Ye Minyu realized that it was all a terrible conspiracy, but it was too late.

He was already a little strange, if he was killed on the way here, even if Ye Minzhao became the heir of the empire, the orthodox emperor might not be at ease.

After all, Ye Minyu is dead, and the biggest beneficiary is Ye Minzhao, and it is difficult for orthodoxy not to doubt him.

And now Ye Minyu finally understands that the so-called halfway interception, all this is just a cover. He looked at Li Ling with a miserable face and asked, "This king was attacked halfway, who sent you the news?" ”

Li Lingdao; "It's Lord Lu Jianlu, I know that he is a celebrity next to your grandfather Jinghaihou, so I didn't hesitate to believe him!"

Ye Minyu smiled bitterly; "Where is Lu Jian, that bastard, now?"

"Is there something wrong with Lu Jian? After he reported to me, he said that he was not worried about the safety of the prince, and rode alone to pick you up! ”

"Do you know that someone sued both of us in front of the emperor, saying that you and I colluded and plotted to rebel!"

"Huh?" Li Ling felt that this matter was unusual! There was such news before, but this time he came to pick up Ye Minyu with thousands of people, and inexplicably collided with the emperor's holy car.

Li Ling is a good leader in leading troops, but he does not have much experience in political struggle. He said a little numbly: "Your Highness, what should we do now?" ”

Ye Minyu slowly calmed down, and he said slowly: "What else can I do now?" I don't think it won't be long before the emperor's army should come over, and we will either be captured, or even if we keep our heads, we are likely to be imprisoned for life. Or, just uncover the rod and really turn against the court, maybe there is still a glimmer of life. ”

"What?" Li Ling was so shocked that he almost jumped up, "We don't have the intention of rebelling at all, you are the emperor's beloved son, can't you meet with the emperor, talk about the matter, please dispel his doubts?" ”

Ye Minyu asked rhetorically: "Let's go and tell the emperor now that we are not a rebellion, do you think the emperor will believe us?" ”

Li Ling thought about it seriously, to say that Ye Minzhao's serial plan was too poisonous, probably from the beginning he set up this series of policies, inducing Ye Minyu and Li Ling to step into his trap step by step. Li Ling was worried about Ye Minyu's safety, so he brought all the cavalry of Zhen Ningwei to respond, and sent a team of men and horses to rush to the valley surrounded by the emperor with murderous spirits.

Now go back and explain that everything was a misunderstanding, who would believe it? How could it be such a coincidence?!

He walked up and down in place, and for a moment his mind was in turmoil. Ye Minyu looked at him lightly, waiting for his final decision, he would definitely not be willing to sit idly by, but if he wanted to resist the imperial court, this determination was not so easy to make.

The guards around Ye Minyu all quietly pressed their hands on the handle of the knife. There are all Li Ling's people here, they are afraid that Li Ling will be forced to a dead end, so they will break the kettle and sink the boat, and capture Ye Minyu to report to the imperial court, in exchange for the imperial court to open up the net and spare him death.

Li Ling circled around the same place a few times, and finally made up his mind, he suddenly turned over and bowed down at Ye Minyu's feet: "The prince and general Xiangning have a kind, Your Highness, the last general will hand over his life to you, if one day, you can kill back to the capital and ascend to the throne, please don't forget the dozens of dead people in the last general's family!" ”

As the commander of the Hebei capital, Li Ling's family members naturally wanted to stay in Beijing, and this was also an effective way to fear a rebellion by people like them who held military power. If Li Ling pulls up the anti-flag, needless to say, his whole family will not be able to live.

Ye Minyu stretched out his hand to help Li Ling and said: "If there is really that day, this king is willing to rule the world with the general!" ”

After making up his mind to raise troops, Li Ling gathered his troops and horses. Chen Jia really sent thousands of soldiers and horses to attack, Ye Minyu and Li Ling's side were small in number, and they were fighting the emperor's own soldiers, and the army was disheartened for a while, and the army was defeated as soon as they came into contact, Li Ling led people to protect Ye Minyu and fled back to Zhendingwei, Chen Jia considered the emperor's safety and did not dare to chase after him, which gave Ye Minyu and Li Ling an opportunity.

On the fourth day of the sixth month of the tenth year of orthodoxy, Ye Minyu, the king of Zhao, officially rebelled in Zhendingwei, Hebei. The name of the uprising was "Zhu Chen Jia, Qing Jun Side" as a call, spread all over the world, and counted dozens of crimes against Chen Jia and Xichang. For a moment the world shook.

Ye Minzhao also had a bad taste at this time, the reason why he fell to the point where he is today is that Chen Jia did not play a good role in it.

Orthodox and gray rushed back to the capital from the summer resort day and night, and at the same time sent Chen Jia to lead tens of thousands of elite men and horses to besiege Zhendingwei. After returning to Zhendingwei, Li Ling immediately handed over the military power to Ye Minyu, and he also understood that in this situation, he did not have Ye Minyu's appeal at all, and he had no legitimacy at all when he rebelled, in order not to be easily eliminated by the imperial court, he had to hand over the military power to Ye Minyu.

Ye Minyu rectified Zhendingwei as quickly as possible, lured the enemy deep with 4,000 horses, and set up an ambush in Heihuling, dozens of miles away from Zhendingwei, and beat Chen Jia's 10,000 horses to the ground. Chen Jia risked his life to break through under the desperate protection of his personal guards, and escaped with only a few hundred people.

After this battle, Ye Minyu incorporated more than 8,000 people from the Royal Forest Army, plus more than 10,000 people from Hebei Command, and the number of men and horses reached more than 20,000, which was a great shock. At the same time, the first military meeting was held in Zhendingwei to discuss the next step of the rebel army.

Some people suggested that while the localities were not ready for rebellion, they immediately sent troops to attack several large cities such as Baoding and Handan in Hebei, and used them as a base to gradually encircle the Beijing division. Some people were even more excited by this battle of winning more with less, and they suggested that Hebei should go straight to the Beijing Division, as long as the Beijing Division was won, Ye Minyu could rightfully sit on the Dragon Court, and at that time they would all be the heroes of the founding of the country.

Ye Minyu smiled wryly. The Beijing division has 200,000 elite soldiers, and the city is high and the walls are thick, and the grain and grass are piled up, so it is not said that he only has 20,000 people in his hands, even if he is ten times more, he will never want to capture the heart of the Great Chu Empire. What's more, there is still Ye Yichen, a victorious general in the city.

Li Ling proposed a plan to attack Datong and Xuanfu to the north, as long as he occupied these cities on the first line of the Great Wall, he could make a surprise connection, form an alliance with the abrupt big tribes, and help Ye Minyu regain the throne with the help of abrupt and brave cavalry.

This method can be described as very ruthless, the Tuwu and Da Chu have been in dispute for several years, as long as Ye Minyu raises his arms, the Tuwu people envy the rich life and splendid civilization of the Central Plains, as long as Ye Minyu is willing to join forces with them to attack the mainland, they are definitely willing to gather under Ye Minyu's command, and when the time comes, they can gather 100,000 battle-hardened soldiers without spending a penny or a grain.

This plan was very tempting and feasible, but it was rejected by Ye Minyu without hesitation. It is easy to invite God and difficult to send God, with the help of abrupt men and horses to attack the court, even if it can really succeed, it will be the common people who will be unlucky in the future.

After some discussion, everyone came up with two sets of plans, one was to go south and the other was to go east. The next road to the south is from Hebei, passing through Shandong, and going straight to Nanjing. Nanjing is the land of □□ Longxing, the capital at the beginning of the founding of the country, and later Taizong ascended the throne, and spent 18 years building the Forbidden City in Beijing, and Taizong moved the capital to Beijing in his later years.

Nanjing is now the second capital, second only to the north of the Jingshi, the political status is particularly important, if you can take Nanjing, it is impossible to fight back Beijing, you can also divide the river with Beijing and rule.

The disadvantage of this plan is that Nanjing is thousands of miles away from Hebei, and there are too many variables on the way. A careless rebel army could be wiped out.

Another way is to advance to the east, march into Guanzhong, and control Shaanxi. The advantage of Guanzhong is that the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the momentum is reunited. In history, there is a saying of "one hundred and two Qin Passes". It means that a million soldiers attack Guanzhong, and 20,000 people are enough to resist it.

If Xi'an can be taken, the Central Plains will not be unified, and it is still very promising to divide a corner.

Ye Minyu thought hard for a long time and decided to advance into Guanzhong.

Ye Yichen heard the news of Ye Minyu's rebellion in Daxing's Zhuangzi, and he also had a thousand feelings in his heart. Yulan also heard the news at this time, and was shocked, so he hurriedly ran to discuss with the prince: "How can King Zhao say the opposite?" Isn't he the emperor's internal prince? The emperor is not in good health, he can ascend the throne and become the emperor in a few more years, why rebel at this time, it is really unwise! ”

Ye Yichen said: "It is precisely because he is the emperor's internal prince that someone forced him to rebel!" ”

Yulan was taken aback: "You mean the little prince?" How could he have what it took to do such a thing? In Yulan's mind, Ye Minzhao and Concubine Hui have no power in the court at all, how can he force Ye Minyu to rebel.

Ye Yichen smiled slightly: "Look, including you, the vast majority of people have been deceived by their mother and son!" ”

Yulan still couldn't believe it, if all this was a trick by Concubine Hui and Ye Minzhao, their minds were too deep. Yulan didn't want to think about it, she came to the prince this time to urge him to return to Beijing as soon as possible. "What is the specific □□, I don't bother to know, it doesn't matter to me who becomes the emperor, it's just that now the war is in chaos, it's too unsafe to live here, let's hurry back to Beijing with the children!" In case King Zhao brought someone over, it would be troublesome. ”

Ye Yichen sneered and pulled Yulan to sit down beside him. "Don't be afraid! Ye Minyu is not a fool, with his little strength, now to borrow his courage, he will not dare to come to Beijing. ”

Yulan didn't know much about the military, but she knew that the prince was a leader, and since the prince said that Ye Minyu would not fight Beijing, then he would definitely not come.

She sat down next to the prince, only to find that there was a huge map on the prince's bookcase. She asked curiously: "King Zhao won't fight Beijing, so where will he fight?" ”

Ye Yichen's eyes fell on the map, and he had already judged Ye Minyu's movements, so he said to his wife: "He has three easy paths to take, either to the north to contact the abrupt, or to the south to attack Nanjing, or to the east to attack Luoguanzhong." The most likely way to succeed is to go north, if Ye Minzhao is replaced, he will definitely go north to borrow troops from the Tu people, because he is a person who will do anything to achieve his goals. But with Ye Minyu's temperament, he shouldn't be able to do this kind of thing! If you go south, you will go thousands of miles to Nanjing, Shandong and Henan are all soldiers with good food, and many soldiers have been deployed along the river in order to prevent Shu Han, which can be described as dangerous. So the most likely place for him to go is to the east and attack Guanzhong! ”

Yulan saw him talking eloquently, his tone was full of confidence, and he couldn't help but say: "Then do you want to tell the emperor about this!" ”

Ye Yichen said lightly: "This is a matter between their father and son, what does it have to do with me!" "It's clear that I don't want to interfere. If he is willing to go out, it will be easy to clean up Ye Minyu, but he also has a sense of pity for Ye Minyu, he was unwilling to stand on Ye Minyu's side before, not because he preferred Ye Minzhao between the two brothers, but after weighing the pros and cons, he chose this choice in order to maximize his interests.

He didn't want to mix it up with the rest of the matter. He also has an account in his heart, as long as he doesn't lead the troops to encircle and suppress, Ye Minyu should be able to reach Xi'an smoothly! Emotionally, he didn't really want this nephew to hang up like this!

"Not only can't we go back, but you have to release the news to the outside world, saying that I'm sick, so sick that I can't even get out of bed."

Yulan looked at him with some astonishment. It was immediately understood that he didn't want to lead troops out to crusade against Ye Minyu. When it comes to fighting, the emperor is probably the first thing that comes to mind now is Ye Yichen. Yulan didn't want Ye Yichen to go out to fight, so he agreed without thinking about it.

Yulan didn't dare to slack off, and soon released the news that Ye Yichen put too much ice in the house because of the summer cold, and accidentally caught a cold, because he didn't pay attention at first, and the high fever did not go away, and his condition was very serious.

Sure enough, when the emperor returned to the Forbidden City, he immediately sent a eunuch to announce that he wanted to worship Ye Yichen as a rebellious general and send troops to quell the chaos. Ye Yichen said to the eunuch who passed the decree tremblingly under Yulan's makeup, with a sickly face: "It's not that this king doesn't obey the holy decree, it's that this king is very sick, cough cough ......" A crazy cough frightened the eunuch back to the Forbidden City with the holy decree.

Orthodoxy has been so angry that he fainted by Ye Minyu when he was hunting, and he hasn't gotten better these days, and he is really sick. Immediately after returning to the capital, he received the news of Chen Jia's defeat, Chen Jia knelt in front of him and wept bitterly, orthodoxy was indeed very fond of him, only a few words of blame, and the matter of the defeat was so lightly revealed.

The top priority was to choose a general to lead the troops to rebel, Ye Yichen refused to lead the troops, and the orthodoxy had to use Changxing Marquis Geng Junwen as the general, leading an army of 50,000 to encircle and suppress Ye Minyu, the king of Zhao.

After the triage of the three law divisions, the adult men of the Xiao family were all beheaded, and all the women were sold into slavery in the Jiaofang Division, and the wives and mothers of Xiao Zongchang and Xiao Zongsheng were connected.

At the same time, the emperor issued a holy decree to promote Concubine Hui to a noble concubine, and she took charge of the phoenix seal and ruled the six palaces. Abolish Ye Minyu's mother, Emperor Xiao, as a concubine!