Chapter 337: The Storm in the Capital (1)
Yao Huang was in a good mood and cut the preserved eggs into small pieces, and added them to the sticky wrinkles with lean meat slices and ginger shreds. In yesterday's dream in the World Realm, she easily killed several female immortals, although she also left that world realm because of the collapse of the too illusory realm. Add salt, pepper, sesame oil, chopped green onion and chopped coriander, and the fragrant porridge with preserved eggs and lean pork is ready. Yao Huang filled a jar with a wide mouth and put it in the back basket, and cut a piece of the hair cake that had already been steamed, wrapped it in a cloth, and put it in the back basket as well. The cake is steamed with cornmeal, and it is sweet and soft with the fragrance of corn, and it tastes very good. Because of the soft taste, it is very suitable for children and the elderly with bad teeth, and the method is also simple, and there is a trend of making cakes as a staple food in the village.
Preparing the things to bring, Yao Huang walked up the mountain with his backpack on his back. The sky had turned white, and with a long roar, a black shadow streaked across the sky. Because it flew too high, no one could see clearly what the black shadow was, except for Yao Huang. It was a sea holly, a well-trained sea holly. Yao Huang retracted his gaze, sighed, and continued to walk towards the mountain.
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"Your Majesty, the loyal and brave prince appeared a hundred miles away from the capital with a large army." The reportman's face was full of emperors, "King Zhongyong has rebelled!" ”
The whole court was shocked, except for a few officials from a family with a weird smile on the corner of their mouths. The ministers panicked, no one thought that King Zhongyong would rebel, and he was about to come to the city, if King Zhongyong really attacked the city, the lives of their people would not be guaranteed, can they not panic?
"Didn't King Zhongyong fight in Jiangnan?" A minister said.
"The matter in Jiangnan may be a smoke bomb, in order to make the loyal and brave king justifiably lead his troops into the interior." Another minister speculated.
"But if it's a smoke bomb, how can General Luo be wiped out?" Minister A.
"This ...... Minister B." King Zhongyong colluded with the bandit army in Jiangnan? ”
"Quite possibly!" Minister C.
"What now?" Minister Ding.
"Open the gates and surrender?" Chancellor E.
"Someone. Push that guy out of the way and cut it down! Emperor Jingyuan pointed to the minister and gave an order. The guards pounced on him and rudely pushed the minister out of the hall. Everyone in the hall was silent, and no one dared to make a sound. Emperor Jingyuan glanced at everyone coldly, got up and returned to the harem. The ministers looked at each other, what does the emperor mean by this? We haven't discussed how to meet the enemy yet! Is the emperor the rhythm of giving up resistance?
The emperor never made arrangements, and just when the ministers thought that the emperor had given up resistance and that they were secretly looking for a way out, a major battle broke out fifty miles away from the capital. Fifty miles outside the capital is the Xishan Mountain Range. The rebels had to pass through to attack the capital, and on this day, King Chungyong's army encountered an ambush while passing through the Xishan Valley, and the army was almost completely annihilated, and King Chungyong was captured alive. The person who guided this battle turned out to be Luo Peng, who disappeared on the battlefield in Jiangnan. It wasn't until this moment that all the ministers knew that their emperor was confident, and Luo Peng's disappearance was just a play, and they were all kept in the dark. Immediately, the whole court praised the emperor's ingenuity and various praises worthy of being the Son of Heaven.
"The eldest prince of Puyang, King Zhongyong was arrested by Luo Peng. If the plan has failed, what are we going to do next? ”
Puyang sat in his own flower hall at the time of the desert. He suffered from the cold two days ago, and a few maids in Wenqiu tightened his body, not only draped him in a thick robe, but also put a thick cushion on the chair, so that he would no longer suffer from a trace of cold. Puyang was holding a cup of hot water when he was indifferent—because of drinking medicine, a few maids cut off tea for him—and looked around at everyone in the hall: led by the Puyang family and the head of the Xiahou family, the rest were all the people in power of the old-school families, and these families were already inseparable from Emperor Jingyuan because of Emperor Jingyuan's suppression.
"The Jiangnan side has been exposed, and we have no way out, so we can only make a desperate bet." Puyang Mo took a sip of water and said lightly, "Concubine Liu is about to give birth, and when the child is born, it is the time for us to act." ”
The head of the Xiahou family proudly twisted his beard, the child who was about to be born had the blood of their Xiahou family, and this alone made their Xiahou family able to sit firmly in the position of the first family.
"Your Majesty, what should you do with the loyal and brave prince?" Xu Hanqing asked. In addition to Emperor Jingyuan, Zhang Dekai and Xu Hanqing in the Qiyuan Palace, there are also Luo Peng and Xu Hanzou and the old general Feng Tang. The rest of the people were all driven out of the temple gate to wait.
"He is always the son of the first emperor, and it is not good to behead him on the street, so give him a drink!" Emperor Jingyuan sighed slightly in his heart, there were only two sons left by the first emperor, him and Zhongyuan, and Zhongyuan had become a waste. For a while, Emperor Jingyuan began to miss Mo Wuxin, if only this younger brother hadn't died.
Xu Hanqing answered, and Luo Peng began to report the situation in Jiangnan. His defeat and disappearance is a scene, in fact, he has already figured out the distribution of Jiangnan's forces, and when he returned to the capital, he had already let the remaining subordinates start the purging of Jiangnan. After King Zhongyong was arrested, the purge of Jiangnan had come to an end.
"Han Zou, do you have any news over there?" Emperor Jingyuan asked the trusted leader of the secret guard, who was also in charge of intelligence management.
"The rulers of the Xiahou family, the Zhang family, the Li family, the Cui family, the Xie family, and other fourteen families gathered in Puyang Mansion, but I am afraid that there will be action." Xu Hanzou replied.
Emperor Jingyuan smiled: "I'm afraid I'm going to jump off the wall in a hurry!" ”
"Han Zou, you should find out the hidden location of those family's soldiers and horses as soon as possible; Luo Peng, you are always on standby, and when Han Zou delivers the news to you, you will lead the troops to kill all those people and horses for me. ”
"Command!"
Emperor Jingyuan turned to Feng Tang: "Old general, the guards of the capital are all dependent on you. ”
"Your Majesty, rest assured!" Feng Tang said hummingly.
Emperor Jingyuan said again: "I know that the old general is bent on avenging General Feng, and I promise you that all these fourteen families will be handed over to the old general, and let the old general pay tribute to General Feng with the blood of these many people." ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Feng Tang's thanks were much more sincere.
"Xu Hanzou, you will assist the old general then."
"Commandment."
"Alright, you guys go down!" Waiting for a few henchmen to leave, Emperor Jing Yuan rubbed his eyebrows, the hard work of the past few months has made him very tired. However, the net is about to be closed. This time, it was worth the hard work to be able to directly uproot the power of those old families. Thinking of this, Emperor Jingyuan curled the corners of his lips, and the final winner of this fight would only belong to him.
"Your Majesty!" Open and hold the green card.
Emperor Jingyuan glanced at it: "Take it, I went to visit Concubine Liu." ”
"Yes!" Zhang Dekai followed Emperor Jingyuan out of the Qiyuan Palace. (To be continued......)