457 Quelling the unrest
The entire capital was plunged into a sea of fire, not only black and gray smoke drifted above the mansions of the nobles outside the palace, but even the sharp roars of the little eunuchs were heard in the air everywhere in the palace, "Go water, go water, come to Yongyi Palace to fight the fire......"
The chaotic cries for help came one after another, but even such a noisy and chaotic environment could not hide the screams of the palace ladies and the nobles out of fear.
The woman's shouts were already sharp and piercing, and at this moment they saw a certain noblewoman who had been pierced by the rebels, and saw the blood splattered from her mouth, and she was dead, and they also covered their ears one by one and screamed in more horror.
The sound of the battle shook the sky, mixed with the frightened cries of the women and the murderous threats of the rebels, which really made people panic as if they had a rabbit in their chests, fearing that they would jump out if they were not careful.
Chi Linglong was escorted by June and July and two black-clothed secret guards, all the way from the secret passage of His Excellency Duobao, the queen mother's bedroom.
Her heart was beating so fast that she seemed to be in shock on the spot, but in this situation, she couldn't have an accident, she couldn't die.
After walking through the gloomy dark passage for half a pillar of incense, the two leading secret guards made a gesture to let them pause here, they cautiously jumped out to listen to the situation outside, and June and July gave Chi Linglong a chest and said, "Princess, don't panic, everything happened today is expected by the master, and there will be no accidents." A few little masters have been transferred out a long time ago because of the care of Miss Sun, don't worry about their safety. β
How can Chi Linglong not worry about the safety of her four children?
Although when she and Qin Chengsi entered the palace early this morning, her cousin and cousin had already left from the secret passage of the Qin Palace, and went to the other courtyard that her cousin had set up in the capital.
However, I knew in my heart that it was such a reason, and at this juncture, Chi Linglong was still uncontrollable and panicked.
They don't know now that they have reached the underground of that palace, and after entering the tunnel, it seems that they will go to the most remote northwest corner of the palace, but they have been walking for so long, and the sound of fighting outside is still loud, how many people should die today? Qin Chengsi and the generals who escorted him, can they really turn the tide at a critical moment?
Chi Linglong was flustered, she was not worried that the emperor would be injured, she was only worried that Qin Chenghei would not have any accidents, the sword had no eyes, it really hurt him, she was really afraid that he would fall into someone else's way at a critical moment.
He was already an eye-catcher, and he was afraid that if the rebels couldn't catch her and threaten him, they would definitely regard Qin Chengsi as their biggest enemy, and they would want to eradicate him first, in this case, his situation would be even more dangerous.
Chi Linglong's heart went up and down, and she couldn't listen to the persuasion of June and July, but she was chanting "Amitabha" with a god.
She spun around in her mind, June and July didn't dare to disturb her, and after a while, the two guards who had gone to check on the situation finally returned, and everyone smelled of blood.
One of the secret guards reported, "We are now under Concubine Li's palace, the rebels have attacked here, the twenty-three princesses from Concubine Li have been killed by the rebels, and all the little princes who are kneeling in Cining Palace have been beheaded and beheaded......"
Chi Linglong's body stood in place, and the blood all over her body was cold in an instant.
What did she hear, all the little princes who were guarding the spirit in Cining Palace were beheaded and beheaded?!!
If it is said that the twenty-three princesses born by Concubine Li were killed by the rebels in a panic, this is not unusual; After all, at a time when people's lives are at stake, I'm afraid that Concubine Li herself is thinking about how to escape for her life, where can she still take care of her daughter?
But if the death of the twenty-third princess was accidental, and the little princes who were guarding the spirits in the Cining Palace all died, can this still be called an unintentional thing?
I'm afraid that the eldest prince has made two preparations, not only planning to force the palace to usurp the throne, but also thinking about how to remedy it if it doesn't work.
- That method is absolutely effective, that is, to kill all the princes under the knee of Emperor Hongyuan, so that Emperor Hongyuan will have no choice at that time, so that even if he is really captured in the end, he will definitely be crowned the next prince as he wishes, and then become the king.
is so vicious and scheming, people say that it is the most poisonous woman's heart, the tiger is poisonous and does not eat children, and the eldest prince's actions are worse than animals.
Chi Linglong was stunned in place, one of the two secret guards thought that she hadn't figured out the bends in it, and after a moment of hesitation, she said, "Princess, I'm afraid that King Yijun is going to follow the 'Bingwu Change'." β
The Bingwu Revolution was a coup d'Γ©tat that occurred in the middle of the Daxing Dynasty in historical records, and it was called the "Bingwu Change" because it was the year of Bingwu.
The specific content is generally that the five sons of the emperor who were not favored by the palace maid at that time could not bear the persecution of their mother by the palace concubine to death, and they were trampled and oppressed by their brothers, so they drugged and murdered their four brothers and three brothers in the small gathering of the royal brothers at that time, and became the only son of Emperor Daxing at that time.
The emperor hated his cruelty, and wanted to behead him, and remembered that now there is only this son under his knees, and he was finally released after three years of imprisonment and became the new crown prince.
Emperor Xingrui murdered seven brothers by means of viciousness, and was abused and harshly criticized by later generations, but because he was quite familiar with the way of governing the country, he was a thousand years of Ming Jun, under his rule, reversed the tradition of Daxing's long-standing family gate valve to control the government, and the Daxing Dynasty appeared in Zhongxing, which had a far-reaching impact on later generations, therefore, after his death, the courtiers after three days of debate, and positioned their nickname Rui Emperor, which shows the admiration and respect for this emperor.
Emperor Xingrui is the Emperor of the Ages, in the history, but his growth trajectory is no one can copy and emulate, now, the eldest prince does not have the ambition of Emperor Xingrui, but he inherited Emperor Xingrui's vicious methods, and wanted to murder all his brothers in order to become the only heir to the throne, which is ridiculous.
Chi Linglong couldn't help but laugh out loud, June and July had also read books, and at this moment they also understood the calculation of the eldest prince, but, hehe......
Although the little princes are easy to kill, they are only guarded by the little eunuchs, and there is no one to support them, so it is really as easy as cutting melons to kill; However, if you can easily cut off the lives of the little princes, could it be that the manpower under the eldest prince can also break through the defenses around the crown prince and the seventh prince, and kill these fledgling princes under the knife?
It's a fool's dream.
Chi Linglong was disdainful in her heart, at this moment, she didn't feel afraid of the matter of the eldest prince forcing the palace, she seemed to have confidence in an instant, raised her head and chest, took a deep breath, and then said to the other four: "Let's go forward, let's go to the exit and wait for news." β
"Yes."
The four of them escorted Chi Linglong out, but at this moment, the palace was full of severed limbs and corpses of all kinds of miserable deaths.
Emperor Hongyuan, under the protection of the Imperial Forest Army and several generals, pointed at the eldest prince who came from afar with trembling fingers, and said sharply: "Evil son." β
This angry scolding has the anger of the emperor being provoked dangerously, and the hatred that iron is not steel, and the hatred of being betrayed by the child and betrayed by his subordinates, Emperor Hongyuan scolded a "wicked son", and couldn't help but spew out a mouthful of blood on the spot.
The bloodshot was like a burst of fireworks, spraying a layer of blood mist in the air, and several generals who were immediately shocked shouted in horror, "Your Majesty." β
Emperor Hongyuan's sharp eyes appeared temporarily sluggish, but then they became even more dark and bloody, and his eyes were full of ink, full of murderous aura that could not be concealed.
The eldest prince was far away, and he saw his father, who he had loved since he was a child, but finally made him hate and want to kill him, looking at him with this kind of scraping and flesh-scraping eyes, and his heart couldn't help but tremble.
It's just that he has come to this point, and one step forward is the majesty and excitement that the entire Great Wei River and Mountains will surrender under his feet, take a step back, and what awaits him is the abyss where there are no bones.
He doesn't want to be like his brother, be demoted to a concubine, and become a down-and-out prince who can be bullied even by the eunuch Gong'e, he wants to be the master of the world, the more the old man hides what he doesn't want to give him, the more he wants to take it back with his own hands.
He wants this Great Wei Jiangshan, wants him to sit on the dragon couch, wants him to watch him slaughter all his children, and finally can only look up to him with more than enough strength and strength, he wants him to know that only he is the ultimate helmsman of this Great Wei Jiangshan.
The eldest prince looked back at the past with a passionate and excited look, and the look in his eyes that had become crazy and hideous because of the throne did not hide it at all, and even looked at Emperor Hongyuan with contempt like an old dog at the end of the road, so that this emperor, who claimed to be a wise man in his life, couldn't help but spurt out another mouthful of blood after all.
The number of rebels was beyond imagination, because the eldest prince had the upper hand, and there were many hostages under him, that is, some of the Praetorian Guards who wanted to resist, after seeing their grandmother, mother and aunt at home were escorted, they did not dare to resist anymore, lest their attitude was too resolute, and their relatives would be stabbed to death like a monkey.
The blood flowed on the clean and tidy road, and soon became a pool of blood, and then the blood spread all over every corner of the palace, staining every inch of the palace red.
The rebellion of the eldest prince was premeditated, and he even prepared for today's tough battle for more than ten years, although because his younger brother Ten Princes forced the palace, the foreign Weiguo Mansion was raided, cutting off one of his arms, and his power was greatly weakened, but this premeditated and planned rebellion has achieved feasible results in the end.
It's a pity that the eldest prince was complacent, and when he saw Qin Chengsi and Chi Zhongyuan who came in a hurry, he couldn't help but become distorted and hideous.
Just now, the secret guards came to report, and they didn't even tie up the four heirs of King Qin and the princess of Qin in the palace, which is disgusting!!
Can't use the princess of Qin and the heir of the prince of Qin to threaten Qin Chenghe, the eldest prince looked at the henchmen who were slaughtered most of them in an instant, his eyes were red, but at this moment he didn't forget to roar and make a deal with Qin Chenghe, but he said that if Qin Chengsi helped him with this, he would succeed to the throne in the future, and he would definitely crown Qin Chenghei as the king side by side, increase the number of households in the Qin Wangfu from 200,000 to 500,000, and he was willing to assign Yizhou and the adjacent Qianzhou to the King of Qin as fiefs.
digging the foot of the wall can give up such a big benefit, the prince is really hard enough; Digging the foot of the wall was dug in front of his father, and still in front of his father, he was ashamed to assign the territory of Great Wei to the King of Qin, and the eldest prince pouted Emperor Hongyuan alive, and caused a voice calling "Majesty" all day after day.
Emperor Hongyuan didn't faint for much time, and when he woke up, the war was still in a stalemate, however, the decline of the great prince had appeared, and the army's morale had been weakened.
This unexpected rebellion ended with the eldest prince being tied up on the spot.
Emperor Hongyuan wore a dragon robe and squinted at his eldest son, whose face was like dead gray, and said two words viciously, "Rebel." β
These two words alone could not describe the emperor's urge to peel this son and cramp, and he never imagined that this beast would get rid of all his brothers for the sake of the throne.
Emperor Hongyuan received news that all the little princes below the twelve princes died under the stabbing of arrows and knives, and even the eleventh prince could not be spared, he had many sons and many blessings in this life, but he did not expect that people would reach middle age, and there were only two, five, six, seven and twelve five princes left under his knees, and the twelve emperors he was most optimistic about were now seriously injured and unconscious.
The beast in front of him can no longer be called his son, he is really the same mother as his ten emperors, and even the usurper is also thinking about forcing the palace to rebel.
It's just that Lao Shi, a useless little beast, did something rebellious, and he wouldn't be so sad, only this emperor, he was his first prince, and he was favored in every way when he was born, and even once thought about passing the throne to him, but it's a pity......
The eldest prince forced the palace to rebel, the overall situation has been decided, and Emperor Hongyuan immediately gave him a glass of wine.
All the soldiers who rebelled with the eldest prince were also ordered to be executed.
This is not the final result, because the emperor was really angered this time, he has already been demoted to a concubine, and the ten princes who were imprisoned in the imperial tomb were also given a glass of wine to death, as for the earlier case of the ten princes forcing the palace, they were lucky not to be killed, but only exiled Some family members of the Weiguo Mansion also ended up being given Ling Chi to death.
It can be said that because of a tenth prince, a great prince, and the Patriotic Mansion, there is no one who survives in this world.
After a purge inside and outside the palace, all the rebels were ambushed, however, the losses of the imperial court were also heavy.
Not to mention that in Cining Palace, when the rebels invaded, several women who wanted to resist and were hanged were the queen mother's brother and daughter-in-law, and now the Marquis of Yanping, also died in the palace.
In addition, the concubine Niangniang in the palace unfortunately died, and only three of the princesses died,......
This is just the situation in the palace, and then look at the mansions of the nobles outside the palace, or the ancestors in the palace have died, or the children and grandchildren have suffered, but there are casualties in every mansion, large and small.
Several masters in the Qin Palace's mansion were fine, but the old lady of the Zhongyong Mansion, Chi Linglong's grandmother, was killed in this rebellion. R1152