thousands of miles of ice, these two seem to be the most unlikely, but everything is difficult to say, so it should not be taken lightly.

In the end, Huangfu Qingyun sent thirty percent of the killers to the south, thirty percent to the east, twenty percent to the west, and twenty percent to the north.

The second prince Minghua had reached a hundred miles away from the area of influence of the Guigu family in the snowy region at this time, and when the killer chased him, the scouts sent by the second prince had already detected the news, and the second prince let a hundred iron horsemen outflank the killer, so that he did not have to pursue, but only needed to deal with the people who were left alone or ready to return to Beijing to report the news;

At the same time, the head of the Snowy Guigu family, Guigu Qianli, received a message from the imperial city, and he immediately sent an army of 100 people who were good at archery and close combat, dressed in disguise, and went south to Taibai Town to meet the second prince Minghua.

Huangfu Qingyun paid close attention to the spy reports of the Quartet in China, these days he was so anxious that he had a quarrel, and entered the palace several times to ask to see the Queen Mother, but the prince was not enthusiastic about the pursuit and killing of his compatriot brother, he neither objected nor ignored, every time he listened coldly to the dialogue between Huangfu Qingyun and the Queen Mother, and did not express any opinions alone. But every time Huangfu Qingyun enters the palace, he will definitely put down anything at hand and go to the Queen Mother's Yongshou Palace.

The emperor and queen are very clear about the change in Huangfu Qingyun, but they don't pay special attention to it, in fact, they have been excited about the prince's choice of concubines recently, and the emperor and queen are also busy with this matter. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is already like this, but if he can choose a virtuous helper for him, and then pay close attention to the education of the emperor and grandson, the education that is crooked here in the prince may have a chance to be corrected.

Therefore, the emperor and empress took advantage of the fact that the Huangfu family was busy chasing and killing the second prince, and began to provoke the future crown princess. It's not that the emperor and empress don't care about the safety of the second prince, it's just that all the arrangements have been made in advance, and under the protection of so many people, the life of the second prince must be worry-free, just try to save the strength around you and don't be over-consumed.

Thirty miles away from the snow area is Taibai Mountain, the terrain is dangerous, from east to west, stretching for hundreds of miles, stretching dozens of miles from south to north, there is Taibai Town under Taibai Mountain, located at the pass of the mountain valley, after Taibai Town, go north along the mountain road for more than ten miles, you will return to the official road. Although this road is dangerous and the road is not as wide as the official road, in order to prevent banditry, the government has set up a small post station every five miles along the road for many years, and stationed several officers and soldiers.