Chapter 275: Fire Doesn't Invade Jade
When Rong Sleeping Crane and Le Yangwen discussed the method of military training, Chang'an, Shanglin Yuan.
It was late at night, and the inside and outside of the Hehuan Palace, where Emperor Xuanjing and Ershu were stationed, were illuminated by countless lanterns and torches.
In the main hall, behind the triple veil, the emperor who is more than half a hundred years old sits on the throne with a sinking face.
In the end, he is a seventeen-year-old practitioner and has been the master of the people for more than 30 years, although his time has been spent on harem pleasures all these years, and he has been pampered for many years, and he has precipitated his bearing.
At this moment, although his expression is solemn, he is still calm, so as not to lose the dignity that the Son of Heaven should have.
In contrast, Concubine Shu and Shu Zhaoyi were a little more flustered, their faces were pale, one left and one right hugged his arms, and the steps between their sideburns shrank from time to time, as if they were not at peace at the moment.
Under the dan pier in front of the veil, there were tumbling marigold plates, and dozens of dancers who were originally dancing curled up under the corner of the wall, peeking around from time to time through their fingers, and their bright eyes were full of unbelievable dazedness and panic.
The night breeze blew in from outside the wide open temple gate, sweeping away the smell of wine and food poured to the ground, and also swept away the original rich aroma of fat powder, leaving only the hall full of slaughter, as well as swords, guns and armor.
Looking down from the emperor's throne, there are Rulin's swords and halberds and Sen Han's armor, arranged into a wall, blocking the sight of the Son of Heaven and the rain of guns and arrows of the rebels.
However, the unstoppable shouting of the human wall, and the muffled sound of arrows and swords entering the body, still kept coming, making the imperial concubine adjust her sitting posture uneasily from time to time.
"King Gaomi, as the heir of the royal family and the brother of the Son of Heaven, you have disregarded the grace of the saint and committed rebellion, you are simply mad and guilty!!" Outside the palace, Tao Yao, the general of Zuojin Wuwei, held a long knife in his hand, and after cutting down a soldier, he roared angrily at King Gaomi, who was heavily protected in the distance, "If you don't rein in the precipice, beg Your Majesty Longen to pardon you, and you will be ruined and ruined, and your wife and children will be affected, just in front of you!"
"Kill him, reward him with a thousand taels of gold!" King Gaomi glanced at him coldly, and indifferently ordered left and right, but before his subordinates could lead the order to step forward, Tao Yao noticed the commander of the forbidden army who was commanding the soldiers to change the formation not far from King Gaomi, and his eyes were split for a while: "Big brother! It's really you?!" I just heard the sons and daughters below say that you rebelled, I just said that the enemy deliberately spread rumors to shake the morale of the army, why you?!"
The commander of the forbidden army glanced at him indifferently: "Xuanjing has no way, and for more than 30 years, he has not thought about the people's livelihood and society, he has been lingering in the harem all day long, indulging in beauty, and listening to Ershu's words, killing innocent courtiers...... Twenty-sixth brother, have you forgotten what happened to Ouyang Arc? That is still the result of someone helping him to intercede! Such an example is in the past, why do you have to work for the faint prince and traitorous concubine inside? It is better to vote for King Gaomi now, and after the prince ascends the throne and practices Zuo, the sky will be rich and noble, and it will be right in front of you!"
"What is pouring wealth and wealth, pouring disaster is almost !!" Tao Yao laughed miserably, waved his knife to cut off an arrow that came towards his façade, and said loudly, "My Tao family has been in charge of the forbidden army for generations since the ancestor was ordained, and the reason why my status has never wavered is because my Tao family has never been involved in royal affairs, only knows loyalty! Now that you have set a precedent, no matter who is in power in the future, you will trust my Tao family again?!"
"Without the trust of the king, but running the emperor of the Six Dynasties in the forbidden army, my Tao family can have other results besides the destruction of the whole family?!"
"It's ridiculous!" King Gaomi immediately stopped, "If His Majesty Emperor Taizu is resurrected, how can a mediocre and incompetent descendant like Xuanjing see Rong?!" The Great Commander's actions today are not rebellion, but a teacher of justice, doing magnificent things, for the common people of the world, for the future of the society, and for the eternal !! of the Rong family."
"It's you Tao Yao, if you don't count tomorrow, you will be counterattacked, and the catastrophe of the fall is just around the corner!!"
He was worried that Tao Yao would pull the commander of the forbidden army who was easy to persuade him over, and hurriedly urged the left and right to step forward and kill this person.
Under the heavy reward, the soldiers were enthusiastic, not long after, Tao Yao was attacked and died, but at this moment outside the Hehuan Palace more than Tao Yao a general, the right Jinwu general Li Zhenbang quickly took over the command, he is more cautious and cunning than Tao Yao, learn from the Gaomi King to hide behind the crowd, only remote control the battle situation, and ordered the soldiers to dismantle the large pieces of furniture such as the screen in the hall and several cases to seal the door, in order to serve as a barrier to block the side of the Gaomi King, but he completely gave up killing and rebelling, and only waited for help.
Although King Gaomi had the heart to quickly break through the barrier and force Emperor Xuanjing to agree to abdicate, no matter how unpopular this emperor was, in the end, he had been sitting on the throne for more than 30 years, and he had a huge forbidden army, and after all, there were still some loyal soldiers who were willing to sacrifice their lives for him.
And because the Hehuan Palace chosen by the Shu sisters is a palace some distance away from the imperial city of Chang'an, King Gaomi and the commander of the forbidden army reached an agreement in the imperial city, even if they were killed immediately after a little arrangement, it was extremely expensive along the way, and the soldiers had already shown obvious fatigue, and it was a stalemate for a while.
"Lord Wang, it can't go on like this!" Although the commander of the forbidden army has only never seen a real battlefield in Xu Zijing's mouth, in the end, he is much better at military affairs than King Gaomi, at this moment, he looked at the sky, his expression was suddenly solemn, and he stepped forward and whispered to King Gaomi, "The sky will be bright, if you don't do it again, I am afraid that after the dawn, there will be changes!"
King Gaomi was also anxious in his heart, but he knew that he couldn't mess up at this moment, so he pretended to be calm and said: "Don't worry! Gu has ordered the prince to take people to Zhenghou Mansion and Chengyang Bofu to arrest the traitors of the country, and now Chang'an City will definitely be in chaos! Even after dawn, it will be a chaos, which is enough to win enough time for us!"
The commander of the forbidden army frowned when he heard this, after he told King Gaomi before, he immediately acted separately: King Gaomi arranged errands for the prince and other subordinates, and he quickly mobilized the forbidden army, so he didn't know much about the actions of the prince of Gaomi in Chang'an City.
At this moment, when he heard this, he asked distrustfully: "The son of the world is the first?"
Although I can understand that King Gaomi has high hopes for the prince, and at such a critical juncture today, I hope that the prince will work hard to show his feelings, but ...... This kind of moment, which is related to the future and life of the family, can you give the mediocre talent of the prince of Gaomi to practice?!
"Of course it's the prince!" King Gaomi understood what he meant, and squinted his eyes, "but Huaiyuanhou, Qi Shangshu and others will also assist...... After all, the Meng family relied on the protection of the Queen Mother, and the government has been in turmoil for a long time, and now the people who need to behead the whole family are not one or two households, and there is only one person in the world, and there is no skill, isn't it?!"
The commander of the forbidden army was relieved, but he still frowned: "There will not be only one or two people in the Tao family who think like Tao Yao, and please make a decision as soon as possible!"
King Gaomi heard what he said, and subconsciously asked, "What does the Great Commander want to say?"
"Fire does not invade jade. The commander of the forbidden army took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "What does the prince think?"
King Gaomi's pupils shrank suddenly: This is to persuade himself to set fire to the palace? Because the jade seal can't be burned!
"......" He thought quickly, according to the original plan, he was to kill Emperor Xuanjing, force this brother to give way to himself, and hand over the jade seal and other symbolic objects of the Son of Heaven by the way.
After that, he was placed under house arrest.
Well, don't kill.
This is not that King Gaomi thought of his brotherhood and planned to let Emperor Xuanjing go, but that he took into account the two border armies, or two people: Meng Boqin, and Rong Sleeping Crane!
He had to keep Emperor Xuanjing as a hostage.
It's just that I didn't expect to kill all the way from the imperial city to the outside of Hehuan Palace, but I was blocked at this time, and I couldn't reach Emperor Xuanjing for a while!
"Shanglin Garden is full of grass and trees, this Hehuan Palace is for the scenery, when it was built, it was selected in the place where the earth and warm flowers and trees are verdant, and many exotic flowers and plants are planted inside and out. King Gaomi pondered, "If the palace is set on fire, with the direction of the wind at this moment, there is a chance that the Xuanjing in the palace will not survive...... It's just that in this way, even if the jade seal can be found, there is no hostage. When the time comes, Meng Boqin in the northern Xinjiang, and the rebel son in the western Xinjiang, waving the army to Chang'an, how can Lone resist it?"
If he allows the sleeping crane, he can still use the name of father and son to govern him, but it is really not good, that is, as Meng Guiyu speculated, first set up this son as the prince, and while stabilizing him, he also made him unable to go against himself: After all, your father has set you up to enter the East Palace, and you still have to lead the troops to fight against your father, is it too much? !
The problem is Meng Boqin, in order to prevent the failure of the Hefu after the defeat, and also to control the situation more quickly after forcing the palace, he ordered the prince and others to slaughter the children of the Meng clan in Chang'an no matter what, such as Zheng Hou, Cheng Yangbo, Meng Boshen, Meng Bomei, Meng Jiayan, Meng Guiyu and other mainstays of the Meng clan, and would rather kill by mistake than let go!
In this way, Meng Boqin has no scruples, and he will definitely go south to quell the rebellion when he turns back.
Although King Gaomi is not very good at military affairs, he also knows that not to mention that he has only barely mastered nearly half of the forbidden army at this time, even if he commands all the 400,000 forbidden army, he may not be able to beat the most elite Northern Frontier Army in the country!
"The concubine who married the rebel son is also restless!" he secretly complained about Sheng Weiqiao at this time, "If the Sheng family is in Chang'an now, even if Mizhen's rebel son is 10,000 unwilling to be used by Lone, for the safety of his wife and children, how can he not obediently take action for Lone to deal with Meng Boqin?!"
At the beginning, he tried every means to prevent Sheng Weiqiao from going to the northern Xinjiang, in addition to not wanting Rong Sleeping Crane to win over Zhao Shi, in fact, he was secretly planning that after Sheng Weiqiao came to Chang'an, but if he had a chance, he was a ready-made hostage!
Who knows that the rumored daughter-in-law who is pampered and can't take on anything, God knows what medicine she took wrong, she didn't even care about being pregnant, and she had to go to Northern Xinjiang in person despite the wind and snow!
It's okay now, he can't grasp the weakness of Rong Sleeping Crane, and he can only face Meng Boqin by himself at this moment!
“…… The sky will be bright, even if Chang'an City is in chaos now, but Xuanjing has been the king for many years, and there is never a shortage of foolish and loyal people in this world!" After thinking about it, King Gaomi gritted his teeth, "Right now, our soldiers are exhausted, if someone comes to King Qin's rescue in a while, wouldn't it be bad?!"
"Even if Meng Boqin goes south, it will not be a matter of one or two days. ”
"If you fail tonight, the Lone and the Royal Mansion will be destroyed in an instant!"
"When the time comes, I won't be cheap for nothing, and Mizhen's rebel son will !!"
He made up his mind and nodded to the commander of the forbidden army, "It's not too early, since the faint monarch is unwilling to come out, these forbidden troops who don't know how to choose trees and perch on trees are confused...... Just according to the words of the Great Commander!"
When a sky-high fire broke out inside and outside the Hehuan Palace, Chang'an City was also in chaos.