Chapter 53: Your Majesty is a Scumbag (19)
Empress Dowager Ye lay down for several days, and the news soon spread throughout the court, and the courtiers of the Ye family came to check on Empress Dowager Ye's condition.
Li Zifeng was instructed by Yun Xi, so he naturally deduced that the Queen Mother was still in a coma, so it was inconvenient to disturb and not let these people visit. When I asked the reason, I answered that I had a strange disease, and suddenly I fainted, and I don't know why.
Although these people are unwilling, they can't go and question Yun Xi in person, right?
Empress Dowager Ye was seriously ill, Yun Xi was naturally moved to the court by those old ministers, she was a person who had mixed up with the palace fight for 300 articles, although she couldn't come up with any awesome statecraft, but she still did it to eliminate dissidents, centralize power, and stabilize the dynasty.
Empress Dowager Ye controls the government and supports King Rui for a day or two, and those people of insight with ideals and ambitions have long been very unhappy with them.
Yang Yunxi is a serious emperor, although he has not been in charge of things due to illness for many years, he is still very loved, so although a few queen mothers came out to stir up trouble, under Yunxi's resolute style, they quickly disappeared.
When the news reached the big tent in the northwest, it was already half a month later, and the reshuffle in Chang'an City was too fast, and Yang Yunzhao was caught off guard.
He didn't expect that such a deep-rooted power of the Ye family would collapse in an instant, without Empress Dowager Ye, the Ye family was just a group of rabble, completely vulnerable.
But what annoyed him even more was that he had been in the Northwest Army for half a year, although he was the commander of the Northwest Army on the surface, but the people below were all brought out by Wang Ziteng, even if he supported a few of his henchmen to take the position, but he was not in the army, unless he defended his family and the country, he would not be able to move after all.
He was in a hurry and didn't know what to do, so he discussed with his henchmen how to subdue the 300,000 army for his own use, launched a coup d'Γ©tat and pointed at Chang'an, and the Qin messenger from Chang'an City arrived outside the camp.
It was not someone else who came, it was the former commander of the Northwest Army, Wang Ziteng.
Yang Yunzhao only felt that his scalp exploded, even if he was unwilling in his heart, he still came out to greet him.
"Ouch, what kind of wind is this, blowing Lord Wang here? Come in, the soldiers are thinking about you!"
Wang Ziteng saluted Yang Yunzhao worriedly: "The lower officials pay a visit to His Royal Highness King Rui, His Royal Highness King Rui is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old." β
Yang Yunzhao pretended not to know and said, "I don't know why Lord Wang came here this time, but has something happened in Beijing?"
The prince sighed, and a trace of pain flashed in his eyes: "The lower officials came here to deliver the decree for His Majesty, and the Queen Mother suddenly fell seriously ill, I am afraid that it will be...... I'm afraid it's not good......" he said and hid his face and wept.
He has been with Yunxi for a long time, and he is not far behind in acting.
The matter of Wang Ziteng and Yang Yunxi's broken sleeves had already reached Yang Yunzhao's ears, and seeing him crying like this at this time, a trace of disgust flashed in his heart in an instant.
He knew that the Wang family had turned against Yang Yunxi, and this prince Teng was once the commander of the Northwest Army, and Yang Yunxi sent him to nominally order him to return to Beijing to see the Empress Dowager Ye, but in fact, it was to seize his military power.
Thinking of this, a trace of anger flashed in his heart, and he secretly scolded Wang Guan for not being able to achieve enough things and more than failing, and even a terminally ill Yang Yunxi couldn't handle it, and made things into the current situation.
Wang Ziteng knew what Yang Yunzhao was thinking, but he couldn't show it on his face, and said with an anxious look: "Prince, without further ado, please return to Beijing with the lower officials as soon as possible and see the Queen Mother for the last time!"
Yang Yunzhao gritted his teeth, and said with some embarrassment: "Brother Huang has a will, the queen mother is seriously ill, and the king should return to Beijing as soon as possible, but now the Huns are ready to move, and this king, as the commander of the Northwest Army, really can't pull away!"
Wang Ziteng nodded seriously: "This is indeed a problem, fortunately, the emperor is wise and martial, and he has long expected the situation at the border pass, and before leaving, he ordered the minister to temporarily take over the duties of the commander of the Northwest Army, as long as the prince hands over the handover of the handover seal and the affairs to the lower officials, he can return to Beijing to fulfill his filial piety for the queen mother." β
"What!" Yang Yunzhao was furious, Yang Yunxi actually asked him to hand over the military power in the northwest, this was a clear robbery without any emotion! No wonder he wanted to send his own thought to pass the decree, he originally thought of this one, while he had not yet gained a foothold in the army, coaxed him to hand over the handsome seal, and the Northwest Army would have nothing to do with him!
Well, that's great!
A sneer flashed in his eyes, but his face was extremely relieved: "It's still the emperor's thoughtfulness, and it is naturally safer to hand over the northwest to Lord Wang......
"But......" he said with a little embarrassment: "It's getting late today, and Lord Wang has really worked hard all the way from Chang'an, why don't you rest for one night first, how about we do the handover tomorrow?"
Wang Ziteng knew that this was King Rui's delaying strategy, but he couldn't force it too tightly, so he had to nod and say: "In this case, then according to what the prince said, let's do the handover tomorrow." β
The prince returned to the tent to rest, but his heart was also uneasy.
The military power that Rui Wang Yang Yunzhao finally got his hands on, it is unrealistic to ask him to hand it over like this. Moreover, now that the palace has been reshuffled by Yun Xi, it is impossible for Yang Yunzhao not to know the news. In this case, it would be a fool's dream to ask him to hand over the handsome seal and return to Chang'an obediently.
But he couldn't resist Yun Xi's earnest eyes holding him, his mother and brother abandoned him and calculated him, and his beloved wife resented him and poisoned him.
He struggled alone in this earthly world, and if he didn't help him, who else would help him?
For the sake of today's plan, it is still necessary to obtain military power as soon as possible, so that Yang Yunzhao can return to Chang'an willingly.
In the handsome tent, Yang Yunzhao smashed his hateful fist on the table: "Damn! Yang Yunxi actually murdered his mother, and now he has sent his own good friends to receive the king's military power, obviously trying to trick the king into returning to Beijing!"
Nie Changze, the military advisor on the side, said with a solemn face: "Lord, the emperor's health has not been good, why did he get better as soon as you left the capital, not only took charge of the government again, but even the queen mother was poisoned by him." β
Yang Yunzhao snorted coldly, and the resentment in his eyes was even worse: "It was this king and the queen mother who underestimated him, this king always thought that he was a weak and incompetent waste, but he didn't want him to have such a deep scheming to deceive this king and the queen mother into such a situation!"
Nie Changze took a deep breath when he heard this: "Then if you say so, the emperor's scheming will be too terrible! The prince must not return to Beijing, otherwise he may have to worry about his life!"
Yang Yunzhao was also helpless: "How could this king not know that this was a Hongmen banquet? But now that he has summoned this king to Beijing on the grounds that the queen mother is seriously ill, if this king does not go, won't it make people scold this king for being greedy for power and disloyal and unfilial?"
Nie Changze lowered his eyes, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes: "The emperor ordered the prince to hand over the military power to Wang Ziteng, if something happens to him...... Then there is no one in the Northwest Army to entrust it, so doesn't the prince have a reason not to return to Chang'an?"
Yang Yunzhao's eyes lit up when he heard this: "What does the military advisor mean?"
Nie Changze shook the feather fan, raised his hand and made a throat-cutting motion between his neck: "The first strike is stronger!"
Yang Yunzhao was overjoyed: "The military advisor actually thought of going together with this king!"
On this day and night, in the middle of the moon, Wang Ziteng was lying on the bed tossing and turning, and a group of black-clothed and masked people quietly touched outside the tent, and solved the guards outside the tent in three or two, and blew a puff of smoke into the gap in the tent.
Long before he came to the northwest, Yun Xi told him not to sleep at night, for fear of being assassinated, and gave him an antidote pill that he had refined, but he didn't expect that someone would come to kill him on the first day he came.
He hurriedly stuffed the pill into his mouth and chewed it down, secretly clutching his saber in his hand.
After the group of black-clothed men finished blowing the smoke and thought that Wang Ziteng should have fainted, they rushed into the camp tent with their knives, and wanted to tie Wang Ziteng into a honeycomb coal, but saw that he suddenly drew his sword to block their knives, and jumped up from the bed.
A few people were shocked when they met, and secretly said that the smoke didn't work, but thinking that they were so powerful that it shouldn't be a problem to kill a little white face, they rushed up and attacked the prince together.
Wang Ziteng was a general, and he learned to play boxing before he learned to eat by himself, and it was not the power of the Wang family that he could become the commander of a party at the age of twenty-seven, but where were his opponents for several unsightly killers?
He raised his hand and pulled his mask and asked coldly, "Say, who sent you?"
The killer was hired by Yang Yunzhao from outside, and the first rule of the killer code was to keep his mouth shut and not to divulge his employer's information, and as soon as he gritted his teeth, he bit through the poison hidden in his teeth and committed suicide.
At this time, Yang Yunzhao pretended to lead people over in a hurry, and when he saw the scene in front of him, a trace of anger flashed in his heart, and he secretly scolded his subordinates for being wasted, and even Yang Yunxi's male pet couldn't solve it.
His face did not change, and he held Wang Ziteng's hand very anxiously: "Lord Wang, are you okay? It was all the negligence of this king, and he actually let people break in, causing the lord to almost die, it is this king who can't live with my lord!"
Wang Ziteng looked at Yang Yunzhao's face, which was three points similar to Yang Yunxi, and secretly said How can the Yang family like to act? Could it be the hypocrisy brought out of his bones?
But he felt that Yang Yunxi's acting was much more sincere than Yang Yunzhao, and he was not as superficial as Yang Yunzhao, so he coldly brushed Yang Yunzhao's hand and said lightly: "It's okay, the assassins have all been dealt with by the lower officials, and the prince doesn't have to blame himself." β
Yang Yunzhao said: "That's good, that's good, this king is in a hurry to return to Beijing, and all the affairs in the northwest must be handed over to the adults to preside, if something goes wrong with the adults at this time, how can it be called this king?"
Wang Ziteng said respectfully: "Xia Guan has been entrusted with an important task by the emperor, how dare he make any mistakes at this critical time?
Yang Yunzhao's teeth itched when he heard this, Wang Ziteng clearly guessed that he would send someone to assassinate him, and he had already taken precautions! It seemed that if he wanted to kill him, he would have to think of other strategies.