203. The matter of the second guard

In the past, Emperor Wu ascended the throne, and some people paid tribute to Luo Ruhua. After the northern expedition, some people offered green sac flowers. The petals are even, and the secret coincides with Kun Dao, and now that I think about it, it seems to imply that humanity has turned yin, and a female saint was born.

———— "On the Book of Flowers"

At night, Daming Palace is brightly lit. Wei Qian sent people out of the palace to summon the news, not only the guards of the capital, but even the officials of the government followed suit. Situ Yun's letting Nan Daying deal with the East Palace was indeed a clever move. At first, Wei Qian and the others were defenseless, and let Zhang Shide rush into the Zichen Hall and grasp the front door. As long as it works properly, it can dominate.

Fortunately, the people in the Prince's East Palace reacted quickly, and Wei Qian summoned him outside the palace. made Jia Lian run to Feng's house to find helpers, and took Danfeng Gate back from outside the palace. Under the enemy's back, the tug-of-war of scramble lasted all night.

As the night passed, Wei Qian and the crown prince finally suppressed the rebellion by virtue of their superiority in strength. Looking at the mess in the palace, Wei Qian sighed: "Playing in the same room, no matter whether you win or lose, it's my fault!" ”

The prince was in a trance, and he almost became a rebel himself, following the back path of the princes of previous dynasties.

"Come on, bring Zhang Shide." Wei Qian ordered someone to bring Zhang Shide up.

Zhang Shide looked unruly, and he didn't worship Wei Qian and the prince when he saw him.

"You say you're acting on orders?"

"Yes, I am ordered to quell the chaos!" Zhang Shide held his head high. Wei Qian was silent and asked him to bring the holy decree.

Wei Qian looked at Zhang Shide's holy decree, and it was indeed Situ Yun's handwriting. Coupled with the fact that Gou Chen Xing in the north is still there, it is obvious that Situ Yun is fine.

"It's his handiwork." Wei Qian sighed slightly in her heart, has she finally come to this point?

At this time, the plum blossom fairy came. Now that she is in charge of Baihua, she learned the prophecy from the mouth of the green bag fairy, and hurriedly told Wei Qian.

"......" Wei Qian's mouth smiled at the corner: "The heroine is happy and Wei Chang?" I didn't expect to be able to enjoy this kind of treatment. ”

She handed the decree to the prince, whose expression changed. To say that the crown prince has no idea of ascending the throne is false. But ascending the throne at this time will inevitably cause criticism, and sit on the plot against the great crime. And the life and death of his father is uncertain, where would he choose to ascend the throne at this moment?

"Come on, get up! Summoning the ministers into the Xuanzheng Palace. Wei Qian thought for a while: "Prince, you go to the front hall, and go back to the palace." ”

Wei Qian said to the prince: "Don't worry, your storage position will not be shaken, and the palace has its own plans for this matter." She glanced at the trapped concubine next to her, and went back to the palace to prepare a handwritten letter.

Concubine Shu is nothing more than a clown to her. I can't deal with the two of them with muskets and sharp weapons, it's just a waste!

Concubine Shu was gagged and kept struggling.

To say that she did what she was ordered, it was not wrong to take over the Sixth Palace. Change to a softer person, maybe put down your weapon and let her slaughter. But Wei Qian's prestige in the palace is too high, and what kind of character does Wei Qian have? Casually pointing at Concubine Shu's edict, Yang Kai ordered the entire palace guards to attack, and followed Wei Qian to unite to resist the people of the Southern Battalion. Therefore, Wei Qian and the prince were given a chance to breathe.

Back in Penglai Palace, Concubine Wen hurried over with a group of children.

"Mother!" Princess Yuanjia stepped forward with Situ Xi in her arms, and Concubine Wen followed the second son of the Wei family to meet her aunt.

"Is my sister okay?" Concubine Wen looked flustered, she was originally playing with a few children in the Mei Building, but when she heard that there had been a big change in the palace, after Hong Chun escaped from the palace, Princess Yuanjia immediately ordered the Mei Building to be closed. Knowing that the situation in the palace was stable, he came out again.

At this time, Hongchun came to meet with a group of honorary female officials. Hongchun went to the palace through the secret road, and first went to the women's school to find Lin Daiyu. Together with Lin Daiyu, he mobilized the honorary female officials who left the palace in the early years, and went to the ministers' homes separately to find them to report the news.

Nan Daying's actions were secretive, and there was a secret foil from Concubine Shu, who entered the palace silently. If it weren't for the prince's life, I'm afraid something would have happened long ago.

Wei Qian instructed Hongchun: "This time, the well-known female official has contributed to the society." But it's not clear whether this counts. However, in the name of the palace, you take out the objects from the treasury of the palace and reward them, and do not hurt the hearts of the heroes. ”

Looking at the honorary female officials again, Wei Qian sighed: "You have been out of the palace for many years, but your heart to serve the country is not inferior to that of men, and it is always in vain to teach the palace and the queen mother in the past." "There were twelve honorary female officials present, all of whom were further canonized as honorary Shanggong by Wei Qian. And these twelve people are the female officials who later entered the "Picture of the Female Concubine" with Hongchun and others. In the reign of Emperor Wu, female officials with names and surnames were all on this picture, even Jia Yuanchun, Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu were among them.

This is Wei Qian's intention to call the police fairy and leave her last words for Hong Chun to prepare the "Picture of the Daughter-in-law". Doesn't the police fantasy fairy have the twelve hairpins of Jinling to record the sorrow of Jinling women? I'll make a list of the nation's elite women to see who is better than whom.

To appease the female officials one by one, Wei Qian personally wrote a few handwritten letters.

"Hongchun, you can keep the records of this palace over the years, and he will give them to Yuanjia and Xi'er every day." Wei Qian asked him to reorganize his inner library and divide it into three. Part of it was left to the Wei Mansion, part to Yuanjia and part to Situ Xi.

Seeing Wei Qian's actions, everyone's hearts sank.

Concubine Wen hurriedly stepped forward to stop her from continuing to write the edict: "Sister...... You-"

"Don't worry, sister, I'm measured." Wei Qian looked up at Lin Daiyu: "You honorary female officials can't go to the palace, you take them to Wutong Pavilion first." ”

Sycamore Pavilion? Lin Daiyu nodded, and took the honorary female officials out first.

Daiyu thought to herself: "Your Majesty is not dead, but this is a good opportunity for my sister to get out." Although a face-to-face defense can solve the misunderstanding. But this misunderstanding was beneficial to my sister, so she took the opportunity to get out and leave, and she could also change a talisman for the Wei family. So, my sister is ready to choose to fake her death at this time, and by the way, she will resist everything? Daiyu knew that Wei Qian was secretive, and she was not worried about Wei Qian's safety. Take Wang Xifeng to leave with the honorary female officials.

Xuanzheng Palace, the place where the Son of Heaven is in court. The crown prince came with the crown princess, and when he saw the crown princess, the ministers were not surprised. Li Feiya is regarded as the luckiest woman in the world. is also surnamed Li, but the last real princess died of illness, which made her, who was still a female official at the time, a future queen. And this is also a link between Concubine Ning and the crown prince's alliance.

"True and false Li, Concubine Xiaomei, marry the right man in a disordered manner." The rumors and envy of the mortal world for her are not much less than Wei Qian.

Seeing the crown princess come out, Jia Lian couldn't help but ask a few words.

"There is chaos in the palace, I don't worry about the princess in the East Palace." Now the prince can't trust the people around him, so he takes his wife with him.

"Do you want to use a screen to cover it?"

"No need, what are you covering at this time?" Wei Qian changed her clothes, dressed up, and arrived with Princess Yuanjia and others to pass Zhang Shide's holy decree to the ministers.

At first, the ministers only heard about the palace change from the mouth of Hongchun, so they rushed to the rescue. But after seeing the holy decree, I didn't feel surprised.

"Rebellion?"

"I've been waiting for these days to be dedicated to the public, where is the rebellion?" The people in the East Palace laughed angrily, and some people were even worried: "How could His Majesty make such an order, could it be that someone is bewitching you?" ”

The palace people brought chairs, and Wei Qian and the prince each sat on a wooden chair in front of the dragon chair. In extraordinary times, even those old masters didn't care about chewing their tongues and saying anything about etiquette.

Wei Qian smiled at the ministers: "I don't know what happened to Your Majesty, you actually thought that the palace and the prince had rebelled?" And this army turned out to be the most descendant of His Majesty's Southern Battalion? ”

He also asked people to bring Zhang Shide, Concubine Shu, Liang Shaochu and Scholar Li up.

"Wait until you ask."

The Seven Books interrogated several people, and several of them insisted that this was Situ Yun's order. Li Dashi and Liang Shaochu were a little weak-hearted, and of course they refused to tell the truth. said that Situ Yun was not worried about the affairs of the court, and asked them to come back to take over the court.

"For no reason, why did His Majesty come to take over the imperial court, let alone the crime of rebellion?" The crown prince had a gloomy face: "Under house arrest Prince Ben and Concubine Ning? When the time comes, being poisoned by a glass of wine, can it still be said that he committed suicide in fear of sin? He stared at the second and third princes. The second prince's face did not change, and the third prince's expression flickered a little.

"If the two of us die, I'm afraid Lao Wu and Yuan Jia won't be able to live. Who will benefit then? ”

Lin Chaoyang hurriedly came out: "Your Highness, this must be an accident in the north, maybe ......" Maybe someone pretended to pass on the holy decree, and maybe His Majesty Xià had died of a violent illness.

When it came to the struggle for the throne, the ministers cheered up and began to calculate the camp one by one.

The second and third princes: "If the prince's rebellion is confirmed at this time, will we be able to push His Royal Highness to the throne?" ”

"But what's going on up there?"

The hearts of the people in the East Palace were warm: "This is a God-given opportunity, the prince took the opportunity to ascend the throne, and it is okay to turn around and serve His Majesty as the emperor." If you are ruthless, you will directly let His Majesty die violently in the north. ”

Of course, there are also some loyal people, seeing that the atmosphere is not right, they hurriedly knelt down and said to Wei Qian: "Niangniang and Your Majesty have supported you for many years, and you also ask Niangniang to preside over the overall situation and welcome Your Majesty back to the palace." ”

At this time, several princes couldn't believe it, and whoever presided over the overall situation was suspected of usurping the throne. It is still Wei Qian, the imperial concubine who has been with Situ Yun for many years, who is safer. Of course, the key is that these people don't know the prophecy in the north, otherwise the first one to guard against is Wei Qian.

Mei Shangshu also knelt down: "Please give an order, I will wait for King Qin to go north." ”

"The prince entered the palace last night and said the same. But...... That's it, you wait to go out of the city with the main palace. Wei Qian ordered people to drive and led the crowd to the outskirts of the city.

There was an accident in Daming Palace, and the people in the city were panicked, and Wei Qian's exit from the palace this time also had the intention of appeasing people's hearts.

Although the streets are cleaned, the alleys on both sides are crowded with people. The people did not dare to come forward, but after a while several old men came with dove rods. Kneel in front of the car to greet Wei Qian and the prince.

The officials wanted to invite them away, but they were stopped by Wei Qian: "If you have national affairs in mind and are elderly, you can't do this." He summoned a few people to him, and one of them, an old man with gray hair, asked about the previous night.

Wei Qian said: "Your Majesty went north to the outside of the Saiwai, and ordered the prince to supervise the country, and the palace assisted him." In recent days, His Majesty has been in poor health, and some people have taken over the palace with an edict and put the palace and the prince under house arrest. ”

When several elders heard this, they were shocked.

"Fortunately, God blesses, this palace and the prince are fine. Now I want to go to the suburbs, and I ordered someone to go north to invite His Majesty to return to Beijing. ”

"You can rest assured, Your Majesty will inevitably turn evil into good fortune. Now that Saibei has been decided, I will surrender to the Quartet, sit on Kyushu, and there will be no more military disasters. ”

After listening to Wei Qian, the people's hearts must be certain. In recent years, Situ Yun's literary and martial arts have won the hearts of the people, at least on the side of Chang'an City, the public opinion is towards Wei Qian and Situ Yun.

"I would like to congratulate Your Majesty on your early return, and I wish you a thousand years of Jin'an."

After speaking, Wei Qian drove to the Wutong Pavilion. Behind him was a large crowd of people, waiting at the bottom of the slope.

The ministers stood in Wutong Pavilion with Wei Qian, and Lin Daiyu and the others had been waiting for a long time.

Wei Qian stepped forward and grabbed Lin Daiyu's hand, pointed to the pavilion with a smile and said: "When the palace was ordered to enter Chang'an, it was asked to build this Wutong Pavilion. This pavilion can be seen in Chang'an, looking at Lishan in the distance, and facing the Tongbai Pavilion over there. ”

Tongbai Pavilion, the hearts of the ministers sank.

Tongbai Pavilion is the place where Empress Si died. Empress Si, also known as Wei Zifu, was the successor of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The same surname is Wei, and there are also relatives in the court, and the same is the same Majesty Xià decreed against him and the prince.

The ministers were in a trance, as if they had seen the history of the past. The queen hanged herself, and the prince ......

How miserable was Prince Er, and how is it recorded in the history books?

Situ Tao's face was ugly, and he clenched his fists.

"Don't worry, if you call this palace a concubine, this palace will definitely not let you encounter the past of the prince in the past." Wei Qian turned his head: "The palace and the prince have no intention of rebelling, and His Majesty is not a ruthless person, if you want to come to this matter, you just need to talk about it." But if the army goes north, I am afraid that it will arouse the suspicion in His Majesty's heart, but it will not be beautiful. ”

"Now the prince avoids suspicion and cannot act at will. But yesterday, someone entered the palace to plot rebellion, and someone behind him must be instructed. Wei Qian stretched out her hand and touched it gently: "The princes are not allowed to move without permission to avoid suspicion with the prince." "Ordered someone to watch Situ Jie and the others.

The prince's henchmen were suddenly shocked, and a group of guards next to him raised their swords against Wei Qian's people.

"What, are you going to rebel?" Wei Qian pointed to the Doumu Temple at the foot of Lishan Mountain: "This place is built after the Jinling Doumu Temple. In the past, His Majesty was in danger when he was young, but fortunately he escaped with the protection of his grandmother. The princes went to the Doumu Temple to pray for His Majesty's blessings. ”

"Concubine Wen, you take everyone in the harem with you. Yang Kai, you listen to Concubine Wen's words to guard the Dou Mu Temple and protect the safety of the princes. "Not only the second prince and the third prince, but also the fourth prince of Concubine Shu and the fifth prince of Wei Qian were all sent to Doumu Temple.

"Cousin Daiyu, you have been practicing in the Dou Mu Temple all these years. These princes ask you to take good care of them. "Imprisoned all the princes in one go.

Seeing this, the royalist party was certain. At this time, no prince can believe it, this lady pressed down in one breath, as long as she waits for His Majesty to return, the overall situation can be decided!

"It's not good for others to go to King Qinwang in the north. Mei Shangshu, you go. Wei Qian pointed to the Ministry of Rites and said: "You have always been at odds with this palace, if the holy decree is really under His Majesty." Looking at you going, I guess I won't suspect that you are rebelling with this palace. ”

Wei Qian ordered a few more people to follow Mei Shangshu north. Let Jia Lian and others stay in the capital: "The government should not be wasted, and you should run all affairs to ensure the safety of the four seas." ”

One by one, the will was passed on, and the faces of the ministers gradually became wrong. How can this lady have the intention of being lonely. And dealing with political affairs, isn't she still there?

"Zhang Shide, you are a loyal person, and this palace doesn't care whether your imperial decree is true or false. But since you have reached this point, you will enter the palace and take over the Daming Palace. ”

Anyway, Concubine Wen and the others went to the Doumu Temple to pray for blessings, but there was no one in the palace.

"You follow Jia Lian and others to supervise the country. When he returns, the truth will be known. Wei Qian casually took out a glass of wine and walked a few steps forward to Concubine Shu and Liang Shaochu.

When Concubine Shu saw Wei Qian taking wine, she was terrified. Wei Qian ignored her and looked at Liang Shaochu: "Who are you?" ”

"If this palace is not mistaken, Scholar Li should be the person of the third prince?"

Li Cheng was startled and turned his head to look at Wei Qian. The ministers next to him discussed, and unconsciously looked at the three princes who were being pressed next to them.

"You talk nonsense!" The third prince's face was flushed, and he naturally refused to admit it. If this matter is recognized, will the father come back and tear himself apart?

"Humph! Don't throw it at anyone else. Liang Shaochu moved in his heart, and laughed loudly: "Qingtian is dead, Huangtian should stand, you and Situ Lao Thief destroyed my Divine Sect, and now I will corrupt your country." I'm not afraid to sue you, this qiē is all arranged by me! I went to falsely accuse you and the two of you of rebellion, presumably now the old thief Situ has killed your brother and the eldest princess! ”

"Tongyuan Sect rebellion?" Jia Lian Huoran got up, and he was about to hack him to death with a sword.

"That's it, keep him. Go back and let Situ Yun deal with it. Wei Qian called him by name and walked back to the Wutong Pavilion. Looking at the pine and cypress outside the Tongbai Pavilion, he raised his wine glass: "Queen Si has been lonely here for many years, so you and I are finally a family, and this palace will accompany you." "Anyway, drink it all in one gulp.

"Mother!" Suddenly, Yuan Jia and the others stepped forward, but it was too late. Wei Qian drank the wine, threw the wine glass casually, and sighed to the north: "Thirty years of respect for each other is like a guest, and it is no match for the green bag." In this way, you and I will settle our grievances! ”