Chapter 217: Edict
"Master Yang," Zheng He helped Yang Shiqi up and said, "Your Majesty is fine, don't cry." β
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty," Yang Shiqi shook his head: "Are you okay?"
"Be quiet, the news that the emperor has woken up is not known to anyone else. Zheng He made a low gesture, then retreated to the door, watching everything outside vigilantly.
"How's going outside?" the emperor still looked very bad, and took a few breaths as he said a word.
Yang Shiqi hurriedly gathered his mind and said the situation of Jinyiwei's wanton killing and the fact that he sent someone to stop Taisun in Zhuozhou: "King Zhao will soon know that Taisun did not go to Shanxi, and His Majesty's seal is in the hands of King Zhao, and it will ...... at that time."
"I gave it to the third child. The emperor said coldly.
"Huh?" Yang Shiqi was stunned.
"Tiger talisman and seal, he always has to get one, so that the dog won't jump over the wall and kill him. The emperor's eyes shot a light like an arrow: "Did you say yes?"
Yang Shiqi said: "King Zhao didn't find the tiger talisman, so he picked it up in the palace, saying that someone was killing His Majesty. β
He couldn't help but feel a little weak, because the result of this nightmare was that Guo Jing grounded Zhang Guifei, but Yang Shiqi felt that if he didn't do this, the pace of King Zhao's usurpation of the throne would be greatly accelerated.
"You're doing a good job," the emperor seemed to know everything he did: "Zhang's women's family, I don't know if I'm blinded, it's not time for me to pursue her-"
"Since the emperor is fine," Yang Shiqi only felt that the pores of his whole body were comfortable: "It is really a blessing for the society to be in charge again." Please also ask the emperor to clean up the mess as soon as possible, if it is tossed by King Zhao again, I am afraid that people's hearts will be unstable and the world will be in danger. β
"In the past few days that I have been in a coma, all the ghosts and ghosts have popped out and performed a good show together," the emperor sneered, "I haven't seen enough." β
Yang Shiqi heard this, it seemed that the emperor would continue to pretend to be unconscious, maybe the emperor did not believe that King Zhao would really kill the king and kill his father, he wanted to see how far King Zhao could go.
The emperor saw that Yang Shiqi was silent and knew what he was thinking, but the emperor was not waiting for King Zhao's ultimate move, the emperor was waiting for the arrival of an old enemy.
"Take off my sword. The emperor motioned to Yang Shiqi to take down the Son of Heaven Sword hanging on the wall, and said in a low voice: "Open it......"
Yang Shiqi held the sword in his hand, his heart pounding, he realized that there was something in this sword, and it was what he had guessed - but he looked at it for a long time, but he didn't know where to open it.
"There is a bulge in the hilt of the sword, where you hold the sword," said the Emperor, "and when you press it, twist the hilt and the blade of the sword in opposite directions twice, and then turn it in a straight circle." β
"Yes. Yang Shiqi followed his words, twisted the sword forward and backward a few times, and pulled the hilt off with force! At the moment when the hilt fell, something yellow and clear fell from the sword body, Yang Shiqi quickly caught it, and looked at it, it was indeed a tiger talisman that commanded thousands of troops!
"There are twenty-one of these things," the emperor looked at Yang Shiqi, who was sweating, and said: "Twenty yin-faced tiger talismans, in the hands of the seventeenth guard of the Jingwei and the commanders of the three major battalions, one yang-faced tiger talisman is the talisman of my dispatch of troops." β
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majestyβ" Yang Shiqi became more and more frightened, not knowing why the emperor would hand over the tiger talisman to him.
"It's not that I don't believe Guo Jing," the emperor said, "but he can't hold the Tiger Talisman......"
The emperor's plan is correct, Guo Jing is indeed loyal, but Guo Jing is already in charge of his guards, if the tiger talisman is handed over to him again, then Guo Jing will become a person with more usurping power than King Zhao, in the face of such a great temptation, what is loyalty? Who can guarantee that Guo Jing will never have a different heart?
The emperor started all the way from Jingnan, and he found that the loyalty of military generals was not as good as that of civil officials. Except for Ping'an and Tie Xuan, almost all the generals of the Southern Army defeated by the emperor were surrendered, and the civil officials he met sacrificed their lives for righteousness, and they would rather die than cooperate with him one by one. This quality, which had previously made the emperor extremely hateful, now became something he remembered.
"Take the tiger talisman and go find the grandson. The emperor said, "I believe that you will be able to fulfill my request." β
"Your Majesty," Yang Shiqi didn't have time to express his gratitude, he said: "King Zhao controls Dongchang, his people are outside the main hall, and the ministers have to search their bodies from top to bottom when they enter and exit, and the ministers have nowhere to hide. β
Zheng He saw the people watching outside the door looking at him frequently, and knew that the time was almost up, if Yang Shiqi stayed any longer, the people outside would be suspicious: "Master Yang, you should think of a way." β
Yang Shiqi reloaded the tiger talisman into the sword and hung it on the wall: "The minister will definitely find a way to take the sword out of the palace." β
This was the scene three days ago, Yang Shiqi pondered and meditated, and finally brought the sword to the side of the grandson under the nose of King Zhao.
"Where is the tiger talisman?" asked Taisun as he trembled and lost his voice.
Yang Shiqi held the handle of the knife tightly, turned left and right, the blade fell to the ground, deeply inserted into the soil, and he held up that thing: "The talisman of the armor, the right is in the emperor, and the left is in the Beijing army!"
This right half of the talisman is a golden tiger with its head held high, and for a while, everyone held their breath and trembled, watching Yang Shiqi hand over this thing to Taisun.
"This is, Tiger Fu?" Taisun's face was swollen and red, and he couldn't suppress his excitement. No wonder he was so excited, he grew up until now, this is the first time he has seen the emperor's tiger talisman, although he has seen their tiger talisman in the British Duke and Chengguo Gong, but the tiger talisman belonging to the emperor has never been seen by him.
"The emperor asked the ministers to take the tiger talisman out of the palace and hand it over to His Royal Highness. Yang Shiqi looked at Taisun's intoxicated eyes, and said loudly: "Your Highness can hold this order to the Beijing army, where the opportunity is, there is no room for it!"
Taisun suddenly came to his senses, he looked at the people in the tent, and suddenly became arrogant: "Grandpa Huang handed over the Tiger Talisman to me to set things right and pacify the rebellion of King Zhao! I want to take the Tiger Talisman to the three major camps to rescue Grandpa Huang!"
At this time, Fengyang, Zhang Zhaohua and Gao Chi had already escaped the second wave of assassination.
Dozens of assassins with strong martial arts and ancestral garrisons slaughtered corpses all over the field, and when they finally examined the corpses, they found nothing.
"Check the soles of their feet. Zhang Zhaohua said.
At the bottom of the corpse's feet, there was a lotus flower with a thorn on it - this was a member of the White Lotus Sect, but it was not an ordinary White Lotus Sect.
"Liantai Province," Zhang Zhaohua remembered this institution: "This is the most core organ of the White Lotus Sect, and it has never been able to get rid of the White Lotus Sect, just because the core of Liantai Province has not been harmed. Now that they have finally come to the stage, it seems that the situation in Beijing is extremely dangerous. β
Zhang Zhaohua and Gao Chi went north non-stop, and when they passed through Nanjing, Zhang Zhaohua returned to the palace and took down a box from behind the plaque in Kunning Palace, which contained the things left to her by Empress Xu back then.
"Uncle Pingjiang," Gao Chi saw Chen Xuan, who came to greet him: "Thank you for your hard work." β
They will definitely be intercepted by more assassins when they go north, in addition to Liantai Province, I am afraid that there are also people from Gao Sui, the king of Zhao, Gao Chi and Zhang Zhaohua only have more than 130 people with them, and the critical moment is that Chen Xuan took the sailor to pick them up, took a big ship all the way to the sea, and landed from Tianjin Port by sea.
Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shiqi disguised themselves as beggars and mixed in the crowd, but they found that only one of the nine gates of Beiping could be passed, and the gate was heavily guarded, so they could only enter and exit. And it seems that those who go in have some credentials, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter.
"Who did they let in?" Zhu Zhanji said more and more nervously.
Yang Shiqi's eyesight and ear power were outstanding, although he only saw the leader of the group make a few gestures, he immediately reacted: "This is the people of the White Lotus Sect! They use the code words of the White Lotus Sect!"
When Yang Shiqi and Zhu Zhanji passed through the city gate, Yang Shiqi stretched out his index finger and middle finger, and the fingertips went upwards and drew an arc, but he didn't expect it to attract the suspicion of the gatekeeper: "This person is not right!"
Yang Shiqi was shocked, only to see that the dozens of people who had just passed by also came back and surrounded them: "Who are you? Why did you sneak into the city?"
Yang Shiqi broke out in a cold sweat: "We came with you, where you come from, we will come from there." β
"Fart!" A man pretending to be a beggar in front of him scolded: "Grandpa is from the barracks! What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and arrest these two White Lotus Sect demons! Today I have gained a lot of money, and I have caught twenty-four of them!"
Yang Shiqi heard that it was wrong, and then took a closer look at this person, "Aren't you Ma Lin, Yang Wuhou's subordinate?"
Ma Lin was recognized, and shouted, "You still know grandpa and me!" You, Master Yang, when did you become the White Lotus Sect?"
"Fart!" Yang Shiqi couldn't help but scold: "Who came up with this bad idea, your marquis almost missed a big thing!"
It turned out that Xue Lu, the Marquis of Yangwu, was guarding the city gate, he was bold and careful, and he had already realized that something was wrong, these days he transferred the generals out, let them pretend to be beggars, and then pretended to be a plausible comparison at the city gate, and the gatekeeper put them in, if someone was like them, and the gesture was exactly the same as the sign language of the White Lotus Sect, he was arrested on the spot, and more than a hundred of them have been arrested in the past few days, all of them have been interrogated by Xue Lu, and they are all White Lotus Sect disciples who have gone to Beijing from all over the world.
Ma Lin is a five-grade military attachΓ©, and he had a few meetings with Yang Shiqi at the beginning, and Yang Shiqi looked at Yang Wuhou's face and gave him a convenience.
"Where is your marquis?" Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but ask.
"Taisun, His Royal Highness!" Ma Lin didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly said: "My marquis ......"
Before he finished speaking, he saw another team of soldiers and horses coming, and Zhu Zhanji, who was the leader, looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but frown: "Uncle!"
The person who was called by Zhu Zhanji as his eldest uncle was Princess Yong'an's concubine, Yuan Rong, Marquis of Guangping. And Yuan Rong was also taken aback when he saw him: "Taisun, why are you here?"
"Uncle, it's so good that you're here," Zhu Zhanji said happily: "Grandpa Huang ordered me to quickly transfer troops and horses to the palace King Qin!
"Does the emperor have a will?" Yuan Rong's expression changed when he heard this.
"The emperor said," Yang Shiqi said, "There is a sword as proof." β
"Oracle?" Yuan Rong questioned: "The emperor has just issued an edict, saying that His Royal Highness Taisun did not follow the edict and led troops to Beijing without authorization, intending to rebel, how to explain it?"
"That's Zhao Wang Jiao!" Zhu Zhanji said hurriedly.
"You said that King Zhao is overshadowing?" Yuan Rong said coldly: "How can you prove that you are not a presumption?"