There was also a panic outside the palace, every house closed its doors, not even candles were lit, there were no pedestrians on the streets, and even the watchmen disappeared. Only the soldiers who were in a hurry remained.

Today, Xiao Wu and Dingguo Gong and others drank in the barracks, and did not go to the Queen Mother's birthday, everything was fine, everyone drank and chatted together, Xiao Wu is the son-in-law of Dingguo Gong's family, Dingguo Gong treats him very well, and he is no worse than his grandson.

Dekong Xiaowu came to the barracks to drink and eat meat with everyone, which was much more interesting than going to the birthday.

was drinking wine, suddenly saw a cluster of fiery fireworks blooming in the distance in the sky, Xiao Wuden was so frightened that the wine glass fell to the ground, and stood up, a group of soldiers didn't understand what was going on, even Dingguo Gong stood up, his brows were tightened, and his expression was very solemn.

"Impossible, how can this be." Xiao Wu's face turned white, muttering muttering, and when he came back to his senses, he turned around and ran out.

Dingguo Gong shouted, "Come back, why are you going?" ”

Xiao Wu's face turned pale, and his voice was crying, "My whole family is in the banquet inside, my father, my eldest brother, my sister-in-law, and my daughter-in-law are all inside." His voice was hoarse and resentful.

"Can you be sure of that signal?" Dingguo Gong is far older and spicier than Xiao Wu, and his expression is also very stable.

"I can't be mistaken, that's the signal that my Rong family's secret guards are gathered, except for my father, only my eldest brother has that thing, not even me. What should I do? Holy shit, don't forget that I caught him, I'm going to chop them alive. Xiao Wu's face was a little more hideous.

Ding Guogong circled back and forth in front of the bonfire, thinking about whether to send troops to rescue, what if it was fake news? Rushing into the imperial city with soldiers is no small matter. In case it is the enemy's conspiracy to deceive himself. That would be convicted of treason. This is no joke.

"My lord, you let me go, I have some people in my family, I have to save my father, mother, brother and sister-in-law, I can't leave them alone, I rushed in with people, and I will bear all the blame." Xiao Wu tightened the armor on his body, picked up his sword and stepped onto the horse. Gallop away.

What can he do if he goes in alone? All the soldiers looked at Dingguo Gong with a blank eye, and they could not move without his orders.

But Dingguo Gong also has his own concerns, entering the city is to ask for a tiger talisman, his tiger talisman has been handed over to the emperor, so he took people to assemble and station in the imperial city five hundred miles away, this manpower is far less than the number of people in the Praetorian Guard, these are all problems, he can't take his own soldiers to die because of uncertain news, and even the name of a martyr may not be mixed, and he will be called a thief. These are all things that he, a general, has to consider.

All the soldiers stood up and looked at him with blank eyes. Waiting for his decision.

In the end, Dingguo Gong looked at them and said solemnly: "I really haven't gotten the news, and I don't know if this news is true or not, but I know that even if he wants to do it, he won't have many people on his hands, and the most likely way is to coerce the emperor to change the edict, controlling the palace is the most likely, and controlling the capital on a large scale is unlikely." ”

One of the soldiers shouted: "General, we listen to you, let's do it!" ”

Dingguo Gong looked faintly in the direction of the imperial city, his eyes full of tears, "My child is also inside." "He is always in tears, he will not be more fortunate than Xiao Wu.

"Let's go in together and kill them without a single piece of armor." Quite a few soldiers shouted.

Ding Guogong gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, "Let's take a gamble." He said silently in his heart, I bet that Jing'an's child will definitely surprise me.

Saying that, Dingguo Gong ordered people to gather all the soldiers, put on armor and prepare to go, Dingguo Gong waited silently, waiting for Xiao Wu to definitely give him a signal, as long as the news is enough, no matter what, you can't end up in the name of rebellion.

It didn't take long for Xiao Wu, who entered the capital first, to release the signal fireworks, and Dingguo Gong was overjoyed when he saw it, "Protect the emperor, Qingjun's side, kill!" ”

"Qingjun side, kill!" The soldiers roared in unison.

Dingguo Gong took people to walk five hundred miles on foot, quietly touched the imperial city, and easily broke through the city gate, the fact is as Dingguo Gong expected, the eldest prince did rebel, he did not have many people, but with the concubine in the palace should be together, the concubine has three tokens, can walk with the palace at night.

As a result, he smuggled some people into it, and arranged it, the method used by the eldest prince was very ingenious, he did not intend to strictly control the imperial city, let the mother concubine coax the emperor to reward the generals, and get all the important generals into the palace to participate in the banquet, which is equivalent to the dragons without a leader, and you can't send out any soldiers.

It's a pity that the only variable is that Dingguo Gong does not come, and the emperor has never agreed to let Dingguo Gong enter the palace, which is where the eldest prince is very annoyed, although this variable is somewhat unstable, he still decided to gamble.

It has been a long time for the emperor to take his second brother with him, not himself, which made him feel a strong sense of crisis, especially the establishment of the edict to announce the heir, which also made him anxious, the mother concubine said that he couldn't wait until that time, at that time it was not necessarily who would be the emperor, and the clan relatives did not agree to the edict It may not work.

It's better to do your best, and seek wealth and danger, which is no different from dying in the future and dying now.

The concubine began to plan very early, and quietly used five stone powder for the emperor, slowly confusing the emperor and letting him stay in his palace as much as possible, and some things were much easier to arrange.

However, the emperor's enthusiasm for her seems to have decreased, and the number of times she came was not much, although she was still the most favored, but it was far from achieving the effect she wanted, and the Lu family was not as favored as it was at the beginning, and after Dingguo Gong came back, they were suppressed very badly, and their sphere of influence was constantly shrinking, all of which gave them a crisis of survival.

The coup d'état began, Dingguo Gong took people and Xiao Wu rounded, Xiao Wu commanded the secret guards to rush into the palace in several directions, and tried his best to find the emperor's people, he believed that as long as he found the emperor, he could find his father and mother.

Dingguo Gong was still studying a better plan with Xiao Wu, how to rescue the emperor, and the secret guard had already rushed into the palace. There were only about a dozen people in their team. The elite of the elite indeed. The purpose is simple: find the emperor and Rong Yi.

As for the rest of the people, they don't care, their goal is to complete the mission.

I don't know if the emperor noticed it, and began to slowly cold the concubine, and stepped up the progress of Brother Hui's training, he found that Brother Hui is really good, calm, brave and strategic, but he is younger and lacks some experience, and the queen is also good. The atmosphere can accommodate people, and in the future, other brothers will hand over to them, and the mother and son will not have to worry about being driven away.

And the concubine's personality is too stingy, she can't tolerate people, and she treats the mother and son of the three princes in her palace many times, the mother and son are very pitiful, and they are very unsatisfactory.

It's not that he doesn't want to manage, but he can't. The palace is a place where the fittest survive, and it is not possible to live well without fighting or grabbing. This doesn't work, every prince and princess must take the initiative to fight for their own interests, and use all kinds of methods, just like the big fish in the sea eat the small fish, and the small fish eat the shrimp, it is the same reason.

If you can't show your value to the emperor and prove that you are a very useful person, then why should the emperor pay attention to you? Just because you are also surnamed Chu, are you a royal person?

Don't say this, you die faster, the royal family has always been indifferent and ruthless, he hopes that his children will learn the skills to survive and learn to fight, so that those who survive can make themselves live well.

He didn't know the concubine's careful thoughts, but he really couldn't, at this time he understood the pain and sadness of his father, seeing his son getting more and more crooked, but he was powerless, this is not a pain.

But compared with the world of Da Chu today, this grievance is really nothing.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night, some things are like a spell, constantly reciprocating, power, wealth and glory are like poppies, people are fascinated, knowing that once it is poisonous, they can't extricate themselves and fall into it.

The change of power represents the life and death of countless people, you and I in the bureau have no right to resist, there is actually very little that can be done, although we are fighting, but with little effect, more people in the end are no longer for simple glory, but to live, to protect what they want to protect, there is no way back.

Xiao Wu and Dingguo Gong finally rushed into the palace and went to rescue the emperor, empress dowager and others, hoping that it would be too late, but when they rushed into Cining Palace, they found that the eldest prince and the concubine had held the seriously injured emperor and the queen mother, the empress and others hostage, and also surrounded many generals and Yang Hao and others.

Xiao Wu saw his father at a glance, but found that his father was carrying his mother, and his back was a little staggering, but he insisted on stubbornly refusing to let his mother be supported by others.

Xiao Wu's eyes were a little moist, as long as they were alive.

The concubine looked at the soldiers who were surrounded by a sea of people, and smiled sadly, "Your Majesty, what did I do wrong, why did you treat our mother and son like this, you never regarded us as the closest people, right?" ”

In fact, when she felt the cold treatment of the emperor, she knew that the successor could not be her son, it was false to say that she was not sad, she really loved the emperor, I remember that she was a little girl when she first entered the palace, and her love was just beginning, with shyness and fear, precaution and expectations, everything was like yesterday.

The emperor was hit by an arrow in the chest, but he sat firmly in a chair, and there was a trembling big knife around his neck, and the person holding the knife was his own son, the emperor's eldest son, the child he had hoped for.

What a ridiculous scene, it seems that history repeats itself again, is this the curse of the imperial city, this is the path he has been fighting and choosing, his father said that he once thought that the path he chose was the right one, but in the end he found that he had nothing but the throne, and he didn't know whether he was right or wrong.

The emperor looked at Yang Hao and the others who cared about him, smiled, glanced at Rong Yi deeply, and smiled with relief when he saw him nodding his head seriously to show understanding. (To be continued......)

PS: It's a bit of a modern little outside, I personally think that the feudal era had too many constraints on women, a child who grew up under the red flag and lived in freedom, would not really love this ancient time, people can't live in love all their lives, there is no need for love, anything can be endured, this is unrealistic. It is people who need to work, need to work, and need to be recognized and recognized, which is why Yang Lan has never been able to let go of her heart knot, she doesn't like this era but has no choice, people can't live only for themselves, and the bonds and responsibilities of relatives need to be maintained.