Zhuo Yijia personally went down the secret road, and there was only one secret road, and he walked for a long time before he came to the end.

At the other end of the tunnel is a cave on the outskirts of the east. The cave had long since been empty, and only a fire had long since been extinguished.

Zhuo Yijia sent people to guard the entire cave, and ordered Zhihua to lead the troops to chase along the road down the mountain, hoping to find the whereabouts of Emperor Ming Xian.

When I returned to the Dao Palace, it was already night.

Today's enthronement ceremony has been completed, and tomorrow I will take all the ministers to worship the heavens, and then I will go to worship the ancestors, and all kinds of affairs have not been properly arranged.

Zhao Fengyao was still in the imperial study, following the ministers inside, waiting for Zhuo Yijia to come back.

Zhuo Yijia didn't have time to change out of his muddy official uniform, and went directly into the imperial study.

The ministers sitting in the imperial study saw Zhuo Yijia come in, led by Jiang Guozi, and got up one after another. Zhuo Shunwu sat at the top, watching Jiang Guozi and other dignitaries get up one after another, a little confused.

This is not yet established, and it will be welcomed in the future?

Zhuo Yijia didn't think about it so much, she didn't pause, and directly stretched out her hand and waved: "Ladies and gentlemen, please be exempt." ”

As he spoke, he had already walked to Zhao Fengyao's case, and saluted with a fist: "The last general will be a streamer, see the emperor." ”

Zhao Fengyao got up and personally stepped forward to help Zhuo Yijia up, without saying anything like the general's invitation.

He helped Zhuo Yijia to sit down on the chair next to him, and then sat down on the chair next to him.

"How is King Qing's investigation?" Jiang Guozi was the first to speak, he sat opposite Zhuo Yijia, and asked nervously.

"King Qing has fled." Zhuo Yijia replied with a dark face.

As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the room.

"If King Qing is not removed, there will be endless troubles." Zhuo Shunwu sat next to Zhuo Yijia, the whole person was tense, he grabbed the chair handle on the side tightly, and said in a deep voice.

Everyone knows what this means.

It means that the new emperor is not stable, and there may even be turmoil again.

"The person ran away, did you catch the trace?" Uncle Zheng Tian next to him asked.

Zhuo Yijia shook his head: "I only found a secret passage in the dungeon. After going out of the secret passage, I asked Zhihua to chase after him, and she would deliver me a message as soon as there was a trace. ”

"Secret Passage?" Jiang Guozi, who was sitting opposite Zhuo Yijia, narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhuo Yijia: "You said that a tunnel was dug by King Qing in the dungeon?" ”

Zhuo Yijia listened to Jiang Guozi's words and nodded: "And the secret path is very strange." ”

As he spoke, Zhuo Yijia paused and said slowly: "I dug the tunnel to transfer troops, attack and escape. Authentic nature extends in all directions. His one leads straight to a cave in the mountains on the eastern outskirts of the city. Just that one, without forks. ”

"This tunnel is built to escape, right?" Liu Wenliang, who had never spoken, opened his mouth to answer.

Jiang Guozi listened, did not nod, and did not shake his head. He just turned his head to look at Liu Wenliang: "If Xiulai escaped, it means that he knew that there was a day, and if he knew that there was a day, what he should have prepared was a general and a plan to put us to death, how could he run to dig a dark passage?" ”

"What Jiang Shangshu said makes sense." Zhuo Shunwu on the side listened and nodded: "The time to dig a tunnel is not short, it is enough to prepare these plans to destroy us." He's not a fool and runs to dig tunnels. ”

Saying that, Zhuo Shunwu paused, then raised his eyebrows and said, "Could it be that there are other premeditated plans?" ”

Zhuo Yijia listened to Zhuo Shunwu's words, and after a moment, she turned her head to look at Zhuo Shunwu: "General Zhuo, do you still remember Hongshan?" ”

"Hongshan? Isn't it the girl you have served since childhood? Zhuo Shunwu said, looking at Zhuo Yijia questioningly.

Only Zhao Fengyao, He Wenjing and Zhuo Yijia entered the palace that day. No one knows what's going on inside. The ones who moved fast didn't even need their aid in entering the palace.

Zhuo Yijia looked at Zhuo Shunwu: "As General Zhuo said, she has followed me since she was a child, and even I took her with the army in the northern region, and she knows everything I do, including plotting against her." ”

"And then, what does it have to do with what we're talking about now?" Zhuo Shunwu looked at Zhuo Yijia with a puzzled face, and asked inexplicably.

"She is the meticulous work of King Qing." Zhuo Yijia whispered, then turned his head and looked at the ministers with strange faces.

Zhuo Shunwu listened to Zhuo Yijia's words, first startled, and then even more puzzled and questioned: "No, Hongshan probably knows more than I do, and even knows when we started, but King Qing didn't win." If she is meticulous, this is unreasonable. ”

"It's not that he didn't win, it's that he didn't fight at all." Zhuo Yijia turned his head and looked at Zhuo Shunwu. Then he turned his head and swept his gaze over the adults: "On the night of the palace change, when I entered the palace, I saw the corpses of the former dynasty all over the field, but there were no corpses and fighting in the back court. So I guess that after entering the palace that night, the soldiers in front of me desperately resisted because of their duty; And in the back court, it is probably King Qing who made an order not to fight. As he spoke, Zhuo Yijia looked at He Wenjing.

He Wenjing listened to Zhuo Yijia's words, glanced at Zhao Fengyao who was sitting next to her, and then nodded: "As the general said, after we entered the backyard that day, all the soldiers disarmed and did not resist. ”

"King Qing is like this, is it possible that he doesn't want to be the emperor?" Zhuo Shunwu frowned and said, after that, he sneered again: "Why do I have such a ridiculous idea." ”

Don't want to be the emperor and force the palace to kill his own brother back then?

"King Qing also said something to me before he was arrested." Zhuo Yijia tilted his head and looked at Zhuo Shunwu again. She was saying it to Zhuo Shunwu, and it was also to all the adults here.

"I asked him why he sat back and waited for him to wait if Hongshan was his meticulous work, so he knew what we were up to?" Zhuo Yijia turned his head, looked at the adults sitting next to him, and said slowly: "He replied to me, saying that he didn't want to be the emperor anymore." ”

After the words were spoken, the imperial study became quiet again, and no one answered for a while.

After a while, Zhao Fengyao, who had never spoken on the side, said: "Let Zhihua follow first, and then I will send someone to search for the traces of the second uncle." For the rest, for the time being, let's do the same. ”

Jiang Guozi nodded: "What the emperor said is true." ”

"There will be a sacrifice to the heavens early tomorrow morning, and the ministers will go home first." Zhao Fengyao looked at the people in the imperial study and said.

Everyone got up, saluted, and took their leave.

Zhuo Yijia also turned around and walked out after Zhuo Shunwu.

Although her identity has not been announced to the public yet, and no one has made it clear, everyone knows that she has nothing to hide. Wait a minute, she still has something to ask Zhuo Shunwu.

Zhuo Yijia followed behind, and as soon as he walked to the door of the imperial study, he was stopped by Zhao Fengyao.

"General Streamer, please stay."